Lin Momo walked up to the staff and asked a little uneasily, “Uncle, do you still need anyone?”

“Yes.” The staff said nonchalantly, pointing out several baskets to Lin Cheng and Lin Momo. “Look over there, and put on some clothes if you still see any. If you can’t get any, there’s nothing that can be done.”

After hearing this, Lin Momo hurriedly ran towards the baskets.

The cleaner clothes in the basket have all already been picked by the people who got there first, leaving only a few clothes that were dirty and torn, making Lin Momo doubt whether they could still be worn.

Lin Momo searched hard and found two sets of clothes that were barely wearable. She picked them out with great excitement and brought them over to Lin Cheng.

“Dad, look, there are two more sets of clothes for you just here!”

Lin Momo had two sets of clothes in her hand. Lin Cheng could definitely wear one of them, and the other set—although it was also for an adult was a bit smaller—she still tucked it away. It should be wearable too.

Lin Cheng’s eyes twitched when he looked at the two sets of clothes in Lin Momo’s hands that were dirty, worn out, and even had a strange smell after being used countless times for filming.

In the end, Lin Cheng took the larger set from Lin Momo, and let Lin Momo put the other set back.

… …

In the livestream channel, many viewers couldn’t calm down after seeing this shooting costume. At this time, when they saw Lin Cheng actually wearing this outfit, everyone instantly exploded: 

[Oh my god! Lin Cheng actually wore such dirty clothes!]

[Judging from the previous episodes, I dare say that Daddy Lin is definitely mysophobic!]

[I didn’t expect him… to actually… really wear it.]

[This is too miserable.]

[If it were me, I would definitely not wear the filming clothes that are so dirty and I don’t know what it’s been through.]

[It can only be said that they are all forced by life.]

[Suddenly I realized the hard work and sadness of the film extras…]

… … 

“Shouldn’t I also change?”

Lin Momo asked when she saw that Lin Cheng had changed into the clothes for filming, but she didn’t.

“You don’t have to,” Lin Chen said firmly, paused, and then explained, “The filming here is not suitable for children.”

Lin Cheng looked into the studio.

At this time, on the street where the filming was about to begin, the crew was making preparations, and the extras who had already changed clothes all stood to one side, waiting for the filming to begin.

The entire scene was very chaotic, and Lin Cheng had a premonition that the scene would become even more chaotic when filming officially started.

Lin Cheng glanced around the scene and finally brought Lin Momo to the edge of the designated shooting venue, near the shooting infield¹, and warned, “I will go to shoot in a while, you stay here, don’t run around.” 

Although Lin Momo felt regretful that they could not participate in filming together to earn money, Lin Momo still nodded obediently and said ‘okay’ upon hearing Lin Cheng’s words.

However, Lin Cheng was still worried, so he turned to the girl next to him, who did not seem very busy, and said, “This is my child. It will be inconvenient to take her to participate in the shooting. Can you help me keep an eye on her?”

Hearing Lin Cheng’s words, the field service girl was stunned.

While Lin Cheng was here to act as an extra in the drama, the staff of [Living with Dad] had communicated with the filming crew in advance. But she only had a small job and she didn’t know that Lin Cheng was there to record a show. However, the girl glanced at Lin Momo and thought that it was not too troublesome just to keep an eye on the child in passing, so she agreed without thinking too much.

“Go on, I’ll keep a quick eye on her,” the girl said.

Hearing this, Lin Cheng thanked this helpful field crew. He gave another look to the cameraman who had been following them from a distance, motioning for him to help look after Lin Momo too, before he was finally at ease enough to leave Lin Momo here and go on his own. He got ready to start shooting.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

At the scene, the crew had installed the shooting equipment, and after confirming that everything was correct and all departments were ready, the director’s assistant shouted, “The extras, all the extras are in place, right?

“Prepare to begin. You are going to play the role of villagers and common people who are being chased by the enemy. When the machine gun fires, you will run forward along this street. In the middle of the run, you stand still and fall down. Stop moving. Please pay attention to safety.”

After the assistant said this, a simulated gunshots outside the venue sounded, and a group of extras rushed forward.

Lin Cheng was in the crowd of people trying to escape.

… …

The scene wherein the villagers were running for their lives before the protagonist arrived did not have too many problems. It was only filmed once, and the director shouted “Passed!”

Lin Cheng finished the work for this scene. He was about to take off his clothes and take Lin Momo to collect his pay and leave, when he was stopped by an assistant on site.

There were also some other extras who were temporarily halted from leaving

“You, you, and you… who are wearing these particularly dirty and torn clothes, please keep them on for a while, we still have the next scene!” The director’s assistant said and added, “In the next scene, after the enemy sweeps away, you can just lie down on the ground and be in the scene of devastation that the protagonist’s team will see when they first enter the village.”

Was there still another scene?

Lin Chen frowned.

Because he was worried about Lin Momo, Lin Cheng had not planned to participate in the filming of the next scene.

However, before Lin Cheng could take off his filming clothes, a staff member came over and casually wiped a handful of fake blood on his clothes before he could say anything.

“Okay, go find yourself a place to lie down.”

Lin Cheng: “…”

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

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FOOTNOTE:

1. From context, it seems this ‘shooting infield’ is the area where the filming crew is camped. The Lin Cheng’s scene is to be shot outside of this ‘field’ on the street. ↩︎