HuaYu: Starting with Photography to Navigate the Entertainment Industry

"Hometown association?"

What an old-fashioned and boring thing.

"I'm busy, I'm not going!"

Xu Lang showed no interest whatsoever.

"Why are you like this?"

Shen Qingyue started to get upset again. "We've just arrived in Beijing and don't know anyone here. That senior seems to have connections. Why don't you get to know him? That way, you can have someone to look after you if anything happens in the future, right?"

"No need."

"Hmph, ungrateful wretch!"

Xu Lang was too lazy to argue with her, so he simply ignored her and started looking up information about Super Girl and Zhang Hanyun online.

In his previous life, he hadn't really paid much attention to Zhang Hanyun.

All I know is that she won third place in the Super Girl competition and became a sensation with her Mengniu GG song "Sour and Sweet Is Me".

After browsing through some information online, Xu Lang began to regret taking Zhou Man's job.

"What's so interesting about photographing a little girl who hasn't fully grown up yet?"

This is totally not Xu Lang's type, okay?!

"Let's see how it goes tomorrow. If it doesn't work out, we'll just cancel it."

Although the pay was substantial, Xu Lang didn't want to just blindly film things for the sake of making money.

Take Reyizha for example; at least she has something to explore, a wildness that most city girls don't possess.

The more he watched, the more bored he became, so Xu Lang simply got off the plane and went back to sleep.

Back in the dormitory, as soon as Xu Lang entered, Jiang Wei cornered him against the wall:

"Third brother, I saw you and Reyizha get into the car and leave together. Tell me honestly, did you two go on a date?"

"Third brother, she was my newly chosen goddess, and you've already ruined her! Can't you leave me something to look forward to?!"

"Yeah, wouldn't it be a problem if it got so hot that it stung my eyes?"

All three of them wore expressions of envy, jealousy, and hatred; their expressions suggested they wanted to devour Xu Lang.

"Ugh!"

Xu Lang pushed Jiang Wei away, sighing, "I originally brought some great perks for you three animals, but since you're like this, forget it."

"A major perk?"

Upon hearing this, the three men's thieving eyes lit up. They exchanged glances and quickly, with fawning smiles, "invited" Xu Lang to a seat.

"Brother Lang, what kind of benefits?"

"Yeah, stop keeping me in suspense."

"Hurry up and show it to us!"

Xu Lang glanced at them, a smirk playing on his lips.

"Oh no, I'm thirsty, I need to go downstairs and buy a Coke."

"I have some here. I bought them when I first came up here."

"Huh? Where are my cigarettes?"

"Take this unopened pack of Hongtashan cigarettes and smoke it."

Seeing that Xu Lang was still not satisfied, Zhang Yanbin offered up the peanuts and edamame he had packed back.

Xu Lang took a drag of his cigarette, drank some iced cola, picked up a spiced peanut and ate it, before finally taking out his camera.

"Since you three are so 'filial,' I'll give you this perk."

The three of them took the camera and stared at it, heads huddled together. It was the same photo Xu Lang had just taken that night.

This was originally intended to be published in Rayli magazine, and Xu Lang had obtained authorization from Reyizha. Since there was no privacy involved, Xu Lang felt no psychological pressure showing it to others.

Wow~~~!

Holy crap!

"Good heavens!"

Immediately, the three of them kept exclaiming in amazement.

This photo isn't as fully covered up as the military training photos; Xu Lang made a request, and this guy isn't even wearing a bra.

"Holy crap, she's going braless?"

"This is indeed a major benefit."

"Sharing a dorm room with Lang Ge is such a blessing!"

After the lights were turned off that night, the other three beds kept making creaking noises, and the air was filled with the smell of hormones, which kept Xu Lang from sleeping well for the first half of the night.

The next day, Saturday.

It was a rare day off, and the three of them, who had been scolded for a week, were still not up at nine o'clock.

Xu Lang was the first to get up.

After washing up, I left the dormitory building, bought a pancake at the cafeteria, and ate it as I walked towards the School of Photography.

From a distance, two people could be seen standing in front of the photography academy's teaching building.

One of them was a woman in her late twenties, dressed in a business suit. Although she was of average appearance, she was very well-groomed and looked cautious, like an interviewee going to a job interview.

The other one was a little girl who hadn't fully grown up yet. Judging from her figure, she was no more than 1.62 meters tall. She had side-swept bangs and a pink hair clip. She wore a pink T-shirt, a denim mini skirt, slouch socks, and round-toed black leather shoes.

The little girl was very thin, but her face was a bit chubby. Her eyes were quite big and were rolling around, looking around boredly.

Without a doubt, these are Zhou Man and Zhang Hanyun, who came from Chengdu.

Looking at the time, it wasn't even 9:30 yet.

"You're here pretty early!"

Xu Lang quickly took two steps and came to the two of them.

As a result, the two men ignored her and instead moved aside.

"You're Zhang Hanyun?"

"you..."

Zhou Man looked Xu Lang up and down. He was wearing a loose white t-shirt, shorts, and slippers. He was also holding a jianbing guozi (Chinese crepe) and eating half of it.

"You...you are...?"

"I am Xu Lang. Didn't you come looking for me?"

"what?"

Zhou Man covered her mouth in surprise. She couldn't reconcile the person in front of her with the photography master that Li Xiaolin had mentioned.

Zhang Hanyun, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but purse her lips when she saw that this was Xu Lang, clearly very disappointed.

Based on Xu Lang's principle that "the customer is God," Xu Lang shouldn't have come out dressed like this.

But when he was researching last night, he almost gave up on the job, which is why he dressed like this on purpose.

"If you don't like me, it's better that you've left!"

Although he thought this way, Xu Lang couldn't be too negligent since the other party had come from afar.

"Come with me."

Xu Lang found an empty classroom and led the two inside.

"Did you bring the documents?"

"I brought it."

Although Zhou Man was dissatisfied with this "master," she dared not offend him due to the pressure from her superior, and quickly handed the documents she was carrying to Xu Lang.

Xu Lang took a few bites in two, stuffed the remaining pancake into his mouth, casually wiped his hands on his shorts, took the documents, and began to look through them carefully.

Zhang Hanyun pouted, looking at the classroom furnishings with boredom.

Zhou Man then moved closer to Xu Lang and explained on his behalf:

"Teacher Xu, Zhang Hanyun is currently very popular and has a good chance of making it into the top three. This is the image positioning we previously created for her."

Xu Lang looked in the direction Zhou Man was pointing, and it read:

The ideal junior schoolgirl, a sweet and gentle girl with no aggression, and the epitome of a school idol!

Xu Lang glanced at Zhang Hanyun's clothes next to him; clearly, they were designed according to the image of this "national junior schoolmate".

"What are your plans in seeking me out?"

Zhou Man pondered for a moment, then sat down opposite Xu Lang and said seriously:

"Our General Manager Li showed me the photos you took of Zhang Liangying, and they were truly touching and impactful."

"We're here today to ask you to take some promotional photos of Zhang Hanyun that will resonate with the audience, further enhancing her 'national schoolgirl' image and boosting her popularity."

"The nation's sweetheart?"

Xu Lang pinched his chin with one hand, looked at Zhang Hanyun, then at the image positioning information, while recalling his previous life and the information he had found last night.

After a long while, he finally raised his head and gestured with his chin towards Zhang Hanyun:

"Hey, little girl, how's your studying? Just finished the high school entrance exam, right? What score did you get?"