True Star - Chapter 126

Chapter 126: Completion of the Superstar training course (1)

Having a strong and smart, efficient team was far more effective than solo combat, and just days after some of Tang Feng's messy scandals came out, soon most portals were reported on the news outside of Tang Feng's work.

According to Lu Tian Chen, Tang Feng's exposure is high enough now, a star needs exposure, but not the higher the exposure the better kind, a star with no work is always making all kinds of news, and eventually the public will feel a bit annoyed, and the rebellious mentality also comes from it.

He needed to be silent for a while now.

Not only did Lu Tian Chen's team, who had been released from his side, begin to tighten their nets and control their exposure, but even Su Qi Cheng, who had been smearing him like crazy the other day, also fell silent. According to Charles, some special photos played a big role, and for a short time Su Qi Cheng was not going to bother Tang Feng again, and of course it could be that Su Qi Cheng calmed down and had figured it out.

It's not a good choice to piss off two big names over a minor star.

There were no eternal enemies or friends, only eternal interests, something Tang Feng believed someone like Su Qi Cheng would understand, even though he and Su Qi Cheng would never be friends.

Even if they would see each other again next time, Tang Feng wouldn't give the other a good face, he hated hypocrites, and he preferred a true in your face like Charles than a hypocrite like Su Qi Cheng, or a principled businessman like Lu Tian Chen, at least he didn't have to worry about being stabbed in the back by the other at any time.

The Superstar exams are not all completed in one day, but the whole exam is divided into three parts, taking into account the factors of filming into a personalized show and the ratings.

Today's test is the first part, as the extremely important dancing and riding part of a social event.

Before the exam, no one was practicing seriously, almost everyone on the stage played very well, the dance exam students can choose the dance they are good at, most of the young people choose the street dance reggae type of energetic dance.

A few young artists made difficult moves in the dance floor with the music, and Tang Feng, an "old man", clapped his hands to the side, the powerful dance was indeed very beautiful, the youthful vitality and life force were reflected the most, young people have their own dance, there is no need to deliberately dance some "old man dance" in order to reflect their "high class".

After all, when one passes thirty-five it's hard to dance with such vigor again.

Tang Feng would love to try it, but the ending is that he was made fun of collectively, and the place where he should have power is not like dancing, but like a fist fight, the place where he should be soft is too soft and like a ballet.

One thing that Tang Feng kept a secret was that the orphanage would occasionally hold events, such as when a philanthropist came, they would have to come out and sing a song and dance or something, and then once he was forced to go to ballet dressed as a girl because there were fewer girls to dance with.

He practiced classical ballet for over three whole months!

"Tang Feng, it's your turn!"

When the young people were dancing, it was Tang Feng's turn to dance, and the first few people in front of them were all dancing with energy and joy, and they were also doing difficult moves, but Tang Feng was not going to give up.

The Argentinean Tango, at times can be lingering and exciting, leaps and bounds inside.

The violin's notes instantly lift the heart of the person, and the cello's overtones, far away in Argentina, triggered the imagination in the people around.

The two ready to go on the dance floor are pulled into a lavish, sprightly, ethereal and tangled tango by a forceful step at the moment the notes fall heavily.

His acting, his being an actor, his life is also a dream play that keeps one awake.

The notes that stir the heart, the lingering dance, the bodies that seem to be close to each other are always a short distance apart, one step away, the entanglement of wanting to resist, but welcome, the reluctance of pulling each other away, until the last note falls to the ground, accompanied by the violin that seems to gracefully weep and mutter.

Yet again she leapt up softly in his arms, the final strumming of the cello, the final coda of the violin, the touch of fingers against fingers that separated them.

This is a pair, their fierce love at first sight, the love process of each other entangled and full of struggles and contradictions, until the end, it like they do not want to give up but then resolutely turn away, leaving people with a thought, whether after the separation, each other still miss the indelible feelings.

Perfect performance, it is not just skill.

If what the young stars bring to the audience is a charming dance that makes the heart beat faster, full of energy, life and enthusiasm, then under the leadership of Tang Feng, Tang Tian Tian made people feel a burgundy bubbling sediment under the extravagant lights of midnight, more helplessness, more hearty and soul shaking, and also more resonance.

Love isn't perfect, and even a Cinderella love story like Princess Xixi's doesn't have too much of a happy ending in reality.

In addition to being impressed, it's also important to consider whether you can go all the way in the future, right?

Tang Feng and Tang Tian Tian's Argentine Tango won everyone's applause, and the morning exam was considered complete, with all the course staff, including the staff, going to dinner together at noon, and they had an exam on horseback riding.

The riding exam is as simple as it gets, just getting the horse to do a walk, trot, stop, turn, and a few beginner maneuvers, but the content of these exams seems simple, and really not so simple to do, especially when you let the horse walk, the horse will climbs up, if you don’t stop him he will turn and go to eat grass.

This riding exam was a laugh-out-loud laugh.

Tang Feng, who had received "private tuition" from Lu Tian Chen and Charles, passed the exam without any problems, and this also attracted a lot of people's lamentation.

In the beginning, Tang Feng didn't look at the training course as a competition, so the man also didn't consider that other people might not be as qualified as him to learn to ride in private, and now that he heard everyone's words, Tang Feng could only cover his mouth and laugh secretly.

Well, he really didn't mean it.

The day ended perfectly, saying it was an exam, but in fact there were no judges and no marks.

After that, everyone had to go to dinner and sing karaoke, and Tang Feng found a reason to run away with his body sister.

You're still young, how come you don't work so hard?

A man returning to his room, Tang Feng rummaged through the cupboard for medicinal alcohol, he would have to step up his practice of Wingchun, not because of how terrifying a muscular figure it was, but at least he wants to be a man who could punch his opponent in the nose with a single blow, it was for his own safety.

Maybe sometime he can also give Su Qi Cheng a punch as a gift.

After taking off his top, Tang Feng turned on the TV to watch the news and put some potion on his sore spot, and before long the phone was up, with a thud and a thud, as if it wouldn't stop.

"No time today, I won't open the door even if you stand outside my door." As soon as he picked up the phone, Tang Feng said.

The other party immediately fell silent, and just as Tang Feng was about to hang up the phone, Lu Tian Chen's voice came over the microphone [I've never seen you talk to the boss like this]

"That's not your number ah, I thought you were..." froze Tang Feng, he thought it was Charles that guy called again, he just wanted to be by himself today.

[Who is it?]

"Nothing, Mr. Lu?"

[You did a great job today.]

"Well, thanks." That's why you called him?

[There's an exam tomorrow. Get some rest.]

"Well, I will."

[Bye. Good night.]

Huh, just like that and he is gone?

"Good night to you, too." Lu Tian Chen had called him just to say goodnight to him, and the other party had hung up while Tang Feng was still thinking.

"That's a weird one." Tang Feng laughed softly, the window side seemed to flash, there seemed to be lights outside, the man put down the medicine alcohol and walked barefoot to the window, gently pulling open a slit in the curtain.

Under the apartment building, a man in a black suit leaned against the door of the car and took a drag on his cigarette, after a while he stomped it out and pulled the door open and sat inside, Tang Feng hid behind the curtain and watched the black sedan gradually leave.

Because he just said, "I won't open the door for you even if you stand outside my door," Lu Tian Chen, who had already driven to the bottom of the building, just left?

Looking down at the empty building, Tang Feng pulled the curtains and left the window, which was dark at night.

........

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Two days later, the class taped the final exam, the final exam of the Superstar class, most of all - the show - in front of the Dream Lover show.

The test that Larry did was that each participant had to shoot a long-shot music video, and the participant could choose a song that he or she liked to perform, no words, just movements, expressions, eyes....

These aren't the hardest parts yet, the hardest part is that there's only one chance for each one, no do-overs, just non-stop shots from start to finish.

Many of the students were a bit nervous about the show, and even though Larry was their acting teacher, he hadn't shown up since the first class, even for today's exam, only to hear that the final video would be sent to Larry to watch.

Before the shoot began, each trainee was able to have a simple conversation with the photographer and the Director, as well as a simple pre-race interview.

"The song I chose is Elton John's I want love," says Tang Feng, sitting in the Director chair with not too much tension on his face, always with a smile that makes you feel affectionate and comfortable.

"Why did you choose this song and does it have any special meaning to you?" Off camera, MV Director and Tang Feng talked casually, and there was something clearly different about Tang Feng compared to several of the other trainees, which made the man that he wasn't talking to Tang Feng.

Tang Feng was relaxed, casual, and cute, and immediately serious and focused once the camera was on him.

Tang Feng laughed as he stood with his hands on his head like a child with a slightly shy expression, and after being silent for about a second, he opened his mouth and said, "What if I say this is for my heart? Oh, it's not that I lack caring, it's for every person, man or woman, has been so bumpy and broken down in their respective emotional paths that few have made it to the end."

"How do you want to represent the meaning in the song, or what do you think the meaning is in the song?"

Eyes shifting to the camera, Tang Feng sat up straighter, his gaze gentle and focused, his words low and gentle: "People like me, who stumble and stumble forward in the path of their feelings, may have stumbled and hurt, but that doesn't stop me from moving forward."

Silent for two seconds, the man lowered his eyes and said softly, "Besides love, there's kinship, and friendship, all are forms of love....."

........

Dark grey T-shirt, black trousers, Tang Feng standing alone with his back to the camera in the empty house, a grey sky outside the window, the branches of the trees thick but dark grey.

In the large, luxurious, empty house, he appears so lonely and small that the back of the camera is already a painting revealing the song's prelude, smearing over and over again the hurt and sorrow.

The song goes.

♪ I want love, but its impossible ♪

The camera was pushed closer and closer, until the man with low head raised his head and sang the lyrics to the camera.

♪ A man like me, can only avoid responsibility

♪  A man like me are long tired of failure ♪

♪ Other people think it is free ♪

His lips were slightly pale and dry, and the bright eyes under his eyebrows hide many secrets and experiences that others don't know, and with each small movement, you seem to be drawn into his world.

There were blackened branches, a gray, sunless sky, a bustling but empty mansion, and a man who sang I want to love.

There's no overpowering performance, no deliberately created sentimental expression, the expression on his face is so subtle, yet magnified into stinging notes on camera.

♪ I cannot love, I am covered all over with cuts and bruises ♪

♪ Apart from the cold and old wounds, I have no feeling♪

♪ I have been dead♪

Over and over again, singing I want to love, those subtle expressions, as if speaking of his attempts to forget and erase the pain of the past.

Tang Feng in the camera, Tang Feng in front of the camera.

Two people.

A different kind of charm.

The same makes one self-consciously close to him.

........

Filming the scene, people who were focused on watching the men perform did not notice a man standing in a certain corner, Lu Tian Chen looked away, listened quietly, and suddenly thought of many things.

Such as the so-called love at first sight, such as the so-called thumping of the heart.

For example, on the first day Tang Feng stayed in his house after a month's trading with Charles, the man he imagined would show a sad or painful expression, but the man in front of him then smiled in front of him with a light and indifferent smile.

Let's say he went to Tang Feng's apartment early one day only to find out that the person who opened the door was Charles, or let's say he was smoking a cigarette under the apartment building the night before without even thinking why he drove up to that person's building, looked at the lights lit up in that person's house, struggled to finally make a phone call.

In the end, still didn't get upstairs, still didn't get in the door, still left without a word.

What is it all about?

♪ But I still eager for love, just not as openly as ever ♪

♪ I want love, love that won't break my heart. ♪

As he sang this line, Tang Feng leaned against the barred window and bowed his head slightly, his hanging eyes pierced with vague, yet cautious shattering marks.

♪ Sad love, never to be had again. ♪

Lu Tian Chen was not the only one who came to the scene.

In another unnoticed corner, Charles suddenly lifted the corner of his mouth and smiled.

Love, who doesn't want it?

People who don't want it, just haven't seen the beauty of it, just don't know what it's like to be miserable after loss, just some dumbasses and fools.

Charles thought, he's probably not some dumb and dumber.

Just, please.....

How can a song like this, how can it be so natural and profound on camera, make it hard for him to resist the temptation that comes from the lyrics.

♪ This love better not hurt my heart anymore. ♪

♪ The love I want I don't want it to be meaningless. ♪

♪ I want true love. ♪

"Tang Feng, you are foul." Charles laughed bitterly, a rare bitter smile, a rare proper one, a rare one that didn't take the initiative to go to Tang Feng even when he was on the set.

Performing a song like this makes his heart hurt so much, foul, really foul.

How can it be so good, how can it be performed so well?

Good enough to make him feel that it's no longer the hurt and brokenness that is deliberately faked, but truly a man who has been through countless hurts and stumbled over and over again, and finally still keeps moving forward, longing for true love.

The man in the camera, a light smile began to flow in his eyes, like a rainbow floating in the early spring broken ice, when you look up to find that, not knowing when the dark clouds outside the window have cleared.

As the song fades, as the music fades and the shot ends, Tang Feng was back to where he was originally standing, facing out the window with his back to the camera.

There was sunlight spilling out of the window and swooning softly around him, and the sight in his eyes was no longer those leaden-gray skies, no longer the ink-colored branches.

There was also a faint brightness in the crevices of the dark clouds.

In the crevices of the black branches, there are also newborns who are constantly trying to spit out their tender shoots.

When the music ended and the show ended, Tang Feng didn't hear the Director shouting cut for a long time and there was silence around him.

After being reborn and facing the camera for the first time seriously, saying that there wasn't a bit of tension was probably false, he froze slightly, somewhat unsure of the reason for the crowd's silence.

"Pop, pop, pop!" A man's applause came from the corner, and then, like a stone falling into the water, one after another followed, until Tang Feng's ears were filled with enthusiastic applause and the shouts of others.

Turning his head with a smile, the man looked toward where the applause had first come, there was not a single person there, nor was it known who had first given him the applause and affirmation.