FV: Chapter 67

Li Hanhai stared at the expressionless AI Lin Luoqing on the screen for a long time. Then he went to see the smiling Lin Luoqing on the official announcement poster.

One was like an emotionless robot and the other was animated.

Could a person’s acting skills improve by leaps and bounds in just one year, completing qualitative changes without quantitative changes?

It was too incredible!

He discovered his shortcomings after two dramas, so he concentrated on learning for a year. He didn’t take on any dramas, shoot commercials or attend events to improve his acting skills?

So here he was a year later, ‘reborn from Nirvana’, the king ‘returned’?

In an instant, Li Hanhai came up with the classic counterattack plot of ‘don’t bully the young and the poor, things will turn around.’ He turned to his assistant and asked, “What has he been doing this year apart from not filming. Has he attended any events, filmed any commercials or participated in variety shows?”

The assistant, “……”

Brother, do you know what an 1800th tier unknown artist is?

Who will invite him to shoot commercials, participate in variety shows or attend events?

Do they love to do poverty alleviation?

Like they have to hurry and give him the appearance fee?!

“No.”

However, Li Hanhai had been popular since his debut and didn’t know how terrible an 1800th tier artist was. He didn’t know how they were treated.

He just felt that it was as he speculated. Lin Luoqing devoted himself to training for a year before returning to the entertainment industry, washing away the stain of his past with his current acting skills.

It was really… quite inspirational!

It was only after suffering hardships that one could be a master, the clumsy bird flies early, etc. The ancients’ wisdom sincerely didn’t deceive him!

He worked so hard. No wonder why Li Hanhai’s current acting skills were slightly inferior to his.

Li Hanhai figured it out and for a while, he appreciated Lin Luoqing a bit more. It had to be said that being able to concentrate on honing his acting skills for a year and giving up on all commercial activities wasn’t something that ordinary actors could do.

He asked himself and found that he probably couldn’t do it.

Thinking of this, Li Hanhai took another look at Lin Luoqing’s official announcement poster. Then he thought of the netizens complaining about his appearance.

Li Hanhai clicked on the pictures of his style in the three dramas that the netizens had compiled for him.

Indeed, there was hardly much difference.

He started off as an idol. Once on stage, he was asked to show his best side in order to attract fans to vote for him.

Later, he successfully debuted in the C position, but he also became used to taking advantage of his strengths and avoiding his weaknesses when styling. This way, he could present his best image in front of his fans.

Once he started filming, his first work was a modern drama and the fans of his opponents and his black fans were waiting for him to make a fool of himself.

Netizens were also waiting to see what type of image he would appear as on TV after he left the stage. Would he be as handsome as ever? Or would he immediately decline in appearance?

Li Hanhai was a person with a very clear self-awareness. He naturally knew that he wasn’t a professional actor and might not have many achievements in acting. His biggest advantage was his face and popularity.

Therefore, he paid attention to his appearance at that time. He found that the makeup effect given to him by the crew wasn’t satisfactory so he used his right as the male protagonist to forcefully change the stylist and let his makeup artist enter the crew.

As it turned out, he had the right to do so.

It was his first drama after his debut. Fans and netizens who knew about his idol show background didn’t have many expectations for his acting itself. In addition, he was still handsome and cool in the drama. Thanks to the blessing of the character settings, he didn’t lose any fans but attracted more fans. This successfully let more idol drama directors notice him.

Due to this, Li Hanhai insisted on his own method even more. For the subsequent modern dramas, he directly appointed his own makeup artist.

However, now netizens didn’t buy it any longer.

Li Hanhai thought about it for a moment. Then he looked at Lin Luoqing’s makeup.

“Go contact Amy and ask her to come over here with her tools and assistant,” he told the assistant.

The assistant replied positively. He was puzzled but he still complied with it.

Lin Luoqing came to the dressing room to prepare for makeup in the morning and found that Amy hadn’t come. Another makeup artist had replaced her.

“My name is Linda, I will style you from now on,” she said.

Lin Luoqing, “???”

“Isn’t Amy in charge of my styling?”

“She is going to style Brother Han now, so the team leader asked me to be in charge of your side,” Linda explained.

Lin Luoqing was confused. ‘Huh?’

Unlike Lin Luoqing’s confusion, Wu Xinyuan had read the praise under the official announcement Weibo post yesterday so he refused before Lin Luoqing could even speak. “Why didn’t we know about this? Even if there is a sudden substitution, you should tell us. Why not notify us in advance?”

What type of joke was this? He didn’t want to change the makeup artist. Yesterday, Lin Luoqing’s Weibo increased by so many fans. Wasn’t it because they saw the official announcement poster and thought he was handsome?

It could be seen that everyone liked the style Amy made. If it was changed and Linda couldn’t do it, or didn’t do it as well as Amy, then Lin Luoqing would have a decline in appearance in the drama. At that time, everyone would probably say that compared to the official announcement, he was just deceiving them!

Wu Xinyuan refused to agree.

Linda wondered after hearing this, “Didn’t the team leader call you?”

He clearly said he would.

“No.”

Amy ran in just as Wu Xinyuan finished speaking.

She looked at the three people who were talking and pulled Linda aside. She said a few words to Linda, apologized again and let her go to a female artist.

Then she walked up to Lin Luoqing and said in a low voice, “Wait a minute. I don’t know what happened with Brother Hai last night but he suddenly asked me to go over and try giving him a style. After the trial, the team leader informed me this morning that Brother Hai wanted me to do his styling. I had to finish it for him before doing it for you. I read the schedule. Your scene is after his, so you won’t be delayed.”

Lin Luoqing nodded. “Okay.”

Wu Xinyuan couldn’t understand it. “Why did he suddenly want to change it? He didn’t want you to do it before and now he insists on you doing it. Will he still agree to let you work on Luoqing?”

Wu Xinyuan simply understood these male and female leads too well. Their stylists must only be in charge of them. If sharing the stylist with others meant this person could be handed over at any time, how could they be willing?

In fact, Amy hadn’t dared to be 100% sure about the news she received this morning. She just had a premonition since Li Hanhai let her go last night.

Li Hanhai asked her, “What type of makeup did you plan to do for me?”

He wouldn’t ask this for no reason. The only possibility was that he read the forum posts and knew the netizens had opinions on his unchanged makeup in the previous three dramas.

Amy sensed that this was an opportunity.

Li Hanhai’s popularity and attention were much higher than Lin Luoqing. Since his previous idol dramas all had the same makeup, a sudden change in makeup would definitely arouse discussion and they would ask who did the makeup for him this time.

In this circle, there was no one who didn’t want to be famous. Amy also hoped to become a famous stylist who had a right to speak.

Thus, she keenly seized the opportunity to carefully show Li Hanhai her skills.

Li Hanhai didn’t speak when she left. She was worried and asked him, “Do you think it is okay?”

Li Hanhai just asked his assistant to send her out.

Amy thought he wasn’t satisfied and went back to her room in a frustrated mood. She almost cried as she felt she had missed the opportunity.

Then this morning, she received a call from the team leader saying that Li Hanhai had passed her. She would be in charge of his styling in the future. Amy was ecstatic.

The joy that was regained after being lost made her hang up the phone before remembering about Lin Luoqing. If she went to Li Hanhai’s side, what would Lin Luoqing do?

She quickly called again and the team leader said, “I will arrange for Linda to come over.”

Linda was actually better at makeup for female artists and hadn’t done as much research on makeup for male artists. Amy felt guilty when she heard this.

She had a good impression of Lin Luoqing and felt he was very honest. Therefore, she always felt as if she had bullied an honest person.

In addition, Lin Luoqing had to be given credit for letting Li Hanhai give her the opportunity to do his styling. He showed off his makeup like an excellent model, making Li Hanhai feel that she was a bit skilled and giving her a chance.

If it wasn’t for Lin Luoqing’s request to change the character design, there wouldn’t be the current effect and there naturally wouldn’t be the opportunity to do makeup for Li Hanhai.

If she left this time, wouldn’t she be ungrateful?

Amy argued with the team leader for a long time about this, saying that she could be in charge of two people at the same time. The team leader reminded her that she might be able to do it, but Li Hanhai might not be willing.

“Let’s try it. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be unfair to Lin Luoqing?”

The team leader thought she was naive and planned to let reality hit her. Thus, he just said, “Then you go and try it.”

Amy ran over breathlessly and persuaded Linda to leave.

“In any case, I’ll tell him later. If he doesn’t agree, I’ll talk about a possible solution at that time.” She bit her lip and told Wu Xinyuan.

Wu Xinyuan was a bit worried when he heard this.

Lin Luoqing heard this and felt she had done a good job.

She wasn’t the leader of the makeup team and had no right to speak. Even so, she tried very hard to defend his rights.

“Go ahead,” Lin Luoqing said with a smile. “First, go and style him and ask him if it is possible. If not, don’t force it. This is also your work and it isn’t easy for you.”

Amy looked at him and thought he was really honest.

How could there be such an honest person in the entertainment industry?

She even felt that if she left, she would be bullying an honest person.

“I’ll definitely fight for it.” She had just finished speaking when the assistant called, telling her that Li Hanhai had arrived.

Amy quickly said a few words to Lin Luoqing and ran out.

There was a problem with Li Hanhai’s dressing room in the beginning so he had shared the dressing room with Lin Luoqing and Zhang Quan for a day. In the following days, he was in his exclusive dressing room.

Wu Xinyuan saw Amy leaving and sighed. He told Lin Luoqing, “He definitely won’t agree. Then there is a high chance that we will have to change the stylist. I’ll go see the level of the rest of the makeup team. If they aren’t at the level of Amy, we have the right in this matter and can appoint our own makeup artist.”

“Good.” Lin Luoqing nodded.

He sat in his chair and played with his phone while waiting for Amy.

He was playing when he heard a female voice from beside him. “Hello, Mr Lin. If you aren’t busy, can you check some lines with me?”

Lin Luoqing looked up and found it was Wu Jia, the actress who played as a couple with him in the drama.

Wu Jia smiled at him. She obviously hadn’t done her makeup and hair yet. “Sister Yao and Sister Yu are doing the styling and they haven’t reached me yet. I am idle so I want to practice the lines.”

Lin Luoqing nodded. “Okay.”

He took into account that Zhang Quan was still doing styling and didn’t want to disturb him, so he went outside with Wu Jia.

Wu Jia didn’t have any scenes in the past two days, but she went to the set on time every day to listen to the director’s guidance and see how everyone acted.

She saw that the director seemed to be very satisfied with Lin Luoqing’s acting skills, so she took the initiative to say to him, “Mr Lin, you can tell me directly if you think I’m not acting well. I haven’t acted much and perhaps my acting skills aren’t good, but I have to study hard.”

“Okay, but what I say isn’t necessarily correct. If you have a different opinion then you can tell me,” Lin Luoqing responded with a smile.

“Yes.” Wu Jia nodded.

The two of them finished speaking and started to discuss the scene they would film this morning.

Once Yao Momo finished putting on makeup and exited through the door of the dressing room, she saw Lin Luoqing acting against Wu Jia in the corridor.

Yao Momo, “!!!”

It is morning!

We just woke up!

How did you already start rehearsals?

Wu Jia, you haven’t even done your makeup yet!

Do you want to fight like this?

Too competitive, too competitive!

Yao Momo thought that this crew was too scary. It wasn’t just the boys and protagonists who were competitive, but even the girls started to be competitive.

It wouldn’t be a big problem if Li Hanhai and Lin Luoqing were better than her in acting. After all, they couldn’t change their gender. However, if Wu Jia was stronger than her, then Wu Jia could buy articles and step on her to rise higher.

Yao Momo thought of this and felt she wasn’t at ease without holding the script in her hand.

“You finished early today, Sister. Why don’t you rest in the car for a while?” Her assistant asked.

How could Yao Momo have the heart to rest?

She walked directly to Lin Luoqing. Once Lin Luoqing and Wu Jia finished talking, she said, “Mr Lin, if you aren’t busy after the scene with Jia Jia, can you help me check my lines as well?”

She smiled. “Mr Lin, you should also know that my line skills aren’t very good. I want to check with you several times in advance to avoid mistakes.”

Lin Luoqing nodded. “Okay.”

Not far away, Li Hanhai had just finished applying his makeup and was coming to Lin Luoqing with Amy to learn from him. ‘…I seem to have arrived one step late.’

No, what was going on with the actresses in our crew?

Are they all so dedicated?

Too hardworking!

The actresses in other crews all care about gossip, but the actresses in our crew were only focused on acting!

It is so different!

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