Transmigrated into the body of a tycoon's son's ex-boyfriend

For a guest actor in a short drama, 5 yuan is a very large bonus.

Usually, cameo actors settle their accounts once they receive their payment.

Subsequent revenue sharing has nothing to do with guest actors or even the main actors.

Unless the lead actor has signed a revenue-sharing agreement.

The production team knows how to be grateful; the show's success is entirely due to the organic traffic generated by Lu Yu's face.

If they don't give them a red envelope as a token of appreciation, who will want to cooperate with them in the future?

When Lu Yu received the transfer, he was still in his hotel room reading the script for the next day.

He glanced at the payment notification on his phone screen, somewhat surprised, and sent Zhou Tong a message:

"Please thank the production team for me, they're too kind."

Zhou Tong replied quickly:

"Don't mention it, you deserve it! Without you, this show wouldn't be as popular as it is now."

"By the way, Lu Yu, how are you doing on the set of 'With Immortals'? I saw some bad news about you online the other day. I heard that the male lead is not easy to get along with. Be careful and don't get taken advantage of."

Lu Yu thought for a moment and replied, "It's alright."

He's actually quite relaxed.

The intensity of filming for a web series is nothing to him.

In his past life, when he was filming, he wore armor to film action scenes in 40-degree heat and jumped into an icy river at minus 10 degrees Celsius. He worked non-stop for three days and only slept for four hours.

That's what you call high intensity.

There are many actors who are more difficult to deal with than Qiao Zhixi; some of them will really trip you up.

Even the wire accident that led him to this place, Lu Yu didn't consider it an accident.

This film crew now starts and finishes work on time every day according to the schedule.

High-risk stunts are performed by stunt doubles, wire work is done by a professional wire work team, and the amount of dialogue is not too much.

It was practically a vacation for him.

The director and screenwriter have run out of new words to praise him.

Director Chen Ming is a man of few words, but every time Lu Yu's scenes were filmed in one take, he couldn't help but praise her a couple of times.

For a director, the best actor is one who doesn't require repeated takes.

He's even considering casting Lu Yu in his next project.

Screenwriter Zhang Xuan originally didn't have much to do on set.

She discovered that Lu Yu could bring out the nuances in any mundane line, so she began to intentionally or unintentionally add scenes for Shen Du during the script revision process.

The dialogue wasn't much; what was added were inner monologues that needed to be conveyed through eye contact and micro-expressions.

She believed Lu Yu could pull it off.

The director had no objections.

After all, if the actors perform well and have outstanding appearances, adding more scenes will only make the show more entertaining.

Lu Yu can film almost all her scenes in one take; any NGs are usually due to problems with her co-stars.

The person he acted with the most was Qiao Zhixi, who played his apprentice.

In the script, the relationship between the two is that of master and disciple turning against each other, with the disciple being the protagonist and the master being the villain.

Logically speaking, this kind of subservient-overlord scenario requires the disciple to confront the master in terms of aura.

At least it can't be too far off.

When Qiao Zhixi stood in front of Lu Yu, her natural sense of vulnerability was impossible to hide.

Firstly, it's a problem with their acting skills, and secondly, their physical attributes are really quite poor.

Lu Yu is 1.87 meters tall, while Qiao Zhixi's official height is 1.78 meters, but that's with shoes on.

The actual height difference is nearly thirteen centimeters, which is particularly noticeable on camera.

The director tried every possible method to make the two look harmonious on screen.

At first, they made Qiao Zhixi wear platform boots, but later they found that platform boots weren't enough, so they stuffed height-increasing insoles into the boots.

If one layer isn't enough, stuff in two; if two layers aren't enough, stuff in three.

Later on, Qiao Zhixi stuffed five layers of height-increasing insoles into her black boots.

What does 5 layers of height-increasing insoles mean? It means that Qiao Zhixi's feet were padded up inside her boots like she was dancing ballet.

I have to walk very carefully, for fear of twisting my ankle.

There is a scene where Shen Du and his apprentice confront each other in front of the palace.

While Qiao Zhixi was resting, she sat on a grand chair with her legs crossed, and was photographed by paparazzi lying in wait outside the film set.

After the photographer posted the photo online, the still from the movie quickly went viral.

It certainly didn't go viral in a positive way; instead, it was used by netizens as comedic material.

In the photo, Qiao Zhixi is sitting with her legs crossed, and the sole of her black boot is clearly visible in the shot.

The shoes have flat soles, but after inserting height-increasing insoles into the boots, an unnatural curve bulges out on the instep.

Some netizens zoomed in on the photo, circled the creases created by the height-increasing insole in red, and even drew a diagram.

The comments section was bursting with laughter:

"Is this a boot or a mille-feuille?"

"These aren't platform boots, this is a renovation project for a dilapidated building!"

"Qiao Zhixi's instep was so high, falling down wouldn't be considered a sprained ankle, it'd be like jumping off a building!"

"He must have planned it in advance every time he stands up."

"The production crew really went through a lot. To ensure that his scenes with Lu Yu wouldn't look out of place, they practically built the Great Wall!"

"I suggest the props team put him on stilts right away, one step at a time!"

"That's hilarious! The number of layers in those height-increasing insoles is more extensive than my life resume!"

More meticulous netizens created a calculation formula, dividing the bulge of the boots by the thickness of each layer of insole, and arrived at a conclusion.

There are at least five layers of two-centimeter-thick padding inside this boot.

Qiao Zhixi's "thousand-layer cake boots" stayed on the trending topics list for four hours, and the number of views quickly exceeded 100 million.

The netizens are all incredibly talented.

Qiao Zhixi's fans were furious, and they engaged in a fierce online argument with other netizens in the comments section.

"My brother's boots just don't fit!"

"My brother has already tried his best!"

"Height doesn't mean anything. You people are just jealous of Qiao Qiao's popularity!"

They also started frantically searching for pictures to prove that Qiao Zhixi is not short.

Find photos of Qiao Zhixi with other people and use various reference points to try to prove that he is at least 1.78 meters tall.

Some fans even used height ratio formulas to draw auxiliary lines on the photos, making it look like a geometry proof.

Passersby didn't buy it; they still mocked him.

When Qiao Zhixi saw these comments on set, she was so angry that she threw her phone away.

The phone bounced twice on the carpet in the hotel room.

"I'm so angry! I'm so angry! I'm so angry!" Qiao Zhixi paced around the room, her makeup ruined from anger.

"Are those people crazy? What business is it of theirs what shoes I wear?"

"So what if you're tall? Does being tall put food on the table?!"

Assistant Xiao Cheng huddled in the corner, cautiously observing Qiao Zhixi's expression, not daring to say a word.

The last time he posted that WeChat Moments post implying that Qiao Zhixi had been wronged and was crying backstage, it was him who posted it.

Later, when the online public opinion turned against him like this, he felt a little guilty.

"Pick up your phone!" Qiao Zhixi pointed at the phone on the ground.

Xiao Chen quickly ran over, picked up the phone, wiped the screen with his sleeve, and handed it over with both hands.

Qiao Zhixi snatched it away, opened WeChat, and sent Ye Ming a long string of voice messages.

Each one is stretched to its maximum of 60 seconds.

"Didn't you say you were coming to see me? When are you coming...?"

"I'm being bullied to death..."

"If you don't come soon, I'm not talking to you anymore!"