"Warm Light in the Palm" - Who Will Redeem the Entertainment Godmother (Thirteen...)
Not only did Qiu Yi put on a big show, she also reclaimed some of her childhood friendships.
She and her deskmate were very close back then. If nothing unexpected had happened, they would probably have been best friends from elementary school to high school. But life is unpredictable, and their reunion now has made up for the regret of the past.
The estrangement caused by their separation disappeared in no time, and Du Yanchen wanted nothing more than to hug Qiu Tianyi's head and rub against her.
I mustered up my courage and asked Qiu Tianyi, "Are you really still hiring...? Can I go?"
Qiu Yi nodded: "Of course it's true. Our studio only has two actors, which is not enough. If any of you are interested in acting, you can contact me and I will definitely arrange a role for you."
The crowd burst into laughter.
Her abstract videos are quite popular; everyone has seen them. It must be quite interesting to see her acting crazy in them.
But not everyone can let go of their inhibitions when performing in front of others. Du Yanchen asked hesitantly, "Are all jobs related to performance? Are there any clerical jobs...?"
Qiu Yi looked at her and asked, "What did you study in college?"
"Accounting."
Qiu Yi gasped: "Yes, yes, yes! We're hiring an accountant right now. What a coincidence, you'd really like to do it?"
Du Yanchen had just graduated and found a mediocre job. She didn't like the job to begin with, but now her childhood friend had started a company, and a really interesting one at that. Why not take it?
He immediately exclaimed, "I want to go! I really want to go!"
This is truly a windfall!
Qiu Yi's studio is named "Six Plus Six," which signifies the six founders and welcomes more people to join.
Why are they welcome? Because it's exhausting. Six people are split into twelve to work together. They have to handle everything from stage management, lighting, and costumes to negotiating contracts with advertisers.
I can't take it anymore, I really can't take it anymore! Everyone's going to talk to her. The studio is making good money now, shouldn't we expand our staff, boss?
It's not good if the boss is willing to buy himself a car but not willing to hire people for the studio. Qiu Yi is planning to hire people recently.
It's really not easy to recruit purely professional people. Even though the entertainment industry is booming now, the arts are not a popular discipline, so the overall pool of applicants is small, which makes it difficult to recruit.
Therefore, she wants to recruit all the regular positions first, and the accountant is definitely the first one she needs to hire. The entertainment industry involves a lot of complex finances, and if there is no professional to oversee things, you might get scammed at any time.
Just when I was looking for someone, someone offered themselves up.
Qiu Tianyi smiled and looked at her: "I would certainly welcome you if you wanted to go, but you know the culture in our company, even the accountant has to perform on stage."
Du Yanchen: ...
As a loyal viewer of "Hand Princess", she was well aware of the team's culture. They were short-staffed and lacked funds. Not only did the two regular actors have to perform on stage, but the four behind-the-scenes staff also had to work.
But the reason they remained behind the scenes was because they had a bit of a fear of being seen. The four of them specially designed paper bag headgear for themselves: editor Xiao Zhou, screenwriter Xiao Wang, planner Xiao Lü, and our big boss, "Director Cai".
When there's a shortage of people, even Qiu Tianyi herself has to shift the camera to Xiao Zhou and personally perform while wearing a wig.
The story of the hand-held character generally follows two routes: one is the high-quality route that showcases the skills of those who don't fail, and the other is the funny route that shows humor despite failing.
In the comedic genre, things don't have to be so formal. A bunch of costumed characters can act however they want, and they can even become new characters by changing their costumes. Actors who already have their faces shown can also put on a costume and instantly become newcomers.
Changing the wig is much cheaper than changing the actor. Child laborer Ma Tingting only needs a small allowance to draw.
The thought of performing with a headgear in the future made Du Yanchen feel a little... excited.
As we all know, wearing a hood may seem like a disguise, but it actually means letting go of inhibitions. She's going to experience a hood performance just to see what it's like!
Du Yanchen pretended to hesitate for a moment, then immediately said with great understanding, "You've just started your business, it's tough, I understand, I understand."
As an old classmate, I will definitely help you without hesitation if you need it, don't worry!
The headgear performance, seemingly intended to discourage people from attending, was actually a recruitment drive, which only excited the crowd more.
Are they hiring administrative staff?
"trick."
Are you hiring salespeople?
“We’re hiring, but we don’t call this sales; we call it brokerage. We’re mainly responsible for attracting investment and promoting our cultural products.”
"I know Photoshop, so can I work in your line of work?"
"It's somewhat related, but if you want to go deeper, you'll need to learn editing, and in the future you'll also need to learn some modeling knowledge. If you really have that kind of perseverance, the company can enroll you in courses for free."
The crowd grew increasingly excited, and what should have been a class reunion turned into a job fair. Qiu Tianyi had to remind them of this.
"I'm not kidding you. The internet industry is very unstable. You can make a fortune by riding the wave of traffic, but it's easy to go out of business after a few years when people get tired of it. You should be careful when entering this industry."
That's a saying. These days, it's not easy to fail at anything.
The internet industry is one that won't decline anytime soon, and anyone who has the opportunity to get in wants to.
Those who wanted to join surrounded Qiu Tianyi, almost forgetting that there were other people around.
It wasn't until very late that they reluctantly went home to their respective mothers.
Cheng Yanxi originally wanted to take this opportunity to have more interaction with Qiu Tianyi, but he didn't expect that he couldn't compete with the interview crowd at all.
When it was time to leave, I thought I would give Qiu Tianyi a ride, but then I suddenly remembered that Qiu Tianyi had her own car.
Qiu Yi arranged for several female classmates without transportation to ride in her car. If there wasn't enough room, she would call it a taxi; if they had been drinking and couldn't drive, she would call it a designated driver.
The remaining male students were handed over to Cheng Yanxi. With a smile, she said goodbye to him: "Thank you for your help, Cheng. Let's keep in touch."
The arrangement seemed reasonable, but Cheng Yanxi still felt that something was off.
After feeling frustrated, I returned to my place and tossed and turned for a long time before finally mustering the courage to pick up my phone and send a message: "Are you there?"
Qiu Tianyi replied instantly: "Yes."
Her typing speed was so fast that Cheng Yanxi didn't have any time to react, leaving him speechless.
He picked up his phone, typed and deleted, struggling to organize his thoughts for a long time, until he saw "typing is in progress" before stopping to see what Qiu Yi wanted to say.
Then I received:
"I'm sorry, Cheng. I didn't pay much attention to you at the end of the party today. I feel bad for leaving you out. You were a little shy when you were little, and I didn't expect you to still be so shy now that you're grown up."
"Next time there's a chance, I'll treat you to a meal alone as an apology."
"Sometimes I feel emotional, it seems like everyone has grown up, but also like they are still the same as when they were children."
"Cheng, you must do well in the future."
"I'm also troubling you with my matter, Cheng!"
[The little bear spins around and sprinkles flowers]
Cheng Yanxi: ...
As Cheng Yanxi first read Qiu Yi's words, the corners of his mouth gradually curled up. It turned out that Qiu Yi had been watching him from an unknown corner.
Feeling a sweet warmth in my heart, I continued reading until I reached the last sentence...
He had to rack his brains to remember what Qiu Yi was talking about, and then his heart sank to the bottom.
She wanted to type something, but in the end, she deleted it all and replied with: "Okay, Qiu, go to sleep early."
【good evening】
good evening?
Qiu Yi works in the internet industry and surfs the internet at a high intensity (18G). If she didn't know the "goodnight" meme, she'd be doomed.
The other person's message had a double meaning, or perhaps they were just an elderly person with slow internet speed who didn't understand the joke. Qiu Tianyi pondered this for a moment.
But it's okay, that's just how relationships are, right? If you don't confess, you're good friends; if you do confess, you reject.
It's this feeling that's really annoying. Once you start working with a male business partner for a long time, you have to be wary of them suddenly confessing their feelings.
Regardless of age, marital status, or whether one has children or not.
If you spend more than a year with them, sometimes even just a month, they'll think they can fall in love with you and start steer the conversation towards something ambiguous.
Sometimes Qiu Yi was so speechless that she wanted to call the police. Did nature not include men when it evolved, so that this is the only thing on their minds?
This is also why Qiuyi Company only hires female workers; communicating and cooperating with men is too difficult.
When they're with women, they only talk about work; when they're with men, they always seem to want to get into bed, like they're crazy.
Qiu Yi skillfully took screenshots, kept evidence, and saved them to her cloud drive to prevent Cheng Yanxi from having any brain farts later and wanting to talk to her about something.
If this gets out, her fans might accuse her of being a scheming woman, seducing their innocent older brothers, and affecting her career.
Don't say she has paranoia; in an all-female company, the most common rumors are about her private life.
Not only herself, but also her employees, Qiu Tianyi, instructed them to record any instances of lewd advances or inappropriate behavior when they went out to discuss business.
In this regard, one should not overestimate a man's sense of shame.
They say things like, "You're not a beauty, who would want to look at you?" They put on a high and mighty attitude, acting all innocent, as if they had suffered a great injustice.
In practice, if you see a woman, you'll try to hook up with her. Even if you don't succeed, you'll still try to take advantage of her, say some lewd things, and get some verbal benefits.
They say things like, "I only bother you because you're good-looking," while portraying their harassment as a condescending act of charity or reward.
On one hand, after being harassed, he angrily berated the girl, saying, "Don't you even look at yourself? Who would want you? You have no self-awareness!"
He dragged his online buddies along to bully the girl a second time, making her feel humiliated and afraid to speak out.
In this regard, Qiu Yi suspected that the male group might have some kind of collective consciousness, constantly copying and pasting.
The same pattern can be repeated in the same way with men of different ages, social statuses, personalities, and appearances.
What's absurd is that something so common in daily life is treated like trivia in the outside world, yet society tends to be more critical of women in this regard.
When a man is caught flirting, he will immediately turn around and accuse the woman of seducing him, claiming that he has a wife and children and loves them very much.
Then the wife came and beat up the mistress, and the onlookers, unaware of the truth, started to criticize the mistress.
But whether the woman was harassed by the man or was truly brain-dead and liked to seduce a scoundrel, the woman herself has to prove her innocence. This society is used to forcing women to prove themselves.
If a woman hadn't been alert at the time and left strong evidence to prove herself, things would have become unclear, and she would have been caught in a media storm, attacked by the masses, making it very difficult to recover.
One should not have the intention to harm others, but one should not be without the intention to guard against others.
Nobody knows how this social phenomenon came about. If you can't change society, then change yourself. Qiu Yi is very cautious in this regard.
Cheng Yanxi probably never imagined that while he was being all lovey-dovey, the other person was frantically taking screenshots behind his back.
In short, with the help of Cheng Yanxi, a top celebrity, Qiu Tianyi, who was originally told to go home and wait for news about the interview, actually received news and officially joined Huo's company.
Although Cheng Yanxi helped her, he was also puzzled. Since she had already made a name for herself outside, why did she still want to join Huo's Group?
Qiu Yi looked at him but didn't say anything.
I'm afraid you won't like to hear the truth.
Whether you like or dislike a celebrity, it's all a virtual concept.
It shouldn't extend into real life and affect her relationship with her old classmates, but that doesn't mean she's gotten over her initial anger.
Even now, Qiu Yi still feels that the female lead in that drama was much more capable than the male lead.
The reason why the male and female protagonists' later developments are so different is simply because Huo's stupid company is doing something wrong, and this always-biased society can easily abandon women.
Viewers initially drawn in by the female lead's meticulously maintained beauty will, as the plot unfolds, gravitate towards the male lead and turn around to criticize the female lead's shallowness.
Is beauty important? Yes, it is. People have a primal desire for beauty. In the entertainment industry, you can get into a show just because of your looks.
But is beauty really that important? No.
People are ultimately drawn to complex souls; aesthetic appreciation can become tiresome, but the soul is unique.
Most dramas on the market try hard to enhance the female lead's appearance, but are stingy in giving her a soul.
The female lead initially gains favor because of her appearance, but later she becomes the nourishment that sustains the male lead.
When the crowd dispersed, all that could be heard was, "I came for the female lead, but I was attracted to the male lead."
Later on, even her only asset—her looks—was overshadowed by the male lead under the filter of her character's persona.
What Qiu Yi finds most intolerable is the reversal of right and wrong. Some people remain silent in this upside-down world, while others revel in it.
She wanted to correct the female protagonist's fate, so strongly that she could even change her own life trajectory, but the female protagonist's "contract of sale" was still held by the Huo family.
Since that's the case, if the mountain won't come to me, I'll come to the mountain. If the female lead can't get out, she'll go to her in person!
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