"Are you sure?"

In the dark environment, Pei Mingzhan's voice was extremely low. He was very close to Zhao Yao, and his voice was low and hoarse.

Seeing that he was useless, Zhao Yao directly held his waist and pulled it closer. He still ordered dangerously: "Keep it."

Pei Mingzhan's body tensed up instantly, and he silently held his hands in a place where Zhao Yao could not see it, so as not to be unable to control himself.

The passenger who was scared away by the NPC ran past outside the curtain, followed by several NPCs in strange clothes, and the screams continued, while the two in the small space seemed to have been pressed. Zhao Yao could smell the faint mint fragrance on Pei Mingzhan's body, and warmth came from the place where his limbs were in contact, giving people a feeling of both refreshing and warmth.

I don’t know how long I stood until the curtain was pulled away and an NPC wanted to come in and hide. As soon as I wanted to squeeze in, I hit the two of them and directly hit them tightly.

Why can't you squeeze in?

NPC looked back in a daze, then burst into screams: "Ah—! Ghost!"

Pei Mingzhan: "..."

Zhao Yao: “…”

Before the two of them could explain, the real NPC rolled and crawled away.

Pei Mingzhan took a deep breath, took two steps back and exited the small space behind the curtain, and then pulled Zhao Yao out.

The feeling that Zhao Yao specially created was completely wiped out by the NPC's scream. He frowned and looked at the direction where the NPC escaped, and said unhappily: "It's quite disappointing."

Pei Mingzhan couldn't help laughing out loud: "You have occupied other people's place, but why are you still disappointed?"

The two of them didn't stay here for too long, so they walked out along the original road. When they left the haunted house, two staff members stood at the door and looked at them with grievance: "Brother, isn't it appropriate to steal our job?"

It turned out that the scared NPC turned around and went to adjust the surveillance to see the situation. As a result, he saw that Zhao Yao and the others had been hiding inside earlier. When he went in, he hit them directly.

"Sorry." Pei Mingzhan was wearing a hat and mask, and deliberately pretending to be accused of his voice, the staff did not recognize him.

After the two left, the staff member wondered: "The place is so small, it's a blessing that two of them squeezed in."

The staff next to him said, "It's poisonous. Two big men squeezed into the cabinet and competed with the dog lovers who were kissing in the haunted house."

-*

The audition for "Li Meng" started on time. There were many people auditioning for the protagonists. In addition to Huihua's artists, many of them were actors from other companies in the industry. After the agent Xiao Liu sent him here, he gave him a few instructions and asked him if his previous assistant was still there.

Zhang Qi said no, but Xiao Liu said he would help him find an assistant after he got back.

Zhang Qi felt that it was not necessary to be so troublesome. He had been used to life without an assistant over the years. A few years ago, he still had that arrogance, and felt that even if he offended the capital, he could still get involved in the circle with his ability. However, this arrogance was quickly wiped out. He was hidden by the company, had no filming, and could not take big orders in private. The director he worked with before saw that he was in trouble and wanted to invite him to play a role in the crew, but such help was quickly intercepted by other unknown factors.

Only then did he realize that the boss he offended had already spoken in the circle.

Whoever helped him was actually going against the boss. He didn't dare to accept the kindness of other friends, for fear that his own problems would implicate them.

Until one day he met the Chen Party of Chen of Huihua Culture in the hospital, which brought him new hope. He initially rejected the Chen Party because he knew that Huihua Culture had just suffered a crisis of high-level exit a while ago. Now Huihua is incomparable to large companies in the industry, and the investors he offended were large companies in the industry.

But the Chen team gave him very good conditions, including solving the liquidated damages for him, and also promised that he would have the protagonist's resources after he came to Huihua. To be honest, after years of suppression, Zhang Qi no longer dared to expect these things, and with his situation, the Chen team did not need to draw a big cake for him.

These conditions really touched him.

"I know you are hesitating, but I don't agree with signing you to our Huihua side, but this time, Mr. Zhao strongly recommended me and wanted me to sign you." Chen knew that Zhang Qi was also a clear understanding. Zhang Qi, who knew that he was in the current situation, so he explained the matter clearly: "Signing you is a loss-making business for us Huihua, but I have read your works before these days, and I think you are worth our risk."

Zhao Yao suggested that the work was recommended. The person who came to talk to Zhang Qi at the beginning was just the manager of Huihua Culture, and was quickly rejected by Zhang Qi. The Chen family originally wanted to let it go and let it go, but told Zhao Yao that people were unwilling, but Zhao Yao asked him to take the time to read Zhang Qi's previous works before drawing a conclusion.

After seeing this, he decided to come to invite him in person.

Zhang Qi hesitated: "I offended people. If Huihua signs me, it means that I will go against them."

Chen Shi was relieved when he heard this: "If you are worried about this problem, it would be a trivial matter. At least for now, we Huihua has offended many people, not even you."

"And our President Zhao also said that you don't have to be afraid of things when you come to Huihua, because fear of things will not be a big deal." Chen Shi smiled and said, "I'm just an errand. The person who proposed to sign you is President Zhao. You have to thank him for this."

Some time ago, he was running around for his daughter's treatment expenses. Huihua took action this time to help him solve the great difficulties. However, he had been to Huihua for a while. He thought he could meet Mr. Zhao and said thank you in person, but he didn't expect that he didn't meet Mr. Zhao when he went to the company several times.

After asking, I found out that Zhao was a hand-off manager. Unless the sky fell, the company would not appear in the company. He also had the VX of Mr. Zhao who was asked by Chen's assistant, but it has not been added yet. He always felt that if he really wanted to apologize to Mr. Zhao, at least he could not let Mr. Zhao down.

The director of "Li Meng" is surnamed Tang, and is a college classmate of Chen. Tang has been filming low-cost online dramas for many years, but the praise is very popular. Before the IP of "Li Meng" became popular, he and Chen suggested buying this IP. As expected, when the original "Li Meng" became popular, Huihua had already won the copyright first.

"There are quite a lot of people coming for the interview this time. The male lead character runs throughout the whole drama, and a lot of traffic want to take this opportunity to transform." The assistant director flipped through the audition list.

Director Tang has a bad face. When he doesn't speak, he always gives people a sense of cognition that he will get angry at any time. He said: "I don't know what the company sent here thinks. If you change to try this kind of costume drama, you won't be afraid that the transformation will not be transformed by then and you will just cut off the show."

The deputy director laughed: "This is popular all these years. I think our drama is an ancient puppet. Especially the male protagonist with a facial paralysis, in their eyes, it is enough to have a face posed, and the audience will buy it."

"I don't want to do these tricks in my crew. This time Huihua has full investment and wants to stuff money into me, and don't see who the investor is." Director Tang stinked his face, "Who will be the next audition?"

The deputy director looked at the list and exclaimed, "It's Huihua's Zhang Qi."

-*

The two of them finally failed to get on the carousel because when Zhao Yao was just queueing up, the girl standing in front of him kept staring at him and Pei Mingzhan. Pei Mingzhan was almost disguised, and the hat on his head did not fall off, but Zhao Yao did not. The hat he wore was brought by Pei Mingzhan.

The girl finally made sure after watching it for a long time, so she asked Zhao Yao if she had seen her before?

As a result, Pei Mingzhan reacted first. He lowered his hat and said in an false voice: "I haven't seen it before, you have recognized the wrong person."

The girl nodded, but was still a little unwilling to accept it and turned back to confirm from time to time.

Zhao Yao also saw that something was wrong. In order to avoid Pei Mingzhan being recognized and causing a small-scale riot, he had to take the initiative to take the initiative to take Pei Mingzhan's hand and leave.

Not long after the two left, the girl took a photo and took a picture of their backs. After that, she said to the sisters beside her: "Don't you think that the boy just now looks very much like Comrade Xiao Zhao?"

"Xiao Zhao?" his companion followed the photos she took, "No way."

The girl was a little hesitant: "I didn't dare to recognize it just now. I think the man with him seemed to be the actress Pei..."

The sky gradually became darker. The two of them played many projects during the day, but they chose to exclude all the projects that were too exciting. Soon Zhao Yao's driver came to the entrance of the amusement park to pick up people. Zhao Yao asked Pei Mingzhan if he needed to take a trip. Pei Mingzhan said that his assistant had already come and he had to go to the company temporarily.

The two had to separate.

On the way back, Zhao Yao received a brief audition record of "Li Meng" sent by Chen, which meant that Zhao Yao would see the audition of the protagonist. Chen knew that Zhao Yao was very concerned about the project "Li Meng", so when the director was hesitant to select people, he sent a copy of today's audition video to Zhao Yao.

Chen Shi: That's right. The director watched two people, one was Zhang Qi, you recommended, and the other was a young man with both appearance and acting skills online. Their auditions can be said to be evenly matched.

Zhao Yao: What does the director think?

Chen Shi: The director wants to choose a young man. With the same acting skills, he has better choices than the nameless Zhang Qi.

Zhao Yao also thought so, because under the same circumstances, at least choosing traffic can maintain better topicality. Since this young man has an online acting skills, choosing him is indeed the best choice.

He clicked on the two audition videos sent by Chen Shi. First, he watched the video of a young man. After watching it for a while, his brows frowned slightly. Then he watched Zhang Qi's video, which made him see the clues.

The two performed differently, but each had difficulty. However, compared to Zhang Qi's on-the-spot performance, Lu Zishi's performance clips seemed simple.

Zhao Yao called Chen directly, "Is this actor called Lu Zishi?"

The Chen team didn't expect to receive a call from Mr. Zhao. He heard this question as soon as he answered it. He said, "It's called Lu Zishi, how do you know?"

How could Zhao Yao not know about Lu Zishi? When he was studying the IP of "Li Meng" in his previous life, Lu Zishi's name appeared in his field of vision many times. Because the protagonist of "Li Meng" in his previous life was Lu Zishi, who was later criticized by the audience for poor acting skills.

But the performance in the video is not like this. Lu Zishi seemed to be able to perform easily, and his calmness just fits the protagonist's character. This is completely different from the performance clips Zhao Yao watched in his previous life.

"Why didn't you choose the same clip to perform?" Zhao Yao asked again, because the audition clip sent by Chen's series were actually two different scenes.

Chen Shi said: "Lu Zishi left after the performance and had something to do. Later, he didn't have the chance to let the two of them try another scene in the same shot."

"Notify the director to try it out." Zhao Yao's face was slightly dark, "If the performance clip is not left, the director, I will choose."

Chen Shi was stunned: "Mr. Zhao, do you mean to pass the questions before the audition?"

"I'm not sure, so I have to try one more." Zhao Yao thought to himself, "Be safe. If he really can beat Zhang Qi in the extra exam, then choose him."

But if it's really a chance to win by cheating, he doesn't have to stay on the crew anymore.

-*

The audition was selected two days later. The performance clip was temporarily discussed by Zhao Yao to Pei Mingzhan. He did not question the director's intention, but the audition questions were all based on drawing lots to show fairness, but it was not impossible to hide the lottery situation from Director Tang to cheat.

There were so many staff members at that time. If Lu Zishi bribed the staff to conduct a thorough examination, he would be able to do it without knowing it.

After Zhao Yao returned, he found Lu Zishi's performance clips and found that the drama he was acting in was only an ancient puppet filmed in the previous two years, and his acting skills were average. He sent the performance clips to Pei Mingzhan. The latter's evaluation was indeed similar to Director Tang. In other words, the performance effect of the two was similar.

Pei Mingzhan also said: "If you know the topic in advance, such a camera can be performed, because Lu Zishi's clips can be used to make the simplest performance by exploring the character design. As long as someone sets the performance movements for him, Zhang Qi's performance level is indeed not as good as before. If he does not perform well on the spot, it is another matter, but if his acting skills decline, I would not recommend him to you."

Then Pei Mingzhan read the script overnight and recommended a clip to him as an additional test performance. After discussing the story, the two decided to try this clip.

On the day of the audition, Director Tang was already there when Zhao Yao passed by.

This is his first time meeting Director Tang. This director is just like the Chen family said, showing off his bad face all day long.

"Director Tang, let me speak with you." Zhao Yao nodded to Director Tang, and then ordered Yao Bai to look at someone.

Director Tang was a little impatient with Zhao Yao's interference in casting through the throne. Although Zhao Yao was the biggest investor, the audition clip was rejected, which still felt anger for the director to be distrustful.

After the two arrived at the small room, Zhao Yao took out the tablet and compared the previous performance clips of Lu Zishi and Zhang Qi for Director Tang to show, and told Director Tang about his own discussion with Pei Mingzhan.

"I know that deciding to audition clips will indeed bring you face, but I believe you have the same idea as me. If someone uses cheating to join the crew, they will encounter more trouble after signing a contract in the later stage, and as a starring actor, it is closely related to the reputation of "Li Meng" in the later stage."

Zhao Yao simply said: "If today's performance is as outstanding as the performance two days ago, then compared to Zhang Qi, he is indeed more suitable to be a starring actor. As a capitalist, I will not miss any opportunity to make money, but I also hate opportunistic people."

Director Tang was also a little silent after reading these, "The Chen family told me yesterday that there was something hidden in this matter, and it was yours. If this is true, it is really best for you to decide the performance clips, because if I put them on my side, I will always pass by the crew. If Lu Zishi really bribed the staff, then this clip would not be retained."

"But in fact, even if he knows the performance content in two days, it will be difficult for him to prepare." Zhao Yao said: "So this is a fair opportunity and it is also convenient for the crew of "Li Meng" to make the best plans. I will not interfere with your decision."

Director Tang left the small room and saw the deputy director standing at the door.

The deputy director asked: "Why did this investor come here? And it doesn't take us seriously after temporarily adding clips? This also interferes with the protagonist's affairs. How can we shoot in the future?"

Director Tang glanced at the deputy director: "It's just a clip. Besides, we were hesitating between the two, and it would be impossible to find a big deal if we had an extra chance to see the situation."
To be continued...