"Cut, pass!" With this call from Zhang Chao, the actors immediately got out of character and quickly looked for their assistants in the group. Sheng Xing Ze nudged the messy wig on his head, tilting his head as he was about to tease Yu Bai.\n
"Brother Sheng, your phone has been ringing for some time now," Mi He Qiu finally waited until the director's call to let Sheng Xing Ze know. He was actually standing at the outermost area, he flexibly squeezed through the crowd and handed Sheng Xing Ze's phone to him.
Sheng Xing Ze took the phone, and the caller ID "Baba" called him back to his senses. He walked towards the corner of the crowd and swiped to answer. Father Sheng's angry roar came through the phone, "Xing Xing, let's leave, we're not going to shoot this movie, I'm so angry!"
"Dad, what has made you this angry?"
"Xing Xing, you probably don't know that the director of this movie is a bastard standing on the bully side, knowing that we invest in the crew just so our Xing Xing won't be bullied, and now what does he mean by refunding the money? What more, he even, he even added the compensation money for bullying us. They're obviously looking down on our family. I admit that we're just an upstart family, but it does not mean that they can just slap our son's face like this!"
"That's too much!"
Mother Sheng sat on the sofa letting out an angry roar, Sheng Xing Ze could feel his mother's anger exuding from the other line. He could already imagine Mother Sheng sitting on the sofa with crossed legs, huffing in anger.
Father Sheng quickly put down the phone to coax her, until Mother Sheng seemed to have cool down a bit, Father Sheng picked up the phone again:
"Xing Xing, look at how they have made your mom and I this angry, we'll invest in another movie, there's no need to be looking down at like this..."
"Dad, let me ask the director what happened, no one bullies me here, you can rest assured." Seeing that his father was about to make a long speech, Sheng Xing Ze quickly interrupted him, "I'm not lying to you."
Father Sheng obviously did not believe what Sheng Xing Ze said, insisting that he was being bullied on the set, and persuaded him to say it, "How does Baba not know your personality? You kids are too sensible, always saying good things, trying to not worry us, even when being bullied, you still don't talk about it with Mama and Baba."
"I'll turn into a puppy if I lie to you, the people on the set really like me." Sheng Xing Ze's eyes swept over to Yu Bai that was not too far away, and walked over to him, "You don't believe me, then I'll get someone to prove it."
Sheng Xing Ze pushed the phone to Yu Bai's ear who was unprepared, "Say, Do you like me?" Yu Bai looked at the young man with doubt in his eyes, Sheng Xing Ze mouthed to him: my dad.
"Uncle, I like Sheng Xing Ze a lot."
Yu Bai's deep voice rang in his ears. Sheng Xing Ze was not a sucker for voice tone, but these words from Yu Bai were like electricity flowing throughout his body, making him completely succumb to that voice.
No wonder Yu Bai has so many "girlfriend" and "wifey" fans, who could bear such an attractive voice.
He silently screamed in his heart.
They stood very close to each other, Sheng Xing Ze's ears felt a little itchy, and he rubbed it awkwardly, "you heard it, it's okay now, I like this script very much, will you promise to let me be in it~" He could not think any better methods to convince Father Sheng, he had no choice but to use that spoiled tone to speak.
Father Sheng hung up the phone suspiciously, threatening to come to the set from time to time. If he was to see someone bully him, he would never allow his son to continue the filming.
Sheng Xing Ze quickly agreed, heaving a sigh of relief when he heard the disconnecting tone in his phone.
"Thank you buddy, I'll invite you to dinner someday," he patted Yu Bai's shoulder and walked towards the dressing room.
Yu Bai stood behind him, remembering the trembling of Sheng Xing Ze's coquettishness in his ear. Although he knew that this was the other party's pretense, he thought that Sheng Xing Ze's coquettish object might be the greasy old man, and he felt a congestion in his chest.
According to Lin Mu, Sheng Xing Ze's investor was his godfather, Sheng Xing Ze did not seem to lie to him when saying that this person is just his dad, yet Yu Bai felt that this is not worth it. It was like a ticking bomb buried in his heart. As long as the bomb was still ticking every day, it would explode any time; it would be growing dangerous with time, the bomb would be a great threat in the future.
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Wu You took a day off to solve her family's affairs, when she returned to the set, she returned to her cheerful self and laughed with joy.
"Your brother is home?" Sheng Xing Ze tilted his head to ask her.
"Yes!" Wu You nodded her head like a chic eating its rice, her eyes curved into a smile, "Brother Sheng, I don't even know how to repay you. I really appreciate your help." Wu You only hated that why she did not learn Chinese well in school. At this time, she could not express her gratitude and could only repeat the same words over and over.
"Do you really want to repay me?"
Wu You nodded in a heartbeat.
Sheng Xing Ze went to the point, "I'm in need of a personal makeup artist."
Wu You's eyes glowed with excitement, her voice got all trembling due to disbelief, "Brother Sheng, do you mean what I think it is?"
Sheng Xing Ze nodded with a smile, Wu You's excited expression was being captured in his eyes as if he could see the image of her receiving the acceptance letter from the Film Academy that year, and her eyes were all radiated. Sheng Xing Ze suddenly felt that he was also being motivated.
"But I'm about to cancel the contract with my company, so you might have to suffer for a while with me, but don't worry I'm not cheap when it comes to paying my employee."
"As long as I can be by your side, I don't care about these."
Sheng Xing Ze whispered a small thank you, "I won't treat you badly."
Yu Bai noticed when the two started talking, guessing it may be about Wu Lu again, and he was about to walk over to ask.
When he was not so far from them, he only heard the last two sentences of the conversation, and it was easy to think in another direction.
Wu You grew up to be such a pretty person, not to mention that she really liked Sheng Xing Ze; if Sheng Xing Ze really wanted to do something to her, the consequences would be unimaginable.
A pair of sharp brows frowned deeply as he grabbed Sheng Xing Ze's wrist.
"Come here for a moment."
Sheng Xing Ze was being dragged into a dim props room for unknown reason.
"What this, Film Emperor Yu can't wait anymore?" Sheng Xing Ze smiled and winked his eyes at Yu Bai ambiguously.
Yu Bai ignored the charming eyes thrown at him by Sheng Xing Ze and said coldly, "having a Sugar Daddy, sleeping with fans, do you think you don't have enough scandal for the media to write about?"
Sheng Xing Ze blinked his eyes innocently, "When did Film Emperor Yu become my fan, even agree to sleep with me?"
Yu Bai frowned, obviously did not understand how the other party was able to joke at this time, and the rapid breathing showed that he was currently really angry, "When did I say such words?"
"You said I was sleeping with fans, but I only want to sleep with you, what should I do now?"
Yu Bai was angry beyond words, "Don't change the topic."
The smile on Sheng Xing Ze's face faded, he looked at Yu Bai without any expression, and his eyes gleamed with distaste.
That was the first time Yu Bai saw him like this, he did not know how to react to that.
Sheng Xing Ze lowered his head and chuckled, "I've always thought that I said it clearly. I haven't done any of what you just said. I don't know why you always think I have a sugar daddy, and sleeping with fans is even more unreasonable. It turns out that I'm such a person in Film Emperor Yu's eyes."
Yu Bai also felt uncomfortable in his heart. Sheng Xing Ze was the only one who has been calling him "Film Emperor Yu" around here. He did not think there was anything wrong with this title at first, actually it made him feel a little ecstatic and felt that he was someone special to Sheng Xing Ze; but, the tone the other calling "Film Emperor Yu" just now made him feel unprecedented alienation, he did not know there was other meaning behind these three words.
He quietly took out his phone and searched for the photo sent by Lin Mu, showing it to Sheng Xing Ze.
"How do you explain this?"
The anger in Sheng Xing Ze's heart rose when he saw the photo. He allowed others to attack him, and he could just laugh it off, but he would never allow anyone to attack his family in order to hurt him.
"Where did you get it?" He said coldly.
"You don't need to know..."
Sheng Xing Ze cut him short with no mercy, "Lin Mu sent it to you, only he has the time to do something like this."
"No, it's..."
"You don't need to explain. I know you two are in a good relationship. Film Emperor Yu even personally helped put his friend into this movie. You even crossed your own bottom line for him. What a beautiful friendship."
He deliberately said the word "friendship" with an ambiguous tone, he turned to walk out of the props room, completely disregarding Yu Bai's reaction. He knew that this anger in his heart would not subside even after he walked out of the set.
A man in his early twenties walking toward Sheng Xing Ze not too far away, and he was having a gentle smile that made others feel at ease around him at first glance. With the feel of a young and weak junior, he easily made other men want to protect him.
Sheng Xing Ze shouted a "fuck" in his heart, thinking lady luck must not be on his side today, one annoying person after another came to disturb his peace. He was about to bypass the young man pretending not seeing him, but a soft gentle male voice called out to him: