Chapter 43

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Before dawn the next morning, the cast and crew left the hotel and headed to town to proceed with a new day of filming.

As Xia Xingcheng slept in the car, the phone in his pocket would vibrate from time to time, but he didn’t have the energy to care.

When they were about to reach their destination, Xia Xingcheng woke up a little and took his phone out to see that Huang Jixin had sent him several WeChat messages, the first one being: “did you go out for a midnight snack with the movie emperor last night?” The second one was: “I saw the photos on Weibo.” The third one was: “not bad, establish good relations with Yang Youming and He Zheng, and see if you can grab some resources later.” The fourth was: “maintaining a private relationship is good, but don’t be too close in public. I’m afraid you’ll get attacked by the movie emperor’s fans. moreover, the movie’s subject matter is sensitive.”

Xia Xingcheng merely replied with two words: got it.

Gripping his phone, he hesitated for a moment before finally opening Weibo.

Ever since his birthday, Xia Xingcheng had rarely been on Weibo. Although he wasn’t completely incapable of enduring it, when he had to deal with too many attacks and abuse, it was hard to ensure that it wouldn’t negatively impact his mood, which would in turn affect filming.

That day, when he opened Weibo, he was actually a little curious. Not about what the netizens were saying, but rather what the photos that circulated on the internet looked like.

Sure enough, as soon as he opened Weibo, Xia Xingcheng saw numerous news prompts. He didn’t examine them very carefully, casually looking up his and Yang Youming’s names instead, and found that many entertainment marketing accounts had reposted the photos of the two of them that were taken last night.

At that time, it was dark, and the girl who secretly took the pictures hadn’t dared to turn on the flash so the photos came out a little blurry. But he could still clearly make out his and Yang Youming’s faces, especially in the picture of the two of them when they were sitting down to eat. Only his back and the side of Yang Youming’s face were shown.

One of them showed him talking near Yang Youming’s ear, and another showed him eating something as Yang Youming smiled at him.

In one of the hot comments under the Weibo post, a netizen said, “Yang Youming’s eyes as he’s looking at Xia Xingcheng is really gentle.”

There were many more comments underneath this comment, one of them said, “Ming ge is gentle with everyone. Ming ge’s longtime fans all know that.” Someone else said, “They’re filming right? Didn’t they say it was a gay movie?” One of Xia Xingcheng’s fans replied, “Ming ge is a very kind senior and takes good care of Xingxing, thank you Ming ge!”

Xia Xincheng swept a glance at the comments before his attention returned to the photo. At that time, perhaps he had been too nervous to look closely at Yang Youming’s expression, but just then, he discovered that the man’s eyes were really gentle, like he was gazing at the person he’d been looking for all along, eyes deeply doting.

Because of this sudden thought, Xia Xingcheng couldn’t help but blush. He leaned on the back of the chair, body sliding down until his bottom practically met thin air, while also using both hands to grab his phone and hold it up to cover his face. Afterwards, he saved the pictures.

That afternoon, when Xia Xingcheng was sitting on his chair waiting to shoot, he once again secretly pulled up the photo he had saved in his phone, staring at the Yang Youming in the photo for a long time. When he looked up, he discovered that Yang Youming was in the middle of playing with a little girl who was passing by.

The little girl had originally been brought by her grandmother to watch them film. Because she was so adorable, many young female staff went to play with her for a while.

Yang Youming was currently squatting on the ground with a bar of chocolate in his hand, smiling as he handed it to the little girl and saying, “If you shout for me, I’ll give you the chocolate.”

The little girl looked at the chocolate bar, then up at Yang Youming. Right after, somehow shy, the little girl’s face reddened as she turned back to find her grandmother, refusing to take the chocolate.

Laughing, Yang Youming stood up and directly placed the chocolate in the little girl’s hand. He walked back, sat down next to Xia Xingcheng, and took a sip of water from his cup, saying, “The little girl is so cute.”

Xia Xingcheng locked the phone in his hand and abruptly said, “When does Ming ge plan to have a child?” He gripped the phone so tightly that the edge of the phone hurt the soft meat of his palm.

Yang Youming’s smile faded a little. Still facing the front, he answered, “There are no plans.”

Xia Xingcheng knew he shouldn’t have asked. His intuition told him that Yang Youming didn’t like this question very much, but there was an impulse that prompted him to continue pursuing this question further. So much so that he somewhat masochistically wanted to hear Yang Youming mention Yuan Qian, so he said, “No plans for now? If you and Yuan Qian jie have a daughter, she’ll definitely be very pretty.”

Yang Youming didn’t immediately answer this question, turning to look at him instead.

Xia Xingcheng lowered his head and stared at his fingers, not meeting Yang Youming’s eyes.

Yang Youming answered him in a slightly indifferent tone, “Not just for now. We won’t have kids.”

Xia Xingcheng couldn’t help but look up at him, realizing that Yang Youming hadn’t used this kind of tone when speaking to him for a long time. He naturally didn’t dare to pursue this topic, but when he heard that Yang Youming wouldn’t be having a child with Yuan Qian, he felt relieved in spite of everything. Xia Xingcheng laughed at himself, thinking that he had probably gone crazy.

Yang Youming stood up and walked away from him.

Glancing at his retreating back, Xia Xingcheng handed his phone to Xiao Tang to put away and also stood up to start filming.

The scene they would be shooting was of Fang Jianyuan riding his bike to return books to his classmate’s house. After leaving his classmate’s house, he rode his bike to the factory where Yu Haiyang worked to seek the man out. Then they headed home together, Yu Haiyang in front and Fang Jianyuan riding pillion.

In the summer afternoon, they took a detour through a remote alleyway. There were no other pedestrians besides them.

When the shooting officially started, there was no longer a trace of unpleasantness on Yang Youming’s face. As he brought Xia Xingcheng along on the bike, his face was all gentle smiles. The bike swayed left and right, as if he wanted to slowly take his time heading back so the two of them could spend more time together.

Xia Xingcheng found that he couldn’t adjust his emotions that easily. According to He Zheng’s filming requirements, he should have laughed and extended his head from behind Yang Youming to talk to the man, but after laughing for a while, he fell silent and stretched out his arms to firmly hold on to Yang Youming’s waist.

He Zheng didn’t shout for them to stop. They were all familiar with his ways, unless the actor couldn’t act on his own or he was extremely dissatisfied with the actor’s performance, He Zheng usually wouldn’t interrupt the actor’s improvisation.

Xia Xingcheng’s face was pressed to Yang Youming’s back. Under the fierce glare of the sun, Yang Youming’s shirt was soaked through with sweat. Xia Xingcheng could clearly smell it, but he didn’t reject it at all—he liked the smell of Yang Youming’s body.

When Yang Youming sensed that he had gone silent, he put his feet on the ground and didn’t continue to ride forward, turning to look at Xia Xingcheng instead.

Xia Xingcheng lowered his head and his arms around Yang Youming grew tighter until Yang Youming reached out to touch his head. Thus, he slightly loosened his hold, his head raising along with the hand that Yang Youming was touching him with.

Yang Youming looked down at him. They stared at each other in silence. Then, Yang Youming slowly bent down and brought Xia Xingcheng’s lips close to his.

Xia Xingcheng didn’t think of anything as he immediately took the initiative to kiss Yang Youming’s lips. Their movements weren’t fierce yet filled with tenderness as they kissed the other party deeply.

–Until He Zheng yelled for a stop. The two of them parted.

Yang Youming handed the bike to the crew and walked calmly to He Zheng’s side. Xia Xingcheng subconsciously wiped his lips with the back of his hand and also looked to He Zheng serenely.

He Zheng didn’t mention a word. His face was expressionless as he said, “Start over. Follow the script.”

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