Transmigrated Into The Boss's Marriage Partner - Chapter 5

After that severe beating, Huang Jie actually behaved himself for a few days.

The other two roommates who had joined the production crew to film also returned the next day.

Whether it was because Zhu Wenyu had filled the two of them in on his glorious combat record, Su Youqi always felt that their gazes toward him were filled with an inexplicable sense of awe.

This suspicion was confirmed during the 308 dormitory’s first gathering.

After a few cups of alcohol, Guan Hongyu took advantage of the buzz and spoke up first: “Third Brother, did you really take down Huang Jie and his dozen or so people all by yourself?”

Upon their return, the two of them had been given goosebumps by the affectionate nicknames Wenwen and Youyou. To avoid the potential horror of being called Honghong and Starry, Chang Xingye used his authority as the dorm leader to firmly establish an order based on age, finalizing that they would address each other by their rankings.

However, Su Youqi and Zhu Wenyu simply continued as they always had.

Su Youqi smiled and modestly replied, “It wasn’t as exaggerated as all that. Although there were a lot of them, the alley was narrow, so they couldn’t swarm me all at once and had to come at me one by one. It just so happened that I studied martial arts for a few years when I was a kid, so fighting a few ordinary students wasn’t a problem. That’s how I managed to fluke a win against them.”

The actual situation, however, was quite different. Su Youqi, a professional with off-the-charts martial arts prowess, handled a dozen or so rookie students effortlessly, cutting through them like vegetables, one by one.

“All in all, you still beat a dozen of them down by yourself!” Guan Hongyu summarized, cutting straight through the surface appearance to the essence of the matter.

Well, put that way, there was nothing wrong with it, so Su Youqi tacitly accepted Guan Hongyu’s summary.

“Damn! Third Brother is awesome!” Male friendship builds up so quickly; Guan Hongyu was now completely won over by Su Youqi’s combat strength.

Even the mature and steady Chang Xingye couldn’t help but sigh with emotion: “You can’t judge a book by its cover!” Looking at how scholarly, gentle, and delicate the Third Brother usually was, he turned out to be fiercely ferocious when fighting.

From this, it was also evident that Su Youqi had a remarkably good character. Otherwise, given how he had been bullied by Huang Jie’s gang previously, with his skills, he could have long since beaten Huang Jie and the others black and blue. There was simply no need to wait until things reached an intolerable breaking point to strike.

Su Youqi’s image in the entire dorm instantly became much taller and more imposing.

Guan Hongyu suddenly thought of something and said to Su Youqi, “Right, Third Brother, the production crew that the Eldest Brother and I were just working with is looking for a supporting role. That character is a street punk who can take on multiple opponents at once. However, this role has few scenes, high demands, and is quite tough. The director tried a few people and wasn’t satisfied with any of them. I think you should go give it an audition. You taking on a dozen people is practically the living embodiment of a street punk; you’ll definitely pass. I’ll go talk to the director about it.”

Su Youqi, who had zero acting skills, hurriedly declined: “No need, Second Brother. Your production crew is a major production. I’m only a junior with zero experience, so I’m afraid I won’t catch the director’s eye. Besides, you and the Eldest Brother are also students. Securing this opportunity wasn’t easy to begin with, so don’t drag me down as dead weight. It won’t be good if it causes the director or other crew members to have opinions about it.”

Since Guan Hongyu ranked second, calling him Old Two sounded a bit awkward, so he was called Second Brother.

Su Youqi phrased it very nicely, but upon hearing it, Guan Hongyu felt even more strongly that the new Third Brother in the dorm was genuinely a good guy. With a grand wave of his hand, he said generously, “You don’t need to worry, Third Brother. This production crew was invested in by my dad, and the director is a friend of his. I can’t meddle in major roles like the male lead or second lead just yet, but a small supporting role with few scenes is no problem at all. Besides, you’re just going for an audition. The director will only use you if he approves; it’s not like you’re being forcibly crammed into the cast. You don’t have to worry at all.”

A man of action, Guan Hongyu was impatient and immediately took out his phone, firing off a string of voice messages to the director.

The director also gave face to the only son of the investor, readily agreeing and telling Guan Hongyu to bring Su Youqi over for an audition the next day.

Realizing that the matter was a done deal, Su Youqi felt his heart turn to ash, his face pale as vegetable leaves.

Chang Xingye, the most sensible of the lot, thought Su Youqi was still afraid of troubling them, so he also chimed in to persuade him: “It’s fine. It’s just an audition, so you don’t need to feel pressured, Third Brother. Besides, this production crew is quite legitimate, and with me and Hongyu there, we can look out for you a bit. It’s still much better than those sketchy production crews you tried before.”

Clearly, Chang Xingye had heard about some of Su Youqi’s past experiences.

The original body had never had his identity made public by the Su family, and the Su family treated him quite harshly, giving him only his tuition fees and the bare minimum for living expenses.

However, the Performance Department was inherently an expensive major. Because he was poor, and driven by a desire to prove himself, the original body had previously tried out for many production crews, auditioning for roles big and small. Unfortunately, due to Su Xiangqiu’s deliberate sabotage, not a single one had succeeded, and he was frequently met with malicious mockery and ridicule.

It was quite miserable.

Even Zhu Wenyu, who wasn’t from the Performance Department, chimed in to persuade him: “That’s right, Youyou. The production crew is at least relevant to your major, allowing you to accumulate experience. You’ll be seniors next semester and will need to go out for internships. If you can get into a production crew this time, it might be easier to find an internship placement later on.”

Believing that he shared the same impoverished background as Su Youqi, Zhu Wenyu leaned close to Su Youqi’s ear and whispered secretively, “Plus, the Eldest and Second Brothers said that production crews pay high wages. It’s definitely better than you working part-time at a bubble tea shop before.”

Perhaps it was the original body’s attempt to enter the entertainment industry that annoyed Su Xiangqiu, who already enjoyed a small standing in showbiz. She had thus instigated her mother to cut off Su Youqi’s already meager living allowance.

Because of this, the original body had even been reduced to working part-time at a bubble tea shop for a period, enduring endless mockery from Huang Jie and his gang.

Ever since then, the false information about the original body’s impoverished background had spread throughout their school.

It wasn’t until recently, when Su Xiangqiu wanted the original body to take her place in a ghost marriage, that she perfunctorily restored his living expenses, making the original body’s life slightly easier.

Su Youqi thought to himself with gallows humor: he ought to thank that big shot from the Nan family whom he was about to marry in a ghost marriage. Otherwise, he, a dignified senior celestial master, would still be selling bubble tea at a shop right now!

However, Zhu Wenyu’s second point had truly hit the nail on the head. Money was still very important to him right now.

Although Su Youqi had fleeced Su Weiguang of the dowry and the Nan family’s betrothal gifts, the wedding date was not yet set at this moment, and who knew where the money actually was.

Su Weiguang, whose heart ached terribly from being scammed, certainly wasn’t going to give Su Youqi any money.

All things considered, Su Youqi currently only had the money Huang Jie had paid in compensation.

That ten thousand yuan had been spent on daily necessities and a few sets of clothes and shoes, leaving him with only five thousand yuan.

And that was only because Su Youqi saw how broke he was and had been extremely frugal with his spending.

Five thousand yuan was neither a lot nor a little. It was originally an amount Su Youqi had carefully calculated and saved to tide himself through this period.

The tragic part was that he had just received a debt-collection text message moments ago, only to discover that the original body had actually borrowed money from someone else when he was at his poorest. It wasn’t too much or too little, exactly 4700 yuan, falling right within a manageable repayment range.

Fortunately, it left him with three hundred yuan for food; otherwise, Su Youqi wouldn’t even have been able to afford his share of tonight’s dorm gathering.

The pay in the entertainment industry was always quite high, so Su Youqi quickly bowed to these five buckets of rice and accepted Guan Hongyu’s kind offer: “If I pass, I’ll treat you guys to a meal!”

Guan Hongyu was high-efficiency too, bringing Su Youqi straight to the production crew to see the director the very next day.

When acting skills fell short, martial arts stepped in to fill the gap.

As a celestial master, he naturally came with a built-in three-tenths of acting ability. Although Su Youqi’s three-tenths of acting wasn’t as good as a professional’s, his martial arts action sequences were exceptionally outstanding, easily rivaling the professional stunt coordinators in the crew. This prompted the director, who had been searching for a suitable candidate for a long time, to make a ruthless decision and cast him on the spot.

Anyway, it was a supporting role with few scenes and very little screen time altogether. As long as the heavy action scenes were filmed well, the director figured he could personally teach him the rest if needed! Besides, it also did Guan Hongyu a favor. That was how the director rationalized it.

Although Su Youqi had remarkable martial arts foundations, they leaned toward practical application. He still lagged behind professionals when it came to projecting the best visual effects in front of a camera, so the director still had the crew’s martial arts coordinator teach him the ropes.

“Brother Su, when you do this movement, you can make the action just a bit more exaggerated. The on-camera effect will be much better that way,” the martial arts coordinator, Jin Yan, first watched Su Youqi run through a set of movements to gauge his baseline before explaining it to him.

“Oh, oh, okay.” Su Youqi was experiencing acting for the first time and found it quite fun, amplifying his movements according to Jin Yan’s words.

The cameraman standing nearby watched the effect captured through his lens and couldn’t help shouting out: “Nice! Absolutely perfect!”

Hearing the voice, the director also ran over to take a look.

Upon seeing it, he was overwhelmingly satisfied, praising Su Youqi directly: “Someone with a foundation is just different! Way better than those flashy pretenders I auditioned earlier!”

It was practically a difference of heaven and earth!

“You flatter me, Director. I just happened to run into a character that fits so well,” Su Youqi didn’t forget to thank Jin Yan either: “I still have to thank Xiaoyan for his professional guidance, otherwise we couldn’t have pulled off such a great effect.”

Experiencing the entertainment industry for the first time, Su Youqi was truly astounded by this group of people’s professional faking capabilities.

Leaving aside the fact that he had a real foundation to pull off such effects, he had witnessed with his own eyes how Jin Yan fabricated a set of choreography for someone with zero martial arts background, making that person look genuinely, super-duper formidable at fighting once captured on camera.

Simply terrifying.

Although Jin Yan was a stunt coordinator, he was a relatively introverted and honest fellow. Hearing Su Youqi praise him, he felt a bit embarrassed and said, “No, it’s because Brother Su has a solid foundation. I didn’t really guide Brother Su on much.”

A harmonious production crew was what the director loved to see most. In his high spirits, he even started making small talk with the two of them: “Speaking of which, Xiaoshan is actually a junior to Xiaoyan’s older brother, right?”

Jin Yan was somewhat surprised: “Brother Su is also from X University?”

“Yeah, Performance Department,” Su Youqi asked. “Your brother is also from X University? What department?”

Jin Yan replied: “My brother is in the Finance Department.”

Su Youqi: “Then your brother must be amazing!”

X University was one of the top-ranking universities in the country, and its Finance Department was among its top three majors. For Jin Yan’s brother to be admitted into the Finance Department, he must have been exceptionally brilliant.

“Yeah, my brother is super awesome, a top student!” Mentioning his brother made Jin Yan’s eyes light up, though they dimmed slightly right after.