Qin Hanlin: "Lights, props, actors, everyone, take your positions! Get ready to shoot!"
Xia Yitong woke up with a start.
As she approached, Lu Yinbing was looking at her inquiringly: "What are you doing? Your face is so red, do you have a fever? Or is it heatstroke?"
Xia Yitong looked around. Everyone was in their seats. Qin Hanlin was still drinking water, but he was already sitting behind the monitor and pointed to the stage at her.
The solar lights above her head made Xia Yiting look a little dazed.
Lu Yinbing: "Why don't you go up? What are you doing? Are you really suffering from heatstroke?" Lu Yinbing pressed his fingers on the inside of her arm, then pulled them back. "I can't even check on you right now. Are you dizzy?"
Xia Yitong's unfocused eyes fell on her lips that kept opening and closing.
Lu Yinbing: “???”
She pushed Xia Yitong's shoulder, and Xia Yitong let out a long breath: "What did you say?"
Lu Yinbing: “…”
"I've already started talking about you being a fool. You're still standing there in a daze, waiting to be scolded by Qin Hanlin." Lu Yinbing sat in his own corner seat.
Xia Yitong took off her coat, handed it to her assistant, and walked to the center of the palace, the center of the camera. Her skirt was as bright as the moonlight, her steps were graceful, her long black hair was tied behind her head with a ribbon, and a simple red jade hairpin was inserted in her hair, with a strand of black hair hanging down in front of her chest. She applied a light amount of powder, and the faint blush on her cheeks made her look even more beautiful than ice and snow.
The script supervisor claps: "The second scene of 'Breaking Snow', one take, action!"
The professional classical orchestra that the crew had hired at great expense began to play music, and the sound was as majestic as the mountains and as loud as the moving clouds.
Xia Yitong started dancing.
After dancing for a while, Qin Hanlin shouted, "Ngh, no emotion, do it again."
Xia Yitong adjusted his breathing and started over.
Qin Hanlin: "Ka, ng, don't let your eyes wander."
"Ng, don't keep staring at one place."
"ng..."
"ng..."
…
"Ng, the cameraman is taking a break, Xiao Xia, come over here for a moment."
Repeated NGs made Xia Yitong mentally exhausted. Having so many NGs for one scene was definitely the most Xia Yitong had ever done since she entered the entertainment industry. Qin Hanlin had high requirements for acting skills, and she had to dance while achieving the feeling he wanted. How easy was that
Qin Hanlin knew that he was being harsh, so he didn't blame her. Instead, he smiled and said, "Come, let me tell you the story again."
Xia Yitong nodded and listened.
Lu Yinbing came over at some point.
Qin Hanlin's tone deepened and he asked, "Who are you?"
"Chen Qing."
"Who is Chen Qing?"
"A spy sent by Guzang," Xia Yitong added, "for now."
"What is your purpose?" Qin Hanlin continued to guide.
"Seducing the King of Chu and attracting Jing Xiu's attention."
"What kind of person can attract the attention of King Chu and Jing Xiu?" Qin Hanlin was neither arrogant nor impatient, and showed that fatherly smile again, although his smile looked like he was digging a hole for people to jump into.
"What kind of person?" Xia Yitong fell into confusion.
Qin Hanlin: "Is he the kind of person who is vulgar and looks like he has ulterior motives? Is he the kind of person who says in his every move, 'I want to seduce you?'"
"No." Xia Yitong denied quickly.
"What is that?"
A flash of inspiration flashed through his mind, Xia Yitong raised his eyes and said with certainty: "She is someone who looks aloof and difficult to approach, someone who is as unattainable as the mountains and snow, a peerless beauty who arouses their desire to conquer her, and someone who is different from everyone in the palace!"
The corners of Lu Yinbing's mouth slightly raised, outlining the traces of a smile.
Qin Hanlin said, "Yes, this is exactly the same as those domineering CEO novels nowadays. You are so pure and unpretentious, so different from the coquettish and slutty girls out there! Different is the most important thing. You should be like the gardenia described by Wang Zengqi: 'Fuck you, I just want to be fragrant like this, fragrant and happy, what the hell do you have to do with me!'"
Xia Yitong couldn't help laughing and said, "Fuck you, I just want to dance like this, to my heart's content, what the hell do you have to do with me! You can watch it if you want, and you can make me a concubine if you want!"
"Yes, men are all cheap guys! The more you look down on him, the more you chase him." Qin Hanlin, who cursed himself, rubbed his hands and laughed, "That's the feeling. Remember this feeling. Go ahead, jump, and seduce those cheap men to death. But don't be too ostentatious. Show a little edge and be able to control it."
"Okay, got it."
Qin Hanlin: "Everyone, take your positions."
"The second scene of 'Breaking Snow' has sixteen takes. Action!" The script supervisor clapped the cue and quickly walked off the screen.
The camera zoomed in on Xia Yitong's face. A bronze mask covered the left half of her face, so half of her face was cold and the other half was seductive. Her eyes were quietly staring at the person in front of the camera, like water, with a faint gray, and as clear as the clouds in the mountains.
Qin Hanlin held his breath. Very good. The emotion was there.
The band played music, and the sound of heaven was faint.
Xia Yitong did not move. The wine jar in the King's hand stopped in mid-air. He looked up at the front of the palace, as if wondering why this beauty behaved so strangely. Lu Yinbing refused the maid who poured wine for her, picked up the wine pot and poured a glass herself, without looking up from beginning to end.
Suddenly, Xia Yitong moved, kicked lightly with his ankle, and there was a loud "bang" -
Then a clear and pleasant bell sounded, which was not completely covered by the music, and persisted in making its own sound. Her arms were like snakes, her waist was like vines, and her dancing posture seemed frivolous, but under the background of her mask and eyes, she looked like an immortal, with her black hair long like a waterfall, standing proudly, making people dare not look at her closely.
Her eyes moved, and the ringing of the bell was clear. She scanned all the people at the table without any emotion, from the King of Chu to the princes and ministers, from the princes and ministers to every prince and grandson of the emperor, envoys from other countries, and then to the envoys from Guzang. She looked down at them, as if she was looking at pious people, as if she was not a small dancer offering tribute, but a god.
How could she be so proud? What right did she have to be so proud
Everyone felt it was natural that she should be like this, so they were willing to sink into her gaze.
Chen Qing's eyes swept across the crowd and landed on the corner of the prince's seat. Everyone in the audience was looking at her, except for that person. She knew who that person was.
Jing Xiu felt a strange gaze. She raised her head and looked at the woman she was destined to meet. She nodded politely, as if saying hello to her.
There was no obsession or desire to conquer in her eyes like that of other men; it was very clean and clear.
Chen Qing looked at her for a while and slowly smiled at her.
She seemed to have a plan in mind, seemed to be playful and interested, and seemed to be... What was it? Jing Xiu couldn't understand, but she thought the woman was very pretty. The palace nurse said: There are no simple women in the palace. The prettier they are, the more dangerous they are.
This person is so good-looking, he must be very dangerous. She glanced at the drunken King of Chu at the table, and felt uneasy.
Qin Hanlin immediately raised his hand, and a camera pulled back. Chen Qing looked at Jing Xiu, and Jing Xiu looked at the King of Chu. The three of them formed a triangle, and the camera froze here.
Chen Qing's gaze stayed on Jing Xiu for a moment, then retracted.
Chen Qing was standing barefoot on a big drum. His calves were well-proportioned and straight, his insteps were as smooth as snow, and his ten toes were clearly visible. Every time he jumped, a muffled sound was heard.
Dong-dong-dong-
Her movements became faster and faster, the drum beats became more urgent, and the music became more and more exciting and high-pitched. Everyone put down their wine bottles and held their breath, watching the beauty in a light veil spinning rapidly on the drum surface. The white veil fluttered, like a bright moonlight in the hall. The drum beats strangled everyone's heartbeats, their breathing accelerated, and they kept opening their eyes wide as Chen Qing moved.
A bewitching bright red cloud pattern flashed across Chen Qing's snow-white waist, and the straps of the mask behind her ears were quietly untied. Chen Qingmo flicked her hair, and the bronze mask flew out from her face, leaving a streak of green light in the air, and landed on the drum surface with a clang.
The drumbeats, music, and bell sounds suddenly stopped.
Everyone present felt a sense of emptiness in their hearts, and they all suddenly felt a slight pain in their hearts, which was caused by the sudden and unexpected cessation of the stimulation.
The camera pushed onto Xia Yitong's back, with her long hair flowing, and slowly turned 180 degrees, freezing on Xia Yitong's face.
What kind of face is hidden under the mask
Her eyebrows were elegant, her pupils were dark as the night, her eyelashes were long like fans, and her appearance was as beautiful as lotus. Even more surprising was the scorpion painted on the left corner of her eye, with its tail hanging high, making her original phoenix eyes even more attractive. The scorpion lay in the corner of her eye with its fangs and claws bared, looking so vivid that it seemed to jump out and kill her immediately.
—There is no fairy more arrogant and more godlike than her.
I don't know who knocked over the wine bottle in his hand, and with a "clang", the wine poured onto the table.
The King of Chu came back to his senses, clapped his hands and laughed: "Good, a big reward!"
He looked at the envoy from Guzang and said, "I haven't seen such a special beauty for a long time. Tell your king that I accept Concubine Chen. Someone, take Concubine Chen to Yuxiu Palace! From today on, that is where Concubine Chen lives."
Chen Qing picked up the mask, put it back on his face, and followed the people out of the hall.
As she passed by, Jing Xiu heard several noblemen sitting next to her arguing in low voices.
"See? The beauty was looking at me just now. She looked at me again."
"You're looking at me."
"You're looking at me, not at the two of you..."
Jing Xiu poured herself a glass of wine, looked at Chen Qing's leaving back, her eyes darkened, and she drank it slowly.
Beauties are all disasters, and this one is a particularly big disaster.