Shao Yichen clutched her phone and stord toward Li Xingyu's makeup room.
She pushed the door open with a "bang": "Li Xingyu!"
Li Xingyu was halfway through his makeup, his entire face painted a ghastly white. Like a ghost, he turned around with an unnervingly calm expression and said softly to Shao Yichen: "Director Shao."
Seeing his continued nonchalance, Shao Yichen felt a lump in her throat that wouldn't go up or down.
What should she say? What were you and Brother Lezi planning? Why are you using such a convoluted thod to acquire company shares? Where did you get so much money to spend without any hesitation?
But she couldn't bring herself to ask.
Li Xingyu seed sohow different from everyone else in her social circle.
She categorized the Nan twins as troublemaking friends with whom she could freely complain without fear of hurting their feelings, as they all understood each other's personalities. Le Ziyao was just an ordinary friend, a relationship she wouldn't regret ending, so she had no qualms about calling him directly with questions.
But what about Li Xingyu?
Initially, Shao Yichen had classified him as a "friend," but she never seed to act as casually around him as she did with ordinary friends. She always found herself unintentionally concerned about trivial things, becoming insecure—though she attributed this to Li Xingyu's composed personality. Imagine having a friend who seems constantly detached from worldly matters; you certainly wouldn't feel comfortable telling crude jokes around them.
But now, she realized she couldn't read Li Xingyu at all. Did she truly understand what he was thinking or doing? Was he really just an ordinary actor? He had orchestrated sothing so significant yet hadn't told her anything, despite her considering herself his friend. Did she actually an any more to him than a random stranger would?
The more Shao Yichen thought about it, the more frustrated she beca—not because of the rising stock prices, but because of the feeling that she alone had been kept in the dark.
She pressed her lips together, gathering her emotions, and finally squeezed out a sentence from her throat.
"—Where did you get so much money?!!"
...Suspicion was natural, but first she needed to determine whether he was involved in sothing illegal. Recalling their first eting when he was working part-ti for Zhao Kang, her anger at being deceived temporarily transford into concern for the future award-winning actor.
Li Xingyu's expression showed little surprise: "You found out?"
"Le Ziyao told everything!" Shao Yichen employed her old trick, using the sa thod she had used to deceive the twins.
Unexpectedly, Li Xingyu's intelligence clearly surpassed Nan Rongyu's, and he wasn't led astray by this simple misdirection. He simply allowed the stylist to finish arranging his long hair, then slowly opened his eyes and said to Shao Yichen: "Director, today's scene is very important."
"Let's discuss this after we finish filming this scene."
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Shao Yichen sat in the director's chair, puffed up like an inflated pufferfish.
But she knew Li Xingyu was right—this scene was indeed one of the few remaining critical scenes in the film. Duan Wenyue had been building up her emotions for two days for this scene and had beco sowhat mystical. If they didn't film soon, Shao Yichen feared she might shave her head and beco a nun, or transform into a shamanistic fortune-teller.
Whatever conflicts existed, they would have to wait until after this scene was complete.
As for the content of this scene—it was precisely what Li Xingyu had rehearsed with her earlier.
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"He's about to die."
The Heart Demon said this while standing beside the female lead in his familiar black robe, watching her expression.
The girl before him didn't look at him. She kept her head down, gazing at the pale face and labored breathing of the man before her, her hair disheveled, exuding a unique beauty in her desolation. As if a long ti had passed, or perhaps just a mont, she blinked, and a tear dropped from her eye.
It was both the tear that the goddess of the previous life couldn't shed when she watched her lover go to the mortal realm for her protection, limited by her divine form, and also the tear of the human girl in this life who had mistakenly failed to recognize that the person before her was her beloved, only to realize it when she could only watch him leave once more.
"You're crying." The Heart Demon crouched down, wanting to wipe away her tears, but the girl suddenly turned her head, her expression resolute, as if her heart had died.
"—Don't touch ."
With reddened eyes, she stared intensely at the demonic creature before her who shared the sa face as him.
"If it weren't for you—if it weren't for you, none of this would have happened!"
The Heart Demon remained silent.
Indeed, if he hadn't obstructed them all along, they would have had many opportunities to escape.
But now, seeing the hatred in the girl's eyes, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest.
He involuntarily asked: "Why do you treat this way? How am I inferior to him?"
"We share the sa origin, practice the sa internal martial arts, use the sa sword techniques, and even our appearances are identical. Why do people see him as light, and regard as shadow? Why does everyone know him as the promising top disciple of Changge Peak, while I remain naless? Why, why do even you say so?!"
"How exactly am I inferior to him?"
The Heart Demon spoke faster and faster. Halfway through, his eyes turned bloodshot, and he drew his sword: "Today I shall cut him down with my sword, so there will only be one Qi Changge in this world—"
"—If you want to harm him, you'll have to step over my dead body first."
The girl's voice was slow and resolute.
The Heart Demon looked at her in disbelief: "Why?"
"No reason." The girl turned her head back. "If I must give one, it's simply because—you were never him from the beginning."
"I'm not him, I'm not him..."
The Heart Demon repeated this twice in a daze, breaking into a bitter smile.
"So that's how it is—that's how it is!"
"What I've been pursuing was unattainable from the very start!"
The Heart Demon seemingly went mad as he stepped forward, trying to approach Qi Changge, only to be blocked by the girl.
Seeing the wariness in the girl's eyes, he felt a burning pain within. Yet he still couldn't shed tears—immortals and demons alike cannot weep.
Only humans can shed tears.
The Heart Demon slowly shook his head: "You can see he won't survive like this."
"But I have a way to let him live."
The girl suddenly raised her head: "What way! Whatever the price, I'm willing to pay for him—"
On her face was undisguised joy at finding hope in despair.
It was joy that only "Qi Changge" could bring her—sothing he could never achieve.
He finally gave up hope.
The Heart Demon closed his eyes, feeling the resonance of demonic energy within his body, and spoke.
"There's only one way to save him now, and that is—to drag him into the land of chaos, placing him at death's door to find new life!"
With that, his entire being transford into a mass of chaotic energy, revealing his true form, surging toward the shell on the ground.
In the final mont before his consciousness returned to chaos, what he saw was the girl's disbelieving expression.
—If I could beco him.
—Would you then give a portion of your love for him to the within him?
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Shao Yichen finished shooting this scene and made an OK gesture.
Although the logic of this performance was peculiar, the actors' emotions were undeniably full and complete, making Duan Wenyue's week of emotional isolation worthwhile.
The stand-in, Xiao Bai, was the first to break character, springing up from the ground and jumping to the side—he had been playing Qi Changge's corpse throughout, feeling like an outsider, and every ti he opened his eyes, he saw Duan Wenyue's ultra-clear close-up face, causing trendous stress to his heart as a re background player.
Then Duan Wenyue blinked and finally erged from the scene, though her expression remained sowhat dazed. It seed that while she rationally knew the scene was over, emotionally she was still imrsed and would need so ti to adjust.
Finally, Li Xingyu walked to Shao Yichen's side.
He switched between character and reality with ease; now he was Li Xingyu again.
And as previously agreed, he stood beside Shao Yichen and imdiately steered the conversation toward the earlier stock matter.
"I originally planned to tell you after everything had settled, since saying too much now might create complications, and these matters are complex and difficult to explain quickly."
"But keeping you in the dark all this ti was truly unfair."
Li Xingyu hesitated unusually.
"Where to begin—well, let summarize in one sentence."
"The previous chairman's three-year term is up, and Liming Group needs to hold another board election. I want to secure the support of representatives holding more than half the shares in this election—otherwise, Liming Group will completely beco Wu Ming's dictatorship, and my desire to drive him out of the group will never have a chance to be realized!"
Shao Yichen: ...
How did this suddenly turn into a business warfare drama?
And this Wu Ming, wasn't he that middle-aged, sleazy man who was glaring at Li Xingyu that day...
With this thought, she fearfully asked: "What relationship do you have with Wu Ming?"
This was the first ti Shao Yichen had seen such obvious disgust on Li Xingyu's face.
He frowned and said: "In terms of blood relations, he is my father."
Author's Note:
I forgot to ntion at noon... all the economic content is just the author making things up! The author has never traded stocks! And knows nothing about the stock market! My only impression is that when I was little, my dad lost 100,000 yuan trading stocks!
Everyone just enjoy it for fun, if there are any issues, you're definitely right
Thanks to all the little angels who cast emperor tickets or watered with nutrient solution during 2020-09-29 12:29:02~2020-09-29 20:41:13 period~
Thanks to the little angels who watered with nutrient solution: Cheng Feng 5 bottles; Xiao Jing 1 bottle;
Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!
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