Rebirth: Professional Substitute

Chapter 74 - Who is the REAL Substitute...

While ZhouXiang was chatting to ChenYing on the phone, he could vaguely hear arguments from WangYuDong's room. It was brief and then was followed by the sound of the door slamming opened and closed. Soon after, YanMingXiu returned.

ZhouXiang again reminded ChenYing a few things and hung up the phone.

Seeing YanMingXiu walking in looking very unsightly, he wondered if the two really did argued. If so, that is truly rare.

ZhouXiang flipped the blanket over and planned on going to sleep after turning off the TV. He and YanMingXiu had nothing to communicate to each other, nor is he in the least bit interested in the dispute between the two. At this time, he didn't even want to touch a fine hair on YanMingXiu's head that could cause trouble for himself.

When he picked up the remote control, his attention was then turned to the TV screen. He suddenly realized that it is broadcasting the first film that he had collaborated with WangYuDong on as his stuntman. It had been six to seven years ago and was the first movie that propelled WangYuDong to superstardom. This martial arts movie is still regarded by many as a classic.

As ZhouXiang watched this movie, the technology can't be compared to today's time, be it the visual effects or special effects but his eyes couldn't leave the vivid leaping scenes or the very familiar faces of the crew during that time.

YanMingXiu's eyes were also captivated by the scenes on the small 23-inch TV.

A freely leisure hero gracefully wearing a white robe, without even a speck of dust, appeared. His handsomely refined appearance along with his elegant and magnificently towering body became one of the classic screen images of that year, making the name, WangYuDong, instantly popular across the country.

However, no one knew that more than half of those stunningly breathtaking fighting scenes that looked like floating clouds and flowing water (natural and smooth) were done by ZhouXiang. Especially the film's most beautiful, most classic and most artistic scene where the hero gracefully went into the water. The entire sequence was done by him (ZhouXiang), WangYuDong merely showed his face when the hero turned around.

This could only be blamed on ZhouXiang for being too young and inexperienced at the time. He didn't know anything except for making money. However, if he didn't agree to have his name removed from the credits, he was afraid that the crew would not have continued to use him as a stuntman for the sole purpose of promoting WangYuDong.

After the movie became a hit, some people had once urged him to take this opportunity to stir up speculation but he didn't agree to it. The huge amount of penalty fees for breaching the contract wasn't actually a concern because as long as he becomes popular, this amount of money would have been immaterial. The reason he didn't agree at the time was mainly because he was too young and had a sense of righteousness. He felt that it would be wrong to do that.

If this was to be changed to the ZhouXiang a few years later, he likely wouldn't have handled it that way. But by then, the time had passed and it was already too late to say anything. Besides, he really didn't regret not taking that chance to promote himself.

At least before he met YanMingXiu, he never regretted it.

But now, seeing YanMingXiu silently watching the TV screen, deeply in thought, the corners of ZhouXiang's mouth curved into a mocking smile, "That's not WangYuDong."

Although he knew that he wouldn't get any sort of revenge against WangYuDong, he had been intolerably suppressing himself from all the grievances the past few days and couldn't restrain himself from just blurting it out.

He didn't even expect YanMingXiu to have a bit of reaction.

However, not only did YanMingXiu reacted, his reaction is extreme.