The crew not far away was clamoring to leave. A few RVs and trees scattered around formed a small isolated area. The two of them were right in the center, isolated from the noisy voices.
The setting sun cast a large area of dim yellow, and the man's hair on his forehead was blown by the wind. He stood there and looked down at her. The scene was indescribably quiet.
She was soft-hearted, resting her chin on her knees, and reaching out to fiddle with the crystal ball.
"But you have to say you don't believe it," the girl said slowly, "so that I can continue."
Ji Shiyan raised his eyebrows and said helplessly: "Okay - I don't believe it."
Ji Ning poked the glass wall with his finger, slid to the bottom and fiddled with the switch, saying lightly: "Then what's next..."
Before she finished, the crystal ball coughed twice and spoke first: "Hello Ji Ning, I'm Zhuo Gong."
Ji Ning: ...?
She was startled, and held up the crystal ball to look at the base. Sure enough, there was a small playback port next to it, and Zhuo Gong's voice was coming out.
"What's going on?" The girl stared at the snowflakes floating in the air in a daze. "Is Drogon calling me from a distance?"
The atmosphere suddenly dropped to freezing point. The man licked his upper teeth unhappily and narrowed his eyes: "Where is Drogon?"
"The screenwriter gave it to me. She said it would be beautiful if you turned off the lights," Ji Ning was confused. "How would I know there was a recording of Zhuo Gong when I opened it?"
Zhuo Gong was still talking intermittently. The man reached over and turned off the phone in one second, then threw the things into the bag: "Don't listen. It's not important."
After dinner, Ji Shiyan sent her downstairs to the hotel. As usual, Ji Ning prepared to open the car door, but it didn't open after two pulls. She thought that he hadn't unlocked the safety lock yet, so she stopped as a matter of course and waited for him to open it.
In the end, she didn't hear the lock being unlocked. She only waited for the man to ponder for a while behind her and then asked her, "Are you going to sleep alone tonight?"
Ji Ning thought for a moment and said, "No, Song Yu is also in the room."
"Would you have turned off the lights if she was here?"
Ji Ning took a while to react, then said: "Well, it will be turned off if someone accompanies me."
The man asked, "How long will she stay here?"
"I'm not sure. She should have gone back home after finishing the renovation upstairs. After all, school has started."
He nodded: "Tell me when you are asleep alone, and I will pick you up."
"Where are you taking me?"
The man seemed amused by her: "Of course it's where I live."
Ji Ning opened his lips and asked: "Living together...?"
Ji Shiyan frowned, not expecting her to give such a reply: "I'm just worried that it will be difficult for you to fall asleep deeply with the lights on."
"But if you want to live together—"
The man seemed to think this was a good suggestion. He tapped the steering wheel and said, "It's not impossible."
Ji Ning felt as if he had been tricked, but when he thought about it carefully, it seemed as if she had said all the words.
When this question was thrown to her, no matter how she answered it, it seemed like it would be wrong.
"We'll see how things go then..." She said vaguely, grabbing the bag and preparing to run, "I'll go up first."
Ji Shiyan watched her take the bag containing Zhuo Gong's voice and frowned: "Why do you still carry this?"
"I'd better take it away if someone gives it to me," Ji Ning said, "It's not good to leave it in your car."
"Then don't listen to it when you go back."
Ji Ning smiled: "I don't want to listen."
She simply felt that it was not nice to throw away things that were given to her by others.
After returning to the room, she went to take a shower. When she came out, she happened to see Song Yu playing with the crystal ball.
The room was dark, and the little prince in the crystal ball was spinning in the pale blue light. Drogon's voice appeared again without warning.
"… I heard that you and Ji Shiyan are together, that's great, I won't bother you on your birthday this time! I asked the screenwriter to give you this crystal ball, wishing you a happy birthday in advance."
"There's nothing I can't say. I liked you when we were on the set, but now it's all in the past. Whether you know it or not, I don't want you to have any grudges against me. Well, my last sentence is, I wish Xingchen a long-lasting high viewership!"
Ji Ning, who was wiping his hair, never expected the following content to be like this.
Song Yu still maintained the weird posture of preparing to take a photo, squatting in horse stance and turning to look at Ji Ning.
"What the hell is this?!"
Ji Ning shook his head. How would she know
The two looked at each other for several seconds, and Song Yu stood up. "Fortunately, I wasn't broadcasting live, otherwise this Zhuo something Gong would be the hot search tonight. Good guy, he even used a crystal ball to do this thing."
"Our screenwriter bought a lot of this," Ji Ning said, "Maybe when Zhuo Gong went to see her, he thought it could be used, so he took it."
This sentence probably didn't have any other meaning. She guessed that it was a summary and farewell from Drogon. His voice was also very calm.
Song Yu curled her lips and turned on the light: "Did you guess that he likes you?"
"Who could have guessed that?" Ji Ning adjusted the towel in his hand. "He treats everyone like that."
Intimate, familiar, and talkative, Zhuo Gong always has a smiling face that radiates warmth, and she always thinks that they are just friends.
"Then how do you feel that Ji Shiyan likes you?"
"It's not a feeling..." Ji Ning licked his lips, "I just feel that I am different in some way."
Different from the impression given by Zhuo Gong, Ji Shiyan was used to being taciturn and distant. The first time he calmly accepted the constraints of the outside world seemed to be only with her.
Whether it was the sentence "being pretty is the least of her worries", or the support of buying her an entertainment account, or the necklace that was custom-made for her...
Although there are reasons for coincidence every time, but when there are too many coincidences, she can't help but think that even if it is business, no one can force Ji Shiyan to do something he doesn't want to do.
He treated her well just because he wanted to, and maybe it was partly because of the effect on the show at the time, but outside the show, he gave her a real and open difference.
After all, he was such an outstanding person, a peak that many people wanted to climb but could not. That was why she was so nervous and unsure whether she was worthy of it, and she was reluctant to admit it.
Fortunately, he said it for her, saying what she couldn't say.
Song Yu looked at the crystal ball and asked, "What should I do with this? Will I still play with it in the future?"
"No more playing."
"It can also be considered a commemoration." Song Yu said.
"But my boyfriend is jealous," Ning said, "so I'd better seal it and put it in the cabinet."
Song Yu's expression gradually twisted. Seeing Ji Ning start to blow dry her hair, she came forward and pulled out her plug: "Are you showing off that you have a boyfriend?"
"No," Ji Ning whispered, blinking sincerely, "I'm just showing off that my boyfriend is Ji Shiyan."
"… good."
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The next day, when Ji Ning arrived at the crew, he found that everyone was gathered together nervously, seemingly discussing something.
Seeing the director's serious expression, Ji Ning couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"
"I don't know who did it, but the script behind Rouge leaked out last night."
The exposure of the script was a serious matter in itself, but what was even more serious was that the audience protested against the script.
Recently, "Rouge and Wine" has been firmly in the first place in TV ratings thanks to its conscientious costumes and engaging plot. Its online broadcast volume has surpassed many popular completed dramas, and its popularity is almost surpassing Ji Ning's "Rose and the Wind of That Time" at the time.
It is rare for online and TV shows to achieve such good results simultaneously. Judging from the current growth trend, if it can retain the audience, Rouge is bound to be the biggest hit costume drama of the year.
The most discussed character among them is Ji Ning's character Hong Ling. Hong Ling appeared in a red dress with bells hanging on her ankles, which not only amazed the male protagonist, but also amazed most of the audience.
But in the later part of the script, Hong Ling turned evil and fell off a cliff. It was a complete tragedy. The sudden turn was unacceptable to the audience, and #Hong Ling don't die# became the number one trending search topic overnight.
Of course there are not only fans inside, but more importantly, real audiences.
This drama has two female protagonists, Hong Ling played by Ji Ning and Huan Xia played by Ruan Zhao. If we analyze it rationally, both of them are very likable characters. Hong Ling may lose fans if she turns evil later, but Huan Xia's character has been very stable. But I don't know what happened. When I read the script last night, I put myself in Ji Ning's shoes the whole time. I didn't hate Hong Ling's evil turn at all. Instead, I felt that Huan Xia's indecisiveness was annoying.
I also found that Hong Ling has some signs of turning evil. The day before yesterday, I cried when she was blaming herself and burning her cousin's clothes. I knew that the screenwriter was writing her to be hateful, but Ji Ning's performance made me feel involved. I felt that Hong Ling was also forced. She also had her own difficulties. Why didn't anyone look at our little Ling? How did Ji Ning manage to make a hateful plot so likable...
Ji Ning’s acting is really great, and the script is not extreme enough (if the script circulated online is true). If it was given to someone with poor acting skills, it might make the audience turn to Huan Xia, but Ji Ning only made everyone understand Hong Ling’s feelings, because her emotional transmission is particularly good. All in all, her acting is still good.
The script is not completely unchangeable at this point. If it were up to me, we should just follow public opinion and change the play into a drama with Hong Ling as the heroine. After she turns evil, she locks up the man she loves the most, kills Huan Xia, and becomes the empress herself. Ah, it's exciting just thinking about it. It must be cool to see Ji Ning play this kind of role! !
I've long since gotten tired of watching the emotional entanglement between the three of them. Let's make love, plmm, Hong Ling can't die! I'll write in blood to let Hong Ling be the heroine! !
I cried my eyes out last night. If Hong Ling really died, I would not watch Huan Xia and the male lead's love scenes for more than ten episodes. I feel so bad. She had a miserable first seventeen years. Why can she only have two years of happiness? Fate is so unfair.
The protagonist you like died = the CP you supported is going to fail = watching the male protagonist of your CP fall in love with another woman = eating shit = abandoning the show and turning against it. The crew should discuss this carefully.
Hong Ling is the only girl who turned evil and I just felt sorry for her... I don't want to see her die, it's too painful.
After reading the trending searches, Ji Ning fell silent. It was hard for her to expect that the audience would give her such a high evaluation.
To make a scene that attracts criticism also look likable requires an actor to have a very deep understanding of the character and to convey the emotions he or she has experienced to the audience intact. It sounds simple, but it is not an easy thing to do.
Finally, the director held an emergency meeting and came up with a direction after a day and a night: change.
According to the comment with 60,000 likes, the script was changed into a drama with a female protagonist after Hong Ling turns evil.
The audience raised their opinions because they knew that "Rouge" was being filmed and broadcast at the same time. The opinions were also the real thoughts of the audience who followed the show without missing a single episode. Although it is difficult to modify the script, if the audience is really dissatisfied and abandons the show after Hong Ling's death, the reputation and ratings will drop, and all the efforts of the crew will be in vain.
What's more, heroines are also a popular trend in the market.
"I've witnessed you changing your fate again," Song Yu sighed as he watched the crew's announcement that night, "You turned a drama with two female leads and a top male lead into your own drama with a female lead. Ji Ning, I never thought you would give me face like this."
Ji Ning has never played a female protagonist who turns evil. It is a challenge, but it is also a motivation full of pressure.
After all, this position was won by the audience because of their trust in her, and she will definitely do her best to give the audience the most enjoyable viewing experience.
Ji Ning watched the dark acting of his seniors until twelve o'clock that day. When he came to his senses and was about to go to bed, he heard Song Yu calling from the other side.
"What's wrong?"
"I was so angry just now that I used my secondary account to reply to a comment by a troll under my primary account," Song Yu said. "My fans basically all know that I use a secondary account. It's okay."
Ji Ning asked, "Why did you open a small account that everyone knows about?"
"Stop nagging. You can post some bad product complaints on a smurf account. You can also post photos of yourself admiring yourself without showing your makeup. We beauty bloggers are different from you celebrities, right? Celebrities can't do whatever they want with their smurf accounts, so they don't open any," Song Yu pointed at him, "Except you."
"Your trumpet can't be called a trumpet, it should be called Rainbow Fart Guide."
Ji Ning didn't have time to discuss the wonderful uses of the trumpet with her. He remembered that Jiang Yin asked him to register an account on the video website before leaving get off work, which would be used for later promotion. But the website seemed to have a bug today, and pictures could not be uploaded.
"Oh, right," she quickly asked Song Yu, "I want to change my profile picture background, but the image hosting website is broken, so I can only upload a link. What should I do?"
"Just upload the pictures to a small album, then copy the link and paste it." Song Yu is quite experienced.
Ji Ning did as he was told and soon uploaded it successfully.
After uploading the message, she felt sleepy and her eyelids were so heavy that she could hardly open them, so she turned off her phone and went to sleep.
When she woke up, she found that the crew had notified her of the holiday in the early morning. Because a buffer period was needed to revise the script, the scenes originally scheduled for today could not be filmed, and some actors were taking a break, including Ji Ning.
Today happened to be her birthday. She had said before that she had to film a movie and asked Ji Shiyan to come and celebrate her birthday in the evening, but she didn't expect to have an extra day off for nothing.
She called Ji Shiyan, and the call was connected quickly, but the background noise was a bit noisy.
"Where are you?"
Ji Shiyan seemed to want to go back to a specific location, but he guessed that she didn't know either, so he said, "The place where we bathed the animals during the previous variety show."
"Have you passed by?"
"Not yet," the man saw through her thoughts, "Why?"
"If you have time, please help me check out CC. I haven't seen it for a long time."
CC is the dog that Ji Ning washed when he was filming the first kiss diary that day. It is a very well-behaved golden retriever, but one of its eyes is injured and one of its legs has a prosthesis, but it is still very optimistic.
CC likes it very much, and she has promised to come and see it again when she has time, but unfortunately she is too busy at work and has no time at all.
But it would be the same if we let Ji Shiyan go and take a look now.
The man responded: "Well, I'll go check it out later and send you the photos."
"What else do you plan to do after watching this?"
"Yes," he said in a deep voice, "I'll go back and celebrate your birthday."
Ji Ning fell on the bed: "It just so happens that I have been notified to take a break today."
"What time will you be back?"
"Nine o'clock."
Just enough for her to get another night's sleep.
Ji Ning pursed his lips and smiled: "Then call me when you get here, I'll sleep a little longer."
"Go to sleep."
Before going to bed, Ji Ning checked Weibo again and found that a fangirl on the smurf account posted photos faster than Ji Shiyan. The man was still entrusting Jiang Sheng to take photos, and the fangirl posted a preview picture.
In the sunshine, the man leaned over and touched the golden retriever's head. He heard something in his headphones, but he suddenly laughed.
The sister of Ji Shiyan’s first big fan club wrote: —Has Ji Shiyan reconciled with the world today? —A little bit reconciled.
The Haiyan sisters forwarded the message with tears in their eyes, expressing their feelings that they had not seen him laugh so sincerely for a long time.
Ji Shiyan arrived on time at nine o'clock, and Ji Ning also packed up and prepared to leave.
The doorbell rang, and she walked to the door with her bag, taking off her hat.
As she was opening the door, the man raised his head and looked into her eyes: "It seems that there is no need to wear a hat."
Ji Ning: "What?"
The man held his phone in front of her, and what came into view was the hot search page, with the words "Ji Ning's secondary account" clearly written on it. Clicking on it, the hot Weibo post "Ji Shiyan's girlfriend outside the entertainment industry" that had been retweeted nearly 20,000 times was the top post -
Ji Shiyan, marry me and the child will take your surname.
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