Chapter 1: Encountering the dark side (Part 1)

After Duncan left, Yang Hua soon waited for his flight. At 8 o'clock that night, Yang Hua appeared at Beijing International Airport with exhaustion and a small suitcase.

At the exit of the airport, Yang Hua saw Qi Yuying, who had been waiting for him for a long time. Next to Qi Yuying was a middle-aged man about forty years old.

"Hua!" Seeing Yang Hua coming out of the airport, Qi Yuying shouted and ran over and threw herself into his arms. A small separation was better than a newlywed. Although the two hadn't seen each other for only three days, for Qi Yuying, this had accumulated enough to make her want to hold Yang Hua and watch him for a day and night.

"Haha, Mr. Yang, get on the car first." The middle-aged man waited until Qi Yuying and Yang Hua's three-minute hug ended, and then smiled and asked the two to get on the car.

"Oh, I almost forgot to introduce it." Qi Yuying stuck out her tongue naughtyly at Yang Hua, "This is Mr. Wang Jinsong, the investor representative of Director Chen's film."

"Oh, hello, Mr. Wang." Yang Hua approached, and then saw the middle-aged man in front of him. He immediately smiled and stretched out his hand to the pretty kind-looking middle-aged man.

"I have been listening to Mr. Yang every day, Mr. Yang is really a promising young man." Wang Jinsong said to Yang Hua with a smile on his face, "If I hadn't been fortunate to work with Miss Qi, I would have never seen a young talent like Mr. Yang." From Wang Jinsong's accent, Yang Hua could tell that he was a Northeastern person. However, he spoke with compliments from the southern style.

"Mr. Wang praised me so much. Are you working in the south?" Yang Hua smiled and pushed away Wang Jinsong's compliment with a question.

"Oh! Mr. Yang can even tell this? Yes, our headquarters is located in the south. This time I also rushed from the headquarters to Beijing to participate in this casting. Let's talk on the way." Wang Jinsong smiled and picked up Yang Hua's luggage and stuffed it into the car, and invited the two of them into the car together.

On the way from Beijing Airport to the hotel booked by the crew, Yang Hua knew that Qi Yuying's script involved two Beijing-born heroines, but one of the most important roles has been decided to be played by a very outstanding female star under Director Chen, so this time the crew only selects a suitable girl in Beijing. Of course, this public casting first is to increase the range of selectable actors, and the second is to conduct the first round of copying.

Before Yang Hua arrived, the online primary and first round primary elections had ended. Sixteen girls who were initially designated by the crew had moved into the hotels booked by the crew, waiting for a two-day screening starting tomorrow.

"Hua, do you want to go to the selection site tomorrow to see it?" After introducing the current situation of the crew, Qi Yuying asked Yang Hua with a smile.

"Well...is it OK?" Yang Hua asked in a low voice.

"Of course it's OK." Qi Yuying smiled happily, "As soon as I told Director Chen that you would come, he immediately said he wanted to invite you to go with me. It was not what I said to ask you to go to the scene."

"Then there is no problem." At this time, Yang Hua didn't want to separate from Qi Yuying for a moment. You know, the two of them were together all the time when they went to South Korea last time!

Wang Jinsong took the two back to the hotel where the crew stayed. There, Yang Hua met the director Chen who he was very familiar with and several other staff members who came with him. After some greetings, Director Chen laughed and knocked out several other crew members from Yang Hua and Qi Yuying's room, and he also left a sentence: "Mr. Yang has a good rest." Then he walked out. Before leaving, he had not forgotten to help Yang Hua hang the Do Not Disturb sign outside.

Sitting on the sofa in the hotel, Qi Yuying held her head with both hands and stared at Yang Hua without saying anything. Seeing this scene, Yang Hua smiled bitterly again. In this strange and somewhat familiar environment, he unconsciously remembered his last experience in Korea. Qi Yuying was really crazy at that time. Of course, Tang Xin was still beside him at that time. I don’t know how she is now. Yang Hua’s thoughts flew back and forth on Qi Yuying and Tang Xin.

This feeling made Yang Hua feel a little uncomfortable, but it made him very helpless. Both girls accepted this complicated relationship, but Yang Hua felt that he was quite like a bad person. He could actually hold several girls in his heart at the same time. Let it go... Yang Hua unconsciously smiled bitterly.

"What's wrong?" Qi Yuying asked suddenly.

"Nothing. Seeing the situation here, I remembered what happened in Korea." Yang Hua shook his head with a smile.

"Remember Sister Xin?" Qi Yuying has always been an understanding girl.

"Yeah." Yang Hua nodded with a bitter smile.

"You really can't tell lies." Qi Yuying, who looked at Yang Hua, also smiled bitterly, but then the bitter smile on her face turned into a happy smile again, "But I just like you, at least you won't lie to me. When the matter in Beijing is over, go to Korea to see Sister Xin. Oh, I feel that I have a very bad mood every day after not meeting you for only three days. I really don't know what it feels like to have Sister Xin not met you for three weeks." Qi Yuying sat on Yang Hua's lap and shook her head gently.

"Yeah." Yang Hua nodded gently and hugged Qi Yuying in his arms. Neither she nor Tang Xin, Yang Hua wanted them to be hurt. Yang Hua thanked God for his thanks to God, fortunately he was lucky in this regard and was not forced to hurt someone.

The two men who had not seen each other for a long time naturally enjoyed their gentleness that night. If they had not attended the selection event that started at 9:00 the next morning, I'm afraid Qi Yuying would have almost made Yang Hua unable to get up the bed the next day as he did when he was in Korea.

"Hey! Andy Lau, come and sit here." When Yang Hua and Qi Yuying appeared at the selection site together, Director Chen called the two of them to his side with a smile.

In the venue, a long table had been arranged, with seven chairs placed behind the table. Director Zhang and the investor representative's chair were in the middle, while Qi Yuying and Yang Hua were on the left.

When he walked into the room, Yang Hua had already seen the dozen young and energetic girls moving in the corridor outside. Of course, he could stand out from among tens of thousands of girls who signed up for the election, and none of these sixteen girls were not beautiful.

"Hua, what do you think after watching it in the corridor just now?" After sitting down, Qi Yuying poked Yang Hua's arm with a smile.

"Where would I choose this?" Yang Hua smiled bitterly.

"Tsk! You can't pick it yet? You said yourself, you are good friends with you, who is not a beautiful girl?"

"Yes, yes, yes, I'm the best choice to choose you as my girlfriend." Yang Hua was in a very good mood at this time and started joking with Qi Yuying.

"Hmph!" Qi Yuying pouted, her face full of disdain, but her heart was sweet.

After Qi Yuying and Yang Hua entered the venue, two other staff members responsible for selecting roles also walked in. Seeing that the staff arrived, Director Chen immediately smiled and waved to a staff member standing at the door: "Okay, let Number One come in."

There are actually many aspects to consider when choosing an actor. His appearance is of course the most important part, and the talent of performance and some basic skills are also aspects that must be examined. Of course, whether the girl's own temperament is suitable for the role in the play is the key to success or failure. Because both acting skills and basic skills can be trained after tomorrow, but a girl's temperament is difficult to change in the short filming process.

Of course, among the crowd, Qi Yuying and Director Chen are both experts in this field. As an outsider in performance, Yang Hua was completely unable to see any tricks from the girls' personal performances. Among the men present, he was probably the only one who was not interested in the performances of these beautiful girls. When watching the performances of those beautiful young girls, Yang Hua was always drowsy. In the end, he didn't even hear Director Chen asked him what he had. After watching the performances of sixteen girls for a whole day, Yang Hua was already yawning all the time - although it was only six o'clock.

"Hua, aren't you?" Seeing Yang Hua's performance like this, Qi Yuying really didn't know whether to be happy or blame him.

"Not what? I took a plane for more than ten hours yesterday, and then I didn't sleep well at night." Yang Hua made a lot of sense this time.

"Oh!" Qi Yuying answered in a low voice. Just as she was about to say something to Yang Hua, she heard someone knocking on the door.

"Are you here on screenwriter Qi?" The sound outside belonged to Mr. Wang, the investor representative who went to the airport to pick up Yang Hua yesterday.

"Oh, here!" Qi Yuying answered quickly. The crew worked at the casting site for a day and had not had time to eat dinner. Qi Yuying naturally thought that Mr. Wang came to ask him and Yang Hua to have dinner together.

But when he opened the door of the room, Qi Yuying realized that it was not Mr. Wang standing at the door, and there was also a young man who looked about twenty-three or four years old standing beside him.

"Haha, screenwriter Qi. This is the son of the chairman of our Yongsheng Film and Television Company."

"Hello, Screenwriter Qi. My surname is Jiang, and my name is Jiang Tianhao." The young man stretched out a hand to Qi Yuying with a smile.

"Oh? Hello Mr. Jiang." Qi Yuying smiled and shook hands with the young man in front of him.

"This is Mr. Yang Hua, Mr. Yang, Miss Qi's colleague and boyfriend." Wang Jinsong also introduced Yang Hua to the young man.

"Hello." The young man looked up and down at Yang Hua, then smiled and shook hands with him.
Chapter completed!