"You free this afternoon?"
After entering the elevator, Jiang Se couldn't help but turn around and ask Pei Yi.
He was thick-skinned and smiled back at her. He moved his fingers but still didn't dare to pull her:
"My most important thing right now is to pursue you."
He grinned, supported his hand on the transparent glass of the elevator, put one hand in his pocket, and his golden hair looked defiant and ostentatious.
The people in the troupe didn't know Pei Yi. They just watched him follow Jiang Se in as if it was a matter of course, and they didn't look nervous.
The person in charge of rehearsing "Returning Home on a Snowy Night" is a young man named Wen Gang, about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old. It was he who received Chang Yuhu and Jiang Se yesterday.
He glanced at Pei Yi, who had his hands in his pockets, hesitated for a moment, and asked Jiang Se cautiously:
"This is your..."
Pei Yi looked like someone who was not easy to mess with. Having worked in the Grand Theater for a long time, Wen Gang could roughly guess from other people's clothing and demeanor that Pei Yi was either rich or noble. He asked Jiang Se, but Jiang Se was stumped.
What is Pei Yi to her now? If it was before, she could say that Pei Yi was her younger brother, her childhood friend, and the grandson of her grandfather Feng Zhongliang's old superior, but what about now
He just said he wanted to pursue her at noon.
She hesitated for a moment, thought about it, and chose a safe answer:
"He is my senior."
Wen Gang misunderstood immediately.
Chang Yuhu brought her here yesterday. Wen Gang saw Chang Yuhu instructing her on acting. He immediately regarded Pei Yi as Chang Yuhu's disciple and decided not to ask him to leave.
"Teacher Chang is really responsible." He sighed, looked at Jiang Se again, and asked curiously:
"Are you interested in joining the troupe, too?"
She has outstanding looks. During the practice yesterday, Wen Gang discovered that she has a strong learning ability. She seemed a little restrained when she first went on stage for rehearsal, but she made rapid progress. She was introduced by Chang Yuhu, so the possibility of her joining the troupe in the future is very high.
Jiang Se shook her head and noticed from the corner of her eye that Pei Yi was staring at her without blinking, with a look of jealousy on his face.
"I studied with Teacher Chang for a while."
After she said this, Pei Yi couldn't bear it anymore.
Wen Gang had been too close to her when he whispered to her before. There were so many shameless men in this world. After he finished talking, he still pestered her and refused to leave. He shook his legs and moved closer to Jiang Se:
"Sese, what are you going to act next?"
After he asked this question, Jiang Se fell silent.
She was going to play a beggar, luckily Pei Yi didn’t know who she was!
"Returning Home on a Snowy Night" was about to be released, and the cast of the crew had already been decided. When Jiang Se came to rehearse, he naturally squeezed out the rehearsal opportunity of another person in the troupe who played Beggar B.
The actress who played Beggar B was a girl who was not much older than Jiang Se. When Jiang Se came over, they had already rehearsed a scene and happened to have returned to the lounge.
Now that Jiang Se had arrived, she had to sit aside. She felt unhappy. Seeing Jiang Se leading Pei Yi to the backstage, she said sourly:
"In this era, everything really depends on relationships."
Her voice was quite loud and immediately attracted the attention of a group of people backstage.
Everyone turned to look at her. She sat back in her chair and smiled at the boy who played the role of Beggar A yesterday:
"Look, we have been training for more than three months, but when they come, they just push us away."
Jiang Se was the only newcomer in the crew, and everyone knew who she was referring to.
When Chang Yuhu came over yesterday to ask Jiang Se to go on stage, he did not say whether Jiang Se would replace the girl who played Beggar B in the future.
Chang Yuhu had a special status, and the leaders of the troupe were all very respectful to her. If she really wanted to do it, no one in the troupe would dare to say "no", even if they sympathized with the girl who originally played the role of Beggar B.
The atmosphere was a little awkward for a moment. Jiang Se realized it later and did not realize at first that the girl was targeting him.
Pei Yi kept trying to talk to her, asking her if she was hungry or thirsty, which made her so annoyed that she took the script and slapped him in the face:
"Shut up!"
The girl who had spoken earlier thought she was scolding her and jumped up immediately.
"Who are you telling to shut up? This is a rehearsal, not a place for you to date. You openly brought your boyfriend here, and you even had the nerve to lie about being a senior. Who are you trying to fool?"
At this moment Jiang Se came to her senses and realized that the girl was probably targeting her.
Pei Yi was still holding the script and grinning foolishly, feeling that the script seemed to have a fragrance when she touched it.
In the past, I always heard brothers Nie Dan, Xiang Qiuran and Xiang Qiuji say that their girlfriends were annoying, always throwing tantrums and needing others to coax them.
But Feng Nan had never lost her temper with him before, and this was the first time she scolded him. Sure enough, as their relationship changed, she also changed.
"Taotao, it's done."
Someone in the crew pulled the angry girl aside and looked at Jiang Se: "Calm down."
"Why?" The girl called 'Taotao' was so angry that she kept wiping tears. "I have been practicing for more than three months. Why did someone come and squeeze me out? Is it a big deal to have privileges?"
She stood up in a flash. Pei Yi, who was holding the script and grinning foolishly, also felt that something was wrong. Seeing the girl pointing at Jiang Se angrily, his brows frowned. Jiang Se was afraid that he would get angry, so she pulled him, but he took the opportunity to hold her hand.
"I'm sorry for causing trouble to everyone. I didn't finish what I was saying yesterday. Teacher Chang was just giving me some pointers on my acting skills. I didn't join the crew to act in a drama."
When everyone heard her say this, they all looked a little embarrassed.
"When the play is released, you will still be the ones on stage. I am just practicing my courage and learning from you, and then I will leave the troupe."
As soon as she finished explaining this, the expressions of the people in the troupe became much better.
The girl who was called 'Taotao' earlier was a little embarrassed. She rubbed her eyes and was coaxed away.
Although the situation was explained clearly, the people in the troupe did not become closer to Jiang Se. Jiang Se did not care. She came here just to train and learn, not to get closer to others and have future dealings with them.
Pei Yi, however, was indignant and kept pacing around her:
"She dared to yell at you?"
"Stop it." Jiang Se took the script back from him and pushed him twice:
"Go sit outside for a while while I recite my lines."
When she went on stage for rehearsal yesterday, she brought a script with her. This was her first time performing this play, so it was understandable that she brought a script with her. But she couldn't bring a script with her when she went on stage today to act with others.
She had originally planned to memorize her lines when she returned home last night, but she received a call from Yu Xiaozhou right after leaving the theater, and it was Cao Shuang's birthday that evening, so she didn't have time to memorize her lines. (To be continued)