In a certain sense, his presence outside of the set in this instance simply implied that either the work of his colleague, the people he was working with, or of his was not up to standard—not up to standard in the eyes of the chief photographer, of course. Since he could not meet the standard, the consequence was that he had to put in even more effort than before.
Little assistant: Life is really not easy, ah.
He was still in his early twenties, but he was fairly certain that he was already starting to progressively lose his hair a little, and he was even starting to get wrinkles on the ends of his eyes already!
Just a few minutes earlier, he had even been worried that he may really die early from stress, but now here he was, still alive and kicking, with Yu Xi, the epitome of perfection, standing right in front of him.