"not like this……"
He Tianran couldn't help but defend himself, and asked hurriedly: "Is Guo Huai not good to you? Although I don't have much contact with him, I can still feel his love for you. This feeling is not like adultery. Fake."
Cao Aiqing stared at him and supported his chin with his right hand: "I don't know whether to say you are too young or to praise your talent. You have always known how to pretend to be confused."
He Tianran was full of questions, and then Cao Aiqing continued: "By the way, according to you, you are not the He Tianran you are now, so it is understandable that you are naive."
The young man had actually vaguely felt that behind Cao Aiqing's words, there must be another figure of himself, but he really couldn't figure out why the other himself, who had loved Cao Aiqing for so many years, would let the beautiful woman in front of him say this at this moment. Say something like this.
"Have I done anything to you?" He Tianran asked.
"Actually, it's nothing. It's just 'let nature take its course'. This is the most powerful thing about you, 'He Tianran'."
Cao Aiqing took a sip of wine, paused, lowered his head and said, "Do you know why Wen Liang fell in love with 'He Tianran' wholeheartedly?"
The young man was startled, but he still nodded and said with some embarrassment: "I don't know the details very well. I only know that they met again while filming. Wen Liang always wanted to make amends because of guilt, and the other one I took advantage of." This...is what you were talking about last time...the parasite."
Cao Aiqing smiled.
"It's easy to think, but it's roughly like this. When Wen Liang dumped Zhang Zhifan, it was revealed that he had a dark history in high school and campus bullying. For a public figure, it was undoubtedly a huge black spot. Originally, at that time She accepted a role in "Legend of the Condor Heroes" and her stardom is promising. Unfortunately, she is still a newcomer. In addition, Zhang Zhifan's family has some aristocratic background. There are endless gossips attacking her. The cost of public relations for her is too high, so it is She was hidden in the ice for two years. During this period, she had no scenes to film, and the first film she came back to happened to involve you, and you met at that time."
Does Zhang Zhifan still have a family background?
He Tianran looked surprised. He really didn't realize that Zhang Zhifan had such ability. Wen Liang had savagely slapped him in the face at the welcome party and then transferred to another school. He didn't see any subsequent blows to him. Revenge.
Could it be that it’s because of yourself?
He Tianran thought to himself that this problem was easy to figure out. The commotion at the New Year's Party was so big, but it ended with Wen Liang being given a major demerit and Zhang Zhifan sadly transferring to another school. There must be some hidden secret that he didn't know about.
You must know that if you express your love, you will be called a parent, and the key to the whole thing lies in the word 'parent'.
In that matter, He Tianran seemed to be an outsider. The school might not know that Wen Liang rejected Zhang Zhifan because of him, but Zhang Zhifan himself definitely knew.
Maybe the school told Zhang Zhifan his identity, or maybe he investigated it himself before retaliating. But no matter what, when he knew that He Tianran's father was He Panshan, no matter how stupid he was, he would think twice. My own weight.
When a musical family meets a business giant, the best outcome is undoubtedly that the two sides will not interfere with each other.
But if that prank was true, that would be a different matter.
Just listen to Cao Aiqing continue: "Wen Liang won the Best Actress Award with that film and became famous from then on. As a screenwriter behind the scenes, you should have become famous. It's a pity that you were just an apprentice screenwriter at the time. The most outstanding drama It was written by you, but your name is not in the screenwriter column. I don’t understand things in the entertainment industry. These are all things Guo Huai has told me one after another over the years. But after listening to it, I think it’s very dramatic, doesn’t it? In this period of Wen Liang's life, it was you who failed and you succeeded, and you have always played the role of a passerby."
After hearing this, He Tianran lamented the impermanence of life: "I am very grateful to you for telling me this. This has given me a deeper understanding of the other He Tianran."
Unexpectedly, Cao Aiqing shook his head and said:
"No, that's not what I want to say. If the story ends abruptly, I will only sympathize with you and not say you are great. After I returned to China, Guo Huai called you once and we got together once. After drinking, you vomited some truth that I still remember vividly. After listening to it, I really felt that you were a scary person. You said——
I deliberately made trouble and erased the name on the screenwriter column, because even if the name is added, it is just one of the many screenwriters. The name of the chief screenwriter is still hanging at the top, and the audience will only remember the actor. Who, who is the director? Even if someone will write down the name of the screenwriter, who will think about which people are responsible for which scenes? As the leading role, Wen Liang will remember that when she walked on the red carpet of the film festival, when she sat in the screening room and read the final credits, the person who she bullied now helped her. The person who successfully turned over has no name. Guess what will happen to her? "
Cao Aiqing repeated the original words, and He Tianran felt chills running down his spine.
"This is what I mean by 'let nature take its course'. You don't seem to have done anything. You just used some of the most basic things in human nature. It seems that you have gained nothing, but in fact you have climbed to the top. You are such an unappreciated talent. Your image has earned you a movie queen who is dedicated to helping you, and even falling in love with you. Sometimes I really admire you, because you are the only person I have ever seen who can really be cruel to myself, but sometimes I have to say You are very naive, I even think that you know how to be successful and you can live a good life, but just to take revenge on a woman, you will ruin your own future."
This past incident made He Tianran sit on pins and needles.
He didn't know that he would fall into such darkness, but when the truth was revealed in front of him, the young man named "He Tianran" felt that all of this... he could completely understand.
A person who has no color in his eyes, only darkness, will not care about suffering a little more harm in exchange for the pleasure of revenge.
This gave He Tianran an ominous premonition. If the other self was really so dark and approached Wen Liang just to destroy him step by step, then for the Cao Aiqing he had always liked in front of him, he... ...don’t you have any plans?
Thinking of this, He Tianran felt terrified.
"Does he also treat you..."
"It's not as bad as you think. He really regards Guo Huai as a friend, and Guo Huai is also a very good person, but he is too dull. Sometimes it is inevitable that he will be led away by others without realizing it..."
Cao Aiqing's voice became softer and softer as she spoke. She slowly lay on the table, resting her head on her arms, just like the way He Tianran looked at her secretly in class.
For a moment, he thought she had never changed.
"Those rumors in high school were spread to college. In the past four years, my reputation has not been good...Although I have never had a boyfriend and have always deliberately kept a distance from the opposite sex, maybe it is because The 'kindness' you talk about, those college classmates who don't know me at all, after being rejected by me, will make a few casual remarks as if nothing happened. You men are really face-loving animals. Those rumors are getting worse and worse. I was so stupid before that I thought that as long as time passed, everything would be fine..."
"For four years, I began to become sensitive and suspicious. During the worst days, I felt that everyone was looking at me with colored glasses. If any boy who approached me smiled, I would think it was suspicious. They had some agenda. At first, I comforted myself. Maybe it wasn’t what I thought. Their purpose of approaching me was very simple, just to study and work. But in the end, guess what? Ha, my kindness is stupid, but I I am so suspicious, but I get hit every time..."
"At that time, only Guo Huai didn't look at me that way. He told every friend he knew how good I was. Others called him a licker or a loser, but he always laughed it off after arguing with his reasons. I have been scolded for four years, and he has been scolded for four years. I am very grateful to him for protecting me. I left the last bit of kindness to him, so on the eve of graduation, he and I let nature take its course. Together."
After hearing this, He Tianran was moved. Such a beautiful girl should not have to go through all this. She should have a brilliant college life.
However, after the foreshadowing of Wen Liang's past, He Tianran had already guessed the undercurrent of Cao Aiqing's experience.
The young man's throat couldn't help but tremble, and he finally managed to ask:
"Those rumors spread to the university...were all 'my' ideas? Guo Huai... likes you, but he... doesn't have any advantage, so..."
After Cao Aiqing finished telling her story, she closed her eyes and enjoyed the island sunshine shining in from the window. Her face showed a sleepy look and she slowly murmured to herself:
"He Tianran, you really understand the word 'humanity'. Guo Huai joked with me in private that you also liked me, but I smiled and said nothing because I believed it was true. That day you I knew it when he pushed Guo Huai out to save me. We are the same kind of people, and we are both very sensitive to people's feelings. You are a person with low self-esteem and arrogance. You like me, but you feel you are not worthy of it. Me, you think Guo Huai can treat me well, so you do everything for him in private to get close to me. In the end, I don’t know whether to thank you or hate you..."
"The book you read to me, was it the product of your last bit of arrogance? Did you want to tell me how happy I would be if I were with you? But this time you miscalculated, and I am sitting right in front of you. The other you, after listening to what he said, I didn’t think how happy we would be together..."
A drop of burning tears streaked across her cheek as white as snow, and in the long silence, He Tianran heard a quiet sigh from her.
(End of chapter)
