The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1319 Love at first sight

Charlie Kaufman always does this.

From the seemingly ordinary, simple, realistic and serious plot routine, strange branches develop, creating black humor.

It's not a wild and unbridled imagination in the traditional sense - it's definitely not "Harry Potter" or "Star Wars", but it always manages to break expectations by creating unexpected twists and turns at unexpected points or turns.

People thought Joel would hit on Clementine, but the opposite happened.

People thought that Joel rejected Clementine and the two of them would have a grudge and become strangers for the time being, but Joel took the initiative and said that he could send Clementine home. The story took a turn before the next plot point.

Despite her slight hesitation, and despite the unpleasant ending they just had on the train, Clementine gets in Joel's car.

"You're not a stalker, are you?"

Clementine's first words after getting in the car made Angelica Film Center laugh like crazy.

But Joel couldn't laugh, his face was full of panic, "I, I'm not a stalker, you came to me first, remember?"

Clementine shook her head. "That's the oldest trick in the stalker's handbook."

Joel blinked. "Really? There's a stalker manual? I should study that."

Joel escorted Clementine home. Clementine was about to get out of the car and leave but couldn't control an impulse and invited Joel upstairs for a drink.

Joel's frightened little white rabbit expression made Clementine give up the idea, but Joel immediately agreed and followed Clementine to her apartment.

An awkward and ambiguous atmosphere was flowing.

Clementine is bold and passionate, making Joel look like a log.

However, Joel did not reject this feeling. Although he sat upright with his muscles tense, he did not run away. His eyes were always on Clementine, and he was torn by an inexplicable feeling of contradiction.

It should be an ambiguous and heart-moving scene, but at this moment it makes people laugh.

"I want to marry you."

Clementine said, like a flame, crackling and burning.

Joel was a little flustered and confused, but the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

"good?"

After saying that, Joel himself couldn't help but let a smile show in his eyes.

Clementine snuggled into Joel's arms, intertwining their fingers.

She asks Joel to take her to the Charles River for a picnic at night.

The two people were getting closer and closer. Joel felt the heat in his palms and the rising desire, and hurriedly said that he should leave; but Clementine thought that Joel should stay overnight.

Joel hesitated for a moment, but his cautious instinct made him stop.

Before Joel left, Clementine even took the initiative to leave him her phone number, and when Joel arrived downstairs at the apartment, she opened the window and leaned out.

"Call and wish me a Happy Valentine's Day! That, that would be perfect."

Clementine's smile bloomed in the night.

Joel didn't drive - because he was drunk. He pulled his coat tighter and started walking in the falling snow. His staggering steps got faster and faster, and finally turned into a mad run under the street lights.

That was joy, a pure and simple joy, the joy of falling in love.

When Joel got home, he was not ready to go to bed. Instead, he sat down on the red sofa in the corner, turned on the light, and sat there properly and obediently, with his hands neatly placed on his knees like a good student.

What is this doing?
Karen didn't understand.

He turned to look at Blair, trying to find the answer, but Blair didn't understand this time either.

He was waiting, waiting for his heartbeat to calm down, waiting for his rapid breathing to regain its rhythm, the heat in his chest still burning.

Then he picked up the phone and looked at the number on the back of his hand.

The call was connected after a while, and Clementine's cheerful voice came, "Why are you calling now?" Joel smiled naturally, "I just got home."

Clementine, "Did you miss me?"

Joel paused, and under his long eyelashes he could see a hint of joy in his eyes, "Happy Valentine's Day."

“Ah! Haha!” Clementine cheered, and you could even hear her spinning and dancing. “This means we are married.”

Joel tilted his head, "I guess so."

Clementine, "So, tomorrow night? Honeymoon on the ice?"

If it's tomorrow night, it's honeymoon.

Joel and Clementine came to the Charles River. There was no one on the thickly frozen river, but they could see the lights of the vehicles on the other side of the river forming a string of flowing halos like fireflies. The hazy moonlight fell down, and the whole world seemed vast, quiet and beautiful.

Clementine was unrestrained and reckless, while Joel was cautious and careful, but the two of them still started "skating" on the ice. In the end, they fell down and simply lay on the ice, looking up at the stars.

In the overhead shot, the moon-white ice surface reveals a hint of blue in the white. Clementine and Joel lie flat on their backs, looking at the stars in the night sky.

Clementine asked Joel to introduce some constellations, but Joel knew nothing about them, so he just started making up stories and spoke seriously about constellations that didn't exist at all. Clementine soon noticed and exposed Joel, but Joel pretended to be serious and insisted that what he said was true.

A smile crept up the corner of his mouth.

There is no ambiguity, no gracefulness, no romance. The love encounter that should have been heart-warming reveals a weird sense of humor in the movie footage, which has nothing to do with the impression of a romantic love movie.

But at this moment, the beating of my heart completely lost its rhythm.

It is not romantic, but it is intoxicating; it is not ambiguous, but it is immersive. Before one even realizes it, the entire Angelica Film Center has quietly fallen into it and cannot extricate itself.

Until dawn.

Joel walked Clementine home and arrived at the door of her house.

Joel gently woke up Clementine who was sleeping soundly in the passenger seat, but he didn't expect that Clementine would directly ask if she could go to Joel's house to sleep. Although Joel was a little surprised, he didn't refuse this time.

Clementine went upstairs to get her toothbrush.

Joel sat in the driver's seat, his head resting on the back of the chair, his eyes closed, but in the silence, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and an irrepressible joy and happiness was quietly blooming.

knock knock!

Someone knocked on the car window, breaking the silence. Joel woke up with a start, and then saw a baby-faced man with a frown standing outside.

"What's going on?" Joel was confused.

The baby-faced man looked stern, "Do you need my help?"

Joel was confused, "What do you mean?"

Babyface, "Is there anything you need my help with?"

Joel: ...

Everything in front of him was so inexplicable that Joel couldn't keep up with the pace. The tiredness after a night of partying made him unable to understand what was happening in front of him.

"...No." Joel still politely refused.

But the baby-faced man didn't let him go, "Why are you here?"

Joel, "I'm not sure why you're asking that?"

The baby-faced man was stunned, his expression became flustered, "Oh. Thank you."

Then, Babyface left.

Surprisingly, he just left like that...

(End of this chapter)