Chapter 4: Story 4 (2/2)
Mr. Song is the ex-boyfriend of Bo Yu.
Perhaps because the words of Bo Yu touch Qi Yan's sensitive nerve, Qi Yan suddenly stands up, gloomily looks at Bo Yu, and turns to leave.
Bo Yu goes back to his seat and sits down with the script in his hands, having quite relaxed smile on his face.
Bo Yu is young and handsome with the gentle image of films. Now he smiles and immediately attracts the eyes of some young female assistants around him.
The makeup stylist blushes, helps quickly Bo Yu with make-up and whispers, ”You will start shooting later. Best wishes to your first scene.”
Handsome guys always have more privileges.
”Thank you.”
Coincidentally, the first scene of the crew's startup is a rival scene between Bo Yu and Qi Yan.
The scene is that finding his girlfriend/his first love cheats on him, the tech geek Ji Shu runs to the rooftop in a rage, and the tutor Ze Hua, worried, runs over and comforts him.
The body of Ji Shu leans half out of the railing. His expression is covered by black broken hair, his hands tightly clutch the railing, exuding the decadent despair.
Ze Hua looks at him from a distance with a tight mouth.
Ji Shu laughs and says in the hoarse voice with a drop of glittering tear in his eyes, ”I always believed I would hold his hand and give him a lifetime of happiness...”
Ze Hua is stunned. His education view is completely overturned at this moment--men should be ready to realize his aspiration anywhere all over the country, and could not be involved in love affairs.
Ji Shu is very handsome but not sentimental and feminine. Ze Hua is familiar with Ji Shu's gentle and meticulous care for the people around him, but now Ze Hua is not accustomed to seeing his infatuation and sadness.
”She gives up our happiness, so I can only choose to let her go.” Ji Shu's chin is raised slightly, but his moony expression includes pride that Ze Hua seldom sees.
That is the pride that belongs to Ji Shu.
”Everything will be fine…” Ze Hua whispers.
Director Wang claps the table angrily and yells, ”Cut!”
Bo Yu and Qi Yan stop together with puzzling feelings.
Director Wang says angrily without thinking, ”Qi Yan, is this your line? You can't change your lines like that even on the spot!”
Ze Hua's line in the script is not ”Everything will be fine”, but a meaningful sentence ”You deserve a better one, but she doesn't deserve you.”
Nowadays, the plots of queer-baiting in movies and TV plays can be seen everywhere, but most of them are more attractive because of the balance of a defined boundary. Director Wang and the writer also intend to use the rooftop scene to hype the coupling of the protagonist and the third supporting male role in order to get more audience ratings.
Qi Yan, who plays the protagonist Ze Hua, has a slight embarrassed expression. He is unexpectedly attracted by the acting of Bo Yu and makes such a stupid mistake-forgetting his lines.
Bo Yu leans against the railings and feels the breeze and sunshine with a good mood.
If his rival in love feels bad, he will have a good mood.
The first scene is unsmooth because of the protagonist's mistake, which makes Director Wang lose his temper like the ignited gunfire. In the shooting of the next scenes, Director Wang frequently becomes angry.
The protagonist Qi Yan fails to adjust his state in time, and only scrapes through after NGing many times in the next scenes.
But Bo Yu films the scenes in one take.
The contrast between them makes Director Wang's face become gloomy. The crew become more cautious for fear of unluckily making Director Wang angry.
Qi Yan sits in the lounge with the darkened face. Assistant Lily hurries over and hands Qi Yan a cup of coffee with careful actions.
Qi Yan takes a sip of coffee, and suddenly pours coffee on Assistant Lily with a frown and scolds, ”I want iced coffee, not hot coffee. And I don't like sugar!”
Assistant Lily is a girl in her early twenties. She dares not cry when she is spilled with hot coffee, fearing that Qi Yan will be angrier. She has to apologize again and again.
Qi Yan waves impatiently, ”You are in my way. Go out!”
Assistant Lily feels a release, pushes the door open and leaves quickly.
It happens that two makeup stylists pass by with their suitcases. They cannot help looking at each other when they see Assistant Lily running out in a mess with red-rimmed eyes.
”She...” The young makeup stylist cannot help frowning.
”In this industry, it doesn't matter that he doesn't know how to get along with people quite well. After all, he has many good opportunities.” Another makeup stylist pouts and takes his companion out of here.
”Bathroom, cut one and take one--action!”
Ze Hua innocently looks at the sprinkler stuffed in his hands, and he doesn't know how to use it. But shy Ze Hua is embarrassed to ask Ji Shu to come in and teach him, so he randomly presses the switch. Hot water sprays out.
The young nerd is frightened at once, slips and falls to the ground.
The heroine, the daughter of the landlady, comes to charge rent and hears the sound from the bathroom. She thinks that there is something wrong and rushes into the bathroom from outside, but sees the scene she shouldn't.
”OK!” Director Wang breathes a sigh of relief. The protagonist finally films the scene in one take.
Qi Yan still cares about his approachable image in front of outsiders. So, he gives the heroine comforting eyes when he takes the clothes handed by the staff and puts them on.
The heroine is a trainee. Because she is afraid of screwing up her first performance, she is in a tense mood all the time. But she feels relaxed with her cheeks flushed when Qi Yan comforts her.
The TV series revolve round men. In order to avoid the heroine's limelight overwhelming the meaning and the center of it, Director Wang and the writer all agree that they'd better choose a trainee.
Standing outside the crowd, Bo Yu takes a sip of mineral water and thinks that Qi Yan's acting skills are good although he is geeky.
After Qi Yan clears up his feelings, he quickly throws himself in the acting mode. And he almost films the next scenes in one take.
The acting parts of Bo Yu are less. So, he knocks off at 3 p.m. or 4 p.m..
Qi Yan watches Bo Yu leave the crew from a distance with the mobile in his hands. He makes more exertion to his fists, as if he is going to crush his mobile.
At this time, the message that Qi Yan has been waiting finally comes in.
I have a meeting today. Let's talk about it next time.
Although the content of the eleven words in the message is not surprising, Qi Yan feels great joy with slight trembling hands.
He finally texts back. This is also a breakthrough, isn't it?