The word "practice" sounded easy, but it was hard to put it into practice.
She could talk about anything with Bai Ye, but she didn't know what to talk about now that she was "pursuing someone".
Qi Xingchen returned to the hotel with the crew and curled up on the bed like a shrimp. He thought of the jokes he saw online and said, "I'm done."
… Then nothing happened, as if his phone was broken.
Well, his first experience of love failed. Qi Xingchen angrily stuffed his phone under his pillow and took out the script.
Hence, the pitiful An Ran became Bai Ye's scapegoat.
At ten o 'clock, An Ran yawned. "Xing Xing, are you ready?"
"Look at my expression. Do I look more like a little wolf puppy?"
"… It's better than last time, but there's room for improvement."
"Then stay with me for a while."
At eleven o 'clock, An Ran's mind was in a mess. "Xing Xing, are you ready?"
"Am I reading my lines a little too fast? A little wolf puppy shouldn't speak so clearly."
"Then …" Qi Xingchen looked at An Ran, who was staring blankly. "Go back to sleep. Thank you, sister An Ran."
An Ran cheered, then reacted. "What about you?"
"I'll practice for a while."
"You have a scene tomorrow morning. I'll call you at seven o 'clock. Don't sleep in!"
"No." Qi Xingchen pushed her out. "Go to sleep."
An Ran went back to her room reluctantly. Qi Xingchen locked the door and walked to the mirror.
He had never acted before, and the experience of the original owner was almost negligible.
He thought that the theoretical knowledge he learned before joining the crew was enough, but after two scenes today, he realized that he was too naive.
He needed practice, a lot of practice.
He also needed to understand himself and master his expression and tone of voice to control his facial expressions.
He picked out a few important scenes from the script, some for himself and some for the other actors.
She looked into the mirror and repeated her lines over and over again. She did the actions and tried to put in her emotions.
After practicing the scene where Lin Xiao's seal died of illness, he couldn't calm down for a long time. He crawled back into bed and looked at the clock on the wall.
It was already three o 'clock in the morning. It was almost time to wake up!
He turned off the lights and wanted to go to sleep, but the moment he closed his eyes, he saw the scene of the seal dying, which made his heart ache.
He tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. Suddenly, he remembered that Bai Ye hadn't replied to his message. He took out his phone from under his pillow.
[You have received a WeChat message.]
He immediately opened it.
Bo: [Sorry, I was out of town just now. My phone was with A Lun, so I didn't see it.]
When he received this message, it was more than three hours ago, when he was most engrossed in his training.
Previously, he had blamed the other party for not replying to his messages. Now, it was his turn to not reply for more than three hours. Qi Xingchen's heart was as weak as it could get.
He put his finger on the screen and typed a bunch of words to explain.
After typing, he thought about it again. What if the other party didn't turn off his phone when he was sleeping? Wouldn't he be woken up?
But on second thought, if he didn't explain, what if Bai Ye misunderstood that he was angry when he woke up tomorrow morning?
The other party was kind enough to practice with him. He couldn't do that.
He deleted, deleted, deleted, deleted, deleted. Hence, after Bai Ye hummed a beat, he looked at his phone for the nth time tonight and saw [The other party is typing …]
This scene was familiar. It seemed to have happened before. Bai Ye could even imagine the confused expression of the little fan. He couldn't help but tease him: [Are you writing a love letter?]
The phone vibrated. Qi Xingchen was so shocked that he almost dropped it. It was already three o 'clock in the morning, and Bai Ye was still awake?!
Also, what was the meaning of a love letter?
His brain wasn't working well after being overly sad. He was stunned for a while before he realized that he was "chasing" Bai Ye.
But a love letter … Qi Xingchen blushed: [I didn't write one.]
Xing Xing: [Why are you still awake?]
Xing Xing: [Oh, are you done with work now?]
Bo: [Soon. Go to sleep first.]
In order not to delay Bai Ye's work, Qi Xingchen told him to finish quickly and go to bed. Qi Xingchen said goodnight to Bai Ye and hurriedly locked the screen.
Then, as if he remembered something, he unlocked his phone again and found A Lun in the "Poor Traveler" group and sent a friend request.
The shadow of the seal swayed in his mind. He followed it for the whole night and couldn't fall asleep.
At half past five in the morning, he tried knocking on An Ran's door.
An Ran immediately opened the door. She was dressed neatly and said in surprise, "Xing Xing, you're awake … No, why are your eyes so dark? Did you lose sleep?"
"Yeah, I didn't sleep well last night."
"Then go back to sleep. I was just about to make breakfast for you. I'll call you when I'm done."
It turned out that An Ran always woke up early to make breakfast for him. Qi Xingchen waved his hand. "Don't make breakfast. Let's go out for a change. I want to eat shrimp porridge."
After that, he dragged An Ran out and asked Old Qin to eat a luxurious shrimp porridge together. He also packed a dozen servings.
At the aquarium, the other actors hadn't arrived yet. Only the makeup artist and the prop team were there.
He asked An Ran to distribute the porridge to the prop team and took one into the dressing room. "Good morning, sister. I brought you porridge!"
Tao Tao and Feng Qingyuan had their own styling team, and the stylist of the crew mainly served the supporting roles.
The makeup artist heard his raised voice and couldn't help but laugh. "Why are you here so early today?"
Qi Xingchen said, "I just finished eating. You eat the porridge first, and then help me do my makeup."
"No, I'll do your makeup first." The makeup artist pressed him on the chair. "Your face is small, and your facial features are very clear. It's very easy to draw. I can finish it in twenty minutes … By the way, your dark circles are a bit big today …"
After makeup and styling, Qi Xingchen entered his main venue — the SEAL training ground.
His brother Xiang Xiang had already gotten up and was doing exercises opposite the trainer.
Qi Xingchen asked a few tips on cultivating feelings with seals, wrote them down on his mobile phone, and asked the trainer to go backstage to eat porridge.
Then he stayed in the training ground and walked thirteen steps from this side of the training ground, climbed over the iron fence, jumped to the thermostat pool, walked another seventeen steps, and stopped in place.
In this way, he went back and forth.
The first scene of the day started at 8: 30. Shang Yuliang arrived at the set at 8: 00 and saw Qi Xingchen walking around. He grabbed the trainer who had finished training Xiang Xiang and asked, "What time did he come?"
"Around seven o 'clock. I'm not sure. He entered the training ground at 7: 30."
"Then how many times has he walked like this?"
"Let me think." The trainer tried to remember. "Twenty or thirty times should be around."
Shang Yuliang said "thank you" and let the trainer leave.
The trainer didn't know what Qi Xingchen was doing and thought he was wandering around. But Shang Yuliang knew that Qi Xingchen was practicing his positioning.
In small scenes, such as in residential houses, the size of a room was limited. After the lights were set up, the scene with sufficient light could be obtained from any position.
The aquarium was a large scene, and for the sake of the indigenous people — the sea creatures — the crew did not install lights throughout the aquarium. They used the primitive method of dimming with small rows of lights and reflectors. Therefore, the optimal viewing range was limited, and the actors needed to walk and stand accurately.
In particular, Qi Xingchen's scene this morning required Lin Xiao to cross from the SEAL training ground to the Beluga thermostat pool to find Ji Yan.
The span was large, and there were many steps. One wrong step had to be reversed and reshot.
Therefore, Qi Xingchen came early.
Shang Yuliang looked at him, who kept climbing over the fence, smiled, and returned to his seat.
Under Qi Xingchen's crazy practice last night and this morning, the first scene of Ji Yan and Lin Xiao in the morning was very smooth and passed in one go.
Team B didn't go out today. Feng Qingyuan and Shang Yuliang had a personal relationship. He stood behind Shang Yuliang and said, "This young man is not only good-looking, but also good at acting."
"Come on." Shang Yuliang rolled his eyes. "You didn't see him yesterday. He was like a wooden man."
"Impossible." Feng Qingyuan didn't believe it. "There was a night in between. How could the difference be so big?"
"He stayed up late to practice. Look at the dark circles under his eyes." Shang Yuliang pointed at the playback image on the monitor.
Feng Qingyuan took a step forward. Sure enough, Qi Xingchen's eyes were blue. It was the kind that concealer couldn't cover, so it didn't affect the image.
Feng Qingyuan pondered for a moment. "This child, if he doesn't take the wrong path in the future and develops according to this route, he can't go wrong."
"What's the point of asking when you already know the answer?"
Feng Qingyuan teased Shang Yuliang. "He went from a wooden man to his current level in one night. Is that something that can be done just by hard work?
He's talented and smart. "
"Don't be so absolute." Shang Yuliang sounded like he was refuting Feng Qingyuan, but there was a smile on his face.
At this time, Qi Xingchen went down to wipe the water sprayed by the white whale. Next, Xu Sheng went up.
Shang Yuliang smacked his lips. "Xiao Xu and Xiao Qi are two extremes. It's easy to overdo it when acting."
Feng Qingyuan was a good person. He said, "Xiao Xu is a good child. Maybe he's not used to it because of yesterday's shoot. He should be fine today."
Shang Yuliang nodded. The script director hit the board.
Xu Sheng put on a coat and walked into the aquarium, calling Ji Yan's name.
Ji Yan hurried out. "What's wrong?"
Shang Yuliang said, "Cut!
Xiao Xu, where are your lines?
Don't just stand there and say nothing. Didn't you sleep last night … "
However, Qi Xingchen didn't know what Xu Sheng's performance was like.
After changing his wet clothes, he saw that there was still some time before the next scene. He sent a red packet to A Lun, who had accepted his friend request.
Xing Xing: [A Lun, accept the red packet. Buy a bottle of vitamins for your boss when you're free.]
A Lun: [There's no need for the red packet. I've been preparing all kinds of nutritional supplements for my boss.]
Xing Xing: [Okay, then remember to remind him to take them.
Vitamins are anti-fatigue. Since he worked so late last night, he has to take some supplements.]
Then, A Lun felt that something was wrong. [Xing Xing, when did you say 'so late', how late was it?]
Qi Xingchen said matter-of-factly, [It was past three in the morning. To be precise, it was past three in the morning.]
A Lun said, [My boss finished work and returned to the hotel at 11 o 'clock last night. Did you remember it?]
Qi Xingchen was confused. [That's impossible. I sent him a WeChat message at three o 'clock last night. If you don't believe me, take a look.]
Qi Xingchen took a screenshot of the last page of his chat with Bai Ye and sent it to A Lun. It avoided the "love letter" and had a clear chat time.
After reading it, A Lun couldn't help but laugh. [Damn, my boss lied to you. He definitely went back early last night.
If he's talking to you so late, he's probably waiting for your reply.]
After saying that, A Lun threw down his phone and left.
Qi Xingchen was left alone in a daze.
So, he really … waited for my reply until three o 'clock in the morning?
Why don't I go back tonight and ask him indirectly? Qi Xingchen thought to himself. If it's true, I'll apologize to him and buy some …
Qi Xingchen was thinking about what to buy for Bai Ye when An Ran suddenly ran in.
She was calmer than girls her age and was rarely so anxious.
Qi Xingchen had a bad feeling and stood up. "What happened?
"No, nothing." An Ran took a deep breath and handed her phone to Qi Xingchen. "Xing Xing, you've been hacked!"