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《Royal Adventure》 is an adventure action movie.
There are some indoor scenes to shoot in a castle in addition to a desert location. In the Westerner's view, those old and respectable castles conjure a medieval classical romantic feeling, after a long period of time, those castles exude an elegant feeling just like wine that is kept for years.
Just that nowadays.
Many of the descendants of the French aristocracy have been unable to bear the required annual management fees and repair costs. So they decided to open the castle to the public for a few months of the year to collect admission fees to take care of those costs, or they sell the castles to others.
Du Yun Xiu had heard Director Luc proudly explaining that he had used his friendship with a well-known businessman to borrow this castle for the film.
To be accurate, the other man had not only let them shoot a scene here, but had also opened up the rooms in the castle to give them accommodations, and the person had even told the elder butler and the maids to fully cooperate with them.
More importantly---the man didn't charge a single penny!
This "generous" move simply made Luc speechless.
Because this castle is already recognized by UNESCO as the world cultural heritage.
{Translator Input: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris. Its declared purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through educational, scientific, and cultural reforms in order to increase universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the United Nations Charter.}
Although the former owner of this castle could not afford the maintenance cost for this castle and he had no choice but to sell it, he was a proud man with aristocratic descent so he was very picky with the buyers.
Some buyers he felt, had skeptical sincerity, some buyers he thought that their taste was not elegant, and some people he even believed that they didn't have an essential and in-depth understanding of the culture of a French castle.
And when that well-known man appeared, in addition to the offer, his other aspects also won the favor of the former owner of the castle, and he easily beat the several other bidders...
If they were to rent this estate to shoot the movie, the rental cost would be no less than that of renting the Louvre Museum, it is a lot of money!
But---the other man did not even take one penny.
Du Yun Xiu had also started to speculate who this "big man" was.
In the end, the more money one gains the higher the status one would achieve. That was the main reason the former owner of this castle was willing to sell this castle that was designed by a Versailles designer. It was build on an area of 2,000 square feet, came with antique paintings, and was surrounded by wineries and orchards.
He is now a popular idol with a good reputation, so he has gained status and owned property of his own.
But now comparing his asset to the "big man" who bought this antique castle, his property was not worth mentioning to the other man...
If one keeps on thinking about this matter, then one's mind would never be at peace.
Du Yun Xiu shook his head and gave up on his thought, since he would not earn that much money of a trillionaire from his line of work anyway. As long as he had a good grasp of his opportunities and performed every role well, then that was good enough.
They scheduled to shoot at the castle for a week.
Although it was just a movie, Luc still wanted to have that realistic feeling portrayed in the film. Therefore, Du Yun Xiu learned a few moves from the martial arts guides in order to perform the stunts in the movie. This was his first time participating in Luc's movie, so he wanted to try to reduce the use of stuntmen as much as possible, so he would not leave a bad impression in the director's view.
As the results in a few days later.
Although the scene was very exciting and the action moves were very smooth and well done, Du Yun Xiu got hurt quite badly, and even got big swollen bruises all over his body. The little assistant Linda that accompanying him looked really distressed, yet he still tried to comfort the little girl by saying those bruises are nothing to worry about. It was nothing like a fracture.
Despite saying so.
However, he had done an excessive consumption of his physical strength, of course it would wear him out. Therefore, whenever he did not have to shoot a scene, he would sit on a chair in the castle garden and fall asleep.
During his hazy state.
It seemed that someone came to stand in front of him. The other's footsteps were very light, as if worried about disturbing his sleep.
That person quietly stared at him.
The soft and gentle gaze was like a sunset's afterglow that faintly sprinkled its light onto his body, leaving only a warm feeling...
Du Yun Xiu felt like he was being caught in a wonderful dream.
He seemed to be able to feel the other person's soft gaze, the person's slender fingers caressed his face and gently glided over the fresh cut wound, the person was standing right next to him as he could sense a good scent of a long-lost smell...
Du Yun Xiu wanted to open his eyes.
But at this moment, it was like his eyelids were being glued together, and he was unable to open them no matter how much he tried. He wanted to reach out to touch the other's hand, but no matter how hard he tried, it seemed he did not even have the strength to lift a finger.
Such a feeling.
It seemed to last for a century, when it was just for a moment.
After he felt the other person quietly depart, Du Yun Xiu finally went back to sleep, and finally he was being woken up by the little assistant...Everything seemed to be a beautiful but melancholy dream.
Du Yun Xiu rubbed his brows as he was not yet fully woken out of that emotion, after some time, he turned to ask the little assistant: "Did anyone come here while I was asleep?"
The little assistant answered doubtedly: "Seems like none..."
Du Yun Xiu had an indescribable feeling in his heart.
Everything seemed to be a deja vu, and then suddenly his heart was surging in a lost feeling of sadness...
However, at dinner time.
At the long dining table, Luc Rohmer happily clunked the silver cutlery on his glass: "Ladies and gentlemen! We all know that this antique castle belongs to Richard, Richard.W. Brauchli and he has generously provided this place to us! This afternoon, he came to visit us on his private jet---it was a short visit, because he had to board his private jet to go back to work!"
Luc has the romance and humor of a French director.
Du Yun Xiu understood the director's each and every word, but his attention was not on Luc's sense of humor, but he paid more attention of the name Richard.
Richard, is who...
Already left in the afternoon...
"Well, busy people are all like this, they keep on flying all around the world. Although I often say to Richard that 'man, you should stay with my filming crew, I can make you a big star, saving you from flying around all day'. But obviously Richard choose a clever decision---for example, he left me with all of these precious wine bottles in the wine cellar before leaving! We can enjoy this to our heart's content! The old-fashioned elder butler will not say anything!"
This castle is surrounded by the wineries along its perimeter.
Also in these years, this place was promoted from a level 2 to level 1 winery. Luc had always eyeing the brewing wine in the wine cellar, but the faithful elder butler was not willing to give him even just one bottle.
No wonder Luc got overly excited after being permitted to enjoy the wine to his heart's content!
The other actors also shouted in joy after hearing such good news!
Du Yun Xiu also smiled along.
But he really did not give much care about those wine bottles.
He was more interested in that Richard person...
At this moment, Luc walked over to Du Yun Xiu.
Although Du Yun Xiu was being selected by Luc personally, he did not get any special treatment at the filming location. Luc's focus was on the main hero and heroine of the movie. This was after all a Hollywood film, although each character had his or her own plot and emotion, in the end the protagonists are the audience's center of attention, the attraction of the movie.
Later on, Luc learned that Du Yun Xiu could speak French.
Luc only nodded his head in surprise, and then said two words "good, good". And no further conversation.
To have such differential treatment.
Du Yun Xiu was quick to adapt to it. Despite being a well-known idol domestically, in foreign countries...he probably was no better than a third-rate actor.
It is inevitable that no one paid attention to him.
He could only put in more effort to gradually strive for more opportunities.
But tonight, Luc took the initiative.
"Derek, your performance is very good this time!" Luc raised the glass and said, "those fighting scenes are not easy. You've done well! There is a bandage box left by Richard, you should try to use them."
Luc took out a milky white box and handed it to Du Yun Xiu after finished his sentence.
The box was very smooth, and the texture of it made people feel comfortable and rely on it just by looking at it, and it also gave a very good feeling to hold it on one's hand.
"This...Richard?" Du Yun Xiu furrowed his brows, and asked with a little doubt.
"Uh, from him."
"Please thank him on my behalf." Du Yun Xiu did not know what to say, and looked down at the kit.
A small round bandage box?
Richard gave it to him...
Du Yun Xiu could not help but to be reminded of that night Fu Zi Han came into his room with the ointment.
The small box in his hand...suddenly felt quite hot.
......
*** *** ***
He stayed overseas a month for the filming.
Although he sometimes talked on the phone with Fu Zi Han, that feeling was nothing compared to this feeling of actually coming home.
Du Yun Xiu wanted to rest for a few days to adjust to the time difference.
However, from Teng Ze and Wei Yi Fei he heard of an explosive, almost unbelievable news---Li Rui wanted to drive Feng Jing out of ESE! And forced him to resign!
How could this be?!
Du Yun Xiu could not believe what he had just heard. He had only left for a month, and how could there be such a big change?!
Impossible!
Du Yun Xiu quickly searched the web for relevant news.
---Unexpectedly, this news turned out to be true!
Throughout this whole week, almost every website, every newspaper, and every magazine was tracking this story!
"Feng Jing's negligence of his duty, ESE elites demanded him to resign!"
"Feng Jing PK Li Rui, who is the ESE ultimate ruler?" {Translator Note: PK - an internet slang - that means to defeat someone.}
"Shocking! Feng Jing got drunk at a nightclub! Having One Night Stand!"
"Feng Jing used unspoken rules before his fame..."
He scrolled down the series of news.
Aside from the normal report of Li Rui demands Feng Jing to resign, the rest was just news of Feng Jing's previous rumors and scandals during his debut days...this was like the time of Li Rui's and Li Chen's fight for power of ESE, the malicious kind of news.
After Du Yun Xiu finished reading, his first reaction was to call Feng Jing, but every call was directly sent to the voicemail inbox.
"Feng Jing, it's me Yun Xiu, I've come back, where are you? What happened with ESE over there? I want to see you!"
"Feng Jing, in the end what happened?..."
"Feng Jing, forget the talking, can we first meet up?"
So he repeatedly made more than a dozen phone calls and left with a dozen messages, and still no reply.
Not even one reply.
After much deliberation, Du Yun Xiu decided to not just sit and wait for an answer.
Even though he had just gotten off the plane, he immediately put on his coat and headed to places that Feng Jing used to frequent---searching one by one!
He really did not know how deep of a feeling Feng Jing had for Li Rui.
But to make that flirtatious and devious Feng Jing to refuse to pick up the phone...it was enough to know the other man was deeply hurt...
There is the type of people.
They might look beautiful, arrogant, and strong. But when they are hurt, they would isolate themselves, silently licking their wound and waiting for it to heal...
Du Yun Xiu felt distressed for those types of people.
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End of Chapter 35
