CH 149

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There were many similarities between the wolf demon and the wolf gene human, but in the final analysis, the nature of the wolf demon is a wolf whereas the nature of the wolf gene human is a human being. After three days of careful inspection, the police finally determined the identity of the corpse was a wolf demon.

In the hearts of human beings, all demons are bad and all demon hunters are good. Therefore, the police not only solemnly apologized to Fu Xing Hua, but also awarded him the "Courageous Action" medal.

Fu Xing Hua's company initially planned to reveal the "Courageous Action" Medal to the media to increase his name recognition, but the police refused Fu Xing Hua's company’s request to disclose information to the media on the grounds of confidentiality.

After being detained in the police station for three days, Fu Xing Hua received nothing except a medal for "Courageous Action" that he couldn’t tell others.

Once a week, Fu Xing Hua was able to check Nie Zhen'er's favorability through the panel. When he left the police station, what made him even more angry and distressed was that Nie Zhen'er's favorability didn’t rise but dropped instead. It fell from its original twelve percent to two.

Fu Xing Hua could speculate the reason: Since Nie Zhen'er was timid, when she saw him killing the wolf demon, she became afraid of him, so her favorability dropped this sharply.

Fu Xing Hua felt extremely depressed, Operation Hero Saving the Damsel in Distress was a complete failure!

Half a month after the wolf demon incident, Nie Zhen'er received an invitation for a new variety show, [The Path of an Actor].

Her manager Lu Ren Yuan carefully analyzed the pros and cons for her, "This variety show truly isn’t rigged. The actors rely solely on their acting skills to compete against each other. Out of 50 participants, 30 go on to the next round, then 20, then ten, then five and finally one. There are five episodes in total and the recording time is about a month. I’m sure you don’t need me to point out the benefits of participating in this show. Through this show, you can let the audience experience your acting skills more directly. If you perform well, you’ll not only gain the audience’s love, but also have your acting skills be recognized and affirmed by other actors and directors. Of course, if you don’t perform well, you’ll be eliminated prematurely. It is also entirely possible that some directors will doubt your acting skills and not dare use you ever again."

Once done talking about the pros and cons, Lu Ren Yuan voiced his own view, "I think you should participate."

Nie Zhen'er asked out of curiosity, "Why?"

Lu Ren Yuan’s vision for people was very accurate, proven by him nurturing three film kings and two film queens. He affirmed, "Your acting skills have been improving at an incredible rate. I dare to say that no one of your age has better acting skills than you. It’s impossible for you to be eliminated prematurely."

Nie Zhen'er felt warm after hearing what Lu Ren Yuan said and couldn't help but smile, "Brother Lu, I believe in your eyes." I want to try to believe in myself more.

Nie Zhen'er immediately told Luan Qing Xiao once she accepted [The Path of an Actor].

Luan Qing Xiao chuckled, holding her phone, "What a coincidence, I also just accepted [The Path of an Actor] ‘s invitation. Say, don’t you think this is fate?"

Nie Zhen'er was surprised, "Qing Xiao, you are that powerful yet you still have to be criticized?" Luan Qing Xiao was someone who earned a film king.

"Silly girl, I'm the mentor." Luan Qing Xiao said dotingly.

Nie Zhen'er's ears were slightly red, "That was I thought, it turns out Qing Xiao is a mentor, ah."

"By the way, there will be five mentors this time; two directors, one’s Xu Jia Shu, who has won an Oscar for Best Director but no works at Golden Auspicious Bird, and was criticized for running out of ideas. The other is a new director, Yu He Shao. Last year Director Yu’s《The Sleepless Cold Moon in the Lotus Pond》was shortlisted for many Oscar awards before finally winning the Oscar for Best Editing and is labeled by the media as the miraculous talented director."

"There are also three actor mentors, namely Wen Qin, Zhu Qing Fu and me."

"At the beginning of the show, you’ll have to choose a mentor of your choice. In the next few days, you should take the time to learn about the styles of available mentors and try to choose a mentor who can help you improve."

A week later, [The Path of an Actor] started filming.

Sure enough, like Luan Qing Xiao said, the first thing the fifty actors did after they came onstage was to introduce themselves and choose a mentor.

The fifty actors are randomly assigned to five waiting rooms until their time onstage. Each person can choose a mentor, and each mentor has ten total seats. Once all the seats have been taken, the next person can no longer choose that mentor.

Fortunately, Nie Zhen'er was the third up. Both the first two actors had released works and some popularity. Because the only TV series Nie Zhen'er ever filmed hasn’t yet been released, she could only drily introduce herself. Then she walked to one of the ten seats under Xu Jia Shu under the gaze of the two actors and casually chose one to sit down.

The other two actors glanced at Nie Zhen'er with veiled ridicule and felt that she was really wasting her advantage of choosing in advance.

Four of the five mentors were all popular figures in recent years. Only Xu Jia Shu hasn’t produced any decent works for nearly eight years. What can a stumped director teach them?

The fifty actors of all ages and fame choose mentors in random order. Some are lucky, and naturally some aren't.

Except for Nie Zhen'er, none of the first forty one actors chose Xu Jia Shu.

They would rather choose the legendary Luan Qing Xiao, who has a bad temper but had a blooming career, than a down-and-out director with a bad personality.

The last nine actors were unlucky and had no choice but to sit down under Xu Jia Shu's ten seats with an ugly expression.

Some of the young arrogant actors didn't even turn off their microphone before beginning to complain.

"What the hell, why did the program team choose Xu Jia Shu, an outdated and bad film director, to be a mentor?"

Xu Jia Shu hasn’t produced any good works for the past eight years, because his investment went bankrupt eight years ago. In order to pay off his debt, he had to shoot horrible commercial films for eight years.

However, few people have investigated why he produced bad films. In addition to how arrogant and haughty he was before, he offended most of the media personnel. That's why he got labeled with an "exhausted talent" evaluation. People who don't know the reason and don't want to explore the reason naturally thought what the media wrote as the truth.

Among the fifty actors, the other actors knew at least a few familiar people. The other nine actors who were forced to choose Xu Jia Shu all knew each other. Two of them were classmates of a film academy when they were on the earth. Only Nie Zhen'er, who had no works released, so no one knew her. She sat there alone and no one paid any attention to her.

The other nine actors in Xu Jia Shu's group also seemed to be isolating her.

Just now, they watched each actor choose a mentor from the waiting room. They didn’t know Nie Zhen'er, and when they saw Nie Zhen'er walked directly into the ten seats of Xu Jia Shu after introducing herself, they felt the girl was short-sighted, or she wanted to be unique, to emphasize the differences between her and other people.

Regardless of what reason Nie Zhen'er chose Xu Jia Shu, her series of behaviors were determined by others as "unpleasant" and having no future.