Starlight is not as good as your allure
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
She didn't understand that it turns out that you should be safe and delicate with the person you love the most.
At the end of the premiere, there was a heavy rain.
Nearly ten o'clock, outside the bright lights of the porch of the venue, it was a dark and damp rainy night.There was a lot of voices at the entrance, and the media personnel withdrew one after another, trapped under the eaves by the menacing rain.
In the noisy rain, the background music in the venue can also be heard - the theme song of the movie "The Sleeping Wind", melodious Scottish bagpipes and French folk tunes.
Film critics called it a success of a literary film.
"Director Lai Zhicheng's new work, the independent film "Sleep Wind", which won the award at the Berlin Film Festival and returned to China, can be rated as nine points in terms of picture and narrative. As for the leading role, newcomer Ye Qiao took the leading role alone, and it was an unexpected success. This actress has an oriental quality. The charm of the film and the tension of modernity interpret the lonely and clear spirit of the film's deaf-mute heroine in a blend of soul and flesh."
"And, she has a very attractive body."
Ye Qiao stepped on high heels and walked in the empty underground garage.
In the empty echo, the taillights of the car in front suddenly lit up.The driver honked the horn.
License plate 6379, Director Lai's car.Ye Qiao waved lightly to the people in the car and walked over following the sound.The person in the back seat opened the safety lock for her in a gentlemanly manner. Ye Qiao held the car door and was about to open it...but his calf suddenly stiffened.
The spasm was accompanied by sharp pain and throbbed straight to the apex of the heart.
Ye Qiao leaned over slightly to relieve the sharp pain of cramping.
Director Lai, who was sitting in front, saw that she hadn't moved for a long time, and asked in confusion, "Hey, what happened?"
The person in the back seat had already gotten out of the car from his own side, walked around the rear of the car and arrived at her side, with a low and gentle voice: "Cramp again?"
Ye Qiao gritted her teeth and gave him a look, and said, "It's okay."
Regardless of her obvious resistance, Gu Jin squatted down and supported her leg: "Which foot is it?"
"Left foot..."
She is wearing a skirt today, which is as short as her knees.The man's generous and warm palm pinched her white and tender calf, with neither light nor heavy force, skillfully massaged her: "Does it still hurt?"
Ye Qiao frowned, a little reluctantly: "Be better."
Gu Jin chuckled: "Eat more. Your legs are as thin as your arms."
Ye Qiao took a deep breath and said in a cold tone, "It's none of your business."
Director Lai, who didn't know the situation, opened the door of the front seat, leaned back, and said, "What's wrong, you're having cramps?"
"Yeah." Ye Qiao smiled apologetically, "I just smoked for some reason."
Gu Jin responded naturally: "It's okay, she often does this."
Ye Qiao's smile faltered.
Director Lai couldn't figure out the weird atmosphere between the two of them, so he closed the door and sat down.
Gu Jin is Director Lai's favorite protégé. He followed Director Lai in the film crew in the early years. Now he is a dark horse among emerging directors. Because he has caught the appetite of young people, the box office response in the past two years is even better than that of Director Lai who insists on serious themes. outperformed.
Director Lai introduced Ye Qiao to Gu Jin.
It's just that Director Lai doesn't care about gossip in middle age, and he doesn't know when the two juniors saw each other.Of course it's not clear, they just broke up half a month ago.
The process of breaking up was peaceful, as common as graduation.
But it doesn't mean that you can get along happily.
As soon as Ye Qiao recovered, he withdrew his leg and half-limped into the car.Gu Jin stood up gracefully and sat back in the car.The two were next to each other, and Gu Jin looked at her with "why bother" written all over his eyes.
Director Lai smiled heartily: "I heard that you lost a few pounds while filming this movie, Xiao Qiao. It's all the director's fault. Eat more at the banquet later!"
Of course, the celebration banquet should eat more.
Ye Qiao doesn't like to socialize, and he prefers to eat more and talk less in this kind of occasion, and occasionally chats with the main creator of the "Sleeping Wind" crew.Because of this temperament, he is often photographed at banquets with his head buried in his meal.It's just that Gu Jin's presence today somewhat affected his appetite.
But Gu Jin, as Director Lai's protégé, specially came to the premiere to join him, so he was naturally arranged at the main table.Ye Qiao sat next to him, and the whole table lost its appeal to her.
I had no choice but to drink in silence.
After Director Lai finished his speech on stage, the audience applauded and applauded, and there was another round of toasting.Ye Qiao filled the glass and followed the whole table to get up, but was stopped by Gu Jin raising his hand: "You drank too much."
Ye Qiao sneered, at first he only wanted to take a sip, but he did it to the end, pinching the empty glass with two fingers and shaking it at him twice, silently provoking.
Gu Jin smiled helplessly, and this time he really said: "Why bother."
Ye Qiao sat down casually: "You care too much."
As soon as she sat down, Gu Jin gave her vegetables again, which were all light and not greasy hangover dishes: "I came from Yangcheng and visited your father on the way." He looked at her like an ignorant child, " Your father has been in poor health recently, and Aunt Cheng has been taking care of him."
"Enough." Ye Qiao put down her chopsticks, "Gu Jin, what identity are you speaking with now?"
"It has nothing to do with identity." When she first met Gu Jin, she felt that he was too stable and mature, causing him to frown, and she felt that it was herself who was wrong.He taught her with her familiar expression, "Mr. Xu Zang is a man of the wind and the moon, what do you have against him?"
Ye Qiao looked at him in disbelief, and smiled instead of anger: "You like my dad so much, what did you talk to him when you visited him? Did you tell him that you just broke up with his daughter, did you tell him that you are half Find a new one in less than a month?"
"Ye Qiao."
"Don't call me by my name. I'm sick."
Ye Qiao walked away with her hands. Just as she stood up, her calf twitched slightly again.
"Be careful." Gu Jin wanted to help her, but she stepped forward to block him.Because the movement was too large, the mahogany chair that was knocked away made a blunt dragging sound on the ground.
Tired of the muddy sound, she endured the throbbing pain and strode out.
The sound of high heels is neat and rhythmic, as if it can get away from everything.
She doesn't have her own car in Lingcheng.It rained heavily as soon as I went out, and no driver took the order on Uber with five times the tip.She simply hid in the bus booth closest to the hotel.
The traffic in the city was paralyzed, and the booths were full of commuters who couldn't wait for the bus. No one noticed her.
A large poster of "The Sleeping Wind" scrolled on the billboard behind.In one scene with ambiguous light, the girl she played was completely nude.A faint yellow light penetrates through the screen window in the picture. On the girl's smooth back, only the butterfly bone is obviously protruding.
When the stills first came out, Gu Jin once praised gently: "Your bones are acting."
Thunder rumbled, and the rain was getting heavier.
Ye Qiao lightly stomped on his aching left foot, feeling that this scene was extremely ironic.The solitude she displayed with all her acting skills was nothing compared to a hair of reality.
In the dark night, the screen of the mobile phone suddenly lit up, and a WeChat message came in: "Ah, cousin, are you in Ming Palace? People nearby show that we are only 500 meters away."
The sender is her cousin Qianxi, who has an out-of-the-ordinary personality and has her own climax BGM (background sound).
Ye Qiao replied to her: "Yes."
Qian Xi burst into a burst of emoticons: "Is there any leftovers? All takeaways at my house are closed. I just got off the night shift and I'm starving [crying]."
Ye Qiao looked at the screen and let out a laugh: "..."
Qian Xi: "[Crying] [Crying] [Crying] Is there really no?"
"I can buy food for you." Ye Qiao leaned forward and glanced at the motionless traffic, "But I can't get a taxi now, and I don't have an umbrella."
Qianxi: "It's not—it's—it's—ah! I'll pick you up on a motorcycle!"
Twenty or ten minutes later, a little girl was seen riding a fluorescent-colored motorcycle, rushing over at high speed, and stopped in front of Ye Qiao, making a screeching sound of brakes.
Qian Xi patted the car seat: "Come on, get in the car!"
Ye Qiao: "..." Picking up the disposable raincoat in the basket of her car, she put on her gloves.
The small electric motorcycle was turned into a Ferrari by Qianxi, and it arrived downstairs at her house in 5 minutes.
But Ye Qiao was still drowned.
Qianxi smiled apologetically while parking the car: "I can't help it, it's raining too much." After speaking, he took the disposable lunch box Ye Qiao was holding, and sighed while inserting the key, "Oh, I really haven't seen anything bigger than that." You miserable female star! Delivering food to people on a rainy night, and you can only sit on a motorcycle hahahaha!"
Ye Qiao took a deep breath and endured her...but she was smiling in her heart.
Qianxi rents in an old-fashioned residential area, and the bathroom is connected to the bedroom next door.
Ye Qiao borrowed her bathroom to take a hot shower, and there were constant groans from the other side of the wall.The man's voice was shattered by the rushing water, only the girl's charming laughter could be heard clearly.
Very young voice.
Ye Qiao turned off the water, wiped her hair and went out.Qian Xi was sitting cross-legged in front of the computer, puffing out her mouth to eat the meal she brought, when she saw her, she said, "Ahhh, Ming Gong's deep-fried prawns are so delicious! I haven't eaten a normal dish for a long time! You Do you know how unpalatable the canteen of the hospital where I practiced is? It’s really unpalatable."
Ye Qiao: "Then why did you go to medical school?"
"Cousin, didn't you also go to a film school..." Qian Xi muttered unconvinced.
Qianxi’s dream since she was a child was to be an angel in white. She disregarded her family’s objections in the college entrance examination and was admitted to the Department of Nursing of Beijing Medical University. Two books, but our medical school is linked to Peking University! When you go out, you can still say that you are from Peking University!"
Ye Qiao found a bottle of mineral water in her bedroom, sat across from her, and handed it to her: "Well, a talented student from Peking University, twist it for me."
Like some kind of omen.Qian Xi muttered, "You female stars can't even unscrew the cap of the bottle." While unscrewing the cap, a loud "bang" suddenly came from the next door.
Qian Xi was stunned, holding fried shrimp in oil, "What's going on, is the bed next door collapsed?"
Ye Qiao poured two pills into the palm of his hand and swallowed them with water: "Do you often do this next door?"
Qian Xi understood what "this" was like, and blushed: "There is a female student living next door. Really, she looks like a high school student. But she brings a man back every three days..."
As he spoke, there were two more "ping-pong" sounds, and two men cursed loudly from the opposite side.
Qian Xi clicked her tongue: "This must be being raped?"
Ye Qiao poured two more pills into the palm of her hand, and just about to swallow it, Qian Xi grabbed her wrist and shook it: "It seems like someone is fighting. Cousin... you can sleep with me tonight, I dare not sleep alone like this next door. "
"You shook my last two pills." Ye Qiao picked up the white pills from the ground, "I just met Gu Jin tonight. If you don't take the medicine, you might have a heart attack."
Qian Xi almost cried: "I didn't study pathology well, don't lie to me."
Ye Qiao laughed, "It's just Valium." She packed her bag and got up, "Is there a pharmacy nearby? I'll go out and buy it."
"Turn left when you get out of the neighborhood... the umbrella is on the shoe cabinet at the door."
Ye Qiao opened the door and wanted to hold an umbrella, but found that the rain had stopped.
There are sporadic lights in the residential area, and there is moisture floating in the dark night, and the sky is like spun cloth soaked by rain.A man stood under the street lamp at the door, a long and narrow shadow was drawn out by the dim light.
A man with a handsome face.There was a faint blood stain on his forehead, and his whole body was drenched by the rain. The three-buttoned shirt was limply stuck to his chest, revealing his firm and powerful muscles.On his slender fingers was a thin golden ring, and the cigarette butts were flickering on his fingertips.
The door of the next room was ajar, and a slender light just extended to his feet, silently signaling something.
Ye Qiao raised her eyebrows, recalling the harsh sentences she heard in the corner of the wall when she was taking a bath.
It's hard to imagine that this man, who looks so calm, is so dirty on the bed.
Ye Qiao put the umbrella on the porch, put his hands in his pockets and walked forward.
When passing by, the man suddenly stopped her.
Ye Qiao slightly turned his shoulders: "Huh?"
He stubbed out the cigarette on the trash can: "Is there a pharmacy nearby?"
It turned out that when he was awake, his voice was so low that it sounded like a lover's desire.There are indeed some people in this world who are naturally charming, regardless of body or soul.
Ye Qiao glanced up and smiled inexplicably: "Yes." She happened to be going there, "Take you there?"
The two walked one after the other on a wet and cool rainy night, their tall and thin shadows appeared in the stagnant water.
Ye Qiao lowered her head and carefully avoided every puddle.
Suddenly a voice came from above the head: "You look very familiar."
Ye Qiao looked up and chuckled, "I'm an actor." They passed by the station at the entrance of the community, and Ye Qiao stopped deliberately, facing the circular electronic billboard.
After waiting three times before scrolling to "The Sleeping Wind", it was the poster with the naked back.
Ye Qiao didn't realize it was this poster before, and the other party's eyes darkened, and the atmosphere was a little delicate for a while.She had no choice but to pretend to be relaxed, and tapped the screen with her fingers: "This is it."
Zhou Ting rubbed his fingers on the cold and smooth electronic screen, stared at it for a few seconds, and said, "It's not because of this." Turning around, he licked the corner of his mouth angrily, "But it's very beautiful."
His voice was a little hoarse, and the faint smell of tobacco was soaked in the night wind, which was cool and sexy. The word "beautiful" was used in this still photo, which suddenly gave rise to a thousand turns of ambiguous seduction—maybe it was because she had just heard a wonderful corner scene.
Ye Qiao opened her mouth and continued walking without making a sound.
How did you forget that he was such a person?She actually explained it seriously, and the other party might just be chatting up in a cliché.
The green signboard of the 24-hour pharmacy is very eye-catching in the dark.
The two walked in side by side, and the drowsy clerk woke up a lot.
Ye Qiao read the obvious ambiguous meaning from the salesperson's eyes——it's late at night, handsome men and beautiful women, come to the pharmacy, what else can I buy?
Zhou Tingshen obviously also read the meaning, but he didn't speak for a long time.
Ye Qiao suddenly felt a little disgusted, and said coolly, "A bottle of Valium."
"Is there a prescription?"
"Yeah." Ye Qiao took it out of his pocket.
Zhou Tingshen bought medical alcohol, anti-inflammatory tablets, and a pack of Band-Aids.
The salesperson was very disappointed with the expression of "you have to take off your pants, just show me this".It wasn't until they saw the name on Ye Qiao's prescription and compared their faces that the gossip was rekindled in their eyes: "Ye Qiao? Are you the Ye Qiao who played in "Sleep Wind" in the new movie recently?"
Ye Qiao gave a low "hmm" and said, "Is the medicine ready?"
"Okay!" The salesperson's smile became more enthusiastic.
Zhou Tingshen paid the money first.Ye Qiao took the medicine to the cashier, ready to part ways with him, but the man who had already left the house suddenly turned back, strode to the counter, and grabbed the salesman's hand hidden underneath.
Surprised by this turn of events, Ye Qiao looked sideways.
The sales girl struggled and shouted, "Let go! What are you doing?"
There was no emotion in the man's eyes. He opened her tightly clasped fingers and deleted the last two photos on her phone. "You're insane, mind your own business..." The little girl yelled and cursed twice, the word "matter" still choked in her throat, she was swept away by his piercingly cold gaze, and fell silent.
Ye Qiao watched quietly, and met his eyes - the way he frowns and stares at people is frightening, like some kind of beast in the dense forest, so fierce that it seems to be born with blood.
He let go of the little girl's hand and rubbed her red wrist, the pain was so painful that tears were about to come out.Isn't it just secretly taking a picture of a female star and a man visiting a drugstore and posting it to Moments?As for?She stared at him and cursed "crazy" in a low voice.
Ye Qiao probably understood what happened, and exchanged glances with him, without saying much.Even to help her, she felt that he was a little too cruel.
After she paid the bill and went out, her slightly irritable mood was blown by the night wind and calmed down a lot. She turned her head and said to him, "Thank you."
"No need." Zhou Tingshen sat down on the flower bed by the roadside, opened the medicine boxes one by one, swallowed the anti-inflammatory medicine in one gulp, and dipped himself in alcohol expressionlessly.
Ye Qiao put his hands in his pockets and watched quietly.
There were more wounds on his body than on the surface, and there was a scratch on his right shoulder near his neck, making it extremely difficult to apply medicine.But he finished it quickly anyway, being just as rude to himself as a desperado.
It's just that even the outlaws are a little bit off when it comes to putting on the Band-Aid.
Ye Qiao went up to take the Band-Aid: "Let me help you."
She tore off the plastic sheet and leaned over to help him paste it.
The heads and necks intersect at close range, and they can clearly smell each other's scent—the sweet, after-bathing scent in a woman's hair.It was mixed with the man's damp medical alcohol smell, mixed with a faint smell of smoke and blood.
It was obviously not a pleasant smell, but Ye Qiao didn't dislike it.Maybe it's because his body is warm, his slightly rough skin is not as delicate as a woman's, and he has a natural sense of trustworthiness in male animals.
Unfortunately, this is often an illusion.
"All right."
She straightened up and collected all the boxes he tore off into a plastic bag: "Did you throw it away?"
He lit a cigarette again, squinted his eyes and looked at her: "OK."
Ye Qiao turned around bluntly, walked for a while, and threw the bag of garbage in the community recycling bin.
Under Zhou Ting's deep and quiet eyes, her back suddenly stopped, and she took out her mobile phone from her pocket, her delicate back visibly stiffened.
There are several missed calls on the screen, and a text message.
Ye Qiao didn't even look at it, but dragged the text message into the trash can, and blocked the contact.
As a result, when I got back to the house, Qianxi was sitting in the living room, making a phone call submissively: "Ah, she is here, yes, it's fine, she went out to buy medicine. Ah, she's in a normal mood, it's a normal medicine, Yep……"
Ye Qiao went straight to grab the phone: "Gu Jin, how long are you going to linger?"
Before the other party could speak, she cut off the signal.
Qianxi welcomed her to the sofa: "Ah, cousin, don't be angry... I didn't answer his phone on purpose. He said that you came out of the celebration banquet in the middle, and no one answered the phone at home, so I'm afraid you won't think about it..."
Ye Qiao sneered, "Must I be so self-righteous? How old am I, and I would jump off the building with my hands apart?" She tried her best to endure it, and wanted to take a Valium tablet, but her hands trembled physiologically, and she spilled the white pill on her palm.
"Shua".Sounds like the pouring of days past.
"Don't, don't, don't!" Qian Xi snatched the medicine back, "If you take too much of this medicine, you'll fall into the hands of a scumbag! My dear cousin!"
I didn't fall asleep until the middle of the night.
Half asleep, Ye Qiao heard a call from Qianxi, and lowered her voice on the balcony: "Auntie, yes, she is here. It's fine, she took her medicine on time, and she's asleep right now...it's okay, I Live alone, no trouble!"
Ye Qiao closed her eyes, suddenly extremely tired.
Qianxi's voice on the phone could be heard intermittently: "Oh, my cousin is usually a calm person, but something is wrong when I meet Gu Jin. Hey, don't worry, I will definitely take good care of her!"
"My cousin has had this disease. It's not easy to work alone outside. Please forgive her..."
Her heart was beating rhythmically in the dark night, and she could clearly hear the sound of blood surging in her body, one after another, like a heavy hammer hitting the eardrum.
It seemed to remind her that this heart was not her own.She has to spare her life.
She couldn't escape fate.
Early the next morning, Qianxi's boyfriend came to pick her up from work and took Ye Qiao home by the way.The heart surgeon was as old as her: "I heard from Qianxi that Ms. Ye has had a heart transplant?"
"Ah."
"How many years?"
"ten years."
Dr. Fu was stunned for a moment: "At that time, the heart transplant technology was not very mature, and it was rare for Ms. Ye to recover so well."
He wanted to continue, but Qianxi pushed him, so he concentrated on driving and didn't pay attention: "The actor's business is often reversed day and night, and the cold winter and hot summer are filming, which is very detrimental to the recovery of patients. If Ms. Ye has a better choice, she should consider changing careers." .”
When the car arrived at Ye Qiao's house, Qianxi hurriedly chased him down to apologize: "Cousin, don't be angry, I just casually mentioned that one of my sisters had a heart transplant, but he remembered it unexpectedly. Talk about your own research direction.”
Ye Qiao smiled lightly: "It's okay. It can be seen that he is very kind to you, and he will pick you up early in the morning."
"It's okay." Qian Xi chuckled, "You're not young anymore, and no one will dare to marry you when you become popular in the future. Hurry up and find me a new cousin-in-law!"
Ye Qiao didn't say a word.Qian Xi immediately felt that she had said something wrong, and when she was about to correct her, Ye Qiao said, "I will look for it. It's just that I haven't met anyone who can make up for it."
Once upon a time, she felt that Gu Jin was just someone who could make do with it.
Now there is no such arrogance.
It's no wonder that the few times he quarreled the most, he said that she was out of gold and jade in the middle of it.He looks sensible and sensible on the outside, but he is self-willed in private, and he doesn't know how to live a safe and delicate life.
She didn't understand that it turns out that you should be safe and delicate with the person you love the most.
After being washed overnight by the rain, the greenery in the community is somewhat messy.Downstairs in the unit where she lived, there was a Xifu Begonia plant, which had been beaten to a wilted state, and the juice of the fruit had melted into the grass.
Ye Qiao stepped into the gate, pressed the elevator floor, and looked down at the phone.
The manager dragged her into a new wechat group called "Watchmen", with more than a dozen members, the first one being Gu Jin.
The contacts deleted last night returned to her world in this way.what else can we do?The contract signed at the beginning, because the director was Gu Jin, even though she was a third girl, she had to go to the rural areas of southern Shanxi to shoot, so she readily accepted it, and the asking price was very low.
Thinking about it now, it is the stupidest thing in the world for a woman to lower her self-worth.
The elevator reached the 23rd floor, and the doors on both sides opened simultaneously.In a daze, she walked forward subconsciously, and pressed the six-digit code on the combination lock—"Di".
With a "click", the door opened.
Ye Qiao looked up and was stunned - the house number is 2302, this is not her apartment.
She couldn't react for a while.There is an expensive oil painting hanging at the end of the porch of this house, which is indeed not the decoration of her house.She went wrong.
But why is the door open?
Just as she was in a daze for a moment, a ferocious dog barked from inside the room.A German black back rushed out with lightning speed, and the cloudy eyes were full of hostility towards the strange intruder.
The alarm bells rang loudly in Ye Qiao's mind, and he suddenly felt something was wrong.
Her first instinct was to close the door.
However, just as the hand reached out to touch the handle, the black-backed dog had already pounced on the door and bit her wrist.She withdrew her hand in pain, the tiger's mouth was already marked with bloody canine teeth marks, a heart-pounding pain hit her, and her entire arm was numb.
The German Blackback is a military dog. It stood up to her shoulders and rushed forward, with almost no room to dodge.Ye Qiao stuck the door frame back, and retreated step by step towards the entrance of 2302, shouting as he retreated, "Is anyone there?"
Heibei pressed on step by step, his cloudy eyes gleamed, as if he would bite again at any moment.
Ye Qiao's entire back was tense, and he bumped into the cabinet at the end of the hallway: "Is anyone there?"
"Wang!"
Heibei rushed forward again.Ye Qiao didn't care about other things, and swept the contents of the cabinet on the ground, and the candlestick under the Jesus statue shattered.Ye Qiao grabbed a lighter in a panic and threw it hard on the head.The black back fell down in pain, staggered back two steps, but stared at her crazily with blood red eyes.
She almost wanted to give up and let it tear her skin, or her throat.The decomposed bloody imagination turned out to be like the wish she had been looking forward to in her body, stirring in her blood.
At the same time, a shout came from the side: "Desa!"
Heibei stopped attacking immediately, fell on the ground, and let out a soft whine from his throat.
Ye Qiao turned her head vigilantly. The tall man put on his shirt with one hand, and before he could button it, he quickly approached under her dazed eyes.The wallpaper facing her is covered with ancient religious patterns, woven into a medieval crucifix in the style of the Holy See.
He is half naked, his stretched muscles are filled with the primitive power advocated by ancient Greece and Rome, like a classical statue, there is a strange harmony with the mural behind him.
It was the man from last night.
The statue stood beside her, loosened her clasped fingers, put the things in her hands back to their original places, and looked at her eyes full of inquiry: "Miss Ye?"
He actually remembered her.
Ye Qiao's eyes widened.She also recognized him, but the accident just now made her heart beat so hard, she opened her mouth but found that she didn't know his name, and she couldn't speak for a while.
Zhou Tingshen took the door behind him, caught a glimpse of her bleeding hand from the corner of his eye, and frowned slightly: "Been bitten?"
Ye Qiao just came back to her senses, and when she moved her hand, there was a tingling pain. She didn't care about explaining how she broke in, and nodded, "Is there any water?"
Her wound was deep and required copious washing with clean water.
When touching the water, it feels like being pricked by countless needles until the pain gradually becomes numb.Ye Qiao collected her thoughts and said, "Sorry, I live opposite your door, and I went in the wrong direction when I got out of the elevator. There seems to be something wrong with the lock of your house, I don't know why it can be opened."
Zhou Tingshen interrupted her: "What password did you enter?"
"679352."
"This is my password."
Ye Qiao: "..."
This too strange fate made her forget all the words she was going to explain next.
Zhou Tingshen helped her control the water flow and enlarged the wound area to clean the animal's saliva and possible viruses.He was ruthless in his strikes, and there was no sympathy in his eyes when he tore open the wound.
Ye Qiao was so painful that she was numb and almost collapsed, her calf was slightly weak, she took a deep breath to force herself to feel the pain.He took her arm, and the heat on his body pressed against each other, but his voice didn't have much warmth: "You can bear it."
He bared his chest and abdomen, and a strong masculine aura enveloped her.Ye Qiao was not used to such close contact, not to mention the way he treated injured women was so rough that he didn't show any mercy, like rescuing a wounded man who was shot on the battlefield.
She turned her head to make sure that he didn't deliberately tease her, but she bumped into those familiar, faded eyes.
But other than that, everything was different from what he saw last night.
That down-to-earth man who shared a room with a female student late at night in an old-fashioned residential area, the menacing look of the salesperson he secretly photographed her, and the sounds she heard when she was taking a shower, seemed to be different from the high-end apartment in front of him, A man who worships the gods and even the decorative paintings hanging in the entrance are her father's masterpieces.
Ye Qiao was dumbfounded for a while, then suddenly realized something, and turned around suddenly: "The reason why you set this password is because of the painting at the door?"
Zhou Ting turned off the faucet and used medical alcohol to disinfect her initially. Hearing this, he raised his head and said, "Yes." He dipped a cotton ball in the alcohol and went to hold her injured hand. Ye Qiao subconsciously withdrew it: "I will do it myself."
Ye Qiao took the cotton ball and gently placed it on the wound, the pain pierced to the bottom of her heart.She gritted her teeth, closed her eyes tightly, and opened them again after a while, with an unusual excitement in her eyes.
Her movements were too light and too slow, Zhou Tingshen held up her hand involuntarily and wiped it for her.Ye Qiao resisted his cold-blooded and ruthless treatment of the wound, but didn't say anything, just stared at his hand: "Why were you there last night?"
Zhou Tingshen moved his index finger while she was talking, and her whole body trembled.
He sneered: "Turn your head away if you are afraid of pain, don't look."
Ye Qiao never left his hand for a moment: "I'm used to watching." The unknown is more frightening than the pain in front of her eyes, she is used to suffering head-on.
"Afraid of pain and still watching?"
"I'm not afraid of pain."
Zhou Tingshen repeated his old trick, pretending to touch her, causing her to flinch like a rabbit: "It's no fun to lie." After several feints, Ye Qiao was a little annoyed: "You..." Suddenly, a generous palm was covered in front of her eyes, and her cold eyelids were wet. A man's body temperature is naturally higher than a woman's.
At the same time, the wound was soaked in alcohol.
His strength was not light, and he controlled the pain to a range that was tolerable and could end as soon as possible.Ye Qiao opened his mouth slightly, but felt that the pain was not as painful as he expected. After taking two deep breaths, he regained his light.
When she frowned, her expression was a little cold: "Has anyone ever told you that it's annoying when you make your own way?"
Typical machismo.
Zhou Ting raised his eyebrows indifferently, then turned around and asked, "You like that painting too?"
The one in the porch is an oil painting titled "Secrets of the World" by Xu Zang, a master in the painting circle. The painting uses impressionist colors and light to interweave six hidden figures, forming a riverside scene at sunset.Therefore, it is also named "679352" by collectors - the number in the painting.
Ye Qiao's expression changed slightly: "No. Do you like it?"
"I can't appreciate these things, and I can't say whether I like them or not." He stepped back and leaned against the solid wood and glass showcase in the living room. His handsome profile and tall figure were reflected in the glass, and he held a finger with a thin ring. A button on the chest.
The atmosphere seemed to freeze.
The black back who caused the trouble walked over step by step with his tail cocked, sat down in front of Zhou Tingshen, and let out a howl.
Zhou Ting squatted down to touch its glossy fur, and Desa raised his head and closed his eyes to enjoy it.Zhou Tingshen pinched its chin with two fingers and twisted it, facing Ye Qiao: "Come on, apologize to her."
Ye Qiao put a tourniquet on himself, and when he turned his head, he heard a loud dog bark.This black back has received strict training, and it looks serious and serious as it sits upright, like a soldier marching.
She was still a little apprehensive about the dog, she wanted to smile on her pale face but didn't.
"It seems to be injured." Ye Qiao glanced sideways at its paw.
Zhou Tingshen raised the dog's right paw, and sure enough there was a scarlet gash, which was probably scratched by the debris she dropped.He took alcohol from the first-aid kit on the coffee table to disinfect it, wrapped it with a bandage, and acted skillfully and seriously.The majestic black back turned to him twice, looking extremely pitiful.
Ye Qiao could tell that he had a deep affection for this dog: "I'm sorry."
"Desa is a military dog, it's just injured, it's okay."
Ye Qiao had no choice but to change the subject: "And that candlestick. I don't know what else was smashed at that time. Take a look, and I will compensate you according to the price." Speaking of candlesticks, all rational thinking returned at this moment.Ye Qiao looked solemn - hurting the other party's belief was an extremely serious matter in her eyes and she didn't know how to apologize.
"No need to pay." Zhou Ting raised his eyebrows deeply, obviously seeing another meaning in her, and said with a smile, "Do I look like a Christian?"
Ye Qiao shook his head.He doesn't look like a believer in heaven, more like a demon in hell.
Zhou Ting held a vague smile, and shook the car key: "Go get vaccinated. Let's go."
Gradually, people sent messages in the WeChat group.
Gu Jin invited an unfamiliar WeChat account to join the group chat, and Ye Qiao could almost imagine his gentle smile through the text: "Welcome our female number one, Cheng Jiang, to join the group."
The female lead of "Watchmen" has not been announced to the outside world for a long time. Only Ye Qiao knows that Gu Jin has been looking for an actress who can play the complex human nature of the character itself.
Ye Qiao asked him: "Can't I?"
Gu Jin said with a smile: "You are too soft. You don't have that kind of toughness."
Therefore, she did not pick up the female number one who was trafficked into the deep mountains, but chose a human trafficker with a relatively single character.She is used to playing the lonely girl standing in the Scottish bagpipe, and this time she plays the low-level villain in the realistic theme, which can be regarded as a breakthrough in the drama.
But, can Cheng Jiang do it?
Even if an idol actress who won awards in costume dramas, even if she has a lot of qualifications because of her popularity for many years, can she be qualified as the number one female who breaks through the tradition?
Ye Qiao pulled one side of her mouth and smiled, but it was because she was her old love and Cheng Jiang was her new love.Whether it's a movie or reality, to put it bluntly, it's because the other party is more popular than her.
Zhou Tingshen was driving the car, and Ye Qiao sneered in the rearview mirror again and again, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes self-deprecating.
From the first time he saw her, he felt that she was like a contradictory body fighting with herself.
But Ye Qiao seemed to think that no one else could see it, so he pointed at his left forehead naturally: "Is the wound on your side healed? Will there be a scar?"
"Ok?"
"It's a pity to have scars on your face."
Zhou Ting smiled deeply, as warm as the sunshine on a cloudy day.
She seemed to be trying not to think about something, and she kept looking for words: "When did you move here? A month ago, the agent seemed to be showing people the house."
"Half a month ago. I didn't see you when I moved in."
"I was filming at the time."
This is a lie.
At that time, she had already finished filming "Sleeping Wind", and she would go to Gu Jin's place in her free time.If it wasn't like that, how could he break the good show between him and Cheng Jiang?
Zhou Tingshen found that she had fallen into self-enclosed memories again, and stepped on the brakes: "It's here."
The CDC is familiar with Ye Qiao's situation.The nurse in charge of giving her the injection was in her 40s, and looked at her with distressed eyes: "The bite is so hard. Such white and tender hands are ruined, and there will be a scar in the future."
Zhou Tingshen came back after paying the fee, and when he heard this sentence, he remembered that she said it was a pity in the car.Why doesn't she feel sorry for herself?
Ye Qiao only cared: "I've had heart surgery, does it matter?"
"Don't worry, the rabies vaccine can be given to men, women and children, and it doesn't matter if you have undergone major surgery."
Ye Qiao's eyes darkened, looking ordinary.Zhou Ting looked away deeply.He was sure that the look in her eyes when she asked the question just now was clearly expecting an "important".
After the nurse tried the needle, she gave the wound an infiltration injection: "The little girl is very poor. If it is a mad dog, it needs to be injected with serum again, and it will be strengthened regularly in the future. Otherwise, the little girl will be ruined for the rest of her life."
Ye Qiao's expression was very calm, without frowning.She survived the pain for a while, and even felt happy.
It was Zhou Ting who asked deeply, "How many times do you want to fight?"
"She has a serious bite. It's best to come every day for the first six days."
Zhou Ting nodded deeply.
The injection is over quickly.The nurse was very satisfied with the pain-free patient, and helped her bandage with a smile: "You look like a female star, what's your name? I can't remember."
Zhou Ting was leaning against the window smoking a cigarette, and smiled to see Ye Qiao's reaction, only to find that she was casting a glance.
Behind her was a miserable white hospital bed, and her lips were a little pale in the faint smoke.A gust of wind came in from the window he opened for smoking, brushing her hair to her forehead, covering her transparent eyes.
Damn it.His finger holding the cigarette trembled slightly, wanting to help her brush that strand of hair for no reason.The intramuscular injection in the arm was much less painful than treating the wound. Ye Qiao pursed her lips lightly, without even saying "gentle".The nurse smiled kindly after the injection: "Little girls are so delicate now, there are not many like you." Turning around, she said "tsk tsk" to Zhou Tingshen, "Young man, cherish it."
Explanation seems superfluous, not explaining and weird.Ye Qiao took out his phone from his bag, lowered his head and swiped the message to hide his embarrassment.It's a pity that the right hand was wrapped like a steamed bun, and one lost its stability, and the phone fell to the ground with two "ping-pong" sounds.
Zhou Tingshen quickly snuffed out the cigarette and went to help her pick it up.
A new message just came in, and he glanced at the contact name: Gu Jin.
He pressed exit, switched to the address book interface, entered his number, and handed it back to her: "This is my phone. Send me a message before coming tomorrow, or you can just knock on the door... You know my password. "
He laughed for no reason.
Ye Qiao glanced at the string of numbers, but didn't answer the phone: "There's still a name."
Zhou Ting picked his eyes deeply, took it back and typed it word by word.
Zhou Tingshen.
Ye Qiao took back the phone and looked at it, almost amused by this man's seriousness.He filled in the first and last name, and also filled in the "email", "birthday", "social account" and even "home address" that came with the address book.Even filled in the "work phone", a business extension.
Maybe it's because of the gradual acquaintance, his smile is more than when we first met, and it is also more warm, with a bit of teasing her intentionally: "Satisfied?"
Is it really misleading?He looks too upright, no matter when he is leisurely or frivolous, he seems unintentional and surprisingly frank.
"What about occupation?"
The white curtains of the ward slowly floated up, and he raised his eyebrows majestically, as if joking: "The fugitive."
(End of this chapter)
She didn't understand that it turns out that you should be safe and delicate with the person you love the most.
At the end of the premiere, there was a heavy rain.
Nearly ten o'clock, outside the bright lights of the porch of the venue, it was a dark and damp rainy night.There was a lot of voices at the entrance, and the media personnel withdrew one after another, trapped under the eaves by the menacing rain.
In the noisy rain, the background music in the venue can also be heard - the theme song of the movie "The Sleeping Wind", melodious Scottish bagpipes and French folk tunes.
Film critics called it a success of a literary film.
"Director Lai Zhicheng's new work, the independent film "Sleep Wind", which won the award at the Berlin Film Festival and returned to China, can be rated as nine points in terms of picture and narrative. As for the leading role, newcomer Ye Qiao took the leading role alone, and it was an unexpected success. This actress has an oriental quality. The charm of the film and the tension of modernity interpret the lonely and clear spirit of the film's deaf-mute heroine in a blend of soul and flesh."
"And, she has a very attractive body."
Ye Qiao stepped on high heels and walked in the empty underground garage.
In the empty echo, the taillights of the car in front suddenly lit up.The driver honked the horn.
License plate 6379, Director Lai's car.Ye Qiao waved lightly to the people in the car and walked over following the sound.The person in the back seat opened the safety lock for her in a gentlemanly manner. Ye Qiao held the car door and was about to open it...but his calf suddenly stiffened.
The spasm was accompanied by sharp pain and throbbed straight to the apex of the heart.
Ye Qiao leaned over slightly to relieve the sharp pain of cramping.
Director Lai, who was sitting in front, saw that she hadn't moved for a long time, and asked in confusion, "Hey, what happened?"
The person in the back seat had already gotten out of the car from his own side, walked around the rear of the car and arrived at her side, with a low and gentle voice: "Cramp again?"
Ye Qiao gritted her teeth and gave him a look, and said, "It's okay."
Regardless of her obvious resistance, Gu Jin squatted down and supported her leg: "Which foot is it?"
"Left foot..."
She is wearing a skirt today, which is as short as her knees.The man's generous and warm palm pinched her white and tender calf, with neither light nor heavy force, skillfully massaged her: "Does it still hurt?"
Ye Qiao frowned, a little reluctantly: "Be better."
Gu Jin chuckled: "Eat more. Your legs are as thin as your arms."
Ye Qiao took a deep breath and said in a cold tone, "It's none of your business."
Director Lai, who didn't know the situation, opened the door of the front seat, leaned back, and said, "What's wrong, you're having cramps?"
"Yeah." Ye Qiao smiled apologetically, "I just smoked for some reason."
Gu Jin responded naturally: "It's okay, she often does this."
Ye Qiao's smile faltered.
Director Lai couldn't figure out the weird atmosphere between the two of them, so he closed the door and sat down.
Gu Jin is Director Lai's favorite protégé. He followed Director Lai in the film crew in the early years. Now he is a dark horse among emerging directors. Because he has caught the appetite of young people, the box office response in the past two years is even better than that of Director Lai who insists on serious themes. outperformed.
Director Lai introduced Ye Qiao to Gu Jin.
It's just that Director Lai doesn't care about gossip in middle age, and he doesn't know when the two juniors saw each other.Of course it's not clear, they just broke up half a month ago.
The process of breaking up was peaceful, as common as graduation.
But it doesn't mean that you can get along happily.
As soon as Ye Qiao recovered, he withdrew his leg and half-limped into the car.Gu Jin stood up gracefully and sat back in the car.The two were next to each other, and Gu Jin looked at her with "why bother" written all over his eyes.
Director Lai smiled heartily: "I heard that you lost a few pounds while filming this movie, Xiao Qiao. It's all the director's fault. Eat more at the banquet later!"
Of course, the celebration banquet should eat more.
Ye Qiao doesn't like to socialize, and he prefers to eat more and talk less in this kind of occasion, and occasionally chats with the main creator of the "Sleeping Wind" crew.Because of this temperament, he is often photographed at banquets with his head buried in his meal.It's just that Gu Jin's presence today somewhat affected his appetite.
But Gu Jin, as Director Lai's protégé, specially came to the premiere to join him, so he was naturally arranged at the main table.Ye Qiao sat next to him, and the whole table lost its appeal to her.
I had no choice but to drink in silence.
After Director Lai finished his speech on stage, the audience applauded and applauded, and there was another round of toasting.Ye Qiao filled the glass and followed the whole table to get up, but was stopped by Gu Jin raising his hand: "You drank too much."
Ye Qiao sneered, at first he only wanted to take a sip, but he did it to the end, pinching the empty glass with two fingers and shaking it at him twice, silently provoking.
Gu Jin smiled helplessly, and this time he really said: "Why bother."
Ye Qiao sat down casually: "You care too much."
As soon as she sat down, Gu Jin gave her vegetables again, which were all light and not greasy hangover dishes: "I came from Yangcheng and visited your father on the way." He looked at her like an ignorant child, " Your father has been in poor health recently, and Aunt Cheng has been taking care of him."
"Enough." Ye Qiao put down her chopsticks, "Gu Jin, what identity are you speaking with now?"
"It has nothing to do with identity." When she first met Gu Jin, she felt that he was too stable and mature, causing him to frown, and she felt that it was herself who was wrong.He taught her with her familiar expression, "Mr. Xu Zang is a man of the wind and the moon, what do you have against him?"
Ye Qiao looked at him in disbelief, and smiled instead of anger: "You like my dad so much, what did you talk to him when you visited him? Did you tell him that you just broke up with his daughter, did you tell him that you are half Find a new one in less than a month?"
"Ye Qiao."
"Don't call me by my name. I'm sick."
Ye Qiao walked away with her hands. Just as she stood up, her calf twitched slightly again.
"Be careful." Gu Jin wanted to help her, but she stepped forward to block him.Because the movement was too large, the mahogany chair that was knocked away made a blunt dragging sound on the ground.
Tired of the muddy sound, she endured the throbbing pain and strode out.
The sound of high heels is neat and rhythmic, as if it can get away from everything.
She doesn't have her own car in Lingcheng.It rained heavily as soon as I went out, and no driver took the order on Uber with five times the tip.She simply hid in the bus booth closest to the hotel.
The traffic in the city was paralyzed, and the booths were full of commuters who couldn't wait for the bus. No one noticed her.
A large poster of "The Sleeping Wind" scrolled on the billboard behind.In one scene with ambiguous light, the girl she played was completely nude.A faint yellow light penetrates through the screen window in the picture. On the girl's smooth back, only the butterfly bone is obviously protruding.
When the stills first came out, Gu Jin once praised gently: "Your bones are acting."
Thunder rumbled, and the rain was getting heavier.
Ye Qiao lightly stomped on his aching left foot, feeling that this scene was extremely ironic.The solitude she displayed with all her acting skills was nothing compared to a hair of reality.
In the dark night, the screen of the mobile phone suddenly lit up, and a WeChat message came in: "Ah, cousin, are you in Ming Palace? People nearby show that we are only 500 meters away."
The sender is her cousin Qianxi, who has an out-of-the-ordinary personality and has her own climax BGM (background sound).
Ye Qiao replied to her: "Yes."
Qian Xi burst into a burst of emoticons: "Is there any leftovers? All takeaways at my house are closed. I just got off the night shift and I'm starving [crying]."
Ye Qiao looked at the screen and let out a laugh: "..."
Qian Xi: "[Crying] [Crying] [Crying] Is there really no?"
"I can buy food for you." Ye Qiao leaned forward and glanced at the motionless traffic, "But I can't get a taxi now, and I don't have an umbrella."
Qianxi: "It's not—it's—it's—ah! I'll pick you up on a motorcycle!"
Twenty or ten minutes later, a little girl was seen riding a fluorescent-colored motorcycle, rushing over at high speed, and stopped in front of Ye Qiao, making a screeching sound of brakes.
Qian Xi patted the car seat: "Come on, get in the car!"
Ye Qiao: "..." Picking up the disposable raincoat in the basket of her car, she put on her gloves.
The small electric motorcycle was turned into a Ferrari by Qianxi, and it arrived downstairs at her house in 5 minutes.
But Ye Qiao was still drowned.
Qianxi smiled apologetically while parking the car: "I can't help it, it's raining too much." After speaking, he took the disposable lunch box Ye Qiao was holding, and sighed while inserting the key, "Oh, I really haven't seen anything bigger than that." You miserable female star! Delivering food to people on a rainy night, and you can only sit on a motorcycle hahahaha!"
Ye Qiao took a deep breath and endured her...but she was smiling in her heart.
Qianxi rents in an old-fashioned residential area, and the bathroom is connected to the bedroom next door.
Ye Qiao borrowed her bathroom to take a hot shower, and there were constant groans from the other side of the wall.The man's voice was shattered by the rushing water, only the girl's charming laughter could be heard clearly.
Very young voice.
Ye Qiao turned off the water, wiped her hair and went out.Qian Xi was sitting cross-legged in front of the computer, puffing out her mouth to eat the meal she brought, when she saw her, she said, "Ahhh, Ming Gong's deep-fried prawns are so delicious! I haven't eaten a normal dish for a long time! You Do you know how unpalatable the canteen of the hospital where I practiced is? It’s really unpalatable."
Ye Qiao: "Then why did you go to medical school?"
"Cousin, didn't you also go to a film school..." Qian Xi muttered unconvinced.
Qianxi’s dream since she was a child was to be an angel in white. She disregarded her family’s objections in the college entrance examination and was admitted to the Department of Nursing of Beijing Medical University. Two books, but our medical school is linked to Peking University! When you go out, you can still say that you are from Peking University!"
Ye Qiao found a bottle of mineral water in her bedroom, sat across from her, and handed it to her: "Well, a talented student from Peking University, twist it for me."
Like some kind of omen.Qian Xi muttered, "You female stars can't even unscrew the cap of the bottle." While unscrewing the cap, a loud "bang" suddenly came from the next door.
Qian Xi was stunned, holding fried shrimp in oil, "What's going on, is the bed next door collapsed?"
Ye Qiao poured two pills into the palm of his hand and swallowed them with water: "Do you often do this next door?"
Qian Xi understood what "this" was like, and blushed: "There is a female student living next door. Really, she looks like a high school student. But she brings a man back every three days..."
As he spoke, there were two more "ping-pong" sounds, and two men cursed loudly from the opposite side.
Qian Xi clicked her tongue: "This must be being raped?"
Ye Qiao poured two more pills into the palm of her hand, and just about to swallow it, Qian Xi grabbed her wrist and shook it: "It seems like someone is fighting. Cousin... you can sleep with me tonight, I dare not sleep alone like this next door. "
"You shook my last two pills." Ye Qiao picked up the white pills from the ground, "I just met Gu Jin tonight. If you don't take the medicine, you might have a heart attack."
Qian Xi almost cried: "I didn't study pathology well, don't lie to me."
Ye Qiao laughed, "It's just Valium." She packed her bag and got up, "Is there a pharmacy nearby? I'll go out and buy it."
"Turn left when you get out of the neighborhood... the umbrella is on the shoe cabinet at the door."
Ye Qiao opened the door and wanted to hold an umbrella, but found that the rain had stopped.
There are sporadic lights in the residential area, and there is moisture floating in the dark night, and the sky is like spun cloth soaked by rain.A man stood under the street lamp at the door, a long and narrow shadow was drawn out by the dim light.
A man with a handsome face.There was a faint blood stain on his forehead, and his whole body was drenched by the rain. The three-buttoned shirt was limply stuck to his chest, revealing his firm and powerful muscles.On his slender fingers was a thin golden ring, and the cigarette butts were flickering on his fingertips.
The door of the next room was ajar, and a slender light just extended to his feet, silently signaling something.
Ye Qiao raised her eyebrows, recalling the harsh sentences she heard in the corner of the wall when she was taking a bath.
It's hard to imagine that this man, who looks so calm, is so dirty on the bed.
Ye Qiao put the umbrella on the porch, put his hands in his pockets and walked forward.
When passing by, the man suddenly stopped her.
Ye Qiao slightly turned his shoulders: "Huh?"
He stubbed out the cigarette on the trash can: "Is there a pharmacy nearby?"
It turned out that when he was awake, his voice was so low that it sounded like a lover's desire.There are indeed some people in this world who are naturally charming, regardless of body or soul.
Ye Qiao glanced up and smiled inexplicably: "Yes." She happened to be going there, "Take you there?"
The two walked one after the other on a wet and cool rainy night, their tall and thin shadows appeared in the stagnant water.
Ye Qiao lowered her head and carefully avoided every puddle.
Suddenly a voice came from above the head: "You look very familiar."
Ye Qiao looked up and chuckled, "I'm an actor." They passed by the station at the entrance of the community, and Ye Qiao stopped deliberately, facing the circular electronic billboard.
After waiting three times before scrolling to "The Sleeping Wind", it was the poster with the naked back.
Ye Qiao didn't realize it was this poster before, and the other party's eyes darkened, and the atmosphere was a little delicate for a while.She had no choice but to pretend to be relaxed, and tapped the screen with her fingers: "This is it."
Zhou Ting rubbed his fingers on the cold and smooth electronic screen, stared at it for a few seconds, and said, "It's not because of this." Turning around, he licked the corner of his mouth angrily, "But it's very beautiful."
His voice was a little hoarse, and the faint smell of tobacco was soaked in the night wind, which was cool and sexy. The word "beautiful" was used in this still photo, which suddenly gave rise to a thousand turns of ambiguous seduction—maybe it was because she had just heard a wonderful corner scene.
Ye Qiao opened her mouth and continued walking without making a sound.
How did you forget that he was such a person?She actually explained it seriously, and the other party might just be chatting up in a cliché.
The green signboard of the 24-hour pharmacy is very eye-catching in the dark.
The two walked in side by side, and the drowsy clerk woke up a lot.
Ye Qiao read the obvious ambiguous meaning from the salesperson's eyes——it's late at night, handsome men and beautiful women, come to the pharmacy, what else can I buy?
Zhou Tingshen obviously also read the meaning, but he didn't speak for a long time.
Ye Qiao suddenly felt a little disgusted, and said coolly, "A bottle of Valium."
"Is there a prescription?"
"Yeah." Ye Qiao took it out of his pocket.
Zhou Tingshen bought medical alcohol, anti-inflammatory tablets, and a pack of Band-Aids.
The salesperson was very disappointed with the expression of "you have to take off your pants, just show me this".It wasn't until they saw the name on Ye Qiao's prescription and compared their faces that the gossip was rekindled in their eyes: "Ye Qiao? Are you the Ye Qiao who played in "Sleep Wind" in the new movie recently?"
Ye Qiao gave a low "hmm" and said, "Is the medicine ready?"
"Okay!" The salesperson's smile became more enthusiastic.
Zhou Tingshen paid the money first.Ye Qiao took the medicine to the cashier, ready to part ways with him, but the man who had already left the house suddenly turned back, strode to the counter, and grabbed the salesman's hand hidden underneath.
Surprised by this turn of events, Ye Qiao looked sideways.
The sales girl struggled and shouted, "Let go! What are you doing?"
There was no emotion in the man's eyes. He opened her tightly clasped fingers and deleted the last two photos on her phone. "You're insane, mind your own business..." The little girl yelled and cursed twice, the word "matter" still choked in her throat, she was swept away by his piercingly cold gaze, and fell silent.
Ye Qiao watched quietly, and met his eyes - the way he frowns and stares at people is frightening, like some kind of beast in the dense forest, so fierce that it seems to be born with blood.
He let go of the little girl's hand and rubbed her red wrist, the pain was so painful that tears were about to come out.Isn't it just secretly taking a picture of a female star and a man visiting a drugstore and posting it to Moments?As for?She stared at him and cursed "crazy" in a low voice.
Ye Qiao probably understood what happened, and exchanged glances with him, without saying much.Even to help her, she felt that he was a little too cruel.
After she paid the bill and went out, her slightly irritable mood was blown by the night wind and calmed down a lot. She turned her head and said to him, "Thank you."
"No need." Zhou Tingshen sat down on the flower bed by the roadside, opened the medicine boxes one by one, swallowed the anti-inflammatory medicine in one gulp, and dipped himself in alcohol expressionlessly.
Ye Qiao put his hands in his pockets and watched quietly.
There were more wounds on his body than on the surface, and there was a scratch on his right shoulder near his neck, making it extremely difficult to apply medicine.But he finished it quickly anyway, being just as rude to himself as a desperado.
It's just that even the outlaws are a little bit off when it comes to putting on the Band-Aid.
Ye Qiao went up to take the Band-Aid: "Let me help you."
She tore off the plastic sheet and leaned over to help him paste it.
The heads and necks intersect at close range, and they can clearly smell each other's scent—the sweet, after-bathing scent in a woman's hair.It was mixed with the man's damp medical alcohol smell, mixed with a faint smell of smoke and blood.
It was obviously not a pleasant smell, but Ye Qiao didn't dislike it.Maybe it's because his body is warm, his slightly rough skin is not as delicate as a woman's, and he has a natural sense of trustworthiness in male animals.
Unfortunately, this is often an illusion.
"All right."
She straightened up and collected all the boxes he tore off into a plastic bag: "Did you throw it away?"
He lit a cigarette again, squinted his eyes and looked at her: "OK."
Ye Qiao turned around bluntly, walked for a while, and threw the bag of garbage in the community recycling bin.
Under Zhou Ting's deep and quiet eyes, her back suddenly stopped, and she took out her mobile phone from her pocket, her delicate back visibly stiffened.
There are several missed calls on the screen, and a text message.
Ye Qiao didn't even look at it, but dragged the text message into the trash can, and blocked the contact.
As a result, when I got back to the house, Qianxi was sitting in the living room, making a phone call submissively: "Ah, she is here, yes, it's fine, she went out to buy medicine. Ah, she's in a normal mood, it's a normal medicine, Yep……"
Ye Qiao went straight to grab the phone: "Gu Jin, how long are you going to linger?"
Before the other party could speak, she cut off the signal.
Qianxi welcomed her to the sofa: "Ah, cousin, don't be angry... I didn't answer his phone on purpose. He said that you came out of the celebration banquet in the middle, and no one answered the phone at home, so I'm afraid you won't think about it..."
Ye Qiao sneered, "Must I be so self-righteous? How old am I, and I would jump off the building with my hands apart?" She tried her best to endure it, and wanted to take a Valium tablet, but her hands trembled physiologically, and she spilled the white pill on her palm.
"Shua".Sounds like the pouring of days past.
"Don't, don't, don't!" Qian Xi snatched the medicine back, "If you take too much of this medicine, you'll fall into the hands of a scumbag! My dear cousin!"
I didn't fall asleep until the middle of the night.
Half asleep, Ye Qiao heard a call from Qianxi, and lowered her voice on the balcony: "Auntie, yes, she is here. It's fine, she took her medicine on time, and she's asleep right now...it's okay, I Live alone, no trouble!"
Ye Qiao closed her eyes, suddenly extremely tired.
Qianxi's voice on the phone could be heard intermittently: "Oh, my cousin is usually a calm person, but something is wrong when I meet Gu Jin. Hey, don't worry, I will definitely take good care of her!"
"My cousin has had this disease. It's not easy to work alone outside. Please forgive her..."
Her heart was beating rhythmically in the dark night, and she could clearly hear the sound of blood surging in her body, one after another, like a heavy hammer hitting the eardrum.
It seemed to remind her that this heart was not her own.She has to spare her life.
She couldn't escape fate.
Early the next morning, Qianxi's boyfriend came to pick her up from work and took Ye Qiao home by the way.The heart surgeon was as old as her: "I heard from Qianxi that Ms. Ye has had a heart transplant?"
"Ah."
"How many years?"
"ten years."
Dr. Fu was stunned for a moment: "At that time, the heart transplant technology was not very mature, and it was rare for Ms. Ye to recover so well."
He wanted to continue, but Qianxi pushed him, so he concentrated on driving and didn't pay attention: "The actor's business is often reversed day and night, and the cold winter and hot summer are filming, which is very detrimental to the recovery of patients. If Ms. Ye has a better choice, she should consider changing careers." .”
When the car arrived at Ye Qiao's house, Qianxi hurriedly chased him down to apologize: "Cousin, don't be angry, I just casually mentioned that one of my sisters had a heart transplant, but he remembered it unexpectedly. Talk about your own research direction.”
Ye Qiao smiled lightly: "It's okay. It can be seen that he is very kind to you, and he will pick you up early in the morning."
"It's okay." Qian Xi chuckled, "You're not young anymore, and no one will dare to marry you when you become popular in the future. Hurry up and find me a new cousin-in-law!"
Ye Qiao didn't say a word.Qian Xi immediately felt that she had said something wrong, and when she was about to correct her, Ye Qiao said, "I will look for it. It's just that I haven't met anyone who can make up for it."
Once upon a time, she felt that Gu Jin was just someone who could make do with it.
Now there is no such arrogance.
It's no wonder that the few times he quarreled the most, he said that she was out of gold and jade in the middle of it.He looks sensible and sensible on the outside, but he is self-willed in private, and he doesn't know how to live a safe and delicate life.
She didn't understand that it turns out that you should be safe and delicate with the person you love the most.
After being washed overnight by the rain, the greenery in the community is somewhat messy.Downstairs in the unit where she lived, there was a Xifu Begonia plant, which had been beaten to a wilted state, and the juice of the fruit had melted into the grass.
Ye Qiao stepped into the gate, pressed the elevator floor, and looked down at the phone.
The manager dragged her into a new wechat group called "Watchmen", with more than a dozen members, the first one being Gu Jin.
The contacts deleted last night returned to her world in this way.what else can we do?The contract signed at the beginning, because the director was Gu Jin, even though she was a third girl, she had to go to the rural areas of southern Shanxi to shoot, so she readily accepted it, and the asking price was very low.
Thinking about it now, it is the stupidest thing in the world for a woman to lower her self-worth.
The elevator reached the 23rd floor, and the doors on both sides opened simultaneously.In a daze, she walked forward subconsciously, and pressed the six-digit code on the combination lock—"Di".
With a "click", the door opened.
Ye Qiao looked up and was stunned - the house number is 2302, this is not her apartment.
She couldn't react for a while.There is an expensive oil painting hanging at the end of the porch of this house, which is indeed not the decoration of her house.She went wrong.
But why is the door open?
Just as she was in a daze for a moment, a ferocious dog barked from inside the room.A German black back rushed out with lightning speed, and the cloudy eyes were full of hostility towards the strange intruder.
The alarm bells rang loudly in Ye Qiao's mind, and he suddenly felt something was wrong.
Her first instinct was to close the door.
However, just as the hand reached out to touch the handle, the black-backed dog had already pounced on the door and bit her wrist.She withdrew her hand in pain, the tiger's mouth was already marked with bloody canine teeth marks, a heart-pounding pain hit her, and her entire arm was numb.
The German Blackback is a military dog. It stood up to her shoulders and rushed forward, with almost no room to dodge.Ye Qiao stuck the door frame back, and retreated step by step towards the entrance of 2302, shouting as he retreated, "Is anyone there?"
Heibei pressed on step by step, his cloudy eyes gleamed, as if he would bite again at any moment.
Ye Qiao's entire back was tense, and he bumped into the cabinet at the end of the hallway: "Is anyone there?"
"Wang!"
Heibei rushed forward again.Ye Qiao didn't care about other things, and swept the contents of the cabinet on the ground, and the candlestick under the Jesus statue shattered.Ye Qiao grabbed a lighter in a panic and threw it hard on the head.The black back fell down in pain, staggered back two steps, but stared at her crazily with blood red eyes.
She almost wanted to give up and let it tear her skin, or her throat.The decomposed bloody imagination turned out to be like the wish she had been looking forward to in her body, stirring in her blood.
At the same time, a shout came from the side: "Desa!"
Heibei stopped attacking immediately, fell on the ground, and let out a soft whine from his throat.
Ye Qiao turned her head vigilantly. The tall man put on his shirt with one hand, and before he could button it, he quickly approached under her dazed eyes.The wallpaper facing her is covered with ancient religious patterns, woven into a medieval crucifix in the style of the Holy See.
He is half naked, his stretched muscles are filled with the primitive power advocated by ancient Greece and Rome, like a classical statue, there is a strange harmony with the mural behind him.
It was the man from last night.
The statue stood beside her, loosened her clasped fingers, put the things in her hands back to their original places, and looked at her eyes full of inquiry: "Miss Ye?"
He actually remembered her.
Ye Qiao's eyes widened.She also recognized him, but the accident just now made her heart beat so hard, she opened her mouth but found that she didn't know his name, and she couldn't speak for a while.
Zhou Tingshen took the door behind him, caught a glimpse of her bleeding hand from the corner of his eye, and frowned slightly: "Been bitten?"
Ye Qiao just came back to her senses, and when she moved her hand, there was a tingling pain. She didn't care about explaining how she broke in, and nodded, "Is there any water?"
Her wound was deep and required copious washing with clean water.
When touching the water, it feels like being pricked by countless needles until the pain gradually becomes numb.Ye Qiao collected her thoughts and said, "Sorry, I live opposite your door, and I went in the wrong direction when I got out of the elevator. There seems to be something wrong with the lock of your house, I don't know why it can be opened."
Zhou Tingshen interrupted her: "What password did you enter?"
"679352."
"This is my password."
Ye Qiao: "..."
This too strange fate made her forget all the words she was going to explain next.
Zhou Tingshen helped her control the water flow and enlarged the wound area to clean the animal's saliva and possible viruses.He was ruthless in his strikes, and there was no sympathy in his eyes when he tore open the wound.
Ye Qiao was so painful that she was numb and almost collapsed, her calf was slightly weak, she took a deep breath to force herself to feel the pain.He took her arm, and the heat on his body pressed against each other, but his voice didn't have much warmth: "You can bear it."
He bared his chest and abdomen, and a strong masculine aura enveloped her.Ye Qiao was not used to such close contact, not to mention the way he treated injured women was so rough that he didn't show any mercy, like rescuing a wounded man who was shot on the battlefield.
She turned her head to make sure that he didn't deliberately tease her, but she bumped into those familiar, faded eyes.
But other than that, everything was different from what he saw last night.
That down-to-earth man who shared a room with a female student late at night in an old-fashioned residential area, the menacing look of the salesperson he secretly photographed her, and the sounds she heard when she was taking a shower, seemed to be different from the high-end apartment in front of him, A man who worships the gods and even the decorative paintings hanging in the entrance are her father's masterpieces.
Ye Qiao was dumbfounded for a while, then suddenly realized something, and turned around suddenly: "The reason why you set this password is because of the painting at the door?"
Zhou Ting turned off the faucet and used medical alcohol to disinfect her initially. Hearing this, he raised his head and said, "Yes." He dipped a cotton ball in the alcohol and went to hold her injured hand. Ye Qiao subconsciously withdrew it: "I will do it myself."
Ye Qiao took the cotton ball and gently placed it on the wound, the pain pierced to the bottom of her heart.She gritted her teeth, closed her eyes tightly, and opened them again after a while, with an unusual excitement in her eyes.
Her movements were too light and too slow, Zhou Tingshen held up her hand involuntarily and wiped it for her.Ye Qiao resisted his cold-blooded and ruthless treatment of the wound, but didn't say anything, just stared at his hand: "Why were you there last night?"
Zhou Tingshen moved his index finger while she was talking, and her whole body trembled.
He sneered: "Turn your head away if you are afraid of pain, don't look."
Ye Qiao never left his hand for a moment: "I'm used to watching." The unknown is more frightening than the pain in front of her eyes, she is used to suffering head-on.
"Afraid of pain and still watching?"
"I'm not afraid of pain."
Zhou Tingshen repeated his old trick, pretending to touch her, causing her to flinch like a rabbit: "It's no fun to lie." After several feints, Ye Qiao was a little annoyed: "You..." Suddenly, a generous palm was covered in front of her eyes, and her cold eyelids were wet. A man's body temperature is naturally higher than a woman's.
At the same time, the wound was soaked in alcohol.
His strength was not light, and he controlled the pain to a range that was tolerable and could end as soon as possible.Ye Qiao opened his mouth slightly, but felt that the pain was not as painful as he expected. After taking two deep breaths, he regained his light.
When she frowned, her expression was a little cold: "Has anyone ever told you that it's annoying when you make your own way?"
Typical machismo.
Zhou Ting raised his eyebrows indifferently, then turned around and asked, "You like that painting too?"
The one in the porch is an oil painting titled "Secrets of the World" by Xu Zang, a master in the painting circle. The painting uses impressionist colors and light to interweave six hidden figures, forming a riverside scene at sunset.Therefore, it is also named "679352" by collectors - the number in the painting.
Ye Qiao's expression changed slightly: "No. Do you like it?"
"I can't appreciate these things, and I can't say whether I like them or not." He stepped back and leaned against the solid wood and glass showcase in the living room. His handsome profile and tall figure were reflected in the glass, and he held a finger with a thin ring. A button on the chest.
The atmosphere seemed to freeze.
The black back who caused the trouble walked over step by step with his tail cocked, sat down in front of Zhou Tingshen, and let out a howl.
Zhou Ting squatted down to touch its glossy fur, and Desa raised his head and closed his eyes to enjoy it.Zhou Tingshen pinched its chin with two fingers and twisted it, facing Ye Qiao: "Come on, apologize to her."
Ye Qiao put a tourniquet on himself, and when he turned his head, he heard a loud dog bark.This black back has received strict training, and it looks serious and serious as it sits upright, like a soldier marching.
She was still a little apprehensive about the dog, she wanted to smile on her pale face but didn't.
"It seems to be injured." Ye Qiao glanced sideways at its paw.
Zhou Tingshen raised the dog's right paw, and sure enough there was a scarlet gash, which was probably scratched by the debris she dropped.He took alcohol from the first-aid kit on the coffee table to disinfect it, wrapped it with a bandage, and acted skillfully and seriously.The majestic black back turned to him twice, looking extremely pitiful.
Ye Qiao could tell that he had a deep affection for this dog: "I'm sorry."
"Desa is a military dog, it's just injured, it's okay."
Ye Qiao had no choice but to change the subject: "And that candlestick. I don't know what else was smashed at that time. Take a look, and I will compensate you according to the price." Speaking of candlesticks, all rational thinking returned at this moment.Ye Qiao looked solemn - hurting the other party's belief was an extremely serious matter in her eyes and she didn't know how to apologize.
"No need to pay." Zhou Ting raised his eyebrows deeply, obviously seeing another meaning in her, and said with a smile, "Do I look like a Christian?"
Ye Qiao shook his head.He doesn't look like a believer in heaven, more like a demon in hell.
Zhou Ting held a vague smile, and shook the car key: "Go get vaccinated. Let's go."
Gradually, people sent messages in the WeChat group.
Gu Jin invited an unfamiliar WeChat account to join the group chat, and Ye Qiao could almost imagine his gentle smile through the text: "Welcome our female number one, Cheng Jiang, to join the group."
The female lead of "Watchmen" has not been announced to the outside world for a long time. Only Ye Qiao knows that Gu Jin has been looking for an actress who can play the complex human nature of the character itself.
Ye Qiao asked him: "Can't I?"
Gu Jin said with a smile: "You are too soft. You don't have that kind of toughness."
Therefore, she did not pick up the female number one who was trafficked into the deep mountains, but chose a human trafficker with a relatively single character.She is used to playing the lonely girl standing in the Scottish bagpipe, and this time she plays the low-level villain in the realistic theme, which can be regarded as a breakthrough in the drama.
But, can Cheng Jiang do it?
Even if an idol actress who won awards in costume dramas, even if she has a lot of qualifications because of her popularity for many years, can she be qualified as the number one female who breaks through the tradition?
Ye Qiao pulled one side of her mouth and smiled, but it was because she was her old love and Cheng Jiang was her new love.Whether it's a movie or reality, to put it bluntly, it's because the other party is more popular than her.
Zhou Tingshen was driving the car, and Ye Qiao sneered in the rearview mirror again and again, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes self-deprecating.
From the first time he saw her, he felt that she was like a contradictory body fighting with herself.
But Ye Qiao seemed to think that no one else could see it, so he pointed at his left forehead naturally: "Is the wound on your side healed? Will there be a scar?"
"Ok?"
"It's a pity to have scars on your face."
Zhou Ting smiled deeply, as warm as the sunshine on a cloudy day.
She seemed to be trying not to think about something, and she kept looking for words: "When did you move here? A month ago, the agent seemed to be showing people the house."
"Half a month ago. I didn't see you when I moved in."
"I was filming at the time."
This is a lie.
At that time, she had already finished filming "Sleeping Wind", and she would go to Gu Jin's place in her free time.If it wasn't like that, how could he break the good show between him and Cheng Jiang?
Zhou Tingshen found that she had fallen into self-enclosed memories again, and stepped on the brakes: "It's here."
The CDC is familiar with Ye Qiao's situation.The nurse in charge of giving her the injection was in her 40s, and looked at her with distressed eyes: "The bite is so hard. Such white and tender hands are ruined, and there will be a scar in the future."
Zhou Tingshen came back after paying the fee, and when he heard this sentence, he remembered that she said it was a pity in the car.Why doesn't she feel sorry for herself?
Ye Qiao only cared: "I've had heart surgery, does it matter?"
"Don't worry, the rabies vaccine can be given to men, women and children, and it doesn't matter if you have undergone major surgery."
Ye Qiao's eyes darkened, looking ordinary.Zhou Ting looked away deeply.He was sure that the look in her eyes when she asked the question just now was clearly expecting an "important".
After the nurse tried the needle, she gave the wound an infiltration injection: "The little girl is very poor. If it is a mad dog, it needs to be injected with serum again, and it will be strengthened regularly in the future. Otherwise, the little girl will be ruined for the rest of her life."
Ye Qiao's expression was very calm, without frowning.She survived the pain for a while, and even felt happy.
It was Zhou Ting who asked deeply, "How many times do you want to fight?"
"She has a serious bite. It's best to come every day for the first six days."
Zhou Ting nodded deeply.
The injection is over quickly.The nurse was very satisfied with the pain-free patient, and helped her bandage with a smile: "You look like a female star, what's your name? I can't remember."
Zhou Ting was leaning against the window smoking a cigarette, and smiled to see Ye Qiao's reaction, only to find that she was casting a glance.
Behind her was a miserable white hospital bed, and her lips were a little pale in the faint smoke.A gust of wind came in from the window he opened for smoking, brushing her hair to her forehead, covering her transparent eyes.
Damn it.His finger holding the cigarette trembled slightly, wanting to help her brush that strand of hair for no reason.The intramuscular injection in the arm was much less painful than treating the wound. Ye Qiao pursed her lips lightly, without even saying "gentle".The nurse smiled kindly after the injection: "Little girls are so delicate now, there are not many like you." Turning around, she said "tsk tsk" to Zhou Tingshen, "Young man, cherish it."
Explanation seems superfluous, not explaining and weird.Ye Qiao took out his phone from his bag, lowered his head and swiped the message to hide his embarrassment.It's a pity that the right hand was wrapped like a steamed bun, and one lost its stability, and the phone fell to the ground with two "ping-pong" sounds.
Zhou Tingshen quickly snuffed out the cigarette and went to help her pick it up.
A new message just came in, and he glanced at the contact name: Gu Jin.
He pressed exit, switched to the address book interface, entered his number, and handed it back to her: "This is my phone. Send me a message before coming tomorrow, or you can just knock on the door... You know my password. "
He laughed for no reason.
Ye Qiao glanced at the string of numbers, but didn't answer the phone: "There's still a name."
Zhou Ting picked his eyes deeply, took it back and typed it word by word.
Zhou Tingshen.
Ye Qiao took back the phone and looked at it, almost amused by this man's seriousness.He filled in the first and last name, and also filled in the "email", "birthday", "social account" and even "home address" that came with the address book.Even filled in the "work phone", a business extension.
Maybe it's because of the gradual acquaintance, his smile is more than when we first met, and it is also more warm, with a bit of teasing her intentionally: "Satisfied?"
Is it really misleading?He looks too upright, no matter when he is leisurely or frivolous, he seems unintentional and surprisingly frank.
"What about occupation?"
The white curtains of the ward slowly floated up, and he raised his eyebrows majestically, as if joking: "The fugitive."
(End of this chapter)
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