Chapter Thirteen: What I Say When I Confess
At 7:00 a.m. on June 5, a black Toyota sedan came downstairs to the apartment where he lived. Ye Zhao walked down the stairs. The young man in the driver's seat rolled down the window and asked as if confirming, "Is it Ye Zhao?"
Ye Zhao nodded, opened the door of the back seat and sat in. The car started immediately and drove towards a high school in Adachi, Tokyo, which will become one of the shooting locations for today's advertisements.
Yes, what Ye Zhao wants to do today is to fulfill the contract with NTT DOCOMO and complete the shooting of the advertisement.
This high school, called Private Kubota Girls' High School, was originally a donation from a wealthy man who went out of Adachi District. However, as RB's birth rate became more and more serious, Kubota Girls' High School, which could not recruit enough students, was officially merged into a co-education private high school next door last year, and the school building was completely idle.
The photography team borrowed a whole floor of classrooms as a dressing room and prop room. As soon as Ye Zhao got off the car, he entered the main building of the school under the guidance of a male assistant until he arrived at a classroom at the end of the first floor with the words "Ye Zhao" posted.
The person who put on makeup for Ye Zhao was a woman in her late thirty-year-old man named Okubo. She had a serious face but was chattering endlessly.
"You have really good skin and delicate facial features, but it saves me a lot of trouble. If every artist has such perfect face as you... I will be unemployed."
Ye Zhao looked at such a face that was as expressionless as a Nengju mask in the mirror, but was joking, and inexplicably felt like he wanted to tremble. Fortunately, his face was innately in good condition, and it would not take long to put on makeup. In just over ten minutes, he even finished dressing up his hairstyle. If he had to trouble more, he would have to close his eyes and pretend to be asleep.
According to the advertisement setting, Ye Zhao wanted to play a high school student in it, so the clothes prepared for him were also a Japanese high school uniform, a white shirt, a gray dark plaid suit, and a pair of black uniform shoes. After changing his clothes, he walked out of the locker room, opened his arms, and the costumer checked whether the clothes fit. The costumes were customized according to the height measurements and other data measured on the day he won the championship, so it was naturally suitable.
On the way back to the lounge and wait for the time, Ye Zhao finally met the model she partnered with in this advertisement. Her name is Kudo Shiori. With Ye Zhao's knowledge of the RB art world, she seems to have never heard of such a name. Perhaps she has become a little popular in this era, but what is certain is that she eventually disappeared.
This is life. Ye Zhao cannot meet Takeuchi Yuko on the street. Anyone you know is a future big star. RB has tens of thousands of people signing contracts for offices of all sizes every year, but only a few thousand people can debut. Among the thousands who successfully debut, there will be no more than thirty people who can finally leave their names in the art world. Most people can only become a snowflake falling into the sea, melting silently.
Kudo Shiori is 18 years old and is still a senior high school student. She was originally a model of RB's fashion magazine "SEVENTEEN". Last year, she signed a contract with Kenyin firm under the recommendation of the magazine editor and officially started her acting career. Kudo Shiori looks sweet, and if you want to describe it, there is a little bit of the shadow of later generations Sailor Mi Ishihara. She is tall and has the right proportions. She wears a sailor skirt in her high school uniform, and the hem can only cover about ten centimeters above her knees.
If you want to continue in the RB art world, you must remember one thing you must be polite. Whether the other party is an artist or a staff member, you must take the initiative to say hello. This is of course, Kudo Shiori, who has officially entered the industry and accepted this course, should of course be more proficient. Therefore, before Ye Zhao could react, she had already pressed her skirt with both hands and bowed forty-five degrees and said, "Hello, I am Kudo Shiori from Kenyin Office."
"Hello. My name is Ye Zhao, and I don't have a firm." Ye Zhao said politely. In fact, there is a more suitable word "amateur", but this word has become a bit distorted by the excessive use of a series in the Dark World...
"I know, you are the champion of this selection." Kudo Shiori smiled, "I have seen your photos in the office, but I didn't expect that the real person is more handsome than the photos."
The staff are all busy, and it would be nice to chat with Shiori Kudo to pass the time. Unfortunately, this wish was quickly broken by Shiori Kudo, a man in his forties. "Kudo, it's almost time to go back to the lounge. Don't you still have a script to read?"
"Yes, I understand!" Kudo Shiori responded and said to Ye Zhao: "I'll go back first, and I'll give you more advice on the shooting later."
Kudo Shiori, who is still a newcomer, has no majesty in front of the agent, and even has to follow the agent when walking. This is the case with the entertainment market in Japan and South Korea. The high degree of development has minimized the autonomy of artists, and the strength of the firm has been infinitely magnified. Agents with a little ability can control the power of life and death of a newcomer.
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Filming officially begins at 9 a.m.
The content of the advertisement was very simple. The boy used the message function of the BP machine to arrange the girl to the rooftop of the school and confessed to her: "Can you be my girlfriend?" But the girl did not answer, but just ran away in a hurry. In the evening, the boy walking alone on the way home suddenly rang out on his BP machine, with a sentence on it: "I do."
The first scene is Kudo Shiori chatting with her classmates in the classroom. At this time, her BP machine beeps. After taking it out, it reads "Can you come to the rooftop? If you have something to say." The classroom is ready-made, and the two girls who play her classmate are extras temporarily found by the staff.
After director Kyohei Inamura called for the start, Shiori Kudo quickly entered her role. With rich shooting experience, she not only had enough expressions, but also had very good grasp of the camera. She passed a simple scene like this one by one.
The second scene is the highlight of the advertisement. Ye Zhao stood in front of the barbed wire and heard the sound of the door being pushed open. He turned around and slowly approached Kudo Shiori. Kudo Shiori asked, "Is there anything wrong?" Ye Zhao confessed to her: "Can you be my girlfriend?" Kudo Shiori did not answer, but trotted away from the rooftop. Ye Zhao looked at her leaving behind with a look of confusion.
The specific position was marked on the ground of the rooftop. Ye Zhao, who was standing in front of the barbed wire, turned around while the door was pushed open. Until this part, his set of shots were very natural, until he slowly walked to Shiori Kudo. After being asked, "Is there anything wrong?", almost as he finished speaking, the director shouted to stop.
"Ye Zhao, the performance was pretty good at the beginning, but what was the expression and tone of the confession? You were confessing to Kudo, and you were not going to borrow money from her, so it was so awkward to do it?"
After that, two shots were filmed in a row, Ye Zhao's performance was still unsatisfactory. Even the director, who was particularly tolerant at the beginning, became a little annoyed because he was an inexperienced newcomer. Seeing that it was almost twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the director sighed and grabbed his chaotic instant noodles head, saying, "Let's take an hour to have lunch first. Ye Zhao, you can think about the plot carefully."
After failures one after another, Ye Zhao was in a bad mood, but he was the one who kept causing trouble for others. He was not qualified to show his dissatisfaction at this moment. The crew ordered Jin Bingwei's roasted pork bento and RB's bento. There is absolutely nothing to say about the appearance, but the taste is just like that.
While lying in the lounge and eating bento, there was a sudden knock on the door.
"The door is not locked, please come in."
After receiving such a response, the door was gently pushed open, and Kudo Shiori, who was holding the bento, leaned into half of his body with a smile, "It's so boring to eat alone, don't you mind together?"
Ye Zhao, who was chewing rice in his mouth, patted the seat next to him and replaced the answer with his actions.
"It's very hard to shoot an advertisement for the first time? Actually, you performed very well. When I first started as a model, I was often scolded by photographers for not having a good expression and posture."
"Thank you for talking about this specifically. But your agent doesn't care about you?"
"He won't let me go even a little lunch break." Kudo Shiori's tone was not so polite with his agent behind his back. "By the way, let's take advantage of this time, let's rehearse."
"Is there anything wrong?"
"Can you be my girlfriend?"
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"Is there anything wrong?"
"Can you be my girlfriend?"
...
"Is there anything wrong?"
"Can you be my girlfriend?"
"OK!"
When he talked about this line for the eighth time, Shiori Kudo suddenly said this.
"Wait, there is no such line." Ye Zhao questioned.
"I know," Kudo Shiori said with a smile, "but if it were me, I wouldn't use the BP machine to respond to the confession. Since I plan to promise others, I should say it so readily!"
"Haha," Ye Zhao was amused by her words, "Actually, if it were me, I wouldn't confess to the words "Can you be my girlfriend?", which is too bad."
"What do you want to say when you confess?" Kudo Shiori held his cheek with one hand and looked at him with interest.
Ye Zhao smiled wickedly, "I want to be sleepy with you."
"You..." Shioro Kudo blushed, "You teased me?"
"Don't dare, don't dare."
"No, I have to get this game back!" After saying that, Shiori Kudo stepped forward, put his hands on Ye Zhao's shoulders, leaned forward slightly, and then his soft lips were pressed on.
Ye Zhao opened his eyes wide.
The kiss did not go deeper, just his lips were pressed against his lips. After about five or six seconds, Kudo Shiori pushed Ye Zhao away. Although his cheeks were flushed, his expression looked like a winner.
Chapter completed!