After hearing Fan Zhou's question, Qiao Zhen covered her face and said, "I didn't want to either, but I suddenly forgot my lines. I had counted the number of words before, so I had to just recite the number."
Fan Zhou handed her a bottle of mineral water and said with a smile, "Here, you still have one more game with me. If you give me any more numbers, I'll yell at you."
Qiao Zhen put her hand down and picked up the script beside her to memorize her lines. Halfway through, she put down the script and looked at Fan Zhou, "If I were to recite numbers with you during a scene, would you yell at me until I cry? Like that news that was all over the entertainment headlines before, 'Actor Fan yells at newcomer for forgetting lines until she cries'?"
Fan Zhou hesitated for a moment, then said, "No."
"Oh," Qiao Zhen said nonchalantly, "As long as you don't cry from being scolded, I have thick skin." Then she lowered her head and began to diligently count the words, "One, two, three..."
A cross appeared on Fan Zhou's forehead. He looked at Qiao Zhen and asked, "Are you serious?"
"I'll admit it's fake." Qiao Zhen instantly abandoned all pride and began reciting her lines from the script. In a tone even more stiff than the system's, she recited, "What are you doing here? Now you know who I am, right? I am Vidor Khan's second princess. Do you want to have another match? Come on, let's go have a match right now..."
Fan Zhou's impression of Qiao Zhen plummeted by a hundred points upon hearing her tone, but it rose by a hundred points again when the scene started. This was because although Qiao Zhen's memorization of lines was stiff, her acting and speaking were very genuine when the two were acting together.
The two actors nailed their scene in one take.
During his break, Fan Zhou took out his phone to take pictures of the notes on the script, then posted the pictures on his blog with the caption: "I've never seen such a good acting prospect. The key is that even without her working hard, I can tell she's a good prospect... /doge".
So many people in the back row were guessing who Fan Zhou was talking about, but if Fan Zhou himself didn't reveal it, no one could guess that it was Qiao Zhen.
Two or three days later, Xu Li, who had left the grassland, returned. He came to talk to Qiao Zhen about ending their relationship. "I will give you five million, and the apartment is also yours."
Qiao Zhen looked at the bewildered Xu Li and asked, "Oh, could you exchange the five million and the apartment for me terminating my contract with Sijia Company?"
"No need, just state your conditions, and don't bother me again." Xu Li took out a check from his wallet, circled several zeros on it with black ink, and placed the check on the counter. "Put any other conditions down at once."
Qiao Zhen picked up the check and counted the seven figures on it. She assured him, "Don't worry, once I terminate my contract with Sijia Company, we'll go our separate ways and have nothing to do with each other. I definitely won't bother you."
Xu Li left after he finished speaking.
Director Song originally went to find Qiao Zhen to add some scenes for her. As he watched Xu Li leave, he jokingly said, "Young people, you can't wait to get together after being apart for just a few days."
Qiao Zhen shrugged. "We just broke up."
Because no one is supporting Qiao Zhen, she is now working very hard and seriously memorizing her lines while filming, which makes Fan Zhou very happy.
"Teacher Fan, shall we go over the lines?" Qiao Zhen looked at Fan Zhou with a grin, waving the script in her hand. "I think this part would sound good if read in a mature, sophisticated voice."
Fan Zhou picked up the script. "Okay, here you go."
“Nabu, this is now Mo family territory, and you should belong to Mo Chuan.”
“Mo Chuan? Yes, you are Mo Chuan now, but I am still Nabu. The one Nabu loves will always be the A Chuan who raced horses and caught fish with her back then.”
"No, the carefree and easygoing A-Chuan is me, and the ambitious and talented Mo-Chuan is also me. No matter which one of me, I love Na-Bu."
Qiao Zhen looked up at Fan Zhou with a pained expression, and said in a hoarse voice, "It's not you! A Chuan is the one who accompanies me to live a carefree life, while Mo Chuan is an unforgivable sinner in my Great Meng! A sinner!" As she finished speaking, a tear slid down her cheek.
Fan Zhou was somewhat lost in thought. He only came to his senses when Qiao Zhen wiped away her tears and waved in front of him. "Cough, why were you acting so realistically just now? This feeling should stay in the play. If you can't surpass your current level later, I'll have a hard time getting into character."
"What are you afraid of? That was only 70% of my power just now." Qiao Zhen deliberately put on an arrogant expression.
Fan Zhou thought Qiao was joking, so he didn't take it to heart.
When filming began, after shouting herself hoarse, Nabu, played by Qiao Zhen, cried silently. At that moment, Fan Zhou seemed to truly believe he was Mo Chuan, struggling to uphold his country while also suffering because of the woman he loved. He was caught in a dilemma.
"Card!"
Director Song has directed so many films and is a well-known director in China, so of course he could tell that Qiao Zhen had just brought Fan Zhou into the scene. "That's a wrap. We're going back to Zhejiang Province tomorrow."
Thus, Qiao Zhen's two-week stay on the grassland came to an end, and she returned to Beijing with Fan Zhou.
"Goodbye." Qiao Zhen waved cheerfully to Fan Zhou.
Fan Zhou also raised his hand to indicate that he was leaving.
After leaving, Qiao Zhen went to a law firm to find a lawyer. She wanted to resolve the issue of supporting the original owner's parents as soon as possible. She had already called the police before entering the small house that Qiao's parents rented.
Qiao Zhen took the key and opened the door. She looked at her idle parents and three sons and said, "I'm here today to address the issue of alimony. I don't have a house."
The original owner's parents, of course, strongly disagreed. Mr. Qiao cursed, "You're not getting rid of us without a 300-square-meter house! Aren't you a big star?! How can you be so stingy! The richer you are, the stingier you become!"
Qiao Zhen just chuckled lightly, "Then let's go through legal procedures, lawyer. I'll leave these matters to you. There are some things I must clarify beforehand. When I was twelve, my parents wanted to sell me to three brothers in the village as a shared wife. Doesn't that involve human trafficking? It's been too long and there's no evidence. You can hire someone to investigate in the village. I only want to resolve the issue of alimony. Also, if they want to cause trouble, just expose them and deal with it. Anyway, I'm already so tainted that I don't care about a little bit of reputation."
The lawyer replied, "Okay."
When Qiao's parents saw Qiao Zhen's indifferent expression, they immediately started yelling. Their eldest son was almost twenty-two years old, and he still didn't have a car or a house. He had finally found a girlfriend who was good at bearing children, and now she was pregnant. If they couldn't come up with a house and a dowry, the woman would have to get an abortion. How were they supposed to live?
Qiao Zhen picked up her bag and was about to leave.
Qiao's mother quickly grabbed her leg, "You can't be so heartless! It's all your fault for running away! Otherwise, my son would have been able to get married in the village with that money. Now I have neither a daughter-in-law nor a grandson. You have to pay me back!"
The three sons of the Qiao family also knew that Qiao Zhen was now their ATM and they absolutely could not let her go, so they frantically tried to restrain Qiao Zhen.
The police knocked on the door, and the moment Qiao's father opened it, the police rushed in. They saw Qiao Zhen tied up by three men and one woman, raised their guns, and said, "Who just called the police?"
"It's me!" Qiao Zhen said, pinned to the sofa. "They're trying to blackmail me for money."
The police quickly pushed those people aside and said, "Come with us."
Qiao Zhen felt extremely pleased to see her parents and three sons behaving so obediently.
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