They all pushed me!

The other party deliberately prolonged the tone and smiled at Arima Kana who suddenly raised her head:

"I'll approve this new plan."

Chapter 14: Ruby's eyes became sharper

In Beichuan Liang's eyes, as the wave of the Internet era sweeps across the country, just like the emerging and booming online live broadcasting industry in recent years, the emergence of online TV series, or web dramas, will also have a strong impact on the traditional TV market and audience share. In fact, as early as a few years ago when they filmed the TV series "Tomorrow", they had already adopted the dual-platform broadcasting model of TV stations and the Internet. From the final data, more and more young people have become accustomed to and even keen on watching TV series on the Internet, and are less and less interested in turning on the TV at home.

This was the opportunity for Beichuan Liang to start investing in and setting up his own online TV station. However, he was not the only one who noticed this obvious blue ocean in the industry. In the past two years, more and more capital giants have set their sights on this trend. New online TV stations and web dramas are being set up and broadcast every day, which is simply too much to keep up with.

After all, web dramas are different from film and television dramas broadcast on TV stations at fixed time slots. Since the distribution and broadcasting are all done through the Internet platform, in a sense, the process of communication and negotiation with TV stations is skipped. With the threshold lowered, the exposure is greatly increased. The chance of a drama becoming a hit is many times greater than before.

However, with the explosive increase in the number of films, the disadvantages of uneven quality have become very obvious. The relatively low production cost has created a large number of newcomers with no acting experience who were forced in by sponsors to test the waters and took this opportunity to debut. The short and fast series and plots also always reveal a cheap feeling.

In this suddenly fierce competition environment, the production teams quickly set their sights on comics or novels with a certain popularity and fan base as the objects of adaptation. For most cartoonists and novelists, it is definitely a happy thing for their works to be adapted into live-action versions, but if it is a web drama, the mood will be much more complicated. After all, the reputation of this term is really too bad, and so far it has been associated with "ruining the original work."

In fact, Kitagawa Ryo has been looking for a hit script that can make his own online TV station a hit for some time. In a sense, Samejima Abiko's suggestion gave him a sense of sudden enlightenment.

After all, judging from the quality and popularity of the original work alone, Kichijoji Raiko's "A Little Sweeter Today" does have a certain fan base. Although the subject matter is not fresh in girls' comics, it also means that the audience will be quite broad. As long as the actors' acting skills and production level are good, it has the chance to become popular. The drama version of "It's Not My Fault That I'm Popular" is a good example.

Of course, more importantly, this is also his response to Arima Kana.

So, Beichuan Liang repeated his previous question again:

"So, is Kana willing to play the leading role in this movie?"

As if she finally understood what he meant, or as if she was just simply listening to Beichuan Ryo asking a similar question, Arima Kana finally nodded heavily at this time:

"it is good."

"Okay, I'll have someone draft out the specific content of the project... As for Kana, just keep your schedule in mind. It should be quick. We'll officially start filming after the Tokyo BLADE stage play project is finished."

At this point, Beichuan Liang seemed to remember something, nodded slightly and suggested:

"By the way, since we are free anyway, why don't you try out the role of Jian Yi, Kana? I feel like it's a good fit for you. It will allow us to be on the same page and finish the current work together before starting a new project together."

"Yeah, then I'll come over tomorrow to audition for Jian Yi. Actually, I really liked her when I read the original work."

It can be seen that Arima Kana is in a very happy mood. She winked at Beichuan Ryo in front of her playfully and waved goodbye, her tone obviously rising:

"Then I'll go back first. I need to sort out Jian Yi's personality and characteristics. Abizi, remember to give me some water tomorrow."

After saying that, Arima Kana turned around and left the practice room neatly. After her figure completely disappeared from his sight, Kitagawa Ryoya nodded and said goodbye to Samejima Ahiko and Kichijoji Raiko beside him. He hadn't taken a few steps when he felt the vibration of his phone in his pocket. He took it out and saw a short message from Samejima Ahiko:

Thank you.

Obviously, she also noticed that Kitagawa Ryo had just recommended the role of Kengi to Arima Kana. For Samejima Abiko, who wanted to make her work the best and most successful adaptation, the addition of an actor as talented and popular as Arima Kana was definitely good news. After today's audition, she had already given up hope that Arima Kana would participate in this project. After all, she showed more of her attitude and feelings towards Kitagawa Ryo, and seemed to have no interest in the script this time.

After all, this part of the plot is still the home turf of Shoji. Although the character of Kengi is very popular in the current plot, in this part related to the stage play, her role is only that of a supporting role. Although Samejima Abiko herself thinks that Arima Kana is very suitable for this role, without Kitagawa Ryo's initiative, it would be difficult for her to say it herself. After all, her relationship with Arima Kana is not as close as with Kitagawa Rumi and Kurokawa Akane.

However, Kitagawa Ryo did not think that his casual suggestion had any decisive effect. Based on his understanding of Arimakana, even if he did not take the initiative to say it just now, there is a high probability that the other party will come to audition for the role of Kengi tomorrow.

Even without mentioning the other party's initial motivation as an actor to create a perfect performance together with a group of first-class actors including him, this is also the best opportunity in the past two years to contact and get along with him openly.

After all, to be honest, he had been on a long vacation at home for nearly two years.

Thinking of his wife and daughter at home, Beichuan Liang just replied casually, "It's okay", then put the phone back in his pocket, stretched comfortably, yawned leisurely, and walked out leisurely.

Well... I'm home.

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"Hey, Hotaru, Dad seems to be perfectly isolated."

Lying on the sofa, stretching his legs hard and then relaxing, Beichuan Ryo reached out and gently hugged his daughter who was in the crib next to him. He rubbed her chin with the tip of his nose and spoke softly in her ear.

He really didn't expect that Rumi would come over suddenly today. She and Ai were currently in the kitchen, chatting about the stage play while making dinner, leaving him alone in the living room.

Of course, Ying, who had just turned one year old, didn't understand Beichuan Ryo's complaints, but she still seemed to enjoy the contact with him. Her two small hands were touching his face all over, and her little face was smiling, looking very happy.

"But Dad is really going to start getting busy..."

Beichuan Ryo murmured, placing his daughter on his broad chest, allowing her to giggle and crawl all the way from there to his chin and face, and then put her back, as if they were playing a game that they never got tired of.

"The stage play filming and performance of Tokyo Blade, the web drama filming of Sweet Today, and the live-action movie of Tokyo Blade, so many things have been confirmed, huh."

Looking at the baby who had once again climbed onto his face with perseverance, Beichuan Ryo did not let Ying go this time. Instead, he stretched out his fingers to stroke her cheek. He suddenly remembered that when Rumi came to his house, she was about the same age.

But compared to the last time when he was so flustered that he was almost embarrassed by the parenting process, he is now much more adept at it. After noticing the slight change in Ying's facial expression, he skillfully took the bottle from the coffee table next to him. The other child had just been weaned not long ago, and is still not quite used to drinking from the bottle, so he has to watch her carefully from the side.

Because it was not easy to feed the baby while lying down, Beichuan Liang simply stood up from the sofa, holding his daughter who was sucking the bottle carefully, and slowly walked to the courtyard. Another firefly in the house was lying there lazily. The afterglow of summer was very long. Although it was almost six o'clock, the sun had not completely set, and it was emitting the last heat in the sky.

I don't know if it's because they have the same name, but Ying is always very kind to the cat Ying at home. This time was no exception. After seeing it, she immediately put down the bottle in her hand, her eyes widened, and she leaned out a little from Beichuan Liang's arms, making the unclear and vague baby sounds unique to human babies.

Although it looked like Ying was woken up, she did not show any aloofness as an elder of the Kitagawa family or a cat. She sat there with her tail curled up, meowed twice in response, then jumped lightly down from the stone steps and followed Kitagawa Ryo into the house. It was time for it to have dinner.

"Ruby, pour some cat food for Hotaru--"

Because he couldn't free his hands while holding the child, Beichuan Ryo slowly walked to the kitchen and shouted inside. He immediately saw Beichuan Rumi, who was wearing an apron, sticking her head out:

"Got it. I'll wash my hands and come right back."

After a while, Kitagawa Rumi came out of the kitchen, went to the second floor to pour out the cat food for Ying's dinner, and then came downstairs. However, she did not go back immediately. Instead, she came to Kitagawa Ryo's side, stretched out her hand to tease Ying in his arms, and looked at the baby who was quietly sucking the bottle again, and sighed:

"Hina is so well behaved... She's the best behaved child I've ever seen. She doesn't cry or make a fuss."

"Hehe, that's because Ruby has never seen the first few months of her life. She keeps me and Ai tormented every night and we can't sleep well at all."

"Is that so? Then you are not as good as me. I was a very well behaved kid!"

"It's a shame that a reincarnated baby is inferior to a normal baby."

After casually complaining about his sister who was almost twenty years old but sometimes still spoke and thought out of line, Kitagawa Ryo heard the sound of Ai Ryoumi going into the kitchen to get the bowls to prepare for dinner. He put his daughter back in the crib and slowly pushed her to the dining table at home.

After waiting for two minutes, Ai and Rumi brought all the dishes to the table. Kitagawa Ryo, who had just washed his hands, picked up the chopsticks impatiently. The three of them said "I'm eating" as usual, and the family began to talk while chatting.

"Until now, many people on the Internet can't believe that Ruby finally got the role of Sheji."

It seemed that they were continuing the topic about the stage play that they had just talked about in the kitchen. Ai swallowed the food in his mouth and felt a little sorry for Rumi:

"It was a semi-open audition this time, and so many actors saw it live, but they are still spreading all kinds of conspiracy theories and shady dealings."

"That's normal. After all, I really don't have much persuasiveness compared to Akane and Kanabi. As an actor, the most powerful response I can give is to perform well in the official performance."

Kitagawa Rumi was not very indignant, and took the initiative to ask Ai for advice:

"By the way, sister and brother have performed in stage plays together and they have always been well received. Is there any tricks you can tell me?"

"Technique?"

Facing Kitagawa Rumi's earnest question, Ai bit her chopsticks and looked thoughtful, then shook her head after a while:

"If I were to be honest, I don't think I have any special skills. I just enjoy the process of acting with Liang every time. That's about it?"

As she spoke, she casually waved her hands and comforted Kitagawa Rumi:

"Since Ruby was able to stand out in the audition, it means that there is no problem with your ability and understanding of the role. Confidence is very important. I never doubted myself at the beginning."

"On the day of the official performance, I'll bring Hotaru to the scene to cheer for you and Ryo."

Although these words sounded meaningless, after receiving the encouragement of love, Kitagawa Rumi seemed to be more resolute and nodded seriously:

"Well, I see."

After finishing her conversation with Ai, Rumi immediately turned her head and looked at Kitagawa Ryo who was sitting opposite her:

"Where's my brother? Actually, I wanted to ask you this this afternoon. Who do you think performed better, me or Xiao Qian?"

"Didn't I tell you this in the afternoon? You each have your own strengths, so Abiko let you, Ruby, act in the stage play and let Akane act in the live-action movie."

"Oh……"

Although her brother answered like this, Kitagawa Rumi still had some doubts in her heart. Even though she had always been naive and had never doubted her best friend, after witnessing the equally brilliant scene between Kurokawa Akane and Kitagawa Ryo today, she still felt that something was a little bit wrong.

I'll go ask MEM-chu and Abiko later -

Thinking of her other two good friends, Kitagawa Rumi nodded secretly and made this decision in her heart.

Chapter 15: New Challenges

"Good evening everyone, we have some important news to announce today."

With the auditions for the Tokyo BLADE stage play officially over and the cast officially confirmed, MEM啾 also excitedly announced his subsequent work arrangements to fans during the live broadcast:

"That's it! I, MEM! I'm actually going to be performing in the Tokyo BLADE stage play this time! Even though it's just a supporting role, from today on I'm also an actor!"

Faced with the live broadcast room filled with doubts such as "Is it true?", "This woman is getting carried away again", and "Pray that the anchor will not be kicked out of the troupe in the future", MEM啾 was in a good mood. He clasped his hands together in front of his chest and swayed his eyes leisurely from side to side:

"I'm sorry - I have to leave you all behind and go to a new world, even farther away, to face new challenges!"

Frankly speaking, these past two years have been the most leisurely period of MEM's life so far. She has been thinking about becoming an idol and working hard for it since she was a child. When she was in junior high school, she participated in a national beauty contest, and then spent two years as an idol trainee. At the age of seventeen, she officially debuted as an idol and has been an idol for almost five years. Although it has been hard along the way, she can really feel that she is making progress, and the conditions at home are slowly getting better.

After the ACE trio graduated, although on the surface it seemed that Kitagawa Rumi's transformation was the most difficult and could even be said to be a failure, in MEM's eyes, this was also a sign that the other party was constantly trying new things and making progress. Compared with her and Samejima Abiko, she was the one who slowed down and even stagnated.

In fact, she is only less than 25 years old this year. Although it seems that there is no problem to maintain the status quo by relying on the savings and popularity accumulated in the past, MEM啾 finally chose to move forward like her previous self.

She still clearly remembers that her first success as a child originated from the absence of a child star who is now unknown and whose name she can hardly remember during the filming of an advertisement. But this opportunity was actually given equally to every child in the extras present at the time. What ultimately led her to success was her arm raised upward because she was willing to give it a try at that time.

"Thanks to the SC of 'I've always been MEM's favorite'. Don't worry, the host's mental quality and ability to withstand pressure are definitely no problem. This time I was also in the mood to learn. Everyone should remember to watch the performance of "Tokyo BLADE" when the time comes."

MEM啾 interacted skillfully with the fans in the live broadcast room, and finally waved goodbye:

"That's it. Due to rehearsals, the time and frequency of the live broadcast will change. You can follow MEM啾's social account or join MEM啾's official discord to get the latest live broadcast information. Well, good night everyone——"

After turning off the camera and the live broadcast room, MEM啾 directly lay back on the swivel chair. After a while, he slowly turned the chair with his feet and slid to the small refrigerator in the corner of the room, and casually opened the lower freezer door.

It's already summer, and after her idol graduated, MEM啾 has relaxed her diet a bit. The ice cream she bought a few days ago was neatly spread on the two layers below, with a 50:50 ratio of watermelon kitten and orange bear flavors mixed together. Although the packaging and flavors have been upgraded and improved several times over the past decade, the name has remained the same, otherwise she would be too lazy to go to the official store every year to buy so much.

New challenge——

MEM tore open the packaging bag of a watermelon kitten, ate the ice cream in his mouth while closing his eyes and thinking aimlessly. When he came to his senses, all he had in his hand was a bare wooden stick.

She licked the corner of her mouth and subconsciously reached out and opened the refrigerator again.

Eat another one——

This time, her eyes were fixed on the orange packaging.

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After all the cast members were confirmed, the LALALAI Theater Company quickly set a date for the first staff meeting, mainly to allow everyone to familiarize themselves with each other. The actors read the script briefly, and the staff members confirmed the hierarchical structure and coordination matters in this project. After all, the LALALAI Theater Company has held many similar performances, and Toshio Kindaichi is also very experienced in this area.

Kitagawa Ryo came here with Rumi this time, because his sister had been staying at his house for the past few days, so he simply brought her along. After politely nodding and greeting the staff at the front desk, the brother and sister went straight to the practice room on the second floor.

In fact, when the audition just ended and the information that Kitagawa Rumi was to play the role of Shoji was revealed by other actors who participated in the audition, the public opinion on the Internet was quite subtle. After all, the fans of both Kurokawa Akane and Arima Kana had already laid so much groundwork in advance, but in the end, both of them were eliminated.

Although fans of Kurokawa Akane can argue that the main star has already been booked in advance for the live-action movie "Tokyo BLADE", fans of Magana can also talk about the fact that their own Kana has locked on the role of Kengi in this stage play, and make sarcastic remarks about how the signature actor of the LALALAI troupe ended up playing a supporting role in this project whose role is not even as big as Kengi.

Of course, after the two groups of fans finished their quarrel, everyone's attention was focused on Kitagawa Rumie, a name that suddenly emerged and successfully snatched the spotlight. Although Rumie is certainly not an unknown figure that needs to be educated by loyal fans, especially for fans of Kurokawa Akane and Arima Kana, after all, the three of them have had a lot of interactions since "Today's Meal at the Kitagawa Family", and ACE is indeed one of the most successful idol groups in the past few years.

But this is clearly the cast list for a stage play, and it's a big project like "Tokyo BLADE" that has attracted much attention and anticipation. Even fans of Kitagawa Rumi herself would feel that this is a step too big. After all, although Rumi has appeared in some works in the past two years, she was basically a supporting role or even a bit player, and her performance could only be described as just okay. This time she won the position of the heroine all of a sudden, which is really surprising.

Just as Kaminari Sumiaki had worried beforehand, with her brother Kitagawa Ryo being the leading actor of this project, her guardian Kindaichi Toshiro being the director and stage director of the LALALAI troupe, the biggest partner of this project, and her friend and former teammate Samejima Abiko being the original author of the manga and the screenwriter of this project, Kitagawa Rumi's selection was soon questioned by many people. It was not until many other actors who participated in the audition on the day took the initiative to speak out and clarify that the other party's acting skills did indeed shock them greatly that such voices became smaller, but they still exist and are prevalent.

However, when the official account of the "Tokyo BLADE" stage play officially announced the entire cast and released large posters of the main characters' makeup photos one by one, Kitagawa Rumi's reputation was reversed among many non-star-chasing fans of the original "Tokyo BLADE".

Although many actors including the well-known Coser Meiya and 2.5-dimensional stage play rising star actor Kamoshida Sakuya have previously voiced their support, saying that Rumie is one of the best actors for the role of Shoji, compared to these empty descriptions and praises, this actual makeup photo is undoubtedly more convincing. The picture comparing Kitagawa Rumie's makeup photo with the original painting in the original manga has also been circulated wildly in related discussion groups, attracting a lot of popularity.

After all, before the performance officially begins, everyone can only look at the final makeup photos to relieve boredom. What's more, in this kind of 2.5-dimensional real-life project, whether it looks like the actors or not is the first thing that fans and passers-by can see and are most concerned about.

There is no doubt that Kitagawa Rumi has passed the first level.

"The rehearsal time should not exceed one and a half months. After all, everyone's schedule is limited. Himekawa and Shiranui are both filming TV dramas at the same time. Kamoshida seems to have squeezed out time from other stage plays. In fact, the time is still quite tight."

After hearing what Beichuan Liang said, Rumi nodded in understanding:

"Well, I'll try my best."

The brother and sister chatted as they opened the door and walked into the practice room. They bowed slightly and said in tacit understanding:

"I'm Kitagawa Ryo from the LALALAI troupe. This time I'm in charge of the role of BLADE. Please take care of me."

"I am Kitagawa Rumi from the LALALAI troupe. I am fortunate to have been given the role of Shoji. Please give me your guidance."

This was also what the two of them had agreed on before coming. They came to participate as actors of the LALALAI troupe. On the one hand, they did not want to put pressure on the artists under his agency. On the other hand, it was mainly because Toshiro Kindaichi liked to listen to this tune, which made him happy.

Because it was the first day of the meeting, most of the actors wanted to leave a good impression on everyone. In addition, many of the cast members of this project were members of the LALALAI troupe. Therefore, when Kitagawa Ryo and Rumi arrived, many people had already gathered in the practice room. Stage director Kindaichi Toshiro and people from the production side were also there.

As expected, after hearing the two of them announce the name of the LALALAI Theater Company, Toshiro Kindaichi's old face smiled particularly brightly, but because he still had to put on a stern attitude in front of other actors, he immediately coughed and tensed his facial expression again.

After greeting the others and entering the room, Kitagawa Ryo casually glanced inside. Although it was only the first day of the meeting, three small circles had been vaguely formed. The current or former members of the LALALAI troupe stood together, headed by Kurokawa Akane. Those artists under his agency who were not from the LALALAI troupe stood together, headed by Shiranui Fulilu. The rest were some external actors found by Kaburagi Katsuya, such as Kamoshida Sakuya and the like.

Theoretically speaking, Beichuan Liang can get along with any small group.

Looking at the beautiful and youthful figure of Kitagawa Rumi trotting to chat with Kurokawa Akane and Arima Kana, Kitagawa Ryoya suddenly realized that he was the oldest among all the actors and sighed a little. Then he turned around and saw——

He is the second oldest actor in this cast after him!

"Sorry, sorry, it's probably not time yet. I was so excited that I overslept."