I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

On December 6th, Gray Trace officially begins filming.

In the first scene, Liang Xiaolong delivers a takeaway and is forced to take it to the police station by Feng Nuo, the female protagonist, who thinks he is a child laborer.

In fact, the first act was originally arranged to be Liang Xiaolong's personal scene, but in order to let Yan Ruonan bring Qi Xingchen, Director Zhou purposely changed it to this scene.

It also shows that Director Zhou has little confidence in Qi Xingchen.

At six o'clock in the morning, Qi Xingchen goes to the rest room to put on his make-up. In order to make his skin a darker shade, he takes longer to apply foundation than any actress.

When he finished changing his costume and came out, the light replacement was walking. He took the opportunity to adjust the camera position to pat the light replacement on the shoulder, "Hard work, thank you, I'll go on next."

The location needs to be set up with the right light and angle, and some shots need to be shot from above with the camera on an elevator. It is a waste of time to adjust the camera position, no actor is willing to walk around to match the camera, and no actor is willing to stand still and wait for the light to illuminate, so most of the crew will hire a lighting double to replace the actor to give the actor more preparation time.

Kouji was stunned, he had met the cameraman who told him "hard work", but he had never met the male lead who told him "hard work".

"No hard feelings," he rubbed his frozen hands together, "then I'll go wait for the next one."

As he was about to leave, Qi Xingchen quickly called out to him, "Wait! Take this."

Qi Xingchen slipped him a hand-warmer and two bags of heat patches, "The heat patches can be stuck in your shoes, your feet are numb from standing for so long, aren't they?"

"...... It's okay."

After all, he relied on being a light replacement for a living, it was only natural for him to be cold. He hadn't remembered how long it had been since he'd been cared for, and was somewhat moved, sniffling, "Thank you, Mr. Qi."

"No thanks, go get warm."

Qi Xingchen dismissed the light replacement and turned around to stand in the middle of the six cameras. The elevator arm was carrying the camera upward, Director Zhou saw him and raised his walkie-talkie in surprise, "Xiao Qi, why are you coming up here by yourself? It's cold! Go back to the lounge and read the script, or find your sister Ruonan to do the scene."

"I wanted to get a feel for the camera," Qi Xingchen confesses, "I haven't shot a movie in four or five months, and I was afraid of getting rusty."

Director Zhou: "Okay, now half of the camera position has been adjusted, need to set a number of points, you listen to my command, don't freeze and catch a cold."

Qi Xingchen nodded his head in understanding, and Yan Ruonan, who was reading the script at the side, heard his words and became even more anxious about what would happen in the next scene.

Almost twenty minutes later, a cacophony of voices came over the intercom, "Plane three in position! Plane five in position! Machine six ......"

Director Zhou asked, "Where are the props?"

"Props in position!"

"Okay, Wakana come over here."

Director Zhou laughed, "Both protagonists, from now on, Gray Tracks is now in official shooting. This is our first time working together, I don't know if you've heard of me outside, but I'm a very good talker outside of work, but when I'm working, I like to take the bull by the horns, and I like to do things to the best of my ability. Maybe you guys don't think a web series needs much effort, but I'd like to say that I've never treated it like a normal entertainment web series. In my conception, it is an excellent work that has a chance to pass the review and go to the stars at a later stage, and it is a child that I have nurtured by pouring my heart and soul into it. I hope you guys can love it together with me, and I also hope you guys can take it easy when I'm in a hurry and lose my temper, can't you?"

High-intensity mental labor accompanied by long hours of late-night work, not many directors have a good temper, Shang Yuliang even kicked a stool when he was angry, so Qi Xingchen was very understanding, and Director Zhou said, "Gray Trace is my first major work, and it means a lot to me as well, I will take care of it together with you. I will love it together with you."

Director Zhou: "That's good. Come on, take your places--"

The floor manager hit the board, "Gray Tracks, Scene 6, one shot at a timeAction!"

The cold wind is piercing the bones, and strings of icicles are hanging from the eaves of the second floor of a small village in the center of the city. Liang Xiaolong from the street spicy hot pot store to pick up food, a shaky icicle fell right in front of him, can be an inch away.

Shrinking his shoulders in fear, he stood frozen in place and looked at the icicle for a long time.

That's when the shrill female voice of two families arguing and screaming curses finally snapped him back to his senses. He jumped over the icicle that had fallen in pieces, ran quickly to the electric car, put the spicy hot pot in the insulated box, and straddled the car with his right leg.

Then he twisted the key a couple times and the car didn't move.

A few more turns of the key and the car still didn't move.

He rolled out of the car and began to look for the source of the malfunction. After looking around and not finding it, he looked more and more anxious, and a thin layer of fine sweat seeped out from his forehead.

Finally, he realized that there was a problem with the battery. After a drumming, the car finally moved, he took off his helmet, the top of his head immediately a stream of white gas - the cold weather, sweat out of the rush of hot air into a haze.

The electric car is repaired, Liang Xiaolong with the sleeve of the gulp wiped his head and face, face suddenly dirty into a small flower cat. Started the car, he hummed the old home side of the mountain song, while according to the cell phone positioning, to the delivery place all the way to run -

"Attention motorized vehicles ahead, attention motorized vehicles ahead, please slow down and pull over!"

Hearing this, Liang Xiaolong got a jolt - it is said that electric cars are now caught very strictly, and he does not want to lose the company car.

It was the equivalent of losing his job, and he immediately accelerated.

Unfortunately, how can two wheels outrun four, and three minutes later a jeep with police lights on top of it barreled past him, donning him to a stop on the side of the road.

Feng Nuo just finished the scene, a plainclothes get out of the car, hands in the pockets, stomping black police boots, slowly pacing forward while looking at Liang Xiaolong: "How old?"

"Ten, nineteen." Feng Nuo looked fierce, Liang Xiaolong did not dare to look at her and stumbled over his answer.

Feng Nuo said angrily, "Tell the truth!"

Liang Xiaolong was even more scared and coy: "...... Nineteen!"

"Fine, don't tell the truth huh," Feng Nuo walked behind the motorized cart and shouldered the thermos down into the Jeep, "I'll finish delivering your food and then you'll come back to the police station with me."

"Ca--"

Director Zhou gave a thumbs up, "Both of you did great, this one passed. Xiao Qi Nice ride on the electric bike, I almost thought you were really going to deliver the takeout, take a ten minute break."

Hearing the director's approval, Qi Xingchen, who hadn't filmed for a long time, breathed a sigh of relief. An Ran immediately ran over with a blanket, which he put on, nodded at Yan Ruonan, and took the lead in applying make-up on the set.

Yan Ruonan looked at his back with a complicated expression.

She really didn't think that in the first scene, which was still quite a difficult one, the other party would actually pass it in one go!

As Director Zhou puts it, he is very strict with his work and his actors, one might even call it harsh.

What does it mean when you pass a scene? It means that Qi Xingchen's performance is completely faultless!

As a matter of fact, Yan Ruonan really can't be faulted. From his initial micro-expression when he is startled by the icicle, to his sweaty face when checking the e-bike, to seeing Feng Nuo turn from panic to helplessness and then to aggravation, Qi Xingchen has it all down pat, and even the delivery boy's feeling of ease when riding the e-bike.

Definitely practiced ahead of time and definitely put in some hard work.

Yan Ruonan suddenly felt a little ashamed.

I have to say, the day she first met Qi Xingchen, she really thought of him as a vase with a face, and treated him in a very unfriendly manner.

The main reason is that she has suffered many times from the loss of young fresh meat, and poor acting and lack of dedication abound. One of the drama's fresh meat was also raked over the coals because of his private life indiscretions, which led to the hard work of filming the drama for half a year to end up being blocked and not broadcast.

It was one of her favorite plays and one that she had hopes of taking a step up in her thirties.

It's just so delayed.

...... But just because you're good in one scene doesn't mean you'll be good in every scene. Yan Ruonan took his eyes off the stage and went back to the restroom to touch up his makeup.

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Yan Ruonan had another drama to shoot in four months, and in order to skewer their schedules, the early part of Gray Tracks was mostly a rivalry between the two.

Especially today, probably in order for the two to get acquainted quickly and lay the groundwork for the emotional scenes to come, Director Zhou has scheduled almost a full day of rivalry scenes.

On this day, Qi Xingchen did not make many mistakes, but when he did, as long as Director Zhou gave him a little talk, he was able to understand, digest and correct his mistakes very quickly.

The only remaining difficulty is the dialog, and with Yan Ruonan's strength, every once in a while he can't pick up a Yan Ruonan scene.

What to do?

Grit your teeth and take it!

Not only did it not delay the schedule at all, but it also snatched out three scenes early.

At 6pm, Director Zhou called it a day, Qi Xingchen went to look for his battery-operated car as usual, and Director Zhou stopped him: "Hey Xingchen, are you going back to the hotel?"

"Not back for a while."

"Forget it then," Director Zhou turned to Yan Ruonan, "Ruonan, why don't you go back to the hotel? My car broke down, give me a ride."

Yan Ruonan agrees, watches Qi Xingchen leave, and then takes Director Zhou to his car.

The hotel chartered by the Gray Trace crew was far away from the village, a journey of about forty minutes. Halfway there, Yan Ruonan couldn't help but wonder, "Is Qi Xingchen like this every day?"

Director Zhou didn't get it: "What kind?"

"Riding around on an electric bike."

"Oh, that's what I mean," Director Zhou said, "the last two days he rode a battery-operated bike, and the day before that he walked on his feet - just off the plane and came roaring in, rushing to suffer. "

Director Zhou smiled, "There are many new generation actors who can suffer, but there are not many like him who can suffer and are willing to think about it. I was afraid that he might not be able to act, so I was prepared to put in a lot of effort to teach him, but I didn't expect him to be quite relaxed."

Yan Ruonan's heart was getting worse as he listened.

"And his family is exceptionally well off, you know?"

After the casting was finalized with the management, Director Zhou checked Qi Xingchen's family background, "I carefully considered what to do if he brings the habits of the second generation to the crew to play a big game. Facts proved that I worried for nothing, he not only does not look like a second-generation ancestor, on the contrary, he looks like a small actor from the common people, and today he also sends hand-warming warmers to the light replacements to warm up the post, and he himself goes on the stage to locate the position, I'm really satisfied with it. ...... Hey, Ruo Nan, why don't you say anything?"

"It's nothing," Yan Ruonan said, "I originally misunderstood him to be like the other freshmen, and I was wrong."

Director Zhou "Yo", "You know you're wrong, why don't you follow people on Twitter?"

Yan Ruonan, however, shook his head, "I haven't been treating Weibo as a platform for my career, for me, it's more like a place to communicate with my fans and people in my circle. For me, Weibo is more like a place to communicate with my fans and people in my circle. I've just worked with Xiao Qi for a day, so I'm not sure if I can add him to my circle."

"You are so ......"

At that, Director Zhou had nothing to say. But how to do is their choice, they do not want to socialize in microblogging, he can not say anything.

"But I'll find Xiao Qi and apologize," Yan Ruonan said, "I really misjudged him this time."

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Later that night, Qi Xingchen received a WeChat friend request from Yan Ruonan, from the Gray Tracks group chat.

He doesn't know what Yan Ruonan is up to and chooses to pass.

Soon after, Yan Ruonan sent him an apology message: [ Xiao Qi, I want to say sorry to you. I treated you badly a few days ago, and after a full day of rivalry today, I realized that you're not what I thought you were, so please accept my apology.]]

Qi Xingchen hadn't cared about this at all, but he kinda wanted to do right by the fresh meat, and after some thought, replied, [I certainly accept your apology, but I also hope that next time you won't be preoccupied with preconceived notions and judging a book by its cover].

Wakanao: [After you, I realize I'm too prejudiced, I'll adjust quickly]

Seeing that Yan Ruonan apologized sincerely and didn't get angry because of what he said, Qi Xingchen couldn't be more polite. After changing his stance and discussing the upcoming episodes with her as a junior, he asked Bai Ye for an hour-long video session and went to bed happy.

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Perhaps because of the unresolved issues with Yan Ruonan, they were able to communicate with each other without any obstacles, and their scenes went much smoother.

Sometimes when Qi Xingchen's performance was off, Yan Ruonan would help him sort out his character's emotions and guide him into the scene.

The pressure of acting with such a skilled actor was partly a stressful experience, but more of it was the growth that came from carrying it through. Gradually, he found that he could rarely fail to pick up a Yan Ruonan scene, and that he could also manage the speed of speech and the subtle changes in his pupils in a one-man show.

On this day, he was sitting in front of an electric heater with his script, roasting his hands, when his cell phone rang in the cold.

Caller ID: Jiaze cub.

It's the winter break sprint, and all the senior freshmen have to take extra classes during the day. So the little brat will message and harass him sometime, never call.

The call must be urgent, Qi Xingchen quickly picked it up, "Hello, Jiaze, what's wrong?"

"Brother, can you come back," Qi Jiaze's tail trembled, "Tao Xuan's condition has worsened!"