SM Chapter 2
by VolareChapter 2: Why do I still love to be so sentimental?
(Part 1)
Ye Lai was addicted to Sheng Mingqian, addicted to the sex with Sheng Mingqian. Sheng Mingqian wasn’t home often, and after they returned to their room, Ye Lai Entangleed around him again.
“So addicted?” Sheng Mingqian’s sweat dripped onto Ye Lai’s face, “Then when I’m not around, how do you deal with it?”
Ye Lai tried hard to see Sheng Mingqian’s hazy eyes clearly, but unfortunately, he couldn’t see anything. Instead, he traped himself deeper into the mud.
“There’s a gym at home, after I’ve used up all my energy, I don’t think about it anymore.” He answered with a smile, following his heart.
After speaking, Ye Lai’s fingers tugged at the edge of Sheng Mingqian’s open bathrobe: “There’s still half a year left, so of course now is the time to enjoy it as much as possible.”
After another intense session, the last bit of strength in Ye Lai’s body was finally exhausted. Sheng Mingqian carried him to take a shower, then carried him to bed.
Ye Lai lazily lay on the bed, the blanket covering his chest. The red hotness on his face had faded, and his skin had returned to its original whiteness, with only the corners of his eyes red from crying.
He didn’t know if Sheng Mingqian was retaliating for the strawberry mark he had left on his chest last night, but he had bitten him several times on the chest just now, and the bite was really harsh. His collarbone was still burning with pain, and the area around the tooth marks was swollen, looking pitiful.
“Mingqian,” Ye Lai yawned, his eyelashes slowly blinking, frowning with an apologetic look, “I probably won’t be able to have dinner with you this weekend. The company is forcing me to go on a variety show with Yang Xingzhou. You know, Yang Xingzhou and I have never gotten along, I don’t want to go on that show, but I’m not that big of a star yet, I can’t refuse the company’s arrangements, I’m really afraid that I won’t be able to help but fight with him that day, it’s really annoying…”
After Ye Lai finished speaking, he yawned again, and two sleepy tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes. He moved his neck, rubbed his eyes on the pillow, making the already red corners of his eyes even redder.
The mattress beside him sank a little, and Ye Lai’s body also bumped up and down. Feeling Sheng Mingqian’s approach, he rolled over twice,Posted Sheng Mingqian’s chest, rubbed his chin on his chest a few times: “Mingqian, I’m so sleepy, hold me and sleep for a while.”
Ye Lai’s hazy appearance was like a well-behaved rabbit with its ears drooping. Even his breathing was soft. Sheng Mingqian stared at his face in a daze for a while, put his arm around Ye Lai, and patted him twice on the back.
Ye Lai curved his lips, raised his arm and wrapped it around Sheng Mingqian’s waist, found a more comfortable position, and finally settled down.
Only after hearing the even breathing of the person beside him did Ye Lai slowly open his eyes.
A small night light was turned on at the end of the bed, and the dim light could shine on the bed. Ye Lai looked at Sheng Mingqian’s face, which was covered with a dim color, but still couldn’t hide the deepness imprinted in his heart.
He could only look at this man for another half a year.
How long had he loved this man? Ye Lai counted in his heart, starting from the age of nineteen, it had been ten years.
Ye Lai woke up from a sleep, and the room was pitch black. The night light at the end of the bed was already turned off.
He was the only one in the bed. He reached out to his side, and the bed sheet was already cold. Sheng Mingqian was not there.
He turned on the light. Ye Lai sat on the bed head for a long time, wiped the cold sweat that had appeared on his forehead because of the nightmare, and first called his agent Zhang Yihao: “Brother Hao, the show this weekend, I don’t have to record it, right?”
“Damn, Ye Lai, how did you know?” Zhang Yihao looked back at the boss’s office, “I just came out of Zhou Zong’s office, and he just told me that you don’t have to go on that show. How can you be so well-informed?”
Ye Lai moved to the edge of the bed, staring blankly at the pattern on the carpet. He wasn’t wearing any clothes, his two long and straight legs were bare, and he shook them unconsciously, his toes occasionally brushing the carpet, the carpet was fluffy, and his toes were itchy.
Before going to bed, he complained and acted spoiled to Sheng Mingqian. It wasn’t useless. By the open-air Swimming Pool, he asked Sheng Mingqian for a role, and Sheng Mingqian had already rejected him once, so he knew that Sheng Mingqian would definitely help him with a request that was much smaller than asking for a role.
Did this mean that Sheng Mingqian wasn’t so indifferent to him?
Thinking of this possibility, Ye Lai’s eyes curved. He stood up, walked to the window, opened the window and blew some wind, feeling comfortable all over. He smiled lightly twice before saying to the other end of the phone: “Brother Hao, I just had a dream.”
“Heh, who gave you the dream, it’s so accurate.”
Ye Lai smiled even louder, his voice crisp: “Brother Hao, that’s it, I don’t have to be angry with Yang Xingzhou anymore, I can sleep well tonight.”
“Haven’t you been sleeping well lately?” Zhang Yihao asked.
Ye Lai stretched out his hand and touched the wind: “It hurts, my body hurts, it’s an old problem, I can’t sleep.”
“You’re saying old problems at such a young age, wait until you reach my age, young people should sleep well…”
“I hear you, Brother Hao…”
After talking to Zhang Yihao, Ye Lai hung up the phone, changed into a casual sportswear. Knowing that Sheng Mingqian wasn’t at home, he still didn’t give up and searched every room, and only after confirming that there was really no one did he enter the kitchen, pour a glass of milk from the refrigerator, and Bubbleed some cereal as dinner.
He slept for too long in the afternoon, and he probably wouldn’t be able to sleep at night. The night was still long, so he called Sheng Mingqian.
The first call went unanswered. After five minutes, Ye Lai called again. This time, Sheng Mingqian answered.
“What’s the matter?” Sheng Mingqian’s voice was deep, and his tone was not good.
Ye Lai pursed his lips and said, “Mingqian, Brother Hao just called me and told me that I don’t have to record the show this weekend. Did you help me plead for it?”
“Yeah.”
“Thank you, Mingqian. Where are you now?”
“At the Film Set.”
“When will you be done? I’ll wait for you to come back.”
“No need to wait, there’s a night scene today, I’m staying at The crew Hotel.”
Ye Lai Umed. Sheng Mingqian rarely came back when he was filming. He didn’t expect him to come back these two days.
He couldn’t see anyone at night, and Ye Lai felt a little depressed. He quickly shook his head and Throw away the messy things in his mind.
He comforted himself that Sheng Mingqian was usually like this. What was he being sentimental about now?
But he still missed him.
Ye Lai listened to the noisy sound on the other end, tilted his head and looked at the dark night outside the window. The lights were on outside, the light at night was cold, and it was very short. The lights would disappear at dawn.
“Mingqian, I miss you…” Ye Lai said.
The wind diluted his voice a bit, and the person on the other end couldn’t tell how much sincerity was in his voice. After a while, he said, “I’ll go back on the weekend.”
Ye Lai didn’t wait until the weekend. The Film Set was not far away, and he wanted to see Sheng Mingqian, so he went to the Film Set the next night.
Before leaving, Ye Lai poted soup and made several dishes that Sheng Mingqian loved to eat. Sheng Mingqian’s friend Zuo Qi also starred in his new movie.
Of course, he couldn’t say that he was going to see Sheng Mingqian, so he could only use Zuo Qi as a cover.
He and Sheng Mingqian were secretly married. The original prenuptial agreement stated that they could not disclose this relationship during the marriage, so they would not appear together in any public place.
No one knew that this house belonged to Sheng Mingqian. Sheng Mingqian lived at the Film Set when he was working, and only came back when he wasn’t working, but he worked much more than he didn’t.
Although they had been married for almost five years, if he carefully calculated the time, the time he and Sheng Mingqian were really together was only a little over a year.
He had nothing to complain about. Originally, this five-year marriage was stolen by him. He couldn’t always ask for too much. Sheng Mingqian was right.
Although he understood these principles.
(Part 2)
“Ye Lai, over here.”
Ye Lai had told Zuo Qi in advance that he was going to visit the set. Zuo Qi was waiting at the intersection early. When he saw him get out of the taxi, he waved to him from a distance.
Ye Lai ran over and handed over one of the lunchboxes and milk tea: “How is it? Is the filming going smoothly?”
“Sigh…” Zuo Qi sighed, took the milk tea, inserted the straw and took a few big sips, “Director Sheng is really too strict. I had to ng several times when it was my turn, and I didn’t know where to put my hands. Fortunately, he’s in a good mood today, and he didn’t scold me.”
“He’s in a good mood today?” Ye Lai captured this important information.
Zuo Qi thought for a while: “I feel like he’s in a pretty good mood, otherwise he would have scolded me long ago. I’m afraid of Director Sheng. His requirements for details are simply perverted. Everyone in the crew should be afraid of him.”
I’m not afraid, Ye Lai said in his heart.
Zuo Qi was one of his few friends in the entertainment circle. The two of them debuted together through an audition. Zuo Qi liked acting, but he was different. He entered the entertainment circle just to be closer to Sheng Mingqian.
“Is he still filming?” Ye Lai asked.
Zuo Qi Includeed on the straw, speaking vaguely: “He’s still filming. It’s the protagonist’s scene now.”
“Take me to see.”
“Let’s go, I’ll take you. Ye Lai, do you also want to film? Why don’t you hang around Director Sheng a little more later and let him see you more? It’s a pity that you don’t act with your face. Speaking of which, the first movie you starred in after your debut was directed by Sheng, although it was the male fourth, your performance was very outstanding. Why don’t you act anymore?”
“I…” Ye Lai paused, “I don’t want to film myself, so I won’t hang around him.”
Actually, he also wanted to act, but what he wanted to act in was Sheng Mingqian’s movie, but there was only that one opportunity five years ago. That was already lucky. According to the agreement, they couldn’t be in the same frame, let alone film a movie together.
Even him visiting the set was for the first time.
Ye Lai and Zuo Qi stood in the crowd, watching Sheng Mingqian sitting in front of the monitor from a distance.
Sheng Mingqian was wearing a white shirt, his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, his left hand holding the script, his right hand clenched into a fist against his chin, the hair on his forehead was a little messy, and his eyes looking at the monitor were focused and serious.
After watching for a while, Sheng Mingqian stood up again, using both hands and feet, explaining the plot to the man next to him, conveying emotions, and demonstrating the details of the turning movements in the script.
Ye Lai liked Sheng Mingqian’s movies. He was a director who was particularly good at hiding stories in the lens. He was extremely involved in filming, and Sheng Mingqian, who was working seriously, had a special charm.
Ye Lai was fascinated. He didn’t come back to his senses until Zuo Qi bumped his shoulder.
“Ye Lai, let’s go back, I’m a little sleepy.”
Zuo Qi didn’t have any scenes to film at night. He became sleepy after drinking the milk tea, and dragged Ye Lai away.
The actors of the crew all lived in nearby hotels. Ye Lai was wondering how to find Sheng Mingqian later. Zuo Qi had already told him that his room and Sheng Mingqian’s room were on the same floor. Zuo Qi lived in 516 and Sheng Mingqian lived in 508.
This would save a lot of trouble. Although there were many people in the crew and it was easy to be seen, Ye Lai still wanted to try, maybe he could find a little gap.
“Ye Lai, let me tell you some gossip…”
As soon as Zuo Qi entered the room, he lay down on the bed in a Large characters shape. When he talked about gossip, the sleepiness he had just had was gone again. He turned over, propped his head up with his arms, “The investors are stuffing people into Director Sheng’s room. I also heard people say that Sheng Mingqian is very satisfied with the people sent over by the investors. It is said that the next movie will let that person be the male lead, but I don’t know who it is yet. When the cast list of the next movie is officially announced, we can probably know who it is.”
Ye Lai was still thinking about how to find Sheng Mingqian later, and didn’t pay attention to the gossip shared by Zuo Qi.
This kind of thing was spread every day. Sheng Mingqian entered the entertainment circle very early, and started filming at the age of twenty. He was already 36 this year. His love history had always been the topic that gossip entertainment loved to pay attention to. The key was that he also had an outstanding face, so there were naturally many scandals, True, Ye Lai didn’t know.
Since they got married, Sheng Mingqian’s scandals had been much less. Many people said that Sheng Mingqian’s heart was dead because he broke up with Zhou Ran, so the prodigal son changed his nature and Keep your body for Zhou Ran.
Ye Lai only found this rumor funny. If he was really Keep your body for Zhou Ran, then who was the person who had been Grinding ears with him the day before yesterday?
“At the Platinum Awards Gala, I thought Sheng Mingqian would complex with Zhou Ran. Really, prodigals are sentimental.” Zuo Qi sighed again.
Zuo Qi spoke for a long time, but Ye Lai had been sitting on the chair in a daze. Zuo Qi also lost interest in continuing to gossip. Gossip is only interesting when you share and discuss it with others.
Ye Lai didn’t respond. He closed his eyes and started snoring after a while. Before going to bed, he asked Ye Lai to stay in his room.
It wasn’t until two o’clock in the morning that Ye Lai heard the footsteps and the noisy sound of moving things and talking in the hallway. It was estimated that they were done with work. It wasn’t until three o’clock that there was completely no sound in the hallway.
Ye Lai Carryed the soup he had poted, gently pushed open the door, and first poked his head out to look around. After confirming that there was no one, he walked out.
Sheng Mingqian was in room 508. Ye Lai walked and looked at the door numbers. Just as he reached 504, a door in front of him suddenly opened, and a man with milk-grey hair walked out with his head down.
Ye Lai recognized it. The person who walked out was Yang Xingzhou. Yang Xingzhou was clutching his collar with one hand, walking with his head down and not looking at the road.
“Yang Xingzhou?”
Yang Xingzhou was about to bump into his shoulder. Ye Lai spoke and took a step to the side.
Yang Xingzhou heard the voice and stopped, straightened up and raised his head, released his hand holding the collar, looked at Ye Lai, and displeasure rose on his flushed face: “Ye Lai, why are you here?”
“Aren’t you here too?” Ye Lai chokeed, he had seen the cast list, and there was no Yang Xingzhou in this movie.
“I’m here to visit a friend, can’t I?”
“Whatever…” Ye Lai glanced at the room that Yang Xingzhou had just walked out of, didn’t want to talk to him too much, bypassed him and continued to walk forward along the hallway.
It wasn’t until he stood at the door of 508 that Ye Lai realized that Yang Xingzhou had come out of Sheng Mingqian’s room.
Thinking of Yang Xingzhou’s crooked collar and flushed face, Zuo Qi’s words came to his ears again.
The investors are stuffing people into Director Sheng’s room during this time.
I heard that Sheng Mingqian likes him very much.
It is said that the next movie will let that person be the male lead.
…
Ye Lai felt as if the strength in his body had been drained all at once, his legs stood stiffly in place. The little bit of reason left didn’t let him raise his hand to knock on the door. He didn’t want to humiliate himself by seeing the messy scene after entering.
That’s right, Sheng Mingqian didn’t need to be responsible for their marriage, nor did he need to remain loyal. It was just that Sheng Mingqian’s scandals had been less in recent years, it was just his own illusion that he thought Sheng Mingqian only had himself.
It wasn’t until a long time later that Ye Lai regained a little strength, turned around, and slowly walked to the stairs.
So, the male lead of “The World on the Bough” had already been decided, no wonder Sheng Mingqian refused so simply that day.
So, Sheng Mingqian’s pleading to cancel his weekend show recording wasn’t because of him.
Ye Lai’s fingers holding the lunchbox were sour, and he ridiculeed himself in his heart again –
Really… it’s been almost five years, why do I still love to be so sentimental?