Du Bin rolled his eyes at him.

Is there anyone who praises himself in such a roundabout way with personal opinions?

Have some shame.

Xia Chi's gaze scanned Du Bin's body like an X-ray machine.

【Oh, you look good.】

[While I was at the hospital, I also had a full face SPA with my wife.]

[No wonder her complexion has become rosy and the few remaining hairs have become shiny.]

【Don’t ask, asking is the power of love. 】

[Tsk…]

[I also had my hemorrhoids removed. No wonder I walk so unsteadily...]

"Ahem."

Du Binquan couldn't stand it any longer, so he turned around and gave him a kind smile, "Xiao Xia, I suddenly remembered something..."

Xia Chi: “Hmm?”

Du Binquan: "Look, I had dinner with Director Luo Jian from the crew next door yesterday. He was worried about the lack of a supporting role in his play and asked me to recommend a young actor. I sent your resume."

"Director Luo Jian..." Xia Chi was stunned for five seconds, his brain indicating it couldn't input anything. "Is it the director Luo Jian who swept the Cannes Film Festival with 'Into the Badlands' and made the judges cry while presenting the awards?"

"Yeah." Du Binquan nodded.

Xia Chi: "Is it Director Luo Jian, the one whose box office broke 10 billion and the China Film Corporation begged him to shoot a mainstream film?"

"Yes." Du Binquan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

Xia Chi: "Is it Director Luo Jian, the one who made three Best Actor and Best Actresses cry in one movie and who doesn't get along with everyone?"

"What are you talking about?" Du Binquan said impatiently: "What? You're still complaining about it."

"I don't mind, I don't mind." Xia Chi still couldn't believe it: "Director Du, you didn't lie to me, did you?"

"Do I sound like someone who's joking?" Du Binquan raised his chin slightly. "I happen to be free this morning, so why don't you just sit around and go check in with him? I'll give you his assistant's contact information, so just call when you get there."

Happiness came so suddenly that Xia Chi froze in place, even his breathing stopped for a few seconds.

"What? Are you excited and stupid?"

Du Binquan came over to look at the fool, and Xia Chi suddenly jumped up like a spring, hugged Du Binquan's belly and shook it wildly.

"Director Du, Dad Du, Dad Du!"

He shouted so loudly that the whole yard could hear: "I promise to complete the task and I promise not to embarrass you."

Ahhhhhhhh…

[I will worship you and burn three sticks of incense every morning and evening!]

[I was born without a father, so from now on you are my real father! ]

"Oh, get out of the way..." Du Binquan pulled it out with disgust, his mouth corners harder than AK.

Okay, as long as you don't cheat.

******

The crew next door was right next door as the name suggested, but it took Xia Chi half an hour to get there on his electric scooter.

The main road outside the studio was packed with people, and screams were heard one after another.

Xia Chi felt the cheering colors looked familiar, and just as he was about to check to see which fan group they belonged to, his assistant, sweating profusely, squeezed over and directed Xia Chi to go down a small alley. "Teacher Xia, let's go through the back door. The front door is impossible to get through."

After turning many corners and entering the set, I found that the atmosphere was not right. Everyone looked solemn and tense.

From the layout of the set, it can be seen that this is a Republican-era drama. The filming location is indoors, so it shouldn't be affected by the weather. However, it was already past ten in the morning and the filming hadn't started yet.

Xia Chi glanced around. The entire crew seemed to have been paused. Director Luo Jian sat in his chair with a sullen face, his fingers tapping the armrest intermittently. The veteran actors around him watched intently, while the younger actors cowered in silence.

Someone threw the clapperboard on the ground, and on it was written the name of the movie - "Silent".

It is also very appropriate.

"Teacher Xia, please wait here for a moment..." Seeing this situation, the young assistant didn't dare to move forward. He lowered his voice and slipped away.

“…”

Xia Chi didn't dare to move around. Coincidentally, there was a staff member wearing a dark green baseball cap squatting on the ground tinkering with something. Xia Chi tiptoed over and asked, "Brother, may I ask..."

"Fuck!"

The guy in the baseball cap was so frightened that he instinctively stuffed the things in his hands behind his back and looked at the person who came over with alert eyes, like a frightened bird: "Who the hell are you? You walk quietly, right?"

“…”

The crew is a mixed bunch. It's obvious that this guy's life is not going well, as he keeps talking about biological weapons.

Xia Chi just thought he was interrupting his work and quickly apologized with a smile: "Sorry, I just got here and wanted to ask what's going on and why hasn't the filming started yet?"

"Fuck! What else could it be?" Baseball Cap scratched his hair. As he mentioned what was happening, a hint of joy flashed in his eyes for some reason. "The star is acting like a big shot and is late."

be late?

Is there anyone else who dares to be late in Luo Jian’s crew?

Xia Chi was secretly shocked.

Luo Jian is a veteran among the fifth generation of directors. He holds great power of speech and can ban you with just a few words.

【Who is so pessimistic? 】

"Who else could it be..." The man in the baseball cap gave a cold smile, "You really think you're such a big shot. Sooner or later, you'll get killed..."

After Baseball Cap finished speaking, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He pushed up his glasses, which were as thick as the bottom of a bottle, and looked Xia Chi up and down.

But I saw that this man was wearing a Taoist robe, his black hair was pinned on top of his head with a hairpin, and a few dragon whiskers were unruly brushing against his face, making his skin look as white as jade. His pair of phoenix eyes were slightly upturned, and the corners of his eyes were dyed with a little cinnabar. At first glance, he really had a bit of immortal temperament.

Standing among a group of modern people, he looks like he has traveled through time.

"Hey, who the hell are you? You must have come to the wrong set."

Xia Chi chuckled and said, "I'm a guest actor from the crew next door. The director asked me to come over and report for duty."

"check in……"

Baseball Cap stared closely at the mole at the corner of Xia Chi's eye, feeling that it looked familiar. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "Fuck! I remember now, you're not that...that...that...the male Bodhisattva who danced the edge dance on TikTok!"

!!!!!!

A bolt of thunder struck his head, and Xia Chi wanted to cover his mouth with his hands.

I never thought that even after he retired for eight hundred years, there are still old fans who remember what he looks like.

The dark history that he couldn't bear to look back on poured into his thin body like a dark cloud.

Digging the ground with toes frantically.

"I've followed you and even given you gifts!" Baseball Cap excitedly pulled out his phone. "That little waist wiggle is just amazing! Hey, why haven't you been streaming lately?"

Xia Chi held him down and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "You got the wrong person."

Baseball Cap: "How could I be mistaken? Do you remember your ID? Dancing Hugh Dog."

Xia Chi's mentality collapsed again and again, but he held back and did not run away.

"That's not me. I'm a serious actor."

"I know." The man in the baseball cap winked obscenely, "You've made it to the big screen, starting to make it in the film and television industry. You're doing great! Who's the money man you hooked up with?"

Xia Chi had a wooden face and was already thinking of a hundred ways to kill and silence the witness.

A roar interrupted the assassination plan here.

"Are you coming or not? This is outrageous!"

Director Luo Jian slammed his hands on the table, shaking his thermos cup so much that it jumped up. "Hundreds of people on the entire crew are waiting for him! How many times has this happened?!"

The entire set was utterly silent. The assistant director held up his phone, beads of sweat oozing from his forehead. "I'll be right there. I'll call Assistant Jiang Nan..."

"Jiang Nan?!"

Xia Chi's pupils trembled.

This name is like a rusty key, suddenly inserted into the keyhole of memory, and with a "click" sound, the dusty gate burst open.

The summer humidity hit him in the face, as did the grand and brutal star-making carnival. The convenience store downstairs played the theme song of the talent show on loop, the low-quality speakers made the glass counter buzz, and on the night of the finals, the screams from the entire residential building almost blew off the ceiling. On his broken phone screen, the young man, clad in armor, made his debut in the center position amidst the golden rain.

That year, Jiang Nan was the brightest light in the youth of countless people.

But that year, Xia Chi was trapped by a unfair contract and wandered alone by the river like a desperate dog.

Many years have passed in a flash.

Xia Chi gradually got out of the muddy swamp and got back on track. When he was struggling with the contract termination lawsuit in court, there were still soda advertisements endorsed by Jiang Nan on the subway platform. When he was eating cold boxed lunches and playing supporting roles at the film and television base, he occasionally saw Jiang Nan's hot searches.

Like two parallel lines, they are never in the same world.

But today, two people on two parallel lines accidentally met on the same set.

Like a dream.

"He's in the news again after getting drunk at a nightclub." The guy in the baseball cap smacked his lips gloatingly. "Tsk tsk, he must be so lucky to be on Director Luo's team. If it weren't for his huge fan base, who would care about such a washed-up idol..."

Xia Chi glanced coldly at the baseball cap and silently distanced himself from the loser.

Jiang Nan has a lot of fans, but his haters are notoriously rampant. Dozens of them pop up daily on Weibo, and a whole shady industry has spawned around him. It's as if cursing him online can alleviate some of life's woes.

The young assistant waved at him.

Xia Chi took small steps forward and stood next to the staff member.

Director Luo Jian in the center of the crowd seemed even thinner than he remembered, with a neatly trimmed white beard, an indigo-dyed linen shirt, and dzi beads wrapped around his cuffs. Du Binquan stood in front of him, looking like a farmer who had just returned from planting rice in the fields.

The old artist was so angry that his beard was trembling.

"Do you really think you're some international superstar? You forgot everything you promised me last time!"

The director was so angry that he slammed the table and his hands turned red.

Xia Chi, who was standing aside, held his breath.

[Jiang Nan? Why is he late?]

In Xia Chi's memory, Jiang Nan was a well-known "hard worker". In the talent show training camp that year, Jiang Nan, who was originally responsible for vocals, was not good at dancing, but he made up for his shortcomings with almost harsh self-discipline. He was always the first to arrive at the practice room and the last to leave. In the end, he conquered everyone with his superb stage performance and became the most dazzling dark horse of that talent show.

How could Jiang Nan, such a man, be late?

Xia Chi recalled the inexplicable online violence that had arisen a while ago. It was initially caused by a post on Director Luo Jian's WeChat Moments - he suddenly publicly denounced a popular star for being a big shot, being late, and hanging out in nightclubs, which caused him to be listless and unable to keep up with the rhythm while acting. Later, he heard that the actor apologized privately and the incident ended.

At that time, the entire network was guessing who was the one acting like a big shot, and Jiang Nan was the first to be hit. Marketing accounts and black fans smelled the scent and came over, and they were busy putting all kinds of negative and ugly photos of Jiang Nan since his debut on the hot search list, including various inexplicable revelations from his ex-girlfriend, which made the Internet a mess. In the end, they had to call the police.

It seems that this rumor is not groundless. Xia Chi looked at the entrance of the studio and felt very conflicted.

"Here it comes, it's finally here."

A staff member came in hurriedly.

Director Luo Jian looked past the man, but saw no one following him in. "Where is he?"

The staff explained: "The car was blocked by fans, and security has gone over to maintain order. It will be available soon."

Luo Jian: "It's these people again. Can't Jiang Nan control his fans?"

[Correction, sasaeng is not fan. 】

Luo Jian was getting angry when he was suddenly stunned by the voice.

Who is so blind as to dare to argue with me at this time?!