Chinese Entertainment 2017: Starting from the Top Writers

Chapter 777 I Don’t Want to Leave Any Regrets

The hum of the air conditioner outdoor unit was suddenly cut off, and the standby room fell into silence.

The mineral water bottle in Lu Yuxiao's hand sank three inches with a "click". Water droplets dripped through her fingers into the depression of her collarbone, making her shiver with the cold.

The sound of Lin Li's leather shoes stepping over the threshold was like the heavy notes of a piano, which startled Wang Yuwen's right eye, where the glue on her false eyelashes had not yet dried, and caused it to twitch continuously.

The ticking sound of his watch's second hand suddenly became clearly audible, and the spot of light reflected by the metal bracelet happened to fall on Wang Yuwen's brow, like a burning mark of judgment.

"Go on."

"I, your backer, am here, why are you all silent?"

Lin Li stood tall in front of the door, looking around at everyone in the waiting room with a faint smile on his face.

When he stood there, the air pressure in the waiting room seemed to drop a few degrees.

Wang Yuwen stretched his body straight, lowered his head towards Lin Li, and dared not make a sound.

Wu Jinyan silently stuffed the throat lozenges she had just opened back into the bottom of her bag. The rustling sound of the plastic packaging was particularly harsh in the silence.

The silence lasted for a few seconds. Seeing that no one said anything, Lin Li smiled suddenly and looked at the girl who was still in a daze.

Lu Yuxiao saw Lin Li hooking his finger at her, and pointed at herself in confusion.

When she saw him nod again, she confirmed that he was indeed calling her, and she felt a little dizzy.

When she stood up, her canvas shoes tripped over the chair leg and she staggered. Then she quickly calmed herself and quickened her pace to get closer to Lin Li until she fell into his shadow.

"WeChat."

When Lin Li unlocked his phone, his cuffs lifted up, revealing the smooth muscle lines of his arms, causing Lu Yuxiao to subconsciously glance at him several times.

"We've run into each other three times, so it's fate. Let's add each other on WeChat."

He deliberately raised his voice and glanced at Wang Yuwen's blue face.

The mirrored wall in the waiting room reflected dozens of stiff figures, like puppets under a spell.

Lu Yuxiao's fingertips trembled when she scanned the code, and the cursor in the remarks column flashed several times before she finished typing the four words "Teacher Nanxun".

"Okay, let's do this for now. We can contact each other on WeChat later."

Seeing that the verification was passed, Lin Li smiled at her, then glanced left and right. Seeing that they all lowered their heads, he couldn't help but shook his head and laughed.

Sure enough, the essence of group behavior is to go with the flow.

"Okay, okay."

Lu Yuxiao looked at the dialog box with Lin Li, her mind went blank, and she responded blankly.

"Okay, I'll be leaving now. Bye."

Seeing her distraught look, Lin Li smiled, turned around and walked out of the waiting room.

Seeing this, the atmosphere in the entire waiting room suddenly relaxed, and many students fell directly into their seats, covering their chests with their hands and showing expressions of fear.

That's Lin Li!
If I accidentally make him feel disgusted, I can really quit the entertainment industry.

Lu Yuxiao didn't react until Lin Li's figure completely disappeared. She looked down at the screen of her mobile phone, then looked up at the place where Lin Li disappeared, and finally came to her senses.

Her chest heaved violently and her eyes were full of hesitation.

After closing her eyes and taking a few deep breaths, she suddenly opened her eyes and her look became firm.

She glanced back at the faces in the waiting room who were observing her, pursed her lips, turned around and chased out the door.

Seeing this, everyone in the waiting room looked at each other in bewilderment. Wang Yuwen was so angry that she smashed the foundation box at hand into pieces, her face turning livid.

"Teacher Nanxun, please wait for me!"

After running out of the waiting room for about ten seconds, Lu Yuxiao saw Lin Li strolling slowly in the corridor.

Lin Li paused, then slowly turned around.

"how?"

When Lu Yuxiao came closer, panting, Lin Li looked at her with curiosity and asked.

"Nan, Teacher Nanxun, can I treat you to a meal?"

"I want to thank you for your guidance today."

Lu Yuxiao tried her best to keep her breathing steady, staring at him nervously, her eyes full of anticipation.

"Don't be like that, I'm just telling the truth."

"Although there was the element of fate in our first two encounters, the compliments I gave you were not made up out of thin air."

"You don't have to eat."

Lin Li looked at the slightly immature face in front of him and declined softly.

Just a few words, something casually said.

"I……"

Looking at the gentle smile on Lin Li's face, Lu Yuxiao was speechless for a moment.

She lowered her eyebrows and her eyelashes trembled rapidly a few times, like the wings of a startled butterfly.

A very light breath rolled through his throat, as if he was trying to swallow back the sourness surging in his chest.

When she raised her eyes again, there were ripples of light in her dark pupils, and the mist in the corners of her eyes was dispelled by the suddenly tense jawline.

His fingers unconsciously twisted the corner of his clothes, and his joints turned blue and white before suddenly loosening.

"or……"

The last syllable of her voice trembled when she uttered the first word, but she straightened her spine to steady herself when she uttered the second word.

The moment her hair was lifted by the draft, she loosened her numb fingertips and let the wrinkles left on her fingertips bloom stubbornly on the hem of her skirt.

"Maybe... for our fate."

Lin Li raised his eyebrows and stared at the girl in front of him, lost in thought for a moment.

Lu Yuxiao mustered up the courage to look him in the eye, but her clenched hands betrayed the chaos in her heart.

Looking down at the girl's beautiful eyes, Lin Li's smile began to dissipate from his jawline, and when he saw her unconsciously pursing her lips, it turned into a soft arc of spring water flowing over a stone bridge.

"Fate should be a twin vine."

He chuckled at the end of his voice, and his tone became gentler.

"I accept your statement."

The rouge color on Lu Yuxiao's earlobes had already seeped through her earlobes. She could count the shadows cast by her eyelashes, but she could not count the heartbeats that missed between her breaths.

She didn't know what to say at this moment and could only smile foolishly.

Looking at her cute and innocent appearance, Lin Li couldn't help but smile, and then raised the corner of his mouth.

This girl is kind of cute.

-

At 7pm, in a private room of a famous internet-famous hotpot restaurant in Hengdian.

The nine-grid red soup was bubbling with peppercorns, and the steam formed a hazy web between the two people.

Lu Yuxiao picked up the tripe for the third time and it fell again, and the splashed red oil stained red spots on her white sweatshirt.

"They say you look like an undercooked, runny egg."

Lin Li suddenly smiled and spoke, tapping his bamboo chopsticks lightly on the table in front of him.

"If you ask me, you should be the rice dumpling with fermented glutinous rice."

Lu Yuxiao looked up blankly, with sesame seeds on the tip of her nose. The lanterns of the antique buildings outside the window shone through the carved window lattices, casting tiny spots of light on her face.

“It looks soft and sticky, but it has a strong aftertaste.”

He scooped a spoonful of fermented glutinous rice into her bowl, and the sweet aroma mixed with the spicy smell of butter fermented in the air.

Lu Yuxiao's chopsticks fell onto the blue and white porcelain plate with a "click", and her face, which was already red due to the spiciness, became even redder.

She didn't expect that she would be so courageous.

The noise of the crew finishing work came from afar, and she suddenly looked at Lin Li seriously.

"It rained all day in London at the end of last year, and I watched all your interviews in the costume studio." "You said that actors should be like water, taking the shape of whatever container they are put into."

“The joy of being an actor is being able to interpret the lives of many people.”

She dipped the hot pot soup in the water and drew circles on the table, and the red oil flowed like a river along the wood grain.

“That was the day I decided I wanted to be an actor.”

“A fine actor.”

After finishing speaking, Lu Yuxiao felt as if a huge stone had been lifted off her chest, and she suddenly felt much more relaxed.

She wanted to tell Lin Li in front of her that she became an actor because of him.

"Ah……"

Lin Li suddenly chuckled and looked at her with curved eyebrows.

"Are you trying to tell me that I am responsible for your dream?"

He deliberately dragged out the last word and watched the girl's neck turn coral red.

"So, do you want to be the water in my play, or..."

Before he could finish his words, Lu Yuxiao suddenly stood up and walked to his side, bending down in his surprised gaze.

In the thick mist rising from the shabu-shabu pot, the numbing taste of Sichuan pepper spreads along the lips and teeth to the heart.

The sound of a whistle outside the window suddenly broke the beauty of the room.

"I'm afraid I don't know when I'll have this opportunity to meet you again, so I want to tell you one more thing."

"I like you."

"I remember you said at the Renmin University anniversary that people are like rainbows, you only know they exist when you meet them."

"I did."

"Although I am inconspicuous, I don't want to leave any regrets for myself."

Lin Li touched the corner of his lips, surprised by the boldness of the girl in front of him.

This girl really gave him round after round of "surprises" today.

"Xiao Lu..."

"You can call me Xiaoxiao. People close to me call me that."

Lu Yuxiao interrupted him, her voice soft but extremely serious.

Lin Li was stunned for a moment. After he came to his senses, he glanced at her clenched hands and smiled.

"Xiao...Xiaoxiao, since you are following me, don't you know that I am a scumbag?"

"Besides, I love them very much, and I don't have much time and energy to develop other relationships for the time being."

"If it's just a simple relationship between a man and a woman, I wouldn't want to bother a little girl like you."

"Just think of the kiss just now as me practicing for our future intimate scenes. Neither of us should take it to heart, okay?"

Faced with the girl's active confession, Lin Li tried his best to comfort her patiently.

Just as he said just now, Xiao Zhang is still pregnant and he has no time to think about things between men and women.

It would be fine if she was just an actress trying to get ahead, but the problem was that he could see that this girl was serious.

"Teacher Nanxun, although I have never had any relationship experience, I have been abroad and have seen the fast-food relationships of Europeans and Americans. I also know how chaotic their private lives are."

"To be honest, if you are abroad and have one tenth of your ability, I'm afraid you'll have a different person sleeping with you every day."

"Your level is actually... average."

Lin Li's mouth twitched, and he felt as if he was being ridiculed.

"Xiaoxiao, we don't know much about each other. What you like about me is more because of the aura around me."

He looked at the stubborn girl in front of him and lowered his voice.

"Teacher Nanxun, all liking must start with some characteristic of the other person, whether it's appearance, talent, or some accidental moment."

"Don't worry. I'm not telling you that I love you, not because you have to agree to it. I just don't want to have any regrets, so don't feel pressured."

"I know exactly who you are. In fact, your words to me now will only make me feel that my love is not wrong."

"To be honest, I'm very happy."

When Lu Yuxiao finished her last word, the corners of her eyes suddenly curved into the arc of a rising crescent moon.

She raised her hand to tuck her hair behind her ears, her movement carrying the feeling of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, and her eyes sparkled with sparkling light in Lin Li's eyes.

Lin Li's fingers suddenly tightened, and a moment of surprise flashed in his eyes.

He looked at the red cheekbones on the tip of the girl's nose, like a cinnabar plum blossom suddenly blooming in the snow.

When she raised her face, the light that leaked through the gaps between her eyelashes jumped into his pupils, burning his Adam's apple so much that he rolled it unconsciously twice.

"You~"

Lin Li suddenly relaxed his tense shoulders and laughed out loud, and the sigh held back by his back teeth turned into a helpless ending.

When he raised his right hand, it brushed across Lu Yuxiao's collarbone, startling the tiny hairs on the side of her neck and causing them to stand up suddenly.

"perhaps……"

"We can start by just being friends."

Hearing Lin Li's words, Lu Yuxiao was stunned for a moment, and then a touching smile suddenly bloomed on her face.

"Ok!"

A brisk nasal sound echoed in the room.

-

At nine o'clock in the evening, Hengdian was still bustling with activity. Apart from the crews filming night scenes, the streets were also crowded with people, which was no less than during the day.

A young martial artist in costume suddenly jumped out from the archway of "A Small Town Story". The wind caused by his backflip startled the hanging kerosene lamp prop.

The female anchor in a Lolita skirt shared a power bank with a rap artist wearing a big gold chain. The "Blue and White Porcelain" played by the guzheng and the smoke that was deliberately created to create an atmosphere were lingering between the pillars of the arcade.

The circular fill lights every ten meters turned the asphalt road into a galaxy. Sun Wukong, who was cruising on a balance bike, just passed by the White Bone Demon who was holding a stabilizer.

Lu Yuxiao counted her steps on the shadows of the trees, and her jumping appearance was like a deer running through the woods.

The light from the lanterns under the eaves flowed through her smiling eyes, creating ripples on the water.

Lin Li felt the cool breeze, and suddenly turned around to put on the hood of her sweatshirt, casting a swaying shadow on the ground.

The flash of light in the dark flashed for a moment, and Lin Li pulled her into his arms. He held the back of her head with his big hands and applied a little force, so that her face was completely buried in his chest.

Lu Yuxiao heard the vibration of his chest and couldn't help but let out a muffled laugh.

"Teacher Nanxun, do you think tomorrow's hot search headlines will be Lin Li's night meeting with a mysterious woman, or a new actress?"

Lin Li looked down at her eyes flashing with excitement, shook his head and laughed. As expected of a Chinese student who had been to England, her emotions were very stable.

"Which title do you think is more appropriate?"

he asked with a smile.

A hint of cunning flashed in Lu Yuxiao's eyes, and she suddenly stood on tiptoe and gently bit his Adam's apple through the mask.

"What do you think, Mr. Nanxun, that Bole has finally found his steed?"

-

The next day, Weibo’s hot searches exploded as expected.

"Secret meeting with newcomers at hotpot restaurants"

"Video of the live recording of the acting team leaked"

In the video screenshot, Lin Lizheng handed the mobile phone to the girl who was looking down, and the mirror in the waiting room reflected everyone's astonished expressions.

After several months, Lin Li once again dominated the hot searches.

(End of this chapter)