Chapter 68: Gimmick
After copying the simplified music score and lyrics neatly, Pu Tong sent them to his father.
Although he really wanted to make a digital version, that would take quite a bit of time.
Since they could understand the handwritten version, there was no need to waste extra time.
Time was like... well, like that thing in that place. As long as you squeeze hard enough, there will always be some.
“I wonder if they’ve arrived yet?” Pu Tong muttered to himself.
This time, Yu Wanwan had really helped him a lot. She found the place, assisted him, and even sent him back the entire way. No matter how he looked at it, he should at least ask if she had gotten home safely.
Such a great favor was impossible to repay. He could only repay it with his body... no, he could only repay it in his next life.
Pu Tong: [Are you home yet? Thank you so much for today.]
Yu Wanwan: [Read but no reply.]
Pu Tong: [...]
Looks like she had already returned and still had the mood to joke around.
Pu Tong looked at the time. It was already late, so he planned to listen to some English before sleeping.
Learning a language required listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Listening to English whenever he had free time would help improve his sense of the language, listening ability, and pronunciation.
He put on his earphones and randomly chose an English speech to listen to.
The speaker talked very quickly, so Pu Tong could only understand parts of it intermittently.
While listening and thinking about it, his phone suddenly made a notification sound.
It sounded like it exploded directly inside his earphones, making his head buzz.
“Damn.”
Pu Tong took off his earphones and rubbed his ears, feeling annoyed.
He remembered that whenever he listened to something, he should turn off message notifications...
Listening to English was fine, but if he was listening to something relaxing before sleeping and was just about to fall asleep, only to suddenly get blasted awake by a notification sound, he would probably be angry enough to stay awake all night.
He opened the message and found that someone in the group had mentioned him.
Yi Zhi Xuenai: [@Pu Tong, how are you two doing? Did you do that thing yet?]
?
What thing?
Pu Tong: [The internet is not a lawless place. Please watch your words.]
Yi Zhi Xuenai: [Of course I mean composing the song!]
Pu Tong couldn’t be bothered to argue with her and turned off notifications before continuing his studies.
Without interruptions, he listened very seriously.
Although he couldn’t fully understand everything, he had a general idea of what the speech was about.
This kind of improvement was very slow.
Listening for ten days or half a month probably wouldn’t show obvious results.
The important thing was persistence.
After washing up and preparing to sleep, he noticed there were more messages mentioning him in the group.
Lin Yuxi: [@Pu Tong, the singer for your song is Mu Nan, right?]
Pu Tong: [Yes. It’s a song written for the drama. The production team decides who sings it. Although I can give suggestions, I don’t think it’s necessary.]
Honestly, he wasn’t familiar with Mu Nan.
But he felt that Producer Xue probably had good judgment. Since he agreed, it should be fine.
Besides, he would later record his own version.
That would be the original singer’s version.
However, the exact recording date would have to wait until he received notice.
Lin Yuxi: [So Wanwan helped you compose the song, and then the score will be given to Mu Nan?]
Pu Tong: [What’s wrong with that?]
What was the problem?
Did those two have some connection?
Honestly, Pu Tong didn’t know much about the entertainment industry.
He didn’t know much about Mu Nan, and his understanding of Yu Wanwan only started after he met her.
Lin Yuxi: [Private message.]
Yu Wanwan: [Private message my ass. We just know each other.]
Pu Tong could sense that Yu Wanwan seemed unusually irritated.
That was very rare.
Perhaps because Lin Yuxi considered Yu Wanwan’s feelings, she ultimately didn’t send anything else.
Although he was curious, since the person involved didn’t want to talk about it, Pu Tong naturally didn’t want to pry.
The night passed without dreams.
Without the pressure of composing the song, Pu Tong felt much more relaxed over the next few days.
If it weren’t for the cameras installed in the classroom, he almost felt like he was truly just an ordinary high school student.
Although the show no longer focused on filming him, the feeling of being able to look up and see a camera anytime was still uncomfortable.
It felt like his life was being watched.
Like The Truman Show...
“What exactly did you film in the fourth episode?” Pu Tong asked.
Although he had gone to the filming location last time, the entire trip only lasted about half an hour.
Aside from seeing his classmates wearing ancient costumes, he didn’t actually see what they filmed.
“We just filmed a short drama. The filming process and the finished short drama will probably become the content of the fourth episode.” Yu Wanwan answered casually.
“Probably nothing interesting.”
Whenever she recalled what happened that day, she still felt a little anxious.
“Don’t watch it. It’s not interesting!”
She still didn’t want Pu Tong to see her completely overshadowed.
That feeling of being crushed in appearance, temperament, and acting ability was simply too hopeless.
“Indeed...”
Pu Tong wasn’t planning to watch it anyway.
A variety show episode was so long that he could finish an entire set of exam papers during that time.
“But let me ask you... do you think Mu Nan is pretty?”
“Pretty, of course!”
He still had basic aesthetic sense.
Although he wasn’t familiar with Mu Nan, he was still amazed when he saw her.
“Oh...”
Yu Wanwan nodded.
“If you said she wasn’t pretty, I would actually think you were pretending!”
Thinking she was beautiful was the normal reaction.
Even Yu Wanwan herself thought Mu Nan was very beautiful.
Besides, she didn’t want Pu Tong to say something like “you’re the prettiest” just to satisfy her vanity.
She didn’t know what other girls wanted.
But at least, she didn’t need that.
“What if you ask me who I would save first if you and Mu Nan fell into the water?”
Pu Tong teased her.
In his previous life, this question was basically an eternal relationship test.
“Hm?”
Although she didn’t understand what he meant, the question sounded interesting.
It could clearly show the importance of the two people in someone’s heart.
“So who would you save first?”
“Of course I’d save you!”
Pu Tong answered naturally.
“She’s someone I don’t know. But I know your family background. If I save you, your dad might immediately give me tens of millions as thanks.”
The reward from Yu’s family...
“Cut it out.”
Although his reasoning was strange, hearing him say that unexpectedly made her happy.
“By the way, the trailer for the fourth episode is tonight, right?”
Pu Tong thought about it and felt he remembered correctly.
“You said you weren’t going to watch it.”
“The trailer is only one minute. Watching that is fine.”
He really wanted to know what kind of gimmick Xu Lei was trying to create again.
“Alright...”
Yu Wanyan sighed secretly.
She really couldn’t stop him from watching.
Honestly, Pu Tong originally didn’t want to watch it.
But he could clearly feel that Yu Wanwan was intentionally or unintentionally giving him the message:
“Don’t watch it.”
That made him even more curious.
Combined with their conversation last night, he already had a guess.
It was related to Mu Nan...
After returning home from school, Pu Tong checked the official Weibo account of When We Are Young and found the latest trailer.
“Being so mysterious and still not letting me watch it...”
Whether it was because he cared about his deskmate or simply wanted to satisfy his curiosity, he was somewhat interested in what this episode was about.
The trailer began with a wide shot of a bus.
Then several special-effect words appeared on the screen, revealing the theme of the episode.
“Departure! The Production Team?”
The scene quickly switched to the set of Jade Journey.
More flashy text appeared.
“Jade Journey! A Dream Collaboration?”
Through flashes of his classmates wearing ancient costumes and filming scenes, the trailer finally froze on a scene where Yu Wanwan and Mu Nan looked at each other.
“This... I don’t understand at all!”
As a trailer, it was undeniably successful.
But when it came to being vague and mysterious, it was also extremely successful.
After watching it, Pu Tong completely failed to understand why Yu Wanwan felt guilty.
Only after opening the comments did he get some clues:
“Best Actress versus Rising Star? Another clash between them? Now I definitely have to watch. They really have such a deep connection.”
“Hope Wanwan can finally beat Mu Nan this time...”
“It’s actually connected with the Jade Journey production team? Fans of both sides are celebrating!”
“Mu-Yu fans are alive again! Surviving between Pu-Yu fans is too difficult.”
“What kind of heresy is upstairs? Lin-Yu fans are obviously the normal ones.”
Yu Wanwan winning once?
Pu Tong searched the related keywords and finally understood the history between her and Mu Nan.
The two had competed against each other six or seven times.
Every single time, Mu Nan won by a huge margin.
In fact, Yu Wanwan was even called “Little Mu Nan” in the entertainment industry...
That feeling of never being able to surpass someone no matter what you did would indeed make people frustrated.
Being labeled as someone’s second version was also quite ironic.
Now he understood why Yu Wanwan didn’t want him to watch the show.
Yu Wanwan had “lost” to Mu Nan once again on the program...
It seemed that Yu Wanwan and Mu Nan had some history.
And Xu Lei was completely taking advantage of these two top celebrities for publicity!
“Xu Lei, that old schemer, only knows how to create these flashy gimmicks.”
(End of Chapter)
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