Chapter 24 Snow (Part 1) (Second Update Seeking Recommendations)

  Thank you for the vote of appreciation from the softest classmate, thank you for the reward from Beifeng Qianqi classmate.

  Tried to speed up the pace and cut out some of the plot.

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  The result of this visit was, in Xiuying's words, too disappointing.

  They excitedly followed the crew to the filming location, wanting to watch a romantic and beautiful scene. However, when they arrived, they found that what was shown on TV was indeed fake. The filming location was just a KTV, along with a small alley behind it. In late October, Seoul was shrouded in a lingering cold wave, with gusts of cold wind blowing down, especially at night, the wind howled fiercely, like a giant blade composed of invisible knives, rampaging through the streets and alleys of the city.

  When the kissing scene was being filmed, it was already late at night and extremely cold. The actresses were dressed in down jackets just like the crew members, but Ahn Hyo-seop and Lim Ju-yeon, who were wearing thin clothes, shivered as they finished filming this scene. After the director yelled "cut", they removed their makeup and both of their lips had turned dark purple from the cold, without any hint of romance or warmth.

  The only scene that made a few girls feel worth rushing to was An Junhe singing the national anthem in a ghostly howl at KTV.

  Watching him struggle to get the sound right, making himself shout in disarray, turning a good national anthem into a mess, and considering his identity as a singer, with over a dozen NGs (no goods) and repeatedly emitting ear-piercing noises, several girls were holding back their laughter so hard that their stomachs hurt.

  After finishing this set of shots, following together back to the nanny car, the girls' giggles burst out again and could no longer be suppressed.

  Wrapped in a blanket and holding a thermos of hot coffee to warm himself up, An Junhe looked at them helplessly and said, "Had enough laughter?"

  Su-young and Yoon-ah responded with even more brazen and loud laughter.

  But this rare teasing only lasted for a while, and after not too long in the van, the assistant director came over to notify that the next scene was about to start, which was a rainy scene. According to the script, Cha Woo-hyuk, in order to take revenge on his brother Choi Yoon, seduces Min-joo and intentionally appears in front of Choi Yoon.

  The main acting skills in this scene are concentrated on Zhang Zhenxiong, who plays Cui Yun, so An Junhe doesn't have much to prepare for. After warming up his body, he goes to the makeup room to put on his makeup.

  When he reappeared, his new look left the girls in a state of astonishment.

  His hair was combed to perfection, a mature and elegant tea-colored glasses, a neatly trimmed rectangular mustache on his upper lip. His temperament was mature and strong, just standing there made people feel as if they saw a sword hidden in its scabbard, tempting them to draw it out while also having a subtle sense of danger. Compared to the original tragic, cold, decadent, and hateful characters he was supposed to portray, this one was more in line with his original temperament - steady, sharp, shining brightly in everyone's field of vision, impossible to ignore.

  "Wow... This is what a mature man looks like..." Soo-young stared blankly at Ahn Joon-hee, who had walked out of the dressing room, muttering to herself in a daze: "I want to take a bite..."

  YoonA, Yuri, and TaeYeon looked over with strange gazes, even SooYoung, who hadn't been in a good mood, widened her eyes.

  She accepted their gaze without any shame, pouting her mouth: "Is it wrong to like mature men? Mature men are more stable, gentle and tolerant, they can accommodate my little temper, much better than those immature kids."

  "Huh?" Several girls pouted and waved their hands in a shooing motion.

  Xiao Xian, who felt a bit embarrassed about the topic, pulled at Xiu Ying, who was just about to continue promoting her aesthetic views: "Sister, there are so many people here, don't say those strange things!"

  Xiu Ying looked left and right, then innocently blinked: "Who's there? Don't disturb me, I'm watching a handsome guy!"

  Several colleagues next to me who always glance over with their eyes looked down a bit dispiritedly, Ah, being ignored by the MM...

  An Junhe had just walked out of the dressing room, and the staff who had already packed up were surrounding him to rush to the filming location. The distance from this alley was not far away, just at the end of the road outside the alley, several girls also excitedly followed up. When they arrived, the sprinkler truck had already arrived, and some people who had arrived early were setting up equipment. Zhang Zhensheng and Xu Zhiying, who had been waiting there for a long time, were leaning against the filming cart, pointing and gesturing at the sprinkler truck in front of them.

  Just as he walked closer, he heard Zhang Genxu lamenting: "...... acting in the rain ...... on such a cold day, I'll die!"

  "Don't worry, it's not zero yet, just bear with it and it'll pass." Xu Zhiying comforted with a suppressed smile.

  "You're talking lightly, but you don't have to get rained on... Why isn't this scene me sitting in the car and Jun-hee hyung outside?"

  "Oh, is that what you think?" An Junhe walked up behind them and patted his shoulder with a hint of a smile.

  Zhāng Gēn Shuò, who was just complaining, suddenly had an epiphany and immediately stopped his grievances. He turned around in an instant and put on a flattering smile: "No way, haha, brother must have misheard..."

  "I didn't mishear, he just said he wants you to stay outside in the rain." Xu Zhiying chuckled and said.

  "Xiang Gen Shuo suddenly had a resentful expression, 'Sister, which side are you on? In the drama, we're supposed to be a couple, okay?'"

  Xu Zhiying smiled and hugged Ahn Jun-hee's arm, leaning her head on his shoulder with a dependent look: "Min-ju is of course on the side of Woo-hyuk hyung! You got kicked by me, Choi Yoon little brother!"

  An Junhe smiled as he watched the two of them fooling around. In the crew, he and Lin Xiujing were one steady and one quiet, and there weren't many lively moments. Their usual happiness came from these two immature guys. After many days of being together, now looking at them was like looking at his own younger brother and sister.

  The three of them chatted for a while, and Xu Zhiying asked him about the girls he brought along. An Junhe explained that they were younger colleagues from the same company with whom he had a good relationship, similar to that of sisters.

  Zhang Gen Shuo casually said: "Another day when I'm free, brother will introduce us to each other!"

  An Junhe was about to respond, memories of the dream suddenly recalled a rumor about Jang Keun Suk and a member of Girls' Generation, impression is a bit fuzzy, seems it's because of a TV drama, the female lead in the rumor is... YoonA?

  This sudden memory left him stunned, his gaze passing over the isolation tape pulled up by the crew, looking at the girls on the periphery who were excitedly gazing this way, Yoon-ah, who was squeezed in at the very front, her pretty face flushing red in the cold wind, seeing him look over, was excitedly waving towards him.

  An Junhe also waved his hand in response, and then looked at Jang Keun-suk with a strange gaze, "Give up on that idea!"

  "Huh?" Zhang Gensheng's face was filled with confusion.

  ……

  This scene was quickly finished, and as "Cui Yun" walked back to his car in the rain with a lost soul, the director's voice echoed from afar, shouting "cut".

  The entire crew suddenly became busy, Jang Keun-suk's manager and assistant rushed over with a blanket to wrap around Jang Keun-suk who was getting out of the car and continuously sneezing, taking him aside to warm up. Ahn Jun-hee and Yoo Ji-young also gathered around, chatting with him to divert his attention, otherwise thinking about the cold would make it easier to get tense, in this kind of weather, muscle strain and hypoxia were possible.

  But before they could rest for a while, the assistant director came to inform them that the three of them should hurry up and get ready, as there was another scene waiting to be shot.

  The current crew atmosphere is like this, everything is racing against time, and there are rarely opportunities to rest. Even so, Director Lee Hyung-min still thinks it's slow. After Ahn Jun-hee asked Won-seong to help send a few girls home that day, they continued filming until dawn before finishing work.

  "No way to rush, announcing the premiere date is just one reason, another problem is that the weather is getting colder and colder, once winter comes, I'm afraid of snow!"

  On the second day, Zhang Genshuo caught a cold and didn't rest well, had a high fever but still had to participate in filming. An Junhe turned to the director and asked if they were rushing too much, Li Hengmin smiled bitterly and said:

  "...Before the premiere date, I have to film enough content to edit into 10 or 11 episodes. If not, in case it really snows, this drama will be finished."

  His concerns are not unreasonable, in the autumn and winter seasons of Seoul, although it is dry and waterless, once the rain and snow start, the scale is also unusually large, and the duration is long. Sometimes accompanied by strong winds from the north, at that time, the shooting task will definitely be delayed. After all, this is not a sitcom, except for indoor scenes that can rely on sets, all other scenes need to be shot on location, and the weather of wind and snow will undoubtedly cause great difficulties.

  Fortunately, in the following days, although the weather was gloomy due to the cold wave and it got colder outside, it did not turn into a severe situation as he had said. Everyone was busy, working day and night under the director's pressure, and finally finished filming all the content of the first 11 episodes on the last day of October.

  The entire crew let out a collective sigh of relief, suddenly released from their tense state, and people couldn't help but feel a bit slack, with morale temporarily sagging. Staff members frequently appeared distracted, and even the actors were affected. Li Hengmin saw this and announced that they would be taking the next two days off.

  "Take two days off, where are you guys going to play?"

  It was close to midnight, not long after the end of work. In the dressing room where several leading actors were, Zhang Zhongshuo, who had been suffering from a cold for many days and hadn't recovered yet, finally had some energy and asked with great interest:

  "What's the point? Let's just find a place to sleep for two days!" Xu Zhiying said, shrugging her shoulders as she looked at the dark circles under her eyes after removing her makeup.

  "Where's Xiujing?"

  "I'm going home..." Similarly, Soo-jung, who couldn't hide her fatigue, smiled lightly and glanced at Ahn Joon-young. Just as she was about to say something else, Joo Ji-young suddenly said: "Soo-jung unnie, can I stay at your place? If I go home, my parents will definitely scold me again."

  "......Alright!" Lin Xiujing's smile had a momentary loss, then became clear and bright again, answering like this.

  Jang Geun-seok pouted slightly and looked at Ahn Jun-hee, "Jun-hee hyung?"

  An Junhe, who was fiddling with his hair, turned around and smiled: "Me? I'm going home too!"

  It's been a long time since I went back, and every day I can only spare a little time to chat with Zhixiu on the phone. It's been so long since we last met, I don't know if she has lost weight or gained some. According to Meishan, Huiying and Yuna often go over to keep her company, now she is much more cheerful and no longer locks herself in like before, sometimes she even goes down to the garden on the ground floor of the apartment building and takes a stroll around in her wheelchair.

  It's just that I miss him a bit and need to stay in his bedroom for a while every day.

  "This silly girl..." Thinking of Zhī Xiù, a warm smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, he took out his phone to call her, but then put it down again.

  Never mind, I'll go back tomorrow morning and give her a surprise.

  With such a slightly mischievous idea, I chatted with several people for a while, and then returned to the room prepared by the crew, falling asleep soundly accompanied by the midnight wind outside the window...

  ……

  The next morning, he was woken up by the ringing of the alarm clock. He poked his head out from under the warm quilt, opened his eyes, and saw that the sky was unusually bright. After a moment's daze, he saw that outside the tightly closed window, snowflakes were dancing in the wind like willow catkins, and the world had turned into a silver white landscape.

  On the first day of November, the winter's first snow in Seoul came quietly...