Chapter 321: Seeing You Again
Others might not recognize her, but Shen Wenwen still remembered, even though they had only spent a week together. She remembered the little girl who had worked hard in silence and had even come to ask questions in her spare time. Although this little girl’s acting was terrible, and she had gotten in through the back door, she was extremely hardworking. Shen Wenwen felt that if this child were properly cultivated, she could become a great talent in the future, because she was younger than anyone else.
Today, when she came to this crew, Shen Wenwen recognized her at first glance. It was impossible for her to forget that familiar blonde hair.
“Wenwen? You, you know her?”
The person in charge, Lu Su, was obviously very surprised. He had never heard their drama club’s precious actress say that she knew the great author, Shion-sensei.
“Don’t you remember, person in charge? She’s Little Yu.”
Shen Wenwen reminded him.
But Lu Su still couldn’t remember. He racked his brains, but he just couldn’t recall.
“Um, I still can’t remember. Could it be that you’re mistaken, Wenwen?” he said with a wry smile.
To this, Yu Linna also chuckled.
“It’s fine. I wasn’t very conspicuous here. It’s normal to forget. It would be strange if you could remember me.”
The more Yu Linna said this, the more flustered the person in charge became. This, what’s going on? Could it be that Shion-sensei used to be from here? This shouldn’t be. I have no impression at all. If she had really walked out of Happy Fries, I shouldn’t be unable to remember.
“Sister Shen, long time no see. You’ve become even more beautiful.”
“Haha, little girl, you’re so sweet. I still remember that you often came to ask me about the script back then.”
“Sister Shen, you only remember those things.”
“Haha.”
The two of them quickly greeted each other, exchanged some pleasantries, and then started to chat. The person in charge, Lu Su, was dumbfounded. Could it be that Shion-sensei really stayed here before? But he couldn’t remember at all! And was Shion-sensei’s surname Yu? He didn’t know!
For this situation, Yu Linna was already mentally prepared. The time she had spent at the Happy Fries drama club was originally short and inconspicuous. Although she had acted opposite Shen Wenwen, this didn’t mean anything. What’s more, no one in the drama club had treated her as a member. She was just an outsider. How could she possibly find a sense of belonging here? At that time, she was still a high school student. In terms of both age and seniority, she was out of place here.
Shen Wenwen bought her a can of drink. Coincidentally, it was break time. She and Yu Linna sat down to chat, talking about old topics.
“But I really didn’t expect that the mysterious Shion-sensei, whose gender was unknown in the rumors, was actually you. It’s too surprising. It’s only been two years, right? How did you suddenly change so much? I can’t even imagine it. You actually became a novelist.”
Shen Wenwen said this, full of emotion. Two years ago, Yu Linna was just a small actress in this drama club, with no say in anything, and even her acting was terrible. No one believed that this little girl would have any achievements. Everyone thought she was just here to experience life. Later, she was indeed kicked out, and there was no news of her after that. Now, Happy Fries had started a company and had invested in filming its first comedy movie, Qiuli’s Troubles, targeting the female market, just like the female star Nangong Ying, who had targeted the female-led star market.
It was just that they had never expected that Yu Linna, who had once been kicked out by them and had no presence at all, had returned. And she had even been invited to make a guest appearance in their first movie.
This was truly ironic.
“A lot has happened. After that, I tried to enter the entertainment industry and become an actress. After I failed, I found another path, tried to submit my work, and later I succeeded and became a novelist.”
Drinking her drink, Yu Linna said with a wry smile. Life is unpredictable. To return to this place again, she had never expected to be invited back. She had been kicked out from here, and then invited back from the outside. This world was full of too many accidents.
“Really, for you to come back with this identity. Do you know that your current status is much nobler than mine? You used to ask me about the script. When I think about it now, it’s really funny. Really… you’ve surprised me too much.”
Shen Wenwen smiled, but her heart was also very complicated. Two years ago, they had rehearsed together. When Yu Linna was kicked out, she hadn’t helped her stay. Now that she had returned, her identity and status had undergone a earth-shattering change. This feeling, she didn’t know what to use to describe it.
“Sister Shen, actually, I have to thank you. You helped me a lot at that time. I couldn’t act, and you taught me step by step, and you weren’t annoyed with me at all. And, I heard that when I left, you had argued with the person in charge. Thank you for speaking up for me like that.”
“But, Little Yu, you weren’t able to stay. This is a fact.”
“And that’s exactly what I wanted to say. It’s a good thing I didn’t stay. There was no place for me here. It was useless for me to stay. If I hadn’t left from here, how could I have discovered that I wasn’t suitable for acting and thus found the path that belongs to me?”
Shen Wenwen looked at this little girl. She discovered that the confused but strong girl from two years ago had grown up and become mature. She finally knew what she should do. Perhaps in the past, she didn’t know what she would become, but now, she had already accomplished what the her of the past had wanted to do.
“Sister Shen, it’s rare to see you again. Let me treat you to dinner tonight. I have a lot I want to talk to you about. And also, I forgot to get your contact information when I left two years ago. Leave me a phone number this time.”
Yu Linna said with a smile.
That inconspicuous little transparent person had actually become so great today. Shen Wenwen was so moved she wanted to cry. If the director hadn’t called her to the set to film, she wouldn’t have come back to her senses.
…
Yu Linna was invited by the crew for a guest appearance. She only needed to stay with the crew for a week. Happy Fries would help with her food and lodging for this week. It was also thanks to this opportunity that Yu Linna saw her old friends from Happy Fries again.
“Hey, Ai Xiansen, have you lost your big belly?”
“Little girl, who are you?”
“Hello, Mario.”
“Hello, little girl. Wait, aren’t you Little Yu? Why are you here?”
Among them, there were also many funny moments.
Yu Linna was very happy recently. She smiled a lot and gradually returned to the lively and cheerful state of the Yu Linna of the past. She quickly became familiar with a few of the actors in the crew. Besides the main actors, very few people knew that she had once been at Happy Fries. It wasn’t until one time when they were chatting that Shen Wenwen brought up a topic from the past and also brought up Yu Linna. Everyone in the crew was surprised to find that Shion-sensei had actually been a member of Happy Fries before.
“Shion-sensei, were you an actor at Happy Fries before? Then in that case, aren’t you our senior?”
“That’s what you say, but actually I only stayed here for a week, and I didn’t officially perform on stage.”
Although Yu Linna tried hard to explain that she had just been playing around before, and hadn’t even gone on stage, so she wasn’t an official actor, these people didn’t listen. They stubbornly believed that Shion-sensei had come from Happy Fries, because this would make them very proud. They and Shion-sensei were from the same drama club. How cool was that?
On the day of Yu Linna’s guest appearance, the director had also prepared early. He had a makeup artist put makeup on Yu Linna and let her go on stage. Because it was a guest appearance, not much acting was required, as long as the performance wasn’t a disaster. Under the makeup artist’s care, Yu Linna had her hair in a ponytail, put on some light makeup, and wore brand-name clothes.
There was a scene where the main character, Qiuli, played by Shen Wenwen, goes to find her ex-boyfriend, Mario’s character. When Shen Wenwen arrived downstairs at her ex-boyfriend’s apartment building, she met a little blonde girl sitting downstairs. She asked her for the name of the ex-boyfriend played by Mario, but this little girl, because she had just come to China and her Chinese was not good, caused a lot of jokes.
“Little sister, do you know where Chen Haodong lives?”
“Ceng… Chen… Chen Haodong? She, he times sleep?”
“It’s not Chen Haodong, it’s Chen Haodong.”
“Chen, Cheng, Cheng Haodong, right? Am I right?”
“It’s Chen Haodong, not Chen Haodong, nor Cheng Haodong.”
“Chen, Chen, Chen Haotong, Chen Haotong, Chen… Chinese is difficult.”
“Hey, you little girl, are you just here to cause trouble? Whose child are you!”
“You bullied me. I told my dad.”
The last shot was of the little blonde girl going to ask her parents for help. Then Shen Wenwen contributed another comedic performance, which made the effect of the shot particularly good.
“Cut, OK, the effect is very good.”
After the director called a halt, the acting Shen Wenwen and Yu Linna both stopped. Yu Linna was already very familiar with this guest performance about a foreigner speaking English. After all, she had made a guest appearance in a similar role several times. It wasn’t difficult to act this out. Compared to her uninspired acting in the past, she felt that her acting now was at least qualified.
“Not bad, Shion-sensei. You acted very well. Are you interested in being an actress?” the director said jokingly after the filming was over.
“Thank you for your appreciation, Director. I can’t act. I’d better just write novels.”
Regarding topics related to the entertainment industry, she usually didn’t talk much. She had been out of the industry for so long. There was no need to run back in, right?
“I still can’t remember who she is.”
The person in charge, Lu Su, had been there all day. He had watched on the set for a long time, but he still couldn’t remember who she was. Although Shen Wenwen and Ai Xiansen and the others were chatting very familiarly with her, Lu Su still couldn’t remember that Happy Fries had had this person before.
Shen Wenwen sighed. Although she knew there was nothing to be done about it, she still couldn’t help it.
“Person in charge, you kicked her out yourself before. Have you forgotten? You even gave her five hundred yuan.”
“Huh? Did that happen?”
“Two years ago, she was introduced here. Have you forgotten? Her surname is Yu, Yu Linna.”
The person in charge tried hard to recall.
“I seem to have some impression… wait, could it be her? That, that little girl that Huang Jinglin introduced. This, this doesn’t look like her. Was she blonde before?”
“Of course she was. Who asked you to forget?”
Shen Wenwen was speechless. This person in charge really couldn’t remember at all. His forgetfulness was too much.
…
Yu Linna waved at Shen Wenwen, who had already finished work, indicating that they should go to eat together. Shen Wenwen also put down what she was doing and ran towards her. She was going to have a good chat with this little girl.
