Huayu 2021: Isn’t he in the technology field?

Chapter 74 Another perspective on the story

In the banquet hall.

Jiang Qing was the focus of the whole audience today. When he suddenly returned to the venue from the entrance with a slim figure, many guests showed interested expressions on their faces.

At this time, many people have recognized that the woman next to Jiang Qing is the actress Chen Duling.

This made many people want to gossip.

Anyone who pays attention to Jiang Qing knows that he has been a hot topic online recently due to his participation in a variety show recording and a female actress named Zhou Ye.

But what's going on with Chen Duling now?

When many guests looked at Chen Duling carefully, a look of amazement flashed across their eyes.

This female star, who is not very famous, seems to have an exceptional appearance.

Her long curly chestnut hair was like silk crumpled by the evening breeze, and the curled ends of her hair were like ripples created when a goldfish wagged its tail.

The palm-sized face is hidden among the fluffy waves of hair, and the tip of the nose is decorated with diamond-like highlights, which seem to reflect the colorful scenery deep in the coral reef as it sways with steps.

The ribbon of the halter-neck red dress is tied into a bow at the back of the neck, revealing the porcelain-thin right-angled shoulders. The backless design outlines the groove of the spine like the arc of a swan hanging its neck to drink water. The waist suddenly tightens into a mathematical miracle. The golden ratio of 0.7 makes the satin look like an hourglass.

Like the golden ratio carefully calculated by ancient Greek sculptors, the silk fabric folds into fine waves at the waist with each step, while the fishtail skirt suddenly flares out below the hips.

The perky hips wrapped tightly in red silk trembled slightly as she walked, creating a series of dazzling and seductive curves.

The male guests' eyes flickered and they sighed from time to time, while the female guests' eyes were filled with envy and jealousy.

In fact, not only the guests present were amazed, but Jiang Qing was no exception.

After taking a casual glance, he tried his best to keep his eyes straight.

Ono's figure subconsciously flashed through his mind, and then...

Ok……

There's no after that.

It's good enough if I can hit my face.

Chen Duling caught sight of his reaction out of the corner of her eye, and the corners of her lips curled up slightly.

Jiang Qing never thought that meeting Chen Duling again after five years would be so abrupt and unexpected.

For a moment, he didn't know what to say.

Neither of them paid any attention to the many glances coming from around them, nor did they have the energy to care.

Jiang Qing raised his hand repeatedly to politely decline several people who were about to come forward to greet him. He found a seat in a corner by the window, and he and Chen Duling tacitly separated their arms at the round table and sat down separately.

They looked at each other, and although there were smiles on their faces, no one spoke first.

An inexplicably awkward atmosphere began to spread.

Jiang Qing looked at Chen Duling's face, which seemed to have become more delicate after not seeing her for five years, and the scene when he first met her suddenly emerged in his mind.

That glance had stirred up a hurricane in the spring of his twenties, and it still rustled in his memory.

……

It was April 2016, the th World Chinese Debate Championship.

At that time, he was forced by the school to take on the responsibility of leading the school team through all the difficulties to reach the finals.

Then, he saw her.

“Dear leaders, judges, dear teachers and students.”

"good afternoon everyone."

"This is the venue for the global finals of the 6th World Chinese Debate Championship."

"I'm Chen Duling, and I'm very happy to host this debate for you."

She was on the podium wearing a black suit jacket and a white shirt. Her small face was so white that it seemed to be glowing.

Her long hair fell on her shoulders. She held the microphone to her lips when speaking. Her voice was not loud but powerful.

He sat in the contestant's booth and looked at her from afar, his mind a little blank.

She was beautiful yet a little cold, and spoke in a graceful manner. Although she was smiling, she gave people a slight sense of alienation.

He remembered that his heart was beating very fast at that time.

"Jiang Shen, could you please tone down your gaze a little?"

Maybe he was too obvious, and his teammates couldn't help but start teasing him.

"You don't know her, do you? This is Chen Duling, the famous campus beauty of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who starred in the movie 'Left Ear'..."

After hearing his teammates' words, he had a vague impression of her.

I vaguely heard of her name, but didn't pay much attention to it.

At that time, he had just founded Wuwen and was very busy.

"I'm just studying the patterns of my opponent's micro-expressions."

He explained to his teammates stubbornly.

"So, Jiang Shen, is our opponent the host?"

His teammates saw through him and continued to tease him.

"No one will think you are mute if you don't speak!"

He had lost his usual composure.

"okay!"

……

During the official competition, he deliberately unbuttoned the top button of his shirt.

When the spotlight swept across the podium, he saw Chen Duling lowering her eyes and reciting the rules.

The black cuffs revealed a snow-white wrist, and the way she held the microphone was like holding a baton made of moonlight.

The girl who always wears a ponytail on the screen now let her long hair fall on her black suit, and her tight waistline made her look even more slender than in the movie.

"Now, please welcome the third speaker from the opposing side."

When Chen Duling pronounced his name, the ending tone seemed to carry the sea breeze, making his heart itch.

He watched her hair falling as she lowered her head to check the process card, and suddenly crumpled the argumentation draft he had prepared for half a month into a ball of paper.

That’s right, he just wanted to open the screen at that time.

The girl who was as quiet as a mimosa in "Left Ear" was now standing in the halo and adjusting the microphone. Her posture made him tremble more than the stubborn look of Little Ear in the movie.

“Emotional algorithms shouldn’t be cold code.”

He was inexplicably nervous when he spoke, and out of the corner of his eye he saw Chen Duling unconsciously stroking the edge of the judges list.

"Just like now..." He mustered up the courage to turn his finger towards the podium, startling his teammates so much that they knocked over their mineral water bottles.

"Can the program interpret how adorable Host Chen's deliberately stern face is when he's maintaining order?"

He was only thinking about teasing people at the time, and he felt bold after the words came out of his mouth.

The whole audience was in an uproar at that time, and he also caught the red clouds rising from the tips of her ears.

However, he, a so-called genius who was the most popular in the university circle at that time, could not tell whether her trembling eyelashes were due to anger or embarrassment.

When the affirmative debater slammed the table, he suddenly remembered the way Little Ear clutched her skirt in the bar in the movie, and thought that in real life, Li Er would pinch the joints of her index finger with her thumb when she was nervous.

……

"The intensity of a sound wave is inversely proportional to its truth content."

At the end of the debate, when the outcome was already decided, he deliberately tried to look cool by tapping the microphone with his fingers. This action finally made Chen Duling look up at him.

In fact, his left hand, hidden in his trouser pocket, had already been clenched into a fist, but his face was deliberately smiling more and more wantonly.

“Unless you’re like our host.”

He deliberately paused for three seconds, until he saw her knuckles turning white while holding the podium, and then he continued to say the four words "Yan Zhi You Li".

When the applause rang out, he saw Chen Duling lowering his head to organize documents.

The small mole hidden in the hair on the back of her neck appeared and disappeared with her movements, just like the cinnabar under the collar of Little Ear that was blown open by the sea breeze when she turned around under the lighthouse in the movie.

At the celebration party after the game, he went to find her with a drink, hoping to strike up a conversation with her by taking advantage of his previous action. However, she didn't seem to want to pay attention to him, her eyes wandering, and he felt quite regretful.

He thought that his actions just now must have offended her and made her unhappy.

I wanted to apologize, but since several people from other schools came over to say hello, I had to deal with it for the time being.

When he went to look for her again, she was nowhere to be found.

When he walked out of the banquet hall, he heard her saying goodbye to the staff at the end of the corridor. When he chased out, he only saw the taillights of the taxi crushing the moonlight on the ground.

That was the first time he had taken the initiative to show his affection to a girl, and he had hit a wall.

But he was extremely busy at that time and put the relationship matters aside.

……

Jiang Qing suddenly came back to his senses from his memories, looked at Chen Duling in front of him, thought about her actions today, and vaguely realized a possibility.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Chen Duling felt uncomfortable being stared at by him and couldn't help but speak first.

She felt that Jiang Qing was making fun of her, even though the scene just now was indeed very funny...

Well... it's still awkward.

The scene just now had already shown that she was coming for him.

It felt like we hadn't seen each other for five years, and the first time we met, he confessed his feelings to me.

Just like she did five years ago, she tried to maintain an outward calm to hide the chaos in her heart.

But on second thought, it seems that there is no need anymore.

"Host Chen, your words make sense. Can't I take a closer look?"

Jiang Qing looked at her delicately made-up face and joked with a deliberate smile.

He wanted to confirm what he was thinking.

Chen Duling's fingers gently slid across the table. Jiang Qing's words "Yan Zhi You Li" were like a key that clicked open the safe of time and space.

"Jiang Shen's jokes are really keeping up with the times."

She picked up the champagne and sipped off the bright color of her lip gloss, but the rim of the glass left a trace of the corners of her mouth turning up.

"I wonder if Jiang Shen can figure it out now that he's studying the patterns of micro-expressions."

The tail note deliberately hangs on the edge of the cup.

Jiang Qing suddenly leaned forward.

At this distance, Chen Duling could clearly see the fan-shaped shadows cast by his eyelashes under his eyes, exactly the same as when he leaned over on the debate stage five years ago.

"Now my algorithm can recognize 83 micro-expressions."

He tapped his finger just below her left eye.

"For example, this one called a restrained fake smile."

Then it slid to the corner of her slightly trembling mouth.

"This is called..."

Chen Duling suddenly intercepted his fingertips with a silver fork, and the fork tip shone coldly under the lamp.

That night five years ago suddenly came to her mind. She remembered hiding in the back seat of a taxi and crying until her eyes were swollen for a long time.

Now I think about it I feel so stupid...

"I suddenly remembered an incident where someone sent anonymous birthday gifts to the Cognitive Lab for four years."

"Each time it was at a different address, but there was one thing in common: a shell was always included."

Chen Duling's ears flushed instantly. Those were the express deliveries she had asked her assistant to send.

At this time, the piano music in the banquet hall turned into the climax of "City Of Stars".

"I guess those shells must be from Gulangyu Island, right?"

Jiang Qing grinned at her, with an indescribable sense of pride in his smile.

"I did remember one thing."

Chen Duling raised the corners of her lips slightly, and the most uninhibited smile in the past five years spread across her eyes.

"Over the years, the crews I've been on have always seemed particularly easy to talk to. I was left to make all the decisions about the intimate scenes myself, which almost made me mistakenly believe that everyone in the entertainment industry is a good person."

"And people are secretly saying he's a resourceful guy."

"But I'm just an unknown."

She wrinkled the tip of her nose at him, her expression very cute.

Jiang Qing shrugged noncommittally.

"I have a few friends who like to invest."

Outside the floor-to-ceiling window, a cruise ship on the Huangpu River suddenly blew its whistle. Jiang Qing and Chen Duling smiled at each other in the reflection of the glass.

Those evasions that were once misinterpreted and silences that were over-analyzed have now become a thing of the past.

It turns out that we have been in each other's life algorithm for five years, doing a fixed cycle.

(End of this chapter)