Chapter 52: But Qingqing, You Got Distracted Five Times Just Now

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"B-but..." Shen Qingzhi glanced at the script and then at Gu Jinrong. She couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.

Due to the adjustment of scenes in the past few days, the workload has been relatively heavy. She read the details of the script temporarily on the first night of shooting, so she is already used to details getting added.

But the original plot was just about healing an injury. Was it necessary to add so many small actions?

Shen Qingzhi looked at Gu Jinrong with a bit of suspicion, "Are you doing this on purpose? Do you want to take advantage of me like this?"

Gu Jinrong laughed and reached out to rub Shen Qingzhi's head.

"What are you thinking? Let me explain. We're already halfway through the plot here. Cang Xingyun and Feng Yasong have been through life and death together so many times. Is it reasonable for them to develop feelings for each other?"

"Reasonable."

"Here, Cang Xingyun has just destroyed the wine cellar, covered in the smell of alcohol, and sees someone she cares about get hurt. Her emotions are amplified. Is it reasonable for her to have some small actions in this situation, even wanting to observe the other person's reaction? Reasonable or not?"

"Also...reasonable."

"Since Qingqing also thinks it's very reasonable, let's take the time to familiarize ourselves with the script."

Shen Qingzhi:..

***

The next afternoon during filming, Director Xue was concerned that some actresses might be thin-skinned, affecting their performance, so she thoughtfully cleared the set.

Except for the two leading actresses, there were only a few essential staff members in the entire room. It was much less crowded compared to the usual hustle and bustle.

Logically speaking, it was a good thing not to be surrounded by people, but Shen Qingzhi felt more nervous inexplicably when she saw everyone around her looking attentively preparing.

"Don't be nervous, just do it like how we rehearsed last night," Gu Jinrong whispered soothingly behind Shen Qingzhi.

Shen Qingzhi took a deep breath: The problem is, I was also very nervous last night.

All departments were ready and Shen Qingzhi didn't have much time to be pretentious. Director Xue said "action" and she instantly got into character.

"Heavenly Beings" Scene 147 Take 1

Cang Xingyun carried Feng Yasong, who was injured and almost unconscious, and carefully placed her on the bed.

Red bloodstains soaked their red clothes, making it hard to tell them apart.

Cang Xingyun used her trembling hands to hold the arrowhead that had pierced Feng Yasong's shoulder. Hearing a soft whimper, her hands stopped and coaxed carefully.

"Bear with it for a moment. We need to remove this arrow to clean the wound."

Feng Yasong seemed to understand what she said, closing her eyes and nodding slightly.

Cang Xingyun took off the clothes on Feng Yasong's shoulders, held her shoulders with one hand, and held the arrow body with the other.

With a "thud," the arrowhead came loose. Cang Xingyun quickly placed gauze on the wound but noticed that the gauze had turned black.

The arrow was poisonous!

Cang Xingyun acted swiftly, leaning in closer to the hole that kept oozing black blood, using her mouth to suck the poisonous blood from the wound.

She sucked in and spat out, four or five times in a row, until the blood spat out showed a hint of red.

There was no anesthetic, so she pulled out the arrow, which immediately woke up Feng Yasong from the pain.

She opened her eyes with tears welled up, gazing at Cang Xingyun who was intently sucking the wound.

She wanted to reach out and touch the person on her body but found that she had no strength at all.

Cang Xingyun spat out the poisonous blood and carefully bandaged the wound with a dry handkerchief. It was only when she saw that the blood no longer seeped out that she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

She raised her head and saw that Feng Yasong's pale little face was covered with sweat, and she looked like she was in serious pain.

Seeing this, Cang Xingyun felt distressed and guilty. She hugged Feng Yasong's weak body and even her voice softened a bit.

"I'm sorry, this place is remote and I can't find any medicine, so I can only wrong you like this first. I'll bandage your other wounds as well."

Feng Yasong was in pain and weak at the moment, and it was difficult to even speak.

Cang Xingyun took it as her acquiescence and started to unbutton her blood-stained outer clothing, leaving only a layer of close-fitting inner clothes.

The two of them had just been caught in an ambush, and Feng Yasong, with limited martial skills, had suffered many cuts and bruises.

Without the cover of her coat, one could see the various scars left by different weapons on her fair skin, and in many places, the bloodstains were still fresh.

Cang Xingyun's eyes turned red, and her fingertips lightly touched the edge of the wound, "Does it hurt?"

"It's okay, hiss~"

"It'll get fine soon... very soon," Cang Xingyun's voice trembled, whether she was comforting the wounded or herself, it was hard to tell.

In the past, even if Feng Yasong suffered minor injuries, she would go to Cang Xingyun to complain. Now, with such serious injuries, she didn't utter a word, her body covered in numerous wounds, and she was trembling incessantly.

Cang Xingyun wiped the wound carefully with a handkerchief. Then, she noticed that Feng Yasong had bitten her lips until they turned white.

She didn't stop moving her hands, but she put her head behind Feng Yasong's ear and kissed her softly.

The warm body between her palms stiffened for a moment, no longer shaking in pain like before.

Maybe this kind of pain relief really works.

Cang Xingyun continued her bandaging work methodically, her cool lips tracing the contours of Feng Yasong's small and delicate earlobe, teasingly.

"It's ticklish." Feng Yasong wanted to move back but found that her back was blocked by an arm.

She raised her eyes to look at Cang Xingyun, and could only see half of her gracefully curved profile. She felt a little at a loss for a moment, and her fingers unconsciously dug at the bedboard beneath her.

"It's bandaged."

This kind of teasing did not last long. As Cang Xingyun moved her head away, all the various wounds on Feng Yasong's body had been cleaned and properly bandaged.

"How was it? My pain relief skills are pretty good, right?"

***

Feng Yasong was sweating from her injuries.

Shen Qingzhi was sweating from filming.

She doesn't even need to put makeup on.

As soon as this scene ended, Shen Qingzhi grabbed a large fan and vigorously fanned herself, muttering, "It's too hot in this mountain summer."

"It's almost the beginning of autumn." Director Xue glanced at her when she heard this and continued to focus on the monitor.

Not only Director Xue was watching, but two staff members were also watching. Shen Qingzhi's face blushed even more when she saw how attentive everyone was.

The only person who seemed to be the calmest at the scene was Gu Jinrong.

At this moment, Gu Jinrong was picking up a strawberry from the plate and putting it into her mouth, with a relaxed expression on her face.

She saw Shen Qingzhi looking at her, so she picked the brightest strawberry and handed it to the other person's mouth, "Want one?"

"No, thank you," Shen Qingzhi replied, almost grinding her teeth for the last two words.

Why is it that I feel like being roasted during the same filming, but the black-hearted person can still be so calm and composed?

I had been kissed and touched for the sake of the scene, couldn't I get a break?

Well, there was no need for an excuse to kiss her ear, she had been kissed in more extreme places before.

But no one had seen her kiss before. Unlike just now, she had to endure ants crawling around and keep her expression steady for the camera's sake. It was quite challenging, you know!

Did Gu Jinrong ever make her co-actors so sensitive when they were filming together?

Shen Qingzhi was still struggling in her heart, unaware of when Director Xue had approached her. Director Xue first gave recognition to their recent performance.

"The expressions were beautiful, and the atmosphere was strong. Keep up the good work."

Shen Qingzhi, receiving praise, finally felt some relief. "Thank you, Director Xue. So, are we done with this scene?"

Director Xue shook her head. "The facial expressions were on point, but your body was a bit too stiff just now. It looked more like you were acupunctured than seriously injured. So... let's do it again."

Shen Qingzhi:...

It had to be said that Director Xue suffers from OCD sometimes. Even though she praised the atmosphere after the first take, she kept focusing on the details of the body, and the angles of the lighting, and they ended up doing it three more times in total.

Gu Jinrong was quite dedicated, showing no impatience and even coming up with new details each time.

Only Shen Qingzhi was like an ant on a charcoal fire, being roasted three times.

"We're done."

After two hours straight, these words from Director Xue sounded like a divine melody to Shen Qingzhi.

She pulled up her clothes, not caring about her image at the moment, and collapsed on the prop bed like a salted fish.

This scene was the highlight of the day and marked the end of their work as evening approached.

Director Xue was in a good mood after successfully completing the work. She even went up to praise Shen Qingzhi, "Not bad, better than I expected."Your performance in this period should be good. There will be scenes like this in the next few days, so you have to keep working hard.

The following scenes... were all... like this.

Shen Qingzhi's eyes darkened. If there wasn't someone around her right now, she genuinely felt like fainting on the spot.

After the director and the crew had left, Shen Qingzhi reluctantly helped Gu Jinrong back to the house.

At first, she didn't want to pay attention to this evil person who tormented her, but on second thought, leaving a limping person alone felt somewhat inhumane.

At this time, someone who was embarrassed had forgotten that the limp person also had an assistant.

Shen Qingzhi returned to the room and dumped Gu Jinrong on the couch. The first thing she did was pull out the script and start flipping through it.

Today's scene almost killed her, but she wanted to see how many more scenes would kill her.

She didn't know until she read it, and when she did, it was quite a shock. After the healing incident, there was noticeably much more physical contact between the two main characters.

The pages are full of "massaging", "caress", "tracing" and "intimate". If she had read these words before, she wouldn't have thought anything of them, but after today, she has developed rich association skills, and at the same time she has a deeper understanding of Gu Jinrong's expressive power.

If she could perform a simple sentence like "Cang Xingyun gently traced the edge of Feng Yasong's ear" in such a seductive and tantalizing manner, what else was there that she couldn't do?

Shen Qingzhi closed the script and looked at Gu Jinrong sitting on the sofa with a serious expression, "I want to discuss something with you.

"Qingqing, go ahead."

"When we film these scenes later, can you please maintain some distance from me? Just a bit of personal space, don't get too close. Otherwise, I would... feel uncomfortable."

Shen Qingzhi still felt a little guilty while making this request.

She knew in her heart that she dared to make such an unreasonable request because Gu Jinrong usually gives in to her.

In other productions and with different partners, she had only heard of using stand-ins for kissing scenes, but not for scenes with physical closeness.

She was mentally prepared for the possibility of being rejected, but unexpectedly Gu Jinrong agreed readily, "Okay, let's give it a try."

Gu Jinrong suggested, pointing to a scene where they talk under the moonlight and their ears gently brush against each other, feigning a drunken state.

Shen Qingzhi didn't have many lines in this scene, so she only read once and said she could start.

Gu Jinrong behaved like a gentlewoman this time, seemingly intimate, but always pulling away just before any contact.

They exchanged breaths several times, and not once did they actually touch each other.

The scene was very short. After the rehearsal, Shen Qingzhi looked at Gu Jinrong with admiration, "See, even without physical contact, your performance was very beautiful."

"Thank you for the compliment, but Qingqing, you got distracted five times just now."