Rebirth: Professional Substitute

Chapter 74 - Who is the REAL Substitute...

YanMingXiu suddenly turned his head and glared fiercely at ZhouXiang, "What did you say?"

The water scene showing on the TV is almost over. ZhouXiang looked at the familiar screen and laughed at himself, "I said, that was not WangYuDong but a stuntman."

YanMingXiu's body trembled uncontrollably.

Not WangYuDong? But a stuntman?

This person is telling him that the person whom he had fallen in love at first sight, the god-like heroic WangYuDong of that time, was actually NOT him, but a stuntman?

At this point, YanMingXiu could no longer tell whether he had first fallen for this person because of his back or did he become captivated after the person had turned his face around. But this is no longer important. What mattered is that if that back really belonged to a stuntman, then his feelings at that time were completely impure. The person he liked was merely his delusion; it might not even be a person!

YanMingXiu's voice trembled, "What reason do you have to say that it is not WangYuDong? There is no mention of a stuntman being used in this movie. The promotion publicized that all the scenes were performed by WangYuDong personally."

ZhouXiang responded indifferently, "Those martial arts moves are not complicated to do but required solid foundation skills. If WangYuDong had a month or two of practice, he might be able do most of it. But if he really had that ability, he wouldn't have needed me (to be his stuntman). Those actions were definitely not done by him but by a stuntman."

YanMingXiu suddenly rushed over and gripped onto ZhouXiang's collar with his voice lowly roaring, "What reason do you have say that it is a stuntman! If you dare to talk shit..."

ZhouXiang got a trace of twisted revenge upon seeing YanMingXiu's distorted and frantic expression. To be able to shatter YanMingXiu's fantasy of WangYuDong, even for a little, he would laugh happily.

Facing YanMingXiu's expression of wanting to eat people, he still smiled and said, "I am also a stuntman myself. I'm sure that it was not done by WangYuDong but by a stuntman. If you don't believe me, since President Yan knows so many people, go find someone reliable and ask?"

A stuntman... impossible, how could it be a stuntman... Who? Who is the stuntman in this movie?

YanMingXiu's mind immediately thought of a name, this kind of possibility made his heart practically skipped a few beats.

No... it's not him... it can't be him...

YanMingXiu pushed ZhouXiang away ruthlessly and grabbed the phone from the desk. He quickly rummaged through the phone book. In the end, he called a person who certainly would know the inside story. This person used to be WangYuDong's assistant.

After WangYuDong established his own entertainment company, he was hired as the company's CEO. He had followed WangYuDong for many years. From the time WangYuDong debuted to present. All matters regarding WangYuDong, no one knew it better than him.

The phone quickly connected.

"Hello President Yan greetings." The voice on the other end of the line sounded a bit flattered (because YanMingXiu called him).

"Lao Wu. I'm going to ask you something, tell me honestly. If there is even a trace of lies, I won't let you off."

Lao Wu is stunned, his voice immediately followed by fear as he stuttered, "Yan, President Yan, you... YuDong... you want...."

"Cut the bullshit, answer me one thing."

"You ... ask... as long as I can say..."

"Was there really a stuntman used in WangYuDong's first movie?"

When Lao Wu heard this question, he let out a sigh of relief. He thought that YanMingXiu had caught WangYuDong doing something questionable. As it turned out, he was just asking this kind of superficial question.

At the time, they did a great job concealing this information in order to promote WangYuDong. But now, it is no longer important whether or not WangYuDong used a stuntman or did those scenes himself. None of this could affect WangYuDong's status at this point.

Therefore, Lao Wu responded honestly, "President Yan, a stuntman was indeed used back then. But in order to increase the promotional effect, we told the media that he did all the scenes himself. As for the stuntman, it was settled by paying him off."

"Who was the stuntman?" When YanMingXiu asked this question, his face looked hideous, his eyes bloodshot and his fists clenched, just like a beast forced into a desperate situation. It was only waiting for a head-on collision moment, then he would...

"Oh ... that was ZhouXiang mah. Later, YuDong cooperated with him the most. Both of them have worked on four to five movies together. ZhouXiang has always been our first choice."

The phone in YanMingXiu's hand slammed to the ground. A burst of gloomy darkness consumed him. The twisted pain in his body almost took all his breath. His mind kept buzzing and almost everything is blood red in front of him; the entire space around becoming unreal in his eyes.

ZhouXiang......

Why does God have to mess with him like this?!

When he was sixteen years old, he stopped in front of the cinema and saw the trailer of this movie seven to eight times. The scene of the hero's back gracefully falling into the water left him infatuated and deeply mesmerized. Yet this person was actually ZhouXiang, actually ZhouXiang!

It was not WangYuDong, not anyone else, but was ZhouXiang, ZhouXiang!

Ironically, he treated ZhouXiang as WangYuDong's substitute. Who is the fucking substitute for who!?

This step... he had been wrong from the beginning and had continued walking on this path till it is dark. Finally, it got to the point of no return, making him lose everything. Even his prayer for a chance to remedy was unobtainable.

ZhouXiang had disappeared. He has a lot of things he wanted to tell him... a lot of things he wanted to do with him... and a long life ahead he wanted to share with him. But ZhouXiang had disappeared just like that. Because of his mistakes, he had step-by-step pushed ZhouXiang onto a path that separated them.

He had hurt the person he loved most. Now everything has become retribution on himself.

YanMingXiu is in so much pain that he wanted to die. He really wanted to disappear on the spot. Then maybe he and ZhouXiang could appear in the same place.

He was starting to lose his balance. At this time, his rationale is already on the verge of collapse. This huge blow made him feel panic-stricken and tremendous grief at the same time

ZhouXiang could never have imagined that YanMingXiu would have such a huge reaction. He (ZhouXiang) was dazed on the spot, at complete loss looking at YanMingXiu.

YanMingXiu dumbfoundedly walked toward the door, almost mechanically opening the door and quickly staggered out.

The hotel door opened and then slammed closed, a gush of cold wind blew into the room, waking ZhouXiang from his senses.

He didn't understand what was happening to YanMingXiu. Was this something that difficult for him to accept?

He was stunned for a few minutes before remembering that YanMingXiu was only wearing his pajamas when he left. Where is he going in this freezing weather? It is very cold even just standing in the hallway. Leaving like that, he'll absolutely freeze.

He quickly put on his clothes, picked up YanMingXiu's coat and ran out of the room.

End of the chapter