The middle-aged man standing next to Lin Cheng and Lin Momo pointed in the direction of Jing Xiaoyan and explained, “See him? That’s the male lead of this drama.”

Lin Cheng nodded, indicating that he knew.

After the male lead, the second female lead, and other important supporting roles also started arriving on the set one after another.

Now there were more people outside the studio, making it more and more crowded.

After seeing the main actors arrive on the set, Lin Cheng took Lin Momo’s hand and prepared to take her away.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man next to him looked confused.

“You want to leave? Aren’t you going to wait?” the man asked. Although judging from the current situation, the competition for group acting jobs may be a little fiercer, but it was not completely impossible.

Lin Cheng did not explain to the other party anymore but simply replied, “We’ll go and see other places for now,” and said goodbye to the man.

Although Lin Momo didn’t understand why Lin Cheng wanted to go elsewhere, she still followed him away obediently.

… …

After the Lin father and daughter left the filming location of the [Tidal Wave] crew, they walked towards the next planned filming location.

The two of them didn’t know that shortly after they left, someone among the waiting extras received the news outside the set.

“What? They’re changing the shooting schedule last minute?”

“Are the scheduled scenes not going to be filmed today?”

“Then do they still need extras here today?”

The waiting extras were all talking about it.

During this process, some people had received more accurate information and soon left one after another, including the man who had been chatting with Lin Cheng before.

… …

Before Lin Cheng and Lin Momo had gone very far, they were overtaken by the same man now riding a small battery-operated bike.

Seeing Lin Cheng and the little girl, the middle-aged man slowed down and said ‘hello’ to them.

Meeting Lin Momo’s confused look, the man sighed and explained, “The filming crew changed the schedule temporarily… It was your luck that you left early…” 

The man told them what happened to the crew of [Tidal Wave] and he talked with Lin Cheng for a while. After a few words, the man left on his small battery-operated bike—he had to rush to the next filming crew.

Watching the other party leave, Lin Momo raised her head and looked at Lin Cheng.

“Dad,” Lin Momo pulled Lin Cheng’s hand again.

“What?”

“Did you know it earlier?” Lin Momo asked, staring at Lin Cheng seriously.

The middle-aged man thought it was luck that Lin Cheng left early, but Lin Momo had a feeling: Lin Cheng seemed to have known before that no extras would be needed there.

Hearing this, Lin Chen nodded calmly.

Lin Momo’s eyes were filled with incredible light.

“How did you know?” Lin Momo asked, looking at Lin Chen in surprise.

“A guess,” Lin Cheng threw out the words, paused, and added, “Based on the plot of that drama.”

Among the film and television dramas currently being filmed in the Film and Television City, Lin Cheng identified several dramas that they could focus on, and [Tidal Wave] was one of them.

The plot of this drama was said to be highly faithful to the contents of the original work. Therefore, last night, when Lin Cheng was checking the internet for information about these film and television dramas, in addition to paying attention to the cast officially announced by the filming crew, he also reviewed the original content of [Tidal Wave].

According to the content of the original work, this drama did require a lot of extras.

But in most cases, they were unimportant scenes. The crew only needed to record the group performances once as background, and then edit and intersperse them into the TV series as needed.

In the entire drama, there was only one section where a large number of extras was needed to serve as background while the actors were also filming: when the heroine and the hero meet at the dock, the hero was in crisis and was rescued by the heroine…

In every scene, the main female lead was present throughout.

However, just now, Lin Yi saw the main heroine of the drama was not among the main actors who entered the set.

Back in the set of [Tidal Wave], it was possible that the actress playing the female lead was unable to arrive on set on time, so the director temporarily changed the filming content.

Although Lin Momo could only barely understand Lin Cheng’s explanation, it did not prevent her from feeling that her dad was super powerful!

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

The two of them soon arrived at a shooting location in another area.

Here, several filming crews were set to film at the same time, and the scene seemed very chaotic.

About thirty or forty men and women were standing near the set, each playing with their mobile phones.

These people did not get the exact information as to which crew needed what kind of extras. The reason why they were waiting was just to try their luck—if a certain crew needed people temporarily or the director changed the script temporarily, the crew might look for some extras to perform.

There seemed to be quite a few such situations.

Just when Lin Cheng and Lin Momo arrived at the periphery of the set, they saw one of the crew shouting to the surrounding extras, “We are filming a scene where the enemy enters the village to raid it. We are looking for some villagers who have escaped. If you don’t have a problem with it, come here and change; we’ll start filming right away!” 

As soon as the staff finished speaking, the waiting extras stood up, and a large number of people rushed towards the direction pointed by the staff.

The target: the villager clothes piled in several large baskets by the film crew.

By the time Lin Cheng and Lin Momo came closer, almost all the clothes in the basket had already been taken away.

Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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