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Chen Yu stood up from behind the monitor, rolled up the script, tapped it on his knee, and asked the production assistant to move the camera position on the bus half a meter to the left. Then he squatted down by the bus door and gave Bai Lu and Qing Xiao instructions.

"This scene is the third item on the list, fighting for me. It's different from the bubble tea shop scene. Lin Xiaogang got humiliated at the bubble tea shop and was thinking, 'Why didn't we get to fight?' She was still sullen on the bus. Then she saw a student couple sitting behind her. The guy was half a head shorter than Gu Nian, and her inner scales started working again. She didn't really want to fight; she just wanted to see Gu Nian stand up for her."

Bai Lu made marks on the side of the script, while Qing Xiao stood at the back of the carriage, looking at Bai Lu through the rows of empty armchairs. He already had a sense of the rhythm of the scene in his mind.

Filming has officially begun.

The carriage was packed with passengers heading home from get off work. Lin Xiao and Gu Nian stood side by side by the rear door, gripping the handrail tightly.

The bus went over a speed bump and lurched forward, causing Lin Xiao to stumble forward and bump her elbow into the shoulder of a girl in the back row.

The girl was looking down at her phone next to her boyfriend when she was bumped into. She looked up and glanced at Lin Xiao.

"What are you looking at? I didn't do it on purpose," Lin Xiao said first.

The girl paused, put her phone down, and choked for a moment: "You hit someone and you're still so self-righteous?"

"I didn't hurt you at all. Are you being so delicate? Do you expect me to pay for your medical bills?"

The girl's boyfriend stood up from the side. Lin Xiao's gaze quickly swept over his height. The man opposite her was half a head shorter than Gu Nian, with narrow shoulders, and looked like someone who spent all his time in the library.

She was certain in her heart that she could beat this one.

"I'm telling you, if you keep nagging, I'll have my boyfriend beat you both to a pulp."

The entire carriage fell silent.

The girl remained seated, seemingly wanting to say something but not saying it, while her boyfriend stood beside her, neither stepping back nor speaking.

Gu Nian's expression shifted from confusion to shock. He tugged at Lin Xiao's sleeve and lowered his voice, "No, don't talk nonsense. If you're arguing, just argue. Why are you fighting?"

Lin Xiao turned to look at him, her gaze shifting from smugness to questioning.

"Don't you like me? Didn't you say you'd do anything for me?"

Everyone on the bus was watching them.

A middle-aged woman in the back seat adjusted her reading glasses, and a high school student in a school uniform took off his headphones next to the front door. The driver glanced at him in the rearview mirror.

Everyone thought the girl was unreasonable, and everyone was waiting to hear what the boy would say.

"They both bullied me, didn't you see?"

Lin Xiao's voice trembled slightly, a mixture of anger and grievance.

"Can't we solve the problem by talking things out? Why do we have to fight?"

Gu Nian looked into her eyes.

"Fine, someone bullied me, and you're not going to care, huh? Then let's break up. You either beat them up to get revenge for me, or we break up. The choice is yours."

The passengers on the bus started discussing the matter, with most criticizing Lin Xiao for being outrageous and having mental issues.

"All right."

He took his backpack off his shoulder and placed it on his seat, then stepped forward and stood in front of the couple.

His voice wasn't loud, and his hands weren't clenched into fists, but the words he spoke were slow and deep, each word sounding as if he had squeezed them out through his teeth with all his might.

The boy's girlfriend pulled his arm and took a half step back.

"Great, they just bullied me? Let's beat them up."

Lin Xiao burst out laughing at that moment.

And so the two sides slowly began to fight.

The carriage instantly erupted in chaos.

The middle-aged woman stood up and shouted, "Stop hitting! Stop hitting!" The driver yelled from the front, someone took out their phone and started recording, and someone rushed up to pull the person away.

When the three were finally pulled apart by the people in the car, the boy opposite had a bruised mouth, while Gu Nian leaned against the seat with a red forehead and books scattered all over the floor, but his eyes never left her.

Lin Xiao squatted down to pick up the books. When she picked up the textbook with its cover soiled, she wiped the shoe print off it with her fingers.

Next, the scenes involving the Education Department were filmed.

The office was lit by harsh fluorescent lights, and a laptop was spread out on the desk, playing a video taken by a passenger.

The video was shaky, but the recording of Lin Xiao saying "I'll have my boyfriend beat you all to a pulp" was crystal clear.

The dean's expression was colder than the white wall in the background. The couple who had been beaten stood nearby, the girl huddled behind her boyfriend, who had a band-aid on his lip.

Coincidentally, both sides in the fight were from the same school.

The head of the teaching department slammed the laptop shut.

"Gu Nian, you've always performed well, and your graduation project was also quite good. Now is a crucial period for your internship, and you've been skipping classes every day, your graduation project has been dragging on for several weeks without any progress, and you've even been causing trouble with people outside. This is already on the verge of being given a demerit. Think about it carefully—if you don't stop now, will you still be able to find a job after the punishment?"

Gu Nian stood in front of the desk, her hands resting on the seams of her trousers, without making a sound.

At the same time, Gu Nian's parents learned about what happened to her at school. Her father's voice slammed into the receiver: "You don't study properly, you drag your feet on your graduation project, and you even went to fight with someone. Do you even want to graduate? Your mother calls every night to ask if you've eaten, and you don't even answer her. Look at what you've done, and people even have to use video to complain about you."

Finally, his father gritted his teeth and said, "You come back right now."

Lin Xiao stood silently to the side.

She suddenly thought of something else. There was one more thing among the ten crazy things.

"Uncle and Aunt," she said softly, then clearly, "love is a matter of freedom. How can you interfere with our relationship?"

The entire room fell silent. The roaring on the other end of the phone stopped, and Gu Nian turned to look at her, his expression shifting from frustration to a shock she had never seen before.

"Gu Nian." She turned to look at him, her voice very calm.

"Let's go now. Let's skip class together and elope—okay? If you're afraid of them, then you can go back and work on your graduation project now. You decide."

"What did you say? You're abandoning your studies? Running away together?"

Gu Nian was stunned.

Gu Nian's father angrily said, "You brat, if you dare to run around with this girl, you'll never be allowed to step foot in our house again."

Gu Nian's mother also came over: "Nian, you...you've always been so well-behaved, haven't you? What's wrong with you?"

"Auntie, Uncle, your son Anian has found love. You should wish him well," Lin Xiao answered directly for Gu Nian.

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The director and the staff around him burst out laughing. Such outrageous lines were just too infuriating.