It just goes to show the old saying: "A kind person is bullied, and a good horse is ridden."
Xiao He's villainous face helped him avoid a lot of unnecessary social interactions and trouble.
After Yuan Sitong finished toasting, several younger actors came over to toast as well, which was a way of currying favor. After dealing with the actors there, Xiao He went to toast the more senior actors and other key members of the crew who held important positions.
The banquet ended in the early hours of the morning.
When you wake up, it will be a brand new day.
Xiao He had just gotten up when he received a New Year's gift from Liu Rulan.
"No bait?" Xiao He looked at the script in his hand, quite surprised. "This is the script that Sister Liu was busy with recently?"
“Yes.” Liu Rulan nodded with a smile. “Everyone has been busy recently, and you’ve been busy keeping up with the film crew’s schedule, so I haven’t been able to give you the script right away. Today is a holiday for the crew, so you can finally take some time to look at the script.”
"—But the final audition still depends on you. There will definitely be a lot of people competing for this script."
Xiao He thought for a moment and asked, "Is it the script that Sister Liu mentioned before, where the protagonist is almost omnipotent?"
“Not bad,” Liu Rulan explained. “This script had been shelved for a long time, but now that things have calmed down a bit, it has finally been released from the censorship gate.”
"The script you have here is an old one that was used for auditions back then. More than ten years have passed, and many plot details may have been adjusted. Also, I'm not sure if the screenwriter made any deletions or major changes to get it approved, but you can take a look at the general story content and get to know the character's personality."
"Speaking of which, when Sister Liu first mentioned this script, I had no idea what its subject matter or content was. Now that so much time has passed, I can finally see it for myself—"
Xiao He picked up the script with some curiosity and took a look.
He then raised an eyebrow slightly: "Audition version? What does this mean? The script is incomplete? And it doesn't even clearly indicate the genre?"
Liu Rulan shrugged: "We asked this question back then too. Director Ning originally said that he would show us the final version after we joined the crew, but as you know, the situation at the time was different. So far, all of us have the audition version in our hands."
As for the final version, it's probably only available to Director Ning at the moment.
Xiao He felt a little strange, but he didn't say anything and immediately opened the script to start looking at it.
More than twenty minutes later, Xiao He finally closed the script with mixed feelings and asked Liu Rulan with a strange expression, "Sister Liu, what do you think of this script?"
In short, this script is about the protagonist, Shu Yuxiu, experiencing a life of unparalleled success and excitement.
The protagonist, Shu Yuxiu, was originally just an ordinary employee at a car repair shop. However, he possessed exceptional intelligence, a strong learning ability, and incredible luck. Along his path, he met many benefactors, and with their help, he gradually transformed from an ordinary car mechanic into a super-rich man, eventually marrying a beautiful and wealthy woman and inheriting his father-in-law's wealth and power—a true "dragon-like" story of triumph.
This can be described as a completely mindless and overpowered wish-fulfillment novel. Even if it were placed in the realm of online novels, it would only be considered one of the lowest-level story tropes.
The only potential turning point is in the latter half of the story, when Shu Yuxiu's wife suddenly falls ill and passes away. Just as Shu Yuxiu is overwhelmed with grief, his father-in-law has a political rival who colludes with the police to smear Shu Yuxiu, falsely accusing him of poisoning his wife. This rival aims to use this opportunity to suppress Shu Yuxiu and his father-in-law, and seize power from his father-in-law.
Perhaps it's because this political struggle storyline is relatively sensitive and involves many issues that the script has been stuck until now.
Meanwhile, since this is only an audition version, Xiao He currently only knows that Shu Yuxiu was arrested and interrogated, but does not yet know what Shu Yuxiu's final fate will be, or whether he has been cleared of suspicion.
But something feels off. How could such a storyline have been suppressed for so many years?
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