Rebirth: Spoiling the Obsessive Film Emperor

Yin Chengjue’s past life was a complete joke.

The star he personally groomed not only betrayed him but twisted the knife when his company was on the brink of collapse.

Reborn, he vowed ...

Chapter 289 Game

This simplicity is clearly the same as the Rong Yu they just saw!

The same patterned pillow, the same patterned quilt, my shoulder "accidentally" appeared in your photo, and your fingertips "accidentally" appeared in my photo.

If you look closely, you'll also notice that there's a small shadow on the left side of Rong Yu's photo, while there's a small shadow on the right side of Yin Chengjue's photo.

Goodness, they can even tell which side they're sleeping on!

The new fans were stunned. They struggled for a moment between unfollowing and continuing to support the two, but in the end, they succumbed to their good looks.

So what if she suddenly becomes a fan of two handsome guys?

Double the happiness, something no one else can even imagine!

However, they soon discovered that this "good morning" was just the beginning.

For the next few days, they would share photos together every day. Sometimes there were people in the photos, sometimes only scenery. Sometimes it was by the railing with the sea breeze blowing, sometimes it was on the deck bathed in sunlight, sometimes it was a delicious dish in a restaurant, and sometimes it was a scene from a movie theater.

There is a movie theater on the cruise ship, which is open to the public. However, when the two of them went to watch a movie, everyone else tacitly refrained from disturbing them.

Because the cruise ship itself was fully equipped, it saved the props team a lot of work, which naturally improved the filming schedule. Filming of "The Mystery" was completed in less than two months.

The rest of the time was for a real vacation.

Of course, only celebrities who have finished filming can enjoy a vacation; for the post-production team, the work has only just begun...

During these three months, Yin Chengjue and Rong Yu posted a picture on Weibo every day, recording the wonderful moments of their cruise trip.

People who didn't know that Rong Yu was also filming "The Mystery" assumed the two were on their honeymoon, which lasted for three months. Some haters couldn't help but sourly question whether Rong Yu was going to retire from the entertainment industry and was just waiting to be kept by someone? Did she not even plan to act anymore?

Some haters remembered that three months ago, a drama called "Mystery Shadow" released his costume photos, so they started to speculate that Rong Yu had become arrogant after becoming famous, and now he doesn't even want to act himself and uses a stunt double instead.

Otherwise, why would the "Mystery of Shadows" crew have started filming by now, while Rong Yu is still leisurely vacationing at sea with Yin Chengjue?

Originally, it was just haters making things up, but some marketing accounts took screenshots and treated these fabrications as if they were true, saying with great seriousness that Rong Yu is now neglecting his work. The "Mystery of Shadows" crew has been filming for so long, but Rong Yu hasn't even joined the crew yet. Which male lead of any drama joins the crew so late?

If it were simply because Rong Yu was too busy with her schedule, it would be understandable. But for the past three months, Rong Yu and Yin Chengjue have been posting a picture every day, documenting their wonderful life, and all the locations are on a cruise ship, clearly indicating that they are on a leisurely vacation.

The marketing accounts described it with righteous indignation, as if they had really witnessed Rong Yu acting like a diva and refusing to join the crew. The new drama had been filming for so long, yet Rong Yu, who had landed the male lead role, was still on a cruise ship vacationing at sea.

Unaware of the truth, passersby believed it to be true, thinking that Rong Yu had really started acting like a diva, and that she hadn't joined any productions yet, and that Rong Yu had become arrogant.

Comment 1: If you don't want to act, don't block other people's spots. There are plenty of excellent actors who can take the role!

Comment 2: If you're paid for this job, you should do this job. Don't you even have that much sense of contractual obligation?

Comment 3: Seriously speechless. Please don't believe or spread rumors! Do you think whatever these marketing accounts say is true? These days, you can just take a screenshot of a hater's Weibo post and call it solid evidence? Haters at least put in some serious thought and effort to speculate, but you marketing accounts just take a screenshot, make up some text, and call it evidence?

Comment 4: The person upstairs said this is a rumor, then how do you explain that Rong Yu has been playing around for the past three months? If he's playing around, then who will film the new drama? They can't possibly film the new drama on this cruise ship, can they?

I don't know if the account holder of comment #4 has some kind of magical mouth or what, but just a few minutes later, the official Weibo account of "The Mystery" released the trailer.

Yes, it's the trailer.

Thanks to the efforts of the post-production team, the teaser trailer for "Shadow" has been released!

Before clicking into this two-and-a-half-minute trailer, the first reaction of the casual viewers, swayed by those marketing accounts, was: Look! The trailer for "The Mystery" is out! And Rong Yu is still on vacation! So what exactly did Rong Yu do in this movie? Just a promotional photo and her name?

Of course, these doubts only existed before they clicked on the trailer. After they moved their fingers and clicked on the trailer...

Wow, it really was filmed on a cruise ship!

The fence at the beginning of the trailer looks so familiar. Isn't that the place where Rong Yu and Yin Chengjue took a picture once?

And the cruise ship that gradually appears in the shot is exactly the same as the cruise ship that the two of them photographed on a certain day.

So, it's not that Rong Yu is being arrogant and refusing to join the crew, or that she signed a contract but went on vacation. It's that the filming of this drama took place on a cruise ship, and she took the opportunity to show off her love with Yin Chengjue!

Even without the official Weibo account saying anything, everyone understood the whole story just by watching the trailer, and couldn't help but condemn the marketing accounts for having no bottom line in their pursuit of traffic.

Although the photos Yin Chengjue and Rong Yu posted on Weibo every day were full of sunshine and joy, making it seem like they were on a happy and joyful vacation, the trailer for "The Mystery" had a dark and gloomy atmosphere.

It's the same cruise ship, yet it gives off completely different vibes, like one is in heaven and the other is in hell.

The background music arranged for "The Mystery" later also features a tinkling sound, coupled with a deliberately disordered melody that is completely different from the usual rhythm, making people feel creepy and shudder just by listening to this background music.

And what appears amidst this eerie music is a mirror.

This is a dimly lit place, with very little light reflected from the mirrors, giving it a gloomy and oppressive feel.

The male protagonist, Bai Mo, walked up to the mirror, stared intently at it, and a smile spread across his lips.

This smile is strikingly similar to the smile that appears in the mirror at the end of the movie "Ghost"!

At this moment, the audience clearly realized what a "brother film" meant!

Because this is yet another drama that will torment their hearts!

However, this scene only flashed by, and the video lights became bright again. It turned out that the scene had shifted to the outside of the cruise ship, where the male protagonist was lying on a deck chair, leisurely enjoying his breakfast.

Just then, cries for help came.

The camera didn't linger in one place for long, only showing a single sentence from the rescued person: "This cruise ship will run aground and sink in seven days."

The scene then shifts again, and the male protagonist is frowning, staring intently at the lighter on the table, thinking to himself: "The things on the table have been moved. Who went into my room?"

The male protagonist walked to the top deck of the cruise ship with a suspicious look on his face. A couple was taking pictures with their three children. The children were laughing innocently, which made the male protagonist smile a little as he watched.

At this moment, the male protagonist smiles with a sunny and handsome look, making it impossible to tell that he was the one who had been smiling sinisterly in front of the mirror just moments before.

Just then, one of the children's toy cars ran up to the protagonist's feet. The child ran over and picked up the toy, but as they passed each other, the child said, "How fun! Too bad, only three days left..."

The last thirty seconds of the trailer were fast-forwarded, quickly flashing through scenes and playing out the voices of many people at once, creating a chaotic feeling that stirred up a sense of irritability and anxiety in the viewer.

The final scene abruptly stops, freezing on a pool of dripping blood.

The screen went black, and the trailer ended.

The audience exited the full-screen mode and suddenly felt a sense of relief, as if they could breathe freely.

To be honest, this kind of trailer is a bit messy, but despite the fragmented presentation, it still gives people a suffocating feeling. Some people have already started to guess that it is a suspenseful horror film and said they dare not watch it alone.

Some people think that the show was deliberately edited this way in post-production to create a sense of suspense.

Some people were disappointed, feeling that the trailer didn't offer anything new. They thought it was just another example of the split personality trope, which has become a tired and overused plot in many films and TV series. Besides, Rong Yu had already played a character with split personality before, so everyone had seen what she was like.

After watching the trailer, many people felt that it was another attempt to use the schizophrenia trope, time travel trope, or precognition trope. Otherwise, why would someone say that the cruise ship would sink in seven days?

Rong Yu scrolled through the comments section under the official Weibo account and saw that everyone guessed the same thing as she had before. She smiled at Yin Chengjue and said, "See, thinking about split personality and time travel is the normal way of thinking, right? Who would have thought that all of this was actually just a game?"

Looking at the introduction on the official Weibo account, Rong Yu said, "However, I think this 'Mystery Shadow' is actually completely unrelated to the previous 'Ghost Trail.' Apart from the fact that you wrote both of them, they were directed by Director Mo, and I acted in both of them, there's no connection between them at all. Do you think the audience will feel that the term 'brotherhood' is a lie later on?"

Yin Chengjue raised an eyebrow: "Who said there's no connection?"

Rong Yu asked, puzzled, "Hmm?"

Yin Chengjue tapped Rong Yu's nose: "You are the connection."

Rong Yu thought Yin Chengjue was joking, "So, all the dramas I've acted in are sibling dramas?"

“No, what I mean is…” Yin Chengjue said, “The connection between these two works is you. This is a game, and you are the one who is playing the game. You entered this game called ‘Mystery Shadow’ from the previous game called ‘Ghost Trace’. In other words, the previous game ‘Ghost Trace’ has another answer, which is that you were just playing a game.”