The scheduled start time is tomorrow, so not many actors came to the party a day in advance. Yi Wan followed Brother Liu obediently, meeting people here and there, but did not run into Yu Rongshi.
After all, he is not a member of this crew.
Brother Liu felt very relieved. He felt like an old mother who had given birth to five children. The children had grown up, and four of them had gone to the city to make a living. Only Yi Wan, the honest child, remained by his side, enjoying his happiness!
The actors in the crew are all famous. If Chi Jixia were here, she might be able to dance with her sleeves, but if Yi Wan was here, all she could do was say hello, introduce herself, and remain silent. Fortunately, Yi Wan has a dull temperament, which is quite…
"You have a good kid. He looks honest. Haha!" The second male lead actor said to Brother Liu with a laugh.
Brother Liu: “Heh…Heh…”
Brother Liu said a few perfunctory words and saw Yi Wan nodding vigorously beside him to show his "honesty".
The honest child was led to the next person. The next person looked eight or nine years older than Yi Wan and the others, with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, and a bit of evil in his appearance. If he was a few years younger, he would be a fair-faced, beardless, and creamy young man. However, he frowned and looked irritable, and he was not easy to mess with.
"This is Liang Huishi, who plays the third male lead. You should know him." Brother Liu and Yi Wan whispered, "He's the supporting actor who will never become famous in his lifetime."
Yi Wan: "I've watched his TV series."
Liang Huishi is very famous in the circle. Just like when a musician releases an album, the big melon will grab the first place in the hot search. Liang Huishi is also famous for getting into trouble or failing whenever he plays a leading role.
In theory, Liang Huishi has good looks and acting skills, but his background is a little off. He is a professional, so he has no connections in the industry. He was admitted through a serious examination, but he started out in the directing department.
Liang Huishi didn't make much of a name for himself in the directing department. It wasn't because he didn't work hard. On the contrary, Liang Huishi was too rigorous in his work, which made him less creative. He also frequently clashed with his actors because he was too strict with himself and others.
However, by chance, they discovered that he had a little talent in acting - at least Liang Huishi's appearance was very suitable for being an actor. Unfortunately, such a strict person's appearance was not positive enough, and even a little evil. This greatly restricted his development. The audience's orientation was a compromise. A face with a little evil could not play the leading role.
Liang Huishi played supporting roles all the way. He played villain officers in disaster films, traitors in spy dramas, and the only time he played a decent character was in a police film, where he was an undercover agent in a gangster film, murdering and setting fires. Maybe it was because the undercover died so miserably at the end, which made the audience cry. Some directors wanted to give him a chance to play the leading role in a war movie, and he partnered with a very popular young actor at the time.
It seems that the movie was a big flop. It was such a big flop that all the crew members suffered a "bad blow".
Later, Liang Huishi played the leading role in two or three movies, but all of them were huge failures. After that, he could only play supporting roles.
Liang Huishi plays the third male lead in "Mountains and Rivers", Liang Ke, the strategist who has followed Qu Yun since the Zhou Dynasty, giving him advice and eventually committing suicide by taking poison when Qu Yun invaded the imperial city.
In the story, Liang Ke was born into a family of criminal officials. His father was an upright censor, so upright that he was pedantic. He offended many of his colleagues because he was too honest. The last emperor of the Zhou Dynasty was obsessed with cultivating immortals, and everyone knew to avoid him. Only Liang's father was ignorant of the current situation. He was always instigated by his colleagues to attack the last emperor at high frequency in the morning court.
Did colleagues incite because they had good intentions? Not really. The last emperor was obsessed with cultivating immortals and ignored state affairs, so naturally there was a power vacuum in the court - a vacuum is impossible, so there must be new factions and forces to fill it. Whenever a faction fight occurs, there will always be a day or two when they want to ask the emperor to do something for their own benefit to disrupt the situation.
Liang's father thought he was serving the king and supporting the royal family, but he didn't know that he was just a pawn used by his colleagues to stand out.
So, disaster finally came. Liang's father died of illness on the way to exile, and Liang Ke was demoted from a newly admitted Jinshi to a commoner. He stood under the blood-red setting sun, looked back at the Zhou imperial city that he once loved, and then turned around and left without hesitation.
He became cynical, but he did not hate everyone in the Zhou Dynasty because of his father's death. He still loved his country, and of course, he also had a little hatred. He was still looking forward to a ray of light, a wise leader, to wash away the shame imposed on the Liang family, and bring a real and fair prosperity to all the people. Later, he thought that this wise leader could be Qu Yun.
He threw himself into the flame without hesitation.
Until he committed suicide by taking poison, he finally understood that his life was just a wedding dress for a new dictator under the rules of dynasty change. Nothing has changed under the original rules of the game, whether it is the reincarnation of dynasties or the "righteousness" that the monarch always talks about.
… is a rather tragic character, but his temperament is quite suitable for Liang Hui to play.
Yi Wan introduced himself to him politely. The other party also responded politely. Yi Wan found that he was looking at Chi Jixia with disdain and felt that the situation was not good.
The main creators had been greeted almost completely. Brother Liu waved his hand and prepared to let Yi Wan move freely. He asked Yi Wan again: "What do you think of Liang Huishi?"
Yi Wan: "I feel like he has some conflicts with Brother Chi..."
Brother Liu: "That can't be helped. After all, it was Xiao Xia who ruined the movie that mattered to him the most."
… After all this time, this is what happened.
Yi Wan searched the movie on his phone. The filming time was a few years ago. One month after Chi Xu jumped off the building, Chi Jixia officially joined the crew. After calculating the time, it was probably after Chi Jixia sent his mother Chi Qiu to Lushan Sanatorium. The original four-month schedule, Chi Jixia actually filmed there for eight months. After coming out of there, Chi Jixia never filmed a movie or any TV series that was not an idol drama.
It seems that both sides have been tortured by each other.
But another piece of information is interesting. The two had worked together briefly in the same crew before that movie. And the drama that Chi Jixia performed entirely with her acting skills seemed to be closely related to their cooperation - the director of the drama troupe was somewhat related to Liang Huishi. I wonder if Liang Huishi was one of the audience of that drama at the time...
From this perspective, there is another messy debt between the two of them that cannot be settled no matter how hard you try.
… But anyway, in “The Mountains and Rivers”, Chi Jixia and Liang Huishi don’t have any scenes together. It shouldn’t be a problem… right
Yi Wan felt inexplicably uneasy.
"Yi Wan?"
A pleasant female voice sounded. Yi Wan turned around and saw Qin Xuexin in a red dress.
Qin Xuexin is also in the crew.
Yi Wan vaguely remembered that Qin Xuexin's role in this drama was decided a few months ago, probably after she finished filming "Sorrow of the Sky" and redeemed her acting reputation with that rural movie. She got the role of Qu Yun's half-sister, the eldest princess, through her own efforts, and her role was very important.
The eldest princess was very favored in her childhood. She was proud and bright when she was young. Her father married her to another tribe on the grassland as a gift. Her marriage life was not smooth, but it was a blessing in disguise. She had a sweet time with her husband. Later, there was a civil strife in that tribe. Her father and brother allowed it to happen in order to take the opportunity to annex this tribe. In the end, her husband, the head of the tribe, was killed and the tribe was annexed. She could only return to the capital of the Northern Kingdom as a widow.
The princess's position was very awkward. In traditional concepts, she was considered a member of another family, but her husband and the tribe were dead. Later, her father joked that he would marry her to the chief of another tribe as a successor - it was called a marriage, but in fact it was more like a marriage gift, because she was the most beautiful woman on the grassland. From that moment on, the princess found that she was treated as a commodity in the eyes of her father, brothers, and even the entire royal family. At most, she was no more than a beautifully wrapped gift. The pampering she received in her childhood made her blinded, and it was not until then that she realized that in their eyes, she was just a real second sex.
No power, no autonomy.
She wanted to protect herself, so she could only use the excuse of "keeping chastity for her late husband". No one knew that she had used this excuse so much that she wanted to vomit. When she was young, she thought she was a free bird. She had the freedom to wear the beautiful dress she liked and the freedom to choose lovely decorations. But now she suddenly realized that she only had freedom in a cage. She never had the freedom to shoot arrows or ride horses, and she never had the freedom to participate in political discussions like other brothers. Just like now, if she wanted to express her demands, she could only base them on proposals that were beneficial to the demands of a certain man.
The princess's father was touched and generously granted her request. Her carefree youth came to an end, and the princess became a widow, wearing black clothes and staying indoors. She began to think about ways to gain more power. Later, she fell in love with Qu Yun.
A prince who came back for revenge.
The two of them worked together to help Qu Yun ascend to the throne. The princess knew that in order to show her authority, she needed to get rid of those parts that made her look too "feminine" in this world. In the eyes of many people, "feminine" means unprofessional. So she always had a plain face and wore black clothes. She would rather make herself look old and deep than beautiful and delicate. Her methods were hundreds of times more cruel than Qu Yun's. She once threw a piece of cloth contaminated with smallpox virus into the city in order to win a war.
In the end, she became the first princess of the Northern Dynasty as she wished. She became addicted to playing power games and was killed by the descendants of the Zhou Dynasty officials who came to seek revenge. The scene of her death was also very tense. When the princess saw the poisoned wine, she knew that it was Qu Yun's trick to kill her. She had long told Qu Yun that those who want to achieve great things should do whatever it takes. Now Qu Yun finally learned it and used it on her.
The descendant of a civil official with pockmarks on his face told her: "Despite this, I came here on my own initiative to serve you this pot of poisoned wine. Princess, you should have known that good and evil will be rewarded. When you destroyed my hometown with smallpox, you should have known that I would come here for revenge now!"
But the princess just laughed. She mocked that the descendant of the civil official had now submitted to Qu Yun, obeyed Qu Yun's rules, and became his subject. The descendant of the civil official argued that he was serving a wise monarch.
"A wise ruler? What wise ruler? When he needed my methods to conquer the world, he was not your wise ruler. Now that he needs you to build momentum for him and rule the world, he has become your wise ruler, and he even asks you to avenge him? Hahaha. We are all knives in his hand. I am the black knife, and you are the white knives!"
Finally, the princess was forced to drink poisoned wine. She died in the winter of fifteen years after the founding of the country. Twenty-eight years had passed since she first wore her wedding dress and married into another tribe with the fiery red color.
The eldest princess is a woman with both means and ambition. She does not pursue power for emotional hurt, but enjoys the pleasure of playing power from the bottom of her heart. She is not even emphasized for her beauty. Such women are rare in film and television works.
Yi Wan: "Are you playing the role of the eldest princess? Congratulations."
Qin Xuexin smiled, looking a little reluctant: "No, I changed roles."
Yi Wan: "Who to replace?"
Qin Xuexin: "Seventh Princess."
The Seventh Princess who had an emotional entanglement with Bo Mingjiang’s illegitimate son...ah
Qin Xuexin carried the wine glass and went to the balcony with Yi Wan. She leaned on the railing, let her hands hang in the air, and looked at the sky: "You know? Originally there was no role of the Seventh Princess, nor was there an illegitimate child of Bo Mingjiang. This part was added by the director considering the commerciality of the story."
Yi Wan: "Uh... So, is this a scene added for you?"
After saying that, he shook his head: "The time doesn't match."
It takes a long time for the script to be completed and filed, and everything from personnel scheduling to scene scheduling is involved. Moreover, this scene also involves the main plot, and it is not a separate chapter. In this case, how can the director add a scene just for Qin Xuexin in these three months
Qin Xuexin has been in Blue Light for less than three months.
Qin Xuexin: "This role was added when the script was drafted. But at that time it didn't belong to me, but to Lin Meng. Do you know what the character of the Seventh Princess was like at that time?"
Yi Wan cooperated and asked, "What kind of personality?"
"A little fairy dressed in white, innocent, pure and gentle." Qin Xuexin said, shaking her head and smiling, "Doesn't it fit Lin Meng's past 'personality'?"
Yi Wan was silent. Qin Xuexin said, "Later, Blue Light didn't want Lin Meng anymore, so they gave the role to me..."
Yi Wan noticed that Qin Xuexin began to pick at her left arm nervously. Her left arm was covered with scars, all of which were new injuries from the recent period of time - perhaps due to excessive stress. Yi Wan frowned and grabbed her hand.
"You know what? They gave me this role. I said, I want to play the eldest princess. That was the role I pursued myself... Do you know how much effort I put into the eldest princess? The director didn't want me at first, he thought I had too many things to do. It was because I went to the countryside to film, and because Yu Rongshi drove him to the countryside to see me, that he changed his mind about me and gave me this role... Yu Rongshi told me not to be afraid, this role would be a new beginning for me. A new beginning without being disturbed by Lin Meng. I asked him if I could really create a miracle? He said of course I could... Yi Wan, he believed in me just like you saved me." Qin Xuexin's eyes welled up with tears, "But Lan Guang said no. The public will not like the role of the eldest princess. She is too dark and too anti-traditional. The audience will not like such a woman, and the audience will empathize with me and think that I am as scheming as the eldest princess, which is not good for my popularity."
"And the eldest princess is not beautiful. She is old and tired, and only her eyes are sharp like a vulture. Who would like an ugly woman? If I want to please the 'Way of Heaven' and be a 'turnaround female supporting role', I can't play her - even if I have done so many things for her! She is like living in my bones!" Qin Xuexin spit out every word with force, "But it's not possible. Then, the character of the seventh princess was changed for me. She was changed into a carefree girl who grew up on the grassland and wore red clothes. Carefree, spoiled and cute, at first glance imposing, but actually simple and kind... You see, does this role seem to be tailor-made for my 'character'?"
"Everyone says that this character is good. This Seventh Princess' character is good and suitable for me! Her idol drama-style tragic story will also increase my fan base. But I don't like her... She is not Lin Meng's character now, but I still feel like she is 'Lin Meng's character'. 'Lin Meng's character' came towards me and ate me..." Her wrist trembled, "Just like Blue Light, they made me drink drinks I didn't like, and said that I liked to eat food I didn't like... They ate me too!"
"I can't deviate even a little bit, because the blue light, the blue light..."
Qin Xuexin seemed to have used up all her strength. Yi Wan saw the dark circles under her eyes, and knew that what she said was just a drop in the ocean of everything she had experienced in Lan Guang in the past few months.
Why was she so panicked? So scared? What did a little deviation mean to the people in the blue light? Did she regret it
There was no one around, so Qin Xuexin fortunately threw the wine glass away and suddenly leaned on Yi Wan's shoulder and began to cry.
Yi Wan: My whole body is stiff.
Yi Wan was silent. He had never been good at comforting others, especially a crying woman who was older than him. Finally, he reached out and patted the woman's back regularly and mechanically, just like in a TV show.
Qin Xuexin: "Wuwuwuwu..."
Yi Wan: "Don't cry."
Qin Xuexin: "Wuwuwuwu..."
Yi Wan: "Don't cry."
During the fifty-third consecutive slap, a hand pressed down on Qin Xuexin's shoulder.
"I'm so sorry that our artist has caused you trouble." said the visitor.
The visitor was wearing a normal hoodie and jeans, the most common attire of a junior assistant. But it was precisely because of this that the fake smile on his face looked even more terrifying.
It was an inhuman texture.
Behind the assistant, there was another taller person standing in the dark. Qin Xuexin's whole body trembled as if she had been electrocuted - it was hard to imagine why these two people gave her such a huge sense of intimidation.
She wiped her tears and when she looked at Yi Wan again, she put on a business face: "I'm so sorry to trouble you."
Qin Xuexin was taken away by the assistant, but the tall young man in the dark did not leave.
The tall young man turned around and looked at Qin Xuexin's back, shook his head with emotion and said, "Really useless, isn't it? Your psychological endurance is so poor."
"Before signing her, I asked someone to look at her previous record in the entertainment industry. Wasn't she quite tough when she was hyped up and quarreled with Lin Meng? At that time, President Lan joked that she was a 'clean and sustainable renewable energy'. She is the first female supporting actress who has been trampled on by the heroine for so many years and has not been killed and can be continuously used. What happened? Just three months after joining the company, her mentality collapsed?" The tall young man sneered as if he found it very funny, "But isn't it better now than before? In the past, wherever she went, she was scolded. Now, no matter what she says, the comments are all praising her for her 'sister's true nature'. What is she dissatisfied with?"
Yi Wan said: "Are you really just saying something casually?"
The tall young man smiled and said, "Follow the script and say whatever you want."
Yi Wan stopped talking. After a long while, he said, "At least before, she chose her own path. And playing the role of the eldest princess is a very good opportunity for her."
"She thought that playing the role of the eldest princess could change her life? Don't be naive, Yi Wan. You have to remember that if she hadn't replaced Lin Meng, the one playing the seventh princess in this crew now would be Lin Meng. You know what the fate of the supporting actress will be if she is in the same crew as the heroine?" Yi Wan: "..."
"Does she think that getting a role can change her life? Under the rules of heaven, all autonomous actions are in vain."
Yi Wan: "So what are you doing here?"
The tall young man smiled, and under the brim of his cap, he revealed a face that belonged to the Gray Palace. The young man leaned against the railing and pointed at the scene in the hall: "Look, is it lively here?"
He pointed at An Yeyun, who was being taken by Lu Beimo to socialize with the producer: "He is the villain in An Yelin's story."
He pointed at Bo Xin's secretary who was standing among the investors: "He is the villain in Bo Jiang's story."
Then he pointed at Liang Huishi: "He belongs to Chi Jixia's story... Well, he can also be considered a villain, right? Besides him, there is also Lan Hua."
Huigong didn't point at Ding Biehan. Perhaps even for him, Ding Biehan's art of thinking was a little too advanced. He only said: "How about this big play I set up for you? All the dramatic conflicts that everyone can have are gathered here."
Yi Wan suddenly opened his eyes wide. He said in a daze, "Is there something planned to happen?"
Yi Wan is really smart, Huigong thought, but the way he looked at him was really cold.
He reached out to poke Yi Wan's forehead, just like Gu Ruchao often poked Shen Zhong's forehead when they were young. At that time, they didn't know what "heaven's way" was, and what a protagonist was. Gu Ruchao was proud of his outstanding talent, and Shen Zhong carried a schoolbag and thought about unnecessary things all day. The boys hadn't grown up yet, and their lives hadn't started yet. Gu Ruchao didn't jump off the building, the Gray Palace didn't appear, and even the sun was just bright enough every day.
But from that time on, Gu Ruchao knew what he wanted more clearly than anyone else. He was not unique to his divorced father, nor to his stepmother who had just joined his family. Those teachers and classmates admired him for his excellence, but they would not give him anything more for this excellence except following and admiring him.
Gu Ruchao didn't want to be replaced so easily.
He wanted something unique.
Although he didn't understand at that time what he really wanted.
Yi Wan dodged his finger. Hui Gong's face darkened, but he didn't care. He looked up at the dark sky and said softly, "I don't know, maybe soon."
Yi Wan: "You must know this. Or is the incident at Blue Light such a big blow to you?"
Huimiya smiled: "What's the blue light? It's just a toy of mine. It depends on when I feel that I can't play this game anymore."
I start being a riddler again.
Yi Wan: "Before you feel that you can no longer play this game, you will be sent to prison."
Huimiya laughed out loud: "Do you really think the laws of this world are important? What's the point of obeying the laws of such a twisted and perverted world? I don't believe you mean it from the bottom of your heart."
His tone softened again: "It's you, Yi Wan. Even if the world ends, I've been on this earth and had a lot of fun every day. And you? You hide from the whole world, saying nothing, treating yourself as a passerby, and you don't even have a friend who truly understands you... Do you think your life is worth living?"
… Ding Biehan finally got rid of the bosses chasing him. He wiped his hair and walked to a deserted place with an irritated look on his face.
Then I heard voices on the balcony.
Ding Biehan's heart moved. He hid behind the curtains and peeked at the balcony, but saw Yi Wan and a mysterious man standing there. The mysterious man said: "... You have no friends."
The atmosphere was solemn, but the conversation was like that of a primary school student? Ding Biehan was puzzled.
At this moment, a sound was heard from downstairs on the balcony.
"Excuse me, I'm here."