CH 156

After Nie Zhen'er entered the room, she found a place to sit down.

A young girl next to her saw the lollipop in her hand and asked curiously, "Zhen’er, where did your lollipop come from?"

Nie Zhen'er replied, "A person from another group gave it to me. He seems to have recognized the wrong person, I don't know him."

"Um, I'm very nervous right now. When I get nervous, I get low blood sugar… …" The young girl said while looking at the lollipop.

Nie Zhen'er wasn’t sure what she meant and tentatively asked, "Then, I’ll give this lollipop to you? It just happens that I don't like sweets, and it isn’t convenient for me to return it. I  was just wondering who to give it to."

"You’re really going to give it to me? Thank you so much, Zhen’er!" The young girl accepted the lollipop and placed it in her pocket happily, "I'm really afraid that I won’t be able to hold on and faint later. Then, I’ll get removed from the actor list. Fortunately, that person recognized the wrong person."

When Nie Zhen'er got rid of the hot potato, her entire person was instantly relaxed, "You’re welcome, we’re all in the same group."

Xu Jia Shu and Luan Qing Xiao sat in chairs in the middle while the twenty students noisily sat on the plastic stools on either side of them.

Nie Zhen'er sat in the most center position. Everything she and the young girl did fell into Luan Qing Xiao's eyes.

Seeing Nie Zhen'er give the lollipop out in such a short time and becoming much more relaxed once the lollipop left her hand, Luan Qing Xiao was even more sure the lollipop was given by Fu Xing Hua.

This guy really doesn’t know when to give up. Zhen’er made her dislike of him quite obvious, why can’t he just take the hint?

With twenty students whispering in the room together, it soon became noisy.

Xu Jia Shu tried to speak a few times, but had to give up because his voice was too small and no one could hear him.

He could only turn to Luan Qing Xiao for help.

"Teacher Luan, don’t you think we should start to divide the script?" Xu Jia Shu raised his voice slightly.

Thankfully Luan Qing Xiao was sitting close by, otherwise it would’ve been difficult to hear Xu Jia Shu's voice.

Xu Jia Shu's voice is not only small, but also extremely low pitched. Even if he tried his hardest to amplify his voice, it wasn’t easy for people to notice it.

Luan Qing Xiao turned her head and was faced with Xia Jia Shu's hopeful eyes, which seemed to say; won’t you help me? I really can’t do anything else.

Luan Qing Xiao was taken aback for a moment and smiled "Director Xu is the mentor, so you don't have to be so gentle when facing the trainees."

After Luan Qing Xiao finished speaking, she rapped twice on the wooden table beside her with a stern smile. When the students underneath heard the crisp sound, the "buzzing" noises stopped abruptly. They all closed their mouths and cautiously stared at Luan Qing Xiao.

Scanning the students from left and right, Luan Qing Xiao announced, "Director Xu and I choose four scripts. Each script consists of four to six trainees’ participation. Now let's decide who will play which script."

"Director Xu will be responsible for the directing as well as the actor selection. I’ll only be responsible for giving you some useful guidance during your acting."

"Director Xu, your turn." Luan Qing Xiao handed the narration to Xu Jia Shu.

Xu Jia Shu smiled gratefully at Luan Qing Xiao before picking up the four scripts at hand and introducing them.

After the introduction, he proclaimed, "There are four female students in our team. However, the script only needs three actresses, meaning one of you has to dress as a man. There’s a beautiful white-faced male character in the third script. It should be relatively simple for you guys to do that role."

Luan Qing Xiao asked, "Is there anyone willing to volunteer for the role?"

None of the four female students spoke.

Acting as a man wasn’t that simple. No matter how fair and beautiful the role Xu Jia Shu chooses, he’s still a man. When they act, they’ll have to change their behavior habits. Every move would have to be altered. With the shooting time so short, if their performance isn’t up to par, it’s quite likely to be directly eliminated.

There are too many people to be eliminated this time, and no one wants to take risks.

Nie Zhen'er actually wanted to challenge the role, but there was no way to hide her breasts. If she wanted to act as a man, her breasts would be a big problem.

Nie Zhen'er could only regretfully give up the idea.

"No one seems to want to volunteer." Luan Qing Xiao nodded, "Director Xu, then let's arrange all the male roles first."

Xu Jia Shu had no objection. With Luan Qing Xiao helping him out this time, things simply went too smoothly to the point where he couldn't believe how smoothly it went.

Xu Jia Shu continued, "You guys should all have an idea of the scripts’ plots. Now, we’re gonna choose the male actors for the first script."

"Xu Lan Sheng, 23 years old, a scholar with a gentle temperament."

"Wei Ruo Long, 25 years old, a general with a majestic aura."

"Fang Zheng, 21 years old, the son of a wealthy family, talented in both literacy and military ways as well as a great temperament."

"Liu Chang, unknown age, a mysterious expert with expertise with swords."

"The four people each have their own unique traits. First, I’ll choose a few people based on their appearance. The two then will PK each other to obtain the role."

After Xu Jia Shu finished speaking, his gaze swept across the trainees and quickly selected eight male actors.

The first script is the best one out of the four scripts. Those who weren’t selected by Xu Jia Shu were naturally disappointed, but those who were selected didn’t relax either, because they still needed to battle each other for the role.

"Every person will say a character line and the person approved by Teacher Luan will get the role." Xu Jia Shu explained.

Luan Qing Xiao didn't expect the actor selection would still be up to her. She originally thought that she could be a responsibility free assistant.

Picking up the script, she picked out a few sentences from it for the eight actors to say.

After the pairs battled each other, the actors for script one were determined.

The four rejected actors were obviously disappointed.

An actor, who was fighting for the role of a general, went back to sit down. Halfway through, he couldn’t help but walk back to Xu Jia Shu and Luan Qing Xiao, with a dissatisfied expression, "Director Xu, Teacher Luan, I think I acted better than him. Why was he chosen and not me?"

Xu Jia Shu wanted to speak, Luan Qing Xiao stopped him, "It's normal to not choose you. Even if it was another trainee here as the mentor, they wouldn't have chosen you either."

"Nie Zhen'er, tell me, why didn't I choose him just now."

Nie Zhen'er was cueed by Luan Qing Xiao with an innocent expression. Even though she was confused, she said to the actor, who turned to look at her, "Wei Ruo Long’s identity is a general and grew up with his father in the army camp. Because the army has strict discipline, there are rules for everything. Your temperament just now was too flamboyant that it doesn't appear like a wise general but rather like the second in command within a bandit's den."

When Luan Qing Xiao heard Nie Zhen'er's "second in command within a bandit's den,” she couldn't help but smile. It was like the melting of a snowy mountain and the spring breeze blowing, causing the faces of the four girls in the room to flush.