Chapter 17: CH 12

On the day he returned to Beijing, Liang Xincheng returned to the crew. His role would be completed in the last half month.

The most important scenes were towards the end and the rest were almost all the rival scenes between him and Xie Qinfeng. There were emotional conflicts due to misunderstandings, as well as the scenes in which he finally sacrificed himself to protect his master in the end. This was the climax of the whole film, but it was a stressful challenge for Liang Xincheng.

Although the director patiently told him the storylines, he himself was trying to figure out how to act the role to the best. The most critical problem was that he couldn’t keep up with Xie Qinfeng’s rhythm. And Xie Qinfeng, because he didn’t like him, was not as willing to cooperate with each other patiently as he was with others, or even gave appropriate guidance. Liang Xincheng could only gradually grope in the process of NG again and again, resulting in the effect being slow and the shooting was delayed.

After shooting the same shot seven or eight times, the director finally didn’t continue. He asked them all to take a break and then find their feelings. Xie Qinfeng left a sentence of “Okay, call me when it’s ready” and was about to go back to the waiting room, but was stopped by the director.

Liang Xincheng was also called over by the director. He apologized helplessly. The director patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: “It’s okay, don’t worry.”

“I’m lagging behind,” Liang Xincheng smiled wryly, “I’m sorry.”

“Don’t say sorry again. It’s not like you were doing it on purpose.” The director said to Xie Qinfeng. “Qinfeng, take your heart and be clear. It will be better for you two to communicate directly. He has a high level of understanding, he will understand when you say it.”

Liang Xincheng didn’t expect the director to directly propose to Xie Qinfeng to let him teach himself. Xie Qinfeng glanced at Liang Xincheng coldly, but not trying to embarrass the director, he nodded in agreement.

The director told them that they were busy and left. Xie Qinfeng picked up Liang Xincheng’s script and flipped it over. There was no expression on his face, but he was a little surprised. Liang Xincheng’s script was densely filled with various annotations, which showed that he had indeed done his homework carefully. This was something Xie Qinfeng hadn’t expected before.

These days, there were fewer and fewer young actors who could take the script seriously like Liang Xincheng. It was mostly the kind of people who couldn’t even remember their lines and were cramming their feet on the spot. Xie Qinfeng had been in this circle for more than 20 years, and what he disliked the most was fresh meat idols who rely on so-called popularity or perfunctory and unprofessional backstage Just for this point alone, Liang Xincheng had already impressed him a little.

Xie Qinfeng’s expression softened a bit. Liang Xincheng watched him turn over his script quietly, and after a while he said: “Teacher Xie, I formally apologize to you for the previous incident.”

Xie Qinfeng glanced at him and frowned slightly: “What’s the matter?”

“It was my agent’s idea to use you to hype up these things. I don’t agree, but he is trying to help me, so I should apologize to you, I’m sorry,” Liang Xincheng said, putting his hands together and bending his waist slightly, “But please believe that this is not my intention.”

Xie Qinfeng raised his eyebrows, surprised that Liang Xincheng would take the initiative to apologize for this kind of thing.

There were too many people who had rubbed his popularity under various banners and he really didn’t care about it. The only reason why he didn’t want to see Liang Xincheng was because of his previous actions against Ding Yao.

“Didn’t it come from your intention?”

“Really not,” Liang Xincheng smiled, with a sincere attitude, “Teacher Xie, I have someone I like. I’m worried that he will misunderstand this kind of stuff.”

This was even more unexpected to Xie Qinfeng. He felt that Liang Xincheng’s words were a bit strange. Without thinking deeply, he nodded and accepted his apology.

“And what happened to Teacher Ding before, I know that Teacher Ding is your friend. There were indeed some misunderstandings between me and him before. I have already apologized to Teacher Ding, and I also ask Teacher Xie not to hold grudges against me because of this.”

Liang Xincheng opened up his words carelessly, so Xie Qinfeng was also awkward to be too careful: “Forget it, you can solve the matter between you and him by yourself. Let’s hurry up and get down to business. ”

Although he still felt that Liang Xincheng was quite scheming, he temporarily let go of his prejudices and began to guide him patiently.

Xia Yuanhang’s new drama was completed earlier. The filming was over a week after he returned to Beijing after recording the variety show. On the day he left the set, he ran into Liang Xincheng again. This was the second time in the past few months.

When Liang Xincheng passed by, Xia Yuanhang’s assistant was holding a bunch of fruits and handing them out to everyone. Seeing Liang Xincheng, she stuffed a bright red apple into his hand. Liang Xincheng smiled and thanked her.

Xia Yuanhang stood aside with headphones on, listening to songs while waiting for the nanny car to pick him up. Liang Xincheng greeted him and handed a piece of fruit jelly he had just bought at a convenience store to Xia Yuanhang. Xia Yuanhang looked at him suspiciously but Liang Xincheng smiled, raised his chin and motioned to him to take it: “Reciprocity is a courtesy.”

Xia Yuanhang turned his gaze away and said coldly: “No, I won’t eat this.”

“Then give it to you.” Liang Xincheng handed the candy to his assistant and turned to leave.

When he arrived on the set, Xie Qinfeng had just returned from filming a scene, and the next scene would be their scene together so the director asked them to prepare first. The relationship between them had eased a lot this week. Liang Xincheng easily handed the apple he had just got to Xie Qinfeng, and asked him with a smile: “Teacher Xie, do you want to eat apples? I met Xia Yuanhang on the way here and he gave it to me.”

Xie Qinfeng also smiled: “Give me the apple he gave you?”

“You are my master, I should be filial to you.”Liang Xincheng happened to be a good boy with a very sweet mouth.

Xie Qinfeng shook his head, feeling a little funny.

Liang Xincheng’s eyes flickered and he asked him: “Teacher Xie, are you familiar with Xia Yuanhang?”

“Count it as an acquaintance, why are you asking this?”

“Oh…because Xia Yuanhang has a good relationship with Teacher Ding, and you also have a good relationship with Teacher Ding, I thought you were also friends.”

Xie Qinfeng frowned when he heard the words: “Who did you hear that from? That he has a good relationship with Yaoyao?”

“Before this, we recorded the show together, he took good care of Teacher Ding. He even ate late-night snacks alone in Teacher Ding’s room at night. It should be a good relationship.”

Xie Tanfeng’s eyes darkened, and there was a bit of scrutiny in his gaze when he looked at Liang Xincheng: “You call Yaoyao Teacher Ding, but Xia Yuanhang by his full name?”

Liang Xincheng smiled and said, “Because I am more familiar with Xia Yuanhang, he doesn’t mind me calling him by his first name.”

“So what do you mean by deliberately telling me about him and Yaoyao?”

Liang Xincheng was still smiling, with a hint of cunning in his beautiful eyes: “It’s nothing interesting, Teacher Xie is too sensitive.”

Xie Qinfeng didn’t ask anymore. He knew that Liang Xincheng had ulterior motives, but he had to admit that he was indeed influenced by his words… Xia Yuanhang and Yaoyao?