Chapter 173
"What happened next?" Bai Roushuang asked.
Song Ping smiled and said, "Later, we talked about the contract. Her current company has somewhat delayed her development, and she has some conflicts with her agent. From my perspective as a businessman, she is a very promising artist, and signing her has no disadvantages."
"…Is this all you guys talked about? Are you guys together at all?"
Song Ping smiled but said nothing.
"Forget it, I won't ask anymore." Bai Roushuang gave him a hug. "No matter what, I always hope that you can be happy."
Song Ping patted her on the back: "I understand, I will."
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The original screenwriter is still with the crew. After all, the contract has been signed and the salary has been paid. He occasionally helps polish Bai Roushuang's script, modify the wording, add some scenery descriptions from time to time, and find some work for the set designer.
Occasionally, he still tried to persuade Bai Roushuang to change the script. The screenwriter thought from the beginning that Bai Roushuang looked easy to talk to. After hitting a wall countless times, he finally realized that one cannot judge a person by appearance. This guy simply would not listen to any persuasion, and no matter how he tried to persuade her with kind words or to put on the pressure by showing off his status as a senior, it was all useless.
Sometimes he would deliberately find fault, saying that the plot of the series was a mess, saying that Xu Shulou finally became an immortal, and now he had to go back to the human world. It was not as good as the original novel, at least the plot of the novel was clear, which was the process of Lu Beichen becoming stronger and gaining fame and fortune.
Bai Roushuang smiled and said, "The main plot of the series has never been about becoming an immortal or becoming stronger, but about the various people Xu Shulou has met along the way, good people and bad people, strange people and mediocre people, as well as all kinds of things, happy, regretful, wonderful, and ordinary. These people and things make up the entire world of cultivation."
“…”
Faced with this man's nitpicking, Bai Roushuang was willing to explain politely at first, but later, after a cautious probing phase, she stopped negotiating with him and instead tried to anger him to death with just one word.
Finally, one afternoon, the original screenwriter was so angry that he ran away.
About half a month later, the director belatedly realized that this person was missing, and asked Bai Roushuang, "Where is the screenwriter?"
"The person has left." Bai Roushuang answered lightly.
"Ah?" The director was horrified and quickly pulled her back. He glanced around cautiously, as if he was afraid that there might be a recording device that the crew hadn't put away in time. He made a beheading gesture with his hand at his neck and asked cryptically, "Did you do this to him?"
Bai Roushuang was silent for a moment, hesitating on her words: "My senior sister... did she leave any psychological trauma on you?"
"……What?"
"The original screenwriter has literally left the crew," Bai Roushuang explained word by word, "People live and walk out on their own two feet."
The director made a mistake but was relieved: "That's good, that's good."
“…”
After a few months of getting along, it seemed that Xu Shulou had raised the threshold of tolerance for the crew members. When they were filming a scene where a woman from the Blue Bird tribe fell from the sky, there was a problem with the wirework, and the girl who played the Blue Bird almost fell. Xu Shulou jumped up and accurately caught the girl in his arms, and spun her to the ground. The others hurriedly surrounded the girl to comfort her while investigating the wirework. Unexpectedly, no one thought there was anything surprising about Xu Shulou's action, as if they had already tacitly accepted that she was a martial arts master.
Only the girl who played the role of Blue Bird looked through the crowd with a slightly red face for Xu Shulou's trace, and found that the hero had slipped away through the side door and took away a portion of the crew's afternoon tea.
The girl noticed that Xu Shulou chose a cup of hot chocolate from a variety of drinks, and from then on she brought her a cup of hot cocoa from the most famous local store every day. Xu Shulou gladly accepted it and never got tired of drinking it.
As for Bai Roushuang...Bai Roushuang has gotten used to it.
When filming the scene of Sheng Wuyou's death, Song Ping was watching with a complicated look. Bai Roushuang noticed that after the scene, Sheng Wuyou came over and held his hand. Bai Roushuang couldn't tell whether this meant that they were together or not a couple. She just understood his heartache at that moment, so she comforted him.
Bai Roushuang pulled her hair and was madly confused. Were they together? Was her reincarnation really her? But it seemed that she was the only one who was confused. After the two people involved talked it out, they seemed much more calm than she was.
Bai Roushuang could only comfort herself that souls attracted to each other would always come together.
After the drama became a big hit, Xu Shulou and Bai Roushuang also had fans come to visit the set. When shaking hands, Bai Roushuang's occupational disease as the head of the group came into play. She subconsciously pinched the palms of each fan to check whether they had spiritual energy and whether they could cultivate immortality. After shaking hands with her own fans, she wanted to shake hands with Xu Shulou and other actors' fans. In the end, Xu Shulou couldn't stand it anymore and took her away.
The shooting progress of the series is naturally a few points faster than the broadcast. The platform has just broadcast the middle part, and the crew has entered the final stage of shooting.
For the last scene, the director waited for several days and finally picked the most beautiful sunset to shoot the shot of Xu Shulou looking back and smiling at the end of the long street.
The set design of the long street is very realistic, and the crew invited many extras to play the roles of ordinary people and vendors, shuttling back and forth on the long street.
Xu Shulou changed into a very beautiful and gorgeous brocade robe and jade belt, which was brilliant and beautiful under the setting sun. This was the robe given by the master of Taixu Realm after she saved someone in the painting. She held a jade fan in her hand and carried a few bags of candied fruit. She walked leisurely along the long street like taking a walk. When she heard the voice of her junior sister, she stopped and looked back and smiled softly.
This scene did not require her to rely on an immersive performance based on memories. She could always show this kind of sincere smile to the world.
The director zoomed in the camera, and her charming smile was clearly reflected on the screen, making the crew members who saw it feel happy from the bottom of their hearts, as if bathing in the same sunset with her was a thing worth being happy about.
Then the camera pulls away, and Xu Shulou's entire body is in the frame. Then, it pulls away further, and Bai Roushuang's back is seen chasing after him. Further away, people are seen coming and going on the long street. Finally, it pulls to the end of the long street, and the scene of the whole street is reflected on the screen, with willow trees, houses, and smoke from cooking fires everywhere. Then, the camera goes dark, and the play ends.
Everyone in the crew stood up and applauded.
Even if the audience didn't know that all this really happened, at least these characters and stories briefly amazed them for a few months, and that was enough for Bai Roushuang.
From summer to autumn, winter is coming soon. Xu Shulou had a very happy time here. Now that "The Immortal Journey" has finally finished filming, the crew has been together for several months and they are reluctant to leave.
Xu Shulou said goodbye to everyone one by one. When he went out, he found Bai Roushuang sitting on the swing prop of the crew, swinging and waiting for her.
"Sister, where are we going next?"
"Do you still remember that many years ago I spent 50,000 spirit stones to buy a 'Mirage'?"
"Remember, it's the cave that can float in the air. When we were in the Cave of Insects, you stayed in the mirage and I held your hand from below," Bai Roushuang smiled. "What a wonderful memory."
"I asked the gods for help and transformed the mirage into a spaceship. Now it can float in the universe. Do you want to come and see it?"
"Of course!" Bai Roushuang followed with joy.
Xu Shulou called Song Ping again: "Would you like to go together?"
Song Ping shook his head: "I have something else to do here, so I won't go for now."
"Well, if I come across a roast chicken recipe from an alien planet, I will definitely bring it back for you!" Xu Shulou patted his shoulder, knowing that he stayed for Sheng Wuyou, and whispered, "Take good care of Wuyou, and take good care of yourself."
Bai Roushuang half-hidden her body in the mirage, and poked her head out to add: "And help me take good care of Wuchen Island."
"..." Song Ping's emotion stopped abruptly, and he laughed, "Yes, Master."
Bai Roushuang waved goodbye to her senior brother. Song Ping watched Xu Shulou gradually go away and called her again: "Senior sister, are you going back to the human world?"
"Of course!" Xu Shulou turned around and waved his hand, "I'll be back in a few months. I also want to go to the amusement park to ride the roller coaster and the Ferris wheel!"
"..." Song Ping smiled and watched her back disappear from his sight.
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Two months later, "The Immortal Journey" finally aired its finale. The drama achieved results that no one had dared to dream of before. At the celebration party of the crew, the leading actor Xu Shulou and the screenwriter Bai Roushuang did not show up, but Song Ping came with Sheng Wuyou.
In the darkness of night, the director sat alone on the steps at the door, holding a bottle of wine in his hand, and was a little tipsy.
The producer walked up to him and said, "Why are you here alone? There are so many people inside waiting to toast you."
"Thinking."
"Thinking about what?"
"Xu Shulou and the others."
"Think about them?" The producer laughed, "Why?"
"On the day of the final shooting, before Bai Roushuang left, I told her that she, as the screenwriter, played a huge role in the success of this drama."
"Indeed." The producer replied casually. Who could have thought that when they were looking for the missing martial arts director, they met a girl with terrible acting skills, thus starting a phenomenal ratings legend.
"I told her that she could ask for anything she wanted, as a token of my personal gratitude to her," the director shook the bottle in his hand. "She said she only had one request, which was to put a subtitle after the sunset street scene at the end of the last episode: This drama is based on real events."
"Ah?" The producer muttered in his heart, "Has this girl's Chuunibyou become so serious?"
"Xu Shulou, Song Ping, Bai Roushuang... these names," the director looked at the producer, "don't you understand yet?"
The producer found it a little funny: "Are you implying that they are the people in the story? How is that possible?"
"How is it impossible?" the director asked back.
"If such people really existed in the past, how is it possible that we have never heard of them?"
"Perhaps we have read about them before, but we just regarded them as stories in some strange story book and laughed them off."
"..." The producer was stunned, as if he thought of something, but did not refute it immediately. He fell into thought and did not speak again. The two sat opposite each other in silence and drank a glass of wine together.
The glory of the past has been completely covered up by history, leaving only a few people who have caught a glimpse of the truth, and repeatedly recalling the amazement and surprise they had when they were together.
And Xu Shulou has embarked on a new journey.
【End of the book】
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