Rebirth of Chinese Entertainment, the Diary of a 95 Flower

Chapter 52 At this moment, I especially want to return to Jiang Yang

Jiang Yang didn't go to the makeup room. He drank a large bottle of water and had been holding his urine for a long time.

He and Yang Chaoyue separated and went to the bathroom next to the makeup room.

Yang Chaoyue stood under the sign of the tavern, and continued to stick his head out, curiously looking into the open pine door with the bolt removed.

The camera in the corner was hidden, and the scene was obviously complete. It was empty, with only a young man in a green uniform and a work badge, and the plump woman in a white down jacket.

The crying in the tavern stopped.

In front of the woman stood a stagehand with a work badge. He must be auditioning for a role, and his tone was very impatient:

"I really can't teach you. Big sister, your facial muscles are too stiff when you cry. If I pass you, the assistant director will definitely make trouble for my team leader, and my team leader will hold me accountable. Forget it."

"Teacher, please give me another chance. I'm sure I can cry naturally this time. I finally got signed to be an extra in Canxing, and my son is counting on seeing me on TV." The woman pleaded, her voice thick with the Shanghai dialect.

"It's been over an hour. I'm really busy. It's not easy for everyone. You've done your best. I have a lot of things to do. Let's stop here for the audition."

"Then teacher, will I have any scenes with the MC guest tomorrow?"

"There's a high probability that there will be, but there probably won't be many shots. Just practice more and wait for the next episode."

After saying this, the stagehand walked out in a hurry.

After a while, the woman inside came out with a gloomy face and her leg raised over the threshold. When she saw Yang Chaoyue, she looked at him as if he looked familiar, and white air was coming out of her mouth.

Yang Chaoyue smiled and said, "Auntie, it's me. I'm sitting next to you in the styling room."

"Are you the girl who can speak the Modu dialect?"

The woman recognized Yang Chaoyue, stepped over and said with a smile: "Oh, I made a fool of myself. It's so embarrassing. I didn't act well."

How did Auntie perform?
It was so embarrassing that my scalp was tingling.

Yang Chaoyue didn't dare to say how well he had performed before, because that was with the help of Jiang Yang. The atmosphere he created for himself made him cry for some reason.

Yang Chaoyue has experience in that kind of realistic crying scenes.

Auntie's crying was really fake and ugly.

Should I tell the truth? Brother Yang reminded himself not to offend others when speaking... Yang Chaoyue smiled and said, "Actually, I just passed by and didn't see much, but I thought the performance was pretty good."

"Yeah, I also think my acting is fine. At home, my son who's in elementary school praised me for acting better than the characters in the TV series. But there's nothing I can do. I don't have any connections, and the production manager gave me a hard time... By the way, why is your hair so dirty?"

"I auditioned to play a beggar, so I put a lot of ash on my hair."

"It's so dirty, that's why these stagehands are so tiring."

The woman's tone was somewhat melancholic. "My audition turned out badly. I probably won't have the chance to interact with the MC guest during tomorrow's filming, and there won't be many individual scenes. It can't be helped. Extras are like that. They can't really be considered actors."

"Extras are not considered actors?" Yang Chaoyue was stunned. This was different from what Brother Yang said.

"That's right, extras are just worthless actors. I've been an extra many times in urban drama crews in Shanghai, and no one takes us extras seriously."

She looked at Yang Chaoyue with some anticipation: "How did your audition go?"

"I'm auditioning..."

Yang Chaoyue was just about to tell the results of her audition when she suddenly remembered what Jiang Yang had said before.

She hesitated, her throat choking. "It's terrible. I guess there's no footage."

"I knew it, it's normal."

The woman's pupils suddenly brightened, and she smiled, crow's feet appearing at the corners of her eyes. "I'm telling you, it's always like this. I heard that those extras who get a lot of shots all have connections. If you want more shots, you have to find connections."

The woman looked around.

The stagehand had already walked away, and most of the staff had gathered in the tower in the distance.

She approached Yang Chaoyue and whispered, "Do you have any connections in the program team?"

"relation?"

"It's about connections, right? If you have any, you can introduce me to someone. I'll pay you."

Yang Chaoyue clenched Kang Wen's business card in his pocket.

Is Director Kang considered one of my connections?

No, it doesn’t count.

His real connection is his boss, Jiang Yang.

"No way." Yang Chaoyue shook his head.

"That's right, you're also an extra," the woman sighed. "What a waste of high-speed train fares. Canxing and the production team won't reimburse you. If you only had a few scenes, you'd be at a huge loss. Fortunately, you get some pay."

Canxing won’t reimburse the travel expenses?

its not right.

Didn’t Brother Yang say that their travel expenses would be reimbursed?

Brother Yang deceived himself?

why?

Could it be...

A picture suddenly appeared in Yang Chaoyue's mind.

About half a month ago, when she was driving back from Canxing, Jiang Yang asked her to get out of the car at the gate of Fuli Community to pick up a package.

At that time, an airplane rumbled across the sky.

Yang Chaoyue clearly recalled the conversation with Jiang Yang at that time.

Jiang Yang asked her if she had never been on a plane?

She said no, and then muttered that she must take one if she had the chance.

If I have the chance, I will take my dad for a ride.

She just said it casually, like a gust of wind, it disappeared after it blew away.

But Jiang Yang remembered it.

It turns out that Brother Yang had planned it long ago.

Yang Chaoyue felt a lump in his nose and his eyes suddenly felt hot.

It was just a casual remark from her, but Jiang Yang kept it in mind.

The reason why I lied to her and said that the air ticket was reimbursed by Canxing was probably because I took her self-esteem into consideration.

She thought of her previous bosses who always said things like "I'll give you a raise in the future" and "The company won't treat you unfairly."

But what happens in reality? Overtime pay is withheld, workload is doubled, and the promised bonus is always next month.

But Jiang Yang is different.

He would never say "I'm good to you", but he would remember the little wishes she mentioned casually, and would arrange everything silently, even... taking care of her self-esteem.

It turned out that Jiang Yang's white lie that the air tickets were reimbursed by Canxing Company was just a white lie because he didn't want to burden her.

At this moment, she suddenly wanted very much to return to Jiang Yang.

"What are you going to do now?" Auntie suddenly asked.

"I……"

Yang Chaoyue pointed at the makeup studio facing the street camera and was about to speak when he suddenly realized something.

Jiang Yang said, don't tell anyone your cards.

It was Director Kang who asked me to go to the makeup room to remove my makeup, but other extras might not have received such treatment.

Yang Chaoyue swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth, moved his arm, and pointed to the bathroom with flying eaves and brackets near the makeup room: "I'm going there to remove my makeup."

"Makeup studio?" The woman didn't see the direction Yang Chaoyue pointed. She looked at Yang Chaoyue with a stiff neck and took a deep breath, which got stuck in her throat.

She went to the makeup room, but was kicked out by the makeup assistant who said that only MC guests could come in to remove makeup, and extras were not allowed.

I suddenly felt the class gap within the program team.

That feeling is really unpleasant.

What's even more uncomfortable is that how could Yang Chaoyue be qualified to go to the makeup studio to remove makeup.

"No, it's the bathroom."

"Oh, you went to the bathroom to remove your makeup."

For some reason, the woman felt relieved when she saw Yang Chaoyue going to the bathroom to remove his makeup. "You've worked so hard. It's so cold, and there's no hot water in the bathroom. We, the low-level extras, have no status. I'd be embarrassed to tell my son about it when I get home."

After chatting for a while, the woman hummed a song in a nasal voice and went to the food area in the square.

While waiting for the catering supplier to deliver the lunch boxes, I chatted with other extras to see how their auditions turned out and to vent my frustrations.

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(End of this chapter)