CH 84

TN: Thank you @ Lorettelala for the ko-fi! ️️

Shen Qingshu finished recording “come and listen to me” and soon “Plundering time” was ready to begin. He packed his suitcase and left home under Han Cheng’s unhappy eyes.

“Why do you still have a black face?” When he got in the car, Shen Qingshu looked at Han Cheng, who was unhappy. “You scared Xiao Li.”

“You’re leaving. Can I be happy?” Han Cheng said as he fastened his seat belt.

After putting on his seatbelt, he stared at Shen Qingshu. “Only a heartless scum man like you won’t feel sad at all.”

Shen Qingshu: …

Shen Qingshu couldn’t laugh or cry. He’s not going to deep mountains and forests, where he will lose contact after going in. It’s just filming within the same city. Is it worth being unhappy about?

“Didn’t I promise you to send you wechat and call you every day?”

“Can that be the same?”

Shen Qingshu thinks he’s really sticky. He had the shame to say he was sticky, when Han Cheng was the most sticky.

“Then if you have time, come visit me more.” He leaned over to Han Cheng, “if I have time, I will go home to see you.”

“You swear.”

Shen Qingshu raised his hand, “I swear.”

Han Cheng’s expression improved and helped him fasten his seat belt, “sit down.”

Shen Qing sat back in his chair and watched him start the car and drive forward.

He propped his head and looked at the scenery outside the window. Suddenly he remembered, wait, it’s almost may. Han Cheng should have met the protagonist shou. Why is there no movement at all?

He turned his head, glanced at Han Cheng, who was driving and asked tentatively, “Master driver, have you met anyone who is more interesting recently?”

“No. Why do you ask?”

“I pinched my fingers and calculated that there has been some movement on your red Luan star1  recently, so you should pay attention. It is estimated that love is coming.”

“What else do you know?” Han Cheng squinted at him, “Then pinch it for me and see when my brother’s red Luan star moves, so that I can see how the iron tree blooms.”2 

Shen Qingshu: …

The original book really doesn’t write this, so he also doesn’t know.

Most of the time, Han Yu appeared because of Han Cheng. When Han Cheng and the protagonist shou finally go a HE after all kinds of misunderstandings, Han Yu didn’t appear again. Therefore, even if had the perspective of God, he didn’t know who Han Yu’s CP was.

“Why? Can’t you figure it out?” Han Cheng said with a smile, “And you said you can pinch your fingers.”

“That’s because I’m not familiar with your ge. I’m familiar with you.”

“Then you calculate for Xiao Li. You and Xiao Li are also very familiar. The time spent together is second only to me. Can’t you calculate it?”

Shen Qingshu: …

Shen Qingshu turned around in anger and didn’t answer him anymore.

You should pay attention to me3 . With good intentions I helped you but you won’t listen. Wait for your wife to run away and cry bitterly!

Humph!

Han Cheng looked at his angry appearance and laughed. With just this, how dare you count my hong Luan star?

Really opening his mouth for no reason. 4

After driving for nearly two hours, he sent Shen Qingshu to the hotel booked by the crew.

“Do you want to get off and have a look?” Shen Qingshu asked him.

“What do you think?” Han Cheng unfastened his seat belt and got out of the car.

He followed Shen Qingshu into the hotel.

Xiao Li went to the front desk to get his room card and then walked towards the elevator with Shen Qingshu. They waited for two minutes before the elevator finally came down.

Meng Zhi came down with the elevator.

Shen Qingshu didn’t expect that as soon as the elevator door opened, he saw Meng Zhi and said hello to him politely, “Hello, teacher. Meng.”

“Hello.” Meng Zhi said with a smile, “just arrived?”

Shen Qingshu nodded.

“Are you familiar with the script?”

“I’ve thoroughly memorised it.” Shen Qingshu replied.

“I’ll find you to read through lines tonight.”

“Okay.” Shen Qingshu has no opinion.

Han Cheng listened and couldn’t help looking at the man in front of him.

Most of those who can enter the entertainment industry are attractive. Meng Zhi’s appearance is obviously handsome. In addition, he has made outstanding film and television achievements in recent years, so his temperament is becoming more and more mature. Therefore, he has a sense of reliable predecessors.

Han Cheng is inexplicably unhappy with him. He can’t say why. In summary, it’s probably some kind of animal intuition.

Perhaps his gaze was too direct, Meng Zhi felt his eyes and looked up at him.

At this point, Meng Zhi was a little surprised. Shen Qingshu was good-looking, of course he knew that. Otherwise, he wouldn’t recommend him to Director Zheng.

But the man around Shen Qingshu looks too handsome, so much so that it’s not scientific.

Meng Zhi is good-looking, young and handsome. He seldom pays attention to the appearance of others. However, he never thought that the person who comes out of nowhere is a little more handsome than himself.

Different from Meng Shi’s modesty, Han Cheng’s family is well-off. He has been the favoured son of heaven since childhood and is smooth sailing, so he has a little more magnificence.

He stood beside Shen Qingshu with his hands in his pockets willfully. His eyebrows were full of rebelliousness combined with his handsome features, it was difficult for people to forget his appearance.

“Who is this?” Meng Zhi said curiously.

“His driver.” Han Cheng answered him lazily.

Shen Qingshu nodded silently – he was used to Han Cheng’s real and fake driver identity.

Meng Zhi looked at Shen Qingshu in surprise, “Driver?”

“Yes.”

“You’re too handsome to be driver. Unlike a driver, you look more like a rich child.”

“No other choice, I naturally have a good temperament.” Han Cheng is not modest at all.

Shen Qingshu could only nod again, “He likes this profession.”

Meng Zhi was sceptical, but it was obviously not a good place to talk, so he didn’t say much, just saying: “well, you go to your room to rest first, I’m going out for something and I’ll find you in the evening.”

“Okay.”

Meng Zhi took out his mobile phone and said, “add a wechat.”

Shen Qingshu quickly took out his mobile phone, scanned his wechat QR code and passed his friend’s request before entering the elevator.

As soon as Han Cheng waited for someone to leave and the elevator door closed, he said to Shen Qingshu, “I don’t like him.”

Shen Qingshu was confused, “Why?”

“Hypocritical.”

Shen Qingshu: ???

“Where is he hypocritical?”

“Look at the way he talks.”

Shen Qingshu: …

“Why didn’t I see it?”

“It’s estimated that you’re going blind. It’s all right. This gege will take you to get glasses in two days.”

Shen Qingshu snorted softly, “I think you’re jealous?”

Han Cheng looked at him sarcastically, “am I jealous? Jealous that he is not as handsome as me? Or jealous that he is poorer than me?”

He crossed his arms and spoke in a natural and unrestrained arrogant voice. “The person who can make me jealous in this world has not been born yet.”

Shen Qingshu: … Although I don’t want to admit it, I really can’t refute it.

Han Cheng poked him in the face, “So pay less attention to him.”

“A crew member, how can I pay less attention? I’m still his apprentice in the movie.”

“Then just keep a working relationship and don’t be as close as personal friends.”

“Master driver, you are being overbearing.” Shen Qingshu glanced at him.

Han Cheng is righteous, “who told me to worry about you.”

Shen Qingshu: …

Shen Qingshu sighed helplessly in his heart. He felt that his driver was like a domestic cat. Every time he saw other wild cats, he felt that the other party also wanted to join their family and tear apart his family.

He shook his head and walked out of the elevator.

Shen Qingshu walked down the corridor to the door of his room and opened the door. Han Cheng went in and walked around. He thought it was fine, so he condescended with a nod of his golden head, “It’s okay.”

“So you’re assured?”

“Just barely.”

Shen Qingshu laughed, walked over and hugged him.

“What’s wrong?” Han Cheng asked him.

“I won’t see you for a while, so give me a hug.”

Now your conscience is back?

Know you will miss me?

Han Cheng unconsciously raised the corners of his lips and hugged him, while thinking that he should be able to come and see him on Friday.

However, he didn’t tell Shen Qingshu and planned to surprise him at that time.

He ate dinner with Shen Qingshu and drove back again.

Zhou Jianming looked at him and said with emotion, “Han Shao is very kind to you.”

“Isn’t he?” Shen Qingshu said, who would have thought he was such a gentle person under his amorous appearance.

No wonder he is the protagonist gong. He really deserves to be the protagonist gong!

Zhou Jianming looked at him strangely. He didn’t think he would answer like this.

“Why do you look at me like that? Am I wrong?”

“No, you’re so right that it’s surprising.”

“I’m not stupid. Can’t I see who is good to me and who is bad to me?”

Han Cheng spoiled like a young master. If he doesn’t think Han Cheng is good to him, he would have a problem.

“Come on, go back.” Shen Qingshu turns around. Zhou Jianming quickly follows him and walked back with him.

Shen Qingshu went back to his room and read the script for a while. He heard a knock at the door and went over to see Meng Zhi standing outside the door.

“Am I bothering you?”

“No.” Shen Qingshu let him in.

Meng Zhi went straight to the small sofa and sat down.

Shen Qingshu walked across from him and sat face to face with him.

“After filming begins tomorrow, we will shoot our first scene in the afternoon, so I’m looking for you to go through our lines for the first few scenes.”

Shen Qingshu nodded. He had already memorised the lines, but seeing Meng Zhi holding the script in his hand, he also picked up his own script from the table.

In this film, he plays Meng Zhi’s apprentice, a trainee policeman who has just graduated from the police academy. He has a smart mind and strong memory. He is Meng Zhi’s favourite disciple, but he is also the biggest blow Meng Shi has encountered in the first half of his life – because his first disciple is permanently fixed at the age of 23 and sleeps in the earth.

When reading the script, Shen Qingshu can clearly see the screenwriter’s preference for this character. He has the most sincere heart, the cleanest appearance, the best memory and the strongest faith.

Even if he died, he was trying to convey the information he had obtained, hoping that his master would bring the murderer to justice.

He was robbed of time by death, but he lived in his master’s heart forever.

This role can actually be said to be both easy to play, yet difficult to play. 

If he plays well, the young boy will become the moonlight. If he doesn’t act well, he becomes pretentious.

Before Shen Qingshu arrived, he tried the play several times in front of the mirror. He vaguely felt that he seemed to find the feeling of Luo Yi. Therefore, he said two lines with Meng Zhi and entered the state of Luo Yi he had practised before.

Meng Zhi looked at the expression on his face that gradually became vivid. He also gradually began to not look at the script, instead he looked as the person opposite said proudly, “What’s the difficulty? Don’t look down on others. I promise I’ll do it for you today.”

He held his hands, and there were three points of  complaint and three points of dissatisfaction in his tone. A faint resentment shrouded between his eyebrows as he said, “You think I’m still young and I’m not a formal policeman, so you refuse to bring me. Everyone went but me. I don’t know anything.”

Meng Zhi looked at the delicacy of his expression and the flexibility of his eyes and listened to his lines that reflected his state of mind. For a moment, he was stunned.

He soon calmed down, continued to speak his lines, and finished the first two acts with him.

“Your line skills are very good.” Meng Zhi praised, “the eyes are also expressive, very good.”

“Really?” Shen Qingshu was surprised. “Thank you, teacher Meng.”

Meng Zhi smiled and said to him, “just call me Men0 ge.”

“Thank you, Meng ge.”

“You’re welcome.”

“Speaking of, this is your second time filming, isn’t it?”

Of course not. Shen Qingshu thought, but it is in this world.

He nodded. “En.”

“Then you are very skilled. You have a lot of aura and are very suitable for the profession of actor.”

Shen Qingshu was so praised to his face that he laughed with embarrassment.

Meng Zhi liked watching him laugh, although he thought he was handsome even when he didn’t laugh.

There are always some people in the world who are particularly pleasant to others’ eyes. For Meng Zhi, he was attracted when he saw Shen Qingshu wearing a sweater arguing with others on the stage of “come and listen to me”.

He rarely watched live broadcasts. Seeing the calm and secure posture as he said the most cruel words with the purest face. Seeing his happy smile after winning. Seeing him push his teammates in front and hide behind his teammates during the interview.

He lives vividly and brilliantly, like a willow just sprouting, fresh and full of spring.

Therefore, Meng Zhi rarely took the initiative to recommend him to Director Zheng twice, hoping that he would audition for the role of Luo Yi.

Now, he is chatting with Shen Qingshu. Listening to Shen Qingshu gentley talk about his own affairs and he also feels relaxed and comfortable.

With an inexplicable mood, he chatted with Shen Qingshu one topic after another until Shen Qingshu’s phone rang.

Shen Qingshu picked it up and found it was from Han Cheng. Then he noticed it was almost 11 o’clock.

TN: ooh HC you got a rival here

1 Luan = a mythical bird related to the phoenix 

红鸾星 = Red Luan star = is one of the peach blossom stars in Ziwei Doushu .It is in charge of marriage and festive events. Among the folks, there is a saying that you can meet your true love when you see it.

2 铁树怎么开花 = A type of tree that flower and bears fruit after 10 years (in nature), so it’s normally a metaphor describing impossible events

3 the author used 孤which I translated a me. It means solitary, isolated, alone, orphan etc.

4 Hard to find a way to make this sound not rude, but HC is just playfully teasing here