I Was Taken by the Female Lead After Transmigrating into a Book - Chapter 79

But Huo Wu, as she wished, didn’t press the matter any further.

Bai Feifei remembered that Huo Wu had just come from Li Ke’s direction, so she subconsciously looked over there and couldn’t help but say, “Huh.”

“Ah Wu, it looks like they’re arguing over there…” Bai Feifei perked up and craned her neck to look over, not even looking at Huo Wu. “Don’t you want to go and see?”

Huo Wu casually glanced over.

The distance wasn’t far, but the heavy rain made it hard to see. She could vaguely make out figures who seemed to be arguing. Occasionally, some extremely loud tones could reach them, but she couldn’t hear what they were saying.

Huo Wu reached out and, without much force, pinched Bai Feifei’s face and easily turned her head back.

With her chin pinched by Huo Wu, Bai Feifei made a series of lip movements but couldn’t get her face out of Huo Wu’s grasp, so she gave her a very questioning look.

Huo Wu read the meaning Bai Feifei was conveying with her eyes: You’re really not going to go?

“No, let Li Ke handle it,” Huo Wu’s words were a little amused. “My job right now is to give you a private lesson.”

The private lessons had been going on for a long time, and since Huo Wu was the one teaching, the methods were always easy for Bai Feifei to understand. So she had always been very much looking forward to Huo Wu’s lessons.

At her words, she remembered what Huo Wu had just said about the reshoot, so she became a hundred and twenty percent more focused. “Tell me.”

The bit of skin she was holding was cold. Huo Wu pinched it a couple more times and then suddenly slipped her hand through a small hole and onto Bai Feifei’s neck.

She was cold everywhere. The moment Huo Wu’s hand touched her body, she let out a hiss and whispered, “So hot.”

Huo Wu frowned. “You’re too cold.”

She took out her phone, but at this hour, all the food delivery services had already closed. The nearby 24-hour convenience store didn’t have a delivery service, and it would take more than thirty minutes to get there and back.

She then opened a flash delivery app. The moment she entered a price of 200, the order was immediately taken. She breathed a sigh of relief and waited patiently.

When she closed her phone, she looked at Bai Feifei and said in a low voice, “I didn’t think it through.”

Bai Feifei didn’t know what she was talking about, but she felt comfortable after getting used to Huo Wu’s hand. She didn’t want Huo Wu to leave, but Huo Wu’s arm was sticking out from under the umbrella, and a large part of it was soaked. The rainwater was dripping from her arm onto her body.

Bai Feifei pushed Huo Wu’s hand away, but the lingering warmth on her body seemed to remain. She whispered, “Don’t get sick. What if both the leads get sick? We won’t be able to handle the schedule.”

Huo Wu really didn’t know what to do with Bai Feifei.

The atmosphere quieted down. Bai Feifei rested her chin on her knees and looked at Huo Wu with great concentration. Her eyes were gentle and moist, which made Huo Wu’s heart settle down.

She simply propped the umbrella up high and said to Bai Feifei in a low voice, “There are some things that Li Ke won’t explain to you directly, and they won’t be filmed very obviously in the show.”

Bai Feifei listened carefully and agreed. “He likes for us to figure it out ourselves. But when we first started filming, it was a different director. He just said it felt strange. Director Li just came over and said we had to reshoot…”

Even though she didn’t know what had happened, Bai Feifei had been here for so long that she quickly figured it out. She widened her eyes slightly. “Is there a problem with the script?”

“A small one,” Huo Wu said, pointing to the space between her brows. “That’s not something you should be concerned about. Pay attention.”

Bai Feifei giggled and got back to the main topic. “Then continue.”

“Fusang is a local. Because she’s afraid of being followed by those people, and because she walked through all the streets and alleys when she was looking for a place to live, and because she cooked and bought groceries with her limited money, she is familiar with every road here,” Huo Wu said in a lowered voice. “Just like you. You’ve been filming here for so long and have walked the same path as Fusang.”

Li Ke’s filming focused on reality. So sometimes, the filming location would be a real market, and he would have Bai Feifei actually go and buy groceries, bargain, and haggle over a few cents.

Bai Feifei also had to personally call the numbers on those flyers and experience being hassled by landlords and scammed by real estate agents. Because of public safety regulations, many of those small advertisements were posted in alleys, and only the houses in these places were the cheapest. So when Bai Feifei was free, Li Ke would send her to these places she needed to become familiar with.

The crew wasn’t building a set; they were genuinely documenting the life they were creating.

Bai Feifei followed Huo Wu’s words and started to think deeply. Without even realizing it, she instinctively looked at the garbage dump where she was hiding.

This was a place Li Ke had chosen, but it was also a place Bai Feifei had chosen—or rather, a place Fusang had chosen.

But why would ‘I’ hide here?

Bai Feifei also remembered the roaring of the cars that would follow her footsteps when she was doing the scene. She also remembered the specific roaring sound of the motorcycle when Li Ke was warming it up.

She said hesitantly, “I’m hiding here because…”

She looked out from the small corner where she was hiding and was surprised to find that the view was very wide.

As Huo Wu moved away, Bai Feifei’s gaze focused, and her first sight was the prop truck in the distance that had already started to pack up the scene.

The traffic lights were still working diligently. Bai Feifei’s gaze fell back on the alley she had run from.

She mumbled, “This wasn’t an accident…”

Her subconscious had already taken over and, without Li Ke explicitly telling her, had presented what should have been there.

The pause at the entrance of the alley was her looking back to see if the group of people had caught up, but at the same time, it was also her gauging the distance between them.

Fusang was too familiar with this area. So familiar that she knew every place she could hide, so familiar that she knew where she could see the layout of the entire road, where there were cameras that could film a panoramic view… and when the van full of goods that would appear at the same time every night would appear at this intersection.

She even knew that the driver was impatient and would run the yellow light. She knew he would honk his horn furiously in the rain, and she could hear it clearly even from a distance.

And today, the heavy rain blocked the view. The group of people chasing her from behind had already been enraged or were immersed in their “game.” The driver was in a rush and wasn’t willing to wait those few seconds. Outside the alley, the troublemaker on the modified motorcycle was also showing off as he passed the van.

The timing, the location, and the people—Fusang had it all.

“I knew what time that van would come,” Bai Feifei said softly. “So when I was running, I deliberately went around several intersections. I was caught and escaped several times because I was familiar with the roads here… When I heard the horn, I could estimate how far away the driver was based on the sound. The traffic light’s timing is fixed, so…”

So in that instant, Fusang could pull away and hide in the garbage dump in the corner, but the people chasing her didn’t know that.

They heard the loud horn the driver was honking and thought Fusang had run across the road, which was why the driver was furiously honking his horn. So they sped up to chase her—

The people, the van, and the motorcycle collided. The casualties were heavy.

Huo Wu was looking at Bai Feifei with admiration and praise, but Bai Feifei was immersed in her thoughts and didn’t notice Huo Wu.

She pulled out the light piece of paper from the corner.

On it were only a few lines of cold, script-like text.

At the alley entrance, Fusang turns back, the traffic lights change, she hides in the garbage dump, and sees everything that happens.

What was originally a simple escape became a completely different scene because of the different content.

Only now did Bai Feifei understand why they had to reshoot.

Huo Wu had left at some point.

A few minutes later, Li Ke, who was trying hard to keep it together, got back in his state. At 2:35 in the morning, the second take of the final shot began.

Fusang was a mess, but she was moving extremely fast, dodging left and right in the alley. Several times, when she was about to be caught, she would always find another way to escape from a desperate situation. And so, a group of people who were not familiar with the roads chased her desperately from behind, and Fusang ran for her life in front.

Suddenly, a loud horn that had been sounding from a great distance without stopping echoed in the dead of the night. Fusang looked up during a break in her hiding. Her gaze pierced through the layers of rain and looked at the distant, unclear future with determination.

She paused at the alley entrance and seemed to have exhausted herself, kneeling on the ground. Her body was also exposed to the eyes of those who were chasing her from behind.

Her fingers were full of mud. Her hands were grabbing the ground with a weak twitch. There was water welling up in her eyes, making it impossible to tell if it was rain or tears. After a sharp gasp, she let out a heavy scream, “Ah—!”

Pain, contradiction, and struggle. This scream even caused the lights in many apartment buildings to automatically turn on and then off, like a dying person’s final burst of light.

The scream attracted everyone who was chasing her. But at this moment, Fusang turned around. Her eyes were filled with determination as she looked at the dark alley.

She no longer hesitated and threw herself into the stinky garbage dump, not caring that the trash covered her entire body, and desperately burrowed herself inside.

“Bang—”

The sound of a collision echoed through the air, accompanied by an out-of-control horn. The lights in the surrounding residential buildings began to light up one by one.

At this moment, the camera zoomed in, and a close-up of Fusang’s face was frozen.

Her eyes were a mix of coldness and determination, blended with tears, and finally showed a strange calmness as she watched everything that was happening in front of her with indifference.

The final shot was completely frozen. Li Ke excitedly shouted from behind the monitor, “Perfect! Perfect!”

One deep breath after another, Bai Feifei had been held up all night by Huo Wu’s encouragement. She finally couldn’t hold on anymore and fell backward in exhaustion.

Behind her was a messy pile of wood. Tomorrow, this place would be cleaned up. The props might be taken away by old men and women who collect junk, or they might be thrown into a garbage disposal plant by the crew members.

Bai Feifei was panting. In her daze, someone wrapped her in a hot towel. A familiar scent filled her nose. She finally opened her eyes and called out Huo Wu’s name with a tired but satisfied smile. “Ah Wu.”

“You acted very well. The smile on Li Ke’s face seems priceless,” Huo Wu said.

Even the two screenwriters, after seeing the final scene, went back to pack up their bags without a word. In this situation, although Huo Wu had given her pointers, Bai Feifei had ultimately understood the character herself, which gave Li Ke a huge sigh of relief.

Huo Wu felt the same sense of satisfaction.

But soon, she couldn’t hide her heartache as she looked at Bai Feifei. There wasn’t a single good spot on her body. Even with the plastic wrap on, her body was already completely cold.

The final scene, even though it went smoothly, still took almost two hours to film. The sky was still a deep black because of the rain, but it was already close to 5 a.m.

Bai Feifei was exhausted, but at this moment, she said something incredibly inappropriate. “It’s a shame it’s not a sunny day.”

She pouted. “I suddenly want to watch the sunrise.”

Huo Wu’s lips were about to move, wanting to say something, but Bai Feifei closed her eyes and fell limply into Huo Wu’s arms, not caring about anything else. “I’m tired. Carry me.”

The staff looked at each other in unison. Those who couldn’t look at each other looked at their umbrellas or lowered their heads to look at their phones. Those who didn’t have phones read their palms.

Huo Wu let out a light laugh, picked up the soaked Bai Feifei, and prepared to quickly carry her precious cargo to a warm nest.