Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Qin Nuan’s smile put Tan Xue at ease. She fluttered her eyes and said, “I’m quite sure I’ve got it.”
Wang Zixuan overheard these words and scoffed coldly as she turned her nose up. She deliberately sneered, “What boastful words! You can wait to be slapped in the face!”
With that, she ran a hand through her hair and sashayed into the audition room.
Three minutes later, angry shouting resounded from within the audition room.
“You’re supposed to be sweet and adorable! Sweet and adorable, do you understand?! You’re not supposed to be pouting and hoping for your sweetheart to throw money at you!”
“This is a parting scene, not a funeral! You’re supposed to be a princess, but you’re bawling your eyes out! What’s happened to the dignity, a princess ought to have?”
“Who gave you the guts to actually act like this in the first place?!”
Director Li spoke so kindly and warmly to Qin Nuan just minutes ago, and now it sounded like this. Qin Nuan couldn’t help but inhale sharply and said to Tan Xue, “Sister Tan, so Director Li is really a very strict man with high standards like you said.”
“Of course. What did you think?” Tan Xue glanced at the audition room and shook her head.
It really wasn’t the director’s fault for shouting away inside the room from his anger. Wang Zixuan’s acting was really a pain to watch.
She had been given the same scenes as Qin Nuan to act, but when she pointed at the kite in the sky, she either pouted or made a duck face and recited her lines in a very whiny way and stumbled over them. When it came to the farewell scene with Wei Yan, she cried so miserably, anyone who didn’t know she was here for an audition might have thought someone in her family just died.
Compared to Qin Nuan’s performance just before her, Wang Zixuan’s acting was really too unbearable.
The author of the original novel said she nearly had a heart attack on the spot and added that if Song Sisi was such a character, then she should have made her die in her very first appearance in the book.
While Qin Nuan and Tan Xue were chatting outside, Wang Zixuan held her face and came running out in tears. When she ran past Qin Nuan, she glared fiercely at Qin Nuan.
Did she think glaring at Qin Nuan would injure Qin Nuan?
Qin Nuan nonchalantly flicked her fingers, then gently patted her own cheek as if she was slapping her own face.
Wang Zixuan was so angry at this gesture that she nearly puked three liters of blood on the spot.
After everyone auditioning for this role was done, the director’s assistant called Tan Xue in. The two of them signed the contract there and then, and the actual filming was going to commence in a month.
The audition had gone very well, so the three ladies went to have a steamboat meal to celebrate.
Or to be precise, they celebrated at the same table, but Qin Nuan was eating plain vegetables boiled in the water while she watched Tan Xue and Li Jing eat from a hotpot of spicy beef.
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Just one road away from the steamboat restaurant was Water & Cloud Restaurant. It was extremely noisy and lively at this point.
The hottest actor in the entertainment industry right now, Song Zhan, and an A-list female celebrity, Shen Qinghuan, were seated in a private room. The two of them had just held a press conference for the movie Maze that they had recently starred in. After the press conference was over, the director threw a big party to host all the lead actors and other friends who had come to help with publicity.
Song Zhan’s room had the female lead, Shen Qinghuan, and friends of the director and producer who were here to help publicize the movie. One of these friends included Director Li, who had come after the auditions earlier had come to an end.
He had taken some alcohol, so his stern and solemn-looking face were slightly reddish. He glanced at the director seated next to him and said, “Director Zhao, I’ve discovered a treasure today.”
Director Zhao knew that Li Yu had conducted an audition earlier that day and started asking interestedly, “Oh? What sort of treasure could make you this happy? If you’ve found treasure, you’ve got to share it with us, and we can all bask in its glory together!”
Li Yu replied, “I’ve discovered a newcomer with great potential. I’ve decided that once she’s done with this drama, I’m going to ask her to audition for the female lead of my next drama.”
Director Zhao asked, “You mean for Story of a Concubine?”
Li Yu nodded.
Director Zhao quickly cut in, “You’ve delayed shooting for that historical drama for ages because you’ve not found a female lead that cuts. Now that you’re so pleased with a newcomer, I’m inquisitive about how good this young lady is at acting. How did she manage to convince a director with such high standards as you?”
Li Yu laughed merrily and replied, “Let me make things clear; you are not to try and poach one of mine. Her name is Qin Nuan, and she’s an artist under Warm Hues Media Entertainment.”