Chapter 17 | Part 2
“What are you thinking about?” Shi Xi reached out and flicked her forehead. “I just wanted you to take a look at these things.”
“What?” Gu Feining was stunned for a moment. How would this be considered her thanking him?
“This is the disc of music I chose for the musical. You can take a look first and experience the charm of a musical. Maybe you’ll like it.” Shi Xi pushed the bag on the table to Gu Feining. “I wanted to give this to you yesterday night, but you didn’t return to the hotel at all.”
So this was why Shi Xi had been looking for her last night.
Gu Feining explained, “I went to my friend’s room and my phone was switched off the whole time. That’s why I didn’t know you were trying to contact me.”
Shi Xi understood and said, “If you have something you don’t understand, you can come to my room tonight and I’ll watch it with you.”
Shi Xi said it very straightforwardly, but Gu Feining’s face turned red. He had directly invited her to his room and this caused her to blush, just hearing it. Her head heated up, and images that she wanted to wipe away from her memories reappeared in her head.
Shi Xi noticed Gu Feining’s unnatural expression. He could tell what she was thinking but did not bring it up. It was difficult to talk about such matters between men and women. Furthermore, Gu Feining was someone who was extremely insecure, someone who would quickly hide in her shell once she felt threatened.
“You must watch it,” Shi Xi turned his head to the side to look at Gu Feining, whose face was still red. “I’ll ask you about your thoughts on it after you’ve watched it.”
Gu Feining nodded. “I’ll watch it properly.”
Shi Xi looked at her lovely appearance and could not help but tease her. “If there’s anything you don’t understand, you can find me anytime.”
Gu Feining lowered her head and picked at her rice, not knowing how to respond.
Shi Xi didn’t stay for long and Xiao Mang returned quickly. When she saw Shi Xi, she thanked him because she had gone out to get Gu Feining’s food but had been called over halfway by a staff member. Shi Xi had happened to pass by and helped her deliver the food.
Having her male god help her deliver food made Xiao Mang feel like it was blasphemy.
As Shi Xi took his leave, he asked Gu Feining to think about it and that he would wait for her call.
Xiao Mang’s expression was one of confusion. “Sister Ning Ning, do you know my male god very well?”
Gu Feining did not respond, focusing only on eating. She secretly glanced at that bag, the bag full of Shi Xi’s sincerity.
After she finished eating, Gu Feining did not rest much longer. She went to discuss today’s schedule with the staff.
Today, they were filming the primary selection. They had to eliminate half of the contestants under each mentor. Today, the first team to be assessed was Zhong Lin’s team. Besides Gu Feining and Teacher Gu, the director, the scriptwriter, and the male lead, Shi Xi, all had votes.
The mentors were seated facing the stage and on the right were the scriptwriter and the director. Shi Xi was originally supposed to sit on the throne opposite the mentors, but he had rejected it, feeling that sitting there was too much. In the end, he moved to sit with the director and the screenwriter.
The remaining contestants sat behind the mentors to watch, and behind them was the audience. There were quite a few people present. Gu Feining had never participated in a talent show like this, and thus, she was still feeling a little nervous.
The assessment this time was different from the audition the last time. This time, the strengths of the contestants were written clearly on the name list. Besides the mentors, the production team had also hired professional teachers to train everyone. After going through proper training, everyone’s skills increased a lot.
Thus, it was truly hard making the choice this time. Gu Feining felt so bad that the rims of her eyes reddened a few times.
After filming for the whole day, she was so tired she was panting. Once she finished up, she went to the contestants on her team to take a look. When she finally returned to the hotel, she fell onto the bed and fell asleep instantly.
On the second day, they were filming for the whole day. They needed to finish filming the parts for the remaining two teams. Because there was a high percentage of people getting eliminated, the atmosphere at the venue was very heavy. Zhong Lin’s team had gone through the assessment already yesterday and was in charge of making jokes today.
The team that underwent the assessment in the morning was Gu Feining’s team.
The elimination rate was higher than half and every time, the rims of her eyes would redden. Although they hadn’t interacted for long, she couldn’t bear to part with these people. The efforts she spent these few days had not been wasted, and these contestants were especially close to her. Each of them tried to convince her not to cry, that even if they got eliminated, they would continue working hard and progress with their career. They even said they would become her die-hard fans in the future.
To keep the contestants she wanted, Gu Feining tried her best to cooperate with everyone. Her effort was obvious and although she was not good at variety shows, the audience would definitely be able to see her sincerity.
She had filmed till the afternoon, tensed up the whole time, before she was finally returned to her status as a judge and not a mentor. Compared to Gu Feining’s contestants, the quality of Teacher Gu’s contestants was obviously a level higher. These people had gone for Teacher Gu due to his popularity, and there were quite a few that were already popular, like the female lead who had already been chosen internally.
The filming session in the afternoon was obviously full of tension. The contestants were a little conceited. While they were polite to Zhong Lin and the director, towards Gu Feining, if they disagreed, they would rudely answer back. The MC and Shi Xi had to resolve the tension a few times. Gu Feining considered the fact the cameras were filming and suppressed her temper.
Miao Yi, who was sitting behind Gu Feining, kept scolding them and calling them rubbish in a small voice, causing Gu Feining to want to laugh and cry at the same time.
After enduring the first few contestants with bad tempers, a girl wearing an ancient costume came out. Shi Xi’s new drama was a drama that was both fantastical and set in ancient times, and quite a few girls wore ancient Chinese costumes. But, only this one came up with a sword. She also came up alone.
The production team stipulated that everyone could form a team freely. They could do it alone or form a group with multiple people.
Most people performed in groups of two or more because it tended to be easier to perform when there were more people. Furthermore, if they went on stage together, they could coordinate. The elimination was very cruel, and if two people acted together, it was easier to compare the two of them.
This girl came up alone, it could be seen how confident she was.
Furthermore, when she came up on stage, she started to talk about the dramas she had acted in, saying she had learned martial arts on her own, that she wasn’t self-praising but if she were to join a martial arts competition, she would definitely win a prize. Thus, considering the genre of this drama, she felt she was the best choice for the female lead.
Teacher Gu did not say anything this whole time. Zhong Lin looked at Gu Feining and lowered his head to smile.
Gu Feining did not say anything else and gave the contestant a signal to start her performance. She was looking forward to it because fighting scenes were tiring, and a lot of celebrities these days liked to use a double for those scenes. It was hard to find someone willing to act out fighting scenes.
Gu Feining admired the fact that the girl was directly showing her talent as soon as she went on stage. But as soon as the girl started her performance, she wanted to ask her to stop.
The girl’s movements were too soft. Although her actions looked nice and quite smooth, it was lacking a lot of strength. It was obvious that she was just weakly waving her limbs. Furthermore, she had no awareness of the camera and her expression was not controlled properly. Every time her face was shown, it was scrunched up from using excessive force.
Even if Gu Feining had been looking forward to it, she could not pass her. It was quite hard on actors these days, they needed to be able to act out all kinds of expressions, and they needed to look good while doing so. It was very difficult. What kind of person was able to cry prettily? And when a person was laughing heartily, whose expression wouldn’t be distorted?
But the audience liked to look at beautiful things, thus actors had to do so.
When the girl finished acting, Gu Feining did not agree to pass her. Zhong Lin had yet to express his opinion when the girl directly challenged Gu Feining. She probably had too much confidence in herself and had not expected that she would not even get an ‘undecided’. Her tone instantly became impolite. She directly asked Gu Feining rudely, “Teacher Gu, can you tell me which part of my performance is not good?”
“Your actions do look quite good…”
Gu Feining had yet to finish saying her sentence when the girl interrupted her, “If it looks good, why didn’t you pass me? What’s the meaning of your actions?”
The girl’s tone was so rude that it made people feel uncomfortable.
The atmosphere instantly became heavy. The host wanted to ease the tension but the girl interrupted the host, “I think my performance is very good and there isn’t a single problem.”
Gu Feining had a really good temper. Since the other felt she was good in all areas, Gu Feining decided she would point out all her mistakes.
Miao Yi laughed secretly at the side. Gu Feining was too horrible. How could she point out all of the girl’s problems? The contestant must be completely embarrassed.
Shi Xi was also smiling, feeling that the serious Gu Feining was too cute.
The girl was indeed unhappy. Before Gu Feining finished speaking, she walked over to Gu Feining and passed the sword in her hand to Gu Feining. “Teacher Gu, may I ask that you come on stage and give me a demonstration?”
That was really too much. The MC could not stand it anymore, and Teacher Gu could not stand it either. Both of them started to speak.
But even if everyone present was on Gu Feining’s side, the girl refused to give in, “I strongly believe that if you can do it, you should show it with your actions. Otherwise, I won’t accept your criticism.”
The other had already said that. If Gu Feining refused to perform, when they were done with filming today, there would definitely be news published online about her being made speechless after arguing with a contestant.
Gu Feining thought about it and stood up. She happened to be wearing pants today, but she was wearing high heels. She stood up and removed her heels, taking the sword from the girl’s hand and going on stage.
Miao Yi was gloating. This girl did not understand Gu Feining at all. Gu Feining was a professional female action star. She never used a double when acting in those action scenes. She even especially got a teacher to teach her when she was acting in a martial arts drama. Her movements were not only beautiful, but her aura was also very strong. This was not something that a young girl could achieve by casually training.
Miao Yi moved to the side carefully, planning on watching Gu Feining’s performance from the best angle.
Gu Feining did not have any additional requests when she went on stage. She used whatever the girl used, and what she used was the music prepared by the girl. Her expression had been very gentle off-stage. When she spoke, she did very softly, she barely spoke harshly to the contestants.
When she got on stage and got into position, her expression changed drastically.
She pulled out the long sword, her actions smooth and beautiful. It was not only beautiful but every move was filled with power. Her gaze was sharp and her expression was on-point. No one knew if it was because she was in a bad mood, or because the music was too aggressive, but her actions were full of strength and her aura was murderous. In the end, she directly pointed her sword at the camera. It was like she had become a completely different person, and she looked so good that everyone stood up to clap. It was obvious what the girl standing by the side was feeling.
Miao Yi took step after step to watch Gu Feining’s performance. When she finished watching it, she patted the shoulder of the person next to her, and exclaimed, “My Ning Ning normally doesn’t take action, but once she does, it’s amazing.”
“Yours?” The person next to her frowned, his voice sounding unfriendly.
Miao Yi turned to look. When did she move to sit next to Shi Xi?
Shi Xi glanced at Miao Yi before distancing himself from her quickly. His actions that seemed to be full of disgust caused Miao Yi to pursed her lips. She couldn’t even touch him? Was he that disgusted by her?
She once heard Shi Xi’s fans say that their idol was really dense and they were all worried that with his ability, he would have to stay single till he was ninety. Miao Yi clearly remembered he didn’t act like that with Gu Feining yesterday.
Miao Yi looked at Gu Feining who had sheathed the long sword and once again and was wearing a gentle expression on her face. After that, she glanced at Shi Xi, who was gazing at the person on stage and smiling mildly.
There was an itchy feeling in her heart. There was definitely something going on between the two of them.
Chapter 17 | Part 2
“What are you thinking about?” Shi Xi reached out and flicked her forehead. “I just wanted you to take a look at these things.”
“What?” Gu Feining was stunned for a moment. How would this be considered her thanking him?
“This is the disc of music I chose for the musical. You can take a look first and experience the charm of a musical. Maybe you’ll like it.” Shi Xi pushed the bag on the table to Gu Feining. “I wanted to give this to you yesterday night, but you didn’t return to the hotel at all.”
So this was why Shi Xi had been looking for her last night.
Gu Feining explained, “I went to my friend’s room and my phone was switched off the whole time. That’s why I didn’t know you were trying to contact me.”
Shi Xi understood and said, “If you have something you don’t understand, you can come to my room tonight and I’ll watch it with you.”
Shi Xi said it very straightforwardly, but Gu Feining’s face turned red. He had directly invited her to his room and this caused her to blush, just hearing it. Her head heated up, and images that she wanted to wipe away from her memories reappeared in her head.
Shi Xi noticed Gu Feining’s unnatural expression. He could tell what she was thinking but did not bring it up. It was difficult to talk about such matters between men and women. Furthermore, Gu Feining was someone who was extremely insecure, someone who would quickly hide in her shell once she felt threatened.
“You must watch it,” Shi Xi turned his head to the side to look at Gu Feining, whose face was still red. “I’ll ask you about your thoughts on it after you’ve watched it.”
Gu Feining nodded. “I’ll watch it properly.”
Shi Xi looked at her lovely appearance and could not help but tease her. “If there’s anything you don’t understand, you can find me anytime.”
Gu Feining lowered her head and picked at her rice, not knowing how to respond.
Shi Xi didn’t stay for long and Xiao Mang returned quickly. When she saw Shi Xi, she thanked him because she had gone out to get Gu Feining’s food but had been called over halfway by a staff member. Shi Xi had happened to pass by and helped her deliver the food.
Having her male god help her deliver food made Xiao Mang feel like it was blasphemy.
As Shi Xi took his leave, he asked Gu Feining to think about it and that he would wait for her call.
Xiao Mang’s expression was one of confusion. “Sister Ning Ning, do you know my male god very well?”
Gu Feining did not respond, focusing only on eating. She secretly glanced at that bag, the bag full of Shi Xi’s sincerity.
After she finished eating, Gu Feining did not rest much longer. She went to discuss today’s schedule with the staff.
Today, they were filming the primary selection. They had to eliminate half of the contestants under each mentor. Today, the first team to be assessed was Zhong Lin’s team. Besides Gu Feining and Teacher Gu, the director, the scriptwriter, and the male lead, Shi Xi, all had votes.
The mentors were seated facing the stage and on the right were the scriptwriter and the director. Shi Xi was originally supposed to sit on the throne opposite the mentors, but he had rejected it, feeling that sitting there was too much. In the end, he moved to sit with the director and the screenwriter.
The remaining contestants sat behind the mentors to watch, and behind them was the audience. There were quite a few people present. Gu Feining had never participated in a talent show like this, and thus, she was still feeling a little nervous.
The assessment this time was different from the audition the last time. This time, the strengths of the contestants were written clearly on the name list. Besides the mentors, the production team had also hired professional teachers to train everyone. After going through proper training, everyone’s skills increased a lot.
Thus, it was truly hard making the choice this time. Gu Feining felt so bad that the rims of her eyes reddened a few times.
After filming for the whole day, she was so tired she was panting. Once she finished up, she went to the contestants on her team to take a look. When she finally returned to the hotel, she fell onto the bed and fell asleep instantly.
On the second day, they were filming for the whole day. They needed to finish filming the parts for the remaining two teams. Because there was a high percentage of people getting eliminated, the atmosphere at the venue was very heavy. Zhong Lin’s team had gone through the assessment already yesterday and was in charge of making jokes today.
The team that underwent the assessment in the morning was Gu Feining’s team.
The elimination rate was higher than half and every time, the rims of her eyes would redden. Although they hadn’t interacted for long, she couldn’t bear to part with these people. The efforts she spent these few days had not been wasted, and these contestants were especially close to her. Each of them tried to convince her not to cry, that even if they got eliminated, they would continue working hard and progress with their career. They even said they would become her die-hard fans in the future.
To keep the contestants she wanted, Gu Feining tried her best to cooperate with everyone. Her effort was obvious and although she was not good at variety shows, the audience would definitely be able to see her sincerity.
She had filmed till the afternoon, tensed up the whole time, before she was finally returned to her status as a judge and not a mentor. Compared to Gu Feining’s contestants, the quality of Teacher Gu’s contestants was obviously a level higher. These people had gone for Teacher Gu due to his popularity, and there were quite a few that were already popular, like the female lead who had already been chosen internally.
The filming session in the afternoon was obviously full of tension. The contestants were a little conceited. While they were polite to Zhong Lin and the director, towards Gu Feining, if they disagreed, they would rudely answer back. The MC and Shi Xi had to resolve the tension a few times. Gu Feining considered the fact the cameras were filming and suppressed her temper.
Miao Yi, who was sitting behind Gu Feining, kept scolding them and calling them rubbish in a small voice, causing Gu Feining to want to laugh and cry at the same time.
After enduring the first few contestants with bad tempers, a girl wearing an ancient costume came out. Shi Xi’s new drama was a drama that was both fantastical and set in ancient times, and quite a few girls wore ancient Chinese costumes. But, only this one came up with a sword. She also came up alone.
The production team stipulated that everyone could form a team freely. They could do it alone or form a group with multiple people.
Most people performed in groups of two or more because it tended to be easier to perform when there were more people. Furthermore, if they went on stage together, they could coordinate. The elimination was very cruel, and if two people acted together, it was easier to compare the two of them.
This girl came up alone, it could be seen how confident she was.
Furthermore, when she came up on stage, she started to talk about the dramas she had acted in, saying she had learned martial arts on her own, that she wasn’t self-praising but if she were to join a martial arts competition, she would definitely win a prize. Thus, considering the genre of this drama, she felt she was the best choice for the female lead.
Teacher Gu did not say anything this whole time. Zhong Lin looked at Gu Feining and lowered his head to smile.
Gu Feining did not say anything else and gave the contestant a signal to start her performance. She was looking forward to it because fighting scenes were tiring, and a lot of celebrities these days liked to use a double for those scenes. It was hard to find someone willing to act out fighting scenes.
Gu Feining admired the fact that the girl was directly showing her talent as soon as she went on stage. But as soon as the girl started her performance, she wanted to ask her to stop.
The girl’s movements were too soft. Although her actions looked nice and quite smooth, it was lacking a lot of strength. It was obvious that she was just weakly waving her limbs. Furthermore, she had no awareness of the camera and her expression was not controlled properly. Every time her face was shown, it was scrunched up from using excessive force.
Even if Gu Feining had been looking forward to it, she could not pass her. It was quite hard on actors these days, they needed to be able to act out all kinds of expressions, and they needed to look good while doing so. It was very difficult. What kind of person was able to cry prettily? And when a person was laughing heartily, whose expression wouldn’t be distorted?
But the audience liked to look at beautiful things, thus actors had to do so.
When the girl finished acting, Gu Feining did not agree to pass her. Zhong Lin had yet to express his opinion when the girl directly challenged Gu Feining. She probably had too much confidence in herself and had not expected that she would not even get an ‘undecided’. Her tone instantly became impolite. She directly asked Gu Feining rudely, “Teacher Gu, can you tell me which part of my performance is not good?”
“Your actions do look quite good…”
Gu Feining had yet to finish saying her sentence when the girl interrupted her, “If it looks good, why didn’t you pass me? What’s the meaning of your actions?”
The girl’s tone was so rude that it made people feel uncomfortable.
The atmosphere instantly became heavy. The host wanted to ease the tension but the girl interrupted the host, “I think my performance is very good and there isn’t a single problem.”
Gu Feining had a really good temper. Since the other felt she was good in all areas, Gu Feining decided she would point out all her mistakes.
Miao Yi laughed secretly at the side. Gu Feining was too horrible. How could she point out all of the girl’s problems? The contestant must be completely embarrassed.
Shi Xi was also smiling, feeling that the serious Gu Feining was too cute.
The girl was indeed unhappy. Before Gu Feining finished speaking, she walked over to Gu Feining and passed the sword in her hand to Gu Feining. “Teacher Gu, may I ask that you come on stage and give me a demonstration?”
That was really too much. The MC could not stand it anymore, and Teacher Gu could not stand it either. Both of them started to speak.
But even if everyone present was on Gu Feining’s side, the girl refused to give in, “I strongly believe that if you can do it, you should show it with your actions. Otherwise, I won’t accept your criticism.”
The other had already said that. If Gu Feining refused to perform, when they were done with filming today, there would definitely be news published online about her being made speechless after arguing with a contestant.
Gu Feining thought about it and stood up. She happened to be wearing pants today, but she was wearing high heels. She stood up and removed her heels, taking the sword from the girl’s hand and going on stage.
Miao Yi was gloating. This girl did not understand Gu Feining at all. Gu Feining was a professional female action star. She never used a double when acting in those action scenes. She even especially got a teacher to teach her when she was acting in a martial arts drama. Her movements were not only beautiful, but her aura was also very strong. This was not something that a young girl could achieve by casually training.
Miao Yi moved to the side carefully, planning on watching Gu Feining’s performance from the best angle.
Gu Feining did not have any additional requests when she went on stage. She used whatever the girl used, and what she used was the music prepared by the girl. Her expression had been very gentle off-stage. When she spoke, she did very softly, she barely spoke harshly to the contestants.
When she got on stage and got into position, her expression changed drastically.
She pulled out the long sword, her actions smooth and beautiful. It was not only beautiful but every move was filled with power. Her gaze was sharp and her expression was on-point. No one knew if it was because she was in a bad mood, or because the music was too aggressive, but her actions were full of strength and her aura was murderous. In the end, she directly pointed her sword at the camera. It was like she had become a completely different person, and she looked so good that everyone stood up to clap. It was obvious what the girl standing by the side was feeling.
Miao Yi took step after step to watch Gu Feining’s performance. When she finished watching it, she patted the shoulder of the person next to her, and exclaimed, “My Ning Ning normally doesn’t take action, but once she does, it’s amazing.”
“Yours?” The person next to her frowned, his voice sounding unfriendly.
Miao Yi turned to look. When did she move to sit next to Shi Xi?
Shi Xi glanced at Miao Yi before distancing himself from her quickly. His actions that seemed to be full of disgust caused Miao Yi to pursed her lips. She couldn’t even touch him? Was he that disgusted by her?
She once heard Shi Xi’s fans say that their idol was really dense and they were all worried that with his ability, he would have to stay single till he was ninety. Miao Yi clearly remembered he didn’t act like that with Gu Feining yesterday.
Miao Yi looked at Gu Feining who had sheathed the long sword and once again and was wearing a gentle expression on her face. After that, she glanced at Shi Xi, who was gazing at the person on stage and smiling mildly.
There was an itchy feeling in her heart. There was definitely something going on between the two of them.
