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

Chapter 447 Big Eyed Sweet Girl
Although Li Qin said that the crew just needed to shoot according to normal scenes, director Shen Yan was still considerate enough to postpone several late night scenes.

In this case, Meng Bai didn't act pretentiously. After watching the crew filming for half a day, he left the set with Li Qin, who had finished her role.

"Senior Sister Qin Wen just told me that she is in charge of the script for Director Wang Jiawei's "Flowering" project, and she thinks you and the female lead role are quite suitable."

While eating, Meng Bai said, "Wang Jiawei's stories are average, but she's pretty good at photographing people. This project is one of Shanghai's key film and television projects next year. If you're interested, she can recommend it to you."

"Of course I'm interested!" Li Qin's eyes lit up, but then hesitantly asked, "When will the audition be?"

"It should be after the Chinese New Year." Meng Bai spread his hands, "You know, Wang Jiawei's style is mainly based on ink."

"That's not bad." Li Qin was relieved. "During the period before the New Year, I have to shoot and rehearse for the Spring Festival Gala. I'm afraid of time conflicts."

In the past, whoever appeared on the Spring Festival Gala became popular, but now whoever is popular can appear. Li Qin participated in the New Year's Eve Gala in 18, and the Lantern Festival Gala last year. This year, thanks to several hit dramas and movies, she finally received an invitation to the Spring Festival Gala.

Meng Bai said with interest: "I forgot to ask, what is your program? Kunqu Opera?"

"A chorus." Li Qin looked a little sad. "I actually don't know how to sing Kunqu opera anymore."

As the saying goes, "If you don't practice for one day, you know it; if you don't practice for three days, the audience knows it." Since Li Qin switched to acting, she has basically not practiced the basic skills of singing. It's okay for her to sing a few lines now, but if she really goes on stage, she will definitely fail.

From this perspective, she should have a lot in common with Li Yitong.

Seeing that the girl looked a little lost, Meng Bai gently squeezed her hand to comfort her and changed the subject: "Who are you singing with?"

"Besides me, there are Xiao Ma Ge, Zhu Yilong, Zhou Dongyu and Li Xian."

"They're all acquaintances."

"Little Brother Ma" is Ma Sichun, who was familiar with Li Qin after Zhang Ruoyun's wedding. Zhou Dongyu and Zhu Yilong are both from Taiyang Chuanhe, they don't have much friendship but have met each other. Li Xian has worked with Li Qin in the movie version of "Love O2O" before, so they know all of them.

"Poor kid, you have to work overtime during the New Year." Meng Bai said, "So you can't go back this year?"

"My parents said they would come to Beijing to spend the New Year with me." Li Qin blinked and looked over, "Do you want to come with us?"

"Hahaha, the food we ordered tonight tastes pretty good. Let's see where the store is later and try it some other day."

Seeing Meng Bai talking about something else, Li Qin pursed her lips and rolled her eyes at him. After thinking for a while, she was so angry that she reached out to slap him again, but her hand touched him and she couldn't bear to use force, so she just pinched him lightly.

Meng Bai tactfully made a painful expression, which made the girl both angry and amused.

While laughing and joking, Li Qin suddenly remembered something.

"I want to sign a new player recently."

Meng Bai raised his eyebrows: "You? Signing a new person?"

"Why, can't you?"

"Yes, of course. Mr. Li is the boss. He can sign whoever he wants." Meng Bai said, "What newcomer? Male or female?"

"The girl is a junior sister of mine at the Shanghai Theatre Academy."

Meng Bai thought for a moment and said, "I remember you were from a Chinese opera school, what does that have to do with the opera school?"

"Our school has long been merged into the Shanghai Theatre Academy, but we have been teaching independently." Li Qin glanced at him, "Some people are obviously majoring in drama, but they call those from the acting department "junior sisters" every day, and they still have the nerve to talk about me."

"That can't be helped. Except for me, all the other students majoring in drama are not good-looking."

"Ha, I caught you! I knew you were after the pretty girl." Li Qin made a thoughtful expression, "I wanted to bring her to see you, but suddenly I thought it's better not to let the girl fall into the tiger's mouth."

"Slander! Slander without clothes! You are slandering me!" Meng Bai said righteously, "Find out what Mr. Meng is known for in the martial arts world and when he has ever bullied a little girl."

I have to say that Mr. Li is easy to fool. If it was Li Yitong, no matter what he said, just listening to his tone, you would know that he was talking nonsense again.

"Was this junior sister recommended to you by the school?" Meng Bai asked curiously.

"Not really. She played a minor supporting role in the crew, and she happened to be mentioned in a chat that day that she was from the Shanghai Theatre Academy. I thought she was cute and had good acting skills, so I asked a teacher I knew to help me find out more about her. The teacher told me that she was quite talented and happened to not have a company yet, so I thought about signing her."

"Does the little girl trust you so much?"

"Why don't you believe me?" Li Qin said as if it was a matter of course. "I'm her senior, and I've been in the industry for so many years, so I must have some resources and connections. How can I deceive her?"

Meng Bai looked at the proud girl in front of him and said leisurely, "Then this little junior sister doesn't know that her senior sister's studio is actually a lone commander?"

Li Qin's momentum stagnated, as if a flaw had been discovered. After a long while, he looked at Meng Bai and smiled, "So, I need more help from Mr. Meng in the future."

"Okay, okay." Meng Bai waved his hand. "Oh, I'm a little thirsty."

"Come, Mr. Meng, have some water. The temperature is just right." Li Qin diligently poured him a glass of water.

"It's boring to drink from a cup." Meng Bai looked calm and composed, and deliberately smacked his lips.

Li Qin naturally understood what he meant, and her cheeks flushed slightly. Fortunately, this was in a hotel room, and there was no one else in the room, so she gritted her teeth secretly, picked up the cup and took a sip of water, and then moved towards Meng Bai.

"Well--"

Meng Bai held the woman's lips, not even swallowing a single drop of water, and just let it float back and forth between the two of them. In the end, almost all of the water came out from the corners of her mouth, wetting the front of her clothes.

"call--"

After a long time, just when Li Qin felt that she was running out of breath, the two finally separated, allowing her to catch her breath.

"Is it okay now, Mr. Meng~"

Li Qin looked at Meng Bai with a bit of coquettishness in her eyes and spoke softly.

"That's just the beginning." Meng Bai pressed on, "It's cold this winter, and there's no heating in Shanghai. I need someone to warm my bed and sleep with me."

"..." Li Qin took a deep breath and said with a smile: "Okay, then I'll go and warm up the quilt for Mr. Meng."

After that, she muttered again, "You talk as if you don't need to sleep with me normally."

"What did you say?" Meng Bai raised his voice.

"No, I just wanted to say thank you to Mr. Meng for giving me the opportunity to sleep with him."

"Well, that's true." Meng Bai said, "But I still prefer your unruly look before. How about you recover a little?"

"Recover your ass! Meng Bai, I will fight you to the death... Do you dare to let me down? Ah!"

"Be good to Mr. Meng tonight, and I'll go with you to meet Junior Sister tomorrow."

Meng Bai slapped Li Qin's little butt, carried her on his shoulders, and regardless of her struggles, turned around and walked towards the inner room.

Facts have proved that in the face of power suppression, courage and resistance can only add interest but cannot help people escape from difficulties.

……

The next day, the crew of "The Golden Years".

Ni Ni looked at the radiant Li Qin, her eyes full of ambiguity and teasing.

"What are you looking at?" Li Qin stroked her hair a little embarrassedly, "Why do I look prettier today?"

"Teacher Li is still as beautiful as ever, but you don't see her charm every day." Ni Ni came over and whispered, "It seems that President Meng is still very capable."

"It's, it's OK!" Li Qin pretended to be calm, but anyone could see that her words were not sincere.

Nini chuckled and muttered to herself, I don’t know whether it will work or not.

The two women were whispering here, and Meng Bai walked in from outside: "What are you talking about?"

"Nothing, nothing." Li Qin stood up quickly, "Let's go, I asked my junior sister to come over today, she should be here soon."

As she was talking, her phone rang, she glanced at the screen, and then dragged Meng Bai out. The busy and idle time of the crew usually alternated between different groups. For example, the filming has not started yet, and the photography, lighting, and props groups are busy debugging and setting up the scene, while the actors are relatively free.

Walking to the small garden outside the villa where the filming was done, Li Qin saw a tall girl with long hair from afar, and waved and called out to her.

"Oda, here!"

The girl heard the voice, turned around, saw Li Qin, and hurried over.

"Sister Qinqin!"

"Xiaotian" came over happily and hugged Li Qin happily.

"I thought you'd be here for a while."

"I don't have any classes right now, and I got up early today, so I came here directly."

The two exchanged a few pleasantries, then Li Qin took the other's hand and came to Meng Bai: "This is the little junior sister I mentioned, Xiao Tian, Tian Xiwei, she's quite cute, isn't she."

After that, she introduced the little junior sister who looked like a curious baby beside her: "This is the person I told you about last night, Mr. Meng from Arclight Films, and also your senior sister and my big boss."

After saying that, he gave Meng Bai a wink. Meng Bai was happy in his heart, but he still cooperated with a warm smile: "Xiaotian, right? Hello."

"Hello."

Tian Xiwei looked at Meng Bai and replied blankly, then hurriedly bowed to him and said nervously, "Hello, Mr. Meng, my name is Tian Xiwei, and I am a student of the 16 acting department of the Shanghai Theatre Academy."

After saying that, she quietly raised her head and looked at the man in front of her cautiously.

As a student of film and television academy and a "preparatory team" in the entertainment industry, she had naturally heard of the name of Arclight Films. The legendary "Mr. Meng" behind Arclight was also a hot topic among their discussions.

When Tian Xiwei received the message from Li Qin last night, she was pleasantly surprised and searched the Internet for information about "Mr. Meng" - for newcomers like them, the channels for obtaining information are actually no different from those of ordinary netizens outside the circle, and they mainly rely on various marketing accounts or gossip groups on the Internet.

Based on this information, Meng Bai's image can be roughly summarized as "a capital tycoon who is very talented, powerful, handsome, and has many scandals."

At that time, Tian Xiwei's roommate joked that if she could get close to this big shot, her acting career would not be smooth sailing, but at least it would be said to be soaring.

Of course, everyone knew that this was a joke, because the senior sister Li Qin who wanted to sign her was one of the "potential boss ladies" of the Arc Light Department who was rumored on the Internet.

It's too exciting to steal your boss's girlfriend.

Tian Xiwei thought she was observing very discreetly, but Meng Bai actually saw everything. Like him, he was also sizing up the girl in front of him.

Although she is young, she is quite tall, about 1.7 meters tall. Her face is small and a bit childish, but her eyes are big and look quite bright. She has bangs and two dimples when she smiles, which makes her look sweet and cute.

The first impression she gives is that of a very standard sweet girl.

"Grade 16? So this year is the senior year?" Meng Bai asked.

Tian Xiwei nodded: "Yes, I will graduate next year."

Seeing the little girl pursing her lips tightly, Meng Bai chuckled: "Don't be so nervous, just chatting casually. I heard from your sister Qinqin that you want to join Arc Light?"

"what?"

Tian Xiwei blinked her eyes. Didn’t Senior Sister Li Qin want to sign her? Why did it suddenly become an arc again?

Fortunately, the senior sister next to him stood in front of him.

"Mr. Meng, our Huguang family is large and powerful, there is no need for you to compete with my small studio for people." Li Qin looked at Meng Bai with a "what do you want to do" expression on her face.

Meng Bai was unmoved, his eyes bypassed her and looked at Tian Xiwei: "It's all the same. Xiao Tian, your senior sister Li Qin just said that I am also the boss of her studio. In this case, why not sign with Arclight directly."

Tian Xiwei was a little confused. Didn't the Internet say that these two were from the same family? Then what were they arguing about now?
But at the same time, she couldn't help but feel secretly happy. She didn't expect that she would be valued so much. If she could sign with Huguang, it would definitely be better than with Liqin.

After all, before this, she had never heard of any project development in her senior sister's studio. It seemed that it was just a team serving her.

"How is it?" Meng Bai asked again, "Do you want some Arc Light?"

Tian Xiwei came back to her senses, thought for a moment, and said, "Thank you, Mr. Meng, but you just said that Huguang and Senior Sister's studios are the same, so I'll just work with Senior Sister Qinqin."

"Well said, Oda!"

Li Qin put his arm around her and then smiled smugly at Meng Bai.

Meng Bai's expression did not change at all. He nodded and said, "That's fine. It's the same wherever you are. Your senior sister thinks highly of you. She even tried very hard to help you 'fight' for resources yesterday."

Tian Xiwei heaved a sigh of relief, and then looked at her senior sister with gratitude. Li Qin accepted the thanks from her junior sister with some embarrassment, and secretly rolled her eyes at Meng Bai.

This guy actually has the nerve to say “fight for resources”.

Taking advantage of Tian Xiwei's visit today, Li Qin seriously told her about his plan to sign her up, and also mentioned the salary, resources and requirements that could be given.

The little girl did not refuse. After some consideration, she agreed.

Of course, these are just verbal agreements now. Li Qin has asked the studio to make a detailed contract, and once the other party has considered it and there is no problem, they can officially sign the contract.

Although the contract has not been officially signed, Li Qin is still very happy. Currently, those who are training newcomers in the circle are either big stars or "85" stars.

After all, most of the resources in the industry have to go through the hands of these big and medium-sized stars first. The "90s" and "95s" behind them have difficulty even supporting themselves, let alone training newcomers.

If Li Qin didn't have Meng Bai's support, she wouldn't have the conditions to do so.

Therefore, what Meng Bai said just now was not wrong. It doesn’t matter whether Tian Xiwei signs with Li Qin or Hu Guang.

I took Tian Xiwei to have lunch at noon and then sent her back to school.

"Let's go, Xiaotian. The contract will be ready in a few days. You can think about it again during these few days." Li Qin waved goodbye while leaning against the car window.

Tian Xiwei smiled sweetly: "Okay, Sister Qinqin, I will think about it carefully. Sorry to bother you and Mr. Meng today, be careful on the road."

"Well, you should go back soon too. It's very cold outside."

"Ok."

As the car slowly drove away, the sweet smile on Tian Xiwei's face suddenly faded, and her sweet girl temperament also disappeared.

She stood there in thought for a while, blinking her big eyes, before she smiled again and walked towards the school happily.

the other side.

Li Qin looked at Tian Xiwei's gradually disappearing figure in the rearview mirror, and said to Meng Bai beside her: "I always feel that your method is useless. The girl is a student, not a fool. She knows that I am also an Arc Light, and she is in front of me, so how could she not choose me?"

"The point is not what she chooses, but her reaction, expression and demeanor when she hears this choice. This is what I want to observe." Meng Bai said slowly.

Li Qin blinked, and suddenly realized that she seemed to have thought it was a bit simple. She just thought that Meng Bai wanted Xiaotian to make a choice to determine what kind of person she was. She didn't expect that the "test questions" and "answers" were all a cover, and the process of "answering questions" was the key.

"So, what's your conclusion?"

"It's just one meeting, how can you jump to conclusions so quickly?" Meng Bai said: "The girl seems pretty good, but a little..."

"What's wrong?" Li Qin asked puzzledly.

"It's hard to say. I feel like she's not usually like this, but she might just be a little nervous today." Meng Bai said, "Anyway, it shouldn't be a big problem. You're just signing an employee. As long as the investment pays off, nothing else matters."

"Okay." Li Qin nodded. She still trusted Meng Bai's words. "Then I will ask the studio to issue a contract and take a look at the latest projects to see if there are any suitable roles for her."

"Do you need help?" Meng Bai asked with a smile, "I can provide paid role screening services."

"..."

(End of this chapter)