Chapter 119 Assistant Xu is online
"Night Drifters" tells the story of Pei Jiacheng's double life. He and his wife, Wenhua, are a famously loving couple with a son and a harmonious life. Although they met through a blind date, they have always been very compatible since marriage. Wenhua has always considered herself extremely lucky to have found such an excellent husband as Pei Jiacheng.
Pei Jiacheng is a university professor and has always been respected. In comparison, Wenhua is just an ordinary woman with ordinary education and appearance. After marriage, she stays at home to take care of the children and depends on Pei Jiacheng alone for her life.
Pei Jiacheng gave her enough, so Wenhua was very satisfied. She took even better care of Pei Jiacheng's life and became his best wife.
On the other hand, Pei Jiacheng has a gay lover, Chen Zhirang, with whom he has been in love for many years.
Chen Zhirang is good-looking, fair-skinned and pretty, but in the small village, his appearance has become a joke. He has been bullied since he was a child. He is good-looking but cowardly. His parents are not around all year round, so he lives with his grandparents.
There was a lot of gossip in the village, and they were very dissatisfied with Chen Zhirang, thinking that he lacked masculinity. Later, someone spread the word that Chen Zhirang was a slacker who would only look for men.
When such rumors spread, Chen Zhirang could no longer stay in the village. He ran away alone, but at the age of seventeen or eighteen, he knew nothing and could only work while thinking about how to live his life.
Chen Zhirang was lucky. He met a kind agent who, seeing that he was young, arranged a job as a handyman in a university for him. It was this opportunity that led him to meet Pei Jiacheng.
Chen Zhirang had never met anyone who was kind to him, so the appearance of Pei Jiacheng made him feel that there was light in his life. Chen Zhirang's name was also changed by Pei Jiacheng. His previous name was Chen Han, and his family hoped that he would be more manly.
But Pei Jiacheng told him that people don’t have to live a certain way. There are thousands of people in the world, and everyone should live the way they want, as long as they are happy.
Chen Zhirang had never heard words like "for oneself". From childhood to adulthood, what he heard the most was "for daddy" and "for mommy". No one had ever told him what to do for himself.
Nineteen-year-old Chen Zhirang was together with Pei Jiacheng. Pei Jiacheng wanted to support him, but he refused and continued to work in school, although he was just doing odd jobs, but he was very satisfied with his life.
After living like this for more than ten years, when Chen Zhirang was 32 years old, he suddenly could not contact Pei Jiacheng. He anxiously searched everywhere and ended up attending his funeral.
At the funeral, Chen Zhirang learned for the first time that Pei Jiacheng had a wife and children. He didn't dare to say a word and stood there silently for a long time. Looking back on the past, he suddenly realized that Pei Jiacheng's lies were not perfect. It was just that he loved him in the past so he could ignore a lot of things.
The story begins at this funeral. The story of Pei Jiacheng can only be complete after being pieced together. Wenhua and Chen Zhirang don't know how to face the lies of more than ten years.
Originally, he might have been able to deceive people for a lifetime, and all three of them would be happy. Unfortunately, fate did not intend to make it so simple. An accident and a diary revealed the bloody truth, and the two people who had been living in happiness were suddenly drowned by the tide.
The melodrama is not the main theme of this drama, so the early stories are just background, and the real theme is healing.
The female lead is the talented actress Liu Xiao, who is 38 years old this year. She is not glamorous in appearance, but more like an ordinary person in life. From her debut, she realized that she could not gain a foothold in the circle by relying on her appearance, so she has been practicing her acting skills hard and won many best supporting actor awards. She is a famous golden supporting actor in the film industry.
Liu Xiao was a little nervous when she was asked to play the female lead this time. She covered her mouth with excitement when she saw Chen Que, who was acting opposite her.
"Director, why does such a handsome male lead have to play my love rival? Since my husband is dead, can you arrange for us to be together? We can raise a child together and form a family of three again. How wonderful it would be."
Liu Xiao liked Shen Que very much. Her biggest dream was to play a couple with a handsome guy, but unfortunately she never had such an opportunity. She never expected that one day she would play a love rival. This experience was really special.
"If you follow this line of thought, I'm afraid it won't pass the censorship. Hahahaha. Okay, keep reading the script and stop letting your thoughts wander."
The director smiled and continued discussing with them. He was a person who liked to listen to the opinions of actors. Everyone had a different understanding of the role, so she liked to review the script again before officially starting filming.
"I don't think Chen Zhirang is necessarily gay. He's with Pei Jiacheng simply because he's so desperate for love and Pei Jiacheng's coaxing, so he chooses to be with him. This fits the stereotype that gay men are weak and in need of protection, but that's not actually the case. In the script, when Chen Zhirang learned that Pei Jiacheng was married, he didn't seem overly excited. He just stood there and watched for a while. I initially thought there were some issues with the handling of this, but after thinking about it carefully, I came to a new conclusion. Perhaps the reason for this dullness is that there's actually no love between them. Because there's no love, there's no jealousy or hatred. Even when Wenhua came to him later, he was completely calm."
As Shen Que spoke of his guess, the smile on the director's face gradually blossomed.
"I thought no one would notice this, but you did. Chen Zhirang isn't gay. He simply met Pei Jiacheng under those circumstances. He chose that life for the sake of survival and a little bit of feeling loved. Chen Zhirang's heart is very complex. Since childhood, he was rumored to be gay because of his weak nature. He was subtly influenced by this and took it for granted. Later, when he met Pei Jiacheng, he tacitly acknowledged their relationship. However, over their long time together, the previously ignorant Chen Zhirang suddenly came to his senses, but his personality made him choose to accept his fate."
The director explained the character's personality in detail, and Shen Que listened carefully. Only by having a deeper understanding of the character can he give a better interpretation.
When Shen Que was filming, Zhao Wen would not assign him other work, allowing him to devote himself to the filming. He just took some stills recently and is about to start filming.
"Director, where is the actor who plays Pei Jiacheng?"
Shen Que was a little curious. Almost everyone had joined the crew, but he still hadn't seen the actor who played Pei Jiacheng. There were some flashbacks in the story, so they would have rival scenes together. Shen Que wanted to get familiar with him and get a feel for the role.
"This actor isn't there. He's just a background character. The memories will be shot from his perspective, and his face won't be shown. Pei Jiacheng's face is more effective in this drama because the audience can imagine what kind of person he is. If we create a specific image, it would lack some feeling."
The director looked up at Shen Que and patted her head. She had forgotten to tell Shen Que about this.
Shen Que nodded without saying anything, and returned to his seat. As soon as he sat down, a cup of coffee was handed to him. Shen Que glanced at the hand holding the coffee and immediately turned his head to look over.
Xu Qingye stood behind him wearing a baseball cap and a mask. When he saw Shen Que turned around and looked at him with smiling eyes.
"Hello, I'm Xiao Xu, the new assistant."
"Why are you here?"
Shen Que took the coffee and asked Xu Qingye to sit down, but Xu Qingye shook his head and continued to stand.
"I promised Xu Hong I'd visit you on set, so I'll come over after the visit. I'll stay with you for a few days, and then I'll go to Cherry Films to discuss a collaboration."
Xu Qingye and Shen Que reported their own itineraries. Xu Qingye guessed most of the box office predictions for the Spring Festival movies correctly, especially the "Little Man" that no one was optimistic about, which broke through the siege and became a dark horse. The value of Xu Qingye's account has increased a lot. Someone even sent him a private message to buy his account for 5 million. How could Xu Qingye sell it? The profit brought by this account is more than 5 million.
In addition, the grievances and hatreds between Gao Jixing and the other two also brought a lot of traffic and popularity to the company. At first, Xu Qingye planned to sell the photos to earn hush money, but the other party refused, so he had to publish them.
The heat of the official announcement has not yet passed, but there is no expectation that there will be a sequel. The crowd of onlookers were stunned. They did not expect that the love story would have such an ups and downs story.
After Xu Qingye broke the news, Gao Jixing and the other two naturally followed up to clarify. They were sure that Xu Qingye would not be able to produce the key evidence, and that relying solely on height was too abstract.
However, the subsequent development was somewhat beyond expectations. Before Xu Qingye could make any move, Gao Jixing's fan club came out to criticize him, saying that he had been in constant love affairs and the fan club had been keeping it a secret for him. This time, he dared to do it but not take responsibility and even dragged his teammates out to take the blame. His actions were too ugly, which disappointed the fan club. So she stopped being a fan and started to criticize him, causing a big stir.
Several of Gao Jixing's fan sites have been closed, and many of his big fans' avatars have been changed to black. As a result, The One, which was already on the verge of collapse, may really not be able to survive.
Xu Qingye felt it was a pity. There were not many boy bands in the domestic entertainment industry, and The One was a rare long-lasting group. However, the group's final fate was destined to be bad, as it was difficult for a group of people to move forward in unison forever.
"Have you arranged accommodation? Have you already booked a hotel?"
"No, I just arrived and haven't had time yet. My luggage is still in your nanny car. It's not easy to book a hotel here, so I can only squeeze in with you for now."
Xu Qingye helped Shen Que fan himself, and continued to do his job as an assistant.
"Stop busying yourself and sit down for a while. I have to go to film soon."
Chen Que took Xu Qingye's hand and asked him to sit beside him. Usually, he seldom ordered his assistant to do anything, as long as the basic work was completed. He did not like being taken care of in every possible way.
Shen Que didn't want to fan himself, so Xu Qingye fanned himself. The weather here was a bit hot and humid, and he was not used to it after just arriving here.
The afternoon scene is the one where Chen Zhirang, played by Shen Que, is packing up his things at home and Wenhua comes to his house with a diary.
The little boy who played Wenhua's son was very cute. Xu Qingye stayed next to Shen Que for a while and then went to play with the child. However, the little boy was much more mature than him and ignored him completely, which made Xu Qingye a little embarrassed. He could only eat the snacks handed to him himself.
"Child stars are indeed different."
Xu Qingye retreated to Shen Que and thought of another child star.
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