As soon as they entered the door, Xiang Yunru took the two to the clothing workshop. The first sentence she said was: “Take off all your clothes, leaving only the underwear. I will measure your sizes.”
Jiang Dao was taken aback.
Chu Yinlong couldn’t help frowning. “Take everything off apart from underwear? Here?”
Xiang Yunru took their agreement for granted. “Yes, I want to measure as accurately as possible, so of course, body measurements are best.”
Seeing Chu Yinlong’s brows remained furrowed, she couldn’t help laughing: “What kind of expression is that? I’m not a female lecher! Don’t worry, after learning clothing design, a man’s body is a clothes rack in my eyes, and I can’t think of those things at all. Besides, I’ve seen so many young models naked backstage, and even painted hundreds of pictures. There’s no need to act shy!”
Chu Yinlong was speechless. “I’m not shy…”
“Don’t be jealous.” Xiang Yunru directly blocked the second half of his sentence. “Even if I haven’t had sex for two years, I won’t steal your boyfriend from you.”
Chu Yinlong: …
Jiang Dao burst out in laughter hearing the conversation between the two step-siblings.
He didn’t have any psychological burden with taking off his clothes, so he stripped himself naked smoothly, only leaving his underwear.
Seeing Jiang Dao being so straightforward, Chu Yinlong hesitated, but in the end he didn’t say anything.
Xiang Yunru didn’t delay. She picked up the tape measure, and recorded Jiang Dao’s data on her tablet.
Looking at the measurement data, she tutted: “Just look at the muscle lines on your body, they can’t be felt at all. Why are you so thin, Xiao Dao? You didn’t look like this in the variety show before. Your waist is so thin… tsk, It is estimated that we’ll have to adjust the pants, but fortunately, the tops we prepared are all casual wear, and don’t need much adjusting.”
“I wasn’t this thin before.” Jiang Dao smiled. “I had to lose weight for the next movie.”
“That’s really hard work.” Xiang Yunru said casually, and wrapped the tape measure around Jiang Dao’s waist to measure his hips.
Chu Yinlong was sitting on the sofa beside them. Seeing this happen, he inhaled a short breath and reached out to grab the green plants on the coffee table.
By the time Jiang Dao’s measurements were finished, several leaves had been tortured to pieces and fallen on the coffee table in front of Chu Yinlong.
“Didn’t you say you weren’t jealous?” Xiang Yunru couldn’t help laughing and crying. “You’re really jealous just because I took his measurements? Even if you’re jealous, don’t torture my plants!”
“I’m not jealous.” Chu Yinlong refused to admit it.
Xiang Yunru picked up the meterstick on the table and tapped the surface. “Okay, it’s your turn, take it off.”
After putting on his clothes, Jiang Dao took over Chu Yinlong’s seat, and crossed his arms to watch Chu Yinlong shrivel in front of his eldest sister.
If Chu Yinlong’s fans see this picture, don’t know how disillusioned they’ll be.
Chu Yinlong obediently raised his hand and turned around under Xiang Yunru’s command, before being slapped on the back teasingly by his eldest sister. “Can Xiao Dao endure your waist?”
Chu Yinlong couldn’t bear it any longer: “Are we almost done?!”
Jiang Dao laughed, pinching a leaf that was pulled off by Chu Yinlong and folding it.
…
Two days later, shooting for the advertisement officially began.
Xiang Yunru contacted a photographer who had a good relationship with her. The venue, set, and lighting were prepared directly in her studio. The environment was comfortable, and fruit plates and snacks were also provided.
The only downside is that, like the backstage of a runway show, there is no independent dressing room, and clothes are changed in the shared dressing room.
After doing makeup and hair, Jiang Dao generously took off his clothes, took the casual shirt handed over by Xiang Yunru’s design assistant and put it on, fumbling to button it. The design assistant was probably used to the speed of runway models, so he reached out and placed the matching trousers in front of Jiang Dao.
Jiang Dao was stunned for a moment. Seeing that the design assistant had a natural look on his face, he didn’t make too much of a fuss.
“Cough,” Chu Yinlong cleared his throat and stopped the hand of the design assistant who was about to help Jiang Dao tidy the waistband of his trousers. “Look at the back for me, there seems to be something wrong.”
“Ah? How could it be…” The design assistant was frightened. He quickly let go of Jiang Dao’s trousers, and went around Chu Yinlong, studying his suit for a long time, unable to find anything. Finally, he called Xiang Yunru with a puzzled face, “Sister Xiang, come here. Can you see what’s wrong?”
Xiang Yunru had just explained to the photographer the feeling she wanted, so she came quickly to check and found nothing wrong. “There’s no problem. Isn’t this pattern very good?”
The assistant scratched his head. “But Teacher Chu said that something was wrong in the back…”
Xiang Yunru glanced at Chu Yinlong, then looked at Jiang Dao, who was standing aside with a smirk, and squinted. “Don’t listen to him, the one with a problem is himself. Oh, by the way, can you tell the props team the plan; I’ll keep an eye on the costumes.”
The assistant nodded and left the dressing room with the tablet.
Chu Yinlong glanced at Jiang Dao. “The speed of shooting advertisements is not as tight as a runway. You don’t need to ask outsiders to help you get dressed.”
Jiang Dao blinked and looked down to see that the waistband of his trousers weren’t buckled yet. After a momentary pause, he leaned into Chu Yinlong’s ear and asked in a low voice, “Was Teacher Chu jealous just now?”
Chu Yinlong didn’t say anything, and reached out to help him fasten a button on his chest.
Jiang Dao smiled and said, “Why didn’t I know that you like drinking vinegar so much…”
Xiang Yunru looked at the whispering pair, and couldn’t help saying, “Okay, you two, you can talk all you want at home. Focus on work here, be serious.”
After speaking, she personally stepped forward to help both of them tidy up the corners of their clothes, and untied the third button on the chest that Chu Yinlong had just helped Jiang Dao button up.
Although this advertisement is a two-person shoot, Xiang Yunru’s brand is not aimed at same-sex lovers, so the shots aren’t ambiguous, but two different versions of the same series of formal and casualwear. Chu Yinlong interprets the formalwear, and Jiang Dao wears the casual counterpart.
Jiang Dao’s first look is a light blue-gray shirt paired with trousers, an obvious Western-style pattern, but with a faint Chinese landscape on the front of the shirt, with a thin dark fringe on the neckline and cuffs. The whole piece demonstrates Huaxia’s unique elegance and restraint.
Chu Yinlong’s suit shirt shares the same design as Jiang Dao’s shirt. Even the buttons have the same style, but the design is more formal, and he also wears a suit jacket which adds a calm temperament to Chu Yinlong’s character.
In order to highlight the clothing itself, the set is very simple. Based on Xiang Yunru’s request, the advertisements all use a solid color background. At most, simple Chinese furniture or their own brand of luggage is used to adjust the model’s posture, or highlight the colors of the clothing.
Even though the set is simple, some movements are difficult to grasp, such as –
“Jiang Dao, press your upper body a little more to the left. Your knees should not be so high, lower them. Move your upper body further left, ah, a little more.” The photographer commanded.
“…I’m going to fall if I go to the left.” Jiang Dao was sitting on the suitcase, maintaining his posture with great difficulty. His legs and waist were tense, and his whole body was on the verge of crumbling.
The photographer glanced at the lens, frowned, and managed to take a few pictures. After changing positions and taking a few more pictures, he seemed still dissatisfied, and finally said: “Ah, try straightening your left leg and putting it on the ground.”
Jiang Dao obeyed.
After the photographer saw it, he still frowned: “Stretch your legs a little longer.”
Jiang Dao: “Brother, my legs are just this long…”
Photographer: …
It took seven or eight more poses before the photos were finally finished. Jiang Dao got up and followed Chu Yinlong to the dressing room to change into another set of clothes while sighing. “I thought shooting ads would be very simple. I never expected it to be so physically tiring.”
Chu Yinlong smiled. “It’s not too late now. There are five more sets of clothing in the back, get ready.”
Jiang Dao couldn’t understand shooting at all. “Those actions felt uncomfortable, will they actually look good when printed? And will it be unnatural if the assistant tidies the folds of the clothing each time?”
Chu Yinlong raised his eyebrows. “You don’t trust the photographer?”
Jiang Dao nodded unceremoniously.
After a moment of silence, Chu Yinlong took Jiang Dao to the workbench behind the camera.
The photos taken just now have been uploaded onto the computer, and Xiang Yunru was doing a rough screening with the photographer. Seeing Chu Yinlong and Jiang Dao come over, she asked with a smile, “What, you don’t trust the photographer I found?”
Chu Yinlong hummed noncommittally. “Just taking a look.”
On the computer screen, the photo of Jiang Dao’s back arched to the point of collapse was shown.
To Jiang Dao’s surprise, there’s no sign of being stiff or struggling to hold his posture at all, and the folds of his clothes can’t be seen as being deliberately arranged. In the photo, the lines are smooth, the movements are suave, and the effect is perfect. One cannot tell this movement was actually about to break Jiang Dao’s waist at first glance.
After a moment of silence, Jiang Dao admitted: “Well, it was me who thought too simply.”
Chu Yinlong smiled and said, “So, trust the photographer. Besides, you have to adapt to this situation as soon as possible.”
“Get used to it as soon as possible?” Jiang Dao asked. “I have to shoot commercials in the future?”
“Not for commercials, but for movies.” Chu Yinlong said. “A well-known director’s requirements for filming are similar to those in photography. Every shot can be used as a poster, let alone a shape with an arched back and twisted waist. Sometimes you may even NG by putting your finger in the wrong position. After adapting to shooting photos, it’ll be easier to adapt to filming.”
Jiang Dao: …
Is Director Mu so terrifying?
After busying themselves from morning to dark, the photo shoot was finally finished.
Xiang Yunru packed away the clothing and handed them to Chu Yinlong and Jiang Dao with a smile. “It happens that I have your measurements. I’ll go back and customize a few sets of formal clothes for Xiao Dao, which he can wear for formal occasions.”
Chu Yinlong beckoned for the assistant to take the package of clothing, and said: “After going back, send me a copy of the originals.”
Xiang Yunru raised her eyebrows: “I have never heard of a spokesperson who’ll ask a brand for the originals after shooting an advertisement.”
Chu Yinlong took it for granted: “Are you going to give it or not?”
Xiang Yunru smiled. “It’s rare for you, as a brother, to agree to my requests, so of course I’ll agree. Why don’t I design a few sets of same-sex wedding clothes the next time, let the photographer arrange a wedding scene set, and take a few close-ups of Xiao Dao. What do you think?”
Chu Yinlong: …
HAHAHAHAHA. Chu Yinlong gets pitted
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