Chapter 44
The filming of the drama is going on smoothly.
No one knew what Yan Yushan had said to Cheng Tianwen, but Cheng Tianwen gave everyone in the crew a day off yesterday. Xu Xishuang took this opportunity to go to Dr. Xu for a physical checkup with Yan Yushan.
After a series of examinations, Dr. Xu said that there was no problem with Xu Xishuang’s health or the growth of the fetus. He prescribed some calcium tablets and vitamins for Xu Xishuang and asked them to go home and come back for a checkup in half a month.
Xu Xishuang had gradually become accustomed to Yan Yushan’s presence. Every night he would leave the door open for Yan Yushan and fall asleep to the sound of Yan Yushan telling stories.
But because there were too many examinations yesterday and the round trip was a bit far, Xu Xishuang was quite tired at night and fell asleep after listening to only a little bit of the story.
Therefore, Xu Xishuang didn’t know whether the little gecko whose tail was broken in the story finally found its tail back.
Xu Xishuang had been thinking about this matter since he got up in the morning, and came to the set absent-mindedly. He found a place where no one was, sat down, took out his mobile phone, and searched for the story that Yan Yushan told last night according to his memory, trying to find the follow-up.
After knowing that the little gecko finally grew a new tail and the old tail also had a happy ending, Xu Xishuang put away his phone with satisfaction and reviewed the segment he was going to perform today.
The scene he was going to act out today was the one he and Yan Yushan had acted out during the last script reading. It was the scene in Yan Zheng’s memory of meeting Chen Muzhou for the first time, on that damp and cold rainy night, the night Xiao He and Xiao He’s father died.
Xu Xishuang had just finished reviewing the scene he was about to perform when he saw Yan Yushan approaching.
Yan Yushan randomly pulled out a chair and sat down next to him, his legs touching his knees, very close to him: “Bitter Summer has passed the review, I asked someone to arrange a preview, let’s see the effect first.”
Xu Xishuang nodded.
“The official Weibo account of Bitter Summer will cooperate with the promotion. They may release some footage of you and Chi Siyuan interacting with each other recently,” Yan Yushan continued, observing Xu Xishuang’s expression. “There should be a group of CP fans of you and Chi Siyuan.”
Due to Yan Yao’s influence, Xu Xishuang now has a very strong resistance to the words “CP fans”. He didn’t even move his eyebrows, still maintaining his original expression, and nodded at Yan Yushan, not caring at all.
Yan Yushan couldn’t figure out what Xu Xishuang’s attitude meant, but he didn’t ask any more questions because Cheng Tianwen was already calling his name and asking him to come over to film.
However, neither Yan Yushan nor Xu Xishuang expected that the power of CP fans would be so great.
The official Weibo account of the “Bitter Summer” crew only released new footage at noon. By the evening, the number of fans of Xu Xishuang and Chi Siyuan’s CP super topic had exceeded 100,000, and they were at the tail end of the hot searches simply by virtue of their real popularity.
Xu Xishuang didn’t know about this at first. It was when Yan Yao came over with red eyes, holding a cell phone and looking at him with the eyes of a woman who was bringing disaster to the country that Xu Xishuang learned about this from Yan Yao.
Yan Yao whispered, “I used to support you and Chi Siyuan… but now, I am a firm fan of you and Yan Yushan. Yan Xu only, no one can defeat you two!”
Xu Xishuang: …
Xu Xishuang took out his cell phone from his bag and clicked on the behind-the-scenes footage posted on the official Weibo account of the “Bitter Summer” crew.
The person who edited this video may have worked as an editor in dating variety shows before. He edited out all the interactions between him and Chi Siyuan, added sweet background music, and applied a pink filter.
The last shot in the video was an intimate scene between him and Chi Siyuan in the drama, which was the kiss in the classroom before they parted. Xu Xishuang didn’t expect that they would cut this part in as well. He turned off the video and scrolled down to check the comments section, and sure enough, he saw many comments like “I’m dying of it”.
Yan Yao used her second account to refute the comments about the couple one by one. She was already furious and said angrily, “It’s just a substitute shot. How could they really be kissing? The couple fans can’t talk nonsense!”
With her resistance and anger, Yan Yao had completely forgotten that she was the one who arranged the matchmaking and had never considered the issue of authenticity when editing the sex and kissing scenes for others.
Xu Xishuang took another look at the trending searches that were hanging at the end of the page, and felt that the situation was still under control and was considered normal publicity, so he didn’t pay any more attention to it. He put away his phone, stood up, and prepared to film the scene he was going to perform today.
Yan Yushan changed into another set of clothes, which was the police uniform that Yan Zheng in the play wore when he just entered the police station. It was dark blue and very formal. When he saw him coming, he raised his eyebrows and smiled.
Xu Xishuang paused slightly.
In the play, tonight is a rainy night, and the crew has prepared a sprinkler truck and started artificial rainfall.
Taking Xu Xishuang’s physical condition into consideration, Cheng Tianwen slightly modified the setting in the play and had Chen Muzhou take a police car to the police station. He didn’t get caught in much rain, but his hair was slightly wet. After leaving the police station, Chen Muzhou got soaked because he was in a hurry and didn’t bring an umbrella. This was done to shorten the time Xu Xishuang was exposed to the rain.
The makeup artist borrowed a small spray bottle, filled it with purified water, and sprayed Xu Xishuang’s hair. He stopped when he saw water droplets begin to drip from the hair tip. Xu Xishuang shook his hair and continued filming.
He didn’t feel anything about the acting when they were reading the script together, but now, sitting in the dim interrogation room, the enclosed space gave him a great deal of pressure. Yan Yushan, who was sitting opposite him, had a burning gaze and had already entered Yan Zheng’s state. Xu Xishuang breathed a sigh of relief and once again marveled at Chen Muzhou’s strong mentality. He quickly adjusted his state to get himself into the role as soon as possible.
This scene is not long. As soon as Xu Xishuang walked out of the police station, the sprinkler truck outside started to rain. Xu Xishuang and Yan Yushan passed by each other, and he walked into the rain without looking back. The raindrops fell on his body. He showed the smile of Chen Muzhou in the play and raised his hand to push up his glasses.
With a “stop” from Cheng Tianwen, the sprinkler truck stopped watering immediately. Xiao Wang, who was waiting nearby, rushed over immediately, wrapped Xu Xishuang’s body with a blanket, handed him a cup of hot water, and then took him to sit next to the small sun stove.
The temperature in November is only around ten degrees and it’s night time now, so filming the rain scenes was simply torture.
Cheng Tianwen looked through the footage captured by the camera several times and made a gesture to Xu Xishuang, indicating that there was no problem. Xu Xishuang and Xiao Wang then got up and headed for the car.
Xiao Wang was guarding outside the car. Xu Xishuang changed into dry costumes in the car, dried his hair, then walked out and returned to the crew’s several fireplaces to continue keeping out the cold.
Xu Xishuang had just warmed himself up when he found a group of people sitting next to him. He turned around and saw Yan Yao, who was looking at him with a more resentful look than the one she had used to look at the evil witch in the afternoon.
Xu Xishuang: …
Yan Yao and his cousin have similar personalities. They are usually quiet girls who look very well-behaved, but in fact, they are not what they appear to be. If Xu Xishuang hadn’t accidentally seen his cousin’s tablet that was not turned off, he might never have known in his life that his cousin actually likes to read erotic novels, and the kind that are not popular among people.
Xu Xishuang was the only male child in the family. He grew up among girls and was a little more indulgent towards them. He asked helplessly, “What’s wrong with you?”
“Look at the hot searches,” Yan Yao said in a sad tone, “It said that you visited Chi Siyuan at night and went back to the hotel with him. The relationship is confirmed.”
Xu Xishuang: ?
Xu Xishuang was shocked and took out his phone to check the hot searches. Maybe there was nothing big to watch these days, so the hot searches about his relationship with Chi Siyuan actually climbed to the fifth place.
After opening the original post, Xu Xishuang stared at the name of the whistleblower and fell silent.
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