Chapter 51: I Am Progressing, What About You? (Asking for Collections and Recommendations)

While Qi Hui and Jing Tian were chatting about black stockings, Lei Jiayin and Li Caihua had already begun filming.

"Any more questions?" the executive director asked, looking at Li Caihua and Lei Jiayin.

With the director absent, he was the boss.

Having just finished the shots from the original plan, he decided to push the shooting schedule forward and film some new scenes.

To prevent uncontrollable factors from arising, he had chosen a rather simple scene.

The kind with one room, one man and one woman, and a very simple plot... nothing to do with Japan.

It was the scene where a simp confesses to his goddess.

This scene featured Lei Jiayin playing Lin Yide and Li Caihua playing Ellie, where they laid their cards on the table and talked heart-to-heart, with Lin Yide trying to win over the goddess and make their relationship official.

But the result... Ellie, with a cold and aloof expression, laid her cards on the table to Lin Yide as well, stating bluntly that she had no feelings for him and rejecting him without any courtesy.

The reason given was also simple: 【I am not the me from five years ago, but you are still the you from five years ago!】

【I am progressing, what about you?】

In the end, Lin Yide knelt down to beg for her love, but Ellie rejected him in the same manner.

This scene had no stimulating visuals, and the filming posed no difficulty; it relied entirely on the acting skills of the two male and female actors.

Even if problems arose, they wouldn't be too serious... the executive director thought to himself.

"No problem." Facing the executive director's question, Lei Jiayin said in a deep voice.

He wanted to finish filming quickly and leave, so he could go back and have a QQ video call with his fiancée.

Li Caihua held her chest with both hands, her face calm and cold: "None."

Seeing her demeanor, the executive director's eyes lit up at once: "Excellent, just keep this look you have right now. Ellie is exactly like this."

Li Caihua, now, wore a cold-white, slim-fitting suit, her arms crossed over her chest, head held high and chest out, as if nothing pleased her.

It fit his vision of Ellie perfectly... no, it was exactly the same.

"Start quickly," Li Caihua said indifferently. "Don't talk so much nonsense."

With Director Lin not on set, she had few reservations.

On set, the only ones who could make her restrain herself slightly were the producer and the director; besides them, there was only Qiu Chixuan.

As for the male actors in the same group... she wasn't familiar with Qi Hui, Chi Shuai was an idiot, and Lei Jiayin was the most rustic.

Full of dialect, dressed poorly, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

The executive director's face stiffened slightly; he knew Li Caihua was difficult to get along with, but he hadn't expected her to be this difficult.

"What are you doing? Hurry up!" Li Caihua called out impatiently, tapping her own arm with her fingers.

Lei Jiayin frowned but said nothing.

"Alright, actors to position." The executive director was also a bit annoyed, but work came first; let's film the scene: "Cameraman, ready."

At the command, the script supervisor ran over quickly holding the clapperboard.

"3, 2, 1, action!"

Clap~

The clapperboard snapped shut, and filming officially began.

The camera moved, slowly panning from the entryway into the living room.

The first to enter the frame was Ellie, with her back to the camera; she held her arms crossed, looking out the window, her white women's suit making her appear particularly unapproachable.

The second to enter the frame was Lin Yide, sitting on the sofa, his fingers constantly interlacing, expressing inner tension and unease.

"Um... I'm a bit of a fool," Lin Yide said with little confidence. "I don't know how to speak beautifully, so I won't beat around the bush."

"Why do you always avoid me?"

Ellie turned around abruptly, lips tight, face cold, head slightly lowered, looking down at Lin Yide:

"I just want to tell you that I don't want to take our relationship to the next level; please give up on me."

"What did you say... what?" Lin Yide stood up, slightly bewildered and shocked.

"Alright, then I'll say it plainly. The Ellie you liked five years ago is dead; the one who has returned is no longer Ellie."

"You're talking nonsense. You are still the Ellie I love. We spent so much life together; how can you just abandon me like this?"

"I didn't abandon you; you abandoned yourself. The world is changing, I am progressing, but what about you..."

"..."

Behind the monitor, the executive director watched the two actors delivering their lines and nodded in satisfaction.

Lei Jiayin had excellent acting skills to begin with; as long as he didn't make a mistake himself, errors were unlikely.

As for Li Caihua... he felt this woman didn't seem to be acting.

Her impatience, disgust, and aversion toward Lin Yide were expressed to the fullest, vivid and lifelike.

Could this woman really hate Lei Jiayin... the executive director thought to himself.

Thinking of this, he frowned. Did the Hong Kong actors want to cause trouble again?

He admitted that in many aspects, the mainland favored Hong Kong actors; under similar circumstances, Hong Kong actors were given priority.

However... we can give, but you cannot snatch!

The executive director frowned slightly and slowly straightened his posture.

Fortunately, the anticipated trouble did not appear; the two actors on set soon finished their performance.

"Very good, cut!" The executive director breathed a slight sigh of relief.

On set, Li Caihua and Lei Jiayin, kneeling together, slowly relaxed.

After the two recovered a bit, the executive director called out again: "One more time; let's pick up a few more shots."

"Cameraman, ready, 3, 2, 1, action!"

Li Caihua and Lei Jiayin composed their emotions and performed the scene again.

The photographers shifted to another angle, capturing several close-ups of the two's limbs and faces.

"Good, cut!" the executive director shouted: "Take a break, prepare for the next take."

"Makeup artist, give Old Lei a drunk makeup look."

"Assistant, call Qi Hui for me; we need a shot of him here."

The executive director commanded with methodical order.

After being tormented by Director Lin for so long, he naturally possessed some skills worth showing off.

The next scene was Lin Yide throwing a drunken fit and forcibly hugging Ai Li.

Then Hong Shixian, who had just arrived, saw it.

Then, Hong Shixian dropped off a gift, said not a word, and left directly.

To be honest, the relationship between the three was extremely chaotic.

Lin Yide was Hong Shixian's brother-in-law and classmate; Ai Li was Hong Shixian's wife's adopted younger sister and his affair partner.

And Lin Yide and Ai Li were adopted siblings, friends who had played together since childhood, and former lovers.

This relationship couldn't be expressed by an equilateral triangle; it required spatial geometry.

Before long, everyone was ready.

Qi Hui also changed into a wine-red suit shirt and waited by the side for the director's instruction.

"Everyone in position!"

"3, 2, 1, action!"

In the hallway corridor, Lin Yide staggered, drunkenly pounding on the door: "Ai Li, open the door... Ai Li, open the door..."

Finally, his head tilted sideways, and he collapsed drunk by the door.

"Excellent, that shot was good!" the executive director shouted excitedly:

"Teacher Li Caihua, get ready, action!"

At the command, Ai Li slowly walked into the frame from off-screen, looked at the drunken Lin Yide lying at her doorstep, and kicked him disdainfully: "Get up."

In his drunken state, Lin Yide swayed, his brows furrowing slightly; those two kicks just now weren't heavy, but they used some force.

"Hey, get up!" Ai Li kicked him hard twice more.

Seeing Lin Yide show no reaction, she turned, picked up her phone, and called Lin Pinru:

"Hello, Pinru, Yide is drunk at my doorstep; come over and take him away."

After speaking, she hung up the phone.

Just then, the drunken Lin Yide staggered to his feet, then lunged forward, suddenly hugging Ai Li:

"Ai Li..."

"Ah... let go!"

"Ai Li, I won't let go unless you marry me..."

"Damn it, you're hurting me!" Li Caihua shouted, driving an elbow into Lei Jiayin's chest, then shoved him away.

"Eh, what the hell?" Seeing this, Qi Hui suddenly stood up; those two moves weren't acting.