Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 309: I can’t understand it but I’m shocked!

"Bai Mengyan!"

At Beijing West Railway Station, a round-faced, chubby girl just walked out of the exit, looked at her best friend not far away and shouted, then ran over quickly dragging her suitcase.

"I've already told you to call me Bai Mengyan at home and I won't argue with you. But what should you call me outside?"

Bai Lu, wearing a pair of exaggerated sunglasses on her face, looked at her best friend who was walking towards her with a cool expression on her face.

"Okay, okay, big star Bai Lu, that's enough."

"Well, just 'star' is enough, and you don't need to add the word 'big'. As newcomers, we should still be humble." Bai Lu waved his hand with an expression that said "keep a low profile."

My best friend couldn't help but roll her eyes when she heard that: "I told you you're fat and you're really out of breath! Be careful or I'll post those pornographic stories you wrote when you were in school."

Bai Lu, who was caught with the handle, immediately broke down and quickly took off her sunglasses to correct him: "Who wrote the pornographic novel? That's a serious romance story, okay!"

"Kissing and hugging, and being serious, um——"

Bai Lu released her friend's hand and pushed her out of the station: "Okay, okay, let's go. I'll take you back to rest."

The two of them walked out of the West Station noisily.

The round-faced girl that Bai Lu came to pick up was named He Handan, nicknamed "Hehe". She was her former classmate and also her best friend who she had known for many years.

Unlike her who was determined to enter the entertainment industry, He Handan went straight to work after graduation and now works as a slave in a small photography studio.

Because Bai Lu signed with Taiyang Chuanhe and left Jiangsu, the two hadn't seen each other for a long time.

This time, I happened to hear that her new drama was about to be aired and I had some free time, so I took a year off and came to Beijing to see her.

Because they still had luggage to pick up, the two went back to Bai Lu's house first.

"Did you buy this?"

As soon as he entered the door, He Handan looked around the small house and asked curiously.

"Oh, you really think highly of me." Bai Lu said, "Do you know how outrageous the housing prices in Beijing North are? This is rented for me by my agent."

"Oh, us white celebrities are different, we all have agents!" He Handan said, "I heard that you actors make a lot of money, several million for one movie."

"They are big-name celebrities. For a nobody like me, it's good enough to get hundreds of thousands of dollars for filming a movie."

"No, my friend, 'hundreds of thousands' can only be called good? I really want to take a picture of your face." He Handan shook his head and sighed.

Bai Lu said, "One hundred thousand is the salary given by the crew, and more than half of it has to go to the agency. The remaining money is used to pay the assistants, apply for various gym memberships, beauty memberships, and buy a lot of skin care products. People like me who are not professionally trained have to pay for training courses. The key is that without popularity, there are only one or two dramas a year. The money left at the end may not be as high as your salary at work."

"My monthly salary plus performance bonus is 4200 yuan."

"…It's pretty hot to go out at noon, why not just order takeout at home."

Seeing her best friend's contemptuous look, Bai Lu smiled apologetically.

I have to say that the film and television industry has indeed developed well in the past two years. As long as you are not an extra who earns money purely through hard work, you will definitely earn more than the average person in a year.

After getting the takeaway and milk tea, the two of them gathered around the small coffee table in the living room.

“Looking for a suitable drama to watch while eating.”

"What else are you looking for? Just watch my new drama."

Bai Lu took out her phone and opened the Tencent Video APP. As soon as she entered the app, the cover of the homepage was the promotional picture of "Psychological Crime 2".

After clicking on the series, she looked at her bestie suspiciously, "You haven't watched my new series, have you?"

"Who said that!" He Handan hurriedly clarified, "I bought a membership just for you! And I watched the first season in advance because I was afraid you wouldn't understand it after starting from the second season."

"That's pretty much it."

Bai Lu smiled with satisfaction and then asked, "What do you think of my performance?"

"Well..." He Handan said awkwardly: "Actually, I haven't seen the scene where you appear yet."

"No, sister, what have you read?"

"Look at Tai Wei!" He Handan said with shining eyes: "Captain Tai is really so handsome!"

"Ah, Brother Zheng, he is indeed very handsome. But he is about to get married, so forget it." Bai Lu said, "But, I thought you would like Fang Mu."

He Handan frowned: "How should I put it? I still like this role. But as an actor, I always feel that he is a little weak. I still like those who are more mature and ruffian."

After she finished speaking, she suddenly remembered something and said excitedly, "By the way, I've been seeing people saying online that your boss, Meng Bai Da Da, is also very handsome in real life. Is that true?"

"Aren't there videos and photos of him on the Internet?"

"Those were all footage from award ceremonies, and some of them were many years old. The quality was so blurry that you couldn't tell what was going on."

He Handan looked at her bestie: "You didn't get a photo or anything, did you?"

"You must be kidding!" Bai Lu picked up her phone angrily and opened the photo album: "Here, this is it."

He Handan looked at the phone screen and his eyes lit up.

The photo was taken from a bottom-up perspective, showing a man riding on a horse with an upright figure. Although only half of his face was exposed, it was enough to see his handsome appearance.

Combined with the grassland background behind, it makes people dream of the handsome young generals in ancient times.

Seeing her best friend's shining eyes, Bai Lu said, "You really haven't seen the world." But looking at the photos again, she couldn't help but sigh that the experience she learned when she was a model was indeed correct.

The three most important elements when taking portrait photos are face, figure and temperament.

This photo was taken when I was filming "The Lost Tomb".

At that time, several leading actors were learning how to ride horses, so Meng Bai also practiced with them.

Bai Lu had originally prepared herself to see how her boss was treated, but he turned out to be a learner very quickly, not giving her any chance to "laugh at" him.

Not only did he not fall over, but he was able to ride his horse back in no time. How cool!
This photo was taken because she felt the atmosphere was so good that she couldn't help but take a photo.

Of course, there are more than just this one photo in her phone.

After all, he was recruited by the boss himself and was considered a "direct" employee of Arc Light. It was easy for him to take a few group photos.

Looking through the photos, He Handan said enviously, "Sure enough, the rumors on the Internet are not groundless. Alas, why haven't I met such a handsome boss? Instead, they are all a bunch of ugly guys."

With emotion, she suddenly smiled and said, "Xiao Bai, how about we think of a way to help you take down the boss? Then you can be the boss's wife, and I won't have to go to work. I can just follow you and enjoy the good life."

This was a joke between the two of them in the past, saying that if one of them became successful in the future, the other would just follow suit.

Bai Lu rolled her eyes: "Haha, self-knowledge is a precious quality. Stop daydreaming, my boss doesn't like me."

"No way?" He Handan asked doubtfully, "Didn't the revelations I saw online say that you were signed specifically because you look like Meng Bai Dada's Bai Yueguang?"

"Wait, wait, wait a minute, what the hell?!"

Bai Lu looked at her best friend in bewilderment: "Where did you get this kind of fabricated gossip?"

"Douban, and there are also marketing accounts on Weibo that specialize in breaking news."

He Handan took out his mobile phone and showed Bai Lu a few collected posts.

[L, a popular "90s flower" who has participated in the remake of a famous novel, and M, a film and television boss who mainly produces web dramas, were together when they first worked together. However, M did not have the current strength at that time, so L's company asked them to separate.

Later, M's career became bigger and bigger, and he and L had no more interactions, but he still liked L. Including the artists that M company signed later, they were all selected according to L. For example, T, who became popular recently because of a remake of a drama, and B, a young actress who was just signed last year, were actually L's stand-ins.

T and B also know about this, and both want to seize this opportunity to replace L. It is said that T is already with M, but B has not given up yet, so there may be some competition in the future. 】

Bai Lu looked at the post on her phone expressionlessly.

It wasn't that she didn't react, but the explosion of this information completely exceeded her emotional threshold, and she had no idea how to react.

I looked at the number of views of this post and found that more than 10,000 people had read it and there were hundreds of likes.

I flipped back and found that there were actually quite a few comments below.

[kswl, isn’t this the standard “white moonlight” in entertainment industry articles! ]

[It's simply the real-life version of "Wan Wan Lei Qing"! M He's so real, I'm crying! ]

[Please figure it out, isn't M a complete scumbag? He's clearly thinking about L, but he's still with T. T is the same, knowing that he's a substitute, but he's still with M. I don't understand what this concept is! ]

[Yes, yes! And that B, I don’t know if it’s true or not. If it’s true, then it’s like knowing three and taking three. ]

[No, do you really think this is a pure love novel? Let's be realistic! Do you know what position M holds in the industry now? ]

[Who said it wasn't? If it were me, let alone my appearance, I would not hesitate to learn the tone of voice and behavior of "Bai Yueguang" even if you asked me to do it.]

【…】

Because the original post describes the characteristics of several people very clearly, everyone can basically guess who they correspond to easily.

Moreover, as the opinions debated among the comments, basically no one paid attention to whether the post was true or false, and the netizens who saw it later automatically accepted it.

Looking through several other similar posts, although the details are different, the general content is almost the same.

Bai Lu: I don’t understand it, but I am deeply shocked!

He Handan nudged her silent best friend and asked, "By the way, are these news true or false?"

"How would I know? I don't even know him well!"

Bai Lu had a painful expression on her face: "Anyway, the part about B, bah, about me, it's all bullshit!"

"So, things like 'white moonlight' and 'body double' are not real?"

"Please use your brain and think about it. The heroine of Arc Light's next movie is Li Qin. If President Meng really likes her, he can just find her directly. Why bother with a stand-in?"

He Handan blinked. Indeed, Li Qin was among the cast members of the movie "Psychological Crime: City Lights" just announced by ArcLight.

Moreover, the role she played was the same one that Bai Lu played in the web drama.

So from a practical point of view, it is very likely that it is simply because "Li" and "Bai" both look like the same person, which makes it easier for the audience to empathize.

Bai Lu patted her bestie on the shoulder and said, "Haha, let's just watch TV series from now on, and stop watching these messy and meaningless gossips."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Lu's cell phone suddenly rang.

The two looked at the screen and saw the name of the caller, "Big Boss Meng".

(End of this chapter)