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In the editing room, Lin Jingming, who had been alone in Yunnan Province for two weeks, looked a little haggard.
"Why have you lost weight again?" He looked at Xia Zhitang's pointed chin and frowned.
"It's normal to lose weight in the early stages. Xiao Qingmiao is doing well." Xia Zhitang turned on the big screen, "Let's watch the movie first."
Faint sounds of reading could be heard from the high school girls' classroom on the playground where red flags were flying. As the camera zoomed in, the sound of the neatly arranged girls in the classroom reciting Chairman Mao's "Orange Island" became clearer.
Lin Jingming turned his attention back to the freshly completed draft of the documentary, and the two sat in chairs and watched the film quietly.
The video ended with a quick cut of the girls shining in various industries.
Lin Jingming played with the remote control: "It's still missing something."
Xia Zhitang thought for a moment and said, "The key is to find hope in the ordinary, rather than exaggerating despair."
"Adjust the manuscript again." Lin Jingming pulled out the manuscript. "When we get home, add the clips of Erniu picking flowers and drinking water. They'll be more alive now."
Xia Zhitang turned on the recorder and the two began brainstorming.
As the sky gradually darkened, Lin Jingming took out his phone and asked, "Are you ready for some meat?"
Xia Zhitang nodded: "After 12 weeks, you can eat a little less."
After the two of them came up with a new outline, Xia Zhitang stood up and took out a cloth hammer to massage himself.
Lin Jingming looked at Xia Zhitang's phone, which was lying upside down on the table, and suddenly asked, "Where's Gu Zian?"
Xia Zhitang paused holding the cloth hammer, not knowing what to say for a moment.
When Gu Zian asked her where she was going over the phone, he blurted out and asked her if she had fallen in love with Lin Jingming.
No matter how much Xia Zhitang denied this reason, Gu Zian could not understand why he could magnanimously accept her relationship with Lin Jingming, while he could not forgive and escape just because Xia Zhitang was framed.
Neither of them could convince the other, and they ended up parting ways on bad terms.
"You've been here for so long and he hasn't urged you. That's unusual." Lin Jingming saw Xia Zhitang's silence and simply stated his observation, "As far as I know, his film has already finished filming, and you're still pregnant."
"We had a fight." Xia Zhitang put down the hammer and slumped back on the sofa. "He still doesn't know I'm pregnant."
"Why? Did he cheat?" Lin Jingming felt that this was the only possibility.
"I didn't have time." Xia Zhitang sighed and briefly recounted what happened that day.
Lin Jingming slammed the table and said, "Is he blind?"
You can't even see through such a simple beauty trap!
"You drew Tang Ning's emoticons, didn't you?" Xia Zhitang sneered and looked at Lin Jingming, "I was wondering why this style looks so familiar."
"Yes, you definitely won't use it if I give it to you directly!" Lin Jingming felt a little guilty.
"Tang Ning joined the crew. How did you not interfere in the variety show arrangements between her and Gu Zian?" Xia Zhitang stood up, grabbed Lin Jingming's collar and looked at him with gritted teeth.
"She was sent to me by Lao Cheng. As soon as we met, she said she was your fan, so I gave her the Q-version painting!" Lin Jingming said evasively.
"And then? Then let her give the emoticon to Zi'an?" Xia Zhitang grabbed the pillow on the sofa and hit Lin Jingming. "You just stood there and watched the fun? Don't tell me you can't see that she has ulterior motives towards Zi'an!"
"Well, I can't possibly protect Gu Zian from romantic interests." Lin Jingming stepped back and fell onto the sofa.
"You're just going to take advantage of me?" Xia Zhitang used too much force and almost fell down.
Lin Jingming quickly picked her up and carefully pinched her waist to serve as a cushion for her flesh.
"Child! Be careful of the child!" he shouted anxiously.
"You made me angry first!" Xia Zhitang twisted the soft flesh of his arm.
"I apologize, I apologize." Lin Jingming took a breath and carefully helped Xia Zhitang sit on the chair. "Calm down, you still have a little bean sprout in your belly!"
"You two have a baby?" Cheng Shubai's voice suddenly interrupted.
"Yes, mine!"
"It's not his!"
After the two said this in unison, Xia Zhitang glared at Lin Jingming and slapped him.
Cheng Shubai closed the door to the editing room. "Can anyone explain to me why Zi'an came to me for a drink and cried about how Tang Ning framed him and caused his fiancée to run away from home?"
He pulled up a chair by the door and sat down. “And then you two were flirting in the editing room.”
"He deserves a beating." Xia Zhitang denied Cheng Shubai's statement.
Cheng Shubai pointed at Xia Zhitang: "You are still pregnant."
He looked at Lin Jingming again: "And you also know that she is pregnant, but her legal fiancé doesn't know."
"You tell him it's mine."
As soon as Lin Jingming finished speaking, Xia Zhitang exposed him: "You are just the godfather."
"Stop, is this Zi'an's?" Cheng Shubai looked at Xia Zhitang.
She just lowered her head and said nothing, but Cheng Shubai already had the answer in his mind.
"Old Cheng, if you dare to tell Gu Zian, I will tell him that you were the one who stuffed Tang Ning in there." Lin Jingming threatened with a forced smile while crossing his legs.
"We're all following the formal channels!" Cheng Shubai refused to be outdone.
"You're the one who set off this time bomb!" Lin Jingming pointed at Xia Zhitang, "If it weren't for this person, she wouldn't have been so angry that she ran away from home!"
"Are you going to play that old-fashioned plot of 'the millionaire wife runs off with the baby'?" Cheng Shubai turned to look at Xia Zhitang.
Xia Zhitang asked Cheng Shubai: "Mr. Cheng, what do you think the meaning of marriage is?"
"Marriage is the greatest recognition of the opposite sex. I recognize her so I am willing to become her husband and wife." Cheng Shubai feels that with his status and position, he is better than many second-generations because he can choose the person he likes to marry.
"But Mingyue left."
Xia Zhitang's words made Cheng Shubai's eyebrows jump.
"What exactly do you women need?" Cheng Shubai took out a cigar, but before he could light it, Lin Jingming snatched it away.
"Don't smoke in front of pregnant women." Lin Jingming stuffed Cheng Shubai's cigar into his pocket.
"Maybe what we need is ourselves, not someone's wife or someone's mother." Xia Zhitang vaguely understood Guan Mingyue's choice.
"Are you living too comfortably? Do you have to make such a fuss?" Cheng Shubai still can't get over the breakdown of his marriage with Guan Mingyue.
"Old Cheng, she's not Guan Mingyue, don't blame her." Lin Jingming patted Cheng Shubai's shoulder, "Let them decide for themselves."
"And then you're just waiting to pick up the spoils?" Cheng Shubai sneered and shook off Lin Jingming's hand. "How long do you think she can keep this a secret? Her belly will eventually get bigger, and you can protect the Gu family from coming to snatch the baby away."
He placed his hand on the door handle of the editing room and looked back at the two of them: "How much capital do you have to fight against the old man of the Gu family? Do you really think he is a benevolent person?"
The sound of a door slamming was heard, and Lin Jingming took out the cigar from Cheng Shubai's hand and put it to his nose and took a puff.
"I can help you get a letter of recommendation from Canada. If that doesn't work, you can go somewhere to hide first." Lin Jingming quickly went through the information in his mind. After much thought, he decided that Canada was the safest choice.
"Thank you, let me think about it." Xia Zhitang actually hadn't figured out what he wanted yet, "Lin Jingming, I think I'm scared."
Lin Jingjing was stunned: "What's wrong?"
Xia Zhitang picked up the manuscript that had fallen to the ground and gently smoothed out the wrinkles with his fingertips: "If I hadn't gone to Yun Province, I might have happily married."
Lin Jingming was silent for a moment, then sighed and said, "You will realize it sooner or later."
"When you married Su Wen, could you foresee the ending?" Xia Zhitang was very curious about what kind of mood Lin Jingming, such a proud man, had when he chose this marriage that was destined to be humble.
"Xia Xia, every choice is the best one we can make at the moment." Lin Jingming has no regrets. "Everything depends on equal exchange."
If it were before, Xia Zhitang would definitely refute Lin Jingming, but after experiencing the "surprise" that night, Xia Zhitang felt that both Tang Ning and Lin Jingming were right.
"I've been feeling more and more that fortune and misfortune are interdependent lately." Xia Zhitang's hand gently stroked her slightly protruding belly. "I used to think I was brave, but it was only because I'd lost everything that I could charge forward fearlessly."
"Why do you have to be brave?" Lin Jingming asked Xia Zhitang, "Why do you have to blindly pursue so-called beautiful and positive words? Whether it's escapism or cowardice, as long as it exists, it has its reason."
Xia Zhitang inexplicably recalled that two years ago, she had told Gu Zian that escaping was not shameful.
As time went by, one day everyone's positions and demands changed, and it was Lin Jingming's turn to use this meaning to comfort her.
"Xia Xia, all the confusion is just because you can't see the direction clearly temporarily. If you don't know what you want, then give yourself some time, and a way out may appear one day." This is Xia Zhitang's topic, and all Lin Jingming can do is accompany and support her.
"Why are you so gentle?" Xia Zhitang found it a little unbelievable. This was not something Lin Jingming would say.
"That's because you didn't notice my personality charm before!" Lin Jingming tilted his neck slightly, "So, have you fallen in love with me?"
"Are you secretly practicing Zen or attaining enlightenment?" Xia Zhitang couldn't understand how he could have changed so much right under his nose?
"Come to my place tomorrow and get some books. Once you improve your knowledge, you will have a different perspective on many things." During those lonely and helpless days after being rejected by Xia Zhitang, Lin Jingming suddenly realized that he was the only one who could pull himself out of the quagmire.
Lin Jingming's eyes fell on her belly: "Forget it, send me your address and I'll send it to you."
"a lot of?"
"At least it's not something a pregnant woman should carry."
"I'm just pregnant. You're making me feel incompetent." Xia Zhitang felt that she was not that delicate.
"You have to get used to another life breaking into your world, which may bring about earth-shaking changes." Just like you broke into my world again and again, took root in my heart, and can never be torn apart again.
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