A Walk-on Actor Who Wants to Be A Baker - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: A poor day at work

Translator: Flying Lines

When it came to acting, it was largely about talent and savvy.

For example, Ye Ran had majored in computer science back in college, but then he changed his mind to learn acting halfway. As a result, he won his first best actor reward within three years, which was so lucky for him. The so-called god favored one in acting.

But as for someone like Fang Qiao, god was just tough on him.

At this moment, Fang stood in front of the camera, and recited his lines without any expression as if he had been an emotionless killer.

Holding his forehead, the director Xu felt exhausted, and realized Fang was completely a hot potato. But since he had been foisted into the cast by the big boss, the director didn’t dare to voice out his discontent.

After more than ten times of NG, the whole shooting process had been slowed down. Fang felt very guilty. Acting was something that needed to be instructed. Therefore, he thought of a movie king.

Ye noticed Fang had been wandering furtively outside of his rest room for quite a while, and couldn’t help asking finally, “What’s up?”

Fang scratched his head shyly, “Hi, Mr. Ye, could you teach me how to act?”

Ye was dazed for a moment, and then nodded.

Fang trotted to sit beside Ye. Every single movement of Fang revealed a hint of over-cautiousness. On the one hand, it was because he had never spoke to such a dream man as a movie king. On the other hand, their relationship got quite complicated because of Lu Yanzhou.

Ye was easy-going. Taking over the script, Ye analyzed the lines for Fang sentence by sentence

“… The little prince had lost his parents when he was a child. Without anyone to love him, he was sensitive, and lacked sense of security as well. You have to keep it in mind…”

While listening, Fang was taking notes and nodding constantly.

“I’ve heard you are also an orphan?” Ye asked unexpectedly in the process of explaining lines.

Fang got confused for the moment.

Ye smiled gently, “Hope you don’t mind. I happened to hear Mr. Lu mention it. How long have you been together with Lu?”

He sounded natural as if he just asked without thinking.

Fang didn’t know how to define “being together”. It had been a long time since the first time they had sex. So he confessed to Ye honestly, “Three years.”

A hint of surprise flashed across Ye’s eyes, “So he has been together with you as soon as he returned.”

“Er…almost right.” Although they had seen each other more frequently recently, the number of times Fang had been called by Lu was so few within these three years that he could even count the number with his two hands.

Ye Ran nodded as if he had understood, “No wonder he treasures you so much.”

Fang, “…”

“Although Lu Yanzhou is childish and seems unreliable, he is quite serious about his relationships with others. When we were still together, he even thought of the number of the children we would adopt, and their names.” Ye smiled calmly, and said to Fang in the end, “Be good to him.”

After discussing the script, Fang left the restroom and felt muddleheaded. All that was in his mind was what Ye had said just now- “Lu is quite serious about his relationships with others”.

Thinking the comment was very inconceivable, Fang told Tao about it. But to his surprise, Tao expressed high approval to the comment.

“Though my cousin is promiscuous in behavior, he is innocent in nature. He has been in a relationship just once all these years. It was with the movie king Ye when they were in high school.”

“…”

“What’s more, they were abroad at that time, and all of his family knew nothing about it except me. They still expected he could marry a girl when he returned home. But he took you home directly, which shocked the whole family. So my elder cousin let me keep a close watch on you and report to him every day.”

It was not until now that Fang remembered the work of Tao was to monitor Lu Yanzhou and him.

“Show me what you’ve reported.”

Tao opened the memo on his phone directly where he had recorded thousands of words.

Tao had recorded every act and every move between Lu and Fang on the plane on the day when they went to join the cast. Besides, the recording was vividly illustrated.

In the photos, the two were either looking at each other affectionately or sleeping with their heads rested side by side. So sweet and peaceful!

Fang got stunned. These were damn real evidence!

At the same time, in the CEO office of Xingzhou Entertainment, Lu’s brother rushed in suddenly, and threw a pile of photos in front of Lu.

Having looked through them in gloomy, Lu said quite angrily, “Why did my head look so big from behind?”

Pounding the desk, Lu Yanxing pointed to Lu Yanzhou’s nose, and shouted, “I don’t care how profligate you are outside, but if you are determined to be in a relationship with a guy, you’re not allowed to enter the gate of our Lu family.”

Leaning back in his chair, Lu Yanzhou shrugged indifferently, “I’m not a genuine member of Lu family actually.”

Lu Yanxing got furious to such an extent that he laughed, “Then don’t blame me for being rude to your sweetheart.”

Lu didn’t take his brother’s threat seriously at first, but the moment he thought his brother might put Fang in an awkward situation, he felt it might be best to take some precautions.

When Lu Yanzhou made a call to Fang, it was Tao who helped answer the phone. Lu happened to have nowhere else to vent his anger, so he took the opportunity to scold Tao fiercely, “How capable you are. You dare to rat on me. Do you still want to get a red envelope from me next year or not?”

Tao sounded calm, “No, my elder cousin has promised to offer me a triple one.”

Lu Yanzhou got bitterly disappointed, “…Where is Fang Qiao? Let him answer the phone.”

“He is being dressed down now, and can’t speak to you.”

Lu got shocked, “What did he do?”

Tao replied, “He is scolded just because he did nothing. He stood still in front of cameras, and even I got impatient.” Tao sounded that he was exasperated at Fang’s failure to make good.

Lu was thinking to hang up and call later when Fang Qiao was set free by the director and came back. Looking dispirited and discouraged, he took the phone from Tao, “What’s wrong, Mr. Lu?”

Just hearing the voice, Lu could imagine how poor the appearance of Fang was now. Feeling it was funny, Lu cooled down to a large degree unconsciously.

“My brother might do something to you. Be careful when you’re alone.”

Fang was in a bad mood, “Compared with your brother, I’m more afraid of the director now.” As soon as Fang thought of the desperation shown in the director’s eyes when the director saw him acting, he himself got desperate as well.

Fang was quite good at comforting, “Don’t worry. We can retouch the scenes anyway.”

Fang, “…”

“Well, I’ll come to see you in a couple of days after I handle the business in hand.”

Fang was struck by his words, but then he came to realize, “Are you finding an excuse to see the movie king Ye once again?”

Lu denied, “No, I’ll come for you.”