007 “AV Shooting Guide” Chapter 6

6: Quarterly list

Qiao Qiao quickly packed her things and prepared to leave before her hair was completely dry. She politely said goodbye to the director and photographer, then grabbed her bag and got into the elevator in a hurry and headed straight to the lobby on the first floor of WAWA. It was almost five o’clock in the afternoon. If she didn’t hurry to the station, she might not be able to catch the last bus back to the apartment.

The floor Qiao Qiao was on was the twentieth floor. For some reason, there was no one in the elevator that was usually full of people today. So Qiao Qiao relaxed and even started to hum. In fact, Qiao Qiao was not tone-deaf, but her vocal range was very narrow. She couldn’t go up or down. She was always laughed at when she sang at KTV with her friends, but Qiao Qiao really liked singing.

She hummed as she watched the floors of the elevator light up and go out one by one. She also raised her chest and clutched the non-existent microphone in front of the smooth mirror-like elevator wall. She suddenly dropped an octave when she hit a high note, and raised her voice when it was the bass’s turn. She didn’t care if the sound was broken at any time., after singing a section, he held up his side trousers as if they were skirts and made a gesture of extending his arms and bowing. The elevator dinged and stopped on the tenth floor. Qiao Qiao still maintained his previous posture without moving. He only had time to see a pair of lustrous leather shoes suddenly appear in his field of vision——

Qiao Qiao felt like his whole face was burning with a bang…

She paused. In those few seconds, she felt that it was really as long as a century. Qiao Qiao slowly squatted down and tried to pretend that she was tying her shoelaces. However, she found to her embarrassment that she was wearing ankle boots today. She had no choice but to stiffly roll up her trousers again.

The man stepped forward, stood next to Qiao Qiao, reached out and clicked on the floor on the elevator panel, as if he had not seen Qiao Qiao’s embarrassment before.

This guy has such a nice demeanor…

Qiao Qiao thought silently in his heart, then reached out and pulled his long shawl hair to his forehead, blocking most of his face.

But the man didn’t try to turn around to look at Qiao Qiao. He stopped moving after he stood still. Qiao Qiao started to be curious about him, so she used the elevator mirror to sneak a glance at him and found that he looked familiar.

Qiao Qiao frowned and thought carefully for a moment, then suddenly realized, wasn’t this the man who took the cover photo in the studio while waiting for Qin Ruicheng that day?

Zhou…Zhou Yuanchuan must have remembered correctly.

Qiao Qiao glanced up and down again. Yes, it was that person. At that time, he was a little far away and couldn’t see clearly. Now, judging from the figure and hair, it was indeed him.The black silk blouse he wore that day was very retro and looked like a male college student in the troubled times of the Republic of China. Today, he was almost unrecognizable after changing into a modern outfit.

She carefully looked at Zhou Yuanchuan through the reflective mirror, her gaze was really intense. Zhou Yuanchuan couldn’t turn a blind eye anymore, so he turned his head slightly and caught Qiao Qiao directly.

Qiao Qiao repeated his old trick. During that thousandth of a second, she quickly blanked her eyes and acted like she was staring at the ceiling. Zhou Yuanchuan smiled slightly. He had long seen through Qiao Qiao’s little moves, but because Qiao Qiao was just a passerby with whom he had no contact, the smile passed. He had always been very kind to the people around him.

So Qiao Qiao began to look at him more unscrupulously.

… He looks so handsome in modern clothes, which adds more wisdom to his elegance… His legs are so long, and the skin on his hands is so white!Wait, I wonder if he can do the laundry himself?Definitely not, then the hands wouldn’t be able to be so delicate… But what should I do with the underwear?Does he wash his own underwear?

Qiao Qiao was completely stunned by his question. His underwear must be washed. If he didn’t wash it himself, who would?

With a ‘ding’ sound, the elevator reached the first floor. Zhou Yuanchuan strode out. He seemed to be going to do something and seemed a little in a hurry. Qiao Qiao followed behind and walked out of the elevator lazily step by step, still thinking about the ultimate question of who would wash the underwear.

It wasn’t until she walked slowly to the giant display board in the hall that she realized something like an enlightenment. His film sales were so good, he must have made a lot of money. He could buy a lot of underwear and let the people from the housekeeping company wash them and wear them directly. Wear one and throw one away, saving time and effort!

Qiao Qiao couldn’t help but laugh. She was feeling better because of Liang Jize’s slight depression. She raised her feet and was about to walk forward when her eyes suddenly caught sight of the giant electronic display board that was more than six meters high and occupied an entire wall on the first floor. In fact, the display board came into Qiao Qiao’s field of vision so early, but Qiao Qiao was thinking about something and turned a blind eye. However, the display board suddenly refreshed again, and the red characters on the black background flashed, and Qiao Qiao noticed it.

She took a few steps back and began to look up at this ‘towering’ electronic board with wonder.

It turns out…the legendary WAWA quarterly list looks like this…

Qiao Qiao knew that WAWA had a ‘ranking board’, which recorded the quarterly sales of all working male and female actors in WAWA, and automatically arranged them in ascending order, updated in real time, and changed from time to time.

Qiao Qiao had heard about this ‘general list’ when he was working in the branch. The outside world also nicknamed this board ‘Ten Thousand Flowers of Famous Persons’. When Qiao Qiao first came here today, he entered through the door on the other side and didn’t go here. Unexpectedly, he saw it now.

The list is divided into two parts: male and female actors. Male actors only occupy about one-sixth of the positions. The remaining five-sixths are crowded with the names of actresses. The number one among male actors is undoubtedly the god-like existence – ‘Jian Baiyou’, and Qiao Qiao has never had the chance to meet him.I don’t recognize the number one actress, Qiao Qiao. Her four-letter name should be her stage name.

After seeing Jian Baiyou, Qiao Qiao glanced down and saw Zhou Yuanchuan and Qin Ruicheng.To be honest, the men’s list is a bit sparse. Although it accounts for one-sixth, there are still some blanks. There are about thirty people in total on the list. The top three names are also followed by the total sales of their works for the quarter. Qiao Qiao silently compared Zhou Yuanchuan and Jian Baiyou, and couldn’t help but secretly marveled. Jian Baiyou’s sales were too amazing, far ahead of other male actors.

I heard that Jian Baiyou’s works are very difficult to buy on the market. They are sold out almost as soon as they come out. There are even many rich people who spend a lot of money to buy them out just to have the season’s edition exclusively for themselves. He is simply a legend in the industry and a benchmark figure in the AV industry.

Qiao Qiao has never bought his works (in fact, she can’t get them), so she naturally doesn’t know what Jian Baiyou looks like, but she has vaguely heard Song Qiyan say a few words. It is said that his bloodline is relatively complex, and his mother is a Portuguese mixed race, so Qiao Qiao guessed that he must have a foreign beauty.

But it’s also quite strange. Jian Baiyou only produces one film per season, which is not many but not too few. Among the actresses, I have never heard of anyone filming with him. Could it be that they hired foreign actors from other companies?

Qiao Qiao continued to scan down the electronic board. She wanted to see if she could find her name. There were not only one thousand but also eight hundred actresses in the WAWA family. This list could only fit the names of four hundred actresses at most. It was simply a real ‘business ability appraisal list’.

Qiao Qiao felt guilty and started looking up from the 400th place. When she found the 380th place, she saw Xu Zizi’s name. Then she thought in frustration that she was probably outside the 400th place.

I continued to search without giving up. From the 400th place to the first place, there was no one named Qiao at all.

Now I really feel like the world is going to collapse.

Qiao Qiao suddenly felt that her steps were getting heavier. She sighed, turned around and walked out. For a moment, she didn’t even want to catch the last train, and she didn’t want to eat dinner, so she just walked home…

She feels that she usually works very hard, and doesn’t she have several works that have always had a good reputation?Although, although she took fewer photos and her body and face were not that outstanding, Qiao Qiao felt that she was quite integrated into the plot. Every time she wanted to play a role well, she would go to some relevant books to read. At that time, even if she wanted to play a female student who was raped, she even read “Trauma Psychology”. Qiao Qiao has always felt that she should be an actor first and then a sex worker…

She sighed, feeling as if all her hard work over the past two years had suddenly come to naught. After two years of hard work, she didn’t even make it into the top 400. How could she be worthy of Director Song, who had always taken care of her…

Thinking of Song Qiyan, Qiao Qiao became even more depressed. No wonder Director Song never mentioned the overall ranking to him, so Qiao Qiao was still confident that he must be around 300…

Qiao Qiao walked out of WAWA’s gate and looked up to the sky. It was getting dark earlier in early autumn, and the sun had already begun to turn red. A round mark was cast on the sky, making the surrounding clouds look red.

She took out her cell phone and wanted to find someone to talk to about the pain in her chest. She scrolled through the address book but couldn’t find a suitable one.Qiao Qiao is actually not very keen on socializing. The few friends he has been close to have been friends since childhood, and now they are all far apart. When looking for other friends, Qiao Qiao felt that it was not good to disturb others for his own affairs, so he had to put down his phone again after looking through it.

Alas, otherwise, I might as well change my career…

Of course, this idea only flashed for a second, and Qiao Qiao rejected it again. No, no, he had only been working for two years. WAWA is such a big company. Who among the top 400 is not lucky and powerful? You cannot give up because of this setback. If your own conditions are not outstanding, you should work harder. Is it possible that there is no chance to get into the top 400 in this life?

Qiao Qiao’s heart was pounding, and he had poured himself several bowls of hot chicken soup in the blink of an eye.

Yes, it’s only been two years, it’s still a long time.

Qiao Qiao clenched his fists in his heart. The next step was to accept more dramas and not to turn down work just because he was too playful and wanted to sleep in. The second step was to pay attention to the quality of the dramas and not accept everything. Although most of the projects assigned to him by Director Song were those he had screened, he also had to determine his position as soon as possible and cultivate a group of regular audiences.

Hmm… Regarding this issue, why don’t you go discuss it with Director Song tomorrow and see what path is suitable for you.

Qiao Qiao made up her mind. She took out her mobile phone and dialed Song Qiyan’s number. Qiao Qiao expected that he might still be in a meeting at the branch at this time, but she didn’t expect that the other party answered the call soon.

“Hello?”

There was a question in the silence. The man’s beautiful voice was not damaged by the electric current of modern society at all. What flowed out of the receiver was still the sound that made Qiao Qiao’s throat tighten every time he listened to it. Qiao Qiao couldn’t help but stand up straight.

“Um…Director Song, I, I want to ask you when you are free tomorrow, and I want to discuss with you what style I will follow…” Qiao Qiao swallowed. Although Song Qiyan was her person in charge, and the two of them had been together for two years, Qiao Qiao was always nervous every time she faced him.

“I’m not free tomorrow.” The other party replied quickly, and then there was a crisp sound of paper. Song Qiyan seemed to be flipping through something.

“Uh…then, when are you free?”

“Come over tonight. Are you at the entrance of the headquarters? I will pick you up later.”

Qiao Qiao was simply flattered.

“Won’t you bother me? Actually, this matter is not urgent at all…”

“When I get better, I’ll probably-” the other party paused and seemed to glance at the watch, “I’ll be there in twenty minutes. You can wait for me at the coffee shop across the road from the headquarters.”

“Okay…ok…”

Qiao Qiao held the phone that had ended the call, feeling a little dizzy. She had never made an appointment with Song Qiyan outside the company, so she couldn’t help but feel a little nervous.

Qiao Qiao actually likes Song Qiyan a little bit. She has always liked this type of man, a high-quality, gentleman. When you get in the car, he will naturally open the door for you and pull out a chair for you when eating. He is very knowledgeable and gentle.But Qiao Qiao also knows the fatality of this type of man. In fact, they treat every woman like this. They don’t give you special treatment just because you are Qiao Qiao. Even if you are Zhang Qiao or Li Qiao, they will do the same.

Because in their eyes, you are all the same.