The re-shooting of "The Darkest Choice" went smoother than expected. As soon as Liang Sizhe came, many things that were difficult to deal with before were solved. Even the most difficult actress Pang Ying, who had heard that Liang Sizhe would participate in the re-shooting, immediately relaxed the schedule of the day given to three days.

After several months of silence, the WeChat group of the project production team became active again because of this re-shooting. Producer Xu Anqiao sent photos of the scene every day, including Zeng Ran, studio staff, and crew meals, but Liang Sizhe was the one who took the most photos.

Cao Ye would occasionally click one or two to take a look, and most of the time he would just glance over. The old news was swept away by the new news, and the photos that were not clicked were like gravel that was washed to the shore by the tide, and were quickly forgotten.

One afternoon, Cao Yuning came to Cao Ye's office. Cao Ye was a little sleepy after lunch. A few photos came from the shooting group, and his mobile phone was buzzing on the table. Cao Ye took his phone and turned on a photo. The photo showed Zeng Ran and Liang Sizhe standing together to talk a play. Liang Sizhe lowered his eyes and looked at the script in his hand, facing the camera sideways.

He only took a look, and Cao Yuning came over and snatched his cell phone: "So handsome!" As he said that, his fingers slashed the screen and flipped backwards the photo.

Cao Ye didn't care, and he lay on the table with his upper body resting on his head on his arms. He squinted his eyes and asked lazily: "How are you doing recently?"

"It's okay! I'm a little bored to read the script every day." Cao Yuning said without raising his head. After flipping through the photos posted in the group today, he started to flirt with dissatisfaction, "Brother, why don't you click on these photos? They are all expired!"

"I'm idle." Cao Ye buried his head in his arms, too lazy to pay attention to him.

"You don't even click on Liang Sizhe's photos. That's how you treat my idol!" Cao Yuning accused him loudly.

Cao Ye buried his head and sneered, his voice sounded a little dull: "He is not my idol."

"It's all expired..." Cao Yuning was still turning forward and muttered angrily again.

Cao Ye lazily supported his upper body from the table, and sent him with one hand on his chin: "Cheng Duan is engaged in publicity, he should save these photos. You can go to his place to see."

"Didn't you say you would take me to the crew to see Liang Sizhe?" Cao Yuning put his phone back on the desk and looked at Cao Ye, "It's been so many days since then, but there has been no movement."

Cao Yuning was quite noisy, and Cao Ye couldn't rest well, so he started a stand-alone game and played absent-mindedly while chatting with him: "I said I would bring you with me when I went to the crew, but I don't need me to go to the crew recently."

"When will you go to the crew?!"

"I don't need to go over for re-shooting. I'm responsible for investing. I'll go much in the early stage." Cao Ye explained while playing games. Seeing Cao Yuning staring at him with a look of "You liar" on his face, he couldn't help but smile, "Or why don't you go over by yourself, I'll let Xu Anqiao pick you up."

"No," Cao Yuning said dissatisfiedly, "Xu Anqiao takes me over, so Liang Sizhe will not be interested in knowing me."

Cao Ye hit him up: "I will take you there, and Liang Sizhe may not be interested in getting to know you."

Cao Yuning Zhenzhen said: "You are the president of Lomon and the main cast of "The Darkest Choice". If you introduce your cousin to him, he will give you face."

Cao Ye glanced at him and said with a smile: "You really look down on me, thank you."

As soon as he finished speaking, the cell phone on the table shook. Cao Ye took the phone to read the news. Cao Yuning also came over to watch it with him. The news was sent by Xu Anqiao: "Mr. Cao, the crew discussed this morning. The remake of the racing scene in which Scar was surrounded by the police would be better, but there may be some difficulties in funding. Director Zeng wants to talk to you, do you think you have time?"

Before Cao Ye could reply, Cao Yuning snatched his phone from him and stared at the news: "Is it an investment matter? Is it wrong? Can you go to the crew, right?"

It is indeed related to additional investment, but there is no need to go to the crew for this little thing... Cao Ye wanted to say this, but seeing Cao Yuning's expression of expectation, he suddenly felt a little reluctant to hit him in such a mood, so he smiled and said, "Yes."

"Then I'll help you get back to him. Go here this afternoon?"

"You can do whatever you want." Cao Ye turned his attention back to the computer game.

"Then it's this afternoon." After replying to the news, Cao Yuning put his phone back on the table, collapsed on the sofa, and lay down. "I'll go when I get asleep."

Cao Ye touched his phone and looked at it. Cao Yuning replied: "I will go to the crew to talk to him in the afternoon." The reply was quite official.

In the afternoon, Cao Ye finished his work. Under Cao Yuning's urging, he drove Cao Yuning to the crew.

The crew is located in an urban village in the outskirts of Beijing, and the car drove for two hours before reaching its destination.

Cao Yuning slept and woke up in the back row, and kept asking if he had arrived. Cao Ye's answer ranged from "It's early" to "It's still a while" to "It's almost there" and then to "arriving". Cao Yuning lay on the car window and looked at the dilapidated urban village. It was very fresh to him. Cao Ye parked the car in front of the crew. When he pushed the door and got out of the car, he looked up at the gray and low walls and spider-web-like wires around him. He felt that this place was really even more Yinsi. He even remembered the method of climbing the wall back then, but the corner of the low building in front of him did not have exposed drain pipes, so it should not be easy to climb up.

The shooting progress in the afternoon was already in the second half. Liang Sizhe was playing a confrontation with Wu Baiyi. Wu Baiyi was hunching his back in the corner, trembling all over, and his expression collapsed. Liang Sizhe lowered his head and looked closer to him and watched him speak. He slowly kneaded his neck with one hand, as if he was treating a disobedient livestock. His movements were normal and his voice was very low, but it was full of slow torture.

Cao Ye remembered this scene. He had seen Huang Qianshi's version. Huang Qianshi had a completely different way of acting from Liang Sizhe in that scene. He pinched Wu Baiyi's neck and hit Wu Baiyi's head hard on the wall until he was unconscious.

The main line of this film is a ridiculous kidnapping case of wealthy families. A real incident in Hong Kong in the past century was adapted from the grounds. The cause of the kidnapping case was to compete for family property. Qin Nanming, the eldest son of the Qin family, made an agreement with the kidnapper Scar. Both sides cooperated to make the illusion of kidnapping, and used the media pressure to coerce Qin Zhong, the old man of the Qin family, to take out huge amounts of property to exchange for his son's life. But unexpectedly, in this process, Scar tore up the agreement, made a real act, and really kidnapped Qin Nanming, and used this as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Qin Zhongxian several times...

The scene in front of me is Qin Nanming, played by Wu Boyi, who tries to escape Scar's control, but is caught by Scar and his accomplices in the middle.

Liang Sizhe slowly changed the angle by the back of Wu Boyi's neck, pinching his throat, and then his fingers suddenly tightened. Wu Boyi was tortured and his mental breakdown was extremely strong. As soon as his life was threatened, tears and snot came out for a moment. His throat was strangled, and he could only make a meaningless "uh, uh" sound. The sound sounded scary and helpless, and it sounded very heartbreaking in the closed shooting site.

"cut!" Zeng Ran shouted and stopped behind the monitor. The crew, which had just become quiet, gradually became commotion after a few seconds.

Cao Yuning, who was standing next to Cao Ye, was stunned just now. He breathed a sigh of relief. Before he could come back to his senses, he murmured and said, "Oh my God..." and said that, he walked forward a few steps closer, trying to see Liang Sizhe clearly.

Xu Anqiao saw Cao Ye coming with sharp eyes and hurried over to greet him: "I was watching them take pictures just now, but I didn't notice Mr. Cao, you come."

"It's okay," Cao Ye smiled, "I watched it for a while, it's different from the previous version. Has the script been modified?"

"No, the screenwriter didn't follow the crew this time, and basically they were filmed according to the previous script," Xu Anqiao explained, "but Xiao Wu gave him half a month to stay in the crew every day. Director Zeng said that their scenes did not need to be done according to the previous ones, so that Sizhe could perform according to his own ideas."

Cao Ye nodded: "It's pretty good."

"Yes, there is no need to mention Sizhe's acting skills. It's mainly because Wu Baiyi plays against him, which is much better than Huang Qianshi. You have also seen the previous version. Xiao Wu was hit on the wall with his head pressed to the wall, and there was no room for performance, but the obvious sense of layering in this scene just now, and the tension between the two was also relatively strong."

As he said that, Zeng Ran also put down his work, got up from behind the monitor, and walked towards Cao Ye. The two of them reached out to hold it. Cao Ye looked at him and smiled and said, "Director Zeng looks in a good mood." Cao Ye still remembered his sluggish look in the conference room half a month ago, as if the sky was falling, but his eyes were shining in his eyes, and he looked energetic.

Xu Anqiao joked: "Director Xiao Zeng is in a passionate relationship with Si Zhe recently and is in a very good mood."

Cao Ye heard the joke in Xu Anqiao's words, but he raised his eyebrows: "Hmm?"

Zeng Ran has always been taciturn, but this time he rarely took the conversation and smiled introvertedly: "Producer Xu always jokes about this, but it's not wrong to say this. Sizhe always gives me the feeling I want most."

Xu Anqiao is more than one round older than him, and is an old fried dough stick in the crew. He pointed at him and smiled: "I'm actually blushing. I said to Director Xiao Zeng, you won't really fall in love with Liang Sizhe, right?"

Zeng Ran could hardly resist Xu Anqiao's jokes, and tried his best to bring the topic back on track, using the film language he was good at: "The comparison between Sizhe and others is like the difference between film and digital CS imaging. You know that the things taken by digital are impeccable, but the delicateness and texture of film are something digital cannot replace... Sizhe is like film, and the things he performed have a kind of grainy delicateness."

Xu Anqiao patted his shoulder and smiled: "Director Xiao Zeng, do you want to be so serious..."

"A kind of delicateness rich in grain..." Cao Ye repeated his last sentence, gently quenching the corners of his mouth, smiling a little playful.

Xu Anqiao smiled exaggeratedly. Zeng Ran was annoyed at "playing the piano against a cow". He looked up at Cao Ye, hoping that he could give him some replies. Although he was about the same age as Cao Ye, Cao Ye was almost the mentor to explore him. They had talked about movies seriously several times, and Zeng Ran always felt that Cao Ye knew about movies. But now when he looked up, Cao Ye was also laughing. Although he was not as straightforward as Xu Anqiao, his smile seemed to be a bit indescribable.

"What is Mr. Cao laughing at?" Zeng Ran was a little confused.

Cao Ye was about to speak, and when he looked up, he saw Liang Sizhe coming over at some point, standing behind Zeng Ran, slantingly, squeezing Douwei and listening to them, not knowing when he stood here. "No," he smiled and shook his head, and continued to say to Zeng Ran, "Your metaphor just gave me a strange association."

Zeng Ran asked: "What association?"

"You still don't know," Cao Ye stopped laughing, "The comparison between film and digital is very vivid... By the way, aren't you going to talk about reshooting and investing? How do you plan to reshoot?"

"Let Sizhe come and talk together." Zeng Ran said, turning back to find Liang Sizhe, "I just found someone to call him."

The direction he looked at was exactly the opposite of Liang Sizhe's position. Liang Sizhe raised his hand and pressed his shoulder: "I'm here."

Just now, he had been joking about Zeng Ran, but no one noticed that Liang Sizhe had come. Xu Anqiao looked back at him in surprise: "Hey? When did he come?"

"It's a delicate part of the grain, let's take this part." Liang Sizhe said.

Cao Ye laughed softly again.

This time, even Xu Anqiao was a little curious: "What did Mr. Cao think of?"

"This doesn't matter," Cao Ye looked at Liang Sizhe with a smile, and changed the subject, "Director Zeng said that he is in love with you, and you haven't heard of this?"

"No wonder Director Zeng praised me like this just now," Liang Sizhe responded with ease and said, "The lover's eyes are like Xi Shi."

Anyone with discerning eyes can see that he is joking, so this sentence not only humbled himself, but also resolved Zeng Ran's embarrassment.

Xu Anqiao went to the project team to ask for the reshoot plan. Zeng Ran did 3D modeling on the computer in advance, saying that he had some new ideas about this reshoot, which may be somewhat different from the previous version. Now he also left the shooting set and went to the lounge to get his computer.

For a moment, only Cao Ye and Liang Sizhe were left standing face to face.

It was stupid to just stand without saying anything. Cao Ye lit a cigarette to smoke, and he seemed more comfortable holding the cigarette in his hand. He took a deep breath and asked as he spit out the smoke, "So you and Cao Xiuyuan were in love before?"

Liang Sizhe looked at him for a few seconds, but didn't say anything at first. After a while, he said, "Cao Ye, don't say you don't understand what this passionate love meant by Zeng Ran." After a pause, he said, "I dare say that if the actors and directors did not touch this passionate love, their cooperation is likely to be a failure, and the final film is also likely to be inferior products."

His eyes were open and his tone of speaking were also very calm. Cao Ye suddenly felt that he was looking for trouble. He nodded and looked in another direction, and smiled: "Don't be serious..."

A few years ago, under the storm of the media, many people were speculating whether there was any trick in the relationship between Liang Sizhe and Cao Xiuyuan. They didn't believe it. Cao Xiuyuan's attitude towards all newcomers was just used, only Liang Sizhe. He used it again and again, and praised him as the youngest actor in the Chinese film industry. This was not enough. A few years later, he personally promoted him to the position of Cannes actor.

Cao Ye never doubted whether the relationship between Liang Sizhe and Cao Xiuyuan was innocent. He knew that Liang Sizhe was not that kind of person. So he couldn't even explain why he just mentioned the topic about Cao Xiuyuan.

"So what did you think of just now?" Liang Sizhe looked at him and changed the subject, "a kind of delicateness that is rich in grain."

"You guess." Cao Ye turned his head and looked at him and smiled, intending to learn from his tone.

"Can't you say it publicly?" Liang Sizhe actually guessed.

"I also want a prompt..."

"Just want to confirm the answer."

"Then tell me?" Cao Ye didn't believe he could guess it at all.

Liang Sizhe lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, and his hands were in his pocket, leaned towards him, leaned closer to his ear, and whispered in a low voice: "Did you think of the condom of condom?"

Cao Ye was stunned, couldn't help laughing, glanced at him and said, "Hey, you are the best actor, you'd better not speak so amazingly..."

Liang Sizhe stood up and asked him in a normal tone: "What, is there a rule that the actor cannot use condoms?"

Cao Ye was amused by him: "How did you think of such a tinge of association?"

"You'll tell me first, right?"

Cao Ye still didn't stop laughing: "Okay, yes."

"I guess," Liang Sizhe looked at him and smiled, "There is no serious association when you look at your expression."

Cao Ye felt that this scene was really funny. Liang Sizhe, a movie emperor who was sought after by all the crew, actually stood in the corner with him and told pornographic jokes. Moreover, this association is really irritating. Even he himself didn't know why such an incongruous idea suddenly appeared. Liang Sizhe actually guessed it...

He laughed for a long time and didn't stop until Cao Yuning walked to him and called "Brother". Cao Ye then realized that he had just been chatting with Liang Sizhe here, and actually forgot Cao Yuning completely. He didn't know when he came and had heard the conversation between them...

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Cao Yuning had just chatted with Wu Boyi for a while. During the conversation, he turned to look at Cao Ye and Liang Sizhe from time to time, hoping that his brother would find out with conscience, so he took the initiative to call himself over and introduce him to meet Liang Sizhe. But after waiting for a while, Cao Ye was still chatting with Liang Sizhe on his own, as if he had forgotten that he did not come alone...
To be continued...