Chapter 105 Deliberate
In the increasingly stagnant air, Guan He's voice suddenly rang out, trying to smooth things over. "The food is almost cold, everyone, hurry up and eat! The production team is the same, it's unthinkable to suddenly hand out task cards in the middle of a meal!"
Guan He's complaining voice sounded more like a relief to Li Chuyue. Li Chuyue looked at the grinning Guan He with gratitude, and Ren Limeng also glanced at Guan He.
She smiled and didn't pursue the matter any further. "Yeah, let's eat quickly, Brother Xingzhi. I'll come find you to sign after dinner."
It was as if all the assumptions in Li Chuyue's mind just now were false alarms, and she had no other intentions.
Li Chuyue picked up the chopsticks again. The moment she touched them, she was shocked to find that sweat had appeared on her palms without her noticing.
Ren Limeng had been speaking softly and smiling the whole time, but she really didn't dare to say a word just now.
At first, she deliberately wanted Ren Limeng to tell her the ranking of the first public performance, but Li Chuyue had no idea that Ren Limeng's reaction was so quick. She directly threw a similar difficult problem to her. Even Shen Xingzhi, who was repeatedly told to be taken care of by Xu Kai, the director of their theater promotion department, before he came, cooperated so well.
In front of the camera, she can't beat her.
Chen Xingzhi: Ren Limeng, were you just taking advantage of the power of others?
After dinner, while putting on makeup, Ren Limeng opened her phone and immediately saw a pop-up window with Patrick Star looking silly.
Ren Limeng:?
Chen Xingzhi:?
Ren Limeng closed the chat window and replied to the chat with Yan Fangshu without sending a single punctuation mark to Shen Xingzhi.
She didn't say anything, so how could Shen Xingzhi blame her for what he had imagined?
In the bathroom, Ren Limeng curled her lips slightly, put her phone back in her pocket, took out a lipstick with a black matte shell, and prepared to quickly touch up her lip makeup with the help of the mirror on the sink.
"Li Meng."
Hearing Li Chuyue's voice, Ren Limeng's eyes moved slightly. She did not turn her head, but continued to hook the corners of her mouth with lipstick with her right hand, seemingly concentrating on staring at herself in the mirror.
"Li Meng, I'm sorry."
Li Chuyue walked to another sink beside Ren Limeng and stood still. Noticing Ren Limeng's silence, she lowered her head slightly, pursed her lips tightly, and finally spoke slowly. Her soft apology was full of surrender and a request for peace.
"Chu Yue, why are you apologizing all of a sudden?"
Ren Limeng finally put down her lipstick. She pursed the red marks at the corners of her lips, blinked, and looked sideways at Li Chuyue. There was the same innocence in her eyes. Her gentle look showed no sharpness, nor any trace of the old days.
Li Chuyue finally realized that the man in front of her had gone through more than ten years of trials and tribulations between her and him. She should have seen this clearly in her heart a long time ago, but she had underestimated and neglected it.
She is no longer the Li Chuyue of the past, and Ren Limeng is naturally different too.
At many moments in the past two days, Li Chuyue still subconsciously had preconceived notions, always feeling that Ren Limeng would help her, or even give in to her, just like many years ago, when she would always stand in front of her no matter what happened.
"Nothing, it just feels like time has passed so quickly."
Li Chuyue lowered her eyes, bent slightly, turned on the faucet, and the sound of dripping water suddenly filled the entire bathroom.
Neither of them spoke again.
Ren Limeng raised her head and looked at herself in the mirror again. The soft warm light shone on her delicate and fair face. Her lips, which had just been painted with lipstick, were shining with an alluring luster, bright yet soft.
Listening to the sound of water running as Li Chuyue washed her hands next to her, Ren Limeng looked at the mirror quietly, with an indescribable depth in her eyes, and her expression seemed somewhat difficult to discern under the interweaving of light and shadow.
She raised her hand, stroked the ends of her hair, looked at herself in the mirror, and finally turned and left.
"Ren Limeng."
Shen Xingzhi leaned against the stairs outside the bathroom, his arms folded across his chest. He lazily called out to Ren Limeng, his beautiful deep eyes signaling her to talk to him.
"Brother Xingzhi."
Ren Limeng walked up to Shen Xingzhi and stood in front of him, but had no intention of going into the stairs.
During this period, they had talked in the stairwell many times, and each time was not so pleasant. She didn't want to cause trouble again.
Ren Limeng smiled and greeted Shen Xingzhi, then directly invited him, "Brother Xingzhi, are you going to the bathroom too? Let's go back together?"
"Let me sign for you."
Chen Xingzhi narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at Ren Limeng who was blinking and pretending to be stupid, with a smile on his lips, and his posture was upright and casual.
Ren Limeng's invitation seemed casual, but she knew in her heart that Shen Xingzhi came to the bathroom to block her, and his answer to her at this moment was expected.
"I didn't bring any paper or pen, but Chuyue is in the bathroom. If she knew how enthusiastic Brother Xingzhi was, she would definitely be very happy."
Ren Limeng said with a smile, as if she didn't hear the implication of Shen Xingzhi's words. In public, she was also reminding Shen Xingzhi that there was a third person around, or perhaps there was more than one third person around.
"Oh? I don't care about Li Chuyue."
So what does Shen Xingzhi care about?
Looking at her reflection in Shen Xingzhi's pupils, Ren Limeng's eyes paused slightly, but in the end she just continued to smile, "Okay."
The brief answer was full of subtext of ending the conversation. Shen Xingzhi even felt that Ren Limeng would turn around and leave in the next second, unlike her cautious and careful self these days.
"Ren Limeng, what do you mean?"
Chen Xingzhi finally couldn't help but stare into Ren Limeng's eyes. He didn't want to beat around the bush with her anymore.
Chen Xingzhi stared at Ren Limeng seriously with his calm black eyes, not missing any expression on her face at the moment.
Ren Limeng raised her eyebrows slightly, and her eyes swept over Shen Xingzhi, with a faint smile still on the corner of her mouth, as if she understood, "Brother Xingzhi, why do you suddenly say that?"
"You know what I'm talking about."
Chen Xingzhi's deep eyes were like two bottomless pools of water, flashing with subtle and complex light. He stared at Ren Limeng steadily, slowly taking half a step forward, with a sense of oppression coming towards him.
"Brother Xingzhi, I don't know."
Ren Limeng immediately stepped back, trying to widen the distance again.
The distance between the two is neither too close nor too far, just right and clear-cut.
"Are you turning your back on me after this?"
The corners of Shen Xingzhi's lips twitched slightly, as if he was also smiling, but this smile did not reach his eyes at all. His eyes were like frost, cold and oppressive, just like the dark stairwell behind him, every inch of his gaze carried an irresistible power.
He couldn't understand Ren Limeng's expression at the moment, just like her increasingly unpredictable heart.
She had just said this morning that she just wanted to record the video seriously and didn't care about his implications at all, so what was she doing just now?
Why should she use him?
"Brother Xingzhi?"
Ren Limeng raised her chin slightly, her eyes clear and calm. Facing Shen Xingzhi's sharp gaze like an arrow, Ren Limeng did not dodge or evade. The corners of her mouth rose slightly, as if she was having a silent contest with the invisible pressure in front of her.
"You're not going to start?"
Just as Chen Xingzhi was about to drag Ren Limeng into the stairwell for a good talk, Ren Limeng suddenly spoke. When she looked up, her eyes were as clear as the stars in the cold night, and she was neither humble nor arrogant, with an indescribable calmness.
Compared to before, Shen Xingzhi could feel the sudden toughness and initiative around Ren Limeng. The subtle change in temperament made him even more unable to understand her attitude.
Looking at Ren Limeng's calm and steady eyes, Shen Xingzhi seemed to have an illusion that in front of her, he was like a child who had lost his favorite toy, and she was just watching him making a fuss at this moment.
"Ren Limeng."
Shen Xingzhi gritted his teeth and squeezed out her name, his sexy thin lips slightly pursed with some unspeakable emotions. He held up his arms, as if wanting to press her to his chest.
"Brother Xingzhi, if there's nothing else, I'll leave first."
Ren Limeng seemed to have pressed the flash button and turned sideways seemingly inadvertently. She dodged Shen Xingzhi with a light flash, and her steady and calm steps were elegant and decisive.
"Ren Limeng, aren't you afraid?"
"What are you afraid of?"
"You're afraid I'll hype you up, afraid I'll say something in front of the camera, afraid I'll affect your plans... You should think carefully about your current attitude. Anyway, I don't care about the cameras, do you?"
Shen Xingzhi retracted his right arm, his eyes becoming deep again. He put his right hand into his trouser pocket and looked at Ren Limeng with a bit of seriousness and an elusive puzzlement.
"I'm not afraid. If Brother Xingzhi wants to increase my traffic, I'm naturally very grateful. My attitude has always been equal. If Brother Xingzhi has any misunderstanding, I apologize."
Ren Limeng seemed not to understand the threat that Shen Xingzhi had already made clear, and her smile remained calm and indifferent, "I'm sorry for making you misunderstand, Senior."
Ren Limeng definitely changed the name on purpose!
Shen Xingzhi's face was cold and charming. He pursed his lips gently, and the lines at the corners of his lips were hard and cold. It seemed that under his impeccable handsome face, there was an unspeakable panic in his heart at this moment.
The Ren Limeng in front of him was impeccable, with an indifference of letting things take their course, and a calmness of fearlessness, which disrupted Shen Xingzhi's position.
Chen Xingzhi could always see that after the reunion, Ren Limeng was like a taut string. The ambition in her eyes could appear calm in front of the camera, but it could not escape his eyes at all.
He could also fully sense the evasiveness in her attitude towards him, her indifference towards the past and her silence towards her feelings, but the initiative was always in his hands.
Whether it was a sudden proposal to hype up a couple or a team-up that he would stick with until the end, Shen Xingzhi was confident that he could achieve it. His determination to win was deeply ingrained in him, and coupled with his natural advantage as a celebrity, even if it wasn't his original intention, he had to admit that he was confident that things would work out as he thought.
But at this moment, looking at Ren Limeng's calm eyes, Shen Xingzhi suddenly felt unsure.
Her attitude remained the same on the rubber boat, so how could it suddenly change? When facing him, her smile was still gentle and stubborn, but under the same arc, there was a subtle change that only he could feel, a drastic difference.
Ren Limeng's eyes were no longer pretending to be calm. She was really calm, as if it didn't matter whether it was Shen Xingzhi or Guan Xingzhi, or any other Zhang San or Li Si, standing in front of her.
She didn't care, not about the past and the accidents.
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