My brain works very fast
"Lu Jiuyang" and Wen Zhuo walked forward a little further and saw Chang Xue coming with a tall and thin man.
The man covered his face with a scarf, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed. He glanced at the two of them casually, and without saying hello, he went up the corridor next to him.
Lu Xinyang had originally wanted to announce the happy news of his name change as the first thing he said, but seeing this, he couldn't help but ask, "Did he go with us to take the photo? Why did he go that way?"
"Don't worry about him. He's going to discuss something with your director and screenwriter," Chang Xue said calmly. "The assistant photographer said the venue over there has been set up. You should go test the lighting first."
Chang Xue helped him get a role in "Trapped in Color", but this person had his own ideas and wanted to add high-quality scenes, so he made an appointment to meet with the director and screenwriter.
"Teacher Ji is here too?" Lu Xinyang immediately joined in with a clear purpose, "Then I'll go take a look too."
Chang Xue turned around to leave, but stopped helplessly: "Why are you following me?"
"Nothing," Lu Xinyang said, "I'm just a decoration."
As he spoke, he ran upstairs in two steps, lifted the windproof curtain and went in.
The discussion had just started upstairs. When they heard the noise, several people looked up at him, then looked away and continued talking.
The tall and thin man said, "Don't worry, I'm not adding new characters randomly. I've read your script, and there's an existing character I really like. If you just change the story a little and give me five minutes of footage, I can make him a key character in the play..."
Before the screenwriter and director next to him could express their opinion, the decoration spoke up: "What are you changing? You are not allowed to change it!"
Lu Xinyang reacted violently and snatched the script from his hand, shouting, "Who are you? You want to change our screenwriter's script? You don't even know how well our screenwriter's script is written! He won't listen to your nonsense!"
He glared at the other person with eyes filled with unbridled disgust. Seriously! Ji Rongyu didn't want to join the group anymore, and you messed with his notebook. What if you made him angry and he quit and went home? What should I do then?!
This person is so ignorant!
Lu Xinyang was so anxious that he almost jumped up, but Ji Rongyu didn't appreciate it at all. He pinched his fingers together under the table and said calmly, "It's okay. Let him talk. If he has any opinions, just say it. I can change them, and I'm the only one who can change them."
Since he promised Director Gao to come and revise the script, he will do what he says. This is his attitude towards making money.
Besides, he was the one who wrote the story. How to add drama and create the three courts and five eyes without destroying the original structure? Of course, he was the one who could best grasp this balance.
Ji Rongyu's attitude was to accept the challenge, but Lu Xinyang threw a tantrum: "If you don't like to change, then don't change it. Don't spoil him!"
"I don't."
"You have!"
"I said I didn't! This is a serious matter, go do what you need to do and don't disturb us!"
"I disturbed you guys at work? How can you and him be the you guys? It's obviously you and I who are the you guys! No, we are us!"
The two of them started yelling at each other.
"Hello?" The tall and thin man next to him shouted, but no one paid any attention. He pulled down his scarf and shouted again, waving his hands around, but still no one paid any attention.
"Hello!!!!"
He was clearly here to add to the drama, wasn't he? How did this brat who suddenly showed up steal his spotlight?!
He was unhappy with Lu Xinyang, and Lu Xinyang disliked him.
Lu Xinyang shouted for a while and found that he couldn't stop Ji Rongyu, so he turned his gun to solve the root cause of the conflict.
He looked at the tall and thin man and said, "Well, you so-and-so, I'll give you a fair chance to compete."
"Let's play rock-paper-scissors. If you lose, you will voluntarily give up the extra scene."
"My name is Xiang Wei!" the tall and thin man said, "What if I win?"
Lu Xinyang said, "If you win, let's play another round."
"Bah!"
Xiang Wei rolled his eyes viciously.
But Lu Xinyang's expression was even more ferocious than his. "I'm telling you, it's good enough that I can give you a way out. Just be content! Even the male lead like me can't add more scenes, so why should you? Are you any better than me?"
"Nonsense! Of course I'm better than you!" Xiang Wei said arrogantly.
He joined the crew of a drama when he was just in junior high school. Although he has never become famous, he has strong professional skills. No matter who he faces, he dares to show his strength confidently.
"But now you can only compete with me in acting," Lu Xinyang said, his hands on his hips, mocking him, "Then I don't think you're that good."
Xiang Wei: “???”
Wait a minute, who are you scolding?
Xiang Wei turned to look at Ji Rongyu and mouthed the question, "Is he sick?" Ji Rongyu said, "If you have different opinions, you can discuss them properly. Don't make personal attacks."
"Oh, by the way," Ji Rongyu added, "What's your name?"
Xiang Wei: “…………”
"That's enough," Chang Xue came over in high boots, grabbing one of them with each hand, "Go take pictures, don't waste the photographer's time."
"He's going too?" Xiang Wei looked at Lu Xinyang with a frustrated expression and asked retaliatorily, "What's his name? Why is he filming with me?"
"Just because I'm the male lead, what's wrong with that?" Lu Xinyang started pushing and shoving. "You'll know my name when our massive modern-style legendary costume drama hits the airwaves! Now get out of here! Don't harass our screenwriter teacher anymore!"
"Go, go, go, get out quickly, get out!"
Lu Xinyang pushed the people out with a bang, and ran back a second later. He returned the script that he had snatched from Xiang Wei to Ji Rongyu, and then ran away again with a grin on his face.
Ji Rongyu slowly relaxed his posture and leaned back in his chair. He looked at Director Gao, then at Chang Xue, and then at Wen Zhuo: "So what are you guys doing here?"
"Just here to be a decoration." Wen Zhuo laughed after he said that. He turned his head to look out the window, afraid that Lu Xinyang and Xiang Wei would fight again without anyone watching, so he turned around and followed them downstairs.
Director Gao took out a cigarette and said to Chang Xue, "Then... let's do as we agreed before?"
He actually doesn't mind. What's the big deal about adding scenes? If the filming doesn't turn out well, he can just delete it later. He has plenty of excuses to get away with it.
Chang Xue naturally understood the situation and said, "You guys can do whatever you want. Just give him a chance to show his face."
"Yeah." Director Gao nodded.
Ji Rongyu pressed his finger on the backspace key and deleted the several requests that Xiang Wei had just made, but he sighed in his heart.
Didn't the result still mean more drama? Lu Xinyang had gone through all this trouble for nothing.
It's been a cold snap late in spring, and the weather is cold and dry. He doesn't like to drink water, and I don't know if his throat was sore from yelling just now.
Ji Rongyu said subconsciously: "I think..."
Director Gao and he spoke at the same time: "What do you think, Xiao Ji? You've met him now. You might want to change the role to his style and give him a few more scenes to try."
"Anyway, we only have this last month to shoot. Whether he can seize the opportunity depends on his own ability." After saying this, Director Gao put the cigarette in his mouth and was about to light it when he stopped and said, "Oh, what were you going to say just now?"
Ji Rongyu hesitated for a moment, but finally shook his head: "Nothing."
Since there is only one month left, don't give up halfway.
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Under Chang Xue's supervision, the temporary "studio" next to the set finally started work.
Lu Xinyang was surrounded by stylists, lighting technicians and photographers, and was meticulously sculpted from head to toe. However, the shooting time was not the ten minutes he had imagined. After all, the first set of concepts alone were shot dozens of times.
I feel so exhausted.
"Can we switch?" Lu Xinyang said, "I'll take the photo for you. You come stand here."
The photographer said: "No."
"Then I'll switch with him. Yes, him. I think he should be quite good at shooting." This time, Lu Xinyang said as he walked forward, and grabbed Xiang Wei who had just finished putting on makeup and pushed him into the shooting scene.
"Good! Very good!" He ignored his dislike for Xiang Wei and praised loudly, "It's perfect! Take your time filming, don't rush. I'll go order takeout for you."
Before the photographer team could react, Lu Xinyang had already run away.
He picked up his coat from the sofa, lowered his head to look at his phone, and hurriedly walked around the set, RV, coat rack, and the staff moving around. But the sharp-eyed Yu Han saw him and said, "Hey, Lu Xinyang, where are you going?"
Lu Xinyang said, "I'm going to order takeout."
Wen Zhuo had also changed his clothes and came out, and asked him, "Are you not taking pictures anymore?"
"No, I just came out to get takeout. Are you hungry? How about I help you order..." Lu Xinyang thought he was secretly aiming at his escape route with the corner of his eye, but Wen Zhuo pulled him sharply: "Will you come back after you order?"
Lu Xinyang said: "That depends on when the takeaway arrives..."
Before he could finish his words, his phone rang: "Hello? Already here? Okay, okay, I'll come get it right away. You guys are really fast at delivering. I'll order twenty more!"
Wen Zhuo asked in surprise: "You still order?"
"Yeah, it's okay," Lu Xinyang pushed his hand away perfunctorily, "I still have a lot of phone credit."
Wen Zhuo: “?”
He got stuck for a moment, and Lu Xinyang slipped out of his hand and ran away like a wild horse.
The wild horse was playing with his mobile phone while running, sending messages frantically in the work group asking where Ji Rongyu was, and then running faster and faster along the clear path pointed out by others.
Ten minutes later, Lu Xinyang jumped into the door frame with the takeaway food he had brought back despite all the difficulties, "Teacher Ji! I'm back!"
Ji Rongyu pushed his heels against the ground and turned around with the chair. Before he could see the situation clearly, he was shaken by a hand extended by Lu Xinyang.
With a light hook of his muscular fingers, he took off Ji Rongyu's glasses.
"Let's eat. I bought some curry beef brisket rice. I heard it's delicious. Many people in our crew go there for their own special meals. I feel like we're the only two in the crew who haven't tried it yet."
Lu Xinyang put his glasses back into the box, then deftly unpacked the chopsticks, divided the drinks and lunch boxes, and finally opened the lid of the thermos box filled with curry. The rich spicy aroma and hot mist hit his face, but it did not obstruct anyone's vision at all.
Ji Rongyu looked up at him and said, "I'm not hungry yet."
Lu Xinyang pulled a stool over and sat down, then maneuvered himself next to Ji Rongyu. He asked, "What did you eat this morning?"
“No.”
"I knew it." Lu Xinyang said, staring at his belly.
Ji Rongyu poked the tip of his chopsticks in his palm to align it, hesitated for a moment, then picked up a piece of potato covered with golden sauce and put it into his mouth.
The soft potatoes almost broke when touched by chopsticks. The slightly hot and sticky curry was rich and spicy, with just the right amount of salty and spicy flavor, and a touch of fresh and milky flavor.
Lu Xinyang also ate a piece of potato, then looked at him without saying anything.
"The onions should be chopped smaller and fried over low heat until they're caramelized. There aren't enough apples... and there's too much soy sauce." Ji Rongyu took a sip of the flavor in his mouth. "Forget it, I'll eat some with you for the sake of the potatoes."
"You're so picky," Lu Xinyang propped up his chin with one hand, tilting his head to continue looking at him. "Then I get it. Is it because you can't be picky on the crew anymore, and you might even be picked on by others, that you don't want to continue being a screenwriter?"
"That's about right." Ji Rongyu has never liked unstable and uncontrollable things, so what Lu Xinyang said was right.
"Then how about I invest in you?" Lu Xinyang said, "You manage all the money, you become the capitalist, and you get to choose the director and actors! No one can change your script, but if you don't like someone, you can criticize them at will. Oh, and you can even ask them to do a nude streaking scene, and then edit it out cleanly to humiliate them!"
"Okay, you're pretty quick-witted," Ji Rongyu praised, "but your thinking is a little messy."
Lu Xinyang: “Ah?”
Ji Rongyu stretched out a finger and pointed at him from a distance: "Intentionally adding drama, and even running naked? Am I displeased with him? I must have had some dirty thoughts about him."
"Are your lustful thoughts that lively and active?" Lu Xinyang blurted out, "Then do you have any lustful thoughts about me?"
The room was silent for a moment. Ji Rongyu carefully looked at his half-turned face. His eyebrows were thick and dark, his nose bridge was steep, and his lips...
Ji Rongyu pulled his hand back under the table and clenched it into a fist. Then he bit the tip of his chopsticks and spoke slowly: "Why would I have any dirty thoughts about you?"
"Yes, why?" Lu Xinyang muttered to himself. He felt like he seemed to have said something wrong, or perhaps missed something.
What on earth was this? Why was his heart pounding? This rhythm was just like… That’s right! Like the night he was going to give Ji Rongyu a gift!
Hmm! He remembered! He now has a surprise gift for him too!
Lu Xinyang said, "What do you think about me changing my name? I'm planning to call myself Lu Jiuyang."
"Okay, very good!" Ji Rongyu nodded expressionlessly, "As long as you change your name, you won't have to worry about others having bad intentions towards you in your life."
"Oh, really?" Lu Xinyang thought for a moment, "Then is this... a good thing or a bad thing?"
"Hehe." Ji Rongyu lowered his head and ate another piece of potato.
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