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Thinking of deer Fei Fei

Chapter 10

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Regarding Fei Chang’s future development, the people in charge at Yue Yang Studio held a heated debate. The other performers picked by Chen Yue Yang already had a certain popularity, so it was alright to keep following the same strategy.

Only Fei Chang was completely clean and had absolutely not debuted yet.

To release an album, and debut solo?

It took too long, and who knew if it would be possible to recuperate the investment.

To act, and do some cameos?

His height completely raised his sense of existence so he couldn’t be a male wallflower. Want it or not he could only be a male prosperity tree¹.

In the end, Chen Yue Yang decided to let him take the variety show path. He had a hunch that Fei Chang would be liked by all the audiences.

And thus, Fei Chang started his life as a variety show artist in a daze. He would go out to record shows five times a day, seven days a week. His partners usually were those not worth mentioning within the company: the 2.5-star, the 3.8-star, the 4.9-star. However, the front-line senior brother he wanted to work together with the most, he was not able to meet him again.

How small was this company? So small that you could meet at the public bathroom.

Yet how big could this company be? Obviously, Fei Chang went to report back to the company every day, yet he had not seen even a single leg hair of the Tibetan antelope again.

Fei Chang was brokenhearted, Fei Chang was miserable, Fei Chang was depressed.

Fei Chang was absent-minded, Fei Chang was passive and dispirited.

As a result, during a game, Fei Chang missed a hint from the staff, which made him “lose” to the other group, an official couple.²

This time, he participated in the recording of a certain indoor variety show of a certain TV studio, with a forgettable name. In any case, there were at least a few dozen similar programs in the country.

During the game segment, ten guests were split in groups, and two people of each group played “You draw, I guess”.

Only a drawing board and a pen were provided, and the guest in charge of drawing could not write nor make a peep.

Fei Chang’s partner was his senior sister, a 3.8 star who was an active figure in all kinds of spy war dramas and palace fight dramas. She specialized in performing that kind of “Why should the Zhao family’s dog look at me more?” character. ^2.5

Their opponent was a couple of a small grass and a small flower who had recently publicly announced their romantic relationship to increase their traffic. The two people got together because of an idol drama, there the fake acting became real in the end. However, both sides had many particular fans³, and not long after they went public their popularity plummeted, and many big fans took off the powder⁴ and gave them bad ratings. It became a bloodbath.

They participated in this program with the intention of consolidating their “a match made in heaven” and “tacit understanding that comes from the heart” image, but they didn’t expect to come across Fei Chang.

Before the start of the fame, the small flower and small grass were brimming with confidence in front of the camera, expressing they would absolutely win.

Until the game started, when Fei Chang killed and sliced until there was no one left.

Fei Chang was extremely good at drawing.

Regardless of which word, he could immediately draw it . The drawings were perfect representations, drawn in a cute and childish style.

Everyone remembered that “rubbing off popularity” post. Fuck, how could they forget that this guy was a comic artist?

In the 10-minute match, Fei Chang and the 3.8-star guessed 12 answers right. Only the last word was not guessed.

The last word was very difficult, an adjective with 2 syllables.

Fei Chang took a quick glance and immediately immersed himself in drawing painstakingly.

This time, he spent more time drawing than before, and he drew very seriously, stroke by stroke.

With a close up of the camera, his resolute face profile had a captivating concentration, like he was depicting the Gods and Buddhas in a shrine’s fresco, with devout worship that came from the bottom of his heart.

Finally, he dropped his last stroke and turned sideways to let the drawing fall into the audience’s sight.

The audience was in an uproar.

With only 10 seconds left, the 3.8-star didn’t have the time to be amazed, and quickly jumped out.

“Sexy!”

“Seductive!”

“Handsome!”

“Elegant!”

“Hardworking!”

“Talented!”

“Intelligent!”

“Tenacious!”            (T/N: all these words are written with only 2 kanjis in Chinese)

Unfortunately, they were all wrong.

Time up.

On the pure white drawing paper, simple lines outlined Chen Yue Yang’s portrait. The program’s director timely replayed on the big screen Fei Chang’s process of creating the drawing. There was no need to think about it, every line that landed was just right. Also don’t know how many times has Fei Chang drawn in private before imprinting Chen Yue Yang’s appearance on his fingertips.

Fei Chang looked at his partner with unusual disappointment and said, crestfallen: “How could you not guess it ah, it’s ‘perfect’ ah! Perfect!”

The 3.8-star thought: “Pei!⁵ My old mother looks at this and would definitely say ‘bent’”

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Dear readers, I am extremely sorry that it took so long! Honestly, I’ve been basking in this feeling of being liberated after the exams and I almost forgot about DFF >.< I need to get back into the tling routine, but hopefully it won’t take long so I’ll be able to regularize the schedule soon^^

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Footnotes:

^{1: not sure what this means, prosperity tree is symbol of fortune and good luck. One guess is that Chinese people would put these trees at the entrance so that they can be easily seen by others, and there would be a parallelism with putting Fei Chang on the front line with important characters (?) instead of just as an extra, or maybe just sth different from the usual ‘grass’ and ‘flowers’. But all this is just a guess 🤷🏻‍♀️}

^{2: Two actors that played the role of a couple and then started going out in an official relationship (either for promotion or for true feelings, who knows).}

^{2.5: “Why should the Zhao family’s dog look at me more?” is a line for people who are sneaky at night… so the dog will look twice at them and bark more.}

^{3: 唯粉 (wéifěn) -fan who only likes one particular member of a pop idol band.
4:粉 (fěn) – lit. powder is used for being fan, taking off powder is to stop being a fan. Black powder is being an anti-fan..
5: Pei -> sound of spitting;}

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