"This kid really is a porcelain bumper, and he specifically likes to bump into you …"
Amélie Jiang comes to Yuan Ge's side and surveys Qiuchen's pretty face with the opera makeup on. Although it's hard to see his face underneath the makeup, she can tell that he has gradually regained consciousness after falling into Yuan Ge's arms.
She was about to ask him if he was suffering from low blood sugar when she hears Yin Fenghua's voice coming from a distance.
"Has he been caught? Where is he? I won't fucking let him get away with it. I'm going to fucking beat the shit out of him!"
Amélie is alarmed and winks at Yuan Ge anxiously. Yin Fenghua has taken quite a beating today and she fears he would never let it go easily.
Rong Qiuchen comes around at that moment, and hearing Yin Fenghua's angry shouts, he looks at Yuan Ge and speaks slowly, "I cannot allow him to belittle the Jinyu Troupe like that, to insult the two masters and my brothers, to belittle me and to humiliate you! I can't allow him to be so rude and disrespectful to the Peking Opera!"
Without saying anything more, he struggles to his feet and is about to leave. Yuan Ge pulls him back and says earnestly, "Don't go! You are still very weak. You can't go on like this in such cold weather! Besides, I need to talk to you …"
Rong Qiuchen glances at Yin Fenghua limping towards them with a vicious look on his face, and knows that the beating he gives him earlier must have caused a lot of trouble for the crew. He gives Yuan Ge a deep look, clasps his fist and salutes him, breaks away and darts off, disappearing into the darkness of the night.
Yuan Ge mulls over Rong Qiuchen's words, and for a moment, he is a little bewildered. Then he hears a cold laugh from Yin Fenghua behind him, "Yuan Ge, what kind of director are you? How much longer do you want to keep up the charade? You are clearly in cahoots with this fake! I saw you hugging him and talking to him! Don't think I don't know what games you're playing! For the sake of Brother Run, I let you off the hook for your rudeness yesterday and reluctantly returned to the set to continue shooting for your lousy film. But I didn't expect you guys to hire this kid to kidnap me, beat me up, impersonate me and mock me! You are always crying about being poor, but how much did you pay to get a student from the NATA to act as a decoy and thug!"
Before Yuan Ge could retort, Mr. Lee, who has just arrived on the scene, speaks up first.
"You deserve to be mocked! You think you're a big pop star, but your performance level is not even one tenth of that kid's! Whether it's the appearance, the singing, the posture or the martial arts skills, you are no match for him. The performance of Du Shiniang just now was something that even the professors in our department could not do. I am afraid that even the best Dan actors in the country may not be able to compete with him. So you don't need to bring NATA into it, because we wouldn't dare to boast that we can produce such a good student. And don't wrongly accuse Director Yuan either. If he could have hired such a decoy, he certainly wouldn't have wanted you. He would have replaced you ten thousand times already!"
Yin Fenghua has never been ridiculed like this before, and he splutters hatefully, "Old man, who do you think you are, daring to lecture me?! You can sing opera, so bloody what? A declining craft, no one gives a damn about, and you still think you're great?! You've been picking on me every day and I've had enough! How dare you urge Yuan Ge to replace me? Without my star appeal, do you think anyone would ever want to watch this crappy movie? With this lame plot, a few amateur actors, a head-in-the-cloud director, and a Beijing Opera theme no one cares about, you think it's going to be a box office hit? No way! Just wait until you lose your last penny!"
Seeing him spouting such rampant nonsense, Yuan Ge's anger from yesterday is rekindled.
"Yin Fenghua, you don't need to insult the word 'art' by talking nonsense here! If you don't want to act, then don't act. No one wants to have you back. I'd rather not shoot my film than have you continue to trash it."
Yin Fenghua didn't expect Yuan Ge to be so tough this time and actually put his words so adamantly.
He is so angry that he points his finger at him and says through gritted teeth, "Fine, you want to replace me, right? Fine, just go ahead and try! I'd like to see how you guys can explain to the media and the fans! I'll have my agency expose you tomorrow for hiring thugs and beating up the lead actor! Not only will I expose it, but I will get a medical certificate for my injuries and report it to the police! Yuan Ge, just wait for the court summons! When your company goes bankrupt, I'll see how you're gonna beg for mercy on your knees!"