ATAMMDO 24

Chapter 24: Qin Lu: To Sin

 

The crew staff found that today’s director is particularly fierce, and his temper is even grumpier than before.

 

An actor just said a wrong sentence, and the director used his loudspeaker to scold him. Another employee was also reprimanded by the director because he made a mistake in a prop.

 

The director now looks like an enraged fire-breathing dragon who gets mad at anyone he catches.

 

Yesterday, there was still some laughter in the crew. Today, except for the noise from work, everyone dared not talk nonsense. The entire team became a bit dull and cramped.

 

Several old actors asked Liu Yangxi for news, but Liu Yangxi didn’t know the reason.

 

“If I knew, I wouldn’t be so distressed.” Liu Yangxi smiled bitterly. The worst part of it all is the fact that he became a literal punching bag because of this sudden shift from the director. “I only know that the director has been like this since last night.”

 

“If it has nothing to do with filming, it’s a personal issue.”

 

“Do you remember what the director said about the blind date before? Maybe it has something to do with it.”

 

Everyone secretly hid in the corner as they shared their guesses that they didn’t notice that the initiator, Jiang Liu Cheng, had just come to the crew.

 

“What are you all talking about?” Jiang Liu Cheng saw them gathered together and whispering to each other cautiously.

 

Liu Yangxi immediately took a peek in the director’s direction, making sure he didn’t notice this group forming. It’s a good thing that the artillery was aimed at the props team. And so he whispered, “We are talking about the director. It’s as if he had eaten a pack of dynamite today.”

 

Jiang Liu Cheng couldn’t see the picture of him getting angrier than before and said, “Isn’t he like this every day?”

 

Liu Yangxi: “Uh, it’s a little more serious today than before. Don’t you also stay on the ninth floor? Did you hear anything last night?”

 

Jiang Liu Cheng thought for a while, “I didn’t hear anything, I slept earlier last night.”

 

Liu Yangxi didn’t expect him to really know anything, “In short, today’s director is not easy to mess with. Don’t ask him anything if you don’t want to die.”

 

To think that Jiang Liu Cheng also wanted to tell him about his supposed leave, “Why?”

 

Liu Yangxi said, “When the director is in a bad mood, he may not agree to anything you say.”

 

Jiang Liu Cheng: “Then I’ll talk about it when he’s in a better mood.”

 

Zhou Wenbin didn’t mean to listen to their chat. He just happened to be passing by and happened to hear it. The corners of his mouth twitched.

 

If he didn’t know the inside story and heard Jiang Liu Cheng’s words, he would have thought that he really didn’t know anything.

 

He didn’t understand whether Jiang Liu Cheng really didn’t know or was acting stupid.

 

Looking at the calm expression on his face, he always thought it was the former. This person might really not realize that the reason why Director Cheng Qinghua was unhappy is because of what he did last night.

 

Nonetheless, the atmosphere continued on in the afternoon.

 

After Qin Lu finished filming the twentieth scene, the director shouted a cut and asked everyone to rest for 20 minutes.

 

Cheng Qinghua came to Qin Lu’s dressing room and lounged with a straight face. He then knocked on the door.

 

“Can I say a few words to you alone?”

 

Qin Lu nodded slightly.

 

The makeup artist and the assistant immediately went out knowingly, and Zhang Ning helped close the door of the room.

 

Qin Lu didn’t take the initiative to speak. He lowered his head slightly as he looked at the information on his mobile phone.

 

Cheng Qinghua hesitated for a moment before saying, “Are you planning to find a new blind date for Jiang Liu Cheng?”

 

This is the first time he mentioned something unrelated to filming at work. If it was in the past, he would never deal with his personal affairs during working hours.

 

But he couldn’t calm down when he thought that Jiang Liu Cheng would have a new blind date.

 

He didn’t want this mentality and emotions to have a greater impact on him in the long run, so he decided to come to Qin Lu to ask about the situation.

 

“This is something that I promised him.” Qin Lu didn’t deny it as he was already thinking about it.

 

Cheng Qinghua thought about it and said, “Can you not introduce him yet to anyone first? I don’t want it to end like this. Give me a little time, and I will save our relationship.”

 

Qin Lu’s eyes finally moved from the phone screen to him, and he said calmly, “He has rejected you.”

 

Cheng Qinghua: “It’s common for couples to break up, but they’ll eventually get back together.”

 

Qin Lu: “You were not a real couple. To be honest, I was just being sloppy in the beginning. You are not suitable for him.”

 

Cheng Qinghua said unhappily, “Two people need a period of running-in time together. We only started a few days, and we didn’t spend much time together. How do you know that I am not suitable for him?”

 

Qin Lu: “He said so.”

 

Cheng Qinghua: “…..”

 

Cheng Qinghua: “As long as you don’t introduce him to a new blind date, I can definitely get him back. If you help me with this, I will owe you a favor.”

 

Qin Lu shook his head, “If you can say something like this, it shows that you don’t know him well enough. Why do you think he’d say that you are not suitable together?”

 

Cheng Qinghua: “He said that we have different personalities and have different ideas about family, but I think there are solutions to all of these. Separation is not the only way.”

 

Qin Lu said, “You value your career more than your relationship. For you, your career comes first and your relationship second, but for Jiang Liucheng, the two are the other way around. He has a loving brain. Relationships will always come before careers.”

 

Cheng Qinghua was silent for a moment, “The love brain you said was the one that broke up with me suddenly last night? Did you misunderstand what it means to have a loving brain?”

 

Qin Lu didn’t change his face, “I’ve checked. Having a loving brain means a person puts his energy and mind on love and his lover. Jiang Liu Cheng does fit this point.”

 

Cheng Qinghua: “Then he shouldn’t even break up with me. He should want to be with me.”

 

Qin Lu: “You don’t meet his requirements. He’s not the kind of person who wastes time on people with different ideas.”

 

Cheng Qinghua was speechless for a while, “He is more rational than anyone else.”

 

How can such a rational person have a loving brain.

 

Cheng Qinghua said again, “Forget it, even if you don’t help, I will take him back by myself.”

 

Qin Lu was noncommittal.

 

Everyone in the crew found that after the director chatted with Emperor Qin, his mood seemed to be better. He is no longer a fire-breathing dragon ready to fry someone golden crispy at any time. But nonetheless, everyone still completed their work carefully.

 

Jiang Liu Cheng didn’t realize it, but after accepting Cheng Qinghua’s scolding in the crew, he had a general understanding of the latter’s temper.

 

In hot summer, the next rain has become a luxury.

 

But today is an exception.

 

In the afternoon, the sky suddenly became a little gloomy, and it started to rain just before four o’clock.

 

The air seemed cold again, and the sultry temperature was swept away.

 

After temporarily finding out that it would rain today in the middle of the night last night, Cheng Qinghua decided to change the filming sequence and advance the scenes that required rainy days to the present.

 

Because it was an outdoor location, they prepared it early. And when it was almost done, they all moved to the shooting location where they were ready to shoot.

 

Rainy days are uncontrollable. God may stop at any time. In order to seize this opportunity, the crew was busy up and down.

 

It took everyone an hour to finally put all the equipment in their positions that were determined beforehand.

 

The protagonist of this scene is Jiang Liu Cheng. Fortunately, it doesn’t take much time to shape and take it. It was estimated to be done in more than half an hour.

 

This scene is Xie Fei running out of the hospital.

 

He overheard someone in the hospital talking about his brother, saying that Xie Bing asked the hospital to transfer his brother to a ward and paid a lot of money. Some people said that this money was the payment he paid for helping the rich second generation to file a lawsuit.

 

Xie Fei didn’t want to use the dirty money, so he fled the hospital and didn’t go home.

 

It was just raining outside at this time. Xie Fei was walking in the rain alone and came to the lake unknowingly.

 

This scene was not difficult to shoot, but because it was an ad hoc decision, it was not determined in advance how to go and where to go.

 

In order to catch up with the rain, Cheng Qinghua didn’t have time to let Jiang Liu Cheng rehearse in advance but just called him over and told him how to go later.

 

At work, Cheng Qinghua was completely business-like. He didn’t feel the slightest bit of unpleasant anger just because Jiang Liu Cheng said he”broke up” with him last night.

 

Jiang Liu Cheng was not at all embarrassed to see Cheng Qinghua, just like he had always had this attitude before “breaking up”.

 

After Cheng Qinghua told Jiang Liu Cheng about the walking route, he returned to work. After the equipment was placed, he had to adjust the light and various angles to ensure that there were no problems before starting.

 

This tune was busy for another half an hour.

 

Fortunately, the rain has not stopped. Otherwise, they can only use the sprinkler. The only disadvantage is that the rain tends to get bigger.

 

The camera crew can only continue to fix the equipment at the director’s urging until everything is ready and the headsets of each group receive the sound of ok.

 

Jiang Liu Cheng also received a notification that it was ready to start.

 

As the rain got heavier, when he walked out of the makeshift tent, the prop suit on his body was quickly soaked.

 

With the director’s start, Jiang Liu Cheng’s figure also entered the mirror.

 

The rain trailed down his cheeks, and his soaked clothes became transparent and fit tightly on his body.

 

Underneath the clothes is a somewhat thin body. As the camera zoomed in, the images displayed on the screen made the young man feel more beautiful in his fragility.

 

This is not the other party’s intentional presentation, but an unintentional temptation.

 

“I didn’t expect Xiao Jiang to look a little thin with such good body proportion.” A photographer said with a sigh, staring at the young man on the screen. He could hardly move his eyes.

 

Cheng Qinghua, who was originally focused on shooting the picture, heard this sentence, and his attention was instantly deviated.

 

In fact, he always knew that the young man was a very good person, but he did not know that the young man still had a good figure.

 

Because he was so engrossed in it that he forgot to shout cut.

 

He didn’t call the end, and Jiang Liu Cheng didn’t stop. He kept walking forward, and his figure was about to walk out of the camera.

 

“Why are you in a daze?” Qin Lu noticed his strangeness and immediately caught everyone’s attention.

 

Everyone looked at the director in amazement because they had never seen the director in a daze while filming.

 

Cheng Qinghua suddenly came back to his senses, only to realize that he actually looked at the young man in fascination.

 

“Cut!”

 

He didn’t explain but just re-watched the scene where Jiang Liu Cheng was walking through. The youth’s talent was higher than he thought.

 

He originally thought that this scene would have to be filmed many times. After all, this scene was decided on an ad hoc basis. He didn’t expect that there would be no problem with the youth’s movement and performance, except that the lighting in some places was not well lit.

 

“Re-adjust the lights; let’s do it all over again.” Cheng Qinghua said.

 

He didn’t say anything about Jiang Liu Cheng’s performance, and everyone heard it. Maybe this scene could be over soon, and they immediately cheered up.

 

It turned out that their conjecture was correct. This scene was shot twice before passing the third time.

 

Later, Xie Bing received news from the hospital that Xie Fei was gone, so he came over.

 

The two stood against each other in the rain.

 

Xie Fei said that he didn’t need the dirty money he earned from the rich second generation, and also wanted to persuade his brother to stop helping those rich people with lawsuits.

 

This hurt Xie Bing, but Xie Bing has never been the person who will reveal his emotions on the surface. He is better at forbearance.

 

“Xiao Fei, brother, you are my only relative.”

 

However, the young Xie Fei didn’t understand the adult world, and he didn’t even know what kind of pressure Xie Chenggong was under.

 

Even if Xie Bing was stung by his brother’s words, he didn’t dare to say any harsh words for his brother’s body and only wanted him to go back to the hospital.

 

The repressed and restrained emotions are superimposed layer by layer.

 

It is not the first time Jiang Liu Cheng and Qin Lu have played opposite roles, and they have never felt this way.

 

This is the first time he has experienced more intuitively the explosive feeling and shock brought by Qin Lu’s immersive acting skills, which cannot be felt through the screen.

 

When he watched Qin Lu’s movies before, he felt that his acting skills were excellent. Still, he didn’t expect the impact of face-to-face would be more profound, as if he could feel the blood under the blood vessels boiling.

 

It was not until the director shouted a click that he returned to reality from Qin Lu’s acting skills.

 

Jiang Liu Cheng looked at Qin Lu, who was still expressionless after the scene ended, and blinked involuntarily.

 

“Uh, haven’t you played out yet?”

 

Qin Lu’s mouth twitched in the next second, “No, I’m already out.”

 

It was true that there was no drama yet, but for some unknown reason, when Jiang Liu Cheng said these words, his mind couldn’t help flashing the tyrant quotes he had sent earlier.

 

Who allowed you to think of other men in my bed?

 

Qin Lu felt that he was facing another problem now, how would he be able to quickly enter the play and make evil when facing Jiang Liu Cheng.

 

This fear soon became a reality.

 

In the next re-recording screen, when he saw Jiang Liu Cheng, he actually failed to enter his role for the first time.

 

“Cut.” Cheng Qinghua shouted, looking at Qin Lu in surprise and saying, “Are you ready yet?”

 

“Give me three minutes.” Qin Lu turned around and stopped looking at Jiang Liu Cheng.

 

Cheng Qinghua raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He had collaborated with Qin Lu on a movie, and the other party’s acting skills didn’t need to be mentioned at all. As long as he wanted, he could join the shoot anytime, anywhere.

 

He looked at Jiang Liu Cheng, who stood aside and waited cooperatively.

 

Ten minutes later and the reshoots were over.

 

Qin Lu didn’t have the situation again just now. His scenes were over two or three times, and the simple scenes were over after one take.

 

At this time, the rain has gradually decreased.

 

Seeing that Jiang Liu Cheng was soaking wet, Qin Lu called him to his RV and threw him the towel that assistant Zhang Ning had brought for him.

 

“Wipe off your body first. Do you have a change of clothes?”

 

Jiang Liu Cheng nodded, “Yes.”

 

He received a notice last night that he would film a rain scene today, so he stuffed two clothes in his backpack.

 

Qin Lu: “Well, you change your clothes first. You can change at the back of the RV, just close the curtains.”

 

Qin Lu’s RV is massive, and the space inside is not that small, either. In fact, there is a bed in the back. Usually after filming, he will lie in the back and rest for a while when he is tired.

 

“I’ll go get my backpack.” Jiang Liu Cheng was not embarrassed by him either.

 

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Wenbin came over. The backpack in his hand looked familiar; it was his.

 

“Is this your backpack? Brother Qin asked me to get it for you.”

 

Jiang Liu Cheng didn’t expect Qin Lu to be so careful and even think about such trivial matters. He looked at Qin Lu, “Thank you.”

 

Qin Lu was wiping his hair, “Go and change.”

 

Jiang Liu Cheng took his backpack and got behind the RV curtain, and soon there was a rustling sound inside.

 

When the curtain was drawn again, he had changed into his clothes and returned to his clean and fresh appearance.

 

Zhang Ning, who was on the side, looked a little stunned. The young man’s appearance was really attractive. He looks refreshingly handsome with a sunny feeling.

 

He has been in the entertainment industry for several years. In the past, the only person who could make him stunned at first sight was Brother Qin, but now there is another one.

 

“Are you going to have a few scenes in the next few days?” Qin Lu suddenly asked while looking at the young man.

 

Jiang Liu Cheng thought about it for a while and nodded before saying, “There are not so many scenes that I have to take.”

 

Qin Lu: “Take a day off next week, and I’ll introduce you to someone better than Cheng Qinghua.”

 

As if on cue, Cheng Qinghua came over to find them who they wanted to talk to: “…..”

 

Is it possible to ask for a leave? Will there be a possibility for him to agree?