Guli Nazha had previously worried that Bailiang might suffer losses due to a lack of familiarity with certain "unwritten rules."
But now, a sudden realization dawned on her: Bailiang was simply not a person to be judged by conventional standards.
It was completely absurd!
In truth, Bailiang was remarkably popular with the women on the crew. The reason was quite mundane, really—it all came down to his face and physique.
A tall, striking handsome man well over six feet, with an upright posture, and the crucial bonus of possessing both gentle and fierce charms.
With such high approachability most of the time, it would be a miracle if he weren't popular with women.
Some of the older actresses in the crew even liked to deliberately "bully" him.
To be precise, it was probably flirting.
Oh, and right, Nazha had also noticed that the girl playing Lin Yoona's maid seemed to get along quite well with Bailiang.
Generally speaking, however, someone who gets along well with women tends to have a harder time with men.
Unfortunately, this rule failed here as well.
She had previously been told that a supporting actor stealing the spotlight was a major taboo, yet the male lead turned around and emotionally sang "Father" to him.
He was simply a succubus!
The kind that charmed everyone regardless of gender.
Anyway, Guli Nazha couldn't wrap her head around how Lin Genxin and Bailiang had managed to hit it off and play video games together so naturally after shooting just two scenes.
In such a short time, they had even invented a bizarre set of "secret code" dialogues.
"Going?" "Going." "Starting?" "Coming." "Hm?" "Good!"
Therefore, after failing to find Bailiang in the gym and his room, Guli Nazha headed straight to the spot where they played online games.
A direct hit every time.
As for the issue of the kissing scene...
Bailiang didn't hide anything at all. "I'm quite looking forward to it, though I heard from the crew that kissing scenes are usually shot with camera angles."
"Didn't you two talk about it? Still using angles?" Lin Genxin blurted out, accidentally spilling what he really wanted to find out.
"No, we didn't."
"Then she must be interested in you, bro. Give it some effort!"
Bailiang realized that Lin Genxin clearly had no heart to continue gaming; he probably needed a moment to recover after getting destroyed like an AI bot in the previous round.
So he clicked on CS:GO himself first.
At the same time, he wondered how to bring up this topic.
After all, he couldn't very well blurt out his own discoveries; that was Nazha's privacy, and talking behind people's backs didn't feel quite right.
Chattering about gossip found on the trending searches brought far less guilt.
So he dropped a somewhat "arrogant" and honest remark: "I don't know how to chase girls. Ever since I was born, I've always been the one being chased."
Oh, oh, oh~ Playing it like that, are we?
Lin Genxin's competitive streak flared up instantly. He was the dream of nine hundred million girls, after all.
When it came to narcissism, if you could beat him, you deserved credit!
Are boys really this boring and childish?!
After listening for a while and finding nothing nourishing whatsoever, Nazha finally couldn't hold it in any longer. "Found you guys at last~"
A single sentence scared Lin Genxin into a slight shudder.
After all, he had just been gossiping behind Nazha's back, only for the person herself to show up.
Yet, after the shock, he immediately cast a strange, knowing look back and forth between Nazha and Bailiang, wearing a cryptic smile on his face.
Nazha couldn't be bothered to deal with him and directly issued an invitation: "How long have you guys been playing? Let's go grab a midnight snack. I'm wrapping up my scenes in a few days."
Lacking situational awareness at that moment, Lin Genxin agreed immediately.
Bailiang, however, felt a bit torn.
"Where is my newly bought sniper rifle—the AWP for 4,750?"
Beside him, Lin Genxin secretly gave a thumbs-up. You really know how to play it, bro!
But Nazha's reaction was even more absurd, looking completely blank and adorable: "Is this game that expensive? I'll transfer the money to you..."
"Alipay has received 4,750 yuan."
Lin Genxin: "???"
Bailiang: "???"
"What's wrong?" Nazha asked curiously after completing the transfer.
She trusted Bailiang deeply because he was genuinely honest when he spoke, sometimes even to the point of being exasperating.
At that moment, Bailiang suddenly dropped this line: "I meant US dollars. This is a foreign game."
"Ah?!"
Nazha's mind was clearly somewhat muddled, completely lacking the quick-wittedness she had shown earlier when lecturing Bailiang on "unwritten rules."
Perhaps this was her true self—she actually started calculating the exchange rate right then and there.
Bailiang: My friend, I do tell a white lie every now and then.
Lin Genxin couldn't watch any longer. The look in his eyes as he gazed at Bailiang suggested he was meeting him all over again.
Then he hauled him up by the collar. "Let's go, midnight snack."
A midnight snack was just a midnight snack, devoid of any strange topics, which perhaps had something to do with Lin Genxin thoroughly enjoying the food. In the days following this midnight meal, classmate Nazha could be said to have completely "awakened."
Putting down her phone, she went full throttle.
This referred to her acting.
While she used to zone out on set, her concentration was locked at maximum during the final few days.
Still, she had to face one hurdle in life.
"Why is your heartbeat so fast?" Bailiang asked curiously, holding Nazha while on horseback.
Inhaling the delicate fragrance of Nazha's hair, he gently patted her leg to signal her not to squeeze so tightly.
The horse couldn't take it!
Nazha looked a bit embarrassed. "It's not just that I don't know how to ride a horse—I'm terrified!"
Bailiang looked at her with some confusion. "You've been acting for years and never rode a horse?"
Nazha nodded, then shook her head. "When I first started out, I rode a real one once for Jay Chou's music video. I didn't dare refuse back then..."
Clearly, she belonged to the category of actors who rode fake horses, mainly just striking a pose while swaying herself.
From a certain perspective, girls making such "fake movements" indeed had more advantages.
Please... collect... this...!
Fortunately, she didn't need to control the horse for today's scene, and she could use Bailiang's embrace as support, so she wasn't as scared, just slightly nervous.
To ease her condition, Bailiang rode the horse around a couple of times with her.
As a result, her heartbeat only went faster!
This time, it probably didn't have much to do with the horse.
Amidst the sea of flowers.
Resembling a young general who had stepped right out of a book, in bright garments and spirited horses, galloping through the blossoms.
The beauty in his arms paid no heed to the surrounding sea of flowers; resting against the general's chest, she raised her head slightly to gaze at him.
Her gaze was a mix of sorrow and joy, eventually melting into absolute tenderness.
A gentle breeze blew by, causing the flowers to quiver and the horse's mane to sway slightly.
The beauty pressed her lips together, revealing a hint of a smile as her eyebrows gradually curved into crescent moons.
The breeze grew stronger.
This gust could not flutter the hems of their garments, but inside their hearts, it blew like an endless gale.
The next second, Bailiang felt a wave of warmth and softness against his throat and Adam's apple.
Without looking down, he simply felt the remaining half of the cool air he exhaled suddenly soar in temperature.
There was virtually no other sound on the entire set.
Everyone stared blankly at the scene unfolding before them, even holding their breath unconsciously.
Everyone knew Nazha was beautiful, but today they suddenly realized her beauty was breathtakingly stunning.
There are quite a few directors who know how to shoot beauties, each with their own style.
For instance, Jiang Wen always likes low-angle shots, capturing beauties like goddesses; Zhang Yimou is accustomed to making roses bloom amidst ruins; Wong Kar-wai uniquely loves beauties in the night...
Compared to them, the director and cameraman of this television series fell short in various aspects.
Yet, a stroke of divine inspiration isn't necessarily delivered solely by top-tier chess players.
Heaven knows how the cameraman controlling the lens managed to keep his hands from shaking.
A masterpiece is naturally bestowed by heaven; a stroke of genius is captured by chance!
Pure and ultimate beauty! He didn't even know how he had managed to film it; guided by an instinctive impulse to adjust angles and positions, at that moment he felt as though the goddess of fortune was smiling upon her.
Perhaps, probably, maybe... Nazha might actually land a role that left a deeply profound impression.
The premise was that no one cut her scenes.
With both the supporting actor and supporting actress suddenly unleashing their full potential, it might genuinely trigger some kind of "rule-bound supernatural anomaly," depending on whether the production team was willing to let go.
Anyway, Bailiang was quite reluctant to let go. This was classmate Nazha's final scene; she was officially wrapping up.
Passes of mountains and barriers are hard to cross, who pities the single dog.
Meeting by chance, all are someone else's wives.
Bailiang could only sigh at what a pity it was—how did she end up chatting with someone else first?
Under normal circumstances, if one were chasing a girl, they could at least compete fairly.
Yet the difficulty of making someone turn around and chase you back was somewhat high.
Please welcome the next wealthy and beautiful lady!
He presented a bouquet of flowers to congratulate her on successfully wrapping up.
He had heard from others that wrapping up required buying flowers, so he had asked Guli Nazha's little assistant to help buy them.
"Wow! Thank you!"
Guli Nazha flashed Bailiang the biggest smile she had given him since they met, grinning so widely that her gums showed.
She was confident enough not to cover her mouth even while smiling like that.
The staff member looked at the flowers the crew had specially bought for Nazha's wrap, then looked at the ones Bailiang brought, and with a puzzled expression wanted to deliver them over when Nazha's little assistant jumped out: "Hey, just give them to me."
Uhm... That's fine too~
The staff member scratched his head, figuring it shouldn't be a big deal.
And so, the flowers bought by the crew mysteriously vanished, completely absent from the nine-grid photo collage Nazha posted on Weibo that evening to celebrate wrapping up her scenes.