Xie Yang counted silently for a few seconds as he went up the stairs.
one two three……
"Jie Yang."
Xie Yang curled his lips, then quickly withdrew them, stopped walking, turned back, and asked, "What's the matter?"
Qiu Xing looked at Jie Yang's calm face, the words "Why didn't you hold my hand today" rolled around in his throat but he couldn't say it out. Finally, he uttered, "It's okay." Then he turned around and strode into the study and closed the door tightly.
Xie Yang suppressed his smile and continued to go upstairs.
At ten o'clock in the evening, Qiu Xing tidied his hair, pulled his pajamas, sat on the chair closest to the door, and waited for the mouse to come.
He has already concluded that if Jie Yang doesn't hold his hand when going upstairs, he will definitely knock on the door before going to bed. Anyway, that clingy bad guy will never behave himself if he doesn't touch his hand once a day.
It was ten minutes past ten and there was no sound from the door.
Qiu Xing changed his sitting posture.
It was past twenty minutes past ten and there was still no knock on the door.
Qiu Xing began to check the time frequently.
At half past ten, there was still no knock at the door.
"Stay up late again!"
Qiu Xing couldn't bear it any longer, so he stood up, opened the door, strode up to the third floor, and knocked on Li Yang's door.
The door opened after a while, and Xie Yang appeared behind the door with sleepy eyes, messy hair and askew pajamas. He frowned slightly and asked, "What are you doing?"
Qiu Xing's gloomy and angry expression froze, and his eyes slid around Jie Yang uncontrollably, then reluctantly retracted them and asked dryly, "You...are asleep?"
Xie Yang looked at Qiu Xing for two seconds and pretended to close the door.
"Wait." Qiu Xing hurriedly stretched out his hand to press the door, his eyes moving around on Jie Yang's slender fingers holding the door, and then around again, finally meeting Jie Yang's eyes full of sleepiness and a hint of temper, he held his breath and asked, "Did you...did you drink the milk today?"
“…”
Xie Yang closed the door heartlessly, smiled at it, then opened the door with an expressionless look again. Seeing Qiu Xing turning sideways with a gloomy face and about to leave, he quickly leaned over, grabbed Qiu Xing's hand and squeezed it, saying, "Good night." Then he withdrew his hand and closed the door again.
After a while, a hum that sounded both angry and complacent came from outside the door, and then the footsteps faded away.
Xie Yang smiled again, went back to bed, picked up the script on the bedside table and continued reading.
The movie Zhou Huairen is going to shoot this time is called "My Vision is Xuanyuan", a Republican drama that tells the story of the decline of a large family in that turbulent era.
The role that Xie Yang is auditioning for is the youngest son of the large Su family who has returned from studying abroad, a pampered young master with a mind full of perfect ideals.
The young master’s role begins at the most brilliant moment. He successfully completed his studies abroad and won the grand prize in an international piano competition. He then declined invitations from many foreign orchestras and returned to China with the ideal of "making more Chinese people know and learn piano."
But after returning to China, his life went downhill.
After enjoying the care of his family at home for a period of time, the young master's mother arranged his marriage and wanted him to marry his cousin. The young master, who had received advanced education, naturally refused to obey. After a rebellion at home, he simply ran away from home.
Afterwards, the young master was cheated, bullied, and led astray. Finally, when the war broke out, he came to his senses and rushed back home, only to find that his home was no longer his. The Su residence was smashed, most of his relatives died, and his mother and cousin were imprisoned by the enemy.
The young master was both angry and scared. He wanted to save his relatives but had no way to do so. When he was at his wit's end, the adopted son of the Su family, the male protagonist of the movie, appeared, hid him secretly, encouraged him to cheer up, took him to join the army, and gave him a direction to work towards.
The two brothers participated in the army's operation to rescue their mother. During the rescue, the young master's hand was injured and he could no longer play the piano. His face was also disfigured, and his mother ultimately could not be saved.
At the end of the story, the adopted son of the Su family and the rescued cousin finally got married. The army was about to march to the front line, and the young master was left behind as a wounded soldier.
After sending away the adopted son and cousin of the Su family, the young master escaped from the army and returned to the dilapidated Su family mansion. He found the piano he used to learn piano as a child, clumsily repaired it which was broken by the enemy, then sat down and played his favorite song with his mutilated fingers. Finally, holding his mother's photo, he set fire to it and turned himself and the old and decayed Su mansion into ashes.
Many years later, after the war ended, the adopted son of the Su family, who had made great military achievements, returned to the Su residence with his pregnant cousin. They found a broken finger bone in the old site of the Su family, which had long been overgrown with weeds. The adopted son used this finger bone and the piano toy that the young master gave to his cousin when he was a child to build a tomb for the young master.
The broken bones in the piano toy, this is the final outcome of the young master.
Xie Yang covered the script, stared into space for a while, then put the script down, lay down and fell asleep.
…
On Monday, Xie Yang and Qin Cheng drove to the audition location together.
Jie Yang closed his eyes to rest, and Qin Cheng said beside him: "Even if you don't insist on the audition result, you still have to perform well. Your acting skills don't have to be good, but your attitude must be correct. You have to let Director Zhou see your hard work and sincerity. Do you understand?"
Xie Yang responded but still didn't open his eyes.
Half an hour later, the car stopped in front of an old theater.
Xie Yang opened his eyes and followed Qin Cheng out of the car and walked inside. Qin Cheng walked and said, "Director Zhou is always cautious in casting. Every time there is an audition, he will set up one or two plot-related scenes for several main characters, let the auditioning actors perform according to the scenes, and then choose the most suitable one from them. Your real age is closest to the young master in the script. This is your advantage. You can strengthen this point later."
Xie Yang nodded.
The two quickly arrived at the audition location for the second male lead. Director Zhou was auditioning the female lead in another room, and the audition here would start later. The staff first led Jie Yang into the lounge prepared for the actor auditioning for the male lead.
There was already a person sitting in the lounge, a stranger, about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. His height and looks were not outstanding in the entertainment industry, but he had a good temperament and a pair of special single eyelids that made him easy to remember.
Xie Yang had searched for photos of his audition opponent in advance and immediately recognized that person as Yan Xin. When he saw the other party looking at him, he greeted him politely.
Yan Xin also greeted back.
Agents were not allowed to stay in the lounge for long, so Qin Cheng left after seeing off Jie Yang. Xie Yang found a corner to sit down, took out the script from his backpack and continued reading.
"When I entered Huanyu, Manager Qin had already left. I heard that he treated the artists very well?"
Xie Yang looked up at Yan Xin, not sure what he meant by that, and replied, "Qin Cheng is indeed very good."
Yan Xin nodded and said, "I envy you."
Xie Yang thought Yan Xin was interesting and asked, "Are you jealous that my agent is Qin Cheng?"
Yan Xin shook his head and replied, "I envy your background. I came from the countryside, and I don't have the kind of self-confidence and arrogance that the role of the young master requires. In addition, I only started learning the piano after my debut, so I'm not very good at playing, and my posture when playing the piano is not good enough. I tried very hard to learn, but unfortunately I just couldn't do it well."
"But you're a very good actor. I've seen your work. It's great." Xie Yang said as he stood up and walked to sit next to Yan Xin. He raised his hand and pretended there was a piano in front of him. He played a few notes casually, then looked at Yan Xin and asked, "Does the posture look good?"
Yan Xin also raised his hand and tried it himself, nodded and shook his head: "It looks good, but I can't learn it."
"It's not that you can't learn it, it's that you're too tense. Relax a little, don't treat the piano as a tool to beautify yourself, and try to love it. With a solid foundation, your best attitude is to play the piano with a genuine love and passion."
Yan Xin frowned slightly, as if thinking about something.
Xie Yang sat back in the corner and continued reading the script.
Ten minutes later, Fang Chengnan also arrived. He was wearing a retro suit, his dark brown hair was dyed back to black, and he had bangs that made him look younger, which was somewhat similar to the young master described in the script.
After Fang Chengnan entered the room, he took the initiative to greet Jie Yang and Yan Xin. They both responded politely.
Everyone was finally there, and the staff brought over some audition clips so the actors could familiarize themselves with them in advance.
There are two audition segments, both require piano playing. The first clip is the young master playing the piano to celebrate his mother's birthday after returning home, and the second clip is the young master's last performance before his death.
The two performances require completely different emotions, which makes the performance quite difficult.
The staff member said, "Director Zhou said that you can choose any song you want to play during the audition."
There is no specified repertoire, which doubles the difficulty.
Xie Yang noticed that Yan Xin's eyebrows immediately frowned and he looked distressed after hearing the staff's words. Fang Chengnan immediately lowered his head and started flipping through the script.
After the staff left, Yan Xin hesitated for a moment, then stood up and sat down next to Jie Yang.
Xie Yang looked at Yan Xin. Fang Chengnan, who was sitting in the other corner, also turned his head to look over.
Yan Xin said a little embarrassedly: "I heard that you are good at playing the piano. If it is convenient, I would like to ask, what song do you think would be better to play later?"
Xie Yang asked: "What songs can you play? You have to play them quite skillfully."
Yan Xin reported some song titles.
Xie Yang thought for a moment and replied, "Then I suggest that you play "Spring Ode" in the first audition. This song has a brisk rhythm, is easy to play, and is well known to everyone. It can really set off the atmosphere of celebrating birthdays. For the second audition, you can play the second excerpt of "Black Rhapsody". To be honest, the emotions in this excerpt don't perfectly match the young master's emotions at the time, but it can express some of them. You can use your facial expressions and body language to fill in the missing emotions in the song."
Yan Xin finally got a direction and said sincerely, "Thank you."
"You're welcome."
Yan Xin took out a notebook from his bag, flipped a page and handed it to Jie Yang, saying, "I wrote a short biography of a person, maybe you can use it."
Xie Yang took the notebook and thanked him sincerely: "Thank you."
After the two finished their communication, one of them put on headphones and began to familiarize himself with the song and search for the music score to review, while the other one looked through the character's biography. The atmosphere was harmonious.
Fang Chengnan frowned and slowly looked away.
About twenty minutes later, the staff came in again and asked the three to draw lots to choose the audition order. Fang Chengnan debuted the earliest and had more seniority, so Yan Xin and Jie Yang tactfully let him draw first, and Yan Xin drew second.
In the end, Fang Chengnan drew the third auditioner, and Yan Xin drew the first.
Ten minutes later, the audition officially began and Yan Xin followed the staff to the next room. Only Li Yang and Fang Chengnan were left in the lounge.
Fang Chengnan looked at Jie Yang and said jokingly, "You answered your competitors' questions so attentively. There are not many people in the industry who are as pure and enthusiastic as you. Yan Xin is really something. As a senior, it would be fine if he didn't give you any advice, but he actually bothered you like this."
Xie Yang heard the provocation in Fang Chengnan's words, smiled, and replied: "I'm not being enthusiastic, I just want Yan Xin to be better than you even if I can't win the audition. You worked so hard to protect me, I have to give you something back to be fair."
Fang Chengnan froze, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared.
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