Huayu: That year, I withdrew from the Super Boy competition.

Su Wei opened the door and went out.

Cai Yinong sat on the sofa, watching him close the door, and her lips twitched slightly.

She gave an expression that was hard to decipher—either a smile or something else—then put her legs down, stood up, walked back behind her desk, and picked up the document she had been reading halfway through.

She didn't take the money; she had already mentally settled the matter.

For a newcomer in their first film, the salary is only a few hundred thousand yuan. If the company takes 70%, that's just a little over a hundred thousand yuan.

This amount of money is nothing to Tangren; it's not even enough for a publicity stunt.

But what would you get in return if you left this money to Su Wei?

This is a positive impression of the company from a promising newcomer.

The value of this goodwill in the future is immeasurable.

Anyway, she's guaranteed to make a profit this time.

…………

Su Wei returned to her room with the contract and script.

After putting the contract away, he opened the script.

The first match.

Act one.

The order of appearance of the characters, scene descriptions, and lines.

He started reading from the beginning and watched very attentively.

Occasionally, I would flip back to a previous page to confirm a detail, my finger tracing the lines, silently reciting a couple of lines.

After reading it once, he closed his eyes and let the scenes in the script overlap with the scenes in his memory.

After a moment's recollection, he opened his eyes, reopened the script, and compared it line by line.

Most of them are the same, but there are a few minor differences.

There will likely be some adjustments during the filming process.

After all, a script is not something that remains unchanged.

Once on set, the director changes the script on set, and the actors improvise, which can cause the final product to differ from the script in hand.

He marked these differences in his mind.

Then I flipped through it again from beginning to end, folding corners of every scene featuring Chonglou.

On the third reading, he took out a pen from his drawer and began writing down his thoughts in the blank spaces of the script.

Line by line, word by word.

After writing all that, he turned back to the first page.

Write the words "A Brief Biography of Chonglou" in the blank space on the title page of the script.

Starting with Chonglou's first appearance, the backstory of this character is recounted—

This includes his relationship with Fei Peng, his obsession with Fei Peng's reincarnation, and the reasons behind his few emotional fluctuations.

When he couldn't continue writing, he would flip back in time, reread the relevant scenes, and then continue writing.

Before I knew it, the light outside the window had changed from bright white to warm gold.

He rotated his slightly sore wrist, put down his pen, picked up the biography, and read it through from beginning to end.

Finally, feeling that everything was alright, he closed the script, picked up his water glass from the table, and took a sip of water.

Su Wei wasn't pretending to do these things.

Rather, he felt that doing so would help him get into the character of Chonglou as quickly as possible.

Although the director wouldn't say anything as long as his acting wasn't too outrageous, he still wanted to give it his all in his first role.

After lunch, Su Wei returned to her room and leaned against the headboard to flip through the script for a while.

After watching for a while, he picked up his phone and called Cai Yinong.

"Mr. Cai, I'd like to visit the film set this afternoon and experience the atmosphere of filming on location."

Cai Yinong thought for about two seconds on the other end of the phone and then agreed.

"Okay. Learn and observe as much as you can when you get on set, but don't disrupt the filming process."

"it is good."

Not long after hanging up the phone, Cai Yinong had someone bring him a work ID.

In the afternoon, Su Wei took the work pass and went to the film set.

The filming location is near the Qin Palace; he even went there to explore it last time he visited.

However, he remembered that the place was deserted and there weren't many people there.

But when I got off the bus and walked to the door today, it was completely different from the day before.

Cars were parked on both sides of the road, and equipment boxes were piled up like small mountains.

Tracks were laid all over the ground, and power lines crisscrossed horizontally and vertically.

There were staff members wearing black T-shirts standing at every corner.

Some people carried light stands and jogged past, some squatted in the corner to cool off, and some were holding walkie-talkies and shouting, "Is Unit B in position yet?"

Before he even stepped inside, he could already sense an atmosphere completely different from that of the school's rehearsal room.

When rehearsing at school, it's just a few people behind closed doors. If you make a mistake, you can start over. No one rushes you, and time isn't that tight.

But it's different here.

Everyone's movements were imbued with a sense of urgency.

Su Wei straightened her work ID and walked inside.

As he walked through a door, his pace unconsciously slowed.

A film is being shot in the main scene.

Hu Ge was wearing a dark costume and a wig, standing in the middle of the set.

Li Guoli sat behind the monitor next to him, wearing headphones and staring at the screen.

Then his gaze shifted to the side.

Yang Mi, dressed in a light-colored theatrical costume, sat on a prop chair next to her.

She was holding a drink with a straw in her hand, and was talking to the person next to her.

Although her features looked beautiful at that time, they were far less refined than in later generations.

During this period, Yang Mi was nicknamed "Tender Beef Square" by netizens in later generations because of her square face.

But Su Wei looked at it carefully and realized it was only slightly square, not as exaggerated as netizens had described.

As for the online comments saying she had plastic surgery.

These messages are a mix of truth and falsehood, making it difficult for ordinary people to distinguish between them.

However, she is actually much thinner in person than she appears on TV.

Liu Shishi was also standing not far away, her back ramrod straight, her neck line particularly beautiful.

She didn't do anything, just stood quietly, holding the script in her hand, occasionally glancing down to turn a page.

Her demeanor was indeed excellent, without a doubt.

Some people, just by standing there, exude a cool and aloof aura.

Although many netizens will call her "Blind Sister" in the future, it must be said that her looks are still very striking.

Tang Yan walked over from the other side, her steps quick, the hem of her clothes fluttering in the wind.

Huo Jianhua sat on a folding chair next to the monitor, legs crossed, occasionally turning his head to chat with the person next to him, a faint smile always on his lips.

Su Wei stood there and stared for a long time.

These were faces he had only ever seen on television, on his phone, and in entertainment news in his previous life.

But now, they are standing less than twenty meters away from him.

After Hu Ge finished filming, he walked out while tugging at his collar to let in some fresh air. He smiled and said something to the staff next to him, his eyes crinkling with laughter.

This feeling is really strange.

Su Wei turned her gaze away from the actors.

He focused his attention on what he really wanted to see today—the operation of the film crew itself.

Next to the monitor, Li Guoli was discussing the camera position for the next shot with the photographer.

He gestured an arc in the air with his finger, and the photographer nodded, carrying the equipment and adjusting the angle.

The lighting technician held up a light meter and took light readings at the actors' positions, while two lighting assistants pushed a large light and adjusted it from time to time as needed.

The stagehand squatted on the ground and used tape to re-attach the positioning marks.

The makeup artist ran up to the actor with her makeup box and started touching up his makeup, pressing powder puffs onto his forehead.