Chapter 77

  He certainly didn't go away.

  But the bad mood that Xu Wenjie had gotten into really did improve a bit, he propped up his chin with one hand and turned his head to look at Jiang Chuan, who was currently lowering his head and frowning as he looked at the script, looking at him with a serious expression, it seemed like his whole body was emitting heat, just like a large Samoyed that had been thrown into the Sahara Desert, suddenly feeling a bit heartbroken, said: "If you've finished filming all your scenes for today, then why not just go back and call it a day? You're not some newcomer or small-time actor, no need to stay on set for a whole day..."

  "Not finished taking pictures."

  "Huh?"

  "The last scene where I scared the little girl was hard to film. The director asked me to think of something myself, and the shot was delayed."

  He didn't say a word, turned his head to look at Jiang Chuan's thick and heavy armor costume that had been taken off and placed aside, while Jiang Chuan seemed to have noticed his gaze, and expressionlessly said: "It's over 30 degrees outside, I took it off when we weren't filming, I'll put it back on later."

  "How's your eyes?"

  "The setting for this general's mother is a person from outside the Great Wall, of a different ethnic bloodline, no need to wear beautiful pupils."

  She responded with a soft "oh", thinking that it was fine after all, since old Dai's colored contact lenses weren't good for his eyes either. Then she asked: "And where is Fang Yu? You're so hot and he's not even here to fan you, where did he run off to?"

  "I went to buy cold drinks, but none of the ones prepared by the crew were cold, they were hot, and it was hard for me to drink." Jiang Chuan asked, "Are you okay?"

  He was taken aback for a moment, and didn't expect Jiang Chuan to jump topics so quickly. After thinking for a moment, he shook his head and said: "It's nothing, Xu Wenjie took away something that wasn't an important role anyway."

  "What was that big complaint you just mentioned?"

  Gangchuan

  "What?"

  "I don't believe you can't scare that little girl to tears," Jian Ran said, "I'm a big man who's been threatened by you every day, and now you're telling me you can't even scare a little girl of □□ years old to tears? Are you kidding me?"

  Jiang Chuan heard this and sent him a sentence with disdain, "Then you're not even as good as a nine-year-old girl." Before the young man with black hair could refute, Ding called out Jiang Chuan's name again. Jiang Chuan responded with a sound and stood up to stretch his muscles, putting on the costume he had taken off earlier one piece at a time. When he was fully armed, the originally tall and large man seemed like a moving mech, standing there and casting a shadow that could envelop Jian Ran entirely.

  Because of the heavy armor, Jiang Chuan was not very good at bending down at this time. The young man with black hair naturally squatted in front of him and helped him adjust the knee pads on his knees. While doing so, he asked without lifting his head: "Actually, it's not that difficult. Haven't you had one or two experiences in your life where you were angry enough to want to kill someone?"

  "Yes."

  He paused for a moment with his hands in motion, looked up and swept a glance at the man: "When?"

  "Just after entering high school, I learned how to do business for the first time and was cheated," Jiang Chuan said. "I lost a lot of money."

  "Started doing business in high school? Foreigners really are mature early, how much money did you lose? A few thousand yuan?" Zhen Ran asked absent-mindedly, finishing tying Jiang Chuan's knee pads with a neat and beautiful bow tie. After a long time, he didn't hear the man standing in front of him respond, so he sighed, "I see... a few thousand yuan is indeed not a small amount for a high school student... what happened to those people later?"

  "He's dead." Jiang Chuan replied calmly.

  "Huh?" The young man with black hair looked up with a puzzled expression on his face.

  Jiang Chuan suddenly changed the subject and said: "I think I know what you're getting at."

  The expression on the man's face didn't reveal whether he was serious about what he just said, but Jin Yan took it as a joke and treated it as such. He stood up, patted the man's shoulder, and used a tissue to gently wipe the sweat from his face, careful not to smudge his makeup. "Although I don't know if you understand what I'm saying," he said, "the general idea is that you bring in that emotion, let it simmer for a while, and then suddenly explode..."

  Jiang Chuan nodded: "Uh-huh."

  He patted him on the shoulder to encourage him, and the man turned around and walked towards the pile of actors not far away - the little actress who played the princess as a child was already ready, still looking very agile, with sparkling eyes... Jianran moved a small stool to sit behind Ding Bao's monitor, the latter turned his head to look at him for a moment before starting to mutter: "Your junior is good everywhere, diligent, few words, acting seriously, and won't add lines randomly, it's just too gentle, like a big dog, no temper, it's hard to make him burst out in anger... Jiang Luocheng also knows how to choose roles, choosing him to play the Taoist priest, this kind of person playing those Taoist priests who don't eat human fireworks is quite suitable!"

  He nodded in agreement: "I think so too. The mobile phone's first launch address is:"

  "Just now he scared the little girl to cry, and wasted all the remaining footage that was shot smoothly before today," said Ding Pao. "He couldn't even get angry."

  He nodded again and continued to think deeply: "The more you worry, the more you will worry."

  Two people were talking, and Jiang Chuan was standing not far from them, touching up his makeup. He seemed to have overheard their conversation and turned around, scanning them with a expressionless face - the warm feeling made Ding Bao breathe a sigh of relief again, listlessly waving his hand to signal that they were ready to start. At this time, Jin Ran was also somewhat worried about Jiang Chuan, who sat up straight in his chair, staring intently at the director's monitor.

  A man in full armor stood among the crowd of actors dressed as civil and military officials, when the camera zoomed in on his face, he furrowed his brow appropriately, revealing a serious and struggling expression. He took two big steps forward and said to the back of someone wearing a dragon robe who was facing away from him: "Your Majesty, our army has defeated the Wolf Cavalry, staining the Hulunbuir Grassland and the Kerulen River with the blood of soldiers - now we are besieging the capital of the Wolf Kingdom, like an arrow on the string, it must be shot!"

  "My dear, I know you have made great contributions in this war. However, the Wolf Tribe has already sent a messenger with a letter of surrender. Originally, they were a subordinate nation to our Great Dynasty for a hundred years, presenting us with fine horses and precious goods every year..."

  Under the helmet, the man moved slightly - as the armor rubbed against each other with a rustling sound, his eyes were slightly cold, and he seemed to be sneering as he slightly hooked up his lips: "What about after a hundred years?"

  The actor playing the former emperor's face showed a momentary hesitation, just as he turned around, a boy of about 7 or 8 years old, holding the little girl from before, stumbled and rushed in from outside the door. Letting go of the little girl, the boy acting as the young emperor suddenly threw himself at him: "Father Emperor, Father Emperor, don't kill her, don't kill her - she's just a weak woman!"

  Suddenly, countless eunuchs and palace maids rushed in from outside the gate, calling out the young emperor's title of respect, trying to pull him away. However, the little boy's acting skills were quite good, and at this moment, his chubby face was filled with anxiety. He tightly grasped the hem of the dragon robe beside him and called out "Father Emperor" again. At this time, the late emperor's face turned gloomy, and he suddenly pulled back the hem of his own robe, sternly scolding in a low voice: "Imperial son, you dare not be presumptuous!"

  The little prince was pulled open at the same time.

  "Your Majesty, it can't be delayed! To eradicate weeds, one must pull out the roots!"

  The man in armor suddenly turned around——

  At the same time, Jin Yan heard Ding Pao say in a particularly calm tone, "It's just stuck like this." Jin Yan couldn't help but feel a little tense, clutching his hand and narrowing his eyes to stare at the monitor - and then something shocking happened. In the instant when Jiang Chuan turned around, those azure pupils suddenly changed completely from their usual color, as if they had frozen into deep blue ice. For that moment, the man was like a different person, his eyes filled with danger and ferocity before a storm, as if he had suddenly transformed from a large dog to a wild wolf in the wilderness, his face full of real murderous intent!

  At that moment, the entire scene was silent, and his heart skipped a beat!

  The little girl who had been directly subjected to such a gaze probably thought it was still okay, and she was somewhat careless at first. But this time, she was suddenly looked at like that, and her small face completely lost its blood color in an instant. She subconsciously retreated two steps, and finally tripped over herself and fell to the ground with a thud - this was an action that was not arranged in the script at all. The little girl sat on the ground, even forgetting to cry out in pain, she looked up stupidly and stared at Jiang Chuan...

  Just when everyone thought it was all over, even Ding Pu'er raised his hand to shout "Ka", suddenly the man in armor relaxed his tense body, turned around and the fierce look on his face seemed to disappear into thin air. He expressionlessly faced the giant dog's silly handsome face and said calmly: "No way, let her use eye drops instead, I just can't get angry."

  Everyone: "......"

  For a moment, Jin Yan felt that Ding Pangpang, sitting next to him, was itching to flip the monitor in front of him directly onto Jiang Chuan's face.

  "Drop dead! If you do that again, I'm done!!!". Ding Pangpang was both angry and anxious, "I didn't even yell at him, he himself turned around to shout stop, what the hell!!!!!!"

  "What just happened?" Jiang Chuan looked bewildered, "What was it like just now?"

  Ding Bao: "The real deal ancient underworld!"

  "You must be mistaken..."

  Between Jiang Chuan's words, he really looked very innocent, as if he didn't know that his acting skills had exploded in an instant. Thinking that actors can't inexplicably conceal their own acting skills, Ding Pangpang was thoroughly helpless, and with a look of exhaustion, he waved his hand. Unlike Jiang Luocheng, who would reshoot a scene repeatedly if it wasn't satisfactory, he thought it was good enough, so in the end, he just waved his hand and decided to cut out the part where Jiang Chuan turned around and said "no" before that, and then splice together the little girl's eye drops and fake crying scenes, and consider it a wrap.

  So in the end it was still the little girl who splashed eye drops on him.

  Jiang Chuan finished filming all the shots for today and immediately walked to the side to take off his armor and drink the iced beverage that Fang Yu had brought back. He sat down calmly on one side, staring at him for a while, until the man was looked at with goosebumps, raising an eyebrow to ask what was wrong. The young black-haired man shook his head: "You really didn't know that you looked like a fierce evil spirit from hell for a moment just now?"

  "I don't know," Jiang Chuan said calmly, "I rarely get angry."

  "Who was the one who slammed a plate in front of me at noon today?"

  "That's nonsense," said Jiang Chuan, "my hamster is just missing, it may not be dead yet."

  “……”

  "I'm still waiting for it to come back."

  This time it's Jian Ran's turn to be injured.

  He felt he shouldn't have gone and teased his master by bringing up this topic - now he had successfully summoned his own guilt.

  ……

  In the evening, Jiang Chuan's sentence "I'm still waiting for it to come back" made Jian Ran, who hadn't eaten a few grains of rice for dinner, learn another bad news.

  No matter how Xu Wenjie persuaded the director, he finally got the role of Tian Zhong.

  It seems like today is probably marked as "not suitable for various things" on the Chinese calendar.

  Although he pretended to be calm and said to Jiang Chuan that "it's not an important role, even if Xu Wenjie took it away, it doesn't matter", but when he learned about the news, Jin Ran was still quite shocked - under the sympathetic gaze of his agent, he immediately hung up the phone and called Bai Yan Ge, who first vaguely said that Xu Wenjie was a semi-lead actor, and then gave Jin Ran a reason that made him want to vomit blood: the crew found that when Xu Wenjie stood with you, it seemed like they looked like close brothers, the picture was harmonious, and at first glance, they looked like people from the same country.

  After calmly hanging up the phone, he said: "I think I was personally attacked."

  Fang Yu said: "I think it should be Shao Xudong doing something again..."

  He nodded slightly and said, "Xu Wenjie is also very impressive. Everyone has gone to Xu Qianqian's company, but relying on Shao Xuedong this big mountain, he still eats the resources of IM - even with vast resources, it can't make him popular, I feel so sorry for him that I don't want to target him anymore."

  Fang Yu: "I don't want to say anything about him, I know you're just talking nonsense."

  Hehe smiled and said: "It's just talk, go back and count how many scenes Tanaka and Saito have together, I'll crush him."

  "Great gods bully small transparent ones."

  He suppressed his smile and said, "If you have the ability, little transparent one, come out and bully me. I won't say a word of complaint - it's as if all my acting skills and experience were blown in by the wind, without putting in any actual effort, just messing around with crooked ways every day. When I'm not around, you think you can jump out and replace me? There's no such good thing under heaven."

  "I heard that you brutally suppressed him during the audition today, and also scared off a bunch of other actors who were waiting for their turn. In the end, you even ignored the director's attempts to stop you and stormed out with a flourish, truly a big shot. I'm really looking forward to seeing your name on the front page headlines of all major media outlets again tomorrow, Big Shot Yuan."

  "It doesn't matter, I think it's obvious that I dislike Xu Wenjie and there's no need to hide it." Jianran waved his hand calmly and said, "Anyone with eyes can see it."

  "I thought you'd come find me after running out this afternoon, but I looked around outside and didn't see anyone. Where did you end up going?"

  "The crew of 'The Legend of Miyue' next door."

  "Oh, so you're looking for Jiang Chuan," Fang Yu asked, "Did he scold you?"

  "I didn't care about it."

  Fang Yu turned his head, intending to express deep sympathy for Jin Ran. But the moment he saw his face, that sympathetic heart instantly dissipated: "Do you want me to find a mirror for you to take a look? You'll know how disgusting your smile is right now..."

  "Really?" He slowly raised his hand and touched his face, "I don't think so."

  Fang Yu said he was too lazy to bother with him, turned around and started checking his email, after finishing his email, he went online for a bit, then in an extremely excited tone told Jin Ran that Xu Qianqian had officially announced on Weibo the decision to sign the contract for "Mysterious Seeds" and thanked her ancestors eighteen generations back.

  "Of course, I didn't forget to @ you and say 'I won this time, haha'... Wow, what a shameless person I am too, are you going to respond?"

  "Turn," said he with a bow, "say 'congratulations'."

  Fang Yu nodded and complied, after a while Fang Yu said again that Xu Qianqian had forwarded his congratulatory Weibo, this time saying more, saying that today he learned that his younger brother Xu Wenjie also got a role in the "Star Fire" crew, tomorrow to come see them, and especially emphasized that they will bring delicious food - This Weibo caused many netizens to sigh, saying "Xu Qianqian and Jin Ran are indeed friends", "The goddess can still make delicious food" and other praises, on the surface it seems that Xu Qianqian has scored a full mark.

  Jian Ran then thought for a few minutes and calmly asked Fang Yu to shut down the computer.

  It is said that "nothing can be done without entering the three treasures hall", but he was very curious about Xu Qianqian, who at this time did not do her Hollywood dream steadily, and ran to the domestic film and television base to show off...

  The result was just strange and didn't have an answer yet. The Xu siblings were like a wheel war, rolling towards Yuan Zhenran's body.

  At that time, Jing Yan was in the restaurant blowing air conditioning with Jiang Chuan and his agent who had no scenes to shoot today, drinking afternoon tea. Seeing Xu Wenjie running over, Jing Yan raised an eyebrow, looking a bit surprised. At the same time, Xu Wenjie sat down on the stool next to Jiang Chuan without anyone inviting him. Jiang Chuan didn't even lift his head, calmly flipping through the magazine he was reading, accompanied by a soft "rustling" sound of turning pages. Jing Yan put his eyebrows back in place and asked calmly: "What's up?"

  "Brother, I think there's been some misunderstanding between us that we need to clear up." Xu Wenjie bit his lower lip and under the calm gaze of the black-haired young man sitting across from him, he said something astonishing: "I know that in the past, I often imitated you, which was my fault; and wanting to use the 'Little Jianran' image to rise through the ranks when you were ill, that was also an order given to me by the higher-ups at IM Company - personally, I really didn't have any such intention, in fact, I actually have a lot of respect for you, and I'm very grateful that before I even graduated, you gave me the opportunity to enter this circle..."

  Jian Ran: "Oh."

  Xu Wenjie: "I hope next time we can cooperate better."

  He put down his leg which had been crossed over the other and sat up straight: "Cooperation? You? What makes you think so?"

  Xu Wenjie's face turned pale, and he had a pitiful expression on his face. At this moment, Jin Yan finally knew why she disliked Xu Wenjie - because the person in front of her looked somewhat like him, but he liked to pretend to be pitiful, as if the whole world was bullying him...

  Wearing a body so similar to his own, yet doing things he would never do.

  He shifted uncomfortably in his seat, the wooden bench creaking softly beneath him. Without looking up from head to toe, Jiang Chuan said, "Pass me the sugar cube."

  He moved slightly, just thinking of handing the sugar in front of him to Jiang Chuan. However, Xu Wenjie took a step ahead and stretched out his hand to take the sugar and put it in front of Jiang Chuan - the latter heard the movement, raised his head, glanced at him lightly, and said coldly: "Thank you."

  Xu Wenjie took a deep breath, hastily shaking his head. A faint flush appeared on that pale face - the pitiful look reappeared, but unfortunately Jiang Chuan might not have seen it, because after saying "thank you", he didn't hesitate and lowered his head to continue reading his magazine. Xu Wenjie tilted his head to glance at him, then quickly turned back: "I may be overstepping my bounds by saying this, but now we're actors in a play. Whatever the case, I think the crew wouldn't want yesterday's incident to happen again..."

  "Seriously? Are you kidding me? Xu Wenjie, are you using the crew to pressure me? Have you eaten too much?"

  Xu Wenjie hastily shook his head, seemingly particularly afraid of Jin Ran's reaction: "I'm just reminding you that as actors, we shouldn't bring personal grudges into..."

  "No personal vendetta," Jian Ran said calmly, "I simply look down on you."

  "...I know you think I got this role because of Shao Xuedong's help, but that's not true," Xu Wenjie said. "We broke up a long time ago, and this time I joined the production with my own savings. I felt like I couldn't be unclear about it for the rest of my life... actually, the director team really thought I was suitable, so..."

  "What's the point of telling me all this?"

  "I just hope we put aside our differences—"

  "I see," Jian Yan interrupted him, "the first step to putting aside your prejudices is for you to stand up, leave, and let me have a peaceful afternoon tea, how about that?"

  Xu Wenjie pursed his lips and stared at Jian Ran as if he had been greatly hurt.

  At the same time, from head to toe, except for having to pass sugar and say thank you, Jiang Chuan, who had not heard a word of opinion about the bloody conversation in his ear, suddenly made a move. The man put down the magazine, picked up the tea cup and took a sip, first glanced at Xu Wenjie with an expressionless gaze, then stared at Jian Ran with a seemingly smiling but not smiling gaze, his thin lips lightly opened, and lazily said: "Everyone is pleading with you like this, but you're still so fierce, be careful you won't get married."