"You can be a good actor."

Lu Zhiyu's eyes were already red, but she held back her tears on stage: "Thank you, thank you, Teacher Zheng."

Teacher Zheng smiled and said, "Keep it up!"

The judges could see the real-time votes for all fifteen performances. The audience's reaction was loud, and the online votes were also quite high. Chen Lian didn't want to go against the audience in this regard.

I gave it a score of eight, which isn't low.

Liu Yan glanced at the three people with a cold gaze, and then said, "Your group's performance was indeed good, but I'm sorry, I can only give you five points."

"Bai Yan, as your mentor, the script I received is different from your performance on stage. You changed the script, didn't you?"

Lu frowned. They hadn't caused her any trouble, yet she was turning around and accusing them.

"Yes, Bai Yan changed the ending, but I think the audience reaction was great... Besides, Chen Chen and I both agreed. This kind of change is better than finding out at the last minute that the script has been changed, right?"

Lu Zhiyu was deliberately being sarcastic, but Liu Yan seemed not to understand him at all.

He just shook his head: "You need to know that the lighting and camera work on set can be disrupted by even a small change. You're an actor, especially in this kind of situation. Changing the script on the spot is irresponsible to everyone. I'm deducting points from your group's attitude."

[What the heck is Liu Yan doing? He's even putting attitude points on this?]

So what? Learning skills comes before learning morality. Bai Yan's character is poor; losing five points is the least of his worries!

[Are you out of your mind? This is a performance score? So even if I'm a good person and perform like a piece of crap on stage, I can still get ten points?]

The chat room erupted into another chaotic argument.

However, the scoring had already begun on-site, and the rankings for the second round of public performances were soon determined.

Liu Yan's score was too low. Even though the other four gave high scores, "The Story of Xicheng" still scored lower than Song Hansheng's "The First Journey" and Fang Yaming's "Years", ranking third.

Some viewers of the live stream were unaware of Bai Yan's scandals and began criticizing the show's production team for their questionable actions, as well as Liu Yan and the director.

Director Zhu stared at the monitor screen, both pleased with the buzz and annoyed by the viewers who were criticizing him.

But this time, he still had to endure the scolding.

Anyone with eyes can see that Bai Yan's group's performance this time was absolutely amazing, and a score of five is really outrageous, especially the attitude score that Liu Yan mentioned.

"What's wrong with Liu Yan?" Zhu Ze frowned in displeasure. Liu Yan was, after all, an expert in the domestic drama industry. She couldn't possibly be unable to tell the difference between a good and bad performance. This must be her doing it on purpose.

The assistant director whispered in the director's ear what had happened backstage that day.

"Fuck you!" Director Zhu roared. "This is my place! I haven't even pulled any stunts yet, and she came to support someone and almost ruined my place!"

If Bai Yan hadn't managed to keep things under control this time, wouldn't such a major stage accident have ruined his show?

"Open it! Open it right now!"

The assistant director said with a pained expression, "I'm afraid that won't work... She's one of Zhongxing's people, and Zhongxing is our investor."

Zhu was so angry that he scratched his head frantically; the ever-increasing popularity of the variety show couldn't keep up with the fire in his heart.

"Director, we just received word from upstairs that someone will be joining our production team as one of the five directors." The cameraman who followed him delivered another piece of bad news.

Director Zhu wiped his face and then angrily shouted, "A bunch of lunatics! Do you think anyone can just come on my show? Damn it, do you think I'm someone you can just do whatever you want? Even if the King of Heaven himself came, I wouldn't let him on!"

"Director, he's here!" the filmmaker said again.

Zhu turned around angrily, but when he saw who it was, he fell off the chair with a thud.