clown face

Shen Tao was a little helpless, he originally had an appointment with an old friend tonight.In this way, his arrangement can only be postponed.

"Mr. Shen," Tang Anyao's assistant was already familiar with him, and his words were no longer polite, "Director Tang wanted to see you just after he came back from Venice."

Shen Tao turned around and took two quick steps, left his colleagues, and said in a low voice, "But I have an appointment."

"Mr. Shen, Director Tang will only stay in Hong Kong for three days this time. He has two days to meet with the main screenwriter of the next play, one day to meet investors, and one night to talk to people from the Film Bureau. He only has tonight and tomorrow morning. No time." The assistant said with a smile, "He misses you very much, and even avoided everyone in Venice to buy you gifts."

"Oh."

"Mr. Shen," the assistant seemed to sense his absent-mindedness, and immediately added, "Director Tang likes you so much. I've been with him for so long, and I've never seen him like someone so much. To be honest, I really feel sorry for you. You are happy."

Tang Anyao's liking may be true, but he made himself like a call girl who arrives at any time, and the gift is the money for whoring. Thinking of this, he suddenly lowered his head and felt funny.

Tang Anyao is extremely smart, but he looks like a fool when it comes to love.Shen Tao thought, fortunately, I am not prepared to change him, otherwise, if I have extravagant hopes for such a person and talk about feelings, I am doomed to failure.

When he turned his head, he was taken aback. Li Sen stood behind him and looked at him quietly with complicated eyes.

"Director Li."

"Talking on the phone with your girlfriend?" Li Sen quickly put on a smile, walked over and said, "Take me out and meet you all."

Shen Tao said awkwardly: "Well, he doesn't really want to meet people."

"No, I've been with you, but I haven't seen your friends and colleagues. Do you want to make a distinction?" Li Sen said lightly, "Do you have any feelings for you?"

This sentence does not sound very decent, Shen Tao can only attribute it to the fact that Li Sen just returned to China and his Chinese is not very good.He smiled and said, "Forget it, let him do it. Director Li, if there's nothing else, I'll go first."

"Ah Chen." Li Sen stopped him, "Have you been in Hong Kong since childhood?"

Shen Tao was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No, I went to Australia when I was ten years old and came back after college."

Li Sen took a step closer and asked urgently, "Do you remember where you lived when you were a child?"

"I don't really remember," Shen Tao frowned, looking at him warily.

"I, I want to make a feature film about old Hong Kong..." Li Sen said in a panic, "but you also know that I'm not familiar with this place."

"Oh, this," Shen Tao said with a smile, "It's best to ask Alison, she's been here since childhood. I'll leave when the time comes, and see Director Li tomorrow."

"Okay." Li Sen looked at him and nodded, "Goodbye."

The place to meet Tang Anyao tonight is at his villa in Repulse Bay.

This is also the place where Shen Tao had a relationship with Tang Anyao for the first time, and he came here several times later: the whole villa looks simple and European in style on the outside, but the interior decoration is a combination of Chinese and Western, and the bedroom and study are as antique as possible .The sketch paintings of the Song Dynasty hanging on the corner, the large mahogany Fu character wood carvings on the front of the hall, and the imitation Ru kiln porcelain placed on the Bogu shelf, all of these are similar to Tang Anyao's habit of wearing Tang suits, his love of pocket watches, and even the round sunglasses. Old-fashioned out-of-the-box style fits well.

To some extent, Tang Anyao is a person who is obsessed with nostalgia.

The same is true of his film style, the extravagant light and shadow contrast, the almost strict composition ratio, the large and long-term detail close-up, the broken and erratic emotional expression, and the gorgeous color contrast beyond imagination, these elements are combined by a powerful The unique control ability of Tang Anyao is combined to form a unique style of Tang Anyao.

The way he treats his lover is also full of Tang Anyao's desire to control. The tenderness makes people tremble, and the considerateness makes people evocative. Handcrafted rules of the game.

You don't have to play, but if you want to play, you have to follow this rule.

Shen Tao sat on that uncomfortably expensive Ming-style armchair, thankful once again that the relationship between him and Tang Anyao didn't have to last long.

He stood up, stretched himself, and walked to the antique shelf on the side hall to look at the exhibits inside.Unexpectedly, next to the exquisite porcelain, there is a gorgeous clown doll, wearing satin clothes, wearing a hexagonal clown hat, with shiny rhinestones inlaid on the thick and colorful face, the clown mask is extremely delicate, and the clown under the mask The red lips outlined a strangely curved smile.

Shen Tao squinted his eyes slightly, and he couldn't help picking up the clown doll. The doll was not small, about the length of an arm. When he held it in his hand, he realized how exquisite the workmanship was. The golden lace on the blue satin dress was so beautiful that it looked like a work of art. The rhinestones are intensely colored.

Shen Tao was in a daze for a moment, he touched the doll carefully, and something seemed to flash past in the depths of his memory.

"Ah, you've already seen it. I wanted to hide it as a surprise for you." Tang Anyao's voice came from behind him.

Surprised, Shen Tao turned his head to see that Tang Anyao had already stood at the entrance of the side hall at some point.He smiled slightly, walked over to hug Shen Tao, bowed his head and kissed him, and asked, "Do you like it? I specially picked a gift for you in Venice."

"For me?" Shen Tao murmured.

"Yeah, is it pretty?"

"It's very beautiful." Shen Tao caressed the clown's satin clothes, "It's just that I'm not a girl, it's a bit strange to hold such things..."

"Don't think of it as a doll. The clown is a very interesting cultural product of Venice. After the fifteenth century, it was popular to keep dwarfs and clowns in captivity in the European courts for fun, and they also compared each other whose clown was more troublesome, just like the current one. It’s like your wife keeping dogs. These actors are responsible for amusing their princes and nobles. Their life’s work is to laugh and make others laugh, and if they can’t, they lose their value.”

"That's terrible."

"No, it's not, it's the clown's job to keep being funny all the time, not to relax at all, deliberately showing clumsiness and ridiculousness, trying to make the master happy, all of these are the job of a clown. You think, if a person has to remain in the state of a clown all the time, how this will subvert his life as a normal person, I really want to make a movie like this..."

Shen Tao raised his head and asked, "Why did you give me this?"

Tang Anyao rubbed his cheek affectionately and said, "It's very beautiful. Look how beautiful his mask is."

"It's very beautiful." Shen Tao said lightly.

"No matter how beautiful it is, people can tell it's a mask at a glance, so he has to smile..."

Shen Tao stuffed the clown back to Tang Anyao and said, "Sorry, I don't like it very much."

Tang Anyao looked at him with puzzlement in his eyes.

"I," Shen Tao frowned and thought for a while, "I seem to have a similar doll when I was a child, but it should have been lost after my father passed away."

Tang Anyao's eyes were deep, and he slowly tightened his hand, and asked, "This thing reminds you of bad memories?"

"No," Shen Tao smiled, thought for a while and said, "In fact, I don't really remember. When my father had an accident, I was also injured. My memory may be missing. I haven't remembered anything for so many years. Come……"

Tang Anyao's eyes showed distress, he sighed, wrapped Shen Tao tightly, and said in a hoarse voice: "Poor Taotao, you must have suffered a lot."

"No." Shen Tao said with a little embarrassment, "You must not imagine such things as Orphan Wanderings on me. I later adopted my aunt in Australia. She has no children and loves me very much. When I was growing up, I basically There was never a lack of love.”

Tang Anyao stared at him for a long time before asking, "Why did you return to Hong Kong?"

Shen Tao said with a smile: "When I graduated from university, I came back by chance. I used to travel to see if the place I lived in when I was a child is still there. It just so happened that HT recruitment was published in the newspaper. I wanted to be independent for a long time, so I went to If you apply for a job, you won’t know it right away.”

Tang Anyao smiled slowly, and said softly, "This is our fate."

Shen Tao blushed a little, bowed his head and said, "It's hard to say."

Tang Anyao leaned over to kiss him carefully, as if confirming that this person was by his side in this way, he kissed him and said: "Taotao, I really hope to meet you sooner, when you were young, you needed help most I will take you with me when I was young, so that I can watch you grow up, and let you be mine from the beginning to the end, every life and every memory has me, I really hope that..."

Shen Tao turned his head away, chuckled and said, "Director Tang, this is like a line."

Tang Anyao was taken aback, smiled and scolded him: "Stinky boy, you were born to disrupt the atmosphere, right?"

Shen Tao raised his brows and eyes, indescribably exquisite and beautiful: "Yes, don't say any more."

"That's okay, don't say, let's do it directly." Tang Anyao restrained his moving arms, gritted his teeth and buried his head in his neck, and began to gnaw.

"You, is this the only thing you can do when you ask me to come?" Shen Tao complained out of breath, "Take a doll and just want to trick me into going to bed. It's a beautiful idea..."

"I don't like that doll, how about changing it to a bigger one?" Tang Anyao reached into his clothes and groped, nibbled on his collarbone, and asked in a hoarse voice, "How about me instead?"

"Who wants you to..."

"It's too late." Tang Anyao stopped, his eyes shone fiercely like a beast, like a prey that took him into his palm and teased, pressed against the tip of his nose, whispered two words, "It's too late to regret."