I Was Taken by the Female Lead After Transmigrating into a Book - Chapter 113

They weren’t given much time to rest. The pace of filming for the last few days wasn’t extremely high-pressure, but it was consistently fast-paced.

The next scene was a continuation of the plot in Yan City. Fu Sang leaves the police station after several rounds of interrogation, wrapping her body tightly as she leaves under the dazzling daylight and the gradually cooling temperature.

Behind her, Wu Ling watches her leave.

The filming was quick. After all, there wasn’t much content in the scene, and not much dialogue. The key was the mood.

The inside and outside of the interrogation room were still long and empty.

It was early morning, and most of the rooms were empty, and there was no one in the corridor. Fu Sang finally noticed the world come alive with the sounds of street vendors as the sunlight rose outside the window.

The 24-hour period was up. She could leave the police station. But the air was too cold. She hadn’t had time to put on a warm coat when she left home, as a young, inexperienced police officer had rushed her into the police car. Her wrists still had the scrapes from when she was handcuffed.

There was a person waiting at the door. She had been sitting there for an unknown amount of time.

She held a bag of breakfast, but the dampness that had turned from steam into water droplets showed that the steamed buns had long since grown cold.

Fu Sang stopped. She stood in front of the sleeping officer, observing her tired expression and the dark circles under her eyes. She called out softly, “Wu… Officer Wu.”

Wu Ling’s eyes shot open instantly. There was no sign of tiredness in them, but this clarity only lasted for a short time. When she saw that the person in front of her was Fu Sang, her guard dropped, and fatigue caught up with her.

She rubbed her brow. She had already held out the breakfast bag before realizing it was cold.

She wanted to pull it back, but Fu Sang’s hand was faster.

“Thank you, I’m starving,” Fu Sang said. She opened the plastic bag and began to eat with large gulps.

It was obvious that she was truly hungry. She wolfed down two steamed buns, each as big as her palm, before starting to sip the cup of porridge that was only lukewarm.

“See me to the door, please,” Fu Sang said with a smile. “If you need me to cooperate with the investigation again, you can just contact me directly.”

Her words were polite, and she was cooperative, but she was also very distant.

Wu Ling was a bit taken aback. The Fu Sang of the past would have held her arm, complained about the cold of the interrogation room, grumbled that the detective in charge was too mean, and moaned about being so hungry, promising that she would never cooperate with another investigation again. She wouldn’t be like this.

Wu Ling stumbled as she stood up from the chair, seemingly because her body had become stiff from sitting for too long. She didn’t cry out in pain or show any extra emotion. Fu Sang saw it, but she just calmly looked away, not like before, when she would have stepped forward to support her or maybe push her back down and massage her legs in her lap.

The two of them left the place, walking half a step apart.

The camera zoomed out. One figure was left under the shadow of the police station’s front door, while the other walked forward into the rising morning sun.

After Bai Feifei heard Li Ke yell “Cut,” she only had time to wave to Huo Wu from a distance before she was so exhausted she could barely stand. She rushed back to the car and didn’t even have the strength to close the curtains. She just closed her eyes and passed out.

The recent scenes weren’t hard to film, but the schedule was so packed.

Fu Xiaoxiao came up and was still talking about it. “Baby, tonight we can film the final wrap-up scene…”

Her voice faded when she saw Bai Feifei’s eyebrows furrow at the noise. Then she saw Bai Feifei’s brow relax again. She stopped for a moment, then tiptoed forward to close the curtains and gently placed a thin blanket over her stomach.

When she got out, Fu Xiaoxiao ran right into Huo Wu. Both of them had been filming all day and stayed up all night, so why was her baby so tired while Huo could still walk around with energy?

Fu Xiaoxiao scowled with her hands on her hips, but she was afraid of waking Bai Feifei, so she didn’t dare to speak loudly. She could only press her voice low. “My baby’s asleep. What are you doing here?”

Huo Wu gave her a cold glance. “I’m here to hug her while I sleep.”

Just as Fu Xiaoxiao’s lips began to move, Huo Wu said in a cold voice, “And she’s my baby, not your baby.”

Fu Xiaoxiao was instantly enraged. Her eyes widened, and she yelled in a forced whisper, “My baby is my baby!”

Huo Wu got into the car without looking at her. Before closing the door, she said, “The one who gets to hug her while she sleeps and call her baby is me.”

With that, she closed the car door, blocking all of Fu Xiaoxiao’s wailing.

As she turned away, she shook her head, thinking she must be muddled from staying up all night. Her emotions were off. Normally, she wouldn’t have had a conversation like that with Fu Xiaoxiao. She would have just ignored her as always.

Bai Feifei’s nap was very long.

No one called her, and when she woke up, she saw the sky full of stars outside the window. You could only see such a beautiful sight in the suburbs, far away from the city. Huo Wu was sitting next to her, a faint light from her screen glowing. One of her hands was on her chest, and the other was uncomfortably typing with one hand.

When she noticed Bai Feifei was awake, Huo Wu looked down, brushed the stray hairs from her face, and whispered, “Want to sleep a little more?”

Bai Feifei shook her head. She had slept too long, and her body felt soft. She was too lazy to move. She asked, “What time is it?”

It was just after nine. The scene for tonight was scheduled for 2 a.m., so there was still plenty of time.

Bai Feifei lay there for a while, rubbing her face against Huo Wu’s arm. She kept rubbing until she moved to Huo Wu’s shoulder, leaning on her. She said with a grand gesture, “What do you want to eat? Dinner’s on me tonight!”

Huo Wu laughed. “I don’t want to eat anything. Just be a good girl and drink some porridge. Save your stomach for hot water tonight.”

Tonight’s night scene was at a villa complex in the suburbs.

The vacation villas were far from the city, and only a few of them had been renovated, but many people who had bought houses here were already using it as a destination for adventure and camping. After all, every house had a basement, and since no one lived here all year, it was very convenient for hiding things.

Fu Sang was kidnapped by Li Jianshu and taken to this sparsely populated suburban villa. He trapped her in a swimming pool. The pool’s cover was closed, and Fu Sang had no way to call for help. The pool of water was enough to cause her body temperature to drop and freeze to death in just a few hours.

And her death would be treated as a transaction.

Because along with her disappearance, 100,000 yuan in cash would mysteriously appear in her cabinet.

This was an extremely clumsy and not-so-clever kidnapping case. Any police officer who had worked on the front lines would be able to see at a glance that it was a man-made kidnapping.

But the investigation would be difficult.

Because it was so easy to kill a teenage girl. Any adult male could do it, especially someone like Li Jianshu, who had harmed countless other girls and knew every one of their weaknesses.

What’s more, knowing that if he was caught, he would certainly be sentenced to death, Fu Sang’s life was in imminent danger.

“Originally, we wanted to tie you to the drain at the bottom with a rope and slowly drown you by letting the water fill up,” Li Ke said, squatting by the side of the pool, saying some very scary things. “But later, we consulted an experienced old detective who said the best and most untraceable way to kill someone in a pool like this is to turn on the pool’s self-cleaning function.”

Li Ke pointed at the pool, looking very pleased. “To find a pool with this function, I almost ran my legs off. Don’t worry, the cover will have lights, and the camera crew and lifeguard will be next to you. You’ll have people with you for both close-ups and wide shots.”

He was trying to reassure Bai Feifei. After all, once the cover was sealed, it would become a closed space. Anyone would be afraid. But if the filming didn’t go smoothly, this time would be extended indefinitely, and as her condition worsened, it would be even harder to film.

Bai Feifei pursed her lips and nodded with a determined look.

No one could say what the actual filming would be like. The crew finding a real pool like this meant they had no intention of using a stunt double.

Bai Feifei’s eyes darted through the crowd. She saw Huo Wu not far away, getting familiar with the rescue route. She made a small heart gesture to her from a few meters away.

Li Ke couldn’t bear to watch. He was trying so hard to comfort her, but the person who was about to be put in the water and trapped in a dark, underwater space didn’t seem to have a care in the world.

Just pure, sincere love.

“A’Wu will come to save me later, right?” Bai Feifei whispered. “Director, you told me there would be a kiss scene at the beginning, and I was wondering where it was until two days ago… It’s this scene, right?”

Li Ke cleared his throat. “That’s right.”

Bai Feifei put one hand on the side of the pool, her legs below her calves in the water to get used to the temperature.

The water was actually heated. Controlling the temperature of the whole pool was difficult and time-consuming. The crew had brought a bunch of heating rods early on and plugged them in to heat the water on the spot.

She didn’t know how many heaters they had to use for this pool of water, but the temperature was actually very comfortable once she got in. Bai Feifei even started to enjoy the feeling of floating in the water and didn’t really want to get out.

She got used to the water temperature, familiarized herself with the pool’s structure, and remembered the locations of the crew members. She got into her position in a corner of the pool and gave Li Ke a thumbs-up.

Li Ke saw it on the monitor, signaled for everyone to get ready, and began filming.