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After we finally finished filming this nauseating segment, I let loose a long exhale, logging into the little broken platform to find my happy place.
All in all, the director eventually touched his conscience, praising, “Mo Shuyao, your expressions in the last few scenes have been very on point.”
Even Wen Zhao, who had been looking down on me all this while, came running over to humbly ask me for advice. “Brother Shuyao, you’ve improved by leaps and bounds in the half-month since you entered the crew. Can you teach me how to get into the right headspace to act?”
Hur hur, now you know how great I am.
“Do you want to know my secret tactic?”
Wen Zhao nodded furiously.
I affected a mysterious look, beckoning him to come over.
When he drew nearer, I leaned close to his ear, saying, “Watch parody mashups…”
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“What are the two of you doing?!”
Before I could finish speaking, Jiang Ran appeared to materialise from thin air, forcibly cutting into my words.
There were actually several measures of fury in his eyes, as if practically trying to devour me.
“And what are you doing?” I asked back sternly.
Wen Zhao hurriedly gave an apologetic smile, explaining, “Brother Shuyao was sharing with me his magic weapon for how to act well.”
Hearing this, Jiang Ran’s expression eased some. “He actually has a magic weapon to his acting?”
But I frowned, saying silently to myself, ‘Since when did this old fogey learn sarcasm?’
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Vagjlutajkjs, P yfmxbcfv j tjcv ja Aljcu Ejc. “Qts vbc’a sbe mbwf bnfg abb, P mjc rtjgf la klat sbe jr kfii.”
Aljcu Ejc ibkfgfv tlr tfjv, rffwlcuis rwlilcu yfobgf gfujlclcu tlr mbwqbregf jcv kjixlcu abkjgvr wf.
“Cgf sbe gfjvs?” P rwlgxfv, kjuuilcu ws ygbkr. Ktfc, P bqfcfv j nlvfb bc atf ris, qijmlcu la ys tlr fjg.
“Mm.”
Afterwhich, a Gokuraku Jodo that had been autotuned, speed-ramped, max-volumed by me blasted next to his ear.
Jiang Ran was obviously startled by it, leaping away and even rubbing the ear that had been deafened by the music.
HAHAHA, you deserve it, you supergay!
His agent immediately came rushing over. “Mo Shuyao, are you insane?! Can you afford it if Jiang Ran goes deaf?”
I blinked, innocently saying, “But Jiang Ran wanted to learn from me how to elevate his acting technique. My solution is to rely on watching parody mashups, relax the heart and mind, go back to our roots, and then the beauty of the pure essence of acting will naturally come.”
Utter silence.
To be completely frank, even I myself feel that this lie is just a little bit too unrealistic.
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Jiang Ran waved a hand at his agent. He pointed to my phone screen, saying, “What language is that? Japanese?”
“Yepyep, my wife sang it, it’s really good.”
“You can’t sing, what are you being so proud of it for?” Jiang Ran’s agent mocked me from the side. “And your wife? Did she agree to it?”
“Eh? Hey!!” I was almost speechless in my rage.
Psh, you just haven’t seen the true fighting power of an otaku.
May as well. It’s been a long time since I used Gokuraku Jodo as BGM in a parody mashup. I quite miss it, really.
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And so I started to sing while moving my body to the mesmerising melody.
Ah~ my second wife’s voice is a blessing to the ears. It’s much better than this bunch of supergays.
“Whoa, Brother Shuyao can actually dance and even knows how to speak Japanese.” Wen Zhao was astonished.
My agent couldn’t help but let out a heavy sigh as well. “I never thought that he’s actually an advanced otaku.”
I was obnoxiously satisfied by their response.
The more I thought, I couldn’t help but get intoxicated in the music, stomping madly to the beat. However, right as I went deep, my foot seemed to step on a round, rolly thing.
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“AHHHH!” My body uncontrollably fell backwards. There was nothing that I could grab hold of in the space around me.
I’m screwed I’m screwed, I’m not going to be struck by lightning before I’m done pretending to be a badass am I?
Could this be the purported ‘there only exists 3s of chic and not a second more’?
Just as I was praying to god and buddha and the deities, I heard someone shouting my name.
Then I was caught by my waist, in a posture where half my lower back was suspended in the air.
!!!
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The face before my eyes gradually took form.
It actually turned out to be Jiang Ran.
“Many, many thanks to the warrior for saving me, quickly help me up.”
But his brows furrowed. He looked at me with interest. “You have a dance background?”
Laozi’s waist is about to snap into half, what is he looking so happy for?
I panted. “That, that’s a thing of the past. Hurry up, I can’t make it anymore…”
Only then did he grab my shoulders, hoisting me upright.
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Just as I was rubbing my cranky, old waist in pain, Jiang Ran asked, “Why’s your waist so stiff if you’ve practised dancing before?”
“I practised it in university, but I later hurt my ligament. Are you done?” I impatiently replied.
Jiang Ran put one hand to his cheek, falling silent for a few seconds before slowly saying, “It’s fortunate. Your dancing earlier shows that your back has recovered quite well. Being able to sing so steadily while dancing shows that you have quite good stamina too.”
While he said this, his eyes were hooded, and his expression was unusually gentle.
??? A chill ran up my spine.
Jiang Ran, I suspect that you’re having unsafe-for-work thoughts… I don’t have any proof, but I’m feeling so panicky inside that I’m practically about to combust on the spot.
He most definitely is having NSFW thoughts
Thanks for the chapter <3
Hoho, Jiang Ran is most definitely thinking Thoughts. Our little MC has keen senses lol!
Thank you for the update!
I need holy water to cleanse my mind 😂😂😂😂🤦♀️
Thank you for the chapter~
I would love to know our dear ML thoughts. I wonder when he would implement them in reality.🤭🤭🤭
Thx for the chapter 😘
Teacher Mo, you really need to control your imagination. Hurr hurr.
Thank you for the update ❤️
hahahahahaha!
To quote Teacher Mo…, “oshete!” 😂 😂 😂
You are not alone buddy, I think so too.
He 300% thinking of the advantages of a suple dancer with stamina. 😂😂😂😂😂