This celebrity is overly enthusiastic!

Chapter 17 Flirting with the Girl

"Brother, aren't you going to rest yet?"

Shu Chang walked into the messy study and asked her brother with concern as he was writing at his desk.

She broke the 'twin' ice cream in her hand and fed one half to her brother.

Chen Yuan, with an ice cream in his mouth and his pen still in hand, mumbled, "Almost there, almost there."

We're about to set off for the Shunan Bamboo Sea. The upcoming shooting schedule will be ten or even a hundred times more complicated than studio shooting.
He has to keep a firm grip on the overall situation, which is no easy task for a novice director like him.

He put down his pen, stretched, took a big bite of the icy-cold ice cream, and sighed as he watched his adorable younger sister skillfully tidying up his study.
"Changchang, there are a lot of mosquitoes in the Shunan Bamboo Sea, and I'll only be busier there than I am now, so I won't have time to spend with you. You'll be starting school in a couple of days anyway, how about..."

Shu Chang quickly stopped what she was doing, her expression changing dramatically to one of pitiful grievance:
"No, just think of it as a trip. I'll take good care of myself and won't cause you any trouble."

Upon seeing Shu Chang's appearance, Chen Yuan immediately surrendered.

"Okay, okay, never mind. Remember to prepare insect repellent and anti-itch products, and also get a mosquito net."

After finishing his ice cream in a few bites, Chen Yuan, with the stick still dangling from his mouth, watched his sister continue tidying his study. Suddenly, something occurred to him, and he asked:

"Changchang, you've been with your sister Yiyi for almost half a month now. How do you feel about her?"

Shu Chang slowed her movements, reminiscing about the time they had spent together recently.

"Sister Yiyi is a very hardworking and diligent person, not the delicate young lady I imagined."

"With parents like that, how could she possibly be a rich girl?"

Chen Yuan briefly recounted his interactions with Huang Shengyi to Xiao Shuchang, and her expression gradually became contorted as she listened.

Wow, her mother is really, really strict!

No wonder she doesn't talk much about her own family, but she really likes to ask me about our childhood!

Chen Yuan was taken aback, then noticed the key point and pressed for details, asking, "So what did you say to her?"

"It's just ordinary things, like when I'm sick you go to the hospital to take care of me, or when I'm filming in another city you accompany me. These are just small stories."

He covered his face with his hands. It turns out that the root of Huang Shengyi's problem was with his own sister!

Chen Yuan was well aware of Shu Chang's dependence on him and her pride in having a brother like him. When she recounted her past, it was definitely not just some 'little story'.

Having grown up in that kind of family, Huang Shengyi likely has some psychological issues. She must have developed some unrealistic fantasies about the story Shu Chang depicted.

She hasn't received systematic acting training yet, and when she was asked to show 'appreciation' for Chen Yuan on set, she acted in that 'unnatural' way.

"Sing a song."

"Brother, tell me."

"Don't do it again. Never mind, never mind, forget I said anything. Go and get some rest, you have to catch a flight tomorrow morning."

The Shunan Bamboo Sea was originally named Wanlingqing. The entire area has 28 ridges and more than a thousand peaks, all covered with dense moso bamboo.

The bamboo forest stretches out in large patches, dense and verdant, lush and verdant.

Looking out from a high vantage point, the vast expanse of water resembles a green ocean, a truly magnificent sight.

The classic battle scenes in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" were filmed here, and the movie was released in Taiwan and Hong Kong in July.

The box office was terrible, but their main target audience isn't Chinese-speaking people anyway, so the media criticizing them now will likely start praising them again in a few months with different tactics. The forest path and the bamboo winery are already built, and all the props are ready.
They've even filmed a whole bunch of establishing shots of natural landscapes that need to be included in the advertisements.

All that's missing is the actual filming with the actors.

Chen Yuan was initially worried that Huang Shengyi's performance would be as poor as it was during the previous studio shoot, but this time Ms. Deng took a special leave to join the crew.

Under her mother's pressure, Huang Shengyi returned to normal, which left Chen Yuan both amused and exasperated.

While filming was easy, Huang Shengyi herself didn't have enough fun.

The satisfaction progress bar, which had already accumulated to a large extent, began to rise at a noticeably slower pace, and Chen Yuan started to worry about his mission progress again.

It's really difficult to get an award!

Chen Yuan should have been used to this difficulty long ago, but after quickly passing Binbin's test twice and easily obtaining the excellent reward, his previously honed mental fortitude became somewhat lax.

Having no other choice, Chen Yuan had to resort to exploiting Huang Shengyi's personality weaknesses and taking some extra measures.

The Wuliangye advertisement doesn't show any romantic atmosphere between the male and female protagonists; it's just a simple mutual appreciation between two accomplished individuals.

Chen Yuan had a 'spur-of-the-moment' idea and asked the action director hired by the production team to design a sword fight scene for the two of them.

One of them was designed by Chen Yuan himself: two people clashing swords, with Chen Yuan using his yellow Saint Cloth to parry.

He launched a full-on attack, leaning down to press down, while Huang Shengyi looked up to block. The two locked eyes, their faces almost touching in that shot.

That's right, it's an imitation of the classic scene from the TV series "The World's Number One" starring Huang Shengyi in his previous life, where Xue Ji and Duan Tianya competed.

Chen Yuan really liked "The World's Finest," the last masterpiece of martial arts dramas. He couldn't remember many of the plot details, but he was very impressed by Huang Shengyi's portrayal of Xue Ji in the drama.

Chen Yuan's decision was absolutely correct. Sure enough, during the rehearsal with Huang Shengyi, the mission progress bar showed a significant increase.

It's that the way a young girl looks at her mother when she's not around is all the more tender and moving.

Please forgive me, Yiyi. I had my reasons. At worst, when you enter the entertainment industry in the future, I'll give you a boost to make your path smoother. Consider it compensation for 'teasing' you now.

Others might not notice Chen Yuan 'flirting' with Huang Shengyi, but director Zhang Jianya couldn't possibly miss it.

However, he didn't point it out, and even thought that Chen Yuan was a very interesting young man with good sense of propriety.

Chen Yuan's current status gives him an overwhelming advantage over ordinary minor actors. Under such circumstances, his meticulous attention to detail and effort in seducing these young actresses is quite "refined".

Among directors and actors in Beijing's entertainment circle, who would be so polite to Chen Yuan? That blatant display of politeness would be incredibly unseemly.

Late at night, the sounds of frogs and insects filled the air outside the guesthouse.

Under the bright moonlight, Huang Shengyi saw that her mother was already sleeping peacefully on the other bed.

She sat up and gazed out the window at the bamboo forest bathed in a silvery light.

Recalling Chen Yuan's agile and nimble figure during the daytime rehearsal, and the strong arms and reliable embrace that lifted her up when she accidentally fell.

And then there were those handsome faces so close, the ticklish sensation of their warm breath brushing against my lips.

Filming is so much fun! I really want to film with Chen Yuan again.

Huang Shengyi's small fists gradually clenched. She was determined to get into a film and television school in the capital during the college entrance examination, even if it meant secretly applying to a school without telling her parents!

I'll be an actor from now on, and I'll be signed with Metaverse!
(End of this chapter)