Once again collaborating with Lu Ze, aside from the unexpected encounter in the studio, Muzhen didn't feel anything amiss. As he had mentioned to Zhang Ran, it was only natural for actors to work together multiple times.

However, on the first day of filming, Muzhen deeply understood that working with Lu Ze again was simply the beginning of a nightmare.

When it comes to the first collaboration, "Summer Memories," although they were in the same crew, Lu Ze's role is the female protagonist's first love. He almost entirely exists in the female protagonist's memories, so he never had any scenes filmed together with Mu Chen.

In "Embracing the Stars and Embracing the Moon," Lu Ze plays the role of Mu Chen's junior brother who has recently entered the sect. Although this character does not rank among the top three male protagonists and has few lines, he appears on screen quite often. After Lu Ze's character becomes a disciple, his master becomes busy with affairs and arranges for him to be placed under Mu Chen's guidance, who plays the role of the eldest senior brother. Therefore, in the drama, Lu Ze is like a little follower or tail behind Mu Chen. It is estimated that whenever Mu Chen appears on screen, Lu Ze's figure will likely be present, perhaps making up about half of those scenes.

Originally, Mu Chen didn't think much of it. At most, it was just acting in the same scene.

However, the filming of the first scene didn't go smoothly for the two of them.

To celebrate the start of filming, many production crews would shoot the scenes of the male and female lead actors as the first scene. However, due to scheduling conflicts, the female lead of "Capturing the Stars, Embracing the Moon" will join the crew a few days later, so the first scene has been changed to shoot the opening of the TV drama instead.

This scene is when the master entrusted the newly recruited junior martial brother to the senior martial brother, and the senior martial brother shared with the junior martial brother the history of the sect's development and its rules.

During the performance, Lu Ze's only responsibility was to nod along on the side and occasionally say a few simple lines like, "Got it, understood."

However, whenever Mu Chen, who played the role of Senior Brother, opened his mouth, he would always have long lines to deliver. Although Mu Chen had already read the novel and memorized the script before filming began, he would always make mistakes during actual filming because there were too many lines.

So the first scene was stopped several times.

The new play has just started filming, and it's normal for the first scene to go wrong. Everyone understands that. After a few failures, the director asked everyone to take a break, so that Mu Chen could familiarize himself with the lines again.

The weather is still quite cold in early spring.

Mu Chen sent away his assistant, Zhang Ran, who wanted to follow him. He put on a coat over his thin costume, then took the script and left the rest area. He found a corner on the set and sat down directly on the steps, carefully studying the lines for the first scene again.

"Pretty serious, huh."

Just as Mu Chen was silently reciting his lines, a deep, yet somewhat familiar voice entered his ears.

With a lift of the head, I saw Lu Ze dressed in ancient white attire. He held two paper cups in his hands, from which steam was rising.

Mu Chen furrowed his eyebrows, unsure why Lu Ze had come to find him. Was he here to rehearse lines with him?

In the past, in "Memories of Early Summer," he had never done this before. He always stayed by himself on the side.

Lu Ze sat down directly next to him and handed the cup of water in his hand to Mu Chen.

Mu Chen paused for a moment, set aside the script, and reached out to take the water cup. "Thank you."

Thinking back to the scandal a few months ago, Lu Ze was willing to step up and explain for him. Now they are both in the same drama crew, so Mu Chen actually doesn't need to act distant like a stranger.

Just finished shooting, Mu Chen had memorized a lot of lines and was indeed feeling a bit thirsty. With both hands holding the cup, he blew some air into it and took small sips from the cup once the temperature of the boiling water had dropped a bit.

Sitting next to him, Lu Ze took a sip of water and placed the cup in his hand on the step. Then, he looked at Mu Chen, who was drinking water slowly, and said, "I accidentally saw some comments from netizens online earlier, saying that your acting skills are poor."