"Um... Brother Ming!" Gu Qingqiu wanted to call out to Xiao Yiming, her intention was simply to thank him in person, but she didn't expect Xiao Yiming to walk so fast and quickly return to his room and close the door, as if Gu Qingqiu were some kind of ferocious wild beast.
Gu Qingqiu wasn't in a good mood either, and she called out to the system.
Gu Qingqiu: [System, what is the current progress of the experience bar?]
Male Protagonist System: [Host, your current experience bar progress is 0.01%.]
Gu Qingqiu: [Haha, that's great!]
Male Protagonist System: [Host, I'm a little worried about your mental state.]
Gu Qingqiu: [I'm fine, but Xiao Yiming seems to be doing poorly.]
Male Protagonist System: [I forgot to tell the host, Xiao Yiming seems to have a severe case of mysophobia and is very averse to skin contact with others.]
Gu Qingqiu: [How am I supposed to stick this on?]
Male Protagonist System: [Host, Heaven will entrust great responsibilities to those who are destined for them, and will first subject them to hardship, toil, hunger, and...]
Gu Qingqiu: [Alright, alright, stop starving yourself! I'm really hungry now! I'm going to eat curry rice!]
Male Protagonist System: [Enjoy your meal, host.]
Gu Qingqiu angrily scooped up a spoonful of curry rice and began to question the meaning of life.
She briefly entered her sea of consciousness when she came into contact with Xiao Yiming in the elevator.
Now there is good news and bad news.
The good news is that there are still three years left, which is plenty of time for a modern world.
The bad news is that the countdown will indeed stop once you contact Xiao Yiming, confirming that Xiao Yiming is indeed the male protagonist of this world.
Fortunately, the filming went smoothly from there, and Gu Qingqiu's reputation on set improved considerably. The director even started to smile at her and began to actively invite her to act in his projects, saying, "Qingqiu, after we finish filming this movie, I haven't found a role for the second female lead in my next project yet. If you'd like, you can give it a try."
"Really?" Gu Qingqiu was pleasantly surprised. "Thank you, director, for giving me this opportunity."
"Haha, you're definitely suitable." The director patted Gu Qingqiu on the shoulder. "I'll have someone send you the script in a bit, take a look first."
"I will study the character carefully," Gu Qingqiu said with a smile.
As filming progressed into the later stages, the number of scenes between the actors increased, and there were many moments requiring emotional outbursts.
Therefore, Gu Qingqiu spent most of her time on the same set as the male lead Xiao Yiming and the female lead Bai Qiaoqiao.
After that intimate encounter in the elevator, Gu Qingqiu never spoke a word to Xiao Yiming outside the film set again.
Xiao Yiming gradually lowered his guard against Gu Qingqiu, and Gu Qingqiu's superb acting skills also shocked Xiao Yiming.
It turns out this person can act; he was just temporarily blinded by greed and went astray, but fortunately he corrected himself in time.
Xiao Yiming has always kept his personal and professional life separate and never brings his personal feelings into his work. He has always appreciated actors with good acting skills and would even help recommend actors if there were suitable opportunities. However, due to his awkward relationship with Gu Qingqiu in the past, he has always kept his distance from Gu Qingqiu on set.
Although they didn't have any contact on the surface, Xiao Yiming had been paying close attention to Gu Qingqiu's performance while filming.
As a film emperor, Xiao Yiming has a high pursuit of acting skills and often studies the differences between different acting styles and performance methods at home and abroad.
It is said that acting skills can be divided into three categories: experiential learning, method acting, and performance acting.
While neither is inherently superior or inferior, they each certainly have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Hsiao Yi-ming categorizes himself as a method actor. He believes that he has reached the pinnacle of acting within this school, so he pays special attention to actors who embody the method and the expressive school, hoping to learn from their strengths and further improve his own acting skills.
However, most people's acting skills don't need to be categorized into different schools; in Xiao Yiming's eyes, it's just simple "acting."
At this moment, Gu Qingqiu's acting skills stood out exceptionally well. Any professional could immediately see how impressive Gu Qingqiu's acting was.
Xiao Yiming silently categorized Gu Qingqiu as an experiential actor, which is the rarest type in the entertainment industry. Experiential actors immerse themselves in the role, becoming the character themselves, and even using the character's way of speaking and thinking, and projecting the character's emotions onto their co-stars.
While this acting method is very effective, once a film is finished, the actor often finds it difficult to detach themselves from the role and needs a long time to overcome its influence on them.
Xiao Yiming wouldn't have noticed this before, but not long ago the director arranged for Xiao Yiming and Gu Qingqiu to reshoot a scene they had filmed before, which was also part of the first three episodes of "Heroic Figure".
At that time, the character played by Gu Qingqiu and the character played by Xiao Yiming were senior and junior classmates at the same school, and the character played by Gu Qingqiu was pursuing the character played by Xiao Yiming.
Xiao Yiming even suspected that Gu Qingqiu didn't really like him, but was only pursuing him because of the influence of the role.
And just like the character, after being harshly rejected by himself, he turned his love into hatred, constantly getting along with himself and often making himself unhappy.
If that's the case, then Xiao Yiming even felt a little guilty. He had been too harsh on Gu Qingqiu before and hadn't noticed that Gu Qingqiu was immersed in her role.
To this end, Xiao Yiming even looked up a lot of Gu Qingqiu's previous works, although he turned them off after watching most of them for only a few minutes, as they were really quite cringeworthy.
However, Gu Qingqiu only took on low-budget, poorly made web dramas, so it was hard to tell whether her acting was good or bad. In addition, the roles were all similar, and she was basically a villainous female supporting character who loved to cause trouble.
Xiao Yiming felt he had found the reason why Gu Qingqiu was unlikable—because she was an excellent method actor, so she was immersed in the villainous character, which made her unlikable.
Gu Qingqiu's company completely ignored her psychological state and continued to give her similar villainous roles, causing Gu Qingqiu to become gloomy and unlikable.
The same applies to the characters in "The Heroic Figure".
Xiao Yiming even felt a little sorry, as these characters did not showcase Gu Qingqiu's acting skills at all. Fortunately, they kept exhausting her body and mind. If possible, he would help her out and introduce her to roles with slightly better character settings.
...
If Gu Qingqiu knew that Xiao Yiming had imagined so much, she would probably be shocked.
She has indeed been quiet on set lately. On one hand, Ling's father is sick and hospitalized, so Ling can't stay with Gu Qingqiu on set. On the other hand, she doesn't have any other friends, and the actors and staff on set have almost no personal relationship with her, so naturally they won't chat with her.
On the other hand, she was constantly worried about how to complete the task. She always felt that Xiao Yiming had been staring at her for a long time recently, but basically whenever she looked at Xiao Yiming intentionally or unintentionally, she could see his furrowed brows and pursed lips.
Good heavens! Could it be that Xiao Yiming hates me so much that he can't even bear to look at me? Gu Qingqiu wailed inwardly.
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