Chasing the Light - Chapter 8

The recording of ‘Raiders of Heaven’ took place at the beginning of December in a provincial capital city in the south. Liang Xincheng took three days off from the crew and flew to the recording location accompanied by his assistant.

The program team arranged a hotel and he was the last one to arrive. The six permanent casts and six guests met in the conference room of the hotel the night before the official recording to determine the general process for the next two days. Even if it was a reality show, there was still a basic script.

During the period, Liang Xincheng did not express any opinions. Not only that he was not familiar with the setting of the show at all, the six permanent casts were also all big-name seniors, so it was not his turn to give opinions.

Xia Yuanhang sat with Ding Yao and another guest from their company named Liu Sheng, talking in low voices from time to time.

Shengxing was the partner of this program. Half of the people in this so-called popular fresh meat special are from Shengxing. Except for Xia Yuanhang who was indeed popular, Ding Yao was still just a newcomer, Liu Sheng was nearly 30 years old but had not been popular, and all of them were stuck here because of their company.

Liang Xincheng absent-mindedly listened to the program director’s explanation while scrolling his phone in boredom. The person sitting next to him suddenly came closer, making the strong smell of perfume come to his face. Liang Xincheng subconsciously turned to the side and met a magnified smiling face.

“Hello, I’m Wei Xishuang, add WeChat.”

This person was the last one to enter the door just now, only Liang Xincheng was left with a vacant seat next to him so he came directly to sit down. Liang Xincheng didn’t notice him before. However, although he didn’t know Wei Xishuang, he had heard of the name before. He was also a very popular traffic in the past two years. His and Xie Yuanghang’s names often appear in various fresh meat lists and were put together to be criticized and judged by people.

Liang Xincheng didn’t expect someone to come up and ask to add his WeChat. Normally, for this kind of cooperation and exchange of contact information, the default one should be Weibo that was for the public, but it was also okay to reach out his hand but not hitting the smiling face1 and give him his WeChat. Anyway, he had two accounts.

After the verification passed, Wei Xishuang smiled and shook his phone at him: “Let’s also follow each other on Weibo too by the way.”

Liang Xincheng nodded indifferently and clicked the follow back as soon as the other party followed him.

The next day’s official recording began at eight in the morning. The grouping session before the start of the treasure hunt was recorded first, with twelve people divided into four teams of three people. Through several rounds of games to fight and snatch the prop cards that would be used in tomorrow’s treasure hunt, Liang Xincheng and Liu Sheng formed a team, led by the only female fixed cast; Gu Rong, who was famous for her beauty. She was crowned as Movie Queen, with both strength and popularity and had always been the top card of this show. Liang Xincheng was lucky to be assigned to a team with her.

“Don’t be modest when the game starts. Never mind who the other side is, just think about winning and grabbing more prop cards.” Gu Rong smiled brightly and took the initiative to talk to the slightly nervous Liang Xincheng. She looked like she was not ostentatious and easy to get along with.

Liang Xincheng and Liu Sheng smiled and nodded: “We’ll do our best.”

The game design was actually very simple; it was similar to those that often appeared in general variety shows. Today’s recording task was not heavy, and each team got a lot of prop cards while laughing. Liu Sheng was a boring guy who didn’t talk much, but his strength in playing games was very good. Coupled with Gu Rong’s beauty scheme, their team had gained a lot.

However, there was a small accident in the middle of the recording, Ding Yao accidentally fell down the steps and twisted his foot during the process of grabbing the prop card, so the recording had to be interrupted. It was close to noon when the others went to eat and rest first, and the staff came to give Ding Yao first aid treatment. Liu Sheng left after a few words of greeting. Only Xia Yuanhang, who was on the same team with him, stayed behind, frowning and squatting in front of Ding Yao, whispering to comfort him.

Liang Xincheng stood at a distance and watched coldly for a while. When Xia Yuanhang carefully helped Ding Yao to stand up, the corner of his mouth twitched as he turned to leave.

Except for the injured Ding Yao and Xia Yuanhang who accompanied him, the other guests went to the restaurant set by the program group for lunch. At the table, Liang Xincheng quietly listened to several seniors who had been working together for a long time and were already familiar with each other. They joked with each other and Liang Xincheng did not join in. Only when he was named, he smiled and said a word or two, showing the low-key posture of a junior.

Gu Rong asked him with a smile: “I saw you and Xiao Xia didn’t interact with each other? Don’t you have a good relationship?”

Liang Xincheng thought to himself that this sister was quite gossiping, but only seniors of her status could ask such things casually. He smiled and replied without changing his face: “No, we are all very nervous. It’s the first time we come on this program, we couldn’t relax.”

Wei Xishuang, who was sitting beside him, said with a big grin, “Don’t be nervous, you are so lucky to be in a group with Rong-jie. With such a beautiful lady as Rong-jie, your group will just win.”

Gu Rong was laughing at his words, waving her hands and saying: “No, these guys won’t let me off”. The people at the table started talking to each other again. Liang Xincheng laughed along, but in his heart, he felt that this person, Wei Xishuang, was too slick and not serious. It was enough to maintain a respectful relationship with him, not suitable for deep friendship.

When it was almost time to eat, Liang Xincheng went to the bathroom. While washing his hands, he ran into Liu Sheng who came in and they nodded to each other. Liang Xincheng left first and only when he got to the door of the private room did he remember that he had forgotten his phone on the sink and hurriedly turned around and went back.

As soon as he entered the bathroom door, he saw Liu Sheng picking up his phone before handing it to him with a smile: “I was wondering if it was your phone, Fortunately, no one else picked it up.”

Liang Xincheng thanked him and took the phone before they went out together. Liu Sheng said that he would order some more dishes and bring them to Ding Yao and Xia Yuanhang as they hadn’t eaten yet. Liang Xincheng asked him casually: “How is Teacher Ding’s foot?”

“Yuanhang just replied to WeChat and said that there is no problem. He should be able to continue recording in the afternoon,” Liu Sheng couldn’t help but smile as he said, “Don’t call him Teacher Ding. He will have wrinkles on his face when he hears that. He is only a few years old.”

Liang Xincheng smiled and did not answer it. He thought that Ding Yao, the prince, was really popular enough in their company. Everyone mentioned that he had a gentle and affectionate expression. He didn’t know if it was true, or it was just his persona.

Because of this accident, the recording in the afternoon was postponed for an hour. When Ding Yao reappeared, apart from walking a bit inconveniently, he really didn’t look like he had any major problems. He also apologized to everyone again and again.

Liang Xincheng looked at his foolish look and had to admit that this kid was really not pretending. He was indeed as innocent and simple as white paper. For those in this business but could still maintain such a mentality, who could say that it was not a kind of great luck? But only a person with a family background like Ding Yao could have such luck. He couldn’t envy it.

But he also did not want to give way to Ding Yao. This little white flower already had many protectors around, and almost every one of them treated him as a big devil who wanted to bully the little white flower. He was also very wronged, ah.

Liang Xincheng took a deep breath, glanced at Ding Yao who was being protected by Xia Yuanhang, and quickly turned his eyes away again, no longer paying attention to them.

a Chinese saying, which means that after you admit your mistake to the other party, you can’t bear to hit him anymore. But I feel like in this context, it just means that literally??