After walking out of the set, Xu Qiao thought it was already late enough, but he didn't expect that the lights on the "Hundred Ghosts" crew next door were still on, and it seemed that they would not be able to finish work in a short time.
At a glance, the prop masters and stagehands inside all looked exhausted, and the actors were even more so. Aren't you afraid that staying up so late will make you sick
Li Feifei followed Xu Qiao's gaze and sighed, "They really have been filming all night long. Luckily, my idol is in good health, otherwise he would get sick from filming like this every day."
His idol was naturally Xu Siyi, whom Xu Qiao ran into in the locker room in the afternoon.
"Am I not as good-looking as Xu Siyi?" Xu Qiao glanced at him, yawned and asked.
Li Feifei said without hesitation: "How can they be the same? You are beautiful, but you smell good from a distance and stink up close. Distance creates beauty."
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"If you don't know how to use idioms, don't use them." Xu Qiao replied lazily.
Li Feifei chuckled twice and came closer to him: "Brother, have you come to your senses? I saw the look on Director Jiang's face when he looked at you today. He was grinning from ear to ear."
Xu Qiao walked towards the hotel with his hands in his pockets. There were not many people on this road and it was very quiet around. Only the voices of people could be heard faintly from a few film sets in the distance.
Li Feifei kept chattering, "If I tell Sister Yang about your performance today, she won't believe it unless she sees it with her own eyes. Your acting skills have improved by leaps and bounds."
The moon was dim in the night sky, and the winter night was unusually cold. The wind blew into my neck, icy and prickly. I exhaled misty white air from my mouth and it floated in front of my eyes, and the night sky became hazy.
The boy who used to be so nervous that he didn't know how to position his hands and feet when facing the camera and could never learn how to manage his facial expressions has disappeared in the world of traveling through books again and again.
He had seen Lycoris radiata blooming on rotting corpses by the red river, and had heard the prayers sung by girls in the Far North. He had been a peddler, and had also stood at the pinnacle of power. He had been worshipped by millions of people, and had also been forced to stand against the whole world...
A magnificent and bizarre world. The warmth and coldness of human nature, the various aspects of the world, I am afraid no one has experienced more than him.
Those experiences of being different people and having different identities allow Xu Qiao to easily grasp a character's innermost psychological state and behavioral behaviors. This is probably what Fei-Fei Li calls "acting skills."
Seeing Xu Qiao didn't say anything, Li Feifei lowered her voice and muttered a little dejectedly: "I always feel like there's something different about me."
Xu Qiao asked in a low voice: "Really?"
Li Feifei nodded. He, who was always slow-witted, also felt that he should not continue this topic.
He fiddled with his phone for a while, then became lively again: "Brother, I took a lot of photos of you today, I'll pick a few to post on Weibo when I get home. Let me see which one is better. This one of you reading the script is amazing, the lighting is just right, and this one of you dozing off is so cute!! That's it, I have trouble making a decision, every photo of you looks good..."
Listening to his rambling, Xu Qiao yawned again: "Just pick two for me."
No matter whether it is a mess or not, the business still needs to be open.
As the two were talking, they could hear footsteps behind them, which were somewhat unclear in the sobbing winter wind. Xu Qiao stopped when he heard the sound, and just as he was about to turn around, he bumped into a warm wall, and the arm hanging by his side was grabbed by the person behind him.
Li Feifei heard the noise and looked towards Xu Qiao. When she saw the person coming, her eyes widened. She didn't know whether she was excited or terrified. Her expression was like an overturned palette: "Xu—"
Xu Qiao turned his head and brushed his nose against the man's thin chin. A sharp aroma of rum surrounded him and occupied Xu Qiao's nasal cavity very aggressively.
This fragrance is mixed with a strong spicy smoky feeling mixed with ginger, with a strong taste of male hormones. The spicy taste is blended with honey to create a warm tone, revealing a hint of childishness in the toughness.
Looking up, Xu Qiao met a face that showed no sign of concealing its sharpness.
It’s Xu Siyi.
He lowered his head slightly and looked at himself. This angle made his extremely beautiful brow bones appear even more delicate, and the curve between the brow bones and the bridge of the nose was so beautiful that it seemed like it was sculpted by a master sculptor.
Li Feifei, who was standing by, saw her idol so closely for the first time. Her breathing became rapid and her head felt dizzy. She had no idea how to react.
Xu Qiao moved his arm, signaling him to let go. The man was very strong, and his arm was a little painful.
Xu Siyi looked at him and let go of his hand: "Sorry."
The scent of male hormones, accompanied by a slightly spicy faint perfume, came over with a strong presence, and every syllable that came out of his mouth carried a charm that could make one's heart melt.
For a moment, Xu Qiao felt a sense of familiarity from this person, but he quickly put this inexplicable feeling behind him.
Before this, he had no connection with this man named Xu Siyi.
Xu Qiao raised the corner of his mouth in a polite and distant arc: "What can I do for you?"
He glanced past Xu Siyi and saw a low-key nanny car parked not far away, with the engine still running, humming slightly in the night, obviously waiting for this person.
Xu Siyi saw Xu Qiao's soft hair blending into the night in front of him. The boy's eyes were as calm as the sea under the moonlight, without any emotion.
When he reached into his pocket and took it out, there was a room card between Xu Siyi's bony fingers.
He handed the room card to Xu Qiao: "Yours? I found it in the dressing room."
During the day, Xu Qiao undressed in her dressing room, her skin was white and tender under the dim light, and there was this dropped room card. If it were anyone else, they would inevitably think it was a deliberate invitation.
But Xu Siyi was certain that the person in front of him did not mean that.
Xu Qiao stared at the room card, frowned slightly and touched his pocket. The room card that was placed in his pocket was gone without him knowing when.
Pursing his lips, Xu Qiao took the room card from Xu Siyi and put it back in his pocket: "Thank you."
"Siyi, are you okay?" Someone in the nanny car leaned out and shouted to Xu Siyi.
Xu Siyi pulled the cashmere scarf around her neck higher to cover the lower half of her face, and said to Xu Qiao and Li Feifei, "My agent is waiting for me. I'm leaving now."
Watching Xu Siyi's back as he left, Li Feifei came back to her senses after a while. She didn't care at all about how her brother and Xu Siyi had interacted. She wailed in frustration, "Ah, I forgot to ask for an autograph."
Sitting in the nanny car, Xu Siyi's agent Mo Chenghong looked out the window and asked, "Is that Xu Qiao from the group Chasing Light?"
Xu Siyi nodded and fastened his seat belt with a crisp "click".
"How is he related to you?" Mo Chenghong adjusted his glasses, "Don't associate with people like him. It will have a bad influence if others see us."
Xu Siyi closed his eyes, leaned back in his chair wearily, and repeated indifferently, "This kind of person?"
Mo Chenghong glanced at him and said, "Don't you think about it? With your popularity, getting close to anyone is considered poverty alleviation. I know Xu Qiao is just a vase. Who knows what means she will use to get some benefits from you."
Xu Siyi opened his eyes and frowned: "Don't think too much, it's just returning something."
In the following days, whenever Xu Qiao was in a scene, both the shooting efficiency and the visual enjoyment were greatly improved. Coupled with the thoughtful winter ginger soup and occasional snacks, the crew's favorability towards Xu Qiao increased sharply.
The refined makeup photos were also released by the official Weibo account of the "Liao Jiang" crew.
A set of six pictures, in which a young man in red looks towards the camera, his sleeves and skirt almost floating through the screen.
In the picture, he may have a gloomy and sinister look or a decadent and gorgeous smile.
On each picture, Jin'er's classic lines from the original novel are written in neat small characters.
"I was born to stay in this Zuihuan Pavilion, watching people smiling at the door and welcoming and seeing off guests."
"What's wrong with being a prostitute? Spending money like water and calling servants and maids, what's wrong with that?"
"Why don't you ever look at me?"
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Since the last time Xu Qiao got drunk, there has been almost no news about him. As soon as the final makeup photos came out, many haters and fans of the original book rushed in.
The clothes in the entrance area are eye-catching, and the cheap smell is irresistible.
It's so rare to have a role to play, and he's a prostitute, wow.
The best that the crappy actors in a small crew can do is take such ugly and vulgar makeup photos.
I don't understand the mentality of those who say this set of makeup photos is ugly... I don't understand the lighting composition, but the first impression will not lie. I think it is beautiful, not only beautiful, but also beautiful and charming. Although aesthetics is a matter of personal opinion, calling it ugly is too harsh.
It is difficult to take a good-looking makeup photo with such a harsh, flat and white background, but the young man in red in the photo is so beautiful that he is too aggressive and invasive.
To be honest, I am impressed by this Yan.
I'm just speaking from the perspective of a book fan, Xu Qiao's appearance is really authentic to the original.
This calligraphy student is really good at writing small characters! The brushwork is smart and clever, and the characters are well-arranged. The more you look at it, the more charming it becomes.
This comment was liked by the official Weibo account and replied: The small calligraphy was written by Xu Qiao, the actor who plays Jin Er~
... Oh, you think I will believe it?
It was midday and the sun was shining brightly. Xu Qiao was sitting in the yard with a small stool to bask in the sun. There were many actors sitting around him in groups of three or four taking a break.
With a hot water bottle on his legs, Xu Qiao ran his slender fingers over the comments without changing his expression. He returned the phone to Li Feifei and started flipping through the script again.
Li Feifei sat next to Xu Qiao and looked at the comments under the Weibo post. She snorted unhappily, "Wait until the show starts airing and let them be dumbfounded."
After Xu Qiao's excellent performance in the past few days, Li Feifei became inflated.
He looked at Xu Qiao who was concentrating on memorizing his lines, hesitated and said, "Brother, there will be no scenes for you in a few days, let's go back to the company. Sister Yang asked us to go back and discuss the termination of the contract."
Xu Qiao paused as he flipped through the script. His long eyelashes cast a shadow under his eyes. “Okay.”