Chapter 128: The Angel Who Descended to Earth
After practicing all night, as the night grew deeper, the surrounding sounds gradually quieted down.
Although filming at the TVB City takes place day and night, there are fewer crews shooting night scenes compared to the busy daytime scenes—and many of them go outside to shoot outdoor scenes at night.
"The Love of a Knight" has not officially started filming yet, but Li Sishi is recognized as the actress who will play the new version of "Fairy of Yunya". She has a lot of action scenes, so she received the script in advance and started training in advance, so as to achieve the best effect after all the casting is completed and filming officially begins.
After finishing her training for the day, Li Sishi packed her bag to go home and rest. When she saw a prop orange, no bigger than a baby's fist, she suddenly remembered where it came from.
This was one of the props used in a camping scene during the filming of "Mr. Morning". A group of young people were playful and mischievous. After filming, they didn't forget to smuggle the useless props back to "divide" them and make them into toys. So, in the early morning, they gave her a very small orange, saying that, as the name suggests, it would protect her from bad luck and keep her safe.
Then, in the early hours of the morning, with a powerful, almost comical, gesture that would likely cause fans to unfollow him on the spot, he forcefully stopped the others from grabbing the prop bananas and quickly stuffed the largest bunch into his bag...
Although she suspected that this guy had actually set his sights on that soft, rubbery prop banana that felt so good to squeeze, seeing his determined attitude, Li Sishi, who was exhausted and listless at the time, was too lazy to compete with him for this kind of squishy toy that would be available everywhere later, and let him play happily.
I wonder how he's been lately. The last time I saw him, I think I heard him say that he's been preparing for his concert. Unfortunately, I can never get through to him on the phone. When I do manage to get through, it's his manager, Lei Jun, who tells me he's been very busy lately and then hangs up quickly, as if he doesn't want the two of them to have much contact.
Thinking of this, Li Sishi suddenly remembered what Shang Hanyou had said when she called him earlier.
That statement, that he didn't mind her getting a little something extra, vaguely overlapped with his response that night in the early hours when he said he would sneak away again if she invited him.
Unfortunately, Romeo at midnight is now the trapped prince, while Juliet, on the other hand, has a little more freedom of movement because the TV series hasn't started filming yet.
As Li Sishi was lamenting the vicissitudes of life, she suddenly received a phone call: "Hey, CY, what's the matter that's so urgent, calling me so late?"
This is what Li Sishi calls "CY"
The person in question is Kang Zhiren, who previously gave her the new song "Emotional Story." Due to the historical legacy of the concessions in Hong Kong, many Chinese people also have an English name. Over time, even among Chinese people, they have gradually become accustomed to addressing each other by their English names.
A small number of people who don't like to give themselves English names use the Cantonese pronunciation of their names as nicknames to make it easier for others to address and write them in English. For example, Kang Zhiren's name "CY" is a typical example of using a simplified Cantonese pronunciation as an "English name".
Hearing that Kang Zhiren might have accidentally slipped a few pages of concert planning drafts into her song file folder in the recording studio a few days ago, Li Sishi asked if she could see them. She then quickly found the file folder containing the sheet music, lyrics, and other items for "Emotional Story" and found a few pages that seemed to be a live performance design draft for a certain song.
"Okay, I found it. Do you want to come and get it, or should I have someone deliver it to you?" Li Sishi carefully placed the few pages of draft she had compiled into another empty file folder and picked up her cell phone again.
"I'm so sorry, May, I'm really busy right now. Lei Jun just went out, and Leo is practicing singing by himself. I have to help him and keep an eye on him..."
Kang Zhiren's reply made his meaning quite clear.
"Then I'll bring it over to you, it's not that far anyway." Li Sishi's mind immediately started working when she heard that Lei Jun wasn't there. "Anyway, I haven't seen Leo for a while, so I'll buy you some late-night snacks while I'm at it."
"Thank you so much! We've been busy all day. You're an angel!" Kang Zhiren studied in England in his early years, so he inevitably picked up some foreign accents.
After politely accepting Kang Zhiren's thanks, Li Sishi picked up the file bag and called to her assistant, "Lily, let's not go home yet. I need to go to the Cali Building to deliver a document to someone."
Zuo Lili nodded, packed her things, and followed Li Sishi's instructions, quickly arriving at the building rented by Baoyiyin Records.
After asking Zuo Lili to go to a nearby dessert shop to buy some late-night dessert, Li Sishi took the document bag and entered the elevator, heading to the eleventh floor, which had been specially designated as a recording studio and dance practice room.
After getting off the elevator, I called Kang Zhiren again. A short while later, he rushed out of dance studio number five: "Coming, coming..."
After just greeting Li Sishi, Kang Zhiren immediately clutched his stomach in pain: "Ouch, this must be bad. The fish and shrimp baked rice I had for lunch probably wasn't fresh. I'm getting intestinal problems..."
"I need to use the restroom first. Could you take this to Leo for me? He probably can't easily come out to get it right now."
"OK, go ahead and go," Li Sishi said hurriedly.
When Kang Zhiren gave her the new song, he stayed by her side and explained and analyzed it to her word by word. Now that he is the producer of the concert for the first time, Li Sishi knows that he is definitely a very responsible person.
If he hadn't been so desperate, he probably wouldn't have had to ask someone else for help—not to mention that she had to do him a favor, it was also a rare opportunity for her to be alone with Ling Chen, and it would be convenient for her to steer the conversation toward Lei Jun and remind Ling Chen not to let him "steal the show."
However, it wasn't until she walked into Dance Studio No. 5 with the file bag that Li Sishi understood the true meaning of what Kang Zhiren had said earlier, "Leo isn't very convenient right now."
Looking at the handsome young man in front of her, his back turned, wearing a pink shirt made of a material that looked a bit like oil paper, and then at the long ribbon tied behind his head covering his eyes, Li Sishi subconsciously recalled the performance design drafts she had briefly glanced at earlier...
Oh, this song, "The Angels of Ascension," has a somewhat gothic melody, and the performance it's paired with should be a blindfolded dance where the performers are dressed very conservatively, yet look incredibly alluring.
Looking back, it would be considered a timeless stage performance; but in the 1990s, it can be said to have pioneered the pure and sensual style.
Kang Zhiren is really something; he can not only make things up, but also "deceive".
Imagine having someone who's always dressed conservatively in public perform a striptease and blindfolded dance on stage in the early hours of the morning—who knows how many wolf howls that would cause…
But what Ling Chen said the next moment shocked Li Sishi, who was already marveling at Kang Zhiren's cleverness: "You're back? You said you wanted to change it to the backup dancers tearing my shirt, but now that the backup dancers aren't here, you can 'guest star' for me. I've already marked it on my shirt."
"Hurry up, it's so cold, I'm only wearing a piece of paper, do you know how hard it is for me? And you even asked me to get my hair wet..." Although he clearly heard footsteps at the door, he didn't move for a long time. His face was a little pale from the cold, and his tone was a bit aggrieved.
Li Sishi walked in slowly and placed the file bag on the table next to her.
In the early morning, he groped his way around the iron railing and turned around. Because his eyes were covered by a ribbon, he still didn't know that the person temporarily acting as a backup dancer next to him was not the one he had imagined.
However, whether it could be the person he imagined... well, that's hard to say.
Based on her memory of the draft, Li Sishi held onto the iron railing with one hand and placed the other on his chest, circling him once. Ling Chen immediately sensed something was wrong and tried to untie the ribbon covering his eyes: "You're not..."
“CY just went to the restroom and asked me to help out temporarily.” Li Sishi has recently been actively trying to embody the role of Fairy Yunya, adopting a more aloof and mature pronunciation that is quite different from her natural voice when memorizing lines, and now it has come in handy.
"Oh, I see..." Ling Chen finally let go of the hand that was about to untie the ribbon, and then casually put it on Li Sishi's shoulder, following the pre-planned movement to wrap his arms around her waist—
In an instant, the distance between the two closed to such an extent that they could hear each other's breaths.
As she gently leaned against his chest, her hips swaying, Li Sishi slid her hand down the mark between her ribs and tore off a large piece of pink special oil paper with a slight force.
The exposed half of her waist tensed up instantly, as if stimulated by an external stimulus, when my fingertips brushed against it.
It actually accentuated the toned muscle definition in his waist and abdomen.
Unexpectedly, Kang Zhiren's design evolved so rapidly that in just a few days, Ling Chen went from tearing his own clothes to having his clothes torn. Li Sishi sighed as she followed the wrinkles of the shirt upwards again and tore most of the sleeve of the pink shirt into long strips.
Since it was probably the first time Li Sishi had taken advantage of someone's vulnerability to play a prank, she didn't quite control the strength in her hands. In addition, the remaining sleeve and the hem were also torn rather poorly. After stepping back slightly to take a look at the full appearance of her upper body at this time of dawn, Li Sishi couldn't help but frown.
Feeling a little guilty that she had transformed him from someone suitable for all ages into someone who might desperately need parental guidance in less than a minute, Li Sishi immediately started planning her escape...
But just as I looked up...
A warm drop of water dripped from his damp short hair and landed on her forehead, its heat sending shivers down her spine.
It wasn't the water from his hair styling, but rather a thin layer of sweat that had seeped out uncontrollably in the winter heat, as if he had been dancing a little too excitedly.
Was it because he was wearing too little clothing that he turned the air conditioner up too high, making her feel hot too?
The two were so close that Li Sishi felt she could almost see the hot breath he exhaled in the winter night.
It vaguely transformed into the smoke swirling before our eyes.
In the hazy light, the white and reddish hue before me was even more captivating.
Since he doesn't know and can't see it, then secretly... it shouldn't matter, right?
Just as Li Sishi tilted her head back and leaned closer to him, their noses almost touching, Ling Chen suddenly turned his face away.
With those clenched teeth, Li Sishi could vaguely see the four characters "chaste and virtuous husband" on the face that was a quarter covered by a white ribbon.
Li Sishi was surprised that he was still upholding male virtues even in this state. She didn't know whether to be angry or amused.
At this moment, Ling Chen, who had been tormented by her for the entire song, finally spoke up again: "Okay, Ah May, stop playing around."
"How did you know it was me?" Sensing the certainty in his words, Li Sishi casually pulled down the ribbon covering his eyes and asked curiously, "And when did you know it was me?"
"This is a secret, I can't tell you," Ling Chen said calmly, raising his hand to untie the ribbon around his neck.
"Hey, you can't do this!" Li Sishi puffed out her cheeks. "You were saying you'd find a chance to come find me, but now I've found a chance to come find you first."
"You 'Romeo' actually sending 'Juliet' to find you? That's really not enough!"
Hearing Li Sishi's words, Ling Chen couldn't help but laugh: He didn't know what this clever girl was thinking. The two of them had been having a hard time meeting lately, so she used this rather strange analogy...
Aren't you afraid that someone might... might really misunderstand?
Thinking this, I looked down and was momentarily lost in thought.
The ancients always said that a day apart feels like three autumns. He didn’t seem to think much of it before, but recently, after the two hadn’t seen each other for quite some time, he realized that those familiar features seemed to become clearer and more vivid with time and age.
Perhaps she has indeed gained some insights from the role of Fairy of the Cloud Cliff recently. With her head slightly tilted back and a smile, she looks like an innocent little fairy who has fallen to earth and is peeking at the mundane world. Then... after a fleeting glance, her eyes fall on the eyes of a scholar gazing at the bright moon.
It is said to be Romeo and Juliet, but what falls into our eyes at this moment is as if the fairy in the painting is right in front of us, no longer an untouchable flower in the mirror or the moon in the water.
Instead, it is a vibrant and beautiful sight right at your fingertips, full of life and fragrance.
"What are you looking at?" Li Sishi gently nudged him.
"I wanted to see why you were so bold, coming up to me in the dead of night when there was no one around." He chuckled.
"Hey, look at yourself right now—" Li Sishi raised an eyebrow, "posing like someone who's ready to be pampered, who wouldn't be able to resist?"
"But you're a girl! Don't you even know what it means to be reserved?" He was speechless at 1 a.m.
"Can't girls take the initiative?" Li Sishi pushed him again. "What era are we living in? Do you still have that chauvinistic idea that boys have to take the initiative?!"
Seeing that Li Sishi seemed about to get angry, Ling Chen hurriedly explained, "Of course I didn't think that way, I just... I just felt..."
"What do you think?"
"I think it's always better for the guy to take the initiative in these kinds of things." After saying this, he lowered his head and covered the red lips that had willingly walked into his trap.
The most skilled hunters often appear in the form of their prey.
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