Chapter Fourteen Recording (Two)

  "Little Swallow!" "Zhao Wei!" Just as Zhao Wei's name was called out, the loud cheers for Zhao Qingya from below the stage were instantly drowned out. Little Swallow's popularity over the past few years has been unmatched.

  "Hello everyone, I am Zhao Wei." Zhao smiled and walked out with a bright smile.

  Lin Xiao noticed that she never mentioned the three words "Little Swallow". This role, which had once made her famous overnight, now seemed like a shackle to her, and she was eager to get rid of it.

  "Transition period?" He threw a glance at He Jiong, who happened to look over at the same time.

  Both of them nodded lightly, indicating they understood.

  "Just now I heard a friend calling Zhao Qingya's name." Lin Xiao suddenly spoke up.

  When he said this, the shouting from below the stage became even louder.

  "What's going on?!" Wang Jue Ming's just relaxed eyebrows furrowed again, a guest mentioned Zhao Qingya, what's the point? Is it to publicly announce personal grievances?

  If he does that, then even if it means offending the Huaxia people to death, he must be blacklisted. Wang Jueming watched the development on stage with concern.

  He Jiong was stunned for a moment, and Li Xiang hurriedly took over "Don't you recognize Zhao Qingya?"

  "If it's that female movie star who is even more stunning than me, of course I know her..." Lin Xiao said.

  "Xiao Ge, everyone here is more handsome than you." Li Hao suddenly spoke up.

  "Haha." The audience below laughed again, and Wang Jue Ming thought for a moment before pointing at Lin Xiao once more.

  "Brother Wang..." Old K's face didn't look good, his lips twitched as he said "He now has the same screen time and hosting duties as you, do you still want to give him more? Is it worth giving a newcomer so much screen time?"

  "It's a gift." Wang Jue Ming said without hesitation, and after finishing, he seemed to have realized something, giving Lao K a meaningful look.

  On stage, Lin Xiao made a narcissistic expression "Huh, I really didn't notice." Then said "But just now there was a beautiful woman who couldn't attend the recording due to temporary matters..."

  "Is she prettier than you?" He Jiong immediately understood that it wouldn't be a good idea to seriously say that Zhao Qianya was being arrogant at this time, with so many fans around, and that an unintentional transition would be the best.

  Lin Xiao thought for a moment "Seems like he's much more handsome than me."

  "Don't even think about it, that's for sure." Li Xiang continued "Is she called Zhao Qingya?"

  "It seems to be this name. Everyone knows that there are not many people who are more handsome than me, and even fewer people with the same name." Lin Xiao shrugged his shoulders "So...the lady who is both more handsome than me and has the same name will probably be absent tonight."

  "Whoa!" He had just finished speaking when the crowd of people in blue uniforms at the back of the auditorium erupted.

  "What's going on?!" "Zhao Qingya can't make it?" "We came especially to see her!"

  At this moment, the audience in the back two rows started making a commotion, and even several die-hard fans immediately got up and left.

  Wang Jue Ming immediately made a gesture, and He Hong said, "Today's guests are all from the film and television industry. Of course, we want to ask them about their new works. First, let's invite Zhao Wei to talk about the news of 'My Fair Princess 2'."

  As expected, this sentence was like a sedative needle, immediately suppressing the noise in the scene, and the huge success of Still 1, which has been popular domestically for several years.

  Zhao Wei picked up the microphone and naturally understood that this was a rescue, immediately talking about the news of Return of the Pearl 2, even revealing several new characters and actors playing not-so-important roles.

  "Oh? So what's this? The second season, Zhao Wei is still collaborating with the handsome guy? Has she met someone she likes among them?" He Qiong sneaked a glance at the audience in the back two rows, about thirteen or fourteen people had left, but if there wasn't a more attention-grabbing topic to attract them, they would leave too.

  While asking, he made gestures to Zhao Wei in a place where the audience couldn't see, hinting that she should reveal some inside information.

  "In fact, I think Su Youpeng and Zhou Jie are both pretty good." Zhao said with a smile.

  "Ah ah ah!" He Jiong and Li Xiang immediately slid down the pole "So that means anything is possible now?"

  "Are the two hosts paparazzi in disguise?" Lin Xiao chimed in with a smile, and this kind of question naturally needed someone to bail them out. The audience below erupted into a burst of knowing laughter. He continued, "But Zhao's answer was too official, wasn't it? Just like a certain country saying they're not the world's largest police state."

  "Haha." The audience finally burst out laughing, and applause erupted from the crowd for the first time. Zhao Wei also smiled slightly "We're just good friends."

  Lin Xiao pretended to think for a while before murmuring "At first, a certain country also said that it was just a cooperative relationship with Iraq..."

  "Haha!" This time, almost everyone in the audience burst out laughing. He Jiong and Li Xiang laughed uncontrollably, while Zhao Wei, trying to maintain her composure, turned her head away and covered her mouth to stifle a giggle.

  "Actually, I'm just an actor." He then quoted another famous phrase by Stephen Chow.

  "Haha!" Even the recording staff couldn't help but laugh, and the whole scene, far from being depressed by Zhao Qingya's departure, had a kind of gradual warming up feeling.

  "Scene." Wang Jue Ming lightly snapped his fingers, satisfied with the explanation he had just given. This was a commonly used "surround Wei to rescue Zhao" tactic, dissolving a crisis that the audience didn't like to watch. But he was certain that these few people absolutely hadn't rehearsed this before.

  The camera moved over, and Wang Jue Ming made a gesture to Lin Xiao. Old K looked in the direction that Wang Jue Ming was pointing, his heart skipped a beat, if they continued filming like this, Zhao Qing Ya would definitely not let this matter go! For these newcomers? This production is crazy!

  "Is it him again? Hasn't he been cut a few too many times already?" He gritted his teeth and asked.

  "It's nothing." Wang Jue Ming turned his head and gave him a faint glance. "Old K, we're old colleagues, today's matter has already reached this point, perhaps the person in charge knows about it too. Do you think it's better to offend Tian Guang or offend both Tian Guang and Hua Xia together?"

  "But... it's Zhao Qingya! If we can get her back on Happy Camp, offending Huaxia is nothing!"

  Just then, Wang Jue Ming's cell phone rang. He had set it on vibrate earlier and when he took a look, he found that it was a call from Pang Zi.

  "Hello."

  "Brother Wang, ratings 1.02%! Fat's voice was a bit disbelieving "Not decreasing but increasing! Not decreasing but increasing! It actually increased by 0.02! This is simply unbelievable!"

  "I know." Wang Jue Ming pressed down on his phone heavily, and the huge stone that had been hanging in his heart finally fell to the ground.

  At least it started perfectly.

  "Pangzi's phone." He calmed down and whispered to Old K.

  "Are you kidding me?" Old K looked at him with a worried face, this host, he really couldn't understand the other person's mood "It's not hard to guess, except for Zhao Wei, there are newbies and no Zhao Qingya to boost ratings."

  "0.03%……" Wang Jue Ming watched the stage with great interest.

  Lao K let out a deep sigh, "It's down by 0.03%, now below the 1% standard, the person in charge of the month-end meeting will definitely not let it go. Wang Ge, don't hesitate, I'll just adjust the camera and admit my mistake to Zhao Jie, those few newbies won't dare say anything."

  Wang Jue Ming glanced at him and said, "It increased by 0.03%."

  "Right! Otherwise, let's call Zhao Jie's agent now... What did you say?!" His tone suddenly rose, and several spectators around him immediately cast dissatisfied glances.

  He immediately lowered his head and hastily asked in a low voice, "Brother Wang, are you sure it's going up?! Not down?!"

  "You can call him again and ask Pangzi." Wang Jiaoming said "Didn't you notice that the style is a bit different tonight?"

  Old K shook his head, he wasn't a producer, and he wasn't so sensitive about these things.

  "Domestically, variety shows are very sensitive, what can be said and what cannot be said are all strictly controlled, which also makes domestic entertainment not so 'spicy'. This type of interview-style variety show is also a new project, mostly serious, wanting to be light-hearted but always failing. But this person..."

  He pointed to Lin Xiao and said, "His style is different from He Jiong and Li Xiang, it's truly relaxed, quite open-minded. I really don't know if he's from that company, what a genius! Now the variety show 'Breaking the Ice', really needs such talent!"

  "Brother Wang, you're overestimating him. He's just a newcomer who has already offended Zhao Qingya."

  "For variety shows, ten Zhao Qingyas are no match for one of him!" Wang Jue Ming said resolutely.

  "Brother Wang... you wouldn't have taken a liking to him, would you?"

  Wang Jue Ming smiled with a hint of profundity and said, "After this recording is over, I'll contact their company and let him try hosting a few episodes."

  Old K's heart skipped a beat, skipping the guest, specially invited, fixed guest, and directly trying to host?! This is a big surprise!

  "But... He Jiong, Li Xiang and them, will they allow it? Suddenly adding a host, I'm afraid they will..."

  "They should agree." Wang Jue Ming said affirmatively, "Look at them now, they have fully tapped their potential and been motivated. This rarely happens in previous shows."

  "Take another look at the back." He continued, Old K turned around and saw that the two rows of green troops had actually settled down unknowingly! Some were even laughing loudly!

  Old K swallowed his saliva and didn't say a word, the camera focused on Lin Xiao again who was still making funny faces, but this time he didn't make that gentle pressing motion on the camera.

  On stage, Zhao Wei had just finished announcing the news about "The Return of the Pearl 2". Lin Xiao suddenly spoke up and said "I heard that Auntie Qiong Yao has another drama to film?"

  Zhao Wei threw a grateful glance, and Li Xiang took the opportunity to turn the microphone to the relatively quiet Chen Kun. "I heard that this play is starring Chen Kun. By the way, let me share a little secret with everyone. Chen Kun is Zhao Wei's alumnus!"

  "Oh!" Many people in the audience suddenly laughed with understanding, and Lin Xiao immediately added a sentence "What a great alumni!"

  "Oh!" Now there were more voices saying "I see".

  They actually didn't understand anything.

  Chen Kun also started talking about this play, at that time, it was a deeply emotional and misty rain, also a great play by Qiong Yao.