Chapter 19 Visiting the Set

Wen Yan's vacation was not long. After resting at home for a few days, she was brought to the crew by Shen Qi.

The contract for this costume drama was signed a long time ago. At that time, Wen Yan was not very famous and had limited resources. The reason why the director chose him to play the third male lead was entirely due to his handsome face from every angle. To put it bluntly, this kind of role does not have many scenes and relies on the face to support it.

Wen Yan plays a good friend who grew up with the male and female protagonists. The plot is also clichéd. The male and female protagonists are childhood sweethearts, but the male protagonist has his heart set on the world and fights everywhere for Chang'an. The female protagonist loves the male protagonist and admires his patriotism, so she can only support him silently. The third male protagonist loves the female protagonist, the male protagonist protects the country, and he protects the female protagonist. In short, it is a movie about three people, and the supporting roles are never named.

Not only that, at the end of the story, in order to help the hero and heroine get together and allow the hero to stay in the city and get married as scheduled, he took the initiative to go to the battlefield to quell a foreign invasion at the border.

Unlike the male protagonist who has a halo and is invincible, his ending is on the day of the hero and heroine's wedding. The enemy is desperate and he is ambushed and shot by a poisonous arrow. Although he wins the battle, he dies.

Wen Yan would not even watch such a melodramatic plot in real life, but he did not mind it in the film. After all, for him at that time, it was good enough to have a serious film to shoot. He also relied on small roles to gradually be noticed by people and step by step to the podium.

This drama has been filmed for nearly half a year and is nearing its end. Wen Yan doesn't have many parts left, but the value of the award-winning Wen Yan is no longer the same as before, which means the crew has picked up a big bargain.

As soon as Wen Yan showed up on the set, he was warmly welcomed. The director even personally handed him a bouquet of flowers to congratulate him on winning the award.

Wen Yan took the flowers and smiled happily. He liked this crew very much. Although it was not a big production and he was not the main character, the atmosphere of the whole crew was very good. Everyone helped and encouraged each other. The actors did not have any disputes over the ranking. Although the director was strict, he was also very considerate of the actors. Wen Yan also learned a lot from this crew.

He thanked everyone sincerely and then offered to treat everyone to dinner in the evening. Then everyone laughed even happier.

Shen Qi was watching Wen Yan, who was talking and laughing in the crowd, and was unconsciously infected and laughed too.

That's great, that's how it should be.

After a while, the director saw that Wen Yan looked a little tired, and thought that she had just got off the plane and had not rested yet. He looked around and felt that everyone had given their blessings. He waved his hand and told everyone to go about their own business. He patted Wen Yan's shoulder, silently expressed his approval, and left.

Wen Yan was able to escape from the enthusiastic embrace. Shen Qi took the flowers from his hand and looked at Wen Yan with a smile: "Let's go to the hotel to rest first."

Wen Yan nodded. She was really a little tired after being surrounded and made a fuss.

After returning to the hotel, Wen Yan had just finished washing up when Shen Qi came to find him. Unlike him who had just washed and felt refreshed, Shen Qi had just finished his work.

Because there weren't many scenes left and the filming wouldn't take a long time, he came by himself with Wen Yan this time, without an assistant, and had to do everything concerning Wen Yan himself.

Wen Yan said she wanted to treat them, so he had just called to book a place. He came over and told Wen Yan about the dinner in the evening. Wen Yan said it was no problem, and then he went back to his room to rest.

The days on the crew were very dull. Apart from the director's constant persuasion to add a few scenes, and even adding some details to the scenes that had been filmed previously, Wen Yan's life was no different from before.

Wen Yan could actually understand the idea of ​​adding more scenes. His popularity was still good enough, and it could be used as an advertisement to attract traffic. The crew was all good, and he was happy to do something to help them.

What's more, adding scenes or taking behind-the-scenes footage to promote it also increases one's exposure and popularity. Although one doesn't care much about it, it's a win-win situation overall.

Wenyan is easy to talk to and very cooperative.

Sometimes the director would tease him: "You've become a movie king, but you're still so low-key?"

Wen Yan smiled and said, "Even if I become the emperor, I can't be so high-profile."

So the director also laughed. Everyone in the entertainment industry knows that the more famous you are, the more low-key you have to be, because you never know when something you do may not be to their satisfaction, and those who claim to support you will curse you online.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it. There are too many people on the Internet who just follow the crowd, and Wen Yan has experienced this deeply.

The days passed one by one, and no matter how many scenes Wen Yan had to shoot, they were almost finished. On this day, Wen Yan would finish shooting the last two scenes.

The director arranged the filming time in the afternoon, so that when Wen Yan finished filming, they could have a meal together, just to celebrate Wen Yan's completion. After all, it would take some time for the crew to complete the filming, and Wen Yan was no longer the small actor he was when he signed the contract, so he might not be free to attend the crew's completion banquet by then.

Wen Yan had no objection to this arrangement, but when she arrived at the set in the afternoon, she met an unexpected person on the set: Qi Yu'an.

Seeing Xu Huaishu methodically arranging his men to carry milk tea and desserts to the set behind Qi Yu'an, Wen Yan didn't have time to express his doubts before the director saw him and came over to explain.

"Xiao Yan, your boss is really good to you. He came all the way here knowing that you were going to finish your work today."

The director was in a good mood and didn't notice the strange atmosphere. He continued to arrange his staff to help move things while asking Wen Yan to say hello to his boss.

Wen Yan didn't hesitate to hear that. She walked over and greeted Qi Yu'an: "Mr. Qi."

Qi Yu'an responded with Wen Yan: "Well, Shen Qi said that you finished the job today, and I just came here to discuss cooperation, and I came to see you by the way."

"Excuse me, Mr. Qi. I don't have anything to do here. You don't have to be so polite."

"It's okay. It's my way."

Xu Huaishu rolled his eyes when he heard this. Ha, it's quite convenient. I don't know who worked overtime day and night to find two days to come here.

Of course, he wasn't stupid enough to tear down his boss in front of him. After all, he still depended on his boss for his salary.

Everyone was thinking their own thing, and no one responded after this.

Fortunately, our director remembered important matters at this time and hurried over to apologize, because it was time to put makeup on Wen Yan, otherwise the afternoon shooting schedule would be very rushed.

Qi Yu'an nodded without saying anything. The director quickly asked Wen Yan to go to the dressing room, and then told Qi Yu'an to go and look around, and then he hurried to get ready.

Looking at his sullen president standing there stupidly, Xu Huaishu sighed silently and offered a suggestion: "Boss, how about we go watch Master Wen's performance after we divide the things? I haven't seen it live yet."

Qi Yu'an's eyes lit up. He was worried that he had no excuse to stay here. He turned around and gave Xu Huaishu an admiring look, then went to find Wen Yan with peace of mind.