Chapter 35: Bai Lu: I Want to Add a Kiss Scene; Reba and Nazha Visit the Set

After a long while, their lips parted.

Bai Lu blushed, the warm sensation still lingering on her lips.

She lowered her eyes, her eyelashes trembling lightly, her voice carrying a hint of shyness: "Thank you for guiding me through the kiss scene."

At this point, Zhou Jin had no choice but to follow her lead: "How did you master it?"

"Mastered it well enough." Bai Lu raised her eyes, glanced at him quickly, and looked away again.

She picked up her phone, checked the time, and said: "It's getting late; I'm going back to my room."

In her heart, Bai Lu actually wanted to pin Zhou Jin to the bed, but she knew it wasn't appropriate now.

She pursed her lips and said "Bye-bye" with some reluctance.

The next morning.

Zhou Jin and Bai Lu went together to send Meng Ziyi to the airport.

Meng Ziyi's scenes had all wrapped up.

Before parting, Meng Ziyi stood outside the security gate, staring blankly at Zhou Jin.

Everyone says Sister Meng is stupid.

Her Sister Meng is not stupid at all.

She is not a fool; she remembers the drunken confession from last night clearly.

That was intentional—saying it while drunk, allowing her to advance or retreat.

If Zhou Jin accepted her feelings, that would be best.

If he didn't, she could say she was drunk and talking nonsense, so it wouldn't be too awkward. Besides, she wanted to test how Zhou Jin really felt.

Now, seeing Zhou Jin not mention last night, Meng Ziyi felt a bit disappointed.

Just then, Zhou Jin took a bouquet of flowers he had prepared in advance from behind his back, handed it to her, and said with a smile: "Ziyi, congratulations on the wrap."

Meng Ziyi was stunned.

She never expected him to prepare flowers.

Could it be that her Sister Meng still had hope?

The disappointment in Meng Ziyi's heart was instantly washed away.

She took the flowers, hugged them to her chest, excitedly stood on tiptoe, kissed Zhou Jin on the cheek, and said with uncontrollable happiness: "Thank you."

Then she waved and said goodbye to Zhou Jin and Bai Lu.

After Zhou Jin and Bai Lu sent Meng Ziyi off, they rushed back to the crew.

After all, neither of them were leads, so they didn't have scenes every single moment. Although they were delayed for a while, it didn't affect the filming progress at all.

Soon, it was Zhou Jin and Bai Lu's turn for their scene.

Bai Lu, having changed into her Qin Bore costume and finished her makeup, stood before Director Kong and suddenly spoke before filming started: "Director Kong, I have an idea for this scene."

"What idea?" Director Kong looked at her.

"We've added quite a few scenes for Prince Yu and Qin Bore, and the romantic line is laid out, but it always feels like something is missing to make this relationship look more intense," Bai Lu said very seriously.

"You mean, add a kiss scene?"

Bai Lu nodded: "Yes, I think adding a kiss scene at this point is just right."

Since the actors themselves didn't mind, Director Kong naturally wouldn't mind either.

Why wouldn't he take advantage of such scenes to add hype to the show?

Director Kong turned to look at Zhou Jin.

"I have no objections."

Director Kong pondered for a few seconds, nodded, and asked Bai Lu and Zhou Jin: "Are you prepared to film it for real, or use false positioning?"

Bai Lu wanted to say real, but the words stuck in her throat.

Saying "real" directly would make her seem too unreserved. She paused, pretending to still be considering.

Zhou Jin looked at her, understood in his heart, and said to the director with a smile: "Let's try a take with false positioning first to see how it looks. If the effect isn't good, we can talk about it."

When Bai Lu heard Zhou Jin's words, her eyes lit up as she looked at him.

She naturally knew Zhou Jin was considering her.

"Okay." Director Kong naturally had no objections. Having been a director for so many years, how could he not see that Bai Lu was interested in Zhou Jin?

He withdrew his gaze, his expression straightened, and he picked up the megaphone: "All units ready."

Hengdian.

Outside the *Nirvana in Fire* crew.

Reba and Nazha, wearing large sunglasses and masks, were squatting in the corner of the wall next to the crew entrance, peeking inside sneakily.

Nazha lowered her voice and leaned into Reba's ear: "How about we sneak in to find Zhou Jin?"

"Ah, is that okay?" Reba hesitated.

Nazha's tone was very firm: "Believe me, you can't go wrong. Don't look at what a man says; look at what he actually does. No matter how nice the words are, it's better to see for yourself."

"I believe in Brother Jin," Reba shook her head firmly.

Nazha was a bit defeated. Why was Reba such a "love-brain"?

She had to change her angle to continue persuading: "And think about it, many male stars fall in love with actresses while filming; are there few such cases? We go to the crew to find him, observe secretly, and we aren't bothering him, so there's no loss."

Reba still believed in Zhou Jin.

But giving Brother Jin a surprise seemed quite nice too.

She hesitated and nodded lightly.

The two walked to the *Nirvana in Fire* crew entrance and were indeed stopped by staff.

Nazha didn't waste words, took off her sunglasses and mask, and reported her name.

If it were an outsider, the staff naturally wouldn't let them in easily.

But although Reba wasn't very famous yet, Nazha was genuinely famous in the industry—she had previously partnered with Hu Ge and played the Nuwa descendant Xiaoxue in *Xuan-Yuan Sword: Scar of Sky*, which was quite a hit at the time.

The staff asked them to wait a moment, went inside to ask the assistant director, and soon came out to let them in.

After entering the crew, Reba and Nazha found an inconspicuous corner to stand.

The two beauties full of exotic charm peeked at the filming site.

Just in time to hear a very beautiful actress suggesting to the director that they add a kiss scene.

Reba's eyes widened instantly.

Just arrived to visit the set and ran into Brother Jin filming a kiss scene?

She stared nervously at the center of the set, her fingers unconsciously twisting together.

She and Zhou Jin hadn't even kissed in their drama yet, and this newcomer called Bai Lu was going to kiss him first in the show.

Unfair!

Nazha heard the conversation between the director and Bai Lu, and her eyes lit up.

"I guessed it," Nazha said excitedly, lowering her voice.

In Nazha's view, someone so handsome must be a scumbag.

And if such a handsome man really let her good sister date him, that would be worse than killing her.

Reba turned her head to look at the inexplicably excited Nazha.

Nazha realized she had been overacting, quickly reined in the expression on her face, and gave an awkward cough.

"Ahem, Reba, I'm not gloating; I mean..."

Nazha was already clumsy; the more anxious she got, the less clearly she could speak, stammering for a long time.

She frowned and thought for a while, her expression suddenly becoming serious, and she said in a low voice: "This is bad. There was no such kiss scene in the original script. Now that they are suddenly adding it, don't you think there's a problem?"

"Sob sob sob..."

Hearing Nazha say this, Reba felt even sadder, her eyes turning red.

She was clearly the one who came first.

But immediately after, they heard Zhou Jin tell the director to try a take with false positioning first to see the effect.

Reba and Nazha were both stunned for a moment.

Reba's small, slumped face instantly lit up.

She blinked those sparkling big eyes, a bit of moisture still hanging on her eyelashes, but her tone had become proud: "Sure enough, I knew Brother Jin was a good man."

Nazha opened her mouth, unable to say a word.

She turned to look at Zhou Jin; she was truly defeated.

This Zhou Jin, how did he slap her, this "Love Master," in the face again? Her face was almost swollen from being slapped.

In the entertainment industry she knew, any male star who had the chance to film a kiss scene with a beautiful actress would never refuse.

Even if they said they were embarrassed, they would eventually be half-pushed into filming it for real.

But Zhou Jin was actually refusing.

Was her intuition wrong? Was Zhou Jin really a good man?

"Cut!"

Behind the monitor, Director Kong had to rub his temples.

Even though Zhou Jin and Bai Lu's emotions were in place, this false-positioning kiss scene had been filmed several times, and it looked awkward no matter how he watched it.

He called the two over and sighed helplessly: "The false positioning effect is too fake. Why don't you two sacrifice a bit and do a real kiss?"

Zhou Jin's expression remained normal, and he stated steadily: "I will follow the director's arrangements."

Beside him, Bai Lu lowered her eyelids, desperately suppressing the corners of her mouth that were going crazy, and when she looked up again, her small face was full of calm obedience: "I'm fine with anything; I'll listen to the director." ===== CHAPTER 36 =====