CFJTM Chapter 150. “Ephemera” shooting & women’s clothing

TN: This is tomorrow’s chapter early because I may not have time to post tomorrow, enjoy!

---

Shen Qingshu quickly left Weibo and pretended as if he hadn’t seen it.

He went back to his main account and reposted the official WeChat of the movie again: [Start up! Hope everything goes well!]

The fans immediately gave him their best wishes, [Come on, gege! Everything will be smooth! I hope for good box office sales in advance!]

[Looking forward to it! Gege can shoot with confidence, us Qingshu’s will always accompany you. I will start saving money to buy movie tickets now!]

[Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, just finished reading the novel. After carefully reading, Su Qing is great and I like him very much. Come on, gege. This play will be successful!]

[This is your first time as a producer. Don’t be afraid, gege. We all believe you can do well!]

[Yes, gege, you are the best! All the xiao Qingshu’s believe in you!]

Shen Qingshu read through the well wishes and was moved. Soon, other actors also forwarded the official weibo or the author’s weibo one after another. He checked them one by one to see everyone’s feedback. Most of the feedback was positive, so he put his mobile phone into his pocket and prepared to go to make up.

This crew was set up by him, so he had to take care of many things. After the makeup artist finished his makeup, he looked at the schedule and was called by Zhou Mian to discuss other issues.

After a long talk, it was his turn to shoot.

Shen Qingshu adjusted his state a little, drank two mouthfuls of water, and was ready to film.

He is the person who knows Su Qing best. He created this story himself, so he quickly entered the state. When he looked up, he became Su Qing – sunny and gentle, always easygoing, no one could tell that he had a mother who was insane and a father who was almost killed by his mother.

Su Qing’s life, to those who do not know him, is very ordinary.

Like most people, he received nine years of compulsory education, took the university entrance examination, and became a policeman after graduation.

He is the most amiable person in the precinct, so although he is a junior, many seniors like him.

He is handsome. There is always someone coming up to him to ask, “Xiao Su, do you have a girlfriend? Let me introduce you to someone.”

Su Qing smiled and shook his head. “No need,” he said

The peaceful days were suddenly broken. The police station received a report. Someone found a dead body in an abandoned residential building.

Su Qing followed the others in the precinct and saw the body. It was an average looking middle-aged man

From that day on, people in the city have been dying. They died in different places and for different reasons. Even after the police investigation, these people had no connection to each other.

Was it the same killer or different ones?

Who is the killer? Why kill these people?

Su Qing was puzzled until one day he saw a picture of a child who looked familiar to him at the home of one of the deceased.

At that moment, all the clues were strung together. Su Qing hurriedly went to the other victims’ homes and investigated all the relatives. Finally, he understood who the murderer was and why these people died.

Shen Qingshu is going to shoot this scene today. He wore plain clothes and is going to the victim’s house. The victim’s daughter was flipping through the photo album, and tears were uncontrollably falling down.

Shen Qingshu knocked at the door. She stood up and opened the door. Seeing him, she said anxiously, “Did you catch the murderer?”

“We’re still in the process of investigation. Today, I came here to ask you some questions.”

The victim’s daughter nodded and invited him into the house.

They sat down on the sofa. Shen Qingshu glanced at her and picked up the album and began to look through.

One by one, many are photos of her and her parents.

He looked at it quietly without disturbance.

Suddenly, he saw a photo. Shen Qingshu pressed down on the photo in surprise, pointed to the person on it and asked, “who is this?”

“He is my classmate from primary school.” The daughter replied, “He used to live next door to us, but his mother killed his father. His father died, and his mother went to jail. Later, he moved in with his uncle. I don’ t know where he is now. Since his mother killed someone, my mother wouldn’t let me play with him.”

Shen Qingshu listened to her silently, but what came to mind was when he and the seniors in the team went to investigate. A young man opened the door and asked with a harmless expression, “What’s wrong?”

“Chen Ai, right? Seven days ago, a homicide occurred in Nanqiao Street. It was very late at that time. A surveillance camera caught you nearby, so can you tell us what happened when you were there at that time? What did you see or hear? Where were you at midnight on October 10? Can someone help you prove it?”

“I was singing.” Chen Ai said calmly, “One of my friends was getting married that day, so we celebrated with him, so we had a zero point show. At that time, we had booked the ktv for midnight. I was running late, so I took a shortcut to get there. I arrived at about 23:50, and we sang ktv the entire time. My friends can testify.”

“As for what I saw and heard, I was in a hurry at that time, so I didn’t pay attention and didn’t notice anything.”

Su Qing quickly stood up and startled the daughter of the victim sitting next to him. “What’s wrong?”

Shen Qingshu didn’t say much, but took a photo of Chen Ai and asked her, “Do you have a group photo from primary school? Please show me.”

The victim’s daughter nodded her head, found several class photos of her primary school, and handed them to him.

Shen Qingshu selected the one with Chen Ai, took a picture, gave her a few words of thanks, and left in a hurry.

“Cut.” Mei Ruo shouted.

Shen Qingshu walked to the camera, looked at the replay of the screen just now, and asked Mei Ruo, “Should we do a retake? I don’t seem to be surprised enough here.”

“No.” Mei Ruo said gently, “That’s all right. It will seem a bit fake if the surprise is exaggerated any more.”

Shen Qingshu nodded, pulled a chair and sat down beside her. He watched as she directed others.

Mei Ruo smiled, “Why, interested in being a director?”

“A little bit.” Shen Qingshu said with a smile.

“Want to learn?”

Shen Qingshu scratched his head in embarrassment. He just thinks that he already has the ability to create. If he learns directing, can’t he write, act and direct by himself in the future?

Please support the translator on pawprintpathtranslations and help click on some ads?

It will be unnecessary to ask for help.

“Learn if you want to.” Mei Ruo said calmly, “It’s good to learn, and it’s good to be willing to learn. I can also answer you if you have anything to ask, speak up while I’m still willing to move.”

“Really?” Shen Qingshu is surprised.

Mei Ruo nodded.

“Thank you!” Shen Qingshu hurriedly said, “But I have nothing to ask currently. I don’t know much about this, so I want to observe how you direct first.”

“Okay.” Mei Ruo smiled.

She took a short rest, looked at the schedule sheet, and notified Bai Xuege to get ready.

By the time filming had been going on for a week, the crew was more or less familiar, and the advantages and disadvantages of everyone’s acting were exposed without disguise.

Shen Qingshu is the best one in this field, thanks to his author advantage. He knows Su Qing too well, so he can easily get into the state. He just needs to pay attention to the emotions when performing.

Yao Lu’s performance is also very good. Her major scenes are mainly in the final reversal. Many times in the early stage, she is an unobtrusive witness, so she also found her form easily.

Bai Xuege was the one who was most often punished by Mei Ruo, so that by the end of a week, Bai Xuege was deeply afraid of Mei Ruo.

“When I see her, my heart trembles, just like when I saw the physics teacher when I was young. I’m afraid that she will look at me and ask me why I still failed again this time.”

Shen Qingshu comforted him, “Don’t worry. You’ve slowly found your feelings. Didn’t she praise you for your performance yesterday?”

“But she criticised me the day before yesterday.” Bai Xuege’s eyes drooped, like a dog that fell into the water.

Shen Qingshu can only pet his puppy head when he sees this. He guides him in acting again and helps him analyse Chen Ai’s psychological and emotional changes.

Chen Ai and Su Qing are just like two sides of the same coin. Their experiences are somewhat similar and somewhat different. It is impossible to say who is better, but Chen Ai’s ending is undoubtedly more tragic.

His mother accidentally killed his father in a fight against domestic violence, so his father died and his mother went to jail.

The incident was very serious. People from his father’s side firmly did not believe that what his mother committed was manslughter, saying that she had intent to murder. They hated Chen Ai’s mother for killing their didi/gege, and were unwilling to take over Chen Ai’s custody.

It was Chen Ai’s uncle in the countryside who adopted him, but he didn’t have much money and couldn’t find a better place to live. So they stayed in the house rented by Chen Ai’s parents, who had already paid the rent for one year.

Children are the most ignorant. They are so ignorant that they don’t know how much they hurt others. They point at Chen Ai innocently yet cruelly and call him the son of a murderer.

They teased him when they were in a good mood. When they were in a bad mood, they fought and shouted, “You are the son of a murderer. You will also be a murderer when you grow up. You want to kill me now.”

Hearing about the fight, the parents comforted their children, glared at Chen Ai and scolded him, “What are you doing? Do you want to kill like your mother?”

Chen Ai was the son of a murderer when he was young. He will be a murderer once he grows up.

He didn’t leave this environment until his uncle took him to move when the one-year lease expired.

He has been waiting for his mother to get out of prison, waiting for her to return to his side.

In fact, he didn’t blame his mother. His father was so fierce and frightening. His mother was crying all the time. He hoped his mother would stop crying.

However, to his surprise, his mother came out, but did not come find him. She left the city and chose to forget the painful past to pursue a new life.

Chen Ai can’t understand or accept this, but he didn’t even have the opportunity to ask his mother why.

She left so resolutely that she not only abandoned her son, but also abandoned her brother who helped her take care of her son over the years.

Chen Ai sat on the sofa, and his whole person seems lifeless.

But he didn’t die. He still had an uncle who insisted on raising him and taking care of him even though he didn’t have to.

However, a good man doesn’t live long. His uncle died in an accident just after he graduated from college.

Jiajia, the daughter of his uncle, did not accept compensation, nor could she accept that the other party’s sentence was less than three years’ imprisonment.

“Why? My father is gone, but he only needs to go to prison for three years. Is this fair? I don’t need this money. I want my father, I only have my father!”

Jiajia wept as Chen Ai looked at his jiejie and felt also sad.

He heard his sister say on the way home, “Why didn’t anyone kill him? Xiao Ai, do you think it’s fine for me to kill him? It’s only three years anyway, so I’ll take revenge for my father.”

Chen Ai was so frightened that he hurried to stop her. He had only one family member, and he could not lose her as well.

“But I don’t want to see him so carefree. He has no guilt at all. He didn’t even say sorry. He clearly killed someone. Why can he still live? Why doesn’t anyone kill him?”

She cried pitifully, and Chen Ai’s heart slowly resurfaced the words from a long time ago – you are the son of a murderer, and you will become a murderer when you grow up.

He looked at his jiejie, and in the clear light, his thoughts were indistinct.

They still accepted the compensation from the other party, and watched the other party go to prison and come out again not long after.

It was getting dark, and it was time for Chen Ai to go home. He embarked on the path that those people had planned for him since he was a child. He thought that since everyone felt this way, it would be better to grant their wishes.

He lost his father, mother, friends and uncle when he was young. Those who hurt him need to at least lose them too.

The first middle-aged man who died represents his uncle.

When you grow up, you will also become a murderer, so you will lose your father, mother and friends.

He really did as they said, and became a murderer when he grew up.

His heart was calm. He just didn’t want to involve his jiejie, so he confessed when Su Qing confronted him. He looked at Su Qing, sorrowful and peaceful, heartbroken and proud. He smiled arrogantly, but his eyes were full of melancholy.

He stood at the top of the floor, looking down at the world. It was all over, and he felt relieved.

He finally lost himself.

He used to hate those people who said he was the son of a murderer and would kill people in the future, but now he really killed people, as they said.

So, he had already killed himself.

He listened to Su Qing’s persuasion and him talking about his past. He felt a moment of envy in his heart, before becoming even calmer

“If only I had known you earlier.” He said.

He smiled gently, then jumped down and finished the last loop, killing himself completely.

“So he is a man with complicated psychology, do you understand?” Shen Qingshu said to Bai Xuege.

“On the one hand, he doesn’t really like killing people, but on the other hand, he is proud that the police can’t catch him every time he kills people, contrarily at the same time, he hates this despicable self. His emotions and psychology fluctuate a lot. He is proud that the police can’t catch him till the last second, and he will feel sad for how he became like this the next second. In this process, he constantly loses himself and finds himself again. Finally, he found that he had already lost himself, so he chose to commit suicide and killed himself. “

Bai Xuege: …

Bai Xuege wanted to cry without tears. “Is it so complicated in your creative mind? Can’t he be simpler? How can I figure it out? I’ve never killed anyone. How can I lose myself and find myself? I’ve always been very self-aware!”

Shen Qingshu:… This is true. You are really self-centred.

“So you need to break through, and you can’t always avoid complex roles. Come on, your recent state has been very good.”

“Where am I good, look how thin I am!” Bai Xuege said sadly, “This is the first time that I have filmed myself thin, so it can be seen how much pressure I am under!”

“It’s not easy, so keep up the hard work.”

Shen Qingshu was still teaching him when he heard Xiao Li come to him to tell him it’s time for makeup.

Shen Qingshu stood up and patted Bai Xuege on the shoulder

Bai Xuege looked at him with eyes wide, “It’s better to ask you.”

He was a little afraid of Mei Ruo, the teaching director.

Shen Qingshu laughed, patted his puppy head and left.

The next scene he shot was special, it was a scene in women’s clothing.

In fact, it is not a full women’s dress, but the lower part of his body is wearing a skirt. Because in the eyes of Su Qing’s mentally disturbed mother, he is not her son, Su Qing, but her lost daughter, Su Qing.

No one knows how much Su Qing has endured and how much sorrow and pain is hidden under his gentle smile every day.

He didn’t even have his own name. His name was the only child in his mother’s heart – her daughter Su Qing.

The makeup artist worked to make his face look softer. Shen Qingshu specially left his hair a little longer for filming, because Su Qing’s hair has always been a little longer than that of an ordinary man in order to keep his  image as a daughter in his mother’s eyes. At a length of nearly brushing his shoulder.

He wore a red sweater, which highlighted his skin as white as snow, but underneath it was a white pleated skirt instead of a pair of jeans that he often wore.

Shen Qingshu’s legs are straight and long. There is no peculiarity when wearing a skirt.

The stylist couldn’t help joking with him. “Ah, xiao Shen, you’re really a beauty when you dress like this.”

“That’s right. Shen ge, you are so beautiful, you look more beautiful in a skirt than I do.” The assistant of the stylist said smiling.

Shen Qingshu said helplessly, “Alright, go and get the stylist, don’t delay with me, it’s boring to look at me.”

He said so and turned around to walk toward the door. As soon as he opened the door, he walked a few steps and saw Han Cheng coming this way, accompanied by Zhou Jianming.

Please support the translator on pawprintpathtranslations and help click on some ads?

Shen Qingshu: ! ! !

Han Cheng: ! ! !

Shen Qingshu almost turned around in an instant and walked back.

Han Cheng hurriedly ran after him, grabbed his arm and pulled him into his arms.

Shen Qingshu lowered his head and dared not look at him.

Han Cheng looked at him, especially his white pleated skirt and straight legs, “… Baby, you knew I was coming, so you dressed like this to show me?”

TN: Please tell me if there’s something wrong with the hyperlinks, after the new update elementor has been acting strange with editing

---

Previous Chapter < Project Page > Next Chapter