Chapter 73 Taking the script with you on a walk?
"You really came here to check the script."
Meng Bai said regretfully as he looked at Li Yitong's script which was covered with various sticky notes and blank spaces.
"Didn't you say that everyone is welcome to come to your room to ask questions at any time?" Li Yitong smiled and stuck close to Meng Bai, teasing, "Or, Teacher Meng, do you actually plan to do something else with me?"
Meng Bai looked at the woman so close, leaned sideways, and said in a nostalgic tone, "Oh, I seem to vaguely remember someone saying that if you get the role, you have to commit yourself to me. So many days have passed, and no one has come to fulfill their promise. I wonder if they are planning to default. Alas, young people nowadays really don't keep their word..."
Li Yitong's fair face instantly turned red when she heard this. She stepped back a few steps at a loss, and tried to remain calm and said, "Ha, who is going to default on the debt? I, I'm just too busy recently and don't have time. You wait until the filming of this drama is finished, and then I will fulfill my promise. Some people don't just talk."
After that, she ran to pour herself a glass of water and calmed down.
Haha, the little girl dared to tease me.
Meng Bai smiled with satisfaction. This girl is a typical "high attack and low defense". She usually looks very defensive, but in fact, she will break the defense with a little touch.
But it can't be said that she forced an excuse. It can be seen from the full script that she has been working hard to prepare for this role recently.
In this effort, in addition to not wanting to embarrass Meng Bai as the "personally selected" heroine, it is more of her own inner motivation.
Although she looks like a sweet girl, she is actually very strong-willed.
After drinking the water, Li Yitong came back and saw Meng Bai sitting at the table holding the script and looking at her. She couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "What are you doing?"
"Aren't you here to ask me questions?" Meng Bai patted the script in his hand and said, "This will help you answer your questions."
Looking at the serious expression on Meng Bai's face, Li Yitong felt warm in her heart - this guy is still very attractive when he is reliable occasionally!
She didn't have any thoughts of avoiding suspicion, so she sat directly next to Meng Bai. According to the marked places on the script, she took out some questions that she didn't understand during the script reading in the daytime and asked them one by one.
"Although Chen Xi is Fang Mu's girlfriend, she is just an ordinary college student. Why can she follow Fang Mu into the crime scene?"
"According to the plot, Chen Xi had been dating Fang Mu for many years during the 'vampire' case, but why do I feel that there is always a sense of distance between the two of them in the description of the script?"
"And here, the plot says that Chen Xi began to become weak, but did not explain the reason. Is it because of illness?"
"..."
Li Yitong asked very seriously, and from time to time she wrote down Meng Bai's explanation and her own thoughts on the script. But Meng Bai was answering questions seriously at first, but gradually he became distracted.
It's not his fault. The girl was too close to him. Meng Bai could even feel the heat from her and the unique fragrance of a girl.
It's hard to describe the smell of this fragrance. It's like the girl with big eyes, fair skin and good grades who sat at the same table with you in middle school. You asked her questions during self-study class, and then she came to you and explained the questions to you seriously. You twitched your nose and could vaguely smell the fragrance of shower gel and the breath of a young girl.
Of course, youth is too far away from Meng Bai. He is just hormonally activated now.
Thanks to sister Qin Lan. If she hadn't helped him to relieve his "depressed and clumsy spirit" some time ago, he might have become a "small-headed dad" now.
Meng Bai got up and poured himself a glass of water. When he came back, he sat a little further away from the girl smoothly and naturally.
Anyway, there won't be any "extravagant" activities tonight, so why make yourself uncomfortable?
Li Yitong didn't feel anything strange about Meng Bai. She was now focusing on the script. Seeing him pouring water, she asked, "I've always been curious, why are the scripts you sent to us incomplete? What happened at the end of the plot of 'The Seventh Reader'?"
Meng Bai didn't rush to answer. He took a sip of water first, and then said calmly, "There is a reason for not giving you the script. Just act according to the existing plot. When the filming reaches the relevant stage, you will naturally know what will happen later."
As a story with the main theme of "suspense crime", the plot of "Psychological Crime" is naturally inseparable from the "narrative trick". Just like the plot of "The Seventh Reader", the murderer "Wu Han" committed crimes one by one according to a list of library cards. The last one, that is, the "seventh" reader who borrowed books, is the heroine "Chen Xi" played by Li Yitong.
According to the setting of the plot, "Chen Xi", as the last victim, was "beheaded" in public during the drama performance. Fang Mu, who could not accept this fact, sealed up this memory and imagined a Chen Xi who was still by his side.
In order to take care of his emotions, his friends such as Tai Wei did not burst his fantasy, hoping that he could slowly accept this reality as time went by.
Therefore, it is normal for Li Yitong to have doubts about this part of the plot. The plot development itself is to use these "details" to foreshadow the final story reversal.
As for why she was not given a complete script, it was of course to take care of the acting skills of these newcomers.
The difficulty of these two types of performances, "acting according to the normal plot without knowing the truth" and "acting with deliberately misleading acting after knowing the truth", is still very different. Once the performance is not good, the latter's "misleading performance" will appear very deliberate, which is undoubtedly a bad "watching experience" for the audience.
So in order to ensure that the performance of the new leading actors in the first half can be as natural as possible, Meng Bai simply withheld the script for the second half and gave it to them when they filmed that part.
To put it bluntly, these newcomers are too green, forcing Meng Bai and his creative team to think of some tricks to ensure quality.
Alas, I miss the previous "Pendulum Trio" a little bit.
Li Yitong is also more obedient, or she trusts Meng Bai more in this kind of serious matter. Therefore, she just put her doubts back in her heart and wait until the filming is done later.
"Hmm..."
Li Yitong yawned coquettishly, rubbed her eyes and said, "Why do I feel a little sleepy?"
"It would be strange if you weren't sleepy. It's already past ten o'clock."
"It's already ten o'clock?" Li Yitong looked at her phone in surprise and found that more than three hours had passed.
Meng Bai stood up, saluted and said, "My lady, it's late at night. I'm going to rest. I wonder if you want to stay and sleep with me?"
"Haha, next time, next time for sure."
"Or, next time for sure, this kind of thing is the most annoying!"
Li Yitong gave him a bright smile, picked up the script and stood up and said, "Then, see you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow. Also, don't come tomorrow night, and leave some time for others." Meng Bai said.
Li Yitong asked in confusion, "But I see that no one else has come to see you tonight except me."
"No one came to see me because I told everyone in the crew group that tonight's time has been booked." Meng Bai said.
"Ah?" Li Yitong quickly opened the crew's WeChat group, and sure enough, she saw Meng Bai's @ everyone message, and there were also jokes from Wu Bai and several crew members below.
Fortunately, Meng Bai only said that he had someone here, but did not say who was here.
It's not that she was afraid of others knowing, but this kind of relationship between the "female lead" and the "producer" is easy to make people think too much, and there are many people in the crew, and some things will turn out to be unknown as they are passed on.
She is not worried that others will know about her "closeness" with Meng Bai, but she is afraid that others will misunderstand their "relationship".
Leaving Meng Bai's room, Li Yitong walked towards her own room. She lived on the floor below Meng Bai, next door to Zhu Xudan.
She swiped the card to open the door, and was about to enter the room when she suddenly heard the door next to her open, and then Zhu Xudan poked his head out of the room and saw her.
"Sister Tongtong." Zhu Xudan smiled sweetly: "You're back so late?"
"Oh, the room is a bit stuffy, I just went downstairs for a walk." Li Yitong said naturally.
"Well, taking a walk." Zhu Xudan glanced at the script in her hand and said, "Take the script with you even when you take a walk. Sister Tongtong works very hard."
Li Yitong was not flustered at all. She shook the script in her hand and said, "No, I just remembered that I left the script in the conference room when I came back just now, so I took it up and thought I would take a look at it before going to bed."
"Is that so..." Zhu Xudan glanced at her suspiciously, but did not see any flaws. He could only smile and said, "Then go to bed early. You will be busy tomorrow too."
"You too, good night."
(End of this chapter)
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