Zhang Nan recalled that day and couldn't help but blush.
Sheng Yiyi knew everything, but she didn't hate herself with gritted teeth like Shen Yicheng, or fear herself like others, or even ignore herself. She seemed to treat him arrogantly as if he were anyone else.
It was only after that that he slowly began to notice this girl. He discovered that she would be on high alert on set, act coquettishly with her sister when off set, and be a good girl in front of her parents. She had many facets, and she was trying her best to adapt so that everyone around her could feel comfortable.
She's a smart person. Zhang Nan should have realized this long ago. She's not a caged canary that needs to be cared for; she's a petrel that can face thunder and lightning head-on in a storm. It's just that people around her judged her by her appearance, labeling her as a fragile, easily broken vase, and ignoring her true thoughts.
She was the girl who dared to tell him directly to put away his superior attitude, unlike the others who didn't even dare to talk to him. She was clearly smart and brave.
"She is truly a trustworthy person, Mr. Lin, you can trust her."
Lin Xiaoxiao looked on with amusement, not expecting Zhang Nan to say this after holding back for so long. "Of course I know, she's the top dog at Penglai TV now."
Zhang Nan recalled that after filming wrapped, Sheng Yiyi and her parents visited the temple where he lived. Her parents' slightly sympathetic affection made him feel somewhat awkward. He was an orphan who didn't know his parents, and after receiving the prize money, he donated it all to the temple. He had been raised by the temple's residents since childhood. Many people, upon learning this fact, would treat him with caution or try their best to be warm towards him.
If it were him a decade or two ago, he might have desperately needed this warmth, but now he has already decided to face the storms of the outside world alone and can no longer try to embrace it. Sheng Yiyi noticed his unease and quickly left with her parents.
He swept the path down the mountain as before and sat on the doorstep, looking down at the mountain.
When he was a child, there was a chubby boy in the temple who stole offerings and got separated from his family while they were offering incense. He even got into a fight with the chubby boy. He said the chubby boy had been abandoned by his family, but that day the chubby boy's family had run down this road to pick him up and take him home.
He was left standing alone at the door, his face covered in bruises, watching their departing figures with his vision gradually blurring.
From then on, Zhang Nan would rush to sweep the path down the mountain, then sit on the threshold and look down the mountain, secretly hoping that the person who had accidentally lost him would appear, until his senior brother called him and he closed the door in disappointment.
Although Zhang Nan later stopped expecting it, he retained the habit. Whenever he was in the temple, he would sweep the path down the mountain, then sit on the threshold and stare blankly at the path below.
That day, Zhang Nan thought it was just another day like any other. Just as he was lamenting that he didn't know what was wrong with him, that he was still doing such childish and meaningless things, time stood still, and he saw Sheng Yiyi running up the mountain, stepping on the golden light of the setting sun.
At that moment, the whole world seemed to be silenced, leaving only the pounding of my heart.
She came to find him, specifically for him, just to secretly deliver the meat she had bought down the mountain to him. Zhang Nan automatically ignored the fact that this was clearly her parents' idea.
It turns out the host was telling the truth; people really do come from this road for him.
The training during this period has been tough, but many things that I couldn't understand or was dissatisfied with before seem to have suddenly become clear.
As a child, he longed for family affection and would call the monks in the temple "father" or "brother," but they would always correct him, saying that they were people outside the mortal world and that there were only monks and senior brothers in the temple, not fathers or brothers.
He thought he never had family ties, but he actually already did. He just didn't have the titles of father and brother, but he already had the same companionship.
He had considered becoming a monk, but his master always said that his path was not here. However, he had already been abandoned, so how could he possibly have a path left?
Until he met the person who came for him during the host's remarks.
He only realized that he was unworthy of the dazzling Sheng Yiyi, and he just wanted to keep this feeling to himself. But fate played a cruel trick on him, and the whole company found out. Although the production team assured him that it wouldn't be edited into the final cut, it wasn't too bad.
Zhang Nan didn't know if Sheng Yiyi's lack of understanding was good news, but at least he wouldn't receive a direct rejection right now.
Zhang Nan breathed a sigh of relief. "After I finished filming the company's 'A Century of Silence,' I had some vague feelings in my heart. Although I was just a supporting actor, I always had some lingering thoughts. Just then, Shen Yicheng invited me to visit the military base, so I went to take a look."
In "A Hundred Years of Silence," Zhang Nan plays a poison master from a century-old family of pharmacists. He is obsessive and stubborn, with a sharp tongue, and carries a despair that leads everyone to hell.
After watching the sequel, Lin Xiaoxiao felt that Zhang Nan's acting skills had improved a lot. In the early episodes, he was ruthless, saying that his family had been poisoners for generations, and his eyes were full of despair for the world.
Although some netizens believe that Zhang Nan was just being herself because of her previous performances on escape reality shows.
However, Lin Xiaoxiao felt that it was a good thing that Zhang Nan was able to think. Compared to the characters in the drama who had already suffered tragic fates, his life had just begun, and besides, he wasn't a very bad person.
Lin Xiaoxiao knew that Zhang Nan had donated his prize money and all his earnings from his time as an artist to the temple where he grew up. The abbot of the temple had even come to see her. She heard many things about Zhang Nan from the abbot. According to the abbot, Zhang Nan was very afraid of the dark when he was a child, there was no meat in the temple, and Zhang Nan was as small as a bean sprout. He even got into a fight with a chubby little boy who had accidentally gotten lost, lost the fight, and cried. The monks in the temple then taught him some self-defense skills and asked an old woman from the foot of the mountain to bring Zhang Nan some eggs when she went up the mountain.
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