Is Chapter 112 important?
Ren Limeng walked through the snack street of the ancient city. In front of her were ancient buildings and houses with a stronger atmosphere of life. Shen Xingzhi's cold voice blended perfectly in the quiet alley in the middle of the night. For a moment, Ren Limeng thought that she had thought about Shen Xingzhi too many times today and was hallucinating.
She subconsciously paused and looked towards the source of the sound.
The night was as dark as ink, gently pouring down on the winding alleys and streets. A canal as bright as a mirror quietly passed through the entrance of the house with mottled stone walls, and slowly flowed along the ditch paved with bluestone slabs, making a subtle and pleasant gurgling sound, which became the only sound between the two people at this moment.
"Shen Xingzhi?"
Looking at the familiar tall figure, Ren Limeng deliberately lowered her voice and looked in the direction of the bustling snack street. After looking around, her eyes finally fell on Shen Xingzhi, who was wearing a black baseball cap pulled down.
She could only see his angular jawline. He was dressed in black and alone, blending perfectly into the dark alley behind him.
"You came out alone? You're so brave, aren't you? I heard there are paparazzi lurking around here!"
Ren Limeng stood in front of Shen Xingzhi, maintaining a polite and normal social distance. She subconsciously wanted to say, "I have something to do, I'll leave first", but thinking about the chat with Yan Fangshu at noon, she secretly gritted her teeth, stood there with a smile on her eyes, looking calm and composed.
"Aren't you coming out alone?"
Chen Xingzhi walked towards the stone bridge deep in the canal. Before leaving, he glanced at Ren Limeng seemingly unintentionally. Their conversation at noon was interrupted by Li Chuyue, and he still had a lot to say to her.
"That's different. I'm not a celebrity. I'm not well-known."
Ren Limeng slowly followed Shen Xingzhi one step away. Under the moonlight, the figures of the two, one in front and one behind, gradually lengthened on the white stone wall, appearing and disappearing.
The corner of his eye noticed two shadows on the wall, and Shen Xingzhi's cold expression softened. He slowed down his pace and glanced back at Ren Limeng, "Now that you're on "Shan Hai", you're no different from a star. But looking at you like this, you've taken good protective measures."
Wearing the same dark baseball cap and black mask, Ren Limeng's slender figure can almost be perfectly hidden in the crowd. Even in such a quiet and deserted place, she does not attract any attention at all.
"...Thank you for the compliment."
Ren Limeng gave a fake smile, the upward arc of her smile was full of perfunctory, her eyes staring at the tall figure of Shen Xingzhi in front of her without blinking, with some thought hidden in her eyes.
"Have you figured it out?"
"Um?"
Chen Xingzhi's cold voice was tentative. Ren Limeng was thinking about the things in her heart, and the little attention she paid was only used to observe the surrounding situation. She didn't understand Chen Xingzhi's question at all.
"You look quite different today. Have you decided to continue hyping up my relationship?"
There seemed to be infinite patience in Chen Xingzhi's deliberately low-pitched voice, and his tone was a bit nonchalant. He slowly slowed down his pace and turned his head to look at Ren Limeng who was finally walking beside him.
At such a close distance, Chen Xingzhi's serious eyes were deep, carrying the dark light surging beneath the cold pond.
"Chen Xingzhi, is hyping up CP all you have in mind every day?"
Ren Limeng smiled noncommittally. She felt that Chen Xingzhi was too obsessed with hyping up their relationship. Although there was really nothing to talk about between them, it was not necessary that they would only talk about hyping up their relationship every time.
Chen Xingzhi paused, raised his eyebrows slightly, and stared silently at the calm and composed Ren Limeng, his calm eyes filled with questioning.
"You can handle this matter yourself, just don't affect my image."
Professionals do professional things. Ren Limeng does not have the ability to control public opinion, but Shen Xingzhi, who has been in the entertainment industry for many years, may not be so sure.
If she handles it improperly, once her past with Shen Xingzhi is made public, it will be difficult for her to remain unscathed. Since Shen Xingzhi is so enthusiastic, after thinking it through, Ren Limeng certainly doesn't mind continuing to cooperate with Shen Xingzhi.
It was just a small thing that happened easily, so why should she take it too seriously? Many of her reasons were just unnecessary worries.
"No other requests?"
Noticing the calmness and casualness in Ren Limeng's tone, Shen Xingzhi's ears moved slightly, and a dark current flashed in his eyes, but he still stared at Ren Limeng intently.
"Um."
The atmosphere suddenly became quiet. Shen Xingzhi and Ren Limeng walked onto the stone bridge, their steps unconsciously becoming lighter. The quiet alley suddenly took on some of the tranquility of the night. The emerald green vines on the stone wall beside them swayed gently in the breeze, making a rustling sound, as if they were softly singing a melodious nocturne.
"Shen Xingzhi..."
"Um?"
Ren Limeng smiled hesitantly, "Nothing, the weather is nice today."
Chen Xingzhi turned his head to look at Ren Limeng who lowered her eyes. He did not ignore her hesitation in speaking. His deep eyes looked at Ren Limeng intently and seriously, with obvious doubts.
The pair of black eyes looked very obedient, as if the coldness had faded away, and they were bright and clear under the moonlight. Ren Limeng didn't know if it was an illusion, but she saw some encouragement in his eyes, with a hint of restraint.
The ancient city's scattered ancient houses are free from the neon lights of high-rise buildings. The air is filled with the natural freshness of flowers, plants and trees. The clear river water flows quietly through the quaint stone bridge. The slightest movement seems to inexplicably bring a little imperceptible ambiguity in the quietness.
The moonlight sprinkled gently, and Chen Xingzhi pursed his thin lips slightly. His handsome face looked even more elegant under the blue bricks and black tiles of the ancient house. In the silence, Ren Limeng seemed to be able to hear her own heartbeat accelerating silently.
As expected of a top star who has dominated the entertainment industry for many years, Ren Limeng couldn't help but sigh in her heart, Chen Xingzhi is simply a man of great reputation, especially when he is silent like this, even a straight woman like her who doesn't understand romance can't hide her throbbing.
Ren Limeng took a deep breath and tried to throw all the messy thoughts in her mind into the quiet air.
"Nice weather?"
Shen Xingzhi repeated it playfully, his voice clear yet tinged with a touch of softness, carried into Ren Limeng's ears along with the summer breeze.
"Um......"
Ren Limeng nodded gently. She didn't know how to get along with Shen Xingzhi. Should she... give him another drastic measure?
Such a good atmosphere is rare, so let her be a little unrestrained. If you don't understand some things in the past, you will inevitably feel resentful even if you move forward.
"...Senior Xingzhi, why did you give up hosting?"
Ren Limeng finally stopped and raised her head slightly. Her fair face glowed faintly in the soft moonlight. Her big, clear and bright eyes were extremely serious. The look she gave him was filled with a familiarity that Shen Xingzhi found hard to resist.
It was as if he had passed through the fleeting years, leaving him with a sense of nostalgia.
"Is it important?"
Chen Xingzhi shifted his gaze slightly and pulled the corner of his mouth, his smiling black eyes looking at the dark night sky behind Ren Limeng. The cold and restrained smile seemed hazy as if it did not even reach his eyes.
"I want to know the reason for your misfortune."
When she actually asked the question, it didn't seem as difficult as she had imagined. Ren Limeng found that she was much braver than she thought. She looked at Shen Xingzhi, who was also standing one step away, with some stubbornness, looking at his slightly restrained smile, and looking at the air that suddenly stagnated and was everywhere.
"Ren Limeng, is this reason important?"
The two of them faced each other in silence for an unknown amount of time. Shen Xingzhi's somewhat lazy posture became straight. He stood in the same place and asked again, repeating the same question. His long eyelashes trembled slightly, and only the seriousness and concentration that was as solid as substance remained. The short number seemed to carry many unfinished words.
"Important, very important."
After saying this, Ren Limeng felt relieved. She finally admitted it.
Facing the past seemed to require a lot of courage, but the moment of facing it was actually not that entangled. She just wanted to know the answer, so she asked it firmly, asking the present Shen Xingzhi, for her past self.
“It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the recording.”
Time seemed to have returned to the morning, and the cold words "I just hope everything goes well with the recording" were still ringing in their ears. Chen Xingzhi pulled the corners of his mouth slightly, and the arc of his smile carried a dizzying depth, and there was a hint of inquiry hidden in his light tone.
“Shen Xingzhi, I have always targeted you before.”
Ren Limeng stood upright on the stone bridge, the cold and ancient stone wall with the slight moisture of the river water hitting her face. She looked at him quietly without blinking or avoiding, and calmly and composedly told the girl's thoughts that she had once found difficult to speak of.
"I always thought that our dreams were the same. I saw your passion for hosting. I liked you first, and then fell in love with hosting. I didn't expect that in the end, you would give up first."
She narrated in a soft voice, her neither humble nor arrogant voice lacking much emotion, yet seemed to contain endless thoughts.
"I just want to understand, is the entertainment industry too glamorous? Why would you suddenly abandon everything and give up for no apparent reason?"
"Just think of it as the entertainment industry being too glamorous."
Shen Xingzhi smiled lightly. He didn't want to talk about the past anymore. All the past events were just like the past clouds and smoke. Why bother to dwell on them? "Maybe, I don't love hosting that much."
"I don't believe it."
Ren Limeng frowned slightly, with a look of stubbornness in her expression. She walked firmly to half an inch in front of Shen Xingzhi, her eyes fixed on Shen Xingzhi, whose expression was difficult to read, not missing any of his expressions at the moment.
"Ren Limeng, do you love Huangmei Opera?"
"That's different."
Ren Limeng answered without any hesitation. She had witnessed with her own eyes the tenderness and determination in his eyes when he mentioned hosting. Even at the last graduation party they hosted together, he clearly did not show any abnormality.
Thinking back on these things, she couldn't let it go. Now that she had realized something was wrong, Ren Limeng just wanted to figure out what had happened back then.
Even putting aside love, she still feels uneasy because he... is the starting point of her career!
Now that she had asked the question, she wouldn't give him a chance to change the subject.
What's more, she...if she didn't have passion, she wouldn't have persisted for so many years. But putting aside all other factors, life is limited, and she has a career she wants to fight for more. Ren Limeng has thought about these things seriously too many times.
"Is there a difference? I heard from people at the Meixiang Theater these past few days that you also gave up Huangmei Opera for some inexplicable reason. I thought we were the same."
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