Chapter 47: Blame Others More Outside Of Work, And Don't Keep It Inside!
Shen Qingzhi was daydreaming just now, and her smile was so weird that it frightened the makeup artist so much that when she was applying blood on her, her hands couldn't help shaking.
"Sorry, Teacher Shen," the makeup artist apologized while about to get a tissue to wipe, but Shen Qingzhi stopped her.
"It's okay. In fact, I think the blood stains look more natural if they are rubbed over like this."
Shen Qingzhi looked up in the mirror and nodded narcissistically, "That's it, it's good. Continue with the makeup, don't be nervous."
Even though she was the one making the makeup artist nervous, she now appeared very considerate.
When Shen Qingzhi arrived on set wearing her makeup with fake wounds, the first thing she noticed was Gu Jinrong, dressed in a dusty white outfit. Her long hair was somewhat disheveled, and her face was stained with both blood and dust.
Shen Qingzhi felt jealous. She had left home earlier, and the person who didn't need hairstyling was faster. At this point, filming hadn't officially started, so the person in the center of the set was still Gu Jinrong, not Cang Xingyun.
When she saw Shen Qingzhi arriving, she showed a gentle and pleasant smile, as if the two of them had always been on friendly terms and had never been unhappy.
Shen Qingzhi looked at the beautiful face in front of her, and for a moment she remembered her abominable deeds last night. At this time, she wanted to give the other party a big eye roll in return, but she was on the set and there were so many people.
At this time, most of the on-site staff were already in position, and many eyes fell on the two leading actresses who were about to film, intentionally or unintentionally.
Shen Qingzhi stepped forward and took the initiative to say hello, "Senior Gu, good morning."
Maintaining a polite demeanor, as if it were the first time they had met on set today, even though everyone present knew that the two lead actors were living together at the moment.
"Qingqing, good morning," Gu Jinrong replied, her eyes curved, and her tone affectionate, not hiding her fondness for the junior before her.
The more Gu Jinrong acted as if nothing had happened, the more panicked Shen Qingzhi felt: Acting in and out of the scene.
Fortunately, Director Xue appeared at this time and asked them to prepare for filming the first scene of the day, at least they didn't have to act outside the scene.
In the current plot, Cang Xingyun is caught up in a forest confrontation with her enemies, where she unexpectedly encounters Feng Yasong.
An old friend is in trouble and has a common enemy with her, so Feng Yasong inevitably gets involved.
With many enemies against a few, the two of them had a fierce battle with a group of men in black in the woods. At the critical moment, Cang Xingyun was accidentally knocked off the cliff, and Feng Yasong followed closely.
Both their lives hung by a thread as they clung to tree branches. Feng Yasong managed to drag the severely injured Cang Xingyun into a makeshift cave for treatment.
What they are filming now is the first scene between the two of them in the cave after Cang Xingyun wakes up.
"Heavenly Beings" Scene 47 Take 1
Cang Xingyun was leaning against the stone wall of the cave and was unconscious. Several fatal injuries on her body had been bandaged with cloth, but due to lack of medicine, there were still terrible blood stains.
Feng Yasong searched around the area and found only a few ugly wild fruits. She didn't know whether they were poisonous or not.
She tasted one herself first, and after waiting for about half a stick of incense, she didn't notice anything strange, so she took the remaining fruit and fed it to Cang Xingyun.
However, Cang Xingyun was in such a deep sleep that no matter how much she tried, she remained unresponsive.
Feng Yasong sighed and placed the wild fruits on the stone floor next to Cang Xingyun.
She couldn't help but ramble while taking stones and throwing them on the ground.
"We really have a close relationship. Why is it that every time I encounter you, nothing good ever happens?
"I accidentally overheard the secret about the Meng family's plot against the Chengfeng Villa and got chased, and helping you investigate the spy within the villa drew unwanted attention. Even passing by a forest is never uneventful."
"It seems like eight out of ten times I'm unlucky. It's all because of you, how annoying!"
She was so indignant that she didn't notice when the person beside her opened her eyes.
"Cough...If you hate me so much, then why...did you jump off the cliff with me? Cough..."
Feng Yasong heard the voice and looked up, seeing that Cang Xingyun was in an extremely weakened state but still trying to maintain an elegant posture.
"You're already like this, why are you trying to be so strong?"
Feng Yasong conveniently stuffed a wild fruit into Cang Xingyun's mouth. The force was so strong that half of her body, which had finally been upright, slipped down.
Xingyun stretched out her hand to catch the wild fruit and bit into it with a blank expression.
The fruit was bitter and astringent when Feng Yasong had tasted it.
Seeing Cang Xingyun's appearance, she couldn't help but wonder if she had been injured and lost her sense of taste, so she moved her head closer with curious eyes.
Cang Xingyun calmly bit into the whole fruit, and when she raised his head, he met Feng Yasong's curious eyes.
"You haven't answered my question yet, cough...why did you follow me...cough...and jump off the cliff?"
Seeing how persistent the other party was, Feng Yasong silently rolled her eyes in her heart and said angrily.
"There were so many masters in the forest at that time. You couldn't even beat them, and I wouldn't stand a chance. If I had stayed up there alone, wouldn't that have been waiting to die?"
Cang Xingyun weakly shook her head, "They were after me; they might not have killed you."
Feng Yasong was unhappy, so she took the unused cloth from the clothes, balled it up, and stuffed it into Cang Xingyun's mouth.
"Then I won't necessarily die if I jump down. You, nagging wounded patient, are really annoying. I should tie you up and gag you!"
When she saw that Cang Xingyun was not convinced and wanted to get the cloth, she actually used her coat to tie her hands. Cang Xingyun was tied up unexpectedly, cracks appeared on her usually cold face, and she looked even more disheveled.
She is injured at the moment, but if she really wants to fight to the death, this little girl in front of her will not be a match for her. It's just... not necessary.
Feng Yasong's original intention was to let Cang Xingyun recover from her injuries in peace, but she ended up tying her up instead.
In the past, she had always been at a disadvantage. Now, due to a twist of fate, the tables had turned, and she felt a mischievous urge.
She reached out and pinched Cang Xingyun's pale face, smiling evilly.
"Young Master Cang didn't expect that one day she would fall into my hands. You can scream, but no one will come to save you even if your throat breaks."
Cang Xingyun:...
Feng Yasong relied on Cang Xingyun not talking back, and played with her hair more and more unscrupulously, "You're eating my food now and using my clothes for bandages. From now on, you'll have to obediently listen to me, okay?"
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"Cut." Director Xue, who had been staring at the monitor, couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted Shen Qingzhi's improvisation. Shen Qingzhi, who was getting into her performance, turned around puzzled, "Director Xue, we haven't finished this scene yet."
Director Xue directly pulled Shen Qingzhi in front of the monitor, saying, "Take a look at yourself, see what you're acting."
Shen Qingzhi stared at the monitor seriously for a while and thought, "Isn't the script saying that at this point, Feng Yasong is teasing Cang Xingyun? Did I tease her a bit too much?"
Director Xue noticed that Shen Qingzhi seemed to be quite pleased with her own performance, which caused her a mild cardiac attack
"Here, Feng Yasong is supposed to tease Cang Xingyun to divert attention from her own guilty conscience, not genuinely take advantage of her. I gave you creative freedom, but I didn't mean for you to act like a hooligan. Cang Xingyun is still seriously injured, what's with that self-satisfied expression?"
"I was just reminding Gu Jinrong earlier to tone it down, but now it seems the one who should tone it down is you!"
Director Xue's words woke up the dreamer, and Shen Qingzhi lowered her head with a guilty conscience. It seemed to her that she had gone too far into her own imagination.
"I'm sorry, Director Xue. I know I made a mistake. I'll tone it down in the future."
Director Xue, satisfied with her response, said, "We'll take a ten-minute break, and then we'll continue from the scene where you're feeding the fruits."
Shen Qingzhi, who was so proud in the scene just a moment ago, was scolded now and returned to her seat with a sigh, immersed in reading the script.
Gu Jinrong's restraints were now untied by the staff. She walked alone to Shen Qingzhi and quietly handed her a lollipop.
Shen Qingzhi glanced but didn't take it.
Gu Jinrong didn't insist and simply moved her chair closer to Shen Qingzhi, ruffling her hair gently. "Did you just get scolded by Director Xue?"
Shen Qingzhi withdrew her gaze and continued to stare at the script.
In fact, Director Xue didn't scold her much just now. She just didn't perform well and she felt stressed.
Gu Jinrong saw her thoughts and comforted: "Don't be nervous. You performed very smoothly in the previous part. Director Xue always praised you as a talented actress. In fact, the latter part is not difficult, just act based on the emotions you had yesterday."
"Yesterday's emotions?" Shen Qingzhi finally looked up and gave Gu Jinrong a full-on gaze.
Gu Jinrong nodded, "Don't you realize it yourself? Your emotional state today is very different from yesterday. "Your emotional changes are out of sync with the progress of the plot.
"If it was because of me, I will apologize to you later, but the most urgent thing you need to do is to find the state you were in before yesterday."
Shen Qingzhi looked deeply at Gu Jinrong, whose face clearly spelled "both virtuous and talented
In this state, she couldn't possibly guess the absurd images that had appeared in her mind in the morning.
If Gu Jinrong was the external factor that triggered her change in mood, the root internal cause was her lack of control over her emotions due to her limited experience.
This is a very serious issue for a professional actor.
After receiving guidance, Shen Qingzhi took a deep breath, cleared her mind, and made an effort to set aside any lingering feelings from her interactions with Gu Jinrong the previous night. When she looked at the script again, her mindset was completely different.
The ten-minute break passed quickly, and the reshoots started directly from the second half.
Feng Yasong's actions of feeding the fruits and tying up Cang Xingyun remained seamless. However, while verbally teasing Cang Xingyun, her voice involuntarily carried a slight tremor, and she deliberately avoided direct eye contact.
Cang Xingyun's question, "Why did you jump off the cliff with me?" had struck a chord deep within her.
She couldn't tell the answer herself, but she felt guilty for no reason. She disliked the person who was digging into the matter, so she used playful teasing to cover it up.
The filming went smoothly this time, and Director Xue once again praised Shen Qingzhi's understanding of the character.
However, Shen Qingzhi didn't feel as happy as she had expected. She realized that she was even more conflicted than Feng Yasong, her character in the story.
This day's scenes were basically shot in a cave. As Cang Xingyun's injuries gradually recovered, Feng Yasong's original physical advantage began to turn into a disadvantage.
She couldn't keep Cang Xingyun tied up, and since there was no one else around, she could only intentionally or unintentionally avoid her.
The crew continued filming until 7 pm. The last scene was when Feng Yasong saw Cang Xingyun meditating in the cave and then turned back silently.
Gu Jinrong finished the shoot and discussed it with Director Xue for a while. When she looked up again, she could no longer see Shen Qingzhi.
Director Xue marked several important scenes to be filmed tomorrow on the script and looked at Gu Jinrong, "Let's wrap up for today. Do you want to go to dinner together tonight?"
"No, I'm going back to the dormitory."
Director Xue watched Gu Jinrong's hurried departure with some confusion: Young people don't seem to appreciate the beauty of the mountain surroundings. Why would she return to her small shabby house so early?
Gu Jinrong first brought some food from Xiao Ling, and then returned to her temporary residence in the village.
Sure enough, at a glance, she saw Shen Qingzhi sitting in the bedroom reading a script.
The room was small, and there was no lock on the door, so Shen Qingzhi couldn't lock herself in even if she wanted to.
Gu Jinrong approached quietly, even though in the small space with just the two of them, her steps seemed somewhat conspicuous.
"You are working so hard, are you going to shine silently and kill everyone?"
Shen Qingzhi ignored Gu Jinrong's joke and turned around, leaving her with an indifferent back.
She has a grudge. This evil woman bullied her last night and caused her emotional instability. The debt has not yet been settled.
Reflect on yourself more at work, blame others more outside of work, and don't keep it inside!
Gu Jinrong was accustomed to Shen Qingzhi's tsundere demeanor and wasn't in a hurry so she pretended to prepare to go.
"Since you're working so hard, I won't disturb you for now. I was actually thinking that your initial approach for the first scene of the day could be interesting. I was wondering if you'd like to give it another try."
Shen Qingzhi, who was sitting calmly, suddenly jumped up from her chair, "Really?"