48: caught skipping class

Liu Yifei looked at Huang Bai's back, frowning.

"What's wrong?" Li Xiuwu turned back and saw Liu Yifei's expression.

"He is very hardworking!" Liu Yifei also retracted her gaze.

"Yeah!" Li Xiuwu nodded.

"Is hard work useful?" Liu Yifei asked.

Although she was young, she was quite knowledgeable, and recently she had suddenly had a breakthrough, learning everything quickly.

Therefore, she realized a truth: the heights of a genius truly cannot be reached by hard work alone.

The same applied to acting.

When she was in the story of a noble family, she met Shu Chang, and there was a huge gap in their acting skills.

She considered herself to have worked very hard, but she completely couldn't understand why Shu Chang's acting was so good.

Even when Shu Chang explained it to her, she couldn't understand it; at that time, the two of them were completely on different levels in terms of acting.

Now that she had had her breakthrough, she learned very quickly, a world of difference from her former self, and she understood the gap between genius and mediocrity.

Actors face another more intuitive issue: a person's appearance is innate and cannot be changed; one person is handsome, another is ugly, and the handsome one is naturally more easily welcomed by everyone.

"There are millions of hard-working people, and there are always one or two who succeed," Li Xiuwu said.

Liu Yifei looked up and pursed her lips: "That probability is too low."

"But if you don't work hard, how do you know you aren't that one in a million?"

"You have an answer for everything." Feeling like she couldn't win an argument against Li Xiuwu, she punched him on the back a few times.

Suddenly, Li Xiuwu's phone rang.

Li Xiuwu picked it up and looked: "Teacher Wang."

"Ah." Liu Yifei looked around, feeling guilty; there seemed to be someone standing in front of the window in the direction of Wang Jinsong's office.

Li Xiuwu answered the phone, and Wang Jinsong's voice immediately came through: "You two actually dared to skip class? Come to my office."

The call ended.

Fearing being scolded, Liu Yifei came up with an idea: "In a moment, we'll just say my stomach hurt, and you were accompanying me to the infirmary."

Li Xiuwu nodded, going over the story with her on how to deal with the teacher's questioning.

"It was him! Teacher, he was the one who called me out." As soon as she entered Wang Jinsong's office, Liu Yifei immediately accused Li Xiuwu of taking her to skip class.

Li Xiuwu stared at Liu Yifei with wide eyes; just a moment ago, she was the one suggesting they trick the teacher.

"Teacher, I didn't call her. She ran down to find me herself, and she even suggested tricking you just now."

"I did not! It was clearly you who called me and asked me to go downstairs to accompany you shopping."

The two of them accused each other, both pushing the responsibility onto the other.

"Stand properly." Wang Jinsong glared at the two of them.

"You two, just as your grades improved a little, you start slacking off. Wandering around campus during class time, what kind of behavior is that?"

Liu Yifei and Li Xiuwu lowered their heads, pretending to be chastised.

"You go back first." After scolding them for a while, he said to Liu Yifei.

"Goodbye, Teacher." Liu Yifei ran out of Wang Jinsong's office quite disloyally.

"How was your audition?" Wang Jinsong valued Li Xiuwu's audition results; for a teacher, this was a teaching achievement.

"The role was pre-assigned, and they didn't let me audition for Emperor Wu of Han." Li Xiuwu answered truthfully.

"They didn't let you audition?" Wang Jinsong's voice raised a little.

Pre-assignment, he couldn't do anything about, but not allowing an audition was tantamount to insulting someone.

Wang Jinsong frowned, took out his phone, and was about to make a call.

"They let me audition for Liu Ju directly," Li Xiuwu said.

"Although they agreed to give me Liu Ju, I didn't take it."

Wang Jinsong put down his phone, looking displeased.

For people recommended by our Beijing Film Academy, either notify us directly that the role went to someone else so there's no need to audition; if you make them audition, do it properly.

Asking someone to audition and then not letting them is not only looking down on the actor, but also slapping the face of the Beijing Film Academy.

"Alright, I know."

"You go back to class too." Wang Jinsong waved his hand, letting Li Xiuwu leave the office as well.

After Li Xiuwu walked out, he picked up his phone and called Chi Xiaoning.

"What does she, Hu Mei, want? If she likes using actors from the Central Academy of Drama, fine, but when someone is recommended by Beijing Film Academy, she doesn't even let them audition. Does she think being from Beijing Film Academy is embarrassing for her?"

"Old Wang, about this matter..." Chi Xiaoning felt a bit embarrassed.

"Speak up. If there isn't a reasonable excuse, even a CCTV show won't work." Wang Jinsong was very angry. What does the Beijing Film Academy rely on to establish itself? It's these connections. When you come from the Beijing Film Academy, everyone gives the Beijing Film Academy face, and the Beijing Film Academy is everyone's backbone.

You, Hu Mei, as a director who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, don't even give the Beijing Film Academy face.

"The one pre-assigned is also our student from the Beijing Film Academy, Du Chun from the Class of '99. His father is Du Zhiguo. Hu Mei felt they were all family, so there was no need to go through the motions." Chi Xiaoning tried his best to patch things up.

"But this student of yours is also too arrogant." Chi Xiaoning also complained to Wang Jinsong.

"Arrogant? If I had scored as a top scholar with full marks, I would be even more arrogant than him. You also auditioned him; what do you say about his acting?" Wang Jinsong's voice was filled with pride.

"That, I can't argue with. He really brought Liu Ju to life, causing everyone who auditioned for Liu Ju afterward to fail completely." Chi Xiaoning thought of the scene where Li Xiuwu auditioned for Liu Ju. Although he was wearing modern clothes, that performance, that aura, that voice—it could instantly pull people into the scene.

"Does he not have the right to be arrogant?" Wang Jinsong asked sharply.

"He does, he does, alright?" Chi Xiaoning laughed dryly, then said helplessly, "Old Wang, I know you're upset. You don't know, but of the four people auditioning for Emperor Wu of Han, three are from the Beijing Film Academy. Du Chun is graduating this year, his father is Du Zhiguo, and his teacher is Liu Zhi. What do you expect the director to do?"

"I see." Wang Jinsong hung up the phone. He sat there, feeling somewhat helpless.

He really wanted to take this opportunity to get angry and have the other party's role taken away, but since the pre-assigned person was also from the Beijing Film Academy, this was difficult to handle.

Inside the classroom, Li Xiuwu poked Liu Yifei's arm with his finger.

"Don't disturb my studying." Liu Yifei sat there, reading seriously.

"Don't act so serious." Li Xiuwu glanced at her sideways.

"I didn't expect you to be so disloyal, actually framing me for taking you to skip class."

"I didn't! It was you who took me to skip class." She lowered her head, almost slumped over her textbook.

Just as he continued to seize on Liu Yifei's handle, refusing to let go, Jiang Yiyan sat in the seat in front of them.

"Li Xiuwu, what did you do today?"

She leaned on Li Xiuwu's desk, the distance between the two of them very close.

Li Xiuwu immediately sat up straight, distancing himself from Jiang Yiyan. A high-quality cauldron, yet she also wanted to take advantage of him.

Liu Yifei frowned when she saw Jiang Yiyan's actions. Before, she hadn't thought anything of it, but since that night, after it was pointed out, her mindset had changed; she just felt annoyed seeing Jiang Yiyan get close to Li Xiuwu.

"Some personal matters."

"Is that so?" Seeing that Li Xiuwu didn't want to talk about it, Jiang Yiyan changed the subject.

"We don't have class on the weekend. Shall we go watch a movie? The movie starring Ge You, 'Cala, My Dog!', I think it will be very interesting?"

"He doesn't have time."

Before Li Xiuwu could answer, Liu Yifei refused for him.

Jiang Yiyan looked at Liu Yifei. Her thoughts churned; Liu Yifei had been a bit off lately.

She had feelings for Li Xiuwu, but she was just a little girl.

She said with a smile: "Xixi can come too. We can call a few other classmates and go watch the movie together."

"Watch a movie? What movie?" Zhu Yawen walked over, looking at the few of them curiously.

"Jiang Yiyan says she wants to invite everyone to watch a movie. Xixi and I don't have time. If Classmate Zhu is interested, you can go with Classmate Jiang," Li Xiuwu said to Zhu Yawen with a smile.

"Is that so?" Zhu Yawen became interested and looked at Jiang Yiyan.

Jiang Yiyan was put on the spot by Li Xiuwu's words. She felt a bit awkward, but not wanting to refuse, she nodded.

"Classmate Jiang Yiyan is inviting everyone to watch a movie. Is anyone else going?" Zhu Yawen turned and shouted to his classmates in the room.