On the highway, a luxury car is speeding.
Shen Tingyan was sitting in the back seat, holding a book in his hand. As soon as he turned a page, his phone vibrated.
—No, it’s a series of ten shock shots.
The buzzing sound made the driver who was driving ahead and Fang Lei who was playing on his mobile phone subtly glance at the rearview mirror.
Shen Tingyan picked up his phone and took a look. It turned out that it was Lao Gao who was having a seizure on WeChat.
"Is that guy Zhang Luyang blind?"
"Why is he so determined to praise that Fan Xue?"
"Is he sure Fan Xue will be popular? Or is the money Fan Xue's agent gave him guaranteed to last his whole life??"
"Oh, I shot an interlude for Fan Xue without even discussing it with the team. I asked him if he wanted to do one for Xue Xiao, and he asked me, are you sure that Xue Xiao will be popular?"
Shen Tingyan replied nonchalantly: "A crappy character that looks incongruous no matter how you look at it, and a little light bulb that is obviously more interesting no matter how you look at it, anyone who is not blind knows how to choose."
"Although Fan Xue's drama will never be good no matter how you edit it, but if I think about it carefully, when netizens watch competitive talent show variety shows, they don't necessarily value strength so much... There is a kind of fan in the world called fan character, and Zhang Luyang is trying his best The purpose of shooting material for Fan Xue is just to cut his character..."
"Teacher Guan gave the students a daily observation assignment yesterday, you know, and today some students went out to do it while they were free."
Shen Tingyan responded indifferently, and Fang Lei asked again: "Is he particularly good at acting?"
But the anger was gone, and Lao Gao became melancholy again and began to think casually.
"I'm furious!"
"Actually, I really can't guess who will be popular. I just want to give more opportunities to some motivated students and let the audience see them more. Maybe a few of them will succeed."
"This is his fucking son!!"
"... Very vivid, damn."
His face was red and his eyes were sparkling. Although he had been in the entertainment industry for a long time and had seen all kinds of handsome boys and beautiful girls, Fang Lei still felt a little bright when he saw Xue Xiao.
“…”
good
Shen Tingyan put down his phone.
Shen Tingyan didn't raise his eyes, curled his lips and said, "It's just fine for now."
"I'm so not sure!!! I just think Xue Xiao has potential, right?"
"I want to see it! This guy only has so much power in the first two issues to arrange for insertions. When the audience gets feedback later, the leaders will have to ask questions. I want to see if he can take Fan Xue along the way. Hold it down!"
"Not impressive?"
Shen Tingyan's dead fish-like attitude poured cold water on him, causing him to extinguish his anger instantly.
"You're taking the audience for a fool."
Speaking of Lao Gao, Fang Lei remembered what happened in the studio just now.
He asked quite profoundly: "Speaking of which, I didn't expect that after only a few days of recording the show, you would already have a student you like. What's your name? Xue Xiao, right?"
"I originally thought that I had enough material yesterday, so I didn't send a camera to follow them today. But I just found out that Zhang Luyang secretly assigned a cameraman to Fan Xue today, and secretly took another shot of him alone!"
"Okay, then I believe what you say."
Shen Tingyan laughed.
"Hey, I hope it will be the day after tomorrow, when the program will be officially launched..."
Lao Gao: "..."
He picked up the book again, and Fang Lei in front said: "Did Lao Gao send it to you?"
Half an hour later, another message came from the angry Lao Gao: "Where are you? [There's going to be trouble.jpg] Don't think I don't know you're still on the road!"
"Can a person who can't even hide his bad acting on purpose play a good character?"
Shen Tingyan showed him the screenshot of what he said when he said harsh words just now: "When the audience has feedback, the leaders will ask for help."
"Then you like his personality? Oh, he seems to be quite cute." Fang Lei recalled it and clicked his tongue.
"… Small bulbs???"
Lao Gao's mood finally improved after being interrupted like this.
Shen Tingyan then replied slowly: "I'm afraid you haven't finished speaking yet, so I'll give you some time to curse you enough."
Good guy, this sinister man seems to have hit the bullseye.
Lao Gao was the only one who usually chatted with him like this, and Fang Lei could identify him just by listening to the vibration frequency of his phone.
"?"
The melancholy "young man" Lao Gao finally cheered up, and Shen Tingyan put down his cell phone.
Shen Tingyan raised his eyebrows when he saw these words.
Lao Gao was silent for a while and then said dejectedly: "... I'm just afraid that after the broadcast, even the audience's reaction will be different from what I imagined."
"In the past few days, I have even been a little suspicious. Is that guy Zhang Luyang displeased with me and deliberately trying to compete with me? He will ignore all the students I like. Then I have really hurt Xue Xiao and the others..."
Shen Tingyan finally raised his eyes and said coolly: "You have time to gossip with me here, why not go and re-screen the latest batch of submitted scripts."
Fang Lei froze and cursed: "If you had any intention of taking over the script, I would have gone there a long time ago. You don't need to tell me. It's obviously your idea of not filming at all now!"
Shen Tingyan lowered his head and flipped through the book again, and said very nicely: "It's not like I can't accept a really good script."
"Oh, I believe you as a ghost!"
Fang Lei looked at this guy's calm look and snorted in his heart.
Could he still know that this guy was just annoyed with him and wanted him to shut up
But isn't he just curious
He acted very calmly when he sent clothes to Xue Xiao just now, but in fact, when Shen Tingyan lightly asked him to go to the car to get the clothes, his jaw dropped.
When did Shen Tingyan take care of others so much
This guy has no idea about "taking care of others"!
But in that dizzyingly hot studio, a minute after Xue Xiao was taken away by the makeup artist, this man who didn’t look like he had so much to spare said so casually —
"By the way, are those clothes still in the car?"
Before Fang Lei could react, Shen Tingyan smiled to himself and said: "Anyway, they are all printed on a white background. They look better than the one he is wearing anyway. Go get it and give it to him to try on to see if he can wear it." ”
"Ah? Who?" Fang Lei was confused.
Shen Ting glanced at him speechlessly: "Xue Xiao."
As he spoke, the man shook the small pink electric fan that was still spinning crazily in his hand, as if complaining that he was too forgetful.
At this moment, Fang Lei glanced at the man in the back seat who was reading a book.
Anyway, no matter whether Xue Xiao's scenes are enough to catch this guy's eye, or how much this guy likes Xue Xiao, as the agent and the current head of Shen Tingyan's studio, there are only a few things he can do. The purpose of making inquiries just now was just to see if this guy wanted to sign someone over.
But for now it seems...
Sure enough, it was too early to explore.
That’s right, the person who signed the contract has to be filmed, right
Shen Tingyan has very high standards for "actors". No matter how much he likes someone's personality, he would never give it to someone with a "good personality" just because of that.
Let’s see what happens next.
Fang Lei stopped asking. He glanced at the book in Shen Tingyan's hand and said dryly: "Aren't you dizzy while reading in the car?"
Shen Tingyan turned over another page: "It's okay."
"By the way, you've been reading this book for more than a week, right? Why did you only read so much? Doesn't it look good?"
What Shen Tingyan was looking at was the book that Fang Lei had handed over to him on behalf of Shen Tingyan's cousin. There were only a few dozen thin pages that had been flipped through, and it was obvious that only the beginning had been turned over.
According to Shen Tingyan's normal reading speed, he should have finished reading the three to four hundred page book in two or three days.
Shen Tingyan glanced at him as if he were a fool: "I'm watching it a second time."
Fang Lei: "..."
Oh, that means I really like this book.
What's the name of this book
Fang Lei recalled it for a moment and then thought about it.
"People on the Earth" is a science fiction novel published by a little-known author. This author has only published one work so far.
*
The program team was secretly fighting among themselves, but the students had no idea.
On the last night of this seemingly ordinary study week, but actually facing the unknown, they finally knew what they would face next week!
In fact, there is nothing surprising—it was the second round of eliminations!
The program team secretly placed the rule card envelope in the lobby on the first floor of the dormitory building. Some students found out and yelled in the WeChat group. In more than ten minutes, all fifty students gathered together, and the cameraman also appeared from the corner. He came out and pointed the cannon at them.
The student read aloud: "The second round of elimination is about to begin. In this round of competition, we have arranged a total of fifteen plays, including 4 double plays, 4 three-person plays, 5 four-person plays, and 2 five-person plays. ”
Chang Yun was busy counting the number of characters on his fingers.
Exactly, fifteen plays, fifty characters in total.
Everyone looked at each other in shock—the number of characters was so accurate, which meant that there should be no more repeated plays in this round!
"Students will choose plays and roles based on their scores in the first round of the competition from high to low. Students with the same score will be given priority by older actors. After the selection is completed, all students and the corresponding responsible instructors will be selected for a period of The rehearsal of the play was completed in one week, and the second round of public performance was held one week later.”
Some students were surprised, while others sighed.
The surprise is that in the second round, four mentors will actually guide them directly!
The sigh is that after a week, people will start to be eliminated...
"In the second round of competition, the four instructors will each hold 10 invitation cards, which will be issued to their favorite students after the performance of each play. It is not necessary to send out all the invitation cards. Different instructors can issue cards to the same student. Wait until After the card issuance is over, students who have multiple invitation cards will choose their instructor instead, and students who have not received an invitation card will say goodbye to us.”
The hall suddenly became noisier.
Zhao Dong pondered: "Each instructor has 10 invitation cards, which means there are only 40 cards in total. At least 10 students will be eliminated, right?"
Jiang Lianlian said: "These 40 cards do not have to be all distributed. If they are to be distributed, they can also be distributed to the same student repeatedly. Adding these two conditions together, I feel that there will be very few students who will get the cards in the end! "
Among the fifty of them, they might eventually be screened down to only twenty or thirty people.
The elimination was quite intense.
Chang Yun was originally a little excited to be able to act again, but when he heard Jiang Lianlian's analysis, a smile stuck on his face.
He said nonchalantly: "I seem to be in a bit of danger...? My ranking in the first round was almost in the twenties."
At that time, he thought that there was no need to rush and he could slowly climb up the rankings. Who would have thought that the program team might eliminate most of the people in the first elimination. Was he about to be knocked down accidentally...
Jin Xiaochen whispered: "Me too. My performance in the first round was okay thanks to Brother Xue and Brother Zhao. Changing teams may not be so smooth."
The atmosphere suddenly cooled down.
Xue Xiao watched as several friends lowered their heads, opened their mouths, and wanted to say something. On the other end, the student who read the rule card shouted at the top of his lungs: "This letter says that the selection of plays will start at eight o'clock tomorrow morning! Everyone! Don’t oversleep!”
"knew!"
"Come on, come on, go back to the dormitory and get some rest early!"
Xue Xiao and the others followed the large army back to the dormitory.
It was already nine o'clock in the evening. Zhao Dong went to take a shower first, and Gu Ling started writing today's observation homework.
Chang Yun was also lying on the upper bunk writing at first, but soon climbed down, walked outside to the balcony, sat down on the spot, closed the balcony door and started smoking.
Xue Xiao only found out today that Chang Yun also smokes.
He paused writing, and after a few seconds, he closed the pen cap and diary, and stood up.
Gu Ling looked up at him and then at Chang Yun outside.
Xue Xiao said to him: "When Brother Zhao finishes washing, you can go and wash first. You don't need to wait for the two of us."
Gu Ling nodded.
So Xue Xiao also walked to the balcony and sat down next to Chang Yun.
Chang Yun swatted a mosquito that bit him on his arm, causing a small pool of blood.
He clicked his tongue in disgust, and Xue Xiao smiled and took out a tissue from his pocket to wipe him with.
Chang Yun knew that Xue Xiao came out to comfort him.
Although they had only known each other for just over a week, Xue Xiao was undoubtedly the one who paid most attention to their emotions among their group of friends.
Sometimes this kind of care is very direct, sometimes it is silent, and it varies from person to person and from situation to situation. This is also the gentlest thing about Xue Xiao.
Chang Yun sighed, not hiding his sadness, and said: "Smile, I am not setting a flag, but before you came to this show, did you ever think about what you would do after you were eliminated? Continue to play a small role?"
Xue Xiao thought for a while and said, "There are no good roles to take, so I can only continue to play small roles."
"You've already played the leading role in a small play, and you're still willing to go back to play a minor role?" Chang Yun smiled, but the answer came from Xue Xiao, so there didn't seem to be any surprise.
He teased: "Isn't there an option of 'stop acting' in your dictionary?"
Xue Xiao replied: "That's not the case."
Chang Yun was stunned, not expecting to hear this answer.
Xue Xiao leaned against the glass door, looking at the night outside the balcony, and said: "I made an appointment with my parents before I left home. If you haven't done anything well by this deadline, you can't continue to be so willful. ”
He smiled softly and said, "You can't let your parents worry more and more every year as you grow older."
Chang Yun was silent for a moment and asked curiously: "How long is this deadline?"
(End of chapter)