Edited by Radhika1303
Wu Wenming was a famous actor and currently 23 years old. Although he was not crowned as the Film Emperor, his fanbase was huge and his acting also received a lot of praise from several famous Directors.
Presently he had his makeup finished and was already waiting for the actor who played as Ke Xin to arrive at the set. The filming location was in a dark alley which would be the first time that the two brothers met each other.
It did involve a little bit of fighting but due to Ke Xin’s overwhelming strength, Wu Wenming and Shi Shen just needed to make it look like one side fight without inserting any unnecessary strength.
But the problem was that Ke Xin’s actor was a total rookie and from what he heard, the other had no acting experience.
Wu Wenming was guessing on how many NGs they were going to take when suddenly the surroundings abruptly turned silent. He came back to his senses, only to hear the sound of leather shoes hitting the floor clearly rang out.
The footsteps were neither fast nor slow showing how steady and relaxed the owner was. Wu Wenming turned around to look at the source only to be stunned by the sight he has just seen.
The young man had short silver hair and a pair of red scarlet phoenix eyes. His skin was pale as snow so the gorgeous black blazer only complimented his skin even more while the black pants tightly hugged his long slender legs showing off his figure. The black earrings didn’t make him feminine but caused him to become more charming and stylish instead.
Wu Wenming only snapped back to his senses when the person himself stood in front of him and politely greeted,’’Senior Wu, please teach me well.’’
Wu Wenming foolishly uttered an oh before politely returning a greeting. Internally, he began to look forward to this person's acting.
The aura he owned was not something a rookie should have. For a moment there, he thought Ke Xin, himself was making his way to him.
Director He was also satisfied with Shi Shen’s appearance. The vampire was, of course, needed to be extraordinarily beautiful which was the only reason that he agreed on Ye Xie’s appearance so for now, his dissatisfaction could be said to be halved in half.
As for the other half, it instantly evaporated into the air after Ke Xin made his entrance.
Tonight, Lu Heng celebrated his twentieth birthday with his friends so it was already late into the night when he almost reached his home. His family situation was not that good so after getting out of the taxi, he needed to walk for another while.
As he walked on the empty street, he couldn’t help but feel like someone was eyeing on him. However, when he turned around, no one was in sight.
Since he was young, his five senses were better than normal people and his Instinct has always been right so Lu Heng didn’t dare to dismiss his uneasiness and quickly sped up.
Right as he ran into a small alley, two men dressed in completely black suddenly blocked his way so he couldn’t help but turn around only to see another two strange men were also blocking his only way out.
Lu Heng’s face stretched taut as his heartbeat sped up due to nervousness, he coldly asked,’’What do you want with me?’’
However, none of the four answered. After waiting a while and still haven't gotten the answer, Lu Heng was about to ask again when unhurried footsteps slowly echoed in this tense atmosphere followed by a cold sneer,’’What a weakling.’’
The voice was obviously that of a young man but everyone could feel incomparably chill in his tone and his overwhelming pressure which you dared not to disregard him just because of his young age.
Because the two were tall men with big built, Lu Heng couldn’t get a glimpse of the newcomer, only when the two stepped aside to make way for the latter did he finally see his appearance.
His whole body exudes nobility and elegance which made him look out of place in this dark and dirty area. His face was exquisite but sadly, it was expressionless. Seeing his glowing red eyes, Lu Heng was stunned. Reason told him that it was not strange seeing these red eyes but his intuition told him that this person was undoubtedly dangerous.
Therefore, Lu Heng instinctively ran away but he hasn’t moved a single step yet when the young man who was further away suddenly appeared before him in a blink of an eye, then his throat got caught by that slender hand before he was lifted from the ground single-handedly.
Of course, the teleportation was something for the editing team as all Shi Shen did was to slowly make his way to Wu Wenming and grab his throat.
Shi Shen’s arm didn’t get shook one bit by the struggle of Wu Wenming but it also didn’t look like he didn’t exert any strength either so the result was that he really seemed like he was lifting Wu Wenming from the ground.
Not to mention, Wu Wenming also fiercely struggled as his face was gradually dyed red like he was lacking oxygen, everyone was wondering whether Shi Shen really choked him for real or not!
The assistant worriedly asked,’’Director….Shouldn’t you say cut and check on them?’’
This…isn’t this too realistic?
In return, Director He hatefully glared at him and gesturing for him to be silent before turning his eyes back to the screen.
Shi Shen was unperturbed with Wu Wenming’s superb acting, he continued to recite his line,’’I thought that even though being a half-blood, you might still have some abilities for those old Vampires to make a fuse about you but turn out you are just utter trash.’’
Ke Xin simply released his hand to let Lu Heng powerlessly fall onto the ground as he was desperately catching his breath. However, before Lu Heng could rejoice his chest got heavily stepped on causing blood to trickle down from his mouth. With a painful expression on his face, he hatefully glared at his predator.
The other person was arrogantly looking down on him, seemingly looked like he was simply stepping on an object and seeing that he was being glared at, that exquisite eyebrow slightly arched up as he indifferently said,’’Do you want me to gouge your eyes out? You should be grateful that you are dying under my hand, a pureblood vampire instead of a lowly vampire. Blame yourself for being weak…’’
He trailed off his sentence then the corner of his lips slightly curved into a sarcastic smile before softly said,’’Little Brother.’’
‘’Cut!’’
Director He’s face was red due to excitement as he generously praised,’’You two have amazing chemistry! Wenming, your acting once again made another breakthrough! How the hell did you make it seem so realistic?!’’
Shi Shen had long retracted his leg as he offered his hand to help Wenming up so, at this time moment, the latter awkwardly smiled,’’Thank you for your praise. If you may excuse me, I need to go to the bathroom.’’
He would never let anyone know that he actually got aroused from that scene! With that face, isn’t that a foul?!
Not to mention, he actually got dragged into the state by the other’s acting! During their confrontation, he actually felt suffocated for real under his intimidating pressure so that was a pure survival instinct, okay?
Wu Wenming secretly glanced back at the boy before sighing. Alas, a dark horse finally appeared to steal his rice bowl!
Back to Shi Shen’s side, Director He was no longer dissatisfied with him. An actor who could make viewers feel like it was not him who acted as a certain character but that character itself was moving before their eyes were extremely rare!
‘’This brat, why not debut as an actor right from the beginning? Or else, you would be famous by now!’’
Shi Shen still assumed Ye Xie’s awkward face but one would notice that his eyes were full of happiness just like a child who received a praised, he bowed in 90 degrees,’’Thank you, Director He!’’
Seeing him look like this, Director He was shocked. The boy before him looked nothing like the confident and arrogant person a while ago which he almost forgot the boy’s timid personality.
He lightly patted his shoulder, ’Keep up the good work. As long as you keep up this kind of performance, your days in the future won’t be bad.’’
Hearing this, the boy before him slightly flinched before issuing another small voice,’’..T-Thank you.’’
Hearing his trembling voice, Director He patted him a few more times as encouragement before walking away.
Shi Shen had no more scenes to do since after Ke Xin ‘killed’ Lu Heng, he thought the latter was dead so he no longer stayed and left the rest to his subordinates. However, Lu Heng temporarily became a Vampire and managed to kill his way out before running into Wen Shi.
Shi Shen left the set before making his way into a barbecue restaurant. He went into a private room to which the people inside had already started eating.
He Xiu and Gu Xiang were surprised to see that Ye Xie actually came to their farewell party. They only spent time with this new member for one year and the other didn't like to talk so their relationship was purely business partners. In addition, even their caption who had a good relationship with them responded that he could not come so the two thought that Ye Xie would definitely not come to meet them for sure.
For a moment there, the atmosphere suddenly became awkward.
He Xiu who was the most talkative person instantly spoke up,’’Xiao Xie, you are here! Come, come! Your Gege has already grilled some meat for you!’’
He also elbowed Gu Xiang to order another serving to which the latter instantly did as told.
He Xiu was about to drag the boy to sit down when the latter suddenly bowed,’’I’m sorry!’’
Hearing this, the two became startled, both of them looked at each other, feeling perplexed.
‘’Everyone on the internet was right….I am the downfall of the group. If only I trained harder, DeviL won’t get disbanded.’’
Gu Xiang who has been staying silent for all this time gave a sigh,’’Don’t listen to them. They were not involved parties so they ran their mouths as they like. We both know how hard you try!’’
At first, they too thought that he really entered through backdoor since even their kindhearted captain subtly hinted this fact to them but after getting along for a while, they realized this new member never put on the air, nor did he try to steal their resources. What’s more, seeing that the boy never wore expensive clothes or eating outside they went to ask their agent and found that he has been sending his money to his family every month and only left a small amount to himself.
They did try to get along but the other party was silent and preferred staying alone so they couldn’t do anything besides treating him to meal whenever they were outside and bought him some clothes.
He Xiu quickly agreed,’’That’s right! Don’t blame yourself, this Laozi don’t want to cry today!’’
Seemingly reassured by his words, Shi Shen finally joined their meal and sit beside them. The two ordered more beers and drank to their fill. Shi Shen quietly grilled the meat for them and joined the conversation from time to time.
While reminiscing, due to alcohol He Xiu was the first to cry,’’Damn, I thought that I finally make it after all those years….and now…..hic...’’
He Xiu used to be a nameless musician by sheer luck he got signed with their current agency then debut but now that he was told that his group got disbanded, a part of him still didn't want to believe it!
Shi Shen knew that He Xiu was still trying to be a musician after the group disbanded, however, his hip hop style was not well-received in the Chinese market so after trying a few more years with no results he retired and opened his own restaurant.
Shi Shen lightly said,’’But I think Westerners would appreciate your music. Xiu Ge, you should consider making an international debut.’’
He Xiu thought that he was just flattering him so he rolled his eyes at him,’’If I get selected, I will debut with your name ‘Xie’!’’
Shi Shen gave a laugh before proceeding to talk to Gu Xiang who was peacefully drinking water,’’Xiang Ge’s novels are also good.’’
‘’Pff!’’
Gu Xiang spit out all of his water once he heard this. He looked at the boy in shock,’’H-How?’’
‘’I happened to glance at your phone while you were editing some sentences. I got curious so I looked up your ID. Consider officially publishing them I do think that you are talented in writing.’’
Gu Xiang felt a bit embarrassed to hear his colleague personally praise him.
After subtly reminding them, Shi Shen continued to eat his food.
In the end, Gu Xiang carried the wasted He Xiu back to their apartment as Shi Shen went off in another direction.
Ye Xie only had one wish: To live happily with his family and friends.
Ironically, Ye Xie only considered those two as his friends so Shi Shen decided to help them change their direction.
‘Side task: Sign with Sky Entertainment.’
Shi Shen slightly arched an eyebrow at this side task.
Ah, he almost forgot one person.
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