Chapter 137: Auditioning for a Play

The only sound left in the quiet pool was the sound of papers turning pages.

“Have you memorized your lines?”

“What?”

The sound of paper turning pages stopped abruptly, and Pei Si inclined his head to Wen Li, who was sitting upright, and asked, “The words, have you memorized them?”

“Memorized.”

Pei Si nodded with a nod, his long and slender index finger pointed somewhere in the script, “Act out the part where Qin Yao hit Chen Chang Xin at Fuji Hotel.”

Wen Li brewed for half a minute and gradually entered the acting state.

She looked at the man in front of her with a cold face, her voice didn’t sound like it had any ripples, yet she was able to hear the mockery beyond the words, “Mr. Chen, are you still happy with the food, and your little life is going well these days?”

Wen Li stoically clenched her fists, extremely restrained to hold back her impulse to rush up and violently beat people, waiting for her day and night want to die a thousand deaths of a thousand cuts of people will how to respond to her.

She seems to be a little crazy, in those years of tracking down the truth of Qin Wu’s case, she doesn’t know how she came over, in knowing that Qin Wu’s murderer is right in front of her eyes, she doesn’t know if she can restrain her inner demons, and hold back her heart to kill the Chen brothers.

She stared at Pei Si with a deadly stare, her eyes moved to Pei Si’s neck, she thought that killing a person should be easy, right?

Pei Si shrugged his shoulders and met Wen Li’s eyes with a cozy face, just like a dude, ”It’s not bad! It should be considered good. I heard that Mr. Qin’s company went bankrupt? The days of these years are very bitter, right? Today came, but need me to rescue you ah?”

Wen Li gasped and laughed, wasn’t he behind her company’s bankruptcy?

She looked at the arrogant and provocative man with cold eyes and said, “Hehe! Compared to this, Mr. Chen still cares about himself while eating and drinking.”

Wen Li desire to say to the end, the color became more and more fierce and gloomy, she could not restrain the back of Pei Si’s neck, biting the accent “kindly” reminded: “Do you want to be more careful to worry about worrying about their own life safety ah?”

Pei Si immediately changed his face, said ugly: “What do you mean?”

Wen Li simply direct showdown, no longer bend around to play hide-and-seek, a word to the point: “You do not forget that you are carrying a human life, right? Heh! It’s true that you’ve had a comfortable life, forgetting the fact that you’re a brute, do you want me to help you reminisce your memories?”

Her expression was extraordinarily serious, with a bit of gloom and viciousness, a far cry from the gentle and amiable her of the past, and she might actually restrain her flood of power in the next second and violently beat Pei Si in the pool.

At this time she overlaps with the role of Qin Yao.

Pei Si pulls away from the role, stops the next audition session in time, and asks with concern, “Is it okay?”

Wen Li took a deep breath, holding onto the armrest of a recliner to the side, and returned, “It’s fine.”

“This is one of the biggest highlights in the drama, and also the beginning of Qin Yao giving up that inner heart that holds on to justice and turning to darkness, if this episode is handled properly, the rest should be no problem. You acted very well.”

“Then I’m considered qualified?”

“Not really, some details need to be readjusted, there are some places where you overacted a bit.”

“Okay.”

Pei Si recalled the audition footage, pointing out the details that Wen Li needed to deal with in that audition stage, for example: how to reflect the character’s desperate attempt to restrain his emotional outbursts through external objects, how to reflect the fact that he is a villain through his eyes, and how to do it so that the character’s emotions switch back and forth freely.

Pei Si picked up the script to explain to her the details that need to pay attention to in the clip, and let her try to act out a certain plot in the script, encountered her acting blind spot, will also personally demonstrate to her.

When the plot of the script is all smoothed out once, the time points to 8:30 pm, Pei Si pauses the acting lesson, “It’s getting late, go back and eat.”

Wen Li nodded, “Mr. Pei, I’ll treat you to dinner.” To avoid any misunderstanding, she added, “As payment for you teaching me acting lessons.”

Does that sound a bit off? People weren’t that bad at paying for a meal.

Profoundly reflecting on her fast-talking and reckless behavior, Wen Li hurriedly explained, “What I mean is that you taught me acting, Mr. Pei, and I want you to eat as payment.” She covered her face in embarrassment, the more she said, the more wrong she became.

Pei Si: “OK. Next time don’t call me Mr. Pei, call me old.”

There wasn’t a few years difference between the two, once someone opened their mouth and called them teacher, they were instantly dozens of years older than the other person.

“Okay.”

Pei Si bent down to pick up the towel that was resting on the armrest of the recliner, turned his head to Wen Li and said, “You wait for me here, I’ll go change my clothes.”

Wen Li blushed shyly and answered, “Okay.” She hadn’t had her fill of the class just now.

Walking out of the gym, it was already dark outside, and the lights belonging to the city shone brightly throughout the corner, reflecting the unique beauty of the city.

The two chose to dine in a restaurant with low traffic and a comfortable environment, Wen Li put the menu across the middle of the two and asked for his opinion, “What kind of dishes do you like to eat?”

Pei Si: “I’m not picky, you just watch and order.”

In fact, his intention was to let order some of her favorite dishes.

Wen Li nodded her head and agreed, flipping through the menu while asking him if he has any contraindications.

“No.”

“Good.”

Wen Li’s slender index finger tapped somewhere on the menu, “One of each of the classic signature dishes, minced pork and eggplant, and lotus root rib soup.”

She raised her eyes and asked out loud, “Are these okay? Is there anything else you’d like to eat?”

“These are enough.”

Wen Li nodded with a slight smile, closing the menu and returning it to the service staff standing by to order, “These are it, please serve the dishes faster.”

“Okay.”

Wen Li covers her mask tightly, easing the atmosphere and says, “I’ve been to this store a few times, the flavor is not bad.”

Pei Si lifted the teapot in the center of the dining table and refilled Wen Li’s teacup with water, “Well, I will definitely eat more in a while.”

After a short period of silence for a few seconds, Wen Li reacted, in the past days communication could not get Pei Si’s response, she actually one day was able to get a very long sentence response from the main owner.

Wen Li blinked and nodded back dully, “Yes, eat more.”

Pei Si sipped a mouthful of tea and asked her curiously, “Did Miss Wen Li figure out her acting skills on her own?”

Wen Li hurriedly denied, “No no, I’m not that good, I had a two month acting training course before, and the demonstration of the characters in this play was also me jumping on a dead mouse blindly, by mistake. I’m not that good at acting, thanks to Mr. Pei’s acting guidance today, I feel like my acting skills have taken another big step forward.”

Pei Si didn’t know whether he was pleasured, or Wen Li’s sentence poked his laugh, his low voice was as pleasant and nice as a cello solo.

It turns out that good-looking people even smile in a pleasing way.