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Chapter 877 - 877 874 Bro is Pure Acting Talent!

877: Chapter 874: Bro is Pure Acting Talent!

877: Chapter 874: Bro is Pure Acting Talent!

Life’s a stage, and it’s all about the acting!

No mighty armies!

Just a bunch of extras!

No swirling winds carrying the dust of wolves, no iron-clad calvaries invoking fear across thousands of miles like a tiger!

Just riding on a wooden horse cart, pretending to charge bravely at the enemy, galloping forward!

“Drive~ Drive~ Drive~”

“Brothers!

Charge!

Kill!”

Wu Jie rode the wooden horse, his left hand pulling the reins, his right gripping the spear tightly.

He tried his best to immerse himself in the role, depicting a valiant general leading his troops out to face the enemy at the border.

Of course.

It was already the fourth take.

The first time.

Wu Jie mounted the ‘warhorse’ on the flatbed cart, which was actually just like the fake wooden horses in amusement parks, only made more delicately, but seeing the ‘soldiers’ played by the extras riding on green wooden sticks was too much to handle.

So as soon as the shooting started, he burst into laughter.

It felt like a kindergarten teacher, leading a group of little brats, playing house, ridiculously funny.

The second time.

Wu Jie adjusted his mood and after shouting ‘drive’ a couple of times, the director called ‘cut’.

Because Wu Jie hadn’t moved; riding a horse required body movement up and down, the action of squeezing the legs and surging forward.

Damn!

It turns out you have to move yourself on a wooden fake horse!

Wu Jie, acting for the first time, had no idea about this.

Tang Xin, standing aside with the camera, had already collapsed in laughter.

It was Bai Fengling who actively came to teach Wu Jie some movements, imitating real horse riding.

The third time.

Wu Jie swung his spear too hard and hit the cameraman.

Immediately, the set burst into laughter again.

Tang Xin was laughing so hard on the ground, her stomach hurt.

Now, for the fourth time.

Wu Jie finally held back his laughter, paying attention to the details of his movements, and to his facial expressions.

He imagined his homeland, his loved ones behind him.

The enemy’s forces were pressing their attack; if he didn’t fight bravely, they would invade, creating havoc and destruction.

His expression stern, his eyes sharp.

Fiercely leading the army, he charged into the enemy ranks.

“Cut!”

The director shouted, clapping his hands and cheering:

“This take is great, it’s a pass!”

Bai Fengling immediately brought a bottle of water for Wu Jie.

“Not bad at all, only took four takes to pass!”

Wu Jie took the mineral water bottle and gulped down more than half of it.

Dressed in armor, fully armed, filming in this unbearably hot old wives’ summer was just damn hot.

The other extras also took the opportunity of a break to quickly drink water and rest.

At this moment, Tang Xin, cheerfully holding her phone, walked over.

“Jie, want to see your spectacular performance just now?

Haha, it’s hilariously funny!”

Wu Jie rolled his eyes.

“What are you laughing at?

I’m acting here, it’s for work!”

Bai Fengling turned her head and scolded Tang Xin with feigned anger.

“Xin’er, really, Jie is filming for the first time, and you’re on the side both filming and laughing, which can easily affect his performance.

For the upcoming fight scene, you better not make any noise!”

Tang Xin stuck out her tongue, smiling and saying:

“I thought it was fun and worth remembering since it’s Jie’s first time acting!”

Then, with a change in tone, she winked at Wu Jie.

“But what I didn’t expect is that you, having never learned acting, adapted quite well.

Just now, you actually looked quite professional!”

“What do you mean ‘quite professional’?

My acting skills are exquisite!”

Wu Jie snorted heavily and handed the water bottle to Tang Xin.

“Move aside quickly, don’t get in the way of the makeup artist!”

Tang Xin pouted and said: “Tsk tsk!

Haven’t even become a big star yet, having Fengling giving you directions and water, treating her like a maid; you really know how to play the prima donna huh!”

Wu Jie kept silent and threw Tang Xin another roll of his eyes.

Fengling couldn’t help but chuckle, and, pulling Tang Xin aside, began to walk away.

“I really can’t with you, can you stop bickering with Jie?”

“He’s so busy, it’s already great he could spare the time to film.

We must hurry and make the most out of it!”

Tang Xin tossed the water bottle into the trash can, giggling and saying:

“I’m just joking around, do you think he’ll get mad?”

Saying this, Tang Xin’s lips curled up slightly, a teasing smile blossoming:

“But you, a top star and the company’s boss…

Jie is just here to make a brief appearance, yet you’ve been bustling around him more diligently than a personal assistant!”

“Aren’t you afraid everyone will misunderstand, thinking you’re into Jie?

All this attentiveness doesn’t fit with your pure and ethereal star persona, you know!”

Bai Fengling briefly hesitated but soon laughed it off, her gaze turning towards Wu Jie getting his makeup done.

“After all, Jie is not an ordinary person anymore.

He agreed to act, which is a great favor already!”

“Plus, it’s his first time, naturally, there’s a lot he doesn’t understand.

What’s wrong with taking good care of him?”

“Besides, even if people misunderstand or laugh at me, what does it matter?

This life, it’s all thanks to him!”

When Tang Xin heard this, she chuckled.

“Wasn’t it Xiao who gave you this life?

She was the first to find you for the Detox Pill trial!”

“But the Detox Pill was invented by Jie!” Bai Fengling blurted out in response.

“Uh…”

Tang Xin paused for a bit, then teasingly said:

“All right, it seems you’re really under his spell now, aside from work, all you think about is Jie!”

“I’ve caught you several times sneakily looking at Jie’s photos, it’s bizarre, is he that handsome?”

Bai Fengling scoffed and said: “Don’t you also have him on your mind?”

“Hmph!

If it weren’t for Xiao getting the upper hand first, I might have been three months pregnant by now!”

Tang Xin spoke her mind immediately.

Bai Fengling was dumbstruck.

That was…

quite a bold statement!

Without hearing a reply, Tang Xin glanced sideways, catching the look of surprise on Fengling’s face.

“What are you stunned for?

What’s so surprising?”

“Don’t mind letting you know, when Xiao first started with Jie, it all began as an act.

I even competed with her over it!”

“Just a pity I wasn’t determined enough at the time; I let Xiao turn their fake romance into a real one!

Oh, if only I had known then what I know now!”

“I honestly didn’t expect Jie to become so impressive!

The old man says, he’s a national treasure-level talent!”

“Tsk tsk, having bodyguards and a driver when you step out of the house, now that’s living high on the hog!

Could Xiao really be his lucky goddess, huh?”

Tang Xin looked despondent, her expression full of melancholy.

Bai Fengling sighed and comforted,

“People often only regret when it’s too late after they’ve lost something!”

“It’s too bad that we can’t turn back time, nobody can return to the past and start over!”

“But…

liking someone doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be together!

As long as he is happy, that’s enough for me to be content!”

Bai Fengling’s beautiful eyes fixated on Wu Jie as the makeup artist applied makeup on him.

“Hmph!

You’re really acting like a saint!”

“I’m just waiting for the day I can’t hold back anymore and make cooked rice out of raw rice, then I’ll die without regrets!”

Bai Fengling was taken aback.

Cooked rice out of raw rice?

Was she planning to force the issue?

“Xin’er, you’re too impulsive, can you cool down?

Xiao is so assertive and domineering, we’d better keep our secret crushes to ourselves and not make them public knowledge.

Otherwise, you’ll see how she’ll deal with us both!”

Tang Xin snorted with a cold laugh, “What’s there to be scared of?

If you’re willing to bleed, you dare to pull the emperor off his horse!”

“And…”

Tang Xin beckoned with her finger, signaling Bai Fengling to come closer.

After a moment of hesitation, Bai Fengling still leaned in.

“And don’t you think it’s strange?

Xiao and Jie have been married for so long, yet Xiao hasn’t gotten pregnant!”

“Previously, she used her old injuries as an excuse, but Jie already cured her long ago.

The fact she still can’t get pregnant must mean there’s a problem with her body!”

“That can’t be right,” Bai Fengling contested in surprise, “Jie’s medical skills are so profound, he can treat dysmenorrhea with acupuncture and develop Detox Pills to cure all kinds of illnesses.

Even if Xiao has health issues, she should have been cured and able to get pregnant by now!”

Tang Xin immediately retorted in a low voice,

“Impossible!

Xiao used to be the War King among women, training and fighting in harsh climates of ice and snow.

Her fertility must have been greatly affected.

No matter how skilled Jie is, he can’t just replace her womb, can he?”

“You!!”

Bai Fengling was speechless:

“Then what do you propose?

Does cooked rice out of raw rice mean you plan to get pregnant by Jie first, forcing Xiao to step aside?”

Without hesitation, Tang Xin nodded and said,

“Exactly!

That’s exactly what I plan to do, but Jie is too strong!”

Bai Fengling’s cheeks flushed in an instant.

“Too strong?

Oh my god, don’t tell me you’ve already tried?”

Tang Xin shook her head repeatedly, “Not in that sense.

I mean that he’s highly vigilant and has a high tolerance for alcohol.

There’s no way to get him drunk, and using drugs…

he’d detect them since he knows medicine!”

“Once, Qingya invited him and his wife to dinner.

Someone spiked the red wine, but Jie tasted it immediately.

So, really, I’m at my wit’s end!”

Bai Fengling’s lips twitched slightly; she was out of ideas too.

“Well…

you think about it slowly!

I don’t dare to anyway!”

Tang Xin chuckled, “Don’t worry, although I, Xin’er, am a crazy girl, I’m not crazy enough to team up with you and share a bed with Jie!

You have the desire but not the courage, so just go on secretly loving him for the rest of your life!”

…

During their idle chat.

The second battle scene started filming.

In ancient warfare, cavalry were highly mobile troops, mainly used for messaging, raiding, charging, and ambushing.

Thus, cavalry had to be versatile, capable of archery assassinations, dismounted combat, and charging on horseback was their forte.

Now, to realistically mimic ancient cavalry battles, mounted archers bent their bows and simulated launching arrows into the distance.

The arrows were blunt, the shooting was just for framing purposes.

The light cavalrymen, meanwhile, took up their shields to defend against the ‘enemy’s’ barrage of arrows.

Of course, the incoming arrow storm, in reality, was thrown by staff members and couldn’t pierce through.

For the sake of dramatic effect, of course, some actors fell from their horses.

After hitting the ground, they kept rolling.

Later, with special effects, they could create a brutal scene of an “arrow rain covering, people and horses overturned.”

And Wu Jie, with a bit of the protagonist’s halo, could not possibly “die” just yet.

He swung the spear in his hands, fending off the arrows.

Then.

The “enemy forces” arrived.

Wu Jie nearly burst into laughter.

Damn it!

They actually came riding on four-wheeled electric carts, only covered with green cloth to facilitate later image matting for special effects.

And when the two sides’ cavalry “charged and clashed,” again, people and horses overturned.

As a general, Wu Jie, of course, swung his spear skilfully to “kill enemies.”

Of course, they weren’t really fighting.

The plastic spears, if handled carelessly, could break.

All movements were standard fighting actions, but they were carried out at a slow pace.

In post-production, by speeding up the footage, they could produce a very sharp and smooth viewing effect.

War scenes were a grand spectacle and not easily called to a halt.

They would be shot over and over again, several times.

Each time the archers changed, the people falling from their horses changed, their positions were different, and the combat actions were different too.

To avoid continuity errors, the extras would rotate in turns.

Those who had completed the siege battle scene would then perform in the cavalry combat.

After all, the audience generally only watched the lead actors, who cared about the extras?

And things like boom cameras and cameras on dolly tracks would keep filming non-stop.

With enough footage, post-editing could create a grand war scene.

A single battle scene took a full two hours to film.

Though it involved several hundred takes, the accumulated footage was enough to make a segment of a grand battle with thousands of troops.

However…

The extras could rotate, but Wu Jie couldn’t.

After two intense hours of filming, his clothes were soaked through when he got off the “wooden horse.”

His back was drenched with sweat, his legs numb, and his arms painfully sore.

Everyone on the crew admired him immensely.

The vastly wealthy Wu Jie was this dedicated and professional on his first acting gig.

The director didn’t call cut, so he just never stopped.

Compared to the stars who constantly demanded stand-ins, he was infinitely better.

However…

Tang Xin and Bai Fengling hurried over, bringing a folding chair and handing over a bottle of mineral water.

Such attentive care by two top beauties made people envious and jealous!

“Rest for half an hour, then we’ll shoot the third fight scene!”

“The fourth scene is a night scene in the studio; it won’t be so exhausting!”

No sooner had Bai Fengling finished speaking than Tang Xin said to Wu Jie with a mischievous smile,

“Fengling’s screen debut, is going to be dedicated to you!”

“Jie, aren’t you especially excited?”