Lin Ji felt…he probably was a bit spoiled rotten by Rong Qing.
As he ate the exclusive meal that Rong Qing had someone deliver over, he actually thought it was tasteless.
When he thought about a certain formally dressed man who’d smile like a kid as he sat eating beside him, occasionally stealing away a piece of meat or vegetable from his bowl with a gleeful expression, Lin Ji felt even more so that today’s lunch today was extremely tasteless in comparison to before.
Especially since in a time like this, as he ate quietly in his lounge, suddenly two people entered.
It was Chu Ke and A.
Not many people knew about their relationship on the set because both of them didn’t like being high profile. Therefore, most of the people thought that A was some executive in the production group, who’d come and discuss business with director Chu Ke every other day.
“A-ge! You’re bringing food for me again today?” Following A into the lounge, Chu Ke completely discarded his serious director demeanor. Right now, he was more like a domestic hamster, who upon smelling his owner, would pitifully run around his owner’s side, begging for food.
A thoughtfully closed the door. After touching Chu Ke, his expression immediately became gentle. Lowering his head slightly, he kissed Chu Ke, the movement natural and warm: “En. I made you something good.”
Chu Ke was a bit embarrassed, but he still tiptoed and returned the kiss.
Hehehehe! He definitely earned here! A-ge was just as he expected! Impressive! Can make food, the extremely tasty kind! And plus, he’d even bring him the food in person!
Hehehehehe. Good thing he was smart and put a ring around him early. Such a good person, of course it’s best to strike first!
As A opened the lunchbox, he nodded his head at Lin Ji. They were technically occupying Lin Ji’s resting lounge. But good thing Lin Ji had a pretty good temperament.
Lin Ji smiled faintly in return and then silently turned around to eat his food all by his lonesome.
So, why did he object to Rong Qing coming here before? Was eating together with him not a good thing? Even though he had to pay a little xxxx price, didn’t he also enjoy it?
Of course he enjoyed it!
Taking another deep breath, Lin Ji pretended he wasn’t here and shrunk in the corner. His life was too hard.
On the other side, A fed Chu Ke as he checked on Chu Ke’s progress.
After he resigned from Rong Qing’s side, he followed the plan and bought a house, cars, cats, and had a vacation, then spent what’s left of his money investing in the branch company after a discussion with Rong Qing.
Right now, between Chu Ke and him, one was the manager of the branch company, the other was a big shareholder of the branch company. A lot of the work and responsibility in running the company now landed on him.
Chu Ke stuffed one of the small round potatoes in his mouth and said muffled. “Everything is going well. Not many problems. Right now the filming is heading back on the right track.”
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A nodded his head: “En. I know about this. Don’t worry. She won’t be able to make any waves.”
One of the things he was responsible for included this. He already met with those entertainment records ahead of time. As long as Rong Qing didn’t want it, no one would be able to expose the thing between him and Lin Ji.
“Got it.” Chu Ke pulled on A’s hand to take a sip of the soup. His eyes lit up. The soup was also very tasty: “I just think it’s pretty interesting that there was actually someone who dares to challenge CEO Rong’s bottom line. Is she not afraid to die~”
Although he’s been focused on preparing for the movie and the wedding, even he paid attention to the news! What kind of person was CEO Rong? The lawyer team warning can come down any second, okay!?
Anyone with a bit of brain wouldn’t dare to do such a thing, right?
“There are always exceptions.” A shook his head: “You don’t need to pay attention to this. I will deal with it.” His finger lightly brushed aside Chu Ke’s bangs, then paused: “It’s getting long. Tonight, I’ll trim it a bit for you?”
Chu Ke’s hair was soft and thin. If it was cut too short, it’s not easy to grab on to. The best length was of course something that only A knew.
Blinking his eyes, Chu ke nodded his head obediently. The bangs followed his movement and covered one of his eyes: “Okay. However, I didn’t know you knew how to cut hair? A-ge, can you do everything?”
“En. Sometimes there’s a special need.” A nodded his head. As someone of his profession, it’s best to know more.
Chu Ke thought for a moment, then his little face flushed red as he leaned close to whisper: “Then… can you trim your… as well? They keep getting stuck inside, uncomfortable.”
A froze, and immediately worried: “They do? How come you never mentioned it before?” Here he thought that Chu Ke didn’t have any discomfort?
Whining a bit, Chu Ke said in an extremely small voice: “Isn’t because it felt too good so I keep forgetting.” In the middle, he kept thinking about mentioning it after, but afterwards, he’d always fall asleep!
Who’d remember something like that.
And… and plus, they’d only get stuck when it reached very deep.
……
Why do I have to listen to these filthy words?
Am I worthy of making keys? How many can I make? I’m not worthy!
Lin Ji silently pulled out his earphones, put them on and opened the music on his phone. He was wrong. He shouldn’t have ignored these two who can happily start driving a car anytime.
The actress#4 that was kicked out couldn’t make any waves at all. Actually, it wasn’t just Chu Ke and A. The cautious and prudent head assistant He and the public relations were watching daily. Rong Qing’s cat bonuses weren’t given in vain.
This actress#4 first tried to sell the news about Lin Ji and Rong Qing’s relationship to the entertainment records. But unfortunately, all of the media companies that could pay a big sum all tasted bitter suffering before. Even if the other small companies could give a fair price, they were all terrified of Rong Corp’s lawyer team.
Don’t even mention buying news, as soon as they hear anything with the word Rong in it, they practically wish to beat the seller to death.
Aren’t you just causing trouble for them! If you want to offend tyrant Rong, you can go do it yourself! Don’t drag us into it!
A and He Qian even collaborated to investigate thoroughly the background of this actress#4. This actress#4 began from an internship. Originally she planned to join a girl band, but she got lucky. When she was still an intern last year, a film set just happened to need someone to color a new female role. She was picked by the director and actually had some innate skill in acting so changed career to become an actress.
She also had a financial backer behind her.
Her financial backer was the one who helped her obtain the opportunity to audition. Her performance was pretty good so naturally, Chu Ke picked her.
But looks like this actress#4 has quite the ambition.
What He Qian was able to find out on his side was that this actress#4 actually figured out the list of all of the members in the production group and even contacted a few she could contact beforehand.
Meanwhile, A discovered more hidden secrets. For example, how this actress#4 actually even slept with her financial backer’s father and had the ambition to become her financial backer’s new stepmom.
However, of course that was impossible now.
Done with lunch, Lin Ji rested a while and then very quickly dove back into filming. This movie was actually harder than any other filming he’s done before.
It’s not only because this time he was filming a movie instead of a tv series.
This movie required a huge amount of close up shots. While Chu Ke’s good camera angles were really stunning, at the same time, they really put Lin Ji’s acting ability to the test.
He had to practice again and again every little expression change and control his face carefully in this movie. He lost count of how many times he pulled his facial muscles privately before he could finally achieve the result that Chu Ke wanted.
Chu Ke was a new director. This was both good and bad.
Because he was a new director, his requests for the performers all depended on his ideal image. However, if that image can’t be achieved, he wouldn’t let it pass.
To say it another way, only through achieving his ideal image can the result be astonishing.
Originally, there were some performers in the production crew who planned to half ass it. But when they saw Lin Ji get NG cut by Chu Ke over and over, and end up polishing his acting skills in an increasingly spectacular fashion, they all started to stir restlessly and began to seriously train themselves.
If they could become better, who wouldn’t want to improve their acting skills?
The movie filmed a total of three months before officially coming to an end. In the last week of filming, in order to shoot the main character’s mental and emotional development, Lin Ji repeatedly forced himself to get into character, struggling in a sorrowful and hopeless state for an entire week before finally finishing the last scene.
After the filming was done, he even skipped out on the final banquet celebration, went directly home, and fell asleep immediately after laying down. He slept for an entire day and night before opening his eyes groggily.
When the view of the ceiling appeared before his eyes, Lin Ji finally managed to find a sense of reality.
Nevertheless, even after a long time, he still couldn’t get up.
He felt like he was completely submerged in an endless swamp. He clearly understood that he was laying on his bed, but he couldn’t control his limbs at all, as if something was pulling on his arms and legs, holding him down.
This kind of feeling made him feel very… helpless.
Lin Ji gradually realized his mental state right now was not right. Or perhaps it’s better to say, he should have realized a while ago, but because it was required for filming, he never let himself walk out of it.
So right now, was this retribution?
Here he was thinking that after the filming was over, he could spend time together with Rong Qing.
Lin Ji suddenly felt a huge sense of grief rush over him. He couldn’t even say why, but inexplicably, he started to despair.
His exercise and weight gain regiment was already arranged with his fitness instructor. In two month at most, he’d be able to regain the body physique that Rong Qing liked the most.
Lin Ji’s fingers moved slightly.
He realized something and began to do his best to recall Rong Qing’s bright and gleaming eyes every time he reached his hands into his costume.
The burning, all consuming fire that spread everywhere Rong Qing’s fingers touched.
The feeling of his head lighting up in that instant, burning away all excess thoughts and only leaving Rong Qing’s face.
“Hnn.” Groaning deeply, Lin Ji slowly propped himself up and sat up in bed. He looked at his hands that were now capable of moving again, expression turning strange.
It’s true that he did want to get up to exercise, but why did his head automatically fill up with all these fantasies of what’d happen after he finished gaining back his weight?
In a rare moment, Lin Ji felt a bit out of sorts.
Was he really… this impatient and thirsty?
Bodyguard A quit being a bodyguard so now his name is … A. Yeah, there’s no way the author isn’t doing this on purpose at this point.
I can only vaguely understand Mr. Lin’s feelings. When you empathize with a character very much, get involved in his life, try to put yourself in his place… It’s hard to come back to reality later and leave those feelings behind
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…ahhhh… Translator-sama why did you delete the previous chapters on the docs😭😭 I wanna read ahead even though I already reread it a lot of times😭 But now I have to wait for updates 😭😭 Oh the grief~~!😭😭
Thank you for the updates😇🥰
Thanks for the chapters
Damn, Chu Ke really said–
[This user has been detained by the horny police due to sexual language]
….who’s the woman again? Chu Ke’s mother? Aunt? Foster mother? 🤔
The one who was kicked out in the group chat.
Thank You for the chapter ♡(ӦｖӦ｡)
Thanks 😊
Ok but did anyone else see bodyguard a mention the perfect hair length for him to grab onto……………
Aww~
Method acting is scary but very cool.
so bodyguard— A-ge has a thing for hair-pulling. mkay.