Chapter 53: You Better Keep Your Word
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"Ah, really?" Shen Qingzhi blinked, pretending to be confused.
She had indeed been paying attention to Gu Jinrong's every move just now, but was it so obvious that she was distracted?
She is a professional actress!
"Qingqing." Gu Jinrong raised a strand of light golden hair with her finger, deliberately slowing down her tone.
"I found... every time you get close to me, you become... very sensitive."
"Nonsense!" Shen Qingzhi pushed Gu Jinrong down on the sofa and stood up suddenly.
Meanwhile, the heat in her mind was rising: Black-hearted, big villain, who allowed you to say it out loud?!
She clearly wasn't this sensitive before, just getting a bit closer, nothing more.
But every time the two of them were intimate, her body would involuntarily think of that night, when Gu Jinrong had her pinned to the bed, kisses falling like snowflakes...
At that moment, uncontrollable waves of unfamiliar emotions surged within her, but before these emotions could flood her, they abruptly stopped.
She thought this matter was already over, but sometimes, the body's memory was stronger than the brain.
The more she takes a step back, the more she thinks about it, the angrier she gets, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels at a loss. At this moment, Shen Qingzhi's face is about to swell into a pufferfish.
She reached out and picked up one of Gu Jinrong's arms, and took a hard bite on the jade-like delicate skin.
"Hiss~" Gu Jinrong's mouth says she's hurt, but didn't retract her arm at all, "Qingqing, are you a puppy?"
"I'm biting you!" Shen Qingzhi looked at the red tooth mark on her arm, still upset, but couldn't bear to continue, so she could only rush towards the door with the script in her hand.
Without the "crutch", Gu Jinrong couldn't get up easily, so she could only sit on the sofa and raise her neck and ask, "Where are you going at this hour?"
"I'm going to read the script. I won't come back until I finish it." As she spoke, Shen Qingzhi had already opened the door.
"But...I'm home alone at the moment and haven't had dinner yet. "Gu Jinrong is now very adept with pretending to be pitiful.
"Figure it out yourself." Then there was the sound of the door closing again.
***
It must be said that Shen Qingzhi, who had pondered the script all night by herself, had achieved remarkable results.
She had a little quarrel with Gu Jinrong last night, rather it was her one-sided venting. Now, as they got closer, there was a bit less awkwardness.
The scale of today's scenes is even worse than yesterday's. However, the filming progress was much smoother, and most of the time it was a one-take process.
The two of them filmed in the village for more than ten days. After filming almost all the indoor scenes, the cast on Gu Jinrong's leg could finally be removed.
In early September, the crew finished all the scenes in the village and returned to H City.
During this time, the creative team was filming in the village, but half of the props and set design team remained at the H city studio, preparing the sets.
Now that everyone had returned to the studio, it was time to finish the remaining scenes.
In the scene, Feng Yasong and Cang Xingyun go through life and death, and finally find out the culprit behind the persecution of Chengfeng Villa, and at the same time learn about the other party's long-planned conspiracy.
Meng Xifeng, the ultimate boss of this drama, in order to realize his ambition to dominate the world, began to forge miracles many years ago and plant theistic beliefs in the minds of people in the martial arts world.
Along the way, the two heroines witnessed many common people and martial artists around them taking Meng Xifeng's words as their faith, with deeply ingrained beliefs that are not easily shaken.
Chengfeng Villa and several other sects are rare forces that remain independent and sober and have been persecuted one after another in recent years.
Now, Meng Xifeng's influence has spread throughout the martial world, and his plan to become a god is in its final stages. He plans to meet the envoy of the gods during the Divine Worship Ceremony and gain divine power, thus making all believers worship him as a god.
As for the choice of the divine envoy, he has set his sights on Feng Yasong, who has the bloodline of the ancient Yuan clan.
People of the Yuan clan are born with heightened senses, capable of seeing what others cannot and perceiving what others overlook.
Using her to impersonate the envoy of the gods is the best way to deceive the masses.
With seven days left before the Divine Worship Ceremony, Meng Xifeng captured Feng Yasong's master and threatened her life to force her to cooperate.
The companions of these two female leads are now trapped in various places, unable to assist.
The two of them live in a temple, facing an unknown future, each with their own concerns.
They have been together through life and death, and they have already developed a friendship, but now in uncertain times, no one has taken the initiative to express it.
The crew's first scene back in City H was filmed in a temple.
"Heavenly Beings" Scene 217 Take 1
Not long ago, Feng Yasong and Cang Xingyun had each met with Meng Xifeng separately. Now, the two of them sat on a pile of haystack in the dilapidated temple, and the atmosphere was somewhat depressing.
At this time, both of them were worried, but they didn't want to make the other person worry.
Feng Yasong forced a smile and edged closer to Cang Xingyun. She pointed to the Buddha statue in the center of the temple and joked, "You people from the Central Plains are quite interesting. There are already so many gods, yet you feel the need to create more."
Cang Xingyun looked in the direction pointed by Feng Yasong's hand. There was no emotion or anger on her face, "It's not that the gods are not enough, it's just that the human heart is insatiable.”
Feng Yasong looked up at the Buddha statue carved out of stone. It looked like it had been there for many years, but it still had imposing eyes and a solemn appearance.
She touched Cang Xingyun beside her with her elbow, "Is this god very famous in your Central Plains? I saw many people worshiping him before."
"This is a statue of Sakyamuni*, the earliest founder of Buddhism."
*one of the titles of the Buddha, deriving from the name of Sakya where he was born.
Feng Yasong put her chin in her hand and said, "Founder, that should be pretty amazing, how about we pay respects too?"
As she spoke, she took the initiative to kneel in front of the Buddha statue piously.
Cang Xingyun was a little confused, "Why are you..."
How could a person who didn't even know a Buddha statue suddenly think of paying respect to Buddha? She remembered the previous Feng Yasong, who was very disdainful of religious beliefs.
"In seven days, life and death are uncertain. Let's consider it as seeking some peace of mind," Feng Yasong blinked at Cang Xingyun with a very serious expression.
"Okay." Cang Xingyun also brushed her clothes and knelt. Although this change was a bit abrupt, she was willing to fulfill all of Feng Yasong's wishes at this time.
They knelt side by side in front of the Buddha. Feng Yasong's peripheral vision fell on Cang Xingyun's serene profile, silently reciting in her heart.
Buddha above, the woman kneeling next to me is the love of my life, but we are not destined to grow old together.
I didn't believe in gods before, but today I would like to bow down here as if I'm bowing to heaven and earth. From now on, she is my wife.
If I should go first in the future, please don't rush to meet me at Naihe Bridge*.
*Bridge of Helplessness, a bridge every soul has to cross before being reincarnated in Chinese Mythology, they are said to drink the Mengpo soup at the bridge so they will forget everything in their current lives and prepare for reincarnation.
Feng Yasong devoutly kowtowed three times to the Buddha statue. Every time she lowered her head, Cang Xingyun with different expressions appeared in her mind.
On the last kowtow, she paused for a full ten seconds.
What she didn't know was that at this moment, the Cang Xingyun kneeling beside her had made a similar wish in her heart.
***
The scene came to an end, with Shen Qingzhi kneeling on the haystack, not getting up.
Li Qian wanted to go forward to help her, but she was stopped by Gu Jinrong.
"What's wrong with Zhizhi-jie?"
"Qingqing is probably... feeling uncomfortable."
***
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"So why did you feel uncomfortable?" Yu Kexin is now sitting on Shen Qingzhi's dormitory sofa, tearing open a bag of potato chips and taking the opportunity to inquire about her good friend, whom she hasn't seen for some time.
She didn't have a scene in the village before, but now, as the finale approaches, all the important supporting characters have been called back to the production.
Shen Qingzhi stared at the floor and didn't make a sound for a long time. "It's the first time I've shot such a heavy emotional scene. Just thinking about the ending being a BE*... it makes me feel depressed."
*Bad Ending
"Ah, but it's not exactly a BE, I've read the script. In the end, Feng Yasong dies to protect her loved ones and her love, and the martial world becomes peaceful. It's a fitting end. When you used to die in those scenes before, it wasn't as glorious as this." Yu Kexin analyzed calmly and handed a potato chip to Shen Qingzhi.
Shen Qingzhi said she had no appetite and was immersed in the scene with a look of heartache. "Dying gloriously, what's the use? The two main characters secretly loved each other for so long, and they didn't even confess their feelings before they died. They only dared to keep it hidden in their hearts, even when paying respects to heaven and earth. Are the main characters nowadays all tight-lipped?"
"Two tight-lipped main characters, aren't you both playing your true selves?" Yu Kexin swallowed a potato chip and blurted out.
"What did you say?" Shen Qingzhi's eyes widened like a pair of copper bells, ready to explode at any moment.
"Nothing, I mean... it's precisely because the two main characters love so deeply that there's this difficulty in letting go. There's a saying that goes, 'Liking is unrestrained, loving is restrained,' so for this kind of period drama, I like it to be subtle."
Yu Kexin's brain was spinning quickly. Ever since she got some exclusive gossip from Shen Hanzhi last month, she couldn't look at these two female leads who've kept quiet for nine years the same way.
But someone is very proud and cannot be exposed directly.
"Ah~" Shen Qingzhi let out a sigh, her face filled with sorrow. "I still don't like this kind of unresolved tension. Isn't it better to be happy in life? If I like someone, I would definitely confess directly. Why make it so complicated?"
"You better keep your word."
As soon as Yu Kexin finished speaking, she was almost stabbed by Shen Qingzhi's gaze, so she quickly changed the subject, "So, this movie will be finished in less than a month. Do you have any plans?"
"What plans? I'll see what the company arranges. But the contract I signed before is until October 7th. If we can finish earlier at this pace, I'll just go home and sleep."
Shen Qingzhi was in a trance for a moment when she said this. It seemed like once she go home, she would still have to stay with Gu Jinrong. returning home.
She doesn't know what the black-hearted has planned for National Day.
Yu Kexin's eyes lit up when she heard this, "Don't sleep so much at such a young age. Well, since I don't have any plans during National Day, how about we go out and have some fun?"
"Just the two of us going out to play?" Shen Qingzhi plucked her ears and asked in confusion.
"This is my uncle's newly opened hot spring resort. Hanzhi-jie agreed to go too. You can bring your family with you."
"Where will I get my family from?" Shen Qingzhi stood up from the sofa in a fit of confusion, feeling that this was inconsistent with her calm and composed image, so she sat down again.
She rolled her eyes belatedly, "You and my sister are going out to play on National Day, and you have to take me with you? You and my sister…"
At this moment, Yu Kexin, who was rarely reserved and demure, was visibly stained with crimson.
Shen Qingzhi:...
Okay, no need to say more, I understand everything.
She had only been filming in the village for a little over a month, and now her best friend was going to become her sister-in-law?
"Are you coming?" Yu Kexin tugged on Shen Qingzhi's sleeve, rarely showing an unusually pleading attitude.
"Of course, I must come!"
Shen Hanzhi, the iron tree that has been alone for thirty years, is actually about to blossom. As a younger sister, she has to tease and tease, oh no, assist and assist.