glass fish tank

"Sit down." Zhuang Yao gentlemanly opened the chair for Mu Ning.

Sister Hong also sat at this table and greeted the slightly embarrassed Mu Ning.

"I heard that you almost lifted the red carpet just now?"

"I haven't." Mu Ning whispered, "Don't talk nonsense."

Zhuang Yao nodded noncommittally.

Some photographers surrounded them with long guns and cannons, taking a few photos from time to time.When Mu Ning looked around, he realized that there were more business celebrities on this occasion.

Zhuang Yao gave a short speech on the stage, which was humorous, and Sister Hong was smiling when she heard it.

"Muning, we haven't seen each other for a long time, right?" Sister Hong said, "Let's go eat after a while."

Mu Ning's leave was requested anyway, and he was about to accept it immediately.Seeing that the opportunity to grab a meal was right in front of him, Zhuang Yao, who had just stepped down from the stage, blocked his throat with a word.

"He can't go." Zhuang Yao unbuttoned a suit, sat down and raised his chin towards Mu Ning: "He is in a hurry to go back to filming."

"Why, don't you give me face?"

Mu Ning quickly said, "No, Sister Hong, I really don't mean that."

Although Sister Hong's face was calm, she felt a little uncomfortable in her heart.She and Mu Ning are so warm, is it because she has something to ask Mu Ning not to do?It was clearly for Zhuang Yao's sake.

Only then did Zhuang Yao slowly begin to explain for Mu Ning: "His new play was filmed with Mr. Gu. He didn't come to this event no matter how much he was invited. It was because I mentioned your name that he let go."

Sister Hong just listened, Zhuang Yao's voice fell, she touched Mu Ning's mineral water glass with the red wine glass, and went to talk at another table.

Mu Ning whispered to Zhuang Yao, "Obviously I can go."

Zhuang Yao's eyes were fixed on the stage, and he replied casually: "You can go to other things, but tonight, it's best not to."

Mu Ning also guessed a little bit, but still insisted: "I don't need you to teach me how to do it."

Zhuang Yao was speechless for a while, and turned his gaze back to Mu Ning's face.The latter was also looking at him.

Zhuang Yao couldn't tell what was in that look, but he felt familiar.That stubborn, unyielding light seemed to bring Zhuang Yao back to ten years ago in an instant.

Ten years ago, it was the same occasion.He and Yan Shizhang sat at the front. When the group came up, Yan Shizhang happily introduced his new plan to him, but his eyes fell on the main dancer.

The first time Zhuang Yao saw Mu Ning, he knew that the unresolved male lead in the script he valued most was this person.

Until now, Zhuang Yao has never changed his mind for a moment.

The host on the stage interrupted Zhuang Yao's thoughts. Mu Ning hadn't been looking at him for a long time. He sat upright and pretended to listen to the people on the stage carefully, but his eyes were empty.

In fact, it was the first time for Mu Ning to participate in an auction-style charity dinner, unfamiliar and nervous.Secondly, this scene always reminded him of the first time he met Zhuang Yao.

Mu Ning never thought that it was Zhuang Yao who turned him off. Before he met Zhuang Yao, he never thought about love or sex life, he just wanted to be popular.To some extent, Zhuang Yao is his teacher.It's just that his love for the teacher is too paranoid and too harsh, which led to the current situation of disintegration.

Whether he still loves Zhuang Yao or not is hard to say.But after leaving Zhuang Yao's glass fish tank and jumping out of the vortex of love, Mu Ning found that he actually had the confidence to have an equal conversation with the man he looked up to and longed for.

The auction on the stage was going on in an orderly manner. Suddenly, Mu Ning noticed a very familiar vase, and he couldn't remember where he had seen it before.

"What is this? I seem to have seen it somewhere." Mu Ning asked the man beside him.

Zhuang Yao smiled lightly and replied, "The vase you broke before is actually a pair. This is the other one."

Mu Ning looked back at the seven-figure reserve price, counted it several times, and swallowed unconsciously.

"It's so expensive." Mu Ning said.

"It was more expensive at that time." Zhuang Yao nodded, and said calmly: "Now it is left alone, and it has no collection value."

Mu Ning remembered that he was furious at that time, picked up a vase and threw it on the floor, Zhuang Yao heard the sound and turned to look at him.He was so hysterical, Zhuang Yao just stood there calmly and told the aunt at home to come upstairs to clean up.Seeing that he was barefoot, he told him to step back so as not to hurt himself.

Mu Ning fell into such a tender trap countless times, and he couldn't help but sink deeper and deeper, and finally drowned himself.After Zhuang Yao gave up on him, he thought about all this clearly: Zhuang Yao is not a gentle person.He just wears such a gentleman's mask, doing things too well.So many people love him, but he can't return anything except money and power.Zhuang Yao's temper is not very good, but he can bear it.He understands the weaknesses of others, and knows what it feels like to hit a snake seven inches, so he doesn't bother wasting his own strength, let alone getting angry for others.What he is good at is cold violence, and what he is best at is stabbing other people's hearts one by one.

Mu Ning knew very well that no matter how many years he had, he would definitely not be able to play with this man.

It is almost impossible to talk about the sincerity with Zhuang Yao.

Mu Ning felt a tightness in his chest, and when Zhuang Yao went to another table to greet him, Mu Ning quietly got up and slipped out through the side door.

Beijing's late autumn nights are no different from winter days. Mu Ning's coat fell on the nanny's car, and the cold wind rushed into his sleeves, and he couldn't help sneezing.

It's winter so soon.Mu Ningha let out a breath of white air, floating in the dark air for a few seconds before becoming invisible.

When I left Zhuang Yao, it was still a midsummer weather.The picture in Mu Ning's mind is very clear, the noisy cicadas chirping on the tree, the beautiful but unattended flowers on the table, and the moment when he watched Zhuang Yao's car go away.

That's it, Mu Ning thought.That's the way it is in this life.

"It's not summer now." Along with these words, there was a coat that fell on Munning's shoulders.

Mu Ning looked back in surprise, as if he couldn't believe that it was Zhuang Yao who came.

Zhuang Yao didn't speak, took out a lighter from his trousers pocket, and asked, "Do you have any cigarettes?"

Mu Ning touched his body here and there, and there was still half a pack of cigarettes.He took one out and handed it to Zhuang Yao.

"Others bring cigarettes but not fire, but you are fine." Mu Ning was greedy and lit one himself.

Zhuang Yao's coat was draped over Mu Ning's shoulders, and he himself was only wearing a suit.

"I'll go back after smoking." Mu Ning was about to return the jacket to Zhuang Yao, but the latter held his hand.

"Put it on." Zhuang Yao dusted off the cigarette ash, "I'm not afraid of the cold."

"...I almost forgot that you have been in England for so many years."

"Don't talk about you, I almost forgot." Zhuang Yao laughed.

The two fell silent again.

Mu Ning thought about the antique vase, put out the cigarette in his hand, and cleared his throat. "That...that vase, I'm sorry."

Zhuang Yao laughed: "How many years ago did you smash it, and now you think of apologizing?"

Mu Ning continued: "It's not just the vase, I can actually pay you back what I owed you before."

"Return me?"

"In this way, we will settle the matter." Mu Ning expressed his true thoughts.

When Zhuang Yao heard these words, his eyes instantly turned cold.

He didn't move, so Mu Ning didn't know what to say next, let alone he couldn't guess what this man was thinking at all.

"Munning."

"what?"

"What if I say, I don't want to settle the matter?"

After Zhuang Yao finished speaking, he lowered his head to kiss Mu Ning.

"Munning!!"

An extremely abrupt voice came through the air, before Zhuang Yao kissed Mu Ning's lips, he put some distance between them in disappointment.Looking back, it was Lin Jiayang who came.

Lin Jiayang stepped forward, as if he had just discovered that there was another person besides Mu Ning.

"Hey, Mr. Zhuang is here?"

Zhuang Yao nodded and said nothing.

Lin Jiayang passed Zhuang Yao and hugged Mu Ning directly: "Mr. Zhuang, I have something to talk to Mu Ning, do you mind?"

Zhuang Yao's complexion became more and more bad, and when he was about to speak, his mobile phone rang. It was Xia Rui who told him to return to the venue quickly. The dinner was about to end.Zhuang Yao was too lazy to talk to Lin Jiayang, so he turned to Mu Ning and said, "That's right, Mu Ning."

"Ah, what?" Mu Ning, who had been in a state of shock, finally came to his senses.

"In the crew, walk around with Mr. Gu more." Zhuang Yao patiently said: "It's not bad for you."

Mu Ning nodded speculatively, Zhuang Yao turned around and walked a few steps before he remembered that Zhuang Yao's coat was still on his shoulder, "Wait! Your coat."

Zhuang Yao didn't turn his head back: "Another day, you can come back to my house in person."

After Zhuang Yao walked away, Lin Jiayang said like a cannonball: "Are you okay? Didn't he want to do something to you just now? I just saw you come out!..."

"He wants to kiss me." Mu Ning told the truth: "You came here before kissing me, good guy."

Lin Jiayang's jealousy was strong: "Hey, don't tell me, you are still looking forward to it."

Mu Ning smiled and said, "No, I'm just a little surprised."

"Let's go, let's go, I think there is a demon here." Lin Jiayang pouted, "Let's not go back, find a KTV to sing!"