Liang Shi chuckled, "Really? But I also have a mental illness."
Yunyin: "..."
Faced with this, Yunyin dared not utter another word.
Liang Shi's blade pressed against his neck. "Tell me, what normal person wouldn't go crazy if they were thrown into that kind of room? How about I throw you in there for a few days?"
"No, no, no," Yunyin denied repeatedly.
Liang Shi stared straight at him.
A deadly sense of oppression washed over him, and Yunyin's head trembled. His skin touched the cold blade, and he immediately retreated.
Liang Shi continued, "Furthermore, it seems that mentally ill people commit murder without breaking the law."
Yunyin panicked immediately, "No, no... I'll talk."
"Then tell me." Liang Shi moved the knife back slightly, reducing the oppressive feeling. "Then tell me clearly, how exactly did you and Qiu Zimin agree to this? Is it true that you used people as sacrifices to exchange for luck?"
"How could it be true?" Yun Yin was almost crying, afraid that he would be stabbed to death by the person in front of him. After all, he was partly responsible for the person's current madness. He had been hiding from her ever since, afraid that this madwoman would not go after Qiu Zimin but instead come after him. In the end, no matter how much he tried to avoid her, he still couldn't escape her.
"This is all fake!" Yunyin said, "You... you're an educated person, don't you know that feudal superstition is unacceptable?!"
Liang Shi sneered: "Then why are you here to do feng shui for people?"
Yunyin: "...forced by the necessities of life."
Yunyin stretched out two fingers and carefully pinched Liang Shi's knife, pushing it away. "Liang Shi, you, you, take this thing away, I'll tell you everything."
He stammered as he spoke. Liang Shi twirled the knife in his hand, then folded it up and put it away.
Liang Shi's hands gleamed white in the sunlight, casually resting on his lap. "Looks like you still remember me."
“Of course,” Yunyin said. “You are the most miserable person I have ever seen.”
Liang Shi: "?"
For a moment, no one knew what this person was up to.
“I told you before, changing one’s luck is a very mysterious thing, it can’t be changed.” Yunyin said, “It was your mother who said it could be changed, I… I only said that for the money. And your house, it was… it was your mother who brought me the plans and asked me to decorate it, and that sculpture, it was also your mother who wanted to do it.”
Liang Shi sneered: "So the whole 'changing luck' thing is fake?"
“Definitely,” Yun Yin said confidently. “If I could change someone’s luck, I… I would have become the world’s richest man long ago.”
Liang Shi's eyes turned cold. "Then why did you help Qiu Zimin?"
Yun Yin's gaze towards her suddenly changed, as if to say, "You seem to know nothing of human suffering."
“It’s for the money,” Yunyin said. “Your mother said she would give me two million if I did what she said.”
Liang Shi asked, "And then you used the money to build the Yunyin Taoist Temple?"
Yunyin nodded: "Your mother later introduced me to some jobs, plus what I've saved up over the years..."
Liang Shi interrupted him, "So you've been lying all these years?"
“That’s true…” Yunyin paused, then said awkwardly, “Not entirely. Some things… also have a bit of mystical element to them.”
"For example?" Liang Shi asked.
Yunyin said, "You...you actually don't have much luck."
Liang Shi frowned.
Yunyin said, "Your destiny chart is too complicated for me to see... but you have the appearance of someone born into wealth and nobility."
His words were incoherent, and Liang Shi scoffed, "Alright, stop making things up to save your life. I'll ask you again, why did Qiu Zimin decorate the room like that for me?"
Yunyin asked in surprise, "You didn't know?"
Liang Shi: "...I don't know."
"I don't know either," Yunyin said, shrugging. "If you don't know, how would I know?"
Liang Shi: "..."
A cold glint flashed in her eyes, and the folding knife revealed its sharp blade once more. "Stop trying to talk your way out of this."
"I...I really don't know," Yunyin said. "She pays me to do things, how would I know what she's planning to do?"
"Can you guarantee that everything you said today is true?" Liang Shi asked.
Yun Yin paused for a moment, then said, "If I am lying, may I be struck by lightning."
//
When Liang Shi returned to the film crew, Yan Xi was the first to see her and asked her who she had been fighting with.
"You actually believe that, just kidding?" Liang Shi said casually.
Yan Xi: "...This is really boring."
Liang Shi sat on a bench; the film crew had resumed normal operations.
It was lunch break time, and Yanxi picked up her lunchbox while she was getting hers. Today's lunchbox was alright, with one meat dish, two vegetable dishes, and a soup, but there wasn't enough rice.
Liang Shi asked another question, and Yan Xi replied, "The director thought we were getting fat from eating too many boxed lunches and wouldn't look good on camera, so he told us to eat less carbohydrates."
Liang Shi: "..."
The suspenseful events on set ultimately ended with a supernatural twist.
Yan Xi scoffed at the idea, "We're all living in a new era, why would we still believe in this kind of thing? That Taoist priest is obviously a con artist."
Liang Shi nodded silently to the side.
Whether the Taoist priest was a conman or not is not important; what matters is that he calmed everyone's anxious hearts.
Finally, unlike the past few days, I no longer find myself spending too much time in the restroom and hearing two or three groups of people listening to these ghost stories.
They spoke so confidently that it made everyone feel dejected.
When people are no longer fearful, their efficiency in doing things increases.
From any perspective, the director's 30,000 yuan was well spent.
I don't know if it's just psychological or if this thing is really as mysterious as the Taoist priest said.
Overall, the subsequent filming went relatively smoothly.
Even if someone in the crew gets sick, it's only one person. It's either because they've been working too hard and staying up too late, or because an old illness has relapsed. But there's never been a situation like before, where someone gets sick without warning and the cause can't be found. In the end, we can only blame it on metaphysics.
Since then, no more staff members have told us about paranormal events they or their friends have encountered, but instead, everyone has made plans to go to Yunfeng Mountain together.
Liang Shi had heard it a few times, but he didn't have any particular reaction.
Two days later, Zhao Ying knocked on Liang Shi's door during her break.
Zhao Ying didn't have any scenes to film that day, which should have been a pleasant rest time, but she had dark circles under her eyes. After entering Liang Shi's room, she gulped down a few mouthfuls of water, sat on the cheap wooden chair, and said, "I can't take it anymore."
Liang Shi asked in surprise, "What's wrong?"
Zhao Ying closed her eyes and let out a soft breath. "Shu Yi definitely has a mental illness."
Liang Shi: "?"
“She knocked on my door last night and beat me up,” Zhao Ying said, lifting her bangs to reveal a three-centimeter-long wound on her forehead.
Liang Shi: "..."
Liang Shi immediately rummaged through his suitcase, not even having time to ask Shu Yi what was going on. While looking for his own first-aid kit, he asked, "Why didn't you treat your wound?"
Zhao Ying sighed, "I'm completely numb."
Liang Shi: "..."
She first treated the wound on Zhao Ying's forehead, which looked like she had been scratched by something sharp, but it wasn't serious and had already scabbed over.
When Liang Shi was disinfecting her, Zhao Ying gasped a few times, her voice weak and feeble, "This thing has nothing to do with gods or monsters, it's just that Shu Yi is mentally ill."
“I filmed with her this morning, and I felt there were no problems,” Liang Shi said.
Zhao Ying was in so much pain that she was pressing her hair down with all her might. "The most outrageous thing is right here."
“She knocked on my door at two in the morning last night. I was so scared I almost had a nervous breakdown,” Zhao Ying said. “Two in the morning! I was having a dream… Can you imagine?”
Liang Shi: "..."
It's so suffocating just to hear about it.
"I can't continue filming this movie." After Liang Shi put a band-aid on her hair, Zhao Ying let her bangs down. "Either she leaves or I leave."
Zhao Ying pressed her temples. "I play the Great Compassion Mantra before bed every night, but I never imagined that... [the incident] was a man-made disaster!"
Liang Shi didn't know how to comfort her. Seeing that she was completely out of sorts, he figured she must have been tormented quite a bit.
"I heard Shu Yi was alright before I worked with her," Zhao Ying muttered to herself. "Why didn't anyone tell me she sleepwalks and has mental illness?"
“If she doesn’t get treatment soon, I’ll soon become mentally ill!” Zhao Ying said.
Before filming began, everything would be fine.
Given Zhao Ying's current status, she could simply say she's unavailable and schedule a project with the director for the next one. Although the director might be unhappy, he would still give her face.
But now Zhao Ying's scenes are already half filmed, and the same goes for Shu Yi's.
Replacing an actor at this point is only done if the actor has committed a major scandal that would affect the broadcast of the show, or if they are directly blacklisted by the media.
Even if we need to change actors, we have to recheck their schedules, which is a lot of trouble.
Therefore, once a drama is shelved, it's unknown when it will be filmed again.
Most of them are natural projects and yellow.
But "Yu Guang" is a big production, and the director is aiming for a major award next year.
With two Best Actress winners and a director who has been nominated for numerous international awards, the project attracted countless stars even during its pre-production stage, making it a highly coveted opportunity for everyone in the industry.
If something goes wrong along the way, it will definitely cause a stir in the industry.
Zhao Ying wanted to finish filming the show peacefully, but after Shu Yi caused that scene, Zhao Ying's condition began to decline rapidly.
She's already quite tolerant.
But after what happened last night, she felt that if she continued to endure it, she might have to go to a mental hospital to register after filming was over.
She had no one in the group she could talk to, and after holding it in all morning, she couldn't help but come to find Liang Shi.