Chapter 27 Oh, is that so?
After thinking about it carefully, Ren Limeng felt cold sweat on her back under the air-conditioning in the training room.
Compared to the entertainment channel, the agricultural channel is still too simple.
She thought that she had been hosting for many years and had rich experience both on and off the stage. She was already a very mature worker who could handle all the disturbances with ease. She stepped onto the stage of "Shan Hai" with full confidence, and was sure that she could occupy a place here through hard work.
But she forgot that the entertainment industry is full of cameras and dazzling lights, and talent, beauty, opportunity and ambition are repeatedly intertwined in the world of fame and fortune. There are only glamorous stars here, but no workers struggling on the margins.
Ren Limeng sighed softly, pursed her lips, tilted her head back, put down her phone, and stared blankly at the blank ceiling. She covered her entire face with puffed cheeks with a towel and slowly closed her eyes.
Suddenly, all she could hear was the quiet training room, just like every ordinary Wednesday she spent there, and it seemed as if she had returned to the rest time after practicing plays when she was a child.
But Ren Limeng knew in her heart that she couldn't go back. Things had come to this point, the arrow was on the string, and she had to move forward.
At this moment, no matter how silent the training room was, she would not ignore the three cold cameras around her that were recording every detail of her performance, just like she could not completely pretend that the hot search had never happened.
Ren Limeng took a deep breath, and when she opened her eyes again, her gaze had become firm again. She grabbed the towel off her face, sat up straight, and put a faint smile on her face again. Ren Limeng directly called Dong Zhu.
As expected, Dong Zhu did not answer her call.
Dong Zhu is the director of the first stop of Team Chen Xing. Dong Zhu is fully responsible for the connection between their team's five guests and the program crew. Ren Limeng contacted Dong Zhu at this time to test her opinion.
Is Dong Zhu too busy?
still......
A hint of undercurrent flashed in Ren Limeng's eyes, but her face still wore a calm and gentle smile. She slowly and methodically folded the towel in her hand, calmly packed up her personal belongings after training, and walked out of the training room with her bag on her back.
Her PD had already set up the equipment and was waiting at the door of the training room. Obviously, the program staff had been paying attention to the guest's every move through the training room camera.
"Xiao Zhang, is the program's monitoring room also located in this hotel?"
After leaving the training room, Ren Limeng suddenly stopped and looked at the cameraman beside her with a smile on her face.
Her PD was a young man in his twenties. When he suddenly heard Ren Limeng's question, he stopped and looked around subconsciously. He and Ren Limeng were the only two people in the entire corridor.
"Xiao Zhang, I'm asking you, is there anything you can't say?"
Ren Limeng smiled gently, with a questioning look in her eyes that was a little mischievous. Xiao Zhang embarrassedly avoided Ren Limeng's gaze. Everyone was discussing it, and they all knew that Ren Limeng had been at the top of the trending search list for almost an hour.
"Teacher Ren, why are you suddenly curious about this? Director Dong isn't in the monitoring room. Today is the premiere, and Chief Director Yao Xin is having a video conference with Director Dong and the others."
"Oh, then how long will they be open? I just noticed I'm trending. Director Dong...did he say anything? I'm feeling a little nervous right now."
Ren Limeng has a gentle attitude. She will not look down on any staff member of the program team. On the contrary, she believes that an S-level variety show like "Shan Hai" has a large number of staff members, and the various news circulating among them will only be more than on the Internet and more informed than any other channel.
Xiao Zhang looked at Ren Limeng's sincere attitude silently. After following her for three days, he could feel how difficult it was for her. In the crowd surrounded by the star team, it was hard not to look at the lonely Ren Limeng.
What's more, he was her photographer, and her attitude was always friendly. Compared to some stars' face-changing skills in front of and behind the camera, he saw all kinds of cooperation from Ren Limeng.
After a brief hesitation, his answer was somewhat meaningful. "Teacher Ren, Director Dong didn't mention the trending search issue, but...it seems that the agent usually communicates with the production team to handle these matters."
broker?
Ren Limeng kept smiling and thanked the PD who was filming her, but a hint of helplessness flashed in her eyes.
The salary they get from the agricultural channel is definitely that of a worker. She didn't get any appearance fee even though she managed to get on "Shan Hai". She comes from an ordinary family and doesn't have the courage to hire an agent to handle trivial matters.
I’m afraid Dong Zhu’s approach won’t work regarding the hot search issue.
Whether he was really pretending to be dead or faking something, Ren Limeng had already figured out Dong Zhu's attitude. Of course, the program crew was happy to see the hot search discussion that was dominating the screen.
But Ren Limeng did not dare to be careless. After careful analysis, she felt that she could not ignore this matter by pretending to be deaf and dumb.
"Mountains and Seas" is the flagship variety show of the Orange platform. The ratings exceeded 3 as soon as it was broadcast. With such high popularity, if she remains silent, even if there is a reversal after the first episode of "Mountains and Seas" is broadcast tomorrow night, it can resolve the gossip rumors about her and Shen Xingzhi, and certain stereotypes have become a foregone conclusion.
Ren Limeng stopped, took out her cell phone, opened the WeChat group chat, and her eyes stayed on a pure black WeChat avatar, and she did not take the next step.
Next to the avatar is a group chat note, and the simple three words "Chen Xingzhi" come into view.
After three days together, intentionally or unintentionally, they had several common group chats, but neither of them chose to actively add each other's WeChat. Ren Limeng even unilaterally added Yan Baiwei's WeChat without sending a request to Chen Xingzhi.
During those years in college, everyone was used to communicating using Penguin. Ren Limeng once knew the account names of almost all of Shen Xingzhi's social software. During those two years that she was most interested in, she even found out the username of the mini-program that he and his roommates used to play Landlord in their spare time.
She could almost recite all the numbers related to him by heart.
At that time, Shen Xingzhi was not as indifferent and cold as he is now. Although he looked cold on the outside, his social profile picture was always a chubby giant panda, which looked very cute.
In order to cooperate with him, she also hinted quietly and used the bamboo avatar for three whole years.
What bad intentions could she have? She just wanted to be his favorite!
But ten years ago, on the day they received their divorce certificate, Ren Limeng deleted all their contact as soon as she walked out the door, as if this could vent all her pain, forget all her unwillingness, and make sure they were completely separated from each other.
Ren Limeng pressed her lips into a straight line. In the end, she did not click on the all-black avatar. She just gently switched the phone to the call interface and raised the corners of her mouth slightly with a wry smile.
At this moment, she had to admit that she was worthy of being a "professional host" with such a good memory. Staring at the numbers on the dial pad, she almost effortlessly recalled the number that she had once memorized.
Ren Limeng did not hesitate any longer and pressed the dial button directly.
Business is important. She should be more open and honest like him. It has been so many years. The past is like smoke. Those hypocritical girlish thoughts have long disappeared. No matter how much she misses her youth, she doesn't have to remember him all the time.
Even though Chen Xingzhi occupied most of her university life, he was not everything in her life after all. She had to open her mind and see the bigger world, putting aside all distractions!
Wasn't it just that Chen Xingzhi unilaterally divorced her? Even if she was unwilling, even if she was heartbroken, it had been so many years, and they had agreed to forget it. Why was she still holding such a grudge?
Ren Limeng would never admit that she had other thoughts. She must just think that Shen Xingzhi was blind!
She is so outstanding and beautiful, and she has never lacked suitors around her, so the fall she made on Shen Xingzhi was particularly painful!
"Ren Limeng?"
The moment the phone was connected, Ren Limeng was in a trance for a moment when she heard Shen Xingzhi's almost blurted out call.
Even though she repeatedly told herself that she could easily find countless reasons to stay calm, at this moment, she still indulged her subtle emotions.
Ten years, not ten days, more than three thousand days and nights later, she could still recite his number fluently, and his phone was still reachable. Even... She didn't say a word, just based on a string of numbers, and Shen Xingzhi on the other end could actually call out her name accurately? !!!
How is that possible?
How did he know it was her call?
Even though she hadn't changed her phone number over the years because she found it troublesome, and was still using the campus card she had applied for at the beginning of her freshman year, why did he remember it?
Apart from him, she would definitely not recognize her college roommate even if he called her.
In the corridor, Ren Limeng looked at the filming PD who was looking in the distance, took a deep breath, and tried to speak in the most normal tone, "Chen Xingzhi, how did you know it was me?"
Let’s wait for the hot search for a while, she must figure out this problem.
“…It’s on the screen!”
Shen Xingzhi was silent for a while, trying to make his voice sound more nonchalant, as if all his phones in the past ten years just happened to import the contact data of the previous phone, and he just saw Ren Limeng's name before answering the call.
Although his sudden emphasis on the last word only made her doubt his bluffing even more.
"Oh, is that so?"
Ren Limeng chuckled, her brows unconsciously relaxed a little. Through the corridor glass, she looked up at the quiet night with a smile.
A bright moon outside the window hangs quietly in the deep night sky. After the full moon, the moon appears to be an imperfect circle with a hazy and mysterious mottled glow. The arc of the edge is soft and not sharp, adding a unique attraction under the cover of the boundless night around it.
"Ren Limeng, what's the matter with you calling?"
Chen Xingzhi didn't want to dwell on this issue with Ren Limeng. Across the phone, his voice was cold, as if he was keeping people at a distance. However, the smile on Ren Limeng's lips became even more intense.
"Can't you call if you're fine?"
Ren Limeng replied casually, without giving Shen Xingzhi any chance to refute. She straightened her voice and continued to state her purpose.
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