After Filming a WLW Movie With My Straight Girl Crush 23

Chapter 23

Xu Ling went to the restroom to change her overnight pad. When she came out, she saw Qin Cong’an with the fragrant food, along with Yi Huai and Liang He.

Liang He came to check on her. Seeing that her face was still a bit pale, he said with concern, “Hurry up and eat. It must be tough for you, filming these long night shoots while on your period.”

“It’s fine, it’s fine. It can’t be helped.” Xu Ling didn’t think it was a big deal. It wasn’t the first time she had encountered this situation. She was just glad she hadn’t fainted on set and caused trouble or delayed the schedule.

Yi Huai very seriously pulled her to sit down and even handed her the chopsticks.

Yi Huai had an expression that said she wouldn’t leave until she saw her finish the boxed lunch.

“Sister Huai…”

“It’s my fault. I didn’t manage your health well. It’s a good thing nothing serious happened.” After blaming herself, Yi Huai looked at Qin Cong’an. “Good thing you were here. Thank you.”

Qin Cong’an replied calmly, “You’re welcome. It’s what I should do.”

Xu Ling had just taken a bite of food and almost choked. What I should do? What does that mean?

Yi Huai was also stunned for a moment, then understood it as colleagues naturally looking out for each other. She couldn’t just watch Xu Ling faint.

But last night, when she had come over, she had suggested to Qin Cong’an that they switch rooms so she could take care of her and not disturb her rest.

Qin Cong’an had refused, saying she was already used to this room and didn’t want to adapt to a new one.

She had never heard of her being particular about beds.

Yi Huai supervised Xu Ling until she finished the entire large box of food and asked, “Do you want more?”

“Uh, can I?” Xu Ling actually did want more. The more she ate, the bigger her appetite grew.

“Of course. You have to eat your fill.” Yi Huai went out to get more food.

Liang He also left, leaving only Xu Ling and Qin Cong’an in the room.

Xu Ling bit her chopsticks, looked at her, and said a word of thanks.

Qin Cong’an shook her head, went back to the bed to lie down, and picked up her book again.

As Xu Ling waited for her food, she felt a little awkward. She had a lot she wanted to say, but she was afraid Sister Huai would suddenly come in, so she held it in for now.

This time, Yi Huai brought back not only a box of food but also a cup of ginger and jujube tea. After watching her finish eating, she had her drink it and then asked her a series of questions, checking if she was uncomfortable anywhere else.

Xu Ling swallowed a painkiller. “I’m fine, really. Thank you for your concern, Sister Huai.”

Yi Huai sighed and looked at the time. “We have to go to the location early today. There’s still an hour. You should sleep a little more.”

“Okay.”

Like a kindergarten teacher watching over a child, Yi Huai watched Xu Ling climb onto the other side of the bed. Xu Ling was so embarrassed she didn’t even dare to glance at Qin Cong’an, pretending she didn’t exist, afraid that Sister Huai would see something.

Yi Huai did feel that something was strange but couldn’t put her finger on it. When she saw her close her eyes as if she were about to sleep, she quietly left the room.

Hearing the door close, Xu Ling immediately opened her eyes and pressed herself against Qin Cong’an.

“Sister Huai told you to rest. What are you trying to do?”

“Mmm, Sister Huai also told me I have to eat my fill,” Xu Ling said, sniffing the fragrance on her body. It was such a healing scent.

Qin Cong’an pushed her away, got out of bed, and locked the door before climbing back up and opening her arms to her.

Xu Ling leaned in and wrapped her arms around her waist. After eating her fill, she was very strong and held her tightly.

“Did you sleep well last night?”

“It was okay. You didn’t make a fuss or anything. I just had to keep an eye on your temperature.”

“Oh…” Xu Ling was very apologetic. “Thank you so much.”

“Xu Ling.”

“Hmm?” Her voice lowered, and she said her name like that, as if she were about to scold her for something. Xu Ling felt a tingling in her spine, and her body inexplicably itched.

Qin Cong’an looked down at her, her expression somewhat serious as she asked, “Do you remember what you called me last night?”

“…” Xu Ling was dumbfounded. She didn’t call her “mommy,” did she? Or what, “baby”? Wait, she didn’t call her “wife,” did she!?

Xu Ling suppressed the turmoil in her heart and asked in a low voice, “What did I call you?”

“You called me Qin Cong’an.”

Xu Ling let out a long sigh of relief. “You scared me. I thought it was something else.”

“What did you think it was?”

“Huh?”

“What ‘huh’?” Qin Cong’an frowned, kneading the back of her neck with one hand. “I’m four years older than you.”

Xu Ling buried her face in her chest and thought, so what? Why the sudden emphasis on seniority?

“You just call me by my name like that. Why don’t you call Sister Huai by her name?”

How could that be the same? She couldn’t call her “Sister An” like Lin Xinnuo. It was too professional, too distant. She couldn’t bring herself to say it. Who would call her “Sister An” while eating her?

Xu Ling looked up at her. “Last time I called you ‘Sister,’ you glared at me. I thought you didn’t like being called that.”

“I glared at you?”

“Yeah, you’re not going to admit it?” Xu Ling tickled the flesh at her waist in retaliation. “Qin Cong’an, how about I call you An An?”

“No,” Qin Cong’an refused flatly.

Tsk. Xu Ling thought, it’s probably because that someone calls her An An that she won’t let me. She insisted on calling her, “An An, An An, do you remember what you agreed to just now? I’ve finished my meal. It’s time for dessert.”

“…” Qin Cong’an was speechless. After sleeping together these past few days, she was getting more and more ridiculous. “You should be sleeping.”

“I slept for a long time. I can’t sleep.”

“Tonight will be very tiring. We have to film until dawn.”

“I know,” Xu Ling said, her lips already pressing against her fragrant spots. She just wanted to kiss her, to inhale her scent.

Her actions became more and more outrageous, both licking and biting.

Qin Cong’an ignored her, letting her do as she pleased. But she had taken care of her last night and hadn’t had time to apply body lotion. Her skin was a little dry, but she still seemed to like it, sniffing around like a little puppy.

Fine. I don’t know what she’s thinking, but at least she likes my body.

There was a sudden knock on the door.

Xu Ling’s mouth, which had been busy eating, paused.

“Who is it?” Qin Cong’an asked.

“Me. I’m here to see Xu Ling,” Chang Ning’s voice.

“She’s asleep.”

“Oh, oh.”

Hearing the sounds at the door disappear, Xu Ling resumed her meal.

“Keep it down. The soundproofing is bad.”

As if she hadn’t heard, Xu Ling made an excessively loud sucking sound. How could it be so fragrant? A hundred times more fragrant than freshly baked egg yolk pastries or custard buns.

Just eating wasn’t enough. She also had to praise her. “So delicious, An An is so delicious…”

This annoyed Qin Cong’an. She pushed her away and completely forbade her from touching her. “Sleep. If you don’t sleep, I have to.”

Xu Ling pouted, but being scolded like this was actually a bit of a turn-on. She didn’t make a fuss. She knew she probably hadn’t slept well last night. She forced her way into her embrace and said softly again, “Thank you.”

A knock on the door woke them both up. They got out of bed, washed up, and left.

Arriving at the location, if there were no surprises, tonight would be their last day of filming here.

The last thing was to bury that man’s body.

During the fight with him earlier, both of them had been injured. Jian Yu was shot in the abdomen, and Wen Xi had lost an arm. Besides that, they each had other injuries. The makeup would take a lot of time.

Especially for Qin Cong’an, her arm had to be fixed in place and undergo some special makeup treatment. Combined with the costume, it really looked like her arm was broken.

This was their longest makeup session so far. Xu Ling secretly glanced at Qin Cong’an and thought, we didn’t need to sleep just now. We have time to sleep now. That nap had really woken her up. Now, even if she wanted to, she couldn’t sleep.

One of Qin Cong’an’s hands was being worked on, while the other was holding the script, still reading.

The makeup took a long time, but in the movie, both of them were just casually bandaged up by that doctor Jian Yu hated. It was just a disinfection and a bandage.

Although the script didn’t say how the two of them died, Xu Ling seriously suspected that this old bastard’s improper procedures were what killed them.

Being an assassin was a high-risk profession. Even with such serious injuries, they couldn’t go to a hospital and could only be scammed by these underground doctors. Their lives were not treated as lives. Anyway, if two assassins died, there were many more.

It was a good thing Wen Xi had met Jian Yu. Otherwise, maybe one day, she would have died a very lonely death, alone from the first day of her life to the last. With Jian Yu, at least she had someone by her side, bickering with her until the very end.

When Xu Ling first got the script, she loved the story after one read, but she found it very sad. Yet, this ending seemed to be the best possible one.

Finally, after the makeup was done, they started filming.

The necessary situation that Jian Yu thought would never happen had happened. Wen Xi couldn’t drive, so she had to.

Fortunately, they didn’t run into any checkpoints along the way. They were lucky to arrive at the familiar burial spot.

But how long could this luck last? They both knew their time was running out.

Their faces were both calm. Only when their wounds were touched did their faces twitch in pain, and then they immediately returned to their calm expressions.

The two of them dug the hole together. Jian Yu told two bad jokes, but Wen Xi didn’t respond. She couldn’t continue either. The atmosphere was completely different from the previous times when they could still find time to play around while burying a body.

It was truly tiring, both physically and emotionally draining.

To accommodate Xu Ling, the breaks tonight were twice as long as usual.

To not affect the schedule, Xu Ling was very serious. During the breaks, she drank some sugar water to avoid fainting again.

Because of their injuries, their movements were slow. Their last action took until dawn to complete.

Chang Ning had checked the weather forecast in advance. The weather these past few days hadn’t been good. To achieve the effect she wanted, she would have to wait for post-production.

In her imagination, it was an unrealistically beautiful sunrise, one that would make people think of a bright future.

Unfortunately, the way the scene was presented would remind the audience that this was actually something the two of them had imagined.

But Chang Ning hadn’t expected that in the morning, the kind of radiant, infinitely vibrant sunrise that lit up the whole world that she had wanted actually appeared.

Chang Ning cherished this brief, wonderful moment and quickly filmed it. Unfortunately, the effect in the shot was still a bit lacking. They would still have to do it in post-production.

“OK, that’s a wrap for our filming here. Thank you, everyone,” Chang Ning said, leading the applause and nodding to everyone on set. “Now let’s go to the next location!”

It wasn’t over yet, but this kind of filming that completely disrupted their biological clocks was finally over.

The group got into the car and headed to the next location. Everyone could sleep for a bit in the car. After filming the daytime scenes today, they could go back to the city.

Xu Ling got into the car and fell asleep immediately, but after all, it was in a car, and the road was a bit bumpy, so she didn’t sleep well. Fortunately, her period, though intense, was short and had already ended. Otherwise, she might have died here today.

The place they arrived at was the last scene in the movie.

A place like a paradise, where Jian Yu and Wen Xi lived.

After getting out of the car, everyone had to walk for a bit. Xu Ling gradually saw the full view of the cabin in the woods. It was magical, so much like the place she had dreamed of last night, a place so beautiful it was unreal, with a small stream nearby, the gurgling sound of the water very healing.

Both of them were a little tired. Chang Ning told them to rest for a bit longer, but she had already gone on to direct the preparations.

Chang Ning seemed like someone who never got tired. She had the same demonic schedule, but she was always full of energy.

Xu Ling put on a steam eye mask and rested in a moon chair. This was the last scene of the entire movie. Tonight was also the last day she could openly sleep with Qin Cong’an.

No, they were going back to the city tonight!

Xu Ling sighed and silently calculated. Tonight, she would rest well and get her sleep schedule back on track. Tomorrow night, she would go to her room. She would have to find an excuse again. Unlike this week, where they slept together every day and she could naturally burrow into her arms.

What excuse could she find? It seemed she hadn’t been using excuses recently; she had just been going directly. Mmm, just on-set wives having some fun, just a special relationship.

…Couldn’t sleep, couldn’t sleep at all.

Xu Ling had to use the meditation method from her busiest modeling days, feeling her body from each finger, relaxing each part in succession to regain her energy.

The filming went relatively smoothly. Chang Ning told them to recall the feeling from the day before yesterday, but to be a little more peaceful.

After coming out of the cabin, the two of them climbed up the mountain along the stream. Although they didn’t say it, they were secretly competing to see who would get to the top first. But when Wen Xi really did climb up a ledge first, she turned back to help Jian Yu, only to be cunningly overtaken by her.

The shot was taken from a great distance. You could only see the two of them climbing higher and higher, almost reaching the source of the stream.

The camera wasn’t with them, only a safety officer watching from a distance.

Xu Ling gradually forgot they were filming. It was as if she were really hiking with Qin Cong’an. But if she were on a date, she would never choose a project as tiring as hiking, especially on a wild mountain with this kind of slope. It was so undignified. She was using all fours to climb.

Qin Cong’an turned back, held out her hand to her, her gaze calm, but under that calmness, something intense was hidden.

Xu Ling suddenly felt that no matter how undignified she was, Qin Cong’an wouldn’t look down on her.

What am I thinking? Qin Cong’an is acting.