Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Although Zhang Shuo was promised that he would play the handsome, rich and handsome college student, due to the location problem, all the shots of him would be shot tomorrow. Another more important issue was that the luxury car that the rich and handsome college student would drive had not been found yet. Zhang Shuo and the producer were going to rent a brand-name car from the car rental company early tomorrow morning to the crew, so the plan could only be moved to the back.
Hearing Zhang Shuo and the producer talking about luxury cars, Lu Chengyu somehow thought of Yan Mu’s Maybach, and touched his chin and said, “Luxury car…what kind of car do you want?”
“The more expensive the better,” Zhang Shuo heard Lu Chengyu’s tone and knew that the boss might have a way to deal with this matter. After thinking for a while, he said boldly, “At least it should be worth more than a million.”
Lu Chengyu nodded, took out his mobile phone, and after thinking about it, he dialed the number. After two or three rings, he heard Yan Mu’s voice.
“Assistant Lu, is there anything I can do for you?”
Lu Chengyu coughed dryly: “Boss, are you free now? I just want to ask you for help with something.”
Yan Mu, who was having dinner with his friends, stopped holding the chopsticks when he heard this and asked, “I’m free, what’s the matter?”
“My friend is filming a movie recently, and a scene needs a luxury car, but because the crew has limited funds, we can’t find a suitable one for the time being, so I wanted to ask if your car can be lent to our crew tomorrow,” Lu Chengyu organized his words to make himself appear polite but not flattering. “After thinking about it, the only one around me who can afford a luxury car is you, boss.”
“Luxury car?” Yan Mu thought about it carefully, and suddenly remembered that he had an Aston Martin sports car worth nearly 50 million in his garage. It was a gift from his father two or three years after he returned to China. Because this kind of sports car may exceed the speed limit if you step on the accelerator lightly, and he was a person who hated to drive around in luxury cars, so the car had remained parked in the garage. A few days ago, he had all the cars in the garage inspected, so there was no problem with safety, so he said, “I have an Aston Martin sports car in my garage that was produced a few years ago. The price is about 40 to 50 million. Can the crew use it?”
Lu Chengyu’s throat choked when he heard it. He originally planned to borrow the Maybach worth tens of millions, but who knew that the other party would generously lend him an even more valuable Aston Martin, which made him speechless for a while. It couldn’t be blamed on him for not having seen the world. It was really that luxury cars were too attractive.
Yan Mu didn’t hear Lu Chengyu’s response on the phone. He thought his car was not good enough. After all, many people around him liked to play with cars, and even spent a lot of money on cars. Because he was not interested in these things, there were indeed fewer cars in the garage, so he said again: “If it doesn’t work, I’ll ask a friend to lend you one. Where are you shooting and what kind of limited edition car do you need? I’ll send the car to you tomorrow.”
When the two friends who were eating at the same table with him heard this, they all put on an ambiguous smile and winked at him.
“No, no, Aston Martin is good enough. It’s not up to you, boss, to do this. I can drive it over myself tomorrow,” Lu Chengyu suppressed the trembling in his heart caused by the luxury car and rubbed his nose, “How can you borrow something and ask the owner to deliver it to you?”
“It doesn’t matter. I don’t have anything to do tomorrow. Send the address to my mobile phone and I’ll send it to you tomorrow.” Yan Mu glanced at his friend who was still winking at him, “I have something to do here, so I’ll hang up first.”
“Which little star did A Mu take a fancy to who wants a luxury car to be delivered to his door automatically?” Zhuang Yu said to Yan Mu with a smile, “It’s rare that you can take a fancy to someone. Talk to us and we’ll take care of him more in the future.”
Zhang Zeyun, who was sitting at the same table, also nodded. Yan Mu was already 27 or 28 years old this year, and he didn’t seem to be interested in any woman. When people in the circle started playing with cars, he was studying for a doctorate abroad; when everyone started playing with women on yachts, he relied on his ability to suppress the old man of the Yan family and the illegitimate child outside. Now that the old man of the Yan family was dead, he had rectified the mess of Huading and had firmly grasped Huading in his hands. Such a winner in life had always been the other people’s child in the eyes of the parents in their circle since childhood, and the general hatred against him was well-founded.
But as friends, they knew that Yan Mu was not really honest and dutiful, he was just really not interested in these things. What was the point of living such a routine life? Even if it ended up in a crazy mess, it was not a waste of youth, so now when they heard that Yan Mu may be involved with a little artist, they were so interested.
“It’s not a star, it’s just a friend who wants to borrow the car,” Yan Mu put his mobile phone on the table and frowned, “He is a very capable person, don’t make such a joke.”
Zhang Zeyun and Zhuang Yu knew Yan Mu’s character, and they were both helpless. It seemed that there was no hope for this matter, so they had to nod to indicate that they would not joke around anymore and asked Yan Mu to cherish talents.
Director Zhang saw Lu Chengyu hang up the phone with a strange look on his face, so he came up to him and asked cautiously, “Is there any problem with the car?”
Lu Chengyu glanced at him and coughed dryly, “Don’t worry, it will be delivered tomorrow morning.” He asked Zhang Shuo for the address of tomorrow’s filming, and after sending the address to Yan Mu, he saw that Zhang Shuo still looked worried, so he smiled and said, “I, the boss, am not worried, but you as a director are more worried than me? “
Zhang Shuo smiled embarrassedly, scratching his head, his face slightly red as he said: “Aren’t you worried that the movie can’t keep up with the progress? I plan to release the movie during the National Day, so I panicked a little.”
Lu Chengyu knew that if the crew was delayed one more day, they would spend one more day’s money. Now the budget of the crew was relatively tight, and post-production, editing and review all cost money, so when shooting, you must try to seize the time and not waste resources. As a director, Zhang Shuo regarded his work as if it were his own child, so he was more worried about the movie than himself as an investor and producer.
“National Day is indeed a good time to release the film,” Lu Chengyu thought for a while, “Don’t worry, I will let the producer cooperate with you as much as possible on the matters in the crew.”
Zhang Shuo smiled innocently, then he turned around and told the actors to get ready, his voice so loud that everyone in the crew could hear it.
Gao Boyang and Lin Mengmeng and other leading actors saw this and decided not to continue to surround the investor, so they turned to the filming work. When they finished shooting a group of shots, the young investor had already left the crew.
The next morning, the crew set up the venue early. When Zhang Shuo saw Lu Chengyu appear, he took him to the makeup artist and let him start make up for him. As for the costume… Zhang Shuo looked at Lu Chengyu’s special outfit today. The casual suit, shoes and watch he put on were better than the ones prepared by the crew, so he didn’t need to change them.
After the makeup artist finished the makeup and hairstyle, she looked Lu Chengyu up and down for a few times. He was very handsome, but it seemed that something was missing. She even tried to add sunglasses or accessories but couldn’t find that feeling.
Seeing the makeup artist scratching her head, Lu Chengyu took out a pair of frameless gold-plated glasses from his casual suit and put them on his face. He stood up when the makeup artist looked enlightened: “Let’s go, let’s see if the car has arrived.”
Zhang Shuo was waiting outside the dressing room. When he saw Lu Chengyu coming out, he looked up and said excitedly: “Alike, too much like.”
The college student played by Lu Chengyu had a good family background, was handsome, and had elegant manners, just like a young man from an upper-class family. He carried a kind of elegance and superiority that belonged to those from wealthy families, because only in this way could he have a sharp enough contrast with the grassroots male protagonist and produce black humor and criticism of reality through the plot.
Gently pushing the glasses on the bridge of his nose, Lu Chengyu put one hand in his trouser pocket, raised his chin slightly and looked at Zhang Shuo. Suddenly, the four characters of beast in human clothing were hung on his face.
Zhang Shuo became even more excited. This was the feeling he wanted. Although there were not many shots of this college student, they were very important, so he couldn’t find the right person. Now he had found an actor who was 100% in line with his expectations. For him as a director, it was simply a great joy.
However, Zhang Shuo’s joy today was not over yet, because he saw Lu Chengyu suddenly receive a call, after which his face changed slightly, and he walked towards the door of the crew. He guessed that the car had been delivered, so he followed Lu Chengyu to join in the fun.
Then, he saw a group of people gathered at the door of the crew. In the middle was a shiny car. Because there were too many people, he could only see the roof of the car.
When the onlookers saw the investor and the director coming, they made way. Then Director Zhang Shuo was dumbfounded. Even if he had never eaten pork, he had seen pigs run. Wasn’t this the Aston Martin sports car that came out two years ago? He had gone to a car show and knew that this kind of sports car was not only expensive, but also limited edition. The budget of their entire crew was only two or three million. Suddenly, such a luxury car came to the crew. He suddenly felt a little unreal.
Lu Chengyu walked to the car and saw Yan Mu get out of the car. He pushed his plain glasses without degrees and said with a smile: “Thank you boss for making this special trip for me.”
Yan Mu looked at Lu Chengyu’s face with glasses and traces of makeup. After a while, he said: “You want to be an actor?”
“No, it just so happened that the crew was short of one person, so I was drafted in. It can be done in half a day,” Lu Chengyu took off his glasses and smiled brightly at Yan Mu, “Are you not used to me like this?”
“No, it looks very good,” Yan Mu handed the key to Lu Chengyu, “Can I take a look?”
“Feel free to take a look,” Lu Chengyu turned his head and glanced at Zhang Shuo behind him, “Director Zhang, is it ok?”
“No problem, this gentleman is your friend, how could there be any problem.” For a small crew like theirs, there were not even reporters willing to take secret photos, so having someone visit the set was nothing.
“That’s good,” Lu Chengyu took Yan Mu to sit next to the director’s monitor. It was so hot, at least this place could block the sun, and there was a broken electric fan shaking the wind. “I’m going to finish shooting these shots first, and we’ll have lunch together at noon. I’ll treat you.” Yan Mu’s generous act of lending him a luxury car had made him forget that Yan Mu had spent more than 8,000 yuan of his money on a meal when they first met.
Yan Mu looked at Lu Chengyu’s back, then looked at the messy background around him, then sat down on the gray stool next to the monitor with his back straight.
Although he didn’t know much about filming, Assistant Lu’s outfit seemed quite interesting.
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