Screenwriter Lu Ming stood next to Zhang Shu, adjusted his glasses, and couldn't hide the joy and pride in his eyes.

Bi Xie looked at Xiao Jingyi, and the man happened to be looking at her as well. He frowned and immediately looked away.

Although they were more than ten steps apart, Bi Xie seemed to hear his cold snort.

The crew quickly pushed out a wooden wheelchair, and the stagehands began clearing out unrelated personnel. Bi Xie, holding an old popsicle, left the filming area, then suddenly glanced at something out of the corner of his eye, froze for a moment, and then burst out laughing.

Manni was already sensitive, and upon hearing the laughter, she immediately looked at Bi Xie in a fit of anger.

Bi Xie neither dodged nor avoided her, casually glancing at her maid's outfit and hairstyle.

“Teacher Wang, your scene is very simple... When Teacher Xiao tells you to get out, you just need to leave the yard…” The script supervisor pointed at the script to Manni.

Manny gritted her teeth, looked away, and nodded with a grim expression.

Jingjie watched from the side and sighed. She had tried her best to persuade her, but Manni seemed to be completely blinded by the rumors between Xiao Jingyi and An Xie. She didn't care about anything and paid a huge penalty to "Huang Teng" to snatch a maid role in "Tian Sheng Hu Ge". She was completely irrational!

"Okay, Action, let's try it once." The script supervisor saw Zhang Shu's "OK" gesture, slammed his hand on the script, and ran offstage.

Last night's rain and this morning's dew on the petals make the pink stamens even more vibrant and beautiful.

The man sat in his wheelchair with his hands tucked into his sleeves, his eyes fixed silently on the flowerbed in front of him.

A maidservant hurriedly came out of the room with a cloak: "Young master, please put on some clothes. It rained yesterday, and it's chilly."

The man ignored him, lost in thought, his beautiful features almost divine.

He was indeed a legend of the Tang Dynasty.

It's ironic that a former legend has now become a disabled person unable to walk.

"Young master..." the maid called out again, trembling with fear, and stammered, "Put on a coat."

"Card!"

Zhang Shu rolled up the script, slammed his hand on the table, and said impatiently, "Manni, you need to remember that you're playing a maid, not the female lead. You shouldn't look at He Shifang like that. Tone down the love in your eyes, okay?"

Upon hearing this, many people chuckled softly.

Those who had been surrounding Manni for autographs on set were completely baffled that their goddess would be playing a maid in "The Legend of the Heavenly Fox." But after seeing Manni's acting, their expressions gradually changed.

The goddess's acting skills aren't that great either. Director Zhang called "cut" several times. She can't even play a maid properly!

Manny had never been scolded like this before; she looked as if she had been slapped in public, her face slightly flushed.

When she was on the set of "Phoenix Rising," even the director spoke to her with a gentle tone. She condescended to play a maid to boost the popularity of his work, yet Zhang Shu dared to be so disrespectful to her!

"One more time, watch your eyes, watch your eyes!" Zhang Shu rarely lost his temper, but this time he really couldn't hold back and lost it. As soon as he lost his temper, Lu Ming also got angry and shouted loudly, "Zhang Shu! What kind of actor did you hire? How could you ruin my work like this?"

"I told you not to call me Zhang the Rat, my eyes aren't that small!"

"Yes, much smaller than a mouse."

"You... Lu Ming, can't you give me some face?!"

"And what about you? What kind of trash actors did you hire? Just for a little bit of traffic, you ruined the work I painstakingly created?"

Zhang Shu took a few deep breaths, suppressing his anger, and said, "He Shifang was imprisoned in a side courtyard of the He family mansion for several years. During that time, the Heavenly Fox Incense became popular, and the emperor was incompetent and obsessed with women. He wanted to turn the tide but was powerless. He was angry and repressed, and he was capricious. The maids were all terrified of him. You should have fear in your eyes, fear—"

"I understand, Director Zhang," Manni said, her expression changing several times before she breathed a sigh of relief and went back inside.

"Action," the script supervisor claps.

A maidservant ran out of the house with a cloak. Seeing He Shifang sitting under the eaves admiring the flowers, she hurried over and tried to drape the cloak over his shoulders. "Young master, please put on some clothes. It rained yesterday, and it's chilly."

The man did not turn around; his cold eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of frost from the previous night.

This time, Manni finally understood what Zhang Shu meant.

The maidservant looked nervous as she draped a cloak over He Shifang's shoulders. Suddenly, her fingers trembled, and the cloak fell to the ground. This startled the man, who was seemingly admiring the flowers but was actually preoccupied with something. He Shifang glared at the maidservant with a cold and malevolent look.

The maid was startled, the trembling in her fingers spreading throughout her body. Stared at by those eyes as cold as the mist over a river, she trembled as if she could not stand, and said with fear in her eyes, "Young master... please put on some clothes."

"Get out!" the man growled in a low voice.

"Let's get a close-up shot!" Zhang said.

As the camera zooms in, the man's restrained yet explosive anger is instantly revealed on screen.

The maid was startled by his shout, and tears quickly welled up in her eyes. After a moment, she ran out of the courtyard, sobbing all the way.

After several takes, this scene was finally completed, and it was time for Bi Xie's character, "Hong Ou," to make her appearance.

The script supervisor, Brother Huang, rushed over and urged, "An Xie, are you ready?"

Bi Xie nodded.

The next scene is about "Hong Ou" fleeing for her life and hiding in the He Mansion, where she first meets He Shifang.

The script supervisor led Bi Xie to a dog hole: "In a moment, you'll crawl through this dog hole, then run along that bluestone path. When you encounter any servants from the He family, hide behind the artificial hill..."

"Hong Ou" doesn't have many scenes in "Tian Sheng Hu Ge". The main scenes are basically her scenes with He Shifang. Worried about being made difficult by Xiao Jingyi, Bi Xie had already memorized her lines by heart. When she heard the script supervisor's instructions, Bi Xie nodded repeatedly.

The script supervisor saw her smile, revealing a set of white teeth, and thought that her performance in the previous scenes seemed to be quite good. He breathed a sigh of relief, glanced in Zhang Shu's direction, and whispered, "Don't be nervous later. Just relax and act. Don't feel pressured because you just got angry with Director Zhang."

Bi Xie glanced at Brother Huang in surprise, then smiled and nodded after a moment, "Don't worry."

The script supervisor then jogged away.

"On your marks, get set!" The clapperboard rang out.

A series of hurried footsteps shattered the morning tranquility of the street, followed by a group of angry shouts from afar: "Little monster, don't run! You can't escape!"

"Don't run! Stop!"

The pedestrian was bumped aside by a dirty little figure. Still in a daze, when he saw the little face covered in fox fur, he screamed, "A monster!"

"Red Lotus" fled all the way, completely disoriented. She was afraid that if she stopped, she would be hit by a barrage of fists. She was afraid that these people would treat her like her father treated her mother, taking her blood and taking her life!