After Secretly Marrying the Top Celebrity, I Fell in Love - Chapter 39

“……!” Fu Yu was surprised, and in the first instance looked towards Bai Yiyan, his eyes filled with doubt.

“……” Bai Yiyan pinched the phone in her hand, exchanged a silent look with Fu Yu, and didn’t say anything.

Fu Yu turned to look at Zhang Mingxiu, and was the first to ask, “Director Zhang, when did Manqing arrive?”

“What is she doing here at the film set?”

Zhang Mingxiu replied, “Oh, she came to shoot the makeup photos. She arrived around one o’clock in the afternoon, when you were all resting. I just went to watch her shoot the makeup photos, so I let Old Chen watch the set temporarily.”

Fu Yu: “So that’s how it is.”

Zhang Mingxiu: “Xiao Fu, go back to the hotel after you rest a bit. I’m going to discuss something with Manqing.”

After throwing out that sentence, Zhang Mingxiu left without looking back, his hurried figure disappearing at the entrance of the inn.

Fu Yu looked at Bai Yiyan with a strange expression, and countered, “Xiao Bai, you didn’t know she was coming either?”

Bai Yiyan lightly nodded her chin, and whispered, “I didn’t know.”

Fu Yu suddenly smiled, letting out a light chuckle: “Not bad, she even knows how to create a surprise.”

“Old Ye, oh Old Ye, you’ve finally wised up.”

While speaking, Fu Yu squinted his eyes and looked at Bai Yiyan with a meaningful gaze. It was obvious who he was talking about.

“……” Bai Yiyan lightly bit the inside of her lip, a flush of intoxicating color rising to her cheeks, trying her best to maintain her outward composure.

Fu Yu carefully observed Bai Yiyan’s reaction. Seeing her look so calm and collected, he almost would have been fooled if he hadn’t seen her blush.

Her acting is really good, it’s just that she blushes easily.

The time rewound to two and a half hours earlier.

Outside the door, the phone in Ye Manqing’s hand suddenly made a WeChat notification sound. The woman lightly lowered her eyes, unlocked the phone with her fingerprint, and directly opened the unread WeChat message.

Bai Yiyan: [Teacher Ye, have you eaten lunch yet?]

Before going to bed last night, the two chatted as usual for a while. Ye Manqing asked about Bai Yiyan’s schedule for the next day, and if she had started filming her scenes yet.

Bai Yiyan truthfully informed her.

Bai Yiyan: [I don’t have scenes tomorrow. My scenes start the day after tomorrow.]

Ye Manqing: [Then you’ll be staying in the hotel all day tomorrow?]

Bai Yiyan: [I want to go to the set tomorrow and watch the two teachers act.]

Ye Manqing: [That’s a good idea.]

Ye Manqing: [Both Fu Yu and Zhou Wenkai’s acting are excellent, with hardly any noticeable acting traces.]

A very fair assessment.

From a professional perspective, only an actress like Ye Manqing, who has won countless awards, is qualified to evaluate the acting of two contemporaries.

Ye Manqing stood rooted outside the makeup room door, with her assistant behind her looking puzzled. Qingqing wisely kept quiet and dared not speak, quietly awaiting the reaction of Teacher Ye.

“……” Ye Manqing struggled to suppress the urge to push open the makeup room door. In the end, she led her assistant away first.

She still had to go and shoot her makeup photos first.

Ye Manqing had two purposes for coming to the set today. One was to shoot her makeup photos, and the other, she wanted to give Bai Yiyan a surprise. For this surprise, she did not tell anyone her itinerary, not even Fu Yu.

To avoid causing a commotion on the set, Ye Manqing only brought Qingqing, one assistant, and deliberately came during everyone’s lunch break.

It took almost two hours from makeup to finalizing the look.

The makeup photos began shooting at three o’clock in the afternoon.

Ye Manqing had only been shooting for a short while, about half an hour, when Zhang Mingxiu returned.

In the photography studio, Ye Manqing had just finished a set of poses and was getting her makeup touched up on the spot. The makeup artist stood in front of Ye Manqing, lightly patting the sides of her nose with a powder puff.

The photographer was engrossed in looking at the set of photos just taken, becoming more and more satisfied, continuously praising them to himself.

“Good, really good! They’re shot so well!”

Suddenly, a rush of hurried footsteps came from the front, and the few people present turned their gaze towards the sound.

The photographer stretched his neck and greeted Zhang Mingxiu from a distance.

“Director Zhang!”

Didn’t he just leave a moment ago? Why is he back again?

Zhang Mingxiu jogged all the way, coming directly to Ye Manqing. After catching his breath, he looked at Ye Manqing and asked directly, “Manqing, do you have any other arrangements this afternoon?”

“No.” Ye Manqing thought for a moment and replied.

“Xiao Li, how much longer do you need to shoot here?” Zhang Mingxiu turned his head and looked at the photographer in the distance.

“One hour at most, I think.” The photographer replied.

“That means… around 4:30.” Zhang Mingxiu glanced at the watch on his wrist. It was currently 3:30.

“We can finish before 4:30.” The photographer estimated the time and added a supplement.

“Manqing, I want to discuss something with you,” Zhang Mingxiu said straightforwardly, “It’s like this, Xiao Fu’s menstrual cramps are quite severe. Her face is pale. I told her to go back to the hotel to rest, but she insists on staying. She keeps saying it would waste the extras and delay Zhou Wenkai’s progress.”

“Today we are shooting the inn scenes, right?” Ye Manqing confirmed.

When she arrived at noon, she saw staff going in and out of the inn, moving props.

Zhang Mingxiu was stunned for a moment, then quickly nodded heavily: “Yes, yes! That’s right.”

Ye Manqing: “I’ll take over.”

Zhang Mingxiu: “……”

Ye Manqing: “I’ll go over there as soon as I finish shooting the makeup photos. It just so happens that a few of my scenes are the inn scenes.”

Zhang Mingxiu: “Great!”

Fu Yu left the set first. As soon as she got back into the nanny van, she immediately sent a WeChat message to Ye Manqing. Sure enough, the person didn’t reply and didn’t pick up her voice call.

Fu Yu secretly cursed in her heart: A friend-forsaking scoundrel!

“Ugh… back to the hotel.” Fu Yu’s belly started to ache faintly again with the excitement. Covering her stomach with one hand, she lifted her face and spoke to the driver.

At the inn, Zhang Mingxiu organized everyone to shoot the male lead’s scenes first.

Bai Yiyan was still quietly sitting on a small folding stool, staying by the director’s side to continue watching the filming. Although her eyes were constantly fixed on the monitor screen, Bai Yiyan was clearly a little distracted.

Her mind had wandered off.

Bai Yiyan quickly adjusted her state, striving to pull her thoughts back to reality and suppressing the internal restlessness.

About an hour later, Zhou Wenkai smoothly finished two scenes. The remaining “inn scenes” required him to act with the female lead, so he had no more scenes for the day.

Fortunately, Ye Manqing had already agreed to come over after she finished shooting her makeup photos. The set could continue to be utilized, and the extras only needed slight makeup changes and costume swaps to continue filming.

Everyone rested where they were.

There was no air conditioning in the inn, and the indoor temperature was at least thirty-four or thirty-five degrees Celsius. Although there were air coolers continuously blowing in the corners, the inn was too large, and the temperature simply couldn’t drop.

Zhang Mingxiu held a handheld fan, never letting go. He initially wanted to offer the small fan to Bai Yiyan, but Bai Yiyan adamantly refused to take it. Finally, Zhang Mingxiu found a folding fan for Bai Yiyan from the props team.

Bai Yiyan sat on the small folding stool, fanning herself with the folding fan. She lowered her head and lit up her phone screen again, checking the time at the top of the screen.

Suddenly, a series of footsteps sounded at the inn entrance. Following the sound, Bai Yiyan looked up.

She saw a tall, slender woman appear at the inn’s doorway, standing against the light. The sunlight enveloped the woman’s surroundings, and a halo of light coated the woman in a faint gold shimmer.

The woman wore a pure white crossed-collar inner garment, covered by a mist-bamboo colored long robe, with a matching sash tied around her waist. She wore a mist-bamboo colored veil over her face, and her high nose bridged a graceful line beneath the veil.

A head of smooth, cloud-like black hair cascaded down. A strand of hair from each temple was tied back, fastened with a green jade hairpin shaped like a bamboo leaf.

The color of the bamboo in the mist, and the mist in the bamboo color, hence mist-bamboo. Light and thin like mist, ethereal and integrated as one.

The woman had a pair of deep, captivating, light-tea-colored pupils, and her slender fox-like eyes were slightly upturned at the corners. Where her gaze fell, everyone was taken aback.

A beautiful sight of solitary bamboo and a mesmerizing glance.

In the crowd, Bai Yiyan received the woman’s gaze directed towards her. Their eyes met in mid-air.

“……!” Bai Yiyan’s breath hitched. Her two thick, long eyelashes fluttered up and down, drawing an invisible arc under the lights.

Her vibrant heart beat frantically, as if it would burst out of her chest in the next second.

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