Around the Tree

Publish: October 8, 2022 | Category: Love Stories

Around the Tree

1

Kk has been very lucky recently. She first interviewed with a well-known media company in China. Because the company was short of manpower, she immediately became a regular and became an executive agent. Then she ran into a dead mouse again, and took over the famous model Chen Ye. That is Chen Ye, a well-known flat model in China, with a good figure of 1.94 meters.

At this moment, Kk is holding the contract, and stumblingly introduces himself to the man: "Hello Mr. Chen, my name is Kk, and I will be the executive agent of the teacher in the future."

Chen Ye will be filming later and is putting on makeup. The makeup artist took the brush and swept his jawline quickly, making his eyes blink a little: "Well, good."

Kk looked at the man with outstanding appearance, and tears fell again in his heart. Chen Ye's advantages have to be added, others are too good!

This sigh made her unable to help posting on Weibo trumpet.

Half an hour later, Kk and Chen Ye started today's brick move.

The makeup is OK, the lighting is OK, she watched Chen Ye Chuchen's face changing light and shadow under the light, and took out her mobile phone to shoot materials, such a precious teacher didn't dislike her fledgling, she must do this job well .

The original camera produced a lot of magical pictures, Kk took pictures frantically, and then a comment popped up on her Weibo.

Since she posted on Weibo, the phone has been buzzing one after another, most of which are recommended by Chen Ye's fans. But for this comment, Kk just glanced at it, then stopped what he was doing and cut to the Weibo page.

An English ID replied: "It's 2022, and someone is still boasting about Chen Ye's character? Don't ask the cameraman who retired from the circle or not!"

Kk walked to the corner and directly searched for "Chen Ye and the cameraman". The search engine showed some news releases, almost all of which were news from many years ago. Model Chen Ye, when she was 18 years old, was the cameraman Shen Qing, she was 20 years old.

That was Xuan He ten years ago. Chen Ye was a Maxima back then, rebellious and rebellious, unruly and difficult to tame. Shen Qing was his Bole. At that time, she was the main mirror of the scenes of major fashion festivals, and she was a female camera praised by foreign media.

Kk continued to scroll down and saw that two years ago, Shen Qing completely retired. She saw a picture of the interview, and Chen Ye said to the media decisively: "I will never be grateful to Shen Qing. In a sense, without her, I might be better than I am now."

The model is slender, and he is facing the camera, for the first time not to show beauty.

He is regretting.

2

Chen Ye made his debut because he participated in a competition for rookie models, which was held in Harbour City. All the contestants were well-known models in the industry.

The sea breeze was blowing slowly, and Chen Ye first came to the stage to introduce himself. He was tall and thin, wearing denim overalls, with lines and graffiti on his neck. He had a flamboyant cut, and his hair was dyed bright orange. Chen Ye held the microphone, very cool: "Hello, teachers, I'm Chen Ye."

The advertiser of this competition is a car brand, and the target customers are domestic luxury business men. All the judges and teachers sitting on the stage knew it. They felt sorry for Chen Ye's non-mainstream dress, and wasted such a good-looking one. Face.

Chen Ye really has a variety of styles. His eyes are slender, his eyebrows have the stubbornness of a young man, and he also has the fortitude of a mature man. After the warm-up before the game, when choosing a camera partner, he drew the lucky number 7.

During the competition, it is stipulated that the model should cooperate with the partner's camera teacher for a month-long competition. Flat models are different from catwalks. They must have some experience in facial expressions and body language in front of the camera, and they must also be familiar with the camera.

For the sake of gimmicks, the default model and camera of the competition are men and women, and the 7th selected is a sister with bangs.

Under the stage, she waved the number plate in her hand, looking at her expression, she should be very satisfied with Chen Ye.

The host was preparing to join the stage by the side of the stage. Just as Chen Ye was about to hand out the microphone in his hand, he heard a voice from the audience.

"Sorry, I also want to work with Teacher Chen."

Chen Ye looked up subconsciously and saw a girl in a peaked cap sitting there. The brim of the hat blocked her eyes, so she couldn't see her expression clearly. Chen Ye could only see that she was wearing a black suit with a silk camisole underneath, and her collarbone was very thin.

This kind of competition seems to rely on the bright and stealthy drama to add attention, and the host is also happy to appear in the episode, and directly asked Chen Ye: "One is a youth idol photographer V, and the other is a fashion circle teacher Shen Qing, I don't know. What do we Chen Ye think in our hearts?"

Chen Ye on the stage was surprised.

Shen Qing, so she is Shen Qing.

We all know that Shen Qing has good eyesight and strong execution ability. I heard that she recently jumped to a new company and wanted to create her own studio and bring artists. But Shen Qing has a bad temper and loves to scold people. Many of the cooperating artists can't stand her irritability, so what they do is a one-time sale.

A newcomer after all, he hesitated, looking still weighing.

There were bright stage lights in front of her, and she couldn't see the dark stage at all, not to mention she was wearing a hat. But she could see that she was staring at him, as if determined to win—

"I will give you everything you want, follow me, you will never regret it."

3

In the second week of the competition, they got the shooting funds through the competition, which was less than 1,000 yuan, and determined that the shooting location could not go out of the outskirts of Haigang City. The equipment was also an old-fashioned film machine obtained by Shen Qing and Chen Ye together. The time and place are favorable, and none of them are stained.

Shen Qing took Chen Ye on a man-powered tricycle for a day, shuttled through the streets and alleys of the suburbs of the harbor, and took a map to select scenes. It was originally scheduled to shoot around an ancient building with local cultural characteristics. On the day of the shooting, they did not have a shooting permit, and the uncle who guarded the door refused them in an inaccurate way.

Chen Ye handed the water in his hand to Shen Qing: "Is this the one with the least amount of money and the most for your shooting?"

Shen Qing glanced at him and took a sip of water first.

She has been a photographer for many years. The refined pictures in the circle of friends are all suspenders and long skirts and pointed high heels. She is holding either wine glasses or roses. Many people say that she herself is more gimmick than her works, and that is because she moves bricks. Seriously, I rarely post photos of myself at work. In fact, she was behind the scenes, like most of her unnamed colleagues, wearing loose coats and high-quality boots, not eating at mealtimes, taking long long-distance buses, and going to shoot cattle and sheep.

Chen Ye imagined her like a flower in a greenhouse.

"Why are you a model?" She turned and asked Chen Ye.

The surrounding sky darkened, and they walked together on the bluestone road. While thinking about it, Chen Ye noticed a car passing by on the side of the road and pulled Shen Qing behind him.

Chen Ye tried his best to organize his language: "I sometimes don't know myself very well. When I see myself in the camera, I don't know myself very well. When I see myself in the camera, I always feel that I don't know myself well. Touch something that you don't understand."

So he doesn't like to laugh when he takes pictures, and looks at the camera with a blank face. It's better to be colder. In the slender eyes are his dark and cold pupils, which should be the truest appearance of Chen Ye.

Shen Qing seemed to be in a trance, and seemed to be thinking about what he said. The wind blew the fireworks around, and Shen Qing suddenly stopped.

"Do you believe me?"

Chen Ye didn't react: "Huh?"

Shen Qing saw him ignorant, and remembered that when she first saw him on stage, Chen Ye was cold to everything that day. Among the elites around him, he was so disorderly, which made her naturally curious.

At this moment, his gaze followed his slender eyes, bright orange hair, cold and fresh.

Shen Qing suddenly laughed, she was on the inner side of the road, higher than Chen Ye. She reached out and rubbed his hair, like coaxing a child: "Don't worry!"

4

Shen Qing took Chen Ye's first set of plane photos for the competition, and later many photography enthusiasts went to benchmark. At that time, because the shooting time was two days, Shen Qing made up his mind to let Chen Ye follow him over the wall when the janitor was on duty the next day. As a result, it rained again in the always rainy Harbour City the next day. .

So Shen Qing had to take Chen Ye around in the old city, and finally, after passing through a few winding alleys, Shen Qing saw the temple with a heavy door under the flowers at a glance.

"How about it?"

Chen Ye followed and saw that it was indeed a good place with winding paths leading to seclusion. There was an eaves under the porch from which raindrops fell. Inside the arch is a stone tablet. The rain has wet the courtyard. There is a halo on the tablet, and the words praising the great achievements of the builder are engraved.

Chen Ye nodded: "Listen to you."

Shen Qing understood, and walked straight in with a large bag and a small bag. The SLR bag was placed in an open space under the eaves, and Chen Ye followed by putting down the cosmetic bag in his hand. Then Shen Qing stared at him to touch up his makeup while preparing the equipment, reminding him that his eye makeup could be heavier.

Chen Ye expressed his confusion by holding the eyeshadow palette, but Shen Qing couldn't stand it any longer and started directly.

Finally Shen Qing took out the liquid eyeliner pen, she bit the cap of the pen and motioned Chen Ye to take off her shirt. After hearing this, Chen Ye wrapped his jacket tightly and protested: "Why do you have to take off your clothes, didn't you agree to shoot the high-level ones?"

Shen Qing was too lazy to break up with him, and waved his hand: "You take it off or I take it off?"

Chen Ye struggled for a long time, finally resigned, turned over and took off, and threw his clothes to Shen Qing.

Shen Qing took a look at his figure, wide shoulders, narrow waist, muscular but not exaggerated, at first glance it is fitness.

Shen Qing stood behind him, holding the pen with her long and slender fingers, the tip of the pen lightly touched his back, the dark ink, her wrist turned over, and landed on him.

Chen Ye couldn't see it, but he felt a strange touch, and he wanted to hide subconsciously. Shen Qing's left hand was directly around his waist, controlling his movements.

The rain under the eaves outside was still dripping, and in the misty fog, Chen Ye always felt that his heartbeat was like the sound of rain, tick and tick.

Shen Qing played as usual that day. The big scene she photographed was Chen Yetang standing beside the monument, with a slender body. Chen Ye's makeup was all made up by Shen Qing. His face showed the delicate paleness of a fallen noble, but his eyes were very aggressive. He was wearing a black robe, and the muscles on his exposed right shoulder were tight and covered with raindrops, looking very charming.

The close-up of the character she took was Chen Ye sitting cross-legged on the ground, holding the stone tablet in his right hand, and only his face could be seen throughout the camera. Chen Ye's head was slightly lowered, and the traditional characters were crawling around his neck, which was vague and invisible. Shen Qing encouraged him to laugh, and encouraged him to laugh in a comfortable way, so the corner of his mouth slightly raised to one side, as if a fire was burning in his eyes.

Finally, there is a close-up of him. Chen Ye leaned against the stone tablet, showing half of his shoulders naturally, but his movements were crisp and neat, which was the tenacity of a man's lines. His shoulders were covered with words, and when he looked carefully, it was running script, wanton and unrestrained.

Shen Qing wrote on his back: The moon star is sparse, the black magpie flies south, and circles the tree three times. What branches can you rely on?

5

Chen Ye took the second place in that game, and he became an instant hit. The first place is a foreign friend. Because of his nationality, he only got a bonus. In the end, Chen Ye successfully got the endorsement of the car manufacturer, and he began to slowly become active in front of the public.

Shen Qing was the first to call to congratulate when she got an endorsement from a big-name domestic brand.

Chen Ye laughed, and he said, "Where would I be without you?"

"You were different."

Chen Ye stood in front of the empty window and asked where Shen Qing was.

She covered the microphone, and there was a whirring sound in her ears: "I'm on the North and South Island, and I'm going to shoot the tide today." Because of work, the phone was quickly hung up. The day that the first-line big brand finished shooting the advertisement, it happened to be May 1st Labor Day. Chen Ye was in a particularly good mood, so he called Shen Qing and said that he had arranged an open-air restaurant to invite her to dinner.

It was really grand that day, and when the violinists came up, red roses floated over the area of ​​their dining table.

Chen Ye: "I have something to tell you."

Shen Qing also put down the glass: "I also have something to tell you."

The music was melodious and the atmosphere was just right. Chen Ye wore a dark gray suit and looked a lot calmer. His slender eyes were full of beautiful light, and he looked at Shen Qing: "You talk first."

Shen Qing took out the long-printed contract from her bag and put it on the dining table. She wanted to sign Chen Ye, but the price she gave was only a little bit higher than before he became popular. This was the task given to her by the company's partners. She tried her best to sign the other party.

Chen Ye was stunned for a long time, the rose petals were flying around, and he didn't seem to react: "Shen Qing, do you know what I just said?"

Shen Qing, he always knew who she was. But during the competition, Chen Ye saw all the contrasting appearances on her body. Watching her quarrel with the director wearing a peaked cap, watching her wearing flip-flops and taking him out to eat hot pot, watching her strolling in a ponytail playing with a DSLR in the park, and watching her dress up at the show dinner.

Shen Qing has a slap in the face. When she doesn't wear makeup, she looks like a schoolgirl who is not familiar with the world. Sometimes she wears heavy makeup, and Chen Ye feels that the story in her heart is as thick as fog.

On the day when the recording was completed, he asked Shen Qing with the strength of wine: "What kind of life do you want most?"

Shen Qing took a sip of coconut milk, looked at him, and said very frankly, "rich."

He silently remembered it in his heart.

At this moment, they sat in the open-air restaurant.

Shen Qing looked at him, she probably thought she was going to the Commerce Bureau today, sprayed perfume, had her hair done, long skirts dragged the floor, and delicate makeup.

Shen Qing said, "I know."

As Chen Ye said, he couldn't control his own behavior. He took over the contract, but looked into Shen Qing's eyes, very direct: "Do you like me?"

Shen Qing was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

Chen Ye said nothing and signed the contract.

That was ten years ago. Chen Ye is eighteen, Shen Qing is twenty.

During the days of cooperation, Chen Ye would invite Shen Qing to this restaurant every other year. In the past few years, they were safe and sound, chatting about funds, contacts, projects at hand, and the location of their new houses.

In the fifth year, Shen Qing was very busy and came an hour late. When sitting down, the soup was already cold, Shen Qing stood up to smoke, and paid the bill by the way.

In the sixth year, as soon as they sat down, Chen Ye's manager picked them up. At that time, he appeared on a variety show as a mentor, and there was a screen CP outside, who was a singer. They had just collaborated on a movie, and they couldn't be photographed eating with Shen Qing.

In the seventh year, Shen Qingren made a promotional film abroad, but they didn't make an appointment.

In the eighth year, when they broke up completely, the outside world was gossiping.

6

It's May Day again, and Kk helps Chen Ye organize a game, which is a large social game. Chen Ye was drunk a lot, and Kk wanted to help stop it, but she was really poor in drinking. After two o'clock in the middle of the night, the wine party almost broke up. After Kk settled the bill, he saw Chen Ye sitting alone in the private room. He drank visibly, his eyes were red, and he sat on the floor. When Kk pushed the door and came in, he asked, "All gone?"

Kk nodded.

"No one is looking for me?"

Kk nodded again.

Chen Ye then rubbed his face, as if sighing: "Today is my birthday."

Kk was shocked for a long time. Chen Ye's information on the Internet is the lunar calendar, and it is estimated that he filled in a random date. Fans gave him birthdays according to online dates, and he never responded to messages. On May 1st Labor Day, he was born on this day, few friends know about him.

Kk hurriedly asked the waiter to buy a cake, a group of people blew candles around him, and then Kk posted the picture and text on Weibo. She is now a staff member certified by Chen Ye Fan Club. After seeing her news, many people commented and replied to her.

After the birthday, after Kk got Chen Ye into the car, Chen Ye's cell phone rang suddenly.

Kk originally ignored it, but looking at Chen Ye's sleeping appearance, Kk had to pick it up: "Hello? Who is it?"

There was no sound over there.

Chen Ye seemed to be woken up by the phone, and he made a confused sound of confusion, eh?

Kk immediately lowered his voice and said to Chen Ye, "It's okay, go to sleep."

Then she turned to the phone: "Hello? How are you?"

There was still no sound on the phone, and Kk felt that someone was harassing him, so he hung up the phone.

Chen Yewo was in the car, the car drove all the way home, and he dreamed of a long time ago. Black and white darkroom with film sticking all over the wall. He was strolling around Shen Qing's photography studio, waiting for her to get off work before going to dinner together. In the dimly lit place, he saw Shen Qing's partner. He was about to say hello when he saw that the other party was on the phone, so he didn't come forward.

That person seemed to be pulling investment: "Third brother knows, our studio, isn't that Chen surnamed a cash cow? Run? How is it possible? You don't even know how interested he is in Shen Qing, Shen Qing himself said it, It's not a problem to sign for another 20 years."

Chen Ye understood those words in an instant. He stood at the corner of the photography room, in the space of light and shadow, looking at Shen Qing's self-introduction on the wall. Shen Qing on the wall became more and more blurry.

That night, they went back to the restaurant again, the violin was still playing, this time there were no roses, this time the two of them spoke at the same time. Chen Ye looked at her and went straight in: "I'll talk about it first."

He's about to terminate the contract.

Shen Qing didn't seem to have expected such a sudden, and was stunned for a moment: "You know that the shares in my hand were originally given to me because I could sign you up."

Chen Ye looked at her and smiled: "So what does it have to do with me?"

Shen Qing is worthy of being Shen Qing, she only lost her temper for a moment, they have known each other for nine years. Then she looked at Chen Ye: "Chen Ye, let me ask you that question, do you like me?"

Chen Ye's eyes were bright and generous: "There used to be, but now it's gone."

Shen Qing couldn't say anything else.

I heard that Shen Qing's studio used to rely on shares to support his subordinates. Now that Chen Ye has no shares, she has paid a lot of assets to pay everyone's wages. After that, she went bankrupt and completely announced her retirement.

This night when he was drunk, Chen Ye was tossing and turning in his dreams. I vaguely remember that after that, Chen Ye drove past the photography studio again. When she came out holding the cardboard box that night, Chen Ye kept looking at her in the car, watching her sitting on the side of the road with her head buried in her arms. Her body trembled slightly, reminding Chen Ye of a rain long ago. Bright, dim, that rain with no details of the past.

What is there to worry about?

She never liked him.

So he doesn't like her anymore.

There is another tidal wave on the North and South Island. Shen Qing sat on the shore and watched the silvery white sand flicker.

She just looked at Weibo to find out that the dinner party that had been scheduled for ten years was his birthday every time, not the so-called big-name endorsement anniversary. She hurried to call, but heard the voices of other women.

No regrets for Chen Ye.

Shen Qing lives in a single-parent family. She appreciates complex dark-toned works, and a group of people online are chasing her taste, but that's the life she comes into contact with.

For example, fate made her suddenly become a famous photographer at the age of nineteen, and her father got caught in gambling. The thin man called Shen Qing after losing the money. In the first half, he was drinking and scolding the streets. In the second half, he cried bitterly. He also said that he would take Shen Qing to travel after winning the money.

She was very calm: "If you go to gamble again, I will drag you and jump downstairs together."

Fate made her meet Chen Ye at the age of 20, and also made her father drink and die, and then she owed nearly one million yuan in gambling debts.

She never speaks. For example, a large amount of astronomical sums to be paid back every month, for example, when she watched the black and white photo in the living room collapse, for example, the sentence she wrote on Chen Ye's back.

Once chatting with Chen Ye about her family, she said vaguely: "My father loves me very much."

Three times around the tree, what branch can I lean on?

It was her fragility, her decency, the shell she had erected in this world.

Slowly, many people know that she is addicted to money.

In the end, even Chen Ye thought so.

It took her nine years to grit her teeth to pay off the loan, and finally she could stand in front of Chen Ye calmly.

But he doesn't like her anymore.

At that moment, the world collapsed like a sand castle, and she was always alone. Shen Qing didn't say anything, she just sat quietly by the sea and watched the tide all night.

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Last updated: October 8, 2022