Chapter 30 The Sound of a Sniper

"We should be much closer now. You always call me Mr. Cai, Mr. Cai, which sounds very distant."

He put one hand in his pocket, leaned forward slightly, and his breath fell intimately on her cheek. "Wen Ni, I want to know what you usually call Lu Jinye?"

"he?"

Wen Ni's eyelashes trembled slightly. She took a step back without making a sound, then turned her head to look behind Cai Wenyou and called out, "Lu Jinye."

Immediately, Cai Wenyou's smile vanished, and he straightened up.

"Nini~ Did you go out with Brother Cai today?" Assistant Xiao Wu rushed over, took Wen Ni's bag directly from Cai Wenyou's hand, and winked, "Thank you so much, Brother Cai, for taking care of our Nini today!"

“Wen Ni is so capable, she doesn’t need me to take care of her.” Cai Wenyou’s lips curled up, his eyelids drooping slightly, leaving a dark shadow.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Lu Jinye, dressed in a long black coat, walking slowly towards me. He seemed to be in a bad mood, and the temperature around him was so low that it felt like he was freezing.

His long strides suddenly stopped as he passed Wen Ni!

"Aren't you leaving? How much longer are you going to talk to him?"

"Um?"

Wen Ni sensed the inexplicable hostility Lu Jinye harbored towards Cai Wenyou, and also... displeasure towards her.

"Hey, what are you chatting about? If we stand here any longer, we'll all be photographed by paparazzi! Quick, let's go back!" Assistant Xiao Wu quickly grabbed Wen Ni's arm. "Let's go upstairs first, Brother Cai!"

"Goodbye, by the way, Wen Ni." Cai Wenyou suddenly shouted, "Next time we meet, just call me Brother Wenyou!"

"..."

Wen Ni felt like she had been kidnapped by her assistant, Xiao Wu, and was dragged directly into the hotel.

Lu Jinye, who was walking behind, glanced back at Cai Wenyou before coldly turning his gaze away and walking inside.

Receiving that cold gaze, Cai Wenyou's expression gradually turned serious. "Lu Jinye, why do you always have to take everything from me?"

"What's wrong, Brother Cai?" Assistant Xiaowen came over.

"It's nothing, let's go back too." Cai Wenyou said expressionlessly, and stepped into the hotel.

After taking the elevator, in the long corridor leading to the suite, Xiao Wu followed Wen Ni, carrying a bag. "Nini, where have you been wandering around? What's in this bag?"

"We went to the jade street and bought some things."

As Qin Yuan pushed open the door to the suite, Wen Ni picked up the heavy bag and placed it on the table.

Then he reached up and pulled out a gift box from the top, handing it to Lu Jinye. "This is a gift for you."

"Wow!" Xiao Wu exclaimed in surprise. "Master Lu, Nini is so thoughtful! She didn't forget about you even while we were out having fun!"

Lu Jinye's tense expression also relaxed slightly.

He raised his hand to take it, and when he opened it, he found it was a jade mechanical watch that was entirely gold in color.

"Oh my god! This is so beautiful, it must be very expensive!" Assistant Xiao Wu exclaimed excitedly, extremely envious!

"This kind of watch costs at least twenty or thirty thousand." Qin Yuan also chimed in, looking very envious. "But our Miss Wen is rich! Just last night, she made a fortune from a few epic-level missions, at least several hundred thousand!"

"Our Nini is so amazing!" Xiao Wu's eyes lit up as he looked at Wen Nini!

Wen Ni smiled faintly, took out the watch herself, and placed it on Lu Jinye's wrist. "Let me put it on you and see how it looks."

"Um."

He responded softly, without refusing.

She lowered her eyes slightly, remaining silent but clearly delighted!

Assistant Xiao Wu covered her mouth and chuckled, then nudged Qin Yuan beside her and gave him a series of winks.

Qin Yuan had no expression, but simply looked away, lost in thought.

"Not bad, it suits your style quite well." Wen Ni nodded in satisfaction.

Lu Jinye didn't speak, but secretly raised his hand to stroke the watch strap, where the warmth of her fingertips seemed to still linger...

Wen Ni had already turned around and picked up two more bags, handing them to Xiao Wu and Qin Yuan respectively. "Don't be too envious, you'll get some too!"

"We have it too!?" This was something Xiao Wu and Qin Yuan never expected.

Lu Jinye's hand, which had been resting on his watch, suddenly stopped, and he raised his eyes sharply. "They...have it too?"

Of course.

Wen Ni pointed to the gift boxes in her pocket. "Besides these, there are also gifts for Xiao Cheng, the innkeeper, Lin Yi, and a few of my comrades. But the gifts are all different; they have all sorts of things."

"Did you go to buy wholesale goods?" Lu Jinye's face darkened, and for no reason, half of his good mood disappeared again.

He thought it was a special treatment he was given only once, but it turned out he was just being delusional!

"You know what, I really found a treasure." Wen Ni was happy to herself.

"..."

"Let us see what you bought!" Xiao Wu and Qin Yuan surrounded them with curiosity.

They were flipping through the pages with great enthusiasm.

Lu Jinye, standing behind them, said in a chilling tone, "Stop watching, pack your bags, we're changing filming locations tomorrow."

"Oh..." Qin Yuan and Xiao Wu immediately became obedient.

"Change venue? Where to?" Wen Ni raised an eyebrow.

"It's supposedly near the Myanmar-China border," Assistant Wu replied. "Director Song notified us this afternoon that he just finished communicating with the relevant personnel, so we need to hurry up and film the battlefield scenes first!"

This is due to temporary changes affecting the overall filming schedule of the production team.

So at daybreak, the entire crew drove to the filming location near the border to shoot scenes of battle in the wild.

"This place is too close to the Burmese people. For safety reasons, the border troops have assigned several soldiers to protect us around here. Please be careful not to go beyond these areas!"

Before filming officially began, Director Song gave him many instructions.

Wen Ni turned her gaze to the border line several hundred meters away.

Beyond the iron fence lay another barren land, with a Burmese outpost every few meters.

In retrospect, it is an immense miracle that Xiao Weilai was able to escape alive with her child!

When the sky began to darken slightly

The scene being filmed is now down to its final shot.

On the director's monitor screen, Lu Jinye was crawling forward in the trenches.

Covered in mud, with clenched teeth and unwavering eyes!

It was as if he were that heavily wounded frontline soldier who was still fighting with all his might!

If it weren't for spending these past few days on set, Wen Ni would never have imagined that someone who usually seems so indifferent could have such a powerful and infectious energy once she got into character.

“Since his debut, Mr. Lu has mostly taken on military dramas.” Qin Yuan, who was standing next to him with his hands on his hips, suddenly spoke up. “Serving in the military and shedding blood was also his dream.”

Old Master Lu had also said these words to Wen Ni.

"Unfortunately, things in this world often don't go as planned." Wen Ni picked up a biscuit and put it in her mouth, looking nonchalant.

Qin Yuan didn't say anything more, but simply nodded in agreement.

"Explosion team, ready! Shooting props team, ready!" a production assistant shouted during a break in filming.

This scene is a large-scale battle between the two sides.

The characters played by Lu Jinye and Chen Yingying will be suppressed by the enemy's war and attacked from both sides.

The moment the detonation button was pressed, dirt was blasted into the air, flames shot skyward, and the extras opposite them pretended to fire with prop rifles.

But amidst this chaotic noise,

Wen Ni, however, caught a distinct, unusual voice...

She knew that voice all too well.

Because that is...

"Sniper rifle!"