Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 254 It’s too late, just in time

After the applause died down, it was customary for the film's creators to interact with the audience.

"I want to ask Shen Juan this question. What motivated you to take on this film? Because we all know that you are mainly a singer and rarely act. Moreover, this film uses a lot of newcomers and is obviously not a conventional blockbuster."

The real reason is of course that Lehua Film and Television, which mainly focuses on idol business, does not have good resources, and the film industry at this time is not as mindlessly superstitious about traffic as the outside world imagines (Yang Yang and Lu Han still have no real box office results).

And he didn't become famous by acting. The outside world is skeptical about whether an idol singer can carry the movie box office alone, so the scripts he is invited to star in are all rubbish.
But this kind of thing that everyone knows in private must not be said out loud, otherwise it will offend people.

So Shen Juan thought about it and then raised the microphone and replied:
"Because the rather special theme of this movie attracted me, we all know that school bullying has become more and more serious in recent years, and we can often see related news online, so I want to use this movie to reflect some social phenomena and do something within my power for everyone and those who are suffering from school bullying."

He is not a great and glorious person at all, and he doesn't want to be great and glorious, but this does not prevent him from using the influence of his identity to guide his fans to do good things.

Next came a girl wearing black-framed glasses: "I want to ask Shen Juan, did anything interesting happen during the filming? And then I noticed that the scenes of you and Gu Senxiang appearing in the same frame in the movie were quite harmonious, so I want to ask if you have a good relationship in private as well?"

Although this question may seem like a ruse, considering that the audience invited to the premiere have passed internal review, it is at least ensured that they are not black fans.

So Shen Juan replied calmly, "It was fine. We were all of the same age and had a lot of common topics. We got along very easily and happily during the filming."

In fact, when Shen Juan joined the crew, it was already the late stage of filming. This group of young actors had already established a stable small group, and he couldn't fit in at all.

The host then cue several "special" audience members to stand up one by one and express their thoughts after watching the movie.

Because Cheng Xiao didn't have any makeup or hair done, she was hiding in the crowd wearing a baseball cap, so Shen Juan called her to stand up.

"Well, it totally lived up to my expectations. I would recommend this work to my friends. It's really great! And I also want to say that school violence is really terrible. We should resolutely resist this behavior!"

"Okay, boycott."

Shen Juan took the lead in applauding, and the other guests on the stage and the audience also followed suit.

The whole audience burst into thunderous applause.

Cheng Xiaoren was a little confused. He was at a loss for a few seconds, then subconsciously looked at Shen Juan on the stage. Seeing that he was also trying hard to hold back his laughter, he thought to himself, "Oh no!" and quickly recalled all the sad things in his life, trying to suppress the slightly raised corners of his mouth.

But when she heard Shen Juan's words "Thank you Teacher Cheng Xiao for your speech", she realized that all her previous efforts were in vain. She could no longer control her facial expression. She hurriedly sat down and covered the lower half of her face with her hands. She laughed so hard that her whole body was shaking and she couldn't stop.

Friends who have had similar experiences should know that it is really difficult to pretend to be serious in front of very familiar friends, especially when two people look at each other. Cheng Xiao experienced this feeling at this moment.

In addition, there were Rocket Girls' Wu Xuanyi, Meng Meiqi, and Zhang Zining, NINE PERCENT's Zhu Zhengting, Huang Minghao, Fan Chengcheng, and Cai Xukun, Shen Juan's good brother Peng Yuchang, and Song Qian, who was very thoughtful and took time out to show her support after just sending a WeChat message. They all came to the premiere to cheer for Shen Juan's first theatrical movie.

Time came to nine o'clock in the evening, and the premiere press conference of "A River of Sorrow" officially ended.

Shen Juan returned to the backstage and greeted and thanked the artist friends who came to support him one by one, and agreed to meet again when they have time.

It took almost another hour to finish dealing with all the trivial interpersonal matters.

Shen Juan secretly got into the car and left through the back door, avoiding the fans' blockade. He leaned back in his chair and let out a long sigh.

As for social relationships, those who can use them benefit from them, while those who can't use them hate them.

He originally thought that as long as he had strong capabilities, these people would always come to him and help him out of their own interests.

But after experiencing more things and meeting more people, he realized that instead of patiently waiting for others to lower their posture and actively help like a dog, it would be better to extend an olive branch and give others a legitimate reason to lick him, forcibly erasing the hesitation in his heart due to loss of face, and at the same time allowing himself to reap the benefits of interpersonal communication as soon as possible.

To put it bluntly, you have to provide people with an official reason that can convince and numb themselves, so that they can lick you willingly and feel proud.

All I can say is that he still has a lot to learn about how to behave and use others to benefit himself.

Compared with our Huang Xiaochu, it is far inferior.

TRB Hutong is one of the most stylish and established French restaurants in Beijing. It is relatively expensive but is well-known for its unique geographical location, decoration, dining atmosphere and thoughtful and complete service facilities.

"Shen Juan, I just searched online and found that it seems to be quite difficult to reserve a table at this restaurant."

After the premiere, while Shen Juan was chatting and exchanging pleasantries with his friends backstage, Cheng Xiao went home alone, took a nice bath and put on makeup.

At this moment, she is wearing a knitted suspender dress with colorful stripes, which shows off her proud figure. Wearing summer clothes in early autumn has a unique flavor. Paired with sneakers and two small braids, she looks fashionable and full of the sunny girlishness of a young girl.

As she spoke, she secretly glanced at her "online boyfriend" who was walking with her. Seeing that he looked normal and had no reaction, she curled her lips slightly and said with some dissatisfaction: "Xuan Yi invited me to dinner but I didn't go. She is my best friend and I haven't seen her for a long time."

"Got it." Shen Juan couldn't help but laugh.

Only then did he realize that Cheng Xiao also had a bit of a tsundere trait which was extremely rare in this era.

"What are you laughing at?" Cheng Xiao's face was full of black lines.

"It is indeed difficult for ordinary people to make an order, but who can blame me for knowing people who can use their connections to get in through the back door?" Shen Juan shrugged and walked leisurely in the Zhizhu Temple, which has a history of more than 600 years and was once the royal printing house.

There is very little traffic here. It is said that most of the people who come to this restaurant to dine are foreigners, so you only need to wear a mask to ensure that your identity will not be exposed. Thinking of this, even my mood seems to be much more relaxed.

"Do you know the owner of this store?" Cheng Xiao asked curiously.

"It was a friend of the store owner who knew me."

"Oh, that's amazing." Cheng Xiao followed Shen Juan obediently, looking around with curiosity from time to time, and asked softly: "By the way, do you often eat foreign food? It seems that you are very knowledgeable about food."

"I haven't done any research on this. In fact, I rarely eat French food. This is even my first time in this restaurant." Shen Juan smiled and stretched out his right hand, waiting for the girl's response.

"Then why did you think of bringing me here to eat?" Cheng Xiao hugged Shen Juan's arm tightly without any hesitation, and his full heart was deformed under the pressure.

"The low EQ statement is that it is safe to eat at this restaurant and you don't have to worry about being recognized or your identity being exposed."

“What about high emotional intelligence?”

"High emotional intelligence." Shen Juan raised the corner of his mouth slightly, then gradually slowed down his pace, turned his head to look at Cheng Xiao who was walking beside him and said with a smile: "I want to leave my first experience of this restaurant to you, so that when I think of French food and this restaurant in the future, I can think of you who had dinner with me today, just like the whole refrigerator of flowers I introduced to you that day."

"You are a very eloquent person!" Cheng Xiao smiled sweetly with his eyes narrowed, and hummed proudly with a cheerful look: "But it's still not as good as my earthy love words."

"Would you like to hear a few words?"

"Do you know what the Moments you liked are?" Cheng Xiao asked without hesitation, and it was obvious that he knew a lot.

"do not know."

"It's donuts!"

Shen Juan was stunned, and he suddenly remembered that Cheng Xiao’s microblog account often shared her feelings about eating donuts.

He was a little puzzled at the time because he had never heard that Cheng Xiao loved to eat donuts before, nor had he ever seen her share photos of donuts on Weibo.

At that time, I thought it was just a random business copy.

Now I know that this is the whole thing.
With his thoughts in a tangle, he continued to ask, "Anything else?"

"Of course." Cheng Xiao lowered his head and thought carefully, then put on a bright smile and said softly in a coquettish voice: "Do you want to buy a watermelon? Buy a watermelon and give me a little fool like me!"

".Sorry, I was embarrassed."

"What?" Cheng Xiao was very dissatisfied, thinking that Shen Juan was not giving him face. "If you have the guts, tell me what you think!"

"Do you know the difference between me and Tang Seng?" Shen Juan had already prepared for her words. Cheng Xiao thought about it carefully and replied, "Tang Seng is obsessed with demons, and you are obsessed with those women in the entertainment industry."

Shen Juan was a little embarrassed. For a moment, he actually felt that there was nothing wrong with what he said.
But it was a rare occasion for him to say such cheesy love words, so he definitely couldn't let it go so easily, so he shook his head forcefully, denied Cheng Xiao's statement, and then announced the answer:
"Tang Monk is studying for Buddhist scriptures. I will marry you."

"How embarrassing." Cheng Xiao immediately fought back.

"Let's just exchange gifts and treat each other equally."

"So it's true?"

"Tang Monk seeks Buddhist scriptures, I will marry you?"

"Yeah!" Cheng Xiao nodded sincerely.

"If you wish, then it's true." Shen Juan smiled, and then couldn't help but rub her head with his hand, "After all, we're already married in the game."

"What we establish in Pesticide is a romantic relationship, not a marriage." Cheng Xiao squinted his eyes and enjoyed the warm feeling.

"That's the problem with King Pesticide."

"You are such a big star, you can just report the situation to the pesticide officials and ask them to add a marriage system. They will still give you face, right?"

"You have overestimated my influence. What needs to be emphasized is that I am the spokesperson for League of Legends, and League of Legends and King of Glory are incompatible."

"But I am a member of the Pest Control Party! Are you, the global spokesperson for the League of Legends, going to be irreconcilable with me?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because I can't bear to leave you."

Cheng Xiao turned his head and faced Shen Juan's clear eyes. For a moment, he could not find any effective words to refute and question the lie. In the end, he could only turn his head slightly arrogantly to avoid his sight.

The atmosphere returned to calm.

Only the faint sound of sneakers and board shoes stepping on the marble floor of the temple was left, but what was slightly different from before was that the air now seemed to be filled with some ambiguous factor that made people's heart beat faster.

After a long while, the girl, whose cheeks were gradually getting hot, said softly, "Shen Juan, are you free after dinner?"

"Why are you asking this question?"

"I can't even ask?" Cheng Xiao's tone was very aggressive, but with her cute appearance and soft voice, it was really hard for people to detect the feeling of being threatened by her eyes.

"Of course." Shen Juan smiled and replied, "I don't have work until tomorrow afternoon, so I have the whole night free today. Why are you asking this question?"

Cheng Xiao nodded thoughtfully, hesitated for a few seconds, as if quietly cheering himself up in his heart, then raised his eyes again and looked seriously into Shen Juan's eyes.

"Actually, it's like this. Every time you come back to Beijing, I'm in South Korea. And when I come back to Beijing, you go to other places to film. We haven't met offline for a few times during this period, so I always feel that our relationship is like the legendary platonic love."

"Platonic love is a pure spiritual love that pursues spiritual communication and rationality. We have done everything except having sex, which does not meet its definition at all." Shen Juan corrected in a very unromantic manner.

Cheng Xiao, who usually cares about these details, didn't take Shen Juan's straight male behavior of teasing her seriously at this moment, but gritted her teeth and charged forward, "So can we take the last step today?"

Shen Juan was stunned for a moment, then he laughed, revealing his true thoughts, "Actually, I didn't intend to let you go back alone tonight."

"So our meeting is a coincidence?" Cheng Xiao tilted his head cutely and thought of an idiom.

"Or maybe we have a tacit understanding."

Just like a newlywed couple who have been together for a long time and have experienced many things are discussing what to eat tonight, the two people smiled at each other and decided easily and happily to continue this relationship and naturally enter the next stage of deeper intimacy.

"It turns out that such things can be said out loud so easily." The heavy stone in Cheng Xiao's heart finally fell. She let out a long sigh, feeling inexplicably emotional. The breeze gently blew through her hair, and the bright lights and candles not far away came into her eyes, making Shen Juan, who was lingering in her eyes, seem to shine brightly and become more handsome.

“But when I think about it, I feel a little regretful.”

"What's the regret?"

"I regret not telling you my feelings earlier."

Shen Juan smiled, "It's not too late at all."

"Why?" Cheng Xiao looked at Shen Juan curiously.

The night wind blew and everything around was quiet.

Then Shen Juan softly said, "Everything that is too late is actually just the right time."

"Just like when I finished recording the show, I was stuck in traffic and arrived at the recording studio a little later than scheduled, and then I heard a girl say to Sister Hua in a wronged tone." Shen Juan imitated Cheng Xiao's voice as much as possible and said the next sentence: "And I eat dark chocolate, which doesn't make me gain weight."

The fragmented scenes in his mind emerged one by one and gradually connected together. Cheng Xiao's eyes widened and suddenly realized: "Were you standing outside the door and eavesdropping?"

"I wasn't eavesdropping. I just happened to be passing by."

"So the piece of dark chocolate you gave me after the shoot that day was also something you gave to me on purpose!"

"Just cater to his preferences!" Shen Juan did not comment.

Cheng Xiao suddenly stopped and hugged Shen Juan.

The atmosphere fell into calm again.

"What? Did it break your previous fantasy?" Shen Juan reached out to embrace Cheng Xiao, gently resting his chin on the top of her head, breathing in the fresh plant fragrance coming from her hair.

After a long while, she said softly, "Not really."

"Then why don't you say anything?"

"Because I was moved by you, what else could it be?" Cheng Xiao raised his head, tears seemed to flash in his eyes, and his voice was a little hoarse and trembling, "I originally thought that you gave me dark chocolate just by accident, but now it seems that everything has a traceable trace. How can someone be so gentle? It seems that we only met for the first time that day."

Shen Juan did not continue the conversation on the topic that made her cry, fearing that their rare meeting would turn into a sentimental meeting, so she quickly started a new topic:

"Xiao Xiao, what is your ideal life like?"

"Normal stuff, a good life, a great apartment, an interesting job, and then someone who can watch movies and play games and have pets with me."

"That's a bit greedy."

"You say this is my ideal life. If I can't even dream about it, then when can I think about it?"

"So what do you think of me? If you don't mind, I can watch movies, play games and raise pets with you." Shen Juan tried to stretch out his right hand like a classical aristocrat and invite the girl to dance with him.

"Mianmian. Qiangqiang!"

But Cheng Xiao never let go from beginning to end.

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　　This should be the last chapter of 4900 words today. The remaining half chapter will be added to the new chapter tomorrow.
　　(The third volume is about to be published, and I have to take some time to organize the content and make a summary of the second volume "Traffic is King".)

　　
　
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