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Day 6
The script Ji Qingzhou picked was a movie, the director was quite well-known, the script was also good. Other drama groups first cast the actors and then tried to get investors, but an investor for this movie had been gotten, everything was ready, except the actors, so after finalizing the main actors, the crew directly started the filming.
This movie was about two young people chasing their dreams, it had two male leads, Zhou Chengfeng previously helped him inquire, the other male lead should be Li Ao, who was nominated for last year’s Golden Laurel Supporting Actor Award but he didn’t win, this pairing was also considered a common match in today’s film industry, looking for a popular actor to drive up the box office, while in order to balance the acting, looking for a strong actor to act with him.
Ji Qingzhou had no objection to this. After all, most of his works hadn’t aired yet, and he was really more popular for his face now than acting skills. It was normal for the director to put him on the list of popular stars. However, to Ji Qingzhou’s surprise, he didn’t see Li Ao in the first meeting, but he didn’t think much about it. He only thought that Li Ao was busy. After communicating with the director, he changed to his costume and started filming his own scenes.
Ji Qingzhou shot for two days, Li Ao didn’t show up, but it was a person he didn’t expect – Fang Yaoxuan.
He looked at the person in front of him in surprise and listened as Fang Yaoxuan said word for word, “Sorry, there was an event two days ago, so I entered the group late, I am your partner in this drama, I play He Hua.” After he finished, he even smiled at Ji Qingzhou, “Happy cooperation.”
Ji Qingzhou subconsciously gripped the script, a good cooperation? How could the two of them work well together!
He didn’t talk nonsense with Fang Yaoxuan, and turned to the director, “Director Wu, didn’t you say before that Li Ao would play He Hua? Why was it changed?”
Director Wu smiled, “Oh yes, it was a change, Li Ao was originally scheduled, but the investor recommended Fang Yaoxuan, Yaoxuan has good acting skills and high popularity, so I agreed.”
“But you didn’t notify me about this.”
“It’s just a matter of a few days, I thought he’d join the group soon, so I planned to talk to you when he entered in the group, anyway, it’s not that bad. What, you have a problem with this?”
Ji Qingzhou, of course, had a problem. The last people he wanted to see in his life were Luo Yuxin and Fang Yaoxuan. However, now Fang Yaoxuan wanted to act with him. Ji Qingzhou only felt that it was inevitable. When filming “A Page of Love Poem”, Fang Yaoxuan wanted to act with him, but was stopped by Chu Cheng. He didn’t expect him to get his wish this time.
At this moment, he thought for the first time what price he would pay if he terminated his contract. This wasn’t in his exemption clause, so it was equivalent to a breach of contract, and liquidated damages were indispensable. At the same time, the termination would be because of his personal likes and dislikes, so Director Wu was bound to be dissatisfied with him. If this matter got out, it would also ruin his reputation in the film industry.
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Ji Qingzhou felt a sense of anger in his heart, obviously he signed the contract first, obviously he was ready to shoot this movie, why did Fang Yaoxuan have to interfere? He had always avoided and tolerated Fang Yaoxuan, but Fang Yaoxuan was still like a lingering fly in front of him. So, why should he keep putting up with him and keep giving in to him?
He instantly overturned the idea of breaking the contract under this wave of anger, he did nothing wrong, why should he lose his money and reputation for Fang Yaoxuan, even if he wanted to go, it should be Fang Yaoxuan who left.
“No,” Ji Qingzhou replied calmly, “I was just a little surprised.”
“Oh, that’s good, Yaoxuan has already entered the group, tomorrow we may have to shoot the scene with you and him, you guys privately pair up to practise, then strive to make it a one take scene.”
“Okay.” Ji Qingzhou nodded his head.
When he went back to his own rest area, Fang Yaoxuan was still there, when he saw him, he gently raised the corner of his lips and asked, “Did you get the result you wanted?”
Ji Qingzhou sat down in his chair and didn’t pay any attention to him.
Fang Yaoxuan obediently sat down beside him nonchalantly, “Qingzhou, we haven’t seen each other for a long time, but you’re getting colder and colder to me.”
Ji Qingzhou stood up and moved the chair to the side, and Fang Yaoxuan quickly followed. When Xiao Qiao came back from buying water and saw this scene, he hurriedly walked over and inserted himself between Fang Yaoxuan and Ji Qingzhou, laughing, “Brother Fang, why are you here?”
“I play He Hua.” Fang Yaoxuan’s response was brief and concise.
Xiao Qiao was shocked, he looked at Ji Qingzhou who was beside him, looking down at the script without saying a word, intuitively he know he was in a bad mood, so he said, “Brother Ji, Brother Zhou has something to ask you, he asked you to go over.”
Ji Qingzhou hummed and walked away, Xiao Qiao said goodbye to Fang Yaoxuan and followed.
Fang Yaoxuan remained seated, but his assistant wasn’t happy, “Such a perfunctory excuse, he has the guts to say it.”
“It’s okay,” Fang Yaoxuan was calm, “We’re in the same crew, they can’t find excuses every day.”
He looked at Ji Qingzhou’s back, he was curious about what Chu Cheng’s reaction would be if he knew he and Ji Qingzhou would be staring in a movie together, but it was strange, this investment wasn’t from his family’s company, it was his brother-in-law’s company, but his brother-in-law’s company was involved with his family, Agent Zhou Chengfeng couldn’t see that it had something to do with him. But Chu Cheng should have known. How could he allow Ji Qingzhou take the role? Or did he think Ji Qingzhou could act in movies related to their investment, but he couldn’t film with him?
It was a pity, Fang Yaoxuan smiled contemptuously, in the end wasn’t he acting with Ji Qingzhou? It wasn’t too late for a gentleman to take revenge. He would get everything he wanted.
Xiao Qiao followed Ji Qingzhou to the nanny van with a frown and hurriedly asked him, “What now? Li Ao was replaced by Fang Yaoxuan, what do we do?”
“I’ll continue.” Ji Qingzhou calmly replied.
“So you two will have to spend three months together ah.” Xiao Qiao thought about it and felt terrible, “And the two of you are good friends in the drama, although there is nothing too intimate, there’s still some scenes like that.”
“Nothing.” Ji Qingzhou raised his eyes to look at him, “I am not worried, so what are you worrying about? ”
Xiao Qiao looked at him and said seriously, “I’m worried that Boss Chu will be angry when he finds out.”
Ji Qingzhou froze for a moment, he had anger in his heart from the moment Fang Yaoxuan appeared, the urge to cancel the contract was the first to occupy the highest point of his emotions. Later, after the surprise and the urge to cancel the contract passed, only the anger remained, he hadn’t even had time to think about what Chu Cheng’s mood would be if he knew.
When he thought of Chu Cheng, the anger in his heart subconsciously dissipated a lot, and he became calmer.
” I can’t stop filming because he is angry, can I?” Ji Qingzhou whispered.
“Then do you want to tell to him first?”
Ji Qingzhou sighed and shook his head, “Xiao Qiao, I told you, the two of us have broken up, this kind of thing, there is no need to let him know. You too, you’re not allowed to talk to him about this matter, or I will replace you.”
Xiao Qiao wasn’t clear about the specific feud between him, Chu Cheng and Fang Yaoxuan, but he clearly remembered that Chu Cheng, in order to prevent Ji Qingzhou and Fang Yaoxuan from filming together, even directly starred in the role Fang Yaoxuan wanted to play, so it was clear that he was resistant to this matter. If he knew that Ji Qingzhou’s current shooting partner had changed from Li Ao to Fang Yaoxuan, and that Ji Qingzhou intended to continue shooting…….. Xiao Qiao felt a headache just thinking about it.
“Brother Ji, you should think about it again.”
“There is nothing to think about,” Ji Qingzhou was very firm, “If I don’t act, it’ll be a breach of contract, not mentioning the compensation for the breach of contract, my reputation will be damaged, I don’t want that.”
Xiao Qiao had no choice but to send a text to Zhou Chengfeng about this matter. Zhou Chengfeng had just finished communicating with the magazine about Ji Qingzhou’s cover, when he saw Xiao Qiao’s text, he almost cursed, why was it Fang Yaoxuan? Shouldn’t it be Li Ao?
Zhou Chengfeng gave a call to Director Wu, Director Wu truthfully said, “Originally it was indeed scheduled to be Li Ao and the contract was about to be signed, but the investor suddenly said to replace him with Fang Yaoxuan, the producer took a look at him, Fang Yaxuan’s acting skills is also good, his popularity is high, plus Fang Yaoxuan’s agent is friends with the producer, so he was replaced. ”
“Director Wu, we know Li Ao’s acting skills and we also know Fang Yaoxuan’s. With Li Ao, everyone will think that this is a good film with good actors and a good script, and now it has changed to Fang Yaoxuan, he and Ji Qingzhou are two popular stars. This will become a movie for fans in the audience’s mind. When we took the movie, did we see it as a fan movie?”
“But you didn’t say that he had to act with Li Ao when you signed the contract, and the contract didn’t say that Li Ao couldn’t be replaced.”
“That’s because your previous works were with talented actors, who would have thought that you would put two popular stars in a film. With this, our original intention has deviated.”
“So you’re saying all this to get out of your contract?” Director Wu cut to the chase.
“To terminate or not to terminate the contract, I’ll have to ask Ji Qingzhou for his opinion, but now this situation, our side doesn’t feel the respect of the crew, there was such a big issue, but no one contacted me, is Ji Qingzhou performing a monologue? The change of partner is such a big thing, yet he didn’t need to know? Is this the proper treatment for a male lead?”
Wu Hui helplessly replied, “This was Fang Yaoxuan’s request, you also know, the main actor is Ji Qingzhou, although it is said to be a double male lead movie, but in fact, he is the second male, because he was interested, he decided to play the second male lead for Ji Qingzhou, his agent wanted to keep a low profile.”
“So even we couldn’t know?” Zhou Chengfeng felt it was ridiculous, after he and Wu Hui said a few more words, he hung up the phone and called Ji Qingzhou.
Ji Qingzhou still had the same attitude as before, “I’ll act, it’s not my problem, why not, why do I have to give way to Fang Yaoxuan.”
“I know you and Chu Cheng broke up, but even if you broke up, he is still the second young master of Western Entertainment, the official announcement hasn’t been made, so Chu Cheng doesn’t know. When filming has almost ended, the official announcement will be made, Chu Cheng will definitely see it, at that time, he will certainly be angry about it and with you.”
I almost forgot that Fang guy. But I can understand their frustration. That’s a serious case and they didn’t inform party A bc B wants to stay low? Srsly? Dx
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
Same, I also forgot about him too. That surnamed Fang just bring the bad vibe. ತ_ತ
Thank you for this chapter!!
I’m pissed for Zhouzhou, but also irritated that he keeps saying that they’ve broken up, but everyone insists on acting like they are still together!
thanks for the chapter loveee
That pest is showing up again? 🙃
Thanks for the chapter!
I can feel the Fang guy will stir up trouble, cheering and lighting a candle for him 🎉
Such a trash crew. Trash director
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