Huayu 1995

Chapter 153 I am your martial uncle (Seeking monthly votes at the end of the month)
Little did Su Chao know that the first batch of trainees were all secretly planning to take advantage of him, the principal, for free.

He is still diligently interviewing each and every candidate.

"I'm sorry, our teaching content overlaps too much with your strengths and won't be of much help to you. You don't meet our admission requirements. I hope you have a successful art exam and get into your ideal university."

I rejected another one.

Su Chao wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief.

September is rarely hot, but the lingering heat of late summer should not be underestimated.

It's almost dark and still so muggy; it looks like it might rain tonight.

Someone handed him a handkerchief, otherwise he would have had to wipe his sweat with his sleeve.

"Isn't the rejection rate too high?"

Guo Xiaofeng was organizing the list on the side.

Yan Danchen, Tian Zheng, He Lin, Cheng Lisha...

There were only seven or eight people in total.

Today, Su Chao interviewed more than sixty art exam candidates.

"There will definitely be many more tomorrow, no rush. We'll take eighteen people this time, leaving two or three slots for flexibility."

Su Chao still adheres to the principle of valuing quality over quantity.

They either have some recollection of them, or they are truly skilled.

Su Chao doesn't rely entirely on his reborn memories for interviews; he can roughly gauge a candidate's abilities with a little testing.

"Um... hello, my name is Wu Yue, I'd like to ask if they hire martial arts instructors here."

A person stood at the doorway and spoke in the gradually darkening twilight.

"Martial arts? We don't teach martial arts."

Guo Xiaofeng responded to him.

“Wu Yue…” Su Chao sized him up and asked, “Is he the Wuying-level athlete who was just awarded the title a couple of years ago?”

"You know me?"

Wu Yue was also sizing up Su Chao; the way Su Chao was sitting there looked somewhat familiar.

"The youngest Wuying-level athlete, you're still active, right? Why are you looking for a job? If your coach finds out, you'll be in big trouble."

Su Chao certainly knew this guy.

Wu Yue is actually a year older than Su Chao. He started learning martial arts at the age of five and has been practicing for over ten years.

“My parents have been laid off, and I spend money quickly, so I want to find some work to earn a living.”

Seeing that Su Chao knew him so well, Wu Yue didn't beat around the bush.

"The art exam preparation class doesn't teach martial arts, but you can come for a martial arts interest class one day a week, and I'll give you 100 yuan."

Although he is a national martial arts champion, he cannot charge too high a fee for his lessons.

Duan Yihong and Li Jie have only just raised their prices to thirty yuan.

"Oh, okay, okay, thank you so much!"

One hundred dollars a week, that's four hundred dollars a month, and there's no limit on which days he can attend classes. It's really considerate for someone who's currently in active duty and needs to participate in training frequently.

"Why don't you fill out a form too? You can come and listen to classes whenever you have time. If you can't make it as an athlete in the future, you can apply to a performing arts academy."

Su Chao pointed to the stone bench next to him.

Wu Yue paused for a moment, scratched his head, and then obediently went to fill out the form.

"Brother Chao?"

Guo Xiaofeng was puzzled.

The boss isn't some pushover, so why is he treating this kid so well?

"The second batch of students is too weak."

Su Chao doesn't want Dream Home to be a flash in the pan. If the gap between the first and second cohorts is too big, it will be difficult to recruit students for the third cohort next year.

Dream Home receives payments every six months.

The reason for accepting two consecutive sessions is that when we first started the training courses, there were too many gaps in this field that needed to be filled, just like a land grab.

"I understand."

The second batch of students was too weak, so they recruited a national martial arts champion to bolster their reputation.

"Ha ha……"

Su Chao patted him on the shoulder.

Brother, you don't understand anything.

There are two main reasons for giving Wu Yue a chance:
One of them is Wu Yue, who mainly practices Bajiquan.

Su Chao and he were from the same school.

Moreover, they all follow the same patterns found in Hebei. If you carefully follow the steps, he will most likely become Wu Yue's senior uncle.

Another point is that he genuinely hopes his students can learn a little bit of martial arts.

No real combat experience is required, nor is it necessary to become an action star.

Just learn a little bit.

When showcasing movements, don't make them all slow motion.

Although it was the martial arts choreographer's fault, the actors were incompetent; they had ideas but couldn't bring them to fruition.

Many actors, especially actresses, look stiff and lifeless when suspended by wires, like corpses that have been frozen for several days.

Su Chao didn't run this training course to show off.

The first reason was for money, and the second was to enhance their own influence and make it easier to find actors for their films.

If he wants to film a movie in the future and needs actors who can perform certain specific actions, he can just look for them in the training program's roster.

That evening, Su Chao continued to sing at karaoke bars to earn some money to supplement his meager finances.

If I save up a little more, I can pay Thor back his money.

Although he currently has 90,000 yuan, no one knows when they might need the money. With only 30,000 yuan left, Su Chao feels insecure.

I'm terrified of being poor.

But when you owe someone money, you feel insecure and can't stand up straight. You even feel guilty if you steal a glance at them.

After paying back the money, you can watch it whenever you want.

Watch openly and honestly!

The interviews for the second cohort of trainees continued the next day.

Interviewing candidates is like opening a blind box; no one knows who will be there.

Even though he had a rough list of the 96 class from the three major universities in his mind, Su Chao still felt it was a bit outrageous when he saw Chen Kun.

What are you here for?

However, on second thought, since Zhang Ziyi could come, what reason could Yang Kun or Chen Kun have not to be here?

It wouldn't be surprising to even see Huang Xiaoming.

They weren't expelled from the community.

Many later press releases stated that Chen Kun was admitted to the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe and accompanied a colleague to the Beijing Film Academy for the entrance exam. The colleague failed to get in, but Chen Kun was unexpectedly accepted.

That's pretty absurd.

The Beijing Film Academy is not easy to get into.

Moreover, the entire process involves several rounds of exams, and academic performance is also required.

It's not like they went to an audition; there's no way the person who accompanied them wouldn't be accepted.

Chen Kun must have started preparing for the art college entrance exam at this time.

He was a resident singer at a bar and had plenty of money, so it was perfectly reasonable for him to give a try after hearing about a reliable training course.

I just don't know if he likes men or women now.

"Lance?"

Chen Kun didn't expect to see Su Chao here. Isn't Su Chao Casablanca's star player?

I heard they've already signed with Red Star Production and will be releasing an album soon.

That would naturally mean debuting as a singer.

Why are you holding training courses here?

"Have you been to Casablanca?"

Su Chao understood immediately upon hearing the address.

However, he felt no shame; he went to Casablanca to sing, not to sell himself.

Even if it's for sale...

Okay, that's not an assumption.

Seeing the homeroom teacher in a KTV room would be going too far.

“Yes, I’ve sung in other nightclubs and I’ve been to Casablanca with other people to hear you sing,” Chen Kun said with a self-deprecating laugh. “I was originally thinking of asking you to help me write a song, but then I heard that you sell a song for 120,000 yuan, so I gave up completely. Anyway, I’m not that interested in singing.”

"So, you're here to sign up for the training course?"

What else could Su Chao say? His training course had already made a name for itself.

Almost the entire art exam circle in Beijing knows about it.

Especially recently, Andy Lau visited the classroom to share his own journey of struggle.

Li Baotian also provided face-to-face instruction to the trainees.

These are people that no training class in China can hire. Andy Lau's appearance fee is hundreds of thousands, but Li Baotian wouldn't even give you a second thought, no matter how much money you offer.

As for Chang Li's one-on-one tutoring, that's just too outrageous; nobody believes it at all.

"Yes, I heard there's an interview involved... Shall we start now?"

Chen Kun perked up.

"You've been accepted into the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, so there's really not much to interview about. If you're interested in joining the class, just go over there and fill out the form."

After thinking about it, Su Chao decided not to refuse Chen Kun.

This guy's acting skills aren't exactly top-notch, but he does have some decent roles.

He has been nominated for the Golden Rooster and Golden Horse Awards and won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor.

As for other rumors about sexual orientation, Su Chao had no interest in using them as criteria for student admission.

As long as you don't try anything with him, it's fine.

Besides Chen Kun, Niu Qingfeng, Liu Mu, Li Xinyu, and Zhang Tong were also quite famous on the second day.

Some people have very simple ideas.

I've heard this training course is really amazing. If others attend it, what if I don't? Will I fail the exam?

With the addition of Li Xinyu and Zhang Tong, five of the so-called "Eight Golden Flowers of the Central Academy of Drama" have now joined.

The first batch included Zhang Ziyi, Qin Hailu, and Yuan Quan; the second batch included Zhang Tong and Li Xinyu.

In fact, Su Chao was constantly on edge.

He was terrified of seeing things like Zhao Yanzi.

Even if we don't say she's a born bad person, she certainly has no bottom line.

Fortunately, I haven't seen it yet.

But when Su Chao saw the miniature version of Fan Xuexue, he felt that God still hadn't let him off the hook.

"You're only fourteen. Isn't it a bit too early to be planning for art exams?"

Su Chao was thinking about how to refuse her.

If it's definitely not a good fit, you can't take the exam if you're too young.

And they look more like they're there to cause trouble.

(End of this chapter)