Reborn in the Entertainment Industry: Second Life

On June 27, Bo Bing packed her things and officially joined the crew on the 28th to begin filming the script for "Green Ant".

He arrived early, and people began to enter the dressing room one after another. The place wasn't big, and with so many people, it became a bit chaotic. Sun Qiuping met with the makeup artist to discuss his role.

While getting her makeup done, Bo Bing closed her eyes, and a large blue screen unfolded in her mind.

The sound of Alpha's upgrades being transferred to lower ranks is playing in my ears.

[Physique +2]

【力量: 50|速度: 45|敏捷: 33|智力: 38|体质: 43|魅力: 45|野心: 87|音乐: 35|舞蹈: 20|演技：27|未解锁状态】

[Burning Blood] and [Mad Dog Howl] are superior alternative skills, extending the skill duration of [Speed ​​of Life and Death] to 17 minutes and increasing skill efficiency by 2%.

[Blood Burn] Forcefully stimulates adrenaline and bodily functions. The side effect is that you cannot use any of the system's stimulation skills for 15 days.

[Tango Dancer] With skirts billowing in the wind, become an excellent tango dancer.

Bo Bing glanced at the skills that were being distributed. Was [Burning Blood] essentially raising the upper limit of [Speed ​​of Life and Death]?

The young man felt something was strange. Logically speaking, with his own skills and the 15-minute "Speed ​​of Life and Death" activated by "Mad Dog Howl", he should be able to handle most of the problems he faced. Why would he need a higher-level alternative skill?

After staring at the personal attribute panel for a long time, Bo Bing couldn't figure out the key to the problem, so she had to give up and instead started looking at the script.

Today's reshoot was the scene where he meets Chen Mo, played by Chen Shicheng. The two characters have a relationship of becoming friends after a fight. Cheng Song is planning to steal something at the temple fair, but before he can do it, Chen Mo catches him red-handed. Enraged, Cheng Song snatches a decorative sword from the temple fair and attacks Chen Mo.

This scene has very little dialogue; it's mostly action. The director's intention was to get into character by starting with filming locations that Bo Bing was used to, so she could get a feel for the role.

Bo Bing wasn't familiar with the other actors, and seeing that they didn't seem to want to talk to him, he only nodded slightly as he passed by a few people as a greeting. He walked over to Chen Shicheng and saw him arguing with a martial arts instructor. Chen Hongpeng was standing nearby, his brows furrowed.

"Xiao Bing, you're here," Chen Shicheng greeted him warmly in Cantonese with an accent when he saw him coming over. "Come and take a look at this fight scene. I feel that the action design is not very good."

Bo Bing understood what he meant, carefully watched the video recorded by the martial arts instructor, and spoke cautiously.

"The action is good, but this design results in too many camera cuts, making it too fragmented," Bo Bing, who also has filming experience, naturally saw the problem at a glance. "It's a bit sluggish."

Martial arts instructor Liu Shu was a lean man about the same age as Chen Shicheng. He nodded when he heard Bo Bing's professional explanation. "To make it smoother, you need to coordinate the weapons. Coordinating the movements of long and short weapons is more difficult."

“Shooting like this does involve a lot of short shots and is very fragmented, so it doesn’t look as good as medium or long shots,” Chen Hongpeng stepped aside, “Let me hear what Xiaobing thinks.”

Bo Bing glanced at it again, "Were the originally planned weapons swords and spears?"

“Yes, I know a little about marksmanship,” Chen Shicheng said, looking at Bo Bing. “Do you know any weapons?”

Bo Bing thought to herself that this was no coincidence, but smiled shyly and said, "I have a little talent in swordsmanship."

—He has some talent.

Upon hearing this, Chen Hongpeng immediately stared at him, "Did you learn this on the spot?"

“No, that won’t do,” Bo Bing waved her hand. “I have no apprenticeship; I just played with others for a while and developed a feel for it.”

Chen Hongpeng felt a sense of relief for some reason. It wasn't his fault for being overly stressed; he had been genuinely frightened by Bo Bing's actions last time. If swordsmanship could be mastered as easily as taking other people's things, then martial arts choreographers, stuntmen, and action performers in the entertainment industry would be out of a job.

He nodded, not wanting to make things difficult for Bo Bing. "I'll coordinate with Director Liu again. You guys discuss it first, warm up, and don't get injured later."

As a director, he was well aware that although weapon-based martial arts and hand-to-hand combat are closely related, society today is different from the past. People now value self-cultivation and physical fitness, and the concept of "no second place in martial arts" is not as strong. Therefore, there are quite a few people who practice the two separately. Bo Bing is good at hand-to-hand combat and must have been exposed to weapons as well, but to master them, one must put in a lot of hard work.

Yes, that's what he thought.

Just then, Feng Rui rushed in, shouting, "Holy crap! Director Chen, Director Liu, come quick! Bo Bing and Teacher Chen are fighting!"

"What's the rush? Didn't I tell them to warm up?"

Chen Hongpeng stood up and walked out of the studio with Liu Shu. Not far away, they saw his nephew and Bo Bing fighting fiercely, their swords flashing and clanging, coming and going happily.

After warming up, Bo Bing and Chen Shicheng had nothing to do, so Bo Bing suggested that the two try coordinating the equipment. Chen Shicheng readily agreed, took the prop gun from the props group, and tossed a sword to Bo Bing. The two began to practice together.

Chen Shicheng was a proper master of spear technique, and saying he only knew the basics was just being modest. He held back his strength, only wanting to test Bo Bing's style, but he found that his opponent was not as "skilled" as he claimed. His spear attack, which he had released with 70% of his strength, was blocked by his opponent with ease. He couldn't help but increase the force in his hand by another 10%.

A loud shout came from nearby, "Yes, yes! That's it!"

Chen Shicheng was startled and tightened his grip, knocking away the sword that Bo Bing was about to withdraw. Fortunately, it was an open space and the sword didn't fly into any props or people.

"Xiao Bing," Chen Shicheng dropped his equipment and rushed over to check Bo Bing's hand, quite worried. That flick was very powerful and might have injured his wrist. "Are you alright? Try moving your wrist."

Chen Hongpeng realized he had interrupted the two and quickly ran over to check on Bo Bing, "Oh dear, I wasn't paying attention. Are you alright?"

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

Bo Bing shook her head. She had already relaxed her grip when the other party exerted force, and was only loosely holding the hilt of the sword, so only the sword flew out and she was unharmed. "It's just that the prop might be broken."

"Just get another prop."

The Chen family uncle and nephew breathed a sigh of relief, and Chen Shicheng wiped away his sweat.

Liu Shu, who was standing next to him, was quite interested. "Young man, your swordsmanship is amazing. It doesn't seem like a self-taught skill. I've never seen many swordsmen as skilled as you."

Chen Hongpeng naturally understood that there were very few actors in the entertainment industry who could catch Chen Shicheng's equipment, and the younger generation was almost extinct.

He glanced at Bo Bing, his expression complicated, "You kid, you're really hiding your true strength."

Bo Bing smiled slightly, "I wouldn't dare."

"I think you're pretty bold."

Although Chen Hongpeng said that, he was actually extremely satisfied.

That afternoon, footage of the two fighting, filmed by Feng Rui, was uploaded to social media.