Acceptance
When Xia Zhitang handed the sorted materials to Lin Jingming, he suddenly grabbed her wrist.
"You cried so sadly." Lin Jingming looked at her still red eyes.
Xia Zhitang was burned by his gaze. She looked away and wanted to wave his hand away, but Lin Jingming refused to let go.
"You not only empathize with them, but also see yourself in them." Lin Jingming said in a very affirmative tone.
"Yes, so what?" Xia Zhitang and Lin Jingming looked at each other, and tears welled up in their eyes again.
"I care a lot." Lin Jingming felt that he had used up all his rationality by holding back until now to ask.
Xia Zhitang was shocked by Lin Jingming's words, and she suddenly realized that Lin Jingming had never given up.
"Lin Jingming, can you please look at other people? There are many interesting people in this world who deserve your attention." Xia Zhitang had no way to avoid this matter anymore. She thought that time could dilute the obsession in Lin Jingming's heart, but in the end she found that he had never changed.
"Why should I change? Xia Zhitang, who I am interested in is my business." Lin Jingming accepted his feelings.
"I may never get a response in my entire life. Is it worth it?" Xia Zhitang looked at Lin Jingming with a sad expression.
Lin Jingming smiled indifferently: "I think I'm living a good life now."
He accepted the fact that his feelings might not be reciprocated in his lifetime, but this was his own practice and had nothing to do with others.
Xia Zhitang and Lin Jingming looked at each other for a long time. There was no sadness or resentment in his eyes, and her thoughts were a little complicated.
"Yes, I see myself in them." Xia Zhitang spoke slowly. Since Lin Jingming himself accepted it calmly, there was no need for her to worry about it - respecting and accepting other people's choices is a basic courtesy for a mature person.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know about your ex-husband's car accident at that time..." Lin Jingming suddenly felt that he owed Xia Zhitang a lot recently.
"Lin Jingming, this isn't your fault." Xia Zhitang pulled out a stool and sat down. "Let's sit down and talk."
Lin Jingming pulled a stool and sat down, but he refused to let go of Xia Zhitang's wrist. He wanted to gain a real sense of connection with Xia Zhitang through this little physical contact. The touch of skin and the warmth of body could convey many messages that only physical contact could convey.
"Lin Jingming, I'm the one who should be sorry. I took advantage of you back then." She had deliberately arranged for her to appear before Lin Jingming again. She knew what Lin Jingming liked and how to quickly attract his attention. She was a hunter disguised as prey.
Lin Jingming gently stroked her wrist: "Do you think I can't see it? It's just that I saw you from the beginning."
To him, it didn't matter whether Xia Zhitang had ulterior motives or not. At that time, he was more afraid that Xia Zhitang had no need for him.
"Thank you for giving me the opportunity. Without you, I wouldn't be where I am today." Xia Zhitang knew that in the complex world of film and television, someone like her, with no resources or connections, would never have reached her current heights without Lin Jingming's constant support. Even when Cheng Shubai later poached her, it was largely due to Lin Jingming's early cultivation and support.
"Xia Xia, you deserve it." Lin Jingming knew Xia Zhitang's abilities from the first time he talked to her. There were not many people who could keep up with his thinking, and even fewer who could work with him to come up with new ideas.
He lifted Xia Zhitang's wrist and gently kissed the back of her hand, which was so hot that Xia Zhitang subconsciously wanted to pull her hand back.
"You may also realize that loneliness is our normal state. Sometimes we look too much and too far, and others will just say that we think too much." Lin Jingming once thought that he could endure it and could give a lot for fame, success and affirmation.
It was not until he met Xia Zhitang, the one who could understand his thinking and dared to contradict him, that he realized that people still need some spiritual pursuits.
"Lin Jingming, you have to learn to be down-to-earth." Xia Zhitang understood what Lin Jingming meant, but she didn't agree with the idea of being born alone. "You have to learn to be curious about the world. Life is for experience, and there are always interesting experiences beyond your understanding."
"Xia Xia, your family must be very warm. Some truths require a lot of effort for some people to achieve." Lin Jingming envied Xia Zhitang's magnanimity.
"I think the girls' high school students are much better than me." Xia Zhitang never thought he was that good.
"They are very powerful." But in my heart, you are the warm little sun.
As the countdown to the college entrance examination decreased to single digits, the girls' high school entered into the intensive preparations before the college entrance examination.
Director Feng purchased pens, pencils, and emergency medicines. All the teachers in the school, including Principal Wang, were there sharpening pencils and opening packages.
Then, teachers of each subject began to pack the examination packages for each student, packing their ID cards and examination certificates one by one.
"Didn't we prepare these things ourselves for the college entrance exam? The teachers just reminded us repeatedly," the cameraman exclaimed during dinner. "The teachers here are really responsible."
"Yes, if I had a baby girl, I'd like to send her to Principal Zhang." The proprietress brought the dishes over. "You don't know, the girls in their school all have top grades."
The proprietress looked around, leaned down, and lowered her voice. "You don't know, but the academic performance of the key high schools here is completely unsatisfactory. Many parents of boys are protesting that Principal Zhang won't accept boys."
"They are all a bunch of profit-seekers." Lin Jingming sneered sarcastically.
"Oh, Principal Zhang is really amazing. Many people in our village can't even get into junior college." The proprietress sighed, "I really don't know how she teaches us."
"Because there's no way out." Xia Zhitang put down his bowl and chopsticks. "If we don't succeed, we'll die."
"Alas, if they go back, they'll have to get married, but there aren't many good men." The proprietress suddenly felt a sense of empathy. "Some people studying is always a good thing. They can see far and travel farther, and they're not easily deceived."
She sighed, turned around and walked back to the counter in a daze with a somewhat depressed mood.
Lin Jingming glanced at the proprietress and tapped the table. "We'll go through the girls' high school's travel route on the day of the college entrance exam. We'll have a meeting tonight to arrange the aircraft arrangements for that day."
Xia Zhitang saw Lin Jingming looking at him and said, "Although the weather forecast shows no rain, the rain gear has been prepared in advance. The filming location has also been requested, and we can check it out this afternoon. In addition, the drones have also been registered and two have been requested. As long as they are not within the school area, they can be used."
Lin Jingming nodded and said, "Okay, let's do an aerial orbit test flight this afternoon."
In the evening, the assistant moved the whiteboard to the lobby on the first floor of the hotel, which they temporarily used as a meeting room.
Lin Jingming simply drew the distance from the girls' high school to the examination hall on the map on his phone.
"It's a 10-minute walk from the girls' high school to the exam hall. On the first day of the Gaokao, we have a flag-raising ceremony before we depart, so our schedule is very tight." Lin Jingming stood in front of a whiteboard and circled several camera positions on the girls' high school playground with a black marker. "The camera positions for the flag-raising ceremony are as follows. Before we depart, the teacher will give a speech and cheer on the students from upstairs. Follow the blue lines for camera positions."
After he arranged the camera positions for the high school girls, he began to arrange the camera positions for the marching.
"The route is as follows. Everyone, remember your assigned camera positions. Don't run around, don't go off-axis, don't make mistakes, and don't rush to shoot if something goes wrong. I'll notify you via the headset if there are any other arrangements." Lin Jingming repeatedly urged the team to follow the instructions. "Also, set up a GoPro at these locations. Remember to arrange this with the store in advance."
The assistant nodded and wrote down his work in his notebook.
Lin Jingming stared at the route map for a while and circled a few camera positions with a red pen: "We need to evacuate these points in advance to get the camera positions. We will evacuate after the national flag is raised and go there in advance to set up the positions."
"Producer Xia, can the drone be flown?" Lin Jingming suddenly turned to look at Xia Zhitang. "The drone camera position at the entrance to the examination room is too late to fly. After the national flag is raised, you will immediately go to the location and fly the drone. If the drone operator can't coordinate, you will be responsible for the camera operator position. Do you understand?"
"I understand." Xia Zhitang nodded and wrote down the itinerary in his notebook.
After Lin Jingming arranged the rest of the itinerary, he asked his assistant to prepare an electronic version and send it to Xia Zhitang for processing, then waved goodbye to everyone.
Xia Zhitang sat on Lin Jingming's bed with a laptop in his arms, integrating the itinerary plan given by his assistant into detailed camera position information and shooting points for each link and each member. After checking with Lin Jingming twice to ensure there were no omissions, he sent the document to his assistant for printing and distribution.
When she was about to go back to her room, Lin Jingming suddenly grabbed her and said, "I'm sorry for making you run around."
"I am the only one who is suitable. I can just ask Teacher Li to borrow a Tailand motorcycle. It won't be a problem." Xia Zhitang thought Lin Jingming was weird. This was obviously what she should do.
"The corridor here is short and narrow, making it difficult to compose the picture. I'll go to the test site with you again tomorrow to design the aerial photography position." Lin Jingming explained in detail.
"Okay, I can do it with you in charge." Xia Zhitang felt that Lin Jingming attached too much importance to this project, so he was a little nervous.
Lin Jingming nodded and finally let go of Xia Zhitang's wrist.
"Director, go to bed early." Xia Zhitang yawned and waved at Lin Jingming while holding his notebook.
The sound of a door closing was heard. Lin Jingming sat quietly on the bed, listening to the sound of the door opening and closing next door. He sighed, opened the curtains and looked at the lonely moon hanging high in the sky.
The filming of this project is about to enter the final stage, and the days of spending time with Xia Zhitang are about to end.
He didn't know whether Xia Zhitang would choose to join him in the next project, and Lin Jingming felt more and more reluctant to let him go.
The window next door suddenly opened with a bang: "Lin Jingming, my water cup leaked into your room, send it over!"
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