【New Red Mansion】Perfect World

As a teenager, Tina was a good girl in school, with good grades and was well behaved. But one day, on her way to school on the subway, she lost her student ID card in a panic.

That afternoon, a sunny and handsome boy came to the door of their class, holding Tina's student ID card in his hand and asked loudly: "Who is Le Yan?"

The students in the classroom turned their eyes to Le Yan who was sitting in the third row, and then shouted, "Le Yan, someone is looking for you!"

The boy turned around and went back to the corridor, waiting for Le Yan to come out.

The girl walked up to him cautiously, stretched out her hand and said, "Give me back my student ID."

"Is there any reward? I won't give it to you if there is no reward." The boy looked mischievous.

"What reward do you want?"

The boy thought for a long time and said: "Then please bring me an apple every day when you go to school. I will return it to you after a month." Then he turned and left.

"Ah? But I don't know which class you are from!" Le Yan shouted towards the back.

"I'll come find you." The boy waved his student ID at her from a distance with a sunny face.

After that, the two of them gradually became familiar with each other because of the takeout apples that month. Le Yan then found out that the boy was a year older than her. Gradually, they went home together after school, reviewed together before exams, practiced together in the piano room, and Le Yan would even go to the basketball court to watch the boy play basketball.

The story that followed was cliché. The boy graduated a year earlier and was admitted to university. Le Yan began to work hard to prepare for the exam, but the two had fewer interactions afterwards, except that she met the boy again at the subway station in her junior year.

At that time, the boy was down and out, and Le Yan started to sing in a bar to pursue her music dream. The boy often picked up Le Yan at the door of the bar at night, and gradually developed feelings for her.

But the boy never confessed his feelings, because he knew he had no ability to protect her, and could only stand by her side if he was strong enough.

So this time Tina’s new song “Closer Than Friends” is a love song with a theme of secret love, and Tina wrote the lyrics and composed the music herself.

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Inside the subway station: He Yichen arranged for Tina and the others to take photos first, which were of the scene when they met by chance in the subway station when they grew up.

Jiang Yuhan's look was slightly decadent, he was wearing a brown linen suit. He had just been fired by his boss and was sitting on a bench in the middle of the subway station to rest. He looked at the busy crowd around him, not knowing where he should go.

Jiang Yuhan's performance is very delicate. He has his own unique view on performance. He mainly expresses it with his eyes, which are slightly tired and confused. His back is hunched, his waist is slumped, and his legs are stretched out weakly.

The cameraman carried the camera and filmed him 360 degrees. Jiang Yuhan performed as if no one was around, as if the people and things around him had nothing to do with him. His temperament itself carried a sense of alienation that made him incompatible with the crowd.

Li Shuirong watched Jiang Yuhan's performance carefully and admired her secretly.

It was Tina's turn to appear in the camera. She was wearing a crocheted floor-length dress and a woolen hat on her head. Her long hair fluttered straight with her steps, and she carried a guitar behind her.

She walked quickly in the crowd, looking at the time on her phone, as if she was about to be late. But when she ran to the subway, the train had just left.

She immediately felt annoyed and frustrated, so she sat down on an empty seat in the middle bench and waited for the next subway.

Unexpectedly, after she sat down, because she was carrying a guitar on her back, the guitar behind her squeezed Jiang Yuhan who was sitting back to back with her.

Tina was about to turn around and apologize, but they both turned their heads at the same time and their eyes met. In an instant, all the memories came flooding back to her mind.

Tina was also watching their performance carefully, it was so natural and smooth, Director He never called for a stop. The camera kept recording their eye contact until Tina called for a stop:

"What's taking so long? Are you done filming?"

"Stop!" Director He then shouted.

Tina couldn't wait to come over to watch her performance on the screen, and then analyze the next scene with the director.

Jiang Yuhan also came over to take a look, and then took the opportunity to come over and say hello to Li Shuirong.

"Man, I feel so stressed when you play me when I was younger!"

"I think you acted very well. Can you share your experience with me?" Shui Rong said.

Jiang Yuhan immediately gave him some tips, teaching him how to look, how to position his body, and to pretend that the camera didn't exist and not to look at the lens.

After hearing this, Tina looked at the two new actors enthusiastically, and then shook hands with Lin Pin'er:

"I watched your audition video the other day and told Director He that he found a very pretty actress for me. I'm afraid that fans will say that I'm not as pretty as you."

"No, actually I think you are very beautiful, like a goddess. I have a sister who is your fan, she took me to your new song fan meeting, and I was immediately mesmerized by your singing."

Tina was very satisfied with Lin Pin'er's answer and immediately called her assistant:

"Give her two tickets to my concert."

Then he turned to Lin Pin'er and said, "Take your sister to see my concert."

Lin Pin'er hurriedly thanked her and then asked her how to act.

"Your shot is very simple. Just wait for the subway normally and drop your student ID card on the ground when you enter the subway. There is nothing else."

After hearing this, Lin Pin'er nodded humbly. The director called Tina and the others to prepare for the next shot. Lin Pin'er then secretly pulled Li Shuirong's sleeve:

"Shui Rong, what should I do if I have never taken the subway?"

Li Shuirong was annoyed. Why didn't he bring her here to experience it in advance? After reading the script, he only remembered to teach her how to play the guitar, but forgot about the subway.

He suddenly had an idea and found a girl who looked like a college student among the extras because she was wearing a red dress which was more eye-catching.

"Just watch the girl for a while, and observe how she waits for the bus, how she gets into the bus, and how she sits down. It's very simple."

As they spoke, the two of them crouched quietly in a corner where they could not be photographed and began to observe the extras.

When the next shot started, the extras began to move. Lin Pin'er stared at the girl in red motionlessly and imitated her movements.

Fortunately, Tina was not satisfied with her performance and took a few more shots. Lin Pin'er had also observed the situation.

When it was their turn to go on stage, the assistant put the schoolbag on Lin Pin'er's back and asked the extras to change into their second set of clothes.

Bring Lin Pin'er a breakfast bag so that she can act out her panic of losing her student ID in a hurry.

While all the camera positions were still being prepared, the shooting assistant first walked Pin'er through the scene, teaching her how to walk down the stairs, how to jog over, where to drop her student ID, and then follow the crowd into the subway.

Another shooting assistant also took Shui Rong to find his position. After Shui Rong had finished going through the scenes and the extras and camera positions were ready, the shooting officially began.

Lin Pin'er ran down the stairs quickly, carrying a bag in her hand and heading for the subway car she was going to take. As she was walking, she was putting something into her schoolbag. When she unzipped her schoolbag, her student ID card happened to fall out. She didn't notice that she was being pushed forward by the crowd. After squeezing into the subway, she turned around and stood facing the window of the car.

The camera turned and Shui Rong was walking forward in his brand new school uniform. He accidentally found his lost student ID on the ground. After picking it up, he looked around in the crowd, then looked down at the photo on the student ID. The moment the subway started moving, he looked up and saw the girl in the car.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of the feeling when he first saw Lin Pin'er's back at the airport. The feeling of loss of passing by the girl he loved made him think about it, and many emotions emerged from his expression and eyes.

The director yelled, "CUT."

"Did the newcomer pass in one take?" the staff member nearby asked, looking at Director He's satisfied expression.

"Yeah, not bad. Ask Tina if they have changed their clothes. They still have two more scenes to shoot, so let's finish it."

It turns out that the most expensive scene today is the subway. The shooting was chosen after 11 o'clock when the subway is not running, but the driver still has to drive out from the platform, wait for the camera to pass, and then drive back, back and forth several times. All the fees are calculated by time, so the faster you pass, the less money you can spend. Originally, Tina said that the subway segment could be omitted, but He Yichen insisted on restoring this plot.