After Rebirth, the Buddha-like Star Is a Medical Expert - Chapter 30

Chapter 30 Going to Elementary School

Ning Yi’s company started operations without a hitch and the funds were put in place pretty quickly. Soon, Before Death was recruiting for actors.

This was Ning Yi’s first time as a director. He was a newbie in the entertainment industry.

Before Death was the first film the company ever shot.

The entire starting capital of Billion Light Years was only a little more than 10 million yuan. With such a small amount of money, the salary for the actors was destined to be low.

At first, Ning Yi was a little worried. He wondered if he should pull in more investments. At the very least, he should have two actors with some reputation.

Xia Youqing had also offered to play the female lead, with zero pay.

However, Ning Yi felt that Xia Youqing did not match the female lead’s appearance and temperament.

Mr. Cat shared that opinion.

The two of them discussed and decided to recruit only newbies to act.

This coincided with the actions of Wang Ji in the previous life.

With what she had seen from her previous life experience, she was quite confident of her father’s professional ability.

But because of the uniqueness of Before Death, she was still a little concerned about the recruitment of actors for the film.

When it was time to recruit the main cast for Before Death, the seven-year-old girl specially picked up her bag and skipped class to watch the film crew auditions.

As expected, very few actors came to audition as Ning Yi was relatively unknown in the industry.

But no matter what, Ning Yi and Mr. Cat chose to be cautious. Even though there were few people coming to the audition, they did not lower their casting standards.

For several days, Ning Yi and Mr. Cat only managed to find the cast for a few supporting roles. They weren’t able to find any suitable candidates for the male and female leads.

Until the nineteenth day.

Youguang was once again attending the auditions. Among the actors who were lining up and waiting, she spotted the male lead who played Before Death in her previous life. She was completely relieved.

The primary school was only two or three streets away from the Xia family’s mansion. It was a famous public primary school in Jin City.

The children of the Xia family attended primary school here.

When Ning Youguang entered primary school, she also chose to study at that school.

Autumn, school season.

There was a lot of traffic in front of the elementary school. There were people and cars on the roads. There were also push carts selling all kinds of small toys and snacks. It was an extremely lively scene.

Led by her cousins, Xia Fei and Xia Huan, Youguang walked with them along the rows of parasol trees in front of the school gate. She watched the hustle and bustle of the passing crowds and felt that time was flowing like water. Everything looked so interesting.

She was already a second-year student. Her cousin, Xia Fei, was a fifth-grade student, while her cousin, Xia Huan, was a third-grade student.

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On the first day of the new semester.

They wore the same blue and white school uniforms and walked to school together. No adults were accompanying them.

When they were about to reach the school gate, Shi Wangyue saw his sister walking between her cousins.

He stood still and his face was expressionless. But his eyes were filled with suppressed emotions of joy.

“Little Wangyue.”

Youguang soon spotted him, too, and walked over to meet him.

She was inexplicably touched to see the child in his brand-new school uniform, standing upright by the mottled courtyard wall at the school gate with his school bag on his back. The sun shone on him and his fair face was illuminated with a warm glow.

“Did you come to school alone?”

“No, Mom dropped me off. I asked her to go back.”

On the first day of school in first grade, Shi Wangyue had been looking forward to this moment for a long time. He came very early and had been waiting for his sister at the school gate for some time.

“What class are you in?”

After meeting Shi Wangyue, Youguang stopped holding her cousin’s hand and walked side by side with him towards the campus.

Xia Fei and Xia Cha shrugged at each other and followed them.

“I am in Class three, first year.”

“I am in Class one, second year.”

The kid pursed his lips and stopped talking.

He felt a wave of frustration growing within himself.

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As it was a public primary school with a long historical standing, the school’s facilities were not the most outstanding. The campus was moderately sized and the building was a little old.

But as they walked on campus grounds, looking at the mottled walls, the lush trees, and the blooming oleanders, they could feel the warm aura of this school. Soaking in the scent of time and books, Youguang felt pretty good.

The first grade was on the first floor of the school building. The second grade was on the second floor.

After separating from Xia Fei and Xia Huan, Youguang and Wangyue quickly walked to the stairwell.

“I’ll visit you when I can.”

After waving at the child, Youguang smiled and left with a female classmate she had just met.

Shi Wangyue stood quietly in the shadows at the side of the stairs on the first floor of the school building. His gaze followed the back view of his sister and another girl, until they disappeared down the stairs on the second floor.

He heard the girl ask his sister laughingly,

“How did you know a first-year junior? Is he your neighbor?”

His sister said, “No, he’s not a neighbor. We used to be deskmates in kindergarten.”

“A deskmate, huh? Then why is he in first grade?”

“He was sick and hospitalized before, so he took a year off school.”

Even when he couldn’t even hear their voices anymore, he remained standing at the same spot for a long time.

He didn’t want to be a junior anymore.

He wanted to continue being his sister’s deskmate.

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Although it was already autumn in Jin City in October, it was still very sunny.

On the grounds of the elementary school’s campus, there were several groups of students having physical education class in the field under the sun.

Shi Wangyue was given permission to rest under the cypress tree surrounded by a flower bed. Compared to the hot and sweaty students, he looked out of place and drew envious looks from the other kids.

“Teacher is so unfair. Why should we have to stand here as punishment? He can rest there and enjoy the breeze.”

‘I heard there was something wrong with his

leg.’

“I think he usually walks fine.”

Two boys from Class 1-3 were being punished by the PE teacher. They were made to stand under the sun. They did not pay attention in class and had made some wrong moves during lesson time. While carrying the punishment, they could not help but direct their anger towards Shi Wangyue, who got to chill under a tree everytime during PE lessons.

“He must have family connections. That’s why the teacher was so nice to him.”

“Do you want to know if there’s something really wrong with his leg, or if he’s faking it?” “What do you want to do?”

Liu Susu drove her son to school every day and was often seen by Shi Wangyue’s classmates. This had triggered a lot of talk among the students in class for some time.

The kids were about six or seven, and had started learning from the social behavior of their parents. They do know a thing or two about the ways of the world.

Through these, they deduced that Wangyue’s family must be very rich.

This speculation quickly attracted the attention of some students with ulterior motives.

Those children from ordinary families would consciously keep a distance from him.

Of course, Shi Wangyue was always alone in class and did not talk much to his classmates.

The two boys who were filled with indignance towards Wangyue, were called Li Junfeng and Chen Hao. They were the mischievous types and liked to do things that attracted attention.

As Shi Wangyue did not fit in, they disliked him even more.

They definitely had to mess him up a little. Who else could it be if not him?

As soon as the gym teacher said their punishment was over, the two of them ran to the side of Shi Wangyue.