Chapter 69 starts filming

  "Don't be surprised, people like them always talk like that." Ogura Yoko said while reading the script, Zhou Xiao and Inoue Uncle ran to one side to prepare the things they would use next, Inoue Uncle whispered to Zhou Xiao.

  "I know, but I've seen people like that before. Why didn't they talk like that?" Zhou Xiao asked curiously.

  "Oh? There's something like that too? If so, I think that person is interested in you." said Uncle Inoue.

  Zhou Xiao felt like even his scalp was getting goosebumps.

  "Generally speaking, people like him will only speak like a woman in two situations: one is when he's interested in someone, and the other is when the other person doesn't know his true gender. But the latter situation rarely happens, as you've seen from his usual demeanor, it's hard to not notice." Uncle Inoue said with a clear tone.

  "So that's how it is! It seems I knew that was the latter one!" Zhou Xiao said with some relief.

  "Oh? So you're saying your 'guy' is pretty good?"

  "Uh... indeed it's one of the better ones, but it's not mine! It belongs to someone I know!" Zhou Xiao hastily clarified the principle with Uncle Inoue.

  "Don't worry, just because they're like that down there doesn't mean they're men. As long as the surgery is done well, it's just like a woman, and because it's artificial, most of them are even more enjoyable than women!" said Uncle Inoue.

  "......Uncle, I'm only 18 years old, I'm still a minor! And how do you know me so well?!" Zhou Xiao couldn't help but retort.

  "Hmm... isn't this just a mistake from when I was young..." said Inoue-san, scratching his not-so-wealthy head.

  "How could I have not seen at all that you had a sense of guilt for your mistake!!"

  "Hey, honestly, you know him, aren't you interested? Is there still contact? Otherwise... give me his phone number..."

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  "This is also for your own good, people like them are actually mostly very talented, some have great voices, some are good at makeup, and some are very fashionable, knowing them can bring us a lot of help!"

  "You think I'd believe you?"

  "Hey, Director, are you guys ready? Can we start filming yet?" Da Chang's voice suddenly rang out beside the two of them.

  "Huh? Oh! Ready, ready! Let's start filming!" Zhou Xiao and Inoue were both startled, but they quickly reacted and said: "Um, can you braid her hair into pigtails?"

  Zhou Xiao actually wanted to shout loudly, but he couldn't think of what to add after "dà chǎng" for the time being, so he somewhat rudely pointed at Ogura Yui and said.

  "It's no big deal, it's just a ponytail, I used to run a beauty salon before entering this line!" Zhou Xiao hadn't even addressed her yet, but Da Chang was already referring to herself.

  "Sister!?" Zhou Xiao continued to endure, and after the girl had finished braiding her hair into pigtails, she took him to the other side of the floor-to-ceiling window.

  Ogura Yoko saw that the part facing the floor-to-ceiling window was very simple, with a table and two chairs, a light-colored curtain hanging on the floor-to-ceiling window, and a set of toys on the table.

  "Uncle! Can you lower the door curtain on your side and help turn on the camera!" Zhou Xiao shouted outwards after turning on the lighting. Because the position had been fixed long ago, Uncle Inoue's job was just to turn the camera on and off.

  With a "whoosh", the entire room was left with only one lamp beside the two people, its soft and warm light slightly weak.

  The light was originally much brighter than this, but before Zhou Xiao installed it, she found a piece of cloth to block a layer, leaving only the soft effect we see today.

  "Alright!" said Uncle Inoue.

  "Then... let's get started!" Zhou Xiao's voice trembled slightly. A phrase suddenly appeared in his mind: beauty under the lamp.

  Zhou Xiao didn't know what level of beauty those ancient people who said "beauty is best appreciated under the lamp" were looking at, but thinking carefully, the nutrition of ancient people was not up to par, so the beauties back then... at most were just like Cuihua from the village entrance and Er Ya, so compared to the one in front of him now... it's fundamentally impossible for them to win.

  What kind of gravure idol is Ogura Yui? It can be said that as a gravure idol, Ogura Yui has reached the limit. She isn't the type with large breasts who relies on her cleavage to sell herself. She's cute, lovely and invincible in her youth. However, she was born a bit too early. Starting from 2010 when AKB began its reign, the gravure idol industry received the biggest impact. At that time, it reached an extent where there was a picture that represented AKB's dominance: In a supermarket where gravure magazines were displayed, among the dozen or so magazines placed together, all of their covers featured Kashiwagi Yuki alone! However, not only Kashiwagi, but also Sashihara, Shimazaki, Oshima and Maeda are qualified to be on the cover. But if Ogura Yui debuted in 2010 during AKB's reign, perhaps even Kashiwagi wouldn't have been able to surpass her!

  Under the warm lamplight, Zhou Xiao looked at Ogura Yuko and thought that no matter whether he would succeed in the end or not, it was all worth it. To be able to gaze at such a girl under such private circumstances, what more could one ask for?

  "What... what are we going to do?" Ogura Yoko asked, seeing Zhou Xiao staring at her for over half a minute without moving, she couldn't help but feel embarrassed and asked first.

  "Oh? Oh! Let's play with the blocks! Just this will do." Zhou Xiao finally came to, and he said as he took out the blocks from the box and put them on the table.

  "Shall we play this?" Yoko Ogura asked.

  "Well, this is the first shot."

  So-called Tower of Blocks... basically it's a set of building blocks, stacked up high in a 3x3 grid, and the gameplay is very simple, just pull out the blocks from the bottom and stack them on top.

  Ogura Yui, still a 17-year-old girl with a childlike heart, and Zhou Xiao, who has been intentionally catering to her, quickly relaxed the atmosphere between them. The blocks were piled up high in no time, and the increasingly tense situation made Ogura Yui exclaim from time to time. The two people sitting at the table looked like a real brother and sister or couple playing games together.

  Finally, when the blocks had been stacked very high and balance was becoming increasingly difficult to control, Zhou Xiao's last block sent the entire structure crashing down.

  "Ah! Ah!" At the moment when the first tremor occurred in the Totoro Building, Ogawa Yoko, who had been staring intently at the blocks, cried out.

  "No! No!" Zhou Xiao shouted in a different tone, but the situation was already irreversible. The high tower collapsed instantly and fell on the table, shattering into dozens of scattered pieces.

  "Ah!" Zhou Xiao's hands stretched out as if trying to salvage the situation, but he himself also knew that it was impossible to save the blocks.

  "Yessss!" Yoko Ogura jumped up excitedly, now she had almost forgotten that she was filming.

  "How's it going? Uncle?" Zhou Xiao Yang asked loudly from outside.

  "Alright! Perfect!" Uncle Inoue said, pausing the camera.

  "Why don't you go take a look?" Zhou Xiao said to Ogura Yuko.

  "Ah!" The girl finally reacted and realized what she was doing. She nodded obediently and followed Zhou Xiao out of the set.

  One take, two takes, because it's behind the curtain, there's no need to pay attention to the expressions that are most important when filming, so many scenes basically pass in one go. On the other hand, preparing the set took up more of Zhou Xiao and Inoue's time, after all, Zhou Xiao had no experience at all, and every time they had to tidy up the set, it was very troublesome.

  When the progress reached halfway, several temporary child actors found by Uncle Jing yesterday also arrived at the warehouse. Shooting with children is originally the most annoying thing, as they don't understand anything and need to be coaxed. Moreover, the plot, lines, expressions, etc. all require careful attention, which is very troublesome. However, this advertisement, being shot behind a curtain, surprisingly avoided all these issues. From start to finish, Zhou Xiao and Ogura Yuko only played with the children.