Not long after Yan Xi went back to the hotel, someone came knocking on the door. Xiao Qi was asleep and was in a daze when she climbed up to open the door. When she saw who was there, she immediately woke up: “D-Director Xia!”
Director Xia was the night set director that had the most contact with her these couple days. He didn’t have good impressions towards Yan Xi. When Yan Xi had scenes to shoot, he only asked his assistant to inform her, and not come on his own.
“Miss Yan.” This was the first time Director Xia addressed Yan Xi like that. Usually he called Yan Xi’s full name or called her “You” rudely. Now that Director Xia was treating Yan Xi with a smiling face, Yan Xi guessed that it was mostly because of Gong Yun Ting. He passed an A4 paper to Yan Xi: “This is your shooting schedule next week, please take a look at it, if there’s any problems, I’ll ask someone to correct it immediately!”
Yan Xi skimmed through the notice. There were two scenes in the evening, then the next six days were fully packed, but there was still time to rest and memorize dialogues, which looked like shift work. Yan Xi didn’t know why she would suddenly think of ‘shift work’, probably because she had worked part-time as a salesgirl and cashier before when she was still studying.
“No problem, Director Xia.” Yan Xi smiled politely.
Director Xia knew that after Yan Xi entered the crew, he had never looked at her kindly. He initially thought that this was the end of her and she would never start over again, but he never expected her to survive after this crisis and hooked up with another man in the Gong family unannounced!
Director Xia came out of Yan Xi’s room after the burden was lifted in his heart. Perhaps there would be more drama happening when they started shooting…
Her assistant Xiao Qi looked more excited than Yan Xi. Yan Xi laid on the bed to memorize her dialogues instead, although she had already memorized many scenes previously.
“Imperial Concubine Ning… Sun Xiao Xiao…” Yan Xi mumbled. The coincidences in her life were like a movie. The other actress in the scene tonight, the person who played Imperial Concubine Ning was precisely Gong Yun Ting’s rumored girlfriend Sun Xiao Xiao…
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Yan Xi arrived earlier at the shooting location as usual.
They must have already cleared the place. Besides the staff, she didn’t see the other actresses’ fans or those anti-fans that screamed loudly for her to get out of the entertainment circle.
This must be the outcome of Gong Yun Ting’s orders. Just like how Yan Xi came to the location with makeup, which was the usual treatment of a female lead. The makeup artist carried the makeup box to the hotel to put on makeup for her, then a car fetched her up just to take her to the location. Follow the newest chapters on NovelPing.
When Yan Xi arrived at the scene, she felt a subtle change. Everyone was looking at her with more complicated looks, and there were also people whispering as well. With the sudden change of Yan Xi’s position, everyone could guess what had happened.
She’d only arrived at the scene for a short while before a makeup artist came to help touch up her makeup. The director assistant also quickly rushed to her to ask her if she wanted coffee, tea or any drinks. Not long after that, the other actors also arrived one by one, including Li Miao Dan and Zhu Ting Yu who had shot a night scene with Yan Xi before. She’d never met the other few but they were also the familiar faces that could be seen in the television or entertainment news.
They were sitting at one side in small groups, obviously with no plans to talk to Yan Xi. Occasionally she saw them glancing at her with faces of disgust. After a while, the director asked: “Where is the person? Where’s Sun Xiao Xiao, what time is it? The sky is getting dark!”
It was time to shoot but the other lead of this scene, Sun Xiao Xiao, was not here yet.
“Call and ask!” The assistant obeyed and made a few phone calls, and was only able to reach her after calling Sun Xiao Xiao’s assistant’s intern. But the other person said: “Xiao Xiao Jie is not feeling well, so she won’t be there today.”
The assistant passed the words to Director Xia timidly. Director Xia’s face turned dark but there was nothing he could do. Although Yan Xi was second Mr. Gong’s new love, Sun Xiao Xiao was still second Mr. Gong’s ex!
It was very normal for rich men to date female celebrities. Marriage or loyalty were not expected, so something like dating few people at once was very normal in the rich or entertainment circle. Director Xia initially wanted to watch the drama, since there could only be ‘one female tiger in a mountain’, but since Sun Xiao Xiao was not coming, they couldn’t see the drama and he also couldn’t shoot the scene. Additionally, he also didn’t know how to reject Sun Xiao Xiao since she also entered the crew with resources!
Director Xia lashed out symbolically and scolded the few newer people. He looked like he was trying to relay his anger to someone else and also looked like he was trying to keep his pride. In the end, he said: “Since she’s feeling unwell, she’ll naturally won’t achieve the effect that I want. How about this, everyone please wait for a bit, we will shoot this scene in the Imperial Garden again after Xiao Xiao’s body is better. Let’s shoot the second scene first!”
It wasn’t hard to guess that Sun Xiao Xiao was unhappy with Gong Yun Ting, or she was trying to embarrass Yan Xi. A few actresses looked at Yan Xi secretly, trying to catch the negative emotions on her face to gossip about it, but they didn’t expect to see Yan Xi’s calm expression.
Yan Xi thought that this embarrassment was nothing big. If she really couldn’t start over, then that was the real embarrassment.
When everyone was busy changing the location, Yan Xi got a phone call from Gong Yun Ting. He acted like he was very close to her as he opened his mouth to ask: “Do you miss me?”
He laughed instead, and told Yan Xi: “Pass the phone to the director.”
Yan Xi walked over to pass the phone to Director Xia. Talking through the phone, Director Xia’s smile even looked flattering. But his expression changed afterwards, the way he looked at Yan Xi became even more complicated. Because Gong Yun Ting told him on the phone: “Since Sun Xiao Xiao doesn’t have many scenes, for the quality of our drama, we don’t need her to shoot the subsequent scenes.”
Meaning to change the actress.
Director Xia reconfirmed it again. Gong Yun Ting simply talked like he didn’t care: “Since her character is not important, isn’t it?”
Director Xia was extremely impressed towards Yan Xi at that moment, to the extent of bowing down to her. Just a night earlier, Gong Yun Ting was still eating with Sun Xiao Xiao in the garden hotel. Today’s entertainment feature even published how Sun Xiao Xiao was holding his hand intimately and the photo where she was leaning in his embrace. Although Yan Xi looked pretty with a good body shape and was able to hook up with Gong Yun Ting, this speed was really astonishing. She even made second Mr. Gong, who always gave an adequate break-up reward to his ex-girlfriends, did such a heartless move. She was truly someone to be reckoned with.
Director Xia quickly agreed and ended the call. He immediately ordered his assistant to search for familiar actresses in his laptop to interview. He even talked to Yan Xi in a more gentler tone.
So although the shooting that followed had a strange atmosphere, the acting was very smooth until the director shouted ”Cut!”. Yan Xi only realized that Gong Yun Ting had arrived at the venue when she came out of her character. He was wearing black sunglasses and was sitting in his luxurious car. He looked at her like a currently popular young male celebrity.
Noticing that Yan Xi had seen him, Gong Yun Ting lifted his jaw at her, and simply said: “Get into the car.”
There was initially an assistant helping Yan Xi to remove the accessories on her head. Yan Xi turned to one side to apologize to her, then said: “As for the costume, I’ll ask someone to deliver it later.” While wearing the thin flowerpot shoes, she walked step by step towards Gong Yun Ting.
Get into the car, which actually meant get into the bed, right?