Jiang Chuyi was confused at first, then she reacted.
She suspected that her ears were damaged by the extremely cold weather in Beijing, causing hearing problems.
She pointed at herself in surprise and asked, "Are you my fan?"
"Are you surprised?" Zongye said.
Jiang Chuyi forced herself to keep a calm expression, "A little bit..."
"I should..." Zongye seemed to be lost in memory, and his speech became very slow, "I have been watching your movies since junior high school."
Jiang Chuyi smiled awkwardly.
Because she debuted early, when she goes out to socialize, many people will joke with her like "Teacher Jiang, I grew up watching your movies" or "Teacher Jiang, I have been watching your plays since elementary school." Whenever this happens, Jiang Chuyi has the illusion that she is their elder.
Jiang Chuyi subconsciously didn't believe it when she heard the top star in the circle claim to be her "fan". However, he looked serious and said it in a very convincing manner, so she couldn't help but feel a little vain.
Jiang Chuyi scratched his head and said, "If you are not kidding me, I am quite honored."
"Would you feel honored to be liked by me?"
As he said this, Zongye glanced at her sideways.
This question made Jiang Chuyi feel a little strange. She followed his words with a subtle evasive tone, "Yes, after all, you are also a very outstanding person. It must be an honor to be recognized by outstanding people."
Zongye smiled and nodded. He looked forward and said nothing more.
But her expression seemed to tell her that she was a little helpless.
Jiang Chuyi glanced at him out of the corner of her eye and couldn't help but wonder, was there something wrong with what she said
Walking into the lobby, Jiang Chuyi discovered that the hotel had very strong heating. She felt hot as soon as she entered.
In order to prevent some fanatical private fans from knocking on the door in the middle of the night, the crew generously booked all the rooms on the 32nd floor, including a temporary dressing room and makeup room, all of which are on this floor.
After distributing the room cards, the producer confirmed with them the wake-up time for the next day in the elevator.
Once everything was pretty much explained, the elevator began to rise slowly and steadily.
Jiang Chuyi felt hot and couldn't help but untie her scarf twice.
Soon, the elevator arrived at the floor.
Zong leaned against the door and raised his hand very gentlemanly to help hold the door open to let others go out first.
Following the person in front, Jiang Chuyi had just stepped out of the door when Zong Ye called her, "Teacher Jiang."
"Ah?" Jiang Chuyi stopped.
His eyelashes drooped as he stared at her. "Remember to sign an autograph for me when you have time."
As soon as these words were spoken, the noisy elevator room fell silent for a moment.
Wang Tan reacted very quickly. He turned his head, coughed, and asked the people around him to leave quickly.
Jiang Chuyi couldn't help but look at him, "You really want it."
"Did I seem to be joking just now?" Zong Ye twitched the corner of his mouth.
Zongye chatted with her as if no one was around. Their familiar appearance and the interaction between their words made everyone around them curious and full of speculation.
Several people who were walking away turned back quietly to look.
Without waiting for her to answer, Zongye said, "I saw you wrote a long message to that fan. Can you write a few words for me as well?"
Jiang Chuyi was afraid of blocking the way, so she turned slightly to the side. "What are you writing? Movie lines, or blessings?"
"It will be all right."
She thought about it again and again, nodded and agreed to him.
Jiang Chuyi took the room card and entered her room, then took off her coat and scarf.
Just as I put the suitcase away, there was a knock on the door.
Xiao Zhong ran to open the door and found the screenwriter standing at the door.
Er Er put his hands behind his back and stretched out his hands, looking around, "Can you come in and talk?"
Xiao Zhong let out an "ah" and took a half step back.
Jiang Chuyi was curious: "Is there something wrong?"
Er Er raised his hand and shook the book in his hand: "I came to discuss this final scene with you."
Jiang Chuyi went to pour a glass of water for Er'er, and they both sat on the sofa.
Before getting down to business, Er Er suddenly asked, "Teacher Jiang, are you familiar with Zong Ye?"
"Me and Zong Ye?" Jiang Chuyi thought carefully and gave an answer, "It's okay, I think... we can be considered friends."
Hearing her say this, Er Er hesitated slightly, "But, can it be considered?"
"What's wrong?"
"I thought you were pretty familiar with Zongye." Er Er recalled and said, "Because I work at IM. When I was writing the script for their MV, I also came into contact with Xibao and a few others. I always felt that Zongye didn't like to communicate with strangers in private. It's not that he looks down on others, but in social situations, he is the kind of person who won't take the initiative."
Jiang Chuyi listened and fell silent.
"Well, Zong is very well-mannered. He doesn't act like a big shot at work, and he's very gentle to others most of the time. But when you actually get along with each other, you still feel very distant. So when I saw you guys talking a lot just now, I felt like you two were quite familiar with each other."
Jiang Chuyi groaned, "So..."
After laying out so much groundwork, Er Er finally got to the point: "That's why I came to discuss this with you today."
"Hmm? What's up?"
"I just reviewed the script with the assistant director recently, and we felt that there was a place where we needed to add a scene... If this scene was not added, it would always feel like it was lacking some emotion."
"Add what?"
Er Er looked at her expression and carefully said three words: "Intimate, warm, and dramatic."
Jiang Chuyi was stunned: "Intimate scene?!"
"Yes, it wasn't in the script I gave you before." Er Er sighed, "It was originally there, but the people at IM disagreed. As you know, Xibao has a lot of girlfriend fans now, and they were afraid that the fans wouldn't be able to accept it and would protest or something. I had no choice but to delete it, but after discussing it with the director these two days, he also felt that this scene had to be added. Fortunately, the director had a lot of connections, so he personally went to talk to Xibao's agent, and IM finally relented a little."
Xiao Zhong, who was sitting next to him, was a little slow to react and repeated in shock: "Intimate scene??! Intimate scene with Zong Ye?!"
"Yeah..." Er Er glanced at Jiang Chuyi guiltily and tried to persuade her, "It wasn't really that intimate, just a little bit of physical contact, I promise..."
Xiao Zhong interrupted her explanation: "No, I, this, you misunderstood me."
Fearing that his words might be inappropriate, Xiao Zhong lowered his voice and said, "What I want to say is, how can such a good thing exist?"
"… "
Er Er laughed and turned to look at Jiang Chuyi: "It's probably just an intimate scene of hugging and kissing. Do you think you can accept it?"
"That's fine with me."
If the job requires it, there's nothing she can't do.
Jiang Chuyi hesitated and expressed her concerns, "But, Xibao's fans... can they accept it?"
"You don't have to worry too much about this." Er Er patted his chest, "This kiss scene is not a mouth-to-mouth kiss. After all, the whole film is about youth, so it won't be too explicit. You just need to hug him and kiss the side of his face slightly, you don't need to kiss him all the way, that's all. We'll discuss this when we shoot."
Jiang Chuyi was silent for a moment and asked, "Why do you suddenly want to add this scene?"
Er Er explained: "Because Fang Qingchen is a rather tragic character. There is a saying in literature that the greatest tragedy is to have something briefly and then lose it, rather than never having it at all. So we thought it would be better to add this paragraph."
"So..." Jiang Chuyi nodded, indicating that she understood.
Er Er handed the temporarily revised script to Jiang Chuyi, "Then you can take a look at it tonight?"
"OK."
Before leaving, Er Er stuck out his tongue and said, "That's why I asked you if you are familiar with Zong Ye. After all, he doesn't know about this yet, and the director wants a more realistic reaction. So I thought, if you two have a good relationship in private, he shouldn't be too resistant at that time."
Jiang Chuyi was stunned again: "He still doesn't know?"
"Yes."
"What if he pushes me away?" Jiang Chuyi was a little worried.
In pursuit of authenticity, it is very common for a director to hide the scene from an actor from the entire crew and ask him to give real-time reactions on the set.
But Souya is not an actor by profession, he didn't know about it beforehand, and he didn't have much experience in filming. He probably didn't have the awareness to devote himself to art, and he might just feel offended when she suddenly took advantage of him.
"Really? So we'll have to negotiate on the spot later." Er Er frowned. "Anyway, let's try this method first. If Zong Ye shows too much resistance, we can reshoot it then."
Jiang Chuyi nodded.
After Er'er left, the moment the door closed, a scream broke out in the room.
Jiang Chuyi was drinking water when she was startled by Xiao Zhong. "What's your name?"
Xiao Zhong's emotions were out of control. He was spinning around in circles, clenching his fists. "I'm so excited."
"What are you excited about?"
"You are going to film a make-out scene with Zong Ye! Why are you still so calm, sister, Teacher Jiang, are you still a woman?"
"But, but that was Souya." Xiao Zhong kept repeating, "This is his first screen kiss, right? And you took it away from him?"
"The screenwriter said that it wasn't a kiss, so it can't be considered a first screen kiss," she emphasized again.
“But that was also a kiss!”
"Just a hug."
Jiang Chuyi's calm expression finally showed cracks. She didn't know who she was trying to convince. "It's not certain whether he will let me kiss him or not."
At night, Jiang Chuyi tossed and turned in bed.
She looked at the ceiling and prayed silently in her heart, hoping that Zong Ye would not blame her for the sake of their barely-there friendship...
After staying up for half an hour, Jiang Chuyi still had no sleepiness. She turned over, fumbled for the bedside table, picked up her phone, and went to Bilibili to search for Xibao's previous MVs, wanting to see if there were similar intimate scenes in Zongye's previous cuts.
Who knew that after searching for a long time, I could only find one shot where Souya interacted with a woman.
This shot was once edited into the top list of fishing Su Zha.
The scene is on an abandoned rooftop. Souya is wearing a shirt and trousers, leaning slightly over the railing.
He looked into the distance with his profile, a cigarette in his mouth, and the corner of his white shirt was lifted by the wind.
A girl dressed seductively leaned next to him. Her mixed-race face formed a sharp contrast with the reserved and handsome man beside her.
She took the lighter and lit herself.
After trying several times, the flame flickered in the wind. The girl suddenly gave up and reached out to take the half-smoked cigarette from his mouth.
Zongye held her wrist to stop her movements. After a pause, he tilted his head and looked at the girl with a perfunctory smile.
The smile only stayed at the corner of his mouth. Those gentle eyes looked down at him, without any emotion.
It seemed as if he could not be obtained by any woman.
If you want to know what it feels like to kiss him, you can only rely on this half cigarette.
But he wouldn't even give me a chance to smoke half a cigarette.
Jiang Chuyi watched this scene several times, and suddenly discovered that after Zong Ye's gentleness faded away, he had another unfamiliar and strong side.
She felt her throat was a little dry, so she got up and drank a few more sips of water.
Jiang Chuyi couldn't sleep at all. She sat on the bed, pounding the pillow and scratching her hair in annoyance.
It’s over. I must have been affected by those comments.
For a moment, she was actually curious about what it felt like to kiss Souya.
*
This final scene will take three days to shoot.
Since the popularity of the film is so high in China, we can't just find a street to start filming as casually as we do abroad. The crew built a shed in advance, but it couldn't stop the scalpers and photographers who climbed up the telephone poles.
The next day's scene needed to be shot outdoors. The director was afraid that the itinerary would be leaked, so he made a temporary decision to get up at five or six o'clock that day and take a bus for several hours to a resort in the suburbs.
The first few scenes were performed by Xin He, Ji Kai and Wang Tan, while the rest of the people took a break.
Zongye bent his waist and half-crouched on the ground.
Not far from him, there was a wild cat.
There was crumbs in his palm. He put the back of his hand directly on the ground according to the height of the little wild cat and patiently guided it to feed the food.
But cats are timid by nature, and they always hesitated and wandered a few steps away, never daring to get close.
“It might not feel very safe.”
Noticing someone coming, Zongye turned his head.
Jiang Chuyi suggested to him softly: "You can put the food on the ground, and when you walk away, it will come over to eat it."
Zong Ye did as she said.
During the break in filming, Jiang Chuyi sat in the lounge chair and had been secretly watching Zong Geng for a long time.
The last-minute scene was added today, but Zong Ye was completely unaware of it.
She struggled mentally for a while, but finally decided to come over early to talk to Zong Ye.
Jiang Chuyi squatted down beside him.
"You came here just to see me?" Zong Ye looked at her.
Jiang Chuyi didn't dare to look at him, feeling guilty, "Yes."
"rare."
"What's so difficult about that?" She said absentmindedly, thinking about the wording in her mind.
He said in a relaxed tone: "Nothing."
Taking a deep breath of air, which cooled her lungs, Jiang Chuyi said, "Well, we'll have a scene later."
"I know."
Jiang Chuyi grabbed a handful of snow from the ground and asked carefully, "Have you read the script?"
"I saw it." Zongye seemed a little confused, "You are leaving, come and say goodbye to me, but I don't think I have any lines, what's wrong?"
Jiang Chuyi hesitated to speak.
"Your expression... seems a little strange?" Zong Ye imitated her and hooked a piece of snow with his fingers.
Jiang Chuyi hesitated: "Can I gossip a little?"
"What?"
Her voice became a little softer. "You've never been in a relationship before?"
Zong Ye was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
"Then..." Jiang Chuyi continued to ask, "You don't have mysophobia or anything like that, right?"
Zongye laughed: "What do you mean?"
Jiang Chuyi shook her head and decided to give up. If she continued asking, he would guess the answer.
She patted the snow off her hands and stood up. "Forget it, it's okay."
Soon, the snow began to fall heavily and the venue was almost set up. The staff told them to change their clothes and go over to prepare.
The director looked at Souya and casually said, "This scene is very simple, both of you try to get it right in one go."
Zongye nodded.
It was no different from any other shoot. When all the groups were ready, the script supervisor slapped the board.
"The first time in the seventh level of the 130th scene of "Star Catching", action!"
There was white all around and heavy snow was falling.
According to the script, Fang Qing said her final goodbye to Lin Xiangyuan in the snow.
Lin Xiangyuan did not try to persuade her to stay. He just stood there quietly, watching her back.
The lines were finished quickly and there was no call to stop from outside the venue.
The two continued to act.
Jiang Chuyi glanced at him reluctantly, then turned around and walked away slowly.
She lowered her head, looked at the footprints she had made, and counted them silently in her heart. Just as she was about to walk out of the camera, Jiang Chuyi took a deep breath, suddenly turned around, and ran towards the person standing in the snow.
The incident happened suddenly, and she ran very fast, as if she was rushing towards Souya.
When she was still a few steps away, he was surprised and at a loss for a moment, and subconsciously reached out to catch her.
She opened her arms and hugged him tightly. Because he ran too fast, Zong was knocked back a few steps. After several seconds, he remembered to hold her shoulders.
Snowflakes fell, Jiang Chuyi looked up and looked at him silently.
Her heart was pounding, and she placed her trembling hands on Souya's shoulders, stood on tiptoes, and moved towards his chin to kiss him.
Almost immediately, Zong realized her intention, but he just froze and didn't dodge.
Jiang Chuyi even felt his hand falling and gently holding her waist.
The director called a cut in time and yelled, "Songye, why did you react like this?"
"What?" Zong Ye was a little slow and turned his head.
"Fang Qing in front wanted to hug you, so you just stretched out your hand to accept it." The director looked puzzled, "She wanted to kiss you, and you looked like you were going to kiss her back. What are you doing?! Do you like her?!"
(End of this chapter)