Huayu 1995

Chapter 115 I Didn't Do Anything (Bonus Chapter for 3200 Monthly Tickets)

After dealing with Lao Wang, Su Chao planned to go back.

There's no need to stay on set and waste time.

Anyway, he's not filming today.

As for watching others act to learn acting skills, it's not actually that useful.

You won't learn anything if you just watch and don't try it yourself.

The only way to improve acting skills is to learn and practice more.

Practice makes perfect.

Everyone thinks Hong Kong actors have great acting skills.

It's not that the people there have noble bloodlines; they actually honed their skills through countless works.

It's such a tiny place, yet it hosts 300 movies a year.

There are plenty of opportunities to exercise.

Maggie Cheung is nicknamed "Zhang Yida" because she makes twelve films a year.

Yes, and there's also Liu Shisan, whom everyone is familiar with.

After finishing work early and heading back, Su Chao started calling on people to record the album.

At this pace, rehearsals can be completed in three days, and then the official recording can begin.

The main reason is that he completed the arrangement and instrument setup, which greatly reduced the workload of the production team.

Then, when they went back that night, Su Chao sat in the back seat and asked Lü Bu a question.

"Abu, do you think life is always this difficult?"

To be honest, Su Chao was a little down.

He knew that life was not always smooth sailing, even for those who were reborn.

What's the point if there's absolutely no excitement?

However, such a high-quality script was right in front of him, and he knew that the movie would be very profitable. If it were made, it would definitely allow him to complete his initial capital accumulation.

But he was powerless to do anything about it.

This is beyond the capabilities of a reborn individual.

"It's hard to do things if you want to, and it's not hard if you don't want to!"

Lü Bu answered loudly.

"Damn, you've got some skill to say that."

Su Chao was quite surprised.

Because of his great ambition, he felt constrained at every turn.

In fact, he earned his first 100,000, filmed his first music video, shot his first commercial, was about to sing his first TV drama theme song, and started producing his first album.

Compared to other migrant workers in Beijing, Su Chao is simply phenomenal.

Huang Bo, Zhou Xun, Lü Bu, and the Guo brothers, all of whom were once migrant workers in Beijing, are now working for Su Chao.

"You should ask me if life has always been this hard, or just when I was a child? And I would answer that it has always been this hard."

Lu Bu laughed heartily.

He works as an extra and has watched quite a few movies.

Now that the training center has a CD player, they often get together to watch pirated CDs when they have free time.

These days, you don't need to buy; there are rentals everywhere.

Before mobile phones became widespread, renting CDs and novels was a popular form of entertainment for many young people.

We continued recording songs that evening.

We spent the whole night practicing together yesterday, and we'll continue rehearsing today.

Xilina also came.

She sang "Return Home" with Su Chao in the album.

The Uyghur girls all seemed quite beautiful; they were a pleasure to look at, and it made me sincerely grateful to Grandpa Zuo.

She is five years older than Su Chao. She entered the PLA Academy of Arts in 83 and became an advertising model for Shiseido's jujube flower perfume in 86.

She's five years older, but she's only twenty-three.

This is the period when she is at the peak of her beauty.

So when they arrived at the rehearsal room, many musicians went over to chat with them.

Thor told Su Chao to keep his distance from these so-called musicians because they had messy lifestyles and some even had bad habits.

They couldn't do anything about Thor.

But it's still enough to fool young girls.

Fortunately, the men in the rehearsal room were a stark contrast. With Su Chao as a point of reference, not only was he handsome, but he also wrote an entire album of songs.

How could any other so-called musician possibly catch the girl's eye?

Even a gentle man like Zhang Yadong, who possesses an innate succubus quality, has lost the charm he once took pride in.

"Did you write this song too? Can I cover it?"

Xilinayi was referring to Su Chao's "Only Love Strangers".

She couldn't tell whether she wanted to cover the song or just wanted to talk to Su Chao more.

Her decisive and straightforward nature gave her the courage to strike up conversations.

"The princess has been chosen."

Su Chao had just arrived here today when Zhang Yadong pulled him aside and told him about the princess's desire to cover the song.

Su Chao certainly wouldn't refuse.

After all, cover songs also require payment, although not as much as the original singers.

Su Chao also covered "Chess Piece".

Everyone's covering each other's songs, no one's going to let anyone else off the hook.

"Ah, how about 'The Moon Caused the Trouble'? You might not know, but my name means 'moon' in Uyghur. This song..."

The girl seemed a little shy when she talked about it.

If she hadn't known it was just a coincidence, upon seeing lyrics like "I admit it's all the moon's fault / The night was so beautiful, you were so gentle / That's why in that instant / I only wanted to grow old with you," this girl might have fallen for it immediately.

Even so, her feelings for Su Chao increased significantly. This probably explains why musical prodigies are said to have an easy time picking up girls.

If Su Chao is willing, he can easily get started.

He must have been quite attracted to Uyghur beauties in his past life, such as Dilraba, Gulnazar, YY, Hanikezi, and so on.

"Haha, what a coincidence... It's okay, you can cover it anytime you want."

Su Chao chuckled twice.

The entire rehearsal room looked at him with the eyes of someone looking at livestock.

This kid has a close relationship with Teacher Lin and is able to invite Teacher Lin, whom no one else can.

Since no one else can catch up, this kid definitely can't either.

Therefore, no one felt resentful.

But now, finally, such a beautiful young girl has come.

Even that kid managed to take it all.

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But Su Chao really didn't do anything.

If he were to do something, his image as a good younger brother in front of Thor would be ruined.

It's better to avoid it at all costs.

Unfortunately, it was unavoidable.

Throughout the rehearsal process, Xilinayi was intentionally or unintentionally getting close to Su Chao.

Especially when we were rehearsing "Return Home" together.

"That time, your unintentional departure / Became my unchanging sorrow for so long / So I turned my heart away from worldly pleasures, only wanting to bring you joy / To accompany you away from loneliness and be free..."

Separated by a mere stream.

The girl's eyes were practically brimming with affection as she looked at Su Chao.

"Too much emotion... I need to be a little more independent emotionally."

Even Zhang Yadong couldn't stand it anymore.

You're just singing a duet, not living together.

It's sticky and gooey, making it impossible for music fans to listen to the music.

"Sorry, let's try again."

Su Chao felt that if he slapped the girl, she probably wouldn't have any feelings for him anymore.

It's possible that love could turn into hate.

"Your voice is really good, very distinctive, and you also know how to compose, no wonder you were able to release an album."

Xilinayi can sing without any problems.

But once they have free time, they immediately revert to their old habits.

"I begged and pleaded with the boss for ages before he finally agreed to release this album..."

Su Chao did not get carried away by the beautiful woman's compliments.

Su Chao believed that she had developed a liking for him because of his talent and appearance.

But to say that she's so in love that she'd die for him and wouldn't marry anyone else is just too absurd.

I feel there's also a "creative" element involved.

This girl was among the first batch of artists to sign with Red Star Production in 1993, but she hasn't released a single album to date.

Besides having to attend classes, not being able to find suitable songs is also a factor.

Not everyone understands creation.

Now I've suddenly encountered a great talent.

If she doesn't take any action, then there's really no point in her continuing to survive in such a complicated entertainment industry.

Unfortunately, even a skilled cook can't cook without rice.

In Su Chao's past life, after singing "Return," this girl also released a song, but unfortunately, it didn't make much of a splash.

Later, he became a TV host.

Later, she left the entertainment industry to get married.

She doesn't have any good songs at all; if she does, they're just mediocre.

Even if the price wasn't high, Su Chao was too lazy to buy it.

I don't want to ruin my reputation for no reason.

Because we arrived early to record the song today, we finished work relatively early as well.

Today was another day I didn't go to a karaoke bar.

If you don't go to karaoke bars, you won't make any money; if you go to karaoke bars, you can't record albums.

That's just how damn messed up it is.

Fortunately, once the album is released, he will be able to relax a lot.

Making money by performing at gigs is much easier than going to karaoke bars every day.

The problem now is that Su Chao has fallen behind in a lot of his classes at the training course.

Short skit assignments are a major obstacle in art college entrance exams.

Many candidates are eliminated here.

If Su Chao keeps refusing to teach and instead uses other people's class time to fill in the gaps, the students who want to improve their skit assignments will definitely have complaints.

Su Chao would assign some written homework to the students in response.

He would then grade them in the evening.

This part wasn't included in the class time, so the students were somewhat appeased.

"These are today's assignments, all of them have been handed in," Guo Xiaofeng handed the assignments to Su Chao, then remembered something else and said, "Today, two groups of students came to ask about the assignments, saying that some of them bought skit assignments from us last time."

"Oh, Tu Songyan..."

Su Chao certainly remembered; it seemed that word of mouth had spread, and business was coming to him automatically.

Little did he know that Tu Songyan had already been caught red-handed by his teacher, and that he too had caught the attention of the teachers at the Central Academy of Drama.

(End of this chapter)