Chapter 63

“Lighting and sound in place.”

“Host get ready. The countdown begins…”

“…three, two, one!”

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The penultimate rehearsal of the program is going on in the huge studio. The dazzling lighting and stage rear projection make the whole studio look brilliant. The actors in the backstage are busy, and the audience seats are full. After the countdown, the host smiles professionally He began to read the well-regulated speeches.

Although the rehearsal has been carried out for the fifth time, no group of actors will relax in the face of the status quo that any show will be taken down at any time.

The total length of the gala was only four hours, no one wanted their show to be scheduled after midnight, and there were very few stars who could have solo time in the first four hours.

Gu Xizhi’s songs were scheduled at 23:00. After the rehearsal, although Gu Xizhi was quite satisfied with her performance, compared with the qualifications of several other solo singers in the music industry, she was more confident in her ability to stay. The next hope is a little less.

The program of the song and dance group will definitely be deleted, and she is very likely to be the one that was deleted.

Sure enough, the program team sent her a notice that the program was taken down the next day.

Midwinter noon has become the warmest time of the day. The sun is pouring down gently, illuminating the withered branches and the dark haze. Gu Xizhi is sitting on the balcony tending the flower branches. There are sounds of fire and chopping vegetables in the kitchen. Liang Ying Sitting on the sofa talking on the phone.

After making a phone call for half an hour, the first time Liang Ying hung up the phone, she went to the balcony aggressively and yelled at Gu Xizhi, “Why didn’t the director tell me about the cancellation of the show!”

Gu Xizhi frowned, “Didn’t you talk to Bo Yiqing?”

“Sister Yiqing doesn’t even know!” Liang Ying became even more angry.

“She is from Malaysia.” Gu Xizhi wrote lightly, “I didn’t tell her, and I don’t know that she will know.”

“Anyway, I’m very disappointed!” Liang Ying snorted heavily, turned around and went to the bedroom with the phone.

Gu Xizhi looked at her back, put down the green radish in his hand and walked down the balcony.

The fire was in full swing in the kitchen, Gu Xizhi helped to prepare the dishes after washing his hands, Tang Yu focused on cooking all the time, and the two were very quiet all the time.

After a long time, Gu Xizhi fished out the washed dishes, looked up at Tang Yu, and said belatedly, “Did you tell Bo Yiqing that the show was deleted?”

“She called and asked, and told the truth.”

Gu Xizhi didn’t speak any more.

At noon, Liang Huan and Anda came to Gu Xizhi’s new home as guests. The two pairs were full of praise for the sumptuous dishes. After lunch, Gu Xizhi went to the kitchen to clean up the dishes. Anda took Liang Ying to the balcony to learn about potted plants. After a while, the phone call was over. Liang Huan entered the kitchen with her mobile phone. Gu Xizhi saw the guest entering the kitchen and quickly said, “This place is too messy. Go sit in the living room and make tea for me.”

Liang Huan didn’t move, but stood leaning against the door and looked at her, “Why don’t you say that the show was taken down.”

Gu Xizhi was stunned for a moment, and quickly explained, “The results just came out yesterday, and I haven’t had time yet.”

Liang Huan nodded, thought for a moment and then said, “I’ve thought about it, going to the party will be beneficial and not harmful. This circle is not just letting go if you want to quit the news media. If that’s the case, it’s better to be with you.”

Gu Xizhi was obviously surprised, “This is not good, I obviously don’t want to participate…”

“Liang Ying has been arguing with her all afternoon, if I don’t agree with her, I’m afraid this New Year will not be safe.” Liang Huan smiled, “Besides, I hope that the good voice can be heard more, this is out of the original intention of loving music.”

Gu Xizhi was probably grateful, but his expression was complicated for a while.

Liang Huan added, “I heard from Liang Ying that she is a little interested in Li Scarlett’s movies. I don’t know anything about movies, but I often play mahjong with her. Next time, we will play mahjong together.”

“Sister Liang…” Gu Xizhi looked like he didn’t know what to say.

“Okay, it’s not easy to get ahead in this circle. I’ve met many seniors who helped me along the way, and I don’t need to thank you. If I can, I’d like to help newcomers when I have the ability.” After thinking about it, he said, ” By the way, there is no arrangement for work when I just came back, let Xia Qiao take care of the work for the time being.”

Gu Xizhi was silent for a moment, then sighed, “You are so kind.”

“It’s worth it.” Liang Huan smiled.

The last rehearsal of the party went very smoothly. The news that Liang Huan would appear at the New Year’s Eve party made the headlines of the major news media that night. The audience’s expectations for Liang Huan became the first hot spot of the party.

January 7th, New Year’s Eve.

When the new year is approaching, the centenarians seem to glow with some thriving vitality. The city that has been lively for a few days is even more colorful with lights and fireworks at night. The midwinter weather can’t quench our enthusiasm. It seems that we have endured the cold for a season just to welcome the new spring.

Countless families can only be reunited at this time, and countless families are still busy at this time.

In the backstage of the evening studio, Liang Huan and Gu Xizhi, as guests of the show at 9:30, had already changed into costumes and put on makeup. Such a busy backstage made any famous studio become just a name.

For some reason, Liang Huan had countless singing experiences, but she seemed a little nervous when faced with this kind of scene. Although the atmosphere was really tense right now, Gu Xizhi’s mood didn’t fluctuate much.

“She is nervous because she loves music. She doesn’t want her performance to have any flaws. She will always be more nervous about things she cares about, just like liking movies. In fact, it may be better to calm down.” Facing Gu Tang Yu answered Xizhi’s question.

At that time, the crosstalk actors in front of the studio were talking nonsense, and the audience’s laughter spread to the backstage, but it did not reduce the tense atmosphere in the backstage.

Through thousands of lights, most of the families are watching the same channel at the moment. Some families get together to have a New Year’s Eve dinner.

In the large villa on Xuanfen Road, Yin Jun greeted the family to drink tea and watch TV after dinner. Qu Xizhi was wearing a newly stitched Burberry white cashmere coat and watched TV with his father on the sofa. It was a sketch, and the quality of the sketch was not bad. The relatives who had just finished dinner were attracted by the TV program and forgot to chat.

After the skit ended, the host appeared on the stage, and the room was still enjoying the skit just now, and the discussion was still full of meaning. The stage scene on the TV had switched, and at this moment a little girl came out of the kitchen and said to the audience angrily, “Don’t talk, I want to see Liang Huan sing.”

The little ancestor of the family spoke, and the family quickly smoothed things over with each other, saying, “Did you hear me, don’t talk, listen to the singing.”

The little girl stared several times at the one who was still talking, and soon the living room really fell silent.

The gorgeous lights and the prelude to the rear-projection songs create a Chinese-style atmosphere. Hundreds of LED lifting platforms present various elements of classical culture with three-dimensional images. As soon as the singing sounds, the TV bursts out Big applause.

Then the subtitles appear on the screen:

“Jade Pear”

Singer: Liang Huan Gu Xizhi

Lyricist: Hua Jiu (Taiwan, China)

Composer: anda (Japan)

Because the subtitles just flashed by, many middle-aged people neither recognized it nor saw it clearly, and said one after another, “Liang Huan knows, what is the name behind it.”

“My name is Gu Xizhi, who plays TV.” “Little Ancestor” replied quickly.

“Hey, is it so similar to the name of your little song?” Everyone seemed to have discovered a new world.

Yin Jun, who was sitting on the sofa drinking tea, cleared her throat and put down her teacup to watch Qu Xizhi, but no matter where the show went, Qu Xizhi’s expression was so light that no trace of sadness or joy could be noticed.

The audience didn’t have to wait too long. At the beginning of the song, the close-up showed Liang Huan walking out of the lifting platform in a golden theme costume. When another voice sounded, the audience burst into applause again, and this When the close-up appeared, many hot spots on the Internet were taken away by her.

On the last Weibo posted by Gu Xizhi more than two years ago, a simple Weibo posting stills was forwarded and commented dozens of times per second, and the comments were either asking why she cut her hair short or why she cut her hair twice. I didn’t update Weibo for a year and didn’t show up. When the song entered the chorus, there were two more hot topics of discussion. One was that the singing was better than before, and the other was that the song was really good.

The duration of a song is less than four minutes, but it left many audiences with surprises and shocks.

Because there are really not many young artists at the party, Gu Xizhi’s appearance became an absolute bright spot, and Gu Xizhi’s appearance with Liang Huan seemed to break the routine, and the already hyped “Liang Huan is back” Added enough follow-up after the topic, plus this voice is the voice of singing “Premonition” with Liang Huan in the past. Many audiences are not unfamiliar with this voice, and the Chinese style song “Yu Jiao Li” is good enough, so the stage The applause continued.

For many ordinary people who don’t understand music, judging whether a singer is good or not is often “whether her high pitch is high enough”, because Gu Xizhi’s vocal range is indeed very wide, and “Yu Jiao Li” does have room for development, so Even middle-aged and old people immediately remembered the little girl who sang with Liang Huan.

There are always voices of praise from contemporary composers:

“This girl whose name is similar to our ditty song is not bad at singing.”

“I haven’t heard of this name before, but I know Liang Huan.”

“It’s very sweet. What’s the name of this song? It’s very nice.”

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Even Qu Xizhi’s father, Qu Tingxiang, expressed his opinion, but Qu Xizhi and Yin Jun remained silent from beginning to end.

The singing of the song was very successful. Tang Yu, who was waiting backstage after leaving the stage, immediately showed Gu Xizhi on Weibo, “There are 30,000 comments.”

After two years, Gu Xizhi looked back at his Weibo, saw the number of comments, and smiled again.

The tense atmosphere in the backstage did not allow for the celebration, so Gu Xizhi quickly sat down and continued watching the show, forgetting about the previous performance.

What she didn’t expect was that after the party, the top topic on Weibo after the party was “Spring Festival Gala”, the third was “Yu Jiaoli”, and the top topic on Weibo on the third day of the new year was “Long-haired Gu Xizhi vs short-haired Gu Xizhi” “.

A star who hadn’t appeared in front of the audience for two years suddenly appeared in front of the public with a new look in a very wide-reaching way. The audience who liked the new and hated the old seemed to remember that she hadn’t appeared in front of the audience for two years, so a lot of gossip about her appeared in various forums, including her After losing the Best Actress, she encountered cold speculation, and even talented people compiled her acting career into catchy poems, so her name suddenly became a representative of inspiration when the attention of her name reached a peak.

People are always used to sympathize with the weak. When gossip all over the sky pointed to Gu Xizhi being frozen by China Entertainment International, on the one hand, her fans condemned the brokerage company verbally and pens, and on the other hand, her diehard fans and young There are a lot of small fans.

The direct consequences of this phenomenon and the effect of the New Year’s Eve party are: 1. The solo version of the song “Yujiao Li” is so popular that you can’t bear to look directly at it. . 2. Gu Xizhi’s short hair style has made many hairdressers painstakingly study the technique. The reason is that many long-haired beauties want to cut her hairstyle, but because the hairstyle needs special care, most of the cut results are not ideal.

The second day of the Lantern Festival.

The night before, Gu Xizhi had just flown home from a local TV station. Early in the morning, Gu Xizhi received a call from Liang Huan saying that she would play mahjong in the afternoon. Xia Qiao pushed five announcements in a row to free up her time.

In the morning, Gu Xizhi chose a more lively style from a pile of new clothes. The new stylist and make-up artist gave her exquisite hair and makeup, and even the nails were completely new. The first thing Xia Qiao said when she saw her outfit was : Times Media paid her quite a lot of capital.

When Gu Xizhi’s “Calamus” was nominated for the best actress, Tian Youlan, the est project director of Times Media, once offered her an olive branch. At that time, Gu Xizhi had no thought of leaving CEI, and then the best actress lost , she didn’t have the heart to go to this muddy water again. After returning to China, Gu Xizhi contacted Tian Youlan as soon as possible. Her attitude was still the same as two years ago, and the resources given to her also proved her sincerity. Even after this party, she arranged for her a private makeup artist and stylist, specially Equipped with millions of RVs.

She said that a star needs to be praised in order to become popular, and she can give her a lot, but Li Scarlett is not sure.

At exactly one o’clock in the afternoon, Liang Huan’s private house.

The heating was turned on in the huge multi-functional entertainment hall, and Gu Xizhi, who had arrived early, was being pestered by Liang Ying to play games together, when the doorbell rang, Gu Xizhi patted Liang Ying on the shoulder and said, “Go and open the door, I won’t play with you anymore. “After finishing speaking, he dropped the game and left.

Liang Ying glanced at Xiao Xiao who died in the game, and then rolled her eyes at her back, “We value profits over friends!”

Liang Huan prepared tea for the guests, and saw that Gu Xizhi went to open the door and did not stop what she was doing. Gu Xizhi opened the door and saw Li Scarlet without any surprise. She originally said hello, but when she saw Li Sijia When Jiali was with her, the words in her mouth were delayed for two seconds before she said, “Sister Jia, please come in.”

Although we didn’t finalize the cooperation with her because of Xiao Ji back then, but at that time the two were considered to be somewhat friendly, and those who knew her well would call her Sister Jia.

Li Scarlett had already heard Liang Huan introduce her as a mahjong player, so she wasn’t surprised to see her appear, but after all, she hadn’t seen her for many years, and when she saw Zhenzhen again, she was more enthusiastic, “Xiao Gu, it’s been a long time since I saw her, and she’s so thin now.” .”

“It’s okay to be thin. Sister Liang said that if you lose ten catties, your lung capacity will not meet the standard.” He smiled and introduced Er to the door, and then looked at the woman next to Li Scarlett, “Sister Jia, can you introduce me?”

Li Scarlett probably remembered the fact that the two did not know each other, and said, “This is Jessicaara, her Chinese name is Zhong Linshan, she is still very famous in the fashion circle, many famous fashion designers know her, and she also has a clothing brand. After finishing speaking, she said to Zhong Linshan, “ara, this is Gu Xizhi. She is very popular recently and I often hear her name. I should recognize her.”

Zhong Linshan’s net height is 1.77 meters, so wearing high heels does not feel a little oppressive, but her golden face and professional smile alone make her very friendly.

“Of course I know, Xie Zhi.”

Li Scarlett seemed to be reminded by the word “Xizhi”, and immediately said, “I forgot about these two.”

After preparing the tea, Liang Huan, the master, saw that she had arrived, and greeted, “Mahjong is ready, come quickly.”

Originally, today’s theme was mahjong, and everything else became superfluous.

It has long been known from the information that Li Scarlet loves to play mahjong, and Gu Xizhi has also learned it for a while, and his skills are in a state of not winning money but always losing money.

When playing mahjong, her hands inevitably became the focus. Li Sijiali sat at the next table, and when she saw Gu Xizhi’s fingers when she was playing the first card, she said, “Your fingers are more beautiful than many hand models, and your nails are also very beautiful.”

Gu Xizhi smiled, “I usually don’t have anything to do, so I left some nails to paint.”

“I envy these little girls.” Liang Huan took the words and played a card, and said, “I used to be unable to grow long nails when I played musical instruments, and now Liang Ying pesters her to cook for her all day long. I haven’t had beautiful nails once in a year.”

“It’s beautiful enough without nails.” Li Sijiali smiled and played.

At this time, it happened to be Zhong Linshan’s turn to take the cards. Liang Huan looked at Zhong Linshan’s fingers, as if she had suddenly discovered some new land, and asked, “Ara doesn’t play instruments or cook, why doesn’t she have long nails like other girls?”

All the eyes at the table were focused on Zhong Linshan’s neatly cut nails. Zhong Linshan seemed to be blocked by her question, but it was Li Scarlett who said, “Huanhuan is stupid, the reason why she doesn’t keep her nails is not necessarily because she doesn’t play musical instruments or cook. ”

“What else?” Liang Huan still didn’t know what to do.

Gu Xizhi glanced at Zhong Linshan’s nails, then lowered his head to hide the emotion in his eyes.

“Ahem!” Liang Ying, who was playing a game, couldn’t help raising her head and said, “Mom is a fool, she despises little Aqu.”

Liang Huan still didn’t understand at first, but after seeing everyone’s embarrassment, she thought of Liang Ying’s words, her face turned red, and she stopped talking.

The whole mahjong game seemed to go wrong from the very beginning, and then Gu Xizhi often made mistakes in his cards.

When the mahjong was over, everyone found that even the first mahjong player might not be able to achieve this state: Gu Xizhi lost from the beginning to the end.

Mahjong was played until 6:30 in the evening. When the game was over, it started to rain again. Gu Xizhi was about to call his assistant to pick it up. After hanging up, Zhong Linshan said to Li Scarlett, “Xiaoqu, wait downstairs, no need to wait.” Excuse the driver, let’s go together.”

Li Scarlett nodded, and said to Gu Xizhi out of politeness, “Xiao Gu, let’s go together, there will definitely be traffic jams in this weather, it’s still early for the driver to come over.”

Gu Xizhi wanted to refuse at first, but seeing Liang Huan’s wink, he smiled and said, “Okay, that’s going to be a trouble for Ara.”

“No trouble.” She smiled politely.

The rain in winter is mixed with the north wind, and the dark night is extraordinarily cold.

Gu Xizhi walked downstairs wearing a tweed coat, and in the dark, he saw Qu Xizhi getting out of the car under an umbrella.

She was still wearing high heels, and the black windbreaker and umbrella made it difficult to notice her in such darkness, but when she took off the umbrella to reveal her face, the blazing contrast between her bright red lips and fair skin still made one shock.

When she came in front of San, she obviously noticed her, but she only gave her a second of sight out of politeness, and said to Li Scarlett, “Sister Jia gets in the car first.”

Li Scarlet seemed to be very used to this kind of priority, and just followed her into the car after being polite.

A minute later the car was already on the road.

The heavy rain hit the car windows and formed raindrops, which were quickly cleaned by the wipers. Gu Xizhi and Zhong Linshan did not speak after getting into the car, but Li Scarlett and Qu Xizhi kept chatting.

“Xiao Qu, do you want to act in a movie recently?”

Qu Xizhi kept driving, and heard the words, “The scripts have been accepted all the time, but they are not particularly suitable.” After a pause, “I heard that Sister Jia is going to shoot a new work?”

“Yeah, the script hasn’t been selected yet. I plan to choose the protagonist after the script is selected in March.” Like a joke, “If you want to invest, you can come over and be a producer.”

Qu Xizhi also said in a joking tone, “If Sister Jia is not afraid of the movie being ruined, of course it can.”

A truck was approaching from the front. Although the sight distance was limited and it was easy to avoid it, it was not particularly dangerous. However, Qu Xizhi almost didn’t hit the brakes because of the chatter.

After the car came to a complete stop, everyone in the car was in a state of lingering fear, and it wasn’t until the truck on the opposite side adjusted its direction to leave Zhong Linshan that he said to Qu Xizhi, “What happened just now?”

“It’s okay, it’s not good to drive in high heels.” Turning his head to the back seat of the car, “I’m sorry, I surprised you.”

Li Scarlett was obviously displeased, “It’s okay, be more careful next time, don’t wear high heels when driving.”

“Sister Jia really believes in her.” Zhong Linshan said, “Her ankle has an old injury, and it hurts whenever it’s rainy.” After finishing speaking, she complained to Qu Xizhi, “I told you not to wear high heels on rainy days, why didn’t you listen? of.”

“I left in a hurry and forgot to change it.” Qu Xizhi didn’t show any expression, pinned his long hair behind his ears and restarted the accelerator.

Upon hearing this, Li Scarlett said again, “Xiao Qu, when did you get the injury on your foot? I know an orthopedic doctor, and I can ask about the situation and see if it can be cured.”

Qu Xizhi wrote lightly, “I accidentally fell down the stairs wearing high heels two years ago.”

“You are so careless.” A regretful voice.

Gu Xizhi, who was silent all this time, raised his head to look at her profile, and then at her hand holding the steering wheel. Seeing that her nails were clean and tidy, he adjusted his gaze and looked out of the window quietly.

Because of the short distance, Gu Xizhi was the first to get off. There was lightning and thunder outside the car, probably out of etiquette, Qu Xizhi said before she got out of the car, “Do you want to send it up?”

Gu Xizhi looked up at her, smiled, “No, I’m here to pick you up.” After a pause, “Thank you.” He opened the car window, bid farewell to San, and walked downstairs in the rain.

The car turned around quickly after she left, and when the rear of the car reversed, there was a dim light. Qu Xizhi adjusted the car position, looked in the rearview mirror at the man holding an umbrella in the shadow of the tall building, and sped away from the community.