Luo Yu looked at Gu Xiaowei, at first he propped himself up on the table, but his body softened and his center of gravity shifted, and he almost fell over, however this happened to let him rest on Gu Xiaowei’s legs.

His head felt a little heavy, and he slowly raised his head to look at Gu Xiaowei.

Looking at Gu Xiaowei’s deep eyes, Luo Yu’s long-forgotten disappointments and grievances suddenly surged in his heart, “That assistant prosecutor’s lines… I memorized them by heart, but I didn’t even have a chance to say them out loud in the end.”

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Gu Xiaowei was still sitting upright, without swaying, and his eyes were red.

He helped Luo Yu up and asked again: “Senior Brother, there was also a TV drama about pilots——”Sunset Avenue”. The crew invited you to play a teacher with progressive ideas. This role does not pose any difficulty for you, why did you refuse it as well?”

Luo Yu shook his head, looked at Gu Xiaowei’s face with squinted eyes, tilted his head and searched hard in his mind, and then smiled: “I remember that drama! The ace pilot you played——so handsome!”

“Let me ask you, isn’t that teacher role good?” Gu Xiaowei softened his tone. He didn’t want to accuse Luo Yu of constantly giving up those good roles, he just wanted to understand why.

“Good! I was so happy when I received that role… It took me many nights to memorize his lines that spoke directly to the heart. I truly like those lines, they were powerful and emotional…”

“Is it related to Dijun Media and Bo Wenyuan? What did they do?” Gu Xiaowei’s voice was cold, as if squeezed out from the gap between his lips and teeth.

Luo Yu smiled helplessly, unable to speak without slurring, “What else could it be for? At that time, Dijun Media invested in an online drama by Bo Wenyuan… with Dijun Media’s newly debuted newcomer as the protagonist, and wanted… to… wanted… to…”

Luo Yu’s head was dizzy and he couldn’t speak clearly, but Gu Xiaowei patiently waited for Luo Yu to sort out what he wanted to say.

“Wanted to?”

“Wanted to have me take on a supporting role. Bo Wenyuan said that the salary for this supporting role… is many times higher than that of the teacher, and that serious dramas like “Sunset Avenue” are not popular at all… He also said that if I didn’t act in that web drama… Dijun Media will withdraw its investment… So he directly refused on my behalf.”

After Luo Yu finished speaking, he seemed to have realized something. He tilted his head and looked hard at the person opposite.

“Wait a minute… I remember you played the second male lead in “Tea Ceremony”… the prince?”

“En.”

“The male protagonist you played in “Thistles and Thorn”… the… the prosecutor who was resourceful and capable…?”

“En.”

“Oh my god… “Sunset Avenue” was the best TV drama of the year, and the pilot you played was the best actor of the year…”

“Yes.”

“If I hadn’t missed these roles… we would have met a long time ago?” Luo Yu asked with his eyes wide open.

“Yes.”

Just one word, but full of regret.

Luo Yu suddenly pressed his head hard, and then beat his chest.

Endless annoyance welled up in his heart. He felt that if he had not accumulated a hundred tons of water in his head during those years… He couldn’t explain why he trusted Bo Wenyuan so much!

No, it was not Bo Wenyuan’s fault, it was because of his own weak will!

“Luo Yu, oh Luo Yu… I really am… I can’t blame others for my decline in the past few years, I can only blame myself! I liked these characters myself, but I have never fought hard for them! Even if Bo Wenyuan doesn’t agree, what could he do?! I should’ve… terminated the contract! At that time, I held no value for him anymore. If I wanted to leave, he might even be relieved and not ask me for liquidated damages for breaking the contract!”

Luo Yu’s eyes were red and hot. He didn’t know who to express this chest full of regret, but he couldn’t hold it back in front of Gu Xiaowei.

“En.” Gu Xiaowei responded calmly.

The weight of the tears couldn’t be beared and flowed out of his eyes turbulently. Gu Xiaowei in front of him was blurred under the tears.

Luo Yu, whose head was muddled, became excited as if he had been given a shot of chicken blood. “So what if Dijun Media wanted to insert their newcomers? There will always be directors like Lin Yue in this world… who just want the most suitable actors to play the most suitable role! As long as I keep fighting and trying, I will definitely get my role! But if I don’t fight, I will be forced into a corner without even any way out!”

“En.” Gu Xiaowei’s voice was clearer and firmer.

“What anti fans or trolls, they can follow whoever they want, no matter how they scold me… I won’t lose a piece of flesh… The more He Mu doesn’t want me to take the role, the more I will take it! I will walk the path that he can’t take, so that he will have no path to walk in the future!”

Luo Yu slammed the beer can on the table.

A rare smile appeared on Gu Xiaowei’s lips, “It’s not too late from now on.”

“I want to be… someone like you.” Luo Yu put his hand on Gu Xiaowei’s chest.

He looked drunk, but his eyes were so bright that they seemed to be burning.

“Become… like me? But I don’t even know what kind of person I am.”

Gu Xiaowei stretched out his hands, clasped Luo Yu’s shoulders, helped him steady his center of gravity, and looked into his eyes.

Luo Yu shook his head, lowered his eyes and smiled, “You don’t know… Professor Chen from the Drama Department saw me in desolation… He said… Luo Yu, I hope you can become a storm… Be your own man without giving in to any power. Do you think… his expectations of me are too high?”

Gu Xiaowei looked at him in silence.

Luo Yu raised his eyes, looked at the bright light above his head, and recited the oath they took when they graduated that year, so full of pride, “Even if the storm is coming, and the night is falling… you can still strive to become a spark, because you can turn to ashes by burning everything out, but you must never cool down on your own.”

Gu Xiaowei’s throat bobbed, and he raised his hand to push away the hair from Luo Yu’s forehead.

“I know that this industry has its rules… At the top of the pyramid stand those who hold money and power… They are the star makers, they write the biographies of kings in this entertainment industry.” Luo Yu beat his chest with all his strength, “But I’m not willing to… I’m not willing to drift in the cracks in the ground, waiting for them to bestow me a heavy rain…”

“Then what do you want now?” Gu Xiaowei asked lightly but seriously.

Luo Yu raised his eyes, looked straight into Gu Xiaowei’s eyes, and said clearly and calmly, “I need my own companions.”

“What kind of companion?” Gu Xiaowei moved closer, as if to make sure that he existed in Luo Yu’s determination.

Yes, what kind of companions did he want?

Luo Yu suddenly thought of the first play he and Gu Xiaowei collaborated on. They stood on the stage and looked into each other’s eyes and said that line.

“I am not willing to live in a script written by others, and I am unwilling to stick to the labels given by others.”

Let Dijun Media and those antis and trolls go to hell!

Gu Xiaowei was stunned for a moment, but nodded again: “Okay.”

“Let’s take root in this muddy vanity fair together, climb up… grow tall, and bear our own buds…”

“Okay.”

“Anyway… it’s brilliant whether it’s blooming or not, courageous whether it is a win or loss.”

“I’m happy to accompany you.”

Everything was like crossing time and space, going back to the time when they acted together for the first time in the previous life.

As soon as he finished speaking, Luo Yu’s chin hit Gu Xiaowei’s shoulder, and his hand dropped.

Not long after, the sound of long breathing came and Luo Yu fell deep into sleep.

Between awake and sleep, someone picked him up and put him on the bed. He seemed to hear the voice of Xiao Qin.

“Just let Brother Luo sleep here?”

“En, I will take care of him. You don’t have to worry about it and go back to rest.”

Someone gently stroked his hair and wiped away the unwilling tears from the corners of his eyes.

When he woke up the next day, it was almost eleven o’clock in the morning.

Luo Yu had a terrible headache, his head felt like it was going to explode, and his throat was about to dry up in smoke.

He looked around and confirmed that this was Gu Xiaowei’s room.

He vaguely remembered that he used the drunkenness to vent the frustrations of the past few years, and Gu Xiaowei not only let him, a drunkard, sleep here, but also gave him water and helped him wipe his sweat.

Looking down, he saw that he was indeed wearing Gu Xiaowei’s pajamas.

There was also a glass of honey lemonade on the bedside table, with a note underneath: [Xiao Qin will come to deliver the meal at noon.]

Luo Yu breathed out. He drank up the honey lemonade. The cool lemonade went down his throat and the dry and hoarse feeling was relieved. Luo Yu let out a long breath.

Not long after, Xiao Qin came with the boxed meal.

“Hey, Brother Luo, you’re awake! Are you hungry? The food for the crew today is quite good, there is no chili.”

“It should be that Director Lin is afraid that the actors will suffer from excessive internal heat after eating chili peppers, so the meals he orders are usually not spicy, right?” Luo Yu said with a smile.

He felt really hungry now. As soon as the lid of the box was opened, the smell of the food made his mouth water.

“Xiao Qin, I didn’t cause you any trouble last night, did I?” Luo Yu asked.

Xiao Qin smiled and said, “Brother Luo, you were so energetic when you were drunk! Singing, dancing and even boxing! Simply Mr. Possible!”

When Luo Yu heard this, he was shocked.

“What did you say…?” Luo Yu’s hands froze in the middle of separating the chopsticks.

Xiao Qin took out her mobile phone, “I took a recording of it all! Brother Luo, please take your time and enjoy them!”

Luo Yu was so frightened that he almost dropped his boxed meal. He became drunk crazy and Xiao Qin took a recording of it all?

Was there still a need to live on in this world anymore?

Luo Yu glanced over and found that it was not the video of him being drunk crazy, but the scene that Gu Xiaowei had filmed in the morning.

This was the plot of the confrontation between Yan Ye and Bai Zhongxing.

The veteran actor who played Bai Zhongxing was full of acting skills right down to the lines at the corners of his eyes, and Gu Xiaowei was also at full strength. The two of them exchanged an exciting round of probing and confrontation, which was so brilliant that Luo Yu watched it again and again.

“Huhu… Xiao Qin, you’ve become naughty.” Luo Yu patted his chest and said.

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“Heehee. Brother Luo, you are very docile after you are drunk. You fell asleep immediately after being put on the bed, like you won’t even respond to anything that is done to you.” Xiao Qin said.

“Docile is good.” Luo Yu said while eating, “But it’s a pity that I can’t see your Brother Gu’s romantic scenes. We can only watch his kissing scene when the TV drama is broadcast.”

“Kissing scene? There is no kissing scene in this drama.” Xiao Qin shook her head.

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