In the shadow of time, the glorious years are gradually fading away. Prosperity and loneliness, success and failure, togetherness and separation are all magnificent chapters played alternately on the stage of life. They will eventually disappear like smoke, leaving a sigh. Life is a book.
In this wordless book, as you turn through the pages, the helplessness and nostalgia that lingers in your bones flow between the lines.
In the inquiry room, Chen Xiaohong was sitting alone across the table, holding a cup of hot tea in her hand. It was said to be hot tea, but it was actually just warm water in a disposable cup.
Chen Xiaohong is forty-five years old this year. She is not outstanding in appearance. Because she is getting older, her body has begun to get out of shape. Although she is not as fat as most women in their forties, she is as good as most women of the same age.
As a female artist, she must be like a mama.
Chen Xiaohong has been in the entertainment industry for many years. She graduated from theater and studied acting. At that time when she was in school, actors focused on acting skills rather than appearance. However, even so, Chen Xiaohong was not good at acting.
The only advantage is that she graduated from a junior college. However, when she was in school, she saw that many of her classmates were filming movies one after another, but she was not even an extra.
At the beginning, Chen Xiaohong felt that as long as she was willing to work hard, study hard, and polish her acting skills, she would be able to stand out. Gold will shine sooner or later. She always believed this. After she graduated from college, it was time to work on a film crew.
But she found that many people who were prettier than her, had better figures, and had higher education than her could only be extras, the kind who didn't even have a single line, and sometimes even couldn't even see their faces clearly.
, even if this is the case, there will still be many people competing for such a role.
When Chen Xiaohong first started, she was still a little shy and reserved, and felt it was not suitable. However, after running for N crews, she had to bow to reality and start as a group performer. However, even as a group performer, she
There are not many advantages. Although, at that time, acting did not pay much attention to appearance, but when many directors were looking for actors, they preferred young and beautiful actors.
In this way, Chen Xiaohong tossed and turned in various crews, always acting as an extra, the kind without lines, and the opportunity to appear was only a few seconds, and sometimes only a few minutes, and she was still the kind without lines. Later, she was
As time went by, she finally got her lines, but the opportunities to show her face were still very few.
Five years after graduation, those classmates who graduated with her either became famous or moved to other industries, but she was still standing still. Seeing that others were successful, it was impossible to say that she was not envious or jealous.
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In the past, she thought that acting was all about acting and nothing else mattered. However, after entering the entertainment industry, she realized that stars who looked glamorous had a lot of helplessness behind them. Filming was very difficult and very difficult.
Tiredness and injuries are commonplace, and it is even more common to expose breasts and thighs. However, the exposure at that time was not as naked as it is now, and it was still relatively subtle. Of course, in addition to these, there are
Hidden rules.
After graduation, many beautiful girls plunge into the entertainment industry with the dream of becoming a star. Then, under the temptation of fame and fortune, they begin to sink. Sometimes, they are willing to take off their clothes in order to get a role.
All the clothes are just for an inconspicuous role. However, when everything happens, the other party eats everything, puts on his pants, and forgets about it. Those with conscience will fulfill their promises, but most people will
There is no more.
After struggling for five years, Chen Xiaohong thought about relying on unspoken rules to get to the top. She thought so and did it. However, like most girls, she got nothing. In terms of youth, she was not as good as that person.
There are young girls one after another. In terms of appearance, there are many girls prettier than her. In terms of academic qualifications, there are many people with higher academic qualifications than her. In terms of connections and connections, she has no advantage.
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In this way, after paying too much price, she stayed in the entertainment industry for nearly ten years and finally became an 18th-tier starlet. However, such a starlet could not be caught in the entertainment industry.
Although she has a lot of achievements, she still has no achievements. At most, she has appeared in movies and TV series for a little more time and has a few lines. However, who would pay attention to such a role?
More than ten years have passed, and she is already in her thirties. She has passed the prime time of a woman. In the past, she could rely on her body to get some roles, but now, even if she is willing, those directors and producers
People and screenwriters will not have any interest or sexual interest in her, and her only capital is gone.
Acting skills, yes, she does have acting skills, but in the past ten years of development, acting skills have become dispensable. What people value more is appearance and popularity, and she has completely lost her capital.
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The future was slim and hopeless, so she finally chose to quit, or in other words, it was the most helpless choice. Although she had not made much achievements in the entertainment industry in recent years, she still accumulated a lot of connections and was able to work in a
At her suggestion, she chose to work behind the scenes and became an agent.
It happened that at that time, she met the boss of Baiyou Entertainment Company. The boss of Baiyou Entertainment Company was her school girl. He was younger than her, but his achievements were much greater than hers. The two had known each other and had exchanges with each other.
At that time, the other party wanted to open a company and lacked talents, and Chen Xiaohong
After working in the entertainment industry for more than ten years, she naturally attracted attention. The other party found Chen Xiaohong and wanted to sign a contract with her. Of course, it was not to sign her as an artist, but to make her an agent. Chen Xiaohong also had such a plan.
I agreed.
This woman, who has experienced all the ups and downs in the entertainment industry and has been struggling for more than ten years, finally chose to compromise in the face of reality and became an agent from a young artist.
After Chen Xiaohong became her manager, the first artist she brought was Li Ziyu. In fact, she was very optimistic about Li Ziyu.
Li Ziyu entered the entertainment industry at a very young age. When she signed a contract with Baiyou Entertainment, she already had a certain reputation. Unlike most female artists, Li Ziyu is very simple. Whether it is how to treat people or her acting skills, she is actually very good
There's no big problem, it's just that she has always been in the embarrassing position of being a popular actor but not popular, and Li Ziyu is also very hardworking, just like Chen Xiaohong back then.
However, this world is very cruel. If you don't work hard, you will definitely succeed. Chen Xiaohong didn't believe it before, but then she had to believe it. Now, Li Ziyu doesn't believe it either, but reality still slaps her in the face.
, Li Ziyu was one of the first artists to sign a contract, and the company gave her a lot of resources. However, she was not popular, but the film and television dramas she starred in were very popular. Sometimes, Chen Xiaohong felt unfair for Li Ziyu.
Chen Xiaohong used to be a very good actor, and after becoming an agent, she was also a very good agent. It can be said that she did her best for Li Ziyu's acting career. Perhaps, because of her own experience back then, she always warned Li Ziyu
, don’t compromise to the unspoken rules easily, and Li Ziyu did so.
Li Ziyu has always been polishing her acting skills, and the company is also focusing on cultivating her. However, after a few years, she is still in a tepid state, which makes the company very disappointed. Five years ago, Xu Lulu was not
A woman with a professional background suddenly appeared in Baiyou Entertainment Company.
At the beginning, neither Li Ziyu nor Chen Xiaohong paid attention to this woman. For people like them, a young and beautiful female artist would not be a threat. After all, there is no shortage of beauties in the entertainment industry, let alone
A young and beautiful beauty, but she is such a small character with no acting skills and no big background, but in just three years, she has jumped from an eighteenth-tier star to a second-tier artist. This
Of course, Chen Xiaohong and the others knew the tricks involved, and even looked down upon them with some disdain.
However, two years ago, the role that was supposed to be Li Ziyu's comeback was abruptly snatched away by Xu Lulu. Xu Lulu not only snatched Li Ziyu's role, but also stepped on Li Ziyu hard and spit in her face.
I took a mouthful of thick phlegm.
The entertainment industry is like this. Competition is everywhere. Little stars in the 18th tier hope to become famous, third-tier artists hope to become second-tier artists, and second-tier artists hope to become first-tier artists. Stars who have become first-tier artists hope to go abroad.
To become an international star, every star's success is bloody. They often step on many people's dreams of becoming a star.
The big-name scandal two years ago caused Li Ziyu's good reputation to collapse overnight. She was criticized by many people, and some directors, producers, and screenwriters who had never worked with Li Ziyu jumped out one after another.
, began to lash out at Li Ziyu, and completely trampled her into the dust and mud.
Chen Xiaohong, as Li Ziyu's agent, was naturally very angry when her role was snatched away. However, no matter what she said or Li Ziyu's words, she actually had no say in the growing Baiyou Entertainment Company. What the leaders valued was profit.
Li Ziyu has indeed brought certain benefits to the company in the past few years. However, to say how big this benefit is, it is actually not that big. Compared with the resources the company invested in her, the company actually suffered a loss.
,Since, now someone can stand up and do better, as for how she came to the position, is it important?
For senior leaders, it is not important. As long as it can bring benefits to the company, nothing else matters. Therefore, when Li Ziyu fell into public opinion and was criticized by thousands of people, Baiyou Entertainment only made a symbolic statement.
Just a statement, and then, and then nothing more.
For a "passed" star, it doesn't matter what will happen to her. What they are more concerned about is how much benefit Xu Lulu can bring to the company, and how much benefit they can get from it.
Being snatched away from the role was just the beginning. With the popularity of "Cat Monster", Xu Lulu also successfully became a first-line artist, and the company began to allocate most of its resources to Xu Lulu. As for Li Ziyu, few people care about it anymore
Now, only Chen Xiaohong is still running around for Li Ziyu's acting career. However, the results are just like that.
Li Ziyu's acting skills are good, at least compared with Xu Lulu, she can beat Xu Lulu. Li Ziyu's appearance is not inferior to Xu Lulu's, but Xu Lulu is younger than her, and more importantly, Xu Lulu is better at 'being a person' than she is.
, that’s it, the so-called unspoken rules are just about everyone getting what they need.
When Li Ziyu was hit by public opinion, it was not that no one wanted to give Li Ziyu a hand, but there was a price to pay, and what the price was. Li Ziyu, who was no longer a newcomer, knew very well that if she refused, it would cost her.
As an agent, Chen Xiaohong felt both happy and helpless.
, her mood is very complicated. In fact, from the perspective of interests, she hopes that Li Ziyu will compromise. After all, if the artist she leads becomes popular, she can obtain more benefits. To put it bluntly, it is just money spent in vain.
People and money can't get along, but based on personal feelings, she still hopes that Li Ziyu will refuse. After all, she has been there, has experienced a lot, and knows a lot. Once she starts, there is no turning back, and Li Ziyu insists on
Set your own bottom line.
Li Ziyu is actually a very Buddhist female artist. After the controversy over the role change, she did not come out to defend herself or even issue a statement. This made many fans who liked her extremely disappointed. Many die-hard fans lost their followers one after another.
Li Ziyu was still not impatient or impatient.
Just a month ago, I don’t know what the leaders of Baiyou Entertainment thought. Maybe it was because the company needed to develop and needed more artists. Maybe it was thinking of Li Ziyu. The company decided to invest in a movie called "Mermaid".
" movie, and the heroine was played by Li Ziyu. The script of this movie was very good. After reading it, Li Ziyu felt that the heroine's setting was very suitable for her, and Chen Xiaohong also felt that it was suitable for Li Ziyu. She felt that Li Ziyu had a chance to make a comeback.
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However, they were not happy for a long time. Li Ziyu's position as the heroine was once again taken away by someone, and this person was none other than Xu Lulu. As for why the company changed its mind, the answer was readily available in a sentence from the company's deputy director.
After Chen Xiaohong got the news, she was very angry. Faced with this situation, how could she not be angry? She once went to the leader, but the other party dismissed her with a few words. The reason was very simple. Xu Lulu
She is the company's first-line artist and the company's pillar, but what is Li Ziyu? She is just a 'passed' star who is about to become a third-line artist. Xu Lulu can bring huge benefits to the company. What can Li Ziyu bring?
The reason is simple and crude, more realistic and ruthless.
Chen Xiaohong was very sad. She was not sad for herself, but for Li Ziyu. However, Li Ziyu did not show too much anger. After all, this was not the first time she had experienced such a thing.
Since the change of roles two years ago, in the past two years, most of Li Ziyu's resources have been given to Xu Lulu by the company, and some of the remaining resources have been taken away by other second-tier artists. Li Ziyu's remaining resources
There are actually not many resources, and this year, Li Ziyu is already thirty years old. If she can't turn over, her end is not much different from Chen Xiaohong's. She will either disappear completely and quit the entertainment industry, or she will continue to work in the entertainment industry.
He was struggling, no matter what the outcome was, it was not a good thing for Li Ziyu.
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After Xu Lang listened to Chen Xiaohong's story, he was silent for a long time.
To be honest, according to Chen Xiaohong's story, Xu Lang still sympathizes with Li Ziyu. However, sympathy is on the one hand. Investigating the case and finding the truth is his task. After all, he is a policeman. What's more, before Xu Lulu was not killed, Xu Lang
Lang had no intuitive impression of either Xu Lulu or Li Ziyu.
"Where is Li Ziyu now?" Xu Lang looked at Chen Xiaohong and asked.
Chen Xiaohong was very tired. Although she looked to be in her thirties, she was an older woman after all. Even though she took good care of herself, she still could not withstand the erosion of time.
After hearing Xu Lang's question, Chen Xiaohong shook her head and said with a bitter smile: "I don't know, I can't contact her."
"When was the last time you saw Li Ziyu?" Xu Lang asked.
"We had lunch together today at noon. At around 1 p.m., she received a text message and then left."
"Text message? What text message? Who sent it to her? What is the content?"
Chen Xiaohong shook her head again and said, "I don't know."
"have no idea?"
Xu Lang frowned, obviously, he didn't quite believe in this result.
"Although I am Li Ziyu's agent, I rarely get involved in her personal affairs. After all, Li Ziyu is a woman with strong principles. She has not had any scandals in the years since she debuted. But now, her situation...
Even if there is a scandal, it won't cause much of a sensation." Chen Xiaohong explained, her tone full of helplessness.
"Then when was the last time you saw Xu Lulu?" Xu Lang asked, changing the subject.
"At the end of last month, we met at the company, and then we stopped seeing each other. After all, she is now a first-line artist, and her work schedule is very tight. We have very little time to meet, and even if we do meet, we don't
What can we talk about?"
Hearing this, Xu Lang nodded.
"Xu Lulu and Li Ziyu had a conflict. Now Xu Lulu has been killed and Li Ziyu has disappeared. What do you think about this?" Xu Lang asked.
"Xu Lulu deserves to die. It has nothing to do with us Ziyu." Chen Xiaohong put down the water glass and looked at Xu Lang and said.
"Why are you so sure?" Xu Langrao looked at Chen Xiaohong with interest.
"Because...because we Ziyu people are good people."
"..."
Xu Lang's face was filled with black lines and he was speechless.