Chapter 62 Dinner: It’s impossible that they are actually the same person, right? …
Life in the small town is very leisurely. You can sleep until you wake up naturally, and then go out for a stroll, eat and drink.
Every day, she travels through the bluestone-paved streets and alleys, rides on rowboats, and listens to music in teahouses. Gao Luo became interested, so she greeted the teahouse owner and asked Gao Shule to go on stage to sing. Gao Shule doesn't know how to play the pipa, she can only sing but not play. She has a good voice, and her tone is soft, melodious and moving. After she finished the song, the whole audience applauded. Gao Shule couldn't stand being praised, and she blushed when others applauded.
It was mid-October, and the sweet osmanthus flowers had not yet fallen. The rich fragrance filled the city. These were the best days Gao Luo had spent on this variety show.
On the night when the filming of this episode ended, Gao Luo found Ning Heng and asked him to help her extend the room for another day.
Ning Heng asked her: "Aren't you leaving?"
"I have something to do." Gao Luo said.
Ning Heng asked: "What's the matter?"
Gao Luo felt that he was meddling too much, but considering that he had been very cooperative in Sulijin Town last time, she didn't bother him too much.
She said her father was here on a business trip and would invite her to dinner tomorrow night.
Ning Heng asked again where they were going to eat.
"You want to care about this too?" Gao Luo was speechless.
Ning Heng smiled at her and said, "I didn't care about you. Just ask. Is it not okay to ask?"
Gao Luo curled her lips and said in a muffled voice, "Yingsheng Hotel."
Yingsheng Hotel is located near a modern film and television base in one of the city's administrative districts, about an hour's drive from the small town where Gao Luo was filming.
Ning Heng understood: "In that case, I won't renew your room here. You can just stay at Ying Sheng's."
"But my dad's driver didn't come to pick me up that early."
Ning Heng said: "I'll take you there."
Gao Luo raised her eyes and looked at him warily: "What is your purpose?"
Did you take the wrong medicine? Why are you suddenly so attentive?
Ning Heng smiled and said, "I didn't send you there specially. I have to go there for work as well."
"Work? What kind of work?"
What a coincidence! They all work there?
"You probably don't know why your father is here on a business trip, right?" Ning Heng asked her back.
Gao Luo really didn't know. When her father was busy, he flew all over the world. The content of his work was overwhelming enough, so she didn't bother to ask.
Ning Heng told her: "There will be a national directors' seminar opening here tomorrow, and some industry insiders have been invited to attend."
Logically speaking, Meng Zhang's attendance was already the highest standard. Ning Heng guessed that Gao Chengsheng came here mainly to see Gao Luo, and attending this seminar was probably a coincidence.
Gao Luo understood, and glanced at him up and down: "This director attending the meeting also includes... you?"
Generally, participants in this kind of seminars are not all directors who shoot film and television works, and do not include variety show directors, right?
Ning Heng knew what she was thinking from the look in her eyes, and said unhappily, "I don't just shoot entertainment variety shows, I've also shot documentaries!"
He is also a national-level director who has been awarded by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. Do you look down on others?
Gao Luo said "Oh" embarrassedly: "I don't know, OK, you can send me off tomorrow, thank you."
Ning Heng snorted.
*
Early the next morning, Gao Luo was woken up by Ning Heng through the hotel room phone. Gao Shule was also woken up and helped Gao Luo squeeze toothpaste, wash her face and comb her hair.
When Gao Luo set off, the other guests in the homestay had just woken up. In the morning, the guests followed the program crew back to Lincheng.
Gao Luo was very sleepy. When she saw Ning Heng, she didn't even have the energy to scold him. She got in the car and fell asleep.
When they were halfway through the journey, Gao Luo felt someone pulling at the backpack in her arms.
She woke up suddenly, her eyes opened quickly, and then she looked at Ning Heng in front of her.
Gao Luo looked down and saw Ning Heng's hand on her backpack. Her mind suddenly cleared up and she asked him, "What are you doing?"
Ning Heng explained calmly: "I want to find a place to help you put your bag down. It will be uncomfortable to sleep with it pressing on your chest."
Gao Luo hugged the backpack tightly and said, "I'm not uncomfortable. I just like sleeping with it hugged like this."
Ning Heng joked, "Is there any treasure inside?"
Gao Luo said with a straight face: "This is my privacy, why do you care about me?"
Ning Heng looked at her with amusement: "It's just a skirt and a pair of slippers..."
Before he could finish, Gao Luo glared at him with eyes wide open: "You rummaged through my bag?"
Ning Heng: "I didn't read it. I just saw it when I was in the tea mountain."
Before, at the tea mountain, Jun poured out all the contents of Gao Luo's backpack on the pretext of catching a thief. The things were scattered all over the floor, including tissues, keys, and ID cards. In addition, there was also a white skirt and a pair of disposable slippers. Jun laughed at the slippers for a long time.
"Are these skirt and slippers something important? Do I have to carry them with me all the time?"
Ning Heng observed her calmly and saw Gao Luo shift her gaze away unnaturally and turned her head towards the window.
Gao Luo said vaguely: "Is it okay if I'm too lazy to take it out?"
In fact, Ning Heng was not sure whether the two things were still in her bag. He just wanted to trick her, but he did not expect that they were actually still there.
He remembered that the day he met Xie Ran, she was wearing a white dress that was wrinkled and her shape could not be seen. I didn't pay attention to what I was wearing on my feet.
"The soles of disposable slippers are very thin and not suitable for walking outdoors. Didn't I give you a pair of slippers? Why don't you take that pair?"
Gao Luo replied impatiently: "It's inconvenient."
"It's inconvenient."
"Too heavy."
“It’s not heavy.”
"You are not heavy, but I am."
Gao Luo doesn't like to carry large bags when going out. She is the typical person who can't carry anything on her shoulders or lift anything with her hands. She is frail and has no strength. But she has to carry clothes and shoes with her, so she chooses clothes made of extremely light and thin materials, after all, they are only used to deal with emergencies.
Ning Heng wanted to say something, but Gao Luo interrupted him: "I'm going to sleep, don't talk to me."
After saying that, she closed her eyes and was about to go back to sleep, but her arms were holding the backpack tightly, and judging by the strength of her fingers, she didn't look like she was sleeping at all.
Why did Gao Luo carry this backpack with her? Why was it Gao Luo who went into the bathroom, but Xie Ran came out? Xie Ran was still wearing the clothes in Gao Luo's backpack.
Ning Heng looked at the backpack quietly, and his gaze gradually moved from the backpack to Gao Luo's face.
He looked at Gao Luo's face, and Xie Ran's appearance appeared in his mind. The two faces overlapped, and the names overlapped too.
He suddenly remembered that the email address Gao Luo gave him when they were on the island was Xie Ran's name.
Could it be that they are actually the same person? When this absurd idea popped into Ning Heng's mind, he laughed.
At nine o'clock, they arrived at their destination safely.
Gao Luo had greeted Gao Chengsheng in advance, and was picked up by his secretary as soon as she arrived at the hotel.
This seminar will last for several days. Today is the opening day. During the day, senior industry executives will give opening speeches. There will be an opening dinner in the evening. In between, directors will hold various meetings. There will be an awards ceremony on the closing day.
In addition to more than 300 directors and a small group of industry executives, the seminar also invited dozens of celebrities to attend, all of whom are artists with seniority and status in the circle.
Once you enter this hotel, you’ll see a director every three steps, a star every five steps, and a leader every ten steps. They are all top people in the industry and it’s a star-studded event. If media reporters want to come in for interviews and photos, they have to rely on connections and rack their brains to get a spot.
Gao Luo was not happy to listen to those boring speeches, so she stayed in her room during the day. I checked my phone and watched TV, and also made a video call with Gao Shule. I found out that she had already arrived home and was editing the video.
While they were chatting, Gao Shule learned that Gao Luo was at Yingsheng Hotel. She suddenly stopped what she was doing and asked, "Did you see anyone you know today?"
"Not yet. I haven't gone out today. Maybe I'll see him in the evening? Not sure." Gao Luo said.
Gao Chengsheng will take her to a dinner party in the evening, where she will probably meet some celebrities. However, Gao Luo only knows a few celebrities, so even if she is familiar with them, she probably wouldn't be able to name them.
"I should have brought you here. There are so many directors here, and I don't know any of them." Gao Luo said.
Gao Luo actually told Gao Shule about the seminar and suggested that she come along.
Gao Shule refused. She said she was not on the invitation list and was admitted through Gao Chengsheng's relationship, which made her status very awkward.
Gao Shule herself is not good at socializing, and she would feel guilty and tormented if she were to enter such an occasion without proper reason. She was afraid that others would think that she really had taken shortcuts to get to the top. If someone looked at her like that, she would be terrified and start to doubt herself.
If possible, she hopes that one day her name will appear on the list of invited artists, openly and honestly.
Gao Luo understood her, so she didn't force her to come.
The dinner started at seven o'clock, and Gao Luo was hungry at five o'clock. When Gao Chengsheng's secretary heard that she was hungry, he immediately took her to the restaurant for dinner.
By the time the dinner officially started, Gao Luo could no longer eat. She told Gao Chengsheng that she didn't want to attend the dinner.
At this kind of banquet, people don't come to eat, but to socialize. But Gao Luo didn't have anyone she wanted to meet, nor did she want to listen to strangers talking about things that didn't interest her, so she went there unhappy.
Gao Chengsheng asked her to rest first and said he would take her in to meet someone later.
He didn't say who he wanted to meet.
Gao Luo felt that her father was mysterious.
You're not going into the entertainment industry, so why would you meet those people?
*
This hotel has been booked by the Directors Guild these days, so at seven o'clock, there were almost no people walking around outside.
Gao Luo took this opportunity to go out for a walk.
This hotel has a total of twenty-four floors, and Gao Chengsheng's suite is on the nineteenth floor. I heard that there is an observation deck on the top floor from which you can overlook the night view of the entire city.
Gao Luo took the elevator up to the 24th floor, but didn't see any observation deck.
The hotel rooms were arranged in a somewhat confusing manner, and she was short and couldn't see the road signs on the wall. After walking around inside, I couldn't even find the way out.
Fortunately, there was no one there at the moment, so she slowly searched up there.
But when passing by the door of a guest room, the originally quiet corridor was suddenly filled with voices, like someone was arguing, the sound was fierce and harsh.
Gao Luo thought there were other guests staying at this hotel and wanted to leave quickly, but then two familiar voices came into her ears -
"You want to break up with me? Fine! Jun is your own child, don't you want him too?!"
"Mom, please don't leave me. Don't be separated from Dad... wuwuwuwu..."
The roar of adults and the crying of children mixed together came from inside the door.
It was Wen Cheng and Jun's voice.
Gao Luo was wondering why she could meet Wen Cheng and Jun here. Could it be that Wen Cheng was also invited to attend this seminar today?
Can't it? He has become a bad artist now, and yet he was invited to attend such a large-scale director seminar? Did the organizer’s brain get caught in the door?
Just when Gao Luo was puzzled, the door was suddenly opened from the inside. Gao Luo was startled, but it was too late to hide.
Because the person inside was so furious that he didn't even give her time to react, he rushed out in big strides.
A woman came out, dressed neatly in a black suit. A little boy ran out right after her. Gao Luo recognized him at once. It was Jun. There was another person following behind the child, it was Wen Cheng.
Gao Luo was shocked and panicked. The three people who rushed out of the room obviously didn't expect that there was someone outside, and they also looked panicked.
After seeing clearly that it was Gao Luo, the three people had different expressions.
The first one to react was Wen Cheng. He rushed over, grabbed Gao Luo's arm and lifted her up with such force that he almost dislocated her arm.
He stared with his eyes wide open, his entire face twisted and distorted, as if he wanted to skin Gao Luo alive and pull out her tendons.
"Why are you here?! Why are you eavesdropping?! Haven't you hurt me enough?! Die, bitch!!"
He dragged Gao Luo into the room like a madman.
Gao Luo's arm was pinched by him so tightly that she felt her bones were about to break. She screamed in pain and struggled backwards, but her strength compared to Wen Cheng was like an ant against an elephant, the power disparity was huge.
Gao Luo was dragged into the room and onto the balcony. The wind on the 24th floor was so strong that it hurt her face.
She was thrown out, her body falling uncontrollably, her clothes rustling in the wind, and the overwhelming feeling of weightlessness almost made her faint.
Suddenly, a crisp sound rang above my head, followed by a "pop". Gao Luo suddenly came to her senses and found that she was not thrown off the stairs, dragged to the balcony, and she had not even entered this room.
She was still standing in the corridor of the hotel, her arm held in Wen Cheng's hand.
Guan Liuliu stood in front of them. She slapped Wen Cheng on the ear, pointed her finger at him, and warned him sternly: "I told you to let go, did you hear me? Jun is still here."
After hearing the last sentence, Wen Cheng's expression finally changed, and the strength in his hands gradually decreased.
Guan Liuliu took the opportunity to pull Gao Luo's arm out of his hand, and then immediately pulled her towards the elevator.
Gao Luo turned around and saw Wen Cheng staring at her, but he didn't catch up with her.
After entering the elevator, Gao Luo and Guan Liuliu both breathed a sigh of relief. Guan Liuliu said, "You came here with the people from Xi Que Tai today, right? Which floor do you live on? I'll take you back."
Guan Liuliu had watched the variety show, knew Gao Luo, and knew about the series of conflicts between her and Wen Cheng and Jun.
In addition to Ning Heng, senior executives of Xi Que Tai also attended the seminar as industry insiders.
Gao Luo can be considered the number one contributor to this variety show. Guan Liuliu thought she came here with Ning Heng or someone from Xi Que Tai.
Gao Luo recovered and replied, "Nineteen."
Guan Liuliu pressed the button for the nineteenth floor, and the man walked her all the way to her door after she got off the elevator.
Before Luo entered the room, she told her seriously, "In this hotel, you must not go out alone or wander around. You should always follow the person who brought you here, understand?"
Gao Luo nodded, not quite understanding.
"And," Guan Liuliu added, "Don't reveal a single word of what you heard today, otherwise..."
Otherwise, Guan Liuliu didn’t say anything.
Gao Luo entered the room and sat quietly for a while.
Everything just happened so fast, so chaotically, and so terrifyingly that she was frightened and hallucinated on the spot.
She took half an hour to finally confirm that she was safe and finally felt the belated pain in her arm.
She lifted her sleeve and saw bruises on her arm. The emotion that came before anger was actually relief. Gao Luo had an inexplicable feeling of having survived a disaster.
But Wen Cheng's last look was imprinted in her mind, and she was still a little scared.
At around nine o'clock, Gao Chengsheng's secretary came to see her. Seeing someone familiar, Gao Luo's heart finally settled down a little.
The secretary followed Gao Chengsheng's instructions and took her to the banquet.
Gao Luo didn't want to stay in the room alone anymore, so she agreed. She straightened her clothes and recombed her hair.
Although she was not thrown off the stairs and her clothes and hair were not blown by the wind, under the psychological influence, she seemed to have just experienced it in reality.
When they arrived at the banquet hall, the lively and noisy atmosphere quickly brought Gao Luo back to the current reality.
It’s good to have more people, as it means more yang energy!
The hall is brightly lit and filled with clinking glasses. The top bosses in the entire industry who hold resources and voice gather here. This is a true place of fame and fortune.
The secretary led Gao Luo through the noisy crowd and accurately found the location of his boss.
This was the first time Gao Chengsheng appeared at such an entertainment industry event, and many people wanted to talk to him. He had been busy from seven to nine o'clock, and now things finally seemed to be calming down.
But the table where he was sitting was still full of people. Gao Luo was hesitating whether to go over. Gao Chengsheng saw her and waved to her.
Gao Luo walked over under the gazes of the group of people, which were either surprised or curious.
Meng Zhang was sitting next to Gao Chengsheng. When he saw Gao Luo, he asked warmly, "Why did you come so late, Luo? Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?"
Gao Luo's face was still a little pale. She shook her head gently: "Uncle Meng, I'm not hungry. I ate in the restaurant at five o'clock."
"Then I'll get you some fruit. You can sit here first."
Meng Zhang stood up, asked Gao Luo to sit in his seat, and then went to get her some fruit.
The people around her naturally knew Gao Luo. After all, "Wonderful Holiday" is the current popular variety show, and the case that shocked the entire entertainment industry was brought up on the show not long ago. I’m afraid there is no one in the entire circle who doesn’t know Gao Luo.
Among the people sitting around the dining table was Guan Liuliu.
At first, everyone else thought the same as she did, thinking that Gao Luo came here with the people from Xi Que Tai. But seeing how enthusiastic Meng Zhang was towards her, and listening to their conversation, it seemed that the two of them knew each other, she was a little confused for a moment.
When Gao Chengsheng put his arm around her shoulders and introduced her to everyone, everyone was shocked and stunned.
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