Chapter 778 Insecurity and bitterness
?"Cut!"
Director Murong shook his head. "Where is your attention Cheng Yin? This is not how you have performed all this time. Your mind and your heart don't feel in the same place."
Yin stiffened and embarrassment flashed in his eyes. "I am sorry, Director. I will do the next take correctly."
"No, I don't think so. You don't seem to be in the moment. Your mind is wandering somewhere. Until that gets fixed, we won't go anywhere with the shooting. Let's take a break and get back."
Yin headed straight to his make-up roomz gnashing his jaw. He looked at himself in the mirror and exhaled a deep breath. He then felt a gentle poke on his cheek and glanced at the side.
Chyou pursed her lips, worried. "Is something bothering you, Yin?"
He tried to smile. "Not really. Maybe I'm not just in the zone."
"Yin, we are together. I want us to share our joys and sorrows and hard times with each other. We can think about it and find a solution for it together. Nothing can be impossible then!" She beamed and tried to lighten up the mood. "The Queen always has a solution hohoho!"
The awkwardness to initiate the conversation was clearly evident. Even so, he went ahead and said, "...I wasn't aware that there were," he coughed lightly, "marriage talks going between you and Gu Yating before."
Chyou blinked at him and opened and parted her lips. The realization then dawned upon her.
"Wait, are you worried about the viral video?"
A violent surge of bitterness swept in his chest. He didn't want to admit it but seeing the two together in the video was enough to make his furious sparks fly. But at the same time, he didn't want to sound petty and insecure because he knew that Chyou loved him. It was foolish to doubt her, so he locked up those ugly emotions. N♡vεlB¡n: A Haven for Bookworms and Dreamers.
But the moment he heard that at some point, there were potential marriage talks going on between them, the wave of hateful, intense jealousy crashed once again.
Chyou laughed and shook her head. "It wouldn't be like that between us."
She then asked, "Are you sure it will be fine if I do the commercial with Yating? Look, you don't have to get stressed at all because of that. It's my Dad anyway. I can just tell him that work is really keeping me busy. He would be cool with it."
Yin was extremely tempted to take that offer and he had almost said yes to it. But he didn't want her to have a shitty image of him, a boyfriend who controlled and dictated what she should do and she shouldn't.
"I am cool with the commercial, Chyou. It won't take much time anyway," he shrugged.
"...O-okay."
She left his room after the conversation and bit her lower lip, thinking about something. She went back to her own makeup room and dialed Xiaosi's number.
"Dad."
"Hey, what's up?"
Chyou cleared her throat. "Well, I was just thinking if I could withdraw from the commercial? You know, this movie is quite the big one and Director Murong is very demanding. So I don't know if I will really get the time hehe~"
There was silence at the end.
"Did anybody say anything to you?"
"Of course not. It's just that I am finally realizing the scale of this movie and the Director's expectations. It's so exhausting. I know someone who will be perfect for the commercial with Yating."
Xiaosi said nothing. At one point, Chyou wondered if the call got disconnected but it wasn't.
Ah? Why isn't he saying anything?
"I will talk to Director Murong about your workload and accordingly adjust your schedule for the commercial. The collaboration will go as planned. Don't worry about anything. I won't let anything exhaust my daughter."