"Are you saying I should do nothing?" Gu Sisi asked in a daze.
Huo Cheng remained still, his eyes half - closed. He tapped his forehead with his finger and said, "No, I just want you to stay out of this. You have your own things to do."
Gu Sisi disagreed. Her eyes were full of puzzlement. "What if something bad really happens? For example, something might go wrong with Yu Hui's baby. Maybe it was also her who spread the negative news about Ouyang Xin."
The more Gu Sisi talked, the deeper her suspicions grew. More and more thoughts popped up in her mind. What on earth was this woman up to?
"No way. What if something even more serious happens in the future?" As she spoke, Gu Sisi got excited. She stood up straight and stepped back continuously, getting closer and closer to the door. She had an urge to rush out of the lounge right away.
"Stop!" Huo Cheng shouted. After seeing that Gu Sisi stopped moving, he said, "Stay out of this. Even if something goes wrong, it has nothing to do with you."
Huo Cheng rarely shouted at others. This sudden outburst stunned Gu Sisi. She stood still for a long time. Her emotions went from excitement to calmness, and then gradually rose again.
Gu Sisi shook her head. "No, why? What if..."
Before she could finish her sentence, Huo Cheng interrupted her. His expression and tone were equally calm. "Even if it is absolutely going to happen, you still don't need to interfere."
Time seemed to slow down after this sentence. Gu Sisi felt that even the flow of space around her had slowed down a lot. She calmed down at this moment. The atmosphere in the lounge was deadlocked. Not a single sound could be heard.
Huo Cheng thought she had calmed down and was about to leave. However, before he could move, the voice of the person beside him rang out.
"No!" Gu Sisi still stood there motionless. Her small body seemed to explode. "Are you the kind of person who never cares about others?"
Gu Sisi didn't stop there. She continued, "Don't you know any human relationships? Do you have no feelings at all? Even strangers have empathy. How can you be so indifferent? Is your heart not red?"
After saying all this in one breath, all that was left was her heavy breathing. Her eyes were a bit blood - shot due to excitement, and the corners of her eyes gradually became moist. Her voice became choked. She stared intently at Huo Cheng's back.
There was no denying that Huo Cheng was really capable. That's why Gu Sisi thought of him immediately. After being unexpectedly rejected, she found it hard to accept.
After saying that, Gu Sisi regretted it. Her words were too harsh, and she was just talking nonsense. After all, Huo Cheng had been running back and forth every day because he was worried about her.
But the words were already out, and there was no taking them back. Gu Sisi's heart was hanging high.
Huo Cheng listened to Gu Sisi seriously and then slowly walked towards her. His expression didn't change at all. "Have you finished? If there's nothing else, let's go downstairs for dinner. The shooting has been postponed, so we don't have to be busy now."
It was as if nothing had happened. Huo Cheng said it so naturally, as if their conversation just now was about what to have for lunch.
Gu Sisi widened her eyes. Seeing Huo Cheng approaching her, she took a few steps back.
Huo Cheng stopped and tilted his head, looking at her puzzledly.
"Don't you have anything to say?" Gu Sisi was a bit confused. This reaction was completely beyond her expectation.
"If you want me to give an answer to what you just said?"
Huo Cheng stood in front of her, fixed in place, and asked rhetorically. His bottomless eyes, like a deep pool, stared directly at Gu Sisi. Gu Sisi seemed to be under a spell and couldn't take a single step.
"Well, yes. Maybe your guess is right."
A smile curved on Huo Cheng's lips, but in Gu Sisi's eyes, it only made her feel an inexplicable chill.
Gu Sisi just realized that she knew too little about him. Was there no difference between him and the other members of the Huo family?
She took a few more steps back. Her two hands were against the wall. The coldness spread from her feet to her limbs. Her fingers scratched the wall randomly. Her eyes were fixed on Huo Cheng in front of her. "So your kindness to me is just because of our relationship?"
Huo Cheng looked at Gu Sisi, who was as panicked as a rabbit. The fleeting thought in his eyes wasn't noticed. He looked up and regained his former calmness. His eyes were like a dead pool again, showing no sign of fluctuation.
Gu Sisi looked at Huo Cheng nervously. Due to high concentration, she even felt a bit trembly and couldn't stand steadily. Huo Cheng looked down at her from above, with no trace of emotion in his eyes. "Yes."
Gu Sisi's pupils dilated suddenly. Under this repeated stimulation, she unexpectedly calmed down.
Her whole body relaxed. Her eyelashes fluttered like the wings of a butterfly, delicate and fragile. "Well, in that case, you'd better stay away from me."
"Do you know what you're saying?" Huo Cheng looked at Gu Sisi's slender shoulders and asked, tilting his head.
Gu Sisi met Huo Cheng's gaze. As time ticked by, her eyes sparkled. She nodded slightly. "Yes, I know. I said I don't need you anymore."
She confirmed her words. This time, her voice was different from before. It wasn't crazy but rather rational, and her eyes were firm.
"Sorry, I'm late." Suddenly, the door was opened. A girl rushed in from outside. She poked her head out, looked at the two people in a stalemate curiously, and then quickly shrank back. She apologized, "If you're still busy, I can come back later."
The girl turned around and was about to leave.
"Wait!" Gu Sisi didn't move her eyes away from Huo Cheng. She shouted loudly. From the corner of her eye, she saw that the girl stopped closing the door. She lowered her voice. "Come in. It's okay here."
Huo Cheng's eyes were dark. He looked at Gu Sisi in silence.
Although the girl didn't understand what was going on, she paused for a few seconds and felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange. But she couldn't think of a reason to postpone, so she lowered her head and came in.
"You need to calm down for a while." Huo Cheng suddenly said this.
The makeup artist who had just come in was alerted by this voice. She turned her head and just saw Huo Cheng walking out of the door.
Suddenly, there was no sound again. The atmosphere was cold, just like when the sound of a TV show suddenly disappears, leaving people at a loss.
"Are you okay?" After a long time of silence, the makeup artist, who was also inexplicably frozen in place with Gu Sisi, asked awkwardly.
Shouldn't she have come in and interrupted at this time?
Gu Sisi straightened up from the wall. She let go of the wall. Without its support, she slowly walked to the mirror and sat down. Looking at the empty self in the mirror, she forced a smile with difficulty. "It's okay. You can start your work."
Gu Sisi didn't return to the hotel until very late after a busy day. Although something had happened today, it wasn't much different from the past.
The only difference was that she didn't wait for Ouyang Xin to come back for shooting until the afternoon, and the shooting didn't end until evening.
Back in her room, Gu Sisi tossed and turned in her bed and couldn't fall asleep. She even remembered that when Ouyang Xin came in the afternoon, she didn't even have the mood to ask Ouyang Xin about the details of all these things.