Brother Dao Took The Entertainment Industry By Storm Fans Beg Me Not To Kill Anymore Chapter 408

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“Sorry, sorry.”

In the lounge, ECL Boy Group’s manager Liao Ronghui wiped the sweat from his face, cautiously apologizing to the woman before him.

“What’s going on?”

Liu Rulan curled the corner of her mouth, elegantly lifting her teacup with poise, her tone neither salty nor bland. “I just came to take a look, and incidentally pick up my artist. Why is Manager Liao so nervous?”

Not far behind Liu Rulan stood a handsome young man with an upright posture. He remained silent, just leaning lazily against the window frame. Yet, his gaze felt tangible, coiling around Liao Ronghui’s neck, giving him a dangerous sense of suffocation.

Liao Ronghui’s smile at this moment was uglier than crying. “It’s our fault. Suddenly replacing Liang Cheng with Yan Lewen and not immediately notifying Manager Liu shows our work was inadequate. We are truly very sorry, apologies to Manager Liu and Teacher Xiao.”

“Mainly because Liang Cheng has been a bit sick recently, and his condition isn’t good, so we thought of letting Yan Lewen fill in as the guest for one episode first, and later—”

“Liang Cheng is sick?”

Xiao He interrupted Liao Ronghui’s excuse with a half-smile.

“He still has to go.”

Xiao He’s expression changed in an instant, the aura around him suddenly turning cold. “The resource we gave, whoever we designated it for, must be that person. Even if he doesn’t want it, even if he can’t, he must participate. Even if he’s sick, even if he’s sick to the point of dying, he has to be carried over here.”

As Xiao He’s words fell, Yan Lewen and Liang Cheng also walked into the lounge.

As soon as he entered, Yan Lewen very sincerely apologized to Xiao He. “Sorry, Brother Xiao. I didn’t know before that this resource was specifically designated for Liang Cheng by you. Participating in this variety show was just following the company’s arrangements. Fortunately, Brother Xiao, you discovered it in time, otherwise I’d be too embarrassed to face Liang Cheng.”

Liang Cheng looked at Xiao He, his face full of apology, finally lowering his head and bowing in thanks. “Thank you, Brother Xiao. I’m sorry.”

A resource he had finally managed to secure from Brother Xiao, yet in the end, he still couldn’t hold onto it.

Liang Cheng himself felt he was an idiot.

Xiao He tugged at the corner of his mouth, offering no response.

Liu Rulan, however, put down her teacup, delivering a final warning. “This resource, we can give it, and naturally, we can also take it back. What your company’s internal thoughts are, I understand very clearly. But I advise you, don’t overreach, or you might easily hurt everyone’s harmony.”

Liao Ronghui immediately smiled ingratiatingly. “Of course, of course. Manager Liu, rest assured, it definitely won’t happen again.”

Liu Rulan glanced at her watch, then stood up. “Xiao He has an event in the afternoon, so we’ll take our leave now.”

“Alright, Sister Liu, take care, goodbye.”

“Mhm.”

Finally, the woman, clicking her high heels, led her artist away from the scene with composure, completely unconcerned about the people left behind.

“Brother Liao, I’ll go for the shoot too. Can’t keep everyone waiting too long.”

Liang Cheng said this to Liao Ronghui, then also turned and left directly.

“Brother Liao—”

Yan Lewen called out weakly, none of the arrogant airs he had when bullying Liang Cheng remaining.

“Sigh, the sun and moon shift within the industry circle. No one can be offended.”

Liao Ronghui glanced sideways at Yan Lewen and let out a long sigh. “We can’t afford to provoke Xiao He, and we can’t afford to provoke Liang Cheng anymore either. You should rein it in a bit from now on. Who can predict what will happen in the future?”

Yan Lewen, receiving this warning, turned pale, then flushed, before finally nodding and saying, “I understand… Sorry, Brother Liao.”

On the other side, Liu Rulan returned to the car.

Lao Qi started the vehicle to head back, while Liu Rulan glared at Xiao He. “Look at the mess you stirred up.”

Xiao He spread his hands. “I originally didn’t want to get involved, but who told them to have itchy hands and mess with the resource we gave?”

However they wanted to bully each other, however they wanted to snatch resources, it had little to do with him.

But they absolutely should not have secretly swapped the resource Liu Rulan arranged for someone else.

This “Ace Reasoning” resource was actually a connection and favor Xiao He got from Li Qing after acting in that short film. Later, when Liang Cheng spoke up for him and got scolded, Liu Rulan simply used this favor to secure Liang Cheng a position as a permanent guest on “Ace Reasoning,” considered settling the matter between them.

But now, look at this. The resource Xiao He accumulated, they secretly took it, with absolutely no shame. Who wouldn’t be angry about that?

Fortunately, it was discovered early. If the posters had been shot, if promotion had started, that permanent guest position probably wouldn’t have been easy to swap back.

Hehe, that group certainly has a lot of schemes.

“Forget it, let this matter end here. This time we gave them a warning; they won’t dare to play petty tricks again.” Liu Rulan shook her head. “As for that Liang Cheng, it all depends on his own destiny now.”

If he still gets his things snatched, then they definitely won’t go help again.

“Mhm, sorry for the trouble, Sister Liu.”

…

A few days later, in the company’s practice room.

Xiao He lay on the floor with utter despair, while his acting teacher An Chengguang, currently holding a script in hand, stood with hands on hips, urging with a serious expression, “The time until the birthday event is getting closer and closer! You need to perk up! Quick, quick, get up and continue!”

Xiao He: “…Okay.”

He let out a long sigh.

After adjustments, the program script successfully reduced the weight of some character personas, especially during the final ending segment. They deliberately toned down those more complex roles, focusing the performance on the other characters.

Even so, Xiao He still found it quite challenging, forcibly memorizing the personas under An Chengguang’s repeated urging.

There was no other way. In the final segment, Xiao He needed to seamlessly switch between twelve different personas. This segment was crucial, the highlight moment that could best showcase Xiao He’s acting skills, but the difficulty was also extraordinarily high.

After all, for such a performance, even looking across the entire entertainment industry, not many actors could guarantee they could complete it in a single continuous take, let alone Xiao He, such a “new actor” who didn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth.

Yet even so, Xiao He still gritted his teeth and performed, analyzing each of these roles one by one, striving to dissect their characteristics, and then amplifying these traits during the performance, so the viewers could distinguish them while watching and not be left completely confused.

–

“I should be able to find him.”

The young detective sat on the chair, a contemplative look on his face.

The next moment, the person who had been sitting upright suddenly threw his head back, placed his hands on the chair, crossed his legs, and a mocking expression appeared on his face. “Hah? Are you actually trying to catch me here?”

Immediately after, he shrank his arms, his voice trembling slightly, filled with anxiety. “Don’t confront each other here! We’ll all die.”

“Cough, cough—”

The young man suddenly hunched over, his demeanor carrying a touch of world-weariness. “Anna, don’t go over. They’re all crazy!”

The next moment, his expression changed again, but unexpectedly, An Chengguang in front of the stage frowned and directly interrupted his performance.

“Xiao He, wait.”

The young man on the stage paused, closing his eyes to ease his emotions. “Teacher, please go ahead.”

“Since you can’t achieve a breakthrough with the female character roles for now, add more body language.”

An Chengguang said this while also gesturing for Xiao He to look at the script. “For this part, you can directly perform it as a normal 18-year-old teenager, only adding details in some places, changing the character’s gender characteristics…”

An Chengguang explained many more knowledge points.

Time was already running out. Experiential Acting couldn’t fully adapt to this speed of personality switching on stage, the pressure from the surrounding environment was also high, and it still needed to be a single continuous take. Therefore, they needed the techniques of Presentational Acting, using the public’s stereotypes to highlight a role that couldn’t be fully adapted to.

Although this was indeed cutting corners, under the circumstances of limited time for stage performance, among the twelve personas, there would definitely be some he could adapt to and some he couldn’t. So what An Chengguang needed to do now was help Xiao He focus on grasping the details of the roles he could adapt to, and then cleverly complete the personas of the roles he couldn’t adapt to.

This performance, once shown, could be considered one of Xiao He’s personal credentials, a time for him to highlight his own ability. What those directors would look at are the roles Xiao He emphasizes and can portray fittingly himself, not the roles that clearly don’t require Xiao He to perform them.

After all, what normal director would care whether this male actor can play women or children!

Of course, abnormal ones are excluded.