The assistant director took a long time to compose himself.
Only then did he nod at me. "After dark. We'll film after dark. In tonight's scene, the male lead takes the female lead back to an old haunt, where they encounter the second female lead's ghost and get frightened."
Thank goodness, I thought. At least they weren't filming during the Zi Hour.
But it was still at night, and the scene they were filming was a sensitive one. It was practically like going to a graveyard in the middle of the night to play a ghost-summoning game.
"All right, let's see how things look tonight."
I discussed some precautions with the assistant director.
He told Sun Yuan to take good care of me and said he would temporarily find someone else to cover Sun Yuan's work.
After the assistant director left, Brother Liu no longer dared to stay.
"Well, Chen Mo, I've still got things to take care of at work, so I'll head off."
He'd already slipped out during work hours to do something else. Busy, my ass.
Still, he was no use here, so we walked him to the entrance of the Film and Television Base.
Before leaving, Brother Liu patted my shoulder. "Brother, I wouldn't be any help even if I stayed. Watch out for yourself. If you get this sorted out, we'll split the payment forty-sixty. Pretty generous of me, right?"
Generous?
I sighed. "Brother Liu, we're the ones risking our lives. If we get hurt, hospital treatment costs money, doesn't it? I put my own work aside to take this job from you, too. Besides, there are two of us, An Ning and me. You haven't done anything, and you want forty percent? Aren't you afraid taking that big a bite will give you a