Chapter 35 Professional Actor [VIP]
When Ziyu opened his eyes again, the first thing he saw was a pair of bloodshot eyes, the dark pupils staring intently at him, motionless, without even blinking.
Startled, Ziyu sat up with a scream, only to find that Qin Yuzhen had been sitting by the bed the whole time.
"What are you doing?!" Ziyu was so frightened that her heart was pounding. She couldn't care less about playing the gentle and submissive role and questioned, "Why aren't you sleeping? What are you doing sitting here?!"
"Do you know how terrifying this is?!"
Under Ziyu's shouts, Qin Yuzhen seemed like a robot that had finally heard a sound. He stiffly moved, raised his head, and looked at Ziyu, who was patting his chest on the bed to comfort him after being frightened.
Having just returned from the real world, Ziyu no longer doubted the system assistant, since they could truly revive him or bring him back whenever they wanted.
This technology truly lives up to its reputation as a technology of the future; it's incredibly advanced.
Ziyu woke up.
Qin Yuzhen's eyes slowly moved to Ziyu, scrutinizing her from head to toe, bit by bit, carefully and greedily.
His chest was still rising and falling, and everything had returned to normal, as if the cold body he saw when he returned yesterday was just an illusion.
"It's good that you're awake."
Qin Yuzhen's voice was also hoarse, as if it had been ground by gravel.
Ziyu asked, puzzled, "What's wrong with you?"
"You don't seem to be feeling well."
"I'm fine." Qin Yuzhen lay back down on the bed. He tilted his head to look at Ziyu, his eyes still lifeless. For some reason, Ziyu felt a strange, inexplicable sense of dread. But before Ziyu could figure out where this feeling came from, Qin Yuzhen pulled her back down onto the bed with his large hand.
"Hey!" Ziyu had barely uttered a sound when a head was buried in his neck.
Qin Yuzhen said weakly, his voice barely a plea: "I want to sleep for a while."
Perhaps because he had just met the person he wanted to see, Ziyu was in a pretty good mood.
Fine, I'll just sleep with Qin Yuzhen then.
As for going to work?
Qin Yuzhen is the boss! If he doesn't care, then I won't bother either.
After a while, a small, steady breathing sound was heard.
Qin Yuzhen, who should have been asleep, suddenly opened his eyes and stared intently at Ziyu's sleeping profile like a hawk.
He bit his lower lip hard, not making a sound.
He wouldn't ask Ziyu what happened, nor would he ask how Ziyu could come back to life the next day, even talking to him, when he was completely like a corpse, and acting as if he had no idea what had happened the day before.
He won't ask.
Just like the secret of his rebirth, perhaps Ziyu also has his own secrets.
As long as this secret doesn't separate them, he doesn't care at all...
Yes, I don't care.
*
Ziyu stood in front of the film crew. Summer was gradually coming to an end, and a clear breeze was blowing gently. Ziyu could feel the gentleness of the wind on her face.
Sometimes, Ziyu couldn't help but marvel at how realistic the game was; even he would occasionally have the illusion of living in the real world.
However, looking at Mingyu, who had completely recovered to his pre-injury state in just one week, Ziyu couldn't help but think, "Indeed, a game is just a game."
Such a severe injury, in real life, would take at least half a year to fully recover, and even if it healed, it would likely leave some scars. How could it possibly be like this now?
Mingyu circled around him, chattering about random things. His handsome face hadn't changed at all; you couldn't tell that he had just been beaten up like a pig's head a week ago. His skin was still white, tender, smooth, and delicate.
"Mingyu! Time's up! Come here!"
Myungwoo's manager, Annie, called him several times. Since Myungwoo couldn't escape his work, he could only go over dejectedly.
As he was leaving, Mingyu, with his puppy-dog eyes still wide open and teary-eyed, said to Ziyu, "Please don't go, Ziyu-ge, wait for me to come back!"
"Mingyu!"
"Brother Ziyu, you must wait for me!"
Ziyu quickly pushed the rambling Mingyu back.
It took him a tremendous amount of effort to persuade Qin Yuzhen to come to the set this time.
He later learned that his day back in the real world was actually exchanged for a day in the game world.
In other words, when he returns to the real world, his body in the game world is already dead.
No wonder Qin Yuzhen reacted so strongly. Just a few days ago, this man was begging him not to leave him, only to suddenly die the next day. If Qin Yuzhen hadn't been so persistent, waiting for Ziyu to wake up, he probably would have been sent to the crematorium in a few more days. In that case, Qin Yuzhen would truly be facing a "wife-chasing crematorium."
However, Ziyu didn't dare to think too much about what Qin Yuzhen felt when he discovered he was dead. He wasn't even surprised when he saw Ziyu suddenly come back to life the next day. Instead, he had a normal expression as if nothing had happened and carried Ziyu to bed.
It has to be said that the main character is so calm and composed, as immovable as a mountain.
[Please complete the task actively and avoid being passive.]
The system assistant chimed in.
"I understand, I will complete the task well."
Having experienced a rebirth, Ziyu felt much more at ease, at least realizing that his work hadn't been entirely in vain.
Most importantly... he was finally able to speak to that person again.
Although the other person's condition had become so severe that they could no longer speak to him, Ziyu still felt an overwhelming joy and satisfaction at the thought that the other person was just a door away from him.
Ziyu recalled that when he went to Qinyu Town earlier, Qinyu Town's face turned ugly as soon as he learned that Ziyu was going to see Mingyu, but he still agreed because it was a rare request from Ziyu.
Qin Yuzhen has indeed become much more tolerant of him lately. Except for the matter of him having a mistress, which the other party wouldn't listen to, Qin Yuzhen usually agrees to everything. Ziyu doesn't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.
His coming to Mingyu's place wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision.
On one hand, he wanted to check on how the plot was developing on Mingyu's side; on the other hand, Director Wang had taken the initiative to send him a message.
Director Wang said she needed Ziyu's help.
It's still the same doctor's scene from before.
Ziyu watched Mingyu act from a short distance away, and had to admit that Mingyu's acting was even better than in the previous playthrough.
In the previous playthrough, Ziyu was very busy every day and only glanced at Mingyu from afar at the beginning before ignoring him. Unlike this playthrough, he not only went deep into the film crew but also unexpectedly gained a role.
Before long, another person appeared beside Ziyu.
It was someone I knew.
Lin Ke sat down one by one, then snuggled close to Ziyu affectionately, sweetly and obediently, and said:
"Would you like me to explain the play to you?"
Facing this prospective lover whom he had once tried to get together with, Ziyu helplessly rubbed his forehead: "You're not needed anymore. Director Wang has already sent me all the content."
He genuinely didn't expect that he would have a role in this drama.
He was originally just a stand-in for a scene last time, and he didn't even show his face from beginning to end. He was waiting for the previous actor to recover from his illness so he could take over the role. Who would have thought that the actor had a serious case of mysophobia and insisted that a scene that had already been acted in by someone else couldn't be considered a complete performance by himself. No matter how much they tried to persuade him, he wouldn't come.
There was no other way but to call Ziyu over for help again.
Last week, Ziyu only knew that Mingyu became a huge star after starring in this drama, but he didn't know what the plot was. It wasn't until yesterday when Director Wang sent him the script that he understood why it was a hit. First, the plot was explosive and melodramatic enough, and second, the lead actors were good-looking enough to support it.
In short, it's a melodramatic and heart-wrenching love story about an orphan caught between a flamboyant and reliable rich second-generation heir and a gentle yet cunning doctor. The plot is intricately linked, full of twists and turns, and climaxes. Although it's cheesy, it's easy to get engrossed in it. For a commercial film, if it can make people want to finish watching it, then it has won.
Ziyu plays the doctor who is the most criticized character in the series.
The orphan played by Mingyu lost both his parents at a young age. By a stroke of luck, he was spotted by a wealthy man who sponsored him all the way until he was admitted to a prestigious university. However, he never expected to meet his first love at the university—a seemingly gentle but actually vain and ruthless doctor at the school hospital who would do anything to achieve her goals.
The doctor was only there temporarily; his main purpose was to get close to the wealthy man behind the orphan, weave a huge lie in the name of love, and successfully enter the country's largest hospital after gaining the wealthy man's trust. He rose through the ranks and received a raise, while the orphan became sensitive, suspicious, insecure, and introverted because of his love lies.
The rich second-generation is the son of a wealthy man. He had long fallen in love with the orphan and wanted to help them be together, but he never expected that the doctor was just using the orphan. Seeing that the orphan was becoming less and less like himself under the doctor's subtle attacks, he took the initiative and successfully made the orphan hear the doctor's true feelings to someone else, making the orphan realize that the doctor did not love her.
But there was nothing he could do. The orphan had long been deeply in love with the doctor, and even though the doctor didn't love him back, he tried many times to win him back, even kneeling down to beg.
The rich second-generation heir silently protects and saves the orphan. In a car accident, the rich second-generation heir sacrifices himself to save the orphan, while the doctor dies in the accident. When the orphan wakes up again, he has completely lost his memory, forgets the doctor, and starts a new story with the rich second-generation heir.
The three of them perfectly embody the sentiment of "you love me, I love him, but he only loves money."
This is utterly ridiculous; it's only missing cancer to complete the three major elements of a melodramatic story.
At the end of the story, when the orphan and the rich second-generation go to pay respects to the orphan's parents, they accidentally pass by the doctor's cemetery. The orphan looks at the doctor's tombstone and suddenly bursts into tears.
As for whether it was a genuine memory or a conditioned reflex, that's left for the audience to discuss.
Although the doctor seems to have a lot of screen time, he actually doesn't have much; most of the time, the doctor appears in flashbacks.
Ziyu was too lazy to ask Director Wang why he had to cast someone like himself, who had absolutely no acting skills, instead of finding more professional actors.
Fortunately, his role wasn't large, otherwise he wouldn't have taken the job no matter how much Director Wong begged him.
"That's such a pity!" Lin Ke exclaimed, his expression one of great distress.
Ziyu thought to himself that it was fortunate he had read the plot before he came, otherwise he dared not imagine what would have happened if Lin Keyi had really come to introduce the plot.
After finishing his scene with the rich second-generation, Mingyu excitedly came to find Ziyu. He was overjoyed to learn that Ziyu would be playing the doctor in the future.
"That's great! Brother Ziyu can come see me every day now!"
Lin Keyi disliked Mingyu. Whenever Mingyu arrived, he would look at him disdainfully, roll his eyes, and leave.
Mingyu held Ziyu's hand and whispered, "Don't mind him, Ziyu. This guy is crazy. He's always talking nonsense. Don't be fooled by his current normal appearance. He might go crazy at any time and say things like we're all fake and the world is about to collapse. If it weren't for the fact that his scripts are really good and he's the eldest son of the Lin family, he probably would have been kicked out long ago."
Ziyu nodded in agreement. In the few times he had interacted with Lin Keyi, he had already noticed the guy's strangeness.
Ziyu didn't take Lin Keyi's words to heart.
That's probably a special setting for NPCs.
"In short, Ziyu, you'd better stay away from people like him."
"good."
A note from the author:
I lost two favorites today.
Then I gained another one!
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