Chapter 224

If it were an ordinary straight guy, he probably wouldn't notice anything off about Stone Sister at all.

Recently she's been laughing and chatting as usual, communicating perfectly normally — seemingly no problem whatsoever.

Xu Can, thanks to his keen senses and the female observational ability gained from the character, spotted Stone Sister's abnormality at a glance.

"Emma?"

"Huh?"

"Look at me."

"Let go, there are so many people around!"

"I don't care, you're my girlfriend, what's there to be afraid of?"

Right there in a corner of the set, Xu Can launched a sudden attack and held Emma Stone tightly,

her face flushing red, unable to break free for a long while.

Based on Xu Can's estimate, recently he'd been paying more attention to Mei Mei.

Stone Sister, thanks to her outstanding acting, didn't need his special concern, so perhaps she had been somewhat neglected, or felt some imbalance in her heart.

If this matter hadn't been noticed, perhaps it would have just passed.

Since Xu Can had noticed, he couldn't possibly turn a blind eye.

Gwen Shi Daixi — she was also a woman he liked.

After struggling for a moment, Stone Sister finally stopped struggling and leaned weakly in Xu Can's arms.

"What girlfriend of yours, Taylor is your girlfriend, right? I'm nothing."

Emma Stone gave a self-mocking laugh, her eyes full of bitterness.

"Nonsense, if I say so, then it is so."

"Then break up with her, and never see her again."

"She's at least my signed singer, wouldn't be quite right."

"See! You really can't do it after all!"

"You know, no matter when, I'm always serious about you."

Xu Can quietly stared into Stone Sister's eyes.

"If you can't feel it, you can leave anytime. But can you walk away?"

"I..."

Stone Sister had no strength to retort.

Given her personality, the moment she first noticed something off about Xu Can, she would have broken up with him long ago — why suffer this grievance?

Even watching him with Mei Mei and feeling heartache, she still couldn't bear to leave his side,

enough to prove the sickness had reached an incurable stage.

"Oh god, I shouldn't have auditioned for Gwen in the first place, probably none of these later problems would have happened."

"Don't overthink these days, just focus on filming."

Ignoring Stone Sister's resistance, Xu Can bent down and kissed her deeply for a moment.

"Once this film wraps, I'll take you on vacation. No one else, just us."

"You're truly a devil!" Stone Sister's whole body went limp, already too weak to escape, able only to let this demon have his way with her.

……

To rush the filming progress, Xu Can and the crew basically shot on location the whole time.

Until the morning of the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, they were still on set.

"Boss, today's situation is rather important, you need to get ready quickly."

"No rush, I still need to shoot one more take."

"But..."

Vanessa was simply done with her own pitiful boss — she, the assistant, was more anxious than he was.

The set was 500 kilometers from the Golden Globe Awards ceremony; even taking the fastest flight now, they might still miss the red carpet and most of the awards.

Driving was even less realistic — hitting traffic on the road would be a total disaster.

"Don't we have a helicopter? The thing was bought to be flown — what's the point of letting it gather dust in a hangar?"

"But recently helicopter pilots are very hard to book, they can't get here in time."

"Doesn't matter, as long as the helicopter is here, don't worry about it."

"Really?" Vanessa was completely baffled.

No pilot — how to fly it? Does the boss know how to fly a plane?

……

In the film *Source Code*, the male lead is essentially a consciousness, and the only channel of communication with the outside world is a single screen.

Stone Sister's scenes are basically all conducted through the screen with Xu Can.

By normal film logic, they could completely shoot Stone Sister's parts first and put them on the screen, then Xu Can could act based on the video.

(Author's note) But Xu Can felt that the interactive feel between characters was extremely important — something watching a video couldn't replace.

So Xu Can specially set up equipment in a livestream-like manner, allowing Xu Can and Stone Sister to have a remote dialogue across two different sets.

"Next you should try your best to prevent the explosion, everything else is irrelevant."

"Is my death irrelevant too?"

"Yes, unless you catch the bomber first."

"Tell me honestly — am I really dead?"

Stone Sister looked at Xu Can on the screen, feeling the emotions he was transmitting.

"A part of your brain is working…"

"Cut!"

Xu Can decisively called cut, then had the assistant director Deng Ken Jones take a look at the result.

On the other side, after Deng Ken Jones examined it carefully, he gave Xu Can a thumbs-up.

"That take's a wrap!"

Xu Can let out a light breath. He was lying in the cramped space in his gear, and immediately felt a bit short of oxygen.

A glance at the time showed it was already past four in the afternoon, and the Golden Globe Awards gala was only two and a half hours away. It was time to hit the road.

"Emma, you go do your makeup first, aim to get it done in half an hour. I'm going to look into the plane…"

"Wait, what plane?"

Emma Stone was suddenly struck by a sense of foreboding.

Half an hour later, with the help of the on-set makeup artist, Stone Sister hastily finished her gala makeup and changed into a blue evening gown.

The whole person looked just like the heroine Mia from La La Land, gorgeous and captivating.

On the other side, Xu Can was saying goodbye to Mei Mei.

They were only attending the Golden Globe Awards gala and would be back on set by tomorrow at the latest.

But Mei Mei insisted on going along.

"I've already done my makeup and put on my gown, why can't I go?"

"No, why are you joining in on this?"

"I just want to stay by your side. Even if you have Emma, what's wrong with one more me?"

Mei Mei clung to Xu Can's arm, looking as though she had him wrapped around her finger.

"Fine, come with me."

Xu Can didn't hesitate, taking Mei Mei by the hand and walking out the door.

When Stone Sister saw the two of them, her expression had already shifted from the initial anger and dejection to a kind of helpless resignation.

Some things are hard to accept, but once you've seen enough, you get used to them.

"Emma, you look gorgeous today, you're basically Mia herself."

Mei Mei's eyes lit up. She let go of Xu Can and circled around Stone Sister.

"Really? The makeup artist just threw it together."

"Really, you have great presence. The blue dress suits you perfectly."

Mei Mei kept showering her with praise; the two of them were practically ordinary besties.

She wasn't being two-faced—she genuinely liked Stone Sister's look,

which reminded her of La La Land, Mei Mei's favorite film of the past two years.