Chapter 66

The movement of the Red Phoenix star is nothing to be afraid of.

The trainees look young, but every one of them is an adult, right at the age of youthful longing.

Whether it is the female trainees or the male trainees, Jin Li thinks it is quite normal.

But for three members of the same team to all have the Red Phoenix star move, and for that flush of crimson between their brows to be so incredibly similar, it makes Jin Li unable to help but think a layer deeper.

And the thank-you declarations made by these three members are also very strange; other members thank the program team for the opportunity, thank the mentors for their guidance, and thank their parents and fans for their support.

But these three people also thanked one more thing—

"Thank you to the staff for their patient guidance."

If Jin Li hadn't specifically paid attention to the remarks of these three people, she likely would have missed hearing this sentence.

After the heartfelt words of the members of this team were all recorded, everyone officially disbanded and ran to the cafeteria to eat.

Jin Li was the first to leave. When she walked out of the room door, she swept a casual glance at the staff waiting on the side and couldn't help but pause her steps.

Among those five staff members, there was a male employee wearing a black hat, and the crimson flush showing between his brows was almost about to cover his entire face.

This is having so many peach blossoms that it is about to form a peach blossom curse!

And it just so happened that the last team member was close to the exit, so they walked out first. Jin Li turned her head to look and discovered that the peach blossom lines of those three members were all tied to that male employee!

Jin Li:...

What kind of sea king fishing scene is this???

After exiting Building A, Jin Li went to eat with the accompanying planner and asked about the staff matter.

"I noticed that during the recording, those staff members didn't come in but waited outside. Is this for fear of affecting the trainees?" Jin Li asked.

The female planner nodded and said: "Yes, some trainees feel very uncomfortable when they see staff present. In order to make the recording effect better, we try our best to record close to the actual scene and clear out other irrelevant personnel, so as not to prevent them from getting into the mood."

Jin Li understood.

She had this feeling when filming advertisements before too.

At that time, when she was filming an advertisement, using eyeshadow to draw on a mirror, the director wanted her to express the lazy and casual state presented in the previous video.

She also really wanted to express it, but she entered the state particularly slowly at that time.

When filming the video, there weren't so many people surrounding her, and the psychological pressure wasn't great either; the director just filmed it casually and didn't consider any effects at all.

But when officially filming the advertisement, dozens of eyes were staring at you. She stood with her back to them, feeling as if her back was about to be stared into a hole.

So, to be a star, one must have a thick skin.

People with thin skin who are easily nervous find it very difficult to complete filming tasks in situations with many people.

Jin Li asked again: "When I left, I noticed five staff members staying outside. Does Building A need so many hands? I remember Building A is the girls' dormitory, right?"

The female planner said without thinking: "Five is already considered few. Building A has at least a dozen staff members, and every floor has to be equipped with several."

"Now there are fewer trainees. In those first few seasons, because there were too many people, many fresh things could be stirred up every day, and we were worried that we didn't have enough hands at that time!"

Jin Li suddenly realized: "So those staff members are all serving the contestants?"

The female planner nodded: "You can think of it that way. For example, psychological counseling, wanting to invite people for off-site assistance in teaching dance, and various other things like a broken faucet or a shower room door that won't close, are all handed over to them to handle."

Jin Li understood; it seems the opportunity for a heart to move is created this way.

She asked: "But I saw some male employees inside. It's not very good to use men in the girls' dormitory, right?"

The female planner looked left and right, and seeing no one around, she whispered: "Teacher Jin Li, I'll tell you one thing, don't spread it."

Jin Li's spirit lifted; is there more gossip to eat?

"You say, you say, I absolutely won't spread it, rest assured!"

The female planner sighed and said: "Actually, at the beginning, we used all female employees. Everyone also felt that using women was better, right? We also had this thought, but."

The turning point came!

The female planner glanced around again, "In one week, several trainees confessed to our female employees."

Jin Li:!!!

"This is a bit surprising." After a long while, Jin Li replied with extreme composure.

The female planner nodded heavily: "So after that, we discussed it. We didn't use all female employees and also arranged for some male employees to go in. Building A is full of surveillance; we even installed it in the restrooms. Everyone doesn't dare to mess around."

This "mess around" was used very spiritually.

Jin Li, for a moment, didn't know whether she should worry for the trainees, worry for the staff, or worry for the female employees or the male employees.

After thinking for a long while, when they arrived at the cafeteria, Jin Li finally came up with a reason.

Simply put, it's four words: True love is invincible!

However, if she hadn't seen it, that would be that. Since she had seen it, it was impossible for Jin Li to really let a male employee fish for three female trainees.

And according to the degree of that male employee's peach blossom curse, if he continues to fish, something will definitely happen.

In the cafeteria.

A pair of slender hands reached out in front of Jin Li and waved.

Jin Li came back to her senses.

Gu Cheng asked suspiciously: "Afraid you were hungry, so I ordered a bowl of soup noodles for you first and left it to cool. You don't want to eat soup noodles?"

Jin Li shook her head: "No, I want to eat. Besides, these soup noodles were also ordered by me. Didn't you send a message to ask me before?"

Gu Cheng looked at her current posture, "But you seem... to have quite a hatred for the soup noodles."

Jin Li followed his line of sight and discovered that her chopsticks had been poking the noodles, poking the noodle strands into a mess.

She hurriedly lowered her head to slurp the noodles.

Seeing that Jin Li was fine, Ji Qinglian chatted with the Sanyuetian members about the matter of going to act in a TV drama.

Chen Lin thought for a while and rarely put forward a useful idea.

"If you want a big production, and the kind that takes half a year to film once you start, then modern dramas definitely won't work; you have to find ancient dramas."

Yan Xingdong looked thoughtful: "Costume dramas, big crews, I heard Brother Guang mention it as if there is a big costume drama crew still in the casting process and it hasn't been finalized."

Luo Yi suddenly realized: "Oh, you're talking about that one? I remember it too!

Yes, it is a big production, that's right. The director wants to invite us all over to film, but Brother Guang feels that the big director is too strict and has high requirements, and we can't go out to run announcements during the filming period.

We are pure newcomers in the entertainment industry and it's impossible for us to play important roles. Overall, the participation value isn't high, so Brother Guang politely declined."

Ji Qinglian's eyes shone brightly, "So which one is it? I haven't heard a single whisper of news!"

Gu Cheng: "《The Great Sheng Dynasty》, a work adapted from a novel, tells the history of a fictional dynasty. The director has connections and qualifications in the circle, and this drama is aimed at proving the Dao."

In the director circle, the fastest way to prove the Dao is to aim for awards.

The higher the gold content of the awards aimed for, the higher the director's popularity, but films of this type aimed at awards are almost all squeezed into art films.

The other one is the box office.

The higher the box office, ideally reaching the top 30 in national film history and the top 100 globally, then the reputation will definitely be red-hot.

But these are limited to movies, yet 《The Great Sheng Dynasty》 is clearly filming a TV drama.

Ji Qinglian hesitated a bit: "Using a TV drama to prove the Dao and become a god, can it work? Does the director want to film every episode with the quality of a movie?"

Jin Li actually felt that the words 《The Great Sheng Dynasty》 were quite familiar, but she couldn't think of it for a moment.

Time came to the afternoon.

Jin Li was in the public lounge, brushing up on questions while waiting for the make-up recording, when suddenly a flash of inspiration hit her mind, and she remembered 《The Great Sheng Dynasty》—

This is a phenomenal TV drama work that received both reputation and revenue, with every episode comparable to movie quality!

No wonder she felt it sounded familiar; this film had appeared in the book before, but it was only mentioned in passing.

Because during the time when the book started its plot, 《The Great Sheng Dynasty》 had already prepared its actors and entered the closed filming stage.

Calculating it, Xi Sister Meng Ze will change jobs in two months, which is the starting point of the plot.

So if Ji Qinglian really wants to join this crew, she must exert effort now, otherwise she definitely won't catch up.

Jin Li raised her head from the sea of books, paused her question brushing, and walked over to Ji Qinglian.

"Have you mentioned 《The Great Sheng Dynasty》 to your manager?"

Ji Qinglian put down her phone, smiled at her, and patted the sofa next to her: "Sit!"

"I got this news at noon today, and I contacted Brother Qiang. He didn't pay attention to resources in the film and television aspect and hadn't heard of this drama either. He said he would go and ask for me, but there's no result yet."

Jin Li said: "Although I haven't seen the script, I searched for the director. He used to film movies and has also won some awards; the box office isn't garbage.

This time, transforming to make a TV drama, he pulled in so much investment and made such a big momentum. I think you can go and fight for it."

Ji Qinglian: "I have the same thought. The director even dares to invite the Sanyuetian boy band; he definitely isn't short of money.

Filming a drama now, you either look at quality or look at traffic. The director invited so many traffic stars, so he definitely isn't short of traffic. Using this drama as a starting work, for my status, it's not bad."

Jin Li smiled: "As long as you have an idea, I'm also quite optimistic about this one; I have a feeling it will explode."

Ji Qinglian: "Forget it, you previously said that the company called 【Dynasty】 had a bad omen, and now that it just added the two words 【Great Sheng】, you think it's very good again?"

Jin Li shook her head and said seriously: "One thing is one thing. The Dynasty company is bad, but a film and television drama with a dynasty feels like it can be popular."

Ji Qinglian: "Let's not talk about this matter first. Instead, it's you. You were absent-minded during lunch. What did you do? Why is there a feeling of having done something guilty?"

Jin Li was amused: "Guilty? You think too highly of me. I was thinking about what to do so that others wouldn't get hurt."

Ji Qinglian was stunned for a moment, then suddenly raised her voice and said: "What hurt or not hurt? Did someone confess to you?"

Before Jin Li could say anything, Chen Lin immediately took over the conversation: "What confession? Which person confessed to Sister Jin Li?"

Yan Xingdong: "Inside the circle, or outside the circle?"

Luo Yi: "How do they look? What do they do?"

Jin Li looked at them speechlessly, "Are you gossiping or not? Look at Gu Cheng, how calm he is; you guys be calm too."

Chen Lin was about to say something, but was swept by a glance from Gu Cheng and immediately closed his mouth.

Just now, Gu Cheng clearly had the biggest reaction; the book he was holding in his hand even dropped.

Jin Li pondered for a while, thinking left and right, and felt that she really couldn't handle it alone; she still had to pool everyone's wisdom.

So and so, this and that... She talked for more than ten minutes, letting everyone understand the general situation.

Chen Lin didn't know where he took out a pair of glasses and put them on, "I feel like I'm recording some kind of emotional expert program. Let me analyze who this male employee's true love is."

Luo Yi took off his glasses and complained: "Are you stupid? Three trainees falling in love with one person, is there a possibility that the man is fishing? How could a fisherman have true love?"

Yan Xingdong took the glasses: "Isn't it said that Building A is full of surveillance? Find the surveillance footage; we can definitely find evidence of the sea king fishing."

Ji Qinglian grabbed the glasses and put them on, "That's why I said you guys are unreliable. Without proof or evidence, it's just something heard in the restroom, and there was no recording at the time. How can we have an excuse to let the program team pull the footage?"

Jin Li couldn't say that this was something she saw through physiognomy, so she made up a story about hearing three trainees making phone calls in the restroom, all calling the same person 'boyfriend'.

It just so happened that she had an impression of this person's name; he was an employee of the program team.

"Lotus, you put the glasses on backward." Jin Li reminded.

Ji Qinglian gave a sheepish smile, hurriedly straightened the glasses, and soon felt a wave of dizziness, so she hurriedly took them off and put them aside.

She thought they were plain glasses; she didn't expect them to actually have a prescription.

Gu Cheng thought for a while: "It's not good for us to come forward on this matter, and it's not good to talk to the female trainees either. But as an employee, flirting randomly during the program recording period is the employee's fault. We can inform the program team."

Jin Li frowned: "Then how to say it? Will the program team believe what I say?

It's probably very troublesome for them to verify, and it's not good to call all the female trainees over to ask them one by one, so as not to affect their mood."

Gu Cheng shook his head: "It doesn't need to be that troublesome. Just ask those three girls. As long as they name the sea king, and then start from the sea king, the interpersonal relationships can be easily checked."

Ji Qinglian didn't think highly of this method, "Can you command the program team to ask questions? The mentor's authority hasn't reached this level yet, right?"

Yan Xingdong didn't know what he thought of, looked at Gu Cheng, and smiled meaningfully.

"Other people can't command it, but Gu Cheng..."

Gu Cheng said calmly: "The director is my uncle. I'll just tell him."

He added: "My biological uncle."

This finally dispelled the various messy thoughts in Ji Qinglian and Jin Li's minds.

Jin Li was a bit glad that she said it directly; the problem she was worried about might not even be considered a matter to others.

At night.

Ji Qinglian ran to live in the presidential suite near the Mazu Temple and called Jin Li over to sleep in the same room.

Ji Qinglian specifically brought up this matter, her expression a bit complicated.

"I discovered that connections are quite important in the entertainment industry. At that time, after I knew the Sanyuetian's profit-sharing ratio, I only felt that their company was good to them, and my company was harsh to me.

But today, knowing that the director of the popular variety show on Goose Factory is actually Gu Cheng's biological uncle, is there a possibility that when negotiating the contract, Gu Cheng's identity made the company make concessions?"

Jin Li touched her head, "There is such a possibility."

They became famous early; all four girls had no connections in the entertainment industry, understood nothing, and only relied on themselves to struggle.

Walking all the way here, through wind and rain.

Ji Qinglian survived the most difficult period, and Jin Li believes that she can also hold on this time.

(End of this chapter)