This will be open until one o'clock in the afternoon. At half past one, the creators of the play had a boxed lunch in the conference room.
A lunch box, four dishes, one soup and one dessert, are all finely prepared high-end dishes, which belong to the elite configuration in the box lunch. I heard that it was Dong Wei who came and invited everyone to eat.
There was a burst of emotion in the conference room, and everyone was praising the producer for his generosity.
Perhaps it was because of Li Shican's reminder beforehand, and because he was startled by the look in Wei Dong's eyes at the first sight, Ruan Yu didn't get too involved in their conversation, and buried himself in eating while rubbing his sore cervical spine.
When I was about to finish eating, I heard my phone vibrate.
Thinking it was Xu Huaisong who came home from overtime work, she immediately took out her phone to check, only to find that it was Li Shican's message: "Are you still on the seventh floor?"
She answered "yes" and got no reply. After a while, she saw the secretary of the producer Zheng Shan coming with a hand full of milk tea, saying that she was inviting all the drama creators to drink.
A group of people thanked the producer again, only Ruan Yu took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Li Shican: "Thank you, it's a waste of money."
Li Shican replied: "Why are you polite?"
He also said: "Dong Wei and a few directors saw a group of new actresses in the morning, and I will come to your conference room later, and ask you to refer to them for reference."
Nephrite: "What kind of reference method?"
Li Shican: "Draw a script and read two lines. It's just a superficial way of putting on a show, just to bluff the newcomers. Don't look at who you decide in the end."
Thinking of Sun Miaohan, Ruan Yu asked, "Did you see a girl named Sun Miaohan on the nineteenth floor?"
Li Shican: "I didn't notice, I was blowing the air conditioner in the lounge all morning."
Ruan Yu didn't ask why.
Why, as a big star, he had to come to negotiate the contract in person, why he was idle on the 19th floor, turning on the air conditioner and not busy with other things.
She clutched her mobile phone in silence, and continued to ask him: "I know that girl, would it be good if we meet in public later? I don't know much about the rules of the entertainment industry."
Ruan Yu knew that he did not have the right to speak about the casting, but those pure new candidates might have fantasies. At this critical moment of casting, if Sun Miaohan met her face to face and was selected, there was no guarantee that he would not be criticized for being a backstage in the future.
It's better not to eat this kind of wronged loss.
Li Shican replied: "Then you go to the bathroom or the tea room to avoid it. When they come down, I will tell you."
After getting the "information", Ruan Yu took a cup and went to the tea room at the end of the corridor on the seventh floor when he came down from the nineteenth floor. Just then, he received a message from Xu Huaisong: "I'm home. The meeting is over. Yet?"
Ruan Yu put the cup on the coffee machine on the table, and typed back: "There is still the second half, and now I am resting in the tea room."
Just after sending it out, I received a video invitation from Xu Huaisong.
She turned around and walked to the door, looked in the direction of the conference room, and found that the actors over there were crowded and lively, but there was no one else in the corridor, so she gently closed the door of the tea room, connected the video, and held up her mobile phone Complaint: "The meeting made my cervical spine hurt."
Over there, Xu Huaisong was taking off his suit jacket. The summer nights in San Francisco are only in the 10s, so you can only wear unlined clothes when you get home.
He smiled and said, "Wait for me to come back."
"Why are you back?"
"Do-it-yourself massage."
Listening to the down-to-earth words, Ruan Yu let out a chuckle, rubbed his neck and said, "What's the use of waiting for you to come back, I'd better write the word 'shit' myself."
As he spoke, he began to twist his neck up and down, left and right.
In the end, I didn't know which tendon was pulled, and I let out a painful cry of "ouch".
"What's wrong?" Xu Huaisong's tone became tense.
"It hurts..."
Just as Ruan Yu finished saying this with a bitter face, he suddenly heard a "click" behind him, and the door was swung open.
She turned her head in surprise, and saw the stunned Li Shican standing there stiffly, and Xu Huaisong, who was as slightly dazed as she was on the phone she held up high, had a face-to-face meeting across the ocean.
An apparently quiet but earth-shattering international meeting.
How could such a shameful thing be broken again...
Every cell in Ruan Yu's body was embarrassed, and he couldn't lift or release the mobile phone.
These two people, who will save her
But no one rescued her, the two looked at each other without speaking, as if they saw some precious revolutionary friendship.
She could only keep this action with a "hehe" smile, and said to Li Shican, "Sorry, I've taken up the tea room, do you want to use it?"
He came back to his senses, shook his head and explained: "No, I heard something nearby and thought something happened to you..."
What can happen? Ruan Yu was stunned for a moment, thinking of his previous reminder about Wei Dong, and thinking about his cry of pain just now, and the closed door of the tea room here, he understood.
Just about to say something, Li Shican nodded to Xu Huaisong on the phone screen: "Excuse me." After speaking, he backed out and closed the door.
Ruan Yu turned his head, straightened his phone, and looked at Xu Huaisong.
His complexion was not ugly, but it was definitely not beautiful either.
He didn't mention the episode just now, and said silently: "I'll be back next Friday, and I'll be at your place in the evening."
It's only Monday, and it will be nearly half a month until next Friday. However, Ruan Yu was busy with the script, so he didn't feel that time passed so slowly.
Fast forward to August. At 9 o'clock on Friday night, she finished another script meeting from ATV, and because she missed the last bus, she had to take a taxi home.
Xu Huaisong just called at this time, saying that he got off the elevated road and would be there in an hour. He heard that she got into the taxi alone, and told her not to hang up.
The two connected to the microphone all the way, and after half an hour, Ruan Yu got out of the car, and the phone only had 5% of the battery left.
She said to Xu Huaisong on the other end: "I'll see you later, I won't get tired of you, I'm going into the apartment building, you can drive with peace of mind."
Xu Huaisong let out a "hmm" and hung up the phone.
Ruan Yu turned into the apartment lobby, saw that the elevator door was about to close, took a few steps to catch up and pressed the up button, and was about to say "sorry to trouble you" to the people inside, when he opened his mouth and suddenly froze.
A man and a woman stood in the elevator, they were people she knew.
Huanshi directors Wei Jin and Sun Miaohan.
When Sun Miaohan saw her, her eyes widened and she looked a little terrified.
Wei Jin didn't seem to recognize her, leaning back against the armrest, wrapping one hand around Sun Miaohan's waist, stroking his lips with the other, squinting his eyes slightly, with a relaxed posture.
After such a meal, Ruan Yu walked in stiffly with his bag in his hands, and stood silently at the corner of the elevator, pretending not to recognize the two of them.
In the small space, the atmosphere was so solid that it was suffocating.
Or maybe it's just Ruan Yu who thinks so. Because from the corner of her eyes, she found that Wei Jin tilted his head, put the tip of his nose on top of Sun Miaohan's head and sniffed, as if he didn't care that there were other people here.
It wasn't until the sound of "ding" that the elevator stopped on the fifteenth floor where Sun Miaohan was, that Ruan Yu realized that she, who lived on the twelfth floor, had completely forgotten to press the floor.
Wei Jin walked out with his arms in his arms.
Ruan Yu raised his hand and just pressed the "12" button, when he suddenly saw Sun Miaohan, who was walking stiffly, turned his head and glanced at her.
The eyes of the four met for a moment, and the elevator doors closed automatically and slowly, descending to the twelfth floor.
Ruan Yu stepped out of the elevator, fumbled for the keys in the bag, and opened the door with shaking hands.
In the darkness, Sun Miaohan's look at her just now seemed to appear in front of his eyes.
If she was right, the sensory lights in the corridor illuminated, and the meaning of that look—it should be fear, and a call for help.
She turned on the light in the living room in a daze, stood with her back to the door for a long time, took out her mobile phone, dialed Li Shican's number, and said "Hello" slightly tremblingly.
Li Shican on the other end immediately realized that her voice was wrong, and said, "What's wrong, senior?"
"Last time you said, tell me to stay away from Dong Wei, what is the specific reason?"
Li Shican was silent: "Did something happen to you?"
"No, it's not me..." Ruan Yu swallowed dryly, "Can you explain to me in detail, is it because of unspoken rules or something else?"
"It's not just the unspoken rules, the unspoken rules of what you want and what you want is too common in the circle. I've heard some rumors that he has a tendency to be violent..." Li Shican seemed a little hard to say when he said this, "In that regard, it's probably... fetish."
Ruan Yu choked up.
"I heard that a female artist was played and destroyed before, but the other party's family was poor, and the family couldn't pursue it, so they relied on money to suppress it." He paused here, "What's wrong with you? Tell me something."
"I... I saw that Wei Dong entered Sun Miaohan's house, she didn't seem to be voluntary..."
Li Shican fell silent, and said after a while: "You don't care about this matter, and you can't care about it."
"Do you have any…"
"I can't help it." Li Shican sighed, "Sister, I can rush into the tea room where you are, but I can't go into this kind of muddy water for a female artist I don't know. That kind of bad thing is just an example. , there is a high probability that nothing will happen, so just pretend you didn’t see it, okay?”
As soon as he said this, Ruan Yu's cell phone turned off automatically because it ran out of battery.
But what should be heard has been heard.
Ruan Yu clenched his hands, his nails digging into his flesh little by little, and Sun Miaohan's eyes kept flashing past his eyes over and over again.
That look, like a drowned person, trying to grab the last straw.
Time passed by every minute and every second.
Li Shican said he had no choice.
And Xu Huaisong will arrive in nearly 20 minutes. Not to mention that he may not have a suitable position and method, when everything is done, what's the use
Ruan Yu closed his eyes.
When not seen.
Can I pretend I didn't see it
She gritted her teeth, and when she opened her eyes again, her eyes accidentally fell on the white smoke alarm on the ceiling.
Ruan Yu's eyes flickered for a moment.
She remembered that when he was on video with Xu Huaisong a while ago, he mentioned to her that once the alarm was triggered, the alarm in the whole building where she was located would go off.
After half a minute of silence, Ruan Yu turned around and rushed into the kitchen.