Huayu: Reborn in 97, transferring to the Central Academy of Drama's star-studded class

Over time, Mada and Mudan grew increasingly close.

One day, Xiao Hong and Lao B invited Ma Da over. One of them was Ma Da's ex-girlfriend, and the other was a member of the underworld.

It turns out that the job of picking up and dropping off Mudan was introduced to Mada by these two people, because Mudan's unreliable father was a local wealthy businessman, and they wanted to extort a ransom by kidnapping him.

So they sent Mada, who was popular with girls, to approach Mudan and achieve their kidnapping goal in the safest and easiest way.

Calling Mada over meant they felt the time was right to carry out the kidnapping.

After the three finished discussing it, Mada hesitated; he didn't want to do it.

So for the next few days, he refused to see Mudan and stayed in his dark, cramped room every day, watching those boring pirated DVDs.

Until one rainy night, Peony came looking for him and knocked on his door.

The scenes filmed during the day were the ones mentioned earlier, and the scenes to be filmed at night were the ones that Mudan had asked us to film, which were the main scenes that Lou Ye mentioned.

Jiang Lai and Zhou Xun squatted in a corner of the film set, watching the busy staff and leisurely smoking.

This lady is the producer, and she's directing people to set up the scene. The actress who played Xiao Hong, mentioned earlier, is also this lady.

Jiang Lai looked at the other person's curvaceous figure, glanced silently at the washboard next to him, and thought to himself, "I didn't expect Mada to be a lolicon."

"What are you looking at?" Zhou Xun exhaled a smoke ring and glanced sideways at Jiang Lai.

Jiang Lai smiled, knowing he couldn't voice his true feelings, and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing. Hey, your Northeastern accent is pretty good! Who taught you?"

Zhou Xun's eyes darkened, and he stubbed out his cigarette on the ground, saying hoarsely, "Nobody."

Then she stretched out her little hand, "Give me another one."

Jiang Lai didn't notice the other person's sudden change in emotion. He took out a cigarette with disgust and said, "You're always smoking my cigarettes. You're so young, you smoke so much. Be careful you don't develop a smoking and drinking voice one day."

"Tch!" Zhou Xun rolled her eyes at Jiang Lai, then snatched the lighter from his pocket. "I was born in '94, older than you."

Jiang Lai was stunned. He really didn't know that. Judging from her appearance, she looked younger than him. "Really?"

Zhou Xun lit a cigarette, chuckled, and exhaled a puff of smoke, teasingly saying, "Of course it's true, so what? Call me 'older sister'?"

Jiang Lai curled his lip in disdain. Calling such a little thing "sister" was like asking him to smash his head against a block of tofu.

"Hey, do you have any more acting roles after you finish filming this movie?" Zhou Xun asked hesitantly.

"Have you forgotten that I'm still a student?" Jiang Lai replied, puzzled.

"Oh, right!" Zhou Xun tapped her head cutely. "I was just thinking of asking you to audition for a movie."

"What play?"

"Well... Director Lou introduced me to an agent, Sister Xiaowan. She said that Director Li Shaohong is making a new film and is trying to get me a role."

The "Sister Xiaowan" that Zhou Xun mentioned is Li Xiaowan, who is her agent. Jiang Lai met her a few times when she came to visit the set. She is a capable and efficient woman.

"Then why are you telling me this?"

"I think if you pass the audition, we can work together in the same production again."

With her head tilted to the side and two ponytails hanging down on either side, Zhou Xun's charming and adorable appearance was incredibly captivating.

Jiang Lai awkwardly changed the subject, "What role did you manage to get for you?"

"It seems to be Princess Taiping."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Lai's gaze immediately fell on a certain part of his body.

"It's quite flat."

The air fell silent for a moment.

"You're dead!!"

The staff were startled by the earth-shattering roar and all looked toward the source of the sound.

When they saw that it was Zhou Xun who had pinned Jiang Lai to the ground and rubbed him against the ground, they were no longer surprised and went about their business as usual.

The site was quickly set up.

Lou Ye ran over and said, "Get ready, get ready, we're about to start filming," and then skipped away.

Zhou Xun followed the staff outside the room, while Jiang Lai sat on the sofa, gathering his emotions.

Not long after, the script supervisor ran over with a whiteboard, and the cameraman Wang Yu also shoved his camera in front of Jiang Lai.

"Snapped!"

"Action!"

The lighting was dim, with only one lamp and the white light from the television illuminating the entire room.

Jiang Lai stared blankly at the television.

The rumbling sound was actually just workers swinging large metal sheets around to imitate thunder.

Unfortunately, it hasn't been raining much in Shanghai lately, and the film crew can't just sit around waiting.

A knock sounded at the door. Jiang Lai glanced at the door, put down the thin blanket covering him, and went over.

Opening the door, the hallway was bathed in warm orange light, while the room was illuminated by a cool, dark blue light, as if two separate worlds had been created.

Zhou Xun stood in the warm light, holding the doll Jiang Lai had given her, but she was soaked to the bone, her hair plastered to her forehead, and her clothes dripping water onto the ground.

The cold weather made her shiver like a wounded little animal, her eyes full of grievance, but the moment she saw Jiang Lai, all of that turned into a gentle smile.

Jiang Lai quickly pulled Zhou Xun into the room, found a towel and wiped her face gently but with extreme restraint.

He felt sorry for her, but he had to keep his distance so that the girl wouldn't get hurt.

Jiang Lai put down the towel and walked to the side, Zhou Xun's eyes following him closely.

She could sense the man's rejection, and felt sad and fearful. Her big eyes searched the room.

A bottle of wine was placed on the table.

Without hesitation, she walked over, picked it up, unscrewed the cap, and poured it into her mouth, swallowing it in large gulps as the liquor slid down her neck.

Jiang rushed over to snatch the wine away.

Zhou Xun's tears instantly burst forth, flowing down her face with the spilled wine. She clutched the doll tightly and hugged the bottle of wine tightly as well.

"You like me, don't you?"

She cried out, grabbing Jiang Lai's arm, "You only let me stay because I was drunk!"

Jiang Lai snatched the wine and put it down. That soft body rushed up and hugged him tightly. Her cold lips passionately kissed his face and pressed against his mouth.

"Are you ignoring me because you like me?" Zhou Xun's voice was hoarse from crying, and her clear eyes were already covered with a layer of mist.

The soft moonlight shone into the room through the window, casting shadows of light and shadow on the two people.

Wang Yu controlled the camera to turn to Jiang Lai, giving him a close-up. In the picture, Jiang Lai's eyes were calm and still, but they slowly broke down, then he tried his best to suppress them, and then they returned to being calm and still.

"Okay! Click!"

Lou Ye happily called for a stop. The two had just performed perfectly, their restrained emotions were portrayed just right.

Why aren't you saying anything! Why aren't you saying anything!

Zhou Xun was clearly still emotional, crying and pounding on Jiang Lai's back.

Jiang Lai didn't push her away, letting this little person vent her emotions. Everyone present didn't disturb her and quietly stayed by her side.

After waiting for a long time, the crying gradually subsided. Zhou Xun let go of her hand and sat on the sofa in a daze, continuing to try to calm herself down.

Jiang Lai recovered quite quickly, rubbed his face, and ran happily to Lou Ye's side.

"Director Lou, is this the end of this scene?"

"Ah, what else do you want to happen?" Lou Ye said with a mischievous grin.

Jiang Lai quickly waved his hand, "No, no."

Lou Ye smiled, turned around, and called out to the crew, "Everyone, take a break, we'll do another take later!"

Jiang Lai returned to the sofa, offered Zhou Xun a cigarette, and the two of them smoked together.

He stroked his chin, feeling that this part of the story ended very abruptly.

"Let's chew some gum next time," Zhou Xun said.

"What?"

"His breath smelled of smoke when we kissed."

"..."