A Nameless Rain Chapter 7

Haijing City has been extremely cold this winter. A sleet last night caused the temperature in the city to drop to below zero. It barely warmed up in the morning. The sky was still hazy, and the cold wind was biting, and it was almost painful to blow on the face.

When Silas Zhong arrived at Minghu, it was already half past one in the morning. The first moon of 2024 was buried deep in the dark clouds, the courtyard was dark, and everyone seemed to have gone to sleep. Finn Xi closed the door to thank guests tonight.

Being in a hurry just now, Silas Zhong didn't have time to change into the dress he wore for the cocktail party. He wore only a thin shawl jacket on his upper body. He was elegant but not warm. The cold air poured in from the cuffs, blowing away the heat in his body. His fingers were a little stiff, so he stopped in front of the password door, hesitated, and didn't press it.

Obviously, Finn Xi wouldn't let him in. Then he shouldn't have gone in. Regardless of whether the password is changed or not, even without this door, he can't even take a step forward.

Silas Zhong didn't think about how angry Finn Xi was now. His first reaction was: It will probably take another three months before he can meet again.

Finn Xi is not a grumpy person, but every time there is friction, no matter how big or small, their separation time will be extended. Silas Zhong didn't think he did it on purpose, but it was hard to say it wasn't punishment.

And when Finn Xi punished him intentionally or unintentionally, he had no right to react and could only wait. Like the unpredictable weather, mortals can only pray for rain but cannot interfere with when the rain will fall, let alone make it stop.

Silas Zhong waited outside the door for more than ten minutes. Suddenly, the light under the porch came on. The butler came out with a sleepy look on his face, as if he had just taken a nap and reluctantly woke up because of a mission, and went out to check.

Seeing that Silas Zhong had indeed arrived, the housekeeper asked politely: "Mr. Zhong, do you have the key with you?"

"I didn't bring it, what's wrong?" Silas Zhong didn't understand.

The butler said: "Ah, that's right. Mr. Xi hopes you will return the key to me. But it doesn't matter. It will be the same next time."

...

The people around Finn Xi are not simple characters. They usually treat Silas Zhong politely, but there are also differences between being cold or enthusiastic under politeness. When to be cold and when to be enthusiastic changes with Finn Xi's attitude, just like his tongue.

The housekeeper was undoubtedly a little colder than usual today. After explaining, he turned back to the door and turned off the light again.

He didn't invite Silas Zhong in, and he didn't care whether Silas Zhong left or not. The environment returned to darkness, and the dark clouds above the head became thicker. Gradually, the sound of the wind suddenly became lower until it stopped.

At about three o'clock in the morning, the sky was extremely cloudy and it suddenly started to rain.

Silas Zhong is a native of Haijing and is very adaptable to Haijing's humid and cold winter climate. But every time it rains, I feel a little uncomfortable.

He may have some rheumatism------I say "possibly" because he hasn't been diagnosed by a doctor. And this problem came from his filming in the past few years.

That movie is called "The Last Night" and was filmed in the fourth year when Silas Zhong and Finn Xi were together.

Silas Zhong is an actor with works. The quality of the movies and TV series he starred in are all above average, and there are no bad movies. But most of Finn Xi is not interested. "The Last Night" is the only one that Finn Xi has finished.

This movie is composed of countless shots of nights and rainy scenes: clear nights, rainy nights, bright and lively nights, silent nights; heavy rain, drizzle, dirty rain falling in the mud, and the memory of the hero soaking his lover. The long-haired scented rain...

The director is Sun Xingli, a director who has been very popular in recent years. He has won international prestigious awards. He is gloomy, sensitive and arrogant. He is recognized in the industry as a "crazy man" and has a very bad personality.

At that time, "The Last Night" was being filmed, and Silas Zhong brought money to join the cast as the male lead. Sun Xingli was very dissatisfied. On the one hand, he hates investors dictating literary and artistic creations, on the other hand, he looks down on Silas Zhong himself, thinking that Silas Zhong is an idol showman who can only "barely watch" because of the careful training of the good directors in front of him.

But before, Sun Xingli took money from investors and ridiculed them for being "uneducated" and "knowing nothing about movies", which offended all the investors. Now that he doesn't accept investment from Huayun, his film will not be made, so he can only endure it. Be careful.

Tolerance means toleration, but not completely. There was a scene where the male protagonist committed suicide by jumping into a river in the rain. Director Sun pulled Silas Zhong onto a bridge across the river and asked him to actually jump.

It stands to reason that river jumping scenes are usually shot with borrowed positions, and they are all fake jumps. Even if it doesn't work well, you have to use Wia. But Sun Xingli said no, he wanted to shoot a complete long shot with multiple cameras, one shot to the end, borrowed positions to edit or suspend the scene. Wia will affect the final presentation effect and must be really danced. He also said that only by actually jumping off the bridge can Silas Zhong and the male protagonist empathize with each other, match their emotions, and then the subsequent scenes can be filmed.

Before Silas Zhong responded, Delia Tang got angry on the spot and quarreled with Sun Xingli in public, accusing him of making excuses to deliberately embarrass Silas Zhong and venting his personal emotions regardless of the actor's safety.

Sun Xingli said that Silas Zhong can swim and rescuers have been arranged underwater. "Don't worry, he won't drown."

Delia Tang used her backer to suppress others and yelled: "If he does something bad, how can I explain it to Mr. Xi?!"

Sun Xingli also got angry: "Then ask Finn Xi to come and talk to me!"

... The whole audience was silent.

In fact, Sun Xingli didn't have to shoot like this. He just said a few words to disgust Silas Zhong. When Silas Zhong refused, he naturally criticized: "Not dedicated at all. Alas, the connections are really not good."

But he didn't expect that Silas Zhong didn't refute a word and said extremely calmly: "You can jump."

Director Sun was dumbfounded for a moment, thinking to himself, this guy looks cold and calm, but he seems to be more crazy than himself on the inside.

It was late autumn in the north. There was strong wind in the city where the location was shot, and the rainfall was artificially produced. The bridge under Silas Zhong's feet was nearly twenty-five meters above the water, as high as a seven or eight-story building.

Silas Zhong climbed up the bridge fence alone without the help of any staff, adjusted his posture, jumped and fell into the raging river.

The wind was strong and the waves were strong, and he was swept dozens of meters away by a wave. When rescuers picked him up, he was already suffocating from water. Delia Tang was so frightened that her hands and feet were cold and her face turned pale, but Sun Xingli still chased Silas Zhong and took pictures until he was sent to the hospital.

When most people wake up after being rescued, their expressions often show that they are happy to have survived the disaster. But Silas Zhong didn't know what happened that day. When he opened his eyes, his eyes were filled with "Why didn't I die?", as if he was very sorry.

From then on, Director Sun was impressed and never felt sorry for him again. After the filming was completed, he would praise everyone he met, saying that Silas Zhong surprised him. The filming of the film exceeded expectations and he was very satisfied.

Sure enough, he won the award later, but it was a pity that the director won the award, and Silas Zhong was suffering from rheumatism due to the cold river water in late autumn. He only received a nomination and was not awarded the title of emperor.

Finn Xi knew nothing about these things. Perhaps he would only know if Silas Zhong actually drowned.

Later, when watching this movie with Silas Zhong, Finn Xi said "I like" to Silas Zhong for the first time. However, the original sentence is not about liking Silas Zhong, but: "You look like a water ghost in the film, I like it very much."

Silas Zhong is always cold and damp, with black hair stuck to the side of his pale neck, as if there is endless rain above his head. Dark clouds took root in his retinas, forever blocking the sun. It does look like a water ghost.

It rained again tonight, and Silas Zhong walked from the porch to Finn Xi's window.

The curtains in the room on the second floor were tightly closed, and there was no trace of light. Maybe there was no light in the first place.

The rain pattered against the glass and Silas Zhong's stern face. It was extremely cold, but after being frozen for a long time and losing consciousness, the body was numb, which made it not so uncomfortable.

I don't know if it's because he's too patient, or because he knows he should be like this. It never breaks, the rain never stops, and he will wait there forever.

**

At about five o'clock in the morning, the rain was still falling outside the window, and Finn Xi suddenly woke up.

The reading light on the bedside was left on before going to bed, and the light was always on, so he didn't sleep well. The book in hand slipped unknowingly, and I couldn't remember which page I just saw.

Out of some intuition, Finn Xi turned on the main light, walked to the window, and opened the curtains.

Silas Zhong stood with his back to the window, bathed in the rain, with water dripping from the corners of his soaked suit shawl. His back had straight shoulder bones and his posture was straight, but he felt inexplicably pitiful.

The light fell through a large piece of glass and shone on the bloodless back of his neck. Silas Zhong was instantly startled and turned to look upstairs.

Finn Xi closed the curtains, picked up her phone and sent him a series of numbers: "Come in."

**

Maybe it was because he had been standing downstairs for so long that he almost stiffened into a sculpture. It took Silas Zhong a long time to move, wrung out the water from his clothes at the door, and went upstairs as cleanly as possible.

Finn Xi felt angry when she woke up, and her face became even worse if she didn't sleep well. The first time Silas Zhong entered the door, he rushed him into the bathroom to take a shower. After washing away the smell of rain, winter nights and wine, he finally came to his bed.

His hair was still wet, Silas Zhong was wearing a bathrobe, lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry."

Finn Xi was sitting while he was standing, apologizing that he shouldn't have such a high posture, so Silas Zhong lowered himself down and leaned in front of Finn Xi's knees in a half-kneeling position, silent, intimate and obedient.

Even after taking a shower, his body was still very cold. When he touched Finn Xi's hot skin, he leaned forward again as if he was eager. But in Finn Xi's opinion, this desire is also well-designed and part of the process of trying to please him. He has no doubt at all whether Silas Zhong will apologize properly. Of course he will. No one is more dedicated than Silas Zhong.

"What are you sorry for?" Finn Xi said expressionlessly, "You speak and I listen."

...

Silas Zhong looked up at him, the line from his jaw to his neck was slightly tense, and he didn't hesitate for a second: "I shouldn't have ignored your call, I shouldn't have left time with you, I shouldn't have gone to that cocktail party." It was as smooth as the shower just now. He had thought about the answer countless times during the rain.

The coldness on Finn Xi's face did not ease and she did not speak.

The answer seems wrong.

Silas Zhong's throat was dry and he added: "It's my fault for making you feel bad. I didn't handle the relationship between work and personal matters well..." He paused suddenly in the middle of this sentence, probably realizing that there was something wrong. Ambiguity: Is the reception a job? Is it a private matter for Finn Xi? Or the other way around?

But it cannot be explained. The explanation is to conceal the truth.

But Finn Xi didn't think much about it. Finn Xi certainly didn't think it was Silas Zhong's private matter, and they couldn't be more public. But this answer wasn't what he wanted to hear. Admittedly, no matter what Silas Zhong said, he didn't really want to hear it. Some emotions cannot be healed by apologizing, but can only be vented.

"Do you think I have a too good temper?" He pressed the back of Silas Zhong's neck and leaned over slightly, "You didn't find a place to take shelter from the rain, and you deliberately got wet to show who?"

Silas Zhong froze.

Finn Xi used the force of her palms to force him to raise his head and tense up, "Since you are so smart, you must know where you went wrong, right? Keep talking, I want to hear it."

...

Finn Xi was condescending, his eyes projecting an indescribable threat. It wasn't that he meant to threaten Silas Zhong, his existence itself was a huge threat.

He was waiting for Silas Zhong's answer. Like the Sphinx, which symbolizes fear and temptation in mythology, if Silas Zhong dares to answer his riddles incorrectly, he will die.

"I..." Silas Zhong whispered, "No matter when, where, or what difficulties I have, I should put your needs and feelings first. It's my fault if I don't do that. ,sorry."

Finn Xi said: "Empty words."

Silas Zhong's expression was blank: "I won't go there in the future, okay? Apart from you, I will never do unnecessary socializing again ------"

"Do you believe this? Corbin Huang is an 'unnecessary socializer'? You wish you could join him as soon as possible, right?" Finn Xi said coldly, "You don't even know how to act Jing Jing. Why are you memorizing your lines by force?" ------If you don't know how to admit your mistake, just get out and settle the bill with Mara Fang tomorrow. You can pay whatever breakup fee you want. I've supported you for so many years and I don't have to add a few zeros. "

...

He let go and pushed Silas Zhong, but he didn't push.

Silas Zhong held his ankles, moved them up his thighs, and suddenly pushed him onto the bed.

Finn Xi's vision shook violently, and everything went dark before he could see clearly. Silas Zhong was familiar with the light switch in his room and turned it off easily, leaving the bedroom in darkness.

With a heavy K!ss on the lips, Silas Zhong K!ssed him. But there were no more excessive movements. Silas Zhong seemed to be shaking a little. Rather than K!ssing him forcefully, it was more like he couldn't control himself and relied on his K!ss to maintain his emotional stability. Therefore, no matter what, you must not leave. Even if you risk being taught or punished by him, you must K!ss her first before talking.

Finn Xi can take a shower three times a day, and she still smells like shower gel without using perfume. This aroma seemed to be an antidote that could alleviate certain addictions. His neck was pressed hard, and Silas Zhong pressed against his carotid artery, sniffing and K!ssing with restraint, and suddenly said "I'm sorry" again. .

...This time I finally returned to my normal level and showed a bit of sincerity.

At least he showed his acting skills for Son Heung-li's movies. Not being awarded "Best Actor" is the judges' loss, not Silas Zhong's problem.

Finn Xi looked at him coldly in the darkness. Even if they knew he was acting, they had to admit that Silas Zhong still had the opportunity to perform in front of him because he was at a higher level in every aspect compared to Reece Ji and others.

Generally, after celebrities get used to the camera, they will unknowingly develop the habit of showing themselves to the outside world, exuding charm all the time, so that they look cheap.

Silas Zhong's charm comes from the fact that he exudes a kind of indifference to the outside world. He seems to be unwilling to actively attract anyone, and would rather be soaked in the rain and rot in the mud.

"That's almost it."

The extremely threatening Sphinx finally relented, and Silas Zhong barely answered correctly.

And the reward for getting the answer right is just not being strangled to death.

Finn Xi's lips were a little swollen from being sucked. He pushed Silas Zhong away from the endless K!ss and said coldly: "Before I abandon you, you can't go begging for food in front of other people's houses. Do you understand?"

"Then can you..." Silas Zhong's voice was a little hoarse, "Don't abandon me?"