The Eye of the Storm

Cao Ye and Liang Sizhe opened the door on the left and on the right, got into the car, and sat in the back row of the car.Zheng Yin drove them to the audition venue.

This was the second time Liang Sizhe got on this off-road vehicle. Compared with the last time, the atmosphere sitting with Cao Ye was obviously much more relaxed and lively.

"Have you ever played a real CS battle?" Cao Ye was no longer sleepy now, and chatted happily with Liang Sizhe.

"No." Liang Sizhe said.

"It's fun, super exciting," Cao Ye looked at him sideways, his eyes bright, "Will you come with me next time? Replace Li Zheng, he always drags our team back, causing us to lose all the time."

"I haven't played before, so I may not be much better than him."

"What's the matter, you are better than him! As long as you don't kill me, you don't know that big fool Li Zheng shot at me. I'm in the same team as him! And I'm still the main force, It is conceivable that without me, our team lost that round very badly."

"Then you shoot him in the next round." Liang Sizhe said lazily, leaning on the back of the seat, and it was not clear whether he was interested or not.

"Brother, I saw that you are a werewolf!" Cao Ye bent his elbow and put it on his shoulder, "We will go together next time, we have agreed."

Before Liang Sizhe spoke, Zheng Yin spoke in front, and said with a smile: "Cao Ye, you are really... You don't even ask Sizhe if he is interested in your kid's playthings, isn't this a difficult thing for others to do?"

"How do you know if you're interested if you don't try it? Besides, what's a kid's thing? Uncle Yin, go and have a look. Many of you are playing with it too. Why don't you come with us next time?"

"I'm not interested," Zheng Yin smiled and shook his head, "You don't need to try to know."

The car drove into a film and television base, the two got out of the car, followed Zheng Yin and walked in.There are several igloos in the base, all of which are used as shooting locations, Zheng Yin led them into one of the buildings.

On both sides of the entrance are a few rooms with simple decoration, where actors and crew members can rest. Walking in is today's audition venue - the theater has a large space, which seems a bit empty, and all the curtains are drawn tightly to shield the In addition to the natural light from the outside, the center of the venue is the lighting carefully arranged by the lighting engineer. As soon as you enter, the dim light makes the environment of the whole theater a bit dull and depressing.Sewage still remained on the pitted ground, whether it was sprinkled on purpose or left by the previous crew, reflecting the various lights in the theater.

Cao Xiuyuan sat behind the monitor and watched the images in the camera. There were seven or eight men and women standing and sitting around him, all of different ages, talking to each other in low voices.

There were several boys standing by the side of the theater, all about sixteen or seventeen years old, some came by themselves or accompanied by others.

"You guys stand here for a while," Zheng Yin said, "I'll go over and say something."

Zheng Yin walked over, stopped behind Cao Xiuyuan, bowed down, put his hands on his thighs, leaned into Cao Xiuyuan's ear and said, "Brother Yuan, I brought Xiaoye and the others here."

Hearing this, Cao Xiuyuan turned his face and glanced in the direction of Cao Ye and Liang Sizhe.

Hearing that Cao Xiuyuan's son Cao Ye was coming, the other main creators of the crew who were sitting around Cao Xiuyuan also turned their heads to look over.

Liang Sizhe put his hands behind his back, and the leg stretched out in front of him was slightly bent. Cao Ye put an arm on his shoulder, and tilted his head slightly, as if he was talking to Liang Sizhe.Two good-looking teenagers standing together, this scene is so eye-catching, it overshadows the other people next to them.

The person next to him turned his head and mouthed to Zheng Yin, and secretly asked behind Cao Xiuyuan's back: "Which one is?"

Zheng Yin pointed to the left side with his finger, and also said back: "Short hair."

At this moment, the screenwriter Zhou Ru spoke from the side, and said with a smile, "Hey, the young master is here, the real person is prettier than the photo."

"Really?" Zheng Yin also laughed.

"It doesn't look like Director Cao, does it look like Teacher Li?" said the assistant director next to him.The "Teacher Li" he was referring to was Li You, Cao Ye's mother, an internationally renowned violinist. Although this marriage had not been publicized in the media with great fanfare, everyone in the circle knew that Li You was Cao Xiuyuan's wife.

"The face and eyes are like my mother," Zheng Yin looked up at Cao Ye and said with a smile, "but the nose and mouth are exactly the same as Brother Yuan."

"It's really president." Someone said.

"Who is that boy standing with him?" Zhou Ru asked the thoughts of other people present.Although there is no such eye-catching aura as "Cao Xiuyuan's son", Liang Sizhe who is standing aside is not blocked from the light at all. He just stands there casually and talks to Cao Ye casually. He looks special enough. Not inferior. "It looks quite attractive at first glance." Zhou Ru recalled in an interview later.

"Brother Yuan also chose to audition." Zheng Yin didn't introduce much.

"Then continue," Cao Xiuyuan said, "Try the others first, and then try them two."

The staff standing on the outside glanced down at the list in their hands, and walked towards the teenagers beside them. "Xu Qisheng, let's go, it's your turn." One of the boys responded, walking quickly to the front of the camera, standing still, a little at a loss.

"Take a step forward." Cao Xiuyuan said from behind the monitor.

The boy seemed a little nervous, and immediately took a step forward, tentatively asking, "Is that okay?"

Cao Xiuyuan said again: "Pull up your hair and let me have a look."

The boy quickly raised his hand, stroked his bangs to the top of his head and pressed them with his palm.

Liang Sizhe and Cao Ye stood by and watched the audition process. Suddenly, Cao Ye raised his arm from Liang Sizhe's shoulder and raised his hand high, as if to say hello.

Liang Sizhe glanced in the direction where he was greeting, and a boy of seventeen or eighteen came towards them at this moment.The boy has a handsome face, not tall, at most about 1.7 meters five, and looks very thin. Just now he had been sitting near Cao Xiuyuan, but was blocked by Cao Xiuyuan's tall figure.

"Hi, Zhang Minghan," Cao Ye dropped his hand back to Liang Sizhe's shoulder, and asked the boy with a smile, "Why are you here?"

"I haven't got any movies to shoot recently, I'm bored at home, so I came to see Teacher Cao's audition." Zhang Minghan also said with a smile.

"What's there to see..." Cao Ye said lazily, "Didn't you also try this way?"

"It's always different to try it yourself and watch other people try it. Besides, isn't there you, I'm here to witness the starting point of a superstar."

"You call it flattery, right?" Cao Ye said with a smile.

"I'm so good at predicting things," Zhang Minghan's eyes fell on Liang Sizhe who was next to him—their relationship seemed quite close, and he guessed that this person might be a rich family who grew up in the same circle as Cao Ye Young master, otherwise you wouldn't have such a good temperament, "... who is this?"

"Oh, I should give you a good introduction." Cao Ye patted Liang Sizhe on the shoulder, "Liang Sizhe, just like you before, is a newcomer picked by my father." Then he introduced Zhang Minghan to Liang Sizhe, "Zhang Minghan doesn't need me Can you introduce more? The hero of "Missing is a River"."

Liang Sizhe actually didn't know Zhang Minghan very well. Zhang Minghan played the leading role in Cao Xiuyuan's movie the year before last, and won the Best Newcomer Award at the film festival. For him, Zhang Minghan is just one of the many stars in the entertainment industry whose "name sounds familiar but doesn't match his name".

After Cao Ye's introduction, Liang Sizhe and Zhang Minghan simply shook hands, neither of them seemed interested in making a deep friendship with each other.

Hearing that Liang Sizhe was a newcomer picked by Cao Xiuyuan, Zhang Minghan's attitude changed subtly. He put away his previous cautious attitude and began to look at Liang Sizhe bluntly. Double hero?"

"We are also guessing." Cao Ye said with a smile.He grew up in a foreign country, and the speed of Chinese characters is extremely slow. The script has not been translated by one-third until now. I don't know if the plot will progress and there will be another male protagonist with the same role as Xiaoman.He looked over Zhang Minghan's shoulder, "Why is this audition like going to film school?"

"It's as if you have passed the film school." Zhang Minghan looked at him happily.

"A friend of mine told me...it's exactly like this."

"It's much more difficult than taking the film school exam." Zhang Minghan turned to look at the audition area in the middle, "Mr. Cao's eyes are very poisonous. Just by watching this moment, you can basically tell whether this person is qualified for the role."

The audition went very quickly, and it took a few minutes for everyone to go up and it was over. Only Cao Ye and Liang Sizhe were left on the scene who hadn't gone up and tried.

"Xiaoye is the last one, is it alright Brother Yuan?" Zheng Yin asked Cao Xiuyuan for his opinion.

"Director Cao's own son is still watching in front of the camera?" someone joked beside him.

"Call Cao Ye to come first." Cao Xiuyuan pinched his chin with his fingers and said while looking at the monitor screen.

"Okay." Zheng Yin straightened up, stretched his arms and beckoned to Cao Ye, "Xiao Ye, come here." He gestured for the position in front of the camera with his chin, "Stand there."

"Then I'll go first." Cao Ye took his arm away from Liang Sizhe's shoulder, said something to Zhang Minghan, and walked in front of the camera.

"Take two steps forward, raise your chin a little...turn your body, come back, don't make it so big...OK, turn a little more...turn around, walk backward, don't stop, keep going..." Cao Xiuyuan said Posting simple requests behind the camera, the attitude towards Cao Ye is no different from that of other people.

Cao Ye seemed to be obedient and acted according to his request one by one, but when he heard Cao Xiuyuan's voice, his mood changed again. The more requests Cao Xiuyuan issued, the worse his mood became.

In the last few steps when he turned his back to the camera and walked away, he even wondered if he was born by Cao Xiuyuan himself, otherwise how could he treat himself as coldly as he treats other people - just staring at the monitor screen, even looking up He didn't even look at him.

"Come back again." Cao Xiuyuan said from behind,

Cao Ye's complexion became very ugly during the few steps he walked back. The usually high-spirited young man was filled with anger and dissatisfaction, and his uncontrollable emotions were written all over his face.

But this change of mood caught Cao Xiuyuan's attention instead.Cao Xiuyuan's frown slightly relaxed, his eyes stayed on the monitor screen for a few seconds, and then he raised his head and looked at Cao Ye from the air.

Cao Ye also looked at him.This glance has content, full of questioning, unwillingness, anger, and grievance. This kind of emotion is so strong that other people present also feel that the atmosphere is not right.

But this confrontation seemed to be Cao Ye's wishful thinking. Cao Xiuyuan raised his chin slightly to look at Cao Ye, observing him calmly, and tapped his chin with his fingers, as if in deep thought.After a while, he turned his head and said to Liang Sizhe, "Sizhe, you also stand here."