It snowed heavily in the north at the end of December. In the evening, a few snowflakes fell from the sky. They were not like light goose-feather snowflakes, but solid snowflakes. They made a slight "pop" sound when they fell on the coat made of slightly harder fabric. They

melted as soon as they fell, and were not enough to accumulate snow. It was just extra cold at night.

Xiao Yuan wore a down jacket and snow boots. The girl in her early twenties had red cheeks from the cold. She kept stamping her feet to relieve her feet that were almost numb. Occasionally she said a few words to the people standing next to her, absent-mindedly, her eyes were always fixed on the man taking pictures on the red carpet.

The temperature was almost below zero.

Long guns and short guns were pointed at each other. The man in front of the camera was only wearing a dark blue suit with sleeves down to his wrists, exposing his wrist bones. The temperature threatened and tempted his fragile blush, showing the lonely beauty of a teenager.

Xiao Yuan felt a headache just by looking at the man, and sniffed subconsciously. Standing next to her was the assistant of another artist. The main character should be a little blurry, and Xiao Yuan didn't even recognize her. It

was hard to tell from the girl's tone whether she was being sarcastic or not, "Teacher Xu is really amazing. He can play the second role of Director Lu before he is 30 years old. If others can show up at Teacher Xu's age and status, they would be very lucky."

Xiao Yuan squinted and smiled, "Thank you for the compliment."

The two stopped talking.

Winter in the north is easy to appear lonely except during the Chinese New Year.

The sky and earth were wide open, lacking the vibrant green of spring and summer, and the trees along the street were bare. There was only such a small space around, and everyone was talking and laughing, and everyone was eye-catchingly beautiful.

It seemed that no one felt cold, lonely, or that the moon was too pale.

On the red carpet, the host had already started to interview the next artist, and Xu Yan was standing in front of the background board of the next process to take pictures. After the interview, it was time to take pictures. When the process over there was cueed, he was about to leave, but was stopped by a row of photographers.

"Teacher Xu, we can't take pictures here, don't go, don't go!"

"Teacher Xu, take a look here again!"

Xiao Yuan received the look from Xu Yan, and immediately left the people beside him and trotted over, draped the down jacket in his hand over him, and walked downstairs while protecting him.

Xu Yan's smile was always appropriate, at least on the surface he looked like he was in control. In fact, he heaved a sigh of relief the moment he was wrapped in

the down jacket - ah, he was warm. "The media nowadays are getting more and more clueless, they just want to take two more photos of you, and then they take up other people's photo time and the marketing accounts will have a lot of negative press releases." Xiao Yuan looked back at the brightly lit red carpet and muttered in a complaining tone.

After escorting Xu Yan down the red carpet, Xiao Yuan changed from walking in front of him to following behind Xu Yan obediently, not forgetting to put the thermos in his hand into Xu Yan's hand, and reminded: "Teacher Xu, the cocktail party will have to wait for a while, let's go back to the lounge to warm up first. Sister Cheng has seen the list of your table, you can just eat something at ease."

Just eat something at ease.

What this means is that the people at Xu Yan's table are not very famous, the camera will not be in front of them all the time, and there is no one at the table who likes to make trouble, so there is no need to be too alert to deal with emergencies, just be a pretty vase to deal with it.

Xu Yan nodded.

Xiao Yuan looked unnatural, and kept looking around. Xu Yan smiled and teased, "Which little idol are you looking at?"

The little girl immediately retracted her gaze, lowered her head and said nothing. After all, she is still young, and if she has something to say in her heart, she can't hold it in for too long. Before five minutes, she whispered, "Teacher Xu, I haven't seen Teacher Liang for a long time?"

Xu Yan's face was calm, "Teacher Liang is in the crew recently, and the Chinese New Year is coming soon. The director probably wants to finish it before the Chinese New Year."

He replied in a rather cold manner. Although Xu Yan is not a person with a lively personality, Xiao Yuan was still uneasy about such a sentence. She couldn't help but hint at it, "When I just came here, I saw Zhou Xinian in the backstage. He just announced a luxury jewelry endorsement last week. He wore a deep V in the middle of winter, for fear that others would not see the sparkling string of beads on his neck!"

Xu Yan laughed softly and said "hmm" again.

There is no important event tonight. In the middle of winter, only two names were on the hot search list. It can be seen that there are really no big names. Xu Yan, who is not that famous, is respectfully called teacher by everyone, and was caught by the media to take pictures and not allowed to leave.

There is no independent lounge. The lounge is crowded with a group of people, all busy socializing.

Xu Yan really doesn't have the mood to compete for fame and expand his network today. He sent Xiao Yuan to rest for a while, saying that he wanted to be alone and get some fresh air.

It's winter, I want to get some fresh air.

Xiao Yuan was in turmoil, and didn't dare to mention the word "Liang" again. He nodded obediently and said yes.

There is a terrace at the end of the corridor, not very big.

Xu Yan exhaled, and through the white mist in front of him, he saw the tall buildings and colorful neon lights in the distance. Just now, Xiao Yuan mentioned Zhou Xinian. Actually, Xu Yan saw him, and he also saw Xu Yan.

The moment their eyes met, Zhou Xinian straightened his waist immediately, raised his head high, as elegant as a swan, showing off. The string of jewelry around his neck was reflected by the light, and the colorful light was straight at people.

Showing off that Liang Yisheng was good to him and casually gave him an endorsement of luxury goods, although it was just jewelry.

Which one did Liang Yisheng like?

Xu Yan once again opened the encyclopedia of Zhou Xinian, which he had read countless times, and compared it with himself one by one from his family background to his study experience to his love life. If everything in the encyclopedia was true, Zhou Xinian lost his mother in childhood and his father was an alcoholic. He entered the entertainment industry by chance and worked hard all the way to where he is today.

Indeed, he is more pitiful than himself.

The phone consumes power too quickly in the snow and ice, and it became cold in a short while. His hands were almost numb, Xu Yan turned off the screen, raised his hands to his mouth and blew a breath of hot air.

He then unlocked the screen, opened Liang Yisheng's chat box, and sent a row of texts at a very fast speed -

"Teacher Liang, I think you misunderstood what I said last time. I have never forgotten what our relationship is. If you want to terminate the contract early, I have no objection. I wish you good luck in your work."

Standing at the door of the lounge, you can hear the messy sounds inside.

Xu Yan pressed his temples and twisted the door handle. In that instant, it seemed as if he pressed the mute button, and the "buzz" suddenly became quiet. Xu Yan stood at the door for a moment, adjusted his expression, looked around without looking at anyone, found Xiao Yuan's position and walked straight over.

Xiao Yuan looked unnatural, and when he saw Xu Yan hurriedly stand up, he whispered, "Teacher, there are too many people here, shall we go out and sit for a while?"

Before Xu Yan could reply, someone came over to talk to him.

"Teacher Xu is here? We were just talking about this. We thought someone of your status would not want to share a lounge with us."

Xu Yan glanced at Xiao Yuan beside him. The little girl secretly clenched her fists, wishing she could punch the person who was talking. Xu Yan nodded slightly, "It's a bit noisy."

The man was stunned. He didn't expect Xu Yan to reply like that.

But someone else immediately took over the conversation.

"After all, you are going to join Director Lu's team soon. Once the movie is released, you will have an independent lounge everywhere in the future."

"Yes, now everyone is sitting together, but in the future we won't even see each other. That's how the entertainment industry is. As long as you have the methods and means, you can climb up. Right, Teacher Xu?"

Xu Yan's expression was always indifferent. He could completely imagine what these people were saying before he came. Why can Xu Yan play the second role of Director Lu? How could Xu Yan climb onto Liang Yisheng's bed? Why, just because of Liang Yisheng, he, Xu Yan, could stand above all of them today, and everyone had to call him "teacher".

A sparrow is thinking that she can turn into a phoenix by relying on a man.

The air conditioner was humming.

Although the lounge was warm, it was a bit stuffy. Xu Yan had just had some fresh air, and he felt uncomfortable after being stuffy for a while. The phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated, and he took it out to see that Liang Yisheng's reply was brief, with only one word.

"Okay."

Then another voice message popped up on the screen. Xu Yan paused, took a deep breath, and then clicked on the text transfer. The text transfer could not recognize it, probably because the environment on Liang Yisheng's side was too noisy.

He really wanted to listen, but was afraid that others in the lounge would hear him.

Xu Yan put away his phone and scanned the people around the lounge. He didn't think about the nice words to fight back, and didn't even plan to make any explanation. He just stood there and listened to a few sarcasms and jealousies. It

was indeed irrefutable. He relied on Liang Yisheng to get to his current position from an unknown little actor. He relied on Liang Yisheng's recommendation to get the second role from Director Lu.

He has heard too many such words. These people are obviously still afraid to say more unpleasant words to his face. His Weibo comments and private messages were full of insults and personal attacks a year ago. Until today, Xu Yan has not opened his private messages again.

Xu Yan retracted his gaze, "The cocktail party is about to start, shall we go?"

Xiao Yuan felt aggrieved and endured for a long time before jogging over to open the door for Xu Yan. The man walked steadily, one foot had already stepped out of the door, but for some reason he stopped again. He did not turn around, leaving only his thin back to everyone.

He spoke softly, "When the movie is released, everyone should forward it to promote it, right? Aren't we all grateful to be able to share the popularity of forwarding? I would like to thank everyone for their promotion. See you at the release."

The door of the lounge was slammed shut by Xiao Yuan the next second after Xu Yan finished speaking.

Xu Yan did not have a happy expression on his face. He immediately unlocked his phone and clicked on the voice message that Liang Yisheng had just sent.

The voice message was seven seconds long.

But the content should not be very much. Liang Yisheng usually speaks slowly, and the voice messages he sent are usually of poor quality. Amid the chaos and noise, there was a voice fixed in the middle, like a crescent moon among the stars. Xu Yan put his cell phone to his right ear, very close to it.

"That's the end of the contract. Director Lu's play will be filmed for you as soon as it's agreed. I'll take you to see Director Lu some time next week, so you should be prepared."

He listened to it twice, and at the end of the second time, he still had his cell phone raised to his ear, and only came back to his senses when Xiao Yuan called him.

Then he replied with two words.

"Okay."

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I came here by rolling and crawling! There is still some time before the plot unfolds completely. I hope everyone likes Xiao Xu and President Liang! A big bow!

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