Chapter 382: Could it be that Shen Zhichu and the others are interested in you?
"Mr. Li, Mr. Lu, we are going to shoot the rivalry between the second female lead and the first male lead. Do you want to watch it? Or should I call Yan Yuelai?"
In recent days, the two major investors have been arguing over their investment in a female actress, and everyone speculates that it is Xia Yanyue. In addition, Xia Yanyue did not deny this matter at the opening banquet.
"Yan Yue?" Lu Tingchuan withdrew his gaze from that direction and glanced at the producer.
The producer didn't think much about it and explained, "It's Miss Xia Yanyuexia. She's resting in the lounge right now. Her scenes are in the afternoon, but if you want to see her, I'll have someone invite her over."
The producer used the word "please" and was very humble.
"Xia Yanyue?" Lu Tingchuan became interested and turned to look at Li Jingshen. "Li Jingshen, this name reminds me of your old lover. Do you want them to bring her out for a look?"
His tone was frivolous, as if he was picking up a girl in a nightclub.
Li Jingshen's face darkened. He knew that Lu Tingchuan said that on purpose to disgust him, but it still brought back those unpleasant memories for him.
Lu Tingchuan grinned and glanced at Shen Zhichu frequently. He hadn't forgotten the purpose of his visit this time: "Show me the script for the next performance."
"Okay, okay." The producer took the script from the assistant director and gave one to each person.
The producer felt a little strange seeing that these two people only performed the roles of the second female lead "Zhao Zijin".
"Mr. Lu, Mr. Li, the female lead Zhao Jinyu, played by Yan Yue, has her scenes ahead."
Lu Tingchuan raised his eyes casually, his attitude high and mighty: "Why do you keep mentioning her name in front of us?"
The producer was too slow to react and hadn't even noticed that the two were in a bad mood yet: "Didn't you invest in this movie because of the female lead? I heard that you invested in this movie because of... because of... "
The producer stuttered to form his words.
"Why?" Li Jingshen asked in a deep voice.
"To pursue a female artist on the crew."
Lu Tingchuan chuckled, "That's quite true. So you think I'm spending money to pursue that Xia Yanyue?"
The producer didn't dare to respond, but silence at this time was undoubtedly a tacit agreement.
Lu Tingchuan had a sarcastic look on his face. He had such a big face, yet he was still able to take advantage of it.
I don’t know if the little village girl “Shen Qing” will misunderstand. This woman has always been very silly. She believes whatever others say. Otherwise, she would not have been deceived into coming to him and serving as a substitute for a year and a half.
Lu Tingchuan flipped through a few pages and pointed to a clip, saying, "Alright, invite Xia Yanyue out. We'll film the scene where she's raped by a beggar."
This play is about Zhao Jinyu who ran away from home secretly and was followed and robbed by several beggars in a deep alley. After discovering that she was a woman, they took the opportunity to molest her, but she was rescued by the male protagonist at the critical moment.
It was clearly a good play of a hero saving a beauty, but when it came out of Lu Tingchuan's mouth it sounded like something over 18.
The producers are increasingly confused about what is going on.
Only Wang Xiangrong sneered and cursed in his heart: Idiot.
Lu Tingchuan lazily leaned back in his chair, legs crossed, and had a cup of coffee brought to him. The hot steam was enticing, and the rich aroma of coffee filled the air.
Lu Tingchuan glanced at Li Jingshen, who was frowning and reading the script beside him, and asked, "Would you like a cup of coffee?"
When Li Jingshen opened his mouth, a sudden pain in his chest rushed to his throat along with an itchy feeling, and he couldn't help coughing.
Zhao Qian, who was next to him, immediately opened the thermos he was carrying and fed Li Jingshen the medicine. He then took out a small white bottle, poured a white pill into his palm and held it in front of Li Jingshen.
Li Jingshen was gasping for breath and coughing non-stop. He pinched the white pill with trembling fingertips, put it into his mouth, drank some water and swallowed it.
It took a long time before the violent coughing stopped.
Lu Tingchuan felt a strange feeling in his heart for a moment. There were three people between him and Li Jingshen, and his vision was limited. He could not see clearly what was labeled on the bottle of medicine that Zhao Qian took out.
But the bottle of medicine looked familiar. Lu Tingchuan had studied medicine early on, but his passion wasn't saving lives, but torturing them. When he tortured Shen Zhichu, he injected her with a variety of drugs, some to numb her senses, others to stimulate her brain. Shen Zhichu's initial screams and final gasps were captivating, and even now, recalling them, he can't help but feel his hands itch.
He shifted his gaze in another direction, but could no longer see "Shen Qing".
He never admitted that he was a good person. He liked to torture people. He liked to see the eyes of a person full of light go out. He liked to see her experience despair. He liked to see that person crying and screaming on this torture device, wanting to live but unable to, wanting to die but unable to.
In order to research various medicines, Lu Tingchuan naturally knew a lot about them. I wouldn’t say he knew a lot, but he must have seen some of them.
Lu Tingchuan looked at the small medicine bottle that Zhao Qian had put back. The more he thought about it, the more familiar it seemed, but he just couldn't remember it.
It's like when you're on an exam and you see a big question that the teacher has explained and you've read in the textbook, but you've completely forgotten it and can only barely write out the word "solution".
"Are you sick?" Lu Tingchuan tried to trick Li Jingshen. "Don't get me wrong, I'm not worried about your health. I'm just concerned about when you'll die."
Li Jingshen clenched his fist and placed it against his lips. His thin lips trembled slightly and he was unable to speak for a while.
Zhao Qian said from the side: "Boss Li just has a cold. If Boss Lu wants to care about you, why not take care of yourself?"
"Cold? Why does he look like he's dying to me?" Lu Tingchuan smiled like a fox.
For a dying person to hear such words is undoubtedly a curse.
Li Jingshen put down the script in his hand. In the script, Shen Zhichu's scenes were full of ambiguity, and the scene he was about to perform would cause a lot of friction with the man.
Li Jingshen clenched his teeth so hard that they felt sore. Although he knew it was just an act and couldn't be taken seriously, he still felt uncomfortable.
He had been preparing himself mentally for so many days and had promised not to disturb Shen Zhichu's work, but it all collapsed at this moment.
Fortunately... Li Jingshen closed his eyes and pondered Lu Tingchuan's attitude towards Shen Zhichu.
He didn't think that Lu Tingchuan had trained a substitute for Shen Zhichu because he fell in love with Shen Zhichu.
Someone like Lu Tingchuan only loves himself.
Cultivating a substitute for Shen Zhichu was just to control him and stimulate the pain buried in his soul all the time.
Did Lu Tingchuan love "Shen Qing"? If he did, he wouldn't send her to the bed of her enemy.
But why is he here?
Li Jingshen thought he understood Lu Tingchuan very well, but the facts proved that he really couldn't understand Lu Tingchuan emotionally.
It’s a bit like him back then, blind and heartless.
If Lu Tingchuan really cared about "Shen Qing" seeing such a script, he would have asked the director to change the script.
Just as Li Jingshen was thinking, he heard Lu Tingchuan clapping his hands and lazily saying, "What the hell is this? This script is so disgusting."
When Lu Tingchuan said this, everyone present looked unhappy.
The producer looked terrified, Wang Xiangrong frowned, and the assistant director was stunned.
What do you mean, is Lu Tingchuan here to mess things up?
The producer secretly swallowed his saliva, quietly moved to Wang Xiangrong's side and nudged him with his elbow, saying a few words to him.
At this scene, Wang Xiangrong has the most say.
Lu Tingchuan continued, "As an investor, I'm not satisfied with the script. Is it too much to ask for some changes?"
"Mr. Lu, do you even read the script? Then what are you dissatisfied with?" Wang Xiangrong said this, but in his heart he was thinking that if Lu Tingchuan dared to delete Shen Zhichu's scenes, he would fight him. Who cares if he is an investor? It's just 100 million, right? It doesn't matter if he doesn't want it.
"Delete all the ambiguous scenes of the second female lead. She is designed to be a female general. What's the point of having a daughter's love? It's not decent for her to have a love affair with a man in the movie "Military Winner" and disrupt the morale of the army." He was indignant, but there was some truth to his words.
Wang Xiangrong: "We can't miss some romance scenes, and this is a romantic costume drama, not a military drama..." Before he could finish his words, the producer quickly covered his mouth with his hand and used his eyes to remind him not to say any more.
At times like this, you just have to deal with it first. If you offend Lu Tingchuan, it's not as simple as withdrawing your investment. He will directly make it impossible to shoot the entire play. Even if it is finished, it can't be released. It's not worth it.
The producer nodded and said, "I'll discuss it with the screenwriter. We'll change it however you say. Do you think there's anything else you want to change besides the second female lead?"
"Just delete the second female lead's intimate scenes."
It was impossible to delete it completely. The producer thought for a moment, "Mr. Lu, it's impossible to delete the entire scene. Can you use a stand-in or do a staggered scene?"
"A substitute is fine, but a misplacement is not. It's too close."
Li Jingshen was listening quietly on the side. He had only doubted Lu Tingchuan's attitude towards the stand-in before, but now he was completely sure that Lu Tingchuan was obsessed with "Shen Qing", which was why he asked to delete the intimate scenes.
But if he knew that Shen Qing was dead and this was Shen Zhichu, what would he do?
Should he give up? Or should he use Shen Zhichu to threaten him, like he did in the past?
Li Jingshen didn't dare to take the risk.
It's not that there was no stand-in. Wang Xiangrong had high expectations for the actors and would only use a stand-in when it was a dangerous action. However, he didn't expect that the investor would actually replace all of Shen Zhichu's intimate scenes with a stand-in.
Others didn't understand, but he now understood. Who said that Lu Tingchuan was attracted to Xia Yanyue? It was obvious that he was after Shen Zhichu. Otherwise, why would he change the role of the second female lead?
"What do you think, Mr. Li?" Wang Xiangrong turned to look at Li Jingshen who had been watching the fun from the side.
Li Jingshen said: "Just change it according to his wishes."
Come on, Shen Zhichu is in a situation where there are wolves in front and tigers behind.
"Li Jingshen, I'm a little frustrated. Are you really interested in this substitute?"
"It's not that I look at it, I just don't want it to be dirty. You think so too, don't you?"
That's true, but it's just to make sure the things are clean when they return to you.
He had never kissed "Shen Qing" on the lips, so naturally he didn't want her to be touched by other people. But when he heard the word "thing" coming out of Li Jingshen's mouth, he felt uncomfortable.
………
Shen Zhichu didn't care about anything that happened here.
She stood in the far corner. Zheng Xiao stood beside her, eavesdropping on what was going on. After a while, he lowered his head and said to Shen Zhichu, "I think they said they want to change the script. Will they change our play?"
Seeing that Shen Zhichu ignored him, Zheng Xiao continued to listen attentively, and what happened next was exactly what he had promised.
"I heard it clearly. They want to change your scene and won't let you have a kissing scene, even if it's out of place." Zheng Xiao frowned and looked distressed.
Shen Zhichu said, "Why are you frowning so much when you're changing my play?"
Zheng Xiao sighed: "Who is the one having intimate scenes with you? It's me. If I change yours, I have to change mine, and I have to use a stand-in. The current stand-ins are not good-looking, and there are many men who I can't bring myself to eat..." Zheng Xiao suddenly reflected on what he had said, and quickly shut up, fearing that Shen Zhichu would misunderstand that he was trying to take advantage of her.
However, Shen Zhichu didn't care. All she wanted to do now was to get home from get off work as soon as possible. Whether she was chatting with Bai Qiujing or accompanying Nian Nian, it was better than facing two scumbags here.
Zheng Xiao muttered to himself, "I've finally seen that rich people can do whatever they want."
Only now? She had seen it a long time ago. These two people not only did whatever they wanted, but also could do anything, and they treated the law as nothing.
"Don't you have any thoughts about the changes to your play?" Zheng Xiao asked.
"It's just some insignificant drama, so just change it."
"I've discovered my blind spot now. Why did these two investors specifically choose to change your play and specifically pick out the intimate scenes? Shen Zhichu, could it be that they have a crush on you?"
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