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"Xin, didn't you dislike him for being an 18th-tier girl and not wanting to put makeup on him? Why are you still not satisfied after I changed it for you?"
"I'm doing my makeup well, but you suddenly changed my makeup. Aren't you slapping me in the face?"
"I'm not trying to hit you in the face." Zhang Ai laughed and advised, "Okay, this is how it is. Hand it over to Lulu."
"Why?"
"Why? Producer Jiang called me and asked me to change Ji Qingzhou's hairstyle and makeup. Do you think I should change it?"
Zhao Xin was puzzled. "Why would Producer Jiang call you about this?"
Zhang Ai felt that she was still young. She still didn't understand what was said even after all this. "You..." She sighed, "Zhao Xin, you have good skills, but you are too utilitarian."
Zhang Ai finished and hung up the phone, leaving Zhao Xin looking at her phone in confusion. Why would producer Jiang call Zhang Ai? Isn't Ji Qingzhou just an 18th-tier newcomer who just debuted? Why would producer Jiang call Zhang Ai specifically for him? Or, he actually has a background, but he just doesn't show it.
Zhao Xin didn't want to hand over to Lulu. If it was someone else who took over her job today, she wouldn't have to do makeup for Ji Qingzhou anymore and could do makeup for the second male lead. Then she would be very happy to hand over to the other person. But it was Lulu, the team leader's favorite Lulu. She could figure out the twists and turns without having to use her brain - Ji Qingzhou must not be as simple as he appeared on the surface.
She has always been smart, so at this time, she was unwilling to change with Lulu, insisting, "I have always been the one doing Ji's makeup. Now I suddenly change people. Our styles are not the same. I'm afraid it will not be good for Ji's character's image."
"How is that possible?" Lulu felt that she was overthinking it. "Besides, even if I change the style, as long as I do a good job of makeup, the audience won't be dissatisfied."
"What do you mean, is it because I don't put on makeup well?"
Lulu smiled, "Sister Xin, you didn't do Brother Ji's makeup properly a few days ago. I remember one time, you only did a base and drew eyebrows for Brother Ji, right?" Lulu shook her head, "It's just that Brother Ji is so handsome, otherwise if he appeared in the camera like this, the director would have troubled the team leader a long time ago."
When Zhao Xin heard her say this, she recalled the time when she had been perfunctory towards Ji Qingzhou before, and for a moment she didn't know how to explain herself.
Lulu was sharp-tongued, "I see, Sister Xin, you have been unwilling to do Brother Ji's makeup for a long time. Why are you unwilling to do it now that I really don't allow you to? Why bother?"
"You..." Zhao Xin was about to say something, but was interrupted by a voice, "It's early in the morning without makeup, what are you two arguing about here!"
The assistant director walked in, looked around, and finally fixed his eyes on Ji Qingzhou and said with a smile: "Ji is here."
Ji Qingzhou had not forgotten how the assistant director had caused trouble for him last night. He did not expect that after a good sleep, when he woke up, the world had changed. The assistant director looked at him and smiled like a flower.
Ji Qingzhou said politely, "Hello, Assistant Director."
The assistant director smiled and said, "Come here, come over and talk."
When he said this, he didn't sound at all as sarcastically harsh as he had been last night. He even looked a little more approachable because of the smile on his face.
Ji Qingzhou looked at the smile on his face and felt that Chu Cheng was quite amazing.
He followed the assistant director out of the dressing room. The assistant director took him to the corner of the stairs and looked at him awkwardly, "Ji, you, if you have anything to say, just let President Chu and me directly. I don't know President Chu, but I know his name. Besides, I don't know President Chu, but everyone knows the Chu family behind President Chu. You are directly asking President Chu and Producer Jiang, right..."
Ji Qingzhou knew what he meant. He felt that Chu Cheng told Jiang Nan about this matter directly without considering his face. But this matter was not between him and Chu Cheng. Moreover, Chu Cheng was not a member of the crew, so why should he consider his face?
Ji Qingzhou didn't like the tone of his words very much.
"Can't Chu Cheng talk to Producer Jiang directly?" he asked in return, "He doesn't know you, and when he encounters a problem, he looks for someone he knows well, isn't that wrong?"
"I'm not saying this is wrong, I just think," the assistant director looked at Ji Qingzhou and smiled, "President Chu can just talk to me directly."
"Why did he talk to you directly?" Ji Qingzhou thought his words were a little ridiculous. "You know clearly that I am an artist of Xiyu Entertainment. Even if I have nothing to do with Chu Cheng, as long as I am an artist of Xiyu Entertainment, the Chu family is standing behind me, but you still don't care, right? It was Chu Cheng who came to visit me yesterday. I said hello to the director and left, and then rushed back before the shooting time. Didn't you still think I was fooling around and scolded me on the spot?"
The assistant director felt extremely regretful when he heard this. If he had known that it was Chu Cheng who came to visit the studio yesterday, he would not have scolded Ji Qingzhou and would have given him a day off. It was all because there were so many artists in the Western Entertainment Industry. He thought Ji Qingzhou was also an insignificant one, but he never thought that he was the most important one.
"You're right. This is my fault. I didn't mean to scold you yesterday. You're good at filming and get along well with the crew members. How could I hate you? Look, I never had bad things against you before, right?" The assistant director flattered, "I was in a bad mood yesterday and took my anger out on you. That's why I said so many inappropriate words. Blame me. I apologize to you. And about the shooting time, you know that Chen Jiyuan is the protagonist of this drama, and I have to give him some face, so I wronged you. So, let's write off the previous things. From now on, if you have any problems, just come to me directly and I will help you coordinate, okay?"
Ji Qingzhou felt that he was much more flexible than himself. Yesterday he scolded himself for thinking he was a big shot, but today he blamed him. It was his fault.
Ji Qingzhou smiled and said, "That's so embarrassing. It makes me look like someone special."
The assistant director looked at the innocent smile on his face and couldn't tell whether he was being sarcastic or just being humble. But no matter which one it was, given the situation, he could only say, "Ji, what are you talking about? Of course, you are an important figure in the crew."
Upon hearing this, Ji Qingzhou sneered inwardly but said nothing.
But he knew how to deal with people, and since he got the benefit, he didn't act cute. He said gently, "I didn't take the previous things seriously. Newcomers always have to go through these things. Don't mind it. I will ask for your guidance in the future."
After hearing what he said, the assistant director finally felt relieved. He even thought that he was quite rare, as he came from a wealthy family but didn't have the slightest airs of a young master. He couldn't help but have a better impression of him.
How could he know that Ji Qingzhou did not have the style of a rich young master, purely because he was not a rich young master at all. Chu Cheng's words "a relative of the Chu family and his distant younger brother" made Jiang Nan and the assistant director think that Ji Qingzhou was related to the Chu family. In fact, he was only related to Chu Cheng.
Seeing that he was not going to make a fuss, the assistant director happily went back to the dressing room with him and said to Lulu, "Do Ji's makeup well. We have a close-up shot today."
Lulu responded, "Don't worry, Brother Ji's face is already very good-looking without makeup. If I put some makeup on him, he will be the most handsome boy in this school."
The assistant director laughed and said, "Then put on your makeup well."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Zhao Xin and Liu Xu and said, "By the way, from now on, Liu Xu, you won't be putting on makeup here anymore."
"Then where do I go to put on makeup?" Liu Xu asked in surprise.
"I'll make arrangements for you later. Free up this dressing room for Ji to use alone from now on."
Liu Xu couldn't understand. He felt that everything that happened this morning was incomprehensible. "Assistant Director, this is inappropriate. In our crew, only Brother Chen has a separate dressing room."
"I will decide whether it is suitable or not. This dressing room is for Ji and you," he pointed at Zhao Xin, "you two come out, I will find you another one."
Ji Qingzhou felt that it was unnecessary. He was a newcomer and was far from having an independent dressing room. If he had one, it would only draw hatred from other members of the crew. So he said, "There's no need for that. This dressing room is not necessary either. I've always shared it with Brother Liu. We're used to it. Let's just keep it this way."
The assistant director glanced at him. He knew that there was something wrong with Ji Qingzhou's makeup time. His makeup time overlapped with Liu Xu's. Liu Xu came later than him and finished earlier. During Liu Xu's makeup time, Ji Qingzhou could only wait. He thought Ji Qingzhou would hate Liu Xu for this and be happy to see Liu Xu leave, but he didn't expect that he didn't seem to care much about it.
For the assistant director, he asked Liu Xu to go somewhere else to put on makeup and vacate this dressing room only because he wanted to please Ji Qingzhou for Chu Cheng's sake. Since Ji Qingzhou was unwilling, he naturally would not force him.
"Well, since Ji said so, Liu Xu, you should just stay here and put on your makeup."
Liu Xu: ...
Liu Xu felt that he had really overestimated Ji Qingzhou. He had not realized it before. With his background, even the assistant director had to give him face.
Seeing that there was nothing else to do, the assistant director said to Ji Qingzhou, "Ji, you put on your makeup first. I'll adjust the shooting time. My assistant will give you the new shooting notice later," and then walked out.
Zhao Xin was a beat slow to react. It was not until the assistant director walked to the door that she chased after him and shouted, "Assistant Director, I don't want to switch with Lulu."
The assistant director was speechless. "Your makeup team's affairs are arranged by your team leader. What do you have to do with me?"
Zhao Xin insisted, "I have been responsible for Ji's makeup from the beginning. Now it's suddenly changed, which is not good for the image of Ji's character."
The assistant director heard this and thought about it. He didn't care about the image of Zhuang Xiangyang. After all, it was Ji Qingzhou. Changing a makeup artist was just changing the style, not changing Ji Qingzhou's face, so it wasn't as serious as Zhao Xin's. What he cared about was whether Ji Qingzhou would favor Zhao Xin more since Zhao Xin had been doing Ji Qingzhou's makeup.
"Ji," he looked at Ji Qingzhou, "Which makeup artist do you want?"
Ji Qingzhou naturally didn't want Zhao Xin. He had had some unpleasant experiences with Zhao Xin, and he also knew that Zhao Xin had always disliked him and looked down on him as an unknown supporting actor. The reason why she was reluctant to leave now was simply because of the series of changes caused by Chu Cheng this morning. If Chu Cheng, the butterfly that fluttered his wings, hadn't appeared, Zhao Xin would still look down on her and would want to do makeup for someone more famous.
He remembered what Zhao Xin had said to stop him before, and smiled, "I'll follow the crew's arrangements."
Zhao Xin looked at him, not believing it, but expecting it. She had not forgotten the unpleasantness between her and Ji Qingzhou, but she thought that if she insisted on doing so, Ji Qingzhou would always have a good temper and would consider her face to some extent. However, she did not expect that he did consider her face, but did not give her a good face.
The assistant director understood and said, "Then follow the makeup team leader's instructions. Lulu, put on your makeup well."
"Don't worry, director." Lulu made a K gesture to him.
Seeing that there was really nothing to worry about, the assistant director opened the door and walked out.
The room was silent for a while, and Liu Xu suddenly turned to look at Ji Qingzhou, "I can't tell, Ji, do you have a background?"
Ji Qingzhou smiled and said nothing.
Lulu checked the time and said "Ah", interrupting Liu Xu's unspoken question. She hurriedly pulled Ji Qingzhou to sit in front of the dressing table and said, "It's already past half past eight. I need to hurry up. Brother Ji, I'll do your makeup first. If there's anything you don't like, you and I can change it."
"good."
Seeing that he agreed, Lulu put her makeup box on the dressing table, opened it quickly, and started her work.
Zhao Xin looked at Lulu, clenched his fists in anger, turned around and walked out.
Liu Xu called her, but she ignored him. Liu Xu was a little confused. He hadn't finished his makeup yet. What should he do now?
He looked at Lulu and asked, "Sister Lulu? Sister Xin is gone. Can you help me finish the rest of the makeup later?"
Lulu was applying foundation to Ji Qingzhou. She didn't even raise her head when she heard this. She said directly, "I'm not responsible for your makeup. I only do Brother Ji's makeup. If you want to put on makeup, go to Sister Xin. Also," she said this, then she raised her eyes to look at Liu Xu and said dissatisfiedly, "I'm younger than you, so don't call me sister."
Qian chuckled and whispered, "It seems that some people are too sweet."
When Ji Qingzhou heard him say this, he knew that he was dissatisfied with Liu Xu's previous ability to talk without any hesitation, so he lowered his head and smiled.
After Lily finished blowing Chen Jiyuan's hair, she packed up her things and said to him, "Brother Chen, I have something to do and I'm leaving first."
Chen Jiyuan glanced at her and said, "Why are you leaving so early today? I might want to adjust my look later."
"Then call me. The team leader called me this morning and asked me to be responsible for Brother Ji's styling in the future. I have to go and style him now."
"Brother Ji?"
"It's Ji Qingzhou." Lily explained.
Chen Jiyuan frowned, "You are still responsible for Ji Qingzhou's styling? Who is he? A supporting actor with few fans on the Internet. Now he wants to use the same stylist as me? He has a really big face."
Lily heard this, afraid that he would be angry, so she said in a gentle voice, "This is the leader's order, I can only agree to it."
"Where's your team leader's phone number? Give her a call. You're not going."
"That's not a good idea." Lily said reluctantly.
Chen Jiyuan snorted and said coldly: "Fight."
Lily had no choice but to take out her cell phone and call Zhang Ai.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Ai asked her.
Lily didn't know what to do. She was afraid that if she used words carelessly, Chen Jiyuan would get angry with her, so she simply handed the phone to Chen Jiyuan, "Brother Chen, you go."
Chen Jiyuan took the phone and said concisely, "It's me, Chen Jiyuan. Why should Lily style Ji Qingzhou? Team leader Zhang, you let a male supporting role share a stylist with me. Do you look down on me?"
Zhang Ai had a headache. How could she have forgotten that Chen Jiyuan was scheming and targeting Ji Qingzhou? When Jiang Nan called her, she was still asleep and heard Jiang Nan say on the other end of the phone, "Send two people, one for makeup and one for styling. They need to be skilled, have a good temper, and be worry-free."
Without thinking, she answered, "That's Lulu and Lily."
Lulu was fine. Because of Chen Jiyuan's dissatisfaction, she had not been responsible for Chen Jiyuan's makeup a long time ago. But Lily was still in charge of Chen Jiyuan's styling. Given Chen Jiyuan's mentality, he definitely didn't want Lily to style Ji Qingzhou as well.
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