After Transmigrating, I Fell in Love with a Top-Tier Movie Queen - Chapter 23

“Cut—!!!”

In the quiet studio, Yu Zechun’s voice, filled with despair, made everyone stop.

Looking at Ye Linghua’s serious face, Yu Zechun’s heart trembled. He couldn’t help but ask, “Is that how you dry your girlfriend’s hair?”

Ye Linghua was helpless. “It’s dry now, isn’t it?”

Yu Zechun was on the verge of a breakdown. “Are you at work? Even people at a salon smile when they wash hair! This is on camera, on camera! You have to show emotion!”

Ye Linghua was speechless. She was about to say something when she caught a glimpse of Lin Xin looking up at her. Lin Xin’s dark eyes were staring at her with the same look of confusion she had when she was eating the asparagus.

Ye Linghua turned her head, avoiding the gaze that made her heart flutter. She said calmly to Yu Zechun, “I’m trying my best.”

Yu Zechun was shocked by her audacity. He turned to Meng Kelin and said, “I’m not asking for some big-name actor, but at least someone with a little experience!” Is this the result of her trying her best? Even a twitch of her face would be a sign of effort. You’re just blank-faced and you say you’re trying your best? Do you think I’m blind?

Meng Kelin smiled and then turned to the loudspeaker, yelling at Ye Linghua in front of the camera, “Didn’t you two eat from the same skewer the other day? Where’s that passion? Show it!!!”

Ye Linghua was speechless.

Lin Xin’s face turned red, and she glared at Meng Kelin.

Meng Kelin’s voice weakened a little after being glared at, and she could only continue speaking into the loudspeaker, “The song still needs to be recorded! Aren’t I doing this for your own good?”

Seeing that Lin Xin was still glaring at her, Meng Kelin could only look away and said in a lower voice, “I’ll ask the director to give you another chance. Try again, and work a little harder.”

Of course, Yu Zechun wouldn’t give up after just one try. He told someone to wet Lin Xin’s hair again and then looked at Ye Linghua. “Be gentler this time.”

Ye Linghua could only repeat the previous action, but she just couldn’t be gentle enough.

“Cut—!!!”

Ye Linghua stopped, but she couldn’t help it. She had genuinely tried to adjust her expression and even her movements.

But an amateur is still an amateur. Although this was a very short scene in the music video, Yu Zechun was still a perfectionist and would not accept a half-hearted result.

With one “cut” after another, Lin Xin’s hair went from wet to dry and back to wet again.

Ye Linghua’s heart slowly sank. She realized for the first time that Lin Xin’s job wasn’t that easy either. In a field she didn’t know, she could only hold her back.

Lin Xin’s scalp was getting white from the rubbing, and her skin was starting to wrinkle from the water. And there was nothing Ye Linghua could do about it.

“Cut—!”

With another “cut,” Ye Linghua slowly stopped what she was doing and hesitated. “How about… we get someone else?”

Lin Xin’s head shot up. Her gaze instantly darkened, and her eyebrows furrowed. She was clearly unhappy.

Meng Kelin also frowned. “The knife is at your neck, and you want to change people? What are you thinking?”

Ye Linghua sighed. “After all, I don’t have any experience!”

Yu Zechun got angry. “You can practice if you don’t have experience! I’m not annoyed, so why are you?”

Ye Linghua said, “…But you clearly are.”

Yu Zechun got even angrier when Ye Linghua called him out. “I’m the director! I have a lot on my plate, what’s wrong with being a little annoyed? And I’m not saying you’re bad. Just act properly, and act as hard as you can.”

Seeing that no one was on her side, Ye Linghua could only compromise. “Alright! I’ll try again.”

The crew member got the signal and went over to wet Lin Xin’s hair again. Ye Linghua watched as her half-dry hair was sprayed with water again and apologized, “I’m sorry! I’m making you get sprayed with water all the time.”

Lin Xin didn’t respond. She lowered her head, and in the gaps of her shiny black hair, her delicate, white swan-like neck was faintly visible, drawing attention. Even Ye Linghua’s eyes would inadvertently fall on it.

Lin Xin, who would usually turn around and look at her with her dark eyes, didn’t move this time.

She remained sitting with her back to Ye Linghua, her head slightly lowered, showing off that swan-like neck.

Seeing that she wasn’t speaking, Ye Linghua realized she seemed to be angry. She bent down and leaned close to Lin Xin, whispering, “What’s wrong?”

Lin Xin asked in a muffled voice, “Why do you want to quit? Is it because I’m difficult to work with, or am I making things difficult for you?” She didn’t actually want an answer. After asking, she didn’t wait for Ye Linghua to reply and continued defiantly, “You were reluctant to agree in the first place. If it’s really inconvenient for you, just tell me. It’s just a few dozen seconds of footage anyway. I can ask Sister Meng to find someone else.”

Hearing her defiant words, Ye Linghua paused. She suddenly realized that her irresponsible act of wanting to quit had made Lin Xin overthink.

She saw the drops of water from Lin Xin’s hair constantly falling onto her shoulders, making her thin pajamas a little transparent. The air conditioning in the room was on, and Ye Linghua felt a little cold even in her thin pajamas.

Lin Xin, wearing wet pajamas and with wet hair, must be colder than she was.

But even so, she hadn’t gotten angry about the constant “cuts.”

Ye Linghua lowered her eyes, hiding the emotion in them. She didn’t apologize to Lin Xin immediately. Instead, she took the new towel that the crew had prepared by the bed and gently placed it on Lin Xin’s head.

She reached out and gently dried her hair. This time, she could feel the warmth from the hair and scalp through the towel. She could also easily feel how Lin Xin’s previously stiff body slowly relaxed as she continued to dry her hair.

But Lin Xin still didn’t say anything. She kept her head down. Ye Linghua’s heart paused for a moment, and she couldn’t help but smile at her defiant behavior.

Her hands became softer, and a smile appeared in her eyes. The fact that Lin Xin didn’t want her to leave was, at the very least, a pleasant one.

Lin Xin, on the other hand, was thinking with her head down about whether she should have been angry.

Ye Linghua had said it was inconvenient when she was first invited. It must really have been inconvenient for her!

Lin Xin leaned back, feeling Ye Linghua’s serious touch on every strand of her hair and her fingers gently rubbing her scalp. Every strand of hair on her head seemed to come alive, wanting to get closer.

Lin Xin closed her eyes. Thinking about it, she didn’t necessarily need Ye Linghua. It was just a music video. She could find someone else so that Ye Linghua wouldn’t have to be in such a difficult position.

Although she hadn’t filmed a drama in many years, she had acted in romance dramas with others before.

So, it would be the same if she cooperated with someone else, right?

She remembered when Meng Kelin suggested Ye Linghua participate. Afterwards, she had asked Meng Kelin who Ye Linghua would play.

Meng Kelin had said, of course, she would play the lover. Two people with good looks would be a great combination.

At that time, Lin Xin also liked the idea and thought that having Ye Linghua play her lover in her first comeback role would be great.

Ye Linghua had said it was inconvenient. She was so kind and probably only agreed because she saw that Lin Xin was in a difficult position.

Just like in the past two or three months, she had seriously learned many things she didn’t know.

She didn’t know how to cook, so she learned. Even if the dishes were simple, she tried her best to make them well.

She wasn’t good at housework, so she spent more time organizing.

She was so good. She shouldn’t have been so harsh. Lin Xin suddenly felt very guilty. Should she apologize to her? Apologize to Ye Linghua!

Having made up her mind, Lin Xin reached up and held the two hands that were still drying her hair. The sudden skin-to-skin contact made her tremble for no reason. Ye Linghua’s hands were held still, and she didn’t move. It was then that Lin Xin realized her hands were a little cold. It was probably because they had been constantly drying her hair in this cold environment.

Her heart stopped for a moment, and Lin Xin was about to speak…

“I’m sorry. I was worried about delaying the shoot. It’s not that I wanted to quit; I was afraid of holding you back.”

Ye Linghua’s gentle voice interrupted her. Her voice, slightly off-key, seemed to have a hint of temptation.

“If that made you angry, I feel like I’m committing a terrible crime.”

Lin Xin’s heart trembled, and she couldn’t help but hold on tighter to Ye Linghua’s hands. The cold skin spread from her palms, but her heart felt a little hot.

“So, I’m thinking, what can I do to make you not angry?”

Lin Xin opened her lips, wanting to say something, but she was interrupted by Ye Linghua’s actions.

The two hands that Lin Xin was holding suddenly flipped over and gently held Lin Xin’s hands.

The intertwined hands, the feeling of palm against palm, was an action more intimate than touching the back of a hand.

Lin Xin’s face secretly turned red. She tried to pull her hands away, but she couldn’t because Ye Linghua was holding them.

Even though there was a towel between them and her vision was blocked, Lin Xin could clearly feel Ye Linghua bending down and leaning closer.

This made Lin Xin close her eyes again.

“Lin Xin.”

Ye Linghua called her name softly. Her gentle voice seemed to carry a hint of affection, soaring like a lark on the prairie, melodious and enchanting.

Lin Xin finally couldn’t help it. She looked up at her, her dark eyes like high-quality black agate, captivating and enchanting.

Ye Linghua’s action of bending down brought them face-to-face, so close that it felt as if their breaths were mixing.

Lin Xin finally spoke. “You don’t need to apologize. You didn’t do anything wrong.”

As she spoke, she praised her defiantly, “It’s your first time, and you’re already doing better than a lot of people.”

Ye Linghua looked at her protective words and her rosy cheeks. A slow smile spread across her face, and her slightly curved eyes were like clear spring water.

“Thank you, Xinxin.”

Lin Xin also couldn’t help but smile, like a white lotus on a cliff, dazzling and radiant.

They had reconciled.

Ye Linghua saw that the hair was mostly dry. She told herself that there was nothing in this world that she couldn’t learn. It was just acting; she could learn.

She turned to the director. Maybe because she was so engrossed earlier, she only just now realized that everyone around them was also quiet.

At that moment, she realized how many people were in the studio.

But for a moment, she had thought it was just her and Lin Xin. It was okay; she would have to adapt.

After making up her mind, Ye Linghua finally asked the director, “How about I go find a teacher to practice first?”

Yu Zechun calmly poked his head out from behind the camera and said, “No need. We’re done shooting.”

“Huh?” Ye Linghua asked.

Yu Zechun looked at the footage on the camera again. It was exactly what he had in mind.

Intimate lovers, intertwined gazes, a simple moment in life that could make people’s hearts flutter.

Yes, that was the feeling.

So, Yu Zechun said with great certainty, “That shot was great. We’ll use that one.”

Ye Linghua then realized which shot they had used. She looked at Lin Xin in front of her, then at Yu Zechun, and asked uncertainly, “…Are you sure?”

She was just about to find a teacher and become a master.

Yu Zechun said, “Yes.”

Yu Zechun mercilessly crushed her ambition and looked at Lin Xin with an ambiguous gaze. “Sincere emotions are better than acting.”

Lin Xin looked away and pulled the towel from her head, throwing it to the side.

Ye Linghua was speechless. Was it really over?

Lin Xin got up, clearly ready to leave. Ye Linghua saw that they weren’t kidding and that the shoot was really over. She could only put away her grand ambitions.

Usually, after a shoot, a celebrity like Lin Xin would go over to the camera to check the footage. If the effect wasn’t good, the celebrity would often ask for a reshoot without the director even saying anything.

This time was no different. After Lin Xin watched the footage, she felt that, just as Yu Zechun had said, the scene was very well-shot.

However, when the scene of their reconciliation was playing, Yu Zechun suddenly froze the frame. At that moment, Lin Xin was sitting in front of Ye Linghua, leaning back, while Ye Linghua was bending forward.

They were face-to-face, in an intimate distance. Even through the screen, you could feel their hearts fluttering in that moment.

To be able to convey that fluttering feeling to the audience through the screen was a success.

But it was at that moment that Yu Zechun suddenly pointed to the screen and said, “Right here, it would have been even better if they had kissed.”