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Two days later, at nine o'clock in the morning.

Shunyi District, Beijing: Future Era Film and Television Digital Industrial Base.

In the modern park covering 200 acres, a long line of various nanny vans and commercial vehicles were parked.

The news that the production team of "Raging Waves" had launched a nationwide casting call for a top-tier production caused a complete uproar in the Chinese entertainment industry.

Countless third- and fourth-tier actors, washed-up veteran actors, and even agents of many popular first-tier celebrities have mobilized all their connections to frantically send their resumes to the preparation team.

The VIP lounge of Virtual Digital Studio No. 1 was temporarily converted into an interview room.

A long judging table was placed in the center of the hall.

Wang Ye changed into a neat and clean black jacket and cargo pants, wearing a pure black baseball cap, and sat in the center position with an air of authority.

His personal nameplate stands on the table: Executive Assistant Director and Casting Supervisor – Wang Ye.

Shang Hongdie, dressed in a fitted, tall, dark gray plaid suit skirt and wearing high heels, sat to Wang Ye's right.

Her long, straight legs in black stockings were crossed, and she was flipping through a thick stack of actor call sheets, exuding the cold and domineering aura of a female CEO.

Director Xu Jizhou sat to Wang Ye's left, wearing reading glasses and looking serious.

As for Pei Nana, the company's operations director, she was dressed in a tight-fitting and sexy professional bodycon dress, standing behind Wang Ye and responsible for serving tea and water and delivering documents.

The entire panel of examiners was incredibly impressive.

Wang Ye glanced at his watch, then casually unscrewed the iced cola on the table and took a sip.

"Director Xu, President Shang, let's begin."

"Open the door and let them in."

Shang Hongdie nodded slightly and snapped her fingers at her assistant behind her.

The heavy, soundproof door was pushed open.

The first auditioning actor stepped in.

He was a young, popular idol star who had recently gained some fame in a period drama. He was about 24 or 25 years old and had a meticulously styled 3/7 parted perm.

Her face was covered in a thick layer of white foundation, her lips were glossy with lip gloss, and she even had delicate eyeliner drawn at the corners of her eyes.

He was wearing a large, designer leather jacket, and he walked with a swagger, thinking he looked like a gangster's son.

"Hello, judges. I am Jiang Feng, a contracted actor with Times Interactive Entertainment."

"The role I'm auditioning for today is Gao Qisheng from the script."

Jiang Feng raised his chin, his tone somewhat nonchalant.

Xu Jizhou pushed up his glasses and opened the script excerpt in his hand.

"Jiang Feng, right? Try out scene 20, the one where Gao Qisheng hits Li Hongwei on the head with a brick at the nightclub entrance."

"You have two minutes to get into character; this is a pantomime."

Jiang Feng brushed his bangs aside, took two deep breaths, and then began his performance.

He suddenly tilted his head to the side, a grotesque, twisted smirk spreading across his face.

With his hands in his pockets, his body was shaking violently as if he had Parkinson's disease.

Immediately afterwards, he suddenly grabbed the air from the ground and roared out.

"Damn it, Li Hongwei! Do you even know who I am?!"

"In Jinghai, if you dare to mess with the Gao family, believe me, I'll have your whole family wiped out!!"

While yelling, he frantically slammed air against the floor, accompanied by strange shouts with spittle flying everywhere.

His movements were exaggerated and stiff, and his facial expressions were either ferocious or manic, giving the impression of a modern young man causing a drunken scene at the entrance of a bar.

Xu Jizhou, sitting on the left side of the judges' panel, watched with a twitching mouth and raised his hand to press his throbbing temples.

Shang Hongdie didn't even raise her head, her fingers swiping on the tablet, too lazy to even give her a proper look.

Wang Ye sat in the center, watching him go crazy with a blank expression.

After he had been banging on the air for a full half minute, Wang Ye finally tapped the table.

"stop."

Jiang Feng immediately stopped what he was doing, raised his hand to straighten his messy bangs, and put on his arrogant smile again.

"Teacher, I've finished acting. I think the essence of Gao Qisheng, this high-IQ madman character, lies in his explosive ruthlessness and arrogance."

Wang Ye leaned back in his chair and rolled his eyes.

"Ruthless? Arrogant?"

"You acted very well, don't do it again next time."

Jiang Feng's face stiffened.

Wang Ye unleashed his sharp tongue without holding back, speaking at lightning speed.

"Gao Qisheng is a top student who graduated from a prestigious university. His madness is an extreme and sinister transformation of the inferiority complex he developed from being trampled by poverty."

"He usually wears wire-rimmed glasses and looks very refined, but when he takes action, his eyes don't waver at all; he's as calm as a butcher."

"You've slathered two pounds of foundation on your face, and you walk like you have no bones."

"He even has to use onomatopoeia when he smashes a brick; people who don't know him would think he's an electric rock maniac who escaped from a mental hospital."

"Playing a tough guy isn't about baring your teeth. You're not Gao Qisheng, you're just a street kid stealing cigarettes."

"Next, hurry up and get out of here, don't waste everyone's time."

Jiang Feng was so enraged by this barrage of sharp criticisms that he blushed and broke down on the spot.

He gritted his teeth, glared fiercely at Wang Ye, and then slunk away, covering his face in embarrassment.

Xu Jizhou gave a wry smile.

"The basic skills of young actors nowadays are indeed too superficial; they rely entirely on filters and trending topics to keep up."

Wang Ye's expression remained unchanged.

"Keep shouting. I refuse to believe that the entire Chinese entertainment industry is full of trash like this."

However, reality is often more absurd than imagined.

Over the next hour, seven or eight actors came in one after another.

Some of the actors who auditioned for the role of detective An Xin stood up straight with their heads held high and their faces full of righteous indignation. When they delivered their lines, they spoke in a stiff and unnatural manner, as if they were reciting a political textbook, without any of the frustration and awkwardness of a low-level police officer.

Some of the people who auditioned for the role of Xu Jiang held a thick cigar in their hand and started with lines like, "It's getting cold, let's bankrupt the Wang Group!" They were so greasy they could stir-fry three plates of vegetables.

The most outrageous one was Gao Qiqiang, a middle-aged male actor who had acted in many serious dramas, who came to audition for the early stages.

A humiliating scene depicting someone being extorted for protection money by a market administrator.

The actor sat on the ground with his hands outstretched, his back straight, and his expression serious and solemn.

Wang Ye immediately picked up the microphone and interrupted.

"Teacher, are you a ministerial-level leader who's going to the farmers' market incognito to observe the people's conditions?"

"Gao Qiqiang has been killing fish at the Old Factory Street Market for so many years. In front of the thugs, his back is always slightly hunched, and he smiles obsequiously, even with a murky, mercenary air about him."

"The way you're looking at me, it's like you're about to pull out a Central Commission for Discipline Inspection document and put that thug under investigation on the spot. Is that appropriate?"

The middle-aged actor blushed deeply, bowed awkwardly, and retreated, looking utterly dejected.

After auditioning more than a dozen actors, none of them met Wang Ye's standards.

Xu Jizhou sighed and threw the pen in his hand on the table.

"Chairman Wang, the veteran actors are too proud to let go of their airs, while the young actors have no life experience whatsoever."

"If Gao Qiqiang and An Xin, these two core characters, can't be established, this show might not even be able to start filming."

Wang Ye rubbed his nose and took a big gulp of cola.

"What's the rush? Better to have nothing than something bad."

"Have the casting assistant continue to screen the list and bring up those unfamiliar faces who spend their days as extras in Hengdian and have been performing in stage plays for half their lives."

Shang Hongdie turned to the side, her fair and delicate hand gently resting on the back of Wang Ye's hand, which was resting on the edge of the table.

"Chairman Wang, calm down. The next batch of auditions is for female roles."

"There are many actresses who have applied for the position of Sister-in-law Chen Shuting, and many of them are second-tier actresses who are aiming to make a comeback."

Wang Ye raised an eyebrow, a smile playing on his lips.

"Alright, let's see if our actresses in the Chinese entertainment industry really know what a real 'big sister' is."

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