I Was Taken by the Female Lead After Transmigrating into a Book - Chapter 77

After that incident, according to the timeline of the show, Wuling and Fusang were inseparable for the next month.

This left no room for anyone else to get in, whether to cause harm or for any other reason.

Fusang was deliberately avoiding making friends.

She said to Wuling, “Besides you, I don’t know who I can trust anymore.”

Later, she met that girl once more, but they were barely able to talk before they were interrupted by Zhang Zhe and his group. As she was leaving, the girl just hurriedly said, “Someone is watching you. Don’t come looking for me anymore.”

She couldn’t find who was watching her. When she looked back, everyone seemed to be busy with their own things—reciting texts, secretly reading novels and comics, or drawing their favorite celebrity portraits… But it also seemed that in a fleeting moment, everyone was staring at her.

Looks could kill. Even though it was the middle of summer, Fusang felt a cold chill run through her body to her bones.

She couldn’t talk to anyone about it, because saying “I feel like someone is watching me” made her sound like a mental patient. No one would believe her. Even if someone did, what could they do?

Maintaining this state, Fusang became more and more silent and thinner.

This time, Bai Feifei wasn’t deliberately controlling herself; she was truly losing weight rapidly.

She couldn’t say exactly when, but one morning she woke up and was a full four pounds lighter. At first, Fu Xiaoxiao was happy—the diet had worked, and Bai Feifei no longer had to eat grass with no salt.

But soon, she couldn’t be happy anymore, because Bai Feifei’s weight loss continued.

She tried very hard to eat, but anyone could tell that she was forcing herself. She was almost mechanically stuffing food into her mouth. Her face was pale, and her lips were much lighter in color than usual.

This state was almost incurable. Bai Feifei knew that she might have been too deeply affected by the show, or perhaps she was in a bad mood from eating grass for too long… or maybe it was something else she wasn’t even aware of. But one belief became stronger and stronger, and that was that she had to replace Fusang to find true justice.

“How are you doing today?” Li Ke looked at Bai Feifei’s condition with some hesitation. “It’s raining heavily outside. If anything goes wrong, we’ll have to start over. Can you hold on?”

This scene didn’t require natural light, but because the rain was uncontrollable, all the actors would be affected. This was a chase scene in the middle of a rainy night. With the double test of physical strength and endurance, the difficulty of filming outdoors was rising in a straight line.

But Bai Feifei nodded her head confidently. Her gaze swept over the supporting actors and extras who were also waiting on the set. “I can do it. No problem.”

Li Ke looked at her for another moment, opened his phone, and arranged for each team to get into position.

The outdoor temperature had plummeted to a scary 20 degrees Celsius due to the heavy rain, which was a rare occurrence in the summer. But the crew couldn’t wait. Unless it was an unavoidable natural disaster, they would have to coordinate the actors and rearrange the shoot. There was no time to stop.

The rain poured down. Bai Feifei was wrapped in a fleece-lined coat, looking particularly out of place among the shivering staff.

Fu Xiaoxiao had been almost inseparable from her these days. She would even set an alarm to wake up at night and check on her every now and then. Bai Feifei’s sleep had been especially poor recently. Fu Xiaoxiao could sense it when she came, but she couldn’t fall asleep and couldn’t wake up, so her condition was not good.

But Fu Xiaoxiao’s efforts were not in vain. The nutritionist she had hired for days was probably good enough. At least Bai Feifei didn’t feel physically weak. After drinking a few sips of hot coffee, she even felt much more energetic.

The familiar plastic wrap was wrapped around her entire body again. Bai Feifei was like an Egyptian pharaoh about to be sealed in a coffin. Her body was rigid as several people surrounded her and got her ready.

“Don’t wrap my chest so tightly…” Bai Feifei said with a blush. To avoid any wardrobe malfunctions, she was only wearing a short, small white camisole and a matching pair of underwear under the plastic wrap. “I have to run all the time later. There will be big movements. I’m afraid I won’t be able to breathe.”

The wardrobe and makeup artist was very experienced. She smiled and said, “Don’t worry. There’s enough space to breathe. The innermost layer can’t be too loose, or water will get in and make you even more uncomfortable.”

With that, she wrapped Bai Feifei’s entire upper body, making sure not a single inch of skin was exposed.

Before getting out of the car, Bai Feifei took another sip of coffee. She was a little surprised that it was still hot and saw that Fu Xiaoxiao had gotten a dozen huge thermos bottles from who-knows-where. Each had a capacity of one or two liters and was filled with various labeled drinks. Many of the actors in this scene could get a share and have whatever they wanted.

Her eyes felt a little hot for no reason. She couldn’t imagine how she had carried so many things over. Just as she was about to say thank you, she heard Fu Xiaoxiao on the phone. “What? It’s raining too hard, so you’re not delivering? You have to deliver it. My baby is waiting to drink her jujube milk. I’ll give you more money. I’ll give you more money! I’ll order one cup, and you’ll get 30 extra! Every cup, 30 extra for every cup! It’s just a one-kilometer drive! Okay, deal!”

With that, Fu Xiaoxiao hung up the phone and asked the script supervisor for some scrap paper and pasted it on several large cups. “Hot drinks available. Five yuan per cup. No refills.”

Bai Feifei: “…”

Fu Xiaoxiao was exceptionally good at confusing old emotional troubles. Bai Feifei suddenly thought that in some ways, if Fusang or most of the people who had been bullied had half of Fu Xiaoxiao’s carefree personality, it might have saved many lives.

The final safety test was passed. The props team got the props ready. Before she left, Bai Feifei noticed that some of them kept looking at her, but she didn’t think much of it. She pursed her lips and continued to go over the scene.

The official shoot began soon.

The rain formed lines. In a complex, narrow alley, mixed with the sound of rain and the occasional roar of a speeding vehicle, two groups of people were running frantically, accompanied by the menacing roar of motorcycles from the distant main road.

The wind was strong, and the lines of rain were slanted. The clothes on Fusang’s body were clinging to her. Her hair was messy from the recent pulling and covered her face. She was running forward in a sorry state. When she passed a rare, huge intersection, she found a garbage dump filled with several abandoned old pieces of furniture in a nearby dead-end alley.

Without a second thought, she glanced behind her in a panic. The sound of footsteps and the roaring of motorcycles echoed in her ears. She was out of strength and almost stumbled and fell into the garbage dump.

In the distance, a van sped over, timing it so it wouldn’t have to wait for the green light to pass. The lights on the front of the car were pale, and the horn blared throughout the street.

Across the intersection, the people behind her were like shadows. When they saw Fusang disappear at a turn, they chased even more urgently. Suddenly, the van driver timed it perfectly and rushed across the road just before the green light disappeared, colliding with the motorcycle and the students who had suddenly rushed out from the corner of the street.

“Bang—!”

The sound of the massive collision faded, and in the endless downpour of rain, all that was left was the flickering of the out-of-control car lights.

Bai Feifei was still gasping for air.

From the cracks in the wooden frame of the old sofa, she could see that this scene was over. However, the stunt doubles needed to film a few more takes of being hit and thrown out. The large crane was also working non-stop, the wires swinging back and forth. The actors fell over and over again, and finally, Li Ke called cut.

All the members of the accident team breathed a sigh of relief.

This scene was very difficult. The rain had been falling all day, and it was now 2:30 in the morning. The entire crew was exhausted, and their physical and mental strength was almost completely depleted.

But Bai Feifei still couldn’t leave. She had to stay and finish filming her final part because they would be moving to a new location tomorrow.

Bai Feifei leaned tiredly against the wooden frame. There was a smell of decaying old furniture everywhere. Thanks to the low temperature and heavy rain, she didn’t have to film this scene in a foul-smelling and scorching-hot environment, though the rain scene was also exceptionally difficult.

The staff was doing her makeup in the gaps. When the familiar scent got closer, Bai Feifei finally opened her tired eyes.

She mumbled, “Ah Wu…”

Huo Wu leaned down and looked at Bai Feifei, who was leaning motionless against the wooden frame in the corner. Huo Wu watched for a moment, pulled out a wooden stick that was stuck in Bai Feifei’s vest, and Bai Feifei was finally able to straighten her back slightly in the cramped space, letting out an unbearable groan of pain.

“It’s almost over,” Huo Wu said soothingly. “The estimated time was to film until 5 AM, but today went smoothly, so you can go back and rest as soon as you’re done here.”

Bai Feifei was still too weak to speak. Huo Wu then extended her hand to her again.

Bai Feifei struggled to open her eyes and saw that Huo Wu was holding a cup of coffee. The straw was carefully passed through the gap, not a bit off, and placed against her lips.

“You get sleepy when you drink milk,” Huo Wu whispered. “Have some coffee to warm up.”

Before Bai Feifei took a sip, the light allowed Huo Wu to see her face clearly. After a moment, Huo Wu extended her hand again and casually wiped away a dark stain on Bai Feifei’s lips, rubbing it a few times with the back of her hand.

Once it was clean, she put the straw back to Bai Feifei’s lips.

Bai Feifei took a few sips and felt as if a breath of fresh air had returned to her body. She finally came back to her senses.

There were too many staff members around them, so they couldn’t do anything more intimate. Bai Feifei was a little nostalgic and wanted her to stay for a little longer.

But it was too cold outside, and the temperature at night was even lower. Bai Feifei even felt that the temperature was below 15 degrees Celsius. Huo Wu was suffering by staying here.

She let out a breath and looked at Huo Wu. “You should go back and rest.”

Huo Wu was already comfortably drinking the coffee that Bai Feifei had just had. At her words, she shook her head. “I have to keep an eye on you.”