[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-in-huayu-they-re-forcing-me-to-be-a-jerk-":3,"chapter-reborn-in-huayu-they-re-forcing-me-to-be-a-jerk--reborn-in-huayu-they-re-forcing-me-to-be-a-jerk--chapter-8":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn in Huayu: They're Forcing Me to Be a Jerk Again?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2347751,4588,"Chapter 8: The First Scene","reborn-in-huayu-they-re-forcing-me-to-be-a-jerk--chapter-8",8,"\u003Cp>After Chen Nuo spent over half an hour skimming through the script, he deeply suspected that Zhang Yi had some sort of unspeakable complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was about the same as the character plot Zhang Yi had told him earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what Zhang Yi hadn't finished saying at the time was that after Zhang Yaba was abandoned by Xiaozhu, he believed it was because he didn't have a house, which was why Xiaozhu's family wouldn't agree to them being together. Zhang Yaba then decided to build a house himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s right, build it himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But not with bricks and cement; he ran to a barren mountain to dig a cave. In the end, it took him five years and many hardships to dig a house underground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when he went to invite Xiaozhu to see his house, he found that Xiaozhu had already married, was holding a child, and had moved into a tall building. In the end, Zhang Yaba went up the mountain alone, crawled into the underground house, and never came out again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of moronic, magical-realist plot is this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Nuo’s head ached just looking at it. Not to mention the unreasonable parts, the entire script revealed one word: miserable. Miserable, green-tinted misery from head to toe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Nuo couldn't understand it; would anyone watch a movie like this? If people spent money to go to the cinema only to be fed such a huge mouthful of shit, wasn't Zhang Yi afraid of people mailing him razor blades?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had dared to film this kind of short video in his past life, he would have lost a million followers that very day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One can only say that this is cinematic art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he didn't understand it, since he had promised Zhang Yi, he would just do it and see how it turned out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He called Chen Bi to let him know, and the next day he didn't go to class, starting to study the script with peace of mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Chen Nuo wasn't the type to study, he could hole up at home for two months during summer vacation reading books. Likewise, he really disliked this script tainted with green poison, but that didn't stop him from reading it for three whole days, from morning till night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He first relied on rote memorization to read the script thoroughly according to Zhang Yi’s requirements. Although there were some technical terms he didn't understand, such as long shots, close-ups, camera pushes and pulls, etc., he had experience with short videos, so he could guess and imagine what they meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After memorizing the script, he took a few sheets of paper and drew those long shots and close-ups according to the scenes in the script. Then he discovered that after doing this, the images in his mind became clearer; he even felt the characters in his head start to move. So he became interested and decided to simply draw out the entire script.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the next week, Chen Nuo did nothing but sleep, eat, and draw. When Zhang Yi finally called him, he was already drawing the final scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chen Nuo, get ready, we start filming tomorrow. How is your script study coming along?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Nuo looked at the drawing in front of him: a stick figure, that was Yaba, lying in a circle, that was the dugout. Viewed from above, Yaba’s eyes were closed in a peaceful and calm manner; after five years, he could finally sleep in his own house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I've memorized it all, Director.\" Chen Nuo said the few short words with some difficulty, as if he were no longer used to speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Chen Nuo arrived at the location Zhang Yi had told him, the two met, and Zhang Yi’s first words were: \"What’s wrong with your voice?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Nuo didn't know what was wrong with himself either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the past few days, he had been immersed in Zhang Yaba’s world alone; apart from going out to eat and answering the phone, he had almost no interaction with the outside world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also increasingly didn't want to talk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Nuo shook his head. Zhang Yi nodded thoughtfully and didn't ask again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Zhang Yi’s crew was all present. Aside from the actors, there were about a dozen people from top to bottom, each having to take on multiple roles. The cinematographer was a man in his forties with a big beard; when Chen Nuo passed by, he heard him muttering that in his twenty years in the industry, this was the first time he’d joined such a makeshift troupe—the director and producer were both students, and he didn't know where they’d even pulled the investment from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Chen Nuo arrived, Zhang Yi told him to get a haircut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting at the entrance of the alley, a production assistant who was also a part-time stylist took a pair of clippers, stood behind Chen Nuo, and asked hesitantly: \"Hey, should I really buzz it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Buzz it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Nuo didn't hesitate. He didn't know exactly what Zhang Yi’s intention was, but he knew that in his past life, many people said he looked better with a buzz cut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young lady buzzed Chen Nuo’s hair into a crew cut. She originally said she would find a household to borrow some hot water to wash it, but Chen Nuo felt it was too much trouble; seeing a faucet at the alley entrance, he just buried his head under it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiaotian and Zhang Yi were smoking not far away and happened to see Chen Nuo hunching over. Li Xiaotian said: \"He looks like a young master, but I didn't expect him to be okay; he shouldn't be hard to deal with. 400,000, if this film still doesn't come out, both of us will have to go sell our asses.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yi said: \"I have a premonition that this time it will definitely succeed.\" Li Xiaotian chuckled: \"I hope your words come true.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the haircut, he was told to change clothes. It was a set of tattered cloth garments covered in layers of patches, plus a pair of worn cloth shoes. The most excessive part was that the cloth shoes had two holes in them, and Chen Nuo’s big toe was poking right out of one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stylist said it was ready. Zhang Yi and Li Xiaotian walked over, looked him up and down together, and finally, Zhang Yi frowned and said: \"No, no...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiaotian said: \"The face is too clean, put some dirt on it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The makeup artist, who was also the production manager, asked: \"Should I smear some coal dust?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yi said: \"No coal dust, just find some dirt from the ground. Face, neck, hands, get it all. Mainly the face!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The non-professional young lady looked troubled: \"How do I do that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Nuo thought for a moment, said nothing, walked to a dusty spot by the wall, lay down on the ground, rolled back and forth a few times, wiped his face with his hands, and walked back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s just dirt, not shit, what does it matter? When his family was struggling in elementary school, it wasn't like he hadn't suffered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yi nodded and said: \"This works.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ready to start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yi said that for the first day, the crew needed to break in, and they would shoot three scenes in total, all in the alley. But if it didn't go smoothly, two would be fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All personnel in position, Yaba’s House, Scene 1, Shot 1, Take 1!\" After the young lady finished, she clapped the clapperboard with a \"snap.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first scene Chen Nuo had ever filmed in this life began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a close-up shot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cinematographer was squatting on the ground, less than a meter away from him, filming him putting on his shoes at the entrance of a Sihe Academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The door behind Chen Nuo opened, and someone walked out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the frame, only that person’s legs were visible. They didn't seem to see him, stepping directly over Chen Nuo’s head as if he were a weed or a stone on the side of the road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he was drawing, Chen Nuo had a deep impression of this shot. He had thought at the time that Zhang Yaba would have a very intense reaction, but at this moment, he didn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Nuo just squatted there, head buried, his movements pausing for a moment, then he quickly put on his shoes, stood up, first looked left and right, then spat at the entrance of the Sihe Academy, and immediately left in the other direction, his pace fast, as if he were fleeing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From beginning to end, he didn't glance once in the direction those legs had left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good, cut, let’s do it again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why do it again? Zhang Yi didn't give a reason over the walkie-talkie, and Chen Nuo didn't ask, so they shot it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s do it again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s do it again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s do it again!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1505,"2026-06-21T01:34:38.888Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","139a5e218bdf06d5f78b2532f97d1162cd8b851d30bca5ecb28379dfcccb8307","reborn-in-huayu-they-re-forcing-me-to-be-a-jerk--chapter-9","reborn-in-huayu-they-re-forcing-me-to-be-a-jerk--chapter-7",491,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-huayu-they-re-forcing-me-to-be-a-jerk--cover.jpg"]