Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Xiao He saw that she frowned and looked distressed, so he handed the phone to her and asked her, “Are you looking for this?”
Su Qing looked at him in surprise, “Thank you, brother, you are so nice.”
She took the phone and found that it was not broken. She then came to Yan Qingchi with some shyness on her face and asked him, “Then let me take the picture?”
Yan Qingchi squatted down to make himself almost as tall as her. Su Qing turned on the camera, which was in selfie mode. She then stretched out her hand, made a small “yeah” gesture, and then pressed the capture button with a smile.
“Thank you, Brother Lin.” She said happily holding the phone.
Yan Qingchi stood up and smiled slightly, “You’re welcome.”
Su Qing didn’t expect that she would be so lucky today. Her male god was so gentle. She smiled so hard that her dimples appeared. Then she said embarrassedly, “Then I’ll go first. Brother Lin, see you on the set.”
Yan Qingchi nodded, and Su Qing pulled Jiang Xiaoming aside and walked away.
Jiang Xiaoming was pulled by her and he reacted halfway through the walk, “Why are you pulling me away? I haven’t taken a photo with Brother Yan yet.”
“Why do you want to take a photo? You’re not a fan of Brother Lin.”
“But we are in the same crew.”
“Then take photos together next time.”
Jiang Xiaoming was helpless and felt that girls were really unpredictable. He shook his head and sighed.
That afternoon, the filming of “Jianghu in the Mist” officially started. As the male lead, Yan Qingchi had so many scenes that he couldn’t stop filming. Fu Minzhi was very serious about filming and had very strict requirements for the shots. Many times, one shot had to be shot repeatedly several times. It was Yan Qingchi’s first time facing such a strict director, and he couldn’t help but feel a little stressed. When he video chatted with Jiang Mochen in the evening, he also expressed his concerns.
Jiang Mochen rarely saw him so unconfident and found it quite strange. But he acted as his teacher again and taught him some tricks before ending the video call with him.
Even Yan Qingchi found it difficult, not to mention Zhang Cong. Fu Minzhi looked at her assistant director, “How did you choose this person? Thank God it’s He Xiaoshuai. If you change to any other role, you won’t have to see me in the future.”
The assistant director had no choice, “The producer found an investor, and the investor specifically asked for him. He would not invest without him. The producer asked me if I could give him a role. I thought He Xiaoshuai didn’t have many scenes and was easy to play, so I agreed.”
Fu Minzhi was helpless, “Next time, tell me about this kind of thing in advance. Can my play still be stumped by investment? Now it’s good, the contract has been signed, the people have joined the group, and the money has been spent. It’s hard to change people now.”
The assistant director was a little afraid of her, “What should I do then.”
“What should we do? What else can we do? Just delete his scenes. Fortunately it’s He Xiaoshuai.” After Fu Minzhi finished speaking, she turned around and notified the screenwriter to delete He Xiaoshuai’s scenes. They couldn’t let a single bad apple spoil the whole barrel.
Zhang Cong got the new script in the evening. He was furious when he saw the thinner script. He immediately called his backer and said aggrievedly that his role was reduced and that the crew bullied him.
Mr. Wang immediately contacted the assistant director for his little sweetheart. The assistant director was also unhappy, “You said before that the person you recommended has a good temper and good acting skills, but he is not famous and has never made any good films. You wanted to use this drama to make your resume look better. What’s the result? This is called good acting? Mr. Wang, Director Fu said, either take this or forget it.”
Mr. Wang stopped talking immediately after hearing this. He originally planned to use this drama to make Zhang Cong’s resume look better. After all, this was Fu Minzhi. If he missed such a great director, he didn’t know where to find the next one. Therefore, he just smiled and said that Xiao Cong was just young and didn’t know how to curry favor with others and hoped that Director Fu would not be angry.
Upon seeing this, the assistant director said a few more polite words and hung up the phone.
Mr. Wang hung up the phone and comforted his little darling with a few words, asking him to be patient and that everything now was for his future career. Only then did Zhang Cong give up.
It was just that Zhang Cong was in a bad mood, so he kept making mistakes when acting with Yan Qingchi the next day. Fu Minzhi saw that Yan Qingchi’s good condition had become a little unstable due to him, so she scolded Zhang Cong a few words and asked Zhang Cong to wait aside so that they could shoot the scenes with Yan Qingchi and Qi Ruan first. As a result, when Yan Qingchi and Qi Ruan finished filming, Fu Minzhi was about to call Zhang Cong, but when she turned around, no one was there.
Yan Qingchi felt that although he had not filmed very many times, this was the first time he had seen someone as arrogant as Zhang Cong. He felt a little surprised and wondered where Zhang Cong got the confidence from.
Fu Minzhi herself did not have a very good temper, and when she met someone like Zhang Cong, she simply put all of Zhang Cong’s plays at the end without saying a word, but she also required Zhang Cong to arrive early every day to wait for the show.
Zhang Cong felt that Fu Minzhi was playing a trick on him, but Fu Minzhi asked him, “Can you still shoot? If not, then leave.”
Zhang Cong wanted to leave. He really didn’t want to play this role at all, but he also knew that this was an opportunity that President Wang had fought for him. If he left like this, President Wang would be unhappy. Besides, he really needed a good drama to gild his resume and make it look less mediocre, so he had to endure it and stay in the crew for the time being.
Zhang Cong knew that Fu Minzhi was angry with him because he had left before, but he thought that since he couldn’t leave, he should not offend Fu Minzhi anymore in the future. So after a few days, he went to Fu Minzhi to admit his mistake. He apologized fluently and looked sincerely repentant. And even though Fu Minzhi didn’t like him, she felt that there was nothing wrong with what he said, so she asked him to think carefully about the role in the future and stop thinking about unnecessary things. Zhang Cong naturally agreed and left with his head down.
This was the best play he had ever performed, and he always performed it in front of President Wang. He had become very proficient at it after performing it many times. In order to match the “lines” he said, he kept his tail between his legs in front of Fu Minzhi, and was as well-behaved as an ordinary nobody, and it seemed as if he knew how to correct his mistakes. Upon seeing this, Fu Minzhi stopped making things difficult for him, but because his acting skills were indeed not up to par, she still put her role at the end.
Zhang Cong tucked his tail between his legs in front of Fu Minzhi. But he felt uncomfortable after tucking his tail between his legs for too long. Since he himself was uncomfortable, he didn’t want to make others feel comfortable. He didn’t dare to provoke Yan Qingchi and Mo Jianying, so he kept looking for trouble with Su Qing and Jiang Xiaoming in places where they couldn’t be seen. Jiang Xiaoming was a boy after all, and he had a bad temper. So he almost scolded him but was stopped by Su Qing.
Yan Qingchi happened to come to Jiang Xiaoming for a scene that day, and saw Zhang Cong shouting at Su Qing, “Control your dog, it just knows how to bark.”
Yin Ling had a puppy in the play, so the crew lent Su Qing a small black dog. The black dog was very small and lay at Su Qing’s feet. Su Qing was a little afraid of Zhang Cong and was petting the puppy while covering its mouth.
Yan Qingchi looked at him and felt like he was seeing Ji Sixing when he first joined the crew. He was just used flattering the powerful and bullying the weak. In the entire crew, he only dared to use tricks against him and Su Nuan. He actually didn’t quite understand, why bother? Who hasn’t been a nobody? What’s more, Zhang Cong himself was still a nobody. Was he so arrogant just because he felt that he could enjoy the shade under the big tree? That was ridiculous.
“This is not her dog,” Yan Qingchi said, “It’s the crew’s dog, she has no right to control it. If you don’t let the dog bark now, then when we’re filming tomorrow, the dog can’t bark, will you bark for it?”
His words were a bit impolite, so Zhang Cong was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted and cursed, “Yan Qingchi, who are you calling a dog?”
“I’m not cursing anyone, I’m just stating the facts to you.”
Zhang Cong sneered, “Am I an idiot? Can’t I hear you scolding me?”
“You really don’t look like a smart person.” Yan Qingchi laughed.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Cong rushed forward and wanted to hit him, but Yan Qingchi grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back, “You are just a hindrance to me with your fancy moves. You can’t beat me in the play, and you can’t beat me even more outside of the play.”
Zhang Cong was unwilling to give up and raised his other arm. Yan Qingchi kicked him right in the knee, and he fell to his knees in front of Su Qing. Su Qing was so scared that she quickly stood up holding the puppy and hid aside.
Yan Qingchi twisted his arm and said in a cold voice: “Don’t try to flatter the powerful and look down on the weak in front of me. Everyone started out as an unknown person. You are nothing now, and you still have the nerve to bully others. Do you really think you are He Xiaoshuai?”
Zhang Cong was in so much pain that he didn’t dare to speak.
Yan Qingchi sneered, loosened Zhang Cong’s arm, and clapped his hands, “Go away, I hate it most when people act like monsters in front of me, and it’s better to turn a blind eye to people like you.”
Zhang Cong stood up, looked up and glared at him. But Yan Qingchi only smiled, “Why, do you still want to fight with me?”
Zhang Cong looked at him, “You think you are great just because you are playing the male lead, right? If this play loses funding, you won’t be able to play anything.”
“Wake up,” Yan Qingchi looked at him, “the contract has been signed, the money has been spent, otherwise, why do you think Director Fu would keep you like this? For the New Year? It’s because the money has been spent, so there is nothing she can do. If you are really capable, let your sponsor withdraw his investment. If you are not capable, just stay in the crew. No one has told the director about what you are doing now, otherwise, if you think Director Fu knew that you were pretending to be good in front of her and acting like this where she can’t see, she would tolerate you?”
Zhang Cong frowned and glared at him, “Are you going to tell her?”
“I just want to make this play well, Zhang Cong, this is my first play with the male lead, whoever ruins it, I will ruin him, it’s that simple.”
Zhang Cong looked at him for a long time before finally leaving with gritted teeth.
Yan Qingchi watched him leave, smiled contemptuously, turned to look at Su Qing, and saw Su Qing looking at him with a smile full of gratitude on her face. He just didn’t want Zhang Cong to think that he was deliberately standing up for Su Qing and make things difficult for Su Qing when she couldn’t do anything about him, so he said so much only from his own perspective, without mentioning Su Qing or standing from her perspective. After all, Su Qing was different from him. Su Qing had no backing, no professional agency, and was only 14 years old, still a junior high school student.
But he didn’t need to mention it. He appeared when Su Qing was bullied, drove away Zhang Cong and taught Zhang Cong a lesson. This already made Su Qing very grateful and happy.
Su Qing walked up to him holding the puppy and thanked him with a smile, “Thank you, Brother Lin.”
“It’s okay, does he always bully you?”
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