Plop.
Rong Zhouzhong rolled into the sea in tattered clothes, avoiding the pursuers.
"Damn it! He got away!" Pursuer A put away his gun and shouted angrily.
Pursuer B turned his head to look at his boss and asked, "Should we go down to catch him?"
The boss frowned and glanced at the calm sea surface, and replied, "The current in this sea area is very fast, and he is injured. He will die sooner or later. Let's retreat first. Kill xx first!" After saying that, he waved his hand and left with his men.
A long string of messy footprints and spots of blood were left on the beach. The waves surged gently, washing away these traces of sin bit by bit. I don't know how long it took, but the calm sea suddenly made a splashing sound, and a head emerged from the water.
It was Rong Zhouzhong. His glasses were gone, his hair was wet and stuck to his face, his face was pale, and his lips were purple. He seemed exhausted, looking up and gasping for air, his eyelids lifted and fell, and he tried to move his limbs to keep his balance, but a big wave rushed in and threw him back into the sea.
There were sounds of struggle coming from under the water, and after a long time, the sea surface was completely calm, and no one appeared again.
"Cut!"
The director shouted to end the filming, and while shouting "perfect", he ordered the people guarding the seaside to pull Rong Zhouzhong out.
Shi Jin prepared hot drinks immediately and passed them to Rong Zhouzhong as soon as he came out of the sea. He was faster than Rong Zhouzhong's assistant.
Rong Zhouzhong was in a state of panic at this time. He was soaked all over. His clothes were tightly attached to his body and the fabric was dirty. In order to highlight the pain of the character's death, he put on a "death" makeup on his face. His face was miserable and he looked like he was about to lie in a coffin. He frowned and wrapped himself in a blanket. When he looked up, he saw Shi Jin running towards him in his home clothes. He was stunned at first, then frowned, pushed aside the staff in front of him and walked forward to greet him, asking, "Why are you here?"
"I finished my homework and came to see the excitement. The director also agreed to let me see it." Shi Jin replied, stuffing the drink into his hand.
Rong Zhouzhong looked at the director and saw that the director was looking at this side with a suggestive look of "It's up to you to sell your looks, please make sure to stabilize our situation." His eyebrows twitched, and he suppressed the urge to throw the director, this old frivolous guy, into the sea. He leaned aside to block the sight of other actors in the crew for Shi Jin, and motioned Shi Jin to follow him.
Shi Jin didn't know that he had been spread by the crew as "the beach owner who was bewitched by Rong Zhouzhong's beauty". He followed Rong Zhouzhong very naturally and said, "Although it is only early autumn now and the temperature is not too low, it is still easy to catch a cold if you soak in the water for too long. You have to be more careful."
This was said very considerately, completely different from the abominable last night. Rong Zhouzhong glanced at him sideways, tightened the hot drink in his hand, tilted his head back and drank it all in one gulp, then walked quickly to the nanny car parked at the edge of the beach, opened the door and motioned Shi Jin to get in. Shi Jin
was curious about everything on the set, and got in very obediently. Rong Zhouzhong followed one step behind, closed the car door, and blocked the sight of other crew members who were looking at him vaguely.
The nanny car was very spacious, and the seats were wide enough to be folded down to serve as a bed. There were many things scattered inside. Shi Jin noticed that the centipede pillow he had given to Rong Zhouzhong was also there, placed on a makeshift bed made of seats in the back compartment.
Rong Zhouzhong also noticed this, and hurriedly threw a blanket to cover the pillow, deliberately making some noise to attract Shi Jin's attention, and asked, "What did you tell the director when you came here?" The director's eyes just now were so meaningful. Shi Jin
retracted his gaze and replied, "I said I was the owner of the beach, and I wanted to see how you act. Aren't you going to change your clothes? It must be uncomfortable to wear wet clothes."
He actually introduced himself as the owner of the beach, not Rong Zhouzhong's brother.
Rong Zhouzhong was a little unhappy and frowned as he replied, "No, the shot of falling into the sea just now only captured a distant view. I have to add some close-ups and closeups later... In fact, you can tell the director that you are my younger brother, and he will be more considerate of you." Shi Jin
waved his hands quickly, "No, I don't need any consideration. It's good to just watch the hustle and bustle. I would feel uncomfortable if I received too much consideration."
In other words, being the owner of the beach is more comfortable than being his younger brother, right?
Rong Zhouzhong's face darkened. Seeing Shi Jin sitting opposite him quietly and without showing any anger, he couldn't help but asked, "What you said yesterday, you were not just teasing me, right? Do you hate me?" Shi
Jin didn't expect him to ask this directly. He looked at him, nodded and shook his head honestly, and replied, "I was not just teasing you yesterday, but I don't really hate you either. To be honest, I want to truly understand you now rather than hate you."
Truly understand?
Rong Zhouzhong used a towel to lift his wet bangs and looked at Shi Jin seriously.
"If you think about it, I didn't have many opportunities to be alone with you in the past. You are very contradictory in my eyes. I want to understand the real you." Shi Jin answered very frankly, "Only when I really understand you can I be sure whether I hate you or something else."
"What else?" Rong Zhouzhong quickly grasped the key point. Shi Jin
didn't answer, but stretched out his hand to open the car door and said, "Keep working hard, I'll wait for you to come over for lunch." After that, he jumped out of the car and headed towards the villa.
Rong Zhouzhong couldn't stop him. Looking at his back as he walked away, he raised his hand to grab his wet hair and said for a long time, "You little bastard who pretends to be mysterious!"
...
Rong Zhouzhong didn't come for lunch. The crew had been delayed for too long before and was now rushing to make progress. His scenes were shot all day long, and there was no long period of free time for him to go out for lunch.
After lunch, Shi Jin used a telescope to check the situation on the set and saw Rong Zhouzhong going into the water again surrounded by cameras. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "He is really dedicated."
Xiao Si said: "Yeah, it's been several hours. Humans will get tired if they stay in the water for so long."
"The director is too demanding." Shi Jin put down the telescope and simply asked Xiao Si to give him the buff of clairvoyance. He leaned against the bridge pillar and watched Rong Zhouzhong sitting on the lifeboat during the break in filming, listening carefully to the director's lecture, and stuffed a nut into his mouth.
He had never seen Rong Zhouzhong like this before. He was mature, serious, hardworking, and steady... All the things he thought Rong Zhouzhong would never have were now all revealed in him.
"Genes are really powerful." He sighed again, and for some reason he wanted to sigh. The more he saw, the more he understood that the success of the Shi family's children was not achieved simply by the accumulation of resources and support. Even Rong Zhouzhong, who seemed to rely entirely on his looks, was actually better and more hardworking than most people in the world.
Businessmen, lawyers, actors, soldiers, doctors... When you think about it carefully, among the children of the Shi family, only the original owner who was raised by Shi Xingrui himself has made no achievements and has not shown any talents. When the other brothers were the same age as the original owner, they had already made a great contribution to their respective life canvases and laid the foundation for future glory.
"Is it irony?" He muttered to himself, a little distracted.
Xiao Si fell silent again and did not respond to him. Ever since Shi Jin's progress bar went down to 80, it has often been silent, and sometimes it may not say a word for several days, as if it had never existed.
When alone, it is easy for the consciousness to fall into a deep sea called "memory", which contains the original owner's memories and his own. In the past, he could always clearly distinguish which memories were his own and which were the original owner's, but recently, these memories have gradually become chaotic.
He looked at Rong Zhouzhong's serious face, and a particularly dim picture fragment suddenly emerged from the depths of his mind.
It should be when the original owner was ten years old. On that day, according to custom, the brothers who lived in various places would gather in the luxurious house in Country M, bringing many gifts to celebrate the original owner's birthday.
The original owner was very happy that day because his most handsome and dazzling third brother finally won the first Best Actor award in his life. He prepared a celebration gift for his third brother, ordered a celebration cake just for him, and then blew out the candles side by side with him.
Everything was perfect until he was woken up from his bed by his third brother in the middle of the night, and they secretly watched the movie that his third brother won the award for on the computer.
It was a movie with a very dark theme. The protagonists were a pair of brothers, a pair of brothers who were supposed to depend on each other, but ended up killing each other. The original owner had never seen this movie, because the subject matter was too dark, and Shi Xingrui would not let him watch it.
At the beginning of the movie, the younger brother's mother suddenly disappeared, and the younger brother wanted to look for her, but his father did not allow it. Then a man who claimed to be his brother showed up and invited him to look for his mother together. The younger brother was seduced and sneaked out of the house without telling his father.
The journey to find his mother began. During the journey, the younger brother encountered dangers many times, and the older brother rescued him many times. The two people who had lived in two different places since childhood and had little affection for each other gradually became close.
The original owner watched the movie very seriously, and his mood fluctuated with the movie. When he saw the two brothers finally opened their hearts to each other and decided to live together in the future regardless of whether they could find their missing mother or not, he finally smiled happily.
"Brother is the best person in the world." He said so, turned his head to look at the third brother who was holding him, but he looked into a pair of eyes without any warmth.
"Keep watching." The young third brother said, with a cold look in his peach blossom eyes, and pressed his hand roughly on the original owner's head and turned his face towards the computer screen.
The original owner was a little scared, but for the sake of his third brother, he still gathered his thoughts and continued watching the movie.
The movie was already halfway through, and after the warm promises, the plot suddenly took a sharp turn. His mother had passed away, and the "murderer" caught up with him. The conspiracy was revealed layer by layer. The originally bright and hopeful life was like a human skin drum cut by a knife. Under the soft and beautiful appearance, there was a bloody truth.
There was no deep brotherly love, everything was just an illusion. This was not a journey to find his mother, but a journey of revenge. At the moment when the younger brother set out on the journey to find his mother, his father and his tribe had been led into the abyss step by step by his elder brother using his younger brother as bait. The "pursuers" killed by the two brothers along the way were actually all people who came to save his younger brother. Now that everything has been revealed, the younger brother is the only one left in his tribe.
His mother was also killed by his elder brother, and her body was buried under his younger brother's room.
The origin of the matter was a vague curse. Because of this curse, the elder brother was tortured by the tribe and abandoned by his parents. During his long wandering life, his psychology gradually became distorted. His hatred and desire for home were so strong that he couldn't help but sneak back to his hometown. Then, when he saw his younger brother who lived happily with his parents, his reason completely collapsed.
——We are both children, why am I a curse, but he is a gift from God, an existence that was carefully cared for and raised! It's unfair! This is not fair!
The elder brother yelled, and then the revenge began.
At the end of the movie, the younger brother, who knew the whole truth, was filled with hatred, anger, and heartache, and wanted to hug his brother to die together. The elder brother, who had the ability to push him away, put down the weapon, hugged his younger brother, and fell into the abyss with his brother with a satisfied look on his face.
The twisted wish of wanting to reunite with his family was finally going to come true.
How happy! These were the last words left by the elder brother.
At the end of the movie, the original owner, who was only ten years old, was shocked by the depressing plot and Rong Zhouzhong's performance in the play, and could not recover for a long time.
"The director said that I brought the role of the elder brother to life. Xiao Jin, do you know why I can play it so well?"
His hair was gently stroked, and the third brother's pleasant voice was in his ears, but the original owner did not dare to look back, for he was afraid that if he looked back, something would be completely shattered.
"Because I am this elder brother, do you understand, Xiao Jin?"
The last thing in the memory was this gentle whisper. A child of only ten years old could not stay up all night. The original owner fell asleep unconsciously in fear, and then woke up in the warm embrace of the third brother. Naturally, he regarded the memory of last night as a terrible nightmare and buried it deep in his heart.
How could the third brother be the elder brother in the movie? The third brother is so handsome, and he looks like an angel when he is asleep. The embrace is so warm. The third brother must have been too immersed in the role last night, so he said that.
The original owner convinced himself in this way, but subconsciously, he dimmed the color of this memory and was unwilling to touch it again.
"Rong Zhouzhong is taking revenge for what the original owner promised Shi Xingrui when he was nine years old." Shi Jin came back to his senses, looked at Rong Zhouzhong who had gone into the water again, and narrowed his eyes, "How can you be so petty and hold a grudge, bullying a child who is only ten years old." Go to hell, childish and cruel guy.
He stood up, picked up the lunch that was originally prepared for Rong Zhouzhong, and turned back to the villa.
...
After feeding the lunch to the bodyguard guarding the door, Shi Jin sneaked into the study, lying on the sofa and staring at Lian Jun.
Lian Jun glanced at him, quickly finished the work at hand, moved his wheelchair over, touched his hair, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"It's time to take a nap." Shi Jin replied, and asked, "I want to sleep with you."
Shi Jin rarely took a nap. He was energetic, always slept in the morning, and couldn't sleep at all in the afternoon.
Lian Jun looked at his listless expression, leaned over and kissed his eyes, and replied, "Okay."
The two returned to the bedroom. Shi Jin closed the French window, drew the curtains, and then lifted the quilt, locking Lian Jun in his arms like an octopus.
Lian Jun hugged him with his backhand, patted his back, and whispered, "Go to sleep." Shi
Jin closed his eyes, felt the reassuring body temperature from Lian Jun, and really fell asleep.
...
Contrary to what Shi Jin expected before going to bed, he did not dream this time, and he woke up after only half an hour. Lian Jun was still asleep. He got up too early every day and usually took a nap for about an hour. Shi Jin
moved his body and found that the position of himself and Lian Jun had changed to one where he had his back to Lian Jun and was held in Lian Jun's arms.
The chest was against the back, the body temperature was exchanged, and if one amplified his hearing, one could even hear Lian Jun's heartbeat. Shi Jin suddenly felt at ease. Lian Jun should be the only person in the world who could always hold him like this, who would never scare him or betray him.
People who approach you for the sake of profit will definitely leave when the profit disappears; people who approach you for compensation will definitely leave when the compensation is sufficient; people who approach you because of guilt may also leave when the guilt subsides... Only people who stay for you as a person will stay by your side no matter what your situation is. ...
Meeting Lian Jun when he was penniless was probably the greatest luck in his life.
Such an idea suddenly popped up in his mind. He turned over carefully, looked at Lian Jun's sleeping face, slowly leaned over and kissed his forehead, stayed for a few seconds and then stepped back, pursed his lips and smiled, got up carefully, and left the room lightly.
The room was quiet. Lian Jun opened his eyes, raised his hand and touched his forehead. He curled his lips and closed his eyes again.
...
When Shi Jin found Rong Zhouzhong with a bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge, Rong Zhouzhong was holding a barrel-curled script with half-dried hair, banging on the armrest of the chair, scolding a young man sitting next to him.
The filming on the set had stopped. Except for the director who was discussing something with the staff, the other staff and actors were secretly looking at Rong Zhouzhong, their expressions pale and stiff, as if they had seen some doomsday scene.
"What's wrong with you? It's just a scene where you hide in the dark and watch your teacher die, but you don't dare to go up to rescue him because you are afraid of the enemy. Is it so difficult to understand? Sense of substitution, sense of substitution, do you understand? Just imagine that it is your mother who is forced into the sea by the enemy, and you are hiding here watching. You don't dare to go forward to rescue her even though the enemy has left. How would you feel! If you can't even do this kind of substitution, what kind of actor are you! I'll catch a few chickens and tie the mother chicken here, let it watch its children being thrown into the sea by humans, the reluctance, anxiety, regret and anger it expresses will be more real than yours!"
Rong Zhouzhong's voice became clearer when he got closer. Shi Jin was shocked by Rong Zhouzhong's metaphor and the momentum in his tone, and stopped in his tracks.
The person being scolded by Rong Zhouzhong was a young man who looked to be in his early twenties. He was handsome, but a little shy. He didn't even dare to raise his head after being scolded by Rong Zhouzhong. He looked extremely pitiful.
"Brother, don't be angry. I will try my best..." the young man whispered, and it seemed that even the tips of his hair were trembling.
Rong Zhouzhong got even angrier when he saw him like this. He slammed the chair a few more times, frowned, straightened his lips, and said in a deep voice: "Don't call me senior brother. I can't imagine that you and I were brought up by the same teacher! It's useless for you to just work hard. You have to learn more! Such a good script makes you the male lead. The company has spent so much money and prepared such a strong team for you. I even come here to make a cameo appearance to support you, and this is how you behave? Do you want to piss me off to death? Director Wang just explained the trick to you in such detail, didn't you understand it at all!"
The set became even quieter. This time even the director came over to see it.
The young man lowered his head upon hearing this, clenched his fists, and said, "How about, how about you switch..."
"Third brother!" Shi Jin interrupted and quickly stepped closer to shove the preserved egg and lean meat porridge into Rong Zhouzhong's face, saying, "Here, eat it while it's hot! I just cooked it and added a lot of meat. See if you like it."
Rong Zhouzhong was slapped in the face by the lean meat porridge and didn't hear the young man's words clearly. When he saw Shi Jin coming over, he took a deep breath to suppress his temper, and scraped the porridge off his face. He tried to soften his expression and said, "Sorry, I didn't go to lunch. I'm a little busy here."
"It's okay, I understand." Shi Jin replied, reaching out to pull the young man up, occupying his seat, leaning closer to Rong Zhouzhong, and winking at the young man to go to the director's side. He quickly opened the bowl of porridge, took out the spoon inside and stuffed it into Rong Zhouzhong's hand, saying, "Eat, eat, eat while it's hot, it warms your stomach."
The aroma of the century egg and lean meat porridge wafted out. Rong Zhouzhong only used a little bread to fill his stomach during the breaks in filming. When he smelled the aroma, he immediately felt hungry.
He glanced at the young man who didn't dare to leave, frowned and waved his hand to signal him to get out, then stirred the porridge in the bowl with a spoon and muttered, "Why are you helping him? That guy is good in everything except that he has no ambition. He needs to be pushed to do anything. If you don't scold him and let him suffer a little, he won't know how to move forward." Shi
Jin looked at him without saying a word.
Rong Zhouzhong felt a little uncomfortable and said with a frown: "What are you looking at? Do you think I was too fierce just now and scared you?" Shi Jin
shook his head and said: "You were quite handsome just now, with the domineering feeling of a big boss in the industry."
"Cough cough cough." Rong Zhouzhong was choked by his saliva. He lowered his head and scooped a large spoonful of porridge into his mouth. He pinched his neck to avoid looking at him and said vaguely: "When did I not look handsome? In today's entertainment industry, my face is the traffic, right-"
"Aren't you boiling? This porridge has just been out of the pot not long ago." Shi Jin reminded him considerately.
Rong Zhouzhong's expression froze, his pain awakened, and he opened his mouth to take a few breaths. Halfway through, he probably felt that doing so was too embarrassing, so he quickly covered his mouth with his hand and turned his head to find water. His face and ears were a little red, and he didn't know if it was caused by the burn or something else.
Shi Jin looked at him in a rare flustered state and asked, "Third brother, after the filming is finished, do you want to watch a movie with me?"
Rong Zhouzhong had a hard time suppressing the heat with water, but when he heard his invitation, he almost broke it again. He quickly straightened his back and pretended to be nonchalant, and asked casually, "What are you watching?"
"Your famous work, "Home."
Bang.
Rong Zhouzhong dropped the water bottle in his hand. He tilted his head to look at Shi Jin, and all the expressions on his face gradually withdrew, and the warm emotions in his eyes slowly turned cold.
"Do you want to watch it?" Shi Jin asked.
"...Watch it." Rong Zhouzhong retracted his gaze, scooped up a spoonful of porridge and put it in his mouth, tasted it carefully, and then slowly swallowed it, "I'll watch it with you, once again."
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