Time makes you fall

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It's been almost a week since the filming started, not only Sister Mao, but even Zhu Yao herself can see it - Director Mei always has a thoughtful expression when watching her act.

Under Sister Mao's instruction, Zhu Yao also mustered up the courage to ask: "Director Mei, if you are not satisfied, I will try again?"

Director Mei shook his head: "Let's shoot first."

Zhu Yao walked back to the corner where she was resting, and Sister Mao hurriedly asked, "How do you say it?"

"Let's shoot first."

Sister Mao's heart skipped a beat: What exactly does this mean?

She was also afraid of bringing psychological pressure to Zhu Yao, so she cautiously asked tentatively, "You haven't found the feeling when you face Min Jiawen?"

Zhu Yao is silent.

This time I was filming a solo scene of Min Jiawen, Sister Mao stood up, folded her arms and looked at Min Jiawen under the camera: "I think she looks like a teacher, with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, gentle akin."

"You children, don't you easily have that...complex with the teacher?" Sister Mao asked, "Why is it so difficult to get into the drama?"

Zhu Yao said, "That's not the case."

"Why do you think Min Jiawen is not like a teacher?"

"...It's not that she's not like a teacher."

Rather, the role of "teacher" already has an overly solidified image in Zhu Yao's mind——

The "teacher" is Qu Qingcheng, and Qu Qingcheng is the "teacher".

******

In the past two days, Zhu Yao's mobile phone has been hung with Q, and whenever he is free between filming, he holds his mobile phone to watch.

Sister Mao couldn't help asking her: "Are you in love?"

"..." Zhu Yao said, "I am talking to the air every day under your nose?"

"Online dating!" Sister Mao rolled her eyes, with an expression that she didn't want to fool me: "Little girl, I warn you, don't engage in online dating! You will be scared to death by seeing the light! The phone is not gender-neutral." , that is, people and dogs don’t distinguish.”

With an indifferent personality like Zhu Yao, after hearing this, she couldn't help asking: "Sister Mao, what have you been through?"

Sister Mao: "...Fuck you!"

The news finally came at night, but it didn't come from the Q group.

It's still early for Zhu Yao to play this day, and when he returned to his room to take a shower, he was sitting on the bed and rubbing body lotion when his cell phone rang.

With sticky hands, Zhu Yao turned over the phone that was thrown on the bed with its back turned upside down, and at first glance, it was an unfamiliar number.

Zhu Yao usually doesn't pick up unfamiliar numbers. Since she changed her mobile phone number after filming in college, except for contacting with the company, not many people know about it. Zhu Yao is so happy that no one harasses her.

But in the past two days, she was thinking about the class reunion, so she took it.

A strange but familiar voice came: "Zhu Yao?"

Zhu Yao: "May I ask who you are?"

The other party smiled: "You really can't hear my voice? I'm your high school classmate."

Zhu Yao caught clues from the string of charming laughter: "Shang Xiaoran, is that right?"

Shang Xiaoran said: "You guessed it right, I thought you became a big star, so you don't remember me."

Zhu Yao said, "Where am I a big star?"

"Why not?" Shang Xiaoran smiled: "I have seen you in several dramas, and several of my colleagues say you are beautiful."

Zhu Yao didn't know how to be polite, so he let out a "huh".

Shang Xiaoran smiled again: "You are still the same as before."

In the brief silence, both of them became embarrassed.

"By the way." Shang Xiaoran asked: "I called you so late, didn't I bother you?"

"No, I just got off the show." Zhu Yao said, "What's the matter?"

She prayed in her heart-it was about the class reunion, it was about the class reunion.

Sure enough, Shang Xiaoran said: "Well, I'm afraid that calling you during the day will disturb you, it's about the class reunion."

"Now that many people have time, we think that this Sunday will be two days later, and we will hold a class reunion."

"I'm afraid that many people in the Q group will miss the news, so the members of our organization will call to notify one by one."

"Your number was only asked by an agent in my cousin's acquaintance circle, after many twists and turns."

"I know you're busy filming now." Shang Xiaoran said with a smile, "But are you free to come to the class reunion? A big star."

Zhu Yao was silent for a while.

In fact, she wanted to ask, is Teacher Qu going?I also feel that when this question is asked, it is very easy for recruiters, especially Merchants Xiaoran, to misunderstand.

If it is not a vague question, will all the teachers go?But whether the other teachers go or not, Zhu Yao doesn't care much.

In the end, he simply stopped asking and said softly, "I'm free."

Just take a gamble.

What if Qu Qingcheng went, what if both Qu Qingcheng and she drank a little too much, what if only she and Qu Qingcheng were left when waiting for the bus.

If she could find a chance, she would say "I'm sorry" to Qu Qingcheng for being five years late.

Then it's all worth it.

******

During the filming break the next day, Sister Mao found that Zhu Yao was fidgeting, she squinted her eyes and asked Zhu Yao, "Did you steal something?"

"……No."

Zhu Yao thought for a while and said, "Sister Mao, what will happen to us if this movie is not made well?"

Sister Mao's face turned pale: "Don't scare me, sister, such a thing must never happen."

Zhu Yao said "oh".

Sister Mao said, "What's wrong?"

"nothing."

"What's the matter?"

"It's really nothing, I just want to see the weight of this movie in your heart."

"That's really heavy as Mount Tai! You must play it well for me, do you hear me?"

"Know it."

"I still suspect that you stole something." Sister Mao looked at Zhu Yao carefully: "I think your face is a little swollen. Oh, I'll get you a cup of black coffee to reduce the swelling. Don't feel bitter for a while."

Miss Mao walked away.

Zhu Yao sat on a ponytail and looked at Sister Mao's back, looking very cute.

Rent a stacked villa as a studio, and the space is not very large. The chairs used by the actors on the scene also change with the coffee positions. For example, Min Jiawen can use a reclining chair, and Zhu Yao can only use a small horse.

In fact, Zhu Yao asked Sister Mao that question just now, in order to test whether Sister Mao would agree if she mentioned that she wanted to go to the classmate reunion on Saturday night.

Now Zhu Yao's conclusion is: Sister Mao will never agree.

Feeling bored thinking about it, I stood up and walked to the window.

He raised the curtain with his fingers and looked at the clear and clear house opposite.

It's Saturday morning, Qu Qingcheng should still be in class.

Will Qu Qingcheng go to the class reunion?Zhu Yao was thinking, how about going to ask Qu Qingcheng tonight when Qu Qingcheng is not at home for evening self-study?

But that night, Qu Qingcheng's face in the dark reappeared in Zhu Yao's mind.

Cold and faint, like the moonlight that did not exist that night, a layer of frost condensed on Zhu Yao's body.

She can't ask.

She was afraid that if she went to ask, Qu Qingcheng was going to go, but after knowing that she was going too, she decided not to go.

"Zhu Yao."

Hearing Sister Mao calling her, Zhu Yao withdrew her finger to lift the curtain and turned her head.

Sister Mao handed her a cup of black coffee: "Don't think it's bitter, just take a sip!"

Zhu Yao took over.

Sister Mao said, "I'll go to Lao Mu to discuss whether you and Qin Tian have any exposure opportunities during the filming."

gone again.

Sure enough, as Sister Mao said, Zhu Yao suffocated the cup of black coffee in one gulp, as if drinking, with a heroic expression on his face.

Throw the coffee cup into the trash can and walk towards Director Mei who is sitting behind the monitor.

She made a bold decision.

******

Director Mei had just finished filming a rival scene between Min Jiawen and Qin Tian, ​​and he was sitting behind the monitor thinking.

"Director Mei, excuse me to talk to you now?"

Because Director Mei always had a pensive expression on his face, Zhu Yao didn't know when it was appropriate to talk to her.

Director Mei looked up at her: "Xiao Zhu, sit down."

He pointed to a bench next to him.

Zhu Yao sat down.

Director Mei asked her, "Do you think your acting is good?"

Zhu Yao scratched her head: "Anyway, I put everything I learned in the S opera for four years to use."

Director Mei: "Well, I know you're very hardworking."

Zhu Yao: "But..."

Director Mei: "Say what you have to say."

"I always feel a little bit worse." Zhu Yao was a little embarrassed: "But I can't tell what that feeling is."

Director Mei fell into deep thought again.

He kept silent, and Zhu Yao didn't dare to speak.

After a long time, Director Mei seemed to wake up suddenly: "By the way, what do you want from me?"

Zhu Yao: "Well, I want to ask you to take a leave of absence, can you not rehearse my play on Saturday night?"

"what's up?"

"School reunion."

Director Mei glanced at her: "I found that you are quite a tiger." He didn't even look at what we just talked about, and dared to ask him for leave.

Zhu Yao also felt that she was a tiger, but she forced herself to show this courage.

Inexplicably, it reminded her of her 17-year-old self, who stood behind Qu Qingcheng with a jackhammer in the famous "Christmas War", and went deep into the enemy's city alone with his courage.

Director Mei asked her, "What class reunion? Elementary, middle, and high school?"

He knew that Zhuyao University belonged to the S drama, and the S drama was in Haicheng, so it must not be a university party.

Zhu Yao replied: "High school."

Director Mei asked again, "Is the teacher going?"

Zhu Yao felt guilty: "...I don't know."

Director Mei said, "Let's go then."

Zhu Yao stood up and bowed: "Thank you, Director Mei."

Then he asked cautiously: "Then I don't feel it..."

Director Mei waved her hand to let her withdraw first: "You let me think again."

******

Sister Mao didn't know that Zhu Yao had directly asked Director Mei to ask for leave until Sunday morning when she got the day's schedule.

Angrily, she slammed the schedule table in front of Zhu Yao: "You are so talented!"

Zhu Yao knew he was wrong, so he lowered his head and didn't speak.

"Do you know what this movie means to you and to me?"

"know."

"You know what a fart!" Sister Mao roared, "If you don't perform well in this movie, your future acting career may be completely over, do you know? How many times do you think the company can give you such opportunities?"

"Sister Mao, I really know." Zhu Yao sat on the ponytail and raised his face: "But if I don't do something, I may regret it for the rest of my life."

Zhu Yao's eyes are like deer, with stars shining in them, brilliant, confused and sad.

Sister Mao was shocked.

In a trance, she suddenly understood what the so-called feeling that Zhu Yao kept talking about was.

"Then what..." She lowered her voice, "I really regret it for the rest of my life?"

Zhu Yao nodded seriously: "Yes."

Sister Mao sighed: "Then go."

Instead, Zhu Yao was taken aback: "You agreed?"

Sister Mao growled: "I promise!"

******

On Sunday, Zhu Yao hurried to the hotel room after finishing filming the afternoon scene.

Director Mei glanced at her as he passed her while scrolling through the script, but didn't say anything.

When Zhu Yao was leaving, she asked Sister Mao: "Shall we leave together?"

Sister Mao waved her hand: "I'll find someone to see you off, I won't leave, I'll discuss something with Lao Mu here." She looked heartbroken, out of sight and out of mind for Zhu Yao.

Zhu Yao left with a smile.

Back in the hotel room, Zhu Yao stopped smiling.

She ran so fast and returned to the hotel room more than an hour earlier than the party time, because of... dressing up?

Didn't I say it, the reunion of classmates after a long absence is the best stage to raise your eyebrows.

It stands to reason that Zhu Yao needs this stage very much.When she was in high school, probably because of her personality, she didn't get to the point where she was blatantly bullied, but those eyes that turned a blind eye, those whispers behind her back, those who pretended to be careless but deliberately pushed boys on her. Hit maliciously.

There are always.

So now, Zhu Yao is considered elated.

In fact, Zhu Yao himself didn't know.She is half popular and not popular, and the characters in the drama who rely on her appearance to get out of the circle can be regarded as making her familiar in front of the people.But if you want to say that there are no classic characters that establish status.

Well, I made some money.It's far from the point where you can retire now and enjoy yourself casually, but it's a world of difference compared to when Zhu Yinglan just had an accident, those days when she could only live in a rented house with the walls peeled off.

Zhu Yao stared at his own face in the mirror.

It's pretty pretty, with the makeup of a high school girl, so faintly visible, it's not ugly.

How to dress up?

Zhu Yao went to the suitcase spread on the floor and flipped through it twice.

She is not the type who likes to dress up. Her usual clothes are mostly T-shirts and wide-leg jeans, and a black or checkered fisherman hat. When it is cold, she wears a baseball shirt or a down jacket, which is comfortable and convenient.

This time she joined the group, most of the time was in costumes, and she brought even fewer clothes.

Mainly before she left, she never expected to see Qu Qingcheng again, she thought that Qu Qingcheng was in Canada.

Zhu Yao scraped aside the pile of T-shirts, sweaters and jeans in the box, and finally found two skirts at the bottom of the box.

Sister Mao forced her to bring this because she was afraid that she would attend some event at the last minute.

Zhu Yao took a look, picked a less high-profile one and put it on.

In the popular saying, this skirt is a "scheming dress".The seahorse hair knit suit looks like nothing, low-key black, pure and harmless.

But once she got her upper body—Zhu Yao stood up and walked to the full-length mirror. The thin knitted fabric was close to her body, her wasp waist was only as wide as her forearm, and her short skirt showed a pair of slender legs.

Pull down the off-the-shoulder design of the sweater, the undulating chest and the slender collarbone are in stark contrast, a bit flirtatious and a bit rusty.

Zhu Yao herself blushed a little - was it too much?

Switch back to the t-shirt baseball jersey and jeans?

At this time, the cell phone thrown on the bed suddenly rang, and Zhu Yao shivered in fright, and quickly picked it up, it was Shang Xiaoran: "Zhu Yao, are you leaving yet?"

"Getting ready to go."

"That's good. I'm just calling to make sure you don't have to change the arrangement temporarily. Don't be late! Long time no see."

Shang Xiaoran hung up the phone.

Zhu Yao held the phone in a daze—were she and Shang Xiaoran in such a friendly, yet slightly distant relationship before?

But with Shang Xiaoran's reminder, Zhu Yao realized that she didn't have time to change her clothes. She put on a thin coat, sprayed on some perfume, and hurried out.

Sister Mao found a driver from the film crew to take her to drive Sister Mao's car.

Sister Mao drives a Bentley, and she is rich and high-profile.Originally, Sister Mao was very heartbroken about the money spent on buying a car, and she gritted her teeth and said that she had to save face and swollen her face.

She patted Zhu Yao's shoulder half-jokingly; "I'm just counting on you to be successful."

Zhu Yao smiled.

She knew that Sister Mao loved money, but she didn't love money that much, besides, Sister Mao had several artists under her command.

It is true that Zhu Yinglan counts on her.

Zhu Yao was wearing a small knit suit and a pair of high-heeled shoes, sitting on the leather seat in the back of Ms. Mao's car, smelling the scent of her perfume spreading in the car. The mixed aroma of magnolia and basil outlined a rain The feeling of the back roof garden.

It smells expensive and fresh.

When she got out of the car, she pulled down the short skirt.

"Zhu Yao?" A female voice sounded.

Zhu Yao turned around and saw a woman in business attire getting off a Mercedes-Benz A-series car. She glanced at the Bentley that the driver hadn't stopped, and said to Zhu Yao, "You're very punctual."

Only then did Zhu Yao realize: "Tang Nuo?"

Shang Xiaoran's former best friend.

Zhu Yao's driver and the hotel's parking attendant all went to park the car. Tang Nuo stood at the door of the hotel and talked to Zhu Yao: "You are very popular now."

Zhu Yao still hasn't learned how to speak politely naturally, so he can only say, "Where is it?"

However, one thing that Zhu Yao has improved from before is that she can already feel those secretly scrutinizing eyes.

For example, Tang Nuo looked at her face while talking, but actually looked her up and down.

Zhu Yao felt uncomfortable when Tang Nuo looked at her, so when Tang Nuo asked her, "Shall we go in together?"

Zhu Yao shook his head: "You go in first, I... go back to the car and do some work."

"Okay." Tang Nuo smiled: "Big star, busy man."

Zhu Yao: "...No."

Tang Nuo left.

Zhu Yao could see the B handbag she was carrying, which was an old model that was discounted last year. When she first talked to Zhu Yao, she had been deliberately hiding it behind her back so that Zhu Yao could not see it.

For the first time, Zhu Yao felt uncomfortable.

What is there to show off?Before the class reunion even started, Zhu Yao already felt extremely embarrassed.

Whether in school or in society, class exists forever.It's just that in school, the division of classes is mostly based on appearance, personality, popularity, etc. When entering society, it becomes much more complicated.

As big as a house and car, as small as handbags and shoes, everything compares and counts.

Zhu Yao walked to the dark place by the hotel door, stood by an unknown bush, and lit a cigarette.

She found that she didn't like it very much, but why did she dress up like this on purpose tonight?Pure and a bit mature and sexy, there is no logo but the shoes of the brand can be seen at a glance, together with the exquisite little suit on her body, it seems to prove that she is doing well now.

Is it to prove yourself?In front of Shang Xiaoran, or in front of Yi Siyuan and the boys who secretly made fun of her?

or……

In front of Qu Qingcheng?

Thinking of Qu Qingcheng, Zhu Yao hid a little deeper in the darkness.

In the few encounters with Qu Qingcheng before, Zhu Yao always wore very simple clothes, or just wore costumes, but Qu Qingcheng, Zhu Yao could tell at a glance, from clothes to shoes, those brands that Qu Qingcheng liked, five years later It's still the same.

Those brands that look low-key are actually not cheap.

As soon as Zhu Yao stood in front of Qu Qingcheng, he couldn't help but think of the rented houses he had visited in the past three or four years.

Peeling off the wall.Moldy bathroom corners.Always break a lamp.A greasy range hood.Dirty cloth sofa with pilled blanket.

It's funny, but I still borrowed Zhu Yao's tuition for the S drama.

Zhu Yinglan paid all the money she should have paid, and was released after being locked up for more than two years, and lived with Zhu Yao in a dirty and cramped rental house.

At that time, when Zhu Yao was cooking instant noodles, he looked at the black spots under his nails from the range hood, and thought of Qu Qingcheng, full of despair:

Can she approach Qu Qingcheng's world again?

Can she still become the Qu Qingcheng she longed for, standing side by side with Qu Qingcheng?

Now Zhu Yao is standing here, wearing a delicate suit and high heels, smelling the perfume on her body, and still feels that the smell of oily smoke in the rented house is lingering in her nose.

She realized that she didn't want to prove it to Qu Qingcheng, but to prove it to herself.

After proving the current self, he can finally approach Qu Qingcheng's world again.

That "I'm sorry", no matter how late I was, no matter how indifferent or disliked by Qu Qingcheng, now Zhu Yao can finally stand on an equal footing with her and say it to her.

Zhu Yao took a deep breath, pinched out his cigarette, and walked to the private room of the hotel.

******

Before entering the private room, Zhu Yao was anxious and rested her hand on the doorknob for a while.

I don't know if it's because I'm afraid of socializing, or because I'm afraid of seeing Qu Qingcheng.

He was even more afraid of not seeing Qu Qingcheng.

Finally got up the courage to go in, listened to the lively chat inside, pinched the tips of his nails in embarrassment.

Tang Nuo, who saw Zhu Yao first, said, "Zhu Yao is here."

"Yo, big star."

"The big star is here."

Zhu Yao's smile became more and more embarrassing.

A young man stood up and Zhu Yao recognized her as Yi Siyuan.

Compared to the blatant rowdy in his sophomore year of high school, Yi Siyuan has obviously become more mature and tactful: "I mean big star."

Zhu Yao looked at him.

Yi Siyuan scratched his head: "Well...can you sign it for me, our director likes you very much."

Zhu Yao was so embarrassed that she wanted to find a crack in the ground to sneak in. If Yi Siyuan hadn't handed over a very delicate notebook, she would almost feel that Yi Siyuan was deliberately mocking her.

Zhu Yao felt that it was wrong to sign, and it was wrong not to sign, but he still signed.

Yi Siyuan said "thank you" very politely, and walked back to his seat.

There were about twenty people from Beicheng who were able to attend the class reunion this time, and there were two tables in the private room, and Zhu Yao chose a corner seat to sit down.

Although she has entered the entertainment circle, she is only a little bit better than when she was in high school.After the students greeted her, they didn't know what to say.

Zhu Yao sat alone, lowered his head slightly, and wanted to take out his phone to look at it, but he was afraid that he would be impolite.

She could feel that although no one was talking to her, no matter whether it was a boy or a girl, they were all sneaking glances at her out of the corners of their eyes.

Zhu Yao felt even more uncomfortable, so he had to excuse himself to go to the bathroom.

In fact, I didn't want to go in. I stood in the cubicle for a while, and when I was about to go out, I heard two women coming out of the cubicle and washing their hands. Zhu Yao stopped temporarily.

It was Zhu Yao's former classmates. They didn't know that Zhu Yao also came to the bathroom, and they were talking about Zhu Yao: "It seems that there is really a barrier between celebrities and ordinary people."

"I didn't think Zhu Yao was so good-looking before, did she go to have a facelift?"

Zhu Yao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and then heard them talking about Qu Qingcheng: "Is Teacher Qu coming or not?"

"I don't seem to be coming. I have something to say."

Zhu Yao's heart sank.

The author says:

Zhu Yao: Is Teacher Qu really not coming? TAT

Qu Qingcheng: Guess what?

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