Chapter 77



Guo Yaning has a cold chestnut-colored face-length bob that makes people feel bright and full of aura at first glance. The big wavy side bangs show Guo Yaning's full forehead, and the slightly messy inward-curling hair ends make Guo Yaning look capable and charming like a mature woman.

Her makeup is also very special. First of all, it's the base makeup. Because Tao Mu only uses a little primer and cushion foundation, Guo Yaning's makeup looks very clean and relatively light, which further highlights Guo Yaning's skin, which is as white and delicate as cream. It looks almost powdery to the naked eye.

The second is eye makeup. It did not adopt the currently popular painting method of layering pearlescent shading. Instead, I used various dark pink and light pink eye shadows to lightly sweep a layer from the beginning to the end of the eye, then applied a layer of light cinnamon eye shadow, and then used purple-red eye shadow to outline the end of the eye. The eyeliner is brown, and it is lightly drawn from the beginning to the end of the upper eyelid. The eyeliner on the inner eyelid is relatively heavier, and slightly raised at the end of the eye, matched with purple-red eyeshadow. At first glance, the makeup looks very neat and capable, but upon closer inspection, there is an indescribable charm and enchantment.

There is no highlight or contouring, and the lips are painted with a matte lipstick in rose bean paste color, which is not very popular nowadays. However, with this makeup, there is an indescribable charm, the kind of beauty that one would expect from a mature lady.

In terms of styling, Tao Mu particularly disdained to throw away the original combination of white shirt and black suit skirt, and chose a white shirt with a more transparent texture, with the collar open, without wearing any accessories, just revealing a piece of snow-white skin, and a pair of wide, crisp, and especially draped black suit pants, and a pair of ten-centimeter-high pointed red high-heeled shoes on his feet.

When Guo Yaning walked out with a standard model step, her slim figure and powerful aura, the stunning effect and visual shock she created for everyone at that moment was simply indescribable.

"Wow!" Everyone in the studio couldn't help but shout out. Guo Yaning's assistant covered her mouth and screamed excitedly: "Sister Yaning, you are so handsome!"

——That’s right. Not pretty, not charming, just handsome.

The charm of a mature woman and the demeanor of a strong woman in the workplace can be described with just one word: "handsome".

Tao Mu crossed his arms across his chest, stood in front of the camera with great satisfaction, and began to instruct the lighting engineer to rearrange the lighting. After working on it for most of the day, he still felt unsatisfied, so he finally said to Guo Yaning, "I think how about we change the script?"

In the past, the MV script was that the heroine would run into her first love outside, and then return home to reminisce about her youthful years.

But Tao Mu was not very satisfied with the lighting in the studio, nor was he very satisfied with the scenery. He always felt that the studio was too narrow and there was no way to perfectly express the heroine's royal sister aura. So he wanted to change the scene for shooting.

"How about taking the subway instead?" Tao Mu suddenly had an idea and began to picture the scene in his mind: "At one o'clock in the morning, the heroine rushed home on the subway after finishing overtime and ran into her ex-boyfriend on the subway. After they broke up, the heroine stood in the subway, staring at the dark window, recalling your past."

But in fact, these foreshadowings are not important. What Tao Mu wants to shoot is the scene of the heroine walking on the catwalk in the subway station in high heels. I walked through the neon-lit streets, leaving behind the hustle and bustle of traffic, walked down the long steps, and stood on the empty yet coldly lit platform. In the deserted subway late at night, the heroine gazes at her mature face from the speeding window. The past years fly backwards like the scenery outside the window, and then stagnate in their youthful years.

"What do you think?" Tao Mu looked at Guo Yaning with sparkling eyes, trying to win the heroine's consent: "I think the space in the studio is too narrow. We should shoot on location. Only the bright lights, prosperous and luxurious, dazzling night view of Yanjing, and the cold and empty subway station can fully bring out your aura."

"By the way, I think the way you walked on the catwalk just now was too deliberate. You don't look like a strong woman who has the final say in the workplace. I think you should find a professional teacher to practice your catwalk." Tao Mu said very bluntly: "I don't want 'I am the most beautiful in the world', I want the feeling of 'the queen's aura is two meters eight', 'everyone has to kneel in front of me'."

Tao Mu looked at Guo Yaning eagerly: "Do you understand?"

Guo Yaning's eyes lit up with excitement: "I understand!"

"I didn't quite understand it at first, but when I saw this look, I completely understood it." Before today, Guo Yaning couldn't imagine that she could pull off this look. Moreover, as a top domestic superstar, Guo Yaning's most important source of income comes from endorsing various high-end luxury brands. However, in order to win the favor of these high-end luxury brands, you must first win the recognition of the fashion circle.

In this regard, Guo Yaning and her management team have always done a good job. However, after this year, Guo Yaning can almost swear that she will soon transform from a female artist with a keen sense of fashion and always chasing fashion, into a first-line female star who creates fashion.

And all of this was brought to her by Tao Mu.

Guo Yaning looked at Tao Mu eagerly - not only was she a golden thigh with huge potential, she was also a treasure pot that could make money by cooperating with her!

As Guo Yaning's agent, Zhou Fengxuan's initiative and publicity sense are even sharper than Guo Yaning's. Hearing Tao Mu's words, Zhou Fengxuan immediately said: "Even if the MV script needs to be changed, can we take some makeup photos first? Yaning's look is so stunning. I hope we can immediately release a few photos or photos to promote it. In this way, we can attract more people to pay attention to Yaning's new album. If we are lucky, maybe a fashion magazine will ask for an interview or even a cover photo."

For a female celebrity, no matter if she is a first-tier superstar or an eighteen-tier newcomer, no matter if her acting skills are good or bad, the most important thing is not her face.

As the agent who brought Guo Yaning to her current status, Zhou Fengxuan knows her artist's strengths and selling points best.

That is the perfect face that is praised by the media as "360 degrees without blind spots". Of course, there is also the devilish figure consisting of 36D breasts, thin waist, perky buttocks and long legs. There is no need to go into detail here.

However, Guo Yaning is already 28 years old this year, and will be 29 after the New Year. In the past, she could rely on her youth and beauty to get scripts for roles where the heroines were either glamorous or gentle and charming. But Guo Yaning can't always play the role of an eighteen-year-old girl. Faced with the embarrassing situation of being independent at the age of thirty, Guo Yaning had to think about transformation.

However, when it comes to transformation, there is a risk of transformation failure. But if things remain so conservative and old-fashioned, the audience might be able to tolerate the 30-year-old Guo Yaning pretending to be an 18-year-old girl on the screen. What about when Guo Yaning is 35 or 40 years old?

The domestic entertainment industry has always had very strict requirements for female artists. Fresh and lively offspring are emerging one after another like leeks. Guo Yaning has been able to reach her current position thanks to both luck and strength. In order to consolidate her position, Zhou Fengxuan and her management team have worked even harder and dared not make any mistakes.

However, today, Tao Mu's appearance brought a glimmer of hope to Guo Yaning, who was in a bottleneck period.

This look in front of her is the best opportunity for Guo Yaning to transform! Zhou Fengxuan had even figured it out in her mind. Once the makeup photos were released, they would hurry up to record the MV, and once the MV was finished, they would air it on Valentine's Day to promote it well. She will be promoted on various TV stations and on various music charts, and she must dominate the screen for two months. During this period, she will be on the covers of various magazines. Then she can find a similar director and get a better workplace script. Guo Yaning can take advantage of this momentum to play the role of a strong woman in the workplace and firmly embed her cold, elegant and noble new image into the hearts of thousands of viewers.

Then the transformation is successful!

The more Zhou Fengxuan thought about it, the happier she felt. Her eyes were sparkling as she looked at Tao Mu. I wish I could turn both of my pupils into a “¥” shape.

So this person has to be kind and know the times, and act immediately when he sees a potential stock. You need to have a sharp vision, a steady attitude, and be ruthless in your sincerity. Just like Guo Yaning, who took advantage of Tao Mu's desperate situation to throw him an olive branch, what she gained was a lot of silver and the infinitely beautiful scenery from a high place!

It's a pity that I'm a little young. Otherwise, there will be another scandal of an older woman-younger man relationship or something. The image of a mature lady is definitely achieved!

Zhou Fengxuan glanced at Tao Mu reluctantly, her imagination almost reaching the sky.

Tao Mu obviously didn't know that Zhou Fengxuan had let herself go to the extent of matchmaking. Because Guo Yaning and Zhou Fengxuan both strongly requested to take makeup photos and cover photos, Tao Mu did not refuse. He was now directing the lighting and scenery around in a mess.

The set built in the studio was built based on Guo Yaning's previous makeup. The style is similar to the home decoration in fashion dramas in Hong Kong, and of course it also draws on the style of Taiwan.

But this is understandable. At this time, various urban dramas shot in mainland China were still stuck in the rustic shooting styles of family ethics dramas, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dramas, etc. Any styling team with a little sense of fashion would find this unbearable. Therefore, when people want to shoot fashion-related MVs, they will refer to the styles of Hong Kong fashion dramas and Taiwanese idol dramas.

Unfortunately, these scenery were not very good in Tao Mu's eyes. If fashion is also a cycle, then we have to admit that even in the fashion industry that cycles every twenty years, the details of various fashion elements are still quite different. It is precisely these details that can create a fresher sense of fashion.

Living a new life, Tao Mu's aesthetic views are naturally influenced by later generations, especially when it comes to shooting beautiful and exquisite MVs. Tao Mu believes that his vision is at least not worse than others.

Therefore, under Tao Mu's detailed and meticulous suggestions, the set in the studio changed drastically in just one hour. All the furnishings that looked classic or old-fashioned in Tao Mu's eyes were moved away, leaving only a backdrop and a few pieces of masking cloth in various colors.

White, black, red, blue.

Tao Mu stood in front of the studio holding the camera, making the lighting technicians around him almost vomit, but in the end he still felt dissatisfied.

Then Tao Mu thought about it and directly sent a group of people back to Guo Yaning's studio.

The office area is composed of various cubicles and transparent glass partitions. Tao Mu asked people to turn on all the lights in the office, and then continued to direct the lighting and lighting technicians to adjust the lights he needed. What follows is a long shot of Guo Yaning pretending to be working in Zhou Fengxuan's office. She then stands up, walks to the floor-to-ceiling window, and stares at the night view outside the window.

It was already past six in the evening and the sky had fallen completely dark. Neon lights lit up, and Guo Yaning's face was reflected in the dark floor-to-ceiling window, with her outline flickering. Tao Mu's camera moves forward, and Guo Yaning, with delicate makeup and a hint of fatigue, stands in front of the French window with her arms folded across her chest. The French window is black, and most of the lights in the office are dim. Only a desk lamp on the desk emits a warm yellow light.

The atmosphere came all of a sudden. Tao Mu directly pushed the camera into position and took a close-up photo. Then he asked Guo Yaning to walk out of the office, pass through the empty office area, get into the elevator, and then go down to the first floor. The lobby on the first floor was decorated with a very high-end office feel, with shiny floor tiles. The elevator opened and Guo Yaning walked out. Her red high heels stepped on the smooth and clean floor tiles. She pushed the door open and walked out of the office building as if no one was around, walked down the stairs, and then stopped in front of a bright red sports car.

Tao Mu refused to let Guo Yaning pose for photos. Guo Yaning went down the stairs again and again, walked to the front of the sports car, lowered her head to take the key, bent down to get into the car, and held the reverse wheel in her hand. Then come out again and repeat it over and over again.

Zhou Fengxuan was watching curiously and couldn't help asking, "Don't you want Yaning to take the subway? Then why did she drive to take the subway?"

"Who said we should drive to take the subway?" Tao Mu looked at Zhou Fengxuan blankly: "Didn't you ask me to take the cover photo?"

Zhou Fengxuan was also confused: "Then why did you let so many people follow you... I thought you were filming a music video?"

Tao Mu pointed at Guo Yaning: "Do you think Sister Yaning's current state is appropriate? What I want is 'the queen's aura is two meters eight'. I think Sister Yaning's performance just now is at most 'I am walking the red carpet seriously'."

Zhou Fengxuan: “…”

Guo Yaning: “…”

A group of people filming and watching: "..."

I really didn't expect that Mr. Tao not only has a sharp eye and good skills, but also speaks with a sharp tongue.

The cameramen who were following Tao Mu and listening to his instructions looked over with resentment: Why did you ask us to run around with cameras? They even specially set up a camera track. That's quite troublesome, isn't it?

Tao Mu noticed the resentful looks of the cameramen and felt a little embarrassed: "... I just want to create an atmosphere. I think it would be rigid and unnatural if we just pose for photos. After all, Sister Yaning is not a professional model. So I want Sister Yaning to be in an environment where she feels comfortable but not lazy. This way, I can fully mobilize Sister Yaning's body language and it will be easier for me to capture the photos."

Everyone involved in the filming: “…” Okay, you’re the director and you’re right. Anyway, we don’t dare to beat anyone, right?

The whole day lasted until 7:30 in the evening. Everyone was so tired that they wanted to stick out their tongues and gasp for breath. Tao Mu barely managed to get a few snapshots.

——Tao Mu has a characteristic when taking photos. He doesn’t like to pose for photos, he just likes to take candid photos. This is also the important reason why he can discover the unique charm of each girl in front of the camera.

However, the consequence of shooting in this way is that everyone involved will feel very tired. The lighting technicians are tired, the lighting technicians are tired, and the cameramen and makeup artists are all particularly tired. Even Guo Yaning had blisters on her feet from walking around all day. Finally, I sat in the chair, so tired that I didn't want to move a finger, but I was reluctant to remove my makeup, so I took all kinds of photos with my mobile phone. If I wasn't waiting for big news, I would probably not be able to resist the urge to update Feixun.

Tao Mu originally wanted to continue filming, but his work passion was interrupted by a phone call.

Li Xiaoheng called and said he wanted to invite Tao Mu to dinner. Tao Mu then remembered that he had promised his father Yao and Xiao Qi's father that he would go to the orphanage for dinner in the evening. I looked at the watch and it was almost eight o'clock in the evening.

"I can't go out to eat tonight. I promised my dad that they would go back to the orphanage. Let's make dumplings." Tao Mu said this and remembered that Meng Qi told him to call his friends and ask them to go together. It would be more lively with more people. After a slight hesitation, he said, "If you don't mind, I want to ask, would you like to go back to the orphanage with me to eat dumplings?"

On the other end of the phone, Li Xiaoheng played with the gift he wanted to give to Tao Mu, and smiled softly, "I do."

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