Chapter 168
If you are a good sister, roll with her
While studying for a master's degree at the Film Academy, Wen Jiayan also worked part-time as an undergraduate counselor for a year. She had already learned the experience of managing more than a dozen new students, and this time she was only in charge of three newcomers from Harvest Media, which was a piece of cake for her.
Moreover, one of her previous students was Wen Yi. When Wen Yi saw her on the crew, it felt like he was back to school.
Wen Yi was a little scared when facing Wen Jiayan. Later, Wen Yi was relieved when he found out that Wen Jiayan paid more attention to Tian Tian and always looked for her to have 1v1 talks.
She felt relieved, but Zhao Xianning didn't think so.
In Zhao Xianning's opinion, her artistic appearance determines that she cannot become a popular star. She can either develop in the direction of Tsing Yi or work hard in the film industry. Judging from the resources of Harvest Media, it is more likely to be the former.
Therefore, she never regarded Wen Yi as a competitor, but Tian Tian was different.
Ling Suisui is their boss and has already opened up a very high level to them. There may be competition for resources between her and Tian Tian for the new traffic star.
Of course Wen Jiayan could sense Zhao Xianning's little thoughts, and she told Ling Suisui about it.
Ling Suisui smiled and didn't think of this as a bad thing.
It is normal for newcomers to the entertainment industry to have a sense of crisis and competition about their career development, just like high school students will pay attention to the ranking of each exam and compare their own scores with those of their classmates. There can only be one first place in each class and each grade.
"Then please pay more attention to their mentality." Ling Suisui said, "I really hope to see them roll up their sleeves. Don't think that everything will be fine after signing with a company, and you can just lie back and wait for resources to be fed to you in the future."
Of course, the degree of this must also be grasped. She wants healthy competition among the newcomers, rather than for them to hold each other back, which would be meaningless.
Wen Jiayan nodded. She thought of something and couldn't help but sigh: "It feels like I saw my old self."
Looking back on when she first entered college, she also thought of everyone as an "imaginary enemy" and followed others in making decisions, which resulted in her losing the ability to think independently.
Ling Suisui: "Every young person goes through this. This is the cycle of history."
The two smiled at each other, chatted about some old times in school, and then turned to career planning.
Although Wen Jiayan accepted the offer from the acting teacher, she was not very enthusiastic about returning to the entertainment industry. She frankly admitted that she has a fragile heart and will become frustrated when seeing negative reviews. She cannot be a female star who has to face the bloody storm at any time.
She used to think this was a shortcoming, but now she has come to terms with it. Everyone has different pursuits in life. Who says that you have to be the top to be considered successful?
Wen Jiayan, who is in a state of inaction, wants to stay in school to teach, or go somewhere else to be an acting teacher. You can join a crew with an artist or go to an art exam tutoring institution.
Ling Sui originally wanted to introduce her to some big clients, but after thinking it over, he decided to ask her if she wanted to sign a long-term contract with Fengshou Media.
Not only can he teach three newcomers, but he can also give guidance to Ling Suisui's partners who may need help in each play, as well as new actors who will cooperate with Harvest Media in future new projects.
One was short of people and the other wanted to find a job, so the two hit it off immediately.
Wen Jiayan signed the contract quickly and was very satisfied with the company's benefits. After officially becoming an "acting teacher", she seemed to have unloaded a heavy burden and completely said goodbye to her past idol career.
"I actually regretted it a lot before." She told Ling Suisui, "I watched three episodes of Freedom House. Zhu Yue's acting was OK, but I don't think I'm worse than her in any way. I just lost out due to the contract dispute, so the director didn't dare to use me."
"If, if I didn't participate in the talent show, but participated in the casting as an amateur, would I be the one to play Zhou Ziqing?"
Ling Suisui didn't answer. It was difficult to answer this question.
Casting involves many considerations, and no one knows Yin Mingcheng’s standards.
"But it's okay now." Wen Jiayan sighed deeply, "If I hadn't gone to the talent show, other things would have happened, and I might not have worked so hard in my studies, and you wouldn't have asked me to be your acting teacher today."
A blessing in disguise. Wen Jiayan felt that with Ling Sui's ambition, Harvest Media would definitely be able to carve out a niche in the entertainment industry, or at least become an upper-middle level player in the industry.
Now that she has joined, she can be considered a half-veteran of the company, and she can just sit back and wait for retirement.
"Come on." Ling Suisui patted her shoulder, "Let's make our business bigger and stronger together."
Wen Jiayan just thought she was comforting herself. She was just an acting teacher and she didn't teach in a professional school. There was no room for her to "become bigger and stronger".
But what Ling Suisui was thinking was that there were so many artists in the entertainment industry who needed acting lessons. This was such a vast blue ocean market!
She started by teaching the three newcomers in her company, and then spread the teaching to newcomers in other companies... As long as her influence is big enough, her reputation is loud enough, and she can attract enough talents, she will sooner or later become an "industry benchmark."
Therefore, it is impossible for her to just sit there and do nothing. She is still working hard for her career. How could she let Wen Jiayan rest so easily?
Don’t even think about it, if you’re sisters, just roll with her!
**
Today, Ling Suisui is going to film a scene where sixteen-year-old Cheng Yimo drinks yogurt.
Although this yogurt is an advertisement that the brand has invested heavily in, it is also an important plot in the script. The 28-year-old Cheng Yimo gave the 16-year-old girl a task to buy yogurt from the store and drink it.
The reward amount for the task is not much, just the price of a bottle of yogurt.
Cheng Yimo's deskmate is a girl, and this role is played by Wen Yi. This part was not in her script, so she asked curiously: "Sister Sui, is there any special story behind this yogurt?"
"I can't tell you that." Ling Suisui remained mysterious. "If I tell you, it will affect your perspective on my character."
It may not be a good thing for an actor to have a third eye. There is too much known information, and it is difficult to separate it and find the current emotions.
Anyway, the script has been allocated according to perspectives, so why should she make it difficult for her newcomers? Let the arts wait and see.
Wen Yi said, "Oh!" and then said, "Can I infer from your performance? I'm especially good at script killing!"
"Okay." Ling Suisui agreed happily, "If you can recreate it, it will be your credit."
The camera was in place, and the extras moved around freely in the classroom. Wen Yi, who played the role of the top student, lowered his head to write a test paper.
In the scene in the classroom, she only has one line, and the performance is mainly by Ling Suisui.
Ling Suisui walked in from outside the classroom, his steps somewhat cheerful and hurried. She placed the yogurt in a prominent position on the desk, and as soon as she sat on the chair, she couldn't wait to tear open the straw package.
Wen Yi thought, this is a detail. In the previous scenes, every time Cheng Yimo came back from outside, especially after walking up the stairs, the first thing he did was to wipe his sweat with a tissue. Cheng Yimo was extremely afraid of heat.
There was nothing special about Ling Sui's movements when opening the yogurt, but when he was drinking the yogurt, a camera was pointed at him to take a close-up of his expression.
It was Wen Yi's turn to speak her lines. She looked up and asked her, "Have you bought Chun An? Is it delicious?"
Through this perspective, Wen Yi took the opportunity to observe Ling Suisui's performance.
She thought she would see a lot of changes in facial expressions, but unexpectedly, it was just one word: focus. Cheng Yimo seemed to be drinking yogurt very seriously.
Ling Sui's mouth loosened the straw. She nodded to Wen Yi first, then said, "It's OK."
This was just a daily scene from a literary perspective. She turned back and continued writing the test paper.
After that, the camera stopped filming her. At an angle that would not be in the camera, Wen Yi turned around and continued to look at Ling Suisui.
She was still concentrating on drinking the yogurt, and only her trembling eyelashes showed that her mental state was not very peaceful at the moment.
As she drank, her eyes began to water. Ling Sui quickly lowered his head and took a few more deep sips, making the yogurt make a slurping sound.
She stood up and walked to the trash can to throw away the yogurt. When she returned to her seat, her eyes were a little red. Although she didn't cry, it was more heartbreaking to see her than if she had burst into tears.
Wen Yi didn’t know what was going on. Because she didn’t know the cause and effect, she couldn’t accurately judge Ling Sui’s emotions, but she felt a blockage in her heart, stuffy and uncomfortable.
She couldn't guess, but she could communicate her feelings with Ling Suisui.
"I want to buy you some yogurt," she said. "I want to buy you a few hundred boxes so you can drink as much as you want. It's just a bottle of yogurt, isn't it?"
Ling Suisui did not answer, but the literary and artistic feeling was basically the effect she wanted to achieve.
In Ling Sui's biography, it is written that Cheng Yimo's family is actually quite well off, and the company run by her parents has good profits. She lives in a relatively high-end neighborhood in the city and drives a Mercedes-Benz or BMW.
But Cheng Yimo was short of money, and the bonuses offered by the life system every time a task was released were very attractive to her. Because her parents gave her living expenses based on each meal, they assumed that her only need to spend money was for food.
Cheng Yimo had no memory of the concept of pocket money.
Whenever she or her parents ask for money, they must have a specific reason. They will also judge her behavior and interpersonal relationships through this expenditure, and add a few remarks such as "Is it easy for parents to earn money?", "You won't focus on studying?", "The eldest daughter is just a spendthrift, she doesn't know how hard we work to earn money."
After hearing this kind of words so many times, Cheng Yimo felt very guilty. In addition, she has been living in a boarding school since elementary school, and has spent very little time with her parents, so they have not developed a close relationship. Therefore, she is afraid to communicate with her parents, and is even more reluctant to ask them for money. She has long been accustomed to paying for what she wants from the food expenses of her living expenses.
Yogurt is actually not expensive, only a few dollars a bottle. But classmates talked about it before, and the richest girl in the class drinks a bottle every day. She can spend hundreds of dollars on meal cards in a week. Cheng Yimo developed a yearning for it but also a vague resistance to it.
The sixteen-year-old Cheng Yimo was reluctant to buy it, but the twenty-eight-year-old Cheng Yimo compensated himself in high school across many years of time and space.
Ling Suisui knew that this was a character with very delicate inner emotions, but also very awkward. The drama is called "Perfect Life", but Cheng Yimo has many imperfections, even qualities that can be considered shortcomings.
Tong Xiaoman had said before that it was because she was now famous and popular that Sky Studio dared to launch this project. After all, in the domestic drama market, "perfect" protagonists are the norm.
The traffic stars are eager to suck all the blood of the paper people in the IP drama, and this kind of growth-oriented character is destined to be the actor giving blood transfusion to the character.
Ling Sui thought it was okay, as it at least proved her irreplaceability in the domestic entertainment industry.
After all, now she no longer needs to chase trends, but can lead the market direction.
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