Chapter 127 - Courage
Tao Lin left. Uncle Zhang and Aunt Yun didn't co to disturb them, leaving only Chen Ran and Zhang Fanzhi in the room.
Chen Ran didn't ntion the matter of deceiving Tao Lin. Wouldn't bringing it up just be asking for awkwardness?
"How long have you been writing this song?" Zhang Fanzhi asked, looking at the lyrics.
"I probably started preparing it after you got busy with your new song," Chen Ran said.
Zhang Fanzhi glanced at Chen Ran and gave a soft "Mm."
Chen Ran checked the ti, realized it was already late, and said to Zhang Fanzhi, "I have to head back first. I still have to go to work tomorrow morning."
"I'll drive you."
As Zhang Fanzhi spoke, she reached for her coat.
Chen Ran waved his hand and said, "Don't. It's so late, I can just take a taxi back myself. You rest well. I'll get off work earlier tomorrow and see if we can finish writing the song."
Chen Ran tried to stop her, but how could Zhang Fanzhi listen to him? She put on her coat on her own accord, then looked at him calmly.
Chen Ran t her gaze for a while, and finally conceded defeat, saying:
"I just feel that since you just got off the plane today and went to pick up, you must be quite tired. You have to shoot a comrcial tomorrow, so it's better to rest more right now."
"I'm not tired, and I'm just driving."
Since she put it that way, Chen Ran naturally didn't refuse.
Along the way, Zhang Fanzhi seed to speak less. Chen Ran knew she was thinking about the new song, so he chatted with her about matters concerning producing his program.
He also brought up wanting to produce a major program and inviting Zhang Fanzhi to be a guest.
This was the third ti Chen Ran had said this, and presumably, it would be the last. If there was a next ti, it would an he could truly invite her.
Chen Ran arrived. After getting out of the car, he urged, "Be careful on your way back. Rember to send a ssage when you get ho."
Zhang Fanzhi nodded. She watched his back disappear before finally driving away.
After returning ho, she lay on her bed and sent Chen Ran a ssage saying she had arrived ho.
After putting down her phone, she held the lyric book, looked at the two words 'Courage' on it, and spaced out slightly.
……
The next day, the program officially began recording.
The recording of a talk show program was simpler than a variety show; it entirely relied on Zhou Zhou's performance.
As a veteran host, Zhou Zhou's foundational skills were beyond doubt. He hadn't let them deteriorate over these years at the tropolitan Channel; instead, he had made his own style even stronger.
Chen Ran watched Zhou Zhou speak eloquently. When he reached an excited point, his eyes bulged, and spittle flew out.
He looked excited, yet didn't overdo it; this feeling was exactly right.
"This is exactly the feeling we want!" Director Wu Tao clapped his hands.
He also hadn't expected Zhou Zhou to perform this well. During the rehearsal and test recording, he hadn't brought out this kind of strength.
It was probably because there was an audience below that Zhou Zhou found his zone.
There were very few monts when recording was called to a halt. Zhou Zhou couldn't completely go off-script either. Since he was speaking excitedly, sotis he couldn't rember his lines as he spoke, but the pause tis were very short.
His condition today was indeed god-tier. After pausing for a while and continuing to record, that feeling imdiately ca back up.
The live audience wasn't entirely composed of invited professional audience mbers; there were so tickets given away.
Everyone's reactions were quite good. When a punchline was dropped, they laughed when they were supposed to.
When Zhou Zhou threw out a conversational hook up on stage, those professional audience mbers would originally catch it, but before they could open their mouths, it was snatched away by the real audience mbers.
"This Zhou Zhou is indeed capable!" Chen Ran also agreed.
In his impression was the Zhou Zhou from five years ago. Later on, doing 'Zhou Zhou Cos to Visit' on the tropolitan Channel, his style hadn't changed, but his characteristics were nowhere near as strong as they were now.
It could only be said that the script and his style shed perfectly.
If the Zhou Zhou that Chen Ran saw back then was the current one, why would he still go looking for so Xu Yang?
The program finished recording.
Questionnaires were then distributed to every audience mber, asking them to help fill them out.
It was just so simple multiple-choice questions, wanting to understand the audience's evaluation of this talk show.
The audience handed in the questionnaires as they were leaving the venue.
After Liu Lang went to tally them, he made a spreadsheet and brought it over.
Wu Tao and Chen Ran took a look and were both very satisfied. The reviews were basically all positive, indicating the audience quite liked the program.
There were two or three that didn't say the program was bad, but rather checked the box indicating they didn't like this type of program.
It's very normal for a program to have people who don't like it. Just this positive review rate alone proved the program was indeed not bad.
Chen Ran and Zhou Zhou discussed so recording issues from just now as they ca out of the broadcasting studio.
Head-on, they ran into Xu Yang and Hanhan, who had also just finished recording their program.
"Teacher Xu Yang, recording a program?" Chen Ran greeted first.
Xu Yang smiled politely: "Yes, are you guys done recording?"
Chen Ran smiled: "Just finished recording the first episode. We won't disturb Teacher Xu Yang, we'll be leaving first."
After Chen Ran left, Xu Yang asked Hanhan: "Do you know the person next to Chen Ran?"
Hanhan thought for a mont and said: "If I rember correctly, he should be a host from the tropolitan Channel. It seems he does a program called 'Zhou Zhou Cos to Visit'. My parents used to quite like watching it."
"tropolitan Channel? How did they end up finding a host from the tropolitan Channel?" Xu Yang couldn't figure it out.
Chen Ran and his team had sought him out. After being rejected, they unexpectedly couldn't even find a host from the satellite TV channel, and finally went to a local channel.
The chief planner is from a local channel, and now the host is too. If this kind of program doesn't flop, whose will?
He felt he had so foresight. When the program initially approached him, he had hesitated for a mont.
Looking at it now, if he hadn't rejected such a program, the probability of him flopping along with it would have been too high.
Hanhan also felt it was strange. How could this program crew not think it through and run off to a local channel to find a host?
As for saying they couldn't find anyone to host in the satellite TV channel, that was a complete joke. For example, a secondary host like her—if such a program approached her, she definitely wouldn't refuse.
There were quite a few people like her.
With many monks and little gruel, who would still be picky?
Could it be that the people in this program crew thought Zhou Zhou was more suitable than the satellite TV channel's hosts?
But the tropolitan Channel was just a local station, and its hosts had no fa. Don't look at her as just a secondary host; in terms of popularity, she was definitely higher than Zhou Zhou.
Chen Ran didn't know what these two were thinking, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
Greeting them was out of politeness. After all, they were colleagues, and he couldn't just ignore soone because they rejected him.
"When it cos to the second episode, you have to pay attention to these areas we just talked about. Otherwise, your performance was extrely perfect," Chen Ran said.
Zhou Zhou nodded repeatedly. He was more than ten years older than Chen Ran, but he still attached great importance to Chen Ran's words.
Mainly, Chen Ran's resu was a bit intimidating, and the script was genuinely outstanding.
Having stayed in the tropolitan Channel for so many years, it wasn't easy to get an opportunity to return to the satellite TV channel, so he naturally wasn't willing to make any mistakes at all.
……
Zhang Fanzhi still ca to the TV station to pick up Chen Ran.
Her comrcial was finished filming.
She wasn't an actress inherently, so the requirents for the comrcial weren't too high.
Usually, shooting this kind of costics comrcial only required her to be responsible for looking beautiful.
With Zhang Fanzhi's looks and temperant, just standing there was pretty much enough to pass.
The accident Chen Ran had spoken of didn't occur. Everything has a 'just in case', but the probability of this 'just in case' was too small; after all, he wasn't a jinx.
In one night's ti, the two finished writing the song, and Sister Lin also prepared the contract.
The price was raised to two hundred thousand.
At this price, Chen Ran glanced at Zhang Fanzhi. He had said to offer a higher price just so she wouldn't overthink it, how did it directly double?
The key point was that Tao Lin actually agreed to it!
It was Zhang Fanzhi dropping Chen Ran off again. Before Chen Ran got out of the car, he glanced at Zhang Fanzhi.
She was returning to Huahai tomorrow, and since she had a new song, it would be a while before they could et again.
Chen Ran was ntally prepared, but there was still a bit of disappointnt.
When he was about to leave, he heard Zhang Fanzhi's clear and bright voice.
"Chen Ran!"
Zhang Fanzhi rarely called him by his na.
Turning his head, he saw Zhang Fanzhi sitting in the car, her bright eyes looking at him. She pursed her lips slightly and said, "Good night."
The disappointnt in Chen Ran's heart lessened sowhat. He smiled and said, "Be careful on the road."
Watching Chen Ran's back disappear, Zhang Fanzhi didn't know why, but what kept echoing in her mind was his slightly hoarse singing voice from tonight.
……
Chen Ran lay on his bed.
What he received was a WeChat ssage from Zhang Fanzhi.
It was just one line of text, but it made Chen Ran sowhat unable to sleep.
"I can't wait until I'm thirty."
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