After four years of living alone after marrying far away, he went back to his parents' home and

This was the first time Lan Yujuan had ever sat next to a director and watched the filming process.

Although the filming conditions for short dramas are relatively simple compared to large-scale productions like movies and TV series, the general process is still similar.

Lan Yujuan sat to the side, her palms sweating nervously even though she didn't need to go on stage to perform.

In particular, seeing the plot they had stayed up all night to come up with, and the lines they had written on the spot, read out by the actors line by line, and replicated one-to-one on set.

She felt both ashamed and blushing, yet also inexplicably excited, as if every pore on her skin was open, like she was in a sauna.

Finally, she watched the entire play, and gradually began to regain her composure.

Even when Xia Donghe occasionally asked her a question or two, she was able to offer some of her own insights.

Relatively speaking, Xia Donghe is quite open-minded. If there are points of agreement, he will make slight adjustments during filming.

If there are disagreements, we will try our best to follow the script.

However, the assistant next to her, seeing Lan Yujuan frequently giving the director advice, and seeing her usually decisive director repeatedly giving in to her creative direction, was completely dumbfounded, as if she had seen a ghost in broad daylight.

Not only the assistant, but everyone else present also seemed to be in the same boat.

At first, Lan Yujuan didn't have any particularly strong feelings.

With so many people around, Chen Mo and Xiao Man had already gone off to play somewhere else, and she only knew Xia Donghe.

In just a few days, she and Xia Donghe bumped into each other three times, and they were both from the same university. They were also close in age, so it was normal that they got along well.

Midway through, she drank too much water and got up to go to the restroom.

As soon as I came out of the washroom, right outside, I heard two staff members smoking and whispering crickets.

"Hey, do you know who that woman next to Director Xia is?"

"Didn't I just introduce him? He's the screenwriter of this script. What kind of background could he have?"

The person who asked the question clearly didn't believe it, raising an eyebrow and grinning mischievously:

"You're really stupid, you don't even use your brain!"

"If the other party is just an ordinary screenwriter, would a famous director like Xia Donghe give him that much face?"

"They dictate how to film, and we just do it like that, handing over the reins completely. This isn't like Xia Donghe's usual work style!"

"Normally speaking, even if it were the editor-in-chief of a long-term collaborating studio, let alone a screenwriter, they would have to follow Xia Donghe's requirements, right?"

The other person, after hearing this, took a deep drag of his cigarette, inhaled it, and then slowly exhaled.

"Now that you mention it, it does make sense!"

"I think I just heard that Xia Guanzhi, that female screenwriter, called out... Junior Sister Lan?"

"Could it be that there's some special relationship between these two?"

The person who asked the question slapped their thigh after hearing this, exclaiming, "I understand!"

"Director Xia and that female screenwriter, it must be..."

Lan Yujuan stopped in her tracks, ready to listen carefully to see what kind of identity they had made up for her.

Unfortunately, when they got to the crucial point, the two of them smoked and walked further and further away, and she didn't hear them anymore.

Lan Yujuan sighed and smiled helplessly.

Now that she's here and seen everything, if she continues to stay on set, I'm afraid everyone will be unable to work freely.

So she decided to go and say goodbye to Xia Donghe and leave first.

Lan Yujuan had just left the film set with her bag when she suddenly received a call for help from Chen Mo:

"Wife, where are you?"

"Are you done with your work?"

"Come quick, we need your help!"

As soon as Lan Yujuan answered the phone, Chen Mo's troubled voice came from the other end.

On the other end of the phone, Chen Mo asked for help while gently coaxing him in a low voice.

But judging from the little guy's resolute reaction, the effect probably wasn't very good.

"I've finished my work here and just came out of the film set."

Where are you now? What happened? I'm coming to find you!

Then, Chen Mo made a phone call while giving directions to Lan Yujuan.

It turns out that there was another film crew shooting a period drama near Xia Donghe's film crew.

Chen Mo led his daughter to the set of the period drama. Lan Xiaoman saw so many handsome young men and beautiful young women, as well as all kinds of gorgeous period costumes, and she couldn't move her feet. She insisted on staying and watching the excitement.

At first, I just watched the excitement from the sidelines.

Unexpectedly, the makeup artist, taking a break, saw that Lan Xiaoman was exquisite and cute, and took the time to do a simple makeup for the little one, and even changed her into an ancient costume and put on a simple headdress, so that she could wear it and play around on set.

At first, it was fine. Chen Mo was only thinking that as long as the little guy was happy, that was all that mattered.

But unexpectedly, things turned out that the only child actor in the crew was throwing a tantrum because he was in a bad mood, crying and making a scene, and nothing could persuade him to stop.

After waiting for more than half an hour, the parents tried everything from beatings to threats, but they couldn't calm the stubborn child down.

Finally, the director got impatient and asked the casting director on the spot if there were any child actors to replace him.

The casting director shrugged, looking distressed and about to say no.

Unexpectedly, Lan Xiaoman jumped out from the side, smiling and raising her hand, saying:

"I can act!"

"Let me act!"

The director was startled, but after looking him up and down, he immediately clapped his hands and exclaimed, "This is great!"

"This little girl is even more suitable than the previous makeup artist; she has a better personality too. Let her do it!"

Everyone in the crew was overjoyed, except for Chen Mo.

The father and daughter immediately disagreed on the spot, with Lan Xiaoman wanting to act.

Although the little one didn't understand what short dramas were, she spent most of the morning wandering around the short drama industrial park and saw everyone playing house, so she roughly had a general idea.

She practically treated acting as a fun game, and wanted to participate no matter what.

Chen Mo tried to reason with him, saying, "Sweetie, you're still young and don't know how to act yet. We won't do this."

Lan Xiaoman shook her head, her attitude resolute: "Who says I don't understand? I do!"

"The lines they recited were almost identical to the lines my mother recited when she wrote the script."

"Besides, our kindergarten has even put on a play. I played a sunflower in it. Who says I can't act?"

Upon hearing this, the director exclaimed, "Wow, I didn't expect such a young child to have work experience. And his mother even writes screenplays! That's perfect!"

When Lan Yujuan arrived, she saw Chen Mo alone, "fighting" against the rebellious brat and the entire crew.