"Am I seeing things... Did Qiao Yiyi just do a somersault?" Fang Yun rubbed his eyes, thinking he was hallucinating.
Her assistant held an umbrella for her and said, "You read that right, and she did more than a dozen flips in a row."
"This is impossible!" Fang Yun was unwilling to believe it. How could Qiao Yiyi, a useless vase, have such skills? She must be dazzled.
However, regardless of whether she believed it or not, Xie Zhen was stunned.
After a long while, he came back to his senses and said hesitantly: "Just try...just try?"
So Qiao Yiyi was hoisted onto the wire, and the camera crew, crane, pulley... all the filming equipment was ready.
Deep in the dense forest, a small group of people walked from a distance, stepping on the dense fallen leaves on the ground.
It was almost noon, the forest was airtight, and sunlight slanted in from above, making the emerald green bamboo leaves crystal clear.
A beautiful woman in a goose-yellow skirt wiped the sweat from her forehead and asked breathlessly, "Uncle Jing, how long will it take us to enter the capital?"
"Miss, don't worry. After passing through this dense forest, we will soon reach the border between Qingzhou and the capital." The middle-aged man called Uncle Jing replied to the woman while looking around vigilantly.
Miss is the title of Princess Feng Ling, played by Sang Bai, after she leaves the valley. After learning about her life experience, Feng Ling finally decides to disobey her master's orders and leave the valley with Uncle Jing, who was sent by the organizer of the previous dynasty who was left among the people.
Fearing that their identities would be exposed, the group disguised themselves as distressed merchants going to Beijing to seek refuge with their relatives. After walking for a long time, they were finally approaching the capital.
"What's wrong, Uncle Jing? Is something wrong?" A woman next to Feng Ling saw Uncle Jing suddenly stop, and her expression suddenly became alert, even with a hint of panic.
The next second, the bamboo leaves in the forest rustled, and several black shadows flashed past.
"Be careful!" Uncle Jing drew his sword to protect everyone, his hawk-like eyes searching for the dark shadows in the forest.
But the enemy is hidden and we are in the light, and those people are hiding in the dark, as if they are enjoying the pleasure of hunting, and are reluctant to show up.
Director Xie was very satisfied with the filming of this scene. Sang Bai was obviously in a better state today after being scolded yesterday, and Fang Yun, who played He He, the woman rescued by Feng Ling and his group on the way, also performed very well.
He didn't call for a stop and let the filming continue.
Uncle Jing is an old hand and has seen all kinds of situations. Even when he was ambushed, he remained calm.
But He He was different. She had just escaped from a group of robbers and was still in shock. Now she was in an unknown panic. She unconsciously grabbed Feng Ling's arm.
Perhaps the ambusher didn't want to play this hunting trick anymore.
As sharp arrows shot from nowhere, a group of killers wearing strange clothes and weird masks attacked from all directions.
Uncle Jing immediately swung his sword to block, and Feng Ling also joined the battle. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a bamboo high above the bamboo forest bent into an arc that was almost about to break.
A woman in red stood above, her face obscured by a pearl curtain. Her aura was serene and cool. The wind blew her red dress, sending her cascading hair dancing. She gazed down at the ground, her face expressionless, as if everything was under control.
"You know what, Qiao Yiyi really looks like it." The assistant director bent over and leaned in front of the monitor, watching Qiao Yiyi in the camera standing on the bent bamboo as if she were standing on flat ground.
"Didn't they say she's afraid of heights?" Fang Yun's assistant looked up at the sky with an expression of disbelief on his face.
Although Bao Mei was also surprised by her artist's abnormal behavior, she said smugly: "Who said she is afraid of heights? That's all rumors from the outside world."
Thanks to the monkey attribute and the wire hanging behind her, Qiao Yiyi was standing on a high place without any pressure. Except for feeling a little hot, the scenery from the top was really beautiful.
What she saw was an endless bamboo forest, and the scenery below was clearly visible. She could see the staff fiddling with the blower blowing towards her, and even saw Director Xie's slightly bald head.
She didn't need to make any complicated expressions or recite any difficult lines. She just had to keep a straight face and watch Sang Bai and the others fight.
The fighting on the ground became more and more intense.
Uncle Jing was a master, mastering the swordsmanship inherited from his ancestors to perfection. Feng Ling also inherited the true teachings of the Valley Master and possessed considerable martial arts skills. Although he had never encountered such a situation, he was not at a disadvantage.
Before long, these ghost-faced killers were unable to hold on.
The expression on the woman's face high in the sky finally changed slightly.
After the last Ghost-faced Killer was knocked to the ground, she flew from the air, unsheathing the Qingshuang Sword in her hand. The moment the sunlight illuminated the sword's edge, the blade brushed past Feng Ling and cut off a strand of her hair.
"Okay, okay, that's it! This shot is well captured!" Xie Zhen's eyes gleamed with excitement, and he signaled the cameraman on the dolly car to pay attention to the shooting angle and make sure to capture the most perfect posture.
Fortunately, Feng Ling reacted quickly and managed to avoid it.
They didn't know where this woman in red came from, but unlike the ghost-faced killers just now, her fighting power was obviously much higher than theirs. Old hands like Feng Ling, Uncle Jing, and several other people who accompanied them were no match for the woman in red.
Just when they thought they were about to die, a huge force pushed them away. A strange young man suddenly appeared, fought off the woman in red, and saved their lives.
This is the male protagonist Xiao Huan played by Qin Yiyang, who is also the younger brother of the current emperor.
Xiao Huan did not like the restrictive life in the palace, so he slipped out of the palace, wanting to be a knight and travel the world with his sword. Unexpectedly, not long after he left the city, he saw a fight.
Unlike his cold-blooded and cruel brother, Xiao Huan was full of kindness and passion. When he saw someone being bullied, he would immediately draw his sword to help.
Tang Yuan didn't expect to meet the emperor's younger brother, Prince Rui, here. It was inconvenient for her to fight with him for fear of hurting him, so she could only retreat.
However, Xiao Huan thought she was afraid, so he pressed on, determined to capture her and find out the truth.
This is what the director was afraid Qiao Yiyi couldn't handle, the chase scene between Tang Yuan and Xiao Huan in the forest.
Tang Yuan had a ghostly figure. With a tap of her toes, she could move from one place to another. Xiao Huan chased her for a long time but could not catch up with her.
The staff on the wire ropes were shocked to see Qiao Yiyi jumping up and down in the bamboo forest like a monkey, dodging left and right. They asked their colleague next to him in confusion, "Did you move?"
His colleague: "It moved...it didn't move. I forgot whether it moved or not..."
"Then how did Teacher Yiyi get from here to there?"
"I don't know either..."
They were all stunned. Normally, when they were hanging other actors on wires, they were nervous and kept an eye on the artist's movements. They adjusted the angle and intensity of the pressure according to the actor's next action, running back and forth, left and right, and did not dare to slack off at all.
After a scene, the actors are exhausted and the staff behind the scenes are also exhausted.
But now, they feel that the ropes in their hands no longer listen to them. They seem to have their own ideas and move on their own!
Just when the staff on the wire ropes were falling into self-doubt, Qiao Yiyi, who was moving freely in the forest, felt stunned by the pleasure.
I didn't expect that it would be such a cool feeling to be a monkey jumping and moving around in the woods.
Her limbs were no longer coordinated and clumsy, but light and agile, allowing her to jump wherever she wanted.
Spin, jump, and do a few somersaults.
At this moment, Qiao Yiyi felt so inflated that she thought she was a martial arts master!
"Kaka—enough is enough."
It was the first time that Xie Zhen saw an artist addicted to hanging on wires, so he quickly called for a stop.
Qiao Yiyi landed on the ground and when she looked up, she found that the staff hanging on the wire and the cameraman were looking at her with strange eyes. Only then did she realize that she had lost her mind again.
"Well... Director, do we need to shoot it again?" Qiao Yiyi asked Director Xie cautiously.
Xie Zhen was watching the film excitedly, not even looking up: "Still filming? Do you want to tire everyone out?"
Qiao Yiyi blinked in confusion, not quite understanding what Director Xie meant. Did she pass or fail?
Baomei excitedly ran up to her and blew air on her with a small fan. "Sister Yiyi, do you know how stunning you looked just now? Tell me, where did you secretly learn Qinggong? Who was your martial arts master?"
Qiao Yiyi: "Ah?"
Her heart tightened. Could it be that she had played the monkey trick too hard just now and they had seen something?
Baomei: "Oh, I was just joking. I just wanted to say that Sister Yiyi, your performance just now was no worse than that of a stunt double!"
"Haha——" Qiao Yiyi breathed a sigh of relief. She thought others had noticed something.
Xie Zhen was very satisfied with the shoot; he had never expected Qiao Yiyi to complete the entire scene without a stunt double. To be precise, it far exceeded his expectations.
In the picture, a woman in red is flying from a great height, her figure as light as a falling hibiscus petal.
The fighting scenes are also very beautiful. Qiao Yiyi has a good figure and her movements are clean and neat, without any drag.
The chase scene with Yi Yang really fits the setting of "Ghost Shadow".
You know, Qin Yiyang had studied martial arts for a period of time in order to film a costume drama, so he had a solid foundation. When Qiao Yiyi acted opposite him, she was not at all outdone.
He felt as if he had unearthed another treasure.
The shoot of the bamboo forest fight scene went unexpectedly smoothly. Xie Zhen was very happy and waved his hand to let everyone go home. He then went back in the evening to treat everyone to a delicious meal.
Everyone was very happy to hear this. They had been filming non-stop these days on the crew and hadn't been able to eat or sleep well.
While they were discussing what to order for dinner, they were talking about -
"Teacher Yiyi was amazing just now, like performing an acrobatic trick."
"Yes, this is the first time I've seen someone hanging on a wire look so good."
"Did you see those mid-air jumps? How did she do that?"
"I don't know either. If I hadn't clearly seen the wire hanging from Teacher Yiyi's body, I would have really thought she was some master from a martial arts novel.
"Wake up, this is the 21st century, a high-tech society. How could you have such an outrageous idea?"
Sang Bai took in the chatter around him, his expression growing increasingly displeased.
The last time she took the final makeup photos, Qiao Yiyi stole the limelight. It was obviously her own fan club that posted the Reuters photos, but in the end, Qiao Yiyi became a hot topic.
This time again, it’s the same difficult fighting scene, why is everyone’s attention and focus on Qiao Yiyi?
Sang Bai was so absorbed in his thoughts that his pace unconsciously slowed down and he gradually fell behind.
Suddenly, she heard a rustling sound. Sang Bai looked up in confusion and her face changed suddenly.
Above her head, a emerald green snake was wrapped around a bamboo pole, its terrifying tongue extended, winding downwards...
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