Unlike the focused cameras and flickering lights on the red carpet, the backstage was chaotic and noisy, and thanks to the help of people, he could watch her as if no one was around.

She wore a pure white bandeau tulle dress today, and the girl stood beside the director, with an elegant temperament and obvious protruding collarbones. Whether it's bright or beautiful, cold or glamorous, cute or cute, it's all her appearance.

The beauty that is close in front of her but out of reach forms a suffocating feeling against her heart, she is good anywhere, but she doesn't belong to him.

When Director Li saw him arrive, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to greet him: "Si Jing is here, thank you very much today."

Si Jing shook hands with him: "Director Li is polite, it's a matter of duty"

Director Li pointed to Lin Lu and introduced to Si Jing: "This is Lin Lu, an actress who has just returned to China!" ”

Si Jing looked at Lin Lu: "Hello." ”

Lin Lu also said: "Hello", reciprocating with the same indifference and rustiness.

There is no trace of hope and disappointment, this is the instinct of the actors, they are just two emotionless social machines in this chaotic situation.

On the red carpet, the host said: "Coming below is the actor Si Jing!" ”

Si Jing did not stretch out a gentleman's hand as usual, and helped the fellow actresses to walk forward together, he hid the emotions in his heart expressionlessly, separated from Lin Lu at a certain distance, and walked on the outermost side.

Fans outside the red carpet waved light signs and shouted his name, the host was introducing the brief description of the film, and the photographers behind hundreds of shots were shouting "look here", countless voices rang in his ears, but his brain was blank, and he walked forward with a blank smile, and finally stopped at the photo booth and stood next to Lin Lu.

On weekdays, he is occasionally cold and coping, and Si Jing, who is chic and casual, is inexplicably alienated and restrained today.

After the photo is completed, you need to walk up the two-story stairs to enter the main venue, and the red carpet is the end. Lin Lu lifted the hem of her skirt, adjusted her center of gravity, and was about to step on the steps, the director hurriedly stretched out her arm to the gentleman next to her, and she helped her up and smiled to express her gratitude. Si Jing walked diagonally behind her, looking at her slender and emaciated back, walking on his own upward path. When I finally walked into the lounge area, I reached the blind spot of the camera.

January in the north is still very cold, Lin Lu's shivering intensified, hugging his shoulders tightly, Si Jing stood behind her and looked at her secretly, that ruthless person!

The assistant and makeup artist had already walked up to him, and there were five or six people gathered around the front and right of the staff around his artist to dress up and touch up his makeup, surrounded by eyes, and he stood a meter away from her, staring at her fiercely.

Finally, Lin Lu's assistant ran over and put on a long down jacket for her and helped her to walk inside.

Linlin next to her reminded: "Brother Jing, you can enter"

He said, "Good."

At the opening ceremony, the shortlist of various awards was announced, interspersed with singing and dancing performances, and Si Jing took the stage halfway to announce the "shortlist of the most popular actor and actress", and the rest of the time he sat in the audience and watched the stage, full of thoughts. Occasionally, the camera swept over his face to capture his expression, and unlike in the past, today's Si Jing has always been cold and detached.

Towards the end of the ceremony, Director Li sent a message: "I will hold a celebration banquet in the evening, and all the directors I know well will attend, can you come over with the actors?" ”

Si Jing replied to Director Li: "You invite me, you must have time"

He has made great achievements in TV dramas in recent years, but the film field is still just emerging, and Director Li's invitation is obviously to help him broaden his contacts in the film industry, and Si Jing certainly knows it in his heart.

After a while, Director Li came in with a message: "Cheng, see you at night"

So after the ceremony, Si Jing asked his assistants to go home first, and he drove to the banquet alone.

The people in the hall have basically arrived, each in their own camp, and they are staggered.

Si Jing pushed open the door and saw Lin Lu toasting when he entered.

He was used to locking on to her position at first glance when everyone was present.

She changed out of the white dress and wore the simplest pencil pants knit, and she looked the same as the girl seven years ago, but the person in front of her had nothing to do with him now, and even became a stranger.

He became the later Si Jing, and she also became the later Lin Lu.

Si Jing looked at her from afar, feeling regret, jealousy, and sourness in his heart...... Filled with a lot of emotions, he said to himself: "Are you so ruthless? ”

He picked up the cup and walked to Director Li and said, "I drove here, I replaced the wine with tea, and toasted the two", and it happened that several other directors also came over, and Director Li introduced Si Jing one by one.

Director Huang, as well as Guo Qi, the director of the box office dark horse literary film, and the well-known director Song, Song Yu is Director Li's teacher in terms of seniority, and Guo Qi is Director Li's fellow disciple in the film academy.

Song Yu asked Guo Qi: "How happened to the later stage of "Rain"? When is it scheduled to be released?

"The post-production is basically completed, and there are a few transition shots that are not very satisfied, and they are still being adjusted, and it is expected to be on May 1st"

"It seems that there are a lot of good movies to be piled up in this year's May Day, it is a tough battle, you can come to me to see it when you have time, we have been studying the transition effect recently, maybe it can give you some inspiration."

Director Li followed with emotion: "The current market atmosphere is indeed ready to face greater challenges and controversies when it is released in the Chinese New Year, National Day, and May Day files. Our consideration as directors is to do a good job in the movie, but there are too many distributions, publicity, and crooked paths now, and we are all looking forward to healthy competition in the hope of a hundred flowers blooming, but now it is popular to "step on each other"? stepped on other people's holdings, and in the end public opinion was not controlled, making the market smoky"

Guo Qi and Song Yu also resonated very much when they heard it, and the three of them had no choice but to raise their glasses and felt a lot of emotion.

Song Yu turned to Si Jing and asked, "Are you young actors also distressed by these phenomena?"

Si Jing said: "Actors, from fighting for a role to the final broadcast of the work, they have seen all kinds of dark actions along the way, and they don't have so much time and energy to step on these, it doesn't matter over time, people who really believe in you won't believe in rumors, and people who don't believe in you won't believe your clarification, so actors, there are actually very few things that can be controlled, act well, and don't care about anything else."

Si Jing knows what kind of things to say on what occasions, knows how to skillfully avoid controversial topics, knows how to explain his situation appropriately, and knows how to fight for himself subtly.

He seemed to be more mature, but he was also more tired.

Several directors understood and agreed very well when they heard this, Guo Qi raised his glass: "Come, let's go, we respect the movie itself!" Several people clinked glasses and drank them all.

......

When Si Jing finished chatting with several directors, he looked around the room again, but he didn't see Lin Lu. Ten minutes ago, he noticed that Lin Lu pushed the door out, and he hadn't come back for so long.

Si Jing also walked out, standing in the corridor and looking around, the doors of all the boxes were closed, and the corridor was empty with only dim yellow lights. Turning around again, he could see a bright light seeping out of the crack in the door of the safe passage at the end of the corridor, he walked over and gently pushed the door open along the crack of the door, and sure enough, Lin Lu was sitting on the steps, his head hanging on his knees and looking down at his phone.

Hearing someone push the door, Lin Lu was startled and raised her head, but she didn't expect that it would be Si Jing standing in front of her.

......

In the past few years that she missed, this person has faded from the childishness of his early years, and his eyes are full of the indifference and stability of a mature man. He was wearing a black jacket, with a slender figure, carrying the light on his back, and one hand hanging from the handrail of the stairs, condescendingly looking down at her.

Si Jing spoke first, his voice in this confined space seemed low and restrained, his concern and following were deeply hidden, and the words he asked were a little careless: "Why are you hiding here?" It's not the stairwell without windows that I'm most afraid", he used the word "hide", and of course he understood the reason why she came out.

Lin Lu put away the surprised look he had when he first saw him, returned to his usual indifference, and told him: "I'm not afraid now" Si Jing stared at her for a while, unable to find a reason to stay here with her all the time, let alone let her stay here alone, he took a step back and discussed her tone: "Go back, follow me." ”

Follow me, you don't need to talk to people you don't like, you don't need to drink alcohol you don't like.

Before Lin Lu could speak, the mobile phone rang, and Tang Yan's phone, she pressed it and hung up.

She got up and walked back, turned back to Si Jing and said, "I don't follow you." ”

After they went back, Lin Lu sat directly on the couch on the side of the box, most of them had already drunk three rounds, and they were even more surrounded by threes and twos, Si Jing didn't think it was useful to chat in a drunken state, and he was not interested in participating, he walked over and Lin Lu was separated by a certain distance, and also sat there.

Lin Lu glanced at him sideways and ignored him.

Until everyone proposed to leave, the two of them did not say a word......

It was already past the early hours of the morning, and outside the clubhouse, Director Li said goodbye to everyone one by one, and then drove away.

Only Lin Lu and Si Jing were left standing outside in the square, empty, quiet, and cold......

"Get in the car." Si Jing stood half a meter away with his hands in his pockets, stared at Lin Lu for a long time, and spoke first.

"No." Lin Lu shook his head like a child, although he was a little drunk, his head was still very sober. She didn't want to get close to Si Jing at all.

Si Jing himself didn't know what was wrong, he obviously hated her to the bone, but he still paid attention to her. Probably because she's her ex-girlfriend! He couldn't stand idly by, Si Jing comforted himself.

Si Jing approached her a little, lowered his head and whispered in her ear, "No, right?" Then let's just stand here and wait for the paparazzi to shoot! ”

Lin Lu glared at him and moved to the side: "Tang Yan will come to pick me up!" ”

It's Tang Yan again! Si Jing's eyes were deep, he reached out and grabbed her, opened the car door, and directly stuffed her into the co-pilot's position, and then closed the car door with a "bang", and bypassed the front of the car in three or five steps.

After Lin Lu watched him stuff himself in casually, he was not ready to explain or apologize for his rude behavior just now.

Sitting in the driver's seat, Si Jing put the car keys aside, and he turned his eyes and looked at Lin Lu.

Si Jing's eyes darkened slightly, his Adam's apple rolled slightly, he pulled his tie with one hand, and the collar of his shirt was slightly messy, revealing a translucent cold white collarbone.

Lin Lu's gaze was slightly off, and his dark eyes fell on the car mirror, and the man's expression could be clearly seen.

"Seat belts."

Si Jing leaned over, his eyes returned to their usual calmness, almost enveloping the girl in his arms, and he pressed one hand on the knuckle buckle of the seat belt, slightly hard.

"Click". Buckle the seat belt.

Lin Lu's eyes looked at the man who was close at hand, and the mint fragrance was surrounded by the wings of his nose. Inexplicable irritability.