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The filming in the afternoon was also very difficult. The feeling that Mu Yan wanted was not captured yet, which made everyone feel negative. Mu Yan had to temporarily suspend the filming, ask the venue to arrange the items, and wait for everyone to adjust their emotions before filming again.
Jing Shengxi and Lu Jia paused their filming, and the next thing that came up was the Xiao family mistress scolding Li Li.
The mistress of the Xiao family does not like "Xiao Yase" and is tired of having to pay her respects and ask her questions every day. Taking advantage of her sister-in-law Lu Jia's daily greetings, she plans to marry "Xiao Yase" off.
According to the plot, "Xiao Yase" knows that her family will not marry her to a good family, so she will refuse this marriage.
After the lighting and the venue were set up, Li Lai tried to adjust his facial expressions and stood in his position.
Because the previous scene took too long, there was no movement arranged for this scene. Several actors got a break to quickly rehearse their lines, and with a "action", the scene officially began.
At the round dining table, all the members of the Xiao family sat in order of seniority, and "Xiao Yase" and "Xiao Yue" sat next to each other.
Influenced by the previous scene, Jing Shengxi was not in a very good state from the beginning of filming. Fortunately, the focus of this scene was on Li Lai. Jing Shengxi's state also made him depressed when facing the fact that his sweetheart became his sister-in-law.
Ever since Li Li started designing the character's appearance, Jing Shengxi has been paying attention to Li Li's performance.
From the moment she entered the door and sat down, Li Lai kept her back slightly bent and greeted Xiao's parents in a low voice. When Xiao's mother mocked her for being ungenerous and revealing the pettiness of the poor, she was dull and did not defend herself, as if she had become accustomed to "Xiao's mother"'s disdain.
When Xiao's father took the seat and everyone ate together, Li Li did not react in any other way. Mu Yan did not call for a stop, so everyone continued to perform.
While Xiao's mother was picking up some food for Xiao's father, she said, "Master, this fourth girl has reached the age she deserves. As the saying goes, 'A girl shouldn't be kept when she grows up. The longer she stays, the more resentment she will feel. We should find a good marriage for her."
Li Li, who had been in a daze, showed some reaction. She first glanced at Xiao's father who was eating, then quickly scanned the people at the table. Her body moved up and down with her deep breathing, showing her emotional fluctuations.
"My mother's family has a nephew who looks good, tall and strong. He also has an elderly mother at home. If the fourth daughter marries him, she will definitely not be treated unfairly."
"Ah, I know that guy. I heard he likes to beat people when he's drunk. He's already beaten two of his wives away."
The actors communicated according to the script, and Xiao's mother tried her best to get Xiao's father to agree to the marriage.
Jing Shengxi noticed that Li Li's mood swings were becoming increasingly pronounced. She had already stopped eating and drinking and looked directly at Xiao's mother. What would she say next from the script? "Mother, are you trying to kick me out?"
"Fourth Miss, what do you think of this marriage?" Xiao's mother kindly asked "Xiao Yase" for her opinion.
"Xiao Yase" stood up suddenly, which caught everyone present off guard, and the camera quickly followed her steps.
She walked up to "Xiao's Mother" and, without saying a word, knelt before her, lowering her head and covering her face with her hands, sobbing. Her pitiful sobs tugged at her heartstrings. When she looked up again, her eyes were filled with tears. She followed "Xiao's Mother" and said, "Mother has abandoned me. Mother wants to drive me away."
This was something the two actors had rehearsed privately. They felt the "forced marriage" scene was too thin, so they decided to act it out together.
"You are my child, why would I want to drive you away? It's really true that a girl has grown up and it's time for her to get married." What Xiao's mother said was both reasonable and unreasonable.
"Since ancient times, marriages have been decided by parents and matchmakers. My mother worries about her daughter, and I am very grateful. But I just want to be filial to my parents for a few more years and do my best as a filial daughter." After saying this, she lay on the knees of "Xiao Mu" and cried.
The camera was focused on Li Lai's face. She did not react as violently as before. Her emotions turned to silence. With tears in her eyes after surviving a disaster, she realized that she had no place in this family.
Jing Shengxi paid attention to Li Li's acting skills throughout the whole process. His previous silence was so that he could survive in the Xiao family. After knowing that he was going to be betrothed to someone, he wanted to stay in the Xiao family by retreating in order to advance.
Her emotional transformation began in just one breath.
After watching this clip, Mu Yan said to him that Li Li was not performing her acting, she was expressing the emotions of the protagonist.
Thinking that they still had scenes together in the evening, Jing Shengxi didn't want Li Li to see his weakness, so he found a place where no one was around to practice. After practicing his lines several times, he dared to take the initiative to find Li Li to recite his lines.
Over here, Li Lai and Lan Yan were eating spicy hot pot and chatting about the latest trending topics. Seeing Jing Shengxi coming, Lu Jia asked casually, "That keyboard player from your previous band, did he really cheat on you?"
"I don't know."
"Tsk, what a boring man." Lu Jia gave Li Li a look and took out his phone. He didn't know who he was calling, but he probably wanted to confirm the rumor.
To prove his innocence, Jing Shengxi pulled over a portable chair and muttered, "I haven't had any contact with him in three or four years."
Li Li took a look at the script in his hand and guessed that he was rehearsing with her. After quickly eating a few mouthfuls of seaweed, she pulled him aside to rehearse.
In the past, the two of them would help each other with their scenes and rehearse their lines. After rehearsing a few times and finding no problems, they would wait for the venue to be set up before moving on to their positions.
The two of them didn't know what to do or what to say, they just sat there. This was consistent with their later relationship state, staying in the same room, doing their own things, and not disturbing each other.
After the crew signaled that the scene was ready, the two stood up at the same time, entered the set one after the other, and began to walk through the camera positions to ensure that every shot could be captured.
While waiting for the cameraman to adjust the camera position, Jing Shengxi looked at the cameras surrounding him and, for some reason, turned back to ask Li Lai, "Do we get photographed with so many cameras when we go out on the street?"
Li Lai was almost scared to death. In the middle of the night, Jing Shengxi's book was stolen by something, and the machine was still on. If some things were leaked, the consequences would be difficult to predict.
A vague answer: "There aren't so many cameras following me when I go out on the street."
Jing Shengxi snorted lightly, not knowing why.
The filming went smoothly. After three takes, Mu Yan felt it was good enough and asked everyone to wrap up and take a rest.
Tired Li Li didn't want to move at all. She just wanted to sleep on the floor on the set and continue filming tomorrow. Lu Jia said that his nanny car was outside and he could take Li Li to the hotel to rest.
"Aren't you going back to the hotel to rest?"
Seeing Jing Shengxi's assistant holding a set of pre-matched clothes, Li Li was surprised that he still had the energy to take on other activities.
"He's got a celebrity status, and he still has to do some business promotion," Lu Jia pointed at the brooch and watch he was wearing and whispered, "My agent told me that those two pieces of jewelry combined have a small target."
Li Lai had never seen such expensive jewelry. In the past, when filming a drama, sponsors would borrow jewelry for filming, and the requirements they made were surprisingly high. Not only did they require the star status, but they also required that the person wearing the watch shave his or her chin to avoid damaging the overall appearance of the watch.
"What if this gets lost?"
"Compensation, whatever amount is due, if that doesn't work, then we'll take legal action."
Thinking of Jing Shengxi carrying a small target with him, Li Li was nervous for him. However, it was already eleven o'clock at night. Would he have time to rest after shooting the commercial promotion?
At twelve o'clock in the evening, Mu Yan called and told Li Lai that she and Jing Shengxi would go to meet the screenwriter tomorrow, and she would stay to watch the filming.
"Where is the screenwriter's address?"
"Oh, I didn't bring my phone with me, but I gave the address to Jing Shengxi. Do you have her contact information?"
When Li Lai heard the news before going to bed, she wanted to smash the wall, not to mention falling asleep. She blamed Mu Yan for not carrying two mobile phones with her, which made her contact Jing Shengxi on her own initiative. It would be better to kill her.
I was holding the phone in my hand, hesitating. The screen lit up and went out, and then lit up again. I couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell asleep in a daze.
When the phone vibrated again, Li Li was so scared that she threw the phone away. Then she realized something and quickly got up to pick up the phone that was thrown on the ground.
At 5:20, a new beginning begins, and we have to face it.
He opened his phone and found Jing Shengxi's name in the address book. He paused for four or five seconds, thinking about how to start the conversation. Then he thought, he was doing serious business, so he should just say it.
The call didn't go through the first time. Ten minutes later, Jing Shengxi called.
"What's wrong? Come to me if you need anything."
"Oh, Mu Yan asked me to meet the screenwriter and said you have his address." Li Li had already taken out a pen and paper and started to write down the address.
"If you had added me on WeChat earlier, there wouldn't be so much trouble."
Hearing that Jing Shengxi was trying to hold back his laughter, Li Li had the urge to kill him, so he asked where the screenwriter's address was.
"It's on my phone."
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"Please drive over and pick me up. I'm very tired now."
He shouldn't have been so soft-hearted. In the underground garage, Li Li despised himself for being so soft-hearted. He didn't care about the assistant and the driver who had been with him all night. He just let them go back and rest. He should have called a taxi and left.
Also, this guy, knowing that he doesn't have a screenwriter address, still refuses to make himself happy. How come his personality is still so bad?
Looking at the time first, Jing Shengxi said that he would not come down for another hour, so Li Li sat in the car and waited.
However, an hour passed and he still hadn't come down.
I waited for him for another half an hour, but he still didn't come down.
No one answered the phone.
If it wasn't an accident, then it was an accident.
Li Li wore a mask and quickly took the elevator upstairs. She asked the front desk where Jing Shengxi was filming the commercial. The front desk staff was very alert and said they didn't know who was filming the commercial and asked Li Li not to interfere with their work.
Li Li was anxious and said to the front desk, "Call Jing Shengxi's agent or assistant and tell them that you can't contact him now."
The receptionist looked up at Li Lai and asked, "Excuse me, who are you?"
"Tell his agent, my name is Li Li."
"Then you can go up." The receptionist gave the floor quickly: "Teacher Jing Shengxi is filming on the 18th floor."
The attitude changed quite quickly. I took the elevator to the 18th floor with the floor card.
This floor is rented by advertising companies for filming. The nearly 2,000 square meters is divided into 12 filming rooms. Each filming room is kept confidential and there are staff guarding the door.
The staff guided Li Li to a shooting room, nodded at her affirmatively, and left with a very professional attitude.
I knocked on the door but no one answered. I pushed it open carefully. It was quiet inside. No one was working. Even the filming equipment had not been packed up.
When I walked in again, I didn't see Jing Shengxi there.
Is he playing a trick on me?
That's impossible. The staff said he has been shooting a commercial since yesterday.
Just as I was about to call him, I caught a glimpse of Jing Shengxi lying on the sofa.
He was sleeping on his side on the sofa, and there was some whole wheat bread on the table.
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