Shen Yanxiu hung up the phone and looked towards Su Jin in the distance.
She was training on the climbing wall, and her coach was instructing her on the ground, "Don't use the balls of your feet to exert force on this surface, use your toes to step on it."
Su Jin nodded, and climbed up by stepping on the footholds.
The coach was satisfied, "Yes, yes, very good, a promising young man."
Su Jin's arm trembled slightly. She could feel her fingers gripping the rock slowly losing strength, and she cried out, "I can't do it!"
Then he fell onto the mat with a thud.
Shen Yanxiu rushed over like a whirlwind, his voice trembling with anxiety, "Are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere?"
Su Jin lay there for a few moments to recover, her forehead covered in sweat in the chilly autumn air.
Her fingers were still trembling slightly as she reached out to wipe the sweat from her forehead, but her hands were covered in magnesium powder, so she gave up.
Su Jin looked up and met Shen Yanxiu's gaze. "Could you help me wipe my sweat?"
He was caught off guard when his eyes met Su Jin's clear, bright eyes.
"Ah, okay, okay."
Shen Yanxiu's ears turned bright red. He took a tissue and carefully wiped the sweat from her forehead, but dared not look her in the eye again.
"Don't wipe the same spot."
Su Jin was different from him; she didn't shy away from his gaze at him, and even straightened up so that her face was almost touching his.
"Here, wipe it for me." She turned one side of her face toward him.
Shen Yanxiu's face turned as red as a ripe shrimp, and he withdrew his hand as if it were burning hot.
"I...I understand, I'll clean it for you."
Su Jin exclaimed, "Why is your face so red? You haven't even started climbing yet!"
Su Jin got up from the mat. "Do you have a fever?"
Shen Yanxiu's pupils trembled slightly as he could feel Su Jin's breath getting closer and closer to him, almost touching him.
He frantically dodged away, "No! I'm fine..."
"oh."
Su Jin didn't press further, and stood up to stretch her muscles.
From the moment Shen Yanxiu arrived, the coach looked up at the sky, pretending that he didn't exist.
Only after Su Jin stood up did he go up to her and ask, "Do your shoulders and arms feel sore?"
"right."
"You're not using the right way to exert force. Don't try to use your arms. Imagine yourself as a monkey swinging through the jungle."
“A monkey?” Su Jin frowned. “Then let me ask my friend. She has more experience playing the monkey.”
After chatting and joking with her coach, she planned to practice a little longer before going to eat.
"Hey, why are you holding my phone?"
Su Jin applied magnesium powder and focused her gaze on Shen Yanxiu's right hand.
He was in such a hurry that he didn't realize he had been holding her phone the whole time.
For a moment, I didn't know how to explain it.
Should we tell the truth?
Shen Yanxiu thought of the strange man, pursed his lips, and lied, "I was worried that someone might take your phone, so I'm keeping it safe for you."
Su Jin looked around and saw only a few staff members nearby, as the scenes for the past two days were all performed by child actors, so they weren't needed yet.
Leisurely yet painful.
However, Su Jin didn't expose his lie, since her phone was password protected and she wasn't worried about it.
"Okay, let's go eat together in a bit."
Shen Yanxiu smiled again, "Okay."
He turned off his phone screen, which showed two missed calls.
...
Assistant Li was at a loss as she looked at the phone that wasn't being answered.
"Boss... how about we call later?"
Gu Xingze stared stubbornly at his phone screen. "She's busy, she must be."
Assistant Li didn't dare to say no, and repeatedly agreed, "Yes, yes, yes."
Gu Xingze forcefully pursed his lips to hold back his tears. If she was busy, why would she let Shen Yanxiu answer the phone?
Is it okay to let him touch something as personal as a cell phone?
Gu Xingze's vision blurred, and gripping the edge of the bed, he managed to say to Assistant Li with his last shred of consciousness, "Call the doctor."
She fainted after saying that.
Assistant Li was almost screaming in terror, yelling, "Doctor!"
After calling the doctor and performing emergency measures, he was immediately berated: "You put him through such a shock right after surgery? Do you really not want him to live?"
Assistant Li lamented his misfortune, saying, "Doctor, I'm the last person I want to see die; he's my boss."
"Where are his family members? We haven't seen them for the past few days."
As she spoke, Gu's mother rushed into the ward, asking, "Where is my son?"
She immediately spotted the doctor in the white coat and asked, "What is your hospital doing? Can't patients even get the most basic safety guarantees in the hospital?"
Having seen many unreasonable family members, the doctor didn't argue with her. "Ms. Family member, please check your son's condition first..."
"What am I supposed to look at? If I could understand it, what use would your hospital be?"
Gu Xingze was awakened by the arguing and opened his tired eyelids.
Her voice was weak, “...If you really care about me, then don’t argue with the doctor.”
Gu's mother turned around and rushed over with tears in her eyes, "Son, are you alright?"
Gu Xingze rolled his lifeless eyes, showing no sign of life.
The hospital has been unable to contact his immediate family members for the past few days, so he has had to sign all the consent forms himself.
He feels very tired right now.
If someone wants to peel back his heart, see his past, and yearn to see his extravagant and decadent life.
Unfortunately, only an incompetent father stood there.
...
Only after everyone had finished work and gone home did Su Jin have time to glance at her phone.
Online opinions on her casting in "The Climbers" are mixed.
Ah... I think she's better off just doing variety shows. If she's going to act, I'm a little afraid she'll be fed a piece of crap.
[But I really like this subject matter! The first rock climber to reach the Olympics, and the Chinese entertainment industry lacks films that explore women's issues.]
I trust Director Chen's films. She's incredibly strict with her actors, treating all stars equally regardless of their status.
Su Jin put down her phone, her heart filled with mixed emotions.
Back at a nearby hotel, she washed off the magnesium powder and sat on the bed to work on the script.
Someone knocked on her door, and Su Jin got up to open it.
It was Shen Yanxiu.
"Is there something you need?"
Shen Yanxiu awkwardly stretched out his hand, a tube of ointment lying quietly in his palm.
"I saw you had a cut on your hand, so I brought this to you."
Su Jin thanked him and tried to take the ointment.
Shen Yanxiu pulled his hand away, avoiding the contact, "Let me apply it for you, it's not easy to apply with one hand..."
Su Jin quietly scrutinized him, and finally nodded, "Come in."
Shen Yanxiu secretly breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed she wasn't angry with him.
Perhaps they didn't notice those phone numbers.
Su Jin left the door wide open to avoid any unnecessary misunderstandings.
She sat back on the bed and gestured to Shen Yanxiu, "Sit down."
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