FYN Chapter 8: You were... amazing just now.
Chapter 8: You were... amazing just now.
"Teacher Guo has arrived as well."
With an announcement from the production assistant, Guo Caijie entered the film set.
She has already changed into Gu Li's look.
She wore a sharply tailored black suit jacket over a white shirt, with the collar slightly open, revealing a glimpse of her delicate collarbone.
Her hair was neatly combed, and her eyeliner was slightly upturned. In an instant, her aura changed from that of a girl coughing from the chili peppers to that of Gu Li, whose eyes and brows screamed "I'm not to be messed with."
Guo Caijie glanced at the crowd on set, her brows furrowing almost imperceptibly.
She walked to the waiting area and sat down on the chair next to Guan Shengbai.
"So many people?"
She said it in a low voice, her tone tinged with confusion.
"They probably came to see me make a fool of myself."
Guan Shengbai flipped through the script at a leisurely pace, his tone as if he were talking about what he had for dinner that night.
Guo Caijie glanced at him sideways.
"you……"
She hesitated for a moment, "Really?"
Guan Shengbai turned his head and smiled at her.
That smile carried a hint of roguishness, a touch of nonchalance, and a subtle vulnerability hidden deep within his eyes.
It was Xi Cheng's smile.
"On your marks! Get ready for filming!"
Just then, the assistant director's voice rang out on set.
In this scene, Yang Mi and Xie Yilin were simply playing the role of "background characters," each in their own place.
Guan Shengbai stood up, stretched his shoulders, and walked into the set.
Guo Caijie took a deep breath and followed behind.
"Scene 37 of Tiny Times, Shot 1, First Scene—"
"Action!"
The sound of the clapperboard fell.
The entire film set fell silent.
......
......
The doorbell rang, and as the camera panned, Gu Li opened the door, only to find the person she least wanted to see standing before her.
Xicheng.
The two exchanged a glance.
Guan Shengbai's hair was messy, and he had a thin layer of stubble on his chin. He was wearing a faded gray shirt.
His eye makeup was also deliberately deepened, making his already wild and intense phoenix eyes look more decadent and fierce.
It looks completely different from the sunny and warm appearance it had a few days ago.
Instead, he seemed like a down-on-his-luck young man who had just pulled himself out of bed from an all-nighter in a rented room in some urban village and was being argued with by his girlfriend.
Guo Caijie's heart skipped a beat.
It wasn't a flutter of the heart, but rather a subtle shock.
The moment the director clapped the clapperboard, it was as if this person had already "slowly and thoroughly digested" the entire character.
Standing before her was no longer any trace of "Guan Shengbai," but seemed to be exactly like Xi Cheng.
What are you doing here?
Gu Li's voice trembled with disgust as she tried to close the door, but Xi Cheng stopped her and pushed the door open.
"Oh! Lin Xiao is here too..."
"Where's my wife, Nanxiang? Is she here too?"
His voice was casual, as if he had just woken up, with a hint of nonchalant malice.
An actor's aura is a very mysterious thing.
Some people try their best to "perform" but can only manage to produce a pretentious and affected air.
But when someone stands in front of the camera, it's as if the characters in the play can reveal their "original forms".
At that moment, Guan Shengbai seemed to instantly convince everyone, both on and off camera, that he was "Xi Cheng".
Guo Caijie herself has done a lot of research on the character "Gu Li", otherwise she would not have been jokingly called "Gu Li's pillar" later.
At this moment, it seemed as if it too had been "activated"...
The shoving between the two escalated further, and even when Lin Xiao ran up to mediate, he was pushed away by Xi Cheng.
.....
......
Behind the monitor, Guo Xiaosi leaned forward a little more.
Even the crowd of onlookers near the somewhat noisy film set quieted down.
On the monitor, Xi Cheng was using his unique methods to gradually push Gu Li to the brink of collapse.
Ko Ching-teng unconsciously straightened up from leaning against the prop box.
Although his acting skills are average, after acting for so many years, he can still tell the difference between good and bad acting.
Guan Shengbai's glance just now, the emotional shift from anger to despair, was so precise it was as if it had been measured with a ruler.
There was no over-the-top effort, no exaggeration, and no trace of "acting".
It's as if he was born to be Xi Cheng.
No.
wrong.
Ko Ching-teng shook his head, trying to shake off the thought.
But then another thought popped into my head uncontrollably...
If Guan Shengbai were to play the role of Gu Yuan in "Tiny Times", would he be able to portray it as convincingly?
This thought suddenly made him feel a little irritable.
The filming is still going on on set.
"Starting to act like a lady now, huh?!"
Xi Cheng chuckled softly, reaching out as if to touch Gu Li's face.
For some reason, Guo Caijie felt as if she were nailed to the spot, unable to move her feet at all.
As Guan Shengbai approached, the hairs on her neck and back stood on end, and goosebumps began to rise.
Guo Caijie trembled all over, like a cat reacting to stress, staring blankly as the hand drew closer and closer.
"When you slept with me behind Nanxiang's back, I should have filmed the slutty way you looked and shown it to you!!!"
The moment that hand gripped Guo Caijie's neck, it brought her a slightly uncomfortable feeling of suffocation, but ironically, it also gave her a disorienting sense of "finally being saved."
.....
.....
Off-camera, Guo Xiaosi's hands had somehow become clenched around the crotch of his trousers.
What he saw on the monitor was not Guan Shengbai and Guo Caijie acting.
He saw Xi Cheng and Gu Li.
They were the two people who tormented each other, tore each other apart, and fought to the death.
The surrounding crowd had quietly fallen silent without anyone noticing.
The makeup artists forgot to eat sunflower seeds, the lighting crew forgot to whisper to each other, and the assistant director didn't even notice that his walkie-talkie had slipped to his side.
Everyone was drawn into the two people in this cramped "rental room".
As "Lin Xiao" in the camera suddenly erupted, she dragged and shoved "Xi Cheng" out the door.
Guan Shengbai's first scene has finally come to an end.
"Cut—"
Guo Jingming finally spoke up.
Instead of using the walkie-talkie to shout, he stood up from his chair and shouted it out himself.
The sound wasn't loud, but it was exceptionally clear in the quiet film set.
There was a two-second silence.
Then--
"Clap clap clap clap clap—"
Scattered applause broke out on set, which quickly coalesced into a full-blown ovation.
The loudest applause came from the makeup team.
Even the director of photography, who never speaks, tapped his finger twice on the monitor to show his approval.
Guan Shengbai coughed lightly, and when he looked up again, his face had returned to normal.
In those phoenix eyes, the fierceness and decadence that belonged to Xi Cheng had completely faded away, replaced by the familiar Guan Shengbai with a lazy smile.
He seemed to have stepped out of the character's "shell," clean and neat, as if he had changed his clothes.
"It's my first time filming, I'm a little nervous."
He scratched the back of his head, smiled at Guo Caijie, and said, "Thank you for guiding me, Teacher Guo."
Guo Caijie involuntarily took two steps back, but the inexplicable tremor she had just felt seemed to still linger in her mind.
"That was...great..."
"What?"
Guo Caijie's trembling voice was low, and Guan Shengbai didn't hear it clearly.
She took a deep breath and looked at the innocent-looking man with a complicated expression.
"I mean, you...acted really well!!!"