"You take a rest first. I'm going to talk to the director about something." After entering the room, Zhong Jiudao put down his handbag and said.
"Okay, the directors' rooms are on the 15th floor. We are not on the same floor. Here's the room card." Luo Huai said.
I gave Zhong Jiudao the room card because I was worried that he wouldn't be able to take the elevator without it. Luo Huai only had one room card, and after Zhong Jiudao took it away, Luo Huai could not leave the room temporarily.
"Thank you." Zhong Jiudao said.
"Don't be polite, come back early and have a rest." Luo Huai said happily.
Zhong Jiudao did not go to the director's room, but followed the negative energy of the paper man and came to Room 1401 on the same floor as Luo Huai. He stood outside the door and monitored Qi Wanlian at all times.
He used the art of synesthesia to connect with the five senses of the ghost servant he controlled, but by doing so, Zhong Jiudao's own five senses would be temporarily disabled, so he stood against the door with his eyes closed.
With his five senses connected to the paper figure, what Zhong Jiudao saw was not the heroine resting indoors, but an illusory dream. It seemed that Qi Wanlian did not want to reveal her identity as a ghost, and wanted to solve the matter by entering a dream.
Doing so would allow the infant spirit to see its mother while avoiding exposing its identity as an evil ghost. It was a way to have the best of both worlds, but it was not Qi Wanlian's style.
The ghosts in their villa are all eager to create chaos in the world. When Qi Wanlian possessed Pang Xinhao, she never thought of hiding her identity. When filming, she kept talking about how you humans are and how we were when we were alive. They wished that the people in the crew would know that they are ghosts so that they would be scared and lose their minds, and become the evil ghosts' meal.
If the human actors had not treated their actions and words as part of a play, and if Zhong Jiudao had not suppressed them again and again, these ghosts would not have been able to endure it for so long.
At this moment, Qi Wanlian clearly had the opportunity to expose her identity but she chose a softer way of entering a dream, which was obviously not her style.
Considering that Qi Wanlian had two souls in one body, Zhong Jiudao vaguely guessed how she died.
In the dream, Qi Wanlian was holding a baby of unknown gender in her arms and walking towards the heroine Ji Pan. The scene looked like Ji Pan’s bedroom. She was sitting at the table, DIYing a pink piglet bit by bit according to the tutorial.
Ji Pan's movements were clumsy, and it was obvious that he had no experience in handicrafts. It was unknown why he suddenly had the urge to make an ugly doll.
Qi Wanlian stood behind Ji Pan holding the child and watched for a while before asking, "Why do you want to do this?"
Since it was a dream, no matter what strange things happened, it was not surprising. Ji Pan stopped, put his hand on his belly unconsciously, and sighed deeply: "I don't know, maybe I'm always sentimental after being pregnant."
In her dreams, she did not hide anything and could tell the secrets in her heart.
"I'm 25 years old this year, and my career is on the rise. I've just taken on this big-budget fantasy drama, so I really can't stop." Ji Pan said, "And I don't have any feelings for the father of this child. We can only take what we need. It... comes at the wrong time."
Qi Wanlian sat beside her, gently stroked her hair, and said to comfort her: "I know it well, it's not love or hate, it's just that we are not destined to be together."
"I understand the logic, but recently I keep hearing the cry of my child, and I keep hearing people asking me why I don't want him. I feel very uncomfortable." Ji Pan slowly shed tears.
"The child was taken advantage of by the bad guys." Qi Wanlian put the child in Ji Pan's arms, "Ask him in person, does he blame you?"
Ji Pan clumsily picked up the child and gently touched his face.
The child, who was not sure whether he was a boy or a girl, held Ji Pan's fingers, opened his eyes and smiled at her.
Ji Pan felt an indescribable bitterness in his heart. Tears dropped from his eyes, and he couldn't tell what he was feeling except regret.
The child reached out and wiped away a tear from Ji Pan.
"Your fate has ended. I want to take him away." Qi Wanlian took the child back.
Ji Pan unconsciously reached out his hand to the child, but Qi Wanlian slapped him back.
"If you really miss this feeling, protect yourself and don't make a life commitment easily. Then, at the right time, it's best to be mentally prepared to start this relationship again. If he is still willing to wait for you, he will come to you then." Qi Wanlian said to Ji Pan.
"Also, he likes this doll very much. Can you give it to him?" Qi Wanlian pointed to the ugly little pig doll on the table.
"I made this while thinking about the child I didn't have a destiny with. It would be great if he liked it." Ji Pan picked up the pig doll and put it in the child's swaddling clothes.
"That's enough." Qi Wanlian said.
Seeing her turn around to leave, Ji Pan hurriedly asked: "Who are you? Thank you for bringing him to see me."
"Me? A ghost who is usually vicious but occasionally kind." Qi Wanlian smiled and took the child away from Ji Pan's dream.
Zhong Jiudao immediately cut off the paper man's telepathy. He suddenly opened his eyes and saw Luo Huai, the temporary assistant, staring at him.
Zhong Jiu said: "..."
assistant:"… "
A person who had agreed to stay at another hotel tonight suddenly showed up at their hotel, and leaned against the actress's door with his eyes closed as if eavesdropping. Was this Director Zhong, whom Luo Huai admired and liked so much? And, and he was also a student who graduated from the directing department? The assistant felt like his whole body was about to burst into pieces.
Zhong Jiudao had a stiff face. He picked up a paper figurine, a pig doll, from the ground, nodded expressionlessly to his assistant, turned around and walked towards Luo Huai's room, inserted the room card and opened the door.
assistant:"… "
No way, is Zhong Jiudao going to stay in Luo Huai's room tonight
The assistant lowered his head and looked at the bedsheets and quilt covers in his hand. Luo Huai had just sent him a message, asking him to send a set of new bedsheets and quilt covers. He was a conscientious assistant who had worked with many artists in the past. He knew that artists were picky, so he prepared many things in advance. When Luo Huai moved into the hotel, the assistant prepared several sets of four-piece bedding sets, and was also worried that Luo Huai would dislike the hotel's bedsheets and quilt covers.
Luo Huai wasn't that particular, but it would be best if there were some sheets, so he just picked one and changed it. Zhong Jiudao was also staying at the hotel today, so Luo Huai naturally thought of changing him some sheets, but the assistant still had some left.
The assistant was stunned for a while, and waited for Luo Huai's door to be closed for a while before walking over and knocking on the door.
After Luo Huai opened the door, the assistant walked in cautiously. Hearing the sound of water splashing from the bathroom, his eyes couldn't help but drift over there.
Luo Huai said frankly: "Director Zhong, I invited him to stay here. Fortunately, I have two beds here so that he doesn't have to spend money to book another room himself."
"Oh." The assistant helped Luo Huai change the bed sheets like a sleepwalker. Seeing Luo Huai's innocent look, he couldn't help but say, "He just..."
"He just went upstairs to find the director. Did you see him?" Luo Huai asked.
assistant:"… "
When I saw him, he was not on the director's floor, but at the door of the heroine's room.
The assistant is well aware of the chaotic relationships between men and women in the entertainment industry, and knows that it is best not to speak out. As a small assistant, he has learned to keep silent if he wants to do his job well.
Just at this moment, Zhong Jiudao came out of the bathroom after taking a shower. The collar of his pajamas was open, revealing his strong chest muscles. He looked like he could beat ten people alone.
The assistant swallowed his words, silently helped Luo Huai make the bed, then turned and left.
Alas, I feel a little guilty. But the truth will come out soon. When Director Zhong's true face is revealed, he will listen to Luo Huai's complaints patiently and comfort him.
Zhong Jiudao stared at his assistant's departing back, and instantly a thousand ways to make the assistant shut up flashed through his mind.
What kind of silencing spells, erasing memories, evil spirits entering dreams to scare people, evil spirits possessing people, extracting his soul and refining it into a living puppet...
Ahem, the last one is not a good choice. The books I have read are too few and the knowledge I have learned is too miscellaneous.
After much thought, Zhong Jiudao finally decided to let nature take its course. Regardless of whether the assistant saw the strange paper figure and suspected that he was raising a ghost, Zhong Jiudao did not intend to pursue the matter.
After all, Luo Huai is the only human employee in their company, and he works with colleagues in the wallet. This secret will not be hidden for too long and will be exposed one day.
With Luo Huai's physique, if he was really exposed, he would probably see ghosts every day, which was really unsafe. In the meantime, Zhong Jiudao had to work hard to make money, so that he could buy a piece of fine spiritual jade and refine an indestructible amulet for Luo Huai, so that he would be immune to all ghosts.
Ordinary jewelry cannot withstand too much force, like the pile of 9 pieces of 9, which will break at the slightest impact of the Yin Qi. But the best jade is different. Jade itself contains spiritual energy. After being inlaid, it is strong and beautiful. Unless you take the wrong path and run into the underworld, no matter how powerful the ghosts in the world are, they cannot break the best spiritual jade.
It's a pity that the jade suitable for bearing Zhong Jiu's magic is too expensive. The worst one can be used to shoot dozens of "Fallen House" movies. Director Zhong can't afford it at the moment.
It turned out that the Zhong family had a lot of jade. Zhong Jiudao's ability to carve talismans and make magical instruments was made from the jade in his home. At that time, he made one and threw it away, never thinking that these things could be valuable. He lived a very luxurious life.
Now that I have left home to make my own living, I realize that life is not easy.
Zhong Jiudao lay on the bed that Luo Huai had made and waited quietly for a while. When he heard Luo Huai's even breathing and knew that he had fallen asleep, he quietly got up and performed a ritual to help the infant's spirit to be reincarnated, and at the same time burned the pig doll.
After sending the baby spirit away, Zhong Jiudao finally rested in peace.
Before he fell asleep, he vaguely thought that the short video account should be updated. He could use this time to shoot some videos of the old times, in a funny and horror style.
Several horror and bizarre short videos he made before were very popular, and his account already had millions of followers. There were always people sending him private messages asking him if he wanted to accept advertisements, and there were fans asking him to do live broadcasts, but Zhong Jiudao ignored any of them.
He knows that he can make a lot of money by taking advertisements and doing live broadcasts, but he is a director with persistence and ideals. The first advertisement of his short video account must be the promotion of the movie "Falling House". The rest of the advertisements, no matter how profitable, will give way to his movie.
In order to achieve this ideal, Zhong Jiudao must maintain the popularity of his account. Recently, he couldn't think of any new horror and curiosity ideas, so he might as well do a series from ancient times to the present.
When making short videos, you must always keep them fresh.
Zhong Jiudao fell into a deep sleep. The wallet on the desk bounced a few times while he was asleep, and a piece of paper even struggled to stick out of the wallet.
Unfortunately, Zhong Jiudao drew a talisman on the wallet, so no matter how the pieces of paper turned over, they could not escape from this small wallet.
Luo Huai didn't know that he and all his colleagues in the company had to rest for the whole night, and he had to put on the knot and go to work the next day.
Zhong Jiudao had found an excuse to enter the crew to exorcise evil spirits, and now that things were done, he should have left. But Zhi had already promised the assistant director to help, so he couldn't go back on his word, so he stayed with Luo Huai to work, which was also a good learning opportunity.
It is definitely not because the crew is well-equipped, and because it is haunted and no one dares to enter at night, so it is convenient for Zhong Jiudao to borrow the crew's props to shoot a short video. This is definitely not the reason!
After a few days of working all day and shooting short videos at night, the first video in the series was finally completed. That night, Zhong Jiudao opened his short video account to upload a video. He hadn't uploaded a video for several days, and his message log was about to explode.
Zhong Jiudao did not close the private message function. He also wanted to see netizens' comments on his work, so as to absorb more suggestions.
He read through them patiently, ignoring some meaningless comments such as "hahaha" and "update soon" from advertisements and business partners, and wrote down the useful suggestions.
Suddenly, Zhong Jiudao saw a message from an account with tens of millions of fans, saying that he wanted to meet the cheongsam beauty in the video. Zhong Jiudao took a closer look and found that this person was actually looking forward to it.
It's true that we meet everywhere in life. While Ji Pan was watching short videos after filming, she unexpectedly came across a video of Qi Wanlian. The more she watched, the more she looked like the woman who helped her get out of the psychological shadow in her dream. She couldn't help but send her a private message.
Ji Pan had a vague feeling in her heart that she owed this woman someone and she had to repay her debt. Even if she didn't repay her in this life, she would have to repay her in the next life.
After receiving the private message, Ji Pan went online every day to check the message history, but he never received a response.
Until she went to bed tonight, she opened the short video app again and finally saw a reply: The actress is an artist under our company and it is not convenient for her to meet outsiders. Does Ms. Ji Pan have anything to do with her? I can pass it on.
Ji Pan replied immediately: "Are you her agent? I don't have anything else to do. I just like her and want to ask her if she has any difficulties and needs help. As long as it is within my ability, I will do my best."
Zhong Jiudao saw the reply and understood that the consequences of his involvement must be repaid. Although Qi Wanlian had no intention of asking for it, the evil spirit had consequences, so it was best to repay it as soon as possible, otherwise it would be troublesome to bring it to the next life.
So he thought about replying; she had just played a role in a movie, which had just been submitted for review, and when it was released, Ms. Ji could help promote it.
Ji Pan is a popular young actress with high traffic. If she helps promote her idol, it can attract a lot of traffic, which can save a lot of advertising fees.
Just submitted for review? It will take at least half a year to get approved. Looking forward to your reply.
Does it take half a year? Zhong Jiudao asked. He had the impression that his mentor's films were always approved very quickly.
Every year, countless movies are submitted for review, half of which fail to pass the review and cannot be broadcast, and another half wait in line for a year but still cannot be reviewed. Do you have any connections in this area? Ji Pan asked.
Zhong Jiudao: Probably not.
Ji Pan: Tell me the name of the movie and I’ll try it.
She was spotted by a famous director to play the leading role in a movie at the age of 16. She just won the Best Actress award last year and has some connections.
Especially, Ji Pan couldn't help but touch her belly. The child's father should also do something for the child.
Zhong Jiudao: This is a decadent house. Please help Ms. Ji Pan.