Chapter 50: Picking The Same Hero In Different Matchups
“We’re done, we’re done.”
After the live broadcast ended, the staff just wanted to hurry home from work. Listening to Yu Wei’s song up close always felt a bit heartbreaking, what’s going on?
After all, they were the nameless people behind the stars…
When his hands left the piano keys, Yu Wei’s knuckles clicked lightly. He rotated his wrists, and they were still trembling slightly when they dropped.
He wasn’t this tired when he filmed Sound Mixer before. It seems he was a bit too invested just now.
“Looks like I can settle down with peace of mind.”
Qi Yuan stood up and patted his shoulder. “Don’t slack off. Wait until I’ve settled down, then we’ll compete again.”
Although he said it lightly, being crushed by Yu Wei like this still unbalanced his mentality a bit. Even setting aside the differences in the works themselves, he wasn’t as good as Yu Wei in singing technique and emotion.
Could this be the gap in talent…
No, previously Yu Wei couldn’t do anything well. If he had talent, he would have shown it long ago. This is clearly enlightenment!
It seems he still needs to continue digging deep into the meaning of this book.
“You’re the first one to silence Yu Yuan.”
Zhang Lingye came over proactively, not caring about Qi Yuan, the so-called main person, and continued teasing: “I just went peeping at Qi Yuan Super Topic. Even a few who were swayed want you two to cooperate.”
They didn’t dare to imagine how popular the song would be if Qi Yuan sang it. At that time, he would walk sideways…
Qi Yuan smiled and didn’t take it seriously. They all say fan circle fans love crazily, but actually they change hearts pretty quickly. If he really settled down for a year or two, they would definitely switch fandom and run away early.
Of course, he wouldn’t settle down that long either.
Qi Yuan had just chatted idly with Zhang Lingye for a few sentences when he turned back and noticed Yu Wei rubbing his hand while playing on his mobile phone, seeming to be chatting with someone.
Vaguely, he seemed to see a familiar avatar…
“Sister Liu called me to talk business. You guys chat first.”
Without waiting for Qi Yuan to ask, Yu Wei ran off like smoke. Seeing him go far, Zhang Lingye gossiped mysteriously: “Let me tell you secretly, last week I saw Weizi’s little girlfriend. She’s pretty good-looking.”
“It’s just that her dressing style is a bit weird.”
Qi Yuan: ?
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Artist manager, reputed to be the most stress-resistant profession in the entertainment industry. On the surface, they manage artists, but actually they convey meanings from above, easily displeasing both sides.
Song Yiwen was the most stress-resistant artist manager. She got up earlier and slept later than the artists, available 24/7 all year round, and had to quickly handle “sudden events,” temporary changes, unstable artist states, and such situations.
If something really happened, the star loses face, but she loses her livelihood…
Arranging work for stars was like a tower defense game for her. There were rules on where to send whom. Misplacing one or two was fine, but too many mistakes meant restarting.
Yu Wei was an exception. Not afraid of misplacing, but afraid of not placing. If no work was arranged for him anymore, daily updates of ten thousand words—what then?
“Sister Song, you looking for me?”
Their manager was pretty good. When he was slacking before, Song Yiwen would occasionally stuff him with some marginal business deals, which was very humane.
“Good performance!”
Although Yu Wei’s troublemaking ability gave her quite a headache, when they met face-to-face, her attitude was still quite friendly. Like a teacher encountering a prickly top student, she could only praise him for having personality.
“These are selected based on your needs. Pick some yourself.”
Liu Ning next to her smoothly opened the document for him to see. Yu Wei excluded advertisements and business performances; the rest were basically variety shows and film and television dramas.
As expected, none of these TV dramas were watchable. The titles were all uniform ci pai names, and the content was all unavoidable romance.
If unlucky and encountering one tagged “big female lead,” they could start fighting for ranking as soon as the official announcement… Can’t afford to provoke, can’t afford to provoke. Better look at the variety shows in the distance.
They all say go on variety shows to slack, but Yu Wei thought, at least slacking on variety shows wouldn’t produce history. Better than pretending to be a handsome guy with rat-like small eyes.
People should know themselves.
The variety shows Liu Ning selected for him were all the hottest recent ones. Clearly, she seized this “pick casually” opportunity and kept selecting the best for Yu Wei. If it’s free, take it.
He went to a reality show last time. This time he wanted to go to a music variety show or something to learn. But Yu Wei flipped twice and couldn’t find a music variety show.
What era is this, still filming traditional music variety shows?
Actually, there were a few music variety shows in the resources, but without exception, Liu Ning excluded them. These variety shows were either low-tier artists scrambling in talent shows or failure old men remaking themselves.
Yu Wei was red hot now. Going to a niche music variety show would definitely be bloodsucked.
“There’s a creative music variety show premiering next month. If you’re interested, I can help you contact them.”
Song Yiwen saw Yu Wei’s hesitation and hurriedly added, “Pick something suitable first to transition. You’re in the rising stage of your career right now. Try to avoid any gap periods.”
Her words were just short of writing “don’t idle around” on her face. Resources are easy to handle, just don’t really bombard the entertainment industry like in the book.
“Okay, thanks for the trouble.”
Yu Wei flipped through the project list again and finally selected Dreams Chao Yue Ban, a professional actor training variety show focused on improving acting skills.
Isn’t this the one with Ding Zhen who has the snake ~ demon?
But this variety show properly teaches acting skills, without so much vague and empty content. Anyway, going anywhere is going, better learn something.
Acting emphasizes truly listening, truly seeing, truly feeling. Just treat it as going out for material…
“You pick this?”
This was unexpected for Song Yiwen and Liu Ning. They thought Yu Wei would pick a reality show to slack, but he chose one related to acting skills.
Looks like this kid wants all-round development too?
Previously heard he shot some of his favorite stuff after the MV, didn’t exceed much funding so the company didn’t ask. But now it seems Yu Wei had planned this for a long time.
“This is a proper acting skills training class. Several veteran actors and directors are notoriously fierce. You sing well, but over there no one will indulge you.”
Even though Song Yiwen really wanted to arrange some work for Yu Wei, she couldn’t pit him. This kind of crossover variety show needs careful thought.
“No problem. Learning something means no loss.”
Yu Wei wasn’t some pampered pearl of the entertainment industry who hadn’t been bullied. He had worked jobs and tightened screws. What scolding hadn’t he endured? Not to mention years of failure scolding experience.
Besides, he wasn’t completely without acting skills. At least he could perform a blind person decently on stage.
He could act ancient costume blind person, campus blind person, gang blind person, agent blind person…
Specialty guy would pick the same hero in different matchups. He could perform the same blind person in different plots. He was national server blind person.
Seeing Yu Wei so insistent, Manager Song had no reason to stop him. She just had Liu Ning remind him, explain the program process and mentors’ styles.
He was listening fine until Sister Liu mentioned a director surnamed Qi.
The filming location was right in Beijing, matched.
“Teacher Qi Yunming should be the most approachable teacher in the program. You have a good relationship with Qi Yuan, he should take care of you.”
Really? Yu Wei didn’t believe it.
He just beat Qi Yuan into settling down. Beat the young one and the old one comes. Qis everywhere, is it the center of the universe Niu Family Village…
But he was just a “temporary contract artist” for the program, equivalent to replacement guest, only recording one episode so their interaction wouldn’t be much.
Setting aside that relationship, getting to know such an industry big shot was good, no harm.
After leaving the office, Yu Wei immediately asked Qi Luo An to probe. Her response was, Old Qi was an old salted fish, didn’t care about Qi Yuan, just treat him as non-existent.
Salted fish is good. Much easier to get along with than those hard nuts who confront heaven and earth. Yu Wei was also an old salted fish, maybe they could have common language.
“Want me to say some good words for you?”
“Don’t you dare.”
Ear wind from others is fine, but from the daughter’s mouth, the nature is different…
