Chapter 55 Chapter 55 Light Gauze Clothes
This statement stunned not only the director but everyone else in the content department as well. In most works we're exposed to, whether novels, comics, or films, whenever bisexuality is mentioned, the partners are always men. It seems like everyone assumes that bisexual beauties should be with men, and rarely see bisexual beauties with women.
The original work of the short drama is a male-oriented novel. The existence of the bisexual beauty is to build a harem for the male protagonist and to satisfy male needs.
But with this change, Vivienne's bisexual beauty no longer belongs to the male protagonist's harem, or even to a man, but is now with a woman. What does this mean? It means that in the eyes of the bisexual beauty, those powerful and tall men are not as good as the woman she likes. Isn't this adaptation a blatant slap in the face of men?
Those male readers who are fans of the original novel will definitely make a fuss. They have already put themselves in the shoes of the male protagonist and want to have his beautiful wife and concubines on both sides. Now Vivienne has changed such a big benefit for them. Won't they go crazy?
The director obviously thought of this and explained his concerns to Vivienne.
After hearing this, Vivienne asked, "There are so many female-oriented dramas being adapted into male-centric dramas on the market, why can't I adapt a male-centric drama into a female-oriented drama?"
"Uh..." This is indeed a common chaos in the market, and the director has no way to refute it.
"The short play is a multiple-shot version. If they are not satisfied with the version I shot, they will spend their own money to shoot another version."
It sounds simple, but it's difficult to put into practice. Male readers only want to spend their money on cigarettes, alcohol, betel nuts, internet cafes, live broadcasts, and foot massage parlors. How can they spend money on this?
The director no longer had any say and just lowered his head to write down all of Vivienne's suggestions for revisions in his memo.
Ji Hanxi watched them like this and suddenly realized something very serious. The new plot was going to pair Liu Ruyan with a girl, so could that girl be...
"Could the girl paired with Liu Ruyan be my junior sister?"
As soon as she said this, the director stopped and looked at her. Nanzhi turned to look at her, and the assistant lowered his head to look at her. Everyone who knew she was playing the role of the younger apprentice sister looked at her.
Vivienne looked over with a smile on her face, pretending to be surprised and saying, "Oh, I haven't said who to pair Liu Ruyan with yet. But since you mentioned Junior Sister, then let's go with Junior Sister."
"...Huh?" Ji Hanxi was stunned. She meant that she didn't want to be paired with Junior Sister, didn't want to be paired with Junior Sister, so how come after this mention, it became like he was paired with Junior Sister?
"What? Don't you want Liu Ruyan to be your junior sister?"
"Of course."
"Why? I thought you wanted to. No one here just now mentioned Liu Ruyan as a good match for the junior sister, only a girl. Your first reaction was to ask if she was a good match for the junior sister. I thought that subconsciously, you thought Liu Ruyan was the right match for the junior sister."
"You..." Ji Hanxi found that Vivienne was very good at making unreasonable arguments and confusing right and wrong. However, she was not the kind of person who would be dismissed with a few words and did not know how to refute. After a little thought, she replied: "You knew that I was playing the role of the junior sister, but you still insisted on asking me how to change the overall direction, and insisted on discussing this plot in front of me. Although you did not explicitly say that the junior sister should be paired with Liu Ruyan, all your actions seemed to be hinting at it. I just asked my doubts. Why did you insist that I wanted the junior sister to be paired with Liu Ruyan, when it was obviously you who wanted it to be paired with Liu Ruyan?"
"Yes, it's me." Vivienne didn't want to beat around the bush or refute anything, so she frankly admitted, "I just wanted Junior Sister to be paired with Liu Ruyan."
"You..." Ji Hanxi didn't know how to respond.
Vivienne smiled lightly and continued, "But you brought it up before I even mentioned it. Doesn't this mean that we..." have a connection?
The last four words, though not spoken, were softly lip-synced. The content department members, all focused on the situation, naturally noticed this detail as well, whispering among themselves, seemingly discussing something.
Ji Hanxi was a little annoyed. She felt that Vivienne did it on purpose. She was being ambiguous in front of everyone and saying ambiguous words just to make everyone misunderstand their relationship.
And now, people in the content department have started to whisper about them, and I don’t know what kind of rumors they will spread.
"Teacher Vivienne is such a joker." Ji Hanxi suppressed his annoyance and said with a fake smile: "I also have some ideas about the script. Why don't we go to your office to discuss it in detail?"
Anyway, she only had one thought in mind: get him out of this place. After all, if she left him here, she didn't know what strange things he would say, and how others would misunderstand him. How could a girl like her be involved in any scandals or rumors with such an androgynous person?!
"Okay." Vivienne replied.
On the way to the office, she suddenly said, "I have something to talk to Teacher Vivienne about privately."
Vivienne looked at her intently and said with a smile, "Of course."
He asked his assistant to get the costumes, and the director went back to work, and the two of them got into the elevator together.
When they got into the elevator and there was no one around, Ji Hanxi finally dropped her fake smile and looked at him angrily: "What were you talking about just now? Are you trying to make them misunderstand our relationship?"
"I said what I thought in my heart. How they misunderstood me has nothing to do with me."
"You are not allowed to come downstairs to find me in the future, and you are not allowed to say such things in front of them."
The elevator rang and the doors opened. The two of them had already walked a long way out. When Vivienne heard Ji Hanxi's words, she stopped again and asked, "Why?"
"No reason, I don't want to see you, nor do I want to hear you say those words."
"It's really too much to restrict my personal freedom and freedom of speech." Although he said it was too much, he didn't sound angry at all. Instead, it sounded more like a helpless complaint facing a child's mischief.
Ji Hanxi felt that it was not excessive at all. On the contrary, it was Vivienne who confused the public and caused everyone to talk about it, which was more excessive.
"You did that to me a few days ago, and now you're putting so many restrictions on me..." Vivienne said as she pulled her collar down a little, revealing the marks on her neck.
After a few days, the mark had faded a lot. But perhaps because his skin was too delicate, it hadn't completely disappeared, leaving a faint layer that looked more like a hickey.
Ji Hanxi glanced at him and then looked away: "...I definitely didn't kiss you."
"If it wasn't a hickey, wouldn't that be even worse?" he complained. "My precious skin, which I spent so much money to maintain, has been ruined to the point where not a single piece of it remains intact."
Ji Hanxi glanced at it again, remembering how it looked when he first saw it: red and blue, with a hint of teeth marks and blood. If it wasn't a hickey, it was probably caused by biting and ravaging. Compared to a violent kiss, wanton torture was indeed more excessive...
"I know you want me to join the crew and continue filming, and you also want me to agree to let Junior Sister be paired with Liu Ruyan. I can agree to this as a trade-off between the two restrictions I've imposed on you." "...Really?"
"Really." Although it was a trade-off, the condition itself was beneficial to Ji Hanxi. After all, she had already filmed a lot of scenes for her junior sister, and if she continued filming with the crew, she could use up those scenes and avoid wasting them.
"Then you have to do what you say."
"I will." Ji Hanxi really couldn't think of any reason to go back on his word.
"Okay."
This matter went extremely smoothly. Vivienne agreed almost without objection. Not only did she agree, but she also seemed to smile with obvious joy. His appearance, on the contrary, made Ji Hanxi feel inexplicably worried.
So she added: "Every original plot must be reviewed by me, and it cannot be too exaggerated."
"It's natural."
After reaching an agreement with Vivienne, Ji Hanxi went downstairs and returned to the content department. He had kept his promise and did not harass her again. However, the others had clearly become suspicious of them because of what had just happened, and they gathered around her to ask about the situation.
"What's going on? What does that lip movement Vivienne made at the end mean? What did she say? Is there something wrong? Tell us quickly, Hanxi, please."
"He said that interests come first." Ji Hanxi was somewhat relieved that they didn't guess his specific meaning, allowing her to make up stories.
"Really..." This explanation obviously didn't convince them. "Vivienne's kindness to you is a little abnormal. You know, he loves money like his life, but he actually gave you so many luxury goods. And he never takes the initiative to go downstairs to look for someone, but he always makes an exception for you and speaks to you so gently. This is obviously abnormal."
"What do you think is his relationship with me?" Ji Hanxi asked.
"Well...it's definitely not a normal relationship." They were just suspicious right now, unable to offer any concrete answers. After all, love and affection were completely incompatible with Vivienne, and they found it ridiculous to even voice this suspicion.
"He won't come downstairs to look for me anymore, so you don't have to worry too much."
The door to the content department was open, and Ji Hanxi saw many people moving clothes and props. Vivienne's assistant was among them, but he was only in charge of directing the work, not carrying it. However, his presence proved that all these things belonged to Vivienne.
Nanzhi also noticed this and whispered to her, "This looks like a costume that Vivienne had custom-made for the production. Let's go take a look."
Ji Hanxi nodded, and the two of them went to the moving site together. While watching, they also helped out a few times.
"These clothes...why are they so revealing?" Ji Hanxi's eyes fell on the gauze-made clothes. "Who is wearing them?"
"Oh, these are teacher Vivienne's clothes."
“…”
Ji Hanxi was stunned, and Nanzhi was also stunned.
Seeing their shocked expressions, the assistant explained, "This is the design of the dress the original crew prepared for Teacher Vivienne."
"But aren't we going to overhaul the script now? There shouldn't be those erotic scenes, and the clothes don't have to be so revealing, right?"
"I don't know about that. When Vivienne saw the original clothes, she was very disgusted and wanted to find someone to redesign them. But after she bought the copyright of the short play, she thought the design was okay, so she kept the clothes for some unknown reason." At that time, Vivienne not only disliked the clothes, but also the plot. She forced the original crew to change the script for her and almost changed Liu Ruyan into the first person to give up love in male-oriented dramas. However, after buying the copyright, he no longer wanted to give up love.
"That's too..." Ji Hanxi knew that in the original novel, Liu Ruyan played the role of allure and allure, but didn't Vivienne have the right to modify the script? Why did she keep these clothes? What did he want to do?
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