Garden of Eden

Xue Tao's last scene is also the end of this round of "Tess".

Before the performance started, Tan Mengtong was still in the stairwell, not in a wheelchair, but leaning on crutches, half leaning on the handrail of the stairs, without any assistant by his side.

Her ankle was in a thick cast and looked like it was broken.No one knew what accident happened to her and where the injury came from.

"I have nothing to teach you." Tan Mengtong returned to the indifference when we first met.

"But I'm not good enough." Xue Tao's deer-like eyes revealed a hint of panic.

"Yes," Tan Mengtong said, "You are not good enough, but you will have to rely on yourself in the future."

Are you all on your own?Xue Tao remembered what the teacher told them when they graduated. In this line of work, the teacher can teach you very little, but your own future has many, many possibilities.

"Okay!" Xue Tao clenched her fists and nodded vigorously, "I will!"

"After the finale, there will be an extra link. You can prepare a few words to say at the end."

Xue Tao did not expect such an arrangement: "What should I say?"

"Whatever you want, there is only one, don't cry."

However, Xue Tao did not fulfill Tan Mengtong's only request.

At the curtain call, she was the last to run out.The audience stood up and applauded endlessly.She bowed deeply in three directions, and she couldn't hold back her tears.

But then, when she saw the director and the producer supporting Tan Mengtong onto the stage, tears welled up in her eyes.

Xue Tao didn't expect that she would have the opportunity to stand on the same stage with Tan Mengtong. She choked up and said thank you, but she couldn't speak anymore.

Tan Mengtong took the microphone, smiled lightly, and said to the audience: "I only told her one thing before going on stage, that is, don't cry at the curtain call. I didn't expect that I couldn't even do this one request."

The audience laughed in good faith, and gave them even more enthusiastic applause in unison.

As a result, Xue Tao cried even worse, and she never showed face to anyone again.

It was already eleven o'clock at night after the show ended, but the celebration banquet had just begun.

Even though Tan Mengtong was sitting alone, he was also the well-deserved protagonist of the celebration banquet.There was an endless stream of toasts, but she declined them one by one.

As for Xue Tao, many people came to congratulate her, congratulate her, she thanked them one by one, drank one after another.But her eyes never moved away from Tan Mengtong.

Her figure was indistinct, even though she was always surrounded by people, she seemed alone.She looked tired and her neck was still standing tall.But in a few days, she seemed to be thinner, and the thin shirt couldn't even cover the traces of her collarbone.

Tan Mengtong never reveals his heart to others, but at this moment, Xue Tao understands her loneliness inexplicably.

Under the influence of alcohol, Xue Tao walked through the crowd and stood in front of Tan Mengtong.

Tan Mengtong lazily raised his eyelids, his voice was full of exhaustion: "Have you been drinking?"

Xue Tao claims that she can drink well, but today she only drank red wine and champagne, which has a lot of stamina.Her mouth is a little out of control now, and words keep coming out without going through her brain.

"Sister Mengtong, thank you!" She gave Tan Mengtong a brilliant smirk, until her eyes narrowed into crescent moons in the first year of junior high school.

"Stupid or not."

Xue Tao didn't feel like being called stupid at all, she said excitedly: "I just want to tell you, thank you. Now many audiences like me, I will stick to acting in musicals, and I will do better!"

However, Tan Mengtong poured cold water on her head-on: "You are too easily influenced by other people's evaluations, and you are not suitable for this job. Change your career as soon as possible."

"Ah?" Under the influence of alcohol, Xue Tao's brain was a little dull. She was stunned and didn't know how to respond, so she could only repeat anxiously: "I won't change my career, I like musicals! I will stay on the stage forever Up."

"Childish." Tan Mengtong's chest rose and fell briefly, like a silent sneer.

Her contemptuous tone made Xue Tao's heart ache. She didn't understand why Tan Mengtong not only didn't believe her, but even wanted to beat her.

Immediately, a rush of blood rushed straight to the top of her head, she raised her voice, and shouted recklessly: "You don't understand at all! You don't respect the stage, what right do you have to criticize me?"

"What did you say?" Tan Mengtong's expression suddenly changed, and his face was frighteningly gloomy.

"I said, you don't respect the stage!" Xue Tao blushed, she was aggrieved and angry, "You used to be the best actor in musicals, but suddenly you went to make movies and TV series. Musicals are just your springboard. You Not really loving it at all!"

"You! What right do you have to say about me?" Tan Mengtong stood up abruptly, even ignoring his injured foot.The veins on the back of her hands bulged, her chest heaved violently, and she stared at Xue Tao, as if she wanted to swallow her alive.

"Yes, I may not be qualified now. But I will definitely become a better musical actor than you!" Xue Tao rushed out after finishing speaking.Therefore, she did not see the painful struggle in Tan Mengtong's eyes behind her.

"Your feet!" Seeing Tan Mengtong standing up, the assistant broke his voice in fright, rushed up and helped her sit down.

Tan Mengtong inadvertently avoided her hand, his back that was always upright relaxed, and he leaned heavily on the back of the chair.She raised her head, and her hair slanted down like a waterfall, as if she was falling with a heavy weight.

The assistant heard a broken laugh squeezed out of her throat, the voice was suppressed and hideous, it was creepy to hear.

After quarreling with Tan Mengtong that day, Xue Tao regretted it.She shouldn't have said those words to Tan Mengtong, those words were too hurtful.

But when she wanted to apologize, she found that she did not have Tan Mengtong's contact information.The other party is a high-ranking big star, she is just a small actress who has acted in a few scenes, the distance between them is the distance between the sky and the earth.

She asked the director and producer for their contact information, but they couldn't give it without their own consent, so they could only push Tan Mengtong's assistant's WeChat account to her.

Therefore, Xue Tao could only follow Suo Tan Mengtong's news on Weibo and Chaohua like a small fan.

Tan Mengtong seems to be resting recently, he didn't join the group, and didn't participate in any commercial activities. Weibo is completely closed, and his fans are waiting to be fed, wailing and starving to death.

And Xue Tao couldn't rest, because she needed to earn money to support herself.The salary of a musical actor is not high, and she has just graduated and has no savings. Once she does not work, she will run out of food in minutes.

She went to three cast interviews non-stop, and passed two of them, one was an original musical and the other was a Chinese version of a Broadway musical.

Xue Tao's first entry into the group was an original musical, a low-budget suspense drama, with three male and one female actors, and two male characters each with two casts, but she was the only female character.

The six male actors are all well-known musical actors, and Xue Tao was very happy thinking that he could learn something from them again.But this excitement only lasted until the moment I got the script.

In the two-hour musical, the female characters played for a total of 10 minutes, and there were three arias, all of which were in the memory of the male protagonist, without their own plot line and character image.

Xue Tao was a little surprised, but she still carefully figured out the characters, and then went to ask the director for advice during the first day of reading.

However, after carefully listening to her thoughts, the director patted her approvingly, and said, "Our play is a male lead, so you can sing well, and your voice should be a little softer."

Xue Tao watched the original version of the second imported drama and liked her character very much.But after getting the script, she was shocked again. The original "unplayable" plot has been cut and her role has changed from "sexy little wild cat" to a bitch who can only show her head.

Xue Tao cautiously asked the director for advice. She suggested that some places in the script were simply and crudely deleted and were not coherent, whether to make the character change more natural.

However, the director seems to have heard something interesting: "We are rewriting the Chinese version. If we want to add a plot, do we need to rewrite the screenplay, do we need to write lyrics and compose music? And keep the original style, how easy do you think?"

"But..." Xue Tao didn't say the but in the end, she really wanted to say but we should be more worthy of the audience.But obviously, not everyone thinks so.

There is no sense of existence, which is the female role in most musicals.But what is even more sad is that even so, those extremely good female musical actors will still be crushed because of such roles.She was able to win these two roles because her age was more suitable, and it was also because "Tess" brought her fame and attention.

Xue Tao gradually understood that, in fact, there is no essential difference between the musical theater industry and the film and television industry. No matter how important strength is, it is only a part. Capital, popularity, and luck are all forks in an actor's career.

Compared with the film and television industry, the musical theater industry is even weaker, because of low attention and less capital investment, so it is more difficult to produce an excellent work, and it is also more difficult to attract top talents.Top screenwriters are creating film and television scripts, top stage directors want to direct dramas more, and top actors are even rarer.

At this time, she realized even more how difficult and precious the birth of "Tess" was.And all of this is almost due to Tan Mengtong.

Those rumors that Xue Tao had ignored once again emerged from the depths of his memory.

I heard that the play "Tess" was produced by Tan Mengtong out of his own pocket. I heard that she lost an important movie because of that injury. I heard that she often supports musical drama students from poor families. I heard... …

The sense of guilt almost overwhelmed her, and this sense of guilt has not diminished a bit because of the passage of time, but has intensified instead.

Xue Tao thought, if she could see her again, no, even a brief word with Tan Mengtong would be fine.She will definitely say sorry, and she will pray for Tan Mengtong's forgiveness.