New York, Imperial Theatre.

Song Ya and Daniel meet in the VIP box here, and the other party calls to say that there is a traffic jam on the road and they will be late to arrive.

"APLUS, don't you think about it anymore?" The only one who sat with him was Hamlin.

"I want to wait, maybe Motura won't let me wait." Song Ya asked: "In the case of fluorescent agent, let's reach a settlement with the opposing lawyer as soon as possible, how much do they offer?" ”

"It was 1.2 million at the last meeting." Hamlin replied: "The court will be held again next month, according to your requirements, the default bottom line is only more than 200,000, and the other party's offer, I just shake my head." Tomorrow, if I contact the opposing lawyer for no reason to take the initiative to settle, they will smell the smell, and it may not be possible to close the deal at 1.2 million. ”

"So what's the optimal solution?" Song Ya asked.

"I want to create an opportunity to meet with the opposing lawyer by chance, talk about your case in a restaurant or café, and then lower the price a little bit and come to an agreement." Hamlin replied.

The lights in the box and in the auditorium dimmed, and the classic musical Les Miserables was about to begin, and the noisy voices gradually fell silent, and the two lowered their voices.

"Yes, it will be done as soon as possible."

"The upper limit of the settlement amount is 1.2 million?"

"You can do it, you can improve it appropriately, and in short, close this case before Motura makes a move."

"I see, what's going on in Hollywood?" Hamlin asked.

"I got the crew done, basically, the heroine is Amy Adams's ......"

Song Ya's mind went back to the day before he came to New York, and he and Yeremov called the casting director to the hotel.

"Xiao Lizi's different sky at the end of the year is to partner with Johnny Depp, no matter what the box office is, the professional reputation will not be bad." The casting director said: "According to my experience, his stock is bullish, so we can sign him to play the villain of the heroine's ex-boyfriend, we can't ask for it, and the salary will be high......"

"Let's not talk about that." Yeremov called him here under the pretext of casting the heroine's ex-boyfriend, "Let's talk about the heroine, Mr. APLUS is interested in Amy Adams, and you have to support her in the fourth round." ”

"Oh! Not again! As soon as he talked about this, the casting director was bound to explode, and the middle-aged white man held his head in his hands frantically, "Amy Adams is not the best choice, no, she is not even as good as Samantha Cole, who has terrible dancing skills!" APLUS……”

He looked at Song Ya, who was standing against the table, "You know the script you made yourself, I don't even bother to mention temperament, dancing and acting skills, just holding up that scene is not enough for her persuasiveness!" How can a male dancer not be able to lift her? And this scene is the key plot for the male and female protagonists to get acquainted and make the female protagonist have a good impression of the male protagonist! ”

"We can find some skinny boys to play with her." That's what was done in the original movie, and Song Ya replied the same.

"I can't, I can't do it...... the casting director shook his head repeatedly, "I'm going to be tough on this matter, with another Amy, Amy Ake will be much more perfect, Juliana Margareth can do it, and even calling that Charlie Theron back is better than Amy Adams." ”

"Don't be so stubborn, can you?" Yeremov continued to persuade: "Let's call you over and talk in private...... To put it bluntly, I just want you to give us a face, and we will repay you elsewhere when the time comes. Old Larry, he's already relented. ”

"I'm sorry, I can't do it, this movie was ruined for Amy Adams." He said.

"Not that exaggerated, right?" Song Ya said, "As long as you help us speak in the fourth round......"

The other party shook his head and stood up, "I don't have anything to say, I'm sorry APLUS, I'm responsible for Amperin Entertainment." ”

"Damn! What's the matter with you? What's wrong with you? Song Ya immediately opened impatiently, "This movie is my money, my A+ Film Studio production, and my final editing rights!" Is it necessary for you to always play against me in this matter!? ”

"You can fire me." He buttoned up his suit, turned around, and was about to go out when he was stopped in front of Song Ya.

"Don't think I don't dare fire you." Song Ya stared at him viciously.

"Okay, let's fry, you tell Catherine about a phone call." The other party raised his head, not stunned at all.

“Fxxk！ Yes, you're fired! Bang! Song Ya changed to a black voice and roared: "You absolutely can't bear the anger of people like me, believe me." ”

"Not only am I going to fire you, but I will also let the crew and William Morris, who is responsible for some of the cast and crew packing, fire all the people you choose to be the master and lose money? I don't care, you know? I don't care! ”

"When the time comes, the wishes you make when you get those people into the crew, the benefits you take, and the women you sleep with will all be your enemies, your laughing stock, ha! I'm going to see if there's going to be a Billboard scandal......"

The other party's face fell, and he lowered his head to dodge Song Ya's fierce gaze, but he quickly controlled his emotions, and raised his head with a smile, "Is it necessary?" Just for a heroine? Do you think you won't become the laughing stock of Hollywood? ”

"You've me off, really." Song Ya gestured with his hand to shoot, "It's a big deal, I'll get out of Hollywood if I play this ticket." A tap on his temple, "But you can get out of here, get out." He got out of the way and made eye contact with a grim Yeremov, who sighed softly.

The casting director gritted his teeth and strode to the door in silence, then, turning around, changed to a flattering smile, "Hey, APLUS, don't get so excited, I was just joking." ”

"No one here is joking anymore." Yeremov said.

"APLUS, take it easy......" he walked up to Song Ya again, "That's right, I don't really care who the bullshit heroine is, I'm just, just using a strategy, you know, the more I dwell on the selection of the hostess, the more power the other cast members will have." Come on, it's a little trick that Hollywood usually uses, and I was discovered, haha......"

He laughed for a while, and when he saw that Song Ya and Yeremov still looked serious, he had to continue in a sneering voice: "The heroine is Amy, right? Don't worry, I will support her in the fourth round, she is very beautiful, very cute, playing the heroine? No problem. ”

Song Ya and Yeremov looked at each other again, and both smiled bitterly.

"So, so ...... I wasn't fired, was I? ”

The curtain opens, and the sonorous prelude to Les Misérables interrupts Song Ya's memories, and he sees five prisoner actors lined up on the stage, singing an excerpt from the opening scene.

'Look down, look down, avoid their eyes, look down, look down, look down, and you will die here'......

"Why hasn't Daniel come yet?" He asked Hamlin.

"I'll ask again." Hamlin took his phone and went outside the box.

Song Ya thought about it, went out with him, turned on the mobile phone, dialed Sandy Gren's phone again, forwarded the message recording, called his assistant, and passed, but he still said that he would notify Mr. Sandy Gren, please wait for him to call back.

"It's almost there." Hamlin finished the phone call and sat down with Song Ya back in the box.

'Come in, sir, and see that you are tired, and that the night is bitterly cold outside, and that though you and I are so humble, we ought all the more to share in our help......

In the musical, Valjean was entertained by Bishop Mirière, but he stole the silverware from his house during the night, was captured and returned, but the bishop did not reveal it, but admitted that he had given it to Valjean and asked the soldiers to let him go.

Song Ya had just reined in the anxiety in her heart and immersed herself in the plot, when her shoulder was pressed, "APLUS." "Daniel has arrived.

"You may be seated." Hamlin pulled his seat out for him.

"Sorry, it's too congested." Daniel laughed.

"It's okay, I think you're already familiar with this drama, right?" Song Ya quipped.

"Yes, both the French version and the English version, I like it very much." Daniel is of French descent, and the musical was adapted by French musical theatre composers Claude Michel Schoenberg and Alain Bobley on the French writer Hugo's original book of the same name, and the premiere version is naturally also French.

"Did you talk to Samantha in Hollywood?" Daniel asked as he sat down.

"No, only watched the audition video, and seriously, the other girls were jealous of her going to the fourth round of auditions." Song Ya gave him a vaccination.

"I heard from her, it's okay, I'm already very grateful to let him enter the fourth round, just be able to explain." Daniel asked a little bit about the preparation of the movie that danced out of my life, and then turned the conversation to the main purpose, "So, what help do we have?" ”

"Mariah Carey, some of the executives at Sony Columbia Records, is certain." Song Ya moved her chair close to him and whispered, "Sandy Glenn and MJ should be on a global tour, but I think I can get them." ”

"Winning MJ means winning Epic Records, right?" Daniel asked.

"Yes, you're right." Song Ya nodded.

He nodded and pressed his hand on Song Ya's shoulder, "Wait, listen first, I like this one the most." ”

On stage, an excerpt from Fantine's I Dreamed A Dream was about to begin, 'Once upon a time, people were kind and pleasant, their voices were gentle, and their words were pleasant. Once upon a time, love was inhibited, the world was a song, and the song was touching......

Fantine was pregnant, but was abandoned by a negative man, in Hugo's time, having children out of wedlock was not tolerated by society, she had to foster the child in the innkeeper's house, and went to work in Valjean's factory, but was ostracized by other female workers, the letters were smuggled apart, the secret of having children was exposed, he was kicked out of the factory, and lost his job.

'But there are always dreams that don't come true, there's always storms that destroy people, and the kind of life I dreamed of is completely different from this hell on earth.......'

The three of them watched quietly, Fantine had no income, but the innkeeper and his wife kept writing to her daughter Cosette for money for her daughter's illness, so she had to sell her beautiful long hair, and then her front teeth...... In the end, her self-esteem was worthless, and she had no choice but to go to work as a prostitute.

'Let's sell it, sell everything that can be sold......

Song Ya recalled what happened in Hollywood again.

Yesterday, after he got the casting director, he rushed to Ivana Chabck's acting studio to report the good news to Amy.

"Is this compensation?" Amy wasn't happy, she snuggled into her arms and said, "There won't be any other women around you in the future, right?" Hallie said that a star like Mariah Carey will never accept the scandal between you and others after the official announcement with you......"

"Did you hear that?"

"We heard you call her Mimi."

"I'm sorry, Amy." Song Ya hugged her tightly and wiped the tears from her face, "I can't go on like this forever." ”

"I thought I had a chance, but those Hollywood girls said behind my back that I was the Bichi who stole my best friend's boyfriend, and they were always talking, always saying, I don't like it here at all." Amy said plaintively.

"They're jealous, just like the factory workers are jealous of Fantine's beauty and men's liking, you don't have to pay attention." Song Ya said, not getting a response, grabbed her shoulders and looked at each other, "You like this, but you have to stay here, you are very suitable here, you are still one step away from becoming famous, it is a role that countless girls dream of but cannot get." ”

"But it's not my dream."

"It's yours, face your heart Amy, you've been working it, and both Ivana and Anne say you're practicing hard. Yeremov told me that when did a girl begin to realize that she was more beautiful and likable than her peers? Ten years old? Nine years old? Or even seven or eight years old? At what age do you realize that you are more beautiful than the girls in your school, or even in the same town? From that moment on, there is no girl who will not dream of stardom, you are so beautiful, don't say that you don't have that idea, that's too hypocritical. ”

"I don't want to say anything about blaming myself for not being able to control my lower body, I do blame myself, but it's also too hypocritical to say it. I just want to say you have to be strong, Amy. ”

Song Ya stared at her and said, "I'm ridiculous, we did a lot of ridiculous things with Fergie, Hallie, and Tarraghi, and I can't give you anything." But this role is what I can do for you, seize the opportunity, ignore the gossip, and be stronger inside, like those Bichi! It's like that Charis, a South African girl who has no background or connections in Hollywood, and can still find old Larry after failing the audition, and Ivana helps to talk, and meets by chance......"

"To fight for every role, for every opportunity, to fight, to tear, to design, to frame...... Pay 120 points for success, do whatever it takes, Amy, give up those naivety and purity, and grow up. ”

"The door of success is close at hand, grasp it, you must know that the vast majority of beautiful girls, those beauty pageant champions, small town girls, school girls, cheerleaders, prom queens, second-generation star directors, second-generation rich second-generation and even super models, have tried their best to use all means in their lives, and they have no chance to stand at this door......"

"And you, you've already walked through that door."

"But I love you, APLUS." Amy burst into tears.

"I'm sorry ......"

Coming out of the classroom, Song Ya put her hands in her pockets and walked silently in the corridor outside.

"I envy her." A voice came from inside the door of a nearby classroom.

"Who's there?" There was no light on in that classroom, and Song Ya looked over and saw a tall figure, it was Charlise Theron.

"I envy her, I didn't envy her before, no, I didn't envy her before the audition was eliminated. But now...... I was indeed envious, even jealous, ......"

She came out of the shadows and stood in the corridor light, the girl was wearing a ballet dress, and her beautiful face and body curves were displayed in front of Song Ya's eyes, like a large diamond.

"Did you hear that?" Song Ya frowned.

"Yes."

"Hollywood doors are never so soundproof." Song Ya rolled her eyes, spit out a sentence and continued to leave.

"Have you seen through my plan and Ivana?" She asked.

"Didn't you hear that?" Song Ya stopped, "Although Ivana teaches people to act, her acting skills are really a bit clumsy......"

"I'm sorry, I did take advantage of you."

"There's nothing to be sorry for, I appreciate you and the effort you've put into it, Charis, you just heard it, I have no objection to this careful thinking of the girl, as long as it doesn't hurt me and the people I care about."

"I'm ......" she suddenly began to sob, trying to restrain her tone, "I still want to say thank you to you, you have actually done a lot for me." She covered her mouth with her hands over and crouched down, crying and shaking.

"Don't do that."

Song Ya walked a few more steps, but her heart still couldn't harden, she rolled her eyes again, turned around, and helped the poor girl squatting at the door of the classroom up, "You are different from Amy, I have no doubt that you will succeed in Hollywood, sooner or later, you don't actually need any help from me Charis." ”

"I even regret it now, I ...... at the time"

She raised her head and looked at Song Ya with sparkling teary eyes, "You liked me, didn't you?" ”

This girl's acting skills are too good, Song Ya can't tell the truth from the fake, and she doesn't bother to identify it, "It's not important, I couldn't restrain my inner impulse at that time, and I couldn't walk when I saw a beautiful girl......"

"I have no money, I changed my agent, I attended this acting class, and the money spent on the rest of your crew, a lot...... My mom didn't support me anymore, she wanted me to go back to college, and when she found out that I had failed this audition, she stopped supporting me and helped pay it off and cancel my overdrawn credit card. But I still don't want to give up ......"

Her voice grew louder and more miserable, "I had to take a playboy photo, I was scared ......"

"I don't know how to deal with what is next, and sometimes I even wonder if I am too late to sell, rather than sell to someone else, I should sell it to you, and sell it all! I've been very fond of you for a long time...... In fact, as long as you take one step further at that time, I will be yours. ”

She threw herself on Song Ya, so hard that she almost felt like she was going to rub her body in.

"Charlis, who regrets the past and is useless, face the future." Song Ya struggled to push her away, "You heard it all just now." ”

“APLUS？ APLUS！？ Daniel's voice woke him up.

"Huh? What did you just say? I didn't hear you. ”

"Have you seen this musical before?"

"Yes, with Ms. Shirley Fleming."

"Editor-in-Chief of American Music?"

"Yes, it's her, she's the kind of person who is rooted in Broadway, she comes when she has nothing to do, and she basically chooses to talk to me about things here, or she goes to Warrendorf for afternoon tea."

"Do you like it?"

"I like it very much, much more than that Miss Saigon, I think this is the best musical."

Daniel smiled, "You know what? I'm in the race for the position of president of Sony Columbia Records, and if I fail, I won't be able to stay on the side of Momoyo, and I still have to hide that Doug Morris, the president of Atlantic Records, who has negotiated to come out next year to start his own business, will hate me when he knows the truth. ”

"But as long as you succeed, you can slowly mend your relationship with him, right?" Song Ya asked rhetorically.

"Yes, as long as you succeed, you must succeed, I can't afford to fail in my career for the second time." He said.

'There is a sorrow that cannot be spoken, there is a pain that never ends......

In the theater, an excerpt from Empty Chairs at Empty Tables is played, and only Marius survives when the barricades are breached, and he returns to the tavern where he had been with his friends, with only empty tables and chairs.

“Fxxk！”

Daniel cursed in a low voice, "It's too inappropriate to listen to this at this time." ”

'Familiar faces are in a trance by the window, familiar figures are reflected in a trance on the ground, empty tables with empty chairs, my friends will never meet again. ’

The musical ended, and after Mike confirmed that there was no paparazzi following him, he drove Song Ya back to Tribeca's house, "Mimi, are you upstairs?" He untied his bow tie and dialed Mariah Carey's phone.

"I'm here! Wait for me! She replied happily.

"Linda, get us something to eat and open another bottle of champagne......" Song Ya hung up the phone.

"You guys?"

"Wait a minute, a lady will come."

Linda smiled silently and went to work.

The phone rang, Song Ya glanced at the number and immediately answered, "Hey, Sandy, what are you busy with?" No news for two days. ”

"Excuse me about MJ's tour, aplus."

Sandy Gren apologized repeatedly, "There's something I have to inform you. ”

"Say."

"MJ has no intention of getting involved in your business."

"What did he say personally? You're not going to be dictating to him again, are you? ”

"Personally, he asked me to apologize to you on his behalf, after all, he promised you."

"That's ......" Song Ya fell silent.

"I'm so sorry, uh...... Miss Kelly's agent about that matter, does it still count? ”

There was a knock on the door, Song Ya opened it, and Mariah Carey, dressed in a beautiful black evening dress, stood outside the door with a smile, "Dangdang......" she raised her hand, proudly showing the diamond ring.

“APLUS？ Are you listening? Sandy Glenn's inquiry came from the earpiece.

Song Ya pressed the hang up button, picked up the beauty in front of her, and hugged each other affectionately.

‘OMG……’

Linda saw Mariah Carey and exclaimed, the champagne bottle in her hand slipped and fell to the ground.