Deng Xiaoqi's sudden rise to fame was something He Wenjie had not anticipated. In truth, he was somewhat worried that she might become famous too quickly. Her acting skills still needed a lot of work, and if her newfound reputation made her restless and caused her to slack off on honing her craft, it would not bode well for her future. Therefore, throughout Deng Xiaoqi's entire freshman year, He Wenjie kept her from taking on external acting jobs, aside from a few student productions.
During the winter break, Deng Xiaoqi had expected He Wenjie to arrange a role for her in a television crew. Instead, he sent her to a theater troupe for rehearsals. There, she met several veteran actors with exceptional acting skills. Witnessing the vast gap between their abilities and her own, Deng Xiaoqi stopped asking about joining film crews and patiently focused on rehearsing with the theater group. When she returned to school after the winter break, her teachers noticed a marked improvement in her acting. Only when they asked did they learn that she had spent the entire winter break—save for the few days of the Lunar New Year—rehearsing at the theater troupe. Meanwhile, He Wenjie and Deng Xinhua fended off all the commercial offers and fly-by-night production crews that came knocking.
By the summer break of her freshman year, seeing that Deng Xiaoqi's acting skills had improved significantly, He Wenjie finally brought out a script he had been holding. He invested heavily to invite two ve…
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