The crying scene couldn't be rushed, so that scene was put on hold and the other parts were filmed first.
In the blink of an eye, it was June 13th. It was a working day, Thursday. It was an ordinary day for others, but it was different for the Wei family.
Today is Wei Lan's birthday. She turns nineteen today, even though her appearance makes it look like only four candles can be put on the cake.
When Wei Lan woke up early in the morning, there were three gifts in his room.
One big, one medium and one small.
The biggest gift was from Ye Luoxue, and the label read: 'Baby, Mommy loves you.'
The gift box was very large, but it was thoughtfully designed with a side opening so that Wei Lan could see what was inside by pulling open the ribbon.
Inside the box is a pink convertible retro-style car!
It was obviously specially made. Its appearance was exactly the same as the convertible car driven by the heroine in the movie "Breakfast", which was ranked third on the World Light and Shadow Network. This car was rated as a car that every retro socialite could not resist. Wei Lan once praised its appearance when watching a movie with Ye Luoxue. Unexpectedly, his mother kept it in mind without saying a word.
Of course, the one Wei Lan has in front of him is a smaller version. It is automatically operated and powered by electricity. Its level of sophistication is by no means comparable to that of an ordinary toy car. It is conceivable that its price will not be much cheaper than directly customizing an original car.
The purpose of this car is naturally to serve as Wei Lan's means of transportation in the Wei family villa.
It would be a lie to say that it was not beautiful or dreamy. It was indeed convenient for Wei Lan. When she imagined herself driving this car, she could already foresee that Ye Luoxue would take crazy photos of her...
The medium-sized box was a gift from Wei Sijia.
Wei Lan took it apart and saw a transparent handmade glass house.
There are very obvious traces of manual work, and from some details you can see that the stitching technique is a bit rough. The pillows in the house have messy stitches, but you can see that the maker was very careful and no cotton wool is exposed.
The furniture, fabrics, electrical appliances... all these little things in the glass house need to be handmade and put together. It can be imagined that it takes a lot of time. For Wei Sijia, who not only has to make movies, but also go to school, and occasionally participate in group activities, to complete this gift, she may have to start preparing a month in advance.
There are four felt figures in the cozy room, a pair of parents and two daughters.
Wei Lan turned on the small light button next to her, and the light strip in the glass house lit up. The whole winter cottage was warm and dreamy. This thoughtful gift made her couldn't help but smile.
But when she saw the felt figures representing her two daughters, her smile froze again...
Even the Q-version figurines can be distinguished by size. The big one is Wei Sijia with long hair tied in a ponytail, and the small one with a watermelon head obviously represents her. She is sitting in a rocking chair, and a little panda doll is thoughtfully placed in the rocking chair.
After placing the beautiful glass house on the table, Wei Lan opened the gift from the youngest, Wei Mingjie.
Wei Lan originally thought that the gift would be some jewelry or something, but when the call came, he unexpectedly saw a key.
Although it was his birthday, he still had to go to work. After Wei Lan walked out of the room, he saw his smiling parents and Wei Sijia. After the four of them had a happy breakfast, they went to work together.
When they went out, Wei Mingjie walked in front, Ye Luoxue walked in the middle holding Wei Lan, and Wei Sijia walked at the end.
She looked at her parents and Wei Lan, and a bitterness slowly welled up in her heart.
Did mom and dad forget that today is also her birthday...
Wei Sijia pursed her lips. When she got in the car, she had adjusted her mood and did not let her emotions show. This was Wei Lan's first birthday back home. He had been without his parents' company for the previous eighteen years. Now that she was making up for it, she would definitely pay more attention to Wei Lan. She could understand!
Wei Lan next to him was still asking Wei Mingjie: "Dad, what kind of key is this? Is the gift you gave me a house?"
Wei Mingjie smiled mysteriously and exchanged glances with Ye Luoxue: "You'll know when you get to the company."
After arriving at Wei's, Wei Lan quickly found out what birthday gift Wei Mingjie gave her.
An independent studio exclusively for Wei Lan Studio, equipped with the latest and best director's camera and actor cabin.
After Wei Lan signed into Wei's company, Wei Mingjie began to prepare. No shareholder would object to the issue of occupying space, but the funds for purchasing the specific equipment would be paid by Wei Mingjie out of his own pocket.
"Thank you, Dad!" Wei Lan happily hugged Wei Mingjie. Even with Wei Lan's calm personality, he couldn't wait to enter the studio to observe, touching everything, and was very excited.
Data migration takes some time. When "The Queen" is in post-production, it can be produced in this studio dedicated to Wei Lan.
Wei Mingjie and Ye Luoxue saw her rare excitement and smiled dotingly at her.
Wei Sijia looked at this scene and smiled with a sour taste in her mouth. The envy and grievance in her heart gradually began to rise.
After visiting the new studio, Wei Mingjie went to handle work, and Ye Luoxue took Wei Lan to the studio to film. Neither Wei Sijia's parents nor Wei Lan mentioned anything about her birthday, and they didn't even pay much attention to her, as if they had completely forgotten her. Wei Sijia's mood was completely shrouded in gloom.
When it was time to shoot, Wei Sijia looked very pale as she slowly walked into the actor's cabin.
Through the one-way glass window of the director's office, Ye Luoxue saw Wei Sijia's emotions and couldn't help showing a worried look. Seeing this, Wei Lan patted her hand and entered the director's room.
In the holographic world, after finishing filming Su Yining's scenes, Wei Lan suddenly said, "Let's film the breakup scene today, Sijia, is that okay?"
"...Ah?" Wei Sijia seemed to be suddenly awakened from sleepwalking, and answered subconsciously: "Sure!"
A few minutes later, looking at He Zixuan in front of her, Wei Sijia still had the illusion that she didn't know who she was or where she was.
He Zixuan spread his hands and said disappointedly: "I think we should all separate for a while to calm down."
At this time, the phone in Wei Sijia's hand rang again. It was her boss Moran calling.
She suddenly felt that the voice on the phone was very irritating, full of pressure that she could not vent. Why? Did she do something wrong? Why was she forgotten? Why did no one understand her? She also longed for attention and love!
Wei Sijia's eyes suddenly turned red. At this moment, she didn't know whether she was Wei Sijia or Lu Wei. She tilted her head, trying hard not to let the tears fall, and told herself to be strong.
But soon her cheeks were covered with moisture, and she touched the tears on her face. This evidence reminded her that she had exposed her true emotions.
Instead, she couldn't bear it anymore. Looking at He Zixuan's receding back, as if it overlapped with the backs of her parents today, she slowly squatted down like an abandoned child and sobbed alone on the spot.
"Click, passed!"
Wei Lan's voice rang out, suddenly waking Wei Sijia up.
She looked up and saw the panda suddenly appear in front of her.
The panda put his hands together and clapped his hands. His voice spread throughout the entire crew: "Very good. Today's filming is going smoothly. We will stop here this afternoon."
Upon hearing the news, regardless of whether they were workaholics or not, everyone's first reaction was to cheer happily.
Wei Lan added: "Today is Scarlett's birthday, let's sing a birthday song for her and call it a day!"
As her words fell, the sky in the holographic world suddenly darkened, and a firework burst out of thin air from the panda's paw, exploded above Wei Sijia's head, who looked up in surprise, and then formed a string of dreamy and sparkling words.
Wei Sijia, happy birthday!
The other actors nearby also gathered around and expressed their congratulations to Wei Sijia.
Actors are a very expressive group. When they gathered together, they were not awkward at all. Instead, they enthusiastically surrounded her and sang the birthday song.
Wei Sijia stood in the middle looking extremely embarrassed, her cheeks flushed, and she kept wiping the tears from her face. The sadness she had felt before had long since disappeared into thin air.
After leaving the actor cabin, the still somewhat confused Wei Sijia was embraced by Ye Luoxue and left the studio. Wei Mingjie had already finished his work in advance, and the family of four returned home early. Aunt Zhang at home had prepared a table of delicious food, and on the table was a cake that looked very delicious. There were sugar figures made on the cake, which were life-size miniature versions of the four of them.
At this point, Wei Sijia couldn't figure out the reason. Wei Lan deliberately did this in collaboration with his parents in order to shoot this scene.
Wei Sijia looked at Wei Lan, the instigator, angrily, feeling that she was neither angry nor loving at this moment.
Wei Mingjie took out his gift, a pearl necklace that Wei Sijia had always wanted; Ye Luoxue's gift was in the garage, it was the same retro convertible that she gave to Wei Lan, but unlike Wei Lan, the one she could give to Wei Sijia was a real car.
As for Wei Lan's gift...
Even though Wei Sijia was still angry, she was very curious. After opening the package, she saw a stack of bound papers inside.
Wei Sijia felt a little strange, then turned to the first page and saw the words on it.
Movie title: tentative
Screenwriter/Director: Wei Lan
Actress: Wei Sijia
Wei Sijia turned back and saw nothing behind her either.
She raised her head in surprise and looked at Wei Lan: "Is that what I thought it meant?"
Obviously, this was a script and also a promise. Wei Lan's birthday gift to her was to make a movie in which she would play the leading role.
Although the plot of the movie "The Queen" revolves around her and she is one of the two female protagonists, she understands that the one who is truly expressive and eye-catching is the "Queen" Moran played by Qin An.
"Yes." Wei Lan smiled: "But you know me, I won't ruin my movie. If you can't meet my requirements, I won't shoot it."
"I know." Wei Sijia couldn't help but hold the script in her arms and hugged it tightly, then quickly returned to her room and placed it in the center of the high shelf.
After dinner, Wei Sijia found Wei Lan.
"Thank you for your gift, I like it very much." Her face changed as she said this: "But let's be honest, you went too far this time. You know I did this..."
She pointed at the glass house that Wei Lan had placed on the desk, stretched out her finger, and let Wei Lan see the tiny wound on it: "I prepared your birthday present a month in advance, and you treated me like this for the sake of filming..."
As she spoke, Wei Sijia felt really aggrieved and pouted her lips, about to cry again.
"Ah..." Wei Lan scratched his head in pain: "What do you want? I will agree to one more reasonable request that I can do, and it will be my apology to you!"
Seeing Wei Sijia dropping gold beans, Wei Lan felt a little guilty, but if she was asked if she would still do it if she knew that this would make Wei Sijia sad, she would still do it. In her previous life, Wei Lan was not called a tyrant on the set for nothing. In order to achieve the best effect for the movie, she never cared about what method was used.
The difference is that if it was the previous Wei Lan, he would not care about Wei Sijia's emotions afterwards, nor would he feel guilty. He would probably think it was natural: All of us have the goal of making a good movie, and as an actor, you have done your job well. Isn't that good?
In her previous life, Wei Lan was a solitary person. She had a strong personality, no worries, and was at the top of her industry. She did everything for the sake of movies and treated interpersonal relationships as she pleased. People who had worked with her respected and feared her, and few people wanted to approach her purely out of desire.
But now, as a young child who needs to rely on adults around her for most of her actions, Wei Lan has established many relationships in the process and has also developed concerns in her heart, for her family, for her friends...
Who knew that Wei Sijia was waiting for this moment and wiped away her tears instantly.
"You and I will be on a show."
This sudden change made Wei Lan wonder if today's events had already opened up her crying meridians, and that she was just acting when she was about to cry.
Wei Lan asked cautiously, "What show? You know my situation. I can do the ones like 'Actors Go Forward' last time, but not other shows where I can show my face."
Wei Sijia just said: "Sure, you can participate!"
"So you still have to show up? What show?" Wei Lan frowned, with an ominous premonition in his heart.
Wei Sijia slowly revealed a smile that looked like a devil to Wei Lan: "Parent-child interactive program "Family with Second Child"."
Wei Lan: “Ah, this…”
Wei Sijia's smile fell, her eyes began to gather strength, staring at Wei Lan closely: "What you promised before, it's a reasonable request that you can do."
Is this what it means to dig a hole and bury yourself?
Finally, Wei Lan gritted his teeth in pain and said, "Step on."
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