When Rong Zhouzhong finished filming, it was already 1:30 in the morning. He quickly changed out of his soaked clothes, said goodbye to the crew members who had gathered to celebrate his completion, and walked quickly towards the villa.
The assistant who knew a little about the situation hurriedly followed him and handed him a towel while saying, "Ah Zhong, it's so late, Mr. Shi should have gone to bed, let's go tomorrow. You've been soaking in the water for so long, you'd better take a hot bath as soon as possible to get rid of the coldness in your body, and wipe your hair, it's windy at night, you will catch a cold."
"He's still waiting for me." Rong Zhouzhong declined his towel without even turning his head, "I'm fine, please tell Director Wang for me, it's too late today, there's no need to celebrate, I'll treat everyone to dinner later when everyone is free." After saying that, he walked past the security guards guarding the long bridge and walked onto the long bridge in three or two steps.
The assistant wanted to follow, but was stopped by the security guards. He could only watch Rong Zhouzhong walk away, and couldn't help scratching his hair with a headache.
"What on earth is going on..." After such a long time, it was the first time that he saw Rong Zhouzhong showing such an overly serious and heavy expression, and he always felt a little worried.
"Nothing will happen." He muttered, and waited in circles for a while. When Rong Zhouzhong didn't come out, he turned around and walked towards the crew resignedly.
...
When he walked to the halfway point of the long bridge, Rong Zhouzhong saw Shi Jin. The other party was lying on a rattan table at the inner side of the balcony with his head tilted, as if he had fallen asleep.
Still waiting, are you stupid?
He frowned and thought so, and his heart, which had been tense all night, suddenly settled down, and many thoughts like "Ah, someone is waiting for me too", "It's worthy of Shi Jin", "The dumbest child in the Shi family is probably this one"... popped up in his mind.
His steps stopped unconsciously. He stood in the distance and stared at Shi Jin's figure for a while, then suddenly started to run. After running onto the balcony, he instinctively slowed down his pace and slowly walked in front of Shi Jin to look at his sleeping face.
The scene of a grown man sleeping on a table full of snack bags was not pleasing to the eyes, but Rong Zhouzhong watched it very seriously.
When Shi Jin was asleep... he looked much more harmless than when he was awake. He would no longer show various expressions that made people feel itchy or sad, nor would he say words that made people want to hit him but also want to love him, and he would not look at him with eyes that were dragged by memories, disturbing people's conscience.
"He's really a troublemaker." Rong Zhouzhong whispered, and glanced at the snack bag on the table. Seeing that they were all the snacks he had given to Shi Jin before, he tilted his head, raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, closed his eyes tightly, and suddenly sat down on the ground.
Is he a child? Eating so much at once, aren't you afraid of dying?
He put his hand down and looked at Shi Jin again.
After sitting down, he saw Shi Jin's face half buried in his arms more clearly. It was a face that had nothing in common with him, and it was also a face that he once took for granted that only a villain would have. But the funny thing is that after the truth was revealed, it seemed that he was the villain.
Brother.
His mind flashed with Xiang Aoting's pitiful and serious face, and Li Jiuzheng's dead face that deserved a beating. His face darkened, and finally his eyes fell on Shi Jin, who looked even more obedient after falling asleep.
Brother.
He twitched the corners of his mouth, suddenly stretched out his hand, pinched Shi Jin's cheek exposed outside his arm, and slowly pulled it out.
Shi Jin opened his eyes in a flash, his eyes were confused for two seconds, and then he quickly woke up. Without thinking, he grabbed Rong Zhouzhong's wrist that was in front of him, pinched it hard, and twisted it in the opposite direction.
"Ah!" Rong Zhouzhong howled in pain.
Shi Jin was frightened by the shout and his eyes widened. He finally woke up. He sat up straight and turned his head to look around. The memories before falling asleep gradually came back to him. He looked down at Rong Zhouzhong who was sitting on the ground with a distorted face trying to pull his hand back. He was speechless for two seconds, let go of his hand and said, "Are you stupid? You actually attacked the police at night. If I used more force, your wrist would be broken."
"What police? Just a freshman..." Rong Zhouzhong rubbed his wrist and frowned and retorted.
Is the police the focus? Isn't the focus the night raid?
Shi Jin looked at him with a caring look for a mentally retarded person for two seconds, bent down and grabbed his wrist, and helped him to twist it back and forth, then let go of his hand and stood up. He first looked at the blanket that had fallen on the chair, then looked at the screen on the side of the balcony to block the wind, his eyes warmed up, and finally looked in the direction of the crew and stretched his waist slightly.
"It seems that your scene has been filmed. What time is it?" He stretched his waist and looked down at Rong Zhouzhong.
Rong Zhouzhong wiggled his wrist, which no longer hurt, and glanced at him. Realizing that the angle was wrong, he quickly put on a nonchalant expression and stood up, posing like a model, trying to save his image, and said, "It's almost two in the morning. Actually, you don't have to wait for me all the time. I..."
"What did you say, two in the morning?!" Shi Jin interrupted him with a cry of surprise. Without thinking, he turned around and ran to the French window of the master bedroom. He stretched out his hand and carefully opened the French window, and leaned in to peek.
Lian Jun was lying on the bed with his back to the French window, and seemed to be asleep. Shi
Jin breathed a sigh of relief, and was very pleased that Lian Jun did not force himself to stay up with him. Just as he was about to leave the room to let Lian Jun have a good rest, a head popped over from behind.
"When you were lying outside, he could actually sleep peacefully in the room? How could he--"
Shi Jin's expression changed, and he slapped Rong Zhouzhong on the face with his backhand, turned around and pushed him out, carefully closed the French window, and warned: "Speak softly, don't wake him up."
Rong Zhouzhong's face was dark: "What do you want to do with a boyfriend who doesn't care about you so much? Just dump him, I'll introduce you to a better one."
"Do you want to be beaten?" Shi Jin raised his fist, murderous, "Lian Jun is the best, those who are more handsome than him are not as gentle as him, those who are more gentle than him are not as good-looking as him, those who are more gentle and handsome than him are not as smart as him, those who are more gentle, handsome and smart than him do not like me as much as he does. Introduce a better one, I will introduce you to King Yan, believe it or not."
Rong Zhouzhong felt pain when he saw him showing his fist, and gritted his teeth and said, "I think you were tricked by him, you ungrateful little bastard..."
"Huh?" Shi Jin turned his fist threateningly.
Rong Zhouzhong shut up in frustration, angry at his "rebellion", and said unhappily, "Aren't you going to watch a movie? Are you going to watch it tonight? If not, I'll go back to sleep!"
When these words came out, both of them were stunned.
Oh, right, the movie.
Rong Zhouzhong glanced at Shi Jin and saw that his expression suddenly became distant and cold. He scratched his hair irritably, turned his head to look at the screen beside the balcony and said nothing. Shi
Jin also slowly put down his fist and said, "Look, the sooner you see it, the sooner you can get rid of it."
Rong Zhouzhong looked at him with his peripheral vision, his lips moved, wanting to ask what he wanted to relieve himself, but he swallowed the words back and just said, "Okay, let's see."
...
The two of them went around to the living room and entered the villa through the balcony door in the living room.
Shi Jin arranged for Rong Zhouzhong to sit on the sofa, took a towel and a hair dryer for him, poured a cup of hot drink and placed it in front of him, and said, "You blow dry your hair first, then drink something hot to warm your body, I'll go to the kitchen to get a cake."
Hearing the word cake, Rong Zhouzhong's fingers stiffened and nodded in response.
After Shi Jin left, Rong Zhouzhong looked at the hot drink and tea in front of him, and the hair dryer that was already plugged in, picked up a towel to cover his face, and let out a long sigh.
It was such a long night...
...
His hair was dry, and the hot drinks were gone. Rong Zhouzhong slumped on the sofa and looked towards the kitchen. He was almost sleepy, but he didn't see Shi Jin coming out of the kitchen.
Did he fall asleep in the kitchen?
He frowned, and with a somewhat fortunate thought, "Can I not watch a movie today?", he stood up and walked towards the kitchen.
Unfortunately, the goddess of luck did not favor him today. After turning the corner of the house, through the half-open door of the kitchen, he could clearly see that Shi Jin was wearing an apron and standing in front of the small table in the kitchen. He lowered his head and concentrated on spreading cream on an eight-inch cake. His movements looked very realistic.
This scene was so warm and homely. Rong Zhouzhong instinctively took out his mobile phone and recorded this moment.
Shi Jin raised his head when he heard the voice and saw Rong Zhouzhong coming over. He speeded up his movements a little and said, "Sorry, I seem to have delayed too long. It's almost done. Please wait a moment."
Rong Zhouzhong came back to his senses, put away his phone, opened the door and leaned over to look at the slightly rough cake in his hand and asked, "Did you make it?"
"Yeah." Shi Jin nodded, put away the cream, picked up the plate of fruit, and began to put fruit on the cream.
Rong Zhouzhong looked at his slightly anxious movements and asked, "Why do you want to make it yourself?"
Shi Jin carefully placed the cut strawberries around the edge of the cake and replied without looking up, "You just came this afternoon and said you wanted to watch a movie tonight. I thought it would be too late to order a cake from outside, so I just made it myself. My cooking skills are average, so don't complain."
Rong Zhouzhong replied, "Why would I complain... Is it troublesome to make a cake?"
"It's not too troublesome. The cake base has been baked and prepared. Now we just need to make some fillings and decorations. It's actually my fault. I accidentally fell asleep. Otherwise, this would have been done a long time ago and you could have eaten it directly when you came." Shi Jin replied, putting down the plate of fruit, and picked up the small bowl of almond crumbs and the large sieve for sifting almonds. He smiled and said, "Thanks to the kitchen aunt for helping me get all the necessary materials in advance, otherwise this would not be done in a short time."
The almond crumbs were evenly spread on the cake through the sieve. Shi Jin put down the bowl of almond crumbs with satisfaction, picked up the chocolate sauce, drew a slightly ugly smiley face on the almond crumbs, and then took out a few chocolate decorations and carefully inserted them on the almond crumbs. Finally, with a slight adjustment, the cake was completely done.
So ugly.
This was Rong Zhouzhong's first thought after seeing the finished product.
But it should taste good.
This was his second thought after smelling the sweet aroma of the cake.
The most important thing about a cake is its taste, and the appearance doesn't matter, so this cake should be considered very good-looking, after all, the ingredients are so "solid".
This was his third thought after seeing Shi Jin's expression full of satisfaction and accomplishment.
"Let's go to the second floor." Shi Jin took off his apron and looked at Rong Zhouzhong.
Rong Zhouzhong looked at him and nodded, then while he turned around to hang up his apron, he took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the cake.
...
The audio-visual room on the second floor is very spacious, with a total of eight seats for watching movies. Shi Jin and Rong Zhouzhong chose the first row on the left side, on the right, and the first row on the right side, on the left, respectively. There was an aisle in between, which was just wide enough to fit a small table. Shi Jin set up the table and put the cake and drinks taken out of the refrigerator on it.
Rong Zhouzhong watched him busy, his mind was empty, as if he was thinking about something, but also as if he was thinking about nothing.
Everything was ready. In Rong Zhouzhong's suddenly sharp eyes, Shi Jin cut the cake neatly, then took out a piece, put it in a small plate and stuffed it into Rong Zhouzhong's hand. He also took a piece for himself, turned off the lights in the audio-visual room, and turned on the equipment.
Rong Zhouzhong looked at the "solid" cake in his hand, revealing the double-layer sandwich, and his expression was very funny and stiff.
Just cut it? Just cut it so easily? The cake that was made with great difficulty, just cut it like this? Don’t you cherish it so much!
Aww.
Not only did he cut it, Shi Jin also took a big bite of it.
Rong Zhouzhong saw this scene with the rest of his eyes, and inexplicably felt his heart aching. He couldn’t bear to look at the corpse of the cake on the small table anymore, and cast his eyes on the screen.
The playback device was running, the screen lit up and dimmed, and then the picture appeared. The picture of a movie that looks a bit nostalgic from today’s perspective appeared on the screen. The young version of Rong Zhouzhong was wearing a strange ethnic costume, standing at the highest point of the hillside, looking coldly at the tribe holding a celebration below the hill, slowly closed his eyes, and fell backwards on the grass.
Bang.
The screen suddenly dimmed, and the name of the movie appeared.
The atmosphere was inexplicably depressing.
"Actually, the box office of this movie is terrible." Rong Zhouzhong couldn't help but speak up to break the silence. He forked a piece of cake, held it in front of him and looked at it, then slowly put it into his mouth. "This style of movie is like this. Good reputation, but poor box office. It is only suitable for winning awards." Shi Jin
took another bite of cake and didn't respond.
Don't want to talk? Rong Zhouzhong lowered his eyes and suddenly regretted coming to watch this movie. The screen lit up again, and the little brother who was raised to be silly and sweet appeared. "How is this actor now?" Shi Jin suddenly asked. Rong Zhouzhong was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at him, and replied: "It seems that he was arrested for drug use. I only worked with him once, so I don't know much about what happened to him later." "So in the real world, you, the 'brother', also won." Shi Jin commented, his eyes always on the movie screen, as if he just said it casually.
Rong Zhouzhong's hand holding the fork tightened, and he looked at his brother who was happily playing at the celebration in the movie. He felt an inexplicable irritation in his heart, and said mercilessly: "Isn't it right that I beat him? I look better than him, have a stronger background, better acting skills, higher IQ, longer-term vision, and even work harder than him. This kind of waste who can't find a way out and uses drugs to numb himself deserves to lose his whole life!" Shi
Jin was choked by his shameless self-praise and looked at him sideways.
Rong Zhouzhong looked at him fiercely and said fiercely: "What are you looking at? Isn't what I said the truth?"
It was indeed the truth, but...
"You are so shameless." Shi Jin commented.
Rong Zhouzhong was relieved to see that he was finally willing to talk. He snorted coldly, took another big piece of cake and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing hard while saying, "I can probably understand why you let me watch this movie. You said I was stingy, but how generous are you? Didn't I just scare you when you were ten years old? Do you have to remember it for so many years?"
"Do you have to remember it for so many years?" Shi Jin couldn't believe it. Looking at his self-righteous look, he retorted, "You bastard who bullies children, what qualifications do you have to say that I am stingy? It was just a scare. Do you understand the concept of childhood shadows?"
"Why, just because you're younger I should give in to you? Can I be called Young Shadow?" Rong Zhouzhong sat up straight and fired a machine gun. "I finally won an award. It's okay that the box office was a disaster, but I still had to squeeze out time to celebrate your birthday! I was so busy that I only slept for three hours a day, but I still had to celebrate your birthday. Am I right? You even hated me and dragged me to blow out the candles with you. Do you know how hard it is to face Shi Xingrui's kind face? "Father, how disgusted I am in my heart, I'm very tired, okay? I just wanted to sleep at that time!" Shi
Jin felt that he was simply unreasonable, and a nameless anger rose up, saying: "Disgusted? I am disgusted by my kindness in celebrating for you? Since you are so sleepy, then go to sleep! If you don't want to come, then don't come. Did I force you to come with a knife? You said you want to sleep, then what are you doing in my room in the middle of the night? Go to sleep! It would be better to sleep till you die!"
"If Shi Xingrui hadn't held up my mother's company funds, do you think I would be willing to celebrate your birthday? Speaking of sleeping, I get even angrier. Shi Xingrui, that old beast, arranged a broken heater in the guest room he arranged for me! I was so frozen that I couldn't fall asleep at all. Do you know how irritated I was? Do you know how sleepy I was? My eldest brother and the others are also a bunch of beasts. I knocked on the door for a long time but no one answered. They also locked the door. Finally, I had no choice but to go to your room. Who made your room the most spacious, the bed the most comfortable, and the heating the most sufficient?"
Rong Zhouzhong recalled the scene at that time. He was so angry that his hair stood up. He gritted his teeth and said, "But when I went to your room, you were sleeping on your stomach like a pig. I was almost frozen to death, but you were sleeping like a pig!"
Shi Jin: "…………"
"Is this why you woke me up in the middle of the night and asked me to watch a movie?" Shi Jin was almost choked to death by this reason that was so realistic and had no aesthetic sense at all.
"What else?" Rong Zhouzhong asked back, and he tightened his hand holding the cake fork, as if he was going to cut someone into pieces, "You have tortured me for so long, why can't I sleep well while you sleep like a pig!" Shi
Jin looked at him with a breath, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, so he got up and covered his face with the cake in his hand.
Pah.
The cream and fruit were all over Rong Zhouzhong's face.
Rong Zhouzhong was stunned, his eyes wide open, looking at Shi Jin in disbelief, his expression twisted this and that, and finally suddenly became ruthless, and directly grabbed the cake he had not finished with his bare hands and approached Shi Jin.
Shi Jin was shocked and hurriedly got up and hid away.
"Come here." Rong Zhouzhong threatened, confronting Shi Jin across two rows of seats. Shi
Jin calmed down a little after his brain was congested. He glanced at his funny face with cream on his face, feeling a little guilty and wanting to laugh. He hid behind the chair and said, "I won't go over. You want to hurt me."
"Ha!" Rong Zhouzhong laughed angrily and said irritably, "Yes, I want to hurt you! In my dreams, I want to tear the stupid smile on your face to pieces, I want to shove the knife into you, I want to have a good fight with you, I want to say the most vicious words to you, tell you the most cruel truth, so that you will never look at me with that stupid look again! Who cares about the cake you make yourself, who cares about the gifts you give to you, who cares whether you are sad or not! You hate me, you really do hate me! Who wants to treat you as a brother? In our position, isn't it the most appropriate and easiest for each other to simply hate each other? Since you are so afraid that I will hurt you, why do you rely on Come here, what on earth do you want to change! How could Shi Xingrui raise a son like you who is nothing like us! You are a spoiled young master, why don’t you be a little willful, why don’t you be a little more reasonable, do you have Shi Xingrui’s dirty and heartless blood flowing in your body! "Shi Jin
was shocked by his sudden long string of words. He stared at him in a daze for a few seconds and couldn’t help asking: "If you don’t want it, then why don’t you push it away, why don’t you refuse it?"
Rong Zhouzhong was stunned, and his sudden outburst of emotions quickly subsided. After a few seconds of silence, he replied: "Of course it was to stabilize Shi Xingrui. If we offend him, my mother and I will be finished..."
"Then what are you still yelling about? You made the choice yourself, what does it have to do with me?" Shi Jin frowned slowly and asked coldly, "You used false concern to coax me and entice me to get close to you. You have accumulated goodwill in me for more than ten years, but now you blame me for not seeing through the truth earlier and accusing me of not hating you. What do you think of me? A robot whose emotions can be emptied at will? You are so relaxed. First you self-centeredly disliked me and used me, and now you self-centeredly compensate me and please me. You "Have you ever asked me if I wanted it? You asked me why I wanted to get close to you, what I wanted to change. It was obvious that you got close to me in the first ten years just to use me. Later, I got close to you, wasn't it to save my life? I have to find out the truth, I have to find out the mastermind, I have to survive. I just did the same thing as you did back then. I just got close to you just to survive. What are you angry about? If I could live my life again, do you think I want to be your brother?"
Boom.
Like a huge hammer hitting his head, Rong Zhouzhong suddenly raised his head and looked at Shi Jin standing on the other side looking at this side coldly, as if he was never going to get close again. His heart tightened, and before his mind could react, his body had already run over and grabbed Shi Jin's wrist tightly.
"No." He said, with a hint of stubbornness in his eyes that he was not even aware of, "You are everyone's younger brother, you are not allowed to go anywhere."
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