Mr. Zhou Doesn’t Want to Work Hard Anymore!

Mr. Zhou Doesn’t Want to Work Hard Anymore

Chapter 30

When he got really serious about filming, Zhou Chenxi didn’t even notice the time passing. Waiting until he realized it, another half month had already passed.

 

During this time, Zhou Chenxi had gained a lot of techniques from his seniors and director Qin. He had also experienced how it feels to be liked by the audience.

 

Although there were still many discordant voices in the middle.

 

Let’s say, as he gained more attention, there were also more people talking ‘miscellaneous’ things about him. ‘No one is perfect’ and audiences needed to express their emotions, whether it was malicious or not, even if they really don’t like Zhou Chenxi was also fine, since to control the public judgements was all Qi Zhi’s job as manager where he needed to take care of it.

 

For the eighth hundredth time, Zhou Chenxi was on the phone with Zhi Qi and heard him complain to himself: “Who’s in charge of the ‘Zhou Chenxi Global Fans Club’ account? He’s really so weird. I went looking for him and asked him to sell the account. I also promised to give him some money, he didn’t have to give me the password and he could have just changed it to an unrelated account ID, but he wouldn’t do it. I sent him private messages several times. At first he didn’t reply and later he was so arrogant and laughed, ‘He he!’ on me. He said it was his personal right. Before later on, he ignored me.”

 

“I had no choice, so I went to the irresponsible customer service,” said Zhi Qi.” They gave me his phone number, with the account ID owner’s permission, then they let me deal and talk to that guy privately.”

 

“And then what happened?” Zhou Chenxi said curiously, “Did you get in touch with the person?”

 

“Of course not ah! It was a woman who answered the phone. From the tone,It didn’t sound like the way the account owner talks. The ID owner seemed to be a man. He always used memes like ‘He he’, ‘smile’, ‘bye-bye’ and so on. That woman however is quite normal and speaks politely. I was almost fooled by her, she was very good at marketing, like playing Taichi, very good at playing tricks.”

 

“How does she play tricks on you?” Zhou Chenxi had a vague feeling (of a turn of events) that something was far from good.

 

“She asked me to give her the right to manage the Fan Club, how could I do that? I asked her if she could draw (plan), you know what she said? She said she can learn. I asked her if she could cut videos? She said she could hire someone else to do it. I asked her if she could gather fans together to guide them for a positive gathering? She actually said she will immediately ask HR to recruit professional managers / admins.”

 

Zhou Chenxi: “…”

 

“Isn’t that a joke?!” Zhi Qi said annoyingly/ excitedly, “She thinks her family runs a company? Ai, Forget it, let it be then. We don’t even have the time and energy to organize a fan club ourselves.The most we can do is to organize a few fans and interested professional Zhan Jie (站姐) since it’s good to have a little prestige. After all, your popularity is only momentarily up, after that is hard to say, however there must be a way out. That account looks like an amateur (unprofessional). Definitely can’t! (be allowed)”

 

[站姐/ Zhan Jie refers to fans who use high-end cameras to shoot idols. It also refers to the organizers and managers of star idols fan Club]

 

Zhou Chenxi vaguely felt that he had discovered some extremely serious truth: “How about we just forget about it? I’d like to see a new name like ‘Zhou Chenxi’s Fans Club’ or ‘Zhou Chenxi’s Official Fan Club’. That guy, just let him be!”

 

“You’re oversimplifying it, ” Zhi Qi kept repeating, “With such an id, he could easily be mistaken for our official team. In case he says something with that id that he shouldn’t, wouldn’t we still be the one that has to take the blame …?”

 

“Ge (My Brother) … cough! He won’t,” Zhou Chenxi said, “I promise, the most he will do is ‘He he’, ‘smile’, ‘bye-bye’ these three things. I’ll find a chance to give him a lesson, and later on he’ll know the correct way to surf the Internet.”

 

“……” Zhi Qi felt surprised, “From the sound of it, you know him, don’t you?”

 

Zhou Chenxi stammered, “It’s not that bad anyway, I guarantee it according to the personality that he’s not a bad guy.”

 

“That’s fine then …” There was nothing that could be done about it too, just be like this.

 

Zhi Qi dropped the matter and turned to instruct him “I’m telling you, you can’t contact a fan personally! Although you are now positioned in the public’s mind as a comedian star. However, I have always planned for you to take the idol route …”

 

Zhou Chenxi: “…” He was being influenced by the meaningful implication.

 

“I know!” Zhou Chenxi dismissed him, “I’ll try my best to maintain my ‘idol’ image. Rest assured, okay!”

 

After hanging up the phone without being mindful about it, Zhou Chenxi thought and pondered for a while before he sent a private message to the “Zhou Chenxi Global Fan Club” with his popular ID:【Gege (Big Brother?) 】

 

The other side was silent, neither ‘read’ nor reply.

 

After waiting for a while, the director called for Zhou Chenxi. It was his turn to act. Zhou Chenxi put his phone down and went over, adjusting himself to the acting.

 

After less than half of a month of rest, Lu Ji’s injuries had improved. He heard that he had fully recovered from his leg injury, only his hand injury still remained and needed to be cared for. It didn’t affect his working life too much afterwards.

 

Lu Ji was a man who could not afford to be idle. He needed to take care of the company. There were many business matters that required his personal attention. The bandage on his leg had just been removed, he was already flying around.

 

Zhou Chenxi was in the middle of filming when he received a call from Lu Ji. Lu Ji told him that the results of the investigation of the attack at the airport had been released. The other party had admitted to what he had done and confessed that he had indeed done something to hurt Zhou Chenxi during the filming of《I’m the real Actor》variety show.

 

In fact, Lu Ji also sent someone to investigate the surveillance in every corner of the studio of the《I’m the real Actor》production. The person who did this was not careful enough, every person will always leave traces. In the end, he took the initiative to confess (justify himself).

 

“The procedure has already been followed. Presumably, there will be a corresponding punishment, even if he is released after being detained, I will also find someone to keep an eye on him. I won’t let him have a chance to stir up trouble.” Lu Ji said.

 

“What about Luo Xinghe? Did he admit that Luo Xinghe is the one who told him to do those things?”

 

“No, there’s not enough evidence. He only said that it was out of jealousy.”

 

“Me? What do I have to be jealous of?” Zhou Chenxi completely didn’t understand.

 

Jealous that he was quite unlucky?

 

“You and Luo Xinghe are rivals (in the competition). If he’s really doing it for Luo Xinghe, then it’s quite understandable, just helping remove the obstacles for him. If not, then it can only be said that he was jealous, because you are too unlucky?” Lu Ji made a joke.

 

Their hearts had the same or mutual minds!

 

“Too unlucky will also make people jealous too?” Zhou Chenxi was in all seriousness, “I don’t mind giving him my bad luck, but according to what you have said, I seem to feel that I’m not that unlucky, just a little bit unluckier than the average person.”

 

“Work hard! There will be a new surprise for you every day,” Lu Ji said, “You’re not unluckier than the average person, it’s the average person who would be just as unlucky as you are, so thinking like this, don’t you feel more comfortable?”

 

Zhou Chenxi covered his chest, “Lu Zong, you’ve learned to be bad. I’ve already suffered a new blow (strike)!”

 

Lu Ji laughed: “Did the shooting go well today? I’m flying to Y City this afternoon. Are you free to come out to eat a meal (together)?”

 

“What?” Zhou Chenxi said excitedly, “Why did you come? Is your injury okay?”

 

The crew member next to him, gave him a look.

 

Zhou Chenxi hastily apologized, stood up and walked to one side, the script on his lap almost flew out, “I still have one more scene, I’ll be free after filming it. At first, I wanted to see how the seniors acted in the set and crazily search for the scripture, but since Lu Zong is already here, I won’t recite the scripture first. Return to the secular world then I’ll accompany you to eat the meal together!”

 

Lu Ji’s heart fluttered as he smiled and said, “The little monk came down into the mortal world for me, what an honour for me, no rush! It’ll be a while, the plane hasn’t taken off yet, I’ll tell you when it arrives.”

 

Zhou Chenxi heard the sound of the airport broadcast coming from the other side of the phone, guessing that Lu Ji was waiting for a plane, so he hurriedly said, “Then I won’t bother you, be careful on the way!”

 

As he hung up the phone, Zhou Chenxi’s face blushed red while he thought about it.

 

Lu Zong was simply too capable! What’s with ‘little monk descent into the mortal world for me’? He could immediately imagine so many humiliating scenarios in his mind.

 

Is his book list really only those foreign books?

 

He suddenly began to doubt.

 

However, Zhou Chenxi’s acting career soon met with defeat after he finished imagining the embarrassing storyline.

 

Zhou Chenxi was a clever actor when it came to acting——if not being compared to others.

 

He still had the talent, first, his original intention was exactly that he loved acting passionately and secondly was his enthusiasm to enter the entertainment circle, after all he was still required to be good enough, otherwise it would be impossible for him to stand on the same stage with Luo Xinghe.

 

But that was all about it, he relied too much on emotions in his acting. He had to put the emotion and bring it into play before he could develop and empathize with the character he was playing.

 

This was why Zhou Chenxi had been spending all his time on the set asking Gong Rui for advice on how to ‘brew’ emotions.

 

He knew his own flaws too well.

 

Gong Rui joined the entertainment circle earlier and had plenty of experiences than Zhou Chenxi, plus he didn’t have ‘the awful mess’ amount of bad luck in everything as Zhou Chenxi. He already had his own masterpiece within a year of joining the industry. Compared to Zhou Chenxi, he knew how to use his acting’s techniques to apply (blend) it to his emotions.

 

That was the state of acting that Zhou Chenxi yearned for the most, where he didn’t rely wholly on emotion and didn’t rely purely on technique. The acting would look more natural and the expressions would flow smoothly and fluently.

 

Zhou Chenxi used to always work in third-rate film productions before. Unable to wait until he made a name for himself (become famous), because of all kinds of unlucky events, he gave up halfway so he regarded himself as tactless and impulsive (half hearted) person.

 

Although the director gave him ‘face’ and always praised him for doing a good job, His emotions were on point and his NG times were within control —— even Gong Rui had a lot of NG moments, not to mention others.

 

However, today, Zhou Chenxi’s NG count was still over the limit.

 

He couldn’t brew an emotional (Here especially the affection or love between lovers) scene.

 

To be precise, he couldn’t decide how to react to seeing the woman he loves about to leave this world.

 

Shedding tears was a piece of cake for Zhou Chenxi who can blink a little and the tears would fall and surge up violently.

 

But that was only until this part.

 

He had never been dated before so his emotions were either overloaded or too mild, always failing to achieve the effect that the director wanted it to be.

 

However this scene was so important in the drama that the director paid extra attention to it.

 

“Cut!”

 

The director was outside while holding the loudspeaker and he shouted “Zhou Chenxi, come and take a look!”

 

Zhou Chenxi went over.

 

“You are crying too miserable,” the director pointed at the camera, “Do you know how to be introverted? Reserved! Later on, you’ll still have to lower your head and kiss Fu Zheng. After the kiss, tears will fall down, that’s the way to make it beautiful. You’re crying like this, what are you going to do when you kiss later?”

 

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Zhou Chenxi put his palms together into one , “One more time, I’ve given everyone trouble.”

 

However, just now the director said that Zhou Chenxi wasn’t unselfconscious enough.

 

Everyone went to their own posts.

 

“Action!”

 

“Fu Zheng …” Zhou Chenxi’s trembling hand caressed the face of the actress he was acting with, “You …”

 

“Pfft —— Sorry, sorry!” The actress couldn’t hold back her laughter, “I really don’t have the mood. I didn’t mean to laugh. It has nothing to do with Chenxi, it’s my own problem, please don’t blame him! Director, let’s take a break,ba!”

 

The director had no other choice so he waved his hand signalling everyone to go to rest.

 

Zhou Chenxi continued to prepare his emotions towards a tree.

 

He knew that the actress was affected by him and the person was quite nice, the co-star without feeling could easily influence the other person. When two people not in the conditions were placed at the same scene, the effect was even worse. Today’s scene might not finish on time.

 

Zhou Chenxi guiltily peeled a piece of chewing gum into his mouth and silently recited his lines in his mind.

 

“Chenxi.” The actress came over and greeted Zhou Chenxi.

 

“Jie[Big sister],” Zhou Chenxi hurriedly turned his head and sincerely apologized, “Thank you for speaking up for me just now, Sorry for taking up your time.”

 

This girl used to go to the university next to Zhou Chenxi’s, the Mass Media College. She could be counted as half of Zhou Chenxi’s senior sister. She came from those who have received professional training (a professional by special training). Although she hadn’t entered the entertainment circle much earlier than Zhou Chenxi, she did have acting experience: “You haven’t been in love right?”

 

Zhou Chenxi scratched his face.

 

That woman laughed: “Look at how nervous you are when you are hugging me,no need to be shy! We’re all doing this for work, so you just need to do your best and bring it into play to the highest level, then it would be okay.”

 

Zhou Chenxi was a little ashamed, when the other party came over to comfort him, he was even more unsure (have no confidence in or not sure whether he can or not). He nodded and said, “Thank you, Jie! I’ll make sure I adjust myself as soon as possible.”

 

“Why are you so careful?” The actress couldn’t help but want to tease him. “NG is normal. I’m telling you this secretly, even the Film Emperor Ren pisses off the director sometimes. The more you care, the worse it will be. Don’t feel burdened! The worst possibility is that we’ll move this scene to tomorrow, the director will manage it …”

 

The two of them were talking when Zhou Chenxi suddenly heard someone call out to him, “Zhou Chenxi, someone is looking for you.”

 

Zhou Chenxi immediately turned his head. He saw Lu Ji standing outside the set, waving his hands at him.

 

Zhou Chenxi grabbed the hem of his costume, dashed over to Lu Ji and said, “Lu Zong, wait for me! I’m not finished yet!”

 

“Hn, no need to rush!”

 

Lu Ji looked at Zhou Chenxi’s immortal-like outfit and thought to himself—— the little monk was like a celestial being falling into this mortal life.

 

It was gradually walking into his heart.

 

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