Chapter 66: Unexpected Gaps
In the evening, Xu Youyou invited the entire crew to dinner.
Xu Youyou didn't like the drinking culture. She didn't want to toast nor did she want others to bother her, so she asked the producer to book the entire restaurant and change the banquet into a buffet. The crew members could just get whatever they wanted to eat. Of course, the money spent this way was five times more than originally planned.
"I just realized that there are so many seafoods hidden in the restaurants in Gansu Province. I really don't know what I used to eat every day on the crew." A crew member sighed in a low voice.
"The food on our crew is considered good. At least they are willing to hire a cook. The crews I worked for before were really stingy. The 20-yuan meal allowance was ripped off at every level. When it came to us, a box lunch was probably worth only five yuan, and there was not even any meat."
"Are you guys still in the mood to chat? I see there are king crabs over there, why don't you go grab some?"
"What are you fighting for? The boss has already said that there are plenty of king crabs, but we are not allowed to waste them."
"When the boss comes, the day comes. I really hope the boss stays on the set every day."
Everyone else was talking about how good the food was today, and they all wanted to stuff all the expensive ingredients they had seen and hadn't seen before into their mouths. Only Wang Anna remained leisurely, and only tasted a little of each ingredient without eating too much.
"Anna, I'll take you to meet the boss. You contributed a lot of private servers to the crew this time. We will definitely reimburse the money separately and will not let you suffer any loss." Ouyang Ouyang took the initiative to take Wang Anna to meet Xu Youyou.
Wang Anna is the crew’s stylist. She has loved dressing up and combing dolls’ hair since she was a child. Her family even bought a villa to house her dolls.
After graduating from university, Wang Anna did not join her own company, but entered the entertainment industry without telling her family.
She has an ordinary appearance, has no plans for plastic surgery, and doesn't like flash lights. The reason she dreams of entering the entertainment industry is to become a stylist so that all the beautiful brothers and sisters can shine under her matching.
This was not the first crew she had been on, but it was definitely the happiest crew she had been on.
After she entered the industry, many crews saw that she was young and either lowered her price or had experienced stylists directly snatch her designs, even going so far as to say that it was to help her gain fame.
She had a quarrel with the big stylist because of this, but because the other party had more seniority, he threatened to ban her from the film and television industry.
The circle in Hengdian is so small, and her reputation was ruined, so fewer crews were willing to hire her for styling. She was out of work, so she desperately sent in her resume and joined this crew.
Originally, when Xu Youyou came to visit the set, she thought that it would be like the other crews she had been on, with a crew dinner with clinking glasses and countless polite words, but she didn't expect that in the end they would arrange a private buffet.
Looking at her colleagues in the crew, whose faces were filled with genuine joy, she also relaxed.
During this period, she received calls from her family every day, asking her to go back to work in their own company and stop doing these inferior jobs. Thinking of what happened in the circle, Wang Anna became hesitant.
"Boss, this is Wang Anna, the stylist of our crew. Although she is young, the styles she creates are novel and beautiful. As long as she is given more time, she will definitely grow into a top crew stylist in the future." Ouyang Ouyang took great effort to praise Wang Anna.
Xu Youyou also watched a few behind-the-scenes footage sent by the director. Unlike the funeral-style popular in ancient costume dramas in the entertainment industry today, this little girl obviously has her own unique ideas and can customize the look of each character, which is eye-catching.
In her previous life, Xu Youyou didn’t pay much attention to the entertainment industry. She knew Ouyang Ouyang and Song Zhibai only because they were so popular. As for stylists and the like, she had no idea about them at all.
But she believed in Ouyang Ouyang's vision, and said to Wang Anna: "Are you interested in joining our company? The company does not have a professional team of stylists yet, so it is just right to set up a makeup department with you as the core, what do you think?"
Wang Anna was still hesitating whether to give up her career and go back to inherit the family business. At this moment, facing Xu Youyou's admiring eyes, she immediately said, "I do!"
Xu Youyou couldn't help but laugh: "It would be best if you are willing, but young people also need to eat, why don't you even ask about the salary?"
Wang Anna smiled awkwardly and said, “Boss, you are so generous, you will definitely not treat me unfairly.”
Ouyang Ouyang added: "Boss, you don't know that many of the heroine's clothes this time are Anna's private clothes. She lent them to the crew for free, but to be honest, several of the clothes were scratched during the filming. Boss, do you think we should compensate her?"
Xu Youyou said with a serious face: "You must not let the young girl suffer any loss. You have to give her the money she deserves."
Ouyang Ouyang added: "I have never seen many of these clothes on the market, and the fabrics are hard to buy. Several of the male protagonists' clothes were designed and made by Anna herself."
Wang Anna said directly: "Boss, just pay for the fabric for the clothes I make."
Xu Youyou shook her head: "The labor and design fees should be paid, and they should not be reduced. A young girl who has just started working should not suffer any loss. You are our future chief stylist of the crew, and you must be paid enough."
Wang Anna was born into a wealthy family. The Hanfu she bought purely for fun can be used as the styling for the female lead in an entire drama. In fact, she doesn't care about this little money at all, but Xu Youyou and Ouyang Ouyang both respect her efforts, and she feels comforted in her heart.
Xu Youyou continued to praise: "Song Zhibai is good-looking, but the look you designed for him makes him look like a male lead cut out of a script. If you hadn't put so much effort into designing his clothes and makeup, there wouldn't be such a good effect."
Wang Anna's face flushed when Xu Youyou praised her. Wasn't her original intention to enter the entertainment industry to dress up her beautiful brothers and sisters? Although the show has not been broadcast yet, she has been recognized by so many people, which has strengthened her determination to stay in the entertainment industry.
[Congratulations to the host, you have completed a leak independently without the assistance of the system, and received a reward: training class X5]
Xu Youyou was shocked. She didn't expect that the system would not give out tasks every time she found a bargain, nor did she expect that she could get rewards for finding bargains outside the system.
"Wang Anna also picked up a bargain?"
The system gave a positive answer: [Wang Anna, a makeup genius who was discouraged by the dark rules of the entertainment industry. She should have chosen to return to her family after a short period of time in the industry due to the setbacks she suffered, and eventually inherited billions of wealth. However, she was always depressed and always thought of her abandoned dream-chasing journey when she woke up in the middle of the night...]
(End of this chapter)
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