The Movie King is a Cat (4)
"Influence?" Shen Tang asked suspiciously, "Won't the seal set by the system for the hero last until I leave this world?"
"No, the overall system capacity is limited. All it can do is let the host seal the male protagonist's memory before the time of death in the previous mission. Once this time point has passed, it is hard to say whether the male protagonist will remember what the host did in the previous mission world." Xiao Fukudai's voice was low, lacking some of its former enthusiasm.
"If the host chooses to redeem the skill, the total system memory sealing time will be shortened accordingly."
"Does that mean the male protagonist might remember me in advance?" Shen Tang couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when he thought of the scene where he was forced to stay in the previous world.
After thinking about it, Shen Tang decided to use the system coins she had accumulated to exchange for skills. The male protagonist thought that it was just a matter of probability, but if he couldn't complete the task, he would definitely not be able to leave the task world. She glanced at the skill store and finally tapped her fingertips lightly on "Alive and Vivid".
【Congratulations on acquiring the skill of being alive】
The moment the skill was possessed, Shen Tang clearly felt that the contents of the book she had just read were like a picture scroll slowly appearing in her mind. If she was still in a state of half-understanding about the role of Luo Qing just now, then after activating the acting skill, she had engraved the character's thoughts into her bones.
Shen Tang hurried back home while he was high on energy, and began to rehearse the role of Luo Qing in front of the mirror over and over again. The character's love and hate all appeared in the mirror. It was not until the sky outside gradually darkened and a slight knock at the door was heard that Shen Tang came back to his senses from the role-playing in the play.
She walked forward and opened the door, and immediately saw a petite figure squeezing in from the crack of the door, rubbing against her legs, and staring at her with clear, heterochromatic eyes.
"You little bastard, how come you still recognize my house?" Shen Tang wiped the sweat off his forehead with a towel and picked up the furry white cat on the ground. The fox's eyes met the cat's gaze. "I thought you just ran away."
As he said that, Shen Tang couldn't help but rub the little guy with his hand, which made the little cat silly. He stared at the woman in front of him with a dazed look.
This cute look actually made Shen Tang laugh. She hugged the white cat and kissed it hard a few times, kissing the white cat until its eyes were dazed. It was held in her arms and let her play with it. After a long while, the white cat slowly "meowed", and its hot head wanted to be buried so that Shen Tang would not notice it.
"What? Are you shy?" Shen Tang chuckled, and kissed the cat until its ears couldn't help shrinking before letting it go. "Although I don't know if you are someone else's lost cat, you can stay at my house temporarily until I ask around."
As she spoke, Shen Tang held the cat on her lap, and while she was whispering, she also bought some cat supplies online. As she was touching the cat, she heard a snoring sound coming from her lap. Shen Tang lowered her eyes and saw the white cat lying comfortably on her lap, snoring with its eyes narrowed.
"You're so fair, so I'll just call you Steamed Tou for now," Shen Tang gently pinched the boy's ear, and heard him humming and looking at her with sparkling cat eyes, as if he was not very satisfied with the name.
Seeing Shen Tang looking at him with a smile again, Su Lin turned his head slightly. His ears were itchy from being gently pinched by the girl. Steamed Bun, what a name! How come this woman doesn't even know how to give a name?
Although thinking so, the white cat still swept Shen Tang's hand with its long tail, without resisting the other party's action.
"Steamed, why don't I see you come back during the day? You sneak into my house at night every day," Shen Tang said as she put the notebook in her hand on the table beside her, and Su Lin saw this scene.
Taking advantage of the fact that Shen Tang's grip had loosened a lot, Su Lin twisted his body and moved over the book, roughly reading part of the content of the book. However, the next second, he was held aside by a pair of hands.
"You can't play with this, go play over there," Shen Tang was worried that the little cat would ruin the script, so he had to pick up the little guy and put him aside, muttering, "This is my script, I still rely on it for casting."
After saying that, Su Lin did not go to the book again, but watched Shen Tang practice in front of the mirror again. Unlike before, Su Lin would call out softly when Shen Tang's expression was not appropriate enough. After a few rounds, Shen Tang also discovered this. This day was almost spent in repetitive practice.
But when she went to look for the cat the next morning, she found that the little guy had left without saying a word.
"You just leave without saying anything, what a heartless thing," Shen Tang looked at the quiet room without saying anything else. After packing up everything, he set off for the audition location Zeng Mei mentioned.
"Next one," the director who was selecting actors closed his eyes, leaned back in his chair, rubbed his eyebrows with his hands, and had a look of surprise on his face, eager to replace the next person immediately. The auditioning girl's face turned pale, and she hurriedly said thank you and walked away.
As soon as Shen Tang arrived, he saw the sullen-faced director calling several auditionees down one after another, seemingly dissatisfied with their performance.
"Baby, why are you here?" A familiar voice suddenly came from her ear. Shen Tang looked up and found that it was Xu Mu.
"I'm here for an audition," Shen Tang said with a smile on his face, shaking the notebook in his hand, "Are you not here for an audition?"
Xu Mu seemed to have not expected her to answer like this, and could not help but sneer, "Of course I came here for an audition, after all, I have an important role."
Xu Mu's words were full of confidence, as if he had predicted that she would definitely get the role. Then he glanced at Shen Tang again, "But I didn't expect you to come. Don't I know how good your acting is?"
"Baby, if you really can't do it, forget it. Don't let the director embarrass you. I've seen directors have gloomy faces when choosing second female roles. If you show your acting skills, I'm afraid you'll be severely criticized." Xu Mu seemed to be persuading her gently, but every word he said was about her poor acting skills.
Shen Tang raised his eyebrows slightly. Was the original body an idiot? How could such a person be considered as his friend? On weekdays, he would have a face full of obvious sarcasm, but the original body couldn't see it?
She replied with a fake smile: "That's really unfortunate. I auditioned for a small role. Mu Mu's acting is so good, so the role he tried must be unusual, right?"
As soon as Shen Tang retorted, he heard the director calling for an audition for the role of Luo Qing, so he turned around and walked towards the director.
Xu Mu looked at Shen Tang's movements and was stunned. "Are you here to audition for Luo Qing as well?"
"Hmm, what else?" Shen Tang turned his head and glanced at her, his lips slightly raised, "Oh, could it be that you are also auditioning for this 'big role'?"
"Then I am really honored," Shen Tang smiled with her eyes curved like a little flower, no longer paying attention to Xu Mu's expression, and stood with several other people who came to participate in the audition.
The director, assistant director and others sat at the table, looking critically at the group of people in front of them. Shen Tang was not afraid of how they would look at her, and her confidence made the director look at her twice more.
"One minute each, start with you," the director scanned the personnel information in his hand and called out the name of the person at the edge, while the others waited behind.
Although she had exchanged her skills, Shen Tang still went over the character's personality and other information over and over in her mind until the people in front of her had finished their turns and the director called her name. Only then did Shen Tang calmly walk up to the director and the others, bowed, and briefly introduced herself.
The director looked at the girl in front of him and narrowed his eyes slightly. "I'll give you one minute to act this scene out."
The director's slightly impatient voice fell, and a moment later he had someone pass a piece of paper with a clip of his role to Shen Tang. He didn't really believe that this person could act well. After all, she had so little acting experience and hadn't even taken a decent role. If the assistant director hadn't said that she had talent, he wouldn't have called her to the audition this time.
Thinking about this, the director lowered his head and looked through the next person's information.
After Shen Tang got the audition clip, he calmed down and took a look. This was Luo Qing's psychological reaction when she found out that the senior brother she had always had a crush on actually liked the heroine. It was also the beginning of Luo Qing's jealousy. Luo Qing changed from a simple girl who simply admired her senior brother to a girl who became jealous after failing to get the love she wanted.
The clip in his hand was the scene where Luo Qing wanted to confess his love but found that his senior brother was confessing his love to the heroine and then hid against the wall. Shen Tang watched the clip in his hand for a while, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and began his performance.
The director didn't say anything. Not long after he lowered his head to flip through the documents, he heard a slight exclamation coming from beside him.
How could she be different from those people in front of her? The director thought, and slowly raised his head. The girl in front of him was clearly standing alone on the stage, but the gaze in front of her was as if there were really two people standing there. She stood alone in the corner, watching her beloved focus all his attention on others, and the sachet in her hand fell to the ground.
Is that it? Nothing more than that. The director was thinking, but he found that the look in the girl's eyes changed visibly. If the girl standing there was still a girl trapped in love the previous moment, the next moment the emotion in the girl's eyes changed to jealousy mixed with a sense of brokenness. After picking up the sachet, her fingertips tightly grasped it, and the sachet was pressed flat. She bit her thin lips tightly, looking at the figure of the girl who was protected in the arms of her senior brother with resentment.
As soon as this thought came to her mind, the director was stunned. Yes, there was only one person here, but her eyes vividly outlined the figures of the two non-existent people!
"She's the one," the director slammed the table immediately, his eyes filled with satisfaction and excitement.