I Was Taken by the Female Lead After Transmigrating into a Book - Chapter 99

For some inexplicable reason, Bai Feifei agreed to give Huo Wu an answer tonight. But she realized she didn’t need to wait until night, or even think about it much—she just needed to figure out how to handle the moving process after she said yes.

Before leaving, Huo Wu told Bai Feifei, “Many directors like the most genuine reactions from actors. So when directing their co-stars, they use two methods. Regardless of whether the performance is good or bad, they’ll issue an ultimatum like, ‘I’m only shooting this once.’ This is the best way to unleash an actor’s potential.”

Bai Feifei suspected that ‘some directors’ might specifically refer to Li Ke.

With her active imagination, she saw a devious smile on Li Ke’s face and secretly grabbed Huo Wu’s hand, whispering, “He’s not going to take this time to make a realistic model or find a stunt double to go to the extreme and really jump to their death for me to see, is he?”

Bai Feifei had heard that if a person jumps from a very high building, their body might be torn to pieces if they hit something on the way down. Even if they don’t, they would not look good after falling. At best, their bones would be shattered, and at worst, they would become a puddle of mush.

The shock value would be absolutely off the charts.

Bai Feifei didn’t even dare to imagine the sight of blood spurting all over the ground.

Huo Wu knew about the changes to the upcoming scene but couldn’t reveal too much to Bai Feifei.

Bai Feifei was too smart. Say one more thing, and her wild imagination would figure it all out.

But seeing her look so tired from filming and not getting enough rest, Huo Wu gave her a reassuring kiss. Their foreheads lightly touched before they quickly separated. Huo Wu said, “The changes won’t be too big. Don’t worry.”

It wasn’t until the reshoot was over that Bai Feifei found out what Li Ke and Huo Wu wanted to change.

In the beginning, she had simply walked to the bus stop without stopping. Bai Feifei’s performance was flawless. The emotions in her eyes were spot-on, and every step, every walking rhythm, and even her breathing frequency was so good that Li Ke thought it could be edited and used as walking footage for various websites.

It would have been a shame to cut this part.

Huo Wu wanted to keep it, and Li Ke also felt it was necessary. After all, this content was indispensable. But at the same time, he wanted to combine it with the revised content, so he chatted with Huo Wu for a long time, sketching out different scenes in his notebook. Without even using an eraser, if a sketch wasn’t right, he would just move on to the next page.

In the end, both Huo Wu and he were satisfied with the result.

They kept the first part of the walk. Bai Feifei walked back to the spot marked by Li Ke and looked back, realizing that from this distance, she could clearly see Qi Yang on the rooftop of the abandoned building from the tree-lined street.

The abandoned building only had five floors. Fu Sang didn’t know if a person could die from jumping from that height.

But she didn’t have time to think about it.

She acted in the state of Fu Sang. During this silent walking scene, Li Ke, for the first time, didn’t say anything to Bai Feifei. Even the camera crew didn’t know what the focus of the shot was. Everything was as authentic as possible.

In this situation, Bai Feifei continued to walk steadily, maintaining the state from the first scene.

Her gaze naturally lowered. The tips of her feet touched the cracked cement road, sending small stones hopping away. But Fu Sang didn’t deliberately chase them; her eyes just occasionally followed the jumping stones.

After a few more steps, she stopped.

Qi Yang’s stare was like daggers in her back. Fu Sang slowly turned around, squinting slightly at the not-too-harsh sunlight, and looked at the figure on the rooftop.

This exchange of gazes seemed to cross the chasm of time and distance. Fu Sang saw Qi Yang waving at her.

Swaying from side to side, at this moment, she looked like a happy child, and the broken wings on her back seemed to have grown back.

Fu Sang looked away. In her ears, she heard a sound she had heard not long ago, but it sounded different this time—not earth-shattering, but deafening enough.

This time, she didn’t kick at the scattered stones. Although she walked slowly, she was firm and didn’t look back.

“Good, cut,” Li Ke’s sigh of relief sounded, as he continuously replayed the footage. “The conflict is much stronger after the change.”

He felt a sense of relief from a creative block but quickly felt a little lonely as he told Huo Wu, “Maybe I really have hit a wall. If you hadn’t given me a hint just now, I might not have been able to think of it.”

Huo Wu didn’t take credit. She looked at the stack of pages filled with Li Ke’s sketches and recalled their intense discussion. She said, “Some things can’t be achieved alone. If I hadn’t talked with you, I wouldn’t have been able to come up with it on my own either.”

But the result was good, and that was enough.

Li Ke shook his head with a self-deprecating smile and said to Bai Feifei, “All right, you can get off work today.”

Bai Feifei only had this one scene at the abandoned building today, making it the lightest workload since she joined the crew.

Before she could get excited, she heard Li Ke say, “I’ll give you the last part of the script today. You can clear your head. Starting tomorrow, after all the actors are in place, we’ll begin the second round of table reads.”

Bai Feifei suddenly realized that the actors she had shared scenes with during the high school period had all left the set one by one as their characters died.

“Is this Qi Yang’s last scene?” Bai Feifei was still a little surprised. “I thought she had a lot of scenes left to shoot.”

“Not this one, but it’s close,” Li Ke said, calculating. “Probably tomorrow or the day after. Her remaining scenes require a long time for the makeup and styling.”

Bai Feifei then thought of the morgue she had wanted to take Huo Wu to lie in before and suddenly understood the difficulty.

When Li Mingming died, at least her body was whole, and most of it was covered with a white sheet. But Qi Yang…

Bai Feifei paused for a moment, and then asked cautiously, “Do I have any more scenes with her… with… um…”

She was a bit lost for words, and her mind went blank. Among countless words like ‘repair’ and ‘makeup,’ she finally chose ‘contouring.’

“Of course, the corpses in the morgue will be contoured. Some even get blush and nude-colored lipstick,” Li Ke said, agreeing with her. He added, “Did you do your homework after you went back? That’s good. After the forensics team finishes their examination and submits the report, they’ll put on makeup to make them look better.”

Bai Feifei had a moment of realization and suddenly remembered the earlier major car accident scene.

She didn’t participate in many of the supporting actors’ scenes and only knew that there would be scenes of the victims’ families crying after seeing the bodies and other related plot extensions. But she didn’t know the specific content. The plots didn’t overlap, so as a protagonist, she didn’t know what the other characters’ stories were even after finishing a film.

For example, Li Ke had just said that he would give her the final script and the ending tonight.

But in that scene, there should also be a similar process of corpse restoration. Bai Feifei decided to go back tonight and watch a few case studies to build up her courage. If that didn’t work, she could watch some American crime shows.

She wondered if the real thing would still be too shocking to handle, but at the same time, she was excited about what the new script content would be.

Bai Feifei and Huo Wu returned to the RV together. Just as she was about to leave, she suddenly remembered something. She leaned out and asked, “A-Wu, will our scenes together increase from now on?”

There was nothing to hide, and Huo Wu nodded without hesitation. “Yes, they will.”

Strictly speaking, while this show had two female protagonists, the perspectives were initially scattered. The supporting characters could also be considered protagonists in their own stories, and their roles were not thin. They were all part of a complete storyline.

The overall social setting was set in the millennium, and with the chosen locations and costume designs, it gave a real sense of life. Every supporting character was a real, living person that could appear around anyone.

Bai Feifei was really looking forward to it.

She had had too few scenes with Huo Wu, and so far, there hadn’t been any with a lot of tension or expressiveness; most of them had been very calm.

But now, the plot in her perspective was gradually reaching its climax—yet Bai Feifei still found it hard to predict what the rest of the story would be like. Her latest understanding of Wu Ling was limited to the word ‘police.’

But Fu Sang’s existence now seemed like that of a criminal suspect.

Bai Feifei rested her chin on the back of her hand, talking to Huo Wu from the car window. With her other hand, she grabbed a hat from the seat and held it up to shield Huo Wu from the sun.

Her arm started to ache after holding it for a bit. Huo Wu took the hat, looked at the little red flowers printed on it, and was silent for two seconds before flipping it over.

The inside had small white flowers, but the base color was pink.

She was silent for a moment, then still showed the side with the little white flowers, looking up at Bai Feifei. “Don’t overthink it. All the plot developments have their own inevitability. Li Ke won’t make the sequence of this film too outrageous.”

Bai Feifei said, “Mm,” “But Director Li said we’re changing locations.”

She looked at the film crew, who were still filming intensely. Everyone was working enthusiastically, and there was no sign of them packing up camp.

A simple remark this afternoon had unexpectedly become a reality they would soon face. “Can we really take all the stuff from that room? Won’t it be a hassle?”

It wasn’t too difficult; the crew had prepared the items, so it was just a matter of signing some papers. But moving all that stuff and recreating the room would be a bit difficult. The room might need to be redecorated.

But nothing was unsolvable.

Huo Wu hid all the difficulties and said calmly, “It’s not a hassle.”

Bai Feifei blinked, looking at the faint smile on Huo Wu’s lips. After several seconds, she suddenly propped herself up on the windowsill and leaned out of the car window, stealing a kiss under the splashing sunlight.

“Then I’m going back!” Bai Feifei ran off after the kiss, shrinking down below the car window. From Huo Wu’s perspective, she could only see a strand of her hair hanging outside the window.

Worried that her hair would get caught when the window rolled up, Huo Wu went on her tiptoes to put her hair back. But at that moment, Bai Feifei poked her head out again by chance.

The ends of her hair were held by Huo Wu and happened to brush against her nose. Bai Feifei flinched, feeling ticklish, and scrunched up her nose. She heard Huo Wu say with a laugh, “Get some rest early. I’ll bring you something good to eat when I get back.”