The cast of Maze City could be considered quite strong.
The Male Lead, Rong Xu, had entered the movie circle via Black Clouds and instantly became one of the most popular newcomers in the last year. The other Male Lead, Bo Xiwen, though he'd been less known in the circle, he had also participated in many large-scale films. His popularity was not high, but the box office numbers for his works had never been bad. Popular works, but not popular person.
And today, the Female Lead who had just returned from the United States, Ren Shuzhi, was Huaxia's reputed Queen of Sexiness who secured a spot in Huaxia's music scene through her spicy hot dance moves and fast-paced rock and roll songs.
In regards to being an actor with good singing, or a singer with good acting, Ren Shuzhi acted in a youth romance film last year, and the resulting box office numbers weren't bad, over 600 million. Thus, she took on Maze City this year. She didn't ask for many scenes. As long as the ending box office numbers overcame her record, it was enough for her.
Ren Shuzhi wore a pair of wide sunglasses, and when she arrived at the crew, she just so happened to make it to the opening ceremony.
After the opening ceremony was over, she went around greeting the crew's creative cast. This queen very straightforwardly gave everyone a big, warm hug. When she hugged Bo Xiwen, her red lips curved upwards as she said enthusiastically: "Tan Yangxuan! Brother Xuan! Come, come, come, give me a hug first. Let's get familiar."
Bo Xiwen stretched out his arms in a stiff manner, and gave the full-bodied actress a shy little hug.
Ren Shuzhi's role was the sister of the seventh deceased victim – her elder brother died in a large public area. She is very emotional and has a lot of interaction with the role of Tan Yangxuan, participating in many of the police investigations. She is the female character with the most scenes in the movie, but in total, there is still no more than 20-minutes of screen time, so she can barely be regarded as a female lead.
After the hug, Ren Shuzhi walked up to Rong Xu. She pushed up her wide sunglasses to her forehead. Her long, wavy chestnut hair, and her bright, enchanting eyes carefully examined the boy in front of her.
When she was looking at Rong Xu, Rong Xu was also looking at her with a smile, calm and collected, without a trace of unease.
The next moment, Ren Shuzhi smiled happily and before Rong Xu even had a chance to open his arms, she immediately hugged him up: "Haha, I actually got to hug Rong Rong. If the fans knew, they would envy me to death." While talking, Ren Shuzhi hugged harder and harder, without any indication of letting go.
Rong Xu was slightly startled, and then noticed in surprise that the other party's full bosom seemed to be rubbing against him.
After the hug was over, Ren Shuzhi removed the sunglasses from her head and put them back on. Right before the sunglasses completely covered her gaze, an interesting light flashed through her soft, beautiful eyes. Her red lips curled up gently, and Ren Shuzhi calmly stroked across Rong Xu's palm once.
The thoughts in his heart gradually cleared, but on the surface, Rong Xu quietly took a half step backwards and smiled: "Sister Ren, stop joking around."
Ren Shuzhi spread out her hands innocently, her voice was low and soft, quite affectionate: "I'm not joking, your fans are extremely famous. Wasn't there a charity event recently? Truly amazing."
Rong Xu smiled calmly: "The album by Sister Ren from three months ago has also already accumulated over one million in sales."
Ren Shuzhi covered her lips and smiled lightly: "It can't compare to your "Lost Wings"."
While saying that, she suddenly leaned forward and seemingly desired to rub against Rong Xu's body. However, Rong Xu immediately turned to the side and smiled at the crew member playing male number three: "I remember Ma Qi said yesterday that he liked Sister Ren's song very much, right?"
Suddenly, the smile on Ren Shuzhi's face stiffened a little, but she quickly reacted and smiled back at the male number three in a very familiar manner: "Then I am really quite flattered. Ah Qi likes my song. I would have never thought..."
Though Ren Shuzhi entered the crew late, she was highly enthusiastic, so it didn't take long for her to get along swell with other actors in the crew.
Except for the naturally shy and difficult to get close to Bo Xiwen, Ren Shuzhi, Ma Qi, Zheng Xiaosu and the others all got along rowdily. Whenever she spoke to Rong Xu, Rong Xu would also respond to her in a friendly manner. At first glance, she was similar to a social butterfly, wandering throughout the entire crew of Maze City.
Ren Shuzhi liked to "disturb" Rong Xu the most. Because she had just arrived to the crew and didn't participate in the script reading meeting, when everyone was preparing to start the afternoon filming, she took her script book and walked to Rong Xu's side, saying in a soft voice: "Rong Rong, can you help me go over the script? Although my scenes are very simple, I don't want to delay everyone's progress. Is that... okay?"
At this moment, Rong Xu had already finished with his makeup and was sitting at the side for a break. When he heard her words, he turned his head and unexpectedly saw a span of snow white.
Ren Shuzhi had taken off her jacket and was only wearing a tight fitting, short sleeved T-shirt. Someone able to earn the title Queen of Sexiness naturally could not have a flat figure, and this thin t-shirt outlined her curvaceous good figure. Her slender waist contrasted with her plump bosom. A string of crystal beads hung down across her collarbone, casting shadows down the neckline of the shirt and fueling the viewers' imaginations.
When most men saw this scene, they couldn't help but feel their heart tremble.
This woman was beautiful and attractively moving. She has a superb body, and among all the actresses Rong Xu had seen in his two lifetimes, she could rank in the top five. When she spoke, there would be a slight nasal sound at the end of her words which made it even more charming.
However, Rong Xu's gaze only slid across the string of crystal beads before he raised his eyes to look at Ren Shuzhi's beautiful face, his gaze not even straying a bit further down. He smiled steadily: "Okay, but I'm going to film soon, Sister Ren. So, I may not be able to help you for long."
Seeing the youth's clear and calm gaze, Ren Shuzhi was slightly taken aback for a moment. She immediately followed up: "That's fine, then teach Sister Ren first." After she said so, she directly sat herself down next to Rong Xu. The crystal beads shook lightly in the deep shadows of her neckline.
But, this teaching session only lasted five minutes before being forced to end.
Rong Xu was called over by Director Yuan to discuss the shooting details of the first scene. Thus, he politely expressed his apologies to Ren Shuzhi, and Ren Shuzhi shook her head with a nonchalant expression. But, after Rong Xu turned and left, she grasped the crystal beads by her bosom, her chest moving up and down from panting.
It wasn't until Rong Xu disappeared from sight past the room did she narrow her eyes and turn away.
After Rong Xu left the room, assistant Luo Qian immediately walked to his side and said indignantly: "How can that Ren Shuzhi be like that, Xiao Xu, she's actually trying to seduce you!" Luo Qian was still quite smart, and had waited till there was no one else around to whisper to Rong Xu: "Her chest was about to latch onto your arm, Xiao Xu!"
Rong Xu walked calmly towards Director Yuan, and said indifferently: "You saw wrong, she just came to ask me about the script."
Luo Qian froze for a moment before raising her head to look at Rong Xu. However, she only saw Rong Xu grin and wink helplessly at her. Luo Qian understood immediately, and she sighed heavily with a whisper: "Previously, I'd heard that this Ren Shuzhi was a very unrestrained and bold individual, often sleeping with male stars from the same film team. Fortunately, she is a singer and only filmed a few TV shows and a few movies, or else, I don't know how many male stars would have been slept."
Rong Xu was surprised. He'd never heard of this rumor before, and after thinking about it, he asked: "If I recall, a few years ago, did Ren Shuzhi collaborate with Deng Yiwen?"
Luo Qian was briefly shocked and then suddenly realized: "Yeah, she and Suppression Deng also had a scandal before. That year, they must have also gotten into bed before... There really are such people in this circle who don't care about anything, and just do whatever they want, bedding whichever handsome man casually?"
Rong Xu smiled without speaking.
During his many years in the entertainment industry in his past life, he had also seen such open celebrities. It was just that most of them were male celebrities.
Usually, filming a movie would take a few months, and many male stars couldn't bear being alone and would take the initiative to hook up with a female star from the same cast. Everyone was single, 'You chase, I'm willing'. It was just good fun for a few months of comforting each other. After the filming was complete, they'd part ways and still stay friends if they met in the future.
Rong Xu didn't know how Ren Shuzhi ended up targeting him, but he never liked participating in such things.
He had always known that things within the circle were chaotic, but the number of clean and self-conscious people were never less than those who casually indulged in pleasure. Additionally, in his past life, Rong Xu was privy to a secret in the circle.
It was said that a certain Hollywood actor often went around making appointments with celebrities in the same drama, regardless of male or female, and was known in the circle as a famous double-sided plug. As a result, during one of his physical examinations, he suddenly found that he had contracted AIDS, causing a large group of Hollywood celebrities to fall off their horses (become frantic). Everyone hid the incident and no one dared to disclose it. No one knew for sure which celebrities also contracted AIDS, but it was revealed that at least ten first-tier celebrities had gotten it!
Anyways, after Rong Xu and Director Zheng finished discussing the filming details, he (RX) returned to the lounge and saw Ren Shuzhi sitting next to Ma Qi and giggling. It was unknown what the two of them were talking about. Ren Shuzhi was almost sitting in Ma Qi's embrace, and Ma Qi's hand was resting on Ren Shuzhi's thin waist.
Rong Xu only took one glance before looking away, whereas Luo Qian's eyes widened, and after a long moment of surprise, she whispered into Rong Xu's ear: "That's incredible, Xiao Xu, she tossed you aside so quickly... "
Hearing this, Rong Xu frowned slightly, and said without knowing whether to laugh or cry: "What do you mean tossed me aside?"
Luo Qian quickly explained: "Anyway, it means that she won't pester you anymore. It's good, let her go and hook up with Ma Qi, humph."
Rong Xu shook his head: "Everyone here is an adult, and interest between men and women is normal. Don't be too opinionated with them."
Luo Qian closed her mouth quickly and made a zipping-up-the-zipper motion.
Rong Xu's words were truly quite accurate. There are many things that everyone in the circle knows, but didn't talk about. Ren Shuzhi didn't force Rong Xu, and neither was Rong Xu interested. Thus, she took the initiative to find Ma Qi. Ma Qi was obviously willing, and perhaps he was even pleasantly surprised. So, just let them be. They weren't children anymore. This was just a simple physical need, and since they were both willing parties, then there was no need for others to stick their noses into it.
In the afternoon of the opening day, it was mainly Bo Xiwen's scenes, but Rong Xu also had a few scenes.
The very first scene was the face-off between Rong Xu and Bo Xiwen. Director Yuan specially chose Rong Xu's initial appearance as the first scene to shoot so that Rong Xu and Bo Xiwen could become familiar with and enhance their understanding of each other.
At the same time, on the Internet, the sensational "Lost Wings" charity event finally came to an end.
The total fundraised amount was 5.63 million!
The total amount of supplies was also countless. Only when a fan donated a whole warehouse were they able to store that many clothes and books.
Following the end of the fundraising event, Rong Xu's fans will come together and form a team to directly enter the mountainous regions and personally deliver the supplies to the rural children. They will conduct live broadcasts to guarantee that not a penny would be embezzled, with the netizens as witnesses. This kind of live broadcast received unanimous praise from the netizens.
In the past few months, Rong Xu's Weibo fans skyrocketed by 9 million, and have now reached 16 million. Compared to other popular first-tier newcomers, his number of fans was only one-half, or even one-third of the others.
However, he had only debuted for a year.
Likewise, in the afternoon of the same day, Zhao Chuyun publicized the information regarding the "Lost Wings" CD donation event, and also provided a certificate of proof jointly issued by the Rongyun Foundation and the charity monitoring organization.
The tag, #RongXuCharity#, was immediately bumped up to second place in the trending searches on Weibo.
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On the other side of the ocean, it was early into the morning hours, and the crew had finally ended a whole day of filming. A handsome and elegant man was searching Weibo under the tag of #RongXuCharity#. There was no expression on his face, but he looked extremely serious. He didn't even notice when someone walked up next to him.
"Oh, Rong Xu? I've heard his name before."
Qin Cheng raised his head and looked at the blonde Frenchman beside him: "Bertram, how do you know him?" His tone seemed indifferent, but the corners of his mouth had curved up silently, a trace of pride and admiration was suppressed in his voice.
The well-known French actor, Bertram, laughed and said: "Qin, this you don't know about, but before I separated from Ren the other day, she told me that her new work was going be filmed with this Rong Xu. She said Rong Xu is very cute and also showed me photos. Oh, really is a cute and beautiful Oriental doll."
The smile on the corner of his (QC's) lips froze. The man narrowed his eyes slightly and asked lightly: "Who is Ren?"
Bertram said without hesitation: "Ren Shuzhi… Honey's name is really hard to pronounce. When we were in bed the day before yesterday, honey kept forcing me to pronounce her name. I practiced for a long time before I got it right. She said it seems that in the crew, this Rong Xu is the cutest. Of course, same goes for me, too. I would also definitely like this delicate and beautiful Oriental doll."
Qin Cheng: "...!!!"
A minute later, just as Rong Xu was about to go film, he suddenly received a text message.
[Qin Cheng: I will be finished in two days, then I will visit you at work. ]
Rong Xu was taken aback, but before he could react, he received another text message.
[Qin Cheng: No, I can finish by tomorrow, and I can visit you at work the day after tomorrow…��� En, this was requested by my mother. ]
Rong Xu immediately retorted: [If you finish tomorrow, how will you come from the United States the day after tomorrow? Qin Cheng, have a good rest, no need to visit me at work. ]
Unexpectedly, 30 seconds later, Qin Cheng's reply was quickly sent over——
[Qin Cheng: Tonight, I have something I need to tell you. When I call you...they are very private things. It is best not to have anyone in your room, no one is allowed. ]
Rong Xu: "..." exm? ! ("Excuse me")
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The author has something to say:
Orange Qin: I really want to fly over, fly over, fly over! Baby trusts RongRong, but that bad person is not allowed to hook up with Baby's RongRong! QAQ
RongRong: ... talking about private affairs at night? EXM? Meow Meow Meow?!