Yang Huanyi was startled, almost thinking there was something wrong with her ears: "What?"

Shang Yechu patiently repeated, "I said, let's kiss."

As she spoke, Shang Yechu took out a pack of chewing gum from her pocket, pulled out a piece, and chewed it. She then generously handed the rest of the gum to Yang Huanyi.

As an artist, chewing gum and mints are essential items that one always carries. Yang Huanyi stared dumbfounded at Shang Yechu's actions, not taking anything, and after a long while, she finally opened her mouth: "Are you kidding me?"

"Isn't there a kissing scene in the script?" Shang Yechu said slowly, "It's just a rehearsal beforehand."

Yang Huanyi looked shocked. After scrutinizing Shang Yechu for a while, she narrowed her eyes and said, "Wait a minute, why are we rehearsing now, and here at that?"

Yang Huanyi almost suspected that Shang Yechu had been cursed by someone in that short moment.

Shang Yechu chewed her gum and said gently, "If you don't want to go here, you can choose another place. It's up to you."

If you had listened to me, you wouldn't have made such a strange request!

Yang Huanyi said in a low voice, "Ye Chu, it's not that we can't rehearse, but you have to give me a reason. You can't keep me in the dark."

Shang Yechu did not answer her immediately. She chewed her gum for a while longer before looking at Yang Huanyi seriously.

"Sister," Shang Yechu said, "no matter the reason, Lin Fengyu is completely obedient to Zhao Lele. So, you have to listen to me."

Under the sunlight, Shang Yechu's eyes were pitch black, and at first glance, they had an indescribable inhuman quality.

Yang Huanyi felt a chill run down her spine. She had always felt there was a generation gap between herself and Shang Yechu; their ways of thinking, handling things, and even their acting styles were completely different. But in this instant, she suddenly understood Yechu's thoughts without any instruction!

Ye Chu couldn't understand Zhao Lele's thought process from a normal person's perspective. Therefore, she simply abandoned her own identity and let the spoiled and willful Zhao Lele sink into her bones.

She no longer intended to understand Zhao Lele. She planned to live and act entirely according to Zhao Lele's logic and personality, discarding all of Shang Yechu's rationality and intellect. Yang Huanyi, the actress who played Lin Fengyu, was her first experimental subject.

There's an old saying in the industry: Top-notch performances should be summed up in two words.

"No self".

Drop everything and completely immerse yourself in the role. Let the character bear your face, yet have no connection to you whatsoever, leaving the audience with no other associations. In the Chinese entertainment industry, no, even worldwide, you can count on your fingers the number of actors who can do this.

Many actors can suppress their true selves—for example, eating spoiled food, soaking in ice water, rolling in mud, or performing dangerous stunts themselves without a stunt double. These behaviors go against human animality and instinct, and being able to do them is already quite remarkable.

Above the id is the ego, or self-awareness. For an actor to achieve a state of selflessness, this is the very thing they need to relinquish. But if the "ego" were so easily discarded, the ranks of top actors would be overflowing.

Humans are proud creatures. Even a madman obsessed with acting wouldn't willingly become a character's Horcrux!