Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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He finally looked at Ling Qing and said, “I worked so hard to come here and have a meal with you. I don’t want to go home and eat alone.” He was just so pitiful and helpless.
Ling Qing looked at Yu Chen, “What do you think?”
Yu Chen felt that there was nothing wrong with this. To put it bluntly, he had never taken Su Shu seriously.
Su Shu was obviously not the type of boyfriend Ling Qing would choose. Just like Ling Bai and Shu Tong, he took advantage of being younger, so Ling Qing would take a lot of care of them.
But those cares were just cares. Ling Qing would not go beyond that, let alone have any other thoughts about them. And if they did, Ling Qing would even want to avoid suspicion.
So he could accept eating with Ling Bai, and he could also accept eating with Su Shu.
It was not that Su Shu was unwilling to stay and continue to eat dog food. It was just one meal, so it was a buy one, get one free.
“Okay, anyway, Xiao Liu cooks a lot every time.”
“Then let’s eat together.” Ling Qing said.
Su Shu felt a little happier now, so he crossed his legs, and waited for his meal.
Xiao Liu made four dishes and one soup, two meat and two vegetarian dishes. After Su Shu finished eating, he felt it was pretty good and drank an extra bowl of soup before leaving slowly.
After Zhou Xiaochuan finished filming the old actor’s scenes, he asked the staff to remove some props, change the background, and called Luo Chenghao over to film him in the next scene.
After he finished speaking, he looked around the studio and did not see Ling Qing.
Xiao Li noticed his look with sharp eyes and said to him: “Director Zhou, Brother Ling’s friend just came here. He went to meet him and is already on his way back.”
Zhou Xiaochuan didn’t mind either, “Okay.”
But Luo Chenghao smiled sinisterly, “He is really free.”
Zhou Xiaochuan said in a good temper: “It’s great to have friends coming from far away. How can you stop your friends from coming to visit the crew, if your friends came, are you going to see them or not?”
“I’m not a popular person, how can I have any friends come to visit my crew?” Luo Chenghao laughed at himself.
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard someone say: “Everyone has friends. If your friends knew what Brother Luo said, I’m afraid they will be heartbroken.”
Luo Chenghao turned around and it was Ling Qing.
Ling Qing approached him and Zhou Xiaochuan and said politely, “I’m sorry, Director Zhou. Someone came to visit the crew temporarily. I had to go see him.”
“It’s okay.” Zhou Xiaochuan didn’t mind.
“Xiao Luo is outspoken, don’t mind it, he means no harm.” Zhou Xiaochuan smoothed things over for Luo Chenghao.
Ling Qing nodded, “Okay.”
He then glanced at Luo Chenghao and thought to himself, I hope so.
When Luo Chenghao saw him like this, he thought of what Zhou Xiaochuan had just said. He was speechless for a moment and lowered his head.
When Zhou Xiaochuan saw that both of them had arrived, he began to give them a brief.
What they wanted to film this time was the scene where Mo Tang and his brother Mo were having dinner at home, but they had an argument about whether to continue investigating the death of their parents.
After Zhou Xiaochuan told the two people about the scene, he asked them to go to the side to review the lines and find their feelings.
Luo Chenghao held the script and looked at Ling Qing, who had his hands in his pockets. “Where is your script?”
Ling Qing put his hands in his pockets and answered him, “I didn’t take it. I already know the lines by heart.”
Luo Chenghao was very doubtful, “I hope you won’t make such a stupid mistake as forgetting your lines.”
Ling Qing smiled, “You too.”
Luo Chenghao turned his head and went back to thinking about the scene, obviously not wanting to cooperate with him.
Ling Qing didn’t care and asked his assistant to bring him water and drank it quietly.
Xiao Li also took the opportunity to move a chair over and whispered, “Brother Ling, sit down, Mr. Yu said, you can’t stand for a long time.”
Ling Qing thought for a while and sat down. Luo Chenghao next to him instantly let out a disdainful mocking sound, causing everyone to stand further away from him.
After a while, the set was completed and filming officially began.
Ling Qing stood up, handed the water glass to Xiao Li, and walked into the shooting area.
He and Luo Chenghao sat down respectively, picked up their chopsticks, and made a gesture of eating.
Zhou Xiaochuan shouted: “Action.”
Ling Qing lowered his chopsticks, picked up a handful of shredded potatoes, put it in the bowl and lowered his head to eat.
Luo Chenghao also picked up some food with his chopsticks and ate in silence.
“I have something to tell you.” He said suddenly.
Ling Qing turned to look at him, “What?”
Luo Chenghao picked up vegetables and ate them, but did not look at him. He replied as if to escape, “From now on, there will be no investigation in the case for our parents.”
Ling Qing’s chewing movements slowed down. After he swallowed, he asked him without understanding, “What do you mean, just like this?”
“That’s it, it means it’s over. Don’t investigate. It’s just humiliating yourself.”
“What do you mean humiliating yourself?” Ling Qing continued.
Luo Chenghao didn’t speak. He just ate a few mouthfuls of food in silence. Ling Qing was still asking him, “Why din’t you check? Do you think your parents are like that?”
Luo Chenghao slammed his chopsticks, “Why? Why!”
“Cut.” Zhou Xiaochuan interrupted.
Luo Chenghao was stunned for a moment and looked up at Zhou Xiaochuan. Zhou Xiaochuan came over and said to him, “You burst out too quickly. You haven’t grasped the details here. You should wait for a while before bursting out again.”
Luo Chenghao nodded.
Zhou Xiaochuan guided: “Don’t be anxious, let the audience see your emotional level. Before throwing the chopsticks, you have to show your impatience and helplessness about this matter. You brought it up in the first place, but you didn’t dare to look at your brother, it’s because you don’t want to face this matter and you want to end it as soon as possible.”
“But your brother keeps asking you why? You didn’t want to answer. You don’t think it is necessary to answer. The ridicule you have received recently is not enough, isn’t it too much? But your brother has been insisting, so you have experienced a change in levels from calm to aggrieved to shame and finally to anger in his “why” and your “why”. You have to show it through your expression, you know?”
Luo Chenghao understood, “I will pay attention.”
Zhou Xiaochuan nodded slightly and looked at Ling Qing, “Xiao Qing, you are doing well, just keep it up.”
“Okay.” Ling Qing smiled.
Luo Chenghao couldn’t believe it, Zhou Xiaochuan didn’t criticize Ling Qing?
He then thought about it, yes, this scene had just begun, and Ling Qing hasn’t had any moments that required him to perform. Who didn’t know how to eat? If he couldn’t act well in such a simple thing, then he really should give up his career as an actor.
The stage manager gave him a new pair of chopsticks, then used clean chopsticks to spread the dishes on the plate evenly and then left quietly.
Zhou Xiaochuan gave them two minutes to adjust before saying, “action.”
Ling Qing started picking up vegetables and eating again, and Luo Chenghao also started eating again.
It was still the same line as before. This time Luo Chenghao remembered to give his emotions a buffer and layer and threw the chopsticks several seconds slower than before.
“Why? Why! Why do you say?!”
Ling Qing looked at him, with doubts and stubbornness in his eyes, “Why?”
“Do you still think we are not embarrassed enough now! It’s only you who wants to investigate, you who has to persist, now that everyone knows what happened to our family, do you still want us to be laughed at?”
“Does it matter whether I believe it or not?”
“Even if you don’t believe it, don’t others?”
“That’s why we should find out the truth, isn’t it?”
“What’s the truth? It’s just that you don’t want to believe it!” Mo Zheng poked his heart in anger. Then he said, “Ask yourself, do you want the truth, or do you just can’t believe that the happiness you lived through was all an illusion!”
After he finished speaking, he stood up and left.
Ling Qing watched him go to the side, slowly withdrew his gaze and lowered his head.
After a long time, he picked up his chopsticks again and reached for the dishes on the table.
He then picked up the vegetables and ate them bite by bite, but his whole person showed a kind of stubbornness.
This sense of stubbornness was not strong but coupled with his overly delicate profile and his eyes that were always lowered to hide his emotions, he seemed to have the fragility and grievance of a young boy.
This was something Zhou Xiaochuan didn’t expect. This scene was originally intended to reflect Mo Tang’s stubbornness and loneliness after not being understood, but Ling Qing, in addition to these two emotions, gave Mo Tang the feeling of being young. When his parents died suddenly and no one, including his own brother, understood him, although he was unwilling to show it, he inevitably felt vulnerable and aggrieved.
Vivid and unbearable.
Zhou Xiaochuan waited until Ling Qing finished the scene and almost didn’t react.
It was the assistant director who touched him before he shouted, “Cut.”
Ling Qing put down the bowl and secretly thought that if Director Zhou didn’t shout cut, he would have finished all the shredded potatoes!
He stood up and was about to go digest the food when he saw Director Zhou calling him and Luo Chenghao over.
Ling Qing had no choice but to walk over again.
“Come on, let me show you the performance you just gave.” Director Zhou said.
Ling Qing looked down and felt that his performance was okay.
After all, he had been filming for so many years, and his acting skills had long been stable. There was no need to find a feeling when one scene was good and another was not.
Luo Chenghao performed well this time, but when he looked at the rivalry between the two of them in the camera, he slowly and unconsciously focused his eyes on Ling Qing.
When he was filming the eating scene before, before throwing the chopsticks, he didn’t look towards Ling Qing because of the plot, so he didn’t notice Ling Qing’s expression and movements at that time.
Looking back now, he realized that Ling Qing was not just eating at that time. Every time he spoke, his expression changed subtly. But the rarest thing was his eyes.
Luo Chenghao turned his head and glanced at Ling Qing. Ling Qing’s eyes were very beautiful, with peach blossom eyes and the ends of his eyes were slightly upturned, probably because he liked to smile more and thus looked a little sentimental.
But in the play, he didn’t smile, and his eyes were so clear that you could almost see his persistence and resilience.
Luo Chenghao couldn’t help but clench his hand, vaguely feeling that the person next to him was different from what he thought.
Zhou Xiaochuan quietly played it back for them and then began to analyze the pros and cons of the scene for them. He was very satisfied with Ling Qing, so he didn’t say much about the shortcomings. He only said, “Xiao Qing, you acted very well in the last scene, very contagious, I like it very much.”
“Thank you, Director Zhou.”
“You’re welcome, you can go and have a rest. There will be another one later.”
After that, Ling Qing walked aside and started walking to aid digestion.
Luo Chenghao saw him walking around and didn’t understand what he was doing. He just felt that he really didn’t like reading scripts.
However, he also memorized all the real lines and had a good grasp of the character’s character. There seemed to be nothing to blame.
He was a little annoyed, turned his back, and stopped looking at Ling Qing.
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