A Core Ship From The Start-Chapter 2354 - 1583: What the Hell Is This?

Today is a bit sweeter ——— abbreviated as Jintian.

It’s a shoujo manga about a deeply traumatized heroine who is healed after meeting the male lead and her friends. Duanmu Huai remembers it clearly because every day when he gets home for dinner, Ruby enthusiastically tells him about it, sometimes talking excitedly, sometimes through gritted teeth, and occasionally in tears.

It’s just like being possessed. Probably, this is how parents felt back in the day when they saw young people getting obsessed with idol dramas.

Something like "You are the wind, I am the sand, drifting until the ends of the earth" and so on......

Duanmu Huai, under Ruby’s strong recommendation, watched it too. How should I put it...... I can only say the plot is quite touching, but Duanmu Huai didn’t feel as emotionally stirred as Ruby did.

If I had to say something, it would be ——— How can someone survive this long on just bread and nutritional supplements...... Human bodies truly are amazing.

Ruby was so mad she didn’t talk to him for two days.

But Duanmu Huai thought his question was quite normal......

Anyhow, at least Duanmu Huai knows that among girls, this manga is pretty well-liked, and since it was adapted into a TV series, it should be even more popular. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

However...... after watching the filming site and the rough cut of the first episode, Duanmu Huai directly made a call.

"Zuocang, get your ass to the office."

A moment later, the professional manager burst into the office, out of breath, only to be greeted by Duanmu Huai’s roar.

"What———the———hell———is———this———shit!?!"

Duanmu Huai slammed his hand on the heavy mahogany desk, cracking it in the process.

"Are you sure this is Jintian’s rough cut?!"

"This, this is indeed Jintian’s rough cut...... The director personally gave it to me......"

"Then tell me, what the hell is this shitty thing!!"

Duanmu Huai slapped the desk again, angrily pointing to the screen next to him.

"I remember, Jintian is a shoujo manga, right? And the ones who appear first aren’t the female lead and her friend? Her friend should be a girl, right? But what’s with all these dumb handsome guys appearing!!"

Duanmu Huai almost jabbed his finger into the screen.

"Isn’t the heroine supposed to be a distrustful, reclusive girl? What’s with being surrounded by so many handsome guys? What the hell is this face-obsessed bitch scenario!?"

"Ugh......"

"And these lines!"

Duanmu Huai said as he pressed the play button, then saw the boy playing the male lead looking at the heroine and saying.

"You, always with that expression———are you happy———?" (with a flat tone)

"Even middle school drama clubs wouldn’t have such terrible performance, alright!"

Duanmu Huai directly threw the remote at the screen, and with a "bang," the 64-inch big screen TV bit the dust on the spot.

"Did our company invest in this kind of crap? Although I’m not a fan of Jintian, I also know that airing something like this will only invite criticism, right? Why did they get these shitty actors? What? Did our company not pay enough?!"

Faced with Duanmu Huai’s aggressive scolding, the manager was also trembling in fear.

"I-I’ll immediately contact the director and producer!"

"Figure out what’s going on! If they don’t want to shoot, they can damn well get lost! Do you want me to listen to people cursing out this crappy show every day in class!?!"

"Y-Yes—————!"

Relieved as if he’d been pardoned, the manager dashed out like the wind, while Duanmu Huai plopped down in the boss’s chair, grumbling discontentedly, then picked up the cast list beside him again.

"Speaking of...... how did Kana manage to perform so poorly?"

That’s right, the actress playing the lead role in "Jintian" was none other than the long-absent Arima Kaname. Duanmu Huai initially wanted to see what progress Arima Kaname had made after not seeing each other for years———but ended up so pissed off by this group of idiot pretty boys that he wanted to strangle them all directly.

Even though he only watched the beginning, Duanmu Huai felt that Arima Kaname’s acting shouldn’t be this bad......

On the other hand, under Duanmu Huai’s death threats, the maxed-out manager quickly found out the situation and reported back.

"Spill it, what’s going on?"

"Y-Yes...... President......"

Looking at the white-haired, red-eyed girl behind the desk, who looked like she was ready to devour someone, the manager swallowed a gulp of saliva and, trembling, began to speak.

"Because online television is a new thing, they weren’t sure if it would get the expected response, so they just planned to test the waters......"

"Testing the waters with a popular manga? Licensing doesn’t come cheap, damn it! Continue!"

"Yes... since the manga has 14 volumes, it’s too much content, and the production cycle is too long, so they decided to compress it into six episodes. Of course, they also knew compressing too much would cause the plot to collapse, so they planned to use the fact that Jintian’s fans are all women, using lots of models for the roles. After all, for the ladies, as long as there are enough handsome guys......"

"So damn it, you don’t need to care about the plot, right!? Then what kind of drama are you filming; just open a Cowherd Store instead, damn it!"

Duanmu Huai slammed the desk again, this time finally snapping the heavy mahogany desk into two with a "crack."

"Our company is in the film and TV business; if you want to run a Cowherd Store, let these dumbasses take a right turn to the red-light district!"

This is the difference between actors and bosses. For actors, no matter how unreasonable the plot is, they can only brace themselves and shoot. But if investors are dissatisfied, they can point at the director and curse them out.