When will I be the queen

Chapter 415 Seedling

Back then, we investigated the contacts Yuanxin had made on her phone, including the messages she had sent and the data usage. At that time, data was not very convenient, and after Yuanxin opened it, she only read online articles, but not much. She didn't use other chat programs much, and she sent more text messages. These were all clearly investigated by the telecommunications company, but the only thing we didn't see was the message she sent to Zheng Ning on Yuanxin's phone, and there was no data on this text message in the investigation materials and the documents provided by the telecommunications company.

It was Yuan Jie who applied for it and suspected Zheng Ning, but since there was really no investigation on Zheng Ning's side, he put the focus on Yuan Xin again. The technicians conducted another investigation and counted all the traffic data. They found that the numbers did not match, and only then did they discover the missing data. After retrieving the data from the communication company, they saw the deleted text message data sent by Yuan Xin that year. Yuan Jie directly applied again and investigated Zheng Ning's communication data that year, and found the text message data that Zheng Ning deleted from Yuan Xin.

Even if we don’t know what Yuan Xin sent to Zheng Ning, it is certain that Yuan Xin sent it. Zheng Ning concealed the matter, deleted the text messages, and destroyed the phone. How Zheng Ning deleted the prototype traffic data provided by the telecommunications company to the police should be related to Zheng Ning’s police officer father, Zheng Zhi. But Zheng Zhi is a police officer in another jurisdiction and has no contact with Yuan Xin’s case. He was not involved at all during the investigation.

However, Zheng Zhi is still suspended and under investigation. Although he has always said that he was unaware of the incident, the case is still under investigation. He said he was unaware of the incident and could not provide proof of his alibi, and the police do not have any evidence against him for the time being.

Until Zheng Ning admitted to killing Yuan Xin, he did not explain whether his father knew about it or not. He only said that he took his father's password while he was away and operated it on the computer on his desk. This is also very interesting. He did not prove his father's innocence. Because Zheng Zhi might not know at the time, but no one can say whether he found anything unusual afterwards. It is hard to say whether it was deliberate indulgence or failure to report it, or even intentional cover-up. At that time, this part of the evidence was still missing, and it could only be deduced and handed over to the trial judge for judgment. In the end, other police officers who handled the results of the communication investigation were criticized and punished.

Then there is a highlight scene, where Captain Zhang interrogates Yuan Fei and asks him why he cleaned Yuan Xin's body. Because if it weren't for Yuan Fei's thorough cleaning, all the evidence and clues would be gone, and Yuan Xin's case would not have remained silent for fifteen years and almost become an unsolved case. Yuan Fei's answer was full of sincere doubts, "My daughter is dirty, if I don't clean her, am I still a father?"

"When this segment was broadcast, the audience was absolutely cursing." This segment is the part that made the deepest impression on Xianjun about the script.

A father's obsession with having a perfect daughter obliterates his humanity and leaves him without any family affection.

"This can then be used to lead into some hot topics like suffocating parents. Parents' privatization of their children is a kind of pathology." The Immortal King has already figured out how to market the topic.

"." Fight with you capital pushers.

Cai Cai rolled her eyes in her heart. It's good that such topics can become popular and that everyone can share their wounds and get some healing and encouragement. But it's disgusting that most of them are made up stories. There is always a suspicion of fooling others' pain. However, the general environment of the Internet seems to be like this. Topics are brought up in this way. Cai Cai doesn't understand, but she doesn't participate anyway. I just hope that some speeches with real feelings can get real understanding and encouragement, instead of providing data for capital promoters.

  She herself has no such troubles and does not use a mobile phone, but Zhou Qing and others would hold their mobile phones and read such topics and cry. Mei Zhang also said that there would be similar sharing in the fan group, but nine out of ten private messages asking if they needed help were made up.

Cai Cai doesn't understand why someone would make up such a painful experience when they can live a good life. If it's for making money, it's fine, but if it's for gaining sympathy and reaping other people's pain, it's a bit...

Isn't this very different from sadism? Both are based on the pleasure of others' suffering.

Cai Cai once asked the Immortal Lord this question. He got a chuckle and told her to play games when she felt bored and not to get involved in other people's pain and happiness.

Oh. Capital pushers are interfering or creating pain and happiness for others. This is also a market need.

Cai Cai’s mind raced for a moment, and she realized that the Immortal King was looking at her with a half-smile.

Touch your nose and ask what you are looking at.

Lu Keke is also very enthusiastic about marketing. She just likes to stir up trouble and likes to see the audience's reaction. When she was young, there were no such various marketing methods as there are now. Everyone was still very simple and spent money on advertising. Anyone who hyped up a relationship would be scolded. Later, a colleague relied on marketing to fish for the character of an air force man who could catch everything except fish. With a video of catching a shell and handing it over to the police uncle to get a performance, he suddenly emerged as a dark horse. The work did not go viral, but the director himself went viral first, which led to the popularity of his old work that had been buried for a long time. His son and daughter also entered the industry. The new work has not yet been launched, but all three rounds of broadcasts have been sold.

  This incident was like a thunderclap, and it exploded in the director circle. The key is that the director was the kind of person who did it by accident. This further highlights the uselessness and sadness of those directors who used various scandals and secrets to hype up their films. After that, capital seemed to have opened up its Ren and Du meridians, and began to engage in new marketing. All major film and television platforms have also become more prosperous.

The development of the entertainment industry is a report on a marketing plan. In ancient times, there were all kinds of tabloids and storybooks for marketing, and even a genre of opera was born. Looking at these modern marketing methods with topics, they are actually quite weak, at least nothing new has been invented.

After chatting with Xianjun about marketing for a while, Lu Keke asked Cai Cai again if she wanted to participate in the role of Yuan Xin.

Cai Cai shook her head, knowing that the Immortal King had good intentions, but the Immortal King had not said anything on the way, nor had he asked her to play a role. With Cai Cai’s experience, this was something she could just refuse outright.

Lu Keke sighed deliberately, "In fact, the role of Yuan Xin, the white moonlight, is about a sense of regret. The better the appearance of the actor, the more regret there will be. But I have to be honest, this role is indeed not qualified for you to play." However, "If you play the role of Yuan Xin, how do you want to express this sense of regret?"

Cai Cai has said a lot before, so there is nothing to be ashamed of now. "If I were to shoot this, I would just make it as ordinary as possible. That is, a very ordinary girl, not very beautiful, not very outstanding, just ordinary, studying hard, living seriously, looking forward to the future, surrounded by childhood friends, admirers, family, interests and hobbies, just a very ordinary girl, the most ordinary girl in real life. Regret does not necessarily have to happen to a beautiful and talented girl. I think this will give people the illusion that she is strangled to death just because she is beautiful."

"I've read a lot of scripts before, and they all have this kind of beauty-guilt theory plot. I read the reviews and found that in real life, there are girls who feel ashamed of dressing up. In artistic processing, the destruction of beauty to show tragedy, this sense of gap will indeed give the audience a great shock, but what happens after the shock? Anyway, I'm not good-looking, I'm safe, anyway, as long as I don't dress up, I'm safe, anyway, good-looking people attract bad guys, I'm safe"

Cai Cai looked at the thoughtful Lu Keke, "The more ordinary the life, the more I feel involved. For example, Yuan Xin looks like an ordinary and serious girl with a happy family and loving friends, but the reality is that her father is cold-blooded and ruthless, her mother is deaf and dumb, her friends are scheming, her admirer is a violent and selfish person, and the neighbors who watched her grow up are worse than beasts. They seem ordinary and harmonious, but they are actually a bunch of vicious beasts."

  Lu Keke subconsciously touched her arm and said, "Okay, stop talking. This is so scary."

The Immortal Lord looked at Cai Cai speechlessly, "What have you been watching recently?"

Cai Cai coughed and said, "I didn't see anything. The director asked me, so I just said it casually."

Lu Keke glanced at the assistant director, who looked up and said he had written it down. Lu Keke said nothing more, "I'll give you the title of screenwriter later. Your version of Original Heart is better than mine. It seems that being lazy really doesn't work." The waves behind were so fierce that they directly knocked her down on the beach.

Cai Cai quickly refused, “There’s really no need, I just said it casually. You would have guessed it even if I didn’t say it. It’s just a few words, and it’s my honor that you listened to me. There’s really no need to add names or anything like that.” She really didn’t want to be a screenwriter. She always felt like these adults were coaxing her for fun, otherwise how could she be so Mary Sue, and whatever she said casually became the best and the greatest, so fake. Lu Keke could see that Cai Cai was really refusing, so she let it go, she couldn’t make Cai Cai hate her, “Then I’ll find you the person you’re most grateful to.”

Cai Cai hesitated, this was actually not necessary. But the Immortal Lord had already agreed on her behalf. The Immortal Lord thought that Cai Cai couldn't make this trip in vain.

He had not originally planned to let Cai Cai play a role in this short play. He was mainly commissioned by Lu Keke and decided by the company to introduce Cai Cai and Lu Keke to meet formally. The company originally wanted to find a time and make a more formal occasion, but Xianjun felt that it was unnecessary. It happened that Cai Cai was free at this time, and Lu Keke was not very busy, and it would not be photographed and cause discussion. It would be best to meet directly and chat casually.

It was no secret that Lu Keke had a project to start. When she was free, she had endless people to meet and endless phone calls to answer. After the project started, the media paparazzi would be blocking her. If the news of Cai Cai and Director Lu's official meeting was made public at this time, it would be disadvantageous to both parties. Things are done in secrecy.

  Even if this meeting is made public, not many people will be nervous. Later, we can just spread the news that Cai Cai came to play and helped Lu Keke to revise the script. It would be best to find someone in Lu Keke's team to break the news.

While the Immortal Lord was thinking alone, Lu Keke had already asked Cai Cai to choose the actor for Yuan Xin.

"Should we find someone with a strong student vibe?"

"The student spirit in TV dramas is too different from the student spirit in reality." Cai Cai sighed. She decided to give up on the student spirit. She had never seen a real student spirit in her industry. It was true. It was not an exaggeration. Those who had an artistic or bookish temperament were considered very good. At least when they played a student in a TV drama, the audience could tell at a glance that the student spirit was a student without relying on makeup and lines. Most of the student spirit characters in TV dramas relied on performance, showing pure, innocent, ignorant, impulsive, stubborn, arrogant and other characteristics directly linked to youth.

  The second is the makeup and lines. Student hair, schoolbag, very thin, school uniform, basically speaking by shouting, etc. In fact, sometimes it is good if the actors can not wear heavy makeup, stand upright without sticking out their chests and buttocks, but there are a lot of student roles, and they are all hard to describe.

Cai Cai suspected that according to Lu Keke's idea, the character created would be a bit difficult to describe.

  "You don't want to be lazy and make a female student template, do you?" School uniform or light-colored dress, long hair or ponytail, cute schoolbag with dolls hanging on it, always holding a book in hand, covering her mouth when talking and laughing, sad when it's windy and rainy, and a silver bell-like laughter

"." Lu Keke denied loudly, how could it be possible! ! However, "There are only a few scenes with this character, it's not too much to make a template, right? Anyway, the highlight is not in the template and the shape."

Cai Cai nodded and said yes. “Then don’t shoot it. Leave the beautiful and happy parts of the character to other characters, and let them tell the story of Yuan Xin’s happiness. In the end, they are the beasts who destroyed Yuan Xin. Then shoot the scenes of Yuan Xin in the stinking ditch and hanging in the air, and mix them up during editing to create a contrast, so that there is a contrast in both the visual and sensory scenes.”

Lu Keke nodded repeatedly, yes, yes, yes, yes, that’s right, that’s what I think!

"." Xianjun went out to answer the phone, and Lu Keke took Cai Cai to continue selecting actors. It was said in the circle that Cai Cai had a golden hand, and the people she selected were particularly popular. Wanqian would specifically look for Cai Cai to select artists for training, and Lu Keke also wanted to get a taste of this metaphysics.

Cai Cai first made it clear that she doesn’t care about the artist’s character and acting skills, she only chooses people based on what she wants them to be like.

Lu Keke said it was no problem, you can choose whatever you want.

Cai Cai once again felt like she was being played for fun. Could it be that all these great directors have this hobby of playing for fun?

After looking through the photo gallery provided by Lu Keke, all of them are full-body photos with bare face and full body wearing black and white top, no retouching and no special lighting. It is very similar to the style of the introduction of domestic artists. Unless there is a special request, it is usually this kind of introduction, straightforward and clear. In foreign countries, it is basically makeup and bikinis. Unless there is a special request, there are very few bare face or life photos, but there will be a lot of recommenders. Although there are recommenders in China, no one will write it down. It's implicit.

Finally, Cai Cai chose one, Li Yunyun, a nice name for a little girl, but from the photo, she is a prickly type. Her hair is combed into a bright style, and you can see the standing hair. From head to toe, she looks full of vitality. But her skin is white, her eyes are round and big, and her height is written as 165cm, which is very cute like a puppy. Cai Cai thinks it is very suitable for her to play the role of the ordinary student Yuan Xin. A little girl who thinks she has a happy life should look like this. Then when she is killed, her lifeless face will be more impactful.

Lu Keke connected directly to Cai Cai's director brainwaves. He asked the assistant director to contact her and ask her to come for an audition. She didn't need to have great acting skills, as long as she looked okay in the camera, she could be used.

Thinking that she couldn't miss this opportunity, Lu Keke recommended a certain agency that her team was working with to her artists and showed them all to Cai Cai.

Cai Cai was amazed when she saw it.

  No, nowadays, artists are all very cool, so how can there be newcomers who are ugly children of capitalists? Is the entertainment industry regressing again?

"Are you sure this is an artist's resume?" Not a staff resume?

Actually, Lu Keke didn’t look at it carefully. She just looked along when Cai Cai was looking at it. She was even more surprised than Cai Cai.

  That's not right. "These are the ones that the company recommended to me. They said they are all good seedlings." But what kind of seedlings are these? Even green onion seedlings are more beautiful than these! !

Cai Cai does not want to comment on other people's appearance, but if she wants to be an artist, regardless of whether she is beautiful or not, at least she must have a decent appearance. How to understand this decent appearance? It means that those actors who have crooked mouths, slanted eyes, pointed mouths, monkey cheeks, fat heads and big ears, who look like bad guys and villains on TV, actually have very good looks in real life and are also very eye-catching in the crowd. This is called decent appearance. To put it more strictly, the upper limit of ordinary people's appearance is the lower limit of artists' appearance. It is also called bone appearance. Good-looking people, when they become skeletons, are the best-looking skeletons.

Appearance genes are so cruel and realistic.

  Nowadays, there are very few artists who have plastic surgery in the industry. Everyone is trying to be more competitive, relying on innate genes and acquired training. Those who let themselves go are basically artists over 60 years old. Foreign countries are also very competitive. Cai Cai has seen peers with excellent natural genes who are also very competitive. Suddenly, she saw the ugly children of capitalists, which seemed to have regressed several decades in the entertainment industry. Cai Cai was really shocked. The point is, the talent agency said that this is a good seedling. What seedling?

"The company you're working with has a really retro selection criteria."

Unlike Cai Cai, Lu Keke is from a generation that has experienced the impact of ugly capitalists. At that time, she was behind the monitor, watching the ugly actors on the screen, and she couldn't understand why he could be promoted even though he looked like this. It would be fine if he really brought money into the circle, but it was not the case. It was as if he was the lifesaver of some capital, so they had to promote him. He was 1.75 meters tall, 1.8 meters with shoes, and 1.72 meters without shoes. He was 5:5, and had a big head with a 5-head body.