Mr. Zhou Doesn't Want to Work Hard Anymore!

After finishing this bowl of poisonous chicken soup, life still has to go on.

Zhou Chenxi worked hard, taking time from time to time to prepare for the audition, and finally waited for the day of the audition.

Zhou Chenxi currently has two notebooks in his hand.

Zhi Qi said that Director Cabot deliberately asked him to audition for a supporting role. That was not a lie. Zhou Chenxi got the script first, and the role matched his age and appearance very well.

What does that mean?

"Battle of the Peak" is a Sino-foreign joint venture film. The Chinese producers and investors hope that more domestic actors will come to audition. They are afraid that the film will be filled with foreign faces, and domestic audiences will not buy it.

So they cast a wide net to catch them again, and almost all the young actors with a little bit of fame in China received audition invitations from Director Cabot.

Zhou Chenxi was caught by them.

Unexpectedly, he didn't even have the chance to compete for the leading role on the same stage as the actor he imagined.

When he went to audition for the role that day, a group of people from Wuyang Wuyang came to the scene, which can be called a star-studded scene. Zhou Chenxi was stunned when he had never seen the actors so present at the awards ceremony.

"Chenxi!" Zhuang Jingle waved to him not far away, "This way, come here!"

Zhou Chenxi walked over unexpectedly and sat down beside Zhuang Jingle.

"Why are you here?" Zhou Chenxi asked.

"Why can't I come?" Zhuang Jingle asked strangely.

Zhou Chenxi: "Aren't you a variety show guy?"

"Who said that! I'm also an actor, okay?" The conversation between the two instantly sparked, and the plastic friendship was shattered in place.

But Zhuang Jingle turned his head to look at the huge conference hall. After a while, he finally couldn't help it, turned around and said to Zhou Chenxi, "There are a lot of people here today."

"Yeah," Zhou Chenxi couldn't hold back his silence for such a long time, and temporarily repaired their friendship, "I didn't expect that either."

The character they want to audition for is a criminal policeman in his early 20s. This role is not good in the play, but it is a typical decent character with a low sense of presence and dispensable roles. The little fresh meat brought traffic to the whole movie.

Although "Battle of the Peak" can win international awards, it is still a commercial film. As long as it is a commercial film, traffic is a necessary element.

Therefore, it is conceivable that the people who came today were all about the same age as Zhou Chenxi, and some of them could be called top-ranked artists in the circle, and even a few idol artists whose main business was singers also came.

"Yuan Yike is so handsome, I really like listening to his songs," Zhuang Jingle said, staring at a handsome guy in front of him with longing eyes, "He can also dance very well."

Speaking of which, Zhuang Jingle unconsciously began to wriggle: "Have you seen it? "Idol Miracle". He performed very well in it, and his dance became popular all over the country. His fan organization ability is strong, and he is very rich. Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to take the first place in "Idol Miracle"... You know, right? The crew created several voting links on different platforms, just to see who among us is more popular."

Of course Zhou Chenxi knew, he even received a notification.After Zhiqi contacted the fan group, many of his fans began to vote for him spontaneously, and his brother also joined in. Zhiqi said that his vote count has always been quite ahead, and he once tightly bit Yuan Yike, but because of this, Zhou Chenxi was not very happy.

That didn't seem to be what he wanted.

"You said..." Zhou Chenxi bit her lip and said suddenly, "Why do some people get the number one male without any effort?"

"What?" Zhuang Jingle didn't hear what he said clearly, and turned his head, "You want to play the leading role?"

Zhou Chenxi said nothing with a depressed face.

"Hey, I can understand your mood!" Zhuang Jingle patted him and encouraged him, "You have the ability, you have acted in the leading roles of Director Luo Jitian, what else can you do? But this is different after all, Sometimes people’s luck and opportunities are different. How many film stars have been acting for many years, and they still play supporting roles for others after changing movies. Although my analogy is a bit inappropriate. Has it been matched for you?"

Zhou Chenxi could understand, and knew that his thinking was wrong, but once he got involved with Luo Xinghe, his mentality was a little out of balance.

After waiting for a long time until the afternoon, Zhou Chenxi and Zhuang Jingle only ate a piece of bread to satisfy their hunger, fearing that eating too much would affect their performance.

It wasn't until nearly two-thirds of the people in the conference hall decreased that Zhou Chenxi heard someone call him: "Zhou Chenxi, it's your turn. Zhuang Jingle will get ready later."

Their numbers were in front of each other, Zhuang Jingle patted Zhou Chenxi on the shoulder and said, "Cheer up, you will succeed!"

Zhou Chenxi let out a "hmm".

Zhuang Jingle is sincere, he came here purely to join in the fun, even though he and Zhou Chenxi talked about each other before, but he still hopes that Zhou Chenxi can win this audition.

As Zhuang Jingle said, even if it is really a vase, it is still a supporting role in the movie directed by Cabot, which is better than nothing.

Zhou Chenxi went in. In this audition, director Cabot did not even sit in the main seat. In the middle sat the Chinese producer and a Chinese investor. In the corner next to him was Huangtian's marketing manager.

Zhou Chenxi: "..."

The producer introduced: "This is Huangtian's business manager. He only helps us with market surveying and evaluation. You should have seen that he put in the voting activities on several websites. He is more experienced in evaluating public opinion, we will take his opinion into account, but you don't have to worry, although there are several actors who came to audition today, as long as you are popular enough, we will do it fairly and justly."

Zhou Chenxi: "...OK."

It means that as long as you are popular, you don’t need to care whether the judges are cats or dogs. Anyway, this role is yours, and we can accept how bad your acting is.

Most commercial films are like this, and it doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with it. Different films have different modes of operation.The reason why the film market is full of flowers is that many major directors of commercial films have the ability to turn the tide. Even if you are a elm-headed person who has never acted before, with a little help from him, you can still look decent.

This is simply a joy for all.

Zhou Chenxi carefully pondered the script that the producer handed him. He has tried so many shots, and he is already very experienced, knowing the importance of improvisation and explosive power.

After 10 minutes, an audition scene was performed, and the producer said not too enthusiastically: "Okay Zhou Chenxi, go back and wait for the announcement. We will contact your agent after that."

Zhou Chenxi asked: "Can I still come to audition for 'Mustache Dog' tomorrow?"

The producer looked up at him and smiled: "Of course, you are welcome."

Zhou Chenxi didn't stay any longer, and went out dejectedly. When he reached the door, he heard the producer ask Director Cabot in a low voice: "Can we proceed to the next one?"

"Of course," Director Cabot said, "go ahead."

He didn't seem to have looked at Zhou Chenxi much.

He was not moved by Zhou Chenxi's performance.

The scariest thing in this world is probably that you have struggled for so long in a field you are familiar with, thinking that you can at least have some strength, but the fact gives you a painful blow, telling you that maybe you are not short of 01:30.

Zhou Chenxi was not in a good mood at all. He went home to eat, went upstairs with his ipad in his hands, mechanically watched Cabot's movie, familiarized himself with his style and directing method, and hoped that he could continue to work hard tomorrow.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Zhou Mingxuan knocked on the door outside.

"Chenxi?" He asked, "What's wrong with you, just now Aunt Zhang said that you only ate half a bowl of rice, you are too thin, you won't look good on camera like this, isn't there another audition tomorrow?"

As soon as my elder brother came home from get off work, he became concerned about whether Zhou Chenxi had a good meal.

Zhou Chenxi forced himself to open the door, feeling gloomy.

Zhou Mingxuan hadn't seen him like this for a long time. He remembered that he was in such a state when he just returned home and repaired the relationship with his family. There seemed to be a slash shadow behind him. Later, he appeared on the show and acted in "Xianyouji". The sunshine on Chen Xi's face is getting more and more.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Mingxuan asked calmly, "The audition didn't go well? Did that guy Lu Ji bully you?"

Zhou Mingxuan subconsciously felt that it would be bad if he met Lu Ji.

"Nope!" Zhou Chenxi hurriedly explained, "It's because I'm suddenly a little unhappy."

When Zhou Chenxi encountered troubles, Zhou Mingxuan had no choice but to make an exception and be a confidant brother. He said, "Then I came in?"

Zhou Chenxi opened the door a little, and Zhou Mingxuan walked in.

Zhou Chenxi's room is very cozy, with fluffy carpets all over the floor. When Zhou's mother prepared this room for him, she almost wanted to paint the walls pink for him, but Zhou Mingxuan stopped her.

Zhou Mingxuan is a hard-line guy, but he has always been cold-hearted towards his younger brother.

Wearing a suit and shirt, he sat down on the beige sofa in Zhou Chenxi's room, a little out of place.

"Is there any difficulty, do you need to invest money?" He raised one leg and put his hands on his knees.

A negotiating stance.

Zhou Chenxi shook her head and hugged the pillow.

It's not that easy to bring money into the crew for a film directed by Cabot. Otherwise, many companies would want to stuff their own artists into this kind of crew. If it is so easy to succeed, there is no need for popularity voting.

Besides, even if my brother invested money, it was meaningless to him.

Take at most a supporting role that is almost insignificant.

This is different from Director Luo's crew. Director Luo focuses on money on the one hand, but also on strength on the other. He really got into the crew of "Battle of the Peak" by spending money. Sit down.

"How's the online voting going?" Zhou Chenxi asked him suddenly.

Zhou Mingxuan got stuck in his shell, almost exposed, but he managed to react: "What vote?"

Zhou Chenxi said: "Brother, stop pretending. Then I will post a Weibo, calling on fans not to vote for me. Anyway, I don't want to fight for popularity to get this role. I don't think I am worthy of everyone's love."

Zhou Mingxuan finally understood what Zhou Chenxi was struggling with, and quickly held down his hand that took out his phone, and said, "You didn't go well in your audition today?"

Zhou Chenxi was discouraged and said, "It's actually okay."

"Then you just found out that the crew doesn't look at your strength, but only your popularity. Do you feel aggrieved and feel that they are slapping you in the face?"

Zhou Mingxuan was really right.

Zhou Chenxi is like this in some respects, wonderfully confident but not confident.In the past, Zhou's mother held a family painting exhibition for Zhou Chenxi. Although it was a business experience, Zhou's mother did mean to show off her son, but Zhou Chenxi was not happy. Everyone was politely praising Zhou Chenxi for his good painting However, Zhou Chenxi felt that they were all trying to please Zhou's mother, and cried secretly. Later, Zhou's mother never held this kind of art exhibition again.

At most, there is a painting by Zhou Chenxi hanging on the wall at home.

Zhou Chenxi didn't cry secretly behind Zhou Mingxuan's back this time, Zhou Mingxuan was already very relieved, and said: "Popularity is also a kind of strength, why are you ashamed to admit it, or like this, if my brother won't vote for you, let me Fans act spontaneously, if they are willing to vote for you, they can vote for you, if they don’t want to vote, forget it, try it yourself and see if you can win this role, okay?”

Zhou Mingxuan didn't hide himself this time, and admitted it openly.

With the support of his brother, Zhou Chenxi regained his confidence a little bit, he said: "Okay, I will work hard."

Zhou Mingxuan knew that sometimes he had to follow Zhou Chenxi's wishes, otherwise he would always be brooding.

In the evening, the account "@周晨末全球投资会" issued an announcement, temporarily suspending concentrated participation in Zhou Chenxi's several popularity-related voting activities, and wished him a smooth audition tomorrow.

This is Zhou Chenxi's big fan, rich and charismatic. Before that, under his centralized organization, the number of votes of Zhou Chenxi on several websites was closely tied to Yuan Yike's.

As soon as this big fan withdrew from the voting activity, Zhou Chenxi fell behind Yuan Yike by more than 100 million votes in an instant. Only then did the fans realize that the big fan is really good at making statistics and is a master of voting.

Without voting interference, Zhou Chenxi went to the next day's audition as a bachelor. It was still the same as yesterday, and Director Cabot was not impressed by him.

The producer even asked him: "Zhou Chenxi, why are you suddenly so far behind Yuan Yike in the number of votes? Come on!"

Zhou Chenxi resigned to her fate.

At that time, Luo Xinghe won the leading role, and Director Cabot personally invited him. He thought that he was very capable and could be his leading actor. Luo Xinghe almost had a simple audition before signing a contract with the director.

He didn't even go to any popular supporting role auditions.

And no matter how much Zhou Chenxi swayed in front of Director Cabot, he worked hard at acting, and stopped voting to tell the other party that he didn't want to be just a vase, the other party didn't receive his explicit hint.

Your efforts may be vulnerable to the luck of others.

Zhou Chenxi was very depressed. He felt that he had no face to see Lu Ji, and he didn't dare to talk to him for several days.

A few days later, Lu Ji called him by himself: "What's the matter, what happened to the audition results, why didn't you tell me anything?"

"I don't know yet..." Zhou Chenxi said sullenly, "I'm sorry Lu Ji, I can't get the best actor of the Rose Film Festival. Director Cabot didn't want me to play the leading role at all."

Zhou Chenxi told him what happened in the past two days.

Lu Ji laughed: "I thought something was wrong, you fool, your brother is right, popularity is also a kind of strength, he wants to vote for you, why don't you let him vote?"

Zhou Chenxi was taken aback.

"If it weren't for the company's too much business recently, and knowing that you won't get any good roles if you invest in this movie, and it will dampen your enthusiasm, I would have already bid for that project. There is nothing unacceptable about this, rich You just bring funds into the group, and if you are popular, you bring fans into the group, didn't Luo Xinghe also bring luck into the group?"

Zhou Chenxi: "Ah..."

Lu Ji added: "You don't have to compare yourself to him right from the start. If "Cat Demon Strange Talk" wasn't because of your brother's investment, would you have been able to get in touch with Director Luo and get the role of cat demon?"

This question is very sharp, Zhou Chenxi opened his mouth: "I..."

"Don't worry, I admit that Luo Xinghe is a bit evil," Lu Ji said, "I don't care how he won the protagonist, you just need to use your own strength."

"You are Zhou Chenxi, not Luo Xinghe, you may be unlucky, but you have me, your brother, and your fans, and we will send you to the crew of "Battle of the Peak", isn't that bad? Or, do you not believe that you can use your own acting skills when you go to the crew of "Battle of the Peak"?"

"No..." Zhou Chenxi said hastily.

"Then go and get your own role," Lu Ji said, "Don't give it up to others, the rules are like this. Whether it's the protagonist or the supporting role, I believe you will shine in it, and you will prove it to me when the time comes." Cabot look, you are not a vase, he will regret not choosing you as the protagonist."

Zhou Chenxi said, "Okay!"

Zhou Chenxi's deflated ball was inflated again by Lu Ji's chicken soup. He wiped away his tears and said a little touched, "Lu Ji, why are you so good..."

Lu Ji recognized his nasal voice and said, "Don't cry, do you still remember the gift you owe me?"

Zhou Chenxi cheered up and said, "Of course I remember, have you figured out what you want?"

"Think about it," Lu Ji said with a smile, "but it's not the time yet, can you promise me first? Promise that no matter what I want, you will give it to me."

"If you don't say what you want, how can I promise you?" Zhou Chenxi said in a daze.

"Then will you give it?" Lu Ji asked.

"Here!" Zhou Chenxi thought, even the stars in the sky, I will climb up to pick them for you.

Lu Ji smiled and said, "Hey, take a good rest. I think Zhuang Jingle has already called on the people in the company to vote for him. You are still so Buddhist, be careful not to lose to him."

"What?!" Zhou Chenxi said in his heart, that's impossible!

After hanging up the phone, he forwarded a voting link on Weibo.

Looking through the Weibo of several other competitors, everyone is secretly working hard.Zhou Chenxi's strong opponent, Yuan Yike, even forwarded the voting link once a day, and his fans are also very enthusiastic, and he has far surpassed Zhou Chenxi's 200 million votes.

Zhou Chenxi's Weibo is full of anxious fans for him.

[Bao, what's wrong with you, is Director Cabot not standing tall enough?Find a way to get that character! 】

[What's the use of telling Xixi, hurry up and vote!Yuan Yike has surpassed us by more than 200 million! 】

[But no one organizes it, so what's the use of us loose powder?It’s really uncomfortable, Xixi, @周晨兵Global Official Fan Club is really an official fan account?He said that there is no need to vote for you, and many fans believed it, but we want to see you in "Battle of the Peak"! 】

[Quickly express your opinion, as long as you say a word, we will immediately charge you! 】

As soon as Zhou Chenxi finished reposting the voting link, the comments below exploded:

【Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, you finally appeared! 】

[Xixi meme!Vote, right? No problem, I will arrange it for you immediately! 】

[I'm so moved, we Xixi finally don't follow Buddhism, I thought he gave up at one point. 】

[Sisters arrange noodles for Xixi, rush to the duck! 】

In an instant, Zhou Chenxi's number of votes began to approach that of Yuan Yike, and the excited fans almost paralyzed several voting websites.

@周晨末Global Support Club has also started to move, organizing fans to vote in an orderly manner.

Immediately afterwards, everyone discovered that a mysterious blogger with a yellow V also voted for Zhou Chenxi several times.

[@卫姆: I cast a precious vote for @周晨兄 on the watermelon voting statistics website, everyone, come and support him with me! 】

This is a voting share edited automatically by the system, and users can choose whether to share it on their Weibo.

That is to say, it was posted by the blogger himself.

That was his first Weibo post other than the announcements automatically sent by the Weibo system.

And his Weibo certification is: [President of Lu Group]

The fans are boiling.

Mr. Lu opened Weibo!

Oh no!

I hope that CP is giving out sugar again!

The author has something to say: Mr. Lu is online, delivering candy accurately.

Thanks to "Sleep Sleep" for mine!

Thanks to "sarahte", "One-eyed Eagle", "Jintian", "Alpha", "Mulian" and "Qingli" for their nutrient solutions!