There was a moment of silence in the bedroom.
The man stood in front of her, blocking her way to escape. When he leaned over to speak, his breath suddenly came close. Although his voice was cold, it carried a dangerous and ambiguous aura.
Her scalp tingled.
Pei Hanzhou just looked at her with his eyes downcast, his slender fingers still on the door lock, with a thin layer of intimidation at the corners of his eyes, and hormones sweeping down on him.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, the man licked his upper teeth in dissatisfaction.
"How come I didn't know you had a hobby of grading people?"
After he finished speaking, he put his fingertips on the anti-lock buckle and turned it lightly. The clicking sound seemed particularly arrogant in the quiet atmosphere.
With the last crisp lock, her legs softened without warning.
Lin Luosang swallowed hard in vain, wanting to say something to avoid a tragic death. He opened his lips palely, but a hollow sound uttered, "Listen to my explanation."
The man looked at her with his hands folded and said calmly, "Explain."
She racked her brains over and over again, trying to come up with some persuasive and beautiful words and sentences from the vocabulary of musicians praised by thousands of people.
After a minute and a half of preparation, she took two steps back weakly.
“…I can’t explain it.”
Pei Hanzhou: “…”
Seeing the man approaching step by step, the danger was imminent, she quickly stretched out her hands to shield her face, her self-rescue system working frantically. She didn't know what to say anyway, but it was better to say something than nothing, so she closed her eyes and said in despair -
"Well, well, I was drunk at the time and I really can't remember clearly. What I remember may not be correct. I only said it casually because Sheng Qianye insisted on asking me. Who am I? The score I gave is not for reference. I..."
As she spoke, she regained some feeling and said to herself, "Yes, maybe I remembered it wrongly. Maybe your first time was the same as the next few times, and you didn't lag behind. Besides, it was the first time, so even if it was a little faster..."
As he was speaking, he looked up.
Oh no.
The man's expression seemed to grow even darker.
...Did she say something wrong?
Isn't she trying very hard to save face?
The next second, her arm was suddenly grabbed by someone. The man was so strong that it hurt her.
She was thrown onto the soft mattress, and her whole body bounced twice. Her long black hair spread all over the bed, and she looked extremely innocent.
Before the man was about to execute her, she stretched out a hand to stop him, "Hey—wait a minute, I think I can still salvage this situation. Are you really not going to listen to me? Maybe after I finish, you won't be angry anymore? Will your anger turn into joy?"
Pei Hanzhou coldly took off the tie from his shoulders and threw it lightly on the ground.
Although he didn't say anything, the tight curve of his lips seemed to indicate six words -
Shut up.
as well as--
You're dead.
Lin Luosang: “…”
…
That day, Lin Luosang died about twelve times.
We visited seven scenic spots in the house, including the stairwell, garden, and swimming pool.
Unlocked nearly five new tricks,
Three times I frantically tried to faint,
Her most frequently used quotes are:
I'm sorry, I was wrong, why haven't you recovered yet?
This day must be a very special day.
She had her first intimate encounter with the blazing midday sun;
On this day, she had three hours.
Tears welled up in my eyes, tears blurred my eyes,
But it did not awaken the husband's conscience.
And in the end, she was forced to add 0.2 points for her husband.
——The above is generated from Lin Luosang’s “My Annual Scoring Report”.
When Lin Luosang woke up again, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening. Her voice was hoarse and her mouth was dry. She decided that the first thing she would do after recovering was to cut Sheng Qianye, her damned friend, into pieces.
She uttered a hoarse syllable, reached out her hand and touched the bedside table. The moment she reached out her hand, she remembered that she did not bring the water cup with her. When she was about to take it back, she suddenly touched something cold.
It's her cup.
Unscrew it and the warm water inside is just the right temperature.
It seems that Pei Hanzhou has not lost all his conscience and still knows to get her a glass of water.
She was extremely dehydrated and drank the whole cup in one go. Then she felt tired and just hung on the edge of the bed in a daze. The tragic past of being a fish on the chopping board flashed through her mind, and she sniffed miserably.
What's wrong with giving scores? Without keen summary and judgment, how can others trust her to be the mentor of a hundred trainees?
After sighing to herself for a while, she returned to her seat. When she turned over, she saw a man working at the computer and was so scared that she almost fell down again.
Pei Hanzhou: "Awake?"
She laughed dryly a few times: "Yes, thanks to you."
Just for your superficial vanity, you pushed an innocent married girl into a desperate situation.
She looked at the man now, and her old habits had not yet changed. She only felt that the top of his head was sometimes 9.8 and sometimes 10.0.
Thinking of how he had fought for more than ten hours to prove his perfection, Lin Luosang just looked at him and said something without any warning.
"Have you ever thought about that?"
Pei Hanzhou frowned and looked at her.
Lin Luosang: "What if the full score is 100 points?"
“…”
The man closed the computer cover and turned to her silently.
She immediately realized that she was saying something stupid again, and quickly covered herself with the quilt to clarify:
"I was wrong, it was nonsense!!!"
…………
For the next week, Lin Luosang had no peace at all.
She also realized more and more deeply what it means that illness comes from the mouth and disaster comes from the mouth.
During that period when she had almost no mornings, she not only had to complete interviews with major entertainment news outlets and subsequent album promotions in advance, but also had to continue preparing for her second album.
Since there are many processes between the completion and release of an album, and it takes a long time, many singers are already working on their next album when the previous one is released.
Lin Luosang is no exception.
The theme of her second album is criticism and imagination, with many realistic elements. She named it "Failure".
Once all three albums are collected, the concert can be arranged immediately.
There are only three songs on the second album yet, but the title song has been completed.
When she was working on "Ye Huo", she mostly followed the teachers' arrangements, but for this album, she wanted to start trying to participate in more parts. For example, she wrote the script for this MV herself, and then handed it over to a professional screenwriter for polishing.
In addition to the script, she also participated in the recording and mixing work.
Since the MV for "Failure" requires a lot of post-production, it has to be filmed in advance.
Therefore, although other songs were still in preparation, Lin Luosang chose a weekend with good weather and went to the grassland with the crew to shoot the MV for "Invalidation".
Before leaving, she spoke to Pei Hanzhou, but the man was probably busy at the time and did not respond.
For this shoot, she found a female director, Cheng Ying, who was an expert in using camera language.
There were a lot of preparations to be done before the shoot. Lin Luosang did not sit in the RV to rest, but got out to see the various facilities on site and discussed the director's related lens language with Cheng Ying.
She likes watching movies, so she knows a little about many shooting techniques. Cheng Ying is happy to teach her and suggests that she can shoot some shots.
The title of the song is Invalidation, and the story is closely related to the title. It tells the story of a painter and a designer on a road trip who are attracted to each other and quickly fall in love. They agree that this relationship will only last for seven days, and once they reach their destination, the two will separate.
The tense countdown to their love life and the mystery of their past made them madly attracted to each other. At their last moment, they changed their minds about breaking up in seven days and agreed to reunite in another city. During the month they couldn't see each other, the painter sent her many nostalgic and loving drawings, and the designer created commemorative logos and brochures for them, a sweet and heartwarming experience.
But after meeting again, life is no longer a journey. The once vibrant and irresistible romance is gone, and we return to the mundane daily grind of life, the passion of the past fading. And once we get to know each other, the mystery disappears, the flaws become obvious, and the excitement and love quickly fade.
The ending is naturally a breakup, but when the heroine thinks of this episode many years later, she feels emotional and sighs. When she opens the record and wants to download the paintings that the hero has sent her, she finds that there are three small words "invalidated" behind the files.
In fact, what they like is not each other, but the perfect each other that they have fabricated in their hearts. The more mysterious the other person is, the more room there is for self-awareness to be expressed.
But no one exists to satisfy the perfect image in other people's minds. The more pleasure one gets from self-improvement, the more painful the fall will be when facing reality.
Everything in fantasy will become invalid sooner or later.
——This is the meaning behind Lin Luosang’s writing of this MV.
Cheng Ying and the screenwriter in charge of the revision both liked the script very much, so they simply added some shots of singers based on what Lin Luosang provided, and did not make any changes to the overall storyline.
She was naturally very happy to see her work being recognized and presented in its entirety.
The male and female protagonists of the MV of "Failure" are two newcomers in Lin Luosang's company. Although new, they have good acting skills and can get into the emotions quickly. The first scene of their encounter has a feeling of undercurrents and sparks.
The first half of the MV required a lot of tension. Cheng Ying gave a lot of guidance when she was explaining the play, and Lin Luosang was watching from the side.
It will be her turn in the camera soon.
She needs to take a close-up shot of her singing, which will be edited into the MV later depending on the situation.
After filming for a while, when they got to some simpler shots, Cheng Ying smiled and waved to Lin Luosang: "Would you like to try filming a segment? Just a close-up of the hand from top to bottom will do."
Lin Luosang took the camera eagerly and adjusted to the weight during the intermission.
Filming will begin soon.
Pei Hanzhou's car also arrived at this time. He opened the door and got out. He easily found the two actors who were filming in the center of the crowd.
He could only see the back. At this moment, the heroine was lying on the hero's back, with her legs crossed and feeding him strawberries.
The man narrowed his eyes, and then he remembered that Lin Luosang had told him before that he would participate in the performance, and he was particularly excited at that time.
So she was the one feeding the strawberries? She was excited just to film this scene?
The man took two steps forward, approaching the shooting center, and found that the person lying on the other person's back also had long black curly hair.
Moreover, after looking around the scene, he did not see Lin Luosang among the people sitting nearby.
Seeing the actor filming so close, he even had the urge to throw the actor directly into the river.
Xiao Fan, who was in charge of lighting, was moving with the camera and bumped into something unexpectedly. He looked up and saw a certain capitalist's tightly pursed lips and extremely unhappy expression. A chill ran up from his back and he was so scared that he dropped the lighting board to the ground with a bang.
Lin Luosang heard the noise and poked his head out from behind the camera: "...What happened?"
The male and female protagonists also turned around at this time.
Looking at the two completely different faces, the man's expression finally softened.
He said calmly, "Nothing, his hand slipped."
Xiao Fan: “Huh?”
Facing the man's threatening gaze, Xiao Fan nodded vigorously several times: "Yes, my hand slipped."
…
After rearranging the lighting board, Lin Luosang took a close-up shot and checked it to make sure it looked good before handing the equipment over to a more professional teacher.
"Today's filming of the male and female protagonists is almost complete here," Cheng Ying turned to Lin Luosang, "Now we'll start storyboarding."
Lin Luosang nodded and walked aside to let the makeup artist touch up her makeup. As they were preparing to change the scene, Pei Hanzhou asked, "What are you filming?"
Cheng Ying, standing by, explained, "It's nothing special. It's just a light shining in front of a thin piece of cloth. First, the heroine and hero pull each other's hands, and then there's a push-and-pull between Sangsang and the hero, because her role is to be the perfect lover imagined by the hero."
The man frowned: "She and the male protagonist... push and pull?"
"Yeah, just clap your hands," Cheng Ying took Lin Luosang's hand and demonstrated, "Just like that, reach out from a distance first, then slowly move closer and hold hands, that's all."
Pei Hanzhou: "Who wrote this play?"
"The screenwriter added it." Cheng Ying suddenly realized something and smiled, "You can't even accept holding hands? You don't have the nerve to do it, so just hold hands."
Lin Luosang nodded: "You know, the screenwriter also wants to enrich the picture..."
The man hesitated for a moment, then said, "If there's no face, why can't I take the photo?"
Cheng Ying:?
Lin Luosang:?
The male protagonist, who was listening to the conversation from behind, was stunned for a moment before he asked cautiously, "If I don't shoot that scene, will my money be deducted?"
Pei Hanzhou turned his head and glanced at him, his dark eyes seemed to say, "If you know what's good for you, leave now. I'll give you double the pay."
Then the male lead tactfully left: "Well, in that case, I do have something to do, so I'll leave first. Our arms have similar contours anyway. Okay, then I'm leaving. Goodbye, Director!"
Before everyone could react, the male lead took a ride with the female lead and quickly left the filming location.
Looking at the car's departing figure, Pei Hanzhou lowered his eyes with a look of regret: "What a pity."
"Looks like I'm the only one left to take the photo."
Lin Luosang: “…”
Just after Pei Hanzhou temporarily replaced the male lead, a post titled "I was watching the drama at the shoot of Lin Luosang's MV. It seems that there was an intimate scene that Pei Hanzhou didn't let her shoot. The three parties are at a stalemate and are negotiating a solution. It's so exciting" quickly appeared on a gossip forum.
As time went on, the host began to report in real time:
[Haha ...
[The set is about to begin filming. What kind of storyline could it be that would make President Pei willingly dedicate the first scene on screen? Umbilical cord!]
【??? Filming is finished???】
Is that it? A pure and calm hand-holding shot, or a silhouette? I thought it was some hot boat scene, pants off, okay?!
Everyone who followed the thread was also dazzled by Pei Hanzhou's impressive performance:
This guy is really good. First he used his official account to control comments for his wife, then he made a robot to give his wife an album bonus, and now he is shooting a music video for his wife. #On the Self-cultivation of Vinegar Spirit#
[It's not vinegar essence, it's a vinegar barrel, a thousand-year-old one at that.]
[After hearing what you said, I’m looking forward to the MV even more. I feel like it’s going to be really good~]
As soon as that day ended, the number of reservations for Lin Luosang's album MV on a certain video platform instantly tripled.
Even when she went to Tingcheng to lead the trainees, they asked her, "Teacher, I heard that Master is filming your music video? How did you convince him? He was reluctant to show his face when he came to the practice room before."
As they were talking, someone started to tease Lu Jin again: "Xiao Jin, why aren't you excited when we talk about Master this time?"
Lu Jin sighed, and the trainee next to him said, "After reading that popular post yesterday, she deeply understood that the master-in-law only has eyes for the master-in-law."
"You make it sound like I have some inappropriate thoughts about my master," Lu Jin poked his friend. "I don't! I respect my master very much!"
"I understand. It's just that I haven't seen a man in a long time..."
The laughter in the practice room became louder and louder, but when Lin Luosang turned on the speakers, everyone shut up and returned to their own groups.
After several competitions and activities, there are only thirty trainees left, and the final debut group will be selected in a few weeks.
The competition became more and more tense as it progressed. It was a competition between strong players, so they could not take it lightly.
The upcoming performance is a collaborative stage with the mentors, and each mentor will perform a stage in collaboration with his or her team members.
The director team originally thought that there would be about six people in a team, plus seven mentors, which was exactly the number of people in a group.
Unexpectedly, Lin Luosang's students accounted for half of the total, and as many as twelve of her students were shortlisted in the top 30, so she could only share some of them with other instructors.
Other instructors only need to guide their own students, but Lin Luosang is different. She also has to learn dances from other teams. After all, there are six students who are stranded outside and she needs to give them guidance.
In addition, she is a producer mentor, and it is her responsibility to take care of every student.
Even the director team told her not to make herself so tired when they saw her running back and forth, as she was in competition with other instructors and should just take care of her own students.
But she still felt that she could not let down the trainees' trust, and insisted on giving guidance to each one of them.
Before the performance began, the production team released a lot of footage of Lin Luosang instructing other students. For a time, there was a lot of discussion. In addition to being moved by her dedication to her duties, there were also conspiracy theories.
[She's just trying to sell herself as if she's the best in the world. I mean, what can she say about the Manlan group's ancient style dance and opera? She's just a pop dancer. She's blindly giving instructions to the trainees just to create her own image. The trainees she's hurting are really bad. They won't regress, will they? And she even danced the ancient style dance in this scene. Is she trying to make her opponents look bad because she's not good enough, and then try to make them look bad too?]
As a result, that floor became a gathering place for selfish netizens who believed that "I don't contribute, so others must have other motives for contributing." Over a hundred comments were posted, and fans were too lazy to respond. However, passersby were right on target and left rational comments:
Those who say she's not good probably haven't been online. Have you forgotten that her hit song "Distant Branches" from three or four years ago was a traditional Chinese style song?
There were no new replies in an instant, and the performance with the mentors started on time the next day.
The trainee selection competition is coming to an end. Logically, by this time, the variety show is very popular, the trainees have fans, and the number of fans of the trainees coming to the scene will gradually increase. Who knew that when standing on the stage and watching, the most popular one was still Lin Luosang's Zi Hai.
There was even a quarrel in the comments, saying that their sister worked so hard, why couldn't they buy a ticket to support her in person?!
Fans trying to sneak past the event helplessly replied: "You know how many fans Lin Luosang has? They're rich too! We don't want to go, but they've already sold out all the tickets!! It's been a few shows, and why hasn't Sister Sangren been completely bankrupted yet? How come even Lin Luosang's fans are so wealthy? This isn't the way fans follow their idols!!"
Amid the cheers of the audience, Lin Luosang and the six selected team members walked out.
They were dressed in gauze-like Hanfu, with their slender arms wrapped in a hazy beauty, and a red flower ornament in the middle of their foreheads, which made them extremely beautiful.
Just when Lin Luosang was greeting everyone on their behalf, he faintly heard a roar from the audience: "I declare that this group is the King of Looks!"
After the trainees greeted each other one by one, the lights dimmed.
The audience was waiting for the prelude to sound, but the expected sound was not the accompaniment, but the distant and melodious sound of the guzheng.
"...Who can play the guzheng? Why haven't you shown off such a great skill?"
A spotlight lit up first, focusing on Lin Luosang, and she was surrounded by the pale yellow light, with her arms slowly plucking the strings of the guzheng, with two strands of soft hair hanging down.
Thin lips, willow-shaped eyebrows, slightly raised eyes, and a graceful and elegant temperament.
Most of the trainees’ fans were also her casual fans, and her performances always attracted fans. When the audience saw that it was her who was performing, the cheers almost drowned out the volume of the microphone.
But she was not the first to appear. She sat there and accompanied the trainees for nearly a minute. Then she stood up and sang "The shadows are around us at dusk/The music is in harmony with me every night" and then she retreated.
Every trainee in her group had a solo part, and her time was not long. Standing in the center, she simply produced a fan from behind her in a flash and fanned it lightly twice. Her hair flew lightly, and her light and ethereal voice spread throughout the venue. Then she swayed around the chair twice, smiled at the camera, and gave the focus to other trainees.
She didn't expect that she would become a hot topic like that.
If she hadn't confirmed it with Yue Hui repeatedly, she would really think that it was her own studio that bought the publicity.
Yue Hui was furious: [What the hell, do we have to pay for you to be on the trending search? Please face up to your tendency to attract fans!]
The hot search name is also very simple and crude. Her name is followed by a fan dance. Clicking in, everyone is discussing how this ancient style stage is not inconsistent and very beautiful——
[It's been a while since I've seen such a comfortable and natural ancient style dance. The ladies danced so gracefully, the melody was catchy, and the lyrics were good too. I love it.]
[Honestly, the other mentor collaboration stages were all focused on the mentors, but her team was the only one that really gave the trainees a lot of time to shine. Lin Luosang only had six seconds of personal footage, but she was also the only one whose casual fanning could be so memorable. After watching it for two hours, I couldn't remember anything, only her smile...]
[Yes, I think she was very restrained and didn't want to steal the spotlight, but in those few seconds, she did it casually and became the best of the show.]
[Has no one noticed that she wrote the lyrics and music for this song? She's such a great mentor. She let the trainees sing her own song and signed it with seven people's names. If it were me, I would definitely sing my own song first...]
[Looking back at the crabapple blossoms in spring, the dead branches have their blooming season—a poem written by a beauty, I dedicate it to the beauty herself, woo woo woo.]
[Hasn't anyone said playing the guzheng is beautiful? I probably dared to do this because I'm so popular. I played the accompaniment for over a minute.]
After Lin Luosang finished his work, he sat on the sofa at home, browsing trending searches and reading the audience's feedback. Ji Ning, who was online over there, must have seen it too. He shared the performance in the group and praised it: "It's really beautiful. Hanfu Xiaosang also used the heart attack skill today."
Sheng Qianye also followed suit with a few words of praise, and then found that Lin Luosang had not replied, so he sent her a private message:
【Fortunately, you were not born in ancient times. 】
[Otherwise, she would definitely be a disaster caused by a beautiful woman, and would be remembered by historians for the rest of her life.]
…
Seeing that she still didn't reply, Sheng Qianye was at his wit's end: [Are you really not going to reply to me? You have such a cruel heart.]
[Isn't it because I spoke a little louder that your husband learned my nickname and caused you to suffer? I didn't mean to do that. How do I know he's not happy about getting a perfect score, but upset about the 0.2 deduction?]
The train of thought of unscrupulous capitalists is truly baffling.
【Wuwuwuwu, please don't ignore me. 】
Lin Luosang was about to send a string of ellipsis when he suddenly heard a noise from the kitchen. He then remembered that he had just watched a tutorial and tried to make bitter melon porridge - it was said that there was no way to make it wrong.
As someone who often makes mistakes, she also has a desire to become a cook.
After checking the porridge in the pot, five minutes later, she received another reply from Sheng Qianye -
[Why didn’t you reply to me for so long? How could this happen? You don’t love me anymore. ]
Then Sheng Qianye called and discussed with her for several rounds about love and not love, and promised that he would never speak loudly when Pei Hanzhou was around.
Lin Luosang didn't really blame her. The two of them exchanged a few pleasantries and then hung up the phone.
After hanging up the phone, she opened the lid of the pot and found that it was almost cooked, so she served herself a bowl.
Just as it was brought to the living room, Pei Hanzhou came back.
The man looked at the white and green thing in her hand and asked, "What are you fiddling with?"
"You can't go wrong with this staple food," Lin Luosang said solemnly, "Bitter melon porridge, would you like to try it?"
Then, without giving the man a chance to refuse, she pushed him to the edge of the table and pressed the spoon into his hand.
Pei Hanzhou: “…”
The atmosphere remained silent for five minutes. Looking at the man's expression, Lin Luosang seemed to be lost in thought. Sheng Qianye's words flashed through his mind, and he nodded weakly and helplessly.
"Okay, you don't love me anymore."
Pei Hanzhou: "I love you, but I can't eat this."
"Why isn't this—"
She reacted halfway through and turned around in horror: "What did you say?"
The man said calmly, "I said I can't eat this."
"No," she induced hopefully, "the previous sentence of this."
The man pondered for a while, and then seemed to finally react. His Adam's apple suddenly rolled, and he turned his eyes away and coughed twice: "I forgot."
“…”
Haha, what a shit man.
Not only did she refuse to drink the porridge, she also refused to speak!
Fortunately, Lin Luosang was not a person who held grudges. He quickly finished the bowl of porridge and communicated with the man about what had happened recently without holding any grudges.
She had performed on stage today and was feeling very tired. Not long after, she took off the upright pillow and placed it behind her head, then closed her eyes and prepared to sleep.
She just closed her eyes and thought about her stage, and recalled it again in her mind. About a minute later, she suddenly felt that the warm yellow light in front of her was covered by a shadow.
There was a clamor of lights outside the window, and the man tucked in the corner of the quilt for her.
Then, she heard a very soft sound, like a feather falling beside her ear.
He said, "I love you."
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