radicalducati Chapter 9 Unconventional Approach
Chapter 9 Unconventional Approach
"We'll talk about it later, let me browse my phone for a bit first." Li Shen took his phone out of his pocket again.
Tian Xiwei stood with her hands on her hips, glaring angrily at Li Shen for a full three minutes. Li Shen remained unmoved, focused on scrolling through his phone.
As she turned to get another storage bag, Li Shen finally moved, and a rustling sound came from within.
When she turned around, she found that Li Shen had changed from a supine position to a prone position. He was lying on the tent fabric, his hands supporting his chin, his thick eyebrows and big eyes staring straight at the phone screen.
Tian Xiwei's lips trembled slightly, but she didn't say anything and walked towards her tent storage bag.
10:05 AM:
Tian Xiwei spread the tent fabric out on the beach;
Li Shen was lying down, scrolling through his phone.
10:13 AM:
After studying it for a long time, Tian Xiwei finally managed to thread a skeleton through the tent fabric and laboriously propped up one corner of the large tent.
Li Shen was lying on his side, scrolling through his phone.
10:17 AM:
The erected tent collapsed with a loud crash, and Tian Xiwei cried out "Ah!"
Li Shen lay flat on his back, crossed his legs, and continued scrolling through his phone;
……
RV area.
The production team was stunned.
They've seen scumbags before, but not this scumbag. Even if they were writing a script, they wouldn't dare to write about him.
In the group of Yoko/Hwang Seung-yi, Yoko deliberately showed indifference towards Hwang Seung-yi in order to demonstrate her domineering and chauvinistic side. She made Hwang Seung-yi pull her suitcase and wash her clothes, and at most treated Hwang Seung-yi like an assistant.
But for Li Shen/Tian Xiwei...
Li Shen was leisurely playing on his phone, while Tian Xiwei was huffing and puffing as she set up the huge tent all by herself... Was he treating Tian Xiwei like a servant?
The viewers in the live chat were furious, and Chen Lan even stomped her foot angrily: "How can this bastard be so annoying?!"
Staff member: "Director Liu, Li Shen and Yangzi's characters overlap in this aspect. How should we edit the final cut tonight?"
Liu Qing was holding an iPad and watching the live stream, and she clicked on the live stream perspective of [Yangzi/Huang Shengyi].
At this moment, inside the villa, Yoko sat in the living room, chatting with the other guests, and instructed his wife, Huang Shengyi, to fetch water for washing his feet.
Li Hangliang stared in astonishment at the humble Huang Shengyi, who obeyed his every word.
Yoko lazily nestled into the sofa, her gaze unconsciously drifting to the camera in the corner, her eyebrows twitching smugly.
Liu Qing looked at everything with a deep gaze, put down the tablet, and looked at the monitor. The details of the beach scene were displayed in real time before her eyes.
Li Shen casually swung his legs across his back while scrolling through his phone, while Tian Xiwei laboriously set up the enormous tent.
She tapped the monitor: "That's it! For the Yoko/Hwang Seung-yi group, when making the final cut, cut out the similar scenes like the foot bath scene, and keep the highlight moments of Li Shen/Tian Xiwei."
Staff member: "Okay!"
Chen Lan: "A highlight moment?"
Who the hell has the highlighter?!
Holy crap, he got all the spotlight, but my poor Tianbao is suffering!
Liu Qing added, "By the way, in the future, when Li Shen and Yangzi appear in such male-dominated scenarios, cut off Yangzi's character and keep Li Shen's."
"Okay, Director Liu."
Chen Lan's eyes widened: "Male supremacy? Female inferiority?!"
She seemed to be hallucinating.
She was extremely familiar with the four words "male superior, female inferior" and "female inferior". In the past, she always used "female superior and male inferior" to accurately describe the relationship between Li Shen and Tian Xiwei, and everyone agreed with it.
But now, after Liu Qing reversed the order of these words, although the words were still the same four characters, she seemed not to recognize them anymore, just as she seemed not to recognize Li Shen anymore.
Chen Lan looked at the distant beach, completely bewildered.
Why does he seem so unfamiliar?!
Liu Qing squinted at the monitor: "There's absolutely no trace of acting; Li Shen is a total scumbag! Haha!"
The monitor screen suddenly started shaking. Liu Qing frowned, picked up the walkie-talkie, and questioned the video cameraman, "Xiao Wang, why are you shaking like that? Don't you want to work here anymore?!"
VJ Xiao Wang's hand holding the equipment trembled violently.
He thought to himself with resentment: I want to do it! I want to beat Li Shen up, he's so infuriating!
A die-hard Oda fan, I can't stand it!
……
At this time.
The tent collapsed for the third time.
In a fit of anger, Tian Xiwei turned and left.
"You've been on the beach for almost half an hour, and you've only exchanged a few words. Don't you have anything you want to discuss with Oda?"
Li Shen looked up, and at that moment the videographer was already in front of him.
In principle, VJs should not disturb the people they are filming. However, if a guest has a long period of zero interaction, the production team can conduct an off-screen interview to break the ice.
Li Shen shook his head: "Not for now."
"It's been six years."
Li Shen did not answer, and his gaze returned to the phone screen.
"At this moment, after six years of separation, is a cell phone more important than a first love?"
Li Shen glanced at the time, nodded slightly, and then frantically scrolled through messages.
Xiao Wang was stunned for a moment.
Damn, I've seen scumbags before, but I've never seen one so frankly scumbag!
Is it okay for you to be so sincere?
I'll teach you to be a scumbag, I'll teach you to be a scumbag!
Xiao Wang zoomed in, giving Li Shen's face a huge close-up, determined to show Li Shen's wicked face to all the viewers.
Xiao Wang tried hard to control his emotions: "Aren't you worried about hurting Xiao Tian by talking like that? Is hurting Xiao Tian your goal right now?"
Li Shen frowned: "First of all, I have a habit of either not speaking or telling the truth. Sincerity and honesty are the best ways to reduce communication barriers."
"Secondly, harming Tian Xiwei has never been my intention."
Xiao Wang: Ha!
Li Shen: "My wish is for you to be quiet."
Xiao Wang: "???"
Xiao Wang understood: If you won't hurt Tian Xiwei, then you can hurt me, right?
According to the "scumbag's ability to perpetuate scumbag behavior" principle: harm never disappears out of thin air; it only transfers from one victim to another.
Xiao Wang's face turned ashen, his skin trembling with rage. Liu Qing's furious roar came through his earphones: "Stop shaking! Stop fucking shaking! This close-up shot is going to boost the viewership!"
"Let him play for a while. His phone is more important to him than me right now," Tian Xiwei said leisurely, arms crossed, looking at the sea.
"Thanks."
Tian Xiwei turned around abruptly, staring intently at Li Shen, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief: "Huh? What did you just say?"
"Thank you." Li Shen gave her a grateful look.
Tian Xiwei's lips trembled, not with anger, not with resentment, nothing at all, just a moment of utter speechlessness.
Thank you so much?
She'd never met anyone with this kind of speaking style before!
Where is this going?
Six years later, when they met again, Tian Xiwei felt a great sense of unfamiliarity with Li Shen's words and actions. Moreover, she was often at a loss because of Li Shen's unpredictable behavior.
The close-up shots were extremely exaggerated, completely filling the live stream with Li Shen's face, while the live chat was flooded with comments:
Sincerity is the only essential skill for a scoundrel!
[Can "thank you" really sound so jarring?]
[How come I can't keep up with this jerk's thought process?]
[Xiaotian: Was I cheated on by my phone?]
[Phone: Am I the other woman?]
[There are too many comments, let me clear the screen first and see his hateful face!]
[I'll clear my screen, take a screenshot, and remember his shameless smile forever!]
[I set the screenshot as my wallpaper, and every time I turn on the screen, I curse him as a scumbag!]
[Are you trying to insult him? Or are you trying to sleep with him? I don't want to expose you!]
[Sisters, wake up! Hey, where did your comments go? Mine are gone too!]
……
Liu Qing was laughing at the comments when she suddenly heard a soft "click-click-click..." sound behind her.
Is the equipment malfunctioning?
Liu Qing turned around and saw her female assistant holding a phone, frantically taking screenshots.