Borrowing a Kiss

The author has something to say: Obediently~

Although he had already seen the premiere, on the first day of the official release of "Parasite", Liang Muqiu still bought a ticket and went to watch it with Cen Nan.

The movie theater is in the commercial center near my home. Neither of us was driving. We went for a walk. It is Christmas now. There are many pedestrians on the road. Young boys and girls are very beautifully dressed, and some girls even wear cute little headbands on their heads. Walking together in groups, their faces were a little red from the cold, and a small face was wrapped in a fluffy collar.

Both Liang Muqiu and Cen Nan were dressed in neatly tailored black coats, showing off their good figures with narrow waists and long legs. The only difference was that Liang Muqiu wore a dark green scarf on which a little girl from his studio pinned a squirrel brooch.

Seen from behind, Liang Muqiu was a little slender, but he was handsome and straight with Cen Nan at first glance, and the backs of the two matched well.

Next to the movie theater was a seller of Christmas mulled wine. Liang Muqiu saw it and asked Cen Nan if he wanted it. Cen Nan shook his head, and he bought himself a cup.

The taste of rum and fresh cream mixed in his mouth, and Liang Muqiu's mouth was covered with white foam. Cen Nan was obviously not interested in this kind of creamy wine, but when Liang Muqiu handed it to his mouth, he was still He bowed his head and took a sip.

"Is it good?" Liang Muqiu asked, he really liked it, and took another big sip, "You must have drunk a lot abroad, it's sold everywhere."

Cen Nan led him inside, "There are a lot of parties, I don't like it very much, but I thought it was your taste at the time." He glanced at Liang Muqiu and joked, "It's like a child who only knows how to drink sweets. liquor."

Liang Muqiu scratched him.

The two walked into the auditorium hand in hand. The movie hadn't started yet, and the lights inside were still brightly lit. The tickets Liang Muqiu bought were in the last row. Not long after they sat down, the lights dimmed. In the darkness, the title began to play.

This was the first time Cen Nan and Liang Muqiu watched a movie written by Liang Muqiu himself.

During those years abroad, he has been paying attention to all the works produced by Liang Muqiu. At first, they were just some short films, and gradually there were web dramas that Liang Muqiu participated in. Later, some TV dramas also had Liang Muqiu's name on their tails.

Before he left the United States, the last work of Liang Muqiu he watched was his online movie - "First Snow".

This movie won Liang Muqiu a newcomer award. Afterwards, he read a lot of movie reviews, checked a lot of information, learned everything about this movie, watched it many times, and could almost recite every sentence. lines.

Maybe Liang Muqiu is just a small wave in this vast universe, but to him it is the whole world.Because of this movie, he finally saw another interview about Liang Muqiu across the ocean.

He stopped in the snowy Chicago, staring at the small mobile phone screen, the little Liang Muqiu smiled so shyly, he was clearly a personable adult, showing such a smile, so that the eyes of the reporters who interviewed were loving .

That winter was probably as cold as today, but he stood in the snow and forgot to go to the parking lot quickly. The interview was watched over and over again.

Now, he and Liang Muqiu finally sat together again, watching this "Parasite" that Liang Muqiu poured his heart and soul into.

Two teenagers who grew up in a village in the city, a good student Chen Mingsheng and a bad student Xu Jie, were originally just neighbors who did not deal with each other, but they lost their only relatives together by accident and depended on each other.

The little gangster Xu Jie is not a good person in the worldly sense. Life has not given him much warmth, only taught him to steal, lie, and gamble. He went to graduate school again, and later Chen Mingsheng graduated, took the offer he wanted, bought a house, bought a car, and went back to the village in the city with Xu Jie, retracing the path of youth.

Chen Mingsheng and Xu Jie, who were in their thirties, stood side by side in front of the old house, stretched out their hands and opened the door lock. With a bang, the door lock fell to the ground because of the old and decayed. They looked at each other and smiled, as if turning back into The young people who stood side by side at the beginning.

Then the camera turned, in the same scene, in front of the same old house, there was only 35-year-old Chen Mingsheng standing alone, alone.

Xu Jie was already dead.

He died at the age of 20 when he was a young man. Because of too many part-time jobs, he became sick from overwork. He was hit by a passing truck while crossing the road, and the rescue failed.

His last compensation was left in the hands of Chen Mingsheng, which became Chen Mingsheng's tuition and living expenses for college.

Later, Xu Jie, who accompanied Chen Mingsheng all the way to 35, was just a person in Chen Mingsheng's fantasy. He was not crazy. Admit it's fake.

The 35-year-old Chen Mingsheng is played by Wen Yang. Even if he doesn't like Wen Yang, Cen Nan has to admit that his acting skills are superb. He is no longer a handsome and pleasing man in the camera, because the makeup has become much more ordinary. The ordinaryness almost blended with the gray background. He looked at the camera with numb eyes and no expression, but anyone could feel the turbulent waves under this surface.

At the end of the story, Chen Mingsheng went to the original noodle shop to eat a bowl of noodles. After more than ten years, the price of the simplest noodles in clear soup had risen to ten yuan. He was sitting under the dim light while eating noodles and reading Xu Jie's diary.

When he was a teenager, he never knew why Xu Jie was so kind to him. After his own mother didn't want him, Xu Jie, who had finished his grandma's funeral, picked him up to his home.

And after Xu Jie passed away, he knew the answer, from the diary.

Because his father, a people's policeman, caught Xu Jie who was stealing a wallet on the street, instead of scolding him and beating him, he took him back to the police station, gave him a dinner, and put a coat on the child, but Not long after, Xu Jie released the news for other gangsters on the street, and heard that a policeman died in the fight, and was accidentally stabbed to death by the gangsters.

That policeman is Chen Mingsheng's father.

When Chen Mingsheng's father died, Xu Jie, wrapped in the overcoat he gave him, was showing off to the criminals who stabbed him to death, and tipping off the news for them.

The camera scanned Xu Jie's stumbling figure on the road, and in a blink of an eye, he turned into Chen Mingsheng flipping through his diary under the lamp.

15 years old and 35 years old, 20 years apart.

Chen Mingsheng came to the village in the city with his mother because he lost his father and owed debts at home. He walked out of that small room. His white school uniform and vigilant face were incompatible with this gloomy city village in the city. After meeting each other, Xu Jie recognized who he was.

For the next 20 years, Chen Mingsheng was like a vine parasitic on him, relying on him to support, contribute, thrive, and return to the bright future he should have had.

But Xu Jie himself wrote: "I don't know what I was born for. My parents didn't want me, and my grandma died, and the school wouldn't accept me. If it wasn't for Chen Mingsheng, I might be like everyone else, hanging out on the streets, fighting , committed a crime, died on the road or in prison. I have no skills, no one will respect me, but I confessed to a man standing in the sun."

Chen Mingsheng is the person standing in the sunshine, all his good expectations, the one he never got, the fantasy self.

The movie is fixed on Chen Mingsheng who is smoking alone on the side of the road. He is a good student, and Xu Jie taught him to smoke.

He has learned it now, but he still coughs from the smoke.

The sea breeze was howling, vaguely the same as ten years ago, but there was no young man with a bruised nose and a swollen face standing beside him, telling him that the future would not be sad.

The movie ends.

The ending song echoed in the auditorium, and the list of ending credits scrolled by.

The screenwriter is followed by three words, "Liang Muqiu".

Liang Muqiu looked at his name. It was obviously not the first time he had seen his own work, but he was like a child who got a little red flower for the first time. He pointed it out to Cen Nan proudly, "Look, my name."

my name.

When he was in school, he watched the first short film with Cen Nan. After many years, he finally sat with Cen Nan again.

He is like a child who is eager for praise, and wants Cen Nan to take a look at him, to see how outstanding he has become when Cen Nan is not around.

And Cen Nan did as he wished.

The moment the lights in the auditorium came on, Cen Nan hugged him and kissed his temples lightly, "My dear, you are so amazing."

Liang Muqiu had a sore nose.

I don't know why, when he was affirmed by others and finally became famous, or when his manuscript was returned and criticized as worthless, he didn't have such grievances.

For so many days and nights, he and Cen Nan were not by each other's side.

Not only did Cen Nan fail to look at him all the time, he also missed Cen Nan for many, many years.

While despising Cen Nan's grotesqueness, he also hugged Cen Nan regardless of whether anyone was watching them in the auditorium. He sniffed and said with affirmation like a child, "That's right, I'm super powerful."