On the other side, the reluctant screenwriter was being pulled to the side by Zhang Chao to see Sheng Xing Ze's performance today.\n
"Honey, let me tell you, Sheng Xing Ze absolutely meets all conditions to be your Su Jin Mu..."
Zhang Chao had been praising Sheng Xing Ze nonstop all the way here; he could not help but to describe the other as the epitome of perfection.
The screenwriter frowned as she listened on, for the first time she let him go on.
She personally did not like Sheng Xing Ze. When they first casted Sheng Xing Ze, she was very optimistic about him, because there was no other person like him. Sheng Xing Ze's image was really in line with Su Jin Mu's character.
Someone who had been living in a good life, an unspoiled childish look on his face, and a natural sense of youth that not many actors have. And Su Jin Mu had such an image, with exquisite looks and ancient spirits, full of mischievous ideas, but people cannot hate him.
However, Sheng Xing Ze's performance at the audition was really bad; apart from this face, the screenwriter could not find a reason to keep him.
She and Zhang Chao did not have any children. Su Jin Mu was the ideal of a son in her heart. When she wrote "Xing Lan," she devoted all her love to this character, even exceeding the protagonist Bai Xing Lan.
From the beginning, she made it clear that she did not want Sheng Xing Ze to play the role of Su Jin Mu, but the funding that Sheng Xing Ze could bring to them was indeed an essential part of their movie.
She knew that in Zhang Chao's heart, "Xing Lan" was not just another fairy fantasy movie, but he wanted "Xing Lan" to become a milestone in the development of special effects in Chinese costumes.
So even if Sheng Xing Ze did not fit her image of Su Jin Mu, she finally compromised. It was not only her wish but the whole team's wish to make this movie well.
Since the decision was made on Su Jin Mu's actor, the screenwriter had worked overtime and changed the script several times, in order to enable Sheng Xing Ze to perform in Su Jin Mu's character well under the condition of zero acting skill needed. Although the final script did not meet her expectation, it was already the best she could do.
Everything had been developing very well, with Sheng Xing Ze's acting still as terrible, but the shooting effect was barely satisfactory.
Since yesterday, Zhang Chao had been praising Sheng Xing Ze's acting skill, and even proposed to have Sheng Xing Ze take on more scenes of Su Jin Mu.
This was unbearable for a screenwriter.
As a screenwriter, she did not need to be on the set all the time, so she did not get to see the perfect shot that Zhang Chao had been going on about.
She believed that perhaps Sheng Xing Ze's acting skill made some progress, but she did not believe that Sheng Xing Ze could really perform Su Jin Mu's character beyond her expectation.
Even if Zhang Chao praised the other as an epitome, the screenwriter still had no hope for Sheng Xing Ze's acting skill.
But when she took a look at the shot in the camera, all her previous prejudices disappeared instantly.
Su Jin Mu was like a character tailor-made for Sheng Xing Ze. The smile of the teenager in the camera satisfied all of her imaginations. Perhaps, the character Su Jin Mu was once just a haze in her heart, but now this haze had been dispelled. The face belonging to Su Jin Mu was becoming clearer by the second. This face was not only belonging to Su Jin Mu, but also belonging to Sheng Xing Ze.
At this moment, Su Jin Mu was no longer a fiction character under her pen, but a person with blood and flesh. The screenwriter never felt that she was so close to Su Jin Mu, it was as if her Ah Mu was standing in front her, smiling at her.
There was a voice shouting in her heart, "This is my Ah Mu."
She kept watching that short scene several times over and over again, and each time it brought her to a new shock; especially that butterfly-like kiss scene, she felt her heart was being grabbed fiercely at that moment. If she was not the screenwriter herself, she also had an urge to send a blade[1] to the screenwriter.
Finally, she pressed on the pause button, the screenwriter covered her eyes and leaned back on her chair; after a long silence, she murmured, "I'll revise the script."
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In the early morning, the first ray of sunlight poured onto earth, but the hotel's heavy curtains blocked it. It wanted to spy on the beauty's movements.
The sweet ringtone rang over and over again, the teenager in bed had his dream disturbed, frowning and turning over, covering his ears with a pillow, closing his eyes and continuing to sleep.
Yet, the phone was still very persistent at making its presence known. Sheng Xing Ze touched his closed eyes impatiently, lying on his side and pressing the answer button. He then retreated his hand and dug it under the quilt. Using all of his strength to reply with "hello."
The person on the phone spoke very quickly, "I will solve things on the Internet. You stay put in the hotel."
"mkay."
Sheng Xing Ze did not hear what the other person was saying, only responded instinctively, and then hung up the call with half-opened eyes and let the phone lay flat on his pillow. He rolled over into the soft quilt and returned to sleep.
Last night, Zhang Chao sent a message to let him know that the screenwriter is revising Su Jin Mu's script. So he did not need to come to the set in the next few days. Sheng Xing Ze finally had a good excuse to sleep in, and he did not intend to get up on such a cold winter morning.
Sheng Xing Ze finally woke up when he got hungry. He sat on the bed for a while with a feeling of hunger. When he finally woke out of his sleepy state, he saw that there were dozens of missed calls on his phone, basically all coming from his manager and his parents.
Sheng Xing Ze remembered that there seemed to be a phone call in the morning, and the other party mentioned the internet.
He could sort of guess what happened, Sheng Xing Ze opened Weibo, and there was a hot search in the front page--#Sheng Xing Ze, gets out of the showbiz#
The Weibo account claimed to be an insider and described how Sheng Xing Ze always was the cause of everyone's long hours working at the set, even made the whole crew accompany him to retake the scene over and over in the cold wind with very thin layer costume. The key point was that Sheng Xing Ze took that for granted.
Attached was a short clip of Zhang Chao shouting at Sheng Xing Ze, the expression on his face was unhappy.
The video background sound was of two little girls, they were obviously Yu Bai's fans, seeing Sheng Xing Ze once again NG and could not help but vent out their frustrations.
"That was his 19th NG, even I felt I should just quit, if you can't act, don't drag others with you."
"That's right, he made our President Bai have to take multiple NGs with him. Our President Bai must have a really good temper, with Sheng Xing Ze's acting, he hasn't got angry yet."
"I heard that originally the third male lead was not Sheng Xing Ze, but it was a newcomer named Lin Mu, his acting is a hundred times better than him."
The video came to an abrupt stop here, the two talking girls did not show up throughout the clip, but the clip showed Yu Bai's shadow.
Yu Bai's fans started to explode, comments after comments flooding the post having the same tone of: if your acting skill is not that great, at least don't make our idol suffer with you. The powerful and lethal bashing successfully pushed Sheng Xing Ze, an unknown newcomer, to the No. 1 hot search on Weibo.
This Weibo was posted in the middle of the night, so not many people paid attention to it at first. However, this weibo got the attention during the rush hour when everyone crowded the subway and bus to head to work, the time people could swipe their phones for news of the day.
At this time, Lin Mu posted a Weibo.
Lin Mu V: At home.
With a selfie picture in the post.
Lin Mu's fans comments flooded the comment section with how they were distressed that their idol's opportunity was being stolen by someone, but they did not dare to speak the name; some ran over to Sheng Xing Ze's Weibo to cuss him out.
As the saying goes, the enemy of your enemy is your friend. The Lin fans and the Yu fans found their common ground as they started to bash Sheng Xing Ze under his Weibo. Occasionally, one or two comments spoke up for Sheng Xing Ze, and immediately they were being attacked by the two groups.
Sheng Xing Ze sent a private message to thank the fans who spoke up for him, then he closed the smoldering Weibo app and got out of bed to wash up.
Behind him, the phone on the bed suddenly lit up.
Yu Bai: Are you still alive?
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Notes:
[1] Send a blade to the author/screenwriter - it's a common saying for fiction fans to say to the author. When the readers feel that their favorite characters are being mistreated or having BE ending, or anything that make them feel like crying or feeling unfair; they would say that "I've an urge to send a blade to the author" as an expressive way saying that they are disagree with the plot, or they feel like there is more to be done. No physical blade was sent here, maybe just comments or fan letters. Hehhehe....but maybe physical...but that's rare...hehehehe...