Starlight Has No Past

Chapter 20 Part 2

Ye Qiao was about to get up from her seat and suddenly felt a loss of breath. Her

face turned pale; she wanted to ask for her medicine but couldn't make a sound.

Fortunately, Shen Ting was alert enough to notice that Ye Qiao's lips were losing

color. She hurriedly reached out to support Ye Qiao and panickily asked: “Qiao Je,

are you alright? Do you need a doctor!” Shen Ting became even more terrified after

asking the question since she was well aware that there was no doctor in this remote

village. The nearest clinic was several miles away in town. If Ye Qiao was having a

heart attack, it would be hard to save her life!

Ye Qiao made a feeble sound: “......medicine.”

“Medicine, medicine…...right……” Shen Ting, fl.u.s.tered, couldn't even see the

medicine which was right in front of her eyes. It took Ye Qiao some effort to point

it out to her. Shen Ying grabbed the bottle and rushed to pull out some pills. Her

hands were violently shaking as she twisted water bottle cap off. Water spilled

over Ye Qiao's shoes. Shen Ting didn't bother to apologize but handed the pills

in a hurry.

Ye Qiao swallowed the pills with some water and rested in her seat for a while

longer before she started to feel better.

She regained her ability to speak and gave Shen Ting a faint smile: “What are

you fl.u.s.tered for? Look at your eyes, they're all red. I'm not going to die.”

Shen Ting wiped away the tears in her eyes and smiled: “I'm just too nervous.

Qiao Je, you're a good person, you'll have good karma in return. Heaven is so

unfair; a good person like you to be so sickish and bad people live such easy,

happy lives.”

“Heaven is very fair. Aren't you living in good health?”  Ye Qiao was feeling

much better, enough to crack a joke. Inside, she was telling herself that heaven

truly was fair because she wasn't a good person after all.

Shen Ting chuckled: “That doesn't count. What I mean is……”

“Alright, alright.” Ye Qiao looked at the busy staff walking around outside the

vehicle and asked: “Are we filming today?”

Shen Ting was quick to return to her business mode, replying right away: “Yes,

we do. You'll be filming the scene with Mr. Lu today!”

The filming didn't actually start until it was close to evening after everything

was set up by the crew.

Ye Qiao was now in good condition and Lu Qing, a reward winning veteran

actor, was certainly well experienced for the scene. They worked well together

on their first try. Lu Qing took the chance while they were idle to praise her:

“You're very intelligent.”

“I'm flattered.” Ye Qiao smiled and sipped some water. “You're the actor I

admired since I was a young girl. Now in this scene, you're the person who

Lu Zhiyao has a crush on. It's easy for me to get into character.”

When Lu Qing first started acting, he had roles in several spy movies and

became quite popular. Ye Qiao became his fan when she was still in grade

school. During those years when she was in and out of the hospital, she

didn't follow him. When she went back to school, he had already emerged

as a famous actor, winning numerous awards for best actor at national and

international film festivals. It had been a long-cherished wish of Ye Qiao to

work with him in a film. It was one of the reasons that she took the part in

this movie in the first place.

Lu Qing was used to young girls showing admiration to him, so he only politely

smiled in response.

After they chatted for a while, Lu Qing was concerned: “Do you feel comfortable

filming here?”

“It's alright. I went to a mountain village before when I was filming

.”

“En. This film is based upon a real story, that's why we need to come here to film

on location where the real story happened. Human trafficking usually happens in

rather backward places. There's not much we can do to make it more comfortable

in such a harsh place.”

Ye Qiao didn't know whether he was a talkative person or not, but felt that he was

quite approachable, just like a big brother from the neighbor's house. She became

more talkative as well: “I heard the government is also sponsoring this film so the

public will be aware of the problem. I wonder whether we'll meet those women

who're victims.”

Lu Qing was caught by surprise: “Even if we meet them, we can't go rescue them.

It's a complicated matter.”

Ye Qiao didn't expect he would give such an answer. She forced out a smile and

ended the conversation to go back and rest.