198: Chapter 198 starts with a car chase scene.

Since 200 points was a threshold, Lin Chuyan thought about it and decided to just pull some more important attributes, like "Lines" and "Acting," up to 200 points first.

After clicking, only 10 basic attribute points were left.

Once everything was ready, "a moment of romance" was about to start filming, and he finally met the female lead of the film.

The girl was named Zhou Shiyun, 22 years old this year. At first glance, she seemed unremarkable, but one more look was all it took for anyone to understand why Director Du Qiyu had specifically traveled to Taiwan to see her and immediately chosen her.

Yes, she was a classic "second-glance beauty." Her appearance was elegant and refined, and her temperament was delicate and pitiable.

The most striking thing about her was her single eyelids. To be honest, there weren't many single-lidded beauties in the entertainment industry. Lin Chuyan recalled that the one who left the deepest impression on him was Chen Xiaoxu, who played Lin Daiyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber" in his past life; she also had single eyelids and that same temperament. It was truly rare.

Director Du Qiyu called her over and brought her to Lin Chuyan: "Zhou Shiyun, this is Lin Chuyan. Nickname, you can just call her Xiao Jun."

He nodded again, said "You two get to know each other, get familiar," and then ran off to handle other things.

Zhou Shiyun looked as cold and detached as her temperament. He didn't know if it was because she was a newcomer and felt shy, or if that was just her personality, but she just softly said "Brother Chuyan" and that was it.

Lin Chuyan saw that something wasn't right. This film would only be shot for a month; if it were like this in the film, would they even meet the schedule? He was afraid that the final result wouldn't be good.

He quickly greeted her: "Hello, hello, Xiao Jun, how about we run through the scenes? You're familiar with the script, right?"

"Okay! I've memorized the Lines!"

As soon as the movie was mentioned, Zhou Shiyun seemed to suddenly come alive, and she became much more talkative. Her cold temperament retracted, her soul seemed to return, and she looked much more serious.

Very good, she was a girl who loved Acting.

Lin Chuyan was relieved. After all, the two of them were a couple in the film; if they weren't familiar with each other, the performance wouldn't feel right.

The filming style in Hong Kong felt like an entirely different operating model compared to the mainland.

If you said they were serious, this film didn't even seem to have a script reading; Director Wang Jiahui was even pondering whether to change the script again. If you said they weren't serious, everyone was working methodically at their own posts, and it didn't seem like any errors were occurring.

Director Du Qiyu was incredibly busy, directing this person and that person all over the set, his voice very loud. Honestly, someone who didn't know better would think he was the director.

Lin Chuyan followed Director Du Qiyu, listening to him shout for a while before he finally understood. Their high efficiency was no joke.

The group of people Director Du Qiyu brought out looked unremarkable, but in reality, they were all talented, extremely experienced, and perhaps a bit too quick on their feet.

It made sense; Hong Kong was small, and there were so many films every year, which really trained people. Many were multi-talented. If a situation arose, the main motto was "if you can do it, step up; if not, step down." If an opportunity was in front of you and you didn't fight for it, someone would immediately replace you.

This person is handsome but can't act? No problem, Director, I'll recommend someone to you, guaranteed to be handsome and good at Acting. Oh right, he can also do Singing, maybe he can even save you some money on the theme song.

What? You lack someone to write the score? My martial arts director happens to have some research in this area, why not let him try? If it's written well, then you can consider using it! It doesn't matter.

Many great people emerged this way. The most typical example, Lin Chuyan thought, was Teacher Chen Xunqi from his past life: director, producer, executive producer, action actor, film composer... he even played quite a few male leads, and the box office was pretty good. He could do everything, and he did everything well.

Damn, he almost started to suspect that the guy also had a system bound to him.

Director Du Qiyu had been looking at Lin Chuyan with new eyes these past few days.

He had originally been worried that Lin Chuyan wouldn't be able to keep up with the pace in Hong Kong, but later he asked Uncle Da, who told him that Nickname had memorized the script well, his Acting and Lines were no problem, and he was reliable.

Then there was the car racing. At first, he thought Lin Chuyan was bragging, but later, under the other's repeated emphasis, he felt relieved, though he only thought his "Driving Skill" was "passable."

Especially that truck; it didn't fit a young idol like him at all. Where did he learn it?

So, these past few days, he dragged Lin Chuyan to take a test drive, and it turned out he drove so fiercely...

Then they had a deep talk and discovered that he was not just a Singer-songwriter and professional actor, but also played various instruments, and had even practiced sword fighting...

No, wait, you look so handsome, have such a good figure, instead of flirting with girls, you spend every day buried in learning this and that, is this reasonable? I'm impressed, completely impressed.

Today's first scene was a night scene, located in the suburbs.

It wasn't easy to organize hundreds of people to film a big scene, and Director Mu Sheng wanted to finish all the scenes in the suburbs from the script tonight.

What was about to be filmed was the scene where the male lead Wah Dee takes the female lead JOJO to race wildly against people in the suburbs at night.

Lin Chuyan was currently wearing a set of tattered denim—literally, ripped jeans + a tattered denim jacket.

Although it couldn't hide his handsomeness, fortunately, his Acting was good, and he grasped the temperament of a hooligan very well.

Zhou Shiyun was in a white dress, with a light green women's suit vest over it, which made her originally pure temperament even more prominent.

With just these two outfits, they didn't need to say any Lines; standing there, they were clearly a rich young lady and a small-time hoodlum.

Director Mu Sheng held a large Laba and started shouting: "Get ready, we're starting!"

Directing for the first time with hundreds of people on site, he really couldn't handle it without a big shot there to oversee things.

With Director Du Qiyu watching from the side, he didn't feel panicked anymore, as if he had returned to the days when he was an assistant director for Director Du Qiyu...

However, he had his own ideas about how to film these scenes—he wanted to arrange an explosion at the end.

Yes, an explosion, it was his specialty.

Don't ask why a romance movie needs an explosion, and don't ask why cars explode when no one is having a gunfight here.

You just need to know that in the eyes of Director Mu Sheng, an explosion is art.

"Lighting and camera, ready!"

As filming officially began, Wah Dee drove a motorcycle, carrying JOJO as they slowly drove into the frame.

The scene started to become restless.

Someone was loudly swearing on top of a car, and someone rode a motorcycle roaring past them.

Crowds, torches, headlights, strange clothes, restless bodies, raised dust... all composed a picture that was incompatible with JOJO, played by Zhou Shiyun.

She was like a princess, sitting in her magnificent palace, when the next second she was thrown by some unknown force into a chaotic, ruleless underworld, feeling like she could be torn to pieces at any moment.

Fortunately, Wah Dee stood in front of JOJO.

He was the only person she was familiar with, and he was also the source of all her security at this moment, so she subconsciously followed him closely, not leaving him for a single step.

Wah Dee ignored her, talking to others on his own. After a few words, he was about to start racing against someone, and even took JOJO with him.

Before getting into the truck, he looked back at JOJO, his eyes full of impatience, but then his eyes shifted, making people feel as if he was worried about the girl.

So he turned around, closed the car door, walked over to JOJO, and without a word, scooped her up horizontally and threw her directly into the back of the truck.

Not a hint of tenderness, his actions were very rough.

As soon as JOJO sat up, she was immediately pointed at by Wah Dee: "Climb up, hold on tight with both hands, make sure you don't fall off."

Wah Dee's eyes held scrutiny: "Scared? If you're scared, get down."

The next second he suddenly roared, seemingly wanting to scare her away: "Get down!"

However, JOJO's gaze was firm, she didn't say a word, and struggled to climb onto the roof of the modified truck.

The camera focused on Wah Dee; there was actually guilt in his eyes.

Some people are just like that, hiding all their emotions in daily life, afraid that others will discover even a little bit.

Only when no one else is looking do they reveal their true feelings.

Naturally, this had to do with Wah Dee's original family—he didn't know who his father was; his mother was a dancer who committed suicide by jumping off a building for love, leaving him to be raised by a group of dancers.

Facing the affection of a rich young lady, he never felt he was worthy of her; he could only use his own way to drive her away, afraid that if he revealed even a hint of emotion, it would ignite hope in her that shouldn't exist.

Next was a car racing scene.

Wah Dee drove the truck and had a race against a professional truck driver hired by the director.

However, this segment wasn't filmed all at once; the camera movement was divided into several parts.

In between, many truck collisions were interspersed, which required professional personnel to intervene to avoid injuring the actors.

Lin Chuyan actually acted very easily; the difficult part was for Zhou Shiyun—she was genuinely holding onto the iron frame tightly on top of the truck without letting go, racing for several segments.

"Cut, that's a wrap!"

This take was finished in just one go...

Lin Chuyan was a bit surprised; after all, such a long scene, was it just finished like that?

He couldn't help but ask the director to confirm: "Director, Director Du Qiyu, don't we need to reshoot? It was so smooth?"

Director Mu Sheng waved his hand: "It's OK, both you and Xiao Jun performed well in this segment; the main event is in a while."

Director Du Qiyu agreed with the director: this kind of car racing scene was not the point of the movie at all; as long as the completion was decent and sufficient, it was fine.

Why waste effort on such minor details? Every minute and every second is money, okay?

Director Mu Sheng started shouting again: "Next scene in 30 minutes, all departments take note, all units take note, pay attention to personnel safety, prepare for the explosion!"

It was coming, his favorite explosion was coming.