Chapter 721 is a bit over the top (4600 words)
However, after learning about the original story of "Ten Miles of Fragrance", Yan Liang made a decision.
He had just gotten off the high-speed train.
The high-speed rail platform was bustling with noise.
He, along with his assistant and bodyguards, exited the station following the flow of people.
The bustling exit, dimly lit, with the night still stretching into the distance, was nearly midnight. Yet, it was as noisy as a market, a market in its prime.
Someone came to pick me up, but the driver either got the time wrong or was stuck in traffic and couldn't see the car.
The assistant made a phone call to contact the other party.
Yan Liang called Zhou Ping'an.
He didn't care that it was the middle of the night and Zhou Ping'an couldn't possibly be asleep at this hour.
As expected, Zhou Pingan answered immediately.
"I don't want to act in the play 'Ten Miles of Fragrance'," Yan Liang said bluntly. "It's not suitable for me."
Zhou Ping'an asked in surprise and disbelief, "How is it not suitable for you?"
"The male lead is a handsome immortal, and he doesn't fit my image in the minds of many female readers," Yan Liang said frankly. "If I were to play the role, I would definitely be met with a barrage of criticism. Haven't you noticed that?"
Zhou Pingan said, "Personal image can be adjusted, and your image can also be modified through makeup and styling."
“If it were that easy, then there wouldn’t be so much criticism of casting for many IP projects,” Yan Liang said rationally. “I won’t take this role.”
Zhou Ping'an said, "Yan Liang, this project is more of a strategic choice. Think about it, how many resources will Shijin have in the future? Such a large capital group is doing a film and television project."
Yan Liang said, "Do I lack acting opportunities right now?"
Zhou Ping'an was speechless.
Yan Liang added, "Moreover, regarding my future plans, as I've already told you, with the Friends and Gold Rush series in hand, I no longer need to choose mainstream and popular themes to please the audience. I've already acted in one fantasy film, and my future focus on movies is to act in some real films."
Yan Liang hasn't actually seen any successful fantasy romance movies.
This doesn't seem to be a suitable subject for the big screen.
Yan Liang wasn't saying it was certain it wouldn't succeed, but the premise for taking the risk was that he himself really liked it and was willing to take the risk.
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The car has finally arrived.
Yan Liang got on the car. It would take about an hour and a half to get from the high-speed rail station to the hotel.
He put on his headphones and closed his eyes to rest.
Suddenly remembering something, he opened his eyes, took out his phone, and sent a message to Li Zhibai: Are you asleep?
Li Zhibai has not replied.
I guess they're asleep.
It seems filming is quite tiring.
Yan Liang pursed his lips.
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"Ignore him. If I do, he'll definitely come looking for me."
Li Zhibai smiled at Jiang Yuqian.
"Are you hungry? Would you like to order something to eat?" Li Zhi asked.
Jiang Yuqian said, "It's alright, I'm not hungry. If you're hungry, you can order something yourself."
Li Zhibai: "I am indeed hungry."
He took out his phone, searched for takeout options, and ordered some barbecue.
Are you leaving very early tomorrow morning?
"Okay." Jiang Yuqian nodded. "I have to leave at seven. What about you? When do you start work?"
Li Zhibai: "Ten o'clock."
"Then don't worry about me, I can walk by myself."
“No way, I have to take you,” Li Zhibai said. “I already have the car keys, I’ll take you to the high-speed rail station.”
Jiang Yuqian: "What if someone takes a picture of us in a place like a high-speed rail station?"
Li Zhibai: "How could we have been photographed? This place is quite remote. We came here to film a movie, and there weren't even any paparazzi taking pictures of us."
The filming location for "You Are the Apple of My Eye" was an old town with a very lively atmosphere.
The film crew has been shooting here for so many days, and apart from some locals who come to take a look out of curiosity, there haven't been any media reporters coming to take pictures.
This is quite rare.
Four popular celebrities are filming movies here.
Jiang Yuqian said, "Let's be on the safe side."
Hearing Jiang Yuqian say that, Li Zhibai frowned, somewhat displeased.
Jiang Yuqian was always worried that their affair would be photographed.
Although Li Zhibai knew that Jiang Yuqian didn't want any complications at this time, and didn't want to encounter any problems during her rising period, it still made him a little unhappy.
Li Zhibai had always wanted to go public with Jiang Yuqian's relationship.
He openly took her hand and told everyone that they were together.
They had several unpleasant arguments and disagreements about this. Even after they made up, they simply put the matter aside and never brought it up again.
Jiang Yuqian didn't want him to take her, so he let it go.
That's the only way.
At this moment, Jiang Yuqian hugged Li Zhibai from behind.
"After you finished filming 'You Are the Apple of My Eye,' do you have any plans to film anything this year?" Jiang Yuqian asked.
Li Zhibai nodded, "The other projects I've taken on will all start filming next year, after which I can take a break."
Jiang Yuqian said, "I took on an independent film in the United States. There's no pay. It's directed by a Chinese-American director, and there's a role in it that I think would be suitable for you. Would you like to take the role? That way, we can legitimately stay on set for over a month."
Li Zhibai showed a look of surprise and delight.
"Really?"
"Mmm." Jiang Yuqian nodded, her eyes shining sweetly. "Are you willing? There's not much pay."
"What the hell do you want in terms of pay?" Li Zhibai turned around and pressed down on him again.
My mood instantly improved, and I felt energized.
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Yan Liang yawned, his eyes watering with sleepiness.
Finally, we arrived at the hotel.
He got out of the car, yawning while covering his mouth, and entered the hotel.
While his assistants went to the front desk to complete the formalities, he sat on the sofa in the lobby and waited.
Suddenly, a figure walked past him.
?
Li Zhibai?
Although the person in front of him was wearing a hat, had his head down, and his collar was turned up high, making it almost impossible to see his face, Yan Liang was too familiar with Li Zhibai to recognize him just by seeing a corner of his figure.
If Yan Liang saw such a figure in another city, he might think that he had encountered someone who looked a bit like Li Zhibai.
However, Yan Liang felt that it was unlikely that there would be another person who looked so much like Li Zhibai in the same hotel where Li Zhibai was staying.
The person took a takeout bag from the express delivery locker at the door, then immediately lowered their head and turned to walk back.
Look at how sneaky he is.
She wasn't asleep, but she didn't reply to his messages.
That's strange.
Yan Liang immediately followed.
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Li Zhibai waited for an empty elevator before entering, but just as the door was about to close, someone suddenly walked in.
Li Zhibai subconsciously turned to the side to avoid being recognized.
Suddenly, Yan Liang's voice rang out.
"Li Zhibai, what are you doing, sneaking around like that?"
Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, staring at Yan Liang in astonishment.
Yan Liangzheng looked at him with a puzzled expression.
Li Zhibai: "..."
Yan Liang's gaze moved down and landed on the takeout in Li Zhibai's hand.
"You're eating takeout late at night and not replying to my messages," Yan Liang said, glancing sideways at Li Zhibai. "What do you mean by this?"
Li Zhibai: "...I didn't look at my phone."
"You didn't check your phone? How did you order takeout if you didn't check your phone?" Yan Liang immediately seized on the loophole in Li Zhibai's words and said.
Li Zhibai: "..."
Li Zhi remained silent for a long time. Then, with a "ding," the elevator arrived.
The floor where Li Zhibai's room is located.
However, Li Zhibai did not go out.
The elevator doors were about to close again.
Yan Liang reacted quickly, reaching out to block the slowly closing elevator doors.
At that moment, he looked at Li Zhibai with great surprise.
Li Zhibai's sudden silence and speechlessness seemed to have never occurred before in Yan Liang's memory.
Li Zhibai's shamelessness, arrogance, and unconventional behavior left the other party speechless in most cases.
Yan Liang was silent for two seconds, then raised his hand and poked Li Zhibai twice from a distance, saying, "Get out."
Li Zhibai glanced at him silently and stepped out of the elevator.
Yan Liang gave Li Zhibai the middle finger and pressed the "off" button.
This middle finger gesture continued until the elevator doors were completely closed.
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Are you asleep?
—Not yet, we're filming a long night scene tonight.
—That Li Zhibai is definitely in love!
—? ? ?
—I haven't been working these past two days. I came to visit him on set, and I just got to the hotel…
...
Lu Yanhe stood up abruptly from his chair.
He stared in shock at the long message Yan Liang had sent him.
He replied: You mean, that woman is in his room?
Yan Liang: It must be. Otherwise, I can't think of a second explanation.
Lu Yanhe's mind suddenly went blank as he recalled a conjecture he had deliberately ignored.
He fell silent.
Yan Liang: I still have a conscience, so I didn't force him to take me to his room.
Lu Yanhe: Since he didn't tell us, there must be a reason why he couldn't tell us.
If it was really as he thought, he could also imagine why Li Zhibai hadn't said anything.
Yan Liang: That's what I think too. The fact that this guy suddenly became speechless means the situation is a bit serious.
Lu Yanhe: Then let's pretend we don't know and wait and see.
Yan Liang: I have to visit this guy on set tomorrow, and I have to pretend I don't know anything.
Lu Yanhe: He's definitely more embarrassed than you are.
Yan Liang: That's true.
Lu Yanhe: What you said makes me really want to fly over and watch the show.
Yan Liang: When will your film wrap up?
Lu Yanhe: It's still early. It'll probably take until the end of September to film. Liu Bige is filming too slowly.
Yan Liang: It's definitely a masterpiece; slow and steady wins the race.
Lu Yanhe: Whether it's a masterpiece or not, we don't know yet, but it's certainly given us all a lot of trouble.
Yan Liang: Hahahaha, even Zhou Ping'an came to ask me if you had told us whether the story of you arguing with Liu Bige was true or false.
Lu Yanhe: What's it to him? Why are you so concerned?
Yan Liang: Although he didn't care much about you when you were in his hands, his concern for you became consistent and unwavering after you were no longer in his hands.
Lu Yanhe: ...
Yan Liang: Although he never says it, I can feel how much he regrets this matter with you.
Lu Yanhe: Then he should regret quite a few people and things.
Yan Liang: Say it to his face next time.
Lu Yanhe: I can't be bothered to meet him, it's pointless.
Yan Liang: Okay, I'm sleepy, I'm going to wash up and go to bed. You can continue to stay up all night, good luck.
Lu Yanhe: Go to sleep.
He put down his phone and yawned.
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On set, everyone was busy, except for a few actors waiting for their scenes, who sat to the side.
No one chatted.
I don't know why, but in this film crew, people rarely chat on set.
Even if we bump into each other in the lounge or dressing room, we might chat for a while, but as soon as we get to the film set, it's like the atmosphere changes, and we can't start a conversation at all.
Perhaps it's also because of the subject matter of this movie.
At the scene, the only person who would talk to Lu Yanhe was Zhou Ruo.
However, Zhou Ruo's scenes are generally not in the intelligence station.
There was no scene for Zhou Ruo that night.
Lu Yanhe yawned again.
We don't know when the next scene will start filming yet; we're waiting for notification.
Waiting on-site like this is indeed a terrible way to kill time.
Suddenly, his phone notified him that someone had sent him a message.
Lu Yanhe was somewhat surprised.
At this hour, who would still message him?
Upon closer inspection, hey, it was Zhou Ping'an!
Zhou Pingan said to him: Yan He, I don't know if you are free? Yan Liang turned down a role, and I think he should take it. You are his friend, and I hope you can help persuade him. This project could very well be a turning point in his career.
Lu Yanhe was shocked.
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"I just ran into Yan Liang in the elevator."
Li Zhibai said to Jiang Yuqian.
Jiang Yuqian stared wide-eyed in surprise.
"He asked me why I didn't reply to his messages." Li Zhibai, with his back to Jiang Yuqian, silently ate the kebabs in front of him. "I didn't know what to say."
Jiang Yuqian got out of bed and walked straight behind Li Zhibai. "Then—did you talk to him?"
“No.” Li Zhibai shook his head. “He probably guessed that I had something difficult to say, so he let me go.”
Jiang Yuqian hesitated for a moment.
"You tell them."
"What?" Li Zhibai was stunned.
Jiang Yuqian: "If it's Yan Liang and Lu Yanhe, it doesn't matter if you tell them."
Li Zhibai revealed a look of surprise and looked at Jiang Yuqian in astonishment.
"Really?"
"Hmm." Jiang Yuqian nodded, then suddenly thought of something, "That's right, it will probably take them a while to accept it after they find out."
After thinking for a moment, Li Zhibai realized what Jiang Yuqian was referring to.
"Who cares about them?"
The smile on Li Zhibai's face never faded.
"Then I'll tell them tomorrow."
Jiang Yuqian took a deep breath. "Whatever."
She walked towards the restroom.
Li Zhibai: "Can I really say that?"
His voice was confident, loud, and spirited, like a proud boy waving his test paper around the classroom.
Jiang Yuqian felt both helpless and moved.
She felt inexplicably nervous at that moment.
She herself didn't even know why.
It's probably because... she never imagined that her relationship with Li Zhibai would end up like this.
That's incredible.
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Although Jiang Yuqian didn't want Li Zhibai to drive her, Li Zhibai still got up with her and spent some time cuddling before reluctantly seeing her off.
“I’m leaving,” Jiang Yuqian said. “I’ll recommend you to the director for that independent film script from America, and he’ll contact you again.”
Li Zhi nodded a hundred times.
After a night, he was in high spirits, nodding at everything Jiang Yuqian said.
After Jiang Yuqian left, Li Zhibai lay back down on the bed, picked up his phone, thought for a moment, and sent a message to Yan Liang: Your father has woken up, aren't you going to come and pay your respects?
After waiting for a long time, Yan Liang still didn't reply.
Li Zhibai: You wouldn't be so petty as to still be angry, would you?
Still no reply.
Li Zhibai clicked his tongue.
He made a phone call.
After waiting for a while, Yan Liang's hoarse, groggy voice, clearly still half asleep, finally rang out.
"Are you fucking crazy? Calling me at seven o'clock?"
Li Zhibai: "You're still not awake at seven o'clock? You'd usually be back from your morning run by now."
Yan Liang: "You fucking didn't go to sleep until 2 a.m., try going for a morning run the next day."
Li Zhibai: "Why are you so angry? Hurry up and get up, we'll see you at the restaurant."
"Get lost." Yan Liang hung up the phone.
Li Zhibai: "...This temper is terrible. It wasn't like this before."
Fine, he can go back to sleep then.
He threw off the covers and fell asleep almost immediately.
I don't know how long I slept; it felt like I had just closed my eyes.
My phone suddenly rang.
Li Zhibai answered the phone, yawning as he asked, "What?"
Yan Liang's roar nearly blew Li Zhibai's skull off.
"You fucking said you'd meet me at the restaurant! Where the hell are you?!"
Li Zhibai jolted awake and jumped out of bed.
"Coming, coming! I thought you weren't going to come, so I went back to sleep too. I'll be right there!"
Li Zhibai left home with his hair covered in chicken feathers, entered the elevator, and saw himself in the elevator mirror. "Uh—"
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I took one ibuprofen tablet in the morning and another in the afternoon, and only felt a little better in the evening.
Today, there will still only be short chapters updated.
(End of this chapter)
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