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The story background of the movie "The Cliff" is set in a warm and humid southern town.

Although it has entered autumn, the weather in the south is still warm.Zhou Xinyao wore a black dress with a thin shirt over it. She looked tall and slender. As soon as she sat down, the men at other tables all looked at her.

Jiang Ruo took out a disposable mask from the backpack he was carrying and handed it over. Zhou Xinyao took it over with a smile and put it on, saying, "You are a little boy, but you are very careful."

Jiang Ruo, who hadn't been called a little boy for a long time, was stunned, and said, "I'm not young anymore."

"Two years younger than me."

Zhou Xinyao raised two fingers while talking, Jiang Ruo saw that she was wearing a ring on her left ring finger.

The cafe they were in was located opposite the tube building rented by the crew.Generally, for shops hidden in such deep alleys, either the boss is confident that the smell of wine is not afraid of deep alleys, or the boss is Buddhist and doesn't care whether the business is good or bad.

The owner of this cafe probably has both. Jiang Ruo had coffee with his colleagues on the first day when he came here, so he knew which ones tasted good. He recommended the cappuccino here to Zhou Xinyao and ordered it himself. Glass of iced Americano.

The two glasses were served at the same speed, Zhou Xinyao took a small spoon and stirred them in the glasses, the heat was blowing on her face, and she began to crave the refreshment of the iced drink again.If it wasn't for Jiang Ruo thinking that alternation of cold and heat would hurt her body, she would almost order another glass of ice to drink with her.

"Brother, you are really caring." Zhou Xinyao sighed at this, "If my old Liu's stinky straight man can be half as good as you, it will be enough."

Jiang Ruo sensitively realized that the old Liu she was referring to was Director Liu of "The Cliff".

Not sure, I tentatively asked, "Director Liu is yours..."

"Fiancé." Zhou Xinyao said, showing the diamond ring on the back of her hand, "The wedding is scheduled for next year, and I invite you and Mr. Xi to have a wedding reception."

This sentence contains a lot of information, and it is difficult for Jiang Ruo to digest it for a while.

Seeing his indescribable expression, Zhou Xinyao couldn't help laughing again, took off half of her mask and took a sip of coffee, sticking out her tongue until it was so hot.

"Let me guess, do you think I'm so weird that I invited the former benefactor to my wedding?"

Although a bit impolite, Jiang Ruo really thought so.He is not good at lying, so he gave a dry "um".

Zhou Xinyao laughed more presumptuously: "You are too frank."

Jiang Ruo is not being frank with everyone, but just feels that the person in front of him is not evil and can tell the truth.

"Actually, my relationship with him..." Zhou Xinyao finished laughing, then leaned closer and said in a low voice, "It's in name only."

Jiang Ruo blinked.

"It's just that I'm his lover to the outside world. In fact, we just meet and say hello in private. I don't even know where his home is."

Jiang Ruo, who has lived in Xi Yufeng's house for several months, is even more confused.

Zhou Xinyao wanted to laugh again: "His kind of man who has no fireworks at all is not my type at all. If he hadn't promised me resources back then, I wouldn't even be bothered to be his shield."

At this point, Jiang Ruo finally understood that the relationship between Zhou Xinyao and Xi Yufeng was a complete transaction.

There were too many doubts, Jiang Ruo picked the one he wanted to ask the most: "Then you guys..."

"Later, when I was filming a movie, I got in touch with Lao Liu, and he let me go."

"You agreed in advance?"

"No, I said that I met true love and wanted to get married, and he said: 'Then you go.'"

Zhou Xinyao said "then you go" with a cold face, imitating Xi Yufeng's understatement and not caring about anything, it was very convincing, and Jiang Ruo immediately believed it.

"Then you came to me because of..." Jiang Ruo really didn't know how to ask.

Fortunately, Zhou Xinyao understood, and winked at him: "I'm just curious, what kind of person can make him fascinated?"

Thinking of a conversation he overheard one night on the set of "Ying Fei", Jiang Ruo lowered his eyes uncomfortably: "I'm the same as you, and he also used me as a shield."

"That can't be, I trust my intuition." Zhou Xinyao leaned back after drinking coffee, waved her hand, quite domineering like a queen pointing out the country, "If you don't believe me, go and tell him the same thing now, say you found it. Seeing his true love, let's see how he reacts."

It's okay to talk about this kind of thing, but Jiang Ruo is not brave enough to actually practice it.

Besides, he and Xi Yufeng were still in a cold war, so they couldn't even speak a word.

But the word "cold war"...Jiang Ruo smacked and smacked, and felt that no matter whether it was a quarrel or a cold war, it would be impossible to slap him with a slap. In the past few days, it was clear that Xi Yufeng was unilaterally letting him go.

One day, Jiang Ruo photographed an all-white Persian cat at the entrance of an alley, with blue-black eyes, and a mustache squatting at the entrance of the alley, with a domineering and arrogant look on his face.

When I saw this cat, I thought of Xi Yufeng. Jiang Ruo took the picture and sent it to him. What I wanted to say was "Look, does it look like you?"

After posting, I remembered that Xi Yufeng didn't reply to his messages very much, and now I don't think he even glanced at them.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ruo was a little discouraged and withdrew the cat clips he had sent.

Zhou Xinyao had very few passerby scenes, and the filming was completed in two days.

Before leaving, she invited the whole cast and crew to dinner.

The location is more than [-] kilometers away in the urban area of ​​Guangzhou City. Jiang Ruo came to this southern city for the first time, and he was very curious about where he went to take pictures. Zhou Xinyao simply arranged for him to take pictures for everyone and said that he would post on Weibo later. to use.

Jiang Ruo took pictures of the night view of the Pearl River, the entrance of the simple and elegant restaurant, the various delicacies on the table, and a lot of laughter.

Especially the scene where Zhou Xinyao and Director Liu get along is as warm and natural as an old couple who have been married for many years. They serve each other food and wine, and whisper in each other's ears. Every smile and look at each other is full of tacit understanding.

Act like no one else, aboveboard.

Being worthy of the word "true love", Jiang Ruo couldn't help but take a few more pictures of them.

Halfway through the banquet, Zhou Xinyao suddenly stood up and said to go out to pick up someone.

Before the person came back, someone at the table teased Director Liu: "Our sister-in-law has so many little fresh meat brothers, does Director Liu really have no sense of crisis at all?"

Director Liu changed his seriousness during the filming, laughed and said, "Your sister-in-law likes an old man like me. As the saying goes, there are thousands of younger brothers, but my husband is the only one."

Everyone: "Hey——"

Within 2 minutes, the person came back.

"Why are you so happy, I heard your laughter all the way." Zhou Xinyao pushed the people behind with a smile on her face, "Chen Muxin, everyone should know each other, so I won't introduce much. His hometown is Guangzhou Those from the city live near here."

Everyone exchanged greetings, and Chen Muxin took his seat.

Jiang Ruo was looking down at the photos on his phone, and raised his eyes to meet Chen Muxin's gaze, and nodded with a smile, as a greeting.

It was past nine o'clock at night when the banquet was over, Jiang Ruo helped Zhou Xinyao call a taxi, and sent the drunk people back one car at a time.

In the end, Zhou Xinyao took a car with two female staff members, and after watching the car drive away, Jiang Ruo and Chen Muxin were left on the side of the road.

Feeling that Chen Muxin had something to say, Jiang Ruo said first, "There is an empty car over there, so I will go first."

"I just plan to go to Director Liu's crew to observe and study." Chen Muxin raised his arm to stop the car, "I'll be with you."

The two of them didn't communicate all the way.

Jiang Ruo stared out the window the whole time, seemingly intoxicated by the beautiful scenery, but in fact he was pinching his watch for a few seconds, wishing the driver to drive faster.

Get off the car at the place, Jiang Ruo pointed to the hotel near the entrance of the alley in front: "It's hired by the film crew, if you want to stay here tonight, please contact Sister Zhou to arrange it for you."

After he finished speaking, he turned to leave.

Chen Muxin called him from behind: "Brother Jiang, I have something to say to you, can I spare you a little time?"

He was so polite, and he was hanging out in the same circle, so Jiang Ruo couldn't help but stop, and walked with Chen Muxin to a streetlight on the side of the road.

It had just rained in the afternoon, and even the wind was damp in the cool night air.

Chen Muxin said straight to the point: "I only found out later that my cousin had approached you, and I must have said some bad things, so here I apologize to you on her behalf."

"It's okay." Jiang Ruo's answer was very straightforward, "She didn't say anything wrong."

Chen Muxin couldn't pretend that nothing happened, and his expression was somewhat depressed: "I know you are not that kind of person, you were so serious when you were filming..."

"Because it's work, and you have to be serious if you rely on it."

"I've also heard some of the rumors outside... Did you give up dancing because of that?"

Jiang Ruo's heart skipped a beat, and a kind of irritability of being mentioned the unbearable past followed.

"So what?" He said in a bad tone, "This is my own business. I don't think it is necessary to make private matters public."

"That's not what I mean." Chen Muxin hurriedly explained, "I just feel that it's a pity, you are so talented, you should shine on the stage."

Jiang Ruo laughed: "There is nothing in this world that should or shouldn't be. It's all stories that push people forward."

He has absolutely no control over his own destiny.

Chen Muxin said: "I believe you can. I have seen your previous stage, such vigorous vitality, such willful freedom, how could you be willing to be trapped in the same place?"

Jiang Ruo was startled, then laughed again: "Are you my fan, you care about me so much?"

"From now on I will be." Chen Muxin looked at him, his smile was the refreshing sunshine unique to a bright boy, "I am still your suitor."

Unexpectedly, he would be so frank, Jiang Ruo paused, and then said: "Don't say such things casually, you don't understand me."

"So, can you give me a chance to get to know you?" Chen Muxin said, "I haven't seen the past with my own eyes, so I just want to get to know you from the present."

I forgot how I refused, probably just dropped the sentence "But I don't want you to understand", Jiang Ruo turned around and left.

Perhaps it was because he stayed in the dark for too long, facing such a direct and enthusiastic approach, like the sun, which made people have nowhere to hide, he reflexively just wanted to escape.

Stepping on the bluestone slabs in a hurry, when turning around the wall covered with green leaves and vines leading to the alley, a black commercial vehicle parked at the fork suddenly came into view.

The headlights were on, and there was a man standing beside him.

Tall and straight like pines and cypresses, he was always dressed in white and black trousers, with his right hand pocketed, and a little scarlet fire between his left fingers was flickering in the foggy humid air.

Jiang Ruo paused for a moment before walking forward: "Why are you here?"

Xi Yufeng didn't answer, but glanced at him lightly, then turned around and opened the rear door, and walked around to the other side.

Sitting in the car, Jiang Ruo had the real feeling of seeing Xi Yufeng himself.It's not that he never thought that he would come to visit the class before, but it's too far away from Fengcheng, and Xi Yufeng is so busy, Jiang Ruo only dared to think about it.

Xi Yufeng stood outside the car for a while, finished smoking before coming up.

The car door slammed shut, and a little tobacco smell poured into the car, neutralizing the overly cold atmosphere.

"Did you rent this car? Or do you have a car in Guangzhou?" At this moment, Jiang Ruo had forgotten that the two were still in a "cold war", and said happily, "You came here by plane, and then drove here? Afternoon Is your flight so fast..."

"Not as fast as you." Xi Yufeng said suddenly.

Jiang Ruo froze for a moment, then turned her head to look at the people around her.

Xi Yufeng was also looking at him, his expression as indifferent as ever, but Jiang Ruo saw that his pupils were dark, with a bit of imperceptible contempt hidden inside.

Before he had time to ask, Xi Yufeng sneered heavily in his ears: "In a few days, I have found my next home."