Have you ever been a celebrity? Why are you writing about entertainment?

Chapter 68 You call this bad acting?

"I'll go write after watching this video."

Lemon-flavored instant noodles rolled over, and the charging cable on the bedside table suddenly tightened, pulling the phone out of his hand and hitting him squarely on the chin.

"Damn it, I forgot to charge it."

After feeling the pain, he sat up instantly. His phone rolled to the side and accidentally refreshed automatically, turning from a marketing short video into a children's chorus.

The melody of "Riding the Waves" filled the air from his phone. He rubbed his face, and most of the resentment in his heart disappeared...

This song is still great. He listened to it many times last night. It seems that it was recorded by big data and refreshed the homepage again.

"I'll go start writing after I finish listening."

It can only be said that all online novel authors are the same; procrastination is ingrained in their bones. He is like this, and I suppose his fellow writers who sing this song are the same.

He still pays close attention to Yu Wei. Compared to other celebrities, Yu Wei, who is also an online novelist, is obviously more approachable. It's like a college student has emerged from the village.

From the perspective of his peers, he is absolutely admirable. He is so busy with his main job in real life, yet he releases new songs one after another and continues to update his novels. This alone makes him better than many of his peers.

The online literature community has a clear view of Yu Wei: he can't seize the existing online literature market; on the contrary, he will bring many new users to the platform, which is a great achievement.

Of course, there will be a small number of authors who hold conspiracy theories, claiming that Yu Wei's book popularity is due to the celebrity effect and is disrupting the industry... These kinds of authors are unlikely to even pass the manuscript review, and their sour grapes are overflowing.

To put it simply, the people who keep saying things like "the platform is doomed," "AI will replace authors," "editors are blind," and "the geniuses copied my ideas" are probably the same group of people.

Of the more than 500,000 favorites of Yu Wei's book, 80% are new readers. It's no exaggeration to say that he is an industry role model for attracting so many new users, yet he is still being sour.

“That sounds really nice.”

Lately, I've been listening to Yu Wei's songs while writing, and sometimes I get so engrossed in listening that I don't even write much.

When readers criticize him for not updating enough, he blames it on Yu Wei!

He glanced at the comments section of the video and found that few people were talking about the song; instead, everyone was discussing the acting. He was puzzled and wondered what was so interesting to discuss.

He saw these comments last night, saying that Yu Wei is good in every way except for his acting skills, and when asked, they said they hoped Yu Wei could develop in all aspects.

Many of these comments are just bandwagoning. They haven't even watched the show, but after seeing others analyze Yu Wei's acting, they feel like they understand it, and then when they see videos or posts related to Yu Wei, they want to show off their understanding.

When others are discussing music, they'll say, "Oh, her acting is terrible." When others are discussing Yu Wei's script, they'll say, "Oh, her acting is terrible." They always have to put on an air of being the only one who is sober in a world of drunks.

He's seen too many netizens like this; they believe everything they hear. If you ask them what's wrong with their acting, they'll just stay silent.

"The short film competition results have been announced, I'll continue writing this afternoon."

It was exactly noon, and instead of typing away, I went straight to the official account of the short film competition and planned to watch all 16 short films.

Rather than saying he loves watching it, it's more accurate to say he uses it for research.

Young people these days have such wild imaginations. The cheat code in his last book was learned from a science fiction short film, which barely managed to get a good grade, and it can be considered that he is showing some signs of taking off.

Hopefully, this year's contestants will produce a few dark horses, giving him some good inspiration.

The first short film shown was from the Central Academy of Drama. The work revolves around the fight against fraud by elderly people in rural areas, and it has a lot of realistic significance and humanistic concern.

This is undoubtedly a very good short film, but unfortunately it can't be used as material for online novels.

"I'm building rockets at school? That's really sci-fi."

Then, the lemon-flavored instant noodles clicked on this gimmicky second movie, only to find that it wasn't a real rocket, but a space rocket model.

The rocket also symbolizes the protagonist's dream in this movie, so overall it's quite interesting, at least it's packed with hype.

Oh, it's from Communication University of China. No wonder their technical skills are so top-notch.

"Let me see... Shanghai Jiao Tong University? When did Shanghai Jiao Tong University start making micro-films? Are they from the Broadcasting and Editing major?"

"I hope you can provide me with some material."

With anticipation, I clicked on the movie "Andhadhun" while watching Lemon Flavored Instant Noodles.

The screen slowly lit up, and a piano appeared on the screen, with hammers striking the strings. The background music was a lyrical piano piece that sounded quite nice.

Wow, the quality is really good, so professional.

Then a male voice-over begins, "I rarely perform in public, unless it's a special occasion, for a special audience, like tonight..."

A pianist? That's a great angle.

After the monologue ends, the scene shifts to a man sitting on a sofa. In the dim light, he stares blankly ahead, his eyes empty like a corpse.

He looked somewhat familiar, but he couldn't quite place him.

Just as he thought the man was listening to the male lead's performance, the scene shifted to a naked man sitting at a piano, playing during the male lead's monologue. "Holy crap, Yu Wei!"

I just heard his song, but I know this fellow artist very well. He's handsome with a slightly颓废 (颓废 is a difficult word to translate directly, but it implies a sense of listlessness, apathy, or even decadence) vibe that makes him easy to recognize.

Are the student teams at Jiaotong University really that amazing? They even managed to get Yu Wei to come.

This kid has a pretty good physique...

He didn't care why Yu Wei was acting in the short film, because he noticed that there was a person standing behind the male lead. The suspenseful atmosphere was overwhelming. Then the piano music stopped abruptly, and as the screen went black, a gunshot rang out.

What's happening here?
Before the lemon-flavored instant noodles could even react, the film suddenly shifted to a concert hall, where the male lead, dressed in a tuxedo, was clearly competing.

However, he was too nervous. He was sweating profusely as soon as he started playing, and his trembling hands made it impossible for him to play the melody he wanted.

Yu Wei's acting was so good that I couldn't help but feel nervous for the male lead. Fifteen years of hard work were destroyed in an instant, and the blow was too heavy.

Wait, acting?

Yu Wei's acting was too superb. He had also experienced this kind of tense emotion. The more important the occasion, the more nervous he became. The more nervous he became, the more mistakes he made, and the more nervous he became...

Yes, that's how he did it on his driving test (Part 3).

You call this a lack of acting skills?

It was too early to be surprised by the lemon-flavored instant noodles, because Yu Wei's acting skills were just beginning.

Tormented by the defeat, he began to escape. In a restaurant, he wore dark sunglasses and elegantly ate his meal.

Blind?
He wasn't confused for long. Through a series of conversations between the male protagonist and his boss, he realized that the male protagonist wasn't actually blind, but was pretending to be blind to deceive others' feelings.

After losing the competition, the male protagonist became a piano tuner, specializing in going to people's homes to adjust their pitch.

This identity brought him many benefits; he gained respect, convenience, and his business became increasingly successful.

People are more willing to believe that a blind person has better pitch and will give more tips out of sympathy.

Then the protagonist became addicted. People subconsciously let their guard down in front of blind men, changing clothes and dancing in front of them. He brazenly spied on other people's privacy, and the pleasure brought by this open "voyeurism" made him addicted.

"Wonderful."

I was about to complain about that scumbag, but the words just came out as an exclamation. Is this what a loser's mentality is like?
Yu Wei's performance as a blind man was superb. When he wasn't lying, you couldn't tell he was pretending to be blind at all; he was the very image of an elegant old blind man.

But when he peeks at others through his glasses, the darkness and caution he exudes are startling, even chilling.

"Damn, this acting is giving me PTSD."

I need to be careful when dealing with blind people in the future. What if those visually impaired people around me are also faking it?
However, the protagonist in the movie was soon punished, but not by law, but by fighting evil with evil...

That day, the male protagonist came to a house again to do sound tuning work. He rang the doorbell several times before a woman's voice came from inside.

After the woman learned that he was the sound engineer her husband had hired, she didn't want him to go in. She told him she would pay him again next time he came, but he refused. For some unknown reason, he insisted on going in.

"You're courting death!"

This is understandable, given how accommodating people have always been to him. He can't stand being rejected by others, and clearly, the desire to pry into his privacy has completely consumed him.

This male lead is no longer acceptable.

After the male protagonist entered the room, which was dimly lit, he suddenly slipped and fell to the ground. He panicked when he discovered the bloodstains and hurriedly got up, his body covered in dark red blood.

The male protagonist was terrified, but he could only tremble and take off his clothes under the woman's urging. He had to pretend that he knew nothing, because at this moment he was blind.

He had already seen the man sitting on the sofa. The man had a wound on his temple from which blood was flowing. The man was the same corpse from the beginning of the film.

This is where the dilemma arises: the protagonist can only survive by continuing to pretend to be blind; if his pretense of blindness is exposed, he will surely die.

"With this kind of mentality, it's impossible to hide it."

The lemon-flavored instant noodles immediately revealed the true nature of the film. At the beginning of the movie, the protagonist lost the competition because of his poor mentality, let alone in such a life-or-death situation.

The male protagonist, having tuned the piano, began to play. At that moment, the woman came up behind him, holding a nail gun, the murder weapon, and pointed it at the back of his head.

And so, the male protagonist played the piano naked, the woman pointed a nail gun at him menacingly, and the murdered man sat on the sofa covered in blood...

This is the opening shot of the film. Although the short film ends abruptly, based on the gunshot before the black screen at the beginning, the male protagonist should be dead.

This movie is amazing. The script and the metaphors are far superior to any other short film. Most importantly, Yu Wei's acting is so good it gave me goosebumps.

Anyway, I enjoyed watching the lemon-flavored instant noodles, so I simply forwarded the short film using the trending topic of "Yu Wei's acting skills".

"Heizi speak!"

(End of this chapter)