Chapter 45: Chu Zhongtian and Juliet CD1
Just one day after Emily came to Chu Zhongtian to make an appointment for Christmas, Yang Yang also told Chu Zhongtian that on the night of Christmas 25th, Chinese students would organize a celebration party. Not only were international students from Wimbledon Art School coming, but he also used his connections to invite some Chinese students from other schools. So he specifically told Chu Zhongtian to come.
Chu Zhongtian didn't expect that he would be so popular on Christmas Day and had to take turns to play. But in fact, Chu Zhongtian didn't really want to go there. It was not that he was not sociable, but that he felt uncomfortable when he thought about meeting those compatriots who had quarreled with him after the game. He didn't like those people, and from the bottom of his heart, so he didn't want to get along with the people he didn't like.
However, for Yang Yang's sake, he finally agreed.
But one day before that, he had a date.
In fact, the Christmas atmosphere began in early December. Ribbons were hung on the ceiling of the Duns bar, and Santa's posters were posted on the carved glass windows. Chu Zhongtian also wrote the words "Merry Christmas" in Chinese with a watering can. This was the idea of the boss Colin John. He said that this would make his own squat during Christmas and be different from those ordinary British bars, which was even more "exotic".
※※※At school, Christmas seems to have arrived early. Just a few days into December, the school organized events to celebrate Christmas, which was only 20 days later.
The school's lawn was set up as a venue for "Christmas Market". International students from various countries and local British students set up stalls on it to sell their own goods. Generally speaking, gadgets and clothes with their own characteristics. Those students with strong hands-on skills took out their own handicrafts to sell, and some people sold their own flavored snacks.
The sales targets are either their own classmates, parents who come to the school to play with their children, and some residents in nearby communities.
Wimbledon Art School is an art school, famous in the UK for cultivating artistic talents and is the highest-rated school in the UK. Their Christmas market naturally has a strong artistic atmosphere, and students fully utilize their professional characteristics.
A special stage was set up in a corner of the market, which was where students majoring in drama performance showed their own plays written, directed and acted by themselves. Students majoring in sketching and oil painting set up easels. For as long as they pay one pound, they can draw a sketch portrait or comic portrait for you. Students majoring in technology and special effects brought out their own mechanical models that they could make, which attracted the interest of many boys. Students in drama costume design hung out their own clothes to sell, which attracted many girls to linger.
The whole market is like an amusement park, with everything you eat and play.
During this period, Chu Zhongtian also helped his classmates work in the market. Yang Yang set up a Chinese traditional culture exhibition, selling points of Chinese knots, brocades, buckles, jade pendants that everyone brought back from China, T-shirts with Chinese characters, folding fans with Chinese calligraphy, etc. Chu Zhongtian occasionally went to help, but more often, he was on his own professional side.
Chu Zhongtian's major is printing and digital media. People who are professionals have nothing to sell in this Christmas market, nor do they have the specialty to attract others' attention. Therefore, their task is mainly to take photos everywhere with a camera, record all aspects of the Christmas market, and then edit and make them into a program after Christmas. This is also one of their internships and is to count credits.
They are in groups of four or five, some are responsible for shooting, some are responsible for interviews, some are responsible for editing, and some are responsible for lighting and holding microphones... Chu Zhongtian is the one responsible for camera because he is strong and powerful, and he is agile, unlike the fat Philip who is more powerful, but he seems bulky.
This is the first time Chu Zhongtian celebrated Christmas like this. Last year, when he was in the preparatory class, he spent Christmas alone in the apartment. Yang Yang held a Christmas costume party and went out before dark. He ate a bowl of noodles cooked by himself in the apartment alone, even if it was a holiday. That night, Chu Zhongtian experienced his fragility for the first time and missed home for the first time.
In the eyes of many people, those who can study in the UK are rich, and those who can study abroad are happy. Many people dream of going abroad, whether they are gilded here and then returning home, or staying abroad without going back, as long as they can go abroad. In their eyes, "going abroad" is a very romantic thing and a cool thing. But what is the life of Chinese students abroad? Many are "not worthy of being told by foreigners", and they can only "know their own feelings".
The past is unbearable to look back on. This year he has met many new friends with football, and this Christmas is much more lively.
"Hi, Chu!" When Emily greeted Chu Zhongtian who was carrying the camera, Chu Zhongtian had not reacted yet. Because the girl in front of her was completely different from the Emily he saw in Qiantian.
With stage makeup and blond hair, Emily in costume looks like the character she is playing - a noble princess.
"I almost couldn't recognize it." Chu Zhongtian pointed the camera at Emily, then looked at her who was looking at Pan in the camera and said. "What kind of character is this?"
"Juliet! Juliet among Romeo and Juliet!" Emily said proudly. Chu Zhongtian noticed her chest straight in the camera, so her breasts that were zipped up even more... Chu Zhongtian looked at Emily's naked shoulders and chest, and he couldn't help asking: "Aren't you cold, Emily?"
Emily wrapped her hands around her, "A little bit." She smiled at Chu Zhongtian, "But it's about to go on stage." She looked at the stage on one side.
Chu Zhongtian moved the camera lens over, and the students majoring in the stage and screen scene prop design of the guest staff were making final preparations for the release of the drama. In front of this small stage, tourists had begun to sit on the audience seats made of folding chairs, waiting for the performance of this classic drama.
"It's a pity that I have to go to the market... I can't be an audience here." Chu Zhongtian really felt a little regretful. He had never seen Emily acting like... He had always had the impression of the girl in front of him entirely from football. It seemed that Emily was a hardcore Wimbledon fan, but forgot that she had another identity - a second-year student in the Department of Drama Performance at Wimbledon Academy of Arts.
Emily seemed very happy when she heard Chu Zhongtian say this, and she asked, "Do you want to see it?"
Chu Zhongtian nodded, and the camera on his shoulder shook it: "I want to."
"For seven days, we have performances every morning and afternoon. You can watch them anytime. You always have time to rest, right?"
Chu Zhongtian nodded: "I'll see your performance when I rest."
"A word is certain?" Emily asked looking at the camera.
Chu Zhongtian found that Emily in the camera really had a star-like look, and she was not intentional. It was a natural temperament in every move. No wonder she chose the drama performance major, not just because she was beautiful... Compared with this noble princess, she looked like an ugly duckling. During class, he was also filmed by Philip and Kenny. As a result, when he looked at the video at that time, the image he showed in the camera was far from what he thought, and he could only comfort himself with "not being photographed". It seems that his teacher was right, not everyone can calmly show themselves in front of the camera without training. Those who do not need to undergo the training process are often called talented.
Emily is obviously a girl with this talent because she performs very naturally in the camera.
"A word is certain." Chu Zhongtian waved his hand to her.
From behind her, through the camera, Chu Zhongtian saw that Philip and Kenny who were going to buy food were back, and he had to start working again.
"I have to go to work, Emily. If I'm done and your play is still being performed, I'll be an audience for you." Chu Zhongtian said goodbye to Emily.
Emily waved her hand to him, "I hope to see you in the audience, Chu."
"The person who plays Romeo is such a lucky guy..." Chu Zhongtian couldn't help but sigh involuntarily as he looked at the beautiful and charming Emily.
This sentence made Emily very happy. She smiled at Chu Zhongtian and said, "It's a pity that you are not professional, otherwise I would have let you play Romeo!"
"I'm not a good-for-acting material. Goodbye, Emily." Chu Zhongtian waved his hand to the girl, put down the camera, and walked towards Philip and Kenny.
"You are so beautiful, Emily!" After seeing Emily, the two greeted her.
"Thank you two, hehe!" Emily ran to the backstage with a long and heavy skirt. She was about to make the final preparations for the performance.
The two turned their heads and looked at Emily's back, and Philip whistled: "Wow - it's a beautiful back that makes people excited. Have you heard of it? Some filmmakers have fallen in love with her, and it seems to be from Hollywood... Emily's future will definitely be bright. Maybe in a few years we will see her brilliant image on the big screen. At that time, I can proudly declare that she is my friend, ha!" The bald fat man had already started to fantasize.
Kenny poured him a basin of cold water. "First of all, you don't have a girlfriend, Charles, even though you have the same name as the Prince of Wales." The full name of the Prince of Wales is Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor. Internationally, this prince is far less famous than his ex-wife, because his ex-wife is the famous Princess Diana. Although Chu Zhongtian's bald fat classmate is also called Charles Philip, he does not have the good luck of the Prince of Wales, and he is still single until now.
"Secondly, if you really say that, I promise that your girlfriend who may exist in the future will definitely be jealous."
"Shut up your stinky mouth!" Philip waited for Kenny viciously.
Kenny laughed.
Chu Zhongtian said to these two friends who defamed each other: "Okay, it's time for us to work. If you want to watch Princess Duns's amazing performance, then hurry up and finish our work."
This sentence works better than anything else. Kenny and Philip, who wanted to see the beauty, immediately packed up all the equipment. Philip was tall and fat, so he naturally left all the heavy work to him. Except for the camera, Chu Zhongtian, the lights, brackets, speakers, etc., all were on him. Despite this, he had no complaints at all, but instead seemed full of fighting spirit. "For Juliet! We must speed up the progress!" He shouted with his fists, attracting many curious eyes.
"Hey, stay away from us!" Kenny jumped to the side. He didn't want those people to think that he was in the same group as this lunatic.
※※※The drama has already begun, and the audience seats are full, and there are still many people standing in the aisle and outside to enjoy it. Most of them are boys, and they obviously know that Emily Stan, a famous beauty in the school, is about to perform.
So when Emily played Juliet appeared in gorgeous costumes, there were warm applause and whistles in the audience below.
After Emily took the stage, she quickly glanced at the audience. She did not find a familiar figure in it, and was a little disappointed. However, she found another familiar figure - her mother, and there was a strange man with her, and the two were talking.
After the observation, Emily entered the state. She walked to the table with an apple on it, and the lucky one who played Romeo entered from the other end of the stage.
Emily frowned in distress, sighed resentfully, and said, "Ah! Romeo, Romeo, why are you called Romeo? Deny your father and give up your name! If you don't want to, make a vow of love for me, and I will no longer be named Capelle..."
"Your daughter is so beautiful." The man standing with Emily's mother in the audience said to the mother beside him, looking at Emily Stein, who was performing on stage.
"My daughter is not just beautiful, Mr. Johnson." The lady beside her looked up at the stage. This action made her look very proud. In fact, the same was true. She was extremely proud when she heard the gentleman praise her daughter.
This time Mr. Johnson did not immediately answer. He looked silent for a while before nodding, "The performance is very talented, very natural and dedicated... I want to talk to her after the performance, Ms. Miranda."
"No problem, Mr. Johnson. I will arrange it for you." Emily's mother, Ms. Miranda, smiled, very satisfied with the result.
※※※The group where Chu Zhongtian was located completed their shooting task as fast as possible, and then they handed the material tape to the students in charge of the editor and all slipped away.
When the three of them arrived in front of the stage, the scene was coming to an end.
When Romeo pointed to the moon in the sky and was about to swear for their love, Juliet played by Emily said in surprise: "Ah! Don't swear at the moon, it is changeable, and every month has profits and losses; if you swear at it, maybe your love will be as impermanent as it!"
Romeo said distressedly: "Then why should I swear?"
Emily paused here and did not take over the conversation, which made the mother, who was watching attentively below, frown.
But soon, Juliet stared at her lover affectionately again: "Okay, don't swear. I believe in your love."
At this time, Juliet's call came from behind the scenes. Juliet, who was afraid of being caught off guard and dated an enemy, showed a panic expression.
"Miss!" The wet nurse shouted louder.
Juliet responded, then turned to Romeo and said, "Dear Montague, I will ask someone to send you a letter tomorrow. May you not be heartless, good night!"
Romeo stretched out his hand reluctantly, "I hope that sleep will close your eyes! I hope that my heart will be calm and rest! Good night, beautiful girl..." Then he turned his body sideways, and Juliet hurriedly ran off the field.
"This hateful lucky guy!" Philip, who watched Emily's role as Juliet and Romeo say goodbye affectionately in the audience, cursed fiercely. "Why not me? Damn!"
Kenny was also a little lost and said, "I had known that I would have applied for the Department of Drama Performance..."
Philip had been hit by Kenny before, but now he finally found an opportunity to fight back: "Ha! Is Romeo a black man?"
Kenny was not willing to be outdone: "At least, he is not a fat man, and he is a bald man!"
"You're so tired of living, Joseph! I'm going to duel with you!" Philip said, pointing to Kenny.
"I can't ask for it! Come on, although our friendship is visible, I accept your challenge for my dear Juliet!" Kenny was like acting on the stage, and read the "lines" he composed with righteousness, and then waved his hand, as if he was holding a knife in his hand.
"Juliet is mine, don't even want to take over! Look at the knife!" Philip "got" to Kenny... The two friends were having a mess, but Chu Zhongtian didn't participate. He watched Emily running off the stage in a daze. He had told Emily that the boy who played Romeo was a lucky guy, but at that time he was mostly joking. Now, he really envied the Romeo who was still standing on the stage... He knew Emily for a semester, but he had never seen her call a boy so intimately. "Dear" had never been said from Emily. Even if he had such a good relationship with her, he just called himself "Chu", and sometimes he would call him "Chinese Boy".
Emily and the others only acted as a clip of "Romeo and Juliet". If they were both acted, there would be not enough time. So after this scene, even if the show was over today, Emily hurriedly took off her makeup, changed her clothes, and came out from the backstage to go straight to where Chu Zhongtian was. Just now, she accidentally caught Chu Zhongtian standing outside the crowd. It was that glance that made her almost make a mistake. Fortunately, she just paused in the end and continued to act without leaving any trace.
As soon as she showed up, she was stopped by her mother who was waiting in the backstage: "Emily."
"Oh-Mom..." Emily rolled her eyes. Why was she stopped at this time? She had known that she had slipped out from the other side. When she was stopped by her mother, she knew that it was impossible to escape, and she also knew why her mother was waiting for her here.
"Pay attention to your manners!" Mom lowered her voice and taught her daughter a lesson in her ear. She didn't like her daughter's eyes rolling, which would make her look like a village girl. Especially in front of Mr. Johnson, this could not be done.
Emily resisted the urge to roll her eyes again. Her mother must not know that her daughter was not only swearing outside, but also raising her middle finger as if no one else was there?
"I'll introduce you to someone, Emily." Mom pulled her daughter to the middle-aged man who was watching the show with her. "This is Mr. Carl Johnson. From Los Angeles." She added. "Hollywood."
Chapter completed!