I'm A Baller - Chapter 327
Chapter 327: Dangerous Gaze
The contract signing was so easy. Wang Yunxi wanted to talk about the terms and conditions but Fu Yushi and Nawu simply refused to listen and just signed the papers on the spot.
Well, now Wangting Entertainment had two new actresses!
Actually, the two girls had signed the same sort of management contract as the other popular livestreamers. They had signed a full contract.
A full contract meant that everything they thought of and hadn’t thought of would be taken care of by Wangting Entertainment.
The main clause was this: The management company would be the artiste’s only and exclusive management company. They would be in charge of communications, publicity, promotions and negotiation of various kinds of affairs, the corresponding types of remuneration and payment methods, as well as the artist’s other performances and related matters.
‘Performances’ included all forms of activities related to anything that required their visuals, their voice, their movements and more.
Livestreaming was included, and so was film and television.
Wang Yan chuckled evilly. “Muahaha, now you will have to do everything that I tell you to!”
Nawu looked at him with an adorable look on her face. “Boss, what do you need us to do?”
Gosh! She was trying to act cutesy on purpose!
Fu Yushi couldn’t be bothered with Wang Yan’s gloating. She threw him a dirty look, then went back to reading the script.
Damn, that look of disdain…
Wang Yan got angry. Fu Yushi behaved like that because she knew he wouldn’t dare to do anything to her.
She was looking down on him! But it was also true that he didn’t dare to do anything! Humph!
In his anger, he instructed Youcai, “Rich, I want to eat stir-fried savory pancakes this afternoon. Tell the chef to cook 20 for me. I don’t care about the other ingredients, but make sure you get green onions and sauce for me.”
Youcai was completely confused. When he stepped out of the room, his entire back was covered with sweat.
He quickly called the restaurants in the hotel. “Can you make stir-fried savory pancakes?”
One restaurant specialized in steak, while the other did international buffets. Both of their head chefs were stunned by this request.
“Savory pancakes?”
“If you insist, we could do beef burritos.”
“Could we just throw some flour and eggs together to make some sort of pancake?”
Youcai thought about Wang Yan’s request and shook his head.
“No, from my understanding, he wants the Shandong type of pancake, so it comes with large green onion pieces and sauce smeared on top of it. You add fried doughsticks to it, or you can pair it with…”
The two head chefs immediately turned him down.
“Non, je ne peux pas le faire!”
“No entiendo lo que quieres.”
What the hell?! Were they pretending to be foreigners now? This was such a trivial task and they were so scared?!
Youcai had no choice but to look for the other chefs in the hotel, but nobody was able to do it.
It didn’t seem difficult to make the pancakes Wang Yan wanted, and it wasn’t anything high class, so any chef should have been able to get it done.
But since this was the request of the one staying in the presidential suite, none of the chefs knew what sort of standards they had to meet!
None of them were professionals in this cuisine, so nobody dared to take up the job.
In the end, Youcai had no choice but to drag the hotel’s executive chef, Wu Jian’an over to do this.
Wu Jian’an began to doubt the meaning of life when he started frying the pancakes.
He was a well known chef himself! What on earth was he doing?
He was just serving a super tycoon.
Wang Yan was ultra rich, so even if he wanted naan bread from India, they would have to get it for him.
That was the power of money.
…
While the kitchen of the hotel was in a mess over the pancakes, Fu Yushi and Nawu were laughing their butts off.
“Wangwang, you’re really insane! Hahaha!”
“You’re staying in the presidential suite of a five-star hotel and drinking wine that costs a few thousand a bottle, but you want those savory pancakes that cost barely 5 bucks a piece?”
“The canteen in school sells those! You should have said so earlier, and we’d buy some for you!”
“Your taste is really different from other people! How very classy!”
Wang Yan didn’t care how much they teased him. He just smiled calmly.
“Let’s talk about something else.”
“Sure. Let’s talk about work, let’s talk about… PFFT!” Nawu quickly tried to be serious again, but when she saw that little confident look on Wang Yan’s face, she couldn’t help but laugh.
She was already well known for being very easily tickled, and after getting to know Wang Yan, she only got worse. She would laugh at even the lamest puns.
But Wang Yan remained calm.
“Nawu, after thinking about it, I think you should film this movie along with Shishi. The female lead has a best friend in the movie, and I think a silly and comedic sort of character suits you very well.”
“Are you for real?!” Nawu was instantly excited.
“I can act alongside Shishi?”
“Yup.”
Wang Yan started to increase the importance of the best friend supporting role.
“The film will definitely be shot in the border provinces. The setting of the movie is closely related to foreign forces, so the mastermind behind the research institute will definitely not be our owb government…”
“In fact, the film will not even mention our government. It will try to minimize the existence of such a thing, so the location of the story will have to be desolate, hidden, and on the border with foreign countries.”
“We might even film overseas.”
“No matter which province we choose, the female lead’s best friend should be a minority who can strengthen and guide the audience’s imagination.”
“Your foreign look just so happens to be in line with the setting, so the audience can imagine you as anything from someone from the western border to someone from Eastern Europe or someone of mixed descent.”
“Of course, even if you’re acting as yourself, you have to act pretty well. Don’t drag the film down.”
“Don’t worry, don’t worry. I can do it!”
Nawu nodded vigorously, clasped her hands together and bowed towards Wang Yan.
“Producer Wang, tell me what you want and I’d act accordingly! I know a little Russian and Kazakh…Ya lyublyu vas!”
Wang Yan was laughing inside, but continued to look unaffected.
“Don’t be in such a hurry to thank me. I’m confident of Shishi, but I’ll have to see if you are up to it or not.”
He couldn’t bear to look at Nawu anymore, so he turned to look at Fu Yushi.
But after he turned, he noticed Fu Yushi looking at Wang Yan like she was in deep thought. She looked suspicious of him.
He quickly turned back to ask Nawu, “Was that Russian you were saying? What does that mean?”
Nawu spread her arms wide, then raised her arms over her head to form a heart shaped gesture. “Saranghaeyo! I love you!”
Pfft! He didn’t expect that.
He nearly spat all the wine in his mouth out.
Just then, Youcai knocked on the door, pushed a cart into the room and started laying the table.
There was a stack of golden corn pancakes and a stack of plain pancakes. There were eggs, quail eggs, beef with soy sauce, braised meat, shrimp, squid, ham, bacon, lettuce, fried dough sticks, egg sauce, sweet noodle sauce, bean paste…
So many things on the table.
Of course, the most important thing was whole green onions.
It was as thick as a thumb and half a meter long. Obviously, it was not the Shandong species of green onion, but it was definitely not the small type either.
Youcai kept bowing. “I’m so sorry, Mr. Wang. We can’t get hold of those super thick Shandong green onions at the moment. Will these do?”
Wang Yan had no idea. He had to ask the system.
“Do these ingredients meet the card’s requirements?”
[Yes]
Alright!
“Good, you’re very efficient, I’m very happy with that.”
Wang Yan smiled and waved his hands to send Rich and the waiters away. He didn’t even realize that Wang Yunxi had already left too. The room was left with only Nawu, Fu Yushi and himself now.
Big Bear smiled foolishly at the pancakes, while Wang Yan leaned back against his chair leisurely, crossed his legs and beckoned her with his finger.
“Let’s start the auditions!”
“What?!” Nawu was confused.
Wang Yan started putting his act very seriously.
“There’s a scene in the script where the female lead and her best friend eat pancakes while talking about how the female lead is going to become a popular celebrity in the future. Let’s do that scene.”
“Nawu, your pancake will only have some sauce and green onions so as to reflect your standard of living at this point in the story.”
“You’ve got to be filled with hope for the future, thinking about how you’re going to earn big bucks, so that you’d be able to add sausages and eggs to your pancake.”
“But of course, you’re both very poor now, so you have to be a little unhappy, yet enjoy the food.”
“You’ve got to bring out the contrasts in all these scene, understand?”
Nawu’s eyes grew wide after hearing Wang Yan’s description of the scene.
She looked back down at the huge green onion in front of her and her entire face fell.
She whined, “Why are both of us so poor?! Isn’t this movie set in the present day? Even an elementary school student would be able to afford an egg or two, right?!”
Wang Yan frowned and criticized her harshly, “Films are an expression of art! Exaggerating the scenario makes for a better atmosphere and the contrast will be even more obvious! Do you know what other girls have to eat when they come for an audition?! I don’t see them complaining!”
“Alright! Enough!” Nawu raised her hands to surrender. She didn’t want Wang Yan to continue nagging.
She didn’t care what other girls ate.
She didn’t sincerely want to become a movie star either. She was doing this for him and Fu Yushi.
How could he do this to her!
She angrily picked up one of the pancakes, covered it with sauce, then picked up the smallest green onion she could find.
But Wang Yan took it away from her.
“Use this one!”
What??! Nawu nearly cursed when she saw that green onion.
Even if she chopped off the leafy part, she was still stuck with at least 40 centimeters of green onion, and it was so thick!
She was about to glare at Wang Yan when he looked kindly at her and consoled her, “Don’t worry, I’ll get Shishi to act with you.”
Wang Yan turned to look at the shocked Fu Yushi and started to ask her, “Shishi, why don’t you get a pancake too and act the scene out with Nawu? This will be a good test of your coordination and chemistry…”
What excellent reasons.
Fu Yushi was confused for a second when she smelled a rat.
“Wait…the script doesn’t have such a scene!”
“It does. What do you mean by it doesn’t?”
Wang Yan spoke very confidently, but Fu Yushi didn’t buy it.
“I’ve already read to the point where she starts fighting, but I don’t remember such a scene at all…” She stuck the script out at Wang Yan and said coldly, “Where’s the scene? Find it for me.”
This little princess could be really hard to deceive…
It was much easier to trick Nawu into doing anything…
Wang Yan had spent an entire week working on the script, so he knew it like the back of his hand. Of course he knew that there was no such scene in the script.
But Wang Yan wasn’t going to let this small matter get in the way of what he wanted to do.
He turned to the scene on the train and pointed at the text as he made something up on the spot, “Here it is. On the way to the competition, where you meet the second male lead for the first time. Follow these lines.”
Fu Yushi was so pissed. “It states that we’re eating eggs!”
“Eating eggs isn’t relatable enough, and it isn’t symbolic enough either. I had been thinking about how to improve this part for a long time now, and I finally got inspired today…”
Even Nawu smelled a rat and started staring at Wang Yan.
He was bullying her just because she didn’t know the script!
Wang Yan was indignant. “Hey, hey, hey, what sort of attitude is this? I’m the scriptwriter! I’m the producer!”
“So you shall act according to what I say!”
“Get serious, girls! Do a good job!”
“If the two of you act well together and you can inspire me to make the lines in the script even better, it will raise the quality of the movie! You two would have contributed to that end!”
“This is a project that will cost tens of millions! You think I’m just fooling around with you two?!”
Well, the filmmaking part was certainly no joke, but eating the pancake with green onions…
But Wang Yan’s words were really convincing. Fu Yushi and Nawu were both lost for words.
The movie production was going to cost tens of millions!
It was true that Wang Yan wouldn’t be joking around with something like that. So the script really needed them to do this?
Nawu accepted this explanation, but the little princess was still not fully convinced.
“You’re really not lying to us?”
“Of course I’m not!” Wang Yan raised his hand like he was taking an oath. “Fine! I’ll eat with both of you, okay? When we get to the part with the second male lead, I’ll act as him with the both of you!”
Fu Yushi was fully convinced now.
Wang Yan offered to be part of the scene too, so he had to be serious, right?
“Alright, give us a little time to familiarize ourselves with the scene and lines.”
“Do a good job.”
Wang Yan nodded sternly. His expression was so serious.
After that, he started rolling a pancake for himself too. It was one layer of sauce and one green onion and nothing else. Just like theirs.
Nawu was so touched that she started tearing up.
“Wangwang, I misjudged you…don’t worry, I’ll put my heart into acting!”
“That’s good.” Wang Yan nodded and looked sadly at the pancakes while sighing. “I’m really putting my life on the line to act with you two…please don’t disappoint me.”
The look in Fu Yushi’s eyes suddenly became very serious, and blazed with an indestructible determination.
“Nawu, let’s take a bite of the pancake to see if we can get a feel of the scene. The expressions required in this scene can be a bit difficult.”
Nawu took a bite.
Her eyes suddenly widened and her lips twitched.
She was stuck like that for at least two seconds.
Before Wang Yan burst out laughing, he quickly looked down and called out to the system in his mind, “System! Activate [Pancake Man]! The target is Reyi Nawu!”
[Card activated]
Nawu frowned and pinched her nose as she took deep breaths, trying to hypnotize herself.
“The pancakes are delicious, the green onions are fragrant, the pancakes are fragrant, and the green onions are delicious! Nawu, you can do it!”
She took a bite with tears in her eyes. Her eyes were as wide and round as Fu Yushi’s.
Her pupils dilated visibly, and she looked like her soul had left her body.
Wang Yan’s expression was twisted from trying to hold his laughter back. His face was all red as he urged them, “Say the lines!”
Fu Yushi immediately started crying.
Then she started reciting her lines with that touched expression.
“It’s so yummy…”
Nawu made a hissing noise. “Wait…sss…pass me the Sprite…sss…”
Rich had prepared everything. There was really Sprite on the table.
Wang Yan opened a can of it and passed it to her. Nawu took a huge gulp and stopped everything she was doing.
He could see her skin turn red from below her collarbones all the way up to her forehead. The three lines on her forehead were exceptionally red.
Drinking ice cold soda when something was spicy was really refreshing but…BURP!!!
“WAHAHAHAHA…”
Wang Yan couldn’t take it anymore. He started slamming his palm against the table and felt like his sides were about to split.
The look in Nawu and Fu Yushi’s eyes immediately signaled danger.
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