After Waking up Beside the Villain

It turned out that Yin Zheng really thought too much.

After Chu Yunsheng sent Yuan Meng back, he did not express any opinion on Yin Zheng’s move to the living room; He was very calm.

In order to celebrate the addition of Chu Yunsheng and Yin Zheng, Director Zhang Feifan gave out a thousand yuan red packet in the evening and invited the crew to a restaurant to bring everyone closer.

Most of the crew members were from Zhang Feifan’s old team; they were strict, but there was nothing messy.

Besides, no matter how down they were, Chu Yunsheng and Yin Zheng were much higher-level than this small crew, so no one would stupidly say anything they weren’t clear about. They all drank and chatted, and the atmosphere at the dinner table was harmonious.

The crew had a script reading the next morning, so there was nothing else planned for the evening.

Chu Yunsheng didn’t drink much. He went back to the room to take a shower, and laid down early to sleep.

He was not Ironman. The hecticness of these days had exhausted him. As soon as his head hit the pillow, his consciousness immediately left him.

Completely opposite to Mr. Chu was Yin Zheng who tossed and turned in the small living room to protect his ass.

He had been suffering from insomnia recently, and with Chu Yunsheng sleeping in the bedroom next door, Yin Zheng was worried. He wrapped two layers of quilt around his waist and buttocks, leaning his back against the wall, still feeling unsafe. He woke up three or four times that night, dreaming that Chu Yunsheng had lifted his quilt and touched him.

Yin Zheng felt that he could never bear this grievance before, but now, he had no choice but to bear it.

The next morning, a script reading was held in the director’s room.

Chu Yunsheng, who was in high spirits, and Yin Zheng, who seemed to be hollowed out, occupied the two single-seat sofas and read the revised second draft script without interfering with each other.

On another couch, the director, screenwriter, and producer were all about to start a fight.

All three parties had different opinions on the revised script, and they each held their own thoughts, disagreeing with each other.

Screenwriter Wang was naturally the most satisfied with his script. He didn’t want to make a third revision, which was not only time-consuming and laborious, it may overturn the original character design and logic.

Compared to TV dramas, movies paid more attention to the logic and plot of each link. Once there was a problem with the rhythm, the level of the whole movie would be greatly reduced.

Director Zhang Feifan was a typical artist. He was very optimistic about the script, but always felt that there was something missing in it, so he wanted to change it.

Meanwhile, the producer hoped that the script could abandon some of its obscure and sensitive parts so that it would enhance the film’s ability to make money.

With the recent crackdowns, coupled with the fact that Zhang Feifan was not a director with a strong backing, he didn’t want to spend the money to finish the film only for it to be censored in the end due to sensitive content.

The three parties were fighting tooth to nail.

At first, Chu Yunsheng planned to listen in, but later found that the noise was getting more and more ridiculous. So he acted deaf and started to read the script.

In all honesty, the script of “Sky Blue Murder” was really not bad.

It wasn’t a commercial, nor an art film; its protagonist wasn’t even a likable character.

But what this script wanted to discuss was somewhat different from most Republic of China films or anti-Japanese films in the market.

The protagonist of “Sky Blue Murder”, that is, the role that Chu Yunsheng was going to play, was a trafficker during the Republic of China, called Yuan Qing.

Human trafficking had existed since ancient times and reached its peak in the later period of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China due to the chaotic times.

Yuan Qing was born in a poor mountain valley. When he was six years old, he was targeted by traffickers because of his outstanding appearance and deceived. The traffickers sold Yuan Qing to a young couple in the city.

The young couple was highly educated but had no children, so they treat Yuan Qing very well.

Unfortunately, good times didn’t last long. Yuan Qing’s young adoptive father was shot and killed by military police on the street during a protest march. His adoptive mother was injured and had to take a lot of medicine.

At this time, Yuan Qing was only in his early teens, and he was raised very well, with fine skin and tender flesh. He was a child who workers on the dock wouldn’t want. So he had to go from house to house begging for food.

In that era of starvation and death, no one had extra leftovers for Yuan Qing, only some big families didn’t care and would occasionally show kindness and give him a little.

Because of his good looks and glib tongue, Yuan Qing often went to a few wealthy houses in the city. But it was precisely because of his exquisite appearance that Yuan Qing was taken a fancy to by an old man of a wealthy family.

The old man accepted Yuan Qing as a servant and agreed to treat Yuan Qing’s adoptive mother. Yuan Qing once regarded the old man as his great benefactor.

But on an ordinary night a few years later, the old man assaulted Yuan Qing. Yuan Qing resisted and ran away, and accidentally killed the old man.

It was here that the story of the film began.

For the first time, Yuan Qing had a life on his hands.

Human life was a completely different existence in the human mind. People can kill chickens and geese, cattle and sheep, without much psychological burden, but killing another human was different.

Yuan Qing’s days were depressing and frantic; hallucinations of the old man would appear from time to time.

He escaped to a small town, but unexpectedly met the traffickers who had kidnapped him before.

Like crazy, he killed the trafficker and took over the trafficker’s property – a few young children.

He sat in the shabby house with leaks everywhere, staring blankly at the skinny and hungry children all night.

In such a world, if he let them go, it was akin to sending them to death. But Yuan Qing himself was only a teenager, unable to support so many mouths. These children were also too young to remember where their homes were, and they couldn’t go home.

Yuan Qing finally decided to sell them.