More Than A Few Blessings Chapter 17

Wow, what a fast release~! Is what you guys probably think right now, so here's the truth. I start translating Chapter 16 quite a few days ago. Then why the heck did you didn't release it?  Well, it turns out when I was translating the last part of that chapter, there was some part that doesn't make any sense to me, then I went to read Chapter 17, which explain a lot on what's going on, leads to this situation -> translating both chapter on the same time = more delays in publis.h.i.+ng the chapter. 

And when I finished translating Chapter 16 and went to translate the last part in Chapter 17, aiming for double release, yippiee~

But, guess what, Chapter 17 and 18 has the same thing (?) as Chapter 16 and 17. (Confusing as h.e.l.l, it just meant that I manage to translate the first part in Chapter 18 by the time I post this chapter) What with this first, second, third part? MTaFB novel usually has 15k++ in each chapter (yes, I count it wrong, it was 15k~ ) So each part = approximately 5k characters. I just hope Chapter 18 and 19 don't have this kind of thing (?) or else expect a late release.

Without further ado, lets read it~

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Chapter 17: Borrowing a car.

Although Chengyu has promised Zhang Shuo to act as ‘Mr Perfect' in his movie, they have a problem with the venue, thus all his scenes will be taken tomorrow. Another important problem is they haven't found the luxury car for ‘Mr Perfect' yet. Zhang Shuo and the producer are planning to rent a famous car's brand from the car rental shop for the movie's group early tomorrow's morning, so they have to move back their plan.

When Zhang Shuo and the producer are talking about luxury cars, Lu Chengyu suddenly remembered Yan Mu's Maybach and he touched his chin, Chengyu said, “Luxury cars… What kind of cars do you want?

“It will be better if it's more expensive,” when Zhang Shuo heard Lu Chengyu's tone, he knows that the boss might have a way, he thought for a while and boldly said, “At least worth more than a million dollar.”

Lu Chengyu nodded and took out his cell phone. After he thinks about it for a second, he dialled his phone. After two or three beeps, he heard Yan Mu's voice.

“a.s.sistant Lu, what can I do for you?”

Lu Chengyu coughed and said, “Boss, are you free now? I need your help.”

When Yan Mu, who was having dinner with his friends, heard this, he placed down his chopstick and asked, “I'm free, what's wrong?”

“My friends are shooting a movie and they need a famous car's brand, but due to their limited budget and unable to find the right car for a while, I want to ask if is it okay for you to lend your car to the movie's crew tomorrow,” Lu Chengyu organizes his speech so that he can be polite and not flattering at the same time, “When I think about it, the person nearby me who drives luxury car is only you, boss.”

“Luxury car?” Yan Mu thought about it carefully and suddenly he remembered that there was an Aston Martin sports car [1] worth nearly 50 million dollars in his garage. Two or three years after he returned home from abroad, his father gave him this car. Due to the fact that this car could go overspeed with a slight step on the accelerator and he doesn't like driving this flashy car around, this car has been kept in his garage. A few days ago, he just had people examined and repair all the cars in his garage so there will not be any safety problem. Yan Mu said, “I have an Aston Martin sports car in the garage from a few years ago. The price is about forty-five million. Can it be used in the movie's group?”

[1](T/N: this car looks so……FREAKING RICH~! no wonder Chengyu's choked)

Lu Chengyu can hear himself choking when he heard about the car. He plans to borrow the 10 million-dollar Maybach. Who would have thought that the other party would generously lend him a more valuable Aston Martin sports car, which made him a little speechless for a while, but can't blame him for not thinking that far, he hadn't imagined seeing this luxury car at all.

Yan Mu thought that his car was not good enough since there was no response from Lu Chengyu through his mobile phone. After all, many people around him like cars. They are even willing to throw out their money for cars. But Yan Mu is not the kind of person who likes cars, so he doesn't have many choices of cars in his garage, “If not, I will find my friend to lend you a car. Where did you shoot the movie? What kind of luxury car do you need? Tomorrow, I'll send you the car.”

When the two of Yan Mu's friends who were eating with him heard this, both of them raised their mouth and make an ambiguous smile. They wink and make signs to each other.

“No, no need to do that, Aston Martin is great. I'll drive it tomorrow, how can I let you drive the car, boss.” Lu Chengyu pressed down the tremor in his heart's tremor that caused by the luxury car and he rubbed his nose, “I can't let the person that I borrow things deliver it to me.”

“It's all right, I have nothing to do tomorrow. I'll wait for you to send the address of the shooting's venue tomorrow through messages, I will send the car to you.” Yan Mu saw that his friend is winking towards him, “I have something to do, I'll hang up first.”

“Which young star that Ah Mu likes that he has to send the luxury car in front of her house?” Zhuang Yu smiled and said, “It's rare for you to fall for someone without us knowing it. Tell us more about her, maybe someday in the future, we can take care of her.”

(T/N: okay, in Chinese language, usually they used ‘you' for both male and female, their conversation above used ‘you', so I can't detect whether it is ‘she' or ‘he' but I choose ‘she' because I don't think they know Yan Mu's preference and the following dialogue leans more to ‘she'.)

Zhang Zeyun, who was at the same table as Yan Mu and Zhuang Yu nod his head. Although Yan Mu is already 27 – 28 years old this year, he didn't show interest towards any woman. When other people in his circle having fun with cars, he was studying abroad for a doctorate; when everyone else is having fun with women on a yacht, he used his skill and crushed the head of Yan's family and his illegitimate son from outside. Now that the former head of Yan family is already dead, he reorganized the chaotic Huading and held it firmly in his hands. He is the winner of life. Since his childhood until now, the other families' parents in the capital keeps on comparing him with their sons which leads to many people hates Yan Mu.

But as friends, they know it. Yan Mu is not really naive and guileless, but rather, he was not interested in this kind of things. What's the point of living such a regular life? Even if it's a messy and crazy life, it doesn't waste your youth. So now they were so interested to hear which young star Yan Mu might be involved with.

“Not a young star, he's just a friend wanted to borrow a car,” Yan Mu put his cell phone on the table and frowned. “He's a very capable man. Don't make such a joke.”

Zhang Zeyun and Zhuang Yu know Yan Mu's disposition. Both of them were somewhat helpless, apparently, this matter is not something to joke about. They both nodded their head to show that they won't be joking about this matter anymore in the future and let Yan Mu properly cherish this person.

Director Zhang looks at Chengyu's strange expression after he hung up the phone, he went to Chengyu and with careful tone, he asked, “Is there any problem with the car?”

Lu Chengyu looked at him and gave a dry cough: “Don't worry, it will be delivered early tomorrow morning.” He asked Zhang Shuo the address for shooting tomorrow. After sending it to Yan Mu, Chengyu saw Zhang Shuo still looked anxious. He laughed and said, “My boss is are fine lending his car. As director, you are more anxious than I am?”

Zhang Shuo blushed, he scratches his head and smiles to hide his embarra.s.sment, “It's not that. I'm worried that the movie couldn't keep up with the schedule since I'm planning to release it during the National Day, so I'm a little bit panicked.”

Lu Chengyu knows that if they delay for one day, the crew will spend an extra day. Now the crew's budget is rather tight. Later on, editing and auditing will cost money. So when filming, we should try our best to seize the time and avoid wasting resources. As a director, Zhang Shuo treats his works as if its' were his children, so he is more worried about movies than the investor.

“National Day is really a good time to release movie,” Lu Chengyu think for a bit. “Rest a.s.sured, I will let the studio's producer cooperate with you as much as possible.”

Zhang Shuo smiled, turned around and asked the actors to get ready. His voice was so loud that the whole group could hear him.

Gao Boyang, Lin Mengmeng and other leading actors know that is it not good to continue surrounding the investor and they went to start working. By the time they finish shooting several scenes, the young investor has already left the filming set.

The young investor was actually a goblin come straight from h.e.l.l on h.e.l.l, woooww~

Early the next morning, the movie team have set up the venue beforehand. Zhang Shuo saw Lu Chengyu coming, he took him to the makeup artist and she began to make up Chengyu. As for clothes… Zhang Shuo looked at the Lu Chengyu's clothes that he specially changed today, his casual suits, shoes and wrist.w.a.tches are better than the one prepared by the movie team, so they need not be changed.

After she has done with makeup and change Lu Chengyu's hairstyle, the makeup artist looked up and down at him several times. This man was very handsome, but it seemed that there was something missing. She even tried placing sungla.s.ses or other accessories but she can't find that feeling.

Lu Chengyu saw the makeup artist scratching her ears and cheeks. He took out a pair of golden-rim gla.s.ses from his casual suit and wear it. Then, suddenly the makeup artist felt ‘this is it!', Chengyu stood up and said, “Let's go and see if the car has arrived.”

Zhang Shuo stood outside the dressing room and saw Lu Chengyu come out. He looked up and said, “This, this is it!.”

Lu Chengyu is a college student who has a good family background, handsome appearance and elegant manners. He is just like a n.o.ble son in the upper-cla.s.s family that has this kind of family-style n.o.bility emanate all over his body. Only in this way can he can have a sharp contrast with gra.s.s-roots [2] male actors and able to produce black humour and criticism of reality through the plot.

[2] 屌丝 [gra.s.s-root]: self-deprecating (A self-deprecating person knows his own weaknesses and shortcomings and isn't afraid to point them out, often in a humorous way)

Lu Chengyu gently pushes his gla.s.ses on his nose bridge with one hand and put another hand into his trouser's pocket. He slightly rises up his chin and looks at Zhang Shuo. Suddenly, Zhang Shuo can see the four-big letters of ‘Yī Guān Qín Shòu [3]' behind Lu Chengyu.

[3] 衣冠禽兽 [yī guān qín shòu]: dressed up animal (idiom); fig. immoral and despicable person

Zhang Shuo was even more excited. This is what he wants. This feeling. Although there weren't many scenes of this college student, they were very important. So he can't find the right person. Now, it's a great satisfaction for him to find an actor who is 100% in line with his own expectations.

However, Zhang Shuo's happy event today is not over yet. He saw Lu Chengyu answer a phone call and suddenly his face slightly changed. Lu Chengyu walks to the movie studio's front door. Zhang Shuo guessed that the car must have arrived, so he followed Lu Chengyu to join in the excitement.

Then he saw a crowd of people surrounding a s.h.i.+ny car in front of the movie's studio. Due to there's a lot of people, he can only see the car's roof.

The onlookers saw that the investors and the directors are coming their way, so they make a path to them. When Zhang Shuo saw the car, he was dumbfounded. Although he hadn't eaten pork before, he had seen pig running [4]. Isn't this is the Aston Martin sports car that came out two years ago? He went to an auto show before. This sports car was not only expensive but also limited edition. Their entire budget was only 2 – 3 million only. When such a luxury car came to the movie site, he suddenly felt somewhat unreal.

[4] used to connect with other people's things. Although he has not experienced it personally, he has heard of it, has seen it and understand it a little bit.

Lu Chengyu walk to the car and saw Yan Mu get off from the car. He pushed back his gla.s.ses and smile towards Yan Mu, “Thank you, boss, for helping me with this trip.”

Yan Mu looked at Lu Chengyu who wear gla.s.ses and saw there were some makeup's traces on his face. After a while, Yan Mu asked, “You want to be an actor?”

“No, it just movie crew happen to lack of actors so I was pulled in to act in this movie and my scene should able to complete within half-day.” Lu Chengyu took off his gla.s.ses and smiled brilliantly at Yan Mu, “Are you not used to me looking like this?”

“No, it looks good,” Yan Mu handed the key to Lu Chengyu. “Can I stay for the shooting?”

“Do as you wish, you can see it,” Lu Chengyu turned his head and looked at Zhang Shuo who was behind him, “Director Zhang, will it be a problem?”

“No problem. This gentleman is your friend. Just looking will be no problem.” A small movie budget like this, no reporters will be willing to take pictures and even less potential for someone wants to spy this movie.

“That's good.” Lu Chengyu took Yan Mu to the director's monitor and sat down. On such a hot day, this place not only was hidden from the sunlight and there is also an electric fan here. “I'm going to finish shooting these scenes first. And then, let's eat together at noon. I'll treat you.” Yan Mu's generous act of borrowing a luxury car has made him forget that Yan Mu has made him spent more than 8,000 yuan on a meal when they first met.

Yan Mu looked at Lu Chengyu's back and the messy background around him. Then he straightened his back and sat down on the grey stool beside the monitor.

Although he didn't know much about filming, however, looking at a.s.sistant Lu appearance today, it seems like filming is quite interesting.