Chapter 011 Shadow of the Movie King (11)
He believed that the shadow would not eat people again, but the system did not prompt that the mission was completed. His mission was not just to stop it from eating people. The ultimate goal was to give the villain a happy ending.
There is no definite answer to what perfection is. Just listen to the system's notification. Anyway, staying with Jiang Lin may not be a good ending.
When I went to sleep at night, the shadow was still lying beside the bed. I asked it to sleep on the bed, but it didn't come. I asked it to go to the sofa, but it didn't go either. Maybe it had to sleep on the ground, so I spread a blanket on it and let it sleep directly on the ground, which would at least be more comfortable. However, it climbed halfway up the edge of the bed, put its head on the bed, and stretched out its arms to rest on the bed.
When Tao Xing first saw these eyes, he was still frightened, but he was no longer creeped out.
Then just sleep like this, leaving a small lamp on the bedside. Tao Xing greeted the head beside the bed: "Good night."
He slept much more soundly that night, but still woke up once in the middle of the night. He opened his eyes and saw the head resting on the bed, its red eyes drooping and its shoulders tightened. It was not asleep.
It probably doesn't need sleep.
Tao Xing raised her hand slightly and touched its shoulder.
The shadow suddenly shrank back, raised his eyes, and looked over from the dim bedside.
Tao Xing: "You seem scared?"
Are you afraid when it comes to going to sleep?
The other person keeps his eyes open and doesn't move. He can't say anything, doesn't want to say anything, or doesn't know?
Tao Xing stroked the shoulder, and the shadow moved slightly.
He gently pulled Shadow's hand along his shoulder: "I'll hold your hand while we sleep, okay?"
Shadow moved again and tilted his head.
Tao Xing smiled, stroked its shoulder, and took its hand, a cold and sticky ball, and held it in his hand. He whispered, "Go to sleep."
The shadow beside the bed first looked at the hand being held, then looked at him.
Then, the round head fell on the edge of the bed and stopped moving.
Tao Xing fell asleep unknowingly. When he woke up, he saw that Yingzi's shoulders were no longer clamped so tightly. He moved his hand gently, and the other party paused for a while before raising his eyes, as if he was in a daze and was disturbed.
You don’t need to sleep, but you can sleep anyway.
The shadow lowered his eyes again, not knowing whether he felt the movement or not.
After another nap, Tao Xing opened his eyes early in the morning and saw that Yingzi's eyes were still drooping. Was he still not awake? He smiled secretly and got up quietly. It was sunny today and hotter than yesterday, so he went to take another shower.
As the shower was turned on, a dark shadow slowly flowed in from under the tightly closed door.
Tao Xing: “…”
I woke up quickly when I heard the sound of water.
"I've just started washing. Please wait a moment. I'll come to you after I'm done." He said with his head down.
The black shadow paused and slowly retracted outside the door. However, judging by the body that sometimes flowed in and sometimes was retracted under the door frame, it did not leave.
After they have all finished showering, it is time to go out. We are going to the shooting location today.
Tao Xing thought for a moment and said, "Are you going to wait for me here, or come with me?"
Shadow didn't react to the first half of the sentence, but tilted his head to the second half.
"Okay, come with me. Don't show up like this. By the way, when you saw Jiang Lin, did you go to his place to 'work' or to my place?"
He didn't need to say anything about the changing form. Before he could finish his words, the shadow had already melted into the ground and became one piece, merging with the ground and could no longer be touched.
It followed Tao Xing out, and when he opened the door, Tao Xing heard a sentence: "Here."
"Here?" Tao Xing smiled, "Okay."
The filming started on the set. Tao Xing acted opposite Xiao Yang in the first scene and opposite the female lead in the second scene. Today was not a double-line shoot. While Tao Xing was filming, Jiang Lin was sitting under the shed to rest.
The shadow seemed to have recognized its new master and followed Tao Xing's feet, moving with his steps like a kitten catching spots of light. Fortunately, Tao Xing's movements were not so jumpy and its movement was not so fast. In the busy set, its shadows intertwined and it was not discovered.
Sometimes it would try to imitate a real shadow, imitating Tao Xing's outline very closely. Occasionally it would be distracted and forget to follow. After a while, when it saw Tao Xing walking over there, it would then head over.
After a scene was finished, Tao Xing looked down and didn't see any shadow. She looked over and saw it under a tree. Their eyes met. It ran over as if it had just woken up from a trance and circled around her feet. Tao Xing couldn't help but laugh.
However, this scene didn't pass, and the director said to Xiao Yang helplessly, "Xiao Yang, your expression is wrong. You are the heroine's childhood friend, and you have a crush on her, but you know she won't like you, so you withdrew a long time ago. So when you face the second male lead who also likes the heroine, you will be a little hostile. Your expression is too hot, and someone who doesn't know would think you like the second male lead. Didn't you act well when you came to perform with me last night? Why did you act badly when facing Xiao Tao?"
Xiao Yang's face turned red after being scolded. He apologized repeatedly and took two more takes before finally passing. When the director called out "Cut", he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Tao Xing with his eyes burning again.
Tao Xing: “…”
In the second scene, Tao Xing and the female lead play against each other. Actually, it is not just the two of them. The plot is that the female lead is so sick with longing that she mistakes the second male lead for the male lead. It is presented from the female lead's perspective, and Jiang Lin needs to appear in a few shots occasionally.
The two switched shots, appeared on stage one after another, and passed each other several times.
This scene does not have any strong emotional fluctuations, so it is not difficult to act. Moreover, we have already filmed several scenes. As long as you don't really put your heart into it, there will be progress. The director is very satisfied with this scene and praised Tao Xing again.
Jiang Lin glanced sideways without leaving any trace, looking at Tao Xing.
This person at least glanced at him the day before yesterday. Today, they all stood together, but this person didn't even look over. When he was free, he just lowered his head and stared at the ground, as if he was deliberately avoiding looking at him.
What the assistant said was that he was really afraid of his own warning.
While thinking, Xiao Yang squeezed over and said, "Excuse me, Teacher Jiang. Excuse me, I have something to talk to Brother Tao about."
Jiang Lin stepped back to make room, and saw Xiao Yang holding a script and talking attentively to Tao Xing.
He turned around with an expressionless face, and it was impossible to tell whether he was happy or angry.
The filming went smoothly throughout the whole day. Yingzi was very well behaved. He either followed Tao Xing or sat on the ground in a daze. Or maybe he was... dozing off?
After the photo shoot, it was dark again. Tao Xing tapped her shadow with her toes and said softly, "It's time to go back."
The shadow followed slowly. In the dark night, there were many figures. Tao Xing deliberately slowed down his pace and waited for everyone to leave first. When most people had left, he stood up, but heard some movement behind him. Turning back, he found that Jiang Lin and the director had not left yet, as if they had just finished rehearsing a play.
The director smiled and said, "Xiao Tao, are you waiting for us? We'll need a while. You're welcome. Go back first."
Before he could reply, the assistant beside Jiang Lin pursed his lips.
Tao Xing shrugged. Well, since some people still didn't want to leave, he had to leave first. He replied, "Okay, thank you, Director."
After saying that, he turned and left quickly.
The assistant Xiao Wang was stunned and frowned in confusion.
The summer night was cool. Tao Xing did not go back. He turned to an empty field and raised his hand in the weeds. Fireflies were all around him. He smiled and said, "Aying, I promised to show you the fireflies."
Now thinking back, maybe it was because I said I would show it fireflies the day before yesterday that it promised not to eat people.
If the other party keeps his promise, then he cannot break his word either.
The grass and trees moved slightly, and a shadow rose from the ground, gradually growing taller, and then regained its original form and poked its head out. The moonlight enveloped the quiet fields, and the distant wind brought the fragrance of flowers. Crickets chirped in the grass, and frogs croaked in the water. Between the two people, there was a dancing firefly.
Tao Xing didn't know why he was so attractive to fireflies. Anyway, he raised his hand and a dozen fireflies gathered in his palm. He held the ball of dancing soft light and handed it to Shadow: "How about you hold it?"
With a movement of his hand, two fireflies flew up, circled around the shadow several times, and landed on its shoulders.
Shadow looked at Tao Xing's palm, the soft light there was like a shattered moon, then he turned his head and looked at his shoulder, two small dots of light were like twinkling stars in the sky.
It didn't move, but just looked for a while, then shook its shoulders lightly, and the firefly flew up, circling around, and landed on Tao Xing's shoulder again.
Tao Xing was puzzled. If it liked fireflies so much, why didn't it want them to land on its shoulders?
Before he could ask the question, he suddenly saw a shadow stretching its head towards him. Tao Xing was startled to see that the shadow's head was already at his shoulder. The firefly was startled and flew away. It brushed past his shoulder, chasing after him, and went around to the other shoulder.
The body also grew longer, like a snake floating in the air, with its tail falling on the abdomen, and the body stretching up from the chest and coiling around Tao Xing's shoulders.
Fireflies were flying around, and the shadow stopped chasing. Its head was hanging in the air, stretching out from behind Tao Xing's shoulder and looking straight at his face. The black head and bright red eyes were very close.
It didn't weigh much, and its entire body was very cold and slimy. This shape was too much like a snake, and Tao Xing was very afraid of snakes. Even though he believed that Ah Ying would not swallow him, sweat still seeped from his forehead: "You...what are you going to do?"
The shadow seemed to be looking at the fireflies flying above his head, but also seemed to be looking at him. After staring at each other for a moment, it stretched out an arm from its elongated body, holding a yellow rape flower in its hand. It slowly put the flower on Tao Xing's ear.
Tao Xing: “…”
Why did you send me flowers?
Even if you want to send it, could you get down first and not hang on me?
It's a good thing you didn't continue chasing the firefly, otherwise it would have wrapped around my neck a few times and strangled me to death.
By the way, why do you send flowers?
Tao Xing narrowed his eyes slightly. This scene actually looked a little familiar. He thought, isn't this the scene that Jiang Lin and the heroine filmed today?
Sometimes the scenes were shot out of order. In this scene, the hero was still living on the heroine's farm. When they just started to have an affair, the hero picked a rape flower, gently hung it on the heroine's ear, and said, "You are so beautiful."
So...it has also learned Jiang Lin's movements, right?
Sure enough, it can learn its master's actions and words very quickly.
However, the male protagonist will not wrap his arms around the female protagonist's neck, otherwise he would have been arrested as a pervert. Aying, you should learn to be more like her and not act freely.
He touched the flower: "Thank you, Aying." Okay, now that I've delivered the flowers, come down quickly.
The shadow did not move. It was in front of Tao Xing. He could not see its opening, but he could hear its voice coming from the black head.
It says, “You are so beautiful.”
“…”
Tao Xing took a deep breath and said, "Don't learn randomly."
Shadow tilted his head, which didn't seem like agreement, but more like confusion.
After finally no longer being so afraid of these eyes, it turned itself into a "snake" again. Tao Xing could only smile bitterly.
The moon was shrouded in a veil, the wind carried fireflies, and the shadow circled around and around, finally coming down from his shoulder, landing in front of him, and returning to its original appearance.
Now Tao Xing felt this scene familiar again. He calmed himself down and asked: "Do you want to turn around again?" There were more fireflies ahead.
The shadow followed him, but... after not long, it got tired and began to melt. It merged into one piece and crawled on the ground, as if it didn't pay much attention to the fireflies.
Tao Xing: "...Or, shall we go back?"
Shadow turned his head.
It seemed that it really didn't want to walk. Tao Xing smiled secretly and stretched out his hand to it. An arm stretched out from the dark shadow, held his hand, and walked back together.
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