“I’ll teach you manners!”
After she said that, Li Miao Dan raised her hand, and then another “Pa!”, it hit Yan Xi’s face.
This time was obviously stronger than the last slap. It slapped Yan Xi’s face to the side, making it turn the other way. The hairpin on her head fell to the ground because of how forceful this slap was.
Yan Xi didn’t forget her dialogue. She still had to act, because if she didn’t continue acting and retake it again, she had to accept yet another slap on the face. So while acting, she covered her face and continued according to the script. Her eyes were determined yet calm as she lowered her head obediently, and said to Imperial Concubine Yun: “I’ve understood I’m wrong.”
After Yan Xi finished talking, the director didn’t say anything. Just when he thought this part could end just like that, Li Miao Dan suddenly said “aiyo!”, then held her hand, looking like she was in pain.
“Cut!” The director obviously looked impatient, he held up the big speaker and asked: “What’s the matter now?”
Li Miao Dan looked at the director pitifully: “I’m sorry, director. I was too absorbed into it just now, now my hand is feeling painful…”
Why would her hand feel pain? She was obviously the one who acted unreasonably at first, but why did she look like she was the one who suffered instead? The thief cried thief, it was simply like that.
Li Miao Dan could become popular in just such a short time with these good resources. With so many businesses waiting for her to accept their offers, this meant she must have someone influential backing her. Now Yan Xi had fallen into a slump and it was hard for her to start over again. Rumors said that this drama was her “breakup present”, so from now on Mr. Gong wouldn’t have anything to do with her anymore.
It would be better to have less issues than more, so the director asked the makeup artist to go fix Yan Xi’s makeup: “One more take, this is the last take, everyone be serious!”
So they shot the third take. When they were shooting the third one, Li Miao Dan seemed to forget that her hand was painful and slapped her. Without waiting for Yan Xi to say her dialogue, she slapped left and right again “Pa Pa Pa!” hitting Yan Xi’s face another three times. This three times stunned everyone in the shoot.
Although the extras were also shocked, the feelings that were expressed through the cameras looked especially real. It fit the situation very well, which was a very natural reaction. Therefore, the director didn’t stop and thought that this effect looked even better. Besides, after Yan Xi was slapped three times continuously by Li Miao Dan, she covered her face and knelt down to the ground. She was immersed in her role as she said the consequent dialogue: “I’ve understood I’m wrong.”
Li Miao Dan took it back after doing enough as she also didn’t dare to offend the director. Since the director didn’t shout ‘cut’, she continued speaking following the dialogues in the script: “Dirty servant, go farther away!” Follow the newest chapters on novelping . com.
In front of the cameras, Liu Su walked beside Imperial Concubine Yun and scoffed: “This maid has such a thick face. I even feel that my hand is painful after I slapped her.”
Imperial Concubine Yun just snorted coldly, and didn’t even give Shen Shu Yin another look. She only said ‘inauspicious’ before she was carried far away in the carriage.
Yan Xi knelt down on the floor. When the eunuch who was at the end of the line walked past Yan Xi, he looked down on her and kicked her body just like how it was written in the script. But this kick was obviously just acting. The movement was exaggerated, it looked strong but he actually only touched Yan Xi lightly.
On the screen, Shen Shu Yin fell to the ground heavily and huddled up on the floor, letting others think that she was badly hurt.
This scene passed smoothly just like that. Later, they would shoot the scene at another location. Li Miao Dan and Zhu Ting Yu got into their nanny cars while chatting happily, while the staff were busy moving the apparatus as they needed to change the venue of shooting. Yan Xi was left unattended. She left the shoot sullenly, and only her assistant Xiao Qi hurriedly grabbed her phone and walked towards her. She seemed timid but she still asked her in concern: “Sis… you, you’re okay?”
She passed an opened bottle of mineral water to Yan Xi. Yan Xi only said: “Thank you.”
Xiao Qi was her assistant that was abruptly assigned to her by Ah Zhu Jie. She was originally the company’s clerk, she wasn’t highly educated and just came out to the society, so she was more innocent. She carefully told Yan Xi: “Sis, your face is really swollen. Why don’t I go to the hotel and boil two eggs for you to apply?”
Since the face was still an actress’ asset, she couldn’t deny this, so Yan Xi nodded: “Please do.”
The next few shoots did not involve Yan Xi. She still had one more shoot but it was arranged to the back.
Actually under normal circumstances, according to the actors’ value, they would try to arrange the scenes that required the use of the same venue together. Since this was the night scene, logically they should try to arrange this female lead, Yan Xi’s slots together, but they didn’t.
Yan Xi waited at one side for a long time before the makeup artist casually came to fix her makeup. Li Miao Dan really put a lot of force into it. The palm print on Yan Xi’s face was barely covered up by a thick layer of powder.
She waited until about four o’clock in the morning. Her assistant Xiao Qi had fallen asleep, Yan Xi didn’t wake her up and only sat quietly alone. She was sitting with her back straightened like a female figurine in the ancient times, being so quiet that she didn’t seem alive. You are reading on novelping(.)com, the official source.
As for the reason, Yan Xi also only found out after she heard Xiao Qi’s gossip. It was because the actress Zhu Ting Yu that was playing Imperial Concubine Yun had to take the early flight back to Shanghai, so they tried to shoot her scenes first.
Finally it was Yan Xi’s turn. At this time, everyone was already tired and sleepy. The director drank the last gulp of his cold coffee before hollering for Yan Xi to go up: Shoot quickly and finish work early!
She was this drama’s female lead yet she was treated like an extra. But she had no choice since this was how the entertainment circle was like.
Yan Xi scoffed at herself: What can be done since you’re not popular?
The next few shoots were taken more smoothly. The main storyline was those days where Shen Shu Yin was doing hard labor in the laundry department. She didn’t even need to change her clothes.
It was just that tonight, one of the shoots was more difficult. There was a scene where Shen Shu Yin who was played by Yan Xi was excluded and bullied by others, then was pushed into a dirty pool in the laundry department.
Since it was still quite chilly at night in the studio city, Yan Xi thought that she’d performed well enough to pass with one take so that she’d suffer less. At the same time, her performance was also well-received by the B team director.
The extras didn’t dare to seek trouble with her like all the other more popular actresses, so the shoot went more smoothly. Moreover, the few young ladies who acted as people who bullied her hadn’t even graduated from university yet. Although their performance was more childish and exaggerated that it wasn’t even considered as acting, at least the exaggerated performance had shown their fierce and domineering acts of superiority.
After they finished shooting, the director shouted ‘cut’. Everyone began to pack up their things, except for Xiao Qi who came to put on a jacket on Yan Xi. No one else came to care for her. Even so, Yan Xi still bowed and said to everyone: Thank you for the hard work.
Yan Xi didn’t notice that not far away in the dark, there was a pair of eyes in a Maserati that was looking at her with lots of interest.
What Yan Xi hadn’t expected was, the man in this luxurious car was Gong Ding Chen’s distant relative, who was a generation younger than him. In the circle, they called him the second playboy of Gong family, Gong Yun Ting. Unexpectedly, Gong Yun Ting would claim her from his uncle Gong Ding Chen to become her second gold lord.
He also didn’t even mind the dirty past she was viewed as in other people’s eyes.