"Qiqi, I really didn't do anything this time, but my brother beat me up."

As soon as Xia Ningmi got home from get off work, Du Yuanzhe hugged her and complained to her. His tone was very aggrieved. He really felt that he was old and miserable.

Although Du Yuanwen's move was very gentle this time and no traces were left, Du Yuanzhe still felt that he was wronged because he clearly did nothing.

"My sister-in-law must have given up on him, so he took it out on me."

Du Yuanzhe still believes the lies Du Yuanwen told and thinks that Du Yuanwen and his wife are not living in harmony. Du Yuanwen was angry with Zhao Zhimeng, and he did not dare to offend Zhao Zhimeng, so he took it out on his younger brother.

The more Du Yuanzhe thought about it, the angrier he got: "This is too much! I want to learn martial arts, I want to fight back!"

Xia Ningmi rubbed Du Yuanzhe's head which was buried in her neck and said, "It is unlikely that you will be able to successfully counterattack."

Du Yuanzhe suddenly raised his head and said resentfully: "Qiqi, are you on my side?"

【Don't be so offensive】

Xia Ningmi curled her lips: "I just want to break your fantasy, so that you won't be unable to recognize the reality and get beaten even more badly by your brother."

Du Yuanzhe was silent. He sadly discovered that what Xia Ningmi said was very likely to happen.

Du Yuanzhe nudged Xia Ningmi with his head, pushed her down on the sofa, held her lips and said, "I'm so sad, Qiqi, please comfort me."

Xia Ningmi ran her hands through his short black hair and obediently responded to his kiss.

Since the two of them achieved negative distance contact, they have become more and more accustomed to being close to each other. In addition to the daily good morning kiss, they always kiss each other whenever they want during their daily interactions, and they don't care whether it is in the bedroom or not.

Because of the two people's indulgence, the whole house has become complicated. Du Yuanzhe no longer has the idea of ​​cleaning up by himself, and calmly asks the housekeeper to clean it.

Facts have proven that any discomfort you feel is because you have done it too infrequently. If you do it more often, you can adapt to anything and overcome even the most embarrassing emotions.

The identities of both of them were too conspicuous. They used Liu Xu's name when looking for housekeeping services, and also registered Liu Xu's identity information with the housekeeping company, which basically eliminated the possibility of leaking their identities.

......

After a wild and wild time on the sofa, the two hungry people finally couldn't stand it anymore. Xia Ningmi casually put on his clothes, with the mark between his collarbones clearly visible. He kissed him and said, "You go and cook."

Du Yuanzhe lay on the carpet and said, "How about we order takeout?"

Xia Ningmi went upstairs to change clothes: "It's up to you."

Du Yuanzhe immediately took out his mobile phone to order food and urged them to deliver it quickly.

After ordering the takeout, he followed Xia Ningmi upstairs and returned to his room to take a shower and change clothes.

After taking a shower, Du Yuanzhe felt even hungrier and went downstairs to wait for the takeaway to arrive.

Ten minutes later, the takeaway was delivered and Xia Ningmi went out to get it. Du Yuanzhe had never met the employees of this store before.

As they were eating, Du Yuanzhe said, "I will be joining the crew on the 15th, so it will be inconvenient for me to take leave. If you miss me, come to the crew to see me. I will video call you every night, and we can also play games."

Speaking of playing games, Du Yuanzhe recalled that when he was filming "Legend of Yunlan", he would play games with Xia Ningmi every weekend.

"I was too naive at that time. I didn't realize how much you coveted me. You actually liked me so early."

Xia Ning glanced at him and didn't tell him that she was just possessive at that time and had not yet fallen in love with him.

Recalling the past, Du Yuanzhe sighed: "I didn't think too much at the time. I just wanted to make good movies and become an internationally renowned actor in the future. This would make my years of hard work in honing my acting skills worthwhile."

Xia Ningmi said: "At that time, I just wanted to learn about my future from you."

Du Yuanzhe smiled and said, "So what if we know the plot? We cannot accurately predict our future. Even if our fate has already been determined, it does not mean that it is our future."

The future will finally change!

......

September 15th soon arrived. Early in the morning, Liu Xu and Xiaopang came to Huahu Apartment to pick him up. Du Yuanzhe had already packed his luggage and had breakfast with Xia Ningmi. Then it was time to leave.

As usual, Du Yuanzhe reminded her not to stay up late and not to think about work all the time.

"I'm not home, so you'll have to take care of the plants. Don't forget them."

Seeing Xia Ningmi nod, Du Yuanzhe smiled with satisfaction. After the two gave each other a good morning kiss, he finally left the house.

Liu Xu and the other person had been waiting by the elevator. After the three of them got on the elevator, Liu Xu joked, "I thought you would wait an hour before you were willing to leave."

Du Yuanzhe sighed: "I'm afraid that the longer I stay, the less I want to leave. I was happiest when I was filming "The Voice". I could go home every day."

Liu Xu said: "It seems that "The Voice" is about to enter the later stage, and it may be broadcast in two or three months."

Xiaopang laughed and said, "Brother Zhe is going to dominate the screen this year."

Liu Xu said: "CCTV likes this kind of TV show very much. Director Zhu is also planning to broadcast it on CCTV. After the post-production is completed, a copy will probably be sent to CCTV."

"Normally there shouldn't be any problems. The drama written by Cang Sheng has already been singled out for praise by CCTV."

Xiao Pang said excitedly, "Wow, being on CCTV means the ratings are guaranteed. In this case, Brother Zhe will soon have a chance to be a leading man."

Du Yuanzhe said with a smile: "Why do you sound like a fan circle now?"

Liu Xu said: "It's not surprising that fans compare this. The commercial value of an actor is reflected through his works. If your works have high ratings, you will be approached by more advertising endorsements, and other directors will be more likely to see your works. In the future, you will have more and more scripts to choose from."

Du Yuanzhe nodded: "I know this."

An actor still has to rely on his works to speak for himself, especially if he aspires to become an internationally renowned actor. He needs to have works to support himself so that he can be noticed by more directors.

Du Yuanzhe and his group took a three-hour flight to reach Dalin City, which is much farther away than Jiangcheng.

This time he came with his previous team. Ever since he became popular because of "The Legend of Yun Lan", the company assigned this team to Du Yuanzhe, and it will belong to Du Yuanzhe alone from now on.

Du Yuanzhe and his team were very happy about this. He was used to these people and did not want to change them.

Several members of the team were unwilling to follow different stars around. Du Yuanzhe had a good personality and they could earn a lot by following him.

The crew's car was parked at the airport. When they saw Du Yuanzhe and his group, they immediately came over and said, "Teacher Du, please get in the car."

Du Yuanzhe nodded: "Thank you."

After arriving at the crew, Du Yuanzhe finally saw the small city that Xu Cheng had spent a huge amount of money to build. It looked very prosperous from the outside, but in fact many buildings were just empty shells.

No one knows what Xu Cheng and the props team are busy with. They are not in the crew at the moment, but Ming Zhanshu is.

Ming Zhanshu saw Du Yuanzhe and said with a smile, "Yuanzhe, long time no see."

Du Yuanzhe and Ming Zhanshu hugged each other and said, "I've been looking forward to working with Brother Ming since I knew about this."

Ming Zhanshu said, "Me too. I saw your acting skills the last time we recorded the show. This time we're playing opposite each other, so we're going to have a blast."

Du Yuanzhe said: "I think so too."

The two chatted for a long time before Xu Cheng came back and said, "It's good that you two know each other. It saves you the trouble of cultivating feelings."

Du Yuanzhe couldn't help but complain: "Is there any way to let the police and murderers develop a relationship?"

Xu Cheng pointed at himself and said, "That's me."

Ming Zhanshu explained: "Director Xu is like this. He thinks that the relationship between actors is better, the cooperation will be more tacit, and it is easier to collide with improvisational sparks."

This is not Ming Zhanshu's first time acting in Xu Cheng's film, but it is his first time playing such an important role. He cherishes this opportunity very much and must live up to Xu Cheng's appreciation of him.

Du Yuanzhe admitted that this made sense.

Next, Xu Cheng led the entire crew to hold a brief opening ceremony.

It’s really short!

Xu Cheng stood in front of the crowd and said a few words, then led everyone to burn incense, and then lifted the red cloth covering the camera, and the power-on ceremony ended.

It was completely different from the time when they filmed "The Legend of Yun Lan". It took them several hours, but Xu Cheng only took a few minutes, or even less than ten minutes.

After lifting the red cloth, Xu Cheng remembered that he had not yet introduced the actors, and said: "Although I forgot to introduce him, I believe you all know him. Let's applaud and welcome our leading actor Du Yuanzhe."

As soon as he finished speaking, the crew burst into applause. It was obvious that the others were more reliable than Xu Cheng.

"The leading actor, come over here and say a few words."

Du Yuanzhe was too lazy to complain about Xu Cheng's perfunctory attitude, and said, "I am very happy to cooperate with you all. Although Director Xu is not reliable, please believe me, I am more reliable than Director Xu."

Hahaha--

Everyone else laughed.

As Xu Cheng's work team, they are well aware that he is unreliable in other areas besides filming.

The next moment, someone shouted, "Please believe that the props team is more reliable than Director Xu!"

Then someone said, "Please believe that the costume team is more reliable than Director Xu!"

"Please believe that the makeup team is more reliable than Director Xu!"

"......"

For a moment, everyone was saying that they were more reliable than Xu Cheng, even the actors who were not familiar with Xu Cheng shouted out.

Xu Cheng turned to look at Du Yuanzhe and said with ill intention: "You just joined the team and you instigated the staff to rebel. It's unreasonable not to let your brother increase his investment."

Du Yuanzhe refused to take the blame: "It's obvious that your employees have been suffering from you for a long time. Everyone wants to overthrow you, the tyrant."

Perhaps because he had seen too many unreliable behaviors of Xu Cheng, he did not have as much respect for Xu Cheng as he did for other directors, and it was more of an equal communication.

Xu Cheng didn't care about Du Yuanzhe's attitude, nor did he care about the attitudes of his employees, as long as they didn't delay their work.

After the chaos, Xu Cheng announced the start of filming. The filming schedule was very tight, and except for half an hour of lunch time, the rest of the time had to be spent on filming.

Fortunately, Du Yuanzhe had memorized the script at home. After deciding which scene to shoot, he took out the script and familiarized himself with the lines while the crew was busy.

Almost at the moment Xu Cheng issued the order, everyone in his team took their positions and immediately performed their duties. The whole process was quick and smooth without any chaos.

Xu Cheng sat in front of the viewfinder, waiting for the staff to finish the arrangements before starting filming.

The first scene was not complicated. Du Yuanzhe simply built up his emotions and immersed himself in the role. The scene was finished soon.

"Card!"

Xu Cheng said: "You have made progress."

He clearly felt that Du Yuanzhe's acting skills had improved a lot compared to the audition and had become more natural.

When Du Yuanzhe was auditioning before, Xu Cheng could sense some deliberate skills from him, but now they have completely disappeared.

Du Yuanzhe smiled and said, "I learned a lot from my seniors when I was filming the last movie."

Xu Cheng: "That's great. I was worried that you would be outshined by Zhan Shu."

Ming Zhanshu said hurriedly: "Director Xu overestimates me."

Xu Cheng shook his head: "I didn't overestimate you, I underestimated Du Yuanzhe."

He turned his head to look at Ming Zhanshu and said, "Why are you so nervous? Du Yuanzhe's acting skills are no worse than yours now. You can't suppress him. Otherwise, I wouldn't have said this. I don't intend to help you to attract hatred."

Ming Zhanshu looked constipated: "......"

It's obviously better not to say this!

Du Yuanzhe was speechless for Ming Zhanshu: "If I were a petty person, I would have lost my good impression of Brother Ming by now."

For example, Mr. Zheng who is still preparing for his concert.

While checking the footage, Xu Cheng said, "I know you're not that kind of person."

He is good at understanding people's minds, so he can certainly tell whether Du Yuanzhe is a narrow-minded person.

Du Yuanzhe shook his head. He couldn't talk much to Xu Cheng as it would easily make him angry.

"Brother Ming, the next scene is ours, shall we go and act it out?"

Ming Zhanshu nodded: "Let's go."

Neither of them paid any attention to Xu Cheng.

......

In the blink of an eye, the day's filming was over and we officially wrapped up at 11pm.

Xu Cheng took everyone to their accommodation. As soon as they got off the plane, they were picked up by the crew and still didn't know where their accommodation was.

After walking for fifteen minutes, the group saw a three-story hotel. From the peeling walls on the outside, one could tell that the hotel was quite old.

Du Yuanzhe couldn't believe that the accommodation for his first movie would be so bad.

Xu Cheng said: "This is the only hotel in town. We will live here for the next few months."

Du Yuanzhe stared blankly at the crooked sign of the hotel and couldn't help asking, "Director Xu, are we running out of funds?"

Xu Cheng said: "That is indeed the reason. The main reason is that this place is very close to the crew, so we can get there as soon as possible."

Du Yuanzhe said: "I am not afraid of being far away from the crew. The worst that can happen is that I can just get up a little earlier."

Xu Cheng said, "The filming will start at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. You must arrive at the crew to put on makeup at 5:30 at the latest. The nearest hotel to the crew is in Lincheng, and it takes an hour to drive there."

Du Yuanzhe was speechless for a moment.

Got the crew at 5:30?

According to what Xu Cheng said, he had to leave at 4:30.

As expected, Xu Cheng is still the most ruthless one.

Xu Cheng asked him: "Do you have any other questions?"

What else could Du Yuanzhe say? He shook his head and said, "That's all."

The male lead has no objection, so of course no one else will have any objection either.

Xu Cheng said: "This hotel is not big and can't accommodate so many of us. I have rented a house in town, and some of you can stay in a B&B."

Good guy, there are people with worse conditions than him.

After asking his assistant to take some people to stay at the B&B, Du Yuanzhe and others checked in at the hotel.

Xu Cheng said: "There are three king-size rooms on the third floor, which is just right for the three of us to have one room each. Your agent and assistant can stay in the double room on the third floor."

Xu Cheng booked two rooms on the third floor for Du Yuanzhe and Ming Zhanshu respectively, one king-size room and one double room. As for the rest of the team, they could only stay in the multi-person room on the first floor.

Du Yuanzhe looked at the cramped hotel lobby and couldn't say anything to praise Director Xu for being so thoughtful.

After checking in, Xiaopang walked in front carrying the luggage. The stairs here were extremely narrow and could not accommodate two people walking side by side. Xiaopang was fat, and with the suitcase, he almost took up the entire staircase.

That's all, the most outrageous thing is that the stairs of this hotel are higher than ordinary stairs. It's okay to go up the stairs, but you have to be careful when going down the stairs. If you follow your usual habit, you will definitely miss the step.

Du Yuanzhe didn't know how long it had been since he had seen such a stage. In his previous life, when he had just started filming a movie and had no money, he lived in such a hotel for a year or two. Later, after he had a little money, he never stayed there again.

As for the original owner, he had never seen such a hotel. In his eyes, such a place was no different from a slum. He would be so disgusted by it that he would turn around and leave after seeing it.

A few people went up to the third floor. Xiaopang helped Du Yuanzhe spread the sheets and changed the quilt cover. He said, "Brother Zhe, this is the only way to clean it up. Please bear with it."

He really felt that it was unfair for Du Yuanzhe to live in such a place, as this young master grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Du Yuanzhe nodded: "It's getting late, you should go and rest."

Xiaopang and Liu Xu turned around and left, and their rooms also had to be cleaned up.