Chapter 557
Chapter 557
"Since I'm Meng Ling's friend, I'll be in the same team as her," Shi Jin said.
The director had no objections.
In Meng Ling's current team, besides her and Liang Yu, the other team members were led by Mei Tian.
The other team was led by Jiang Yunmo. Both teams were evenly matched. However, according to the director's plan, Jiang Yunmo's team would always win.
However, they predicted that Jiang Yunmo would deliberately lose to Mei Tian and accept the punishment himself. In any case, the goal was to satisfy the public's appetite.
However, with the sudden addition of Shi Jin as a variable, the director and assistant director had to discuss this.
The director said, "If Shi Jin's ability is only so-so, we'll still follow the original plan and shoot later."
"What if Shi Jin's skills are very good?"
The director was a little hesitant. "Then let's shoot the truth!"
"But how are we going to explain this to our sponsors?
How are we going to promote this drama?"
"What else can we do? Do you think we can cheat in front of Shi Jin? Do you think it's more worth it to shoot Shi Jin or Jiang Yunmo?"
When the assistant director thought of the money the sponsors gave him, he really couldn't make up his mind.
Jiang Yunmo walked over.
The director quickly comforted him. "Yunmo, perform well. You'll definitely do well."
"I want to compete fairly with Shi Jin."
"This..."
"Let's have a fair competition!" Jiang Yunmo insisted. He didn't want to be looked down upon in front of his idol.
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The competition officially began again and the recording was started again.
Mei Tian's team was arranged by her.
"Shi Jin, how's your shooting?"
"Not bad."
"Then you can be our team's trump card. I have high hopes for you." Mei Tian was a sweet girl herself. She liked cold beauties like Shi Jin the most. When she saw Shi Jin, her eyes lit up. "Do you have your own shooting equipment? Can you use mine?"
"Sure."
"Alright, I'll go get it." Mei Tian went to get her bow and arrow and told Shi Jin how to use them.
Jiang Yunmo was planning to fight Shi Jin himself.
Other than the director, no one else knew that Shi Jin was his idol. His gaze swept past Shi Jin several times.
The assistant director could not help but say, "Could he be jealous of Shi Jin? Look at that lass Mei Tian. The moment she sees Shi Jin, she doesn't even look at Jiang Yunmo. Jiang Yunmo must be jealous. When this part is broadcasted, it will definitely be a spectacle!"
The director muttered to himself, "What do you know?" "Meng Ling, let's practice first," Shi Jin said to Meng Ling. Meng Ling called Liang Yu. "Liang Yu can help us." Mei Tian hid under the camera and secretly drank two mouthfuls of water. She whispered, "She's too handsome!"
Shi Jin was almost as tall as Jiang Yunmo. Moreover, she looked more powerful than Jiang Yunmo. The key was that when Shi Jin smiled like this, there was a hint of sweetness. Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.
When Mei Tian hid under the camera, she was her real self. However, she didn't know that the camera had caught her.
Jiang Yunmo practiced diligently at the side.
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In this competition, Meng Ling went up first.
She performed normally this time and took two 9.8s and one 9.9.
This time, the referee was also very normal. "Meng Ling, two at 9.8, one at 9.9! Good performance!"
Jiang Yunmo appeared.
Seeing that it was a normal shoot, the manager was a little worried about him.
He glanced at Shi Jin and pulled up the bow.
"Eight points!" the referee shouted.
"Jiang Yunmo, you can do it!" His team members applauded for him.
Jiang Yunmo shot another arrow.
"8.5 points!"
He glanced at Shi Jin with a hint of embarrassment on his face before shooting again.
"8.6!"
Shi Jin entered and the production team immediately passed the spare bow to her.
Shi Jin took it, pulled the bow fully and shot an arrow.
"8.1 points!"
It happened to surpass Jiang Yunmo by 0.1 point.
But at the same time, Shi Jin's bowstring was broken.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The teacher from the props team apologized immediately. This was a backup. They didn't expect Shi Jin to come, so they didn't investigate in detail.
"Use mine." Jiang Yunmo and Mei Tian took out their bows.
The assistant director finally understood. "...Could it be that both of them like Shi Jin?"
The director looked at the assistant director with an expression that said, "You just realized it?"
Shi Jin looked at them and chose Mei Tian.
For the next two arrows, she shot them at 8.5 points and 8.6 points respectively, just like Jiang Yunmo. However, because she had scored 0.1 points higher for the first arrow, she still won.
After the recording of the competition ended, Shi Jin, Meng Ling, and Liang Yu walked backstage to remove
their makeup and change their clothes.
When Shi Jin was changing, the two of them could not follow her in. They entered another changing room at the same time.
Liang Yu said in a low voice, "Meng Ling, you performed so well, but there might not be any scenes when the time comes."
Meng Ling was already mentally prepared, so she didn't mind. "It doesn't matter if I don't have any, but Shi Jin especially took time to come over. It would be awkward if she didn't have any scenes."
"Then what should we do?"
"I'll get my manager to communicate with the company again and see if it's effective," said Meng Ling.
"I don't think the company and the production team are that stupid. Will they give up Shi Jin's popularity to promote Jiang Yunmo and Mei Tian?"
"After all, Shi Jin doesn't belong to our company. She came to the production team as a guest. She can't bring them much benefits."
They were speaking very softly, but Shi Jin still heard them.
As it turned out, the "Exercise King" this time was a publicity special for a certain company.
She didn't mind if she got no screen time, but if Meng Ling didn't either, it was indeed a little overboard.
After changing, she walked out.
Meng Ling and Liang Yu smiled at her. "Let's go eat."
"Okay."
This time, the three of them did not stay on the set for dinner. They did not film at night, so they found a quiet place and ordered food to eat together.
Although they knew that the post-production would be randomly edited, Meng Ling and Liang Yu were still quite happy and didn't take this matter to heart.
As they talked about their respective careers, Liang Yu smiled. "It's good if I can act as the female lead once. Even if I don't become famous, I can die without regrets."
She actually had a sweet appearance and was quite suitable to be the female lead in an idol drama. However, fate did not favor her. She still had to act as the evil supporting actress.
"Meng Ling, what about you?"
"Me? Actually, I quite like studying medicine. When I earn more money, I'll go back to studying medicine."
Shi Jin looked at her. "Why didn't you learn it before? You have a medical background. It's very convenient."
"Previously, my dad wanted me to learn, and I wanted to learn it too, but studying medicine makes money slowly. At that time, my family owed some money. After all, filming makes money faster, so I
wanted to share some of my dad's burden. Now that the debt has been paid and the contract is about to expire, I might want to return to it after a while."
"Your acting skills are pretty good. It's a pity if you quit," Liang Yu said as she supported her chin.
"I'm traumatized from being hated on. Now, when I see my own news, my heart trembles."
Shi Jin looked at her. "Are you willing to give it a try if you change to a role that doesn't get scolded?"
"I'm quite willing to do that. After all, I want to play a better role so that I won't have any regrets in my acting career, but the company now..."
Meng Ling did not continue. This was a common problem in the industry, and it was now directed at herself. Of course, it was not something that she could change alone.
A lot of film and television works were done for the sake of promoting celebrities. Most of the scripts and stories were fragmented and all the supporting actresses had the same personality.
Obviously they would get hate.
"Then I wish you the best of luck." Liang Yu raised her glass.
Shi Jin raised her cup as well.
When they returned, Liang Yu was drunk. Meng Ling supported her and handed her over to her manager before leaving with Shi Jin.
"Is my dad doing well recently?" Meng Ling had not seen her father for a long time and only had the chance to ask Shi Jin now.
"Pretty good."
"Sigh, I already told him not to work so hard, yet he still did. When I was young, my mom said that he wouldn't listen to her. That time, he was too hardworking when he was pushed down by others..."
"Pushed down?"
Perhaps it was because of the alcohol, Meng Ling spoke a lot faster. "He used to work at a company's pharmaceutical factory. You might have heard of the Sun Group."
Sun Yijing's Sun family, Shi Jin thought.
"He specializes in pharmaceutical research. He spent a lot of effort creating drugs, and the company used them, but they didn't give him the patent. They even accused him of selling the company's patents to other companies and sued him for a large sum of money."