CH 22

“You mean, he asked me to audition?” Ye Kehuan asked incredulously.

“Yes, so, you rest early today, and don’t stay up too late! It’s a pity that I’m out of town now, otherwise I would accompany you to the audition.” Cheng Xin said.

“Good!” Ye Kehuan squeezed the phone in her hand and nodded.

“Okay, I’m going to get busy first. Go back and take a look at the script lines used in the audition that I sent you in my email and practice, and then go to bed early.” Cheng Xin said.

“Well, goodbye.” Even after hanging up, Ye Kehuan still couldn’t recover. After finally regaining consciousness, Ye Kehuan laughed happily.

Great, I must seize this great opportunity that fell from the sky!

So, after returning home, Ye Kehuan ate something simple that night, and then pondered the character of Su He.

After thinking about it, Ye Kehuan still sent a message to Jiang Laien before going to bed: “Director Chen contacted me for an audition at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning!”

After a moment, Jiang Laien replied: “How is it, are you happy?”

Ye Kehuan lay on the bed and smiled: “Happy, I have never thought that I would have such a chance. I was just a little afraid of **** up, so I was still thinking about how to play this role.”

Jiang Laien: “Don’t be nervous, you can act however you want.”

Ye Kehuan nodded: “I’ll…try my best.”

Jiang Laien: “However, if you are really nervous, I can also audition with you.”

After Ye Kehuan saw it, she was stunned, and then hurriedly said, “Yes, can you? Are you busy?”

Jiang Laien: “I’m not busy anymore. Actually, I’m already in Morikawa now, but my mother came suddenly, so I had to go shopping with her. I will come and audition with you tomorrow morning. After the audition, we will go out. What do you think of relaxing by eating, drinking, and playing?”

After Ye Kehuan saw it, she raised her lips: “Okay!”

Then, Ye Kehuan searched for interesting places nearby, memorized them one by one, and then slowly fell asleep.

Early the next morning, after Ye Kehuan got up under the influence of the alarm clock, she quickly washed up, changed her clothes, and then dressed in a simple dress. Jiang Laien, who had rushed over, headed towards the building with her bare face.

Along the way, Ye Kehuan was restless, like a student preparing to take the college entrance examination.

“I found that I was still a little nervous.” Ye Kehuan said.

“Don’t be nervous, you can do it.” Jiang Laien leaned over as she spoke and helped her tidy up her collar.

A fragrant smell came, and Ye Kehuan looked at Jiang Laien’s delicate eyebrows and swallowed involuntarily.

In the blink of an eye, Ye Kehuan and Jiang Laien arrived at the Hongyuan Building together.

“Then I will go to the acquaintance's lobby and wait for you.” When she arrived near 2201, Jiang Laien looked at Ye Kehuan.

“Yeah!” Ye Kehuan nodded.

“Come on, let’s go out and relax together after the audition.” Jiang Laien smiled.

“Good!” Ye Kehuan nodded again.

So, next, Jiang Laien waited in a rest area outside, while Ye Kehuan hurriedly entered room 2201.

After entering, the first room was the reception room, and there was a small room tens of meters on the left hand side, with a staff standing next to it; it should be the real audition room.

“Miss Ye Kehuan.” At this moment, a staff member respectfully stood next to Ye Kehuan.

“Hello.” Ye Kehuan bowed slightly to him.

“Come here and sit for a while.” The staff member pointed to a sofa next to him.

“Okay, thank you.” Ye Kehuan smiled happily.

Then, Ye Kehuan turned her head and found that there were already close to ten actors sitting on the sofa. Among them, Ye Kehuan had never seen many, but that was not surprising. After all, Chen Fei’s selection of people was sometimes so weird. Two of them were already familiar faces, and they belonged to the kind that were solid, but not popular. In addition, there was another one--Cheng Yan.

Before Ye Kehuan came in, everyone was still chatting or something, but after Ye Kehuan came in, everyone stopped talking and looked at each other.

Cheng Yan even wrote “incredible” on her face. She suddenly wondered if she was entwined with Ye Kehuan’s horoscope, otherwise, why would Ye Kehuan stick to her back no matter where she went.1

Ye Kehuan was stunned, and then put on a soft smile: “Hello everyone, I am Ye Kehuan!”

“Hello…” Everyone greeted her one after another, and looked her up and down.

Ye Kehuan looked down at the sofa, and finally sat down in the empty seat next to Cheng Yan, and smiled and said hello to Cheng Yan: “We met again.”

After Cheng Yan listened, a smile appeared on her face, and she said with a hint of sarcasm: “Yes, what a coincidence. I really didn’t expect to meet you here at Director Chen’s.”

It probably means that you will appear here as rubbish. What kind of **** luck is this?

After listening, Ye Kehuan simply smiled: “I didn’t expect to meet you here.”

After listening to this, the smile on Cheng Yan’s face almost fell apart. What did Ye Kehuan mean, was she also saything that she was not worthy to audition?

“Then let’s work hard together.” Cheng Yan twitched her lips, and later she vowed she was going to let Ye Kehuan see what it meant to be an actress and what it meant to be trash. Ye Kehuan’s poor acting skills weren’t her opponent at all.

Then everyone started to chat again.

Auditioner 1: “What should I do, I’m so nervous before it even starts.”

Auditioner 2: “Me too, I have no acting experience…”

Cheng Yan smiled after hearing this, “I heard that Director Chen is very strict.”

She was particularly good at fighting psychological warfare. It would be very beneficial to her to preemptively disrupt the enemy’s mentality and let the enemy perform poorly.

Sure enough, as soon as Cheng Yan said those words, the few people shivered even more.

After Ye Kehuan listened, she smiled: “It’s okay. Director Chen often uses newcomers. He often values aura over plasticity!”

Therefore, the newcomers looked at Ye Kehuan, breathed out sighs of relief, and nodded: “Thank you, Sister Kehuan, for your comfort. I don’t seem to be nervous anymore.”

Cheng Yan glanced at Ye Kehuan and frowned.

At this moment, an actor who was known for having acting skills but had not been popular, spoke again from the side: “Kehuan is right. Director Chen will be like that, hey… I suddenly became a little nervous. I’ve been in this circle for so long, and still…”

Cheng Yan turned her head to look at her, smiled again, and continued her psychological warfare: “It’s quite difficult, as Kehuan said. In front of Director Chen, you won’t know if you have any qualifications.”

After the actor listened, her eyes dimmed, and she shook her head and began to sigh.

Upon seeing this, Ye Kehuan laughed again and comforted her: “Don’t worry, it’s okay. Director Chen treats others equally. He once used a man who had always been tepid to star in a movie. Later, he got a lot of awards.”

Like a word to wake up a dreamer, the actor’s eyes reignited.

For a while, Cheng Yan was so angry that she almost wanted to vomit blood. Was this Ye Kehuan doing this specifically against herself?! What was more annoying is that in that short period of time, Ye Kehuan had even become friendly with her competitors, and everyone even started to boast that Ye Kehuan was there!

This woman is really scheming! Cheng Yan couldn’t help but think to herself.

In the blink of an eye, it was time.

Then, the door to 2201 was pushed open, and the director, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and a black peaked cap, and several other people walked in hurriedly. 2

In an instant, everyone there stood up, and Ye Kehuan also stood up and bowed slightly to him.

Director Chen nodded, and then walked into the small room on the left with the people around him, and it was just them again.

All of a sudden, the atmosphere became more tense.

But Ye Kehuan was more relaxed. She had gone through many bad things, so where would she go bad next? If she couldn’t seize this opportunity, it just meant that her ability was not high enough.

In the blink of an eye, the audition began, and after the first one was called, she was taken into the small room.

Twenty minutes later, she came out. She didn’t seem to be in a good condition, but she took her belongings and left without saying a word. Then, the second person’s situation wasn’t any better. When she came out, she just pressed her lips and said to everyone: “Good luck, you guys,” and then left crying.

For a while, everyone panicked. It seemed that Director Chen was really a bit scary.

The next few were almost the same, and soon it was Cheng Yan’s turn to audition.

So after Cheng Yan stood up gracefully, she walked towards the door and entered the room under the guidance of the staff.

After Cheng Yan entered, the people in Room 2201 sighed one after another. They only felt that the waiting was very painful.

This time, it took a long time. About thirty minutes later, the door opened and Cheng Yan walked out with a big smile, a completely different appearance from the people who had left before.

It looked like she was full of confidence. At the same time, when everyone saw Cheng Yan’s appearance, they became less confident, and they began to discuss in a low voice.

Auditioner 1: “Cheng Yan should be pretty good, she’s a superstar!”

Auditioner 2: “Yes, and she has been so popular recently…”

After Cheng Yan came out, she smiled and looked at everyone: “Then, I will go first. Everyone, good luck.”

After speaking, Cheng Yan took her bag and walked out with swaying steps.

At this time, the people in the small room were already making various comments about her performance just then.

The small flat head next to Director Chen smiled: “It is indeed Cheng Yan. The expressiveness was really good.”

Then, another person nodded: “Yes, I think she was really the best performer among the few people just now. She is a good seed.”

After that, another person echoed: “It’s really a pleasure to watch her acting. Isn’t it, Director Chen?”

However, Chen Fei was just touching his chin with a cold expression: “Oh, isn’t it?”

After the assistant heard Chen Fei’s words, his smile gradually disappeared: “Difficult, isn’t it?”

After listening, Chen Fei let out a professional “haha” for a moment, and then his face instantly became sharp: “Next.”

At this moment, Ye Kehuan, who was drinking water in the reception room, immediately stood up and walked over there when she heard the staff call her name.

After entering the small room, she saw that it was set up like a studio. Chen Fei, the screenwriter, and other staff were all in it, turning over her information in silence, which seemed to make people jumpy.

After a while, Chen Fei raised his head, pushed his glasses, looked at Ye Kehuan from head to toe, and then nodded.

Ye Kehuan sat there, staring a little vacantly at him.

Then Chen Fei spoke with a faint voice: “Let’s start. Act as Su He eating noodles and watching her own scandal news on TV.

There were no props on the scene. It could be said that everything depended on imagination. Don’t worry, how do you usually eat noodles, let’s act today!

After listening, Ye Kehuan was taken aback, then raised her hand, making a gesture of holding a bowl of with one hand and a gesture of holding chopsticks with the other, then lowered her head to slurp the non-existent noodles, and then looked up at the non-existent TV on the opposite side. Then she pushed the hair that had fallen to her chest back to her ears.

Chen Fei’s lips curled when he saw Ye Kehuan tilting her head. Yes, girls with long hair tended to brush back their hair when they ate. However, Chen Fei didn’t expect Ye Kehuan to grasp those details. After all, the scene he gave was very rough, and there was no such content at all.

Then, Ye Kehuan, who was watching TV, rolled her eyes again, burped, scolded a few unscrupulous media, and burped again, then shrugged her shoulders and raised the soup to her mouth and blew on it. The essence of eating noodle soup with a bad temper was performed.

Finally, Ye Kehuan “drank” two mouthfuls of noodle soup, put down her chopsticks, and bowl in relief, and wiped her mouth with the back of her hand: “I’m so cool!”

The whole performance was very short. However, afterwards, Chen Fei, who hadn’t expected Ye Kehuan to be good, was completely stunned, his eyes almost shining!

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TL/N

1 - When someone gets mad, they frown, causing their brow to furrow. This is referred to in a lot of Chinese literature as causing “black lines to form”. This is further derivated to those black lines linking together to create a character on the person’s forehead.

2 - Describing a police/military hat. Just look it up using those words, you’ll get the right image.