Chapter 16

Jingcheng Film Academy is probably the place with the highest density of beauties in all of China. Chen Nuo walked around downstairs for an hour, saw many beauties, and was also looked at by many beauties; whether it was a loss or a gain was hard to say.

At 10:25, he went upstairs. Li Er took him to a classroom in the building next door, where about 20 students were sitting on chairs arranged in a semicircle, almost all of them handsome men and beautiful women.

On the way, Li Er told him to prepare to introduce himself later. Sure enough, after entering, she said, "Today, our class has added a new classmate. Come, Chen Nuo, introduce yourself."

Chen Nuo walked to the middle and said in a standard manner, "Hello everyone, my name is Chen Nuo. Please give me your guidance in the future."

Li Er was clearly not satisfied with Chen Nuo's simple introduction, but after frowning, she didn't say anything and gestured for him to take a seat.

Chen Nuo walked toward the back row of the classroom, and then suddenly saw Ma Yanran.

Although his hairstyle had changed, Ma Yanran was staring at him with her eyes, which were like spring water, wide open and unblinking.

As soon as he sat down, Ma Yanran arched her body and sat on the chair next to him. Her red lips moved slightly, and she whispered, "Why did you come too?"

Chen Nuo originally didn't want to talk or pay attention, but he felt he couldn't be like that, so he replied, "I wanted to ask you that too."

"That school was investigated, didn't you know?"

"Ah, why?"

"Because of false advertising."

"Really?"

"Really."

The two were whispering when Li Er's gaze suddenly swept over them, and she immediately called their names: "Chen Nuo, and that female student, come up and do the exercise I just demonstrated."

The eyes of the whole class turned to them instantly.

The moment he stood up, Ma Yanran asked quickly, "What did the teacher say just now?"

Chen Nuo answered even faster: "I don't know."

The whole class knew that these two were called up because they were talking privately, and they all had a look of watching a joke.

Fortunately, Li Er didn't intend to watch them make a fool of themselves. After they got on stage, she said, "Come on, joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness—perform these four emotions. Chen Nuo, you go first."

"Alright, Teacher Li."

Just as Zhang Yi had said at the beginning, Chen Nuo was a person who was naturally not stage-frightened. Hearing Li Er's request, he nodded directly and immediately performed the four emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness on his face, even transitioning extremely quickly and smoothly, as if he had changed four faces in an instant.

When it was Ma Yanran's turn, the gap was visible to the naked eye.

When Chen Nuo performed, a smile was a smile and crying was crying, but Ma Yanran's smiling and crying made people feel like she was wearing a mask of smiling and crying.

After Ma Yanran finished her performance, Li Er said directly, "Ma Yanran, go down and sit, and watch carefully how Chen Nuo performs. Chen Nuo, now perform several different degrees of sadness. Specifically 10% sadness, 30%, 50%, 80%, and 100%. Come on."

What Li Er was talking about was actually a type of acting training.

In real life, of course, no one would divide the degree of sadness by percentage, but in acting training, actors need to do such exercises to accurately express emotions in front of the camera.

Chen Nuo had never done such an exercise, but he closed his eyes, thought about it, found the feeling, and started performing directly according to his understanding.

The corners of his mouth drooped. This was 10% sadness.

His complexion dimmed. This was 30% sadness.

His eye sockets turned red. This was 50% sadness. Tears flowed down, and his apple muscles trembled. This was 80% sadness.

His expression twisted, his mouth opened, and tears slid down like a broken string. This was 100% sadness.

In Li Er's nearly twenty-year teaching career, she couldn't even count how many students she had taught, but in her memory, it seemed that no one had been able to perform this exercise like this when they first came into contact with acting.

Although Chen Nuo's performance wasn't a textbook standard answer, his entire emotional change was done in one go. If the difficulty of performing one expression after another was 5, then changing five expressions without pausing had a difficulty of at least 50.

Although she hadn't seen the clips Zhang Yi had cut yet, Li Er already somewhat understood why Zhang Yi wanted to find Chen Nuo to act in that movie he had been preparing for nearly two years and didn't dare to start filming.

Li Er applauded and said, "Very good, performed very well. Students, did you see that? Chen Nuo's expression changes have a sense of layering, and they are very infectious, allowing people to feel the changes in emotion. He is not acting, but truly feeling. This is the goal everyone needs to strive for in the future. I have a beautiful expectation, which is that I hope every one of you, after training in our class, can reach this level in a month. Keep it up, students, truly wonderful performances can touch people's hearts!"

The eyes of the whole class looking at Chen Nuo changed at this moment. Before, they thought he was some kind of connection-hire; now, their eyes were asking, "What kind of big shot is this?"

The morning class ended, and Li Er left first. Before the students had moved, Ma Yanran turned and asked, "Chen Nuo, want to eat lunch together?"

"Forget it, there's a male student in front looking at you." Chen Nuo nudged his chin forward.

Ma Yanran turned her head to look, then immediately turned back, and said with a serious face, "Chen Nuo, I hope you don't misunderstand. That boy and I are just ordinary classmates, nothing more."

"But he really seems to be looking for you for something. How about we forget it today and eat another day? There's still plenty of time."

When passing by that boy, Chen Nuo noticed he was pulling a long face and seemed very unhappy.

Heh, the fish caught in a player's net must have moods that go up and down, depending on what the person feeds you.

Very normal.

Because Chen Nuo didn't want to get entangled with Ma Yanran, he walked very fast and didn't notice the resentful eyes of several girls behind him. These were all girls who had seen his acting skills in the morning and wanted to make friends with him.

Chen Nuo didn't know he had unintentionally missed several romantic encounters. He prepared to go to the Film Academy's cafeteria to order something to eat. There were line and body movement classes in the afternoon, both of which were areas he hadn't touched upon.

Chen Nuo felt he had benefited a lot from Li Er's class in the morning. Compared to the classes Zhang Yi taught, the difference between a real acting professor and him was like the difference between eating shit and eating meat. It was a pity that Li Er didn't come to teach every day; she also had her own students to lead and her own teaching tasks, coming to the tutoring class at most twice a week.

Speaking of which, if this guy Zhang Yi hadn't gone to film a movie with him, he would definitely have been unlucky along with that school this time. No, I have to find him and treat him to a meal.

No sooner said than done, Chen Nuo picked up his phone and called Zhang Yi.

After a long while, the call was answered.

"Director Zhang, do you know? The school you taught at before was investigated!"

Zhang Yi didn't know where he was, the signal wasn't very good, and it sounded intermittent: "I knew that a long time ago... what's wrong?"

"If it weren't for me, would you have gone in too? Shouldn't you treat me to a good meal?"

"I'll treat you to shit... do you want it? You called me just to say this... I'm... busy, hanging up."

Zhang Yi hung up as soon as he said he would.

Chen Nuo walked to the Film Academy's cafeteria, went in, and ordered a potato and beef rice bowl. He found a corner by himself and started eating. After only two bites, he saw Ma Yanran come in, and she was looking around, seemingly looking for someone. He hurriedly turned around, facing away from that side.

Damn, I don't want to be a scumbag right now. We are both in the same player clan, why do you have to force me?

(End of chapter)