My girlfriend was reborn.

Chapter 171 You are in me, and I am in you

Weekend, morning.

A vacant dining table on the first floor of the third canteen at Ningjiang University.

Zhou Heming and Lu Qian sat at the dining table. He opened his thin, genuine student netbook and checked the script again.

Lu Qian then placed several printed and bound copies of the script on the table.

Today was the script reading, and also the first official meeting of the short film crew.

If the collaboration goes smoothly, Zhou Heming feels that they can directly film the movie with the original cast and crew.

Cheng Shuangjiang has an experimental class today and will arrive a little later.

It's not mealtime yet, so the cafeteria is only full of students who got up late and came to buy breakfast.

Every evening or on weekends, students gather here during their free time. Some are discussing things in clubs, while others are playing board games or gaming together. Because they can talk freely here without having to be quiet, and the air conditioning is on in summer and winter, it has become a popular gathering place for many students.

Hearing footsteps, Zhou Heming looked up and saw Yang Hongye leading Gu Yingying to the classroom door.

The reason for using the description "with" is because Gu Yingying really is like a little rabbit, looking around anxiously, as if she is afraid that a large vehicle will suddenly rush out of the corridor and transport her to another world.

"Hello, I'm Lu Bai."

Lu Qian greeted the two of them with a smile.

"I am Yang Hongye, the director of this short film."

Yang Hongye introduced herself and sat down at a table next to Lu Qian.

Gu Yingying sat down next to Yang Hongye, gave her name, and then nudged Yang Hongye with her elbow.

"Okay, don't rush me."

Yang Hongye responded, and then Gu Yingying immediately took out a notebook decorated with lots of pretty tape from her bag and handed it to Yang Hongye.

"Lu Bai, Gu Yingying said she wants you to sign her autograph."

Yang Hongye handed the ledger and a pen to Lu Qian.

Do I really need an autograph?

Zhou Heming glanced at it.

Gu Yingying seems to be the kind of person who really enjoys collecting pretty washi tape and making journals. This journal has many messages from her high school classmates, making it a kind of graduation yearbook.

"Haha, this is the first time someone has asked me for an autograph."

Lu Qian smiled as she signed Gu Yingying's name and handed the notebook back to her.

"This journal is so lovely, it feels like a lot of care was put into it."

"Thank you, thank you."

Gu Yingying took the notebook, carefully checked the names on it, and seemed quite excited and happy.

Who would have thought that in the previous timeline, Gu Yingying probably won the award and became famous much earlier than Lu Qian, and it's uncertain who would sign the autograph for whom.

"This is the printed script; we checked it last night."

Zhou Heming handed them two copies of the script. In the evenings of the past few days, after the first draft of the script was finalized, Zhou Heming sent it to the group chat for others to discuss and finalize some plot details, lines, and scene details.

For example, some dialogues actually lacked information that would make them easier to understand, but Zhou Heming was so familiar with the story when he wrote it that he didn't notice it.

They discussed these things for two nights and tentatively finalized the fourth version of the script.

Today's reading session is for everyone to actually read it again and see what areas can be improved.

Zhou Heming used to read jokes online about designers who were constantly being asked by clients to make changes, with filenames going from one change to another, and then to another, until they became things like "Never again" or "I'll commit suicide if I change it again." Then the client would casually say: "The first version was better."

At first, he was just watching for fun, but when it was his turn, he couldn't laugh anymore.

Of course, since Zhou Heming himself was skilled and none of the people were the type to show off, there was no situation where anyone felt that Zhou Heming's writing was poor and wanted to drastically revise the script according to their own ideas.

Presumably because it is adapted from Zhou Heming's own experience, people still have some respect for it.

Yang Hongye flipped through the script.

At this moment, Su Hong and the other two also arrived together.

"Good morning! I'm starving! I'll go buy some food first. Have you guys eaten yet?"

Su Hong had obviously just gotten up not long ago. She guessed that the three of them probably blocked the bridge together until late last night after discussing the script, and went to bed very late.

Yang Hongye glanced at the three of them with disdain and shook her head.

They bought some wraps, eggs, soy milk, and fried dough sticks, brought them over, sat at the table next to them, took the script, and ate and read it at the same time.

"So, are you going to read the lines?"

Su Hong still had an egg pancake stuffed in her mouth, so her speech was not very clear.

"The director reads?"

Zhou Heming gestured for Yang Hongye to come over.

He and Lu Qian were so familiar with the lines that they wouldn't notice any problems reading them out under normal circumstances.

"Then I'll come with you."

Yang Hongye originally wanted to find Gu Yingying, but after seeing the little girl's trembling appearance, she turned her attention to Su Hong, who was drinking soy milk.

"Give me two minutes."

Su Hong quickly stuffed the food into her mouth, her cheeks puffing out like a squirrel.

Yang Hongye sighed and picked up the script.

“I’ll read the female lead’s lines, and you’ll read the male lead’s lines. As for the scene descriptions, Jiang Rui, you can do that.”

She assigned the task and then glanced at Gu Yingying.

"Yingying, second female lead, come here."

The second female lead is Lu Bai.

Due to script length and scene limitations, Zhou Heming did not include Qiao Jinchen and Xu Youyou's parts in the short film. Therefore, the main characters in the entire series are the male and female leads, as well as the second female lead.

"Ah? Ok, ok."

Gu Yingying immediately picked up the script and nervously flipped through it.

However, she probably won't have any scenes at the beginning.

After finishing her breakfast, Su Hong picked up her script.

"Then let's get started."

Yang Hongye said.

There was silence.

"Jiang Rui?"

Yang Hongye raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, sorry, it starts here."

Jiang Rui immediately sat up straight.

"Jiangcheng City Funeral Home, a place of lingering melancholy."

The group quickly began reading from the script.

Of course, none of them were professional actors, so their reading was a bit halting, especially Gu Yingying, who was staring intently at the script, probably reciting Lu Bai's lines in her mind, and didn't hear what the others were reading at all.

"The dialogue here feels a bit awkward; it could be replaced with a simpler and more straightforward way of describing it."

As she read, Yang Hongye stopped and made a note with her pen.

Zhou Heming added annotations to the script document accordingly.

Lu Qian watched them read aloud, and she also made annotations on the script.

Although the script was only a little over half an hour long, the reading and revisions took more than an hour.

Simply put, some sentences don't feel particularly natural when written down, but they sound very un-colloquial when read aloud.

It's like how people deliberately avoid certain verbal connecting words when writing, but when actually reading lines, it can make the lines too awkward and difficult to understand.

Many people feel that old movies and classic TV series are easy to understand even without subtitles, while many movies and TV series nowadays are not necessarily easy to understand even with subtitles. This is partly because the actors had better acting skills back then, and partly because the scripts were more relatable.

"Okay, that concludes the reading session."

After listening to Jiang Rui finish reading the last scene prompt, Yang Hongye put down the script.

"There are no major problems with the script content. We just need to revise the lines and transitions. Then, Jiang Rui, break down the scenes and make a shooting schedule."

She gave the instructions.

Jiang Rui was mainly responsible for script supervision and production-related work, which is commonly known as odd jobs. He was responsible for determining the shooting plan in advance, arranging the shooting location and content for each day, determining the arrangements for costumes and props, and also playing the role of an extra.

"Okay, let's choose the school as the filming location. Saturday and Sunday are fine, right?"

Jiang Rui took out his phone and made a note of it.

"It should be fine. We'll try to finish filming within a month. If there's anything left to film, we can just reshoot it."

Su Hong nodded.

"Du Ruo will be in charge of the equipment and photography." Yang Hongye glanced at Su Hong, then looked at Du Ruo.

"No problem, but if you need multiple lenses, it's best to prepare one or two more mobile phones."

Du Ruo replied.

He said that since his family could borrow high-end photography equipment, the photography work naturally fell to him.

Gu Yingying helped Jiang Rui with the arrangements, while Su Hong assisted Yang Hongye. Although she was called an assistant, in addition to helping with the filming and watching the camera, she was also responsible for lighting or holding up the light shield.

Zhou Heming and Lu Qian are the male and female protagonists.

After assigning the tasks, it was almost lunchtime.

Su Hong and the others hurriedly took their breakfast trays to the aunt to clean up, and then rushed off to get their food.

"Where are you two?"

Yang Hongye, who was also about to go eat, saw that Zhou Heming and Lu Qian were unmoved and asked them curiously.

"We'll wait for Cheng Shuangjiang to come along."

Zhou Heming explained.

"Oh~"

Just then, Jiang Rui, a scholar, returned with a plate. Hearing Zhou Heming's words, he smiled knowingly.

They ate and chatted together, and quickly finished their lunch.

It was almost 11:30. After saying goodbye to Zhou Heming and Lu Qian, they prepared to return to their dormitory.

As I was leaving, I ran into Cheng Shuangjiang, who was walking in a hurry.

"Cheng Shuangjiang, you're here. Old Zhou and the others are waiting for you inside, over there."

Jiang Rui immediately offered directions.

"Okay, thank you~"

Cheng Shuangjiang smiled and replied, then glanced at the others.

"You must have had a hard day reading today. It should have gone pretty smoothly, right?"

"Smooth sailing, filming starts next week, let's cheer each other on then."

Su Hong responded.

"That's good. I'll go find them now. Bye-bye."

Cheng Shuangjiang waved and walked into the cafeteria.

Du Ruo turned her head and glanced at her.

"So, what exactly is the situation with those three?"

Although Zhou Heming didn't explain, they would inevitably run into each other again, especially Su Hong and the others. They were often seen eating together. Unlike the tense atmosphere on variety shows, the three of them were now getting along very well. People who didn't know them would think they were a family.

"Who knows? They probably reached a settlement. Anyway, as long as they're okay, that's fine."

Su Hong seemed unconcerned.

"As expected, variety shows are all scripted, but the sinking of the boat is real."

Jiang Rui is still struggling.

"Anyway, as long as it doesn't affect filming, it should be fine, right?"

Yang Hongye had met Cheng Shuangjiang before, and at that time, Zhou Heming and Cheng Shuangjiang seemed to be inseparable to her. She never expected that they would break up later.

However, after learning about the relationship between Lu Bai and Zhou Heming, she felt that it was good for the two of them to be together now.

Now, these three people together feel perfectly natural, something that seems impossible for anyone else.

In any case, if Yang Hongye is only ambitious and can make good short films and then produce a film that can be submitted to film festivals, then she will be perfect.

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mid-October.

In the morning, Du Ruo set up the tripod for the machine early in the teaching building of Ningjiang University.

This full-frame cinema camera lens costs over 100,000 yuan, making ordinary people like Jiang Rui hesitant to even touch it, fearing they might cause some trouble.

In addition to the film projector, he also acquired a portable microphone for recording audio, as well as props such as reflectors, making him quite professional.

The scenes in the entire short film are very simple, consisting of a school and a rented house, with at most one or two scenes on a bus. As for scenes like the funeral home, they are replaced with similar scenes.

This weekend, we're going to film scenes at the school.

They contacted the teacher and borrowed the classroom with the piano, planning to spend a whole day filming the scenes of Cheng Shuangjiang and Lu Bai playing the piano.

To better fit the characters, Lu Qian and Zhou Heming even dug out Jiangcheng Middle School uniforms.

Although Lu Qian's school uniform was used for something a little improper last time, it looks perfectly fitting on her now, making her look like a real high school student.

Because she also had scenes with Cheng Shuangjiang, she changed into a school uniform.

It was already getting chilly in Ningjiang at this time, so the filming needed to be done as soon as possible. Fortunately, the sun was shining brightly today, so the two girls weren't shivering in their skirts. The classroom windows were closed, so it was still warm enough.

Gu Yingying stood to the side holding their thick coats, ready to hand them over as soon as the camera stopped rolling.

"However, is it a bit inappropriate for Lu Bai to play Cheng Shuangjiang, and for Cheng Shuangjiang to play Lu Bai?"

Beside him, Jiang Rui stroked his chin, looking at the viewfinder of the movie projector.

"Lu Bai should be alright, after all, he's a professional actor. As for Cheng Shuangjiang..."

Yang Hongye muttered something, then raised her hand, gesturing for Jiang Rui, who was holding the clapperboard, to place it in front of the camera.

"action!"

The clapperboard is removed, and filming begins.

Lu Qian, who was sitting next to Zhou Heming, suddenly changed her demeanor. She went from being cheerful and lively to being gentle and composed. Although her appearance had not changed, she seemed like a completely different person.

To use Yang Hongye's analogy, Lu Qian now resembles a more gentle and mature Cheng Shuangjiang.

Is this what a professional actor is like?
As for Zhou Heming, he's just playing himself; it's enough that he's not stage-frightened in front of the camera.

As the plot unfolds, Yang Hongye moves the camera to the other side, pointing to Cheng Shuangjiang sitting at the piano.

It was only noticeable that Cheng Shuangjiang gave off a completely different vibe, becoming more cheerful and lively, just like Lu Qian had given off before.

If you only look at the changes in these two girls before and after, Yang Hongye would think that they had swapped souls.

Putting Lu Qian aside for now, Cheng Shuangjiang's acting skills are just too good.

Jiang Rui, Su Hong, and the others were also a little surprised.

Meanwhile, Jiang Rui was slow to realize what was happening.

No wonder these three get along so well. It turns out that Cheng Shuangjiang and Lu Qian are already inseparable, like twins!

How could one perform at this level if they weren't very familiar with the role?
One scene was filmed.

When Yang Hongye shouted "Cut!", everyone was still a little stunned.

Although they had read the script several times before, the three actors performed so well that the audience felt as if they were truly witnesses to that period of time.

Especially the acting skills of the two actresses.

Even though everyone knows who Cheng Shuangjiang and Lu Qian are, they actually give off a very fitting feeling for the characters, to the point that Yang Hongye had a certain illusion that the two of them had actually switched identities from the beginning, and that the Cheng Shuangjiang that everyone knows is Lu Bai, while Lu Bai is the real Cheng Shuangjiang.

If unsuspecting viewers saw this, it would be disastrous.

Only Zhou Heming.

While taking a break and getting a drink of water, I glanced at the two girls.

He had seen Lu Qian play the reborn Cheng Shuangjiang before, so he wasn't surprised.

As for Cheng Shuangjiang playing Lu Bai.

She probably deduced this from Cheng Shuangjiang's memories of Lu Bai after her rebirth.

This wasn't the first time Zhou Heming had met him.

prior to.

At night.

In fact, the two girls would occasionally set traps for Zhou Heming.

"What is Ah-He thinking about?"

Seeing this, Lu Qian moved closer.

You woman, did you install a surveillance camera in my head?
Zhou Heming almost spat out the water, quickly swallowed it, and handed the water bottle to her.

"I was thinking that you two are really good actors."

"Hehe, of course."

Lu Qian took the water bottle, took a sip, and then casually handed it to Cheng Shuangjiang.

"After all, that's a time we'll never forget."

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