pjbooks Chapter 403 The young girl is her mother.
Chapter 403 The young girl is her mother.
Outsiders are not allowed to enter the filming location without permission.
Ning Yao sent a message to Mu Jie when she was almost there. She only waited for a short while at the fence outside the base before Mu Jie arrived.
Mu Jie looked Ning Yao up and down, never expecting that the person who came would be the newly debuted actress that Ning Duoduo had been following recently.
"Are you Ning Yao's mother?" Mu Jie asked, then realized her question was impolite and quickly nodded in apology.
"It's okay, you're not the first person to be scared." Ning Yao said in a gentle voice, showing particular leniency towards her daughter's agent.
She couldn't be with her daughter all the time, so she had to ask Mu Jie, her agent and assistant, to take good care of Duoduo, so she naturally had to be nice to her.
Moreover, when Ning Yao first saw Mu Jie, she was dressed in a neat business casual outfit. Although she didn't smile much, the shrewdness in her eyes was undeniable.
Mu Jie is a smart person, and she's quite to Ning Yao's liking.
Mu Jie asked Ning Yao to come and help. She originally thought Ning Yao was Ning Duoduo's biological mother, but it turned out that she was just a close friend who jokingly referred to her as her mother.
But even a best friend is better than nothing; for Ning Duoduo, they are still close people.
"And who is this?" Mu Jie looked at Guan Ying behind Ning Yao and, with the professionalism of a manager, asked another question.
“This is my friend. If it’s inconvenient for her, she can wait outside,” Ning Yao said with a smile.
Guan Ying was about to say something, but Ning Yao interrupted her with a look.
She didn't mind being called Ning Yao's bodyguard; she was a bodyguard, not a friend.
"Wait here for me a moment, I'll go in alone and check on Duoduo." After giving these instructions, Ning Yao followed Mu Jie inside.
With one less person of unknown origin beside her, Mu Jie felt more at ease.
"What's wrong with Duoduo?" Ning Yao asked, her brows furrowed as she followed Mu Jie.
"Go to the lounge later and you'll understand." Mu Jie no longer used honorifics, after all, the girl next to her looked several years younger than her.
Ning Yao said no more and simply stayed by Mu Jie's side.
Soon, the two arrived at the actors' dressing room, which was specially arranged for Ning Duoduo by the production team. It was about 60 square meters in size and looked quite nice.
Mu Jie tapped lightly twice on the door with her fingers, but received no response from inside. She sighed softly.
"Miss Ning Yao, would you please go in and check on Duo Duo? I won't go in; I'll stay at the door and just call me if you need anything."
"Okay, thank you for your help."
When Ning Yao entered, she found the room brightly lit. The ceiling of the lounge was made of glass windows, providing good natural light. However, Ning Duoduo was nowhere to be seen in the lit areas.
Ning Duoduo was hiding in a corner, hugging her arms, her head buried between her knees, her body trembling slightly.
Ning Yao felt a pang of heartache when she saw her daughter curled up in a ball as if she had been frightened and collapsed.
She stepped forward and slowly squatted down, moving very gently, for fear of frightening her daughter.
"Duobao?" Ning Yao called her daughter's name softly. Seeing Ning Duoduo's back bent into an arc and her muscles tense up instantly, Ning Yao didn't understand what had happened to make Ning Duoduo like this.
Hearing her mother's familiar, gentle voice, Ning Duoduo held her breath. Her subconscious reaction was that she thought it was an illusion, but after confirming that the voice was real, she lowered her head heavily, as if she dared not look up, for fear that it was a hallucination.
Where Ning Yao couldn't see, Ning Duoduo opened her mouth and bit the back of her hand with considerable force.
Although Ning Yao couldn't see, she could hear Ning Duoduo's sobbing, a heartbreaking sound.
Her daughter couldn't talk to her right now, so Ning Yao raised her hand and touched Ning Duoduo's arm. Her skin was surprisingly cold, so she took off her coat and gently covered her arm with it. Then she tiptoed out of the lounge and found Mu Jie.
The two sat on chairs outside the lounge, both with deeply troubled expressions.
"She's been immersing herself in the role like this for a while now. At first, I didn't realize how bad it was. I just thought that getting into character was a good thing for an actor, that it would allow them to create a more vivid character and achieve better results." Mu Jie said, looking helpless and even a little guilty, when talking about Ning Duoduo.
There are actors in the industry who use this method, but only a few senior actors can truly get into character and not be able to get out of it.
Mu Jie held onto a sliver of hope, thinking that Ning Duoduo was too young to be so immersed in the role that she couldn't get out of it. She believed that Ning Duoduo couldn't truly empathize with many of Ning Duoduo's emotions; at most, she could only grasp the surface.
In Mu Jie's eyes, Ning Duoduo is a talented actress, and she doesn't want her worries to hinder the child's development.
So they allowed Ning Duoduo to get so immersed in the role that it even affected her real life.
Ning Duoduo usually recovers within a month or two after filming wraps up, but this time, she was still stuck in the trauma of her previous role. When she was touched on a similar incident, she broke down emotionally on the spot and cried so hard that everyone on the crew felt heartbroken.
Ning Yao decided to start by finding the root of the problem, and frowned as she asked, "What kind of plot did she act out that caused her to be unable to get out of her emotions?"
Mu Jie: "Duoduo's character died in a car accident and didn't have time to see her mother one last time. She was heartbroken. Then she created a dream for herself and successfully traveled back to the time when her mother was still alive. In the play, Duoduo plays a high school girl who can't distinguish between dreams and reality."
Upon hearing this, Ning Yao's eyes were suddenly touched, and a hint of tears welled up in them.
While Ning Duoduo was filming this scene, she happened to go to Simen, where the signal was bad and she couldn't contact people back home.
When she returned, she saw that Duoduo seemed normal and didn't notice anything amiss in her emotions. It was her fault for neglecting her duties.
It seems that Duoduo believes she has really passed away, and that she is living in a dream, unable to distinguish between reality and dreams, which is why she is in pain.
"So I made a decision on my own and contacted the mother in Duoduo's contacts without her permission. I didn't expect that you weren't her mother in the real sense." Mu Jie said with some emotion.
To help Ning Duoduo, we really need to start from the root cause.
What she feared most was that Duoduo's biological mother had really passed away, which would make it even more difficult for Ning Duoduo to move on.
"Do you know where Duoduo's biological mother is?" Mu Jie asked.
An agent is supposed to know everything about the artist's background, but Ning Duoduo seems to have fallen from the sky. As far as she knows, Ning Duoduo has been like an orphan since the first day she joined the company.
The company didn't care about Ning Duoduo's background; they just instructed her, as her agent, to take good care of her and show her affection.
A hint of heartache appeared in Mu Jie's eyes. Of course she would take care of Ning Duoduo. Duoduo was her artist, and was practically her child.
"Let me do it." Ning Yao's expression was firm, and her shoulders involuntarily tensed. She could do it, she could lead her daughter out of this predicament.
Mu Jie turned her head to look at Ning Yao and thought that the girl in front of her seemed quite reliable.
Perhaps she didn't know Ning Duoduo's background either; otherwise, given Duoduo's situation, she would definitely have asked Duoduo's mother to help.
Or perhaps, Duoduo's family background is too unbearable to look at; her parents are the kind of scum who suck people's blood...
Thinking about all this, Mu Jie couldn't help but feel sorry for her artists. In the end, one cannot choose the kind of family one is born into.
"Sigh, then you should try it first." Mu Jie sighed, her eyes filled with complex emotions.
At this moment, Ning Yao was only thinking about how to help her daughter and had no idea how Mu Jie was criticizing her and Wen Tingye in her heart.
If Ning Yao knew that Mu Jie actually imagined them as the kind of bad parents who don't treat their children like human beings, she would be speechless.