LWDC Chapter 21

Chapter 21: The Reign of Traffic

In the end, Ning Fei couldn’t go out and enjoy the nightlife.

He had already researched the address and strategies, but just before he was about to leave, Su Cenxi came to him to review his performance during the day. Seeing that this guy was rarely motivated, and even Gu Hechen was willing to listen in, Ning Fei had no choice but to stay and chat with them.

However, Su Cenxi’s first “self-reflection” was that he felt his expression of anger was not natural enough when the porcelain was broken during the day.

“…” Ning Fei almost wanted to roll his eyes to the heavens, but he held back, only saying, “Are you reflecting on your acting skills with me? You don’t want to become an actor, do you?”

“No, I just feel that my anger and arguments weren’t well executed,” Su Cenxi explained. “Their script only wrote that I had to argue, and I had to think of the lines myself. I thought of some beforehand, but when I got to the scene, I couldn’t remember anything. I’m afraid the show will seem fake and uninteresting.”

“It’s okay, Little K knows what to do, she’s very capable,” Ning Fei wasn’t that worried about this, waving his hand and saying, “If you’re really worried, express yourself again tomorrow, if it’s explosive enough, the production team will help you edit it. Don’t be nervous, they didn’t ask you to argue in a foreign language the whole time, didn’t they say that when you can’t speak the foreign language, you can switch to your native language and speak endlessly? You used to argue with President Gu so fluently, how come you can’t express yourself this time?”

As soon as these words came out, Su Cenxi and Gu Hechen’s expressions both stiffened. After a while, Su Cenxi coughed lightly and said, “This time, after all, it’s just the needs of the plot…”

“Oh, so you can’t bring in the emotion,” Ning Fei calmly evaluated. “If I had known, I wouldn’t have given you the detailed script in advance, I would have directly asked the translator to tell you that person was racially discriminating, and you might have exploded.”

“It’s too late to say this now,” Su Cenxi replied, “Why don’t I write some lines and memorize them?”

Ning Fei thought for a while: “Don’t write the lines for the argument, it’ll be unnatural if you suddenly speak too smoothly. Just think of a few key points, for example, tomorrow you can sternly tell Little K that you can forgive her for breaking the porcelain, but you need her friend to apologize for certain words. Little K will cooperate with this explosive point.

“However, you can write something for your personal interviews with the production team. Try to express yourself in a foreign language, but you don’t have to memorize everything. For more complicated or difficult sentences, you can ask your translator for help on the spot, which is more realistic – do you know what I’m talking about?”

Su Cenxi: “I think I understand… maybe.”

“‘Maybe’? Okay, that’s it–” Ning Fei was too lazy to describe it verbally, so he simply demonstrated, suddenly switching to a foreign language, “‘I’m not angry because she broke my porcelain, but because of the words she said. I don’t know if she said it on purpose, but even if she didn’t, she shouldn’t have said that. This is…'” He paused here, suddenly looking elsewhere, as if he was asking someone else, and then switched back to his language, “It’s not that I’m too sensitive, this is a very serious matter, how do you say it?”

His movements were so smooth that Su Cenxi subconsciously turned his head in the direction of his gaze, and then realized that this was just acting.

Ning Fei asked again, “Do you understand now?”

Su Cenxi suddenly realized: “I understand, I understand.”

Ning Fei added: “Then go write your script, write it yourself, and show it to the translator when you’re done. You don’t have to make your expression accurate, expressive, and elegant, just make sure it doesn’t cause misunderstandings, the grammar and words can be very simple.”

Gu Hechen finally interjected: “Just show it to me.”

“No way,” Ning Fei refused decisively. “President Gu’s foreign language level is high, and he will definitely not be able to resist revising it into a high-level composition, but that is inconsistent with Su Cenxi’s persona. Let the translator help him revise the basics, don’t bother you.”

This refusal came with flattery, and Gu Hechen had nothing to say, so he had to stop interfering.

Ning Fei checked the details of the next day’s filming with Su Cenxi again, and this “post-match review” finally ended.

Although it wasn’t midnight yet, it wasn’t that late. But after such a mental drain, and the jet lag not being fully adjusted, Ning Fei was too lazy to move. He went straight back to his room, took out his secondary mobile phone, and found that Duan Yunhong had sent him several messages.

–What kind of bullshit is this again, knowing that I’m abroad, he still has to send it to me?

Ning Fei sprawled on the bed, lazily swiping his phone, and then was surprised to find that Duan Yunhong was actually talking about work.

He sent a few photos, which were of the scene of an important event interviewing models. The photos not only showed ST’s models, the client, but also some models and managers from other companies.

Duan Yunhong only sent one line of text: [Aren’t you coming?]

Ning Fei held up his phone and replied: [We’re in Country A, the Anywhere Door hasn’t been invented yet, how can we go?]

Duan Yunhong actually sent another message within ten minutes: [Didn’t you know about this interview before? You missed such a good opportunity for a reality show?]

Ning Fei chuckled, what was this guy pretending to be, if he really wanted to remind himself of important opportunities, why didn’t he say anything when he knew he was going to take Su Cenxi abroad?

Moreover, Ning Fei had naturally heard about this job opportunity long ago. Originally, he also intended to take Su Cenxi to the interview, but recently Duan Yunhong always personally led the ST supermodel team to “go on expeditions.” Especially since this President Duan seemed to be intentionally or unintentionally targeting Su Cenxi, Ning Fei, after weighing the pros and cons, decided to avoid the limelight and run abroad to come up with “unexpected strategies.”

But it would be meaningless to say this too bluntly, Ning Fei still left room for the general director, replying: [President Duan is joking, several of your big agency bosses are personally leading the team to the interview, what’s it got to do with us? I won’t waste time going there, haha.]

Duan Yunhong: [With Gu Hechen’s ability, he can immediately coordinate a flight and make it to tomorrow’s interview.]

Ning Fei looked at this line of words, the more he looked at it, the stranger it became.

Was Duan Yunhong advising himself to give up the reality show and take Su Cenxi back to interview for a job with uncertain results? Why? What was he after?

Was it really extreme disdain for reality show work, or was there a deeper purpose…

While thinking, Ning Fei sent Duan Yunhong an unreliable message to change the topic: [But I don’t want to go back — (with a photo of a bar)]

This photo was still a live photo that Ning Fei saw from a recommended post when he was looking for places to have fun. He had an idea and downloaded the photo to send to Duan Yunhong.

It took a long time for this message to be sent, and Duan Yunhong didn’t reply. Ning Fei thought he had finally calmed down, but he didn’t expect that after a dozen minutes, Duan Yunhong would come again with a message: [Looking for fun?]

Ning Fei: [Otherwise? President Duan, consider the time difference, now is not the time to work here!]

Duan Yunhong: [Partying in Country A, be careful of running into unclean things.]

“Pfft…” If Ning Fei was drinking water, he would have been turned into a fountain by his words. Duan Yunhong himself was “looking for fun” with a stranger he met for the first time and didn’t even know the name of, and he had the nerve to remind Ning Fei to be careful of catching a disease when he was having fun? Ning Fei only had one reaction, which was to send him an emoticon: [Mind your own business.jpg]

Duan Yunhong’s message was as hypocritical as he was: [One careless mistake, and you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.]

Ning Fei: [What, are you afraid I’ll go back and infect you?]

Duan Yunhong really didn’t reply this time.

Ning Fei waited for a while, and when he didn’t get a reply, he chuckled and threw away his secondary mobile phone. You little rascal, I still can’t deal with you.

In fact, Ning Fei wasn’t too afraid of these things. First of all, although the body he came to in this world didn’t have supernatural powers, its quality was actually beyond ordinary people, and most viruses were really difficult to infect him. Secondly, even if Ning Fei was really unlucky — infected, he didn’t plan to stay in this world for long, he would finish his work and quickly slip away before he died, and this body would be “destroyed” with the cancellation of his identity. So theoretically, it didn’t matter if Ning Fei messed around, it’s just that he himself “didn’t have the ambition to do so.”

Of course, there was also a more subjective reason, which was that Ning Fei felt that he was still good at judging people and wouldn’t choose such a bad guy.

Wasn’t Duan Yunhong, whom he “fell in love with” at first sight, pretty good? Oh, except for being business rivals at work.

–But… Great Director Duan, don’t dislike me for being dirty and refuse to “receive” me after I go back.

*

The filming the next day was indeed much smoother than the day before, which showed that Su Cenxi had really put in a lot of effort to prepare.

He didn’t just practice his acting skills. Little K gave him the things to try on and wear in advance, and with the help of the stylist, Su Cenxi found the corresponding way to display them. Then, at the small appreciation meeting, he displayed the various accessories and ornaments in the posture of a professional model. The stylist specially gave him a colder, sickly makeup again, and Little K’s things were slightly grotesque and exaggerated, seemingly contradictory, but in fact, they complemented each other.

In short, when Su Cenxi walked out, coldness and flamboyance formed a delicate balance on his body, showing a strange feeling of madness in calmness.

Little K sincerely “wow”ed, feeling like she had found an idea.

As for the model who had previously played the opposing role with Su Cenxi, she also came to reconcile with Su Cenxi in the name of “I really admire your performance.” The two exchanged a passage to consolidate their personas, and this time the guest star was able to successfully withdraw.

Later, the reality show was broadcast as scheduled, and the highlight of this episode was not the arguments and suspected racial discrimination that were designed in the script.

It was the small appreciation meeting that Little K called “temporarily put together.”

The “T stage” composed of a white dreamlike corridor by the garden of the villa, a display team composed of four professional models and a musician, two of whom were supermodels on the MDC list. In addition, Gu Hechen, the helmsman of Gu’s, was “viewing the exhibition” next to him. This mini show can be said to be small but complete.

Coupled with the background music and editing that the production team was best at, this runway cut immediately earned enough traffic on the Internet. Superimposed with Little K’s BUFF, the discussion about this mini show even far exceeded the discussion about the top supermodels and brands at the fashion week before.

As for the popularity that Su Cenxi gained…

It can only be said that Little K has officially sent a letter to Chen Xi Studio to become Su Cenxi’s accessory sponsor for future events.