Huayu: Starting with Hijacking from "The Story of a Noble Family"

Chapter 85 Increasing the Scale, Liu Xiaoli's Discovery

"Effie, we meet again!"

Upon seeing Xu and Liu Yifei, Jiang Xin walked over and greeted Liu Yifei, completely ignoring Xu standing to the side.

The Legend of Sword and Fairy has been filming for half a month now, and the next scene to be filmed is the Demon Locking Tower, which will take place at Hengdian Studios.

After the broadcast of "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", Jiang Xin gained some popularity and was then chosen by Cai Yinong to play the role of a fox demon girl Yuan in the Demon Locking Tower, as well as the fox demon's daughter Jiang Wan'er.

Jiang Xin no longer has any feelings for Xu Heng, nor does she hate him.

She even felt that Xu was right to reject her outright, because it would have made her give up on him sooner.

If Xu were still that small-time actress, or even just an ordinary A-list celebrity, she would be able to greet Xu Heng openly and naturally.

But now Xu is not only a top-tier celebrity, but has also just directed a blockbuster film that won the annual box office champion.

Of course, she didn't want Xu Heng or others to think that she was intentionally trying to curry favor with him!

"Sister Jiang Xin!"

Liu Yifei also greeted Jiang Xin with a smile.

She had always been curious about how Xu Heng had rejected Jiang Xin.

However, in her opinion, this matter was too private and not appropriate for Qing to ask Xu Heng directly.

Xu Ziran didn't care about Jiang Xin's attitude, but An Yixuan, who was not far away, couldn't help but feel curious. Her intuition told her that there must be a story between this woman and Xu Heng!

During this period, she was rejected by Xu Heng several more times, but she still did not give up and even showed a strong determination to overcome setbacks!

She even began to doubt whether she had become too immersed in playing the role of Lin Yueru, or whether the man in front of her was truly so captivating.

A few days later, the filming of the Demon Locking Tower storyline was completed, and by late April, the Hengdian storyline was basically finished as well.

That evening, the crew split into two groups: one went to Fangyan in Yongkang, which is more than 40 kilometers away from Hengdian, and the other went to Xiandu in Jinyun, which is more than 80 kilometers away from Hengdian.

Xu Heng and Liu Yifei travel to Xiandu in Jinyun, where they will be filming scenes from Xianling Island and Shushan.

An Yixuan also went to Xiandu in Jinyun, while Jiang Xin was going to Fangyan in Yongkang.

After filming was completed at Fangyan in Yongkang, Jiang Xin's storyline came to an end.

Before setting off, An Yixuan finally couldn't help but approach Jiang Xin, wanting to ask her some questions about Xu Heng.

As soon as she opened her mouth, Jiang Xin advised her to just give up.

The entire crew knew what An Yixuan was thinking, so how could Jiang Xin not know?

However, she did not tell An Yixuan the reason. After all, she couldn't tell An Yixuan that she had been rejected by Xu Yixuan without any mercy!

As for whether there were other reasons, she felt there was no need to mention them.

We arrived at Xiandu in Jinyun in the evening, rested for the night, and started filming the Xianling Island storyline early the next morning.

Since there is no suitable location in Jinyun Immortal Realm, and the plot of Li Xiaoyao and Ling'er's first encounter, namely the scene where Li Xiaoyao peeks at Ling'er taking a bath, is very important, it will be filmed later.

The first scene today is an indoor scene. The plot is that Li Xiaoyao goes to Immortal Spirit Island to ask for medicine. Ling'er recognizes him and secretly gives him the medicine. At this moment, Grandma suddenly returns, and Ling'er has no choice but to pull him into the cabinet together.

There was an intimate scene when the two were hiding in the closet, where they kissed each other on the cheek.

In her previous life, Liu Yifei was probably too young, and Liu Xiaoli wouldn't allow it, so the original version of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" was...

In the original story, Li Xiaoyao and Ling'er only touched each other's faces, and the script Xu Heng received also shows the same thing.

Liu Yifei's previous contract stipulated that she would not accept any intimate or overly explicit scenes, but Xu's contract naturally did not have this stipulation.

But before the filming of this scene began, Li Guoli suddenly approached Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli.

"Ms. Liu, Yifei, I think we could increase the level of explicitness in the next scene; the audience would definitely like it more."

"Increase the scale? How?"

Liu Xiaoli frowned.

My daughter is still young, so she definitely can't film any explicit scenes. The current level of exposure is already the limit that she can accept!

"The script says to touch cheeks together as if to pretend to kiss, but I don't think that's necessary. A direct kiss would be better."

Li Guoli added.

The original script was actually a kiss on the cheek, but Liu Yifei was too young, and the contract stipulated that she could not film any intimate scenes, so it was changed to a kiss on the cheek.

However, in his opinion, it was just a kiss on the cheek, nothing serious, and it could even be a great gimmick.

In the previous films the male and female leads had made, there had never been such "intimate" scenes.

Liu Xiaoli shook her head.

"Director, this might not be appropriate, and the contract stipulates that we can't film any explicit scenes."

Her attitude seemed very firm, even though her daughter was filming the scene with Xu!

"This level of explicitness shouldn't be considered too much, right? —"

Li Guoli continued to persuade him, and he genuinely believed it, not to mention that the male and female protagonists had such a good relationship in real life.

"Director, let's stick to the script and the contract."

Liu Xiaoli refused again.

Li Guoli clearly didn't want to give up so easily, so he looked at Liu Yifei again, hoping that Liu Yifei would agree.

As expected, Liu Yifei did not refuse outright the next moment.

Just as Liu Xiaoli was about to say something, Liu Yifei spoke up: "Director, I think you should ask Xu Heng about this first, so that I don't end up agreeing but he disagrees."

Liu Yifei was certain that the director had absolutely not asked Xu about this beforehand!

"Okay, then I'll ask Director Xu!"

Li Guoli nodded.

Xu Heng is a film director. Even though he is currently an actor in the crew, he is much older and more experienced than Xu, so he still cannot really neglect Xu.

And in his opinion, Xu Heng would definitely agree to this.

Liu Xiaoli didn't say anything more, but after Li Guoli walked away, she suddenly looked at her daughter.

"Don't worry, Xu Heng definitely won't agree!"

Liu Yifei looked confident. How could she not understand Xu's personality?

Liu Xiaoli frowned again. Did her daughter have so much confidence in Xu Heng?

After a while, Li Guoli announced that the scene had officially started filming, and did not mention anything about increasing the scale of the scene, which clearly indicated that Xu's side had not agreed.

Liu Xiaoli's brows furrowed even more, because her daughter's guess was indeed correct, which meant that her daughter seemed to really understand Xu Heng.

About an hour later, the scene was successfully filmed.

The scene where Li Xiaoyao and Ling'er cheek to cheek was filmed in just one take.

Xu and Liu Yifei acted very naturally, even though this was definitely the most intimate scene between the two ever.

As for changing "cheek-to-cheek" to "kiss," Xu Heng naturally wouldn't agree.

Putting everything else aside, even if he really wanted to film these "intimate" scenes, he wouldn't have done it in this drama!

Wouldn't it be more worthwhile to put it in his own movie?

He doesn't need to take advantage of girls in this way!

After filming this part of the story, we'll skip the wedding scene and go straight to filming the scenes of the Moon Worship Cult attacking Fairy Spirit Island and Grandma's death.

The next day, they filmed the wedding and bridal chamber scenes, and there was also a night scene.

After filming wrapped up, the Fairy Island storyline was basically finished, and the Shu Mountain storyline began filming next.

The scenes in the Shushan episodes were filmed over two days. Of course, this is only Xu's part; the other actors definitely have more scenes than that.

This storyline mainly focuses on Li Xiaoyao, Lin Yueru, and the Drunken Sword Immortal. After filming, there will be a scene where Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru pledge their love.

At this time, Li Guoli approached Xu Heng again.

"Director Xu, what do you think about adding a bit more daring to this scene?"

"Director, can't we just film it according to the current script?"

Xu Heng looked helpless.

He remembered that in the original version of "Chinese Paladin" in his previous life, there was indeed a kissing scene between Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru. It was said that it was An Yixuan's first time filming a kissing scene, and it took more than 20 takes to get it right.

However, Lin Yueru was originally played by Liu Pinyan, who is not yet 16 years old. Therefore, this kissing scene was definitely not in the original script, nor was it in the script he received.

He understood Li Guoli's meaning and was very empathetic to it.

If the script included this kissing scene from the beginning, and he had accepted the role, he certainly wouldn't have refused at this point.

He's filmed kissing scenes before, and more than once.

If it wasn't there at the beginning, and they asked him to add a kissing scene at the last minute, he definitely wouldn't act it.

"Director Xu, it's just a kissing scene, and the young lady seems to like you too. You can't be so heartless, can you?"

Li Guoli didn't expect that Xu would not only refuse to give him face once, but also a second time.

But he could only patiently persuade them, appealing to their emotions and reasoning with them.

Whether the actress would agree was not even on his radar.

Even if she disagrees, he has ways to make her agree!

"Director, that's precisely why I can't film it!"

Xu shook his head again, his attitude just as resolute as when he refused to increase the limits a few days ago.

Li Guoli's face immediately turned somewhat ugly, because he knew that it was purely because Xu himself didn't want to film!

As a director, who would truly care about the feelings of the actors, especially an unknown actor!

With such conditions, if he wanted to, what kind of female celebrity couldn't he get?

He absolutely did not believe that the relationship between Xu Heng and the female lead was really that simple and pure!

But after a while, he still sighed.

It wasn't that he was afraid of Xu, nor that he truly dared not offend Xu, but rather that he couldn't do anything to Xu Heng.

In other words, even if Xu offends him, there will be no consequences.

Not to mention that it was he who wanted to change the script at the last minute, so Xu's refusal was entirely reasonable!

He can be unreasonable with actors, but he can't do that with Xu Mingxian!

"Then Director Xu, just pretend I never said that."

After thinking it over, Li Guoli had no choice but to give up again.

"Don't worry, director, I know."

Xu smiled and nodded, knowing that Li Guoli wanted to maintain his authority as a senior director, and perhaps was also a little worried that it would affect An Yixuan's state.

Then filming officially began, and it was over in less than half an hour.

Of course, they still need to pledge their love, which is a plot point that was originally in the game.

According to the script, all they had to do was hug each other.