Abstract Art Award Winner

Chapter 155 Come, Insult Me

The people in the orchestra noticed something was wrong at the first moment, but they were just invited, and the people sitting on the stage and in the audience were all celebrities.

The others immediately looked at the team leader, who just shook his head calmly.

Because everyone's eyes were on Zhou Le at the moment, no one noticed anything unusual on the orchestra's side.

Besides, Zhou Le is playing solo at this moment.

At first, the team leader thought that Zhou Le would play the entire song "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix". After all, in such an occasion, it would be too bold for an artist to openly sing to the brand. But he didn't expect that Zhou Le would only play the first part and then immediately go back to "Monkey Show".

And the members of the orchestra naturally followed suit.

When the song ended, Zhou Le bowed slightly to indicate that he had finished playing, and applause broke out from the audience.

In terms of professional level, Zhou Le plays the instrument quite well, with long breath and melodious tunes.

Move first, then be still, then move again.

After the performance, Zhou Le returned to his seat safely.

This was also the last performance session. After that, everyone started to have free time, talking to each other and taking photos.

However, few artists came to Zhou Le to take photos. At most, they would meet, chat briefly, and then leave in a hurry.

In contrast, the other wealthy women who attended the dinner were more interested in Zhou Le.

In contrast, they came purely to attend the dinner. They had no purpose of promoting themselves, nor did they need to help the brand with publicity. They were able to come simply because their purchasing power was strong enough.

"Mr. Zhou is really a handsome man."

"You're welcome, sister. You are very elegant, especially with what you are wearing today."

"Hahaha, really? How about adding WeChat?"

"Okay."

After going around, Zhou Le added a lot of people on WeChat.

During this period, some wealthy women hinted that they could develop the relationship further and that resources would be easy to come by in the future, but Zhou Le did not agree to any of them. After all, he had no idea in this regard.

If I really wanted to deeply interpret the flower language of steel wool, I could have gone there a long time ago. There was no need to wait until now.

After chatting for a while, Zhou Le still felt a little bored. After all, chatting with these people was somewhat tiring, and every word between them seemed to have some purpose.

It's so boring.

In the end, Zhou Le moved a chair and sat at the door to chat with the security guard there.

"Brother, are you usually tired working here?"

"It's okay. After all, we make money. Compared to others, our salary is already very high."

The security guard has been working here for so long, but this is the first time he has encountered a customer like Zhou Le who actively comes to chat with him.

"That's fine, but I don't think you're that old. Where are you from?"

"I'm from Hubei and went to school here. It was hard to find a job after graduation, so I ended up coming here to work as a security guard."

"Well, that's not bad. It saves me forty years of detours. However, if I want to develop in the future, it's better to find a job that can provide advancement. Of course, making money is also very important now. There are many wealthy women coming and going on a daily basis. Do you have any ideas in this regard?"

"Brother Le, I'm just a security guard."

"Hey, don't underestimate yourself. Although you're a security guard right now, you must be good at something. You need to be smart when you're working. That way you'll have more room for advancement. Just don't offend people like me."

"Haha, Brother Le, what are you talking about? You played the suona really well just now."

"Really? I'll ask who recorded it later, and then I'll upload it and post it on TikTok."

The security guard hesitated after hearing this, but after thinking for a while, he said, "Brother, although I'm just a security guard, I've been working here for a while. In fact, I've seen things like today, but no one has ever stood up for the people under your command like you do."

"Haha, maybe I'm still relatively young."

“I think this is really good.”

"It's okay. If you think it's good, then try to be that kind of person in the future. But before you do it, you should also think of a way out for yourself."

"I understand. Thank you, Brother Le."

"It's okay, I was just talking nonsense. You should decide what to do based on your own situation. Okay, I won't talk to you anymore. I'll go talk to them for a while."

After Zhou Le finished speaking, he dragged the stool back away.

However, when the security guard looked at Zhou Le's back, a hint of confusion flashed in his eyes.

Although Yin Zheng didn't dare to say much at the dinner table, he still got to know a lot of people through the introductions of Nazha and Reba.

Moreover, Yin Zheng knew clearly that the reason why these two Xinjiang artists helped to introduce him was actually because of Zhou Le's face.

Finally, when the dinner came to an end, Zhou Le clearly saw that some male artists had begun to flirt with those rich women. Although they did not take the same car when they left, and were not even heading in the same direction, he knew that someone would always come back in the end.

Patting Yin Zheng on the shoulder, he asked, "How's it going? How many WeChat friends did you add today?"

"More than twenty were added, and they are all quite impressive."

"That's good. If there's something to gain, it means this trip wasn't in vain."

"Yes, but we did receive the goods, but you have also offended everyone you should have offended."

"It's okay. When we need to exchange benefits in the future, who will remember what happened today?"

"Will you still be able to exchange interests with Cartier in the future?"

"That can't be done."

At this moment, Yu Shuxin, Tian Xiwei, Meng Ziyi and others also came out.

Especially Tian Xiwei, when she saw Zhou Le, she quickened her pace and her eyes turned red.

"Brother Le, thank you for today. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have offended them."

"It's okay. I, your brother Le, also have capital. Although it's only a small amount now, we don't have much use for them. It's okay to offend them, but you still have to survive in the circle in the future. If you really go on stage today, no one will look down on you in the future."

"But what about you?"

"Me? I have no shame, what am I afraid of?"

Hearing this, Tian Xiwei's eyes became even redder and tears overflowed from the corners of her eyes. As a result, she reached out to wipe them, but instead the corners of her eyes turned black.

"Look at you. We had a free meal today, and it even gave me a chance to vent. Why are you crying?"

"I didn't cry."

"Hey, look at you now. You'll be laughed at if you go out. Hurry up and get in the car. Go back and have a good sleep. Just pretend what happened today never happened."

After watching the three of them get in a car back to the hotel, Zhou Le also looked at Zhou Ye standing beside him.

"What did you learn from this incident today?"

Zhou Ye thought for a moment and said, "First, I have to protect the people around me. Second, I have to kill anyone I dislike."

Zhou Le: “.”

"Who taught you these things?"

Zhou Ye said as a matter of course: "That's what Sister Shuxin said. What you said just now was meaningful, and Sister Shuxin was translating for us below."

"Hey, don't listen to that. What you should learn is that the reason I could act like that on stage today is because I had no intention of getting anything from them in the future. Besides, we were in the right in this matter."

Zhou Ye nodded thoughtfully.

It’s just that there are a lot of things happening tonight, and the paparazzi also know about tonight’s dinner, so paparazzi from various agencies have been dispatched and are following the artists’ cars very closely.

There were also paparazzi staying up late outside the hotels where the artists were staying, keeping watch.

So Nazha and Reba did not take advantage of the middle of the night to secretly look for Zhou Le.

After Zhou Le returned to the hotel, he first settled Zhou Ye down and asked him to go back to bed early as he would fly to Chengdu early the next morning. Then, after taking a shower, he lay on the bed and picked up his phone to send a message to Reba.

"Thank you for the invitation today, Sister Reba. I had a great meal. Next time when you are free, I will take you out for food and drinks again if you treat me."

At this time, Reba had just returned to the hotel and changed into pajamas.

She was changing clothes here, while her assistant was outside helping to hang up the dress she was wearing today.

Hearing the phone ring, the assistant subconsciously took a look.

After thinking for a moment, she called out, "Sister Reba, Teacher Zhou sent you a message."

Hearing this, Di Lieba immediately ran out of the bedroom and picked up her mobile phone.

Seeing the content of the message, a smile appeared on his face. The assistant couldn't help sighing in his heart, thinking that such an outstanding and beautiful girl like Reba Sister had fallen for her so much. I really don't know what's so good about Zhou Le. Obviously, they just took her to a snack street and went to Disneyland once, but Reba Sister would mention Zhou Le all day long and ask about Zhou Le's recent situation.

After seeing the words "eat, drink and have fun", Reba couldn't help but blush.

For a moment, she even felt that the first three of these four words were verbs and the last one was a noun.

"He's so stingy, he always asks me to treat him."

Even though he was muttering to himself, his hands were still very honest and he sent a "OK" signal.

"Sister Reba, I think you might not be able to snatch Na Zha away from you. After all, they're closer. Otherwise, why don't you consider other handsome guys in the circle?"

"What are you talking about? Who am I considering? I'm not thinking about it that way. Don't talk nonsense."

The assistant sighed even more loudly in his heart. Now Sister Reba is the most typical example of someone who says one thing but does another.

Especially every time when he heard the latest news about Zhou Le, his eyes were wide open.

At the same time, the young assistant was thinking in his heart that if he were a man, he would be valued so much by Reba, and he would guarantee that Jr would only serve Reba in this life.

On the other side, Zhou Le and Reba chatted for a while, and the conversation ended after Reba went to take a shower. Then Zhou Le took a photo of the bracelet and sent it to Nazha.

"Thank you for the bracelet, Auntie. It really gave me a lot of face today. When I saw those people looking at my wrist from time to time while chatting with me, I felt so proud."

Because they did not take the same car when they came back, Zhou Le also asked Yu Shuxin about the value of the bracelet that Nazha gave her.

"It's probably around two million, but depending on the year, for example, if it's from the Qing Dynasty, it could be three or four million."

"Well, let's see if there are any commemorative gifts later."

Zhou Le thought to himself.

"As long as you like it, if there's anything else you like in the future, just tell me and I'll buy it for you."

Nazha also looks like a rich lady.

"No, I'm not the kind of person who likes to live off others."

But Nazha quickly sent an expression of encouragement.

"You say you don't like to eat soft rice now, it's just because the rice you eat is not soft enough. I will work hard."

Seeing this, Zhou Le quickly replied with a "come on" and said he was going to sleep.

But he couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning in bed, so Zhou Le called Tan Siyun again.

"Hey, are you asleep?"

"No, but how come you have time to call me? Are you not filming anymore?"

"I've almost finished filming the scenes I'm working on. I just attended a luxury dinner tonight and offended a lot of people, so I came to show off to you."

"Ah, why are you still like that? Honestly, if I were you, I would have promised Yang Mi to offend fewer people. If you really offend someone powerful one day, you won't even have a place to cry."

"It's okay. If I really offend that kind of person, the worst that can happen is that I'll follow you to sell buns. You'll be in charge of the cashier, and I'll be in charge of the performance. I'll work for you then."

"Don't do that. Just be a star. I can't afford to pay you if you come to work for me."

"Hahaha, just give me anything, but I want to visit you after some time, after all, we haven't seen each other for a long time."

"Come on, but you have to be careful now."

After chatting with Tan Siyun for a while, Zhou Le felt much calmer inside. As they were chatting, Zhou Le felt his eyelids starting to droop, and he fell asleep soon after.

Tan Siyun listened to the slight breathing sound coming from the other end of the phone, gently put the phone aside, closed her eyes and went to sleep.

When she woke up at around four in the morning, she saw that the microphone was still connected, but she was about to get up and go to the store to help her parents knead dough and make dumplings.

That's why I hung up the phone reluctantly.

Zhou Le was woken up by Zhou Ye the next morning.

Although Zhou Ye's personality is a little more naughty than Yu Shuxin, he feels more distant than Yu Shuxin.

After knocking on the door for a long time and finding that no one opened it, she took out the room card and swiped it in. She saw that Zhou Le was indeed sleeping, so she woke Zhou Le up according to what Yu Shuxin had told her before.

But just when Zhou Le was changing his clothes, he ran outside to wait.

After Zhou Le got up, he put the suitcase that had been packed the day before into the car while Zhou Le was getting dressed.

Then he went back and asked Zhou Le to go downstairs for breakfast together.

After eating, Zhou Le first drove his POLO back to the underground garage of Han Han’s residential complex, and then took the business car that had been arranged yesterday to the airport, ready to go to Chongqing.

Zhou Ye was a little nervous on the road, after all, this was her first time auditioning for such an important role in a movie.

Although she is the second female lead, the first female lead is Zhou Dongyu after all.

It's not shameful to be ranked lower than others.

Her only worry was that she couldn't even get the chance to audition for the second female lead role.

After all, he had come all the way here. If he really couldn't get the role, wouldn't it be embarrassing for Brother Le?
However, Zhou Ye had already contacted his company's driver before coming, so he got in the car as soon as he left the airport.

Go straight to the audition site.

Zeng Guoxiang's father is Zeng Zhiwei. He has been surrounded by big names since he was a child. After his debut as an actor, he had amazing resources. Later, he became fascinated with being a director. It was because of his father that he embarked on the path of directing.

He won many awards for his role in "Soulmate", and this time he is working with Zhou Dongyu again to make a movie about school bullying.

Although he also wanted Zhou Dongyu to inherit the style of the first step, and then play the second female lead in a more evil way, the choice of the female lead has not been decided yet. Although there are some actresses of the younger generation who can surpass Zhou Dongyu, Zhou Dongyu has developed to this point, so how could she be willing to play the second female lead with her contemporaries?
Considering Zhou Dongyu's acting skills, she is more than qualified to play the leading female role, so he decided to cast Zhou Dongyu as the leading female role.

But when Ma Sichun, who played the second female lead in "Soul Mate", was in Qingdao, Zeng Guoxiang invited her to play a vicious female student. She was not very willing to agree. The reason was still the same: she was worried that her path would be narrowed.

So he had no choice but to contact others again, and after repeated setbacks, he had no choice but to send the message to several groups.

At this moment, he was looking at the electronic resume sent by Zhou Ye with a frown, because judging from the photo alone, although Zhou Ye was not too sweet, at a glance, he did not seem to be vicious either.

What's more, Zhou Ye is only a junior this year and hasn't even graduated yet. He is only twenty years old.

According to the resume, I have filmed a movie before, but it has not been released yet.

This made him a little worried about Zhou Ye's acting skills.

It was not until the staff came to tell him that Zhou Le and Zhou Ye had arrived that he put down his resume and went out to greet them.

"Ah, Teacher Zhou, I've heard so much about you."

"Director Zeng, you're too polite. 'Soulmate' was one of my favorite movies back then."

"Haha, come on, please come in."

After entering the office, Zeng Guoxiang planned to get straight to the point. After all, there was no role suitable for Zhou Le in this movie. Although he was polite, choosing the role should still be the first priority.

"Come on, introduce yourself."

After entering, Zhou Le pushed Zhou Ye to the front.

After Zhou Ye generously introduced himself, Zeng Guoxiang asked a few simple questions and then talked about this role.

"Teacher Zhou, would it be convenient for her to perform a scene?"

"of course can."

Zhou Le then looked at Zhou Ye: "Come on, insult me."

Zhou Ye understood.

And at this moment, Zhou Ye's expression changed again.

He immediately used the same trick he had used in the hotel to attack Zhou Le.

In Zeng Guoxiang's eyes, Zhou Ye instantly changed from a sunny and good girl to a vicious schoolgirl.

Moreover, the contrast between the before and after made him feel that Zhou Ye and the role of Wei Lai were more suitable.

When he is not doing bad things, he seems harmless, but when he is bad, even a bystander like him hates him to the core.

It's the kind of badness that strikes directly at the soul.

"Okay, I was a little worried before, but now I just want to ask Mr. Zhou Ye, when can I join the group?"

Zhou Ye looked at Zhou Le again at this time.

"Anytime." Zhou Le replied with a smile.

(End of this chapter)