Chapter 7: The Eve of the Return
When the new assistant Xiao Du called Cheng Shuo, he realized that he had sat in front of the darkened computer monitor all night, without even changing his clothes.
After the phone was connected, Xiao Du reminded him not to forget to go to the interview show where he was a guest on Xu Yan, Cheng Shuo, who had not slept all night, had a hoarse voice, and he threw his phone aside after replying to Xiao Du.
It's been almost three years, and I left T City almost desperately, leaving everything I had and going to the United States to start so-called further study.
The days when he first arrived in the United States were not easy, he left so suddenly, and the reasons were so high-sounding, but he went to a foreign country alone, and even language communication was a problem, and for hundreds of days and nights, he went from not being able to sleep to being extremely tired and sleeping, all of which can be said in three words.
Even so, when Shi Yu flew to the United States to talk to him about his return, he still hesitated for so long, no one knew better than himself why he left in embarrassment, he gritted his teeth and swore that he would come back one day to gradually get used to life in the United States, and even began to be reluctant, it was Shi Yu who moved him with enough sincerity, and also ignited the fuse he buried in his heart. There is no success in this world that does not require a price, and there are no despicable people who can live at ease.
It's just that he didn't expect that fate would let him meet her again without preparation, and she is no longer the same she was back then.
There is not only three years between them, but also a deep and bottomless gap. Now, he doesn't even have the courage to get closer.
The mobile phone that was thrown aside shook, and the screen showed a text message from Xiao Du: Brother Shuo, I ordered takeout for you, and it will be delivered in a while.
He reached for his phone and replied with two words: thank you.
Cheng Shuo has just returned to China, in addition to the agent Shi Yu is the assistant arranged by the company, Xiao Du has been with him, this new assistant usually doesn't like to talk but is very careful, Shi Yu will remember the things he explains, and then remind Cheng Shuo at the right time, which can be regarded as dedication.
Cheng Shuo, who put down the phone, remembered Yueyue, the girl Yueyue who had been an assistant by his side since his debut, and Yueyue, who took care of herself meticulously, and was obviously older than herself, but she was not allowed to call her sister. With her own low point and going abroad that year, Yueyue can finally leave here to get married, and after three years, I don't know if she is doing well now.
The light in the room gradually brightened, he slowly got up, it was a new day, he came back, he left so that he could come back one day, youth and ignorance made him suffer, and now when he comes back, he will not let himself make the same mistake again, those who have lost, he will take them all back!
After taking a shower and eating the takeaway delivered, Cheng Shuo didn't rest and prepared to do an interview, he was still in good spirits after not closing his eyes all night, and he maintained a polite smile from the moment he got out of the car, as if he was still the polite sunny boy back then.
Xu Yan's interview is a recording program, which can be regarded as a warm-up for Cheng Shuo's return, with Xu Yan pressing the formation, Cheng Shuo relaxes Shi Yu rest assured. After learning the news that Cheng Shuo was preparing to return, many media began to invite people who truly reflected the warmth and warmth of this industry after watching and understanding T-s's plan, but where is this not the case, who said that people are not afraid of being used, and what they are afraid of is that they have no use value.
Shi Yu chose this one among the many announcements as the first side of Cheng Shuo's return, which naturally made sense. Cheng Shuo was once devastated by blind belief, but now that he has decided to trust Shi Yu, he will not casually question his arrangement.
Cheng Shuo has already met Xu Yan after returning to China, and this gold-level senior in the industry is not just a mentor and a friend to him. The two met in the backstage dressing room, and after a brief communication of the program process, they began to prepare for each other.
After the whole episode, Shi Yu has been standing on the side, from flying to the United States to talk to him about his return to arranging for him to return to China to prepare for his comeback, everything is done by Shi Yu himself.
The time of the show is not long, the producer proposed to do two or even three episodes in a row, but after Shi Yu communicated with Xu Yan, he insisted on only doing one episode, and even the content only told about Cheng Shuo's life abroad in the past two years and his persistence in his dreams, and finally left time for fans to interact.
ended the recording, Cheng Shuo politely thanked Xu Yan and the staff on the scene and said goodbye, and patiently took photos with fans to sign autographs, he has been away for three years, and he has been looking forward to his return for three years, he must give them enough time to meet their requirements, this is his constant gratitude, he didn't expect that there would be so many fans to cheer him on for three years, so he dragged on for a while before leaving, Shi Yu asked Xiao Du to accompany him to the recording studio first, and he had other things to deal with later.
After getting in the car, Cheng Shuo leaned his head back on the back of the chair, in fact, he did not want to look back on the experience of training in the United States, especially in the first year, those days of almost isolation were the price he paid for the mistakes he had made, even if his life changed a lot in the later years, but those were not what the public needed to know.
But since he chose to return, he must give everyone an explanation, and now he can avoid the truths that cannot be known to the public without changing his face and heartbeat, just talking about the high-sounding reasons arranged by the company for him.
In the past, he never imagined that one day in the future, he could become what he is now, which he doesn't look up to.
Now that he can force himself to say what he doesn't want to say naturally, fans feel sorry for him in a foreign country and he is sick because he doesn't understand the language in a foreign country, he laughs and doesn't say anything, as if it is all trivial and trivial things to stick to his dreams.
Only he knew in his heart that the high fever did not go away at the beginning, and the foreign medicine was not suitable for the physique of Asians, so he could only use the physical cooling method, and when he was awake, he forced himself to keep drinking water, wanting to let the body temperature drop as soon as possible, and he didn't know when he fell asleep in a daze, and he seemed to smell something burning in the haze.
Shortly after his debut that year, he was drenched in rain for a long time while filming, and the weather was cold, so he had a fever at night, and he forgot to call her when he fell asleep after taking medicine. The next day, because there was a temporary activity, the crew gave him leave to fly back to T City, and it was already night after the event, and he burned again, and when he was half-asleep, he heard Yueyue call and discuss with the crew to go back the next morning, and fell asleep without hearing the result.
He struggled to get up, slowly walked outside, and saw a familiar figure in the kitchen hurriedly getting the lid of the pot and then letting go of the hot steam, the lid fell to the counter with a bang, and he walked over, and there was a mushy smell in the pot.
She scooped up a little with a spoon, the white rice grains were sticking together, she looked at the pot in disappointment, but Cheng Shuo's cough interrupted her disappointment, "Why are you up, go back and lie down." She came over to push him out, reached out and touched his forehead, and said with a sigh of relief, "The fever seems to have almost subsided." ”
He leaned over to see that he was taller than her, "What are you doing?"
She was a little embarrassed, and said in a small voice: "I wanted to boil some porridge for you to drink, but the water was a little less, there was no soup left, only rice was left, and the rice at the bottom of the pot was still mushy." ”
He coughed twice more and comforted her, "It's okay, just take out the non-mushy on it, add some water and boil it again." ”
She didn't doubt that he asked, "Really?" After getting the affirmation, she immediately ran back to serve the porridge, but when she saw the appearance in the pot, she turned around and asked, "Will the rice be broken if you cook it again?"
He leaned against the door frame and smiled, "That's how easy it is to digest." ”
She nodded as if she had received a holy decree, "Yes, the digestion of sick people will not be much better, you go back and lie down, I will serve it to you." ”
He didn't speak, he didn't leave, but stood there and watched her hurriedly put out the porridge, took a shovel to shovel off the paste, brushed the pot and put water again, and then carefully poured the little porridge left, lit a fire and began to cook.
She tossed around for a long time and then turned around to find that he was still standing there, and came to push him out, but he said that he had been lying down for too long, so he sat in the restaurant and waited for the porridge to finish before going back to sleep, so she had to cling to him, while waiting for the porridge, while talking to him.
He had not eaten all day, so he drank all the little porridge, took medicine, and fell asleep after a while while as he lay back in bed.
In the middle of the night, his stomach was tumbling and uncomfortable, he couldn't sleep, he couldn't help but get up, but he woke her up who was guarding the side, he said that he was going to the bathroom, closed the door and turned on the faucet, lying on the toilet and vomiting.
When she woke up the next morning, she had already bought breakfast and watched him take the medicine before going back to school, he and Yueyue caught the early flight back to the crew, in the end, he was young and had a good body, and he was alive again in two days.
At that time, Yueyue and his colleagues took care of him, but in the United States, he was the only one, and he was the only one who was half-asleep in the dormitory in the middle of the night when the high fever did not go away.
It was almost midnight after the recording of the day, and Cheng Shuo and his colleagues had a supper together and returned to the apartment alone. The two years of living in the United States have made him accustomed to taking care of everything alone, and he can have a lot of time to think about his own affairs.
The apartment arranged by the company for him is not very large, but it still seems a little empty to live alone, he changed his shoes and took off his coat, poured himself a glass of water and sat on the sofa, and then returned to T City, full of memories, even work is reminiscing, many things are just I want to forget and can't forget, not to mention some things, I don't want to forget at all.
If a person has never succeeded, has never climbed to the top and looked down, then he will never be able to understand what a gap is, the difference between falling from the clouds to the abyss.