Starlight Has No Past - Chapter 39 Part 3

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.



Starlight Has No Past
Chapter 39 Part 3

At the filming site, Cheng Jiang finally finished negotiating with Gu Jin. The stunt players had already tested the set up several times. After the actors rehearsed the scene three times, the pyrotechnician gave the director an ok gesture.
Ye Qiao came to the side so the makeup artist could do some last minute touch ups. Shen Ting held Ye Qiao’s hand and cautioned her with a palpable tremor in her hands: “They said that it’s going to be real fire later on. You’ve seen all the obstacles. The explosions will come one after the other. Make sure you don’t run in the wrong direction.” Ye Qiao picked up her cell phone to send a reply message to Zhou Tingsheng then carelessly looked at Shen Ting: “Don’t worry. Even a kid and a pregnant woman will be in it. What’s there to be scared of?”

The information was too much for Shen Ting to swallow: “Pre…...pregnant.” She sneaked a peek at Cheng Jiang and seemed to have lost her ability to speak from the shocking news: “......Really?”
Ye Qiao didn’t reply but handed her cell phone over to Shen Ting: “There’s someone coming in a little while. Bring him in for me.” She then walked towards the warehouse.

The makeup artist nudged Shen Ting, who was still in a daze: “Only you can’t see it. I’ve been with this crew for many years, Cheng Jiang used to work so hard and never used a body double. The company even issued an announcement to commemorate her diligence. If she’s not pregnant, then what would the reason be. Do you think she’s getting too old?” She lowered her voice: “But actually, if you look carefully, you can see Cheng Jiang’s stomach is showing a little bit……”
Cheng Jiang wasn’t a slender person to begin with, so no one paid much attention when she recently gained some weight. Shen Ting looked carefully at her stomach and indeed found the curve to be rather unusual. Suddenly, she was outraged: “Her stomach is showing. She’s at least three months by now?” She looked at Ye Qiao then turned to look at the makeup artist. Both of them tacitly understood what the other was thinking.

The makeup artist sighed: “So you have to keep your eyes open to find a boyfriend. Otherwise you’ll think you were the one who did something wrong when the man dumps you. Who knew that the man already had a child.”
Shen Ting watched Ye Qiao gently talk to Jiang Yu and gnashed her teeth for Ye Qiao’s sake: “He may not be able to have his child. I heard Cheng Jiang had abortions several times when she was younger. So she’ll probably miscarry?”
The makeup artist brought her finger to her lips: “You don’t have to be that mean…...Well, all in all, it’s one’s own fate.”

Zhou Tingsheng arrived at the site.
It was deserted around the factory. The crew had cordoned off the surrounding area with guards. Shen Ting went to take him inside with her badge and pointed at the greyish building: “They’ve started shooting. Usually, they should be able to do it in one shot. Qiao Jie should be out soon.”
Black smoke started to come out of the warehouse. The smell of the smoke was particularly irritating. Zhou Tingsheng frowned and asked: “Where are they?”
Shen Ting pointed at a small door at the warehouse and said: “Where the camera is. All of them will be coming out from there. The explosions are going to start.”

There were six explosion points, from far to near. The four actors were moving in three directions. Ye Qiao would take Jiang Yu and run to the farthest side.
When the first explosion happened, it was far away. The four people started running in three different directions. They had just run for a short distance, when there was suddenly an explosion right behind them, creating a red plume of cloud.
The flaring fire made all the onlookers squint. Zhou Tingsheng’s eyes followed the running figure in the distance and calculated the timing of the other explosion. He had a vague sense that something was off.

Another loud boom followed, the third explosion was unusually violent. The ground seemed to shake every so slightly. Four red plumes of clouds rose up unexpectedly. The explosions left a raging fire in their wake and instantly swallowed the path the actors had just run past.
The moment the fire stormed in their direction, Ye Qiao sensed that something had gone wrong. She subconsciously pulled Jiang Yu closer to her body and leaped down to a fire rescue air-cushion about one meter away while holding Jiang Yu in her arms.
The heat wave encompassed a radius of a hundred meters. It was like a nightmare that lasted forever under the plumes of thick smoke.

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.