93: Director, the camera is on!

"Auntie, would you like to play a role?" After the filming of flying immortal from beyond the heavens began, some supporting roles with minor parts had not yet joined the crew.

Li Xiuwu suddenly thought of Liu Xiaoli.

For the filming of flying immortal from beyond the heavens, Liu Xiaoli had accompanied Liu Yifei. She trusted that Li Xiuwu could take good care of Liu Yifei, but she didn't trust Li Xiuwu himself.

Although she thought highly of him, she still felt the need to be on guard.

"Hmm?" Liu Xiaoli looked up in surprise upon hearing Li Xiuwu's words.

"Director Yu said that a suitable actress for the Queen Mother hasn't been found yet. I think you would be perfect for it, Auntie," Li Xiuwu said to her.

"The Queen Mother?" Liu Xiaoli had read the script, but she didn't quite remember what scenes the Queen Mother had.

"Mom, you should try it out." Liu Yifei also thought it sounded fun and came over to hug Liu Xiaoli's arm.

"No need. I haven't acted before; I'll just hold up your filming." Liu Xiaoli refused; she didn't have much interest in acting.

"Acting is very simple. The Queen Mother doesn't have many scenes, just a few," Liu Yifei persuaded her.

"It doesn't hurt to try. If it doesn't work out, you just won't play the role," Li Xiuwu also chimed in.

Swayed by their persuasion, Liu Xiaoli said, "Alright, I'll give it a try."

Yu Min had absolutely no problem with it; his greatest strength as a director was being open to suggestions.

Liu Xiaoli changed into an elegant costume. In terms of costumes, Golden Culture was more willing to spend money than a company.

The quality of the main characters' costumes was excellent. The attire of the heavenly immortals was luxurious and elegant, unlike the 'photo studio' style of a company's dramas.

Liu Xiaoli was naturally beautiful. Being a dancer by training, she maintained her physique very well and possessed an outstanding temperament.

"Very good, let's try this scene." The Assistant Director gave Liu Xiaoli some instructions on the scene and guided her on her positioning.

The Queen Mother was only a supporting character with minor screen time. Her demeanor was dignified and grand, which she had already achieved seven-tenths of. The remaining three-tenths would just be her speaking lines; if worse came to worst, they could dub it in post-production.

Liu Xiaoli found it fresh at first, but by the third day, she was unhappy.

"Bow to heaven and earth."

During Legend of Sword and Fairy, when Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er were getting married, she had thought she should have been sitting there.

Now that this scene had come around again, she was indeed sitting there, but she wasn't happy at all.

These two little brats—could it be that they had planned this all along just to wait for her here?

[Detected top-tier cauldron Liu Xiaoli, favorability 55]

She sat in the chair, watching her daughter in a bright red wedding dress, holding a red silk ribbon in her hand, with the other end in Li Xiuwu's hand, and a red embroidered ball in the middle.

Li Xiuwu, who was happily bowing, was stunned. Why did the favorability drop?

After the two finished bowing to heaven and earth, they turned around: "Bow to the high hall," the master of ceremonies shouted loudly.

Li Xiuwu took the opportunity to glance at Liu Xiaoli's expression and noticed that her eyes were clearly showing some displeasure.

Why? Wasn't she quite satisfied with him?

Liu Xiaoli gritted her teeth, almost standing up to say she didn't agree.

But then again, she was also somewhat satisfied deep down.

"Bow to each other as husband and wife."

[Detected top-tier cauldron Liu Xiaoli, favorability 50]

A single wedding scene caused Liu Xiaoli's favorability toward him to drop by over twenty points. Li Xiuwu was completely bewildered.

Am I still the son-in-law you think most highly of?

Clearly, during Legend of Sword and Fairy, when she watched him and Liu Yifei bow, her favorability had increased. Now that he had made her sit up there, why was it dropping?

A woman's heart is like a needle at the bottom of the sea.

Li Xiuwu reached this conclusion.

Liu Xiaoli persisted until the scene ended. During the break before the next scene, she twisted Liu Yifei's ear.

"You little brat, did you do this on purpose?"

"Ouch, ouch, ouch, Mom, let go! What do you mean on purpose?" Liu Yifei cried out in pain, not understanding what Liu Xiaoli was talking about.

She simply wanted her mother to act with her and play her mother in the show. It was purely because she thought it was fun; she had no messy thoughts.

"You and Li Xiuwu bowing to each other?" Liu Xiaoli glared at her.

"Huh?" Liu Yifei felt confused. This scene was already in the script to begin with.

Seeing the confusion in Liu Yifei's eyes, Liu Xiaoli realized that her daughter truly didn't have those thoughts.

That meant Li Xiuwu had those thoughts. Did this kid see that her daughter was reaching the right age and want to make a move?

After this scene, Liu Xiaoli was clearly a bit guarded against Li Xiuwu. However, her favorability was also slowly increasing.

"Why did you kick me?" Li Xiuwu was sitting there resting, unaware of what crazy thing Liu Yifei was doing, kicking his lower leg.

Liu Yifei stretched her neck and looked toward the director. Liu Xiaoli was talking to Yu Min over there.

Yu Min braced himself: "Ms. Liu, we're filming here. There's just a tiny bit of intimate acting. Yifei isn't young anymore, and the script is written this way. When the emotions are there, it's necessary."

The male lead Li Xiuwu and the female lead Liu Yifei had a kissing scene. Yu Min felt that this scene had to be filmed, and it had to be filmed well.

This was where Yu Min differed slightly from Zhou Xiaowen. Zhou Xiaowen didn't care if there were kissing scenes or where they kissed, as long as it didn't affect the plot.

During last year's Legend of Sword and Fairy, after the two bowed, there was supposed to be a kissing scene in the script. Liu Xiaoli didn't agree, so Zhou Xiaowen changed it to Li Xiuwu kissing Liu Yifei's forehead.

This year, flying immortal from beyond the heavens had a kissing scene, and Yu Min insisted on filming it. This kiss was unavoidable.

"This is the moment their emotions escalate. It's a kiss of commitment, representing a love that moves heaven and earth." Yu Min thought of various reasons and was determined to film this scene.

"They are both still young." Liu Xiaoli still couldn't let go of her daughter; this was her daughter's first kiss, and she was still so young.

"Ms. Liu, Yifei is an actress. Jiang Xin filmed a kissing scene at the same age as Yifei. How about this, let's hear the actors' opinions."

Seeing that Yu Min was unmoved and wouldn't change the scene, Liu Xiaoli went to find Li Xiuwu.

Zhao Jian watched Liu Xiaoli leave and gave Yu Min a thumbs up. Yu Min smiled; as a director, one had to know who the Wang brothers were.

"Huh?" Li Xiuwu blinked: "That depends on the director, right?"

Liu Xiaoli looked at Liu Yifei, wanting her to object. If she spoke up to object, Li Xiuwu and the director would have no choice, given her age.

However, Liu Yifei kept her head down, counting ants on the ground.

Liu Xiaoli slapped her forehead. It was over.

"I don't care anymore." Seeing her daughter's attitude, she understood what it meant. She was very angry and walked away in annoyance.

Liu Yifei didn't lift her head until she heard her mother's footsteps fading away, then she let out a deep sigh.

Seeing the smug smile on Li Xiuwu's face, she swung her fair fist at him.

"Hehe." Li Xiuwu grabbed her hand.

"Still laughing? I'll beat you to death."

The two played around for a while before the Assistant Director came over to announce filming.

"Go do what you're supposed to do. What are you looking at here?" Yu Min walked over. Knowing they were about to film a kissing scene, many people had come to watch the fun, but they were all chased away by Yu Min.

"You two just improvise." After chasing everyone away, he said this and returned behind the monitor.

Liu Yifei's face turned red.

"Cut, cut, cut." Yu Min sat on his stool, chatting with Zhao Jian while smoking.

"Are you just going to film it like that?" Zhao Jian was a bit speechless.

"Heh, you don't see whose show this is." Yu Min said indifferently. He saw that Li Xiuwu's influence within Golden Culture was even greater than Wang Cheng's. When the company's liaison came to the set, they had to report to Li Xiuwu first.

Zhao Jian nodded. During the filming of Legend of Sword and Fairy, he had this feeling too. Although Zhou Xiaowen had full control, for some matters related to Golden Culture, Li Xiuwu made the decisions.

The two chatted. Every so often, Yu Min would yell "Cut" and then tell them to do it again.

"Director, that's about enough." Li Xiuwu's voice came over. His lips were bright red, and he looked lifeless. Even if it was Liu Yifei, he couldn't stand holding her and gnawing on her for half an hour.

"Ah! Oh! Alright, alright, alright." Yu Min looked blank, stood up, looked over there, and saw Liu Yifei, who also had red lips and was pouting angrily.

"Next scene."

The cameraman, who was eating melon seeds, almost fell on his butt when he heard they were filming the next scene.

"Director, you forgot to turn on the camera."