Chapter 019 Shadow of the Movie King (19)
The drama has been completed, but the creators cannot just leave. The director has already stepped up the editing and approval process and it will be released soon. However, the popularity of the period in between cannot be missed, so promotion must be started quickly.
The protagonists shot a promotional video together and went to various cities for roadshows.
After several roadshows, Tao Xing's popularity quickly rose due to her superior appearance and interesting conversation, almost catching up with Jiang Lin.
Last time Jiang Lin took the initiative to give Tao Xing the room number, but he didn't go, and the other party never contacted him privately again.
Even after he took the initiative to invite her to bed, he was still rejected. No matter how much Jiang Lin liked her, her self-esteem would not allow him to continue to pester her.
When promoting on the same stage, he was very professional, or perhaps he didn't want to leave a bad impression in front of the public, so he was quite cooperative and interacted however the director asked him to.
After two months of promotion, the drama was aired.
The day of release is the last promotion. After that, whether the show is good or bad, the promotion will not play a big role based on the quality of the show itself.
Three hours after the series was aired, the ratings soared, related clicks on major platforms continued to rise, and all the data reached the top.
No one expected that an idol drama could have the texture of a big movie. The camera, lighting, and performance were all impeccable, including the over-the-top clichéd domineering CEO theme. The fast-paced and refreshing plot added multi-faceted characters, making them no longer the same old thing, and adding a bit of reality, making them less suspended in the air.
By the time the promotion started in the evening, the creators’ popularity had doubled, and countless media fans crowded the meeting room.
The excitement and popularity of this roadshow were unprecedented.
After this promotional event, everyone in the crew went their separate ways. Fortunately, the evil spirit in all of them has been absorbed completely. Whether they can achieve success in the future depends on their own abilities.
In the lounge, Tao Xing received a call from Ru Yidao.
"Master Tao, congratulations, your telekinesis has surpassed Jiang Lin. Just hold on to the shadow, it will be led here soon."
Tao Xing looked at the popularity index through the backstage and found that his name had surpassed Jiang Lin. He smiled faintly and stroked her wrist lightly. Ah Ying wrapped her arms tightly and moved because of his touch.
It just so happened that I had to separate from Jiang Lin.
From now on, there will be no more shadows to absorb evil spirits for him, so what he borrowed from so far away should be returned.
The lights were flickering, the voices were bustling, and a corner of the lounge was quiet. Tao Xing was in a good mood. He raised his wrists to his ears, and the slight squirming sounds were rustling and pleasing to the ears, like the tightly entangled tails of snakes.
He turned his head and whispered to his wrist, "Aying, you are free."
The lurking shadow stopped moving and poked out a tiny bit of its head.
With a "click", the door of the lounge was opened and a group of reporters and fans rushed in. Aying quickly retracted his head and hid in his sleeves.
When it felt the arm moving, it quickly wrapped itself tightly around it, fearing that it would fall off.
There was a noisy sound of voices in his ears, which wrapped around his wrist tightly and rose and fell with him. Those people did not sound malicious, they liked Tao Xing very much, but they were also quite crazy, rushing up one after another, and then Tao Xing ran away.
He swam out of the crowd, no one knew how he squeezed out, but by the time everyone noticed him, he had already run for a while.
Ah Ying heard someone shout, "Wow, he's outside. When did he go out?"
"Hurry up, Teacher Tao, please sign for us..."
I didn't hear Tao Xing's voice, I just felt that I was running faster.
Ah Ying wrapped her arm around his arm, resting quietly on the pulse point on his wrist where she had felt the heartache a few days ago. The beating of her pulse was like her heart beating.
I heard the countless cheers behind me and the sound of photos snapping. This is the starry sky that belongs to this person.
I could also hear his breathing and his panting.
The light and shadows flickered and were no longer bright. There was a constant flow of traffic and footsteps of pedestrians. Tao Xing was heard running out of the magnificent hall and onto the street.
Gradually, Aying felt unprecedented relief.
It was as if all the foul air had been washed away, and the whole body felt refreshed, as if after going through countless frightening nights, I could finally have a good sleep, and the bumpy road had finally come to an end.
The body moves lightly and is cheerful.
Tao Xing just told it that it was free.
Free…!
It was extremely stunned.
Tao Xing was still running, and his breath gradually became heavier. It might be because his pulse was beating faster, or it might be because Aying's heart was beating faster.
There were fewer voices chasing after him, but Tao Xing did not stop. In this late autumn night, under the flickering street lights, he kept moving forward.
"Haha." Ah Ying heard him laugh, and then heard him say, "It's out of range, but it's still there, I've really gotten rid of it."
Yes, it was really escaped. Ah Ying also became excited. It hesitated for a while and quietly crawled out of the sleeve. It now wanted to see Tao Xing.
"Hahaha, luckily it's okay." Tao Xing was still laughing, "They didn't catch up... Oh my god!"
The laughter stopped abruptly. Before Ah Ying could climb out, he quickly shrank back and felt the wrist raised and covered his forehead.
At the same time, Ah Ying heard Tao Xing say again: "You ran too fast and hit a tree!"
Aying tilted his head, indicating that he didn't quite understand.
Otherwise, it should just stay quietly in your sleeve.
When they got home, Tao Xing put Ah Ying down and said, "Let me see her."
Ah Ying then came out, a black shadow flowed down from his wrist, fell on the ground, and gradually turned into a three-dimensional shape, a pair of bright red eyes.
The red eyes were no longer enough to scare Tao Xing. She pressed its shoulder and looked left and right: "Although you are separated from Jiang Lin, there is no change. Do you feel that there is any change?"
Aying's eyes moved and he looked at him quietly without saying anything.
The room was extremely quiet. Tao Xing looked up and met its eyes. The deep red hole had no sight, but he still felt their eyes meet.
He felt something strange in his heart, and for some reason, his eyes moved downwards to look under the shadow's shoulders, where the human heart is.
It's black, nothing special, it has no heart... or does it?
But why do I seem to feel its heartbeat?
It seems... a little bit like a human, not in appearance, but something else, I can't put my finger on it.
Is it because it has completely gotten rid of its owner and is no longer Jiang Lin's shadow, so it has the right to be a human being?
Oh, yes, that’s right. The master said that we can let it go to the temple to receive offerings, and it will be able to transform into a human being in the future.
He put away this strange feeling and quickly said, "Aying, do you want to become a human?"
Aying moved his head but didn't respond.
This reaction was probably due to a lack of understanding. Tao Xing said, "Rui Yi said that if you go to his Taoist temple and receive a hundred years of worship, you can become a human. Oh, an independent person, unrelated to Jiang Lin, and will not look like him. Although Ru Yi will no longer be here by then, he promised that his disciples will arrange an identity for you. You can come to the human world, and of course you can continue to stay in his Taoist temple."
He took Ah Ying's hand and asked, "Do you want to go?"
Ah Ying still didn't say anything. He gently raised his hand, touched Tao Xing's forehead, and stroked the bump that had just been caused by hitting the tree. He couldn't see the red color, but he could see that there was a bump there.
A little bit of coldness made Tao Xing give up what he wanted to say. He raised his eyes and met the red eyes in front of him, and the strange feeling became even deeper.
"Does it hurt?" A clear voice was heard from the black mass.
Tao Xing was slightly startled.
Ah Ying's speech before had no ups and downs, no rhythm, like a mechanical voice, but in this short question, he heard ups and downs, and a slight rise at the end, like a human inquiry, not only a change in tone, but also in emotion.
Human emotions, care, worry.
Tao Xing was distracted for a moment and let it caress him, treating it as an ice compress. After a while, he whispered, "Aying."
In fact, this is not the first time that Ah Ying has spoken with such emotion. Last time, when it was torn into pieces, it cried out "It hurts". That word already had a tone and was also emotional, aggrieved, painful...
But at that time Tao Xing's attention was on its crack and he didn't distinguish it. Now that he thinks about it carefully, he realizes the difference.
"Aying, it's okay, I don't feel any pain." He called it again, "Since the last time you split open, have you been able to speak for yourself without having to imitate Jiang Lin?"
Ah Ying's hand slowly moved down from his forehead, and his eyes also moved down, looking at him: "Yes, but... not fluent, some of it is still hard to say."
"That's good. You can organize your own language. I think you will be able to speak like humans soon." After hearing this, Tao Xing was stunned.
It really is becoming more and more like a human.
This didn't start when I left Jiang Lin tonight, it had been changing before that.
The first time it said "it hurts", a change had already occurred. Unfortunately, it wasn't until today, when it asked "Does it hurt?", that Tao Xing reacted.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
System 080 couldn't help but say: "Host, this is a good thing. Isn't it good to be like a human?"
Tao Xing frowned: "But, it's not a human, why does it have to be like a human?"
"Then... Host, why did you let it go to the Taoist temple?"
"Otherwise, where will it go after I leave?" Tao Xing said, "I just asked it if it is willing to go, I didn't decide for it. If it doesn't want to go, I will find another way."
"Yes, I don't know whether it will agree or not." 080 nodded.
When he came back to his senses, he saw Ah Ying holding his hand and said slowly, "Let's go to the Taoist temple."
"Are you willing to go?" Tao Xing asked in surprise, "Do you want to become a human?"
Aying moved his head but didn't respond, as if he still didn't quite understand.
After a while, I heard it say, "I will listen to everything you say."
The tone suddenly became flat again, as if there was no emotion again. Tao Xing was confused for a moment: "Okay, I will make arrangements with Taoist Ruyi in the next two days and send you there."
Ah Ying tilted his head, indicating his agreement.
Tao Xing touched its head and laughed again: "Hey, you were already able to speak by yourself at that time, why are you still imitating your master? Don't imitate him anymore in the future, just try to say what you want to say. Okay, go take a bath."
They no longer needed to hold hands all the time. Tao Xing went to the bathroom first. Anyway, Aying would come by herself.
Ah Ying heard the sound of water. He loved playing in water the most, but at this moment he didn't move. He suddenly felt... that he shouldn't go in so easily.
It wasn't that it suddenly felt this way. The last time, when it felt heartbroken, Tao Xing went in to take a shower first. It was already aware that it shouldn't have gone in casually.
Moreover, it didn't want to play in the water at this moment. It was thinking about what Tao Xing had just said.
Don't imitate the master anymore, but it didn't imitate him anymore.
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