Wang Che: 'Sure, I'll take it if you give it to me! Haha, just kidding. Remember to take your medicine on time so you can recover sooner.'
"By the way, you know filming's about to start? You guys haven't missed any of our training these past few days. I even recorded some audio and took notes. Want some?"
Wen Yan: 'You're so clever, JPG! I really need these things. I'll treat you to milk tea.'
'No'
"How can that be? I'd feel so bad about it, taking advantage of your hard work for free."
"Hey hey, if you're really shy, then please grant me an interview. Everyone's dying of curiosity! How have you guys been these past few days? Where have you been staying? What have you been eating? Please, please satisfy my burning thirst for gossip!"
Wen Yan sent a sweating emoji: "Is the whole crew gossiping about this right now?"
"Of course! Countless people envy you."
'...Are you envious of these? [Image JPG]
Wen Yan sent Wang Che photos of the car being completely buried by rocks, the landslide, and the blisters on her feet.
Wang Che immediately exclaimed, "Holy crap, you two are the chosen ones! If you had been in the car at that moment, you would both be dead!"
Wen Yan: 'Evil grin JPG, aren't you jealous?'
Wang Che: 'Not envious at all!'
Wen Yan: 'Why don't you just send me a picture of our accommodations too?'
Wang Che: 'Okay, okay, I'll wait.'
Wen Yan immediately picked a photo from her album and sent it out.
Immediately following was the text message she edited.
"See that? It's super luxurious, a detached villa. Teacher Shen lives alone in the one on the left, and the landlady and I live in the one on the right."
She then posted several more photos of the food.
He explained, "These are all home-cooked meals prepared for us by the kind old lady who took us in. She even killed a free-range chicken to treat us."
"However, Teacher Shen and I felt bad about taking advantage of her, so we helped the old lady with some chores too. See this corncob? We had to remove the kernels to feed the chickens, ducks, and geese. We've been very busy these past few days."
Wang Che waited and waited, but Wen Yan didn't follow up for a long time, while his phone kept vibrating.
When he looked, he discovered that Wen Yan had actually sent the messages she was originally going to send to him to the crew's group chat.
The others in the group saw Wen Yan talking to herself and guessed that she had posted it in the wrong place.
Afraid of embarrassing Wen Yan, Wang Che quickly said in the group chat: "I was wondering why you disappeared while we were chatting. Turns out you went to the wrong place. Isn't this the photo I wanted?"
After sending the message, he quickly messaged Wen Yan privately.
Wang Che: 'You posted in the wrong place, that's our training group.'
Wen Yan: 'I know, let's just explain it all at once, so everyone won't be curious.'
As they spoke, the group chat became lively.
"I heard your cars were buried under rocks, is that true?"
The car Shen Jinghe was driving that day belonged to the film crew.
The assistant director was also in the group chat. Upon seeing the message, he immediately sent a crying emoji.
"Yes, it's scrapped. The money's going to burn! But thankfully everyone's alright; it was a close call, and the financial loss is averted."
Someone also tagged Wenyan: 'How does the free-range chicken taste? If it's good, I'd like to buy a few from the villagers.'
Wen Yan: 'Delicious, especially delicious! And the cured meat that Grandma made herself is absolutely amazing.' (Image: JPG)
"Ahhh, this is late-night food porn! My mouth is watering!"
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The number of messages in the group kept increasing, and soon it reached 99+.
Director Zhou Junye flipped through the messages and suddenly asked Shen Jinghe, who was standing next to him.
"Really? You did hard labor peeling corn kernels for a few meals?"
Shen Jinghe put down the script in his hand and slightly furrowed his handsome brows.
"What are you looking at? Who posted this?"
"The message in the group was sent by Wen Yan."
"A group?" Shen Jinghe moved closer to Zhou Junye while glancing at his phone, which was completely silent. "What group? I don't know anything about it?"
"Oh, the group that was created during the training course was created by a group of new actors. They don't have your account. Even if they did, they probably wouldn't dare to add you."
"Let me see."
"Um."
Zhou Junye adjusted the position of his phone, scrolling through the messages with Shen Jinghe as he said, "This Wen Yan is interesting. She probably knows everyone's gossiping about you two, so she's trying to distance herself from you."
These two detached villas say it all. And then there's the one picking corn kernels. She said you guys are very busy, which implies that you don't really communicate much in private, effectively silencing everyone.
I realized she was being clever; she was lying about sending the message to the wrong place, but actually trying to clarify.
Although Shen Jinghe didn't say anything, he agreed with Zhou Junye's statement in his heart.
"By the way," Zhou Junye suddenly asked Shen Jinghe, "do you know who this Wen Yan is?"
Shen Jinghe shook his head against his will: "I don't know. You recruited her, so you should know more than I do."
"It's really strange. Someone actually invested 5 million in me, specifically asking me to take care of her, but didn't mention anything about adding scenes. They just wanted to improve her quality of life. Isn't that just a case of someone being stupid and having too much money?"
Shen Jinghe snorted inwardly, thinking that it wasn't wrong to say the old man was foolish and rich.
But he quickly frowned: "You're not really planning to spend all this money on improving her quality of life, are you?"
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