Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 45 How can I not accept the benefits?
Cheng Xiao is currently the top female member of Le Hua.

Although it's a bit strange for a company whose artists are all obscure to follow others in selecting the top male and female stars, from the perspective of popularity, she is indeed the one who has developed the best at the moment.

One person can heal the whole group and it is not just talk.

Cheng Xiao currently has enough popularity and confidence in South Korea to support Le Hua in using this sentence for marketing.

However, even though Cheng Xiao had a lot of work experience and had seen many big scenes before, he still attached great importance to today's job of shooting the movie theme song MV.

Because according to her agent and her immediate superior Du Hua, the company currently values Shen Juan, the returning idol who created a talent show storm in South Korea some time ago, and has allocated a lot of resources to him during this period.

He was also very competitive and soon became a topic of discussion in the domestic entertainment fan circle, becoming another supernova.

So she felt that if Shen Juan developed well in the future, she might also be able to attract a lot of attention through this MV and gain more opportunities for upward development.

As the situation between China and South Korea gradually heats up and the domestic entertainment market gradually expands, it has never been a secret that the company intends to let them leave the team and return to China for development:
Since the second half of last year, the company has often asked her, Wu Xuanyi and Meng Meiqi to take leave during the group's free periods to return to China to participate in major ceremonies and variety shows, to show their faces in front of domestic audiences and pave the way for their future return to China.

Meng Meiqi, who had been supporting Yu Shao before, was directly called by Du Hua to film a movie during the group's rising period.

从16年11月到17年3月，连拍三部电影《初恋的滋味》（女配）、《舞出我人生6》（女主）和《蓝色生死恋》（女配）。

Although Cheng Xiao, who believes that she has no talent or interest in acting, did not intend to seek film and television resources for herself in this way, no matter how optimistic and reluctant she is, she feels that it is time to find a way out for herself after returning to China.

After reaching the top of the mountain, no one wants to fall into the valley.

If possible, who wouldn't want to live a glorious and worry-free life walking on the flowery path?

After finishing her makeup, Cheng Xiao opened her eyes again at the call of the makeup artist, and what came into her sight was the handsome and charming face not far away that made countless girls fall in love.

"Has Miss Cheng finally finished her makeup?"

Shen Juan put on a warm and appropriate smile, stood up from the sofa and greeted: "Hello, I'm Shen Juan."

"Ah, hello, hello, I'm Cheng Xiao. Don't call me Teacher Cheng, it's awkward." Cheng Xiao hurriedly stood up from his seat and bowed respectfully to Shen Juan, not considering himself as Shen Juan's senior at all.

Seeing this, Shen Juan decided to take back his previous words that South Korea's bowing etiquette was a bad culture. It seemed that their bowing habit was really useful at certain specific moments.

like now
Cheng Xiao was wearing a loose white T-shirt today. When he bowed, the collar was exposed to large shadows and gaps due to the influence of gravity. From Shen Juan's perspective, the tender and plump cleavage was clearly visible.

Although Shen Juan was a little stunned, he still looked calmly at the huge evil that was touching his heart.

He is not Liu Xiahui who can remain calm when a beautiful woman offers herself to him, or an innocent novice who gets shy and flustered when he sees a woman. There is no reason for him not to accept the benefit that a beautiful girl offers to him.

After all, the most important thing for people is to face the desires in their hearts and try to reconcile with them.

This is the only way to control them well.

Instead of becoming a puppet controlled by them.

Moreover, pretending to be a gentleman and turning your head to the side at this time will only make the other person feel shy and embarrassed when they realize what is happening.

Based on the principle of "less trouble is worse than more trouble", Shen Juan felt that there was no need to complicate simple matters.

Seeing that the conversation had no further development, Cheng Xiao thought that she had not noticed Shen Juan before, which made him wait unhappily, so she quickly said apologetically: "Have you been waiting here for a long time? I was closing my eyes to catch up on sleep while putting on makeup just now. I'm so sorry that I didn't see you."

"It's okay, I just got here not long ago, and I didn't say anything to disturb you when I saw you were putting on makeup." Shen Juan smiled and comforted her, "Besides, we are of the same age, there's no need to be so distant. Just think of it as meeting a new friend today." "Yeah." Cheng Xiao nodded, thinking that this boy in front of him with a gentle smile and soft voice would be a good partner.

All preparations are ready and the MV shooting officially begins.

The male lead, Shen Juan, is a top-notch fishing-type handsome man who has made a large number of Korean women collectively betray their country and threaten to marry into a flower-growing family in the next life just by relying on his looks. The female lead, Cheng Xiao, is also currently recognized as the best-looking female artist in the company. Coupled with the sweet interactions between the good-looking young couple that make people smile, it is really hard not to like this MV.

Unfortunately, the MV director is an ultimate scumbag who has been in the industry for many years and would rather do nothing than make mistakes.

So he simply didn't arrange a story plot, and just let the male and female protagonists follow his command and dispatch, and collected the footage of their sweet interaction and edited it into the MV feature film.

So Shen Juan, wearing a blue jacket, and Cheng Xiao, wearing a red jacket, laughed, chased and played in the yard under the gentle and warm sunshine above their heads.

To be honest, it's quite embarrassing.

After all, this was only the first time the two of them met, and the awkwardness they felt when getting along with each other was hard to erase.

The instructions given by the director were not clear enough. He just asked them to act out the atmosphere of a couple and believed that they could do it. He kept giving them chicken soup and tried to make themselves look like the famous NBA coach Rivers.

So inevitably there were a lot of problems in the early stages of filming, and the filming was paused many times. Of course, the main problem lay with the heroine Cheng Xiao, who had little experience in filming.

Just like now, the director called for cut again.

"Xiao Cheng, your expression and movements are too stiff."

"what?"

“Be as natural as possible in front of the camera.”

"oh oh."

Cheng Xiao frowned in confusion at first, then nodded in agreement, obviously not understanding the director's instructions.

It's normal, it's like this because I have little experience in filming.

There are many times when I feel good about myself and think that I have expressed the right emotions in this scene.

But in the eyes of others, on the monitor in front of the director, it just feels like it’s not enough.

This is because everyone's facial expressions and the amount of emotion they express are different, so finding the node that satisfies the director often requires experience to summarize.

"Are you too nervous facing Xiao Shen? It's understandable. I was also so nervous when I met Joey Wong in person that I couldn't speak. Afterwards, my friends complained that I was pretending to be cool." The director said half-complainingly and half-jokingly.

This statement caused laughter from everyone around, and Cheng Xiao felt embarrassed and ashamed: "I'm really not nervous."

When Shen Juan was still filming in Wuhan, Uncle Mao would often use him to tease Tian Xiwei. Every time they had a NG during a scene, he would use a loud speaker to ask, "Xiao Tian, did you see that Xiao Juan is nervous?" This always made the girl feel helpless and furious, and she would take it out on him, her partner.

Therefore, Shen Juan had long been accustomed to this kind of scene, and even helped everyone tease Cheng Xiao with a mischievous look on his face:
"It's okay, Mr. Cheng. It's only morning now and we still have a long day. At most, we can just take a few more shots."

Looking at Shen Juan's clear and sincere eyes, Cheng Xiao suddenly felt more embarrassed and could only explain while laughing: "I'm really not nervous, and it's not because you're nervous. You're very handsome, but I'm not a fangirl."

She originally wanted to say that she had even seen South Korea's new handsome man Cha Eun-woo, but after looking at him carefully from such a close distance, she found that Cha Eun-woo's face was obviously far inferior to Shen Juan's, so she swallowed the words back silently.

(End of this chapter)