Hold on, the system and I have never been angry
Chapter 42: Seizing the Role
In a bar box on West Street in the imperial capital.
Fu Jingnian was drinking wine with his head tilted back. He suspected that he was going crazy. Ever since he saw that guy's face in the live broadcast in the afternoon, his heart had been beating like a drum and it hasn't stopped yet.
He picked up his cell phone and called: "Hello? Where the hell are you?"
"I'm downstairs. Why are you rushing me? I'll be right there."
Shang Shaoting opened the door, holding the handsome boy in his arms, and sat down next to Fu Jingnian: "What do you want me to do?"
Fu Jingnian didn't say anything.
Shang Shaoting raised his wine glass and teased, "Master Fu, you called your brothers out but you didn't say anything. Why are you drinking alone here?"
Fu Jingnian was rubbed on the arm by Shang Shaoting, and instantly he felt like he was electrocuted. He jumped up and moved several steps away: "Fuck you, gay, stay away from me!"
Shang Shaoting and Fu Jingnian grew up together, so he knew that Fu Jingnian had always known about his sexual orientation, so there was no reason for him to suddenly attack. Shang Shaoting touched his nose, and he was really curious about why Fu Jingnian suddenly acted like this.
Before he could ask, the boy in his arms held a glass of wine and handed it to his lips: "Mr. Shang, you said before that you would give me resources. Is that still true? I recently saw a play..."
Shang Shaoting smiled and enjoyed the wine the beauty fed him: "Tell me? Which play and what role do you want?"
The boy rolled his eyes and said with a surprised look: "I heard that the third male lead in "Moonlight on Tianshan Mountain" is a young man, which is just right for me."
Shang Shaoting gave him a meaningful look and said with a smile, "Is it just this little thing?"
He had an impression of this play, and his family was the largest investor. He had heard that it was still in the casting stage, and getting a role was a piece of cake for Shang Shaoting, but he was very curious, why did this new bed partner have to be named male number three?
"Yes, yes, Mr. Shang, you won't refuse to help me with such a small matter, right?" The boy was wearing cool clothes and deliberately lifted the hem of his clothes and put his waist into Shang Shaoting's hands.
As soon as Fu Jingnian heard this, he knew that the boy was from the entertainment industry. He glanced at him while drinking and almost spit out a mouthful of wine. Oh my god, isn't this the guy who debuted at a high position in the talent show that Lu Jinzhao participated in... What's his name?
Thinking of the merchant's main business, Fu Jingnian understood. Over the years, countless men and women in the entertainment industry had climbed into their beds, and he was no longer surprised.
Shang Shaoting picked up his phone and called his secretary: "Tell Hu Pai to keep the third male lead in "Moonlit Sky Mountain"... What did you say? It's been decided? Who has been decided?"
It couldn't be one of his ex-boyfriends or ex-sex buddies, right? That would be hard to change, otherwise people would think he was just being petty and seeking revenge. What would he do?
"Lu Jinzhao..." Shang Shaoting squinted his eyes and thought for a while. He felt that the name sounded familiar. He glanced at Fu Jingnian who was drinking alone and remembered that this was the top-notch product that Fu Gou brought last time. He seemed to have teased her.
Damn, that's the person Ji Lianhuai is protecting! He doesn't dare to change this person's role.
But it’s strange. According to Ji Lianhuai’s personality, it should not be a problem for the guy named Lu to get the leading male role. Why is he only the third male role?
Shang Shaoting's thoughts turned around and around, and he didn't notice that Fu Jingnian's face turned red and green when he heard the name. He let go of the waist of the man next to him, picked up a glass of wine and shook it: "Change your role, the first male to the third male have been decided, and you can't change."
Judging from the list he just learned, the male lead cannot be changed. The movie emperor Yan Shangzhang is the guarantee of box office and reputation. He would be stupid to change this cash cow. Besides, Yan Shangzhang's family background is not worse than his, and he doesn't want to offend easily. The second male lead Zhai Yi is newly signed by his own company. It is unreasonable to replace someone else if his family is chosen. Besides, he has been eyeing Zhai Yi for a long time... The third male lead Lu Jinzhao cannot be moved, because the Ji Lian family is supporting him! Besides, his buddy seems to think highly of the kid surnamed Lu...
It's really troublesome, I'll just give it to a male No.4 to deal with...
The boy obviously didn't want to give up, and he pulled Shang Shaoting's arm and acted coquettishly: "Ah? But Shang Shao..."
Shang Shaoting's expression and tone turned cold: "It's male number four, whether you like it or not."
The boy also knew that pushing him any further would only backfire and cause Shang Shaoting to be disgusted, so he smiled awkwardly: "Man No. 4 is Man No. 4, Shang Shao, don't be angry! I will definitely repay you well tonight~"
Fu Jingnian couldn't stand it any longer and kicked Shang Shaoting: "Get lost! Stop being horny here!"
"Tell Hu Pai to leave male room number four for Ruan Kang." After instructing his assistant, Shang Shaoting hung up the phone and stuffed the room card into his male companion's collar: "Go wait for me upstairs."
Although he was not very satisfied with Ruan Kang's performance tonight, it would be a pity to let him go without sleeping with him. After all, he had promised him a lot of benefits.
Shang Shaoting sat down next to Fu Jingnian, looking at the wine bottles scattered all over the table, and said, "Did someone dump you?"
Fu Jingnian glared at him angrily: "Fuck you! You're the one who got dumped!"
"It's inexplicable..." Shang Shaoting rolled his eyes, "Are you crazy about someone and you're in love with her?"
"Don't ask me, I don't know." Fu Jingnian finished the wine in the glass in one gulp: "It's because I don't know that I'm so fucking upset."
On the other side, Ruan Kang took Shang Shaoting's room card, found the door of the room and swiped it open. He walked in, took off his clothes and talked on the phone.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Huo, the plan failed. I failed to get Shang Shaoting to replace Lu Jinchao's role."
"Useless thing!" The person on the other end of the phone cursed a few times, "Why don't you hurry back? You didn't really go to get a room with Shang Shaoting, did you? What? Do you think he's a golden thigh and want to be with him?"
Ruan Kang rubbed his fingers nonchalantly, "Yes, you said before that you would help me to meet Shang Shao. Whether I can make the connection is up to me. Now that I have made the connection, I will definitely hold on to it! I will definitely thank you when I have Shang Shaoting in my hands."
"Don't forget, I still have some dirt on you! Don't want to fail in the entertainment industry? "
"You can try. During this time of following you, I have also got a lot of evidence about you... For example, the Huo Group's large bribes..."
"You fucking bitch..."
Ruan Kang was too lazy to listen to the dirty talk from the other end, so he hung up the phone, blacklisted the person on the other end, turned around and went into the bathroom. He had to make preparations before Shang Shaoting came up.
*
As the filming was about to start, Lu Jinchao went to the crew on time to take a set of makeup photos as required by the director. The costume team outsourced the communication incorrectly, and they rushed to make dozens of sets of clothes, all of which were Lu Jinchao's size. He felt that each set was very suitable, and he was immediately in trouble. Finally, Hu Pai waved his hand and said that all of them should be used. In the original novel, Chu Suihan also loved to dress up, which was quite in line with her character.
The crew spent a long time to sort out the photos and finally selected a few to post on Weibo. The official Weibo updates a character's makeup photo every day. The male and female protagonists appear last, and Lu Jinzhao appears first as the third male.
It was finally over, and I happened to meet Qi Bingxia in the underground garage who was also there to take the final photos.
Lu Jinzhao was a little surprised: "What a coincidence."
Qi Bingxia smiled slyly and shook her index finger: "What a coincidence, I heard that you were in this crew, so I came here for the audition!"
Lu Jinzhao was stunned, obviously not expecting Qi Bingxia to be so direct, and nodded.
Qi Bingxia pouted: "What? You don't look happy at all! I'm playing your childhood sweetheart!"
Lu Jinzhao pursed his lips, "I remember it was a plot where childhood sweethearts were no match for the one who came from heaven."
Qi Bingxia didn't expect him to be so unromantic, and said angrily: "I don't care! Double death is also a happy ending!"
Lu Jinzhao: “Hmm…” Why doesn’t it count?
"By the way, do you know who the heroine is?"
"Who?"
"It's my idol, Sister Yi Han!"
Unexpectedly, they were all acquaintances. Lu Jinzhao nodded and smiled, "Go and get your makeup done quickly. Don't keep them waiting."
Qiansui's tail swung back and forth: "I think she might be here for Yuan Yihan."
As he was talking, Lu Jinzhao's cell phone rang. He took a look and saw that it was an unfamiliar number. He raised his eyebrows. Qi Bingxia saw that he had something important to do and waved goodbye: "You answer the phone. I'll go over first! See you when the phone turns on!"
"Okay." Lu Jinzhao got into the car and answered the phone: "Who is this?"
"Fuck you! How dare you kick me from behind! I broke my nose bone and it hurts even to breathe! You just wait for me! I won't let you go!"
"Come on." Lu Jinzhao hung up the phone and put him on the blacklist.
*
On the day of the start of filming, all the main characters were present except for the extras.
It was almost lunchtime when the process was over. Someone had sent the meal in Lu Jinchao's name. While replying to the staff's thanks, he took out his phone and sent a message to Fu Jingnian: "【Picture】Did you send this?"
Several truckloads of food were expensive, and there were only a few people in his friend list who could afford the money and had a good relationship with him. Ji Lianzhu was abroad, and it was late at night, so it was unlikely; Ji Lianxing should be in class at this time; their eldest brother Ji Lianhuai was not familiar with him, so he could be completely ruled out; Yuan Yihan and Yan Shangzhang were nearby, so there was no need to borrow his name to treat the entire crew to a meal; then it could only be Fu Jingnian.
Fu Jingnian replied almost immediately, as if he was waiting for his message.
"How is it? Is it delicious? Is the chef in my hotel good enough?"
Lu Jinzhao: "Why did you suddenly send food here?"
"If you want to give it to me, just give it to me. Why do you have so much to offer? Can't I support you in your first movie?"
With his left thumb, he quickly tapped the screen a few times, and Lu Jinzhao transferred six figures to him, ending the chat. Fu Jingnian might not care about this little money, but he didn't like taking things from others for free.
Fu Jingnian: “????”
The dialog box showed that the other party was typing. Lu Jinchao could roughly guess that it was some meaningless content again. He put away his phone and picked up the food with the plate. Now that the food Fu Jingnian ordered in his name had been delivered, he was too lazy to care if there were any rumors of "excessive spending and buying people's hearts". He couldn't ask the staff to spit out what they had eaten.
Fu Jingnian didn't know what happened on the set, he was too busy being angry. Damn it, when had Young Master Fu ever given someone something and had it thrown back and transferred the money?
Hu Pai asked the actors to take their positions and started filming the most important melee in the whole play. It was the most important melee between good and evil, and it was also the scene where the male protagonist's identity as a villain was revealed. After filming the group portrait part, scenes can be added later when filming other scenes, which greatly shortens the production process.
A loudspeaker sounded: "Main actors, please get ready. Your martial arts instructor is in place. We can start practicing!"
Hu Pai gave the actors half a day to practice the fighting scenes. It would be better to put on makeup after practice so that they could start shooting directly.
Lu Jinzhao's several close-up shots were basically done in one take, which greatly exceeded Hu Pai's expectations, so he asked Lu Jinzhao to change into costumes and put on makeup first. His makeup was relatively simple, he only needed to apply a base makeup, use contouring to soften the aggressiveness of his facial features, and deepen the wet feeling of his eyes to make them look like puppy eyes, and he could do it himself. He was ready early and sat in a chair to read the script.
He has memorized the script by heart, but he still has to pretend to be unprofessional in the crew to avoid rumors of unprofessionalism. After all, his seniors are still working hard, and it is not good for him to eat, drink and play with his phone. You know, some netizens judge by pictures without considering the truth.
As veteran actors, Yan Shangzhang and Yuan Yihan quickly finished their rehearsal and went into the dressing room. Their makeup was quite complicated, and Lu Jinzhao estimated that they would not be able to come out for a while.
There are quite a lot of people who need to put on makeup, and there are only two or three makeup artists in the crew, so they are naturally overwhelmed. Fortunately, there is only this one indoor scene to be shot today.
Zhai Yi and Qi Bingxia were in a worse situation. They had no experience in fighting, and their weapons were heavy, so they often couldn't react quickly if they relaxed. In half an hour, Zhai Yi had been knocked to the ground several times by the martial arts instructor. Qi Bingxia was a little better. Her weapon was a light and flexible bone whip, which didn't require any extra energy consumption.
Lu Jinchao's eyes fell on the script, turning the pages from time to time, and occasionally moving his eyes to the sparring area. He seemed serious, but in fact he was already playing the game in the system space, and the system was operating his actions for him. After another two hours, Lu Jinchao was really bored, so he asked the team that had delivered the food earlier to send another truck of ice cream and milk tea to entertain the staff who were as idle as himself.
He was eating a box of ice cream when Yan Shangzhang changed into his costume and wig and came over with a bag in his hand. Lu Jinzhao looked up and unfolded the recliner beside him, "Boss, sit down."
Yan Shangzhang responded, calmly sat down on the recliner, took out a small transparent porcelain bottle from the prop bag and unscrewed it, revealing a bottle of pure black nail polish. Lu Jinzhao saw it and couldn't help but smile. Yan Shangzhang glanced at him, but he turned his face away at the right time, and he could only see a big head with a furry ponytail.
"What are you laughing at?" Yan Shangzhang asked indifferently while painting his nails.
Lu Jinzhao covered the corners of his mouth with his fingers, "I'm not laughing."
He had read the entire script and knew that this was the setting for the male protagonist. When he appeared as a villain, the male protagonist's fingernails were always black, and the plot setting was that he was born with poison. Mostly it was the original author's hobby, but referring to Sebastian, this setting was really good, although he always wanted to laugh when he saw Yan Shangzhang like this.
Yan Shangzhang didn't say anything. He slowly painted the five nails of his left hand. He raised his hand to take a look, but the result was not satisfactory. There was either a piece missing or the paint was out.
Lu Jinzhao sighed, put the half-eaten ice cream box back into the small foam box filled with ice cubes, moved his recliner, took out the cotton pads for nail polish remover from the bag next to Yan Shangzhang, took up his boss's left hand, whose nail polish had not yet dried, wiped it clean, bent down to blow dry, and then applied new nail polish.
Yan Shangzhang didn't show it on his face, but he was actually shocked and almost retracted his hand subconsciously, "You can do this?"
Lu Jinzhao hummed a low “hmm” and painted his nails carefully. “I used to work part-time at Haidilao. When there were not enough nail artists, they would call me to fill in, so I know a little bit.”
It's not a lie to say this. The original owner, Zhou Ye, did work at Haidilao, and Yan Shangzhang could find out if he wanted to.
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