He Tianran's home had an open kitchen. He was choosing dishes at the sink. When he looked up, he could see Bai Lingye looking for the TV remote control everywhere in the living room.
At this moment, the female star who had just become a popular actress had lost her disguise and curled up comfortably on the sofa. She fumbled in the cracks of the sofa for a moment, found the remote control and turned on the TV happily.
"Didn't you say you wanted to change the projector before?"
She asked casually on the sofa.
"If you want to replace the projector, you need a better set of speakers. The online reviews of this thing are uncertain. I have to find an opportunity to try it in person, so I'm still choosing, so don't be in a hurry."
He Tianran turned off the faucet, filtered the water in the vegetable basket and set it aside. He opened the refrigerator and prepared other dishes.
"Are you looking for a speaker that has sweet treble, accurate midrange, and deep bass? In short, it's 'transparent'?"
Knowing that the other party was playing with the plot of "Infernal Affairs", He Tianran smiled slightly, took out a bag of apples that Bai Lingye had just put in it from the refrigerator, and threw one over, and Xiao Hua Dan caught it.
"Eat an apple first and shut up. You can feel at ease even if you come here to eat. Don't put apples in the refrigerator in the future. They won't be nutritious after a long time. There is a knife on the table. Peel it yourself."
"Isn't it true that you're usually away from home? It's easy to get spoiled if you leave it outside. And I didn't buy all these ingredients. I saw that you never buy fruit, so I bought some for you and brought it to you out of kindness. , liver, lungs!”
Bailingye tuned a channel that was playing entertainment news, muttered something in his mouth, picked up a fruit knife and started peeling.
He Tianran glanced at her, smiled helplessly, placed the chopping board, and started processing the meat in his hands.
Bai Lingye lives upstairs in his house. Dinners like this happen more often when the two parties are not working, but in fact, on average, it only happens once a month or two. After all, the other party has finished filming "A Thousand Knots of Hearts" Announcements kept coming, and it took him sixty, seventy days or more to work on the set. He Tianran was okay, because there were still classes at the film school, so his work was usually concentrated in Hong Kong City. If he had to take leave all year round, he would have to work outside sooner or later. Apply to defer graduation.
In fact, in today's society, "neighborhood" is rarely seen in adults' social relationships. Even if everyone is door-to-door, if you are unlucky, you may not see each other a few times throughout the year.
Before filming "A Thousand Knots of Hearts", He Tianran occasionally saw Bai Lingye's figure during morning jogs in the community. At that time, he thought it looked familiar. He must have seen it online. There are quite a few celebrities living in this area. Well, he didn't think much about it at that time.
It was not until later that Bai Lingye came to the company to interview for the role of "A Thousand Knots of Hearts" that the two officially met.
But few people know that they are neighbors.
At first, He Tianran was very confused because Li Lan's company was not in Zhuguang Lane and was quite far away from where Bai Lingye lived. Later, after asking, he found out that she lived here solely for the convenience of going to Zhuguang Lane for auditions. Their company's resources did not favor her in any way. When the film was not looking for people, people had to find people for the film, so she had to seize every opportunity to be in a film and follow the assistants around for interviews.
Nowadays, Bai Lingye can be considered as able to watch the clouds clear and see the moonlight.
"Look, look, look, this is a video of me walking on the red carpet a few days ago!"
Bai Lingye, who had been sitting on the sofa watching TV, took a bite of the apple and suddenly screamed excitedly and said vaguely.
He Tianran was just getting excited here. He raised his head and glanced at the TV. It turned out to be a party for a fashion event a few days ago.
On the screen, Bai Lingye was wearing a blue pearl backless dress, looking graceful and radiant.
He Tianran stretched out his hand to test the temperature of the oil: "What kind of party is this?"
Bai Lingye turned her head and said, "Bazaar Charity Night!"
"Oh, I finally got through it."
"Hey, it's all thanks to Director He~"
The man's eyes stayed on the chest of the exotic beauty on the screen for a moment, and then turned to the person sitting in the living room. He saw her dressed in casual clothes and wrapped up tightly. The contrast was really subtle. …
"By the way, you've been promoted now. Li Lan didn't arrange another place for you to live? I remember you rented the house here with your own money, right?"
He Tianran put the prepared vegetables into the pot, and the aroma filled the room for a while. He turned on the oil fume and asked loudly.
Bai Lingye stared at herself on the screen, her eyes shining brightly, "It's been arranged, but I'm used to living here and I'm too lazy to move, so I asked the company to pay the rent for me, and I still have people here to help me. It’s great to cook and eat!”
She turned her head and looked at He Tianran, who was cooking seriously at the other end of the pot.
The man who felt the gaze raised his head slightly and said with a smile:
"Don't come here, don't blame me for reminding you. You are famous now. Although we are just a flight of stairs away from each other, you should be more careful when you come here in the future, so as not to spread some unhappy topics. Count on me."
"Don't worry, I confirm it every time I come here!"
Bai Lingye swore that she was now at the most important stage of career advancement. If some scandals spread at this time, such as breaking into a director's residence at night, it would undoubtedly be fatal.
Fifteen minutes later, the food was served one after another, three dishes and one soup, steaming hot.
He Tianran knew that female artists like Bai Lingye did not eat staple food in order to stay in shape, so he specially made seaweed and egg drop soup. He himself was too lazy to cook, so he simply warmed up the cold rice that had been left overnight. Just a big bowl, enough for serving.
As soon as the two sat down, Bai Lingye was holding a spoon and was about to serve the soup. Suddenly, his hand retracted and he took a breath of cold air with a hiss in his mouth.
"What's wrong?"
The girl stretched out her hand, and He Tianran looked closely. He saw a small cut on the other person's index finger. There was no bleeding at first, but it moved again when he took the spoon. Now there is blood oozing out. It is probably because he was not careful when peeling the fruit just now. Injured.
"Did you just see yourself shivering on the red carpet? You were so absorbed in it that you didn't even know you cut your hands?"
He Tianran gloated, walked under the TV cabinet and took out a band-aid.
"Hands."
He lowered his head, tore open the outer packaging, and sat back at the dinner table.
Bailingye pursed her lips, blinked her big eyes, and quickly stretched out her hand.
He Tianran held the other person's catkin in his hands, wrapped the band-aid around it, and said earnestly:
"Hey, my cooking hand is fine, but your eating hand is injured. Senior sister, I'm not talking about you. You said that you are a girl of your age and have basically zero life experience. If you live in In ancient times, it was probably only possible to pay tribute to the emperor and dance in front of him all day long."
Bai Lingye couldn't help but laugh, and couldn't help but boldly asked:
"Can it just be dancing? Is the emperor so innocent?"
He Tianran was stunned, and after a moment of reaction, he realized that Bai Lingye had driven his car over his face.
"...Female celebrities should pay attention to their quality and don't make pornographic remarks."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Bai Lingye covered her mouth with her other hand, looking like a trembling flower. From now on, it is not unreasonable for the king not to go to court early...
After putting the band-aid on, He Tianran let go of her hand, and the two of them prepared to eat.
"Director He, you and I are completely different people on the set in private. Everyone is afraid of you on the set, but in private you have an inexplicable... feeling of a husband."
"Cough...cough cough cough~what...what do you feel?"
He Tianran was choked by these words. Bai Lingye took a sip of the soup and explained:
"It's that kind of... a temperament that is very suitable for playing a husband in TV dramas... Of course, this is just your private image, and it is different from when you are working. Director He, you know the contrast."
"Haha, I don't understand."
He Tianran laughed dryly. He naturally changed the topic and asked proactively:
"By the way, Lingye, do you have a good relationship with Wen Liang from your company?"
After hearing this, Bai Lingye was silent for a few seconds and put down the bowl.
"Why are you asking about this suddenly?"
"Today I'm filming a TVC, and the artist I invited to appear is her. Why, you look like you're not familiar with her, are you?"
The man put a piece of meat into his mouth and chewed it.
Bai Lingye raised his head and thought for a while:
"Uh... It's okay. We must know each other. After all, we work in the same company. She is still my school girl. But because of this, Sister Lan initially positioned us as Huadans, which was a bit inconsistent, so generally we don't have it. What kind of cooperation opportunity? Anyway, if there is a scene like this, either she will be in it or I will be in it..."
"Is that so? No wonder, I remember that all your company's resources seemed to be focused on her."
"……Um."
Bai Lingye responded, then seemed to have thought of something, and cautiously asked:
"Why, Director He...after you cooperated with her today, do you have any follow-up plans?"
This kind of thing should not be said in the first place, but He Tianran and Bai Lingye get along very well, and the other is his first female lead, so the weight is naturally different. Thinking of the other person who had to look for opportunities to act on his own a few years ago, From the days when he was left out by the company, his career is now booming, all thanks to his own efforts. He Tianran felt emotional and did not want to hide it, so he said:
"I don't have any opinions on Teacher Wen Liang. I have little contact with her and can't comment on her. It's just that it is basically impossible for me and her to have follow-up cooperation. The main reason is that her reputation online... is indeed a bit not good, whether it is true or not. It's probably just groundless...I wouldn't dare to use it anyway.
Lingye, let me remind you that as artists, we must first have artistic ethics. This is the prerequisite for ensuring that we can cooperate with good works. Traffic is traffic. If we want to be popular, we must be the kind of red that is rooted in the roots. ', but we can't take the wrong path and end up misleading others and ourselves. "
"Well, I know~"
Bai Lingye smiled and nodded, thinking, this Director He is obviously one year younger than herself, but when it comes to truth and promoting positive energy, he is really... extremely humane.
"But having said that, Senior Sister Wen has indeed been a little willful in the past two years. Maybe her starting point is too high. I heard from people in the company that she often gets angry with Sister Lan."
He Tianran said curiously:
"Really? Is it because the things she did on the set were exposed, or something else?"
Bai Lingye shook his head:
"I'm not sure about this. I guess it's because of this. After all, the company has invested heavily in her dramas in recent years, but the final results were not satisfactory, and...she and the company I signed a four-year or five-year contract, and now it's about to expire."
Upon hearing this, He Tianran roughly understood some of the secrets.
"Hey, according to your temperament, Sister Lan, you won't let me go so easily."
"maybe."
The two of them were on point. Although they had a good friendship, they both knew how to use discretion when it came to business secrets.
He Tianran took a bite of food and talked about this afternoon. Wen Liang and he were old acquaintances, but he had no memory of it.
"Haven't you seen this in film school?"
"I haven't seen it before. When I was in the first year of graduate school, Wen Liang had already graduated."
"Then she will know your hobbies and keep them in your mind?"
Bailingye asked curiously.
Speaking of this, He Tianran became interested.
"Would you like to take a guess and let me test my friendship with you?"
"Okay, you asked."
Bailingye readily accepted the challenge.
"Ahem, first question...what is my favorite movie?"
""The Years of Love"."
"...You, you know?"
The girl gave the answer without thinking, leaving He Tianran dumbfounded.
Bai Lingye tilted his head slightly, "Is this difficult to guess? You said it yourself during a media interview. I was right next to you."
"Ah... yes, I remember this. Next question, what is my favorite comic?"
Bai Lingye thought about it for a moment: "It seems to be called... "The Vagabond". I forgot who the author was, but your WeChat avatar is quite common. Several people in my WeChat have this avatar, so I asked Who knows who the character in your avatar is? You kept talking to me about comics for an hour, but in the end I only remembered the name of the comic."
"I……"
Hit again.
He Tianran never expected that his niche hobbies could be guessed by two women in a day. The only difference is that how did Wen Liang know that he had no memory, but he was really sure of what Bai Lingye said. I told the other party myself.
"The last question, what is my... favorite song?"
He Tianran definitely never told Bai Lingye the answer to this question, but he seemed to underestimate the woman's reasoning ability...
"You haven't told me this, but I can try to speculate."
"Yes, please!"
Bailingye said while thinking:
"I remember when we were filming, there was one day when we had no filming the next day. It was a rare day to relax, so you invited a few of our main creators to sing at KTV. The songs you ordered that day were all from Mayday... So it can be inferred that you My favorite singer should be Mayday, and my favorite song should also be one of Mayday’s songs…”
"..."
Hearing this, cold sweat broke out on He Tianran's forehead...
"And there was a song that night that you clicked three times. The name is quite long and very nice. It's called... it's called... it's called "If We Never Met". Yes, that's it. Is this your favorite song? A song?"
After Bai Lingye finished speaking, he looked at He Tianran expectantly, waiting for him to reveal the answer.
And with a blank nod, the girl cheered, seemingly overwhelmed by her own reasoning ability.
"So, I also know your hobbies. It's pretty easy to guess!"
Bai Lingye was so proud that he happily put a piece of green vegetable into his mouth.
He Tianran then remembered that "A Thousand Knots in the Heart" is a fantasy and suspense drama. When the heroine was originally selected, in order to fit the mind of the character, He Tianran and the original author, Mr. A Liu, even talked on the spot during the interview. Several logical questions were asked to test the actors' reasoning abilities.
Bailingye's answer at that time was highly praised by the original author.
"Lingye, have you told Wen Liang about this?"
After a moment, He Tianran couldn't help but ask.
"Well... Wen Liang asked me about you at a company party after "A Thousand Knots of Hearts" was broadcast, but what exactly did he say... I drank a little too much at that time, and I was in a daze. I can’t remember very well…”
Bai Lingye slowly thought about it.
(End of chapter)
