Chapter 263: Backfire

The villagers who surrounded her were so enthusiastic, and the gifts were all saved with great difficulty - for this reason alone, Su Yun could not refuse their kindness.

This is not like Hong Kong, where people are rich in material things. Sometimes, if you really cannot afford something, you can express your feelings in a tactful way and only accept flowers, chocolates and other food items with a limited time limit, and then refuse other expensive gifts with good reasons.

It’s not that the gifts from the villagers were all cheap. On the contrary, looking at these roughly presented handmade cakes, dried fruits and other gifts, Su Yun was more moved than receiving any other gifts: Anyone who knows about the living standards in the mainland these days will know how precious these local products, which might be considered cheap as gifts in Hong Kong, are in this remote mountain village.

Thanks to policy changes in the past two years, every household has started to have surplus food. Otherwise, she might have seen an even more heartbreaking "gift".

"Thank you, thank you everyone, everyone will have a prosperous year this year, and it will definitely get better and better every year!" Su Yun, carrying large and small bags in both hands, finally stood up steadily, and then bowed to the enthusiastic villagers.

After hearing the reply from “God”, many villagers were filled with smiles from the bottom of their hearts.

Even though their clothes are worn out, even though their faces are covered with the frost of time, even though they are just an ordinary group of faces that can be seen everywhere on the vast earth, but in Su Yun's eyes, this smile is far more moving than the charming smile of any handsome man or beautiful woman.

After secretly recording this scene and planning to put it in the behind-the-scenes footage of the disc later, Su Yun called the staff to help put the local products away, and then went back into the van to touch up her makeup.

Seeing this, Zhuang Long could only sit back quietly and wait for the next opportunity to talk to Su Yun.

However, whether it was intentional or coincidental, during the following filming, Zhuang Long could never find an opportunity to have a private conversation with Su Yun.

In the story, they are together through life and death, but in reality, they are close yet their hearts are far away.

The crew members were busy with their work and didn't notice these things. However, as the second male lead of the movie and someone who often interacted with Su Yun and listened to her talk about acting, Keanu seemed to vaguely sense the subtle changes between Su Yun and Zhuang Long.

After waiting for Su Yun to finish explaining the details of the next scene, Keanu took the initiative to ask her in a low voice: "What happened between you and him?"

"Who?" Su Yun was debugging the machine and didn't respond for a moment.

"Zhuang Long." Keanu answered the name even more quietly, looking at her with concern.

"Oh, you mean this..." Su Yun adjusted the last parameter value, then turned sideways and looked at the young boy who was not very old but was very worried. "Let me put it this way, we had some disagreements in the exchange of opinions, so it has become like this temporarily."

"I see..." Although he is still a standard newcomer in the industry, there are often news of disagreements between producers, directors, screenwriters and leading actors in the entertainment industry. So for the sake of his acting dream, Keanu has always paid special attention to entertainment gossip and nodded in understanding, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

"It's not that serious yet. I'll wait and see how things go. Thanks." Su Yun shook her head: She couldn't just promise Zhuang Long that she would never break the unspoken rules in the crew, and then turn around and get seduced by the sex appeal and get drunk and murder her long-time friend...

"Okay, then if you need anything, just come to me." Seeing Su Yun's secretive look, Keanu, who grew up in a country that overly respects personal privacy, roughly understood what she meant, so after nodding, he added another sentence.

Seeing his warm-hearted words and attitude, Su Yun suddenly showed some concern for him: "By the way, I see that your Chinese pronunciation has improved recently. Some of the lines that were originally changed into English to adapt to your situation, would you like to record an additional Chinese dubbing? If we make a special version for China, the Chinese audience will definitely be very happy!"

Seeing Keanu's expression as if he had been struck by lightning after hearing this, the little devil in Su Yun's heart waved the banner of making trouble: "What's wrong with you? Do you think my idea is great?"

"I, I... walked into a fishing net..." This news was so "touching" that Keanu, who had been talking to Su Yun in English, was forced to speak Chinese with standard pronunciation.

"Well, you've made great progress. You can even use idioms now - but it's not 'throwing oneself into a fishing net', it's 'throwing oneself into a trap'." Su Yun patted his shoulder and smiled happily, "Then it's settled!"

When Keanu walked away with the script in his hands, tears in his eyes, Zhuang Long, who was watching the two interacting throughout the whole process, took this opportunity to sneak in.

Su Yun subconsciously wanted to avoid him, but seeing him staring at her deeply, she could only sit down with the thought that it was a blessing or a curse and she couldn't avoid it. She looked up at him and asked, "What's the matter?"

"You and him were having a pleasant conversation just now?" Unexpectedly, the first sentence Zhuang Long said was something that Su Yun had never expected, which was irrelevant.

"Keanu? He is indeed very hardworking and quite interesting." This time, Su Yun understood the word "he", so she responded casually.

"It should be like this." Zhuang Long said again.

"Ah?" Su Yun looked at him puzzledly.

"I mean, you should be like this." Suppressing the surprise in his heart, Zhuang Long added, "A young girl like you should communicate more with people of the same age, instead of..."

"Instead of what?" Although she understood his implication, Su Yun felt a little angry in her heart: this self-righteous attitude of an elder again!

In the past, it could be described as a sweet and troublesome friendship between people of different ages; but now that she is an adult, he still pretends to be friendly on the surface but actually keeps her at a distance.

If they want to engage in some erotic play, then this elder's look would be a different story - but his attitude clearly shows that this is not the case!

Not only is the intention not to create fun, but the intention is to blur, dilute or even erase the previous accident.

That doesn't make sense. You weren't like this when you were panting under me that night, right?

Although his heart was racing, Su Yun, who had been a talker for two lifetimes, still had the heart but not the courage. After glaring at him hatefully, he simply turned around and gave him a back view whose meaning was both easy to understand and difficult to decipher.

Looking at Su Yun's back, Zhuang Long gave a bitter smile, and finally could only walk away silently and continue reading the script of the next play.

Fortunately, the next scenes to be filmed in the mountain village were almost finished, and there were not many rival scenes. The entire crew worked hard, and finally on February 9, the whole crew began to prepare to return to Hong Kong to shoot the next part.

Sitting in the car, Su Yun looked back through the transparent glass window at the villagers standing at the intersection to see them off: Although the time here was not long, the simplicity unique to this era made it hard for her to forget.

According to the previously planned arrangements, the exterior shooting of this drama was divided into three locations. Due to budget issues, the inland part was shot first, and at the same time, the interiors were built in Hong Kong. After the crew finished shooting the inland part, when they returned to Hong Kong, they could start shooting directly in the built interior locations.

After finishing the interior scenes of Hong Kong, we flew to the United States to shoot some scenes in New York's Chinatown. Finally, we took all the materials directly to Industrial Light & Magic to start the post-production special effects production.

After two days of traveling, when we returned to Hong Kong, the air was already warm, as if the Chinese New Year was around the corner.

After two days of traveling, they finally got back here. As it happened to be New Year's Eve, Spring Festival and Valentine's Day, Su Yun simply gave the whole team five days off to have a good rest and reunite, and resumed work on the fourth day of the New Year as usual.

Thinking that this was Zhao Lizhong's first time participating in a Chinese New Year program, Su Yun, after a night's rest, went to the TV station on the second day, New Year's Eve, to see if there was anything he could do to help.

Zhao Lizhong was deeply moved to see Su Yun taking time out of her busy schedule to help him. He handed her a bunch of documents and said, "Come on, take a look!"

Perhaps he was so excited that he completely forgot that this "hospitable" attitude was not helping Su Yun to reduce her burden but was actually increasing it...

Su Yun looked at the young man with a helpless look, and finally just picked up a document and started reading it.

When Zhao Lizhong, who had just finished his cameo role as an errand boy, came back with the brewed tea, Su Yun had already watched more than half of the movie.

Seeing him come back, Su Yun asked the question she had circled earlier: "Why did Danny arrange so many jobs this year? Will he take them?"

Chen Baiyang has a lazy personality and has always been willing to do as little work as possible. If so much work is assigned to him, he will quit when his temper gets out, and several programs will be cancelled.

"He has only signed an eight-year contract, why wouldn't he accept it?" Zhao Lizhong blurted out, "When he signed the contract, it was clearly stated that he could not refuse unless it was an unreasonable request."

Su Yun was even more confused: "He signed an eight-year contract? When did it happen?"

"You didn't know?" Zhao Lizhong was also surprised. "He signed an eight-year contract, covering both TV shows and records. Add to that what you and Li Ying had previously agreed on, and this is the chance for you to film a new drama."

Su Yun shook his head with a gloomy face: "I really don't know. He didn't tell me, and no one else told me."

“No way, he actually hid it from you?” Zhao Lizhong was also stunned: Although TBB and Huasheng are also good platforms, artists with a certain status only sign short-term contracts to avoid excessive exploitation. However, Chen Baiyang signed a long-term contract of this level…

If it were someone else, they would have wanted to announce this kind of effort to the whole world so as to win the other person's heart.

"Thank you for telling me the news." Su Yun said to Zhao Lizhong with a smile, then picked up the phone on the table: "Hello, is this Danny?"

"Oh, it's like this - because Damei and Xiaomei are going to do a New Year's Eve show tonight, so I will have dinner at my home in Kowloon Tong tonight. Have you finished recording your show tonight?"

"Is it already recorded? Do you have time to come over and have New Year's Eve dinner with us?"

"Okay, see you then."

Seeing Su Yun hanging up the phone in a particularly gentle voice, Zhao Lizhong suddenly felt an inexplicable chill for some reason.

After Su Yun said goodbye to Zhao Lizhong and drove back home, when she opened the door, she saw Zhuang Long who came to visit (and have a meal).

Seeing Su Yun coming back, Zhuang Long immediately said something to the smiling Grandma Su, and then went upstairs to help Grandma Su get things in a very familiar manner.

Su Yun sneered in her heart, then turned back to open the door and brought in Chen Boyang, who looked tired.

"Have you been busy lately? You don't look very well..." Su Yun asked with great concern.

"I'm a bit busy. I've taken on some promotional work, but it's nothing serious. It's mainly because I didn't do much work before because I was just having fun, so I've put it off until now to catch up." Relying on his "notorious" procrastination and lazy attitude in the circle, Chen Baiyang explained with a guilty conscience.

Haha, if she hadn't asked Zhao Lizhong to look up his work schedule for this period one by one, she would have almost been fooled by this seemingly perfect lie.

Seeing that he was still pretending to be calm, Su Yun's voice became even gentler and more concerned: "The Johnson & Johnson R&D department sent me some new product packages, which include several effective skin care products. Come up to my room with me and I'll get you some."

While speaking, Su Yun reached out and held his hand, feeling the subtle roughness that was completely different from before.

He was so busy that he had no time to take care of his hands for playing the piano, which was a real problem for Chen Boyang, who was famous for his particular posture.

Su Yun thought so in her heart, but she didn't notice that his ears were slightly red.

The two walked up the stairs hand in hand, but just as they turned the corner, they met Zhuang Long who was coming downstairs with a stack of blank red envelopes.

Seeing the tightly held hands of this young couple who looked very similar in both appearance and age, Zhuang Long, who was about to say hello politely, immediately put away his smile.