Auditions (1)

Xu Yongzhou approached him from behind, and suddenly slapped Lu Yan’s shoulder with his palm. He wanted to make a joke and startled him. Who knew that Lu Yan was not moved at all, just put down the book and raised his head, and said hello, “Yongzhou? You are back.”

Xu Yongzhou walked out from behind, deliberately sighing, “Hey, Lu Yan, you are so boring. Recently, it has become more and more dull.”

A sunny and handsome face suddenly appeared in front of him, as if the brightness of the entire room had increased a bit. At this time, Xu Yongzhou had not yet become a big star, and there was no such thing as wearing all kinds expensive clothing with a professional smile on his face. Xu Yongzhou at this time was still vivid and interesting.

Xu Yongzhou’s appearance was no worse than Lu Yan’s, but the two of them had two different styles.

Lu Yan’s handsomeness carried a bit of maturity and calmness that was not very suitable for his age. Even when he laughed, it felt faint. This was certainly related to the environment in which he grew up, but there was also the indifference and alienation that he brought in his bones. The strange thing was that this kind of Lu Yan unexpectedly made people feel very reliable. In addition, he was also a good person, so the popularity had always been very good.

Xu Yongzhou was the kind of heartiness and handsomeness of the big boy next door. When he smiled, he liked to squint slightly. It gave people a gentle and shy feeling. He was very popular with young girls. But later, after he became more and more famous, the shallow astringency slowly grew into an atmosphere, and there was a sense of distance behind that gentle smile.

Sometimes Lu Yan would not even be able to connect the whole Xu Yongzhou in front of him with the latter Xu Yongzhou. It could only be said that the Vanity Fair¹ was really a big dye pot², it would make a person less like themselves.

But who knew, Lu Yan didn’t really see through Xu Yongzhou in his last life, otherwise he wouldn’t fall so badly.

Lu Yan smiled faintly, “You are too naive, as big star in the future, after you become famous, these are all black histories. I think that if you sell it at some time, your fans will buy it.”

Xu Yongzhou smiled, “I will talk about future things in the future, and I know you will definitely not betray me. Yeah, my good brother.” As he reached out and hooked Lu Yan’s neck, he leaned forward, and the two of them leaned forward. He got closer, stared into his eyes and said again, “But speaking of it, you are really a little strange lately. Is there something unhappy? Say it and make me unhappy, brother.”

Lu Yan lowered his eyes, opened his hand, put away the emotions that surged up in an instant, and concealed it: “There nothing much in my mind, you are too sensitive. Maybe I’m a little nervous about the audition tomorrow.”

When he came back after being reborn, Lu Yan felt a little complicated facing Xu Yongzhou who still didn’t know anything.

At this time, Xu Yongzhou had not had time to do anything sorry to him, but the feeling of hurt and betrayal had been deeply rooted in his heart, and the faint disgust would always come from the bottom of his heart from time to time.

Fortunately, he had been an actor from the last life to this life, and it was commonplace to hide emotions. So even though Xu Yongzhou noticed something was wrong with Lu Yan recently, he didn’t think too much about it. When he said this, he immediately accepted the reason.

Xu Yongzhou patted Lu Yan on the shoulder, half joking and half earnestly saying: “What is your nervousness? I should be the one who should be nervous. With you, I think I basically have no chance.” He shrugged funny as he spoke.

Lu Yan was so amused that he couldn’t help but laughed, and in turn comforted: “I don’t know anything now, your chances are not smaller than mine.”

Lu Yan actually knew it.

In the previous life, or before the rebirth, this role really belonged to Xu Yongzhou, which meant that for tomorrow’s audition, Xu Yongzhou would be the final winner. It’s just that Lu Yan had an accident in his last life and didn’t participate in this audition. Therefore, Lu Yan couldn’t tell whether history could be changed. To be honest, he really felt a little nervous in his heart.

The two were chatting, the phone in the room rang, it was the phone from the communication room, there was Lu Yan’s package, let him go down and get it.

The apartment they lived in could be said to be the best student apartment in the entire school. All facilities were quite complete. Each room was equipped with a fixed phone, but now everyone had a mobile phone, this fixed phone biggest role was to answer the call from the reception room for express delivery or the like.

When he walked out of the room, Lu Yan glanced at the elevator. The indicator light was on normally, but instead of pressing the down button, he opened the safety door next to him and walked out.

There was still some distance between the communication room and the apartment, and Lu Yan was not in a hurry, he walked over slowly.

When he arrived at the reception room, Lu Yan signed and got his own package. It was a book he bought online a few days ago. He unpacked it and turned it over. After that, he thanked the uncle in the reception room and walked back.

When he was about to get to the apartment, his phone rang.

Lu Yan took it out and saw that it was Xu Yongzhou’s call. After pressing the answer button, Xu Yongzhou’s panting voice came from there, a little hurriedly, “Lu Yan, are you okay?”

While talking, he saw Xu Yongzhou running out in sweat, and seeing him from a distance seemed to be relieved. He hung up the phone and walked a few steps. When he stopped in front of him, he couldn’t help but bend down and put his hands on his knees to gasp for a few moments. Then he straightened up and said, “It’s great that you didn’t take the elevator. The elevator suddenly lost control when you went out just now and fell from the third floor. There seemed to be a few people inside, who are now being rescued. I was also worried that you were in there too.”

Lu Yan looked at him from being anxious at the beginning to relaxing later, with a mixed mood.

He is really worried about me. Lu Yan thought.

Whether it was acting or true, Lu Yan was a master, and he could naturally see through it, not to mention Xu Yongzhou at this time was not the future actor, but at this time Lu Yan had gone through all the tempers of later generations and had become more and more proficient.

He used to really treat him as a good friend and brother. This cognition made Lu Yan, who had been faintly tortured by hatred, feel much better. As for why so much would change in the future, wait until the truth was found out slowly in the future.

So, Lu Yan smiled and took Xu Yongzhou’s shoulders, “It seems I was lucky. Fortunately, I didn’t have the patience to wait for the elevator but went down by myself. Let’s go, I will treat you to dinner for the sake of my escape.”

It was luck and not luck.

In fact, Lu Yan knew from the beginning that something would happen to the elevator at this time. Because in the last life, Lu Yan never escaped this catastrophe. He was in the out-of-control elevator, and was injured along with four or five other people who were trapped.

Everyone had some common sense of self-help when the elevator was out of control, and when the elevator was out of control, the elevator was not far from the ground, so they only suffered minor injuries. Only Lu Yan was unlucky and broke his leg, he lay in the hospital for almost three months. Not only did he missed the important audition the next day, but also missed the golden period when the instructor recommended him to the crew and selected the crew when he was about to graduate. Just like the audition tomorrow, it was recommended by the instructor, so Lu Yan and Xu Yongzhou would participate together.

He had to say that Lu Yan from the previous life was really unlucky.

And the loss of control of the elevator was really a real accident, without any human factors.

Because of Lu Yan’s absence, Xu Yongzhou got the role quite smoothly, and later was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the Baicao Award³ for this role. Although it couldn’t be said that Xu Yongzhou became popular because of this role, it was indeed because of this that he laid a good foundation in the entertainment industry.

He had to say that Xu Yongzhou in his previous life had good luck.

It’s just that now, Lu Yan lived again with the memories of his past, it was hard to say how the fate of the two would change.

On the second day, Lu Yan and Xu Yongzhou arrived at the audition venue on time. There were 13 people competing for this role, including them. The two took out a number plate and a script and waited outside.

Before today, none of them knew what the role auditioned for was about, nor did they know what the film was about, but the director of this film alone was enough for people to flock to it.

The director of this film was Li Ran.

Generally speaking, except for people in the industry, ordinary audiences often only remember the various actors that appear on the screen. For the director behind the scenes, the memory was limited. Li Ran belonged to the one that even ordinary people were familiar with.

Li Ran was a very interesting director.

He had made art films and commercial films. Of course, this was nothing unusual. Basically, all directors had filmed these two types of films. It’s just that the art films he shot were always regarded as commercial films, and the commercial films he shot always had too many literary elements. Of course, this was not the point. The point was that his movies were always well received and popular. He even had a group of his own fans. No matter who his actors were, what themes and genres of the movies he made, as long as he participated in them, they would all join in. Therefore, when Li Ran looked for an actor, he never looked at how popular they were, no matter how strong his background was, how hard the backstage was, and even no matter the character of the person, he just looked at the role he was suitable for. Therefore, his movies could always be shot with his own taste.

There were many people who wanted to be in his play, but he chose actors in the same way as the movies he made, never playing cards according to the common sense. Sometimes he would go through formal procedures, sometimes he would go directly to the major performing schools to pick people, and sometimes he would find someone to recommend. It was said that the most exaggerated one was that he stood at the busiest intersection in the city center for three days, and then suddenly named a passerby to perform the protagonist of one of his movies. It had to be said that Li Ran’s vision of seeing people was still poisonous and accurate. Although the passerby he singled out was completely inexperienced before, the role he played couldn’t be more suitable. As for how much resources Li Ran had mobilized to cooperate with this, newcomers who couldn’t find shots at all were not enough to be outsiders. That newcomer also became a hit. It’s just that he had no experience after all, and he didn’t meet a suitable role again, and he quickly disappeared. Of course, Li Ran’s reputation had become even more legendary.

All these were learned by Lu Yan in his previous life. Although Li Ran was not as legendary as Lu Yan knew in his last life, Li Ran was already very famous. And for this role, Li Ran let his familiar teacher recommend students from the Academy of Performing Arts.

Notes

1. Vanity Fair is a British novel that vividly depicts a picture of the arrogant, extravagant and intriguing life of the upper class of the British aristocratic bourgeoisie in the 19th century. ↩︎
2. big dye vat, means that it is easy to be infected by some good and bad things, especially bad things. ↩︎
3. ‘百草/Baicao’ means all kinds of grass, grass is a reference to handsome men, so like ‘all kinds of handsome men award’, I decided to just use Baicao. ↩︎