Chapter 785
The day Jin Li filmed the pre-recorded stage was a snowy night.
Bilibili's pre-recorded stage wasn't a virtual scene setup, nor was it performed under a green screen, but a real-life stage.
The audience was arranged in advance; if it weren't confirmed that this was pre-recorded for New Year's Day, it looked like a real concert.
Pre-recording like this has a benefit: the website can spend more time editing to ensure that viewers get the best visual sensory experience when watching online.
Bilibili is an online video website after all; many people only choose to watch online and rarely go to the offline scene.
Jin Li refused the pick-up service and all privileges arranged by the website, and like other artists, entered the venue low-key in the afternoon.
Arriving backstage, she saw the nearby dressing rooms, each with the artist's name written on the door, and couldn't help but smile.
This website is good at handling people, arranging all the artists she is most familiar with together.
There was still a long time until the evening, and even if it were evening, her stage was relatively late, so there was no need to start preparing so early.
So Jin Li started visiting rooms with great interest.
She first knocked on the door of Ji Qinglian next door.
Ji Qinglian's assistant opened the door, and seeing it was Jin Li, said with surprise:
"Sister Jin Li, you're here?"
Jin Li said with a smile: "Yes, I just arrived not long ago. Is Mom Ji in?"
The assistant was a bit stunned; Mom Ji? Who is she calling?
Ji Qinglian, who was putting on makeup and preparing, heard it and quickly responded: "Yes, I'm inside!"
Jin Li soon appeared in front of her.
Ji Qinglian couldn't make too big of a movement, just smiled and said in a soft voice:
"I checked the program list; your stage is scheduled very late. Why did you come so early today?"
Jin Li shrugged, "I had nothing to do anyway, so I came early. I was wondering if I could run into acquaintances, and here I am running into you."
Her eyes curved: "The program team arranged it interestingly; the dressing rooms around me are all acquaintances."
Ji Qinglian also had a smile in her eyes: "I saw it. Shall we have a late-night snack together when it ends tonight?"
Jin Li agreed immediately: "Okay."
While the two were chatting, the door was knocked on again.
Jin Li turned her head to look; it was Qiguan Mingzhu and Xi Mengze coming over together.
They also looked like they hadn't arrived long ago, dressed simply, with excitement in their eyes.
Xi Mengze: "I just found out, our dressing rooms are really close!"
Qiguan Mingzhu "un-huh"ed, "The program team must have done it on purpose; maybe they'll release a behind-the-scenes special and then film our door numbers to give candy to the old group fans."
Speak of the devil and he shall appear; the program team's people rushed over with cameras in a flurry.
When the assistant opened the door for them, their breath hadn't evened out yet; it looked like they had raced over at top speed.
People who didn't know would think they had just run to the Blue Station to record "Extreme Challenge".
Seeing the cameraman's cheeks flushed, Jin Li couldn't help but say:
"Take it easy, we won't run away. You have half an hour, so take your time. Don't get heatstroke and faint."
Qiguan Mingzhu laughed out loud: "With such a low temperature outside, how could there be heatstroke?"
Xi Mengze: "I think Jin Li should have wanted to say 'sudden death', but was afraid of hurting people's feelings if she said it, so she changed it to heatstroke at the last minute."
Ji Qinglian was still putting on makeup and could only say in a breathy voice: "Agreed."
Jin Li's eyes curved, smiling like a crescent moon.
"You really understand me; that's exactly what I meant."
She scanned the surroundings and couldn't help but look at the panting cameraman.
"Didn't you call Yu Lina and Gong Zitong over?"
The cameraman shook his head, "When we contacted them, one had already agreed to go to another video website's gala, and the other had no interest in participating in the New Year's Gala."
Jin Li sighed: "What a pity, I thought you could gather the dragon balls."
Later, this backstage video interview was released, and netizens teased one after another:
[So all members of Pink Girls also know that netizens are wishing to gather the dragon balls every year?]
[So when will the day come to gather all the dragon balls?]
[I feel it's soon. In the past, Pink Girls wouldn't even tease about reuniting, but Jin Li actually took the initiative to tease; it's estimated they will reunite soon!!]
[Every member is developing quite well. Yu Lina even had a huge hit drama last year. The one who is a bit worse is Gong Zitong, but she also firmly sits in the front row of second-tier artists and has fixed variety shows; no need to reunite to make quick money, right?]
[Other disbanded classic groups reuniting might be for quick money, but Pink Girls definitely won't; they don't need to make money at all!]
[Yes, yes, yes, I wish they would reunite. The popularity of calling for them to reunite online is so high; if they had any career ambition, they would have reunited long ago!]
After Jin Li and the others finished the interview, they chatted for a while in Ji Qinglian's dressing room before returning to their own dressing rooms to put on makeup.
They all brought their own makeup artists, so they didn't need the ones prepared by the website.
Every star's makeup artist has a different style; basically, once a star fixes their image, they fix their makeup, and the makeup artist won't change it easily.
Some stars will change makeup artists, but the makeup style won't change.
However, often once a makeup artist is changed, the makeup will show subtle changes.
Netizens will dig through high-definition photos and analyze frame by frame how good the new makeup artist's skills are and how the makeup looks.
So makeup artists are also considered a high-risk profession in the circle; once a star is in a bad state, the makeup artist will also be scolded along with them.
Jin Li has good skin, and her makeup has always been mainly bright and clear.
While she was preparing in the dressing room, the website staff were checking the venue while gossiping about the stars who came today.
When March Sky came over, they heard the staff gossiping about the stars' bare faces.
The four of them came very low-key; because it was cold and it had been snowing these past few days, they wrapped themselves up tightly, all in black from head to toe.
Plus black hats and black masks... this outfit, thrown into a crowd, would be as ordinary as it gets, with no star aura at all.
The staff just glanced at them and looked away, thinking they were also there for odd jobs.
"Are there any stars who didn't wear makeup among the ones you mentioned?"
"Yes, that must be Jin Li, and Qiguan Mingzhu and Xi Mengze; the two of them also didn't wear makeup, but their skin is really good, especially Jin Li, who looks like she's glowing even without makeup!"
"Jin Li's outfit is very ordinary and low-key, but at a glance, one can feel she is different; is this the aura of a top-tier artist?"
"I also saw Jin Li; she even thought about greeting me. So soft and sweet, truly worthy of being the world's number one sweet girl; the fans were right."
"They really ate so well in the past, woo woo woo..."
End of Chapter
