Chapter 23: A new male lead
"Dammit! Again!" Shao Nuying grits her teeth. She had been doing it with Zhou Liqin the moment they started dating, trying to get pregnant with his child. However, it wasn't working.
She takes up her phone and calls Mo Shanyuan,
"Come to my place tonight! I need your help on some things!" Shao Nuying wasn't going to give up. She was going to have a baby one way or another!
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A few weeks passed after Wei Xiaohui became the model of WX. She has been going strong with endorsing other products. But now, she doesn't have to as much. She was filming again.
But this time, it's a movie.
Wei Xiaohui bows, "It's a pleasure to be working with you all again. And to the new people here, I hope we can work together and get along!"
Everyone on set claps their hands.
Liu Zemin was a man of his words. He had gotten almost all of the workers that helped before on this set. He even got Guo Tengfei back as well. And because of how big the scenes were, there were more people hired to help out.
The movie is a modern-based one. It was a romance between a CEO and a commoner girl.
The CEO is a cold and ruthless person. But has fallen in love with a commoner girl. It was a romance and slice of life movie.
However, there was one problem,
"What?! You can't make it because you got another proposal better than me?!" Guo Tengfei's screaming got the attention of everybody.
"You bastard! After I helped you with everything before, you betrayed your teacher?! I'll make you like a living hell!" Guo TengFei closes the call and slams his phone down.
For the first time, Guo Tengfei showed a strained expression to everybody. He says,
"We have a problem." Liu Zemin had let him choose the actor for the male lead. Guo Tengfei smiled. He knew the exact person suitable for this role.
The person was his disciple, Mo Shanyuan. he was the perfect person for the job. He had the looks and could act out different emotions. Yet, the person flaked out at the last minute! Says he has a better opportunity in another movie.
Guo Tengfei couldn't believe it.
With the news, the whole set was tense now. Everything they have set up today was mainly with the male and female lead.
Liu Zemin sighs, "We can't do anything about it now. We'll have to find a new male lead in a few days. So how about we start with the scenes with only the female lead?
Is it possible today?" Guo Tengfei nods. There were some scenes they could do.
'I'm going to give it to him when I get back home!' Guo Tegnfei felt guilty about what happened. How could his disciple be so foolish and give up such a great opportunity.
As they were going to start,
"Wait! I think I have a way for everything to be alright!" Wei Xiaohui shouts. Everybody turns over to her, in all ears.
"How about we let Liu Zemin be the male lead?" When everybody heard that, they went wide-eyed. Their CEO as the main lead?
Wei Xiaohui explains, "Think about it, Who would be able to play the role of a CEO more than a CEO itself? Also, Liu Zemin has great looks if he actually cleans himself off."
What Wei Xiaohui said made a lot of sense. Guo Tengfei slaps his hand together, "That's it!" The solution was right in their faces!
"Hold up!" Liu Zemin says, "I don't have any acting experience. Just because I'm a CEO, it doesn't mean I can do it."
"Oh please, you can definitely do it! You are the perfect person to play the lead. You portray the strict and cold CEO really nicely in real life!" When Guo Tengfei said that, the others nodded to it.
"...You know I can fire all of you right now, right?"
"Good! Keep that emotion in your head when you act!" Guo Tengfei looks at the dressers and makeup artist,
"Quickly, bring our CEO to the trailer and get him ready!"
"Hey! I never said I would do it!" Despite Liu Zemin's objections, they kept dragging him to the trailer.
Wei Xiaohui grabs Liu Zemin's arm,
"Can you do it for me, Zemin?" Liu Zemin's eyes turn wide.
Wei Xiaohui explains, "I know you can do it well. And I feel it'll be better to act with somebody I know. "