Chapter 573: Chapter 573

The foreign spectators couldn’t help but open their mouths wide, occasionally letting out exclamations of amazement. If one listened closely, one could even hear their murmurs:

"Wow, the magical Chinese Martial Arts!"

"That’s amazing, so cool! If I learn it, can I fight people?"

"Maybe I could be like Iron Man and fight for justice?"

Of course, just casually performing the movements wouldn’t let them witness the true power of the martial arts form.

Thus, after a brief introduction, He Jinxia bowed with clasped fists and passionately said, "Let me perform it for you to see."

Before long, the BGM of "Chinese Martial Arts" excitedly started playing in the dance studio:

"Lie down like a bow!"

"Steady and stable like a bell when sitting, moving like a breeze when walking!"

The next day, when the film crew began shooting, the speed of He Jinxia’s team suddenly accelerated dramatically.

Originally, the assistant director had set aside a whole morning just to shoot one dance, but somehow He Jinxia’s group seemed to have an epiphany overnight, as if they had acquired a Divine Skill, and after only three takes, they got the dance scene right in one go, spending less than an hour and a half in total.

The assistant director was incredibly amazed, constantly giving thumbs up to the actors and shouting "perfect!" Seeing that there was still plenty of time in the morning, he seized the moment to have the actors perform a second dance.

The second dance didn’t look as miraculously quick as the first, returning to the normal level of the previous day’s shooting.

This left the assistant director quite disappointed; he had truly thought that this group of actors could continue to advance at a rapid pace, but it turned out that the effect was only applicable to one dance.

The actors had all learned the second dance and were in the midst of blending together, a process that takes time and cannot be achieved instantaneously.

Everyone kept shooting non-stop, and soon it was midday.

When dispersing, the assistant director called a few actors over and asked them what the deal was with the first dance.

The actors didn’t hide anything and spoke of their voluntary extra practice the night before.

The assistant director was somewhat surprised, finding it hard to believe that they were so enthusiastic, but when he really asked why they agreed to extra practice, the actors all avoided the topic, simply saying they wanted to practice more.

The assistant director looked at them suspiciously, feeling that even the actors themselves didn’t believe what they were saying.

Faced with his gaze, the actors felt a wave of heat across their faces but nonetheless steadfastly stuck with their previous statements.

Unfortunately, there are no walls without cracks in this world.

Even though the actors in He Jinxia’s group tried hard to conceal that she was teaching them martial arts every night, the music emitted from the dance studio the previous night was loud and different from the usual dance music, which made other actors who were practicing curious and they came to have a look.

Some actors had discovered their secret and told their best friends the next day.

It turned from one to ten, then ten to a hundred... The thing they had tried to hide had spread all over the cast without their knowledge!

Not to mention how envious and jealous the other actors were that He Jinxia’s team members could practice Chinese Martial Arts with him, on the other side, Ola heard about this and came over with a complicated expression to look at He Jinxia.

He Jinxia was eating lunch, and seeing Ola’s aggrieved expression, couldn’t help but raise her eyebrows and picked up a chicken leg from her lunch box to offer it to her.

"Here, eat some more meat. You’ve been working hard lately. When I came back, I noticed you had lost weight, you look quite haggard, you need to nourish yourself more."

Depressed, Ola picked up the chicken leg He Jinxia handed her, nibbled on it a bit, then continued to look at her with a sorrowful expression, occasionally sighing.

Despite her sunny girl appearance, she managed to give off a feeling of being as sick as a weakened beauty—

frown unrelieved, hesitating to speak.

He Jinxia got goosebumps from her gaze, coughed a few times, and then whispered, "Come on, why are you looking for me?"

Ola sighed, looking dejected, "I was wondering, why are people so different?"

He Jinxia was about to express her views on the issue, but before she could speak, Ola desolately uttered another line, "Why can’t I be like you, skilled in Chinese Martial Arts?"

He Jinxia choked, a bad feeling rising inside her. She laughed it off:

"Chinese Martial Arts are actually very simple to learn from a young age. I just learned a little bit as a child, then continued dancing, so I kept the flexibility, and that’s why I never forgot it as I grew up.

If you really want to learn Chinese Martial Arts, you could wait till you have kids and let them learn it. Maybe your kids will inherit your interests and also be very passionate about Chinese Martial Arts?"

Ola sighed again, "I don’t know how long it’ll be until I can have kids, and by then, it’ll be too late. If I knew Chinese Martial Arts like you, I could teach my team members and then have them practice with me extra late into the night, but unfortunately, I don’t know how."

He Jinxia was about to take a sip of soup but almost spat it out at these words. She truly coughed for a while before regaining her composure.

She frowned, "How did you find out about this?"

Ola looked at her strangely and retorted, "You didn’t know? It spread everywhere this morning."

He Jinxia tugged at the corner of her mouth, "I didn’t know..."

So much for keeping a low profile. The thought of all the actors knowing about her performance the day before made her instinctively cover her face.

Yesterday, she seriously made up stories, which are now her dark history, especially since she accompanied her acting with vivid noises like "Hey," "Ho," "Ha"... Oh no, she wanted to bury her head under the table even more.

She was addicted to hoodwinking at that moment, enjoying the awe-struck expressions of others felt pretty good, but after everything was done, He Jinxia immediately regretted it when she returned to the hotel that night.

Unfortunately, no matter how much she regretted it, she couldn’t deny it after all since she had done it and even taught others a few moves.

Meanwhile, Ola’s voice still reached her ears, regretfully saying, "What to do, at this rate, your group will definitely catch up and even overtake ours, and then we will become the burden, dragging down the progress of the entire cast. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ NoveI[F]ire.net

I’m under a lot of pressure, wanting them to practice more, but they keep making excuses saying they’re busy and unwilling to do extra work. They’re only looking out for themselves, and if they drag the cast down, they’ll just blame it on me."

After her uncle had come to cause trouble in the cast, delaying some of the progress, Ola had felt guilty and wanted to demonstrate her capabilities to Wilson after resolving the issue with her uncle.

But team dance filming isn’t about one person being excellent; it requires collaboration, everyone being excellent together is what presents a complete performance, and this was something Ola felt helpless about.