"... What's wrong with you? You were acting perfectly fine at home, so why did you mess up the actual filming?"
"Are you deliberately trying to annoy me?"
"If you don't film this well, you might as well not eat today!"
Through the crowd, the other person's voice, scolding the child, could be faintly heard. Her voice was stern and her expression was rather harsh and fierce.
In contrast, Ren Xueni's husband seemed honest and well-behaved. He went over to protect the child a few times, and Ren Xueni pointed at him and scolded him a few times, but he didn't say a word and seemed very good-tempered.
"Tsk, is Ren Xueni really that bad-tempered?" Some crew members couldn't help but murmur a few words after witnessing this scene. "I saw her throwing things at her husband before, without any politeness whatsoever."
"It's not just her husband; she's not even soft-hearted towards her own children... I'll tell you a secret: the other day I saw her ask her son to get her some hot water, and when he brought it back, he accidentally scalded her. You didn't see it, but she slapped him across the face right then and there! It scared me to death!"
"I saw her secretly pinching that child before. If I hadn't known that the child was her son, I would have thought he was her enemy."
As the saying goes, the eyes of the masses are discerning. Ren Xueni thought her actions were discreet, but people aren't blind, and someone inevitably noticed her inappropriate behavior, so they started gossiping about her behind her back.
Of course, Ren Xueni was unaware of the gossip circulating among the crew. She was currently furious, feeling that the child had deliberately embarrassed her by missing two scenes.
In her view, such a simple scene only required saying "Goodbye, teacher," and this child had delivered much longer lines before. The fact that they filmed it twice without getting it right this time—what else could it be but intentional?
"... Are you holding a grudge against me for slapping you yesterday, so you're doing this on purpose to embarrass me?" She glared at the child and questioned him.
Ren Xueni's husband interjected, "Aren't you overthinking this? Yangyang is so young, how could he have such thoughts?"
Ren Xueni's husband's surname is Ding, and his name is Ding Liangcai. Her son's name is Ding Shuyang, and his nickname Yangyang.
Speaking of which, Ren Xueni's son Yangyang is much more famous than his mother, Ren Xueni. Ding Liangcai, her agent, is almost becoming her son's agent instead of Ren Xueni's agent.
Ding Liangcai had always been very accommodating to Ren Xueni, but now, seeing that Ren Xueni was saying increasingly outrageous things, he couldn't help but speak up and offer a few words of advice.
"I think he's full of bad intentions! He's deliberately trying to go against me!" Ren Xueni said angrily, pointing her long-fingered index finger at Yangyang's forehead as she spoke, asking, "Are you trying to drive me crazy? Mingming acted really well during rehearsal last night, but then problems arose as soon as filming started..."
"I'm telling you, you absolutely have to film this well. If you don't, the production team will reject you and you won't get paid. And you can forget about your art class; I'll just refund you!"
She squinted, her face and tone filled with threat.
Upon hearing this, Yangyang's face instantly showed anxiety, and he hurriedly said, "Mom, I'll take good pictures, please don't cancel my art class..."
Yangyang doesn't like acting; he likes drawing. However, Ren Xueni doesn't like him doing anything other than acting and studying, thinking it's a waste of time and a distraction from his studies. So, Yangyang spent a lot of effort getting Ren Xueni to agree to enroll him in drawing classes.
Now, Ren Xueni says she's going to cancel his art class. How could Yangyang not be worried?
He looked at Ren Xueni with teary eyes, pleading, "Mom, I'll take the pictures properly, please don't cancel my art class..."
Ren Xueni looked down at him and suddenly sighed.
She knelt down, placed her hands on Yangyang's shoulders, and said, " Yangyang, don't blame Mom for being too strict with you. Everything Mom does is for your own good. Only if you act well will everyone like you, do you understand?"
Yangyang gripped the hem of her clothes with both hands and nodded vigorously, " Yangyang, I understand..."
"Good boy." Ren Xueni finally smiled and patted Yangyang's head. "So, you must act well later, okay?"
Yangyang nodded again.
A few minutes later, the scene was filmed for the third time.
No one expected that such a simple scene would be cut twice. Fortunately, this time, the scene was finally filmed smoothly, and Yang Yang, who had been slow to react, finally managed to deliver her lines.
"Okay, cut!" the script supervisor shouted happily, and the crew, which had been quiet because of filming, became noisy again.
As soon as the scene was finished, Zhou Xiaoyu came over and handed Ye Mo a hot water bottle to warm his hands.
With the New Year fast approaching, the temperature plummeted due to the rain a couple of days ago, making it freezing cold. Ye Mo was only wearing a thin sweater. While filming, it was impossible to tell if she was cold, but as soon as filming wrapped, she curled up into a ball, her posture and image completely devoid of any beauty.
Ye Mo stood still, glancing at the child named Yangyang, and noticed that the child's face seemed a little red.
[888,] she called out, [Could you check this child's health and see if he has a fever? His face is so red.]
She wasn't familiar with the other person, so it wasn't appropriate for her to approach and offer to take their temperature, especially since she felt Ren Xueni didn't seem to like her.
In such circumstances, it's even more inappropriate to have any direct contact with the child.
Fortunately, she had 888, which could directly test the child's physical condition and see if the child was sick.
Soon, 888 sent a message, sounding surprised. "[Host, this child has a fever...]"
Before 888 could finish speaking, Ye Mo, who had been watching the child's condition closely, suddenly rushed forward and caught the child as he fell headfirst, holding him tightly in his arms.
Ye Mo's first feeling upon holding the person was: So hot!
888 was screaming and yelling in Ye Mo's mind, shouting in panic: [Host, this child has a fever of 39.5 degrees! It's almost 40 degrees! What should I do? Will he become mentally impaired? I've heard that human children are very fragile...]
Ye Mo closed her eyes. "[... Keep your voice down.]" Her brain was almost fuzzing over from the noise.
" Director Ji!" she called out to Director Ji Minghe, "This child has a fever!"
Her shout drew attention not only from Director Ji but also from everyone else in the crew. A kind-hearted aunt even reached out to touch the child's forehead, immediately pulling her hand away and exclaiming:
"My God, her head is so hot you could fry an egg on it... She needs to get to the hospital right away, or she'll get seriously burned!"
Director Ji squeezed through the crowd. "What's wrong?"
Ye Mo looked up, "This child has a fever, he's even fainted!"
" Yangyang..." Ren Xueni and her husband squeezed in as well. When Ren Xueni saw her child's face, which was flushed red, she immediately cried out in alarm and rushed over, anxiously calling out, " Yangyang, what's wrong? Don't scare your mother!"
" Yangyang!" Ding Youcai squeezed in and rushed to the child's side.
Ren Xueni cried with worry, "Waaah, Yangyang... how did he get such a high fever?"
She looked worried and guilty, but Ye Mo watched coldly and felt that her expression was completely hypocritical, not genuine. He felt that even Ding Youcai's expression next to her was more sincere.
Ye Mo never doubted her intuition; she was always very perceptive of people's emotions. Now, she felt that Ren Xueni's worry and self-blame were very superficial, and if she had to describe them in one word, it would be "hypocritical."