In the next few days, the weather was not sunny, and the temperature dropped slightly, but filming went smoothly, and there were no more sudden avalanches.
However, in the last scene, Jiang Dao’s snowboard accidentally jammed, causing him to somersault down the slope. He finally got up again near the end, and completed the last leg successfully.
The medical and nursing team waiting at the foot of the mountain rushed forward and pressed Jiang Dao onto the stretcher without any explanation.
Chu Yinlong didn’t even bother to drink hot water. He rushed to the stretcher with red eyes, his voice trembling: “Xiao Dao! How are you? Are you injured? Is there any pain?”
Jiang Dao’s tone was calm: “My right shoulder may be twisted, but I don’t feel any injuries anywhere else for the time being. It’s just cold, a lot of snow went down my neck.”
In fact, the snow was quite thick and it wasn’t that bad. If he was seriously injured, he wouldn’t be able to regain his balance and get back on his feet to finish the slide down.
At this time, the assistant director’s voice came from the walkie-talkie: “This shot is done. It doesn’t matter if you fall down in the middle, we can cut it later, or use it as is. Chu Yinlong you can watch the recording and decide. If we need to reshoot, we can use a stand-in.”
Chu Yinlong immediately agreed: “Okay, let’s do that.”
After replying, he said to the medical nurse, “Contact the helicopter and send Jiang Dao down the mountain first.”
Fortunately, Jiang Dao’s last outdoor scene was filmed, so even if he was absent, it wouldn’t impact their schedule much. He didn’t refuse either to reassure Chu Yinlong.
The helicopter quickly took Jiang Dao to the hospital. After inspection, only the shoulder sprain was serious, and the rest were minor bruises that did not require medical treatment.
Even the doctor couldn’t help but tease: “A famous star is still extravagant. Willing to spend a few thousand to fly a helicopter. For this kind of injury, it won’t even cost a thousand to heal.”
“That’s right!” Jiang Dao smiled. “If it was just me, I’d just buy a plaster patch and apply it.”
That night, Chu Yinlong also came down the mountain and went straight to the observation ward where Jiang Dao stayed.
Seeing the attending doctor making his rounds, Jiang Dao pointed at Chu Yinlong with a smile, and said to the doctor, “It’s him, he sent me by helicopter to be hospitalized. Do you think it’s a waste of money?”
The doctor didn’t have stage fright. He smiled and told Chu Yinlong the conversation between the two of them in the afternoon.
Who knows, Chu Yinlong’s reaction was: “You think I’m too good to him and am willing to spend money, but have you ever thought about it? He has to continue filming for more than three months, and more than half of it will be fierce fighting. He has no time to nurse his shoulder according to the doctor’s orders. It may be expensive now, but it’s in exchange for injuries and illnesses years later.”
The doctor was stunned for a moment, and then smiled helplessly: “That’s right. I don’t make movies or understand, but I will definitely not stop working for a month because of a slight shoulder injury.”
After speaking, he looked at Chu Yinlong again. “However, you should pay attention. Give him at least two weeks to recover, don’t arrange any other physical shots. Is this okay?”
“Don’t worry.” Of course, Chu Yinlong doesn’t want to harm Jiang Dao either.
After chatting a bit longer, the doctor left the ward. Chu Yinlong sat down beside Jiang Dao’s bed, and explained: “I flew you to the hospital because I was afraid that you would have a fever at night. Filming in the mountains is really tiring, and with your injury…”
“I know, I was joking.” Jiang Dao interrupted with a smile. “One night is okay. But why didn’t you go back to the hotel but came here instead? Where’s the assistant? He didn’t follow?”
“He’s in the car. I’ll go back soon.” Chu Yinlong took Jiang Dao’s hand and gently rubbed his fingertips.
“So you’re not insisting on staying this time?” Jiang Dao asked with a smile.
“Last time I was forced back to the hotel by you guys, so I won’t bother this time.” Chu Yinlong couldn’t help smiling. “And you’re already mine. Not cherishing something in hand, isn’t this normal?”
Hearing him joking, Jiang Dao was amused, and deliberately played along. “I told you! You don’t worry about me at all during this dangerous snowboarding scene. You really don’t cherish me at all!”
Neither of them took these jokes seriously.
Chu Yinlong pinched the tip of Jiang Dao’s nose and said, “It’s not that I don’t worry… But, after getting along with you for so long, what you can and can’t do, what you care about or not, and what you say or don’t say, I know more than before. And I am more at ease with your own judgment.”
He looked at Jiang Dao and said in a low voice, “At least, I know that if you really want me to accompany you, you will definitely say it straight.”
“Yes, if I want to act coquettish with you, I will definitely not be polite.” Jiang Dao smiled back.
He turned his palms, intertwined his fingers with Chu Yinlong, and shook them slightly. “If we were on Director Mu’s crew, he would definitely pester you. But this is your crew, and you are the chief director, and also the backbone of the crew. You should go back.”
Chu Yinlong glanced at the door of the ward to check that it was tightly closed. Then he turned back and kissed Jiang Dao with confidence.
After the hot and long kiss ended, he rubbed the boy’s head. “Then I’ll go first, call me if you have anything.”
…
After filming the snowboarding scenes, there were still some outdoor scenes that needed to be filmed on the mountainside.
However, they were literary scenes that only needed to be shot in a coniferous forest with heavy snow. After one day of observation in the hospital, Jiang Dao returned to the crew the next day.
Even though Jiang Dao observed Jacque a lot, and tried his best to understand and imitate his exquisite noble bearing, when it comes to the actual shooting, he wasn’t yet fully able to control his character well.
“No, your expression is a bit too forceful.” Chu Yinlong taught him patiently. “He thinks the other party’s statement is wrong, but it’s not worth the extra effort to refute it. He should show disdain instead of contempt. Try again.”
“Okay.” Jiang Dao nodded, recalled the description in the script, and pondered for a while. “Again.”
There weren’t many snowy mountainside scenes. The crew wrapped up in two days and moved to another location – the Gobi desert somewhere in northwest China.
Since there are many scenes to film and the distance between towns is very far, the crew simply allocated an RV as a residence and a dressing room for each lead actor. The rest of the supporting cast, stand-ins, and staff continued to live in tents, and stayed directly in the desert during filming.
On the way to the shooting location, Jiang Dao was lying on the bed of the luxury RV, and suddenly remembered the “good show” he heard with Chu Yinlong while hiding in the RV at the auto show.
He couldn’t help laughing, took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Chu Yinlong: “The RV is good, let’s buy one later. I haven’t done it in an RV before!”
Chu Yinlong replied almost in seconds: “…don’t learn such stuff.”
Jiang Dao continued: “Why don’t you come and stay in my car at night?”
Chu Yinlong: “I think you’re afraid that the crew won’t know our relationship.”
At the same time, as the team of Chu Yinlong Studio, the logistics, styling, and makeup teams are naturally the same people from “Operation Red Owl” before. The “Red Owl Logistics Makeup and Modeling Sugar Picking Group” officially changed its name to “LongDao Ghost Face Bottle Sugar Factory”, and became lively again.
Modeling: “@Logistics, come out for me! Why are so many RVs arranged? [big cry]”
Logistics: “I can’t carry the blame. The number of cars is ordered by Assistant Yang. I also want to make Father Long and Xiao Dao live together [cry]”
Make-up: “Hahahaha aren’t you two exaggerating? Even if they’re really together, in the end, they haven’t made it public yet, so they can’t show too much in the crew!”
Unexpectedly, everyone’s “disappointment” did not last long, and the opportunity for Jiang Dao and Chu Yinlong to live in the same RV came – one of the supporting actresses became slightly ill given the harsh climate, large temperature difference, and because she was on her menstrual period. Although it was not serious, it was not suitable for her to live in a tent with poor thermal insulation.
So, Jiang Dao gave up his RV and ran to sleep on the sofa in Chu Yinlong’s car.
“It’s called couch surfing, but Teacher Chu won’t be so cruel and let me sleep on the tiny sofa?”
That night, Jiang Dao got out of the shower and rolled into Chu Yinlong’s bed unceremoniously with a smile on his face. “Give me half a bed. I will pay for it, such as… pay off the debt with my body?”
Chu Yinlong lifted the quilt, pushed him inside, while gnashing his teeth. “Be calm! No fooling around outside.”
Jiang Dao bit the edge of his lower lip with his teeth, and gave Chu Yinlong a wicked smile. “Be gentle, I won’t make a sound. Everyone is asleep, no one can hear…”
Chu Yinlong’s throat bobbed. After a moment, he still refused: “Go to sleep, stop making trouble.”
Jiang Dao took out the things he had secretly hidden from under the pillow, and leaned on the bed with a corner of the package in his mouth, resting his head with one hand, and looked at Chu Yin with a smile.
Chu Yinlong gritted his teeth, looked away from what Jiang Dao was holding with difficulty, and turned off the light: “Sleep!”
Then he heard the slight sound of the packaging bag being torn open, followed by Jiang Dao’s nasally smirk. “It’s okay, you sleep with yours, I’ll play with mine.”
Unable to bear it anymore, Chu Yinlong grabbed Jiang Dao’s arm, turned him over and pressed him on the bed, and bit him on the back of his neck as if in revenge.
“You asked for it yourself,” the man’s voice was low and dangerous, and a fiery palm covered Jiang Dao’s mouth, “Don’t make a sound.”
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