4.3

The two men arrived at the AYA’s branch in Country C. The receptionist checked the list and led them to the parlor in the 19th floor.

“Yu Mei Lian, what brings you here? Didn’t Annie lose the election?” The man hovering in the hallway asked in surprise.

“Annie fell out of the competition, but Chengze was picked. Come to Chengze, meet big brother Wu Tao, he’s one of our company’s gold medal brokers.” Yu Meilian beckoned.

Wu Tao was still pondering who Cheng Ze was when he saw a long and elegant teenager walk out behind Yu Meilian, his slightly curved eyes sparkling with a moving demeanor, his red lips curving into a seductive arc. His appearance compared everyone waiting in the corridor, and as the crowd secretly sized him up, the same thought invariably surfaced in their hearts – there was no doubt that AYA’s casting specifications were practically tailor-made for him.

“What’s his full name? Where did you find him?” Wu Tao forced calm, quickly swept a glance at their own artists, this also think the quality of super high, now but everywhere look bad, typical goods than goods have to throw, people than people have to die!

“Transferred from under Simon.” Yu Mei Lian found a seat for the teenager to sit down and turned back to Wu Tao herself with a smug smile.

“Impossible, how could I have missed it!” Wu Tao’s face was a bit ugly. Because he had the highest seniority, he had scratched out the most promising ones when picking the people, leaving the rest to take their turn to Yu Meilian and the others.

“I figured he was Simon’s killer, so he hid the information, and the ones we picked the rest of were on file at the company, so they were randomly assigned to my name. Speaking of which, it’s also his luck that he could be spotted walking down the street and recommended by AYA’s executives to come over for an interview.” Yu Meilian pursed her lips and laughed lightly, happily admiring Wu Tao’s green and white changing face.

While the two brokers went back and forth in a dark tide, Zhou Yunsheng put on his headphones and listened to music quietly.

The artist Wu Tao brought was Bao’er, a member of an idol group, who was very popular because of her exquisite looks. As soon as she arrived, she looked left and right, thinking that there was no one better than herself in the crowd, and an arrogant demeanor could not help but show on her face, but now that she saw Lin Chengze, her confidence was completely gone, and she hurriedly moved away from the crowd for fear of being compared to him if she sat close to him and got caught in the mud.

In the parlor, candidates came in one by one and were blown out one by one.

Orlando, AYA’s chief designer and the perfumer of this perfume, was waving his hand in disgust, “Skin not smooth and delicate enough, OUT!”

“How dare you come with this kind of looks? Confidence is good, overconfidence is bad, OUT!”

“How old are you? 15? I’m more than 35 when I look at you like this, and the bags under your eyes are hanging down to the tip of your nose, OUT!”

“I did say I wanted to be mature and charming with a mix of innocence and childishness, but what’s going on here, is she an entertainer or a chick-whore? Tacky, simply tacky!OUT, OUT, OUT……”

Orlando said dozens of OUTs in a row, holding his forehead and feeling like he was going crazy.

The staff arranging the casting is also driving him crazy. What the hell is mature, charming and innocent? If I had graduated from elementary school, these two words would mean the exact opposite of each other, right? Even if it’s such a contradictory temperament, hasn’t someone done it before? It’s very touching, isn’t it? Have you gone beyond the limits of human aesthetics?

Orlando couldn’t hear the staff’s sputtering and still blew people out with just a glance. Finally it was the turn of Bao’er, the artist Wu Tao had brought with him, and his eyes flashed slightly as he beckoned, “Come over here and let me take a look.”

Bao’er was secretly delighted, and walked over to her with graceful little steps.

Orlando touched the back of her hand, looking slightly softer, then cupped her jaw and measured her face from side to side, before nodding after a few minutes, “Conditions are fine, go ahead and audition.”

Looking at the empty parlor with just a pot of roses in the center, Poi asked, “How do you audition? Is there a theme?”

Orlando, in a rare moment of patience, clasped his arms and replied, “There’s no theme, all you have to do is walk over and smell the pot of flowers.”

Smelling flowers? By the way, this is a perfume advertisement, so naturally, we have to show the uniqueness of the scent, so we have to be mesmerized when smelling it, but at the same time, we also have to show the most beautiful side of ourselves, bringing in the theme that people are like their flowers.

Self-conscious that she had found inspiration, Bao’er bounced over like an innocent little girl, as if she were playing to her heart’s content in a beautiful garden. Suddenly, she was attracted by an extraordinarily colorful clump of roses, with a look of awe on her face. She approached slowly, her steps light and soothing, as if afraid to startle the butterflies on the petals. Finally came to the flowers, she bent down, bowed her head, closed her eyes tightly, her expression was very mesmerized, her exquisite and flawless side face and the fiery roses.

The staff had smiles of satisfaction, then peeked toward Orlando.

“OUT! Waste of my time!” Orlando spoke in exasperation.

Bao’er was startled and blinked her almond eyes at him mournfully.

“OUT didn’t you hear me? OUT!” Orlando, not knowing the slightest bit about mercy, rolled the list into a paper tube and slapped it against the desktop, his eyes on the verge of spitting fire.

Bao’er was so ashamed that she covered her face and ran out.

The director in charge of shooting the commercial couldn’t stand it anymore and persuaded, “Orlando, that little girl just now was actually very good and completely expressed the feeling you wanted. I’ve read the information, she’s the one with the best profile, if even she is whisked away, I’m afraid you won’t be able to shoot this commercial.”

“Change the theme if you can’t shoot it, I’d rather not have a model in this ad than indiscriminately. The name of this perfume is “Mi”, in the ancient times of your country C, Mi and Mi are the same meaning, it means beautiful, beautiful to the point of extravagance, beautiful to the extreme, beautiful to the point of almost rotting. Only a flower that blooms to the point of decay can give off the most tantalizing and strongest scent. What I am looking for is such a beauty, beautiful to the extreme, beautiful to the point of decay, yet as full of life as a flower bud. Only such a beauty is worthy of my perfume, UNDERSTAND?”

The director and staff nodded their heads in succession, subdued by Orlando’s Mandarin attainments, and unanimously wondered in secret: Are you sure you’re describing a human being, not a leprechaun? You might as well get a special effects company to shoot you a 3D animated version of the commercial faster.

Orlando smoothed his breath and shouted, “Next.”

Zhou Yunsheng returned to his senses under Yu Mi Lian’s shove and took off his headphones to slowly walk in.

“Hello guys, I’m Huayu’s artist Lin Chengze, I’m 17 years old, I’m 176 centimeters tall and weigh 53 kilograms ……”

Not waiting for him to finish his introduction, Orlando couldn’t wait to wave him over, “Come on over here. My God, it’s finally you!”

Zhou Yunsheng walked over, his peach blossom eyes flashing with a spiritual light.

Orlando was about to pinch his jaw, but paused just as his fingertips touched his blown white skin, then cautiously touched and squeezed, his eyes looking him over inside and out several times like a searchlight.

“Great shape, go over to the audition.” He pointed to the roses.

The director and other staff also had to admit that this teenager’s looks were far above Bao’er’s, and even surpassed Zhang Yijia, who was known as the number one beauty in Country C, by several blocks. After a few more years, when his features have grown, there’s no telling what kind of demon he’ll become.

“Is it to smell the pot of flowers?” Zhou Yunsheng had long since hacked into AYA’s monitoring system through his brain and saw the entire process of Bao’er’s audition, and also heard Orlando’s elaboration on that perfume just now.

Wo, this is a sexy word …… Zhou Yunsheng walked over while thinking about it.

His gait was very elegant, with a little bit of leisure and carelessness, as if the garden full of flowers and plants could not enter his eyes. Stopped in front of the roses, his eyes slightly narrowed, white tender fingertips gently fiddled with the petals, as if he was in love with the flowers, but the coolness and detachment in his eyes told the onlookers that it was not the case at all.

He was disinterested and was about to leave, but the thorns on the stem pierced his fingertips, and a drop of crimson blood slowly oozed out. He stared at the bead of blood and seemed to find it amusing, a hint of laughter finally flowed out from the bottom of his pitch-black eyes, but then instantly converged, and with a single merging of his five fingers, he crushed the rose that blossomed like a fire to smithereens.

Than the blood more crimson flower juice flowed out along the cracks of his fingers, his eyes smile deeper and thicker, raised his hand, placed on the end of his nose to sniff, intoxicated look through a few points of sick madness, cheeks inevitably stained with a few drops of flower juice, he opened his eyes, probed the pink tongue rolled to go, peach blossom eyes masked a layer of ambiguous water mist ……

The teenager’s face was still a little innocent, but he raised his hands and feet in a way that exuded seduction. It was a beauty so bursting and extravagant that one didn’t need to get close to smell the sweet to rotting odor.

Orlando swallowed hard, the rest of the crew long drunk, cheeks flushed and expressions in a trance.

“Let’s see, hmmm, Lin Chengze, an artist from Huayu. Okay, he’s it, come over in three days for the commercial, remember to take care of your skin.” Orlando directly clapped his hands, then turned his back and stroked his wildly beating heart.

Lin Chengze smiled and nodded, walking over to the trash can to throw the petals, then pulling out a handkerchief to slowly and methodically wipe off the flower juice. A hot gaze was cast on him, and he wrinkled his eyebrows, looking towards the door.

There’s nobody there.

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Cao Merkun was taking the elevator to the top floor.AYA was Cao’s property, and he happened to come over today to take a look.

“That guy looks familiar?” His expression was languid and his tone was idle, but the huge object in his crotch that was already – erect – completely betrayed his agitated mood.

“He’s a classmate of young Ji, called Lin Chengze, and we’ve had dinner with him a few times.” The assistant reminded.

Cao Merkun recalled for a moment, his tone was a bit surprised, “That’s the child who tried to seduce me? Are you sure?” He really couldn’t connect the vulgar and unpleasant teenager with the extremely seductive siren just now.

“OK.” The assistant thought carefully and nodded again with a slightly hesitant expression.

Cao Merkun smiled playfully, “If he comes to seduce me again, I’ll simply go along with it.”

The assistant mourned for BOSS’s modesty, “Boss, he’s Ji Shao’s boyfriend, letting Ji Shao know how much will affect your nephew and uncle’s relationship, right?”

“That kind of person, with Ji Han Yu how to catch, sooner or later is going to fly? Besides, I’m just playing around, I’m not going to let them break up, when I’m tired of playing, I’ll give him a sum of money to shut up, Ji Han Yu won’t know.” Cao Merkun waved his hand in disbelief.