After filming all afternoon, Lin Luoqing sent his makeup photos to Ji Yuxiao during his meal break.
Ji Yuxiao took a look and replied with a smile, “Poor best-looking male student in school.”
“It is a poor student.”
“For a student like you, how can you not be the best-looking male student? You must be the best-looking male student.”
Lin Luoqing saw that he was like this and laughed. He felt that Ji Yuxiao’s filter was quite deep.
He exchanged a few words with Ji Yuxiao before going to film again.
It wasn’t until 10 p.m. that Lin Luoqing finally got off work and went back to the hotel to rest.
He still had a major scene to shoot tomorrow morning. Therefore, it was a rare night where he didn’t video call with Ji Yuxiao. They exchanged a few words before he went to take a shower and rest.
In the early morning of the next day, the sky was bright. The light of the morning sun penetrated through the clouds and fell on the yellow land. At the junction of the sky and the ground, a figure slowly emerged.
A white short-sleeved shirt, aqua blue jeans and pitch-black hair softly carrying the dancing light. Behind him was the light of the sky. He seemed to come from the light, beautiful and bright.
This was Ye Yu’s appearance, the image of him when he first appeared in front of the audience.
Yu Jiayou took advantage of the light to shoot this scene several times. Finally, he asked Lin Luoqing to come over to see it.
Lin Luoqing leaned over curiously. He was unexpectedly surprised by himself in the camera.
Yu Jiayou’s photography skills were really good. The composition of the whole scene was simple and clean. The blue sky was beautifully painted and a large halo dyed the white skin, making him look pure and innocent. He was like a simple son walking in the world.
He couldn’t help exclaiming. “So beautiful.”
“That’s right.” Yu Jiayou was also very satisfied with this scene. “By the way, do you smoke?”
Lin Luoqing shook his head.
“Very good.” Yu Jiayou nodded. “Don’t learn it yet. Wait a few days until the scene where Ye Yu smokes for the first time is finished and then learn it.”
“Yes,” Lin Luoqing replied obediently.
He remembered that when Ye Yu smoked for the first time in the movie, he coughed so much that he was choked by the smoke. Xiang Jian and the others laughed at him because he couldn’t smoke. Ye Yu continued to smoke with a sullen face.
He choked again, coughing badly. Tears came out of him as he coughed.
Xiang Jian and the others laughed louder and louder. Ye Yu heard their laughter and also laughed. The tear marks weren’t dry but he laughed as if he had no heart.
From that day on, he laughed as well when everyone laughed.
There was no other reason. It was that everyone was laughing.
Yu Jiayou obviously wanted to film a true reflection of him smoking for the first time so that the scene looked more realistic. This was why he asked Lin Luoqing not to learn how to smoke.
Lin Luoqing had also been holding back. This was why the scene where Ye Yu smoked for the first time was his first contact with a cigarette.
Sure enough, he was like Ye Yu. He choked and coughed continuously.
Xiang Jian looked at him like this and laughed. He placed a hand on his shoulder and laughed at him, “Why can’t you even smoke? You just want to take the exam. No wonder why you can’t pass the exam.”
Ye Yu listened while feeling uncomfortable and ashamed in his heart. He could only lower his head and continue smoking.
He soon choked again and Xiang Jian’s laughter rang in his ears again.
He seemed to be angry as he kept smoking the cigarette in his hand. But the more he wanted to smoke easily, the more difficult it became. The cigarette smoke choked his throat fiercely and he coughed more and more. He somehow coughed up tears.
Xiang Jian’s younger brother said strangely, “He choked to the point of tears. Hahaha.”
Xiang Jian saw it and found it was true. He instantly laughed even louder. “Why are you so stupid?”
Ye Yu was also thinking, ‘Yes, why am I so stupid?’
He looked at the laughing faces around him and slowly laughed along with them in a clumsy and confused manner.
Everyone laughed and the bright sky was filled with happy laughter.
Lin Luoqing filmed this scene very well, especially when he smoked and coughed to the point of tears and in the final part where he laughed a lot.
He was poor and pathetic.
It was so embarrassing to watch that several onlookers couldn’t help shedding tears.
Lin Luoqing’s coughing throat hurt. He took the water that Wu Xinyuan handed him and took several sips, but his throat still felt uncomfortable.
Wu Xinyuan brought him a few more throat lozenges.
Lin Luoqing looked at the cigarette in his hand. He actually didn’t like to smoke and had never smoked when growing up.
However, acting was like this. It didn’t matter whether he liked it or not. The character in the movie needed to smoke so he needed to smoke. He had to do it even if he didn’t like it.
Lin Luoqing remembered that he had a smoking scene at night. He raised the cigarette in his hand and continued to practice smoking.
Wu Xinyuan crouched down next to him and taught him how to smoke.
After smoking a cigarette, Lin Luoqing smoked another one and slowly found the feeling.
It was the feeling of smoking and the feeling of Ye Yu.
He seemed to understand a bit what type of mood Ye Yu was in at that time.
In fact, it wasn’t much of a mood. He was just resigned to his fate.
It was too unwilling and cruel to let a person who had worked hard for a long time accept his fate, letting a person who didn’t want to accept it be forced to accept it.
Ye Yu smoked for a night and constantly let himself accept his fate, but subconsciously, he didn’t want to accept it.
It wasn’t until the smoke was gone and the lights turned on that Ye Yu was resigned to his fate.
This scene was one of the highlights of the entire movie.
Yu Jiayou had already chosen the location for the filming. Ye Yu put a black jacket over the white short-sleeved shirt that he often wore. He changed from white to black, from light to darkness.
As night fell, the lights inside the house turned on and sparks shone outside the house.
Inside the fence was a small courtyard where flowers were blooming.
Ye Yu sat at the door, looking at the stars in the sky and slowly smoking the cigarette in his hand.
The scarlet color of the flames adorned the vast night like twinkling stars or blooming flowers.
There was no emotion in Ye Yu’s eyes. They were empty as he quietly smoked a cigarette.
Yu Jiayou looked at the person in the camera and suddenly felt an indescribable discomfort. He seemed to be thinking about his former self, who was about to reach this step. Fortunately, he met Lin Luoqing.
Fortunately, Ning Yu gave him a hand in time just as he had given up.
His gaze focused on Lin Luoqing again. Lin Luoqing was smoking a cigarette quietly and calmly. He was smoking very slowly as if he was thinking about something. But he also seemed like he wasn’t thinking about anything. There was a thick layer of loneliness surrounding his body.
Slowly, he seemed to have stopped moving. Only the scarlet flame of the cigarette butt went out, showing that he was still a human being.
It wasn’t known when but a line of clear tears slowly flowed from his eyes. He lowered his head and sighed. He reached out to wipe his tears before parting his lips to smile.
The smile was soothing and beautiful in the extremely high-resolution monitor, relieved and powerless.
He smiled, laughed and cried again. Then he laughed again.
He lowered his head to prevent others from seeing his face. There were only cigarette butts all over the ground to show that a young man once stayed there.
Yu Jiayou rubbed his eyes but didn’t let himself cry.
He was too understanding and empathetic to everything about Ye Yu. Lin Luoqing’s sense of atmosphere when acting was too accurate, so he was always touched by Lin Luoqing when filming this movie.
Fortunately, he didn’t act it himself. Yu Jiayou thought that he might’ve really collapsed in the process of acting.
He didn’t want to be so cruel to himself.
Lin Luoqing also filmed this scene several times until Yu Jiayou said that he could rest. Finally, he stood up and rubbed his eyes which were a bit sore from crying.
He cried over and over again for more than two hours because of this scene. Yu Jiayou guessed that his eyes would be sore tomorrow morning and specially granted him half a day off. This way, he could rest well tomorrow morning and come back to film in the afternoon.
Lin Luoqing naturally agreed and went back to the hotel to sleep.
He had a dream. In the dream, Yu Jiayou covered his face and cried bitterly under the eaves. The assistant director looked at him with a dazed expression but he cried more and more. The assistant director walked over to pull him up but Yu Jiayou threw away his hand. He turned back and said to do this scene all over again.
He was wearing Ye Yu’s costume, he was playing Ye Yu and he was crying in pain and despair. At that moment, he was Ye Yu.
Lin Luoqing was still a bit dazed when he woke up. He guessed that what he dreamed about last night should be Yu Jiayou’s life in the book. He was unwilling to give up and act in this movie with himself as an actor. It was just that Ye Yu’s experience was too similar. On the night when Ye Yu accepted his fate, his psychological defense collapsed and he cried sadly.
It was fortunate, Lin Luoqing thought. It was fortunate that Yu Jiayou didn’t have to cry this time.
He went to the set in such a mood and saw Yu Jiayou guiding Shi Zheng with a smile.
Shi Zheng already had Xiang Jian’s aura of a gangster in the movie. He looked sloppy and not like a serious person at all.
He was squatting on a stone and reciting his lines. His tongue was pressed against his cheeks and his eyes narrowed. He looked quite obscene.
Yu Jiayou still wasn’t satisfied and shouted, “Be a bit more obscene and frivolous when smiling.”
Shi Zheng raised the corners and glanced at him, expression disgusting.
Yu Jiayou was satisfied. “That’s right. That’s it, it should be like this when filming starts later.”
Lin Luoqing thought, ‘…Okay, it seems that Director Yu is very happy now and there is no need to worry about him being affected by this movie.’
He was relieved.
Lin Luoqing sat on a chair not far away and watched Yu Jiayou filming Shi Zheng’s scene.
The little tail of summer was sent away and autumn came. As the weather turned colder day by day, winter also came to this village unknowingly.
Return to Jade was Xingyi’s first self-produced movie. No matter whether it was the director or acting, it was related to Xingyi. Even in terms of investment, Xingyi accounted for the majority. This determined that there were basically not too many intrigues when filming.
Combine this with Lin Luoqing’s support and Yu Jiayou almost completely had the greatest right to speak.
He could make decisions about the actors and schedules, allowing him to complete the pictures and story he wanted to the greatest extent. He patiently made his work perfect while filming day by day, over and over again.
Soon, the new year came. Lin Luoqing passed the new year in the crew and everyone welcomed it together.
The arrival of the New Year in the Gregorian calendar meant that the Spring Festival wasn’t far away.
Ji Leyu took the initiative to call Lin Luoqing and say that their final exam was on January 15th.
His mid-term exam performance this time was very good and he still maintained second place, only two points behind Lin Fei. Lin Fei was very satisfied and gave him a notebook.
Ji Leyu asked Lin Luoqing, “Dad, can I see you after the exam?”
“Yes,” Lin Luoqing replied.
He actually almost finished filming. Now he was just waiting for a snowfall to film the last scene in the movie and then he could finish it.
Ji Leyu was pleasantly surprised and turned to look at Lin Fei. Lin Fei acted like he didn’t care, as if he wasn’t the one who had just reminded Ji Leyu, “You haven’t called Dad in a long time. It is time to call him and say that our final exams are coming soon.”
Ji Leyu didn’t care about what Lin Fei was inwardly thinking. He was used to the forever indifferent expression on Lin Fei’s face. He sweetly said to Lin Luoqing, “Then we will wait with Father for you to come back.”
“Okay,” Lin Luoqing said. “Once the time comes, Dad will come back and give you the reward for the final exam.”
“Okay.”
Ji Leyu finished speaking and hung up the phone. Then he told Lin Fei, “Dad said we can see him after we finish the exam.”
Lin Fei said indifferently, “Oh.”
“He said that you should kiss me for him,” Ji Leyu said deliberately.
Lin Fei, “……”
Lin Fei didn’t believe his words.
He turned his head and looked down at the book. Ji Leyu approached him and rested a chin on his arm.
“Or I can kiss you for him.”
“Or you can kiss your uncle for him,” Lin Fei suggested.
Ji Leyu, “!!!”
Yes, why didn’t he think of this?
Next time, he could kiss Lin Luoqing and say that Ji Yuxiao asked him to kiss Lin Luoqing for him. This way, his aunt must be very happy.
Ji Leyu turned his head to look at Lin Fei. His brother was quite smart.
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