Chapter 78(1/2)
When the bathroom door closed, Cao Ye felt a bad premonition: things were getting big.
He is not a public figure and has no experience of being watched by the media. He was impulsive and did not expect that he would be reported by the media if he just had a fight.
Cao Ye took his mobile phone and typed the three words "Liang Sizhe" on the web search box. The pages that popped up were full of reports about Liang Sizhe's performance. He clicked on the top link and quickly slid down. The more he looked, the more he felt the more uneasy he felt. What happened to this report? It was obvious that he did the fight and talk and the action he did, but he didn't mention a single word in the whole article, and pushed all the blame on Liang Sizhe.
At the end of the stroke, Cao Ye's finger paused. In the photo attached, they walked forward side by side. Liang Sizhe covered his face with his hands, but his own face was clearly exposed outside.
"Don't be photographed later." The words Liang Sizhe said last night flashed in his mind. He thought he was hiding from the camera of passers-by. Now, when he thought about it, did Liang Sizhe realize that they would be exposed at that time?
Then he thought of Liang Sizhe pulling out his cell phone from the person who recorded the video to delete the video. He knew that he should be careful of secretly taking photos after he was drunk, so why did he still walk out of the hotel with him?
The comments below the report all blame Liang Sizhe on one side:
"I don't want to take it when I think the crew has no money. What's going on when I finish the calculation? "
"Maybe I just want to take on the movies of a big director. I regret it halfway through acting, and I'm more than the top."
"I ran away halfway through the show. Who in the circle dares to use him?"
"Who predicted that Liang Sizhe would not be able to walk on this road for a long time? Fortune-telling people are so accurate!"
"It's really a high and a low end, and it's blocking your own path."
"It's not surprising that I've cheated on the Best Actor in the Academy Awards, it's not surprising that I've done such a thing."
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Cao Ye's fingers were tightly clutching his phone, almost trying to squeeze the body out. These people didn't understand the truth at all, so they were self-righteous instructing the country?!
There was no sound of water in the bathroom, no movement at all. Liang Sizhe was not taking a shower or washing his face. Is he also reading these boring comments? What are he thinking?
God... why did it make things like this? Cao Ye raised one hand, clenched his fist and pressed it on his forehead, and the blue veins on the back of his hand swelled up. Why didn't he expect that anything he did would be blamed on Liang Sizhe by the intentional person, which was enough to make Liang Sizhe forced by public opinion to have no way out.
So what should I do now? The trouble he caused on impulse cannot be allowed to be scolded for him.
Since that's the case, he would go to the media to clarify and tell them what to beat people. He did it all by himself. Their false reports were all slander, they were throwing dirty water and slandering people!
He stood up straight and walked out the door. He wanted to contact the media and told them that this matter had nothing to do with Liang Sizhe.
Cao Ye walked to the door, opened the door, and strode out.
Liang Sizhe was leaning against the bathroom door and holding his cell phone to reply to Xu Yunchu. Before he woke up, Xu Yunchu had already called him more than a dozen times, but he mute his cell phone and didn't get any response.
Before the news could be released, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and then the sound of the door closing was closed. Liang Sizhe immediately reacted - Cao Ye went out.
Liang Sizhe didn't know what he was going to do, but he always felt that Cao Ye seemed to be impulsive in swaying the door. He put away his cell phone, turned around and opened the door, chased him out, and shouted at Cao Ye's back: "Cao Ye, what are you doing?!"
Cao Ye hurriedly ran across the corridor, turned to the stairs, and quickly went downstairs: "Don't worry!"
Liang Sizhe held the handrail of the stairs and quickly chased after him. He wanted to stop Cao Ye. But Cao Ye ran very fast, and the distance did not shrink. They were always a few meters away.
Cao Ye ran downstairs, and he was about to push the door out a few steps away. Liang Sizhe ran downstairs and stopped by the stairs and gasped, saying, "You really want me to chase you and run out. Being photographed by people on the street again, right?"
After he finished speaking, Cao Ye had already run to the door and pressed the door handle with his hand. Just as he was about to pull it open, his movements stopped. He turned his face and swallowed it and ran a little dry throat: "Then don't chase it out."
"You know I'll chase you out, so you first say what are you going out to do?"
"I don't do anything, I'm hungry," Cao Ye's eyes dodged and lied, "Can you go out and buy some food?"
"When you go out to buy food, why are you doing so fast?" Liang Sizhe walked towards him and asked without any hesitation.
"Stop asking." Cao Ye said, suppressing his annoyance. Although he wanted to push the door out, he was afraid that Liang Sizhe would follow him and chase him out.
"Okay, I won't ask, then you go back with me." Liang Sizhe stopped in front of him, raised his hand and held his wrist, and pulled him back.
"Don't stop me either." Cao Ye wanted to break away from him, but Liang Sizhe's fingers were tightly held, so he didn't let him break away.
"Don't go," Liang Sizhe stopped, turned around and looked at him and said, "Don't go anywhere, Cao Ye, just stay with me. If you are really hungry, I will ask the waiter to help us out to buy food."
"Can you stop stopping me?" Cao Ye suddenly raised his voice, "You just let me get into trouble and hide here, and make those people outside scold you like a coward?"
"Then what are you going out to do?" Liang Sizhe looked at him calmly, "Tell them that you did all this?"
"Yes," Cao Ye said, he was forced to collapse a little, "I'll tell them that I beat the person! I said that the performance was the one I said! It has nothing to do with you, if you want to scold me, come at me!"
"Don't be stupid Cao Ye," Liang Sizhe laughed, and it seemed that he was not laughing, but just sighed, "Do you know why they didn't expose you? It's not because they don't know you, because the producer last night had probably found out that your father was Cao Xiuyuan. He didn't dare to take the initiative to expose you to the media. If he offended your father, he might not be able to survive in this circle. Don't hit the gun by yourself, and provide the media with new news points. You do that to make him succeed."
The boy in front of him could get through at a moment. His arm, which was still strong just now, seemed to lose strength. Liang Sizhe saw helplessness, panic and hesitation on his face. After all, he was a newly grown boy. He thought to himself that he had grown up in a honey jar and had a smooth journey. He had never experienced any major events. He was impulsive and fragile, just like himself playing the violin back then. How could he let Cao Ye be exposed in the media and let him bear those scoldings with him?
"Let's go, go upstairs." He pulled Cao Ye back.
"What should I do now?" Cao Ye asked at a loss.
"It's okay," Liang Sizhe turned around and looked at him and smiled, "It's not that I've been scolded before. The substitute was much more severe than it is now, so it's just gone... For example, public opinion is like a tide, with high tide and low tide. Now it's time for high tide. It's better to be low in a few days. If you don't believe it, just wait and see."
He spoke lightly and confidently. In a panic, Cao Ye was almost convinced by him. He asked again: "Will no one ask you to act in a movie like what they said?"
"Not for that," Liang Sizhe laughed again, "There are still quite a lot of resources to come to me on his own initiative." He said, and the phone in his hand rang and looked down. This time it was not called by the agent, but by the senior executives of the agency.
"I'll answer the phone, you go back to the house first," Liang Sizhe looked up at Cao Ye and joked, "Don't run out secretly again this time."
"I didn't run out secretly." Cao Ye retorted. After hearing the few words Liang Sizhe had just said, he had calmed down now.
When I pushed the door open and entered the house, the bustling noise of the breakfast stall downstairs came up. It was as usual as any day two years ago. The public opinion on the Internet seemed to have nothing to do with the remote Yinsi Street.
After Cao Ye finished washing up, he sat beside the bed in a daze for a while. Liang Sizhe denied his actions to the media. He was also convinced by Liang Sizhe, but what should I do now? I just watched Liang Sizhe be scolded for this matter?
I was upset, forget it, let’s find the waiter to go out and buy some breakfast first. I haven’t eaten much until now last night and my stomach is a little bit hungry.
He walked out of the house and looked around. There was no waiter on the third floor, so he had to go downstairs to find it--just go out and buy it by himself, and talk to Liang Sizhe, so that he would not mistakenly think that he had sneaked out again.
Liang Sizhe called at the easternmost end of the corridor. He walked over and the sunlight shone through the window was very bright, a little dazzling, and it wrapped Liang Sizhe in it.
Liang Sizhe bowed and lay on the windowsill, his forehead against his arms, and his thin shoulders shook a rugged curve. He focused on the phone, but did not notice that Cao Ye approached behind him.
When Cao Ye heard the words he said, his voice was not high, but his tone sounded a little cold and a little irritable. Cao Ye had never heard of his tone:
"Apologize, I won't go to drink."
"I didn't say that the company would pay me a penalty for liquidated damages. I can't afford it now, so I'll pay it slowly."
"...Then I'll play supporting roles and play supporting roles. Is this OK, right?"
"Why should the company hide me?"
"I can't push my friend out to block the gun at this time. I just said this."
"I got it, I need time to think about it."
After hanging up the phone, Liang Sizhe did not get up immediately. His hand slowly dropped to his side when answering the phone. He kept his original posture and lay on the windowsill.
A few steps away, Cao Ye could feel him sighing a long sigh, and his shoulders seemed to collapse.
It was only then that Cao Ye realized that Liang Sizhe was only two years older than him. He was also struggling and at a loss in the face of this sudden accident. He was the person involved. This matter involved his reputation, future and acting. He was only over 20 years old and had only acted in a movie. He only entered the public eye for a few months. How could he be as easy as he showed it?
He was obviously worried, but he pretended to be fine just now, but he was so stupid that he really believed it. Should he say that Liang Sizhe's acting skills are too good?
Cao Ye thought that he might not have stood here, and Liang Sizhe should not have wanted to be seen by him in this helpless look. But he couldn't move, as if he was nailed to the spot.
Liang Sizhe stood up at this time, as if he was lowering his head and thinking something. After a while, he turned around and was stunned for a moment when he saw Cao Ye.
Before he could disguise himself, the fatigue and anxiety between his eyebrows and eyes were visible in Cao Ye's eyes at that moment.
Liang Sizhe walked towards him. Cao Ye thought he would say something, but Liang Sizhe said nothing. He just stopped in front of Cao Ye, stretched out an arm around Cao Ye's back, hugged him with one hand, and put his forehead on his shoulder.
Cao Ye could feel his weight pressing on his shoulders and his breath, and he threw himself on his shoulders through the fabric of his sweatshirt. The distance was too close and he felt a little uncomfortable, but he couldn't push Liang Sizhe away.
"Is it your economic company called?" Cao Ye turned his face and asked him softly, "They said they want to hide you?"
"It's just a threat," Liang Sizhe's voice was so low that it was a little blurred, "Don't take it seriously."
"They want you to drink and apologize again, right?"
Liang Sizhe didn't say anything this time. Cao Ye didn't continue to ask questions.
They stood quietly for a while, and there was someone coming out behind them, and they didn't move. The woman looked at the stairs while walking towards the stairs. Liang Sizhe stood up until the sound of footsteps disappeared for a while.
The anxiety and fatigue from a few minutes ago disappeared on his face. He patted Cao Ye on the shoulder twice: "Let's go, go back to the room."
After returning to the room, Liang Sizhe said nothing and turned around to take a shower in the bathroom. Cao Ye couldn't help but go to browse the news about his phone every once in a while.
Lin Yan called at this time and he answered it.
As soon as Lin Yan answered the phone, he said, "Fuck, Ye Zi, you did a big deal last night. I didn't hear any movement even if the private room was too far away."
"You have also seen the report?" Cao Ye asked.
"No, newspapers, TV, and mobile phones are all there, I don't think it's hard not to see it... No, you really beat that producer?"
"It's me, not us," Cao Ye said, suppressing his annoyance, "He didn't do it."
Lin Yan was probably drinking water, and choked when he heard this, coughing a few times: "Ha? Are you really going to the hero to save the beauty?"
"I'll die first." Cao Ye was not in the mood to talk nonsense to him.
"Hey, wait," Lin Yan stopped him on the phone, "I have internal news, don't hang up!"
"What?"
"I just heard from my brother that you seemed to offend an investor? That person is said to be quite well-known, and he called my brother to the head and told him not to give him resources."
"Will your brother listen to him?"
"Oh, I didn't listen to him. I'm all in the same circle. I should sell him face no matter what. Liang Sizhe is not a big deal. Using him without his will has no effect on the film. And I heard that the investor also knows the boss of Liang Sizhe's agency and has a good relationship. I just said hello to him and did not allow Liang Sizhe to expose the drinking, otherwise he would have to hide him or something... Alas, why don't you talk? Ye Zi? Is it good to give me some reaction? Where is the person? Where has he gone?" Lin Yan called Cao Ye a few times on the phone, but he didn't get a response, and hung up the phone with some depression.
To be continued...