Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 73: Do you need to bring the script with you when taking a walk?

"You really are here to review the script."

Meng Bai said regretfully as he looked at Li Yitong's script which was covered with various sticky notes and the blank spaces were filled with notes.

"Didn't you say that everyone is welcome to come to your room to ask questions at any time?" Li Yitong smiled and stuck close to Meng Bai, teasing, "Or, Teacher Meng, do you actually plan to do something else with me?"

Meng Bai looked at the woman so close to him, leaned sideways, and said in a reminiscent tone: "Oh, I seem to vaguely remember someone saying that if you get the role, you have to pledge your love to me. So many days have passed, and no one has come to fulfill their promise. I wonder if they are planning to default on their promise. Alas, young people nowadays really don't keep their word..."

Hearing this, Li Yitong's fair face instantly turned red. She stepped back a few steps in bewilderment, trying to remain calm and said, "Ha, who is going to default on their debt? I, I'm just too busy recently and don't have time. You wait until the filming of this drama is finished, and then I will fulfill my promise. Some people don't just talk."

After saying that, she hurried over to pour herself a glass of water and calm herself down.

Haha, the little girl dares to tease me.

Meng Bai smiled with satisfaction. This girl was a typical example of "high attack and low defense". She usually looked very defensive, but in fact, her defense would be broken with just the slightest touch.

But it can't be said that she was forcing an excuse. It can be seen from the packed script that she has indeed been working hard to prepare for this role recently.

This effort was driven not only by the fact that as the heroine "personally chosen" by Meng Bai, she did not want to embarrass him, but more by her own inner motivation.

Although she looks like a sweet girl, she actually has a strong personality.

When Li Yitong came back from drinking water, she saw Meng Bai sitting at the table holding a script and looking at her. She couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "What are you doing?"

"Didn't you come to ask me a question?" Meng Bai patted the script in his hand and said, "This won't help you answer your doubts."

Looking at the serious expression on Meng Bai's face, Li Yitong felt warm in her heart - this guy is still very attractive when he is reliable occasionally!

She had no intention of avoiding suspicion and sat directly next to Meng Bai. Following the marked areas on the script, she asked questions that she had not figured out during the script reading in the daytime.

"Although Chen Xi is Fang Mu's girlfriend, she is just an ordinary college student. Why was she able to follow Fang Mu into the crime scene?"

"According to the plot, Chen Xi had been dating Fang Mu for many years when the 'vampire' case happened, but why does it feel like there's always some distance between them in the description of the script?"

"Also here, the plot says that Chen Xi starts to become weak, but it doesn't explain why. Is it because of illness?"

"..."

Li Yitong asked very seriously, and from time to time she wrote down Meng Bai's explanations and her own thoughts on the script. But Meng Bai, at first he was still answering questions very seriously, but gradually he became a little distracted.

It's really not his fault. The girl was just too close to him. Meng Bai could even feel the heat from her and the unique scent of a girl.

It is difficult to describe the smell of this fragrance specifically. It is very similar to the girl who sat next to you in middle school, with big eyes, fair skin and good academic performance. You asked her questions during self-study class, and then she came up to you and explained the questions to you seriously. You twitched your nose and could vaguely smell the fragrance of shower gel and the youthful scent of a girl.

Of course, youth is too far away from Meng Bai. He is just experiencing hormone activation now.

Thanks to sister Qin Lan. If she hadn’t helped me to relieve my “depression” some time ago, I might have become a “bull-headed dad” by now.

Meng Bai stood up and poured himself a glass of water. When he came back, he sat a little further away from the girl smoothly and naturally.

There won't be any "extravagant" activities tonight anyway, so why make yourself feel bad?

Li Yitong didn't notice anything strange about Meng Bai. She was now concentrating on the script. Seeing him pour the water, she asked, "I've always been curious, why are the scripts you sent to us incomplete? What happened at the end of the plot of 'The Seventh Reader'?"

Meng Bai didn't rush to answer. He took a sip of water first, and then said calmly: "There is a reason why I don't give you the script. You just act according to the existing plot. When the filming reaches the relevant stage, you will naturally know what will happen next."

As a story focusing on the theme of "suspense crime", the plot of "Psychological Crime" is naturally full of "narrative tricks". Just like the plot of "the seventh reader", the murderer "Wu Han" committed crimes one by one according to a list of borrowing cards. The last one, that is, the "seventh" reader who borrowed books, was the heroine "Chen Xi" played by Li Yitong.

According to the plot, "Chen Xi" was the last victim and was beheaded in public during the drama performance. Fang Mu, who could not accept this fact, sealed up this memory and imagined a "Chen Xi" who was still by his side.

In order to take care of his emotions, friends around him such as "Tai Wei" did not burst his fantasy, but only hoped that as time went by, he could slowly accept this reality himself.

Therefore, it is normal for Li Yitong to have doubts about this part of the plot. The plot development itself is to use these "details" to lay the groundwork for the final story twist. As for why she was not given a complete script, of course it was also to take care of the acting skills of these newcomers.

There is a big difference in the difficulty of "acting according to the normal plot without knowing the truth" and "acting with intentional misleading acting after knowing the truth". If the performance is not good, the latter "misleading performance" will appear very deliberate, which is undoubtedly a bad "watching experience" for the audience.

So in order to ensure that the performances of the new leading actors in the first half could be as natural as possible, Meng Bai simply withheld the script for the second half and gave it to them when they shot that part.

To put it bluntly, these newcomers are too inexperienced, forcing Meng Bai and the other creative team to come up with some tricks to ensure quality.

Alas, I kind of miss the "Pendulum Trio" from before.

Li Yitong was quite obedient, or rather, she trusted Meng Bai more in such matters. Therefore, she just put her doubts back in her heart and waited until the filming was done.

"Huh—"

Li Yitong yawned coquettishly, rubbed her eyes and said, "Why do I feel a little sleepy?"

"It would be strange if you weren't sleepy. It's already past ten o'clock."

"It's already ten o'clock?" Li Yitong looked at her mobile phone in surprise and found that more than three hours had passed.

Meng Bai stood up, saluted and said, "My lady, it's late at night and I need to rest. I wonder if you would like to stay and sleep with me?"

"Haha, next time, definitely next time."

"Or rather, next time I will definitely use this kind of thing which is the most annoying!"

Li Yitong gave him a bright smile in return, picked up the script, stood up and said, "Well, see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow. Also, don't come tomorrow night to give others some chances." Meng Bai said.

Li Yitong asked doubtfully: "But I saw that apart from me, no one else came to see you tonight."

"No one came to see me because I told everyone in the crew group that tonight's time has been booked." Meng Bai said.

"Ah?" Li Yitong quickly opened the crew's WeChat group and saw Meng Bai's message @ everyone, as expected, with some jokes from Wu Bai and several crew members.

Fortunately, Meng Bai only said that he had someone here, but did not say who it was.

It’s not that I’m afraid of others knowing, it’s just that the relationship between the “female lead” and the “producer” is easy to make people think too much, and there are many people on the crew and they all have many gossips, so if some things are passed on, there’s no telling how they will turn out.

She was not worried about other people knowing about her "closeness" with Meng Bai, but she was afraid that other people would misunderstand their "relationship".

Leaving Meng Bai's room, Li Yitong walked towards her own room. She lived on the floor below Meng Bai, next door to Zhu Xudan.

She swiped her card to open the door and was about to go in when she suddenly heard the door next to her open. Zhu Xudan poked his head out of the room and saw her.

"Sister Tongtong." Zhu Xudan smiled sweetly: "Why are you back so late?"

"Oh, the room was a bit stuffy, so I just went downstairs for a walk." Li Yitong said naturally.

"Well, take a walk." Zhu Xudan glanced at the script in her hand and said, "Tongtong is working hard even when taking a walk with the script."

Li Yitong was not flustered at all. She shook the script in her hand and said, "No, I just came back and suddenly remembered that I left the script in the meeting room, so I just picked it up and thought I would take a look at it before going to bed."

"Is that so..." Zhu Xudan looked at her suspiciously, but didn't see any flaws, so she could only smile and said, "Then go to bed early, you still have a lot to do tomorrow."

"You too, goodnight."

(End of this chapter)