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

Chapter 492 Sister Meng "The Heartthrob"

The program setting of "Fifty Kilometers Taohuawu" is "exploring social life", and the participating guests are required to live together for thirty days.

Of course, it is definitely unrealistic to stay for a full 30 days at one time, as the members’ schedules cannot be coordinated with each other.

Considering the current flu situation, the production team compromised and divided the 30 days into four recording sessions. The first recording session took a long time, and we stayed here for a total of ten days.

Ten days of material can be edited into at least four episodes. There are only ten episodes in a season of this program, so the workload is still very light.

The program team's requirements are not that strict. Anyone who has something to do can ask for leave and come back when they are done.

As for slow variety shows, what they highlight is the leisurely and relaxed atmosphere.

For Meng Ziyi, who had just finished filming for four months, the ten days in "Taohuawu" were almost like a vacation.

As a typical Northeastern girl, her personality is just like her name, "righteous" and "E". She loves making friends and she feels like a fish in water when participating in this show.

In the first two days of recording, the members were familiar with each other's friends, so they formed small groups.

The same is true for Meng Ziyi. She, Yang Chaoyue, Bai Lu and her newly-met "roommate" Zhou Ye form a pretty good group.

However, unlike others, in addition to the activities of her own "group", she also actively responded to the topics of everyone in the audience, including in front of the two "seniors" Zhang Guoli and Song Dandan, and she was not afraid at all.

It's not enough to just respond, she also showed her outgoingness when interacting with other members. No matter whether they are familiar with each other or not, she dares to say anything, showing her bravery.

Some members were not used to her style and privately complained that this girl was stealing too much attention and was a bit "artificial".

For example, he is often narcissistic, likes to add some small movements like winks when talking, calls Song Dandan "Danma" in a "greasy" way, and moves to the middle of the photo to make himself appear to be in the center...

To use a definition that is popular recently on the Internet, he is a "little troublemaker".

However, as the recording time increased and everyone spent more and more time together, many members slowly discovered that this girl really seemed to have this kind of personality, and she was not deliberately creating a character or anything like that.

Although he looks very smart and cunning, it is just an appearance. In fact, his mind is empty.

To be honest, she is more sincere than any other member of the show.

The change in concepts made everyone willing to get in touch with Meng Ziyi. So under her leadership, the entire "Taohuawu" members gradually integrated into the group, and the atmosphere of the show became increasingly lively.

By the end of the first recording session, many people had become familiar with each other and would make appointments to play together privately.

"Sister Meng..."

At the entrance of Taohuawu, Zhou Ye looked at Meng Ziyi with tears in his eyes as he watched the assistant carry the luggage into the car. "Then I'll leave first. I'll call you when I have time. You must answer the phone!"

"Okay, okay, I'll definitely take it." Meng Ziyi said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "I'll be back in half a month at most to record the next episode. Don't make it seem like we're parting forever."

"Then we have to separate anyway..."

As a newcomer, Zhou Ye didn't know any members before coming to Taohuawu. After much difficulty, she met a senior sister from the same school, who took the initiative to invite her to be her roommate, and she immediately stuck to her.

Although Meng Ziyi is always acting cute and coquettish, that's just because she is too lazy to think. When facing a "junior sister" younger than herself, she still looks like a "senior sister".

Zhou Ye: Who can resist a big sister who is beautiful, gentle, and patient in taking care of you?
So after ten days of living together and sharing the same room, their relationship progressed by leaps and bounds and they became good friends.

After comforting him for a while and promising to contact him privately, Meng Ziyi finally persuaded Zhou Ye to leave.

But before she turned around, she heard a "humph" from behind her.

Her face froze, and she looked guilty, as if she had been caught cheating in bed. She turned around and looked in the direction of the voice, and sure enough, she saw Yang Chaoyue standing behind her, with her head tilted back and facing to one side.

On the other side stood Bai Lu, baring her teeth, looking at the two people with an expression of "there is something to eat". When she saw Meng Ziyi looking over, she deliberately made an expression of "I am looking at the scenery", looking left and right, with a very "artificial" expression.

"Don't be angry, Chaoyue. I was just trying to comfort Xiaoye. I didn't mean anything else."

"Don't tell me, who knows who you are thinking about!"

"Really, I swear, you are the only one in my heart."

"The eldest and the last daughter?" Yang Chaoyue's eyes widened immediately. "It means there must be many friends who are not the eldest and the last daughter."

"..."

Meng Ziyi looked at her bestie speechlessly: "Let's not do this, okay? You scared me to death."

Yang Chaoyue snickered, then deliberately put on a stern face: "Who told you not to accept my invitation to live with me?"

"That's not right. I see that you have been living happily with Bai Lu these days."

"Hey... No, no way." Yang Chaoyue's face turned red instantly.

Bai Lu, who was happily eating melons on the side, didn't expect that she would be suddenly involved. She coughed awkwardly. Then she stood up and waved, saying, "Well, I have a schedule and I'm leaving first. See you next time."

After saying that, he ran away in a hurry.

Yang Chaoyue was also a little embarrassed, because what Meng Ziyi just said was right. After living in the same room for seven or eight days, although they still looked at each other with some dislike, it was much better than at the beginning.

After all, neither of the two girls is a scheming person. Although there are some frictions due to their career development, they are not to the point of "not communicating with each other".

In addition, both of them are the kind of artists who are very relaxed and have a good show effect, so the cooperation between them is even more effective. By the last two days of recording, the two girls even developed a tacit understanding.

Since they have both caught the other cheating, it is equivalent to canceling each other out.

The two girls lingered at the gate of Taohuawu for a long time before they each got in their cars and left.

"Ziyi, shall we take you home?" The agent asked as soon as they got in the car.

"Okay...uh, wait, send me to Arclight."

After recording the show, I have to go to my uncle to report the recording situation. After all, this show is because of me, unlike other projects.

The car drove for more than an hour before arriving at the office building of Arc Light Films. Meng Ziyi got out of the car and looked at the familiar small building in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh.

Thinking back, it was here that she first met her uncle and also got to know Chao Yue.

After walking into the company gate, she greeted the receptionist in a familiar manner. She didn't need anyone to lead the way, and took the elevator directly to the top floor.

"Flower!"

"Hey, Sister Meng." In the small office, Hua Yan stood up happily, "Are you here to see the boss?"

"Yes."

Meng Ziyi nodded, and his eyes moved around the small office, pausing for a moment on the various anime figures in the display cabinets in the back, before continuing, "Is he busy now?"

"It's hard to say whether he's busy or not. Anyway, he's the only one in the office... I'll ask for you."

Hua Yan picked up the phone on the table, pressed a button and turned on the speakerphone. After waiting for a second, she heard a familiar voice.

"what happened?"

"Boss, Sister Meng is here."

"…Let her come over."

Meng Bai put down the phone and waited for a few seconds before he heard a knock on the office door. Then, a pretty face popped out from behind the door. "Uncle!"

Meng Ziyi shouted happily, and then walked in from outside the door.

"Give me two minutes." Meng Bai glanced at her and said, "Go get anything you want to drink from the cabinet."

"It's okay, little uncle, you go ahead and do your work."

Meng Ziyi said something, and opened the thermostatic cabinet in the corner of the office with familiarity, and a neatly arranged row of "House Happy Water" came into view.

She looked at the classic red can in front of her, then turned around to look at Meng Bai, who was full of mature temperament behind the desk, and always felt that the picture didn't match well.

She casually took a can of sparkling water from the side and sat on the sofa. She flipped through her phone for a while, feeling a little bored, and looked around, starting to observe Meng Bai working.

Well, it is said on the Internet that men who work hard have a unique charm, and it seems that it is not nonsense. At least when the uncle is working hard, he is really good-looking.

After about three or four minutes, Meng Bai finally put down the document in his hand. He pinched his brows and just as he looked up, he saw his eldest niece leaning her head to look at him.

After their eyes met, she smiled brightly.

"Have you finished recording the show?"

"Well, it's over this morning. I'll go back in half a month."

"Did you have fun?"

"Not bad, everyone is very nice." Meng Ziyi said with a smile: "By the way, I also met a new friend."

"Zhou Ye, right?"

"Yes. Hey, uncle, how did you know?"

"The production team will start producing the material you recorded every day the next day. I went to your director Xie's place a few days ago and took a look."

Meng Ziyi's heart moved. With his uncle's current status, he basically just looked at the data for this kind of project. At most, he would wait to see the finished film before it was broadcast. It was generally impossible for him to understand the specific recording content of the program in such detail.

He obviously did this for his own reasons.

As expected, my uncle is the best!

Meng Bai didn't notice the girl's expression change. He continued with a smile on his face, "I didn't expect that our sister Meng is quite popular in the show. On the first day of the show, so many people wanted to live with you."

Meng Ziyi's mood suddenly recovered when he heard this.

What I just talked about was the scene on the first day of recording the program when Chaoyue and Bailu came to invite me at the same time. I didn’t expect that it was all recorded.

But for her, there was nothing to be embarrassed about.

“Alas, there’s nothing I can do. Sometimes this kind of situation will occur when your charm is too high.” Meng Ziyi shook his head and said with emotion.

Meng Bai touched his chin and said, "Yes, indeed, I often have similar troubles."

The uncle and nephew looked at each other and saw a look of "understanding" in each other's eyes.

After chatting for a while about the show, perhaps feeling that they were a bit far apart, Meng Ziyi stood up, took a chair and sat down in front of the desk.

"Uncle, were you reading the script just now?"

She glanced at the document on the table and saw the words "Anti-crime Storm" written on the cover. She immediately became interested: "Is there a role suitable for me?"

"Didn't you say you needed to take a break after filming for several months?"

"Well, that's just what I said. As young actors like us, we must work when there is a suitable script."

Meng Bai smiled and said, "This is indeed a new drama by Arc Light, but it is about sweeping away gangsters, and the main characters are basically all men."

After overtime polishing by the Arclight Screenwriting Department, the script of "Sweeping Dark Storm" was finally completed.

Compared with the first version, the final version deleted the useless character "Reporter Huang Xi" and the associated story line, and moved all the related plots to the male protagonist "Li Chengyang" and the central supervision team.

This speeds up the show's pace and makes the plot less cluttered. The only problem is that there are basically no important female characters in the show.

Among the remaining characters, "He Yun, deputy director of the Luteng City Public Security Bureau" has the most plots, but she is set as a middle-aged woman over 40 years old, which is definitely not suitable for a young girl like Meng Ziyi.

The two actors who are of the right age, Mai Jia and Xu Yingzi, are both minor supporting roles. With her current popularity and status, it doesn't make sense for her to play such a role.

"Let's take a good rest first. Besides, it's almost the end of the year, and there are still many activities and celebrations to attend."

"Well, actually, with my current popularity, there aren't that many activities I want to participate in..."

Meng Bai paused, looked at the girl sitting opposite him, and said in a low but affirmative voice: "There will be one next year."

"..." Meng Ziyi smiled brightly and nodded vigorously: "Yeah!"
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The first recording of "Fifty Kilometers Taohuawu" has ended, and the post-production team of the program has also started the intensive editing work.

Meng Bai asked Xie Dikui to make the trailer and promotional materials first so that the platform could start the early publicity and promotion work.

According to the plan, the program will start broadcasting before New Year's Day and extend to the Spring Festival.

At the same time, ArcLight officially announced its latest film and television project, and will work with the Political and Legal Affairs Commission to produce a drama about cracking down on gangs. It also briefly introduced the plot outline and background setting.

At the beginning, many people didn’t take it seriously and thought it was just another mainstream TV series.

It wasn’t until the three words “Green Vine City” were clearly visible in the official plot introduction and promotional posters that the audience’s enthusiasm was ignited.

[What the hell, what did I see! Could this Green Ivy City be the Green Ivy City known as the "Gotham of the East"? ]

[As an ordinary citizen of Luteng, I warmly welcome the arrival of the supervision team. The sky is finally brightening for Luteng! (Funny)]

[My name is Guan Hongyu. I am reporting Tai Wei, the captain of the Binhai District Branch of Luteng City, for forcibly detaining my brother, Guan Hongfeng, the former captain of the Binhai District, without any evidence. I hope the supervision team can clear my brother's name! ]

[Xiao Guan, have you ever thought about the fact that you are still a wanted criminal?]

[Good! The supervision team is here, and there will be a clear sky! The supervision team is here, and Green Ivy will be peaceful! ]

【…】

It has to be said that although it still lacks a lot of foundation compared to Marvel and DC, in the past few years, Arclight has finally left an impression on many audiences with the name "Green Ivy City" through seven or eight high-quality hit web dramas and movies.

It is precisely with this foundation that "Sweeping Dark Storm" was able to attract so many netizens' spontaneous attention and start a large number of memes even though the poster had just been released and the identity of the leading actor was not yet known.

As the director of this work, Wang Wei couldn't help but sigh when he saw the comments from the online audience. Who would have thought that several works made many years ago could still have such a powerful energy.

"Lao Meng, I think the idea of restarting the 'Green Vine Universe Phase 2' is very feasible." Wang Wei said excitedly, holding the mobile phone in his hand.

"I know, and I've seen the comments online. So, when I return to China in a few days, I'll call everyone in the Arclight Alliance to discuss how to set up the second phase."

"Okay." Wang Wei responded, and then asked curiously: "Return to China? You are not in China?"

"Yes, isn't the movie Detective Chinatown 3 being filmed recently? I came to Tokyo to check out the situation."

(End of this chapter)