No. 116 Melon
"You don't act in Director Sun's new drama"
Lin Cha stretched and walked from the room to the living room in her white nightgown.
Immersed in the kitchen, I made her some porridge. Last night, Lin Cha filmed until the early hours of the morning, and straight home after finishing, she slept soundly in bed until now.
The living room was filled with the sweet and glutinous aroma of millet porridge, which aroused Lin Cha's appetite.
"Have some porridge first." Chen Zui served Lin Cha a bowl of porridge with a perfectly fried egg next to it.
"You haven't said it yet!" Lin Cha's eyes were full of curiosity. "Such a good script, why don't you act? You are not me. Without Director Sun's movie, I have other invitations. Why are you so picky?"
Chenzui still didn't answer, but just lowered his eyes slightly and saw Lin Cha coming barefoot. His white feet stepped on the smooth marble floor, which had a fragile beauty.
"I've seen the script for Director Sun's movie. It's really suitable for you. The character is super good. It would be a shame not to play the role—ah!"
Lin Cha suddenly cried out in surprise, swallowing her words. Chenzui lifted her up in a princess-like embrace, her entire body suspended over half a meter in the air. The sudden feeling of weightlessness made her heart race. Then, Chenzui supported her hips with one hand and placed her firmly on the long table.
Lin Cha instinctively hit Chenzui's shoulder. Chenzui didn't react, but Lin Cha's slender and tender white hand hit his collarbone, and she grinned slightly.
"What are you doing!" she scolded.
His bony fingers gently grasped her slender ankle, and the warmth of his palms warmed the skin on the soles of her feet.
"You're not wearing shoes again," he said, as if blaming her, but also as if concerned. "You'll catch a cold easily. When your period comes, you'll complain of stomach aches again."
Chenzui squatted down, found Lin Cha's scattered cotton shoes, and patiently helped her put them on.
Lin Cha held Chenzui's shoulders, her cheeks flushed, and suddenly she didn't dare to look him in the eye.
"Just tell me... There's no need to pick me up suddenly. I'm not a three-year-old child. I don't need you to remind me to put on my shoes..."
Chenzui smiled, put his arms around her, and gently stroked her slender waist with his fingers.
"What's the difference between you and a three-year-old?" He glanced at the messy room. "It's only been a short while since I last came over, and your room is already a mess."
"It's just that the aunt didn't come to clean!" Lin Cha argued, but Chenzui pinched her waist, and she felt a tingling sensation in her waist, and her back seemed to be unable to straighten up.
"You haven't told me yet!" Lin Cha changed the subject. "How could you not play the male lead in Director Sun's movie? Hey, if you play that, you'll probably be nominated for Best Actor next year!"
Chenzui picked up the millet porridge from the long table, scooped a spoonful, blew gently on it to remove excess heat, and handed it to Lin Cha.
"If you don't act, I don't want to act either."
Lin Cha was leisurely drinking millet porridge. When he heard this, his eyes widened.
She blinked, her eyes showing a bit of helplessness and confusion.
Chen Zui wouldn't just act with her because he's grateful for her bringing him into the industry, right?
That's not necessary!
Lin Cha knew she had some selfish motives in bringing Chen Zui into the industry. She and Sister Zhang hadn't told him the truth about the car accident, believing he'd remember it and that they could explain it later. But a year had already passed, and Chen Zui couldn't remember a thing.
Even though the car accident was not Lin Cha's fault, Lin Cha felt that it was wrong to keep it a secret.
Seeing that Chenzui insisted on not participating in Director Sun’s new movie, Lin Cha couldn’t help but tell him what happened that year.
She felt a little guilty but lowered her head. "After the car accident, Sister Zhang and I helped you look for your family. But you didn't remember much, and the information you provided was too little, so we didn't find anything."
Chenzui put down the bowl of millet porridge, put his hands on the edge of the table, and tapped his fingers rhythmically on the table.
After a long silence, Chen Zui slowly said, "You can't find out. I have no relatives."
Lin Cha stared at Chenzui in a daze, not knowing whether to be surprised that Chenzui had not lost his memory, or sad that he had no relatives.
She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end, nothing came out.
He was intoxicated and smiled indifferently, reaching out to gently stroke her hair which was as soft and dense as seaweed.
"I'm not sad, why are you sad?"
"If I had known this would happen, Sister Zhang and I shouldn't have kept it from you..."
Lin Cha remembered the time when she accidentally hit Chenzui in a car accident last year. She was not the one in the accident, but after knowing that she was in the accident, her parents immediately came to visit her with concern and brought her a soup that had been simmering for several hours.
After the accident, it is good to have family around. She has parents who love her and sister Zhang who cares about her, but at that time, where was she immersed?
Alone in the hospital
"It's all over." Chenzui said calmly.
Lin Cha didn't know whether he was comforting himself or her.
Finally, the corners of Chen Zui's mouth curled up slightly again, "You care about me so much and want to know about me"
Lin Cha nodded vigorously, and after half a second, a hint of worry appeared in his eyes. "If you don't want to say it, you don't have to."
"It's okay." Shenzui's hand rested on her waist again, gently stroking her concave and firm waist.
The tingling sensation made Lin Cha feel uncomfortable all over, and his breathing became rapid.
She lowered her eyes to look at Chenzui, but found that the indifferent man's breathing had also increased. There was a little red at the corners of his eyes, and his eyes were sparkling with watery light, stained with a hint of lust and greed.
His fingertips lingered from the back, to the flanks, and then to the well-defined waistline, stroking back and forth in that small concave area.
"After you finish work tonight, I will tell you everything about me, okay?" The intoxicated voice echoed in Lin Cha's ears and whispered to him.
Lin Cha's mind was confused.
Those tingling sensations impacted her already fragile and sensitive senses, making her mind go blank.
Following the intoxicated voice, she nodded obediently and ignorantly.
"Then...you'll tell me everything, right?"
Chenzui gently pressed the back of Lin Cha's head and gave her a light kiss on the forehead.
"Yes."
"Chacha, you're all I have. I'll tell you whatever you want to know."
*
In the afternoon, Lin Cha went to the crew.
She is currently filming an anti-Japanese national film. Most of the scenes were shot at the film and television city in Hai City. It has been filming for two months. Today is the last day of filming. After finishing today's scenes, Lin Cha will be finished.
The final two scenes were literary, and Lin Cha had memorized all the lines. He coordinated with the other actors in rehearsals, and before filming, Lin Cha mastered everything in one take. The director repeatedly changed angles and camera positions, adding shots of varying distances and nears to enhance the detail of the scene. After just two scenes, filming was complete, and it was already dark.
The male lead who was traveling with me still had a few scenes to shoot, so we only finished filming Lin Cha's part today.
After Lin Cha received the flowers from the staff, she cut the cake, took some promotional photos for Weibo, and then rushed to the restaurant that Chenzui had booked.
Seven o'clock in the evening is not too late.
The restaurant, located in a high-rise building on the riverfront, is bright and clean, with floor-to-ceiling windows offering unobstructed views of the river. The restaurant is filled with blue roses, and the flickering candlelight resembles dancing spirits in the night.
Lin Cha arrived earlier than Chen Zui and sat by the window. She was the only customer in the entire restaurant.
Lin Cha knew what Chen Zui would say to her tonight.
Dates, candlelight dinners, ambiguous young men and women...If these elements still can't make Lin Cha realize Chen Zui's feelings for her, then she is stupid.
Although Lin Cha has never been in love, she is not slow in this regard.
Lin Cha felt the feelings that Shen Zui had for her when they first acted together.
Even when promoting Chenzui later, Lin Cha deliberately chose a character who could form a CP with her.
This is her little trick.
When the seeds of emotion sprouted in Shen Zui's heart, she couldn't help but want to get close to Shen Zui.
Emotions accumulate gradually, and when they accumulate to a certain level, they will definitely break out.
Today is probably that day.
Lin Cha sat in the restaurant. For the first time in her life, she felt that the stars were so bright, the city’s neon lights were so dazzling, and everything was sparkling.
However, no matter how beautiful the night view is, it will eventually return to darkness.
The intoxication did not come.
It wasn't until after midnight that the restaurant manager came to Lin Cha and apologized, "Excuse me, ma'am, our restaurant is closing."
The intoxication still hasn't come.
The phone interface showed calls from Lin Cha, more than twenty calls, all to Chen Zui, but he didn't answer any of them.
Something happened to Shenzui
Or was I stuck by something?
Lin Cha was feeling nervous and anxious.
If it weren't for the accident, Chenzui would have come.
With this thought in mind, Lin Cha called Chenzui several more times and also asked Sister Zhang if she knew where Chenzui was.
have no idea.
No one knows where the intoxication lies.
That night was like a watershed. Since then, Chenzui disappeared. Lin Cha looked for him in many places and asked many people, but there was no trace of him.
Lin Cha even called the police, but the only conclusion he got was... there was no such person.
Confusion, helplessness, and hesitation enveloped Lin Cha. It was then that Lin Cha realized how little she knew about Shen Zui. Apart from his name, she knew nothing about him, not where he came from, nor who he was.
*
The room was dark.
Various wine bottles were scattered on the ground, including collectible red wines worth hundreds of thousands of yuan, as well as cheap beer sold for a few yuan a can at roadside convenience stores.
The curtains were closed and the room was dim, not a single ray of light entering.
Sister Zhang stepped over the garbage on the floor and picked up the slovenly Lin Cha from the corner. "How dare you miss Director Zhou's new play! Cha Cha, what's wrong with you?"
Lin Cha held an empty bottle of red wine and stared at Sister Zhang blankly, "Sister, do you want to drink?"
"Lin Cha!" Sister Zhang roared angrily, "He's just a man. You're Lin Cha, the most beautiful woman in the entertainment industry! You're rich and pretty. If you lose him, you'll find someone better! Why bother trying to kill yourself over a man?"
"I know," Lin Cha said, swaying as she hugged the bottle of red wine and sat on the floor. She grinned, a beautiful smile, but tears streamed down her face. "But... I still feel bad."
Reason is one thing, emotion is another.
Lin Cha tells herself every day that he is just a man, and there are many better women in the world.
However, whenever she returned home and saw the traces of her past, remembered the porridge he cooked, and the clothes he folded for her, whenever she thought of him, knowing that he would never come back, Lin Cha felt a pain in her heart as if it were being cut by a knife.
He is gone.
He is really gone.
"Lin Cha, you've been in this business for ten years."
Sister Zhang emphasized with conviction, "I've been with you for ten years. In those ten years, you've been there, rain or shine, never late or absent from a shoot. This is your first time! It's really not worth it for a man who doesn't love you."
"I'll give you three days off. You can do whatever you want during these three days, whether it's crying or getting drunk. After three days, I want to see you back to normal."
*
Three days later
Sister Zhang saw Lin Cha again on the set.
At this time, Lin Cha's face was heavily made up, her eyes were round and sparkling, and there was no trace of swelling from crying.
Sister Zhang grabbed Lin Cha and came to apologize to Director Zhou. "Director, Cha Cha is having her period again. Girls have those days every month! Our Cha Cha is the most dedicated, you know that!"
This wasn't the first time Director Zhou had worked with Lin Cha, and she was quite tolerant of her absence last time. After giving her a few words of advice, she let her go back to get her makeup done.
On the way out, Sister Zhang held Lin Cha's palm and sighed deeply, "Thank God! I was really worried that you wouldn't be able to get over your first heartbreak."
"Didn't you say that?" Lin Cha said coldly, looking into the distance, without focus, "It's not worth it for a man who doesn't care about me."
Sister Zhang looked at Lin Cha with some heartache.
In the past year, she has been with Lin Cha and Shen Zui, and she had long seen that Lin Cha had fallen in love.
She originally thought that Chenzui should also care about Lin Cha, but who could have imagined that the man would leave as soon as he said he would, and be so heartless that he didn't even say a word.
If that's the case, why would you bother to die for a man like this?
Lin Cha sat in front of the dressing table again.
The makeup artist removed the heavy makeup from her face, revealing her innocent and pretty face. Her eyes were slightly puffy from crying, but under the makeup artist's skillful hands, this blemish was nothing.
Lin Cha has taken on an urban romance film. A female agricultural college graduate leaves the ivory tower and enters the real world. However, due to her unsuitable major, her future is uncertain.
In order to maintain the character of "a female college student from an agricultural college", Director Zhou chose to shoot at the Agricultural University and asked Lin Cha to shoot a series of shots of her life and study at the school. The first scene that Lin Cha had to shoot was her excitedly walking out of the school gate holding her graduation certificate.
This scene is not difficult, as long as Lin Cha can express the longing, expectation and curiosity about the future of a college student.
As Director Zhou called out the action, Lin Cha immediately immersed herself in the role, just as the script described, saying goodbye to her roommates and heading out into society...
Suddenly, there was a sharp brake sound at the school gate!
A truck ran a red light and rushed through the cordon set up by the crew and crashed into the filming site!
Lin Cha was still in the act and had no time to dodge when suddenly everything in front of him went dark.
The sounds of breaking glass around me, the sound of truck brakes, and the screams of the surrounding staff gradually faded away as I lost consciousness.
The world returned to nothingness and there was no sound.
Lin Cha was anxious, apprehensive, uncertain, and terrified. But at this moment, she heard her own voice—
"Do you want to visit another world?"
The voice seemed to contain magical power, constantly calling out to Lin Cha. In a flash, a bold idea flashed through Lin Cha's mind.
She wanted to go and see.
Go and verify whether that idea is true.
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