Mr. Gu, stop chasing me! Miss Jiang has become a movie queen!

"Humph."

Jiang Ning snorted coldly, looking at the direction Li Xi left with disdain in his eyes. As expected, the little fortune teller had calculated correctly that this thing must not be drunk. At the same time, he felt a lingering fear, as if he was a survivor after a disaster.

Li Yiming came out of the director's lounge with fatigue still on his face, looking like someone who hadn't slept for a long time.

"Good director."

The actor was sitting in front of his dressing table and greeted the director. Li Yiming just waved symbolically, then walked to Jiang Ning and put his hand on her shoulder. Jiang Ning observed the changes on the man's face closely in the mirror.

Jiang Ning exclaimed: "Why did you become like this? Didn't you sleep for a long time? Why do you look like someone sucked your energy?"

Li Yiming looked at himself in the mirror, his mouth slightly open, but he didn't say anything. He reached out and touched his face, which was greasy and yellow, with dull eyes and some fine wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, but he was clearly less than 30 years old.

Li Yiming replied weakly: "I don't know either. I just woke up like this."

Jiang Ning avoided his gaze and kindly reminded him: "Why don't you go to the hospital and have a blood test or something. Maybe... to put it bluntly, is there something wrong with your body?"

"No, I'm fine. I still have to film. Come out when you're done. Everyone else is ready."

Li Yiming yawned again. This was the umpteenth time he had yawned since he came out. He walked to the outdoor set with his head down. Other people from the crew passed by Li Yiming and were a little afraid to recognize him.

The sun was very strong outside, and the soil on the ground was hot. Jiang Ning was only wearing a pair of thin-soled cloth shoes. The heat penetrated through the soles to the soles of his feet, making him dizzy.

Jiang Ning had heard that sitting in the sun would make one sleepy, and it seemed to be true, because Li Yiming fell asleep again after sitting outdoors for just a while. The assistant patted his arm, but he was only awake for a short while before falling asleep again.

Obviously, this is definitely not just ordinary sleepiness.

"Xiao Wang, go drive him to the hospital. I'll take care of this. We have to hurry up and shoot the film. It needs to be online before the New Year."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

The assistant director made a prompt decision and asked assistant Li Yiming to send him to the hospital. The rest of the people continued filming while he continued to operate the camera.

At this point, this is the only thing we can do. The filming progress cannot be delayed any longer and must continue.

Jiang Ning and several other actors returned to their positions, ready to re-act the scene they had just gone through, but something strange happened again, and the other actors began to fall asleep uncontrollably.

While reciting the lines, suddenly, the male lead Li Yang, who was acting opposite Jiang Ning, yawned, and the whole segment was ruined.

The assistant director rushed forward, grabbed Li Yang by the collar, and questioned the actor:

"I'm telling you guys, what's wrong with you? You're not the only ones contributing to this drama. Can't you see the hard work we put in behind the scenes? You're so disrespectful of our labor! Do you know that because of that yawn, this segment can't be used anymore?"

But Li Yang was too sleepy to argue with the assistant director. He called his agent and left the rest of the mess to his agent to clean up.

"You can say whatever you want. I will pay you whatever the penalty is. Don't bother me with the rest."

Li Yang said something in a nonchalant manner, then got into his RV, leaving his agent to humbly apologize to the assistant director under the scorching sun.

"I'm so sorry, Director. We were spoiled in the company and have become lawless. I will definitely give him a good scolding when we get back. Please calm down, calm down..."

"That's not what I meant. I just want to say that the efforts of so many people can't be wasted just because of him. Don't explain to me. I don't think he can perform today. Let's talk about it another day."

The assistant director asked everyone to pack up and prepare to shoot Jiang Ning's solo scenes, and their double scenes would be done later.

Everyone got a temporary break, and Jiang Ning asked her assistant to extract all the solo scenes involving her in the script to make it easier for Jiang Ning to memorize her lines.

But Jiang Ning was distracted while reciting, and could not fully immerse herself in the role. Today's events were still circling in her mind. She always felt that there was some unknown secret behind this matter.

Several makeup artists on the crew suddenly dozed off and woke Jiang Ning up immediately.

She discovered that, in fact, apart from Li Yiming and Li Yang, two people who were more respected, everyone else also felt sleepy to varying degrees, but they were not seen by others and no one could detect that they were dozing off.

Why is that? Is it the hibernation season for everyone? The problem is that it’s not winter yet.

Jiang Ning couldn't figure it out, so she went to ask Gu Yuan, but Gu Yuan couldn't find a suitable explanation to comfort her.

Gu Yuan: "I really don't understand why your crew always has problems? We are just filming together, why do we have to deal with so many messy things?"

"I don't understand it either. If I could figure it out, I wouldn't ask you. Do you think there could be some other external factor?"

Jiang Ning's fingers were typing rapidly on the keyboard. They were discussing this matter without letting anyone else know.

But in fact, the makeup artist had seen all the chat records between Jiang Ning and Gu Yuan. When she was styling Jiang Ning, she casually mentioned:

"I've never been this sleepy even when I took sleeping pills."

Jiang Ning asked the makeup artist: "Sleeping pills? Can't you sleep?"

The makeup artist continued to do her hair one stroke at a time and replied, "Yes, I used to go to bed at 2 or 3 in the morning, and then get up the next day to work as usual. If I couldn't sleep, I would take sleeping pills, but I was fine before. I have never been as sleepy as I am today."

"Ah, then you work too hard, you should take care of yourself." Jiang Ning said distressedly, "I should have a box of bird's nest in my car. If you don't mind, you can take it and eat it. It should be good for sleep."

"No, no, how can I accept such a valuable item?"

Jiang Ning: "It's okay, it's just a small token of my appreciation. You should accept it. I'll ask my assistant to move it to your car later."

"Thank you then." While saying thank you, the makeup artist yawned again. He looked really sleepy and a little bit mentally confused.

When doing Jiang Ning's makeup, even the wrong lipstick color was used. She should have applied a nude color, but the makeup artist ended up applying bright red. It was Jiang Ning who suggested it, and the makeup artist didn't notice the incongruity.