On the way back, Cao Ye was driving, and the scenes about Liang Sizhe kept flashing in his mind. He half-squatted to look at the words "Thank you" that Xiao Xiaobai said, the slightly red eyes above the mask when he stood in front of him, and the deep look at him when he turned around.

On the night of Liang Sizhe's birthday, the blessing messages he received made his phone shocked for a while, which means he should have many friends in the circle, right? But why does he look so lonely?

His parents passed away ten years ago, and his dog who had been with him ten years later was leaving. How sad he had to be to make his eyes red when he had never been exposed?

Cao Ye wanted to turn the steering wheel and go back to the airport and stay with him in the crew for a few days. But he thought that he had agreed to take care of Xiao Xiaobai but could not break his promise. He had to continue to stay here and accompany Xiao Xiaobai through the last journey of his life for Liang Sizhe.

The car stopped at the traffic light intersection. He took a cigarette out and put it in his mouth. He took a lighter and lit it, then took a deep breath.

Back at the pet hospital, Xu Yunchu was still guarding Xiao Xiaobai.

Xiao Xiaobai was still lying on his side, not knowing whether he was sleeping or really asleep. Because of his illness and aging, his alertness also deteriorated. Cao Ye walked over and it did not notice it at all.

"Mr. Cao," Xu Yunchu got up and asked him, "How is Sizhe's mood?"

“Not very good.”

Xu Yunchu sighed. She seemed to have no idea that the dog had anything to do with Cao Ye, and explained to him: "Sizhe has raised this dog for ten years. It seems that he was already raising it when filming "Thirteen Days". The first thing he did after filming was to pick it up from me. It was just like his relatives. Now it was in a bad situation... You can imagine how sad he was."

Cao Ye said "yes".

"I may not have enough time recently. The new boy group I am in charge of debuting this month and have been busy with this matter. I will go on a business trip to Guangzhou tomorrow. Xiao Xiaobai has to ask you Mr. Cao."

"Don't call me Mr. Cao," Cao Ye said, "Liang Sizhe calls me Cao Ye, you should call me Cao Ye the same."

Xu Yun was over 30 years old and was known for her ability, shrewdness and decisiveness in the circle. But she couldn't control Liang Sizhe. She was probably afraid of Liang Sizhe's always willful work style. After Liang Sizhe, all the artists she took the idol route. It doesn't matter whether she has real materials or not, but she must be obedient first.

"Okay, Cao Ye," Xu Yunchu smiled, "If there is anything wrong with Xiao Xiaobai, call me. If I have time, I will come here as soon as possible."

"Okay." Cao Ye replied.

"But... I have a request," Xu Yunchu lowered his eyes and thought for a few seconds, and said, "If Xiao Xiaobai is in a bad situation, try to talk to Sizhe as little as possible... You also know that the scripts are all in the comedy style in the early stages of this time. He is not in a good mood every year. Now Xiao Xiaobai's life is in danger at any time. He is a good actor and can adjust his state to enter the role, but the emotional contrast is too large, so he will be too tired to act this drama."

"I know, don't worry," Cao Ye said.

That night, Xiao Xiaobai finished infusion of fluid, and Cao Ye took it home. Xiao Xiaobai had no strength to walk, so Cao Ye got out of the car and carried it into the elevator.

Perhaps because he couldn't eat food recently, Xiao Xiaobai has lost a lot of weight compared to last month, almost to the point of skin and bones. His hair seems to have lost its luster and covered his skeleton softly. Cao Ye still remembers about a month ago when Liang Sizhe tied his hair to bathe him. At that time, Xiao Xiaobai looked lively and healthy, but now his life is passing by rapidly on it.

For the next half month, Xiao Xiaobai's condition was sometimes good and sometimes bad. Sometimes he was better and for a while, he could stand up and walk around by himself, but most of the time he was lying on the balcony, basking in the sun listlessly.

When it was in good condition, Cao Ye shot a short video and sent it to Liang Sizhe. If Liang Sizhe happened to be filming again at night, he would send him a video to see Xiao Xiaobai.

Cao Ye asked the chef of the club to cook white porridge and take it home every day. He tried to feed Xiao Xiaobai, but he vomited most of the time after eating it. Cao Ye had to drive it to the pet hospital for infusion every day.

Although he had infusion every day, after half a month, Xiao Xiaobai was still very thin. Later, Cao Ye rarely took Xiao Xiaobai's videos and sent them to Liang Sizhe for fear that he would be sad after watching them.

He witnessed his life passing day by day from Xiao Xiaobai. This feeling was not good. Cao Ye was also a little depressed in those days. He wanted to see Liang Sizhe and said a few more words to him. He always felt that Liang Sizhe needed company during this period, but Xiao Xiaobai was in a bad state. He also felt that if he deliberately avoided it and ignored it, Liang Sizhe would always notice the clues, and his emotions would be affected. He was such a smart and sensitive person.

Xu Yunchu is right. A sad person pretends to be excited to act in comedy. This contrast between inside and outside the play will make people extremely tired.

He was also exhausted by tossing those days. One night, Xiao Xiaobai foamed at the mouth and curled up in pain. He took it to the hospital in the middle of the night, and his eyes turned blue. The next day he went to the company, Cheng Duan joked about why he looked overly lustful. Cao Ye was in a bad mood and asked him to get out of here.

After surviving for more than half a month, Xiao Xiaobai couldn't bear it anymore. For two consecutive days, when the painkiller passed, it curled up in his body and let out a whimpering sound from his throat, which seemed to make people unable to bear to let him continue to suffer.

The doctor suggested euthanizing Xiao Xiaobai again. After all, for it, when it is hard to breathe, life has become a burden.

Cao Ye couldn't bear to see it continue to suffer, so he sat in the office for an afternoon, but in the evening he called Liang Sizhe and told him about Xiaoxiaobai's situation. He was mentally prepared for Liang Sizhe to refuse, but unexpectedly, Liang Sizhe seemed to have expected this result and quickly agreed.

"Then you'll be euthanized," Liang Sizhe said on the phone, his voice a little hoarse and a little heavy. "If the result is inevitable, then instead of being next to it in pain, it's better to do it as soon as possible. You can take it to do it tomorrow."

His voice could not hear the emotional fluctuations, the passage, and his eyes were a little red. He was arrogant when facing the media and was at ease when facing himself, but when Cao Ye thought of Liang Sizhe, he could only think of his eyes under his hood, which were fragile and tired.

"Are you very sad, Liang Sizhe?" Cao Ye couldn't help asking.

After a while, I spoke out and said, "It's okay, I'm used to it." After a pause, I said, "Whether humans or dogs have the day to leave, it's just about time. I figured this out many years ago."

Cao Ye didn't sleep well all night.

Opening and closing his eyes, Liang Sizhe was wearing a hood and mask, leaning against the seat and looking out the window. That day, the traffic light intersection, and the car in the other lane drove by. The headlights reflected on Liang Sizhe's face quickly disappeared. At that moment, it seemed that time was flowing on his face.

I dreamed again that ten years ago, Liang Sizhe stood behind the door, and stopped the scene where the people inside the door were talking about the scene where he could no longer play the violin, and the tight, slightly shaking fist.

The fragility that has been ten years later is surprisingly similar.

The next morning, Cao Ye went to the operating room

On the white surgical bed, Xiao Xiaobai lay on his side. The anesthetic in the needle was pushed into its front legs. The pain in Xiao Xiaobai's eyes seemed to be relieved, and at the same time, its eyes became dissipated and numb.

The entire euthanasia process went very quickly. A shot of anesthetic and potassium chloride completely freed Xiaobai from the pain.

Xiao Xiaobai was completely cut off in the sunshine in the room. Cao Ye reached out to close his half-closed eyes for him. When his palm covered Xiao Xiaobai's eyes, he had an idea. He and Liang Sizhe had another connection with the two teenagers on Yinsi Street ten years ago.

He wanted to return to Yin Si's mode of getting along with Liang Si. He wanted to think that nothing about Cao Xiuyuan had happened, but ten years passed by time and years changed. Xiao Xiaobai went from being born to the end of his life. All the things that happened in the middle actually happened. How could it be so easy to go back to the beginning?

It seems that over the years, he and Liang Sizhe have been relying on these memories of their youth, and have been walking around and around until today. But memories will always be forgotten and destroyed by time little by little, just like the Lan Banquet being flattened overnight, Yin Si Street was demolished into rubble, Xiao Xiaobai's life has come to an end, and all losses and changes are irreversible. By the day when everything about Yin Si is forgotten, what will happen between him and Liang Sizhe?

After leaving the pet hospital, Cao Ye contacted a pet cemetery and took Xiao Xiaobai to bury him.

Xu Yunchu also accompanied him. During the past ten years, Liang Sizhe always went out to film, and she always took care of Xiao Xiaobai for Liang Sizhe. She also had feelings for Xiao Xiaobai.

After returning from the cemetery, Xu Yunchu said she was going to visit Liang Sizhe's house. Liang Sizhe called her last night and asked her to pack up everything about Xiao Xiaobai.

"I'm afraid that when I come back from filming in a few months, I'll be in love with those things," Xu Yunchu said. "Sizhe always hides his emotions, but he... is actually quite sensitive." She talked to Cao Ye, "A person with talent for acting is actually more sensitive to the outside world than others, but he's all stuck in his heart and doesn't tell others."

Cao Ye drove the car and asked for a moment in silence: "Do you want to throw away those things?"

"I haven't thought about it yet, and I feel it's a pity to throw it away, but if I give it to someone..." Halfway through her words, she seemed to be in thought.

"If you have no plans," Cao Ye said, "Can you let me go first?"

"You have a dog, too?"

“I have this plan.”

"If you need it, that's great," Xu Yunchu agreed quickly, "Then come with me? I'll pack it up, you drive away directly... There are actually not many things, maybe some toys and dog food. I have some in there, and I will give it to you if I have time."

"Okay." Cao Ye said.

Seeing Cao Ye not in high spirits on the way back, Xu Yunchu told him a few interesting stories about Xiao Xiaobai and Liang Sizhe, saying that when Liang Sizhe went out to walk the dog, he encountered paparazzi taking photos from behind. Xiao Xiaobai ran away. Liang Sizhe didn't pay attention at first and wanted to pull it back, but Xiaobai didn't know where the strength came from, so he pulled Liang Sizhe back home. Afterwards, Liang Sizhe took photos of the dog walking and posted the newspaper. Only then did Liang Sizhe know why it suddenly ran away that day.

"Sizhe's sensitivity to paparazzi is probably trained by Xiao Xiaobai." Xu Yunchu said with a smile.

This incident made Cao Ye laugh and his mood looked better.

In the past, they had business dealings and had no in-depth contact. Now, because Liang Sizhe's dog chatting, Xu Yunchu discovered that Cao Xiuyuan's only son, who had been curious about the media, was like a likable child in private, with all his emotions written on his face. It was very different from Cao Ye who was in contact with her when she was in Lomon.

No wonder Liang Sizhe became friends with Cao Ye. Xu Yunchu thought that these two were the focus of media attention, but one was in the light and the other was in the dark. Their temperaments looked inexplicably similar, and I thought they would be able to chat.

"Sizhe has also recorded a lot of videos of Xiaobai over the years," she thought for a while and said, "It's all engraved on a CD. If you want to watch it, I'll tell him and I'll find it to you later."

"Okay." Cao Ye said.

The car stopped at Liang Sizhe's door. Xu Yunchu took the key and was about to open the door, but saw Cao Ye touching the fingerprint recognition screen with his index finger, and the door lock opened with a "click".

She was a little surprised: "When did you record your fingerprint?"

"Last month."

"I only know that your father has been kind to him, but I didn't expect that your relationship would be so good."

"Are you surprised?" Cao Ye smiled, and suddenly wanted Xu Yunchu to know that his relationship with Liang Sizhe was closer than she thought. "I chose the name Xiao Xiaobai ten years ago."

"Really, false?" Xu Yunchu was even more surprised. She was absent in the two years before Liang Sizhe won the award. Liang Sizhe had never talked about Yin Si too much, so she always thought what the media said was true. "The media has been rumoring that you were competing for Xiaoman in the past. The competition process sounded like a life-and-death battle, so the truth was not the case?"

"It's a competitive relationship, but it's just nonsense." Cao Ye said, lowering his head to send a message to Liang Sizhe-"Your agent said you've recorded a video of Xiao Xiaobai, can I come and see it?"

It was five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and the crew was about to have dinner. Liang Sizhe quickly replied: "You ask Yun Chu to help you find it, she knows which plate it is."

Cao Ye thought that it would be better to finish watching Liang Sizhe's screening room together. He stayed here once and felt that the screening room was very comfortable. He sent another message and asked: "Can you borrow the screening room?"

I don’t know if there was something temporary but I couldn’t reply in time, but it took a few minutes to reply to the message.

——"Use it."

Cao Ye and Xu Yunchu went up the stairs in front and behind, pushed the door into the screening room, Xu Yunchu raised his hand to turn on the wall lights of the room, then walked into the room, pulled the folding door tightly, and pulled the curtains. The afterglow of the sunset that sprinkled the room was blocked outside, and only dim lights remained in the room.

Cao Ye suddenly thought that when he first came to this screening room that day, Liang Sizhe first walked into the room and pulled the door, and then asked him to turn on the lights. A thought suddenly came to his mind. The normal order should be to turn on the lights first and then go in and pull the door. This is Liang Sizhe's home. Logically speaking, he could not make such a basic order wrong, so that day...will he do it on purpose?

"It should be in this area," Xu Yunchu stood in front of the exhibition stand against the wall, looking up and searching a row of optical disc boxes with his eyes. "It seems this one," she raised her hand and took down a disc box, looked down at the blank cover, looked up at the exhibition stand, and took out another one near the disc, "It's still this one... I can't remember it very clearly, Cao Ye, please help me turn on the projector, let's take out both of them and put them out to try."

"Oh, OK." Cao Ye walked to the front of the table, started the projector, and then lifted up the screen of the laptop on the desktop. Just like last time, the computer was not turned off. When the screen moved a little, the screen lighted up.

According to the order of Liang Sizhe's operation last time, Cao Ye clicked the video interface that was minimized in the column at the bottom of the screen, and waited for a while to connect to the projector. The playback interface jumped out and stayed on the screen that Liang Sizhe had seen for the last time.

Just like last time, the blurry picture quality, off-white picture, down-to-earth shots, and the closed elevator door.

Why did Liang Sizhe watch this video again? Cao Ye stared at the picture and thought. This time he saw it clearly. This was indeed the surveillance screen near the elevator door in the corridor, rather than the "something movie" that Liang Sizhe said.

The last time I looked at it was too hasty, and I didn’t notice a row of time displayed in the lower right corner of the screen. Cao Ye looked at the row of numbers, 2014-06-0321:37:26. Cao Ye was very familiar with this time, it was the night of Liang Sizhe’s birthday five years ago.

No one knew better than him what happened that night.

The heart suddenly began to hit the chest cavity with force. Every time it beats, it made a huge, noisy sound.

Cao Ye felt that his fingers suddenly lost their strength and had to use force to hold the mouse. He dragged the video progress bar forward for a while, and then he saw the boy squatting in the corner of the elevator, burying his head low like an ostrich, and his fingers drooped from his knees weakly, looking decadent and helpless.

"Is the projector turned on?" Xu Yunchu walked over with two CDs. Then she looked up and saw the surveillance-like picture on the huge projection in front of her, and the boy squatting in the corner of the elevator. She was a little puzzled, "What is this? It seems that I have seen it on this computer before. Who is this person... doesn't look like Sizhe?"

"This person..." Cao Ye spoke, his voice suddenly became a little hoarse, and something seemed to be blocked in his throat. He cleared his throat before he could continue to say, "It's me."

The video continued to go down, the elevator door opened, the boy stood up against the elevator wall, and walked out of the cramped space. Then there was the picture of the hotel lobby. He saw his steps suddenly accelerate, moving faster and faster until he ran, and then striding through the crowd like an escape and ran out of the hotel.

When the progress bar reached the end, the video automatically started to play loop. He and Liang Sizhe stood outside the elevator. He was excited and stepped back step by step. Liang Sizhe stood there and looked at him, raising his hand, as if he wanted to catch him. But Cao Ye retreated into the elevator, the elevator door closed, and Liang Sizhe stopped in front of the closed door. The picture seemed to be still. Then someone came over to talk to him, but he didn't listen, pressed the elevator door and walked in quickly.

Cao Ye looked down at the screen on the computer screen.

Xu Yunchu looked up at the picture on the projection.

The video hits the initial picture, the closed elevator door, the off-white picture, the view from the top, and the blurry picture quality.

"So that's the case," Xu Yunchu suddenly spoke and murmured, "so he beats the reporter, films "Liang Sheng Zhu Meng", and takes on the re-shoot of "The Darkest Choice"..."

"What did you say?" Cao Ye woke up from his dream and looked up at Xu Yunchu, "Why are you fighting a reporter?"

"No wonder..." Xu Yunchu didn't look at him, but still looked at the little boy huddled in the corner on the huge projection image. "It turns out that he has swallowed his blunt knife in for so many years, not for the so-called repayment of kindness... it is for you."
Chapter completed!