Chapter 42

Chapter 42 – That Thing Is Called Su Yi

Chu Ying’s brows knitted themselves tighter.

Su Yi wiped away the tears quickly and, in a normal voice, said, “Give me a moment, I’m not done filming for today.”

However, the man promptly refuted. “No.”

“The staff has worked hard to set up the scene, let’s not waste their efforts.” She raised her moist eyes, and said, “We’ll go back after this.”

As if on cue, the moment she’d finished speaking, a staff came over to knock on the door. “Yi-jie, uh ... Director Li had me come over to ask if you’re done with your break.”

After Su Yi went out, Chu Ying was still standing there, narrowing his eyes at the pair on the sofa.

“What happened just now.”

Chu Xi shook her head quickly. “I was in the make-up room the whole time.”

Chu Ying raised an eyebrow and said unhappily, “What’s the point of having you around.”

Chu Xi: “???”

After the siblings finished greeting in the special way they did, Wu Xue went on to describe all that had happened and exactly as it had happened.

Chu Ying was silent, and after listening to the end, said flatly, “Done?”

Wu Xue had a strange feeling of reporting to a higher-up, she automatically replied. “Yes.”

Chu Ying nodded, then turned around and strode out of the make-up room.

“Why doesn’t your brother look mad at all?” Wu Xue mumbled. “Just now at the scene, I could’ve died of anger.”

Chu Xi was, on the other hand, tsking. “It’s been a long while since I saw my brother angry, it’s still this scary.”

“...”

Chu Ying walked to behind the camera, hands in his pocket, expression calm.

As he stood there he realized that regardless of whether Su Yi was sick, or crying, her voice hadn’t changed too much. She said her lines smoothly and naturally, her voice charming with an edge; the Qipao on her really brought out her beautiful curves.

Remembering the wonderful time he had with the beauty wrapped up in that fabric, Chu Ying’s eyes finally softened a little.

Halfway through, Wu Ke suddenly stopped.

A few seconds later, he broke into laughter and said, “I’m affected by what happened just now, I don’t think I can get into the character. Director Li, how about we push this filming to next time ... or just delete the scene altogether? It doesn’t seem to be a particularly important part.”

What a joke! What level of seniority was he at – being reproached by Su Yi just now wasn’t something he could just ignore. He wanted to let Su Yi know, those before were just little lessons he was teaching. As long as he wanted to, he could cut her parts anytime he wished.

Su Yi’s mood had already improved by a huge half, so she stonily kept her silence. She took out the little booklet she kept in her heart for keeping track of grudges, and added a huge paragraph on this.

A lady bides her time and waits for the right opportunity to seek vengeance.

[A play on the standard ‘君子报仇,十年不晚’ which is more commonly known in English as ‘one should bide one’s time and wait for the right opportunity to seek vengeance’.]

At this moment she was ill disposed to deal with Wu Ke, but that didn’t mean that she couldn’t in the future. The wheel of fortune turns and reverses; those who come out to mix will be repaid in spades.

A few days ago hadn’t she gotten her revenge on Lin Xia – of course, she hadn’t cleared that debt.

“How can this part be changed?” Before Li Min spoke, the middle-aged man sitting beside her spoke up first. “This part is for the plot, and it’s an important time to display Qiu Ji’s feelings when they first appear, it cannot be omitted! And it certainly cannot be changed!”

The middle-aged man was the scriptwriter. Before, the investors forcing in an extra character had already left him in a horrendous mood; after throwing more than half a month of a tantrum, he couldn’t help it today and ended up coming to the set.

He didn’t expect to run into something like this the moment he had arrived – in the past it was the investors that wanted to go against him, now even the actors want to go against him!

Wu Ke let out an ‘ah’, and put on a smile. “Why are you here?”

“That’s not the point.” The scriptwriter looked really displeased. “It’s time to talk about the show now.”

“If you say we can’t cut it, then of course we have to keep it.” Although Wu Ke was uncomfortable in the bottom of his heart, he kept his smile. “I’m just afraid that Su Yi cannot act it out properly, and would end up ruining what you originally intended.”

Soon, Su Yi was helped down the car.

She leaned against Chu Ying, blearily opening her eyes. After seeing the building clearly, she mumbled. “Hospital?”

Chu Ying made a sound of agreement and closed the car door with a ‘bang’, then walked her in with his arms tightly around her waist.

He felt that he was holding a space heater. He chided himself for going soft on her and letting her film even for that little while that she had.

Su Yi said, “It’s just a little over 38 degree Celsius, it’ll get better if I just take a bit of medication, there’s no need to come to the hospital ... you smell so good, it’s my body wash.”

Her words were unrelated, Chu Ying simply quickened his pace in response. He had already called ahead and informed the friend he had in the hospital, thus skipping the time he needed to spend in the queue.

In the examination room, upon seeing them enter, the doctor got up at once.

“Is it serious?”

“Yeah,” Chu Ying said. “It’s a fever.”

The chief doctor said, “... you specially had me take some time out for a fever?”

Chu Ying’s eyebrow quirked. “A fever is not serious?”

“Serious, serious.” He had known Chu Ying for so long, but this was the first time the other had called him, he had thought it was some emergency.

He took out a thermometer, and checked Su Yi. “39.3, it is pretty serious.”

“We’re not doing an injection first.” Chu Ying made his stance clear.

“Yeah, I don’t recommend it either, I’ll prescribe something – does she get ill often?”

Chu Ying remembered that when she opened her bag just now, it was filled to the brim with meds. “Yeah, often.”

Su Yi said softly, “Not very often ...”

“How about we analyze her blood?” As he finished speaking he picked up his pen and started writing down a prescription, taking a new single-use face mask with his other hand while he was at it. “She’s a public figure, you didn’t just bring her in like that, did you? Just put that on first, it’ll help keep infections away at least.”

At his concluding words, Su Yi reached over and took it. After putting it on, with her voice muffled by the face mask, she said, “Thank you doctor.”

After prescribing, the doctor said smilingly, “My wife really likes you, could I trouble you for an autograph?”

Chu Ying side-eyed him and was just about to refuse when Su Yi took over the pen and wrote down a name carefully.

Chu Ying: “...”

The chief doctor’s lips twitched. “It’s really quite serious, hurry up and go get your meds.”

With a smile, Chu Ying picked up the prescription and prepared to leave. When he reached the door, he stopped and asked, “How’s Hui-zi’s wife doing?”

“We have found a suitable match for her bone marrow, we’ll do the surgery in a while.”

Chu Ying nodded. “Help take care.”

“Relax, I know, we’re all friends.”

After finishing everything, Chu Ying sat on the long bench in the hospital, picking out the medicine one by one and putting them in Su Yi’s palm.

“Eat your meds.”

Su Yi obediently ate everything in one gulp.

“Oh yeah, why are you here? Didn’t you say something was on tomorrow?”

Her reaction time was shockingly long.

“Yeah.” Chu Ying poured her another cup of warm water. “That thing is called Su Yi.”

At those words, Su Yi felt that her body temperature might have risen a few degrees more.

edited by larkspur!

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