desire
Jing Shengxi studied with Wang Ge until very late.
He walked in quietly, and Li Li turned on his cell phone to illuminate him.
"You didn't sleep."
"I'm afraid I can't hear you knocking. The building has a power outage right now, so please keep an eye on it."
Jing Shengxi said yes, and with the help of the faint light from his phone screen, he found the bed on the ground. As soon as he lay down, he felt something and immediately stood up and asked, "Give me the quilt. What are you covering yourself with?"
"It's cold on rainy days. I gave you the mattress underneath. It's okay. This company has two layers of mattresses and one layer of sponge. It's not a big deal."
Unable to see Jing Shengxi's expression in the dark night, Li Li felt that being alone in a room with him was really restrictive for her, and she couldn't relax at all, so she said first: "Let's go to sleep. Tomorrow we will go back after watching the rain."
Jing Shengxi must have been lying down. He said okay and then asked in a particularly literary way, "Li Li, how long do you think it will take for the typhoon and rainstorm to end?"
"I don't know. I'm not a weather expert."
"Li Lai, Director Wang asked me to come to the company every Tuesday to study, and he also gave me three songs to arrange."
This time it was Li Lai's turn to sit up. He thought for a long time and searched all the words, only to find that only "awesome" could express his shock.
"That's amazing! I checked it out online. You're like Sun Wukong receiving personal instruction from Patriarch Bodhi. Your ascension to the music world is just around the corner. When you become rich and powerful, don't forget me."
Jing Shengxi was amused by Li Li's exaggerated reaction. He said, "What makes me happiest right now is that I don't have to borrow money from you every month. Also, thank you so much today. If it weren't for you, I might have missed this opportunity again."
"What nonsense are you talking about? You are already very good. Even if Director Wang doesn't appreciate you today, you will be discovered by other big names and seniors. Don't underestimate yourself."
There were only the two of them in the empty room. If they didn't talk, the room would be quiet, so quiet that they even had to regulate their breathing.
"If, I mean if, suppose I really return to the stage, will you continue to support me like you do now?"
"Hmm..." Li Li thought about it seriously.
The first thing that came to her mind was that she was eliminated and had to leave the TV station. She was carrying a heavy luggage bag on her back. The luggage was so heavy that she had to lower her head and bend her waist due to the pressure.
When passing by the bus stop, I saw Jing Shengxi in the center of the promotional poster.
It's so annoying. Jing Shengxi was appreciated by the music director, but when will I be appreciated by the director or agent?
I am jealous of him, but then I think about how good he is, so how can I be jealous?
"As long as you don't forget me, I will continue to support you."
"Then be my agent. I mean it."
Jing Shengxi suddenly lay down on the bed, very seriously. He had already included Li Li in his future: "If you become my manager, I will be very motivated. I will be able to stand on the stage soon, and then you won't have to fight with the old men and women for discounted goods."
The room became quiet again. Jing Shengxi, who was so excited, didn't care about the silence, and was still happily talking about the blueprint for the future.
Li Lai would carry the latest platinum bag to discuss cooperation, and when she was unhappy, she would go to Paris to feed pigeons, go on vacation to the Maldives, go to Africa to see elephants, and fly first class to drink expensive red wine...
After saying a lot, I noticed that Li Li didn't say anything.
He then realized the problem and carefully asked Li Li if she was unhappy.
"I'm not unhappy, but my goal is to be at this star-studded awards ceremony, to go through a fierce competition with a host of nominees, and to receive everyone's applause and congratulations on winning the Best Actress award."
"Don't you want to be a singer? A star?"
"No, my original goal was to become an actor. I participated in the debut variety show. The staff told me that I could become an actor, so I went to participate."
Li Lai wanted to be a star. She had wanted to be a star since she was a child, running to chase the Changgeng Star in the sky.
She wants to be a star that is both bright and eternal.
While pursuing her dream, she discovered that what she loved most was being an actor.
A profession that wants to express dreams and fantasies through herself.
Jing Shengxi got a pretty good part-time job. Although it only earned him a little over a thousand yuan more a month, it at least solved the problem of food money.
When seeing Jing Shengxi coming to his door with fresh shrimps, Li Lai suspected that these were food props from the crew and that he had picked up the shrimps, but he never thought that these were fresh shrimps he had bought himself.
"Did you win the lottery, or did you help an old lady cross the street? You actually bought seafood back."
In the past, the two of them ate boxed lunches from the crew every day, and even if they bought groceries and cooked, they would only cook the simplest ones.
Jing Shengxi is even more exaggerated than her, eating noodles with egg sauce every day.
"I can't just buy it myself," Jing Shengxi said, laughing angrily. "I got my salary and wanted to improve our lives with you."
"Sure, please come in." Li Lai enthusiastically let Jing Shengxi into the room, then took out his phone and said to the person on the other end, "I have shrimps here, you can buy some other food."
"Have you made an appointment?" Jing Shengxi saw that Li Li had prepared a lot of things.
"We have a dinner party today. You know some of the people here. Stay and have dinner with us. It will be more lively with more people."
Li Li walked into the kitchen to clean the shrimps, and did not forget to find some work for Jing Shengxi: "Find all the slippers and brush them, they will be here soon."
Jing Shengxi nodded and did as Li Li asked.
Li Lai was busy processing shrimps when the phone calls came in one after another. Some asked Li Lai what she had bought, while others saw roast goose and roast duck and asked which ones to bring.
"Jing Shengxi, do you like roast goose or roast duck?"
Jing Shengxi, who was cleaning shoes, looked up and said, "Let's have roast goose. Didn't someone say they wanted some duck?"
Li Li said yes and asked the person on the other end of the phone to bring roast goose.
Near noon, people came to visit one after another, all holding food in their hands. They were not surprised to see Jing Shengxi at home. Even if they didn’t know each other, they could still chat for a few more words. The main point was that since you know Li Li, you also know me.
People who knew Jing Shengxi told him that their small team would get together from time to time to keep in touch. Some of them continued to be actors in the crew, while others had changed careers and had been arranged with stable jobs by their families.
"After all, in this line of work, if you can't see any hope, it's really frustrating."
With twelve people attending the party, the small room was soon packed and there were not even enough stools for everyone to sit on. Jing Shengxi remembered that there were a few stools in his room and went upstairs to get some.
When I came back, I saw two girls standing at the door hugging each other and acting coquettishly. Li Li was calling each other "baby" in a greasy way.
Jing Shengxi put the stool down with a pout, then looked at the people in the room who all looked as if they were used to it, then picked up the stool again and asked Li Li, "Li Li, are these stools enough? If not, we can go ask the landlord to borrow some."
"That's enough. That's enough."
When Li Li turned her head, Jing Shengxi saw three or four red lip marks on her cheeks.
My heart suddenly broke.
"Are you Jing Shengxi?"
Jing Shengxi nodded, lowered his head, moved the stool and said nothing.
The girl asked Li Li in a frivolous way: "I have a beautiful girl in my golden house, but you have a beautiful girl upstairs."
Li Lai understood the misunderstanding and laughed heartily, "He's our group leader's darling, and he lives upstairs from me now." She turned around and introduced him to Jing Shengxi, "He came here a year before me, and he's now a special guest actor on the crew. The guy over there cooking fish is his boyfriend, the crew's cameraman."
Jing Shengxi!!!
Girls' friendship is so straightforward.
It was very lively when more than a dozen people were having a meal together. After taking a few bites of the food, they would think of something interesting and express it in an exaggerated way at the table.
Jing Shengxi sat next to Li Li, watching a group of people imitating someone's embarrassing moments, complaining about the differences between them in the atmosphere at the dinner table, and then talking about the names of people they all hated. He just hated that he only had one mouth, chattering and complaining non-stop, wondering how there could be such annoying people in this world.
Jing Shengxi was listening happily on the side, and he didn't know where it started, but he also joined in. One of the people was a good friend of both of them, and he patted him on the shoulder and said.
"You don't know, when Li Lai was eliminated, the reporter asked her how she felt. She said it was because she wasn't capable enough and that she would work harder in the future. She acted very strong in front of the camera. But after the show, she burst into tears when she saw us and said she would never participate in a variety show again."
"I remember that month, Li Lai just cried and asked us if her singing was bad and why she was eliminated."
"Her singing isn't bad, it's just not pleasant."
"Hahaha," Li Li, who was teased, didn't get angry. He said, "And then you know what? At that time, I said I wouldn't read the relevant news, but in fact, I would search for it myself at night, read it for a while, and then become emo for a while, which made me feel uncomfortable."
Jing Shengxi covered his mouth and smiled as he watched Li Lai make fun of the embarrassing incident of being eliminated. Only the person involved knew the subtle emotions in his heart.
At 5pm, someone said, "Okay, okay, stop drinking, or you'll miss out on tomorrow's important work."
When they looked at the time, everyone at the table immediately changed from their extravagant appearance to a serious look.
Someone pulled out a black leather notebook from his bag and handed it to Li Lai: "This is where you'll record your spending for last month. This month, you'll be in charge of the charity work, so it's your turn to be the accountant."
"It's still the same old rules. The minimum per person is 300. If you have more, take more. If you have less, take less. Jing Shengxi, you..."
The scene content changed too quickly, and Jing Shengxi didn't know what was going on, and Li Li was talking on the side.
"We have to donate money to the orphanage every month. Would you like to contribute your own efforts?"
Jing Shengxi then realized that this group of people had a dinner together every month. In order to ensure the transparency and notarization of donations to their "private charity group", someone would keep accounts every month.
"Then I'll donate 500."
Jing Shengxi saw Li Li write his name stroke by stroke with a black carbon pen, followed by Li Li, who donated 600.
"Excuse me everyone, I made a small profit this month, and I'm going to donate one thousand." The guest actor straightened his neck and said, "Plus fifty school bags."
"My mother-in-law is sick this month, so I'll take 300 yuan. I'll help out when the time comes."
"Okay, okay." Li Li wrote each person's name stroke by stroke.
Their donations may be a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of entrepreneurs, but kindness is not divided into high and low, and they are also actively contributing their love when they are able to do so.
And meeting this group of equally kind friends around them is fate's reward to them.
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