CH 218

Mansley was not a commercial director in a certain sense. He mostly designs music video scenes and plots for album songs. He generally only does music videos, but the Lambert family advertisements were the exception.

Mansley was one of Hallyvette’s few close friends, and as a result, he became the director of the Lambert family’s commercials. This brings a refreshing change from the usual pomp and circumstance in commercials to the beauty and clear stream in music videos.

This was the sixth commercial that Mansley had designed for the Lambert family business. The main reason why Hallyvette hinted at bringing Bai Lixin on board for this commercial was not to promote him but to allow Mansley and Bai Lixin to get acquainted.

Since they are in a hidden marriage, they are strangers to the public eye. If they don’t know each other, how can he help his partner openly?

He naturally had to find a way to spoil his wife. Isn’t it true that there are countermeasures from above and policies from below?

Mansley demanded authenticity and aesthetics in the ad, so most of the ad was to be shot in the water belt of the Shengzi Mountains, with very few scenes shot in the studio. After shooting the interior scenes that day, they rushed off to the Shengzi Mountains to shoot the rest of the commercial early the next morning.

When the company ran there, Hallyvette couldn’t follow without arousing suspicion. Hallyvette gave Mansley a reluctant look at the thought of not being able to sleep with a soft body in his arms and then left.

Although the scenery on Shengzi Mountain was beautiful, walking was somewhat difficult because the terrain was steep.

Mansley looked at Bai Lixin’s small arms and legs and thought it would take nearly a week to complete the commercial. However, to his surprise, Bai Lixin was in such good shape and so absorbed in the scene that the shoot was completed in just one day.

Mansley was a workaholic, and after all the filming was done, all that was left was the dubbing. He had originally intended to use a soothing, classic piano piece as the dubbing for the entire ad, while Bai Lixin sang as he ascended to the source of the river. But when he heard Bai Lixin’s song “The Call”, his eyes lit up and he slapped the table, laughing, “Doesn’t that song fit the theme perfectly?!”

He looked at Bai Lixin in the studio in fascination and said excitedly, “I want to change the script!”

Mansley’s eyes were filled with admiration as he watched Bai Lixin’s gestures on camera and his candid vocals echoed in his ears.

A miracle! This boy is going to be a miracle!

………

Bai Lixin returned home on the fifth day after four consecutive days on the set and was greeted by Hallyvette’s sorrowful eyes.

Bai Lixin was stunned and immediately rubbed his messy hair. As soon as Hallyvette’s expression changed, he hugged him with a cry: “Honey, tell me if Mansley is a robot. He’s been working tirelessly for four days. Four days! I haven’t had a break. I feel like taking a hot bath now and getting a good night’s sleep. ”

Hallyvette stiffened and cupped Bai Lixin’s face, examining the dark circles under his eyes. “Mansley is indeed a workaholic, but he used to be more disciplined than that. Are you tired? Go and change first. I’ll put hot water on for you to soak in.”

Bai Lixin placed his head in Hallyvette’s arms and rubbed it, “Okay.”

Bai Lixin walked slowly into the room, hunched over something, and gently closed the door behind him.

The moment he closed the door, Bai Lixin’s expression changed, and the fatigue he had shown earlier was swept away.

With a wicked grin, he strode to the wardrobe and began humming as he leisurely picked out his clothes.

How could he face a man who had been starving without a bit of caution?

Bai Lixin found a comfortable cotton bathrobe, and the moment he opened the door, he reverted to his overworked state.

The water had already been put on. Hallyvette seemed to have work to do, as he simply prepared Bai Lixin a nice bath and went into the study.

As soon as Bai Lixin stepped into the comforting bath, he let out a long sigh, “It’s so comfortable.”

Four consecutive days of filming and recording had been completed, but the post-processing would take some time.

With the purchase of airing time and such, it would be a month before the ad was broadcast.

How could Hallyvette not be aware that Mansley was a sharp-eyed, thoughtful director who always shot things that were different from the masses and far from the ordinary? He was once the exclusive music video director for Jeffrey, the godfather of music. It could be said that Jeffrey made Mansley, and vice versa. The two men’s songs and music videos were like a match made in heaven, so perfect that not a single flaw could be found.

It was only thirty years ago that Mansley announced his retirement and hadn’t created a music video for anyone since. The world said that Mansley had run out of inspiration and was no longer able to create.

Twenty years after he left the music video industry, Mansley suddenly announced his return, but this time he didn’t make music videos, he just became the director of Hallyvette’s commercials.

Everyone was in an uproar. It was known that no matter how good a commercial is, its purpose is extremely purposeful and commercial. It is the opposite of Mansley’s beautiful music video style that they used to admire. There was speculation that he had fallen on hard times to the extent that he needed to make commercials to survive, and even that Hallyvette was blackmailing Mansley into making commercials.

There were many different opinions, but they were only speculations. No one knew what the real idea was back then.

With the water at the right temperature and the vapour rising into a mist around them, Bai Lixin yawned and closed his eyes, slowly falling into sleep.

He was awakened by a movement and opened his drowsy eyes to see Hallyvette carefully wiping his body.

Bai Lixin was dazed as he smiled lightly, “I seem to have fallen asleep.”

Hallyvette took a towel and dried Bai Lixin’s straight hair, “We have a visitor. You know the guest. Would you like to meet him? ”

Still in a daze, Bai Lixin nodded, “Uh-huh.”

Hallyvette smiled at the dazed look on his face and then skillfully put on a light blue nightgown for him before carrying him down the stairs.

As he nestled in Hallyvette’s arms, he heard Harriet chuckle and say, “Mansley, you’ve waited long.” All the sleep flew away at those words.

Bai Lixin suddenly straightened up from Hallyvette’s arms and looked over at Mansley, who was sitting on the sofa with his eyes wide open.

“Director Mansley!” Bai Lixin jumped out of Hallyvette’s arms with an embarrassed look on his face.

Director Mansley stood up from the sofa and extended a trembling finger to point at Bai Lixin in surprise, “You…how did you… get together?”

Hallyvette retook the bare-footed Bai Lixin in his arms and slowly placed him on the couch with a smile, “Let me reintroduce you. This is my legal wife, Mitchell. Mitchell, that’s my cousin, Mansley Jacobs. ”

Mansley: “…” Is the world going mad? Hallyvette married? Aren’t you sexually dysfunctional?

Bai Lixin also froze for a moment. Mansley was Hallyvette’s cousin? “Err…

well, hello brother-in-law.” Mansley sat back down on the couch and took a sip of water to suppress his shock, but his eyes still kept glancing in Bai Lixin’s direction.

Bai Lixin was also confused. The world’s memories never said that Mansley and Hallyvette were related in any way. “Ah…hell cousin.”

Mansley scanned back and forth between the two several more times before letting out a loud laugh, “You guys, haha, I didn’t expect you to be my cousin’s wife.” He laughed again and then looked at Hallyvette. “Hallyvette, when did you have your wedding and how come I wasn’t invited to it?”

Bai Lixin wiggled his lips and was about to speak when Hallyvette took the lead. “Don’t worry, brother Mansley. We haven’t had a wedding yet. We secretly got married, and the wedding is planned for three years from now. ”

Mansley’s eyes widened again as if it was the first time knowing Hallyvette.

“I would have kept it from you for three years if you hadn’t paid a surprise visit to my house today.” Hallyvette shrugged and swept Bai Lixin into his arms, his eyes narrowing in warning. “So Brother Mansley, you must keep our secret or…”

Mansley hurriedly waved his hands. “I dare not. I know your methods. You can spare me.”

Bai Lixin looked back and forth between the two suspiciously, and finally did not intervene, only sitting quietly on the sofa.

“Brother Mansley is the son of one of my elders. He was a beta who left the imperial capital to live outside after marrying a beta. He then gave birth to Brother Mansley, so Brother Mansley’s last name is not Lambert. ” Hallyvette saw Bai Lixin’s confusion and rubbed his fluffy head as he explained with a smile, “But he is half Lambert. My father sent me to live outside the Imperial capital when I was a boy, and it was Brother Mansley who looked after me. ”

Bai Lixin nodded in understanding and looked at Mansley with a certain amount of affection in his eyes, “I see, I didn’t know who you were before. I’m sorry, Brother Mansley.”

In his mind, a prompt abruptly rang out: [Ding! Congratulations, Lord Host, for unlocking the Mansley memory plot. Would you like to unlock it now?]

[All right, send me the memories.]

As soon as his words fell, a memory burst into his mind.

In this world, the one who gives birth to the child is called the “dad,” while the other who provides the sperm is called the “father.” Mansley’s father was not Master Lambert’s brother, but rather his cousin. He was not valued because of his beta status, but he was familiar with Master Lambert.

His father then befriended his dad and they left to live in the remote countryside after getting married, away from the Lambert family, which was very chaotic at the time.

Thirty years ago, the Lambert family was in such disarray that Master Lambert sent Hallyvette off to the countryside and left him in the care of his cousin. He took Hallyvette back to the Lambert family home ten years later.