An Ning and Chu Lan arrived at the agreed location at 8:30, with a full half hour to go before the scheduled audition at 9:00. Just as An Ning was about to take a short nap, Chu Lan suddenly received a phone call. The two of them froze the moment the phone rang.
There are too many melodramatic plots in TV dramas where things get messed up at crucial moments, so it's no wonder An Ning and Chu Lan are overthinking things.
An Ning and Chu Lan exchanged a glance, and almost simultaneously turned their gaze to Chu Lan's phone screen. After seeing the caller ID, An Ning raised an eyebrow.
We're doomed.
Chu Lan's expression was also somewhat unpleasant, but she still pressed the answer button, "Hello, Director Guo."
The call lasted for two or three minutes. During those two or three minutes, An Ning stood quietly to the side and waited, not paying any attention to what Chu Lan and Director Guo were talking about, as if their conversation had nothing to do with her.
After hanging up the phone, Chu Lan gave An Ning a deep look, carefully considered his words before speaking, "Xiao Ning, the role you auditioned for has already been chosen."
An Ning had expected this and couldn't help but find it amusing. "Who is it? Trying to play a mental patient?"
"It seems to be that Lin Ran from Universal Entertainment, the one you don't get along with." Chu Lan sighed. "Director Guo said you could give it a try... If you don't want to, shall we go back?"
Chu Lan asked An Ning for her opinion.
"No need, let's wait a bit. What if I'm more suitable?" An Ning rejected Chu Lan's suggestion and walked straight inside.
Looking at An Ning's straight and slender figure, Chu Lan clenched his fist, and after a long while, he made up his mind to follow An Ning inside.
"What did you say? Say it again? I told you to say it again, did you hear me?"
An Ning had just entered the audition venue when she heard such a voice, sharp and piercing, like someone who had drunk too much and was acting crazy.
Her pace gradually slowed down, and when Chu Lan walked up to her, An Ning suddenly said, "Is this person acting crazy?"
An Ning frowned as she spoke, looking as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
She was referring to the woman standing in the center of the venue, facing the air, who appeared to be performing without props.
Chu Lan followed her gaze and saw Lin Ran, dressed in designer clothes, auditioning.
"...Lin Ran, I thought she had directly snatched it away."
Unexpectedly, she was also there for an audition.
No wonder Director Guo allowed her to bring Xiao Ning in; it turns out he wanted Xiao Ning to be a backup option, so he could replace her if she didn't work out.
Thinking of this, Chu Lan was furious and was about to pull An Ning away, but just as she was about to make a move, someone walked towards them and said, "Who are you? Come and help Xiao Ran with her acting."
Without saying that, he reached out and grabbed Anning's arm, pulling her away.
Chu Lan was left standing there, stunned.
The original owner preferred heavy makeup and always had to wear a full face of makeup when going out. However, An Ning didn't like it. In order to get there early in the morning, she only washed her face with face wash and didn't even put on lipstick before leaving the house. If the two hadn't known each other for a long time, Chu Lan would have almost not recognized her when he saw her in the morning.
If Chu Lan was like this, then others who were not familiar with her would be even less able to recognize her as An Ning, the An Ning who was ridiculed for her acting skills being so good that she could kill, and who could single-handedly take on a thousand troops.
An Ning, who was forced to take on Lin Ran's scenes, was placed in a chair with a simple desk next to it. This was a temporary space set up for her by Lin Ran's agent.
Whether it was for the sake of the plot or not, there was a folding fruit knife on this simple desk. The fruit knife, gleaming with a cold light, was placed there quietly, and An Ning couldn't take her eyes off it after just one glance.
I really want to... take it.
The moment the thought crossed her mind, she reached out and the silver-white folding fruit knife fell easily into her hand.
The fruit knife she picked up on the side street outside the police station was confiscated by the police on the grounds that she was carrying dangerous items.
As Lin Hang took the fruit knife from her, his fingertips accidentally touched a small object that An Ning had placed on her wrist—a piece of cold steel pipe.
An Ning can still recall Lin Hang's expression at the time, as if he had seen a major criminal with a bounty of hundreds of thousands of RMB on his head. His instinctive reaction made him reach for his gun, but instead he pulled a rusty steel pipe out of An Ning's sleeve. When Lin Hang pulled it out, he even rubbed the rust onto the cuff of An Ning's white hoodie.
His expression looked as if he had swallowed hundreds of flies.
An Ning didn't know what Lin Ran's audition was about, only that Chu Lan told her that she was auditioning for a rather important role.
Standing not far away, Chu Lan looked at An Ning with some concern, wanting to go forward and pull her away but forcibly suppressing the impulse.
She had read a rough draft of the film script, and it was completely different from all of An Ning's acting styles. She brought An Ning over just to try her luck, in case the director took a liking to her?
The protagonist of this video is a family member of a victim who was murdered by a mentally ill person. Because the perpetrator was mentally ill, even though she killed someone, she was only locked up in a mental hospital and received a perfunctory apology.
The victim's family, who is also the protagonist, does not accept the verdict and, together with their lawyer, frantically searches for evidence that the mentally ill patient was in a normal mental state when committing the murder, wanting to seek justice for their family.
The film is roughly about the struggle between the victim's family and the mentally ill patient. One repeatedly insists that she was having an episode at the time, while the other repeatedly searches for evidence that she was mentally sound at the time. During this process, the mentally ill patient is repeatedly taken out of the mental hospital for interrogation. An Ning is the character she is playing now.
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