he came out of the fire
Text/Ear East Rabbit
All love will be impermanent and rare for a long time. There are many fears in life, and life is in danger of morning dew.
From love comes sorrow, from love comes fear. If you are separated from your beloved, you have no worries and no fears.
-"Diamond Sutra"
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At dawn, Nan Chu woke up from his dream, covered in cold sweat.
The lights in the room were not turned on, the curtains were tightly closed, and it was pitch black. She propped herself up and sat on the head of the bed, reaching out to touch the cigarette and lighter beside the bed.
With a sound of "呲", a flame lit up in the darkness, and it quickly went out, the smoke dispersed, and the spark at the fingertips flickered.
Nan Chu was smoking a cigarette, squinting his eyes, thinking.
After a while, she picked up the mobile phone beside the bed and quickly typed a few words.
"I dreamed of him again."
At 4:30 in the morning, they returned quickly, "What did you dream of him doing?"
"Make love." Nan Chu replied.
"Don't think too much, you're just hot and need a man."
After reading it calmly, Nan Chu scolded your sister on the phone, put the phone aside, leaned against the head of the bed and closed his eyes, and began to recall the scene in his dream.
The man was naked, with bronzed skin, stretched muscles, smooth lines, slim body, extremely black short hair, and a pair of seemingly invisible, deep eyes.
…
At ten past six, manager Shen Guangzong came in with his assistant, "Get up and put on makeup."
Nan Chu got out of bed, bent down to look for slippers, Shen Guangzong kicked one over for her, and said, "You're going to join the team today, and I'll let Xigu pack your things for you later."
While speaking, he pushed a little girl in front of her.
Nan Chu squinted his eyes while putting on his shoes, his face was unfamiliar, and he said lazily, "New here?"
Nan Chu used to be a model, but was signed by Golden Harvest at the beginning of the year. He is not very famous, and the assistants around him have changed three or four times. I don't know if the previous assistants are incompatible with Nan Chu, or because Nan Chu is difficult to get along with.
"Practice assistant and makeup artist."
Shen Guangzong didn't do anything in the past three months. He was busy finding an assistant for her. When this matter was mentioned, he became angry and rolled his eyes to warn: "Please get along well with her, okay?"
Assistant and makeup artist, after all, you can't find such a cheap job anywhere.
Nan Chu shrugged, stared at the little girl for a while, straight bangs, baby shirt and short skirt, asked friendly: "How old are you?"
"twenty one."
"what is it call?"
"Xi Gu." The little girl answered truthfully one by one.
Nanchu raised his eyebrows, "Do you have a boyfriend?"
Xi Gu was taken aback, he didn't expect her to be so direct, "Not yet."
"You look so small." The little girl was quite shy, and she blushed when she praised her. Nan Chu pinched her face, "Go."
Xi Gu couldn't help being teased, and ran away blushing.
Shen Guangzong turned around after making the phone call. Seeing this scene, he thought that Nan Chu had done something bad again, so he yelled thickly, "Boss Han found this for you personally. I really don't care about you if I get angry!"
Nan Chu spread his hands, "Why are you nervous, I won't eat her."
Xigu was helping Nanchu pack his luggage, when he heard this, he turned around and said, "Brother Zong, sister Nanchu is fine."
Nan Chu winked at her.
The little girl really couldn't bear to be teased, she didn't dare to look at Nan Chu again.
"I don't care about other people. I just ask you not to hate Boss Han all the time. I really irritated him and banned you. Are you still playing around?"
Nan Chu put on the lipstick and threw it into the cosmetic bag, looked in the mirror, took a sip, and said, "Okay."
When Shen Guangzong heard the clear and crisp words, his hair grew furious in his heart.
Before going out, Xi Gu was carrying the suitcase, Nan Chu suddenly said, "Wait a minute." After speaking, he went back to the room, took out a pack of things from the bedside table, and asked Xi Gu to open the suitcase and stuff it in.
Xigu was holding the pack of condoms, not knowing where to put it in, so he heard the words above his head, "Put it in the hole next to it."
Xi Gu followed suit with a blushing face, then quickly closed and pulled the box.
Only then did Nan Chu say with satisfaction, "Let's go."
Later in the car, Nan Chu explained to Xi Gu, "If someone drags you into the grass and rapes you, what should you do if you can't escape?"
"..."
"Hand him a condom, it's safer than anything else."
Xigu: "..."
After three days in the crew, the actors were not all there, but even Xi Gu realized that this was a rather unprofessional crew.
The field workers always take the wrong props, the photographer's hands are always shaking, the actors can never remember the lines, and the director is always yelling. Except for the director, the rest of the actors are all newcomers, so the running-in period will inevitably be longer than other crews.
Three days later, the director was already sitting in the studio smoking a cigarette.
Nan Chu played the second female role, and she didn't have many lines, so she sat on the sidelines and read a book when there was no play. After getting in touch with Xi Gu, she found that Nan Chu was actually not difficult to get along with, she was just a little lazy to deal with that little interpersonal relationship.
Almost all the newcomers in the group, everyone is busy greeting each other, leaving WeChat and Weibo, Nanchu is the most calm, reading books and playing games.
From the looks of it, the director still thinks that this girl is the most comfortable and pleasing to the eye, she doesn't procrastinate in filming, and enters the film quickly, and when she has nothing to do, she reads books to cultivate her self-cultivation. These days, there are really not many girls with such a weak heart.
The books Nan Chu read are very miscellaneous and contain everything.
One day, the director saw Nan Chu watching "Ten Days Talk" and sat down by the shade of a tree, "Like Boccaccio's novels?"
The director is a serious and steady director.
Nan Chu glanced at the director, picked up the corner of the page with his index finger, and turned another page, "It's pretty good."
"Yes, Boccaccio's novels show human nature very well, such as the ninth story..."
The director talked eloquently, and he was also a person with ideas, and his analysis was very thorough.
After Nan Chu listened, "I don't see too much."
"ah?"
"Mainly watch sex scenes."
"..."
The director stood up silently.
That expression was like driving a Thomas the train before his eyes.
Xigu would occasionally hear gossip about Nan Chu.
"She doesn't have a father."
"At the age of eighteen, rumored boyfriends are flying all over the sky, very coquettish."
"I also saw her discuss pornography with the director that day."
And those who gossiped would turn their heads and smile at Nan Chu again, just like acting, when the director shouted, the expression immediately stopped. Xigu never expected that these people could use their acting skills so freely in their lives.
Nan Chu seemed a little out of place.
She never gossips or discusses gossip, and is indifferent to the world.
As the world treats her.
On this day, Nan Chu and Xi Gu were chatting under the shade of a tree, halfway through the chat, Shen Guangzong came over and said, "Xiao Xi, go over and help those actresses touch up their makeup."
Xi Gu conditioned reflex, "Don't."
Shen Guangzong hissed, frowning and akimbo: "Rebellion?"
Xi Gu glanced at the actresses over there, lowered his head, and remained silent.
Nan Chu touched her head, "What's wrong? Did they scold you?"
"without."
"Then don't be petty, go and help them make up."
Xigu refused: "Isn't there a makeup artist in the group?"
Nan Chu: "Do them a favor."
Xi Gu stood up reluctantly, and Nan Chu rubbed her hair again: "Be obedient."
Ten minutes later, Xi Gu came back after finishing his makeup.
"Tell me, why did they offend you?" Nan Chu drank coffee.
Xi Gu sat down beside her, "They speak ill of you behind your back."
The coffee almost spewed out, Nan Chu reached out and touched the back of her head, and smiled: "The little girl is quite generous."
"Don't you care?"
She didn't care much, "Why should I care?"
People's hearts are different, each as its face.
Nan Chu really didn't care, his eyes were all indifferent.
Xigu felt that even the sunlight behind him had become cold.
"Aside from life and death, which one of the things in this world is not a matter of nostalgia?"
"Xigu, if you can't shut up other people's mouths, then cover your own ears."
…
In the evening, an actress from Nanchu's company, who played the role of Yan Dai, the third woman in this drama, was allergic, her face burst red and swollen, and she cried to the director. After seeing this and then giving up acting, I naturally couldn't say anything good: "I'm allergic to such a mess? I'm so unconscious when I want to be an actor."
Yan Dai cried, "I didn't eat anything!"
The director was annoyed: "Then what did you do? Why are you like this? No one else is like this?"
Yan Dai pursed her lips, feeling aggrieved: "I asked Nan Chu's assistant to touch up my makeup in the afternoon, and I didn't do anything else!"
Nan Chu glanced at Xi Gu, who spread his hands innocently.
At night, Yan Dai's face became more and more swollen, Nan Chu and Shen Guangzong took her to the hospital overnight.
After the doctor's diagnosis, it was dust allergy, "What did you wipe?"
Yan Dai burst into tears.
The doctor frowned, "Just take some medicine and you'll be fine in a few days, why cry?"
Yan Dai stopped crying again and twitched twice, "Really?"
"Nonsense." The doctor rolled his eyes.
Shen Guangzong dragged Xigu to the corridor, "What did you paint her?"
"No."
"Fart!" Shen Guangzong put his hips on his hips, stared at her, and pointed at her twice with his right hand: "Don't you want to do it!"
Xi Gu became anxious, with tears streaming down his face: "I really didn't put anything on her. You asked me to touch up her makeup. I did. Who knows if she is allergic to cosmetics?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he was pulled to the side, Nan Chu leaned against the wall, looking at Xi Gu with those indifferent eyes, the words were indeed addressed to Shen Guangzong: "Don't blame someone for anything, I trust her. "
Xi Gu was pulled to the side by Nan Chu, he had a wide field of vision, and there was a figure standing at the end of the corridor.
The man was dressed in regular clothes, tall and strong, like a green pine tree, with a tall body. He was hidden in the darkness, surrounded by smoke, and was leaning against the wall to smoke.
There was a gust of wind, and the smoke scattered and drifted this way.
Here Shen Guangzong went crazy: "One or two want to rebel?!"
Xi Gu was still explaining in a low voice: "Brother Zong, it's really not me. If you don't believe me, you can ask them to check my cosmetic bag."
Nan Chu fixed his gaze.
At the end of the corridor, a cigarette was extinguished, and the man took another one from his pocket, and lowered his head to inhale it. In the darkness, the light went out in an instant, leaving only sparks flickering in the dark.
He leaned against the wall, breathing out smoke, and lowered his head, playing with the lighter in his hand.
It seems to be waiting for someone.
Shen Guangzong also didn't understand Xi Gu. Although he knew that the little girl was not so bold, he somehow felt that he should apologize to Yan Dai, so he dragged Xi Gu in.
Nan Chu waited at the door for a while.
The man seemed to have stopped.
I lost my patience and just turned around when I heard a sentence behind me: "Captain Lin!"
Nan Chu turned his head.
There was a sound of high-heeled shoes kicking in the empty corridor.
The female doctor in a white coat ran over there with small steps. The man was a head taller than her, with his head raised, and his voice was gentle: "Have you been waiting for a long time?"
The man finally straightened up and walked out from the darkness, revealing a clear and heroic face.
On the floor, the figure was stretched out.
He has a thin face, neat short hair, deep eyebrows and eyes, slightly curved eyes, a straight nose, and a tight jaw line that is lined with a military uniform looks stiff. When he casually jokes with you, the corners of his eyes are slightly raised, showing a sense of informality, and no one can guess what he is thinking in his heart.
There is ruffianism and righteousness, but there is no contradiction at all.
Lin Luxiao pinched his cigarette, lowered his head and threw it into the trash can beside him, and put his hand in his trouser pocket, "I just came here not long ago."
The dark corridor made the voice even more chilly.
"Why are you wearing this?"
"Just had a meeting."
The female doctor smiled: "You still look better in this body, let's go, I'll take you there."
The sound of their footsteps gradually faded away.
Nan Chu squatted on the ground, lit a cigarette, took a puff, raised his head, and slowly exhaled the smoke ring, looking at the scattered blue and white smoke, thinking: Time flies so fast, five years have passed so quickly.