Garden of Eden

All the way home, Xue Tao held the recorder tightly.It was like a hot potato, hanging all her emotions from it.

Back in the [-]-square-meter rental house, Xue Tao regained the long-lost sense of security.She accidentally turned on the recording, but heard her own voice.

This is... This is her performance just now!

Tan Mengtong recorded her highest voice in the whole play, with a pitch of C6, which is almost the limit of her vocal range.After completing the high note, she was also relieved.

But after her chorus, it was followed by the same chorus sung by Tan Meng.In contrast, Xue Tao's voice was sharp and harsh, without the slightest sense of beauty.But Tan Mengtong's voice was round and full, and it was impossible to imagine that such a large amount of energy was hidden in her thin and small body.

Xue Tao was stunned, and the recording was still playing.What followed was a series of public executions, hitting Xue Tao head and face, until she was powerless to parry.

How could this be?

It turned out that I thought it was pretty good, but I was nothing in front of Tan Mengtong.Shame, disappointment, frustration, all kinds of negative emotions hit at the same time, like mountains, buried Xue Tao deeply under the mountains.

She opened Weibo with the last hope, as if grabbing a life-saving straw.But under the entry of #音乐剧波斯#, it’s all about “hanging” and “crushing” and “A card is an A card, and there is still a wall in strength”.

Under the overwhelming comments, Xue Tao's last hope was also shattered. It turned out that a joke is a joke, and it's just the difference between sooner or later.She buried her face in her arms and burst into tears. At this moment, she seemed to be abandoned by the whole world.

She had never cried so sadly before, as if all the tears in her life were about to be shed.When she finally recovered, the sky was already pale, and she didn't sleep all night.

The Weibo interface was still displayed on the phone, and Xue Tao wiped away tears.Before quitting, she saw a private message showing a message from a stranger.

She hesitated for a moment, but clicked on it anyway.The wording of the private letter is very blunt:

【Your acting skills are very good, and your voice is also great. Keep doing musicals, I will keep watching. 】

【Really? ! ] Xue Tao had already entered this sentence in the dialog box, but deleted it word by word, and replaced it with a calm sentence:

【thanks, I will. 】

After quitting Weibo, I just received a message from the director that Tan Mengtong was unable to play because of a broken ankle.Therefore, the remaining three performances of this round will be performed by Xue Tao.

Xue Tao tidied up her emotions, washed her face with cold water, and cheered herself up.

Isn't it just acting?Will it be worse than yesterday?And my original wish was to be on the stage, even if I rehearsed one play, but now there are four shows I can perform, isn't this a good thing?

Relying on such self-comfort, Xue Tao returned to the theater again and put on the heroine's costume.

"Not nervous, I'm not nervous..." Xue Tao sat in front of the makeup mirror, muttering nervously.

"Relax, control, don't tense up."

Xue Tao missed the fearless state of last night very much. After reading last night's comments, she could hardly have any confidence in herself anymore.What supported her to stand on the stage again was just a word from an unknown netizen.

At this time, the door of the dressing room was suddenly pushed open, and Tan Mengtong was sitting in a wheelchair, looking like an emperor looking down on the world.

"Come out," she said.

Everyone in the dressing room looked at her, not knowing who she was calling.

But Tan Mengtong didn't look at others, he just looked at Xue Tao with cold eyes.

"Me?" Xue Tao pointed to herself, tangled in her heart, but there was no hesitation in her steps.

Shaking the wheelchair, Tan Mengtong led Xue Tao to a hidden stairwell.

"Are you nervous?" she asked.

Xue Tao wanted to speak harshly at first, but when she met Tan Mengtong's see-through eyes, she was immediately discouraged: "My singing is terrible."

"It's nothing, who said that." Tan Mengtong's tone was calm, as if she wasn't the one who humiliated Xue Tao with the recording pen last night.

Xue Tao really wanted to say that it was you, but she murmured a few times before saying, "It's just...online."

"Oh, online?" Tan Mengtong smiled contemptuously, "Do you also believe the traffic-earning draft of the marketing account?"

"Marketing account?" Xue Tao was stunned for a moment. She thought that marketing accounts only existed in the entertainment industry, but she never thought that she would be involved with these things one day.

But Tan Mengtong didn't intend to explain these naive questions to her again, she raised her chin, and the veins in her neck trembled slightly: "Sing the line 'destroy me', just one sentence will do."

What direction is this going?Xue Tao was puzzled, but she opened her mouth obediently as if she had been bewitched.

She lowered her breath, opened her mouth wide, and sang the last line of the song: "God, please destroy me—"

"No top is in place." Tan Mengtong shook his head and commented ruthlessly.

Xue Tao lowered her head shamelessly: "Sorry, my vocal range is not wide enough."

"No," Tan Mengtong categorically dismissed her evaluation of herself, "When you sing high notes, use your hips hard, pinch them up, and try again."

"Ah? Good!" Xue Tao looked for the feeling of exerting force on her buttocks, and opened her mouth again.

"Please destroy—I~~"

When the final high-pitched voice came out, Tan Mengtong suddenly stretched out his hand and pinched Xue Tao's thigh hard at the junction of his buttocks.Xue Tao broke his voice in fright, and the ending turned into a funny duck call.

"By the way, that's the feeling." Tan Mengtong nodded in relief, Xue Tao even thought that the pinch just now was his hallucination.

"This is an opportunistic trick, and it is only allowed to be used for three days." After speaking, Tan Mengtong pushed the wheelchair and left, leaving Xue Tao in confusion.

"How is your injury?" Xue Tao stopped Tan Mengtong the moment she walked out of the stairwell.

Tan Mengtong stopped and turned her head slightly. The lines of her side face were three-dimensional like a statue, so that Xue Tao felt as if she was offending the gods.

"Don't ask if you shouldn't." Tan Mengtong's voice seemed to be floating in the clouds.

When Xue Tao came back to her senses, the voice-activated lights had been turned off, and she was alone in the dark stairwell, as if everything just now was a dream of hers.

While waiting, Xue Tao took another sneak peek at the audience.It's okay if you don't look at it, but when she looked at it, she found that the audience was full of seats.

what happened?Even though the ticket refund was notified one day in advance, there should have been fewer audiences.

But what Xue Tao didn't know was that even without Tan Mengtong's participation, "Tess" itself is a great musical. The discounted theater tickets returned after the refunds have achieved a "win-win" for the organizers and the audience.

In today's performance, Xue Tao was far more nervous than yesterday.But fortunately, she was not so nervous that she forgot the tricks Tan Mengtong taught her.

Sure enough, she found a posture to exert strength, and she felt that it was much easier to hit the high notes, and the effect of this performance was better than yesterday.

After the curtain call, Xue Tao never saw Tan Mengtong again.She went to Weibo again to search for comments from viewers, and this time she scrolled down directly, skipping comments that might be marketing accounts.

[The fracture ticket that was missed on the spot, the substitute heroine is much better than I imagined, blood earned. 】

[Those who watched the show yesterday and today will say that this heroine has improved a lot today, but she may have been a little flawed yesterday because she was too hasty. 】

[The substitute heroine is Xue Tao, who just graduated this year, and this is her first commercial musical.Personally, I think she is very talented and has a strong sense of the stage, and I can hold such a big show, and I will continue to pay attention to her. 】

So, things are getting better?

Xue Tao herself can feel that her state is better controlled today, not only the treble, but even the details have become more refined, which has improved in all aspects compared to yesterday.

Before the opening of the third day, she saw Tan Mengtong again in the stairwell.

This time, Tan Mengtong taught her some simple skills.At the peak of emotion, you can make a fist and pinch your palm with your nails to keep yourself awake.

"Don't let your emotions lead you, instead, be the master of it," she said.

It's still a successful show.

Xue Tao's Weibo even has some fans, and they express their support and love for her in the comments.And because she is a fledgling, everyone gave her a lot of tolerance and blessings.

Xue Tao was very happy, she felt that her choice was correct.

Most of her classmates changed careers after graduation. Some entered the entertainment industry, some became lecturers in art examination institutions, and some continued their studies in order to stay in school. Not many people like Xue Tao went to the stage.

Musical theater is a thankless industry.This industry requires actors to sing and dance well, but it does not have the support of more mature industries and troupes like drama.

When she decided to become a musical actor, Xue Tao didn't know how long she could last.But now she feels that she can sing and act forever.