Chapter 25 The Wind Rises from You The most urgent thing now is to stop watching melodrama...
The thing that shocked Chen Xing the most during the days of waiting for the filming was the final settlement of the hidden mission.
The others had all been discovered to be doing sneaky things to some extent, so they could guess something about it, but Xia Huanming was the only one who knew nothing about his mission.
Finally, the program team announced the tasks. Xia Huanming's task was to sit quietly for ten minutes without speaking.
Sit quietly for ten minutes?! Everyone's eyes went dark when they heard this task.
This is tailor-made for Xia Huanming, isn't it? He can sit still for an entire afternoon without anyone calling him.
Chen Xing finally understood. No wonder he said he didn't need help at that time. He really didn't need it.
Thinking that everyone almost suffered from shame because of the hidden mission, Xia Huanming was attacked by everyone.
Zhao Xingyu pulled Xia Huanming's shoulders and shook him left and right: "How come you are so lucky!!"
Xia Huanming looked at him calmly, "Calm down. You just howled at the woods, you little idiot. Isn't this just something you do casually?"
"Go and try shouting! I finally shouted but an auntie passing by heard me! I even saw the auntie smile!"
Zhao Xingyu was so angry that he drank two bottles of Sprite to cool down, and everyone laughed.
It has been raining heavily these days, which is a windfall for the crew. They want to finish shooting most of the exterior scenes before the rain stops.
Except for Chen Xing who had no role to play, everyone else left early and came back late. Especially Zheng Qi and Xia Huanming who had to run back and forth, they came back at one or two in the morning every day, and were greeted by Zheng Peiya and Chen Xing, two night owls.
Even when Chen Xing is not filming, his life is quite fulfilling. He attends classes when he has them, and composes music in his bedroom when he doesn't have them. When he has free time, he discusses inspiration with the two screenwriters and teaches them how to play games.
Since Zheng Peiya was the only one who knew how to cook, he and Xue Si Nian were responsible for doing odd jobs. There were not many varieties of dinner every day, but they were delicious.
Soon it was the day that Chen Xing was filming. As luck would have it, it was a sunny day after the rain, leaving only wet puddles on the ground.
As soon as Chen Xing arrived at the scene, he was shocked by the decoration of the factory. He looked around with his head tilted up, and when he caught a person from the props team, he started praising him, and only let him go when his ears turned red.
The content filmed today is "Memories", the scene where He Wang saves the injured passerby A.
Due to the height and body shape difference between Chen Xing and Xia Huanming, the legendary princess hug was turned into a drag and carry, and the makeup of the two people was also reversed, so it was Xia Huanming's turn to be in rags with dirty dust on his face.
Chen Xing's hair was just wet, like a male college student who had just finished running 800 meters in the rain.
The camera follows Chen Xing's footsteps from the end of the loess road all the way to the gate of the base; Chen Xing holds Xia Huanming's arm tightly with both hands and moves slowly according to the route instructed by the director. The "injured" himself can feel Chen Xing's increasingly heavy breathing.
Not only Xia Huanming, but even Director Yu was surprised that Chen Xing performed quite well and passed the test in one go.
Director Yu patted Chen Xing's shoulder approvingly: "You did a great job. I thought you would stumble at least once. What were you thinking at that time? Your eyesight is very good."
Chen Xing scratched his head: "I forgot too. Maybe I have been thinking that if I don't fight hard, my savior will die because of me, then I will feel guilty to death."
Director Yu laughed and praised his good empathy. After saying a few more words, he went to work on the next shot. Before leaving, he did not forget to announce that Chen Xing's filming for the day was over.
Chen Xing glanced around and found Xia Huanming putting on makeup in the distance. Just as he was about to walk over, Huang Canni, wearing a coat, came to greet him.
Huang Canni smiled and asked, "Chen Xing, are you going to stay here or go back directly?"
Chen Xing thought about it and decided that since he had no classes to attend if he went back now, he might as well study here for a while longer.
Practice makes perfect.
Chen Xing replied: "I want to watch you perform for a while longer."
Huang Canni covered her mouth and joked: "Then we are under pressure."
Huang Canni said that she felt pressured, but Chen Xing could see it clearly standing next to the monitor.
Her acting skills are very good. She entered the role in one second, delivered clear lines, and also performed the indignant eye expressions required by the director very well.
Chen Xing is not a professional actor, but he thinks Huang Canni's acting is very good. She portrayed her determination to die for her family at the end of the world vividly. Her eyes can also be clearly seen turning red during the quarrel with Xia Huanming.
Chen Xing was pulled into the drama by her several times and almost went up to speak for her.
After a brief exchange with Huang Canni, Chen Xing went to find Xia Huanming again.
At this time, Xia Huanming had already put on his makeup. A staff member took two pieces of tape and made an "x" mark on the ground where Xia Huanming was standing.
"Please code your position." said the staff.
Xia Huanming nodded: "Okay, thank you."
After the staff left, Chen Xing asked suspiciously, "What is the code position?"
"It's similar to a fixed point, to prevent the actors from walking out of the frame or not following the set route, so make a mark," Xia Huanming tapped the cross with his toes, "Let me walk here later."
"Oh——" Chen Xing suddenly realized.
As expected of his simultaneous interpretation, it is much easier than searching on a mobile phone.
Xia Huanming looked at Chen Xing and found that he had not removed his makeup, so he asked, "Are you leaving later or going out with us for dinner? The director said that there is not much to shoot today, so we should be able to finish before five o'clock."
Chen Xing quickly replied: "I want to eat with you!"
The "we" that Xia Huanming refers to should be all the actors on the scene, including the crew members, right?
Although it was only Chen Xing's first day, he didn't want to miss this small gathering.
Xia Huanming smiled lightly: "I guessed you would say that."
After a short break, filming continued.
Xia Huanming's ability is obvious, and he rarely had to do any NGs. Just as he said, at 4:30 the director announced the end of today's filming.
A group of people packed up their things and headed to the hotel they had booked.
Four members of "Uncovered" were present, Chen Xing, Xia Huanming, Wang Baiyue and Zheng Qi, plus the assistant director and the props team, making a total of seven people sitting in a van.
Chen Xing sat in the last row, by the right window, together with Xia Huanming. The two of them still sat arm to arm, but the atmosphere was obviously much better than when they were on the bus.
The vehicle drove into the market near the city center.
Chen Xing rolled down the car window, the breeze bringing a comfortable temperature. He saw a brilliant sunset glow rising in the sky, orange, red and violet interweaving to form an oil painting, with the taillights adding a few strokes of bold colour.
The light poured in from the side window, illuminating half of Chen Xing's face, as well as the shoulders of the other two people, dyeing the carriage an orange-red color that quickly faded as the angle changed.
Pedestrians hurried past, their shadows mixed with the cars parked on the roadside. Chen Xing uttered a soft "Eh?"
This made Xia Huanming raise his head.
"What's wrong?" From Xia Huanming's angle, he could only see Chen Xing, whose eyes were stained with the gorgeous sunset glow. He leaned forward slightly and looked out from the other side.
It's just a very common street scene outside, why are you so surprised?
Chen Xing turned his head and pointed his index finger at what seemed to be a stationery store across the street: "Is that the character Ding with the character Yan on the side or the character Ting with three water drops? It's too far away for me to see clearly."
Xia Huanming looked in the direction and saw the words "Qingting Stationery Store".
"Ting," Xia Huanming's eyes returned to the back of Chen Xing's head, and he realized that Chen Xing was not looking at the scenery, "So you were not looking at the scenery but reading the words."
"Yes," Chen Xing looked at him, "What's your eyesight?"
"Five o'clock, right?" Xia Huanming stared into those big eyes and asked, "How much do you want?"
"Four point eight."
Xia Huanming was stunned: "Then why don't you wear glasses?"
"I was wearing contact lenses, but one of them fell off," Chen Xing raised his neck and pointed at his eye, "Can you take a closer look?"
The first thing Xia Huanming did when he saw Chen Xing approaching him was to hold Chen Xing's shoulders. After making sure that he would not move, he moved closer to observe the pupils under the thick eyelashes.
The bright rays of the sun cast a soft halo on his black hair, and his eyes reflected the brilliant colors of the sunset.
The edge of the contact lens can be vaguely seen in the right eye, while the left eye is clean with only the natural pupil.
As Xia Huanming watched, Chen Xing, who was in his field of vision, suddenly smiled.
He only heard Chen Xing say: "Captain, your almond-shaped eyes are really standard, so beautiful."
Xia Huanming almost forgot that when he was looking at Chen Xing, Chen Xing was also looking at him.
But he didn't expect that Chen Xing would praise someone in such a gap, which caught him off guard. However, when he thought about it carefully, it was indeed something Chen Xing would do.
The loud noise of gongs and drums outside the window gave Xia Huanming a good reason to suddenly let go.
Xia Huanming raised his chin toward the window and said, "Look, they are rehearsing the lion dance over there."
"Where?! Oh, really!" Chen Xing's attention was immediately drawn there until the vehicle completely passed the lion dance team.
The van then arrived at the family restaurant, where the proprietress was already outside to greet them and led them to two large round tables with just the right number of seats.
Chen Xing sat at the inner side of the round table, with a clothes drying rack behind him. He hung his bag on it and asked everyone to hang up their clothes.
After Chen Xing sat down and took out his phone, he heard Wang Baiyue shout, "Promotional photos are released!"
Chen Xing quickly logged onto Weibo, and the official Weibo account updated dozens of posts at once, with the captions being the contestants' names and the sentences they wrote during the post-interview.
Chen Xing kept scrolling and finally found his own photo, with a quote from Rabindranath Tagore written by him: "If you shed tears for losing the sun, you will also lose the stars."
The number of comments below increases by one per second.
[@无意义]: I am confused by the robot look of P4. This face looks great whether he is a man or a woman.
[@kxxn]: This face, is he behind the scenes?! If he was an idol, he would have been famous a long time ago, why are you fans hiding it so well?!
[@每天吃小猪包]: Is it possible that TT is not hiding something from his fans, but this guy's songs are popular but he himself is not...
…
Chen Xing was checking Weibo, and the number of chats in the fan group skyrocketed. He clicked in and saw that hundreds of people were following the formation.
@不市武: Xiaozhu is on the show, Xiaozhu is good; the program team gave Xiaozhu, the program team is good; we support Xiaozhu, we are good. (Leave with hands behind back +246)
@海棠花开: Xiaozhu is on the show, Xiaozhu is good; the program team gave Xiaozhu, the program team is good; we support Xiaozhu, we are good. (Leave with hands behind back +247)
@陈醒theo: Hehe! On this good day, I will give you red envelopes! Thank you for your support (*-ω-q)
After sending out the red envelope of 1,000 yuan, Chen Xing went to check other people’s Weibo.
He flipped through two more entries and saw Xia Huanming's name, with the words "The poorer I am, the more resolute I am, my ambition will never waver" from "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng".
The first picture of Xia Huanming is a high-definition close-up photo. His wet hair is messily rushing to his forehead, revealing his beautiful phoenix eyes. His skin is covered with a thin layer of water, which appropriately outlines the contour of his brow bones. There is a drop of water on the tip of his high nose, which seems to be falling.
This look should have been captured in an instant. The suddenly exposed pupils were like cracked ice, with a quiet river underneath.
It is a face that should be arrogant, but there is no aggression at all, instead, it can be seen that it is cold.
He was rather dull, but the comment section below was extremely lively.
One of the most liked comments was: "Wow, I can't criticize this, this one looks like my husband, this one is so handsome, the front face looks like my husband, the left side of the face looks like my father's son-in-law, the right side of the face looks like my mother's son-in-law, from below he looks like my brother's brother-in-law, from above he looks like my sister's brother-in-law, from far away he looks like my brother's brother-in-law, from close up he looks like my sister's brother-in-law, from behind he looks like my baby, when he poses he looks like my husband, and when he's angry he looks like my husband."
Chen Xing clicked on the comment section with 100 replies. Fans were all posting similar crazy words, and passers-by like Chen Xing were all silently copying and pasting and stealing the text.
Chen Xing had just copied five lines when Wang Baiyue on the other side called him, "Chen Xing, you're so engrossed in what you're looking at that you even forgot to order food."
"I'm looking at the handsome guy." Chen Xing decisively turned over the phone and showed the screen to everyone.
Xia Huanming, who was sitting opposite Chen Xing, was looking at the menu. He looked up and made eye contact with "himself".
Xia Huanming: “…”
Except for Xia Huanming, everyone else laughed.
Director Yu patted Xia Huanming's shoulder with a smile and said, "Chen Xing is right. How come he is not a handsome guy?"
Xia Huanming glanced at Chen Xing, and Chen Xing tilted his head innocently.
Others might be fooled by his appearance, but Xia Huanming wouldn't. He knew Chen Xing did it on purpose, just because he was the one being looked at.
If he was looking at someone else, Chen Xing would not have shown his phone to them at all, nor would he have replied like that.
This person just wanted to see his reaction.
The best solution is to not respond to this. Xia Huanming calmly changed the subject: "Have you tried out all the scenes for tomorrow?"
Chen Xing's face was filled with disappointment. He put away his phone and said, "I've tried it with Brother Rui a few times and it seems OK. I'll go back and arrange it with you. See if there's anything that can be improved."
When Xia Huanming heard another person's name, his fingers that were flipping through the menu suddenly stopped: "You and Qi Yinrui?"
Seeing this, Wang Baiyue raised his hand and added: "Teacher Zhang divided us into groups during class. He, Zhao Xingyu, and Qi Yinrui are now in the same group."
Chen Xing nodded in agreement as he spoke.
Xia Huanming remained silent.
He saw the light spots slowly creep up the man's shoulders, gilding the fine nap of the Polish sweater.
Xia Huanming only glanced at it quickly and quickly lowered his head: "Then let's go back and see what happens."
The atmosphere on the set was very good, everyone was talking and chatting freely.
The old-fashioned ceiling fan in the restaurant stirred the warm air, and the waiter cleared the beer bottles that had been scattered all over the table next to him after serving the dishes. Every ten minutes, a new customer would come in, probably an old acquaintance, and shout out the boss's name.
Chen Xing sipped coconut juice and carefully observed the people around him.
He kept in mind what he learned in class: "If you encounter a role you have never encountered before, you can try to observe similar people around you, learn and imitate them, and think about what they would do."
He observed the bald boss with round cheeks smiling as he wiped his apron and shook hands with the customer; he observed the family of three at the opposite table, the father was helping the child pick out fish bones, and the mother was blowing duck meat and putting it into her daughter's bowl.
His gaze moved around, and finally met another pair of eyes that were looking at him.
Chen Xing mouthed to the person opposite him: "What's wrong?"
The person opposite is typing on his phone.
Chen Xing received the message.
[Xia Huanming]: What are you looking for? Do you want to call a waiter?
【Chen Xing】: No, I am observing (ou<)
[Xia Huanming]: Observe?
【Chen Xing】: In class, teacher Zhang Jinan said that if you can’t act, just observe how people around you live (=w=*)
[Xia Huanming]: Oh
【Chen Xing】: It’s a pity that I can’t observe you now (QuQ!)
[Xia Huanming]: Why?
Chen Xing raised his head and glanced at Xia Huanming, who was half a head taller than the others. His broad palms made his phone look smaller than others.
Chen Xing typed again.
【Chen Xing】: I can’t accept this kind of character setting (-。-q)
[Xia Huanming]: What kind of character is this?
[Chen Xing]: He drives a Malibu Hyundai Accent to work. He can bankrupt Wang's company with just a few words and chase his wife to the crematorium. He is a cold-blooded Beijing circle boss. [Starry eyes expression]
【Xia Huanming】:?
[Xia Huanming]: Your top priority now is to stop reading melodramatic novels.
Although Xia Huanming didn't look up, Chen Xing could imagine Xia Huanming's speechless reaction. He couldn't help but smile in his heart when he received a message on his mobile phone.
——Have you been busy recently? Let’s talk.
The corners of Chen Xing's originally happy mouth dropped instantly. After thinking for a few seconds, he typed a reply.
——I’m not free recently. I’ll call you when I’m free.
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