TRMP Chapter 21

Chapter 20

It took Xu Chen a long time to figure out that the people who were scolding him in the comments section for no longer being “cool” were coming for Jiang Yifeng.

Xu Chen had been in the entertainment industry in its early years and had experienced all sorts of tactics: orchestrated hype, PR armies, gossip, rumors… so he didn’t take the comments section too seriously.

He closed the page and couldn’t help but sigh, “It seems I really am ignorant.”

——Jiang Yifeng must have really filmed quite a few things, otherwise, in this internet age, how could an unknown person have so many haters?

Xu Chen wasn’t interested in the various admonishments from netizens.

After all, he interacted with the real person, while netizens only knew people through the internet, and they were trying to teach him how to make friends… Xu Chen didn’t have time to play house with a bunch of kids.

As long as it didn’t affect the film itself, he only cared about how Jiang Yifeng acted.

The next day, during working hours, Xu Chen saw Jiang Yifeng, who had arrived early at the set to watch the other actors film, and couldn’t help but sigh, “He really is promising material.”

Good acting skills, good looks, and dedicated.

Xu Chen only felt that Jiang Yifeng was a good actor who could be cultivated and with whom he could have a long-term partnership.

Jiang Yifeng had no idea what Xu Chen was thinking.

He sat alone by the set watching the film emperor’s performance. When Qiao Ran arrived, the two of them naturally began to prepare for the next scene.

During rehearsals, Qiao Ran asked about the online situation: “Yesterday, there were people in Director Xu’s comments section constantly scolding you, what’s going on?”

“Huh?” Jiang Yifeng was stunned. “I don’t know.”

Qiao Ran was shocked.

“Don’t you have an agent? There was so much noise last night, the marketing accounts even posted several times… Isn’t your company contacting you for damage control?”

Jiang Yifeng was silent for a moment.

Then he smiled awkwardly: “My company doesn’t have that much power.”

And they didn’t really care about him, always letting him fend for himself.

Qiao Ran’s eyes were filled with sympathy.

He patted Jiang Yifeng on the shoulder: “That’s terrible. If anything happens in the future, I’ll help you.”

Qiao Ran hesitated, then said very sincerely, “Unless it’s too serious.”

Jiang Yifeng raised an eyebrow, looking at Qiao Ran.

Then he held Qiao Ran’s shoulders and laughed, tilting his head to the side, his eyes full of laughter, and the corners of his mouth raised: “Okay, if anything happens in the future, I’ll ask you to help me.”

His eyes were filled with glittering starlight. Looking at Qiao Ran, it made his heart tremble.

He pursed his lips, then smiled along with Jiang Yifeng.

Jiang Yifeng didn’t notice Qiao Ran’s internal thoughts. He took the script and patted Qiao Ran’s arm, leaning against a pillar to rehearse his lines with Qiao Ran.

His lines were full of contempt for Qiao Ran, while Qiao Ran was someone who wanted to get close to him but was awkward and proud.

This scene had been rehearsed many times before – the main emotional expression was on Qiao Ran, but he had never been able to act out the feeling that Xu Chen wanted.

Jiang Yifeng was exceptionally focused when he was in character. His appearance was extremely sharp and beautiful, so the corners of his eyes lightly curved up, and his mouth raised slightly, making his expression look lively.

He rested his head against the doorpost and said lazily, “Zhao Li, do you think I can’t see what you want?”

“See what?” Qiao Ran’s face showed a trace of confusion and helplessness, and Jiang Yifeng suddenly moved closer to Qiao Ran, their faces very close, their noses almost touching.

Their breaths mingled, and as their eyes met, Qiao Ran looked into Jiang Yifeng’s eyes.

He suddenly took a step back.

His expression also became tense. His fingers clenched, gripping his pants, and he opened his mouth, but couldn’t speak.

His eyelashes trembled erratically, and he couldn’t even speak coherently.

Qiao Ran’s breathing was disordered.

“Disgusting.”

Jiang Yifeng, with his eyes lowered, said slowly.

This one sentence made sweat appear on Qiao Ran’s forehead.

But the next second, Jiang Yifeng laughed.

“What’s wrong? You look scared.”

Just as Qiao Ran was about to say something, applause came from the side.

Xu Chen approached the two of them and praised them heartily: “Just now, Qiao Ran captured the emotions very well, that’s the feeling. Think about it some more, and try to act it out during filming today.”

“Okay.” Qiao Ran’s pupils moved slightly, then he nodded in response.

He took a few deep breaths, looked at Jiang Yifeng who was looking at him worriedly, and smiled helplessly: “I seem to be a little too into character, you scared me.”

“It’s a good thing to be into character, otherwise filming movies would be so boring.” Jiang Yifeng smiled while holding the script: “I feel like filming movies is still interesting.”

Many words weren’t spoken so clearly, but there was still room for emotional venting.

Qiao Ran looked at Jiang Yifeng’s gently smiling face, and he also shook his head and smiled along.

Jiang Yifeng rehearsed with Qiao Ran a few more times, but Qiao Ran’s attention wasn’t very focused, and he didn’t act as well as the first time.

After the previous scenes were filmed, when the two of them took to the stage, Qiao Ran seemed to be in the wrong state and failed to act well several times, making Xu Chen angrily teach him personally.

However, the more Xu Chen personally demonstrated, the less feeling there was.

“This scene is about your inner thoughts being seen through. You like him, you refuse to admit it, you’re embarrassed, you’re angry, but you’re also infatuated…” Xu Chen grabbed Jiang Yifeng, made Jiang Yifeng cooperate with his acting, and then turned his head to direct Qiao Ran.

Qiao Ran rubbed his hair fiercely, looked at Jiang Yifeng who looked over, and smiled at Jiang Yifeng with curved eyes.

“I can’t quite grasp that feeling from just now.”

“It’s okay, I’ll rehearse the scene with you.” Jiang Yifeng was generous.

Jiang Yifeng was almost a natural actor.

He entered his emotions quickly and detached just as quickly.

Trying again, Qiao Ran found that he had made no progress.

He looked into Jiang Yifeng’s eyes but realized with sorrow that he couldn’t detach himself from his own emotions. Just when he thought he was going to fail again, a hand reached around and gently squeezed his palm.

Accompanied by Jiang Yifeng’s lines, Qiao Ran’s eyes widened slightly.

Their faces were getting closer and closer, those eyes were dazzlingly bright, and the smile was even more vivid: “Zhao Li…”

That voice was very close, his breath was spraying on his face, the softness and itchiness in his palm itched all the way to his heart, and Jiang Yifeng’s nose was almost touching his lips.

“Disgusting.”

Sweat fell instantly.

Qiao Ran felt a layer of sweat covering his eyes, his mouth was open and he couldn’t speak, but his eyes were staring straight at Jiang Yifeng.

He hadn’t reacted when Jiang Yifeng stepped back.

In the scene, Jiang Yifeng slowly walked away, and Qiao Ran’s hand unconsciously raised to his nose, as if looking for a trace of the scent he had left behind.

“Good.” Xu Chen clapped his hands, and Qiao Ran finally came back to his senses.

Jiang Yifeng ran up from behind the street with a smile and patted Qiao Ran’s shoulder: “You acted really well.”

“Maybe I found some inspiration.” Qiao Ran licked his lips: “By the way, let’s go for a drink tonight?”

Jiang Yifeng thought of Xie Jingshen and shook his head: “I have an appointment with someone tonight, let’s have a drink when we wrap up the filming.”

Qiao Ran’s pupils shrank slightly: “No way, you have a girlfriend?”

“No, a friend.” Even Jiang Yifeng didn’t know how to describe the relationship between the two of them when he mentioned Xie Jingshen.

A friend from another world, without a physical body, only videos, but truly his boyfriend.

The following scenes were filmed smoothly.

Jiang Yifeng had some scattered scenes. He was interspersed in the scenes of various protagonists, or acted as a background board for his villainous father, or followed the protagonist, or threw clues to the protagonist, but smiled and stopped talking.

And Zhao Ran, played by Qiao Ran, had major scenes in the later scenes.

When Jiang Yifeng was chatting with Xie Jingshen in the evening, he mentioned Qiao Ran and talked about Qiao Ran’s reaction when filming. Xie Jingshen keenly noticed something.

“You pulled his hand?”

“I was reminding him a little when we were filming.”

Xie Jingshen unconsciously intertwined his fingers, his fingers pressing on the other knuckles. He was silent for a moment before saying, “I feel like he likes you very much.”

“Huh? Why do you feel that way?”

“Experience tells me.” Xie Jingshen, who had been single since birth, said inscrutably.

Jiang Yifeng’s eyes narrowed slightly.

[Your lover is angry~]

The system prompted for once.

Xie Jingshen subconsciously looked at Jiang Yifeng in the camera. His appearance hadn’t changed much, he just replied with a smile, “Is that so?”

Xie Jingshen, who severely lacked experience, had not yet realized the seriousness of the problem. His fingers pressed against the screen and rubbed it gently. Jiang Yifeng could clearly feel that those hands seemed to gently brush across his cheeks.

The gentle touch failed to appease Jiang Yifeng’s emotions – Xie Jingshen, experienced.

– Still trying to act pitiful online, deceiving a male college student’s feelings.

– Still trying to touch his face!

“I don’t have experience, I can’t tell.” Jiang Yifeng said dryly.

Xie Jingshen immediately heard the difference.

“No, I’m just reminding you to be careful.” Xie Jingshen tapped the screen with his finger – why does a game partner have to care about whether people are showing off?

People like Lu Sen who change girlfriends as diligently as changing clothes are also playing otome games!

“I only interact with Qiao Ran when I’m filming.” Jiang Yifeng repeated again: “I don’t have experience, I can’t tell.”

Even though Jiang Yifeng was smiling, Xie Jingshen realized what he cared about.

Being concerned about his love life by a lover in a game, Xie Jingshen felt absurd on the one hand, but on the other hand, a very wonderful emotion was stirring in his heart.

“Are you jealous?” Xie Jingshen leaned his face closer.

Jiang Yifeng reminded himself ten thousand times that he was just a bound object.

The two of them were just strangers from different worlds pretending to be lovers. Was his concern for Xie Jingshen’s emotional life purely because he wanted Xie Jingshen to be lonely for the rest of his life?

He finally convinced himself.

Then Jiang Yifeng said seriously, “I’m not jealous.”

Jiang Yifeng added: “Xie Jingshen, if you have a lover, you have to be devoted to them.”

“Aren’t you my lover?” Xie Jingshen was stunned.

He couldn’t help but look at the system prompt.

[Your lover is angry~]

“But, I’m just a non-existent lover.”

Jiang Yifeng’s eyes looked at Xie Jingshen through the screen. The sense of reality at that moment made Xie Jingshen’s scalp tingle. He sat at his desk and began to doubt the material world for the first time.

– Is the person on the other side really a game character?

The author has something to say:

President Xie: My wife seems to be angry.

President Xie: Wuwuwu can’t a man even pretend to be cool…

President Xie: I only have one wife!

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