Chapter 69: The Wonders of Small Actions

  After lunch that day, Guo Xiaoyu signed his name on Zhao Yuyun's contract. Of course, signing the contract didn't mean anything, what was most important to him now was to film the TV series well, so after signing the contract, he rushed back to the crew without stopping.

  "Xiao Yu, the tone of your speech is irrelevant here, but you have to make it clear that you actually care, after all, you are comforting Taozi without wanting him to know."

  "Okay, I'll give it a try." At this time, they were filming a scene of Gao Yunlin and Guo Xiaoyu's confrontation. In the play, Taozi knew that she had been betrayed by her best friend Mo Mo and was venting with Lanyan Jiaoyang. Here, Jiaoyang was actually very heartbroken for Taozi, but he had to speak in a relaxed tone, with an air of nonchalance. Expressing these two completely opposite emotions at the same time was indeed a challenge for Guo Xiaoyu.

  "Card...". Guo Xiaoyu knew she had messed up again.

  "Director Liu, let me think for a moment and get into the mood. Let's leave this scene for now and shoot it later, okay?"

  "Alright, think carefully, let's shoot the next scene first, Hai Bo..." Liu Jiang instructed everyone to start shooting the next scene.

  Guo Xiaoyu sat on one side, took out the script, he wanted to carefully savor this scene, in his past life, this scene was not performed well, Guo Xiaoyu did not want to perfunctorily go through the motions.

  "What's the big deal?"

  "I knew from a young age that she was not one of us."

  "Don't be afraid, just find one on the road, which one is better than him?"

  Guo Xiaoyu carefully chewed on these lines, and he found that just saying the lines alone was no longer going to change anything. What could be done? Guo Xiaoyu remembered a scene from an American TV series he had watched in his past life, where two deaf-mute people communicated silently, and this wordless scene had moved him to tears. What made it work? It was the actions, some subtle little movements.

  After understanding, Guo Xiaoyu walked up to Liu Yang and said: "Alright, Director Liu, let's get started."

  "Have you thought it through?"

  "Uh-huh." Guo Xiaoyu nodded affirmatively.

  "Alright, let's start filming. Yuanyuan, come here and reenact that scene from earlier."

  "Here." Gao Yuanyuan ran in front of Guo Xiaoyu and threatened: "If you dare to NG again, just wait for me."

  "Haha..." Guo Xiaoyu chuckled and said, "Alright, let's begin."

  Gao Yuanyuan and Guo Xiaoyu sat facing each other on two rattan chairs, with only a table between them. Later, in post-production, they would add the exterior of a coffee shop to this scene, but for now, it was just the two chairs and a table.

  Filming started, and Gao Yuanyuan immediately got into character, let out a sigh, and said with a furious expression: "Alas... You say, how could Miao Miao be like this? She's been hiding so much from me for so many years..."

  "There's nothing special about her, she's just like that. I've always thought she was a different kind of person from us." This sentence was no different from the previous ones, and Liu Jiao was about to call "cut", but Guo Xiaoyu suddenly stood up, standing behind his chair, looking down at his own chair, saying: "Don't think too much about it, anyone you pick out on this street is better than him."

  "Liu Dao, Xiao Yu didn't follow the script, are we going to call 'cut'?"

  "Wait." Liu Jiao stopped his assistant's action, furrowed his brow and said, "Let's take another look." Guo Xiaoyu stood up, the movement of lowering her head made Liu Jiao sense a different flavor, this flavor was exactly what he wanted, he wanted to see if Guo Xiaoyu's action was a breakthrough or just an accidental move.

  The following lines, Guo Xiaoyu said were not much different from before, but he added some subtle movements, such as tightly gripping the cup, his hands trembling slightly, lowering his head and not looking at Gao Yuanyuan while speaking. Seeing Guo Xiaoyu's series of actions, Liu Yang's face revealed a relieved expression: "This kid really has the talent to be a good actor." Immediately after, he seemed to think of something, sighed, and thought to himself: "Unfortunately, this kid is too lazy, and recently signed a contract with a singer, what a pity." Liu Yang decided to properly train Guo Xiaoyu in this play, as people get older, their love for talent becomes heavier.

  "Great job!" Liu Jiang stood up, gave a thumbs-up to Guo Xiaoyu and said: "Xiaoyu, you did extremely well! Alright, take a rest first, we'll shoot the next scene."

  "Alright." Guo Xiaoyu nodded in satisfaction, he was also very pleased with his performance. At this time, a woman who looked to be around twenty years old ran up to him, holding her phone and said: "Xiaoyu, your call."

  "Thanks, sis!" Guo Xiaoyu took the phone from the woman's hand.

  This woman was assigned to Guo Xiaoyu by Zhao Youyun after he signed with him, and is also his personal assistant and direct supervisor, responsible for all of Guo Xiaoyu's daily life. Her name is Wang Mo, she is thirty-one this year, but because she has been well taken care of, she looks like she is only in her early twenties. Don't look at her like that, she also has a pair of three-year-old twins. Guo Xiaoyu even joked that he should let his husband take the twins to participate in the second season of "Where Are We Going, Dad?"

  The phone rang, and a very unexpected voice came from inside: "Xiaoyu, is it convenient for you to talk?"

  "Aunt Zhao?" Guo Xiaoyu asked in surprise: "Aunt Zhao, why are you calling me?"

  "What's wrong, can't I just call you for no reason?"

  "No, it's just a bit strange, didn't we just meet yesterday?"

  "Alright, let's talk about something serious." Zhao Yuyun cleared his throat and said: "Do you know that the TV station started officially promoting 'Happy Boys' today? The selection schedule has been brought forward."

  "What's going on?" Guo Xiaoyu's eyebrows furrowed as soon as she heard it.

  "I don't know."

  "You don't know?" Guo Xiaoyu was a bit unbelievable about Zhao Yuyun's words, if she didn't know, then who would, her husband was the director of the TV station.

  "I really don't know," said Zhao Yuyun: "I only know it's the intention of the high-level, and I don't know the specific reason either."

  "High-level?" Guo Xiaoyu knew that this high-level didn't refer to Lü Bin and the others. Guo Xiaoyu knew, now it's troublesome.

  "What did you call me for?" The crowd was not dispersing, and Guo Xiaoyu still couldn't do anything about it, so she could only accept it and first understand the purpose of Zhao Youyun's phone call.

  "Super Boy is ahead of schedule, so you'll have to participate in the selection earlier. So I want to ask you, have you chosen your song?"

  "Zao Yi, let's not play such a boring game anymore." Guo Xiaoyu said directly: "If you have any questions, just say it."

  "That's good." Zhao Youyun on the other end of the phone paused for a moment, then said: "I came today to ask you about the selection show judges."

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