The director frowned. "What is wrong? Pull her closer? How can we click a picture of you so far away?"
Yating looked away for a moment, trying to calm his racing heart. He glanced at Chyou to gauge her comfort level. But he couldn't judge anything as only professionalism leaked through her aura.
Damn it. Only I am getting affected like some high schooler here. It's just a picture.
"Chyou, if you don't mind..."
"Oh yes, yes. If the director is saying so," she nodded.
Yating envied Chyou's calmness.
Actors are always so poised and elegant...
Chyou wasn't so poised and elegant. The story on her face and in her heart were two totally different matters.
Whaaaaaaaat? We were supposed to click pictures like these too?
Even though she knew about today's shoot, it still came as a shocker to her. To add onto that, there wasn't anything too mind-boggling of their position they were in. As an actor, she had acted intimately with male actors before. It was a part and parcel of the career she was in.
However right now, she couldn't think of this as a simple part and parcel of her career. He held her waist and that bubbled a strange sensation in her chest. She acted unaffected outside but inside, a whole fleet of fireworks was bursting.
What the hell is wrong with me?
"Chyou, if you don't mind..."
"Oh yes yes."
He slightly dug his fingers in her waist and gently jerked her closer to hug him. She awkwardly shifted a bit. Suddenly, her right profile in close contact to Yating's body felt extraordinarily warmer.
"Good, good! Now Chyou."
"Yes!" She stood in attention.
"Now you lift your right hand and place it on his shoulder."
"O-okay."
"And look into his eyes."
Chyou, too, clasped her hands together, feeling relieved.
The director patted on Yating's shoulder and grinned. "The shooting went so smoothly, didn't it?"
He smiled but something painful tugged at his chest too. He had no more reason left to come here. It was back to his life as Dream High's editor.
"Indeed. It was great working with you and the staff here. I learned a lot."
"Hm? Why are you talking as if you are saying goodbye? You are in such a hurry to leave?"
"Because the shoot is over?"
The director blinked. "Yes. The shoot is over. The first shoot is over."
Chyou furrowed her brows. "What do you mean first?"
"There are two more left."
The duo stared at him blankly.
The director frowned. "What? Why are you looking at me like a bunch of confused school kids who are shocked to see their exam paper they didn't study for?"
"..."
Yating said, "It's indeed like that. Wasn't it supposed to be one commercial ad?"
"No. There were supposed to be three. What your fathers decided was that we would shoot three commercial ads and choose the best out of three for their branding. Obviously, the other two wouldn't go to waste either. We would edit and use them for other marketing purposes."
They gave even a more of a blank look.
When was this decided?
Chyou churned her memory back to remember if she had talked to Xiaosi about this but she couldn't.
"So...we have to shoot for two more commercials?"
"Yes with different scripts~ So buckle up. We have a long way ahead."
He merrily whistled and left, leaving the two alone with a million questions and cofused feelings in their hearts.