"Forget it, I’m a grown man. A man should be generous, so I won’t haggle with you. But let me warn you, the Yu Family’s line of descent has been unbroken for three generations; if you harm me, you definitely won’t get away with it!"
Jian Anning was speechless. Although now Yu Zexiao was not entangling with her like before, the way he had this "I’m so magnanimous I won’t argue with you" look on his face after doing something wrong, why did it make her feel more and more like hitting someone!
However, what she didn’t know was that very night, she was pressed down on the bed by Yu Zexiao and was fiercely "bullied"!
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Hot Spring Villa was near the western part of Shangcheng, and it took about an hour by bus. Thanks to Yu Zexiao’s antics, she was far from bored on the trip.
They arrived at Hot Spring Villa quickly. This was a newly developed resort, built into the mountainside and utilizing a nearby natural hot spring, which snaked its way down from the mountain through channels to the holiday village below. Some of the slightly more upscale private villas were equipped with their own hot spring pools. The less extravagant accommodations did not have private pools, so guests had to squeeze into the large communal pool for a soak.
Yu Zexiao’s room was arranged in the villa area at the top of the mountain with the best view. Opening the window, one could see lush greenery in the distance, and being away from the city center, even the air was much cleaner.
Each villa’s backyard had a small hot spring pool, approximately three meters across. The pools were surrounded by fine stones, with flowers and trees planted all around, creating a sensation of bathing in nature, offering a great deal of relaxation both physically and mentally.
Not long after Yu Zexiao had arrived at his room, the film crew asked him to shoot the next scene. This scene was also quite simple: the male lead’s father, wanting his son to "get back on the right path," give up music, and also cut ties with the female lead to marry the well-matched second female lead, locks his son in the family’s mountain villa just before the final concert.
Afterward, the female lead learns of this, and with the help of the male lead’s good friend, she successfully helps him escape from the strictly guarded villa.
Of course, since it was set deep in the mountains, naturally, there was a segment where the male and female leads had to flee through the dense forest. And since the male lead refused to submit to his father’s arrangements, he had fasted while imprisoned, leaving him weak and making the escape significantly harder.
As a result, during their flight, they fell down a cliff and hid in a secluded cave for a night, where they also confided their true feelings to each other.
The next day, when the male lead’s good friend came to their aid, they were able to leave safely. From then on, there were no more conflicts between the male and female leads, and the story quickly moved towards its final stages!
Normally, the sequence would have started with the scene of the male lead being confined by his father. However, the actor playing the father wasn’t available, so they moved ahead to shoot the escape scenes first.
To make the performance more convincing, Yu Zexiao had been exercising to lose weight in the past few days at the director’s request. With a bit of make-up, Yu Zexiao went from being full of life to becoming a pale and fragile-looking man.