The sweetest in the entertainment industry

Chapter 217 The Drama Maniac

I have to wait two more days to go to Xiamen for the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony.

Gu Lanxi has several extremely important scenes to film in the next two days.

A seventeen-year-old girl, wearing her school uniform, smiled and waved goodbye to her classmates.

She walked briskly along the bustling, lively alley and turned into a vegetable market.

She greeted people along the way, walked past piles of rotten vegetable leaves, passed fish stalls with water stains all over the ground, and finally disappeared into a dark alley behind the vegetable market.

In the old residential buildings, the cement surface on the exterior walls has begun to weather, and the water pipes fixed in the corners of the walls have also begun to rust.

The girl hurried up the uneven cement steps to the fifth floor. Before even entering the room, she called out "Mom" with a smile, but received no reply for a long time.

In the past, around this time, you could hear the sizzling sound of stir-frying as you approached your home.

Because she has to go back to school for evening self-study later.

School ends at 5:10, and evening self-study starts at 6:15. The total time after school is only a little over an hour. It takes about 20 minutes to walk there and back. Mom has to make sure she eats her fill before she goes to study.

But today, instead of hearing the sound of cooking, she heard an extremely loud television.

To provide her with a better learning environment, the TV at home hasn't been turned on for a long time.

The girl felt a sudden pang of panic.

Pushing open the door, I saw my mother lying in a pool of blood at the kitchen doorway, her body shrunken like a dried-up shrimp.

The girl's breathing stopped and her hands and feet trembled, but she suddenly threw herself onto her mother and began to check her wounds.

As her mother lay dying, her last words were not a cry for help, but a mumbled "Run..."

His stomach had been stabbed open, and his intestines were spilling out.

She would never abandon her seriously injured mother.

My first instinct was to look for the first-aid kit, take out a bandage, and wrap it around her wound.

The poor mother and daughter, living together in an old apartment building, would keep a first-aid kit at home.

It was a very incongruous thing, but the girl was already used to it.

After bandaging her mother's wound, she quickly carried her mother downstairs.

Such a big thing happened at home, and there was no response from upstairs or downstairs. The blood on the ground was still warm, so it was obviously something that happened recently. Therefore, the neighbors were probably not home.

In times like these, it's better to rely on yourself than to ask others for help.

The girl had been practicing martial arts with her grandfather, who ran a martial arts school, since she was a child. She was very strong. Her mother was thin and weak, but she gritted her teeth and managed to carry her up to the second floor, where they met a neighbor who was returning home.

The neighbors were terrified when they saw her covered in blood, but they still called for help and came over to help take her to the hospital.

Unfortunately, the person could not be saved.

This scene was filmed in several parts. For Gu Lanxi, the first challenge was how to show a carefree student's attitude while already knowing the plot. The second challenge was how to quickly switch from joy to a complex state of shock, sadness, and fear after pushing open the door. The third challenge was how to carry someone down three flights of stairs in a hurry but steadily.

The first difficulty was actually not too bad. Although Gu Lanxi was not formally trained, she was very talented in acting and had taken many acting classes over the years, so she completed it smoothly.

When Gu Lanxi opened the door for the second scene, she was completely stunned.

He had no expression and no lines; he just stared blankly at the screen for a long time.

Gao Yunyi called out to her through a megaphone, asking what was wrong. Gu Lanxi just stood there, her hands trembling, her mouth quivering, her pupils quivering, but she didn't say a word.

She knew all along that Gao Yunyi would go to great lengths to achieve a better artistic effect, but she never expected him to go this far.

The kitchen threshold was deliberately raised, and the actress playing the mother lay on it in a strange posture, her long hair cascading down, soaked with blood, sticky and hanging down from the back of her head, piling up on the ground.

Even the shape of the pool of blood on the ground mimicked the scene of her mother's death. Her family lived in a very wealthy area. Her mother committed suicide in the ancestral hall. As soon as she was discovered, someone took a camera from home and took pictures. The photos were then sold to Hong Kong media for a high price, and eventually, the photos were published in the newspaper.

He really put his heart into it, finding newspapers from ten years ago.

Gu Lanxi couldn't accept this. She took several deep breaths, said nothing, grabbed the handrail, and jumped off the fifth floor. She quickly left the film set.

She has never been so irresponsible.

He abandoned the entire crew, disregarding how time-consuming and laborious the preparations were, because he didn't want to film anymore, and simply ran away.

But the production team did this without consulting her before filming today.

This is completely different from what Gao Yunyi envisioned.

In his mind, seeing this scene that resembled his biological mother's death, her expression must have been extremely genuine. He even considered the camera angles four or five times before deciding on a location.

As a result, Gu Lanxi only showed shock, without any fear, sadness, or apprehension.

"Quick! Stop her!"

"Let me explain!!"

"I can explain!!!"

Gu Lanxi ignored him completely and ran downstairs in the blink of an eye.

Gao Yunyi clung to the stairwell window, screaming desperately at the rapidly receding figure, wishing he could just jump down!
Fortunately, the production manager, Tong Guangquan, reacted quickly and grabbed him around the waist.

"Get out of the way! Electric bike! Give me an electric bike right now!"

The staff member said helplessly, "Director, there's a vegetable market outside, where can we ride an electric bike?!"

"Call her right now! Tell her not to act impulsively! Where's Xiao Zhuang? Lili! Lili! Call your boss back immediately! I can explain! Really!! I can explain!!"

Sweating profusely, Zhuang Xiaotong and Niu Lili pushed the man aside and wanted to go downstairs to chase after him. Hearing him shout, Zhuang Xiaotong was furious!
"She's filming! Her phone's with me, what's the point of calling her! Let me over here right now!! Who's going to compensate me if she gets lost?!"

The two poor assistants were so anxious that tears welled up in their eyes!
What happened? They were just filming, and they were both on the fourth floor.

For convenience, the production team also rented the fourth floor as a rest area for the crew members. When the actors were filming, the assistants stayed downstairs.

What I didn't expect was that everything went smoothly in the last game, but problems immediately arose in this one!
Gu Lanxi ran all the way back to the hotel, wanting to pack her bags and leave, but she was so angry that her hands were shaking.

She slammed the door shut, leaned against it, took several deep breaths, and then tears streamed down her face.

I reached for my phone, only to realize it wasn't with me.

She found her spare phone and turned it on, intending to call Lu Nanting, but then remembered that he was on a TV show at the moment.

Finally, feeling utterly frustrated, she hugged her knees, leaned against the bed, sat on the carpet, and began to sob.

If there's anything in her life she never wants to recall, it's definitely that scene.

After burying her three relatives, she kept vigil alone every night. Everyone praised her for her courage and thought she was remarkable, but who knew that she was also a little girl who loved to cry?

She simply had no other choice but to put on a brave face and act fierce.

She loves acting. It was only when she was sick that she discovered how interesting acting was. It allowed her to immerse herself in the lives of different people, to experience more of the joys and sorrows of life, and thus broaden her life experience. This prevented her from getting stuck on trivial matters and being unable to let go of things.

But this does not include reliving the pain of her childhood again and again.

What crazy things have you heard actors and directors done for filming?

I finally caught up on the chapters I missed, and I immediately felt relieved.

It's going to rain for the next few days. We need to dress the kids warmly tomorrow.