Chapter 68: You Call This A Lack Of Acting Skills?
“After watching this video, I’ll go writing.”
Lemon-flavored instant noodles rolled over, the charging cable by the bed suddenly tightened, yanking the mobile phone out of his hand, smashing directly and squarely onto his chin.
“Damn, forgot it was charging.”
Wincing in pain, he instantly sat up, the mobile phone rolled to the side and accidentally auto-refreshed, switching directly from marketing account short videos to a tender childish chorus.
The melody of Treading Waves wafted out from the mobile phone, he rubbed his face, and most of the resentment in his heart dissipated…
This song is still so good, he had listened to it many times last night, it seems big data recorded it, refreshing to the homepage again.
“After listening, I’ll go writing.”
It can only be said that web novel authors are all the same, procrastination is etched into their bones, he is like this, presumably the colleague singing this song is too.
He pays a lot of attention to Yu Wei, compared to other stars, Yu Wei who is obviously also a web novel author feels much more approachable, it’s like a college student emerging from the village.
From a colleague’s perspective, he is absolutely worthy of admiration, so busy with his main job in reality, new songs one after another, novels still updating continuously, just this point alone makes him better than many colleagues.
The web novel circle has a clear view of Yu Wei, he can’t seize the original web novel market, instead he brings many new users to the platform, this is a great achievement.
Of course, a small portion of authors engage in conspiracy theories, Yu Wei’s book is popular due to star effect, disrupting the industry… this kind is probably those who can’t even pass their drafts, sourness overflowing.
To put it this way, they are the same batch who chant every day “the platform is doomed”, “AI replaces authors”, “editors are blind”, “great god stole my idea”.
Among the over 500,000 collections of Yu Wei’s book, 80% are new readers, bringing so many new users, calling him an industry model is not too much, yet they are still souring.
“Really good.”
Lemon-flavored instant noodles has recently been listening to Yu Wei’s songs while writing, sometimes he gets mesmerized listening and doesn’t write much.
When readers scold him for slow updates, he blames it on Yu Wei!
He casually glanced at the video’s comment section, found hardly anyone discussing the song, instead all talking about acting skills, he was baffled, what’s there to discuss about this.
He saw such comments last night, Yu Wei is good everywhere except acting skills, and when asked, they hope Yu Wei can develop comprehensively.
Many such evaluations are bandwagoning, haven’t even watched the program, see others analyze Yu Wei’s acting skills and feel they get it, then want to show off their understanding on Yu Wei related videos and posts.
Others are chatting nicely about music, oh acting skills are bad, others chat Yu Wei’s script is bad, oh acting skills are bad, always putting on an air of everyone is drunk but I am sober.
He’s seen too many such netizens, hearing wind is rain, you ask where the acting skills are bad, guaranteed silence.
“The microfilm competition results are out, better write in the afternoon.”
Just noon twelve o’clock, Lemon-flavored instant noodles stopped writing, directly searched the official account of the microfilm competition, planning to watch all 16 microfilms.
Rather than saying he loves watching them, better say he is gathering material.
Young people nowadays have such wild imaginations, the golden finger in his last book was learned from a sci-fi microfilm, barely mixed a high-quality product, counts as having some takeoff momentum.
Hope this competition has more dark horses among the contestants, to give him some good inspiration.
The first microfilm is from Central Academy of Drama, the work revolves around rural elderly anti-fraud, full of practical significance and humanistic care.
Without a doubt this is a very good microfilm, unfortunately can’t be used as web novel material.
“Building a rocket in school? That’s indeed very sci-fi.”
Right after, Lemon-flavored instant noodles clicked into this gimmicky second film, turns out it’s not a real rocket, but a space rocket model.
The rocket in this film is also a symbol of the protagonist’s dream, overall quite interesting, at least the gimmick is maxed out.
From Communication University of China, no wonder the production quality is so top.
“Let me see… Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s? When did Shanghai Jiao Tong University start doing microfilms? Broadcasting and editing major?”
“Hope it provides some material.”
With anticipation, Lemon-flavored instant noodles clicked into this Sound Mixer.
The screen slowly lit up, a piano appeared on screen, hammers striking the strings, the background music’s lyrical piano piece was quite good.
Not bad, such good texture, so professional.
At this time a man’s voiceover sounded, “I rarely perform in public, unless it’s a special occasion, special audience, like tonight…”
Piano performer? Very good entry point.
After the monologue, the scene switched to a man sitting on a sofa, under dim lights, he stared blankly ahead, gaze empty like a corpse.
A bit familiar, but he couldn’t quite remember.
Just as he thought this person was listening to the male lead perform, with the male lead’s monologue, the scene switched to a naked man sitting at the piano playing.
“Holy crap, Yu Wei!”
Lemon-flavored instant noodles had just listened to his song, he is very familiar with this colleague, handsome with a bit of decadent temperament, easy to recognize.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s student team is so awesome, even able to invite Yu Wei?
This kid has a nice body…
He didn’t care why Yu Wei was acting in a microfilm, because he noticed someone standing behind the male lead, suspenseful atmosphere hit head-on, then the piano sound abruptly stopped, screen went black while a gunshot sounded.
What situation is this?
Lemon-flavored instant noodles hadn’t reacted yet, the film’s style suddenly shifted to a performance hall, male lead in tailcoat, clearly competing.
But he was too nervous, sweating profusely just starting to play, trembling hands completely unable to play the desired melody.
Yu Wei acted so well that he unconsciously tensed up for the male lead, fifteen years of effort ruined in an instant, this blow too heavy.
Wait, acting skills?
Yu Wei’s acting just now was too exquisite, he’s had this tense emotion before, the more important the occasion the more nervous, the more nervous the more mistakes, one mistake leads to more tension…
Yes, he was like this taking subject three exam.
You call this no acting skills?
In the end Lemon-flavored instant noodles was surprised too early, because next, Yu Wei’s acting show had just begun.
In the torment of competition failure, he starts escaping, in a restaurant, wearing dark sunglasses, elegantly eating gourmet food.
Went blind?
He didn’t puzzle long, through a series of conversations with the boss, he learned the male lead didn’t go blind, but pretended to be blind to deceive others’ emotions.
After competition failure, male lead became a piano tuner, specially going door-to-door to adjust pitch for others.
This identity brought him many benefits, he received respect, gained convenience, business got better and better.
People are very willing to believe a blind person has better pitch accuracy, and give more tips out of sympathy.
Then male lead got addicted, people subconsciously drop guard in front of blind person, changing clothes dancing in front of him, he unscrupulously peeping at others’ privacy, this overt “peeping” brought pleasure that addicted him.
“Brilliant.”
Lemon-flavored instant noodles originally wanted to complain about scum, but words at mouth turned to exclamation, could this be the loser mentality?
Yu Wei’s blind person scene was acted too well, when not revealing completely undetectable he was pretending to be blind, remarkably an elegant old blind man’s image.
But when peeping through glasses, that darkness and cautiousness shakes one to the core, even chilling.
“Damn, this acting gave me PTSD.”
In future dealing with blind people still need to be cautious, what if those visually impaired around are pretending?
But soon, the male lead in the movie received retribution, but not from law, but fighting evil with evil…
This day, male lead came to a household for tuning work, pressed doorbell several times, then a woman’s voice came from inside.
Woman learned he was the tuner her husband invited, didn’t want to let male lead in, told him to come next time and money would be paid, but male lead refused, for some mentality, he insisted on going in.
“Courting death!”
But this is normal too, people’s consistent deference to him made him unable to take rejection, clearly, desire to peep privacy has thoroughly eroded him.
This male lead can’t be used.
After male lead entered, room lights dim, he suddenly slipped and fell, discovering blood, panicked, clumsily got up, body covered in dark red blood.
Male lead scared scalp numb, but could only tremble and take off clothes under woman’s urging, he must pretend to know nothing, because now he is a blind person.
He already saw the man sitting on the sofa, opponent had a wound on temple, blood flowing from there, the man was exactly the corpse from the film’s opening.
At this time contradiction appeared, male lead can only continue pretending to be blind to muddle through to survive, once exposed pretending to be blind, certain death.
“With this mentality, definitely can’t hide it.”
Lemon-flavored instant noodles saw the essence at a glance, film opening male lead failed competition due to bad mentality, let alone this life-and-death situation.
After tuning the piano, male lead started playing, woman now came behind him, holding murder weapon nail gun aimed at male lead’s back of head.
Just like this, male lead naked playing piano, woman holding nail gun viciously pointing at him, killed man covered in blood sitting on sofa…
This is the film’s opening shot, although microfilm abruptly ends, based on the gunshot before opening black screen, male lead should be dead.
This movie too brilliant, whether script or metaphor, completely incomparable to other microfilms, most importantly Yu Wei’s acting skills, showed till scalp numb.
Anyway Lemon-flavored instant noodles watched satisfyingly, directly used the hot topic “Yu Wei acting skills” to repost this microfilm.
“Haters speak!”
