Chapter 1 "It's been a long time since I was separated from you"

In winter, Beijing is already full of smog. The towering office buildings on the East Third Ring Road are poking out from the dust. Bai Yan wrapped himself in a wool cap and a mask and walked reluctantly into the hall. Two delicate-looking white-collar girls looked at him from the elevator's grooming mirror, clutching their coffee cups and whispering timidly.

Bai Yan's agent works on the tenth floor of this building. There are two cubicles of his own, one is an office, and the other is a conference room with a few lazy sofas. The agent of third-rate resources, Bai Yan's usual work is outsourced to him.

"Xiao Bai, you're here! I've been waiting for you for a long time!" Assi was unusually enthusiastic, and took a bottle of mineral water from the foot of the table to Bai Yan.

Bai Yan leaned against the table and waited for him to speak. His body was only a little thinner when wrapped in a coat. The exposed skin was very white, and his small and upturned nose was a little red from the cold outside, making it impossible to tell his age.

"How about this year's S+ draft for Northern Satellite TV?" Asi said triumphantly with a red face.

Bai Yan was stunned for a while, then looked at him suspiciously: "Northern Satellite TV?"

"Yeah!" Asi raised his voice, "The recording will start at the end of the month, the lineup of mentors has been announced, and the players seem to be still screening."

"I'm twenty-six, brother, can you find me some reliable work?" Bai Yan was helpless.

Asi scratched the messy self-published scroll, and whispered, "The key is that you don't want to shoot reliable scenes...and North TV, brother! What a chance! Last year, who put Qinhuangdao to film for two months, After I'm done, I'll come out and play the male protagonist of "Knowingly committed a crime"! Only the nineteenth! It's only two months... Maybe you'll come out in half a month, we can still celebrate the New Year together, don't you know!"

Bai Yan had no expression, his mouth tightened under the mask, and after a while of silence, he said, "Okay, please help me agree."

"Okay! I'll pick you up tomorrow, let's go to the stage together, sign a contract and say hello to the director, okay?" Asi laughed, "I told you that this show is sure to hit! I've asked for a mentor, can you believe that Suiyi is a permanent resident? It seems that there is also Jane Anne, and the host heard that it is Wu Yue."

"Suiyi?" Bai Yan was in a trance and asked him back.

"Yeah, it's the Suiyi who claims to be 8 million live fans! It's not a super imitation show!" Asi buried his head and swiped his phone for a while, and put a freshly-baked promotional poster in front of Bai Yan.

In the middle is a boy with good proportions. Because of the shape, his back and shoulders are very straight. Even with the slightly heavy makeup, he can still see his handsome face. , The legs are also very long, the length that Bai Yan has seen without software modification.

"I'm not going." Bai Yan only looked at it and looked away, with a firm tone. Before Asi took back his phone, he saw the person in front of him inexplicably slammed out the door like a gust of wind.

Just in time for lunch, the people in the elevator were rubbing shoulders. Bai Yan waited three times and there was still no room. He curled up his hands impatiently, and a message sound came from his trouser pocket.

"Dear customer: the personal commercial housing loan with the last number of your contract *0041, the principal and interest of the loan should be repaid in 20191228 of 9901.4 yuan. As of 12:00 on 20191228, the deducted amount of 1.85 yuan has been deducted. Please deposit the full amount in time. Deposit or on the way, ignore it. Thank you for your support! [Zhongfu Bank]”

Bai Yan's fingertips holding the phone had turned white, and tirelessly the elevator made a subtle transmission sound. He felt as if he sighed, and turned to the cubicle just now.

The next day, Asi really cleaned up like a dog. He drove a new Santana to pick up the white banquet. He followed the shiny business nanny cars from Sihui Bridge to the north, humming from time to time. After a few ditties, Bai Yan leaned against the car window and did not speak, vaguely feeling a little headache.

A nanny car slowly passed them, his rather pale face was reflected in the dark car window, Bai Yan glanced at the right-view mirror, and seeing his obvious bags under his eyes, he couldn't help but feel even more dejected.

"Hey, that was Bai Yan just now?" Ji Zhen turned back from the co-pilot.

Sui Yi was closing her eyes, but she opened her eyes with no energy: "Well."

"He's so old, and he's still participating in this kind of show... tsk." Ji Zhen lowered her head and turned over a few pages of the plan, and without hesitation, put Bai Yan into the contestant column.

Sui Yi paused before saying, "He looks quite small."

After Ji Zhen heard this, she looked up at him from the rearview mirror: "Are you paying attention?"

"It's okay." Sui Yi's expression was very light.

"I forgot that the two of you are college classmates." Ji Zhen said meaningfully, "but seeing that the gap between the two of you is too big now, I guess he doesn't want to associate with you too much?"

Sui Yi did not speak.

"It would be too embarrassing for you to comment on him at that time." Ji Zhen seemed to observe him carefully, and then threw out another sentence.

"It's nothing important, you can take a rest." Sui Yi said.

Ji Zhen tutted again, then took out a tablet from her bag, clicked on the latest news on Nanzhu Entertainment's official website, and said, "It was signed in the first half of the year, and it was announced today. You hold 31% of the shares. Your fans probably know it."

"Yeah." Sui Yi nodded.

"Also..." Ji Zhen turned her head over, and the white Santana next door chased after him again, "You should pay more attention to Xiaoyi this time, the board of directors is very optimistic about him, so don't take it seriously."

Sui Yi perfunctory her: "Okay."

Seeing his expression, Ji Zhen opened her mouth but didn't speak.

"I'm also on the board of directors." Sui Yi hung her head down and played with her phone, and said after a while.

Just after ten o'clock in the morning, Weibo was already very lively. Suiyi opened a trumpet and swiped a variety of entertainment news aimlessly. Several Reuters news released three minutes ago popped up.

The scene is outside the car. Leaves are falling from the bleak branches. In the distance is the mottled directions on the parking lot at the back door of North Satellite TV. The boys in black cotton clothes are getting off a white Santana, and their faces are covered by a smoky gray scarf. Half of it, a cold look can be faintly seen in the not-so-clear pictures.

The account posted with the text is a fan-like entertainment marketing account: Save! Currently only the oldest player in 2019! Anyone else remember? He made his debut in a literary movie before... The copywriting was accompanied by a few sweaty emojis at the end, and he scrolled down to comment, most of which were sneering audiences, and there was not a single fan who spoke for him for several pages.

The third hot comment was the fans of the dance instructor in this show, who replied with a lively tone: "He seems to be still college classmates with Sui Yi, and I've already dipped my toes when I think of the pictures on the show."

Sui Yi turned up expressionlessly and pressed the screen for a while.

The recording schedule was very tight. More than 100 contestants rushed to sign contracts in the past few days. There were people coming and going in the huge conference room. Bai Yan and Assi huddled in the corner waiting for the assistant director to call their names. The dark circles under the eyes of the two of them appeared.

Before the conference room door was pushed open, there was a commotion outside the door. Bai Yan looked at the door with drooping eyes, and saw several people walking in surrounded by one.

Sui Yi was very tall, and half of his face was exposed from the top of the head of the person blocking him in front of him. There was no turbulence on his face. He scanned the entire conference room almost immediately, and passed Bai Yan expressionlessly.

Bai Yan was stunned, and then felt his heart skip a beat, like the muffled sound of a heavy truck running over an old road, making people feel restless.

Everyone in the conference room stopped to look at him. A young player sitting next to Bai Yan lowered his voice and exclaimed "Sui Yi", and the orderly work suddenly stopped.

The assistant director was a very delicate girl, she quickly stood up from behind the desk and greeted Suiyi with a smile: "Teacher Sui! It's so early!"

Ji Zhen smiled and nodded to her.

"By the way, come here first." Sui Yi's voice was quiet, and he glanced at the contracts that were piled up on the table.

"Isn't this a little anxious to begin with! If I can't do anything about it, I just called to the stage to sign, and the teacher is not here. I will take you to the office?"

"Xiaoyi has already signed it?" Ji Zhen asked suddenly.

The assistant director suddenly realized, patted his head and said, "I signed it, and I came to sign early in the morning, a very hardworking child."

Ji Zhen seemed to have expected it, and said with a smile, "Take care of it a lot."

"Where is it! You should take care of us a lot!" The assistant director opened the door for Suiyi while greeting each other.

Sui Yi turned sideways and walked over, and finally gave Bai Yan a lookless, slightly downward glance out of the corner of his eyes, ignoring the question marks in the room full of hesitant words, and gently left the conference room again.

"It's so good..." The young man sitting next to Bai Yan said to himself, "Alas..."

Asi was bored while clasping his fingers, leaned over and asked him, "What's the matter, brother?"

The young man was startled and bored alone, so he chatted with him: "It's from a big company, it's amazing."

"This person? A big company?" Asi raised his eyebrows and asked, "I've never heard of him."

The young man cast an unbelievable look and lowered his voice: "You don't know Suiyi? Nanzhu's first brother! Brother! He is still a partner. This time their company has two or three people, and it is estimated that one of them will debut. We're all here to brush our faces..."

Bai Yan glanced at the information card in his hand, he was only nineteen years old, and his tone was not salty or light: "Except for the first, ninety-nine people are here to brush their faces."

"I think so too!" The boy stopped complaining, and then said mysteriously: "I guess it must be Yi Shengqing from their company who won the first place."

"How?" Ash asked again.

"Prince, isn't Suiyi being able to participate in this show because of him, there must be some kind of deal!" The boy pretended to be mature and whispered: "When I see Suiyi, I will definitely praise him and recommend him all the way to directly ascend to the throne. !"

With a surprised expression, Asi took out her mobile phone and started searching. The boy was still chattering about the glorious deeds of Nanzhu Entertainment and Suiyi.

Bai Yan pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled without emotion.

Dozens of people were stuck in the conference room, and they tossed it on an empty stomach until the afternoon. Bai Yan glanced at the labor fee on the contract, signed it without even reading the details, and threw a stack of papers to Asi: " I'm going to the bathroom."

There is no heating in the bathroom in the counter, and Bai Yan shivered several times on the sink before turning on the water.

He poured a few handfuls of ice water on his face.

His wet palms rested on the table. He stood for a while absent-mindedly, and crawled out of the panic just now. He hadn't seen Suiyi standing in front of him alive in three or four years. It doesn't seem ready.

His heart was beating very heavily, pulling his internal organs down, Bai Yan slowed down for a while, and then he was thinking about the changes in Yi, as if he was a little thinner than before, his hair was a little shorter, but he still looked very energetic.

The door of the bathroom was pushed open, and the person Bai Yan had just copied in his heart walked in unhurriedly, stood at the sink next to him, and turned on the faucet to the maximum.

Sui Yi's face was a little gloomy, she frowned slightly, and looked at him through the large mirror.

"..." Bai Yan was stunned, raised his hand and wiped his face, controlling the calmness and silence on his face, but felt as if his throat was blocked.

"Aijia Culture Media?" Sui Yi sneered, "It's developing quite well."

Bai Yan's complexion changed. Aijia Culture Media was an agency that Asi spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to register in Shanghai. Usually, he and several other young actors' social security are paid here: "Are you investigating me?"

"It's written on the registration form, do I need to check it?" Sui Yi's tone was a bit mean.

The air was quiet for a while, Bai Yan lowered his head and looked at the less obvious gray scale in the pool for a while, then turned around and prepared to go out.

Sui Yi suddenly stretched out his hand and grasped his wrist accurately. The black bread suit was only fluffy on the surface. After being wrapped by his hand, there was only a thin layer, and the outline of the undulating joints could be felt.

Bai Yan froze, looked back at him slightly: "Are you okay?"

"Is that what you said?" Sui Yi's voice was a little hoarse.

"It has nothing to do with you, right?" Bai Yan felt amused.

Sui Yi dragged the person and held on, so Bai Yan had to turn around and stand firmly to face him. He regained a steady voice and came from his forehead: "...I haven't seen you for so long, and don't say hello?"

Bai Yan recalled Sui Yi who had patrolled the conference room like a robot just now, and felt helpless to be slandered.

"I don't mean anything else," Sui Yi took a small step towards him, blocking part of the lights on the ceiling, "It's just..."

Bai Yan's heart began to jump again and again, the hand that was being pulled trembled slightly, and he closed his eyes to interrupt him: "Suyi!"

Sui Yi lowered her eyebrows and closed her mouth, looking down at him.

"It's been a long time since I separated from you," Bai Yan said word by word, "Whether it's what I do or what you do, it has nothing to do with each other, do you understand?"

Sui Yi looked at him silently and did not speak, which was completely opposite to the domineering look just now.

Bai Yan raised his other hand and opened his fingers one by one, leaving a few water stains on the cotton-padded clothes.

Sui Yi looked at him with a bit of despair, her originally not so good face was even more ugly, it was still very cold in the bathroom, and the cold wind blew through the palms that were stained with a little water, and it was slightly tingling cold.

The old-fashioned broken mirror is reunited, and work starts!