interview

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If you want to watch HE, just watch the sixth part, skip the seventh part

一

I pretended to be calm and lifted the cup to my mouth, and took a sip of tea in a gentle manner—I had never drank a drink that cost more than 15 yuan, so I couldn’t tell whether the tea was good or bad. Fortunately, I studied modern European industrial history last semester, and I barely recognized the Wedgwood porcelain cup in my hand, so I deduced that the black tea mixed with milk was also expensive.

Judging from this, Lu Zuomin is not as down and out as the rumors say, but then again, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, even if he loses all his family fortune, it is still more than enough to fool me, a layman.

I crossed the rim of the glass, glanced quickly at the piano by the window and a watercolor on the opposite wall, thinking about how to speak—this semester, the teacher of the Introduction to Oral History class asked us to find someone to do an interview. I was going to contact a retired professor honestly, but another member of our group suddenly excitedly said that he would take the opportunity to visit his childhood idol, and said that he would even have a thesis on the history of social life in the 21st century-who would know Her childhood idol was Lu Zuomin!

At the beginning, I didn't know who Lu Zuomin was. After searching the Internet, I found out that he was a singer. He was very proud in the first 20 years of this century, and then gradually declined.I looked over his entry on the encyclopedia several times, but I couldn't find anything that could be related to the history of social life.

I went to question the girl who came up with the idea, but she laughed at her—saying that I don’t know how to find information, and then cracklingly threw me a bunch of URLs, all of which were gossip about Lu Zuomin 30 or 21 years ago, and she gave me an analysis What topics can be drawn from it—for example, comparing online reports with personal interviews to study the credibility of digital historical materials; for example, analyzing the entertainment tendency of society in the information age; , the balance between public image and private life; at worst, I can write "Artist Group in the Early [-]st Century——Taking Lu XX as an Example"... Seeing that the deadline for handing in homework was approaching, when she was about to contact Lu Zuomin with her, she suddenly dropped out of class!I hurried to find the old professor, but I heard that he had gone to Japan to recuperate and would not return to China for a short time. In desperation, I had to rashly send an email to Lu Zuomin according to the address she gave.

When I felt hopeless and started to contact the old man in the school laboratory, I suddenly received a reply: Lu Zuomin asked me to meet at his home on weekends.

I took another sip of tea, flipped through the interview outline, and put on a clumsy smile: "Mr. Lu, let's start then, do you mind if I record it?"

Lu Zuomin smiled kindly: "Of course, it's a pity that you don't plan to record. I put on hairspray today."

His Mandarin has a slight Taiwanese accent and a bit of an interpreter's accent, so his tone is very soft. Obviously, he is a person who can chat.I have seen his previous interview videos, and he has changed a lot less than I expected - he has added wrinkles and gray hair, and the skin is loose, causing a slight disfigurement of the face, but the manner, demeanor and even the youthful temperament are almost the same as before. not bad.Time is usually not so tolerant to an outdated singer.

"Before I start, can I ask a question? There will be no shortage of life in your university that is more wonderful than mine. Why did you choose me?"

I stammered and replied: "Your experience as a singer and actor in the early years is very... unique. In fact, it is very difficult for us to get in touch with a person like you who attracts the attention of the whole society and has a magnifying glass on every move... So , um..." It's not easy to say it face to face because of his experience of being ridiculed by the whole network, I was a little embarrassed, and added a few words with difficulty: "There are also personal emotional reasons, my team members... ex-team members , love and adore you very much..."

He laughed: "Love me? At that time... you were not born yet, right?"

I don't know which "at that time" he was talking about, and I dare not answer directly: "Her mother is your fan, she grew up listening to your songs... I also like your song "A Song in My Heart" "..."

He nodded elegantly: "Thank you. But I saw in the email that the subject of this interview is actually 'the influence of Internet public opinion on public figures'?"

"Yes, yes," I looked down at the documents.I have a document that lists all of Lu Zuomin's exposure by the media from 2006 to 2013, in the words of that era, "black material".It's just that it's rude to be aggressive at the beginning, and I haven't figured out what to ask about, so I pause for a moment.

Lu Zuomin broke the silence with a soft voice: "Haha, I still have a say in this kind of thing."

Intuition tells me that it is not appropriate to say more at this time.I pressed the record button and looked at him expectantly.

"I also didn't pay much attention to the Internet for a few years. I don't know the style of people's opinions now. However, more than 20 years ago, the comments of netizens were quite...blunt. Many people left comments under my homepage, and the tone was not very polite. I was young at the time. Impulsive, sometimes when they are so angry that they smash things, especially sometimes they don't understand the real situation at all..."

His tone fluctuated a bit, and he raised his head to stare at the ceiling. At this moment, the him in front of me and the video of him in my memory overlapped on my retina—the calm and indifference left to him by more than 20 years seemed to disappear in an instant.I asked cautiously: "Then what is the real situation?"

He stared at the ceiling for a while, then suddenly laughed, a sly light flashed in his eyes: "I'll tell you."

two

Indiscretion in private life is probably a common problem among people in the entertainment industry.If it is really moral corruption and arouses public anger, it is obviously impossible to deal with it; but if it is perfect and pure, it will inevitably lose some fun; therefore, indulge in the relationship between men and women a few times, and make a few entertainment headlines, which not only attracts attention, but also has a moral impact. There is nothing wrong with it, and it is the most cost-effective deal to be left behind by the public within two days.

Lu Zuomin was not immune either.According to the materials in my hand, in terms of personal emotions, he can get involved with no less than ten people, and even the routines of the relationship are almost exactly the same - first noncommittal, then deny, then acquiesce, and then firmly deny - most of them are in the same art In addition, there are many good-looking rich daughters, and the most special one is——

"Tao... Guangyu?" I flipped through the file, and there was no one named Tao on it, "Tao Guangyu is... wait a minute, Tao Guangyu is the pianist! But...but..."

Lu Zuomin smiled: "Yes, it's him," and then frowned, "It's been almost four years since the United States has recognized same-sex marriage as legal. I thought you young people are already used to it."

That's right, but it's a completely different thing for a [-]-year-old elder to suddenly tell you that the "gossip" that impressed him most was a man.

I was stunned for a while, and then realized that I might have misunderstood what he meant: "So...so it is precisely because the society was not so tolerant of homosexuality in the past, this kind of groundless...'accusation' puts a lot of psychological pressure on you, Is it right?"

"Accuse?" He grinned, the sun-like smile flooding the wrinkles on his face, but then quickly receded like the tide, making him look as tired as a winter day without the sun, "How can I say... Not an accusation, maybe more like a joke. Like you said, no one would take it seriously in those days."

I scolded myself for not being prepared enough, I secretly opened the browser and searched for Tao Guangyu, only had time to glance at his photo, and quickly raised my head.Fortunately, Lu Zuomin lowered his eyes slightly, tapped the wall of the cup with his fingers down to the bottom, not paying attention to my small movements.Maybe the blue light stimulated the retina too much. At this time, Tao Guangyu's appearance on the webpage was still floating in front of my eyes-the boy's gentle, shy and confident smile, and the tired expression on the face of this young man in front of me at the moment. Subtle coincidence——

"Everyone took it as a joke... The bad thing is, I took it seriously."

I shook my hand, and the spoon hit the rim of the cup, making a clear sound.

Lu Zuomin quickly adjusted his expression, and his voice became calm again: "Haha, I'm so confused, I haven't said anything until now."

He put down the teacup, reached out and took a big thick book from the small table next to him: "You don't need a photo album, I'm really old, I feel that the photos are only safe when I hold them in my hand..."

He opened the photo album, spread it on his knees, and motioned me to look over it: "About... it was printed in about [-]. At that time, there were fewer notices, and I just wanted to look at the old photos..." He flipped through it casually One page, "Ah, this is Ms. Tang, when we were making a movie together, maybe in [-]..."

Miss Tang is a well-known actress who is also among his rumored targets.

"Guangyu and I met Mr. Tao for the first time in about [-] years. Well, here, this photo was taken by the staff when we rehearsed the Spring Festival Gala together in [-]."

More than twenty years of time gurgled through the thin photo paper.The young Lu Zuomin looked at me through the photo with a smile on his face, and put his hands on Tao Guangyu's shoulders; Tao Guangyu's movements were more cautious, and his eyes were clear, like the hazy moonlight surrounded by a few clouds in the summer night sky.

three

In 34, Lu Zuomin was [-] years old, and his career was in full swing. He not only played in the music scene, but also participated in acclaimed and well-received films by major directors.In September of this year, he got the endorsement of Jaeger-LeCoultre, flew from Taipei to Shanghai to shoot commercials, and met Tao Guangyu for the first time in the hotel where he stayed.

He stood in front of the elevator, staring at the numbers on the display screen jumping from 19 to 20, tapping out two bars of "Revolution" rhythmically with his fingers in his pocket, and accidentally saw the well-behaved man next to him from the elevator door. The hand on the seam of trousers—long fingers, neatly manicured nails, slightly protruding knuckles, strong and gentle—the pianist's hand, he thought, and couldn't help laughing—this is crazy Yes, if you make music yourself, it depends on who is a musician.

The number jumped to 25, the elevator door opened, and the person next to him first made a "please" gesture to him.He boarded the elevator and felt that he had accepted the other party's kindness, so he planned to condescendingly say hello to that person.He looked up and felt that the person looked familiar. The assistant took out his phone and secretly typed it to him: Tao Guangyu!

It was Tao Guangyu.Of course he has heard of Tao Guangyu's name - a young genius who won the Chopin Performance Award at the age of 17, a pianist who is not yet established but has already become famous internationally.He thought about it, and felt that he could post a photo together on Weibo, so he stretched out his hand confidently, and smiled with white teeth: "Hello, Mr. Tao, nice to meet you."

Tao Guangyu looked at him suspiciously, and smiled politely: "Hello, hello."

Those who engage in classical music are not familiar with the pop music scene, so it is normal not to recognize him for a while.He took out a name tag and handed it over, and Tao Guangyu took it with both hands: "Mr. Lu, hello."

——But seeing his name and not responding, it's a bit weird.

When he arrived at the lobby, the elevator door opened. Tao Guangyu put his business card in his pocket, nodded to him and stepped out the door first. Several people outside the door chattered around: "Guangyu, let's go, Mr. Wang is already waiting..." After seeing him coming out of the same elevator, his expression froze for a few minutes.

This is the normal situation, he thought, so he stepped forward impulsively: "Mr. Tao, can you take a photo with me?"

Tao Guangyu turned around with a decent smile: "I'm sorry, Mr. Lu, I'm in a hurry. I hope to meet you again next time." A young girl behind him poked him eagerly while watching Lu Zuomin's face, and finally He simply started pulling his sleeves, but Tao Guangyu was not disturbed at all, and walked away in a personable manner without looking back.

He finished filming the advertisement with an embarrassed smile on his face. After a night of psychological construction, he finally convinced himself that the classical music world and the pop music world are irrelevant. The whole past was revealed—and I saw the photos leaked on the Internet: "Lu Zuomin was disliked? The pianist refused to ask for a group photo."

If it wasn't for Tao Guangyu not even recognizing him, he really would have suspected that this person was using him to create hype.

Speaking of this, Lu Zuomin laughed heartily, so I had to carefully accompany the laugh, and took the opportunity to ask: "Did Mr. Tao really not recognize you?"

He smiled and shook his head: "He never listens to pop music. Even Richard Clayderman and Guang Yu are considered low-level, so why would he listen to my stuff?"

"Didn't you co-perform "Golden Snake Dance" in the Spring Festival Gala in [-]?" I casually reported the old news I just found on the Internet, thankful that my instantaneous memory was still passable.

"Yes, we met for the second time," he poked at the photo. "I asked him, would Mr. Tao take a photo with me now? He didn't remember it at all, but he still took a photo with me." Photo! Hahahaha..."

His fingers lightly slid across the photo, and stayed on Tao Guangyu for a long time as if nostalgic.

After the performance on New Year's Eve, Tao Guangyu invited Lu Zuomin to dinner to show his apology, and Lu Zuomin took the opportunity to listen to him his own song.

It was the New Year, and it was midnight, and even the hawker who sold Mala Tang refused to leave the stall. The two walked and walked, clapping their hands and stamping their feet, and finally walked into a deserted McDonald's with the sound of firecrackers one after another.With earphones on his head, Tao Guangyu held a piece of French fries in his hand, and unconsciously tapped on the table in time with the beat.

The sound insulation of the earphones is very good, Lu Zuomin couldn't hear the music at all, so he could only rest his hands on his hands, staring intently at Tao Guangyu's face, trying to see some compliments and criticisms from his calm face, but the more he looked at it, the more he felt guilty. Feeling that his song was impetuous and artificial, how could he expect the ears pampered by Chopin and Liszt to appreciate his insolent roar—so he lowered his head and pretended to carefully pick out the corn kernels in the salad one by one, in case I saw the disdain in the other person's eyes.

Tao Guangyu took off the earphones and put them gently on the table: "It's pretty good."

Lu Zuomin smiled, poked the chicken nugget with a fork, and did not speak.

"It's really good," Tao Guangyu leaned forward and looked at him seriously, ""Snow Melting", right? I seldom listened to this kind of song before, and I don't know much about this style, but I can It can be heard that the lyrics and music are very attentive, the melody line of the first few lines of the chorus is just opposite to the emotion of the lyrics, and instead catches people, and Xun and Fou are specially used in the orchestration—"

Lu Zuomin raised his head in surprise, just in time to see Tao Guangyu's sincere smile: "Mr. Lu is the composer, right?"

Lu Zuomin answered honestly, "No."

Tao Guangyu was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer, and finally amused Lu Zuomin: "Mr. Tao is interested, next time I release an album, I will give you an album first."

Tao Guangyu breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay," he looked around in embarrassment, "I couldn't entertain Mr. Lu well today, next time I choose a good place to treat you to dinner, and I can listen to your new work by the way."

Lu Zuomin laughed: "It's decided, I can wait for Mr. Tao to invite me." He thought for a moment, "Is Mr. Tao interested in my concert?"

four

Finding concert videos from more than 20 years ago is much easier than I imagined. It seems that not only the years, but even the times have been very generous to him.

The swirling lights and blurred colors on the stage almost made me feel dizzy—the most perfect stage effect that could be presented 20 years ago, looks vulgar and cheap in 20 years, just like the past 20 years ago, There used to be uproar and uproar all over the city, but listening to it now, it only increases laughter.

The young Lu Zuomin jumped up and down, played and sang.I have to admit that there is a kind of power buried in his singing—elusive but solid, like a seed that germinates in the gurgling piano sound of the prelude, breaks through the stiff ground when he opens his mouth, and breaks through the stiff ground when he closes his mouth. When the eyes let the singing voice fly in the air, the twigs bloom, penetrate the tympanic membrane, and reach the heart valve.When his gentle eyes turned to the camera, and we met each other across time, I almost trembled, as if I saw something special in his eyes, something that has disappeared without a trace in today's Lu Zuomin. Something to look for—he has hardly aged, but it is this kind of thing that clearly distinguishes the man he is today from the man he was more than 20 years ago.

At the point of excitement, he suddenly knelt down.The fans screamed in unison, the camera hit the auditorium at the right time, and disappeared in a flash, but I saw Tao Guangyu clearly from it.

He sat very far in front, almost facing the direction where Lu Zuomin knelt down.

Such a humble posture was made chic and proud by Lu Zuomin. He bent his knees, but straightened his back, like a tree in the sun - willing to take root in the ground, it is his gentleness, but his eyes never There is only the high and vast sky.He kept this posture, staring at that direction, and sang the whole song.There was endless applause from the audience, he struggled, tried his best to look away, bowed and said, "Thank you!"

I browsed a few webpages and found that this story has always been talked about so much that it has become a legend in Lu Zuomin's career as a singer-kneeling to thank fans, reckless and sincere, what a lovely young man.

The next legend is the collision of popular and classical - at another concert, Tao Guangyu appeared as a special guest and personally accompanied Lu Zuomin.This time Lu Zuomin's singing voice was still very contagious, but his eyes were calmer; Tao Guangyu kept his eyes down, tapping the keys quietly or agitatedly, and occasionally looked up at the center of the stage.

Lu Zuomin's hands were hanging in the air, dancing to the rhythm of his singing.I turned off the player and he stopped abruptly and opened his eyes rather reluctantly, as if I had woken him from a sweet dream.

I stroked my tongue a few times before I asked with difficulty: "Between the two concerts in City M and City C, you...do you have any conflicts with Mr. Tao?"

He smiled, as a tacit consent: "Young people have very poisonous eyes."

I was a little embarrassed: "Because... I saw that there were a lot of... um... rumors about you and Mr. Tao on the Internet at that time, is it because of this?"

He is silent.Just when I was about to let go of this topic, he suddenly said, "I confessed to him."

Others don't know what kind of affection is stirred up in that song kneeling down and singing, but it is impossible for Tao Guangyu not to see it.But his personality has always been meek, he is indecisive when things happen, it is difficult to make up his mind, and he is afraid that his overthinking will embarrass everyone, so he simply pretends that nothing happened.However, before he could figure out how to treat Lu Zuomin in the future, the latter acted preemptively and expressed his feelings at the celebration banquet on the night of the concert.

Lu Zuomin wanted to protect his throat, so he shouldn't drink too much, so he swallowed a small glass that night, forced Tao Guangyu to the side, and looked at him with wide eyes: "You heard, my new work How about it"

Tao Guangyu pretended to be calm: "Not bad, I think..."

Lu Zuomin's heart was beating violently, he could only hear his own blood rushing in his veins, and he could only see Tao Guangyu's cheeks flushed, his lips opening and closing, and the whole world outside suddenly lost its color. Move forward.Tao Guangyu was taken aback, and hurriedly pushed his head away. Lu Zuomin kept on doing it, stretched his neck and leaned into his ear and said, "I like you."

His voice was clear and clear, and it was soaked in wine, Tao Guangyu was stunned, and forgot to continue pushing him.

Fortunately, he was still sane. He was the first to come back to his senses, retracted his neck in embarrassment, muttered for a long time, and said, "I mean, you like my song, can you cooperate with me?"

So at the next concert, Lu Zuomin hardly dared to look aside.He tried to put all his attention on the songs, but he was always fascinated by the melody of the piano beside him-he never knew that his own songs could be so elegant.

They were back to the way they were when they first met: polite and humble to each other, like strangers.The lives of the two had never intersected. After this concert, Tao Guangyu seemed to have paid off his favor, and hurriedly fled abroad to hold concert tours around the world.He posted the poster of the concert on Weibo, and Lu Zuomin often forwarded it for him. He routinely replied with "Thank you!" The exclamation point at the end of the sentence was like a sharp sword, categorically cutting off the last trace of love between the two.

Lu Zuomin imagined that if he followed Tao Guangyu all the way from Warsaw to Lisbon like those people in the movie, showed up regularly at every concert, and appeared backstage after the concert with flowers, things might turn around.But he also had a job, and he still sang the songs that should be sung, and the scandals that should be sung were still sung, and he could not do it by throwing everything away to pursue—in that era—a relationship that was almost doomed to end in tragedy.

Lu Zuomin rubbed his brows, his voice hoarse: "I...I should have known that I am not good enough for him."

I quickly scrolled through the webpage, and I already guessed what happened next: In November [-], Tao Guangyu encountered the biggest Waterloo in his playing career in Vienna, and he suffered bitter accusations from music critics and harsh ridicule from all walks of life.In the same month, due to physical reasons, Lu Zuomin canceled the two concerts originally scheduled for this month, and then appeared in Vienna.

"I didn't think about—how do you say that word—taking advantage of others, I just wanted...to go to his side," Lu Zuomin folded his hands and rested on his chin, "I never thought about this problem before. I I never imagined that there would be something more important than career in my life before. Guangyu broke my bottom line, you know, in the lives of two people, everyone has to learn to compromise for the other, dragging two people On the same note, if I go up, he goes down...but I found that if he doesn't move, then I'd rather go down and then down."

He smiled lonelyly: "But it seems too late to say it now."

五

Afterwards, it is worth mentioning that three months later, Tao Guangyu gave a perfect performance in the capital—the end of the world tour—in which he used this performance to avenge his shame, completely crush Zhong Yong's slander, and climb to a new peak in his life.At the end of the concert, he played and sang "Short Dreams", a masterpiece of Lu Zuomin, for the first time.

Tao Guangyu's voice was a little tense, maybe because of nervousness, he missed one or two breaths.Compared with the original singer, his performance is really hard to call wonderful, but when I looked over the screen, I saw Lu Zuomin sitting opposite me and crying silently.

His fingers covering his eyes trembled slightly, and drops of water leaked from between his fingers.At that moment, the 20 years that had forgotten him came back, leaving more and more severe scars on his body.

I was slightly embarrassed, and continued to bury my head behind the screen, pretending to be very interested in Tao Guangyu's singing.

After singing a song, Tao Guangyu got up and walked to the center of the stage.The young man who has always been humble and shy rarely showed a smug edge: "Thank you, thank you. Thank you for coming today. This song is for you. Thank you for sharing my frustration and pain in the past. You are welcome to share with me in the future. glory and joy."

This passage is also regarded as an affectionate confession to music fans.However, soon after Tao Guangyu posted photos of himself playing the piano at Lu Zuomin's house and spending Thanksgiving with Lu Zuomin's family on social platforms, people quickly linked the two together.

The few words left in the corner of the Internet forum are enough to show what kind of carnival it was.People grasp all the intersections of their lives, delve into, analyze, solicit and attach, and even a plain look can be tainted with ambiguity and hesitation.At that time, Lu Zuomin could still sit calmly in front of the computer, scrolling the mouse wheel and reading out loud the headlines on the forum, watching the ears of the people around him slowly turn red.

Tao Guangyu's fame soared.In the past, he was only known to a small number of classical music fans, but with the help of this "scandal", he became a household name like Lu Zuomin, and the number of followers on his social accounts surged like a river in summer, although most of them were Onlookers sitting high on the wall or with malicious intentions will frantically brush Lu Zuomin's name under every post of him sharing new works and commenting on former sages.

This caused dissatisfaction among old music fans.They accused Tao Guangyu of no longer focusing on music, but becoming as vain and shallow as an entertainment star.In desperation, Tao Guangyu wrote that he just wanted to play the piano silently, and did not pay attention to gossip in the entertainment and pop music circles, and asked Lu Zuomin's fans or the two's so-called "CP fans" who are not interested in classical music to stop paying attention to him.

One stone stirred up waves, and the enthusiastic spectators vaguely felt that they had been despised by "elegant art". Plain and simple, the reputation of people is dirty, and the words are unavoidably vulgar and ugly.Lu Zuomin came out to speak for Tao Guangyu, but Tao Fan was scolded even more severely.

Lu Zuomin apologized guiltily, but Tao Guangyu didn't take it seriously. He continued to play the piano and listen to records every day. When he was annoyed, he half-jokingly said: "It's not your fault. Why, you canceled two concerts for me, and you didn't allow me to A little in return?"

But Lu Zuomin was also implicated.The TV station that had booked his Spring Festival schedule in advance suddenly called and hinted euphemistically that his current public opinion image might not be suitable to appear on the Spring Festival Gala.The agent also repeatedly advised him to get rid of the relationship quickly before the rumors developed into ironclad evidence, so as not to affect his future.He resolutely refused, and his agent was very angry, saying that he was sold and paid for the money, so that he could see the situation between himself and Tao Guangyu. There is no other loss; his own resources have been poured out one after another, and his job has been lost.

He was speechless, and went back to discuss with Tao Guangyu, hoping to transfer the relationship between the two of them to the ground.

Tao Guangyu didn't know how to hide this relationship that had never been announced. The next day, he saw Lu Zuomin issued a statement, declaring that his sexual orientation was female, and he was still single.However, this is only seen as cover-up.A month later they were photographed going to the movies together, but fortunately they never held hands at that time.

That night Lu Zuomin asked Tao Guangyu to move out temporarily.

A week later, Tao Guangyu sent an e-mail with very careful words, saying that he had too much influence on Lu Zuomin's career and life, and that it would be better for the two to separate, and even gently persuaded Lu Zuomin to relax his mind and not waste his singing because of emotional entanglements cause.At the same time, he updated his social account after half a year of silence, saying that he had gone abroad for further studies, and apologized to those who had disturbed him before.

On the same day, someone saw Lu Zuomin getting drunk and losing control of his emotions, yelling at the empty street corner.

六

After that, the news about the two gradually decreased, whether it was music or private life.Only Tao Guangyu played the scene of his worst car accident at the concert in Tokyo, and Lu Zuomin and his Chinese-foreign girlfriend met their parents, and the two were about to enter the marriage hall.Nearly [-] or [-] years ago, with the aging of the previous generation of fans and the emergence of a new generation of stars, the names of these two people have completely sunk into the vast sea of ​​information. If they are not deliberately salvaged, they will never be heard again .

We were all silent.I didn't know what to say, but Lu Zuomin was still red-eyed, pretending to be straightening his cuffs.

Finally, he managed to put on a smile and spoke first: "May I ask, how are you going to organize your article from my story?"

I raised my hand to turn off the recording device: "Do you agree...to allow me to disclose your sexual orientation?"

He smiled kindly: "I don't want the same regret to happen again. If I can't say it, I entrust you to say it for me."

My two papers—"The Influence of Public Opinion on the Emotional Status of Homosexuals in the Early 21st Century——Taking Lu Zuomin as an Example" and "Falling from the Peak: From Lu Zuomin's View of the Great Influence of Private Life on Celebrity's Career" got very high marks. .The professor personally proposed revisions for me. After several additions and deletions, the two articles were published in high-reputation journals, and because of the particularity of the subject matter, they received widespread attention from the society. Push to the cusp.

Some of the materials I mentioned in the article have been spreading wildly on the Internet with the same momentum as before more than [-] years later.People still study, analyze, hide, and attach, but this time they are regarded as a new generation of enlightened people, so they have a sympathetic attitude, and feel sad because prejudice has killed such a beautiful love.They tried their best to sort out the life trajectories of the two after they parted ways: Tao Guangyu silently shouldered the old honor and the sigh of being exhausted, lived alone abroad for a long time, abandoned all social accounts, and completely disappeared from the public eye; Lu Zuomin and his girlfriend His emotions ended without a problem, and he faded out of the music scene after losing several albums in a row to devote himself to public welfare.The lives of the two gradually drifted away, and there was no intersection.

I logged into the music software and found the song "Short Dreams" hanging on the homepage.

Lu Zuomin called me: "Guangyu...Guangyu contacted me, and he promised to meet me."

I congratulate him.Lu Zuomin was still very excited: "Thank you, thank you...for the first time in 28 years...I haven't been able to contact him...he promised to see me..." His voice was almost choked.

After 28 years, Tao Guangyu updated his social account, still succinctly: "Thank you everyone. Thank you @XX." He circled my ID.

Under the appeal of many people, the two returned to the music scene and jointly held a concert. Lu Zuomin sang and Tao Guangyu would accompany the whole process.The unprecedented topicality caused more than 8 tickets to be sold out in an instant, creating a miracle in the history of performances.

Lu Zuomin personally called me to give me the performance tickets.I was sitting in the front row, and the lights on the stage flickered as before, but the color faded a lot, and it was no longer bright and tacky as before.Lu Zuomin's voice was still clear and gentle, adding a bit of depth after years of polishing. Tao Guangyu sat behind the piano, his fingers fluttering, vaguely still the same as before.

They often look at each other, and the moment their eyes meet, it seems that more than 20 years have never passed, as if they have been riding a small boat under the moonlight, amidst the sound of flowing water and singing like fireflies, there are only two people. far away.

At the end of the concert, they invited me to the stage and gave me a few CDs with their own hands amid the applause that resounded from the audience—the live videos of those significant concerts.After leaving the scene, I plugged in my earphones, walked back slowly in Tao Guangyu’s flawed but extremely affectionate version of “Short Dreams”, and couldn’t help laughing out loud.

Seven

My heartbeat seemed to disappear while watching the video.My heart hovered high in the air, frozen by the sudden shock and the gradual return of reason, and refused to fall no matter what.I dragged the progress bar with trembling hands, played it back over and over again, and couldn’t believe my eyes anyway:

In the live video of the concert where Lu Zuomin knelt down, the person sitting in Tao Guangyu's seat was just an enthusiastic fan who was so excited that he burst into tears.

I opened the browser in a panic, and called up the version circulating on the Internet, which is the version I saw for the first time at Lu Zuomin’s house—now it has more than [-] million views—yes, there is no one in that position. Tao Guangyu, who was staring at Lu Zuomin's affectionate eyes at a loss, flashed by, but clearly recognizable.

On social platforms, Lu Zuomin and Tao Guangyu became active again, thanking netizens and fans, promoting new songs and the next concert.My brain was spinning at high speed, almost derailed, and I remembered what Lu Zuomin said for no reason:

Fame and fortune.

I met my "former team member" again in the library. She came over to show her kindness and wanted to do a project with me.I'm