Chapter 93: This Damn Soup
Everything about being a director was good except for one thing. Not long after getting married, the filming of the new S-level costume drama project "Chenlu" started. Jiang Yiyu packed her bags and took the team on a business trip for four months.
"Four months?" Cheng Shuze frowned. "Why so long?"
"After all, for such a big project, four months isn't a long time." Jiang Yiyu closed the box and stood up. She put her arms around Cheng Shuze's waist and sank into his embrace. "Can't bear to let you go?"
Cheng Shuze hugged her tightly with his arms, still a little dissatisfied with the long working cycle.
"You can come visit us on set, Mr. Cheng." Jiang Yiyu leaned her head against his shoulder. "Don't worry, I'll take good care of Shuyi as well."
She became the assistant director, and Cheng Shuyi successfully auditioned and got the role of a little princess with a good character design and quite a few scenes. She has already gone to the set to try out the makeup in advance. The four-month shooting time will be over quickly.
"She doesn't need your care. It's good enough that you can take care of yourself." Cheng Shuze tightened his grip and suddenly asked, "Is Zhou Yu'an also in the group?"
"Uh..." Jiang Yiyun tried to dodge the topic vaguely, but the perceptive Mr. Cheng noticed. Before Mr. Cheng could say, "No, I have to fire him," she decisively changed the subject and ran away. "I'm going to the airport. Can you take me there?"
Even if he was dissatisfied with the project, he still had to send the person off. If he wasn't busy with important business at his company and Jiang Yiyu didn't let him go with her, Mr. Cheng would definitely have boarded the chartered plane and they wouldn't have been forced to say goodbye at the airport. Even ten meters away, one could feel the resentment in Mr. Cheng that was about to break through the atmosphere.
Mr. Cheng was forced to become a widow right after his wedding. Sister Jiang, like a heartless scumbag, rushed to the bright lights and wine in the distance, and even complained that Mr. Cheng was too nagging and troublesome.
He Yue had a premonition that the work in the next four months would be very difficult under the shadow of low pressure, and he had to shed a few tears of sympathy for himself in advance with a sense of bitterness.
Sure enough, after sending the boss lady off, until every member of the other team disappeared in the crowd, Mr. Cheng, who seemed very uncomfortable with gentle words just now, quickly turned into a cold and familiar poker face.
Cheng Shuze: "Go to the company."
S-level projects are about money and correspondingly high requirements. After receiving the notice from the filming base, they were divided into groups A and B, and Jiang Yiyun led the team to Tianmo for filming.
The vast expanse of flying sand and the endless and magnificent desolate desert are all dyed with golden mist lines in the field of vision. At this moment, the vast sky and earth seem to be dyed into a world in ancient paintings, which is enough to shield all disturbances from outsiders.
It also blocked the signal from Mr. Cheng’s message.
Cheng Shuze called Jiang Yiyu three times, but either the call was not connected or the response was "the user you dialed is out of service area". However, he was able to contact Cheng Shuyi, who said that Jiang Yiyu had taken people to the desert and the two were not in the same group.
That’s great. We didn’t have much contact after joining the group, and now we’ve completely lost contact.
It was almost midnight when Director Jiang, who had finally finished his work and returned to the hotel, finally received a bunch of unread messages from Mr. Cheng.
This day was really tough. Jiang Yiyu was too lazy to read the message and just sent a "Good night, going to sleep". The next second, the phone rang. It was obvious that he had been waiting for her news.
"I didn't ignore your call on purpose, it's just that the signal is bad. It's quite safe. What could possibly happen at the film and television base? We're not in those deep mountains or old forests! I told you it's just that the signal is bad." Jiang Yiyu threw herself on the bed and listened to the voice on the other end. She hummed twice, "You want to come visit the set? Sure, come later. I'm too busy here because we just switched locations."
"Cheng Shuze," Jiang Yiyu yawned. Lying on the soft mattress after a tiring day had left her mental strength dissipated, but she still wanted to hear Cheng Shuze continue talking. "Can we sleep with the microphone connected, like on..."
Before she could finish her sentence, Jiang Yiyu had fallen asleep. The steady voice on the other end of the phone flowed slightly, and the gentle breathing seemed particularly lingering in the dark night. After a while, she leaned over and whispered in her ear.
"good evening."
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"Have you heard that Director Jiang's girlfriend is here to visit the set?"
"Oh, that's the one—"
When the filming in Tianmo was nearing its end, Director Jiang of Group B and the legendary head of Linjiang Cheng Group, Mr. Cheng, came all the way to visit the set with a large team, which shocked everyone in the crew.
Mr. Cheng probably rushed here directly after the meeting. The weather in the desert was really hot during the day with the ground temperature reaching nearly 40 degrees Celsius. He took off his suit jacket, leaving only a shirt and tie inside. In the vast and rough desert, he had a kind of exquisite and restrained sharpness.
Leaning against the side door of the desert off-road vehicle with a very high chassis, the extremely thin tight clothes outlined a fierce and neat line. The female lead who finished today's announcement couldn't help but turn her head and look several times when she finished work and returned to the RV.
"What is that--?" The female lead sat back in the RV, and through the open door she could just see the other person looking down at his phone nonchalantly.
"Don't even think about it. That's Mr. Cheng." The agent got in the car and pulled the door shut, blocking his view. "Do you know what happened to the last female celebrity who tried to hook up with Mr. Cheng?"
"I didn't think about it, hey! I just took a look." The female lead held the water cup and bit the straw, her eyes unable to stop wandering.
Of course she knew about Director Jiang's husband, Mr. Cheng. The news was sensational at the time, but she had never actually met the two of them at that time, so the sense of déjà vu was not strong. Now that she saw them in person, she found that the bragging on the Internet was sometimes true. Mr. Cheng was really good-looking. Just standing there casually, he outshone the male actor who acted opposite her. She thought she had finally found a second male lead who was handsome and had good acting skills.
Unfortunately, she already had Director Jiang. After spending some time with Director Jiang, she knew that although he was gentle and kind, he could also be very tough at times. If she tried to snatch a man from Director Jiang...
The female lead was just wondering how high the success rate could be when she saw Mr. Cheng put down his phone, picked up an umbrella from the car and strode forward. He was heading in the direction where Director Jiang was returning from work.
Director Jiang on the other side saw Mr. Cheng from afar and started laughing.
ah……
It seemed to be very difficult. The female lead finished the water in the cup and felt that she should not challenge to become the second little flower who was once rumored to have tried to seduce Mr. Cheng but somehow blindly targeted the eldest daughter of the Cheng family and whose resources plummeted and now there is almost no news.
"I thought the earliest you could arrive would be tonight." Jiang Yiyu smiled and ran down the small sand pile quickly. Cheng Shuze opened the umbrella and cast a shadow, blocking the hot sun above his head.
Walking on the other side was Zhou Yu'an, who had just finished work. His face was covered in blood plasma, his clothes were stained with dust and sand, and his expression showed the detachment caused by extreme sorrow and joy in a short period of time. The crew who filmed the scene that just ended was really exhausted.
Jiang Yiyu patted his shoulder and said that after signing the contract, the team configuration was complete. An assistant came over with an umbrella and looked at them at a loss.
"Go and have a rest. You've worked hard today."
"Thank you, Director Jiang." Zhou Yu'an, braving the sharp gaze from the other side, felt as if the spot where Director Jiang had just photographed him was burning. He gritted his teeth and greeted his immediate boss, "Mr. Cheng."
Mr. Cheng used his usual cold, scrutinizing gaze to look face to face for the first time at this actor, the one Jiang Yiyu had praised and had a scandal with. It was not until Jiang Yiyu nudged him with her elbow that he reluctantly hummed a word.
Despite nearly collapsing, Zhou Yu'an hurriedly followed his assistant with a look of relief at having survived.
"The meeting ended early today, so I came here early." Cheng Shuze retracted his gaze and said, "Let's go back to the hotel."
In a place like Tianmo where the conditions are almost barren without a film and television base, how good can they be? It is already good enough to have a small hotel that can be considered clean and tidy.
Cheng Shuze had sent someone to the hotel earlier, and when he came back after picking up Jiang Yiyu, steaming hot meals were served.
Jiang Yiyu was tempted and swallowed her saliva. She washed her hands and sat down in front of the small table that served as the dining table.
"What is this? Beef bone soup?"
"This is to replenish your body. You've lost so much weight in just two months." Cheng Shuze pinched Jiang Yiyu's arm, which was so thin that it was almost sticking to the bones, with dissatisfaction.
"It's not that exaggerated. I was a little fatter before joining the group. Now I'm a little thinner, and my weight remains the same." Jiang Yiyu took the small bowl of soup that Cheng Shuze handed to her and took a sip.
"You haven't lost weight yet? I noticed when I hugged you just now. Your waist has become thinner." Cheng Shuze looked up and saw Jiang Yiyu's expression was a little strange. "What's wrong?"
Jiang Yiyun frowned, as if hesitating to speak. She took another sip of the soup and said hesitantly, "Why do I feel like this soup tastes a little off?"
"Not tasty?"
"No, it tastes good, but it feels a bit strange. It seems different from the beef bone soup I had before." Jiang Yiyu pondered for a moment, "Did they put some medicinal herbs in it?"
The soup is boiled thoroughly into a soft, thick and golden color. When the spoon is roughly shaken in the big pot, the ingredients such as Ganoderma lucidum, Codonopsis pilosula, red dates, angelica and wolfberry rise and fall.
Jiang Yiyun poured a bowl for Cheng Shuze: "Would you like to try it?"
"Is it because of the local wild ingredients here that it's different?" Cheng Shuze took a sip, "It does seem to be a little more tender."
"That might be because the wild ones here are more tender." Jiang Yiyun took a sip and said, "But they put too much tonic in it. Will it make me get a sore throat?"
Cheng Shuze: "It's only that little, so it shouldn't be the case. You should take more."
I don’t know if it was really because of the tonic soup or out of psychological suggestion, but Jiang Yiyu drank a small half of it, and then forced Cheng Shuze to drink the rest, adhering to the principle of not wasting anything. After the meal, she always felt her heart beating very fast and she felt inexplicably hot.
This shouldn't be the case. The air conditioning temperature is normal, and she even turned it down two degrees. Why did she suddenly become so irritable? It was as if the blood in her body suddenly started to pump at the speed of a 100-meter sprint.
Even after taking a shower, my body didn't calm down, and the vague feeling of heat became more obvious.
When Cheng Shuze got into bed, the man who usually held her in his arms when she slept kept a distance from her in bed today for some reason. After turning off the lights, Jiang Yiyu's irritability became more obvious.
After lying there for a while, the condition did not calm down but became worse. Jiang Yiyu turned over and hugged Cheng Shuze. As soon as she touched the inexplicably hot temperature of his exposed skin, she could clearly hear his unnatural gasp in the darkness.
"You felt it too, didn't you?" Jiang Yiyu whispered, gritting her teeth. She lay on top of Cheng Shuze. A certain part of his body was incredibly hot, and her body seemed to be even hotter.
"That's definitely not beef bone soup."
Cheng Shuze hummed, his voice hoarse and unclear: "I found it."
"No wonder you took so long to shower just now," Jiang Yiyu tensed up, "Then why didn't you react? Doesn't the script describe the kind of scene where you're consumed by lust—"
This often happens in scripts. After drugging the man and woman, they start to act shamelessly. They drink a soup that seems to have aphrodisiac and kidney-tonifying effects. Cheng Shuze doesn't seem to have any particularly intense reaction, if you ignore the temperature next to her.
"Don't read those scripts. I'm not a beast without self-control—" Cheng Shuze's hoarse voice was interrupted. Jiang Yiyu felt her body lighten and then sink. She changed her posture. Her exclamation was blocked between her lips and teeth. "Okay, I might be a beast."
"It's legal." Cheng Shuze added, "Also, you were the one who brought me the soup."
It was true, she was the one who took the initiative to serve that damn soup to Cheng Shuze.
Jiang Yiyu whimpered, feeling that the flimsy bed was about to make dangerous noises. The walls in the small hotel were very thin and someone might hear it. She tensed up in fear, causing Cheng Shuze to groan and pat her waist soothingly with his big hand.
"Relax a little, no one will hear you."
Tomorrow, the first thing she would do after waking up was to find out who had sent her this damn pot of soup.
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