Even if Director Xu called “cut” in person, the whole studio was still silent. Tao Mu also stood silently on the spot, his chest heaving fiercely, his expression still dark, obviously still too immersed in the scene and couldn’t pull out for a while.

Li Xiaoheng, who was standing on the edge of the set, looked at Tao Mu with extreme concern. Liu Yao looked relieved and proud. He felt that Tao Mu was indeed their little brat. Normally he was always smiling and easy to talk to, but when he exploded, he really had a bit of a frightening aura.

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Everyone was silently preoccupied with their own emotions. After a long while, a small sob broke the silence of the studio. Everyone looked towards the sound, only to see Shen Yu standing there with tears in his eyes, which had turned red from the crying. He didn’t dare to cry loudly, and instead bit his lip and choked aggrievedly, obviously having been frightened.

Yan Sheng was the first to react. He stepped forward and gently embraced Shen Yu’s shoulders, soothing his back. Shen Yu hugged Yan Sheng’s waist fiercely and burst into tears.

This cry was like the breaking of a spell, and the others responded one after another. Shen Yan rushed in front of Tao Mu in anger, once again acting like a shrew regardless of the situation: “What are you doing? Acting is just acting, why are you frightening others. Can you take responsibility for frightening our Xiao Yu so badly? Speak, did you do that on purpose——”

“Piss off!” Tao Mu’s eyes were red, and his anger still hadn’t dissipated. When looking at Shen Yan, it seemed as if two sharp swords were being stabbed straight into Shen Yan’s chest.

Shen Yan only felt that her whole person had gone into shock, all the accusations and verbal abuses became stuck in her throat, and she couldn’t say a word. Even her body couldn’t stop shaking.

Li Xiaoheng stepped forward with a solemn face, bypassed Shen Yan, and led Tao Mu directly back to the lounge chair to sit down. Unscrewing the thermos cup for him, which held cold mung bean soup: “Relieve the heat.”

Tao Mu silently raised his head and poured it down his throat. Negative emotions accumulated for a lifetime had hit him the moment he exploded. Like the continuous tide, wave upon wave, endlessly beating against the heart that he had thought had already long become cold as a rock.

Bloody white bone claws stretched out from the tumbling sea of ​​blood, grabbing Tao Mu’s body and dragging it down fiercely. Tao Mu didn’t want to struggle either, and instead allowed the negative emotions to sweep through his body.

Xu Musen sat in front of the monitor and replayed Tao Mu’s scene over and over again. Tao Mu’s acting skills were very good, which was the consensus of the entire crew. Being able to pit his acting skills against film kings and bring film queens into the scene, all the scenes he was in could be done with ease. It was no exaggeration to say that such an actor came with his own screen presence.

When he was acting against Shen Yu before, Tao Mu deliberately suppressed his performance in order to ensure the filming went smoothly. While trying to bring Shen Yu into the scene, he also tried his best not to cause too much pressure on Shen Yu. However, even so, Shen Yu was still affected. When speaking the lines, he stuttered and was out of breath, and his expressions and movements were even more mediocre.

Now that Tao Mu exploded on the spot, the momentary soaring momentum that resulted, even veteran actors like Yan Sheng and Wang Jinsheng could not guarantee that they would be able to hold their own, let alone a newcomer like Shen Yu. The overarching impact was also clear. The original scene, which was fairly well-matched, instantly turned into a blatant steamroll. Yan Yu, who was supposed to be a righteous character, couldn’t even utter a word under the pressure of Tao Mu’s acting skills. The lines used to expound justice before became pale and powerless under Shen Yu’s interpretation. The scene in the script where the black and white, evil and good, parties expound their ideas, was acted by Shen Yu as if he was the mistress who was caught in the act of cheating and could not hide his guilty conscience when facing the wife.

The motive behind ​​Yan Yu’s character could no longer stand anymore.

Xu Musen looked at the monitor with some regret. In fact, in the whole script, Yan Yu and Zhou Yuanting, Yan Qi and the mob boss Zhou Yanqing played, these four roles could also be said to be two pairs of foils, representing black and white respectively. Especially Yan Yu and Zhou Yuanting, although these two characters don’t make many appearances, their roles were very important. Because the role of the two male protagonists was to promote the development of the plot and maintain the conflict of the plot. Therefore, under the setting of the script, all kinds of falsehoods and subtle machinations were required. Black mixed with white, white mixed with black, it could no longer be differentiated.

But Yan Yu and Zhou Yuanting were different. Although the ages and roles of the two characters limit their development, they also perfectly guaranteed the purity of the two characters. One was pure white and one was pure black. Black and white were clearly incompatible. They were not allowed to mix into the slightest gray area, this was the difference of beliefs.

In the script setting, the role of Zhou Yuanting represented greed. Greed was the driving force of human progress. So Zhou Yuanting had performed very well since he was in the police academy. He trained hard and won first place in every assessment. He was the most admired student by the police officers in training. But at the same time, Zhou Yuanting was also eager to enjoy daring behavior, so he never took the school rules and disciplines to heart. On the eve of graduation, he even dared to skip classes to go clubbing, and even got into a fight with people. He was eventually expelled from the police academy.

Zhou Yuanting was not reconciled with the fact that his hard work would go down the drain. He was seduced by the high-ranking official position promised by the police and agreed to go undercover. However, in the process of being an undercover agent, Zhou Yuanting found that his efforts and gains were completely unequal. So he regretted it once again. Finding out the relationship between Yan Qi and Yan Yu was just a fuse that pushed him to go dark completely. The essential reason why Zhou Yuanting became corrupted was his greed. He held no ideals or beliefs in his heart. He only cared about whether his efforts could achieve higher rewards. As for whether the direction of effort was morally black or white, Zhou Yuanting didn’t care at all.

Compared with Zhou Yuanting, the role of Yan Yu represented absolute whiteness. He was inflexible, stubborn, and regarded the police as his only belief. He had been upright and honest all his life, attached great importance to love and righteousness, knew kindness and gratitude, was filial to his parents, and cared for his wife. So he refused to forgive his mafia brother. At the end of the script, Yan Yu resolutely decided to arrest Zhou Yuanting even after he knew that his brother was actually an undercover agent, and Zhou Yuanting replaced him as an undercover agent because of his brother’s doing. However, in the process of arresting, the police officer who was in the pockets of the mafia saw that Zhou Yuanting was about to be arrested and feared that Zhou Yuanting would reveal him so he tried to kill Zhou Yuanting first. As a result, Yan Yu blocked the bullet for Zhou Yuanting. Before dying, he only had time to utter a single apology to Zhou Yuanting.

Zhou Yuanting complained that Yan Yu took away his future and woman, and in the end Yan Yu gave Zhou Yuanting his life. He had always regarded Zhou Yuanting as his best brother. It was just that the two had different positions and different ideas, and they couldn’t convince each other at all.

It was a pity that as Yan Yu, Shen Yu’s acting skills were not good enough. He didn’t bring out the charm of the character at all. Therefore, it was always said that actors did not try roles that they could not fully control without some deep consideration. If the role was not convincing because of poor performance, not only would he be scolded, but the entire script might collapse.

Xu Musen scratched his head very irritably. Tao Mu’s on-the-spot explosive performance was so good that Xu Musen was reluctant to delete it and decided to keep it. Therefore, the focus of the next scenes was to polish the role of Yan Yu.

Director Xu asked Shen Yu to prepare, as the following scenes must be filmed well. He didn’t imagine that Shen Yu’s performance could be on par with Tao Mu’s, but it should at least be convincing. Even mediocre was fine!

However, Shen Yu was just frightened by Tao Mu’s explosion. During the scene, as soon as he saw Zhou Yuanting’s face, he thought of Tao Mu’s tyrannical performance earlier, and he was so frightened that he couldn’t even hold up to his previous performance.

After several NGs, not mentioning that Shen Yu’s brain was already tied up into knots, even the rest of the crew had headaches.

Director Xu glared at the monitor with a gloomy expression, wishing that he could glare Shen Yu’s acting skills into existence. Shen Yu knew that he was wrong, and curled up beside Yan Sheng and didn’t dare to look up. In his heart, he also secretly blamed himself for not being good enough.

However, this was actually not his fault. Even a talented actor needed a process to hone his acting skills. In the previous life, Shen Yu and Tao Mu joined the crew at the same time, and both of them were newcomers. In contrast, Shen Yu had a little more experience in filming than Tao Mu. He was also an actor appointed personally by Director Xu, who claimed that he could perfectly interpret the role by just being himself. In contrast, Tao Mu, a flower vase who forced himself into the crew through his family background and had little experience in filming, would naturally be rejected by the entire crew. Not to mention that during the filming, Yan Sheng was also deliberately suppressing Tao Mu both in and out of his scenes.

At that time, Shen Yu had the encouragement of the director, the tolerance of the entire crew, and the foiling of a colleague like Tao Mu. He was actively honing his acting skills every day, so his performance was naturally wonderful.

But in this life, Tao Mu’s acting skills were on cheat mode. He had professional training at a prestigious academy, and the director had hand-picked him for the role. He could pit his acting skills directly with the other veteran actors. The superposition of various halos directly crushed Shen Yu, a young rookie who only brought money into the crew, to nothing. Overwhelming Shen Yu to the point he couldn’t even raise the energy to put in more effort. Just knowing to be uselessly anxious. And the more anxious he was, the worse his performance would be. The worse the performance, the more dissatisfied the director and crew were. As the vicious circle descended, how could Shen Yu, who was born in a greenhouse, have the tenacity of Tao Mu, so he was suddenly depressed to the point that he already gave up on himself.

Director Xu watched from the sidelines, and seeing that Shen Yu really had no heart in filming, could only scratch his head and scream ‘cut’.

It was already two o’clock in the afternoon, not even one scene was finished, and the crew missed lunch as well. The director had a breath in his chest that he couldn’t exhale and wanted to at least make some progress. So he could only discuss with Tao Mu if they could start the scene of Tao Mu and Du Ze ahead of schedule? It would be great if they could finish it in one shot, and then everyone would eat after filming.

Tao Mu ate half a boxed lunch when he improvised on the spot, and could manage to hold on. Not to mention Du Ze. He had finished his lunch while he was waiting for his scene. Only the director, the lighting and camera, and Shen Yu were the only ones in the entire crew who had gone hungry.

Director Xu moved the shooting location with a sullen face.

Actually the filming location was just moved from the interrogation room to the entrance of the police station. The scene to be filmed was when Zhou Yuanting and the group of hoodlums were released. Zhou Yuanting was in a bad mood and had a dark expression on his face. But it didn’t matter to Du Ze and the group of hoodlums who often entered a holding cell. When they came out of the police station, they were talking and laughing, and were even discussing where to have a late night snack and a massage.

Ah Ze smiled and threw an arm over Zhou Yuanting’s shoulder: “Today you have done the most, so we’ll let you choose the place. The gang will pay, and we can be considered to eat and drink with public funds.”

Zhou Yuanting brushed Ah Ze’s arm away with an irritated expression.

Ah Ze didn’t mind, he threw it over his shoulders again, and even hooked it around Zhou Yuanting’s neck as he asked him: “Why, the most important thing in being a person is to be happy. It’s all good once you get used to this kind of thing. Us out in the streets, who haven’t been invited by the police for tea. It’s not like this is your first time——”

Don’t know what part of those words hit Zhou Yuanting’s sore spot but Zhou Yuanting pushed Ah Ze away with a livid face, and even gave a kick: “Piss off.”

Ah Ze was caught off guard, clutching his kicked chest and taking two steps back. He was also angry now: “What the hell is wrong with you! Did I f**k your woman or what? Was it me who handcuffed you and reprimanded you like a dog? I take you as a brother, but what do you take me for? Venting your anger out on me? Do you think you’re still a cop?”

The extras who played the hoodlums hurried over and pulled them apart. One was their leader, and the other was the up and coming king whip who was very popular in the gang and with the bosses. They didn’t want to offend either of them. (TN: king whip=technically it is tled literally as ‘red flower stick’ which basically means a top fighter, and above that is ‘double red flower stick’ which is the elite fighter, terms used by Hong Kong mafia)

Zhou Yuanting’s face was cold and solemn, he ignored Ah Ze’s words, and suddenly turned his head to look at the police station. Director Xu motioned for the camera to advance to the close-up of his face. Under the high-definition camera, Zhou Yuanting’s red eyes were clearly seen, but those eyes were extremely cold. The dark eyes seem to exude a biting chill. He glanced one last time at the police station, turned around and left, his figure decisive.

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Ah Ze and the group of hoodlums stood together on the other side, watching Zhou Yuanting’s resolute back. He uttered a foul language in exasperation. But he was still worried, and while scolding himself for being a masochist, he led his subordinates to follow: “That way is the Causeway Bay, not our territory. This stinky boy running around in places you shouldn’t, you’ll be hacked to death without even knowing it!”

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Because of this little episode, when Yan Sheng and Shen Yu left the dressing room and arrived at the shooting location, it was already ten minutes later.

Xu Musen had already waited even longer so these ten minutes were nothing. He just waved his hand to signal everyone to take their place.

This scene that was about to be filmed involved the mob boss played by Zhou Yanqing confronting a senior police superintendent played by Wang Jinsheng in the police station. The main lines were all between the two big names, as for Yan Sheng, Tao Mu and Shen Yu, although there were also shots, at best they were just background. Also in the background were Du Ze, who played a small-time gang leader, and a group of actors who played police officers.

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Shen Yu was very nervous. Because after this scene, he and Tao Mu would be filming a scene together at the same filming location. The scene where Zhou Yuanting was fired from the police academy. And after joining the mob as an undercover agent, he fought with other gangsters in a turf fight, and was arrested by Yan Yu and other police officers on duty in the police station on the charge of disturbing the security of Hong Kong. This was also the first scene of direct interaction between Shen Yu and Tao Mu after they joined the crew. With so many people watching, and so many people related to him coming to visit the set, Shen Yu didn’t want to disappoint.

Shen Yu’s head had always been relatively simple, and he could only think about one thing at a time. Shen Yu was a little absent-minded when he was filming the first scene because he was thinking about his later scene. When the camera swept over him, Shen Yu always appeared worried and couldn’t control his facial expression. But the look of frowning and unwilling to give up unexpectedly echoed the mood of the script for this scene, of Yan Yu seeing his good brother walking further and further off the right path and wanting to persuade him to change his ways, but didn’t know how to speak.

Xu Musen was slightly surprised. After the filming, he also praised Shen Yu’s improved acting skills. In front of his family and friends, Shen Yu, who was praised by the director, felt very happy. He couldn’t help but walk up to Tao Mu excitedly, asking Tao Mu to practice running their lines in advance.

“It’s been so long since we’ve been in the crew, and this is the first time the two of us will be filming opposite each other. Mu Mu, I’m so nervous!” As Shen Yu spoke, he really did hug the script in his arms nervously. He looked at Tao Mu eagerly: “I heard them say that Mu Mu’s acting skills are very good. And it’s easy for you to bring the other into the mood of the scene. So I will be relying on you in the next scene.”

No matter how much he hated Shen Yu, Tao Mu’s attitude towards filming was still very serious. Immediately, he stood up with a solemn expression and was about to practice lines with Shen Yu.

Shen Yu looked at Tao Mu who was empty-handed with a bewildered face, and couldn’t help but ask, “Mu Mu, where’s your script?”

“I don’t need the script.” Before joining the crew, Tao Mu had already memorized the entire script. Not just his own lines, but the lines of all the actors who played opposite him. In fact, in the entire crew, he was not the only one who could do this. At least Zhou Yanqing, Wang Jinsheng, Luo Daming and Yan Sheng could memorize the entire script. It also helped them better understand the characters and understand the script as a whole.

Actually, before joining the crew, Yan Sheng was also supervising Shen Yu on memorizing the script every day. It was a pity that Shen Yu didn’t persevere. At this moment, he could only look at Tao Mu with admiration: “You are amazing. I can’t do it. My brain is very stupid, and I quickly forget everything I have memorized. So I can only memorize it again l the morning of the scene.”

After speaking, he asked Tao Mu what tips he had for memorizing lines.

Tao Mu had a good memory by nature. In his previous life, he even remembered those boring financial theories and business cases from his textbooks that could only be memorized by rote memorization. So don’t even mention a classic script like “Black and White”. Besides, he had actually played the same role over and over again in his last life. He didn’t know how many times he had analyzed the film alone. Over time, his memory only got better and better. And after being reborn, Tao Mu could memorize any material or lines after reciting it at most three times.

“Recite it a few more times. Especially when reciting lines, try to imagine the plot scene in your mind. You can practice your expressions in the mirror, then find a few cameras to practice your positioning, and repeatedly adjust the details.” Tao Mu said very sincerely.

Unexpectedly, when Shen Yu heard these words, who knew what point had tickled his funny bone, but he giggled and laughed: “Isn’t that the same as fantasizing? It sounds like what a lunatic does!”

The several celebrities who were still on the set frowned at the same time. Yan Sheng, who had been paying attention to Shen Yu’s every frown and smile, smiled warmly and said, “Actually, being an actor can also be a very neurotic profession. In a single work of film, you need to fully experience the life of a stranger. You need to get to know him. Understand his emotions and desires, and be familiar with his thinking and logic. Analyzing the person’s words and deeds from the inside. This is not an easy task so a good actor needs to know a lot.”

If you want to act convincingly, you must have the deepest understanding of the character image. So good actors were also masters of life. Literature, history, philosophy, psychology, law, and social sciences, so long as there was a need, they must be able to have some knowledge in all kinds of professions and careers.

For example, Yan Sheng himself, his most serious moment was following along with intern doctors in a hospital for more than half a year, just to play the role of a doctor well. He even followed into the operating room, taking rounds of internships with a group of medical university interns. By the time the filming was over, Yan Sheng could even qualify for a nursing license himself.

Actually, Shen Yu was with Yan Sheng practically every day. If Yan Sheng practiced acting with him, Shen Yu’s acting skills would improve very quickly. It was a pity that Shen Yu himself had no willpower, and Yan Sheng was also reluctant to force him. When the two were together, more time was spent on meaningless sappy stuff. Especially after they got together officially, the two had even less scruples when they were in private.

This had caused Shen Yu’s acting skills to remain stagnant——not even at the level it was at this time in the previous life.

After all, in the previous life, there was Tao Mu, the vicious villain, who suppressed him in all directions in a mad dog-like manner for ten years straight. Even if it’s just for the sake of overcoming the difficulties Tao Mu threw his way, Shen Yu had to be patient and work hard to improve himself. So the food chain between the three had always been Tao Mu oppressing Shen Yu, Shen Yu crying to Yan Sheng, and Yan Sheng trying to suppress Tao Mu and avenge Shen Yu.

But in this life, Tao Mu, who was reborn, was enlightened and didn’t want to follow the plot. So he just onesidely retreated like this, and the motive force that had been responsible for driving Shen Yu in the original plot disappeared, and Shen Yu himself was not a person who worked hard of his own initiative. So naturally, he just continued his days passively and went with the flow.

So it was not unreasonable to say that comfort makes people degenerate, and hardship makes people stronger.

Of course Shen Yu knew Yan Sheng’s good intentions. But he always thought he didn’t need to work so hard. The reason why he joined the entertainment industry in the first place was because he thought being an actor was fun. He liked the feeling of being idolized by fans after he became a star. But he only liked the bright side of being a star. If you asked him to pay the price, for example, try to get him to roll in mud for the sake of filming, soak in cold water in the winter and NG over and over again, or even be like some actors who took so far they ended up being hospitalized after being injured in an accident during filming. Shen Yu was unwilling to do so.

Just like how teenagers love to play video games. Even if their parents and teachers try their best to stop it, if there was a chance, they would sneak to the Internet cafe. But if you ask them to take a break from school to become an e-sports player, hone their basic operational skills day after day, check the strategy review videos in the hopes of improving even just a fraction of their score, and stay up all night to fight bosses, they would not be willing.

Shen Yu was also in this state of mind now. Without the oppression of Tao Mu, the vicious villain, the little prince lived a particularly content and stable life. Although his career made no progress, the fans supported him and his love life was happy. The only regret was probably that Mrs. Shen still refused to forgive him and let him go back to the Shen family.

Then there was Tao Mu. The other still did not agree to be friends with him.

Thinking of this, Shen Yu couldn’t help but feel a little moody. When filming the next scene, he brought this little bit of emotion into the plot.

“Why did you become like this, Ah Ting?” Yan Yu was wearing a police uniform, holding a transcript and a pen in his hand, and looked at Zhou Yuanting, who was handcuffed to a chair, with a look of disappointment.

“With your ability, even if you can’t be a policeman, you could still do other things. You are so smart, you would always be the first in the police academy assessment. We said at the time that you would be a good policeman in the future when you went out into the field. But look what you look like now? How many times have you come in this year? You actually mix with those gangsters and hoodlums. Have you ever thought how sad your parents would be when they see you now? And Xiao Wen? She loves you so much, how sad it would be to see you become like this——this recognizable—— unrecognizable——”

“Cut!” Director Xu, who was sitting in front of the monitor, shouted.

Shen Yu immediately stood up and bowed apologetically to everyone: “Sorry, I NG-ed.”

Xu Musen waved his hand and said nothing: “Once more.”

Shen Yu sorted out his emotions. He sat in front of the camera, reciting the lines righteously: “Zhou Yuanting, how could you become like this now——”

“Cut!”

“I’m sorry.” Shen Yu took a deep breath and continued to recite: “Ah Ting, how could you become like this…..Do you know how sad your parents would be——”

“Cut!”

“Sorry.” Shen Yu rubbed his head. It was summer, and the temperature was very hot, and the lighting at the shooting scene was even hotter. Shen Yu slumped on the chair and let the makeup artist come forward to touch up his makeup.

Shen Yu’s acting skills were originally at the bottom of the crew. He was filming opposite with Tao Mu, and even though Tao Mu didn’t say a single line, Shen Yu still felt uncomfortable. When saying his lines, he would always pay attention to Tao Mu’s expressions and movements. Then he would be intimidated by Zhou Yuanting’s hostility. Leading to stumbles and mistakes when he spoke his lines. And coupled with the strict requirements of Director Xu. With just a few lines, he managed to NG more than ten times.

The lunch boxes were delivered.

It was like this every time, as soon as Shen Yu was the one in front of the camera, there would be NGs.

Director Xu frowned. He felt that Shen Yu’s emotions were not bad now and they should continue to film. If he waited until lunch was over before resuming, he was afraid that Shen Yu’s emotions wouldn’t be able to keep up, and it wouldn’t even meet the current standards.

But if the filming continued, Director Xu was not sure when Shen Yu would pass. The key was that Tao Mu was also hungry. He had accompanied Mr. Song and his two fathers to have morning tea in the morning. He woke up very early and didn’t eat much. So he was already a bit hungry after ten o’clock in the morning, and even hungrier now at half past twelve that his stomach started growling. It could even be heard clearly on the sounding device.

Now this was a bit funny.

Director Xu couldn’t make up his mind. At the critical moment, Tao Mu said, “Give me some food first.”

In the spirit of not sacrificing his own benefit, Tao Mu asked to change the script: “Anyway, the script did not mention the time when Zhou Yuanting’s gang was arrested and brought to the police station. So take it as it being lunchtime, and Yan Yu specially prepared a lunch box for Zhou Yuanting when he came to record his statement. It also makes sense in terms of details. After all, when the two were in the police academy, they were good brothers from the same dormitory.”

This idea…..seemed like a good idea! And it could also reflect Yan Yu’s personality from the details.

Director Xu discussed it with the screenwriter and finally decided to add such a scene.

So when the filming started next, there was such a scene.

Yan Yu entered the interrogation room with a lunch box and handed it to Zhou Yuanting: “Eat first.”

Zhou Yuanting, who was handcuffed to the chair, stretched out his legs and sat indolently, raising his handcuffed hands: “How am I to eat, Ah Sir.”

Yan Yu shook his head and released Zhou Yuanting’s handcuffs. Zhou Yuanting rotated his wrist, pulled apart the convenient chopsticks, opened the lunch box, and lowered his head to eat.

Tao Mu was really hungry. Therefore, Zhou Yuanting ate very deliciously in front of the camera. His face still had bruises and wounds left from the fight, and as he practically shoveled the food down his throat, it caused even Director Xu and the cameramen to swallow their excess saliva.

Yan Yu sat across the table and shook his head: “You still have the heart to eat, even I haven’t eaten yet.”

Zhou Yuanting kept his head down while eating without saying a word. He devoured the food in big mouthfuls so much so that he almost choked. Yan Yu hurriedly handed over a bottle of mineral water.

Zhou Yuanting unscrewed the bottle cap and raised his head to drink. The water bottle was tilted down in midair, and the collar of his clothes got wet when the mineral water splashed down. The camera moved down from Zhou Yuanting’s lips, and followed the path of those water droplets as they slid down his chin and over his neck and Adam’s apple. It gave him a kind of desperation that was deliberately concealed.

Yan Yu looked at Zhou Yuanting’s current appearance and rebuked lamentably: “Ah Ting, how did you become like this? Even if you can’t be a policeman, you can always do other things. You are so smart…..why do you want to mix in with those gangsters and hoodlums? Have you ever thought how sad your parents would be when they see you now? And Xiao Wen? She loves you so much, how sad it would be to see you look this unrecognizable now——”

Zhou Yuanting, who had been eating with his head down, heard the name Xiao Wen and gave a slight pause. He interrupted Yan Yu gloomily: “Are you and Xiao Wen together now?”

Yan Yu gave a slight pause: “Xiao Wen and I only got together half a year after you two broke up.”

Zhou Yuanting put down his chopsticks, poked his inner cheek with his tongue, and sneered with his head down.

Yan Yu frowned: “Ah Ting, don’t do this. Don’t you believe me? We were good brothers——”

“Good brother?” Zhou Yuanting leaned back on the chair and raised his eyebrows with the air of a proper hoodlum: “Have you ever regarded me as a brother?”

Before Yan Yu could speak, Zhou Yuanting asked again, “What’s your relationship with Yan Qi?”

Yan Yu’s face suddenly turned ashen, and he said angrily, “I don’t know this person. Our Yan family doesn’t have this person either.”

“That’s your family’s business.” Zhou Yuanting shrugged his shoulders and twisted his neck to loosen his muscles and bones: “Yan Yu, the reason why you can sit here in a police uniform today is not because you are better than me, nor because you are more on the side of justice than I am. But because your fate is better than mine. You have a good big brother who desperately covered for your ass. So why don’t you cut your crap about righteousness in front of me. Everyone in this world has the right to accuse me, Zhou Yuanting, for willingly corrupting myself, only you do not.”

Next, it was time for Shen Yu to speak his lines. But at the critical moment, Shen Yu made the old mistake of forgetting his words again.

Seeing that the scene was about to NG again, Tao Mu, who was slumped on the chair, glanced at Shen Yu and suddenly exploded. He raised his hand and flipped the rest of the lunch box on the table. Shen Yu was instantly stunned. Director Xu in front of the monitor was also stunned. The entire crew was stunned.

“Good brother? The good brother who robbed me of my future and slept with my woman? What right do you have to stand here and lecture at me?” Zhou Yuanting stood up suddenly, full of anger, pointing at Yan Yu and roaring: “From beginning to end, you don’t know anything, you just stand here and pretend to be innocent. We were both police officers, yet you were able to pass the examination despite having a big brother who is a higher up in the mafia, while I just went out to the club for one night, only to be expelled decisively. Why is this?”

“It’s because my fate is not good. I, Zhou Yuanting, was unlucky. But I’ll tell you now that I, Zhou Yuanting, won’t bend over for fate. You want to mess with me, it won’t be so easy. Sooner or later, I, Zhou Yuanting, will take back everything that belonged to me.”

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As Zhou Yuanting finished his declaration, he kicked at the chair in the interrogation room. The chair was kicked into the corner and bounced back, and the smashed armrests flew in all directions, to finally land on the ground, spinning for a while before stopping.

Shen Yu was frightened stupid. The whole set was terrified. They didn’t expect Tao Mu’s explosive scene to be so scary.

The whole set was so silent a pin dropping could be heard. After a long time, Director Xu, who was sitting in front of the monitor, came to his senses and shouted “cut” in a daze.

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Yao Wenxiao had been having a hard time recently. After the Yao family was expelled from the decision-making level of Sheng’an Group, their status in the Shanghai business community was not as good as before. Yao Wenxiao’s friends and neighbors also saw the wind and set the helm (TN: to be flexible and take advantage of the situation). Before, they were always on call, but now they couldn’t get far away enough.

When Yao Wenxiao had prestige in those days, there was no lack of scheming against people on his part by relying on his family background. Especially those who tried to get close to Shen Yu. Now that the Yao family was down and out, these people knew that while even a dead camel was bigger than a horse, they dared not stand up to Yao Wenxiao openly, but they could do it in secret and make things difficult for Yao Wenxiao’s media company.

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So after the New Year, Yao Wenxiao’s Yuxiao Media had faced a lot of trouble. The contracts that were originally signed were broken one after another, waves of company inspections emerged one after another, and other peers continued to reach out to grab market share, so Yao Wenxiao was really struggling to cope with the wreckage. He finally managed to settle these troubles, and before he could catch his breath, Shen Yu’s birthday had arrived.

When Yao Wenxiao remembered this, it was already the early morning of the second day. Regardless of the time, Yao Wenxiao immediately asked the secretary to book a plane ticket. When he was on the phone, old Mr. Yao came across him, and the two grandfather and grandson had a big fight about it.

Yao Shengan disagreed that Yao Wenxiao should still have contact with Shen Yu. He always believed that the Shen family was behind the Yao family’s fall. If Shen Chen hadn’t deliberately lured his son-in-law into borrowing from loan sharks, and instigated the loan sharks to coerce and induce his son-in-law to repay the money as soon as possible by secretly changing the purchase channel, the Sheng’an Group would never have gotten involved with the waste oil scandal at such a juncture.

If Tao Mu was a just opponent who made it clear he opposed the Yao family, then the Shen family was the kind despicable villain that put a knife in the back while pretending to be an ally. Yao Shengan’s loss to Tao Mu could be accepted and he was willing to admit defeat, but he could never forgive the Shen family’s behavior. So it was even more impossible to agree with his grandson still being involved with Shen Yu.

However, Yao Wenxiao and Shen Yu were childhood sweethearts who had grown up together. He had a deep-rooted love for Shen Yu, even if the Shen family betrayed the Yao family, Yao Wenxiao still could not bring himself to give up on Shen Yu. What was more, Shen Yu was not a true member of the Shen family——he was kicked out of the Shen family by Mrs. Shen.

Yao Wenxiao tried to persuade old Mr. Yao to accept Shen Yu, and even said absurd things like Shen Yu was Shen Yu, the Shen family was the Shen family, and Shen Yu had nothing to do with the Shen family. Old Mr. Yao couldn’t believe that his grandson could deceive himself to such a degree.

“You are always thinking about him, but Shen Yu may have already forgotten you a long time ago.” Old Mr. Yao sneered: “Even if I am an old man who doesn’t surf the Internet very much, I know that Shen Yu and the actor surnamed Yan are getting it on right now. He had been to Hong Kong for so long, but had he even called you once?”

“Even if Shen Yu is not the blood of the Shen family, he was raised by the Shen family. The Shen family is cold and selfish in nature. If our Yao family was still the old Yao family, there might still be a possibility for you and Shen Yu to be together. But now the Yao family is down and powerless. So even if you want to keep the canary, the owner of the canary would not agree.”

Not to mention the hatred between the Yao family and the Shen family, which was practically equivalent to that of killing one’s parents.

Yao Wenxiao didn’t believe his grandfather’s words. He insisted on coming to make up for Shen Yu’s birthday. After arriving at the Hong Kong Hotel overnight, he did not forget to take a shower, put effort into dressing up, and carefully prepared a birthday gift, before hurrying to the crew to visit the set.

He didn’t even bother to eat breakfast.

As a result, as soon as he entered the crew, he met Tao Mu, an enemy on a narrow path. When enemies meet their eyes become especially red. Yao Wenxiao did not dare to be as arrogant as before because of the situation. He could only barely suppress the anger in his heart and asked the assistant director of the crew to take him to Shen Yu’s dressing room.

This was Shen Yu’s first birthday after leaving the Shen family. Yao Wenxiao always paid attention to Shen Yu’s situation, and knew that after Shen Yu was driven out of the Shen family mansion by Mrs. Shen, life was not easy for the other. The flattering sycophants around him either sqw the wind and turned the helm or threw rocks down the well. Shen Yu didn’t even have Yao Wenxiao’s ability, so naturally he could only take all the negative stuff passively.

Yao Wenxiao felt distressed for Shen Yu, and while he was mired in trouble himself, he did not forget to help Shen Yu vent his grievances. For example, all the people who targeted Shen Yu in his previous crew were taught a lesson by Yao Wenxiao. The female No. 2 who bullied Shen Yu the most was even caught by the official wife of her bankroller and had coffee poured on her in public.

This time, when he came to Hong Kong to make up for Shen Yu’s birthday, Yao Wenxiao originally wanted to give Shen Yu a surprise. So he didn’t notify Shen Yu, and just came over.

However, as soon as he entered the dressing room and saw the situation inside, Yao Wenxiao’s heart sank. In Shen Yu’s dressing room, he actually saw another man with a naked upper body and in the middle of changing clothes.

The man’s appearance was very handsome, tall, with wide shoulders and long legs. He was wearing a pair of jeans, his hair was still wet, and his body still emitted hot water vapor. It looked like he had just taken a shower.

With Yao Wenxiao pushing the door open, Shen Yu and the man were also stunned. A trace of surprise flashed on Shen Yu’s face, and then he stood up happily: “Wen Xiao, are you here to see me?”

Yao Wenxiao glanced at Zhuo Yan with scrutiny, and then replied with a smile: “En, I came to make up for your birthday.”

Yao Wenxiao said, handed the carefully prepared gift to Shen Yu, and said apologetically, “I’m sorry, I’m late.”

“It doesn’t matter.” Shen Yu smiled and took the gift: “It’s good that you have the heart.”

“Who is this person?” Yao Wenxiao gestured at Zhuo Yan with his chin: “Also an actor in your crew? Don’t you have a separate dressing rooms in the crew?”

Although Yao Wenxiao was jealous, he didn’t disregard everything and just went and lost his temper——if it was before the Yao family fell into disrepair, Yao Wenxiao might be reckless and let his temper go as he pleased. But the experience of the past six months had made him deeply understand the truth of how much difficulty seemingly unimportant people could pose. Therefore, Yao Wenxiao didn’t want to garner enmity with anyone unless it was necessary.

Of course, all of this must be guaranteed on the premise that this man did not have any bad intentions towards Shen Yu.

Hearing Yao Wenxiao’s question, Shen Yu smiled sweetly. He subconsciously hooked Zhuo Yan’s arm and introduced, “His name is Zhuo Yan, he is my sister’s boyfriend. He is also my future brother-in-law.”

Zhuo Yan frowned, pulled out his arm calmly, and stretched out his hand to Yao Wenxiao: “Hello.”

It turned out to be Shen Yan’s boyfriend. Yao Wenxiao was relieved, and subconsciously felt that there was a wall between homosexuality and heterosexuality. Moreover, with Shen Yu’s simple, kind and noble character, he would never get involved with his brother-in-law. So Yao Wenxiao immediately laid down his vigilance. He also smiled and stretched out his hand: “I’m Yao Wenxiao, Shen Yu’s childhood friend.”

While he was talking, someone knocked on the door of the dressing room again. This time it was Yan Sheng and the crew’s script supervisor.

“Big brother Yan!” Shen Yu’s eyes brightened, and he rushed into Yan Sheng’s arms: “Why did you come to find me?”

“The director is calling for us.” Yan Sheng rubbed Shen Yu’s hair with a smile and pulled him into his arms: “Brother Yu called me first. I just finished styling, so we came over together. Are you all ready?”

It had only been less than an hour since they parted, but Yan Sheng missed Shen Yu very much. He didn’t want to be separated for even a moment.

Shen Yu’s face turned red from how hard he smiled. Looking up at his big brother Yan full of admiration, he nodded and said, “En. I’ve also done my styling. I’m just waiting for big brother Zhuo Yan to change his clothes. Then we’ll go out together.”

When Yan Sheng heard the words, he also glanced at Zhuo Yan. Zhuo Yan smiled and took the initiative to say thanks: “Thank you for borrowing me your clothes.”

Zhuo Yan’s own clothes were stained with prop paint and he didn’t want to wear the crew’s clothes. In the end, Yan Sheng came forward and gave Zhuo Yan a set of jean and shirt from a brand that he had never worn.

It was just that Zhuo Yan was half a head taller than Yan Sheng. The jeans that were originally just the right length turned into cropped trousers on his body and bare ankles were exposed. It made his legs look even longer.

“You’re welcome.” Yan Sheng pointed to Zhuo Yan’s shoes and said with a smile, “I see some paint on your shoes. What size shoes do you wear, I’ll ask the assistant to buy a new pair for you.”

“No need. I’ll just wipe it and it’s all good.” Zhuo Yan shook his head with a wry smile: “It’s really an unlucky disaster.”

Zhuo Yan came to the crew for the first time and did not understand the normal operation of the crew. Seeing that the studio was full of people and disorder, he didn’t doubt at all that there was actually anything tricky about his experience.

But Yan Sheng noticed. However, he didn’t point it out either. In the final analysis, after Yan Sheng and Shen Yu got together, they turned into love fools under the radiation of the plot halo. But in matters other than Shen Yu, Yan Sheng was quite normal. He had always made sure to be amiable to others, and didn’t like trouble that could be avoided. Therefore, on the matter of Zhuo Yan, it was also wise to keep silent.

Yao Wenxiao watched from the sidelines, and kept feeling that he was a little out of place. Originally, he came to make up for Shen Yu’s birthday with enthusiasm. But at this moment, seeing Shen Yu and Yan Sheng’s sticky appearance, his heart also froze over for the most part.

“Xiao Yu. Are you and Yan Sheng…..” Yao Wenxiao couldn’t help but ask.

Script Supervisor Yu, Yan Sheng’s assistant, and Zhuo Yan were all in the dressing room. Zhuo Yan and Yan Sheng’s assistants were their own people from a certain point of view, and it didn’t matter. But Script Supervisor Yu was an outsider no matter from what standpoint.

That Yao Wenxiao asked such a sensitive topic in front of outsiders, even though the relationship between Shen Yu and Yan Sheng was basically already a tacit secret in the crew. But Yan Sheng still felt unhappy.

Shen Yu didn’t think that much. However, he always kept in mind what Wen Shijin told him before he left that he must not expose their relationship. Hearing this, he subconsciously said, “Brother Yan is the main protagonist of our crew. He has helped me a lot. He is also my best friend.”

With that said, Shen Yu hugged his arms around Yan Sheng’s arm and pulled him over to introduce Yao Wenxiao: “Big brother Yan, he is Yao Wenxiao. He is the best brother I grew up with. You two have met before.”

When Shen Yu was filming in H Town and Shanghai before, no matter how busy Yao Wenxiao was, he would always try his best to find time to visit Shen Yu on set. So Yan Sheng and Yao Wenxiao did meet but did not have too much contact. Because Yao Wenxiao subconsciously didn’t think that the Shen family would agree to Shen Yu being with an actor. Even if the actor was a famous one.

But now, Yao Wenxiao looked coldly at Shen Yu’s hands that wrapped possessively around Yan Sheng’s arm. Sure enough, he was careless. Perhaps he should investigate Yan Sheng more fully.

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Zhuo Yan, who was now fully dressed, looked at the three people standing in front of him with an expression of interest. Finally, his eyes fell on Shen Yu’s seemingly innocent and delicate face.

Zhuo Yan was also very curious, whether this Shen Yu was really a Silly White Sweet, and didn’t realize the thoughts of the other two men at all; or was he deliberately ignoring the undercurrents between the two men. Or maybe, Shen Yu was simply enjoying the feeling of having two men infatuated with him and felt jealousy of each other over him?

TN: bonus chapters for WG and VCF to be updated on 5/27, 5/30, 5/31 to tide you guys over until we see again on June 6!

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Because he woke up earlier in the morning, after breakfast, it was not even seven o’clock so Tao Mu wanted to return to the crew early.

Liu Yao, Meng Qi and Mr. Song had not seen Tao Mu filming before. Since it was rare to come to Hong Kong, they really wanted to go to the crew to visit the set. Of course Tao Mu would not refuse such a request. He also specially drove the nanny car Li Xiaoheng sent him to the studio for fear that his two fathers and grandfather would become tired during the visit.

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The first scene to be filmed today was the confrontation between the mob and the police. So early in the morning, Zhou Yanqing and Wang Jinsheng also rushed over to put on makeup. As top superstars in the entertainment circle of Hong Kong, and also evergreen trees in the Chinese film and television industry. Even to the mainland, the two big names were also very well-known. At least people of the age of Liu Yao and Meng Qi could say without exaggeration that they really watched the movies of these two superstars——to be precise, their action movies——while growing up.

It was the most glorious period of Hong Kong film and television dramas, and it also represented the youth of a generation.

Tao Mu had been hanging out in Night since he was a child, and he had also seen those collectible DVDs in Liu Yao’s bookcase. Of course, he knew his two fathers’ love for Hong Kong superstars. So he took the initiative to ask Zhou Yanqing and Wang Jinsheng for a photo together and autograph. Zhou Yanqing and Wang Jinsheng knew that these were Tao Mu’s family, and of course they would not refuse. When Liu Yao, Meng Qi, and Mr. Song entered the crew to visit the set, they still kept in mind the code of conduct that Tao Mu should not be embarrassed. The main thing was that they must never ask for autographs lest it affect the normal shooting of the crew.

Only to find that Tao Mu took the initiative to bring it up, and Zhou Yanqing and Wang Jinsheng also showed great enthusiasm. So of course they wouldn’t refuse. It just didn’t occur to them that when taking pictures, enemies could meet on a narrow path, meeting Shen Yan and Zhuo Yan who also came to visit Shen Yu’s set.

Shen Yan also didn’t expect that she would actually see these people again on the set. Even more, she didn’t expect that a bunch of old men decided to follow the fashion trend and chase stars. The new hatred and the old enmity added up, and she rolled her eyes on the spot and snorted: “Bunch of country bumpkins.”

Zhou Yanqing, who was taking a photo, frowned and was about to open his mouth to smooth over the mood when he saw Shen Yan’s attitude as if she was the owner of the place, pointing at Liu Yao and the others and said, “Your crew management is too lax. Letting in all kinds of random idle people. How can you still film well?”

Then Xu Musen, who also came over, frowned. As a well-known commercial film director in Hong Kong, Director Xu had a strong desire for control on his set. Although the Shen Group was an investor in the crew, Director Xu still wouldn’t make much concessions on filming. When the Shen family father and son forcibly inserted Shen Yu into the crew regardless of his wishes, Xu Musen was very dissatisfied. Fortunately, apart from this incident, the Shen Group did not participate in the specific management of the crew so the two sides could just barely keep the peace.

Now, as soon as Shen Yan entered the crew, she started to provoke trouble. Although Shen Yan’s purpose was to embarrass Liu Yao and the others. But in Director Xu’s ears, it was clear that the investor was dissatisfied with him as a director.

“Miss Shen said this on behalf of yourself, or on behalf of the Shen Group?” Direcror Xu asked with a sullen face.

Before Shen Yan could speak, Zhuo Yan said with a smile, “Director Xu, don’t misunderstand. What Shen Yan just said was just words of anger. It can’t represent anyone. In fact, we have no way to represent the Shen Group. We came here this time just to visit Shen Yu. It was his birthday yesterday.”

As Zhuo Yan spoke, his eyes fell on Tao Mu unconsciously.

Tao Mu replied expressionlessly: “It’s good that Miss Shen can understand her identity. Since she is here to visit Shen Yu, she is a guest. The proper way of a guest is to adhere to the owner’s rules. Miss Shen should not overstep your bounds.”

“That’s none of your business!” The person Shen Yan hated the most was none other than Tao Mu. Although she didn’t even know why she hated Tao Mu so much: “Our Shen family is an investor in the cast of “Black and White”. Since I am a member of the Shen family, I can be regarded as half the owner of the cast. It’s you who, as an employee, when seeing the boss, has no manners at all. Sure enough, people who have no parents have no family education.”

“It’s not uncommon for me to have no parents and no family education. But Miss Shen keeps speaking of family education so it seems that you are very confident in your family education.” Tao Mu looked at Shen Yan from head to toe, and said without pretense: “Or it can be said that the family style of the Shen family is just unique.”

Of course Shen Yan could hear Tao Mu’s sarcasm towards her: “You——”

“Enough.” Zhuo Yan’s brows were so furrowed that he could clamp a fly in between. He grabbed Shen Yan’s arm and said impatiently, “Don’t make a fool of yourself. If you keep making trouble, you will lose the face of your Shen family.”

Don’t know what kind of hypnosis Zhuo Yan administered onto Shen Yan after they returned. But Shen Yan, who never listened to other people’s advice, saw Zhuo Yan’s face and she really did stop talking. She just snorted coldly: “You just know to scold me.”

Zhuo Yan ignored Shen Yan, but looked at Tao Mu apologetically: “Mr. Tao, please don’t stoop to quibbling with her——”

Before he could finish speaking, Zhuo Yan was doused with red paint from head to toe. It turned out that an employee of the props team was passing by carrying a paint bucket, and accidentally bumped into Zhuo Yan. The top paint bucket was overturned, and all the paint inside was spilled.

“What’s the matter with you guys!” Shen Yan, who was standing beside Zhuo Yan, didn’t escape the paint bath either. The hem of her expensive dress was dyed with a large amount of paint, and she looked particularly disheveled.

Shen Yan jumped angrily: “In such a big place, where could you not walk instead, but you just had to go this way. Did you do it on purpose?”

The staff of the props team also felt particularly wronged: “We are going to set up the set. Of course we have to go this way. It’s you, in such a big set, you just had to stand in the middle to block the way.”

“You actually dare to talk back? It’s obviously you who——”

“Enough!” Zhuo Yan grabbed Shen Yan who was screaming and about to go crazy. He deeply felt that he had lost face for finding such an unrestrained girlfriend: “Director Xu, please find a place for us to change our clothes.”

Xu Musen shook his head and said directly: “Since you are here to visit Shen Yu, go to Shen Yu’s dressing room to change your clothes, and also take a shower by the way.” As for Shen Yan, she was naturally arranged in Fang Ruoti’s dressing room.

Shen Yan disliked that the clothes the crew’s props had were not good enough, and even asked Shen Yu’s assistant to go to the downtown business district to buy her new clothes.

Before leaving, she also didn’t forget to give Tao Mu a vicious look. Shen Yan felt that she and Tao Mu were incompatible, so every time they met, she would always meet with misfortune.

This Tao Mu was definitely an unlucky curse to her!

Tao Mu looked up at the sky innocently. He waited until Shen Yan and Zhuo Yan left in embarrassment. Only then did he secretly look at Li Xiaoheng.

Li Xiaoheng raised his eyebrows and signed with his eyes: Didn’t you say you didn’t want to see some certain people?

Tao Mu couldn’t help laughing.

Xu Musen looked at the two prop masters with an exasperated expression: “What are you doing, do you think the set is not messy enough?”

The two props masters knew that they were wrong, so they put the paint buckets on the car in a disheartened manner. But they were not afraid. Not mentioning that Director Xu had always been protective of his people, the price that Li Xiaoheng gave to bribe them was enough to cover their salary working in the crew.

Director Xu also knew that the reason why the two prop masters were so daring must be because someone was their backer. But he didn’t want to bother with it, he just looked at Tao Mu with some exasperation: “Some netizens took pictures of the conflict between you guys in Victoria Harbour last night and posted them on FlyNews.com.”

Director Xu let out a long sigh: “I know you young people have tempers. But don’t make it too difficult for me. At least in the crew, filming should be done well. Any grievances should be resolved in private.”

One side was the crew investor, and the other side was the capital tycoon worth tens of billions. He couldn’t afford to offend anyone, and he didn’t want to offend anyone. He just wanted to finish filming the movie smoothly.

“Don’t blame me. I never cause trouble.” Tao Mu spread his hands innocently: “But if someone deliberately jumps in front of me to find fault, you can’t let me swallow it down, right?”

Director Xu had nothing to say. He could only call the script supervisor with a look of irritability: “Why haven’t Yan Sheng and Shen Yu come yet? Go over there and have a look, urge the styling and makeup, must everyone wait for the two of them?”

At this moment, Director Xu was very fortunate that today’s first scene was a group scene. And Shen Yu’s role was also included. At that time, he would NG a few more times, driving these people to the point of exhaustion, then they won’t be able to have any energy left to cause trouble.

The script supervisor was implicated, so he could only jog to Shen Yu’s dressing room to call them.

Director Xu pressed his temples at the oncoming headache. Before he could return to the monitor and sit down, he saw the assistant director lead a young man over.

“Director, he said his name is Yao Wenxiao, and he came to visit Shen Yu.”

Compared with more than half a year ago, Yao Wenxiao at this time looked a bit down on his luck. This did not refer to Yao Wenxiao’s clothing and appearance, but his aura. The young man who used to be proud and arrogant became much depressed after the heavy blow. There was a bit more gloom in his eyes than before. Seeing Tao Mu and Li Xiaoheng standing beside Director Xu, very obvious hatred and hostility flashed in those eyes.

It could be said that Tao Mu and Li Xiaoheng caused the Yao family to fall to this point. So it was no wonder that Yao Wenxiao had an attitude of seeing his hated enemy as soon as he saw the two of them.

Director Xu only felt his head hurt even more. He also couldn’t figure out whether Shen Yu and Tao Mu were just born with energy fields they simply couldn’t mesh. Anyway, the relatives and friends of these two people were definitely like ice and fire.

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“You can take Mr. Yao directly to Shen Yu’s dressing room.”

The filming was about to take place, and Director Xu didn’t want to have any more troubles so he just separated the two sides. The assistant director also knew the situation here, and nodded immediately: “Mr. Yao, please come with me.”

Yao Wenxiao took a deep look at Tao Mu before turning around and leaving.

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After getting off the Ferris wheel, Tao Mu’s phone practically exploded with calls. Da Mao, Xiao Pang, Dean Tao, Feng Yuan, the three roommates, Gou Rixin and other friends called to wish Tao Mu a happy birthday.

Da Mao and Xiao Pang were still exclaiming on the phone, saying that if it weren’t for the fact that their passport had not been issued in time, they would have come with CEO Li. But after Tao Mu returned to Beijing, this birthday had to be made up.

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“Our gifts are ready.” Everyone said that hot weather causes weight loss. But the way Pang Yue spent this summer vacation, it could only be described as nourishment. His round face was so round, even the phone screen could hardly fit it all. The nickname of Xiao Pang was about to develop into Da Pang soon. (TN: ‘little fatty’ to ‘big fatty’)

Tao Mu just saw Zhuo Yan’s face, and inevitably recalled the bad things in his previous life. Seeing that Xiao Pang, whose death was caused by Zhuo Yan, was still bouncing around like a yoga ball, he felt a lot better.

Pang Yue obviously didn’t know that his image in his childhood friend’s eyes was just a lively yoga ball and was still enthusiastically chatting with Tao Mu about his birthday plans after returning to Beijing: “I have been discussing with Da Mao for a long time, and I feel that every birthday ended up being celebrated with a meal, and then going to karaoke or clubbing. This process is just too boring. So let’s switch it up this year.”

“A new club for space flight simulation training has just opened in Beijing. Da Mao and I have gone to test it out. I think it’s pretty good. When you come back, we’ll take you there. Maybe you’ll get the role of an astronaut in the future. We’ll be giving you training in advance.”

Wang Ye waited by the side for a long time, and finally found a chance to grab the phone: “There is also the F1 Club. We can treat you to a day on the race tracks.”

Having been together since childhood, Da Mao and Xiao Pang knew Tao Mu’s temperament. Knowing that this dude was an adrenaline addict and liked to play stimulating things. What bungee diving, rock climbing, roller coaster, that was all old play for them. What the trend now was speed and passion, and even the earth’s gravity was almost unable to stop them.

“Okay.” Tao Mu looked at the screen of the mobile phone, and the two faces squeezed on it. He smiled and said, “I’ll listen to your arrangement. I’ll be waiting.”

Li Xiaoheng came out of the bathroom after taking a shower, and saw that Tao Mu was still half lying on the sofa chatting with the two of them. Li Xiaoheng glanced at the time, it was almost half past eleven and there was still filming tomorrow.

“Don’t chat anymore. Go take a shower.” Li Xiaoheng went around behind the sofa and patted Tao Mu on the shoulder: “Didn’t we promise to take Grandpa out for morning tea tomorrow morning?”

Mr. Song was getting older, so he didn’t sleep as much. He woke up early and got hungry early. So they planned to get up at 5:30 tomorrow morning to have morning tea.

Tao Mu yawned and waved at the two in the video call: “Then let’s stop here for now.”

Li Xiaoheng took the phone over and watched as Tao Mu got up from the sofa and staggered into the bathroom, forgetting to take a change of clothes.

Li Xiaoheng put the phone on the coffee table to mute, went into the bedroom and got a new set of pajamas, plus new underwear, and took it to Tao Mu in the bathroom.

The partition glass in the bathroom was frosted. It was misted over by the heat, and one couldn’t see anything clearly, only a vague white outline.

Li Xiaoheng took a few secret glances before he quietly exited.

After thinking for a while, he knocked on the door again before going in. And then asked seriously: “Would you like your back rubbed?”

“No need.” Tao Mu was washing his hair. The foam gushed down the water.

In the hot summer, Tao Mu had to shower at least two or three times a day. He was currently impatiently rubbing his back.

Seeing that his lover did not pick up his ulterior motive. Li Xiaoheng let out a “oh” with a little regret, and silently exited.

After thinking about it, he went in again. Taking the hair dryer out.

So when Tao Mu got out of the shower with his wet hair and was looking for the hair dryer, Mr. Li could say very considerately: “You’ve been walking around all day, you must be very tired. Sit down. I’ll blow your hair for you.”

Tao Mu had a dry towel on his head and wore a long bathrobe tied close. He sat without any guard next to Li Xiaoheng.

Li Xiaoheng only felt hot and humid air blowing towards his face. It smelled like refreshing shower gel, lively and fragrant.

Li Xiaoheng put the hair dryer on the coffee table and wiped Tao Mu’s hair with the towel first. His movements were particularly gentle, but also firm. While wiping his hair, he gave Tao Mu a massage.

First a head massage, then a shoulder and neck massage.

Tao Mu was nineteen years old this year. The body that had just matured had not completed a thorough transformation, and still had the characteristic slenderness of teenagers. But under Tao Mu’s deliberate training, it wasn’t the thin lanky figure of a boy who lacked exercise.

Light muscles covered the slender body, the limbs were well-proportioned, and the lines were smooth, like a wild leopard on the African savannah. Even laying there lazily, it emitted an intimidating air of deterrence that seemed as if it was about to spring up and pounce at any time. A beauty that was to the point of impossible.

Tao Mu squinted slightly and let Li Xiaoheng’s fingers run through his hair. The cool breeze of the hair dryer swept through the hair. The quiet room was filled with humming. Like a lullaby, Tao Mu’s eyes fluttered and he fell asleep after a while.

Li Xiaoheng dried Tao Mu’s hair and then gave Tao Mu a back and waist massage. The comfortable Tao Mu stretched out on the sofa, but still didn’t wake up.

Don’t know since when, but Tao Mu, who originally suffered insomnia and couldn’t sleep all night, slept more and more peacefully beside Li Xiaoheng.

Li Xiaoheng lowered his head and chuckled, and picked up their leopard and stuffed him under the quilt, considerately tucking the corners of the quilt in. He quietly closed the bedroom door and walked into the study. The acquisition negotiation with Party B had reached the most critical juncture, and Li Xiaoheng must adjust the negotiation plan according to the negotiation process every day. In addition, Xiaoheng Capital’s large-scale investment of more than 50 million must also be confirmed by his signature. Moreover, the online shopping platform jointly developed by Xiaoheng Capital and FlyNews.com would also be launched soon, and the Skynet system jointly developed by Xiaoheng Capital and Skynet Technology, as well as the Ministry of Public Security of China, also required Li Xiaoheng to keep an eye on the progress.

It was a lot of work. Li Xiaoheng also specially set aside a day today to accompany Tao Mu on his birthday. The work that was postponed naturally had to be made up and he would need to pull an all-nighter to do so.

So when Tao Mu woke up from a full sleep the next morning, what he saw was that Li Xiaoheng had drank two full pots of coffee, and was still sitting in front of the computer and typing on the keyboard with energy. Various materials and folders were spread out on the desk, and there were even stacks of documents that had been processed by the feet.

“You haven’t slept all night?” Tao Mu frowned. Thinking of Li Xiaoheng who flew to Beijing in person yesterday and even brought over Grandpa Song, Liu Yao and Meng Qi. Then spent another afternoon making a birthday cake personally, and later accompanying them to dinner and sightseeing in the evening. He immediately realized why Li Xiaoheng was working so hard: “Sorry about wasting so much of your time. You have to stay up all night to work overtime.”

“I was preparing for my boyfriend’s birthday. How could things between lovers be a waste of time? It’s called fun.” Li Xiaoheng asked and answered himself. He got up and walked in front of Tao Mu, leaning over with the intention of giving a good morning kiss. But Tao Mu quickly covered his mouth and took a step back to avoid it.

“I didn’t brush my teeth!” Tao Mu mumbled. It had to be said that a certain someone’s idol baggage had already seeped deep into the bone marrow. For example, after eating or before brushing his teeth and rinsing his mouth, he would resolutely refrain from any intimate actions.

Tao Mu hurriedly ran into the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face. Li Xiaoheng also followed behind with a big wolf tail and a smile. Standing in front of the sink with Tao Mu, brushing his teeth while looking at the mirror.

After washing up, Tao Mu wiped his face with a towel and asked, “Today aren’t you mpfh-——”

Before he finished speaking, Li Xiaoheng had already pounced and pressed him against the wall. Li Xiaoheng also cradled the back of Tao Mu’s head very carefully with his palm, and then kissed him fiercely——the way he kissed, it was completely unlike that of an inexperienced beginner.

After a long while, Li Xiaoheng let go of the panting Tao Mu, brushed the tip of his nose with Tao Mu’s nose, and chuckled breathlessly, “Good morning.”

Tao Mu was panting quietly, his cheeks were slightly red, and when he raised his eyes slightly, there was even a shimmering wetness at the corners of his eyes: “Aren’t you inexperienced?”

“But I’m eager to learn.” Li Xiaoheng leaned down again and kissed the corner of Tao Mu’s mouth: “Last night, I checked the relevant tutorials on the Internet. I followed the textbook. After all, I am also a top student.”

“When I was studying in the US, I had to memorize words for an hour every morning when I got up.” Li Xiaoheng said, suddenly changing the subject. Tao Mu was just wondering why Li Xiaoheng suddenly mentioned this matter when he heard Li Xiaoheng seriously proposing: “I think the practice of any skill is the same as studying. It’s like sailing against the current, if you don’t advance, you will retreat. Therefore, in order to let us familiarize ourselves with this skill as soon as possible, every morning after getting up, and before going to bed at night, what do you think about an hour of practice each?”

Tao Mu looked up at the serious Li Xiaoheng. People who didn’t know might really think that he was discussing the learning of some professional skill.

This person always had the ability to say embarrassing things seriously.

“One hour is too long.” Tao Mu blinked and said truthfully: “And I have filming, you also need to go to work. We can’t practice every day.”

“Then we must hurry up and race against the clock.” Li Xiaoheng kept one hand cradling Tao Mu’s head, as the other hand pinched Tao Mu’s chin: “You might not know, but we top students generally like to make reasonable use of snatches of time. Only in this way can we ensure that we learn more knowledge in the same amount of time. Especially for those academic fields that we have never been exposed to before.”

Li Xiaoheng’s gaze trailed down, from Tao Mu’s finely defined eyebrows, to the bridge of his tall nose, and then to the lips that were pursed as he snickered. His expression was so very serious like that of a freshman who was about to enter the laboratory, especially solemn and earnest.

Tao Mu couldn’t take it anymore. He felt that their boss Li was really too good at flirting. In the relationship of partners one must either advance or retreat. Tao Mu was not to be outdone. He broke free from Li Xiaoheng’s hold, and pushed Li Xiaoheng against the wall: “You can be so skillful in an academic field that you have never been in contact with before, so what happened to the clumsiness you mentioned?”

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“After all, I’m a high-achieving student.” Li Xiaoheng responded in a particularly righteous and matter-of-fact manner, wrapping his arms around Tao Mu’s waist: “Us Penn students have a strong spirit of academic study. Even freshmen also have the ambition to become a postdoctoral fellow.”

Li Xiaoheng lowered his head and kissed Tao Mu, murmuring, “Those of us in academic research have to study for a lifetime.” So he didn’t lie.

“And moreover, we also apply what we have learned.”

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“That person just now was Shen Yan’s boyfriend named Zhuo Yan. Do you know him?”

Tao Mu was obviously affected by the quarrel with the Shen family just now. During the rest of the sightseeing, even though Tao Mu tried his best to hide it, everyone could still feel Tao Mu’s absent-mindedness. So it didn’t take long for Mr. Song to excuse himself to go back to the hotel to sleep with the excuse of being old and lacking energy.

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However, Mr. Song just took a nap in the hotel for an afternoon.

Tao Mu felt very guilty. Everyone came here to celebrate his birthday only for the birthday star to be such a mood damper.

“Why don’t we go to the Ferris wheel? Or go to Disneyland.” Tao Mu psyched himself up and suggested with a smile, “I’ve been busy filming for the past few months since I came to Hong Kong. I haven’t been to Disneyland yet.”

Seeing Tao Mu’s eagerness to to pretend that everything was well, Meng Qi smiled slightly. He said, “Then let’s go to the Ferris wheel first. We can sit on a high vantage point and enjoy the night view of Victoria Harbour. It’ll be a break from walking.”

A Ferris wheel could seat four people in one capsule. So Tao Mu and Li Xiaoheng sat in the same capsule, while Liu Yao, Meng Qi and Mr. Song sat in another. Mr. Song didn’t want to be a third wheel, and wanted to sit alone but no would agree.

Meng Qi said with a smile: “The two of us are different from those two young ones. How old are we already? We don’t care to be so romantic.”

Liu Yao, who wanted to be romantic in fact, also nodded in agreement. Although it was a bit regrettable, there were still opportunities for romance in the future. But they couldn’t let the old man ride the Ferris wheel by himself. After all, the old man had never sat on this thing before. In case he became afraid of the height, uncomfortable, or scared, with them sitting together they could take care of each other.

As for Li Xiaoheng and Tao Mu, they obviously didn’t need to worry about them.

Before getting on the Ferris wheel, Li Xiaoheng bought all kinds of snacks for everyone to pass the time while waiting for the Ferris wheel to rise slowly and leisurely. While peeling the chestnuts for Tao Mu, Li Xiaoheng suddenly asked a question. The question was straight to the point and did not let Tao Mu even have a chance to escape.

“Why do you ask that?” Tao Mu hesitated for a while, and then replied, “This is the first time in this life that we’ve met.”

“I just felt that your attitude towards him was very particular.” Li Xiaoheng held Tao Mu’s right hand, which was unconsciously clenched into a fist, spread out his palm, and put the peeled chestnuts on it: “You seem to care about him very much.”

The plump chestnuts were still steaming and looked quite chubby. The warm residual warmth spread across the palm of his hand. Tao Mu stared blankly at the chestnuts, not knowing what to say.

It was not like he could say that he was reborn and that in his last life, he was with Zhuo Yan, and even spent a total of seven years together day and night. Only in the end, lovers turned against each other and became enemies. He put Zhuo Yan in jail and committed suicide by jumping off the building himself.

“It’s not that I care much about that person. I just don’t want to see that person. I don’t even want to mention that person’s name. It’s best to stay away from him in this life.” Tao Mu frowned and looked troubled. He didn’t want to mention Zhuo Yan in front of Li Xiaoheng. He didn’t even want to mention the bad things in his previous life in front of Li Xiaoheng. But he didn’t know how to explain the changes in his emotional state when facing Zhuo Yan.

He was worried that a little carelessness would cause Li Xiaoheng to misunderstand.

Li Xiaoheng looked at Tao Mu’s troubled and hesitant look, and suddenly said, “I want to kiss you.”

“Ah, ah?” Tao Mu regained his senses and looked at Li Xiaoheng blankly. The topic was changing too fast!

“Although we’ve been officially dating for a very short time and it’s not even more than a month.” Li Xiaoheng leaned in front of Tao Mu and stared into Tao Mu’s eyes gently, their breath mixing: “But I want to give you my first kiss. Would you like it as an additional birthday present?”

Tao Mu looked into Li Xiaoheng’s eyes and suddenly felt a little nervous. He pursed his lips subconsciously, his gaze evading a little: “You can just kiss if you want. We are officially dating. This is your right…..”

Before he could finish speaking, he was blocked by Li Xiaoheng bowing his head and touching his own against his lips.

Li Xiaoheng wrapped him tightly in his arms, one hand hugged Tao Mu’s back and caressed gently, while the other hand cradled and protected the back of Tao Mu’s head as he pressed him into the corner of the seat.

Tao Mu’s lips were soft, but not warm. His whole person huddled within his arms obediently, motionless.

Li Xiaoheng moved back slightly, carefully observing Tao Mu’s expression.

Tao Mu had no expression. His whole person was still cautiously and thoughtfully looking at him: “If you want, tonight I can——”

“No hurry.” Li Xiaoheng gently stroked the back of Tao Mu’s head, wrapped the person in his arms and adjusted into a comfortable posture. He kept feeling that the question he had just asked had upset Tao Mu. Although he didn’t know how upset he was. But he didn’t want Tao Mu to make any decisions on impulse.

Anyway, they still have a lifetime ahead of them, and there was no need to rush on any details.

“Confessing, holding hands, and kissing, I will follow the procedure step by step. I hope that when we are together, every detail will come naturally. Instead of you forcing yourself to accommodate me.” Li Xiaoheng played with Tao Mu’s hand, the chestnuts in his palm had already cooled. Li Xiaoheng lowered his head, plucked the chestnuts in Tao Mu’s palm, and ate them himself. Then he peeled a fresh one for Tao Mu: “Eat this while it’s hot.”

This time, Li Xiaoheng directly fed the chestnut into Tao Mu’s mouth.

“You don’t like that Zhuo Yan, you don’t want to see him, and you don’t want to mention him anymore. Then we won’t mention him in the future.” Li Xiaoheng wrapped him in his arms, kissed Tao Mu’s cheek, and coaxed: “I’m not angry. I just hope that you can tell me directly if you’re unhappy. If you don’t want to say anything, I’ll just accompany you quietly. I don’t have to get to the bottom of everything.”

The difference between Li Xiaoheng and anyone else was that Li Xiaoheng possessed a strong confidence in his own ability.

As the eldest son of the Li family, Li Xiaoheng grew up in an extremely favourable environment since he was a child. As the heir of the Li family, Li Xiaoheng received the most strict and rigorous teaching from childhood to adulthood. A strong family background, extremely strong luck, coupled with strong personal ability, ensured that Li Xiaoheng sailed through life without any trouble since his birth 26 years ago. He never believed that there was anything in this world that he couldn’t do. He also didn’t believe that there were people better than him in this world.

So even though Li Xiaoheng was keenly aware that Tao Mu’s mood was different when facing Zhuo Yan, the confident boss didn’t worry for even a moment. There was none of the jealousy that Tao Mu was vaguely worried about.

It was not that Li Xiaoheng didn’t care about Tao Mu. He just believed in his own judge of character and personal charm more——Li Xiaoheng believed that the Tao Mu he liked was definitely not the kind of superficial person who was fickle with his affections. What was more, Tao Mu’s anger, disdain and disapproval when facing Zhuo Yan were not fake.

It was not possible that Li Xiaoheng, who had minored in psychology, couldn’t even distinguish simple emotions.

“I’m not angry. I’m just worried that you will suppress and hold back everything when you encounter unpleasant things, suffocating yourself.” Li Xiaoheng patiently explained to Tao Mu, and then peeled another chestnut and fed it to Tao Mu.

“That Zhuo Yan is not as handsome as me, not as old as me, not as tall as me, not as good as me, not as capable as me, and still has such a bad temper. Before dating, he not only didn’t carefully observe what the woman is truly like, but halfway through the process he regrets it and likes to use breaking up to threaten the woman. At first glance, you can tell he is not a good person at all.” Although he was secretly self-confident in his heart, Li Xiaoheng still habitually made an all-round evaluation of the person who caused his CEO Tao’s emotions to fluctuate so greatly. And secretly praise himself by the way.

“I’m different. My pursuit of you was carefully considered. Before chasing you, I wrote a relevant action plan. There were also a pile of analysis reports on your preferences and temperament. I even got someone to look at our fortunes as lovers. Short-term and long-term plans have been done, market research and interest analysis have been done. I made sure I only want to grow old with you for the rest of my life before I permitted myself to launch an offensive pursuit.”

CEO Li proudly rested his chin on Tao Mu’s neck, and rambled on about his good qualities: “So you see, whether it is as a business partner or life partner, you must find a reliable person like me. Because marriage is a lifetime thing. Since we are dating with the purpose of marriage in mind, we must carefully plan everything when we invest our emotions into the relationship. This includes all the risks that will be encountered after the establishment of the project, as well as the cooperating relationship between the two partners.”

CEO Li gave a long speech, and couldn’t help stepping on a certain someone’s foot again: “One must not be impulsive, deciding to date someone willy-nilly. And afterwards, insist on breaking up because the partner does not meet your requirements.” It was not only a waste of time, but also harmful to others and harmful to themselves. The most important thing was that the risk faced when the project was split, sometimes it was very likely to result in a loss on both parties.

Being hand fed by the boss, while listening to the analysis of the boss, Tao Mu’s cheek bulged out from time to time. He turned his head to look at Li Xiaoheng who was wrapped around his whole body. As expected of a capital boss who had eaten steak for four years, he was tall and broad-chested, and when his arms were firmly around Tao Mu, Tao Mu felt a strong sense of security.

This person seemed to be able to keep a clear mind when encountering anything, keeping calm when encountering any emergencies, and able to settle any bad situation.

Tao Mu had to admit that there was a reason why he accepted Li Xiaoheng’s pursuit so quickly. The main reason was that in his previous life he envied Li Xiaoheng’s way of acting. Decisive, assertive and resolute, sticking to his own opinions in everything he did, and not depending on anyone’s will. Nor would he be affected by the situation at the time. Even Shen Yu and the plot halo couldn’t affect him.

And this man was upright and honorable. Even if there was disagreement in the cooperation, or resulted in a split up in the end, so long as there was no betrayal during the cooperation, Li Xiaoheng would not pursue that matter.

So before Tao Mu began dating Li Xiaoheng, the breakup contract that Li Xiaoheng personally drafted for him had already reassured Tao Mu. He believed that even if one day, Li Xiaoheng would get tired of him and wanted to break up. So long as he hadn’t betrayed the other during this period, they would have been able to part ways peacefully.

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His lips suddenly warmed. Li Xiaoheng pecked Tao Mu several times on the lips like an eagle pecking at the rice, until Tao Mu came back to his senses and smiled with satisfaction: “Is my kissing skills not very good? That’s because I have no experience before. Moreover, my actions are also very clumsy. So, we must practice more in the future, diligence can make up for the clumsiness after all.”

Hearing big boss Li secretly digging for benefits, Tao Mu smiled: “How long do you want to practice?”

Li Xiaoheng pondered slightly, and said solemnly: “With my learning ability, I at least have to practice for a lifetime.”

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