Of course, Duanmu Huai’s own acting skills—well, they can’t really be called acting skills. Initially, Duanmu Huai mainly relied on his charisma; as his body in this world slowly grew up, Duanmu Huai pulled out another big weapon.
That is action scenes.
Indeed, as the Judge, Duanmu Huai is a combat expert. Performing action scenes cos naturally to him. In the Japanese film industry, being good at action scenes is practically a get-out-of-jail-free card. Especially since Duanmu Huai’s combat performances are full of power, not comparable to those with superficial skills and good looks. As a result, Duanmu Huai successfully made a mark at film festivals, even earning several foreign film award nominations.
Many big-na directors specially invite Duanmu Huai to be their action director for films. At this stage, apart from being a bit young, Duanmu Huai’s status in the film industry is quite high. In fact, many older movie stars have to courteously call him an elder.
Don’t be fooled by Duanmu Huai’s body age of just 15; he’s been acting since he was 4, that’s more than ten years now! Truly a senior in the movie world!
Do you understand what age = career age ans in terms of value?
So ultimately, besides the child star’s own efforts, not having useless teammates is very important too.
Take Arima Kana for example, she was rather unlucky. Because she beca famous from acting, she went to release albums, and the result was... both sides crumbled; truly unfortunate.
If it were Duanmu Huai, he would definitely not do that.
But most children generally don’t have this kind of risk awareness.
Once Duanmu Huai enrolled, he naturally attracted a lot of attention. Of course, everyone only dared to look at him from afar, not daring to approach. After all, in this school, Duanmu Huai’s status is like that of a superstar. Besides him, the best achievents others have are acting in eight o’clock pri ti dramas, a tier lower than movie actors. Recklessly striking up a conversation might be seen as disrespectful, and if Duanmu Huai dislikes you, it’ll be hard to survive in the film industry afterward.
"Ha ah......"
Among the crowd, a hat-wearing red-haired girl’s expression was complex as she gazed silently at the white-haired girl sitting in the classroom, sighing softly, her emotions conflicted.
Though she had long guessed she would co, she didn’t expect that seeing her would stir such complicated emotions...
The red-haired girl lowered her head, staring at the ground. She was none other than Arima Kana.
To Arima Kana, she always viewed Duanmu Huai as a rival, especially with that unique charisma-filled acting style. Later, Arima Kana collaborated with Duanmu Huai several tis, and unlike others, Duanmu Huai always pointed out her issues, which was quite beneficial for her.
Unfortunately, they only t two or three tis, and each ti Arima Kana hoped to contact Duanmu Huai privately, but held back for vanity’s sake. Back then, Arima Kana thought that the next ti they t, she would be able to compete on the sa stage as Duanmu Huai, and then nonchalantly request contact details.
But unexpectedly... things didn’t go as planned.
After that, Arima Kana began to decline. Unlike Duanmu Huai, she is now just a "forr child star."
Which is why, upon seeing Duanmu Huai again, Arima Kana felt extrely conflicted.
She often sees discussions online; many people online compare Duanmu Ai (her stage na) and Arima Kana as two contrasting examples.
One takes steady steps, gradually expanding their role range in the film industry, and although there aren’t many works, all are of high quality.
The other, however, faded into the crowd, now struggling even for a supporting role.
Arima Kana has watched all of Duanmu Huai’s works and must admit Duanmu Huai’s performance always had direction and focus. He never chose roles beyond his ability, and gradually strengthened himself from that.
For instance, initially, Duanmu Huai played children possessed by ghosts, or roles like ghosts.
Then as he grew up, he began playing so villain roles on that basis.
After all, wicked yet charming villain roles are always popular.
As he grew older, moving to roles that opposed the hero, Duanmu Huai demonstrated his action prowess, solidifying his position completely.
Even now, Duanmu Huai is taking roles that blur the line between good and evil, often leaving audiences unsure if he is a hero or villain, further enhancing the suspense of the plot. This also makes many directors eager to collaborate with Duanmu Huai.
Thus, Arima Kana can see that from the start, Duanmu Huai firmly walked the villain path. Though so audiences complain they always know what role he’ll play just by seeing his face, others find his captivating evil performances and fierce action scenes thrilling. Plus, with current roles that blur right and wrong, they’re even more interesting.
Only now does Arima Kana realize how correct Duanmu Huai’s decision was; it reminds her that during her own rise in career, she was not like that. Her agent was her mother back then, who allowed her to play any role just because it was the lead, making it hard for Arima Kana to leave a deep impression in people’s minds.
The result was that when she grew up, she even lost the sole label of child star and didn’t develop so "expertise in evil and horror" like Duanmu Huai, so she was abandoned...
Sadly, regretting now won’t help. If back when her career was booming, she had determined her thoughts and future plans...
It wouldn’t make a difference, since she was just a kid back then, and her agent was her mother. Even if Kana protested, she’d likely be dismissed as childish tantrums.
"Oh......"
Thinking of this, Arima Kana sighed again, deeply stared at Duanmu Huai once more, then turned and left.
The other party likely already forgot about this forr child star, right?
But Arima Kana doesn’t realize; soon enough, she’ll et Duanmu Huai again.
For Duanmu Huai, the first day at school was rather boring; aside from greeting classmates at the beginning, he didn’t do much else. Incidentally, Ruby specifically reminded Duanmu Huai not to talk to her at school; she doesn’t want to be seen as the big star’s sister... Well, that’s pretty cute.
However, this leaves him bored... flirting... seems impossible.
Oh well, if nothing works, might as well join so club, then head to the changing room for so eye candy. After all, this is an arts high school, beautiful girls are everywhere. Just watching them change clothes could pass the ti. Besides, his body is female too, entering the changing room won’t get reprimanded.
What? You talk about handso guys? Aren’t they just walking vegetables?!
Duanmu Huai didn’t kill them all, which is already leniency!
"Ring ring......"
Just as Duanmu Huai was planning a brilliant encounter of "oh, sorry I walked into the wrong room," the phone rang. Duanmu Huai picked up, and soon the voice of the professional manager ca through.
"Ah, boss, hard working on your class."
"Not hard, boldly sleeping in class is quite nice, what’s up?"
"It’s like this; the budget approval projects for the quarter have all been confird. I’ve emailed them all, please take a look."
"Alright, let see."
Duanmu Huai said as he opened the phone’s email, glancing over the approved film project budget. But seeing one item made his eyebrow twitch.
"Jintian?"
"Yes, this project is part of the expansion into web television, because the original work is very popular among young people. We think releasing on web television will be more appealing...
"I know, my sister is quite obsessed with it."
Duanmu Huai isn’t interested in shoujo manga, but Ruby does like it, often talks about the plot to him. Though in Duanmu Huai’s view, these shoujo mangas are rather dull...
"I plan to visit the set, when does it start filming?"
"Tomorrow."
"Alright, tomorrow I’ll take a look at how the filming is."
Since it’s a manga his sister likes, she’d probably enjoy it as a drama adaptation too.
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