Chapter 25: New Role

The next day, Chen Nuo flew to Shanghai alone.

Because Qi Yuntian suddenly had an appendicitis attack and was admitted to the hospital that day.

In the phone call before boarding the plane, Qi Yuntian complained that the doctor in the hospital shaved his hair clean without consent, making him curse at the doctor. As a result, he was severely disciplined by Li Er, and now he was guarded by Li Er without leaving an inch, making him feel like a year in a day.

"I can't stay in Beijing for a single day, I must go to big Shanghai to relax, to make up for my broken heart. Why don't you call my mom and say, just say you need me over there, let her let me out~"

"Hehe, goodbye." Chen Nuo hung up the phone directly.

After 2:00 PM, Chen Nuo arrived at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport.

The place to go was a small town in the suburbs, which was a film and television shooting base built by the town government at the end of the last century. Chen Nuo didn't understand the traffic in big Shanghai, so he endured the pain and took a taxi at the airport, which cost nearly 200 to reach the destination.

After arriving in that town, Chen Nuo learned that this town was divided into east and west parts. The east side was the film and television base, and the west side was a famous old street, with black tiles and white walls, small bridges and flowing water, a typical Jiangnan town in the Ming and Qing styles.

And there were many houses for rent in this town, so there was no need to worry about not finding a place to live.

Through an intermediary, Chen Nuo quickly found a monthly rental room. Inside, there were two beds, a wardrobe, and various electrical appliances. When Qi Yuntian came, he could also live there.

And this era was not comparable to the magic capital later on. Renting for a month plus intermediary fees was only 1,500, giving Chen Nuo a thrill of picking up a big bargain.

The house was by the Songjiang River, on the second floor of a small building. The owners were an old couple in their 60s. Their son and daughter had both gone to SH city to develop, and there were a few empty rooms at home, so they took them out for rent.

When Chen Nuo carried his suitcase into the house, the old lady wanted to come and help. Chen Nuo didn't dare to let the elderly do it, so he hurriedly declined. The old lady grinned, her eyes narrowed into a slit, and said in Shanghai dialect: "! #@#! @￥#@￥@￥! ￥#%#……*"

"Hehe, okay, okay." Chen Nuo accompanied with a smile.

The old man laughed along on the side and said: "She doesn't speak Mandarin, you don't understand what she's saying??"

Chen Nuo nodded and said honestly: "Hmm, don't understand."

"She said, young man, you look good, do you want to stay and be our Shanghai son-in-law."

After such a small episode, the old couple seemed to really treat Chen Nuo as a Shanghai son-in-law, and even asked him to eat together in the evening to taste authentic Shanghai cuisine.

Chen Nuo happily agreed.

Going to the room and packing things up, he sat on the bed and opened the script. The script cover was a bit wrinkled; those were the scratch marks left by Pan Yue yesterday.

Actually, Chen Nuo lied to Pan Yue. The script he got wasn't the complete version, only the general outline of the story and his own scenes. The breach of contract penalty wasn't 500,000; only someone without a brain would believe that.

Chen Nuo had actually read the *Perhaps Love* script once last night, but he didn't understand it. In his previous life, he only heard of it but hadn't seen it, and he didn't even know if it was a big seller or a flop in the end.

But since he accepted it, he could only try his best to act.

But he didn't understand, what role did the Monty he played have in the movie?

Just soy sauce? Doing push-ups, or passing by?

It seems that in this drama, he just sings, dances, acts cool, says a few lines with Zhou Xun, talks to Jacky Cheung, chats with Takeshi Kaneshiro, and that's it.

Saying he is a tool man is even elevating him; deleting his role completely wouldn't delay the plot development at all.

But why did Chen Kexin set such a role?

He couldn't find an entry point at all.

This role was completely different from the mute before. The mute's script had pictures, was continuous, and he could see the progression of scene after scene. He could also draw them.

But in this movie, Monty was like a ghost, shuttling through the corners of every story, appearing suddenly, and disappearing without warning.

He sometimes held a notebook, appearing in Zhou Xun's room as a reporter, sometimes appearing on the street at midnight, accompanying Jacky Cheung to eat a bowl of beef noodles. Sometimes playing a taxi driver, watching Takeshi Kaneshiro's tears and sorrow coldly.

He had no purpose or task in the movie.

He was not the main line.

He was just a punctuation mark, turning or connecting between sentences.

He was an observer, a recorder, not a participant or a person in the play.

This made Chen Nuo very distressed, not knowing how to start.

Fortunately, that evening, after he and the old couple had a harmonious meal of sweet and sour pork ribs and crab roe, and returned to the room, Zhang Yiyi, who hadn't been in touch for a long time, called.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 26 =====