Xu Yanche saw that He Qing had not replied to his messages for ages and sighed. "Sigh, Qingqing Darling is just too shy. He clearly likes me to death, yet he does not even dare reply to a message. This damned charm of mine."
Driver: "..." Enough. This young madam's mental state had to be seriously compromised.
Zhang Yue smacked Xu Yanche on the forehead. "Hurry up and let me see the script."
Xu Yanche shot Zhang Yue a resentful look, then took out the script and began reading.
Judging by the way Zhang Yue looked, she had probably skipped breakfast.
He rummaged through his backpack, took out the pastries he had packed before leaving home, and placed them in Zhang Yue's hand. "Here, Zhang Mammy, have some. Do not be polite. Your bro has money now."
Zhang Yue: "..." Still, her hand was itching to hit someone.
At that moment, Xu Yanche's phone rang. He glanced at it and saw that it was a photo sent by the caregiver he had hired.
He had asked the caregiver to send him photos of his mother eating on time, morning, noon, and night.
Xu Yanche looked at the photo, transferred two hundred yuan to the caregiver, and told her to buy some bananas and watermelon for his mother.
She could keep whatever was left as a tip.
He Jing had also sent him several videos of herself reciting from memory at school.
A Pool of Clear Water: Keep it up.
I Just Want Some Peace: Okay~
A Pool of Clear Water: Get lost.
I Just Want Some Peace: Yes, sir.
Xu Yanche: "..." Looks like his little sister had been born in the wrong dynasty.
An hour later, they arrived at the set.
It was Xu Yanche's first time playing the third male lead. Although he had fewer scenes than the first and second male leads—
—it was more than enough for someone like him, who had spent years playing extras.
Xu Yanche and Zhang Yue went to the hotel to put down their luggage before heading to the set.
The crew was preparing for the opening ceremony at ten in the morning.
By the time he arrived, most of the crew members were already there.
Xu Yanche stood relatively far back. He was a nobody, and very few people paid attention to him.
Throughout the entire process, he behaved like an obedient, exemplary student, following the coordinator's instructions and completing everything he was supposed to do.
After the opening ceremony, the crew officially began filming that afternoon.
Since it was a modern web drama and most of the cast were newcomers, the director had invested the bulk of the budget into costumes, makeup, props, and set design.
The female lead, Zhang Nianke, had her assistant hand out milk tea to the crew.
She greeted everyone warmly.
She was brimming with youthful energy.
Zhang Nianke handed a milk tea to Xu Yanche. "Hi, can I call you Yanyan?"
Xu Yanche smiled. "Anything is fine."
Zhang Nianke said somewhat shyly, "Can I add you on WeChat? You're really good-looking."
Xu Yanche looked at the information displayed on the panel beside Zhang Nianke: Daughter of a real estate company president, out to experience life. At the beginning and end of every month, she ordered eighteen male escorts at a hotel.
The corner of Xu Yanche's mouth twitched. "Sorry, I'm a married man. I need to uphold male virtue."
Zhang Nianke looked regretful. "All right, then." Sigh, someone this good-looking already belonged to someone else. What a pity.
After changing into costume, Xu Yanche sat on a stool and read through the script.
His scene was at night, so he had originally assumed he would have nothing to do during this time.
But it turned out he had miscalculated.
A lot of people came up to ask for his WeChat and flirt with him.
He turned them all down one by one.
He took out his phone and started fiddling with it.
A Pool of Clear Water: Qingqing Darling, I have some good news for you. I've only been on set for half a day, and already more than a dozen people have asked for my contact information~
A Pool of Clear Water: Qingqing Darling, do you think I should give it to them?
He Qing, who had been about to take his lunch break, immediately could not sit still.
No, it had only been half a day, and someone was already trying to steal his man?
He Qing: Wait there.
Xu Yanche let out a villainous laugh. "Hehehe, little brat, I knew I could get you under my thumb."
Zhang Yue turned around in horror. "Are you having another episode?"
Xu Yanche leaned back in his recliner and gave Zhang Yue a disdainful look. "You uncultured human. I'm an elegant, beautiful young man. I would never have an episode."
Zhang Yue: Do you think I'd believe that?
Xu Yanche was now eagerly anticipating what He Qing meant by "wait there."
His heart raced, and his hands trembled.
Then he got so excited that he capsized in the gutter.
He fell out of the recliner.
Landing squarely on his butt.
Xu Yanche looked teasingly at the recliner. "Damn recliner, you actually dared throw a tantrum at me. Looks like I've spoiled you too much."
Wu Yixing, the second male lead, had just finished his scene and was about to rehearse with Xu Yanche while asking for his contact information when he heard that remark.
He immediately turned around and returned to his little stool.
He felt that there might be something wrong with Xu Yanche's mind.
Xu Yanche had originally thought that He Qing's "wait there" meant he would see him soon.
But he waited from noon until his scene began that night, and He Qing still had not appeared.
Xu Yanche's character in the drama was the female lead's ex, someone with an intense desire to control her.
He was obsessive, sickly possessive, and gloomy.
Xu Yanche rubbed his hands together eagerly as he prepared to go on set.
In this scene, he bullied the female lead. Then the warm-hearted second male lead arrived to rescue her, quietly did a good deed without seeking credit, and let the male lead reap the benefits.
Zhang Nianke and Wu Yixing had both thought that Xu Yanche, a newcomer without formal training, might not be much of an actor.
But the truth slapped them in the face.
Xu Yanche acted too well. They could not keep up with him.
Seeing the obsessive madness in Xu Yanche's eyes, Zhang Nianke was genuinely frightened and completely forgot that they were acting.
They kept reshooting the scene, and only after ten takes did the director reluctantly let them go.
Zhang Nianke's eyes sparkled. "Yanyan, can you rehearse with me? I..."
Before she could finish, someone pushed her aside.
The pushed-aside Zhang Nianke: "???" Why was I pushed away?
A tall man wrapped an arm around Xu Yanche's waist and pulled him into his embrace. His deep, magnetic voice sounded beside Xu Yanche's ear. "Have you finished filming for today?"
Xu Yanche was shocked, then delighted, and then began screaming wildly in his heart.
Ahhh, this dog of a man really is craving me. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Is this jealousy? It definitely is. Sigh, this damned charm of mine actually got this porcelain coward to finally wake up a little.
He Qing: "????" Why could he not quite understand that?
He looked at his little wife in his arms, who was pretending to be bashful while touching his hand. "There's one more scene."
He Qing responded coolly, "Mm."
The other crew members and Zhang Yue all curiously examined He Qing and Xu Yanche.
Zhang Yue came to her senses and immediately ran forward, pulling out a chair. "President He, please sit."
He Qing did not sit. Instead, he had Xu Yanche sit down and rest, since he still had another scene to film later.
He gave the assistant behind him a look.
The assistant quickly handed out the milk tea and boxed meals they had bought.
The crew stared at the packaging of the boxed meals and milk tea in silence.
Th-These were for everyone in the crew, from the major staff to the minor workers. It had definitely cost no less than a hundred thousand yuan altogether. Rich people really were something else.
Director Chen immediately remembered that word had spread yesterday that the person from the He Household had awakened and was said to have gotten married.
Everyone had been discussing who that person from the He Household had married.
Yet today, the two central figures of that discussion had appeared on his set.
Director Chen immediately handed the filming work over to the assistant director and went to personally receive this great figure.
But the great figure merely nodded at him, then stared without blinking at Xu Yanche drinking milk tea, looking resentful and thoroughly unsatisfied.
Director Chen: Well, it was obvious now. This great figure was a wife-fearing man.