I am a Big Player
Chapter 507 - 501, I am your fan (first update) _1

Chapter 507: 501, I am your fan (first update) _1

The Central Academy of Drama campus covers an area of 25.37 acres, with a construction area of nearly 30,000 square meters, providing complete infrastructure. It boasts an Experimental Theater with a construction area of 5111 square meters, more than 700 seats, and advanced equipment, offering favorable conditions for the college’s theatrical film and television art practice and professional teaching. The college library covers an area of 1700 square meters and is equipped with more than ten kinds of database management software; its information management has essentially achieved automation and networked document retrieval. The library currently holds over 370,000 volumes, with the collection of Chinese drama books being the richest domestically.

This is the Central Academy of Drama, where Ren He would spend the next four years.

He had heard Yang Xi mention before that the Central Academy of Drama’s auditions in the Capital are notoriously strict. Each department only recruits a little over fifty students, yet thousands of candidates show up for the auditions, like an army trying to cross a single-plank bridge.

Other students only need to cross the bridge of college entrance exams, but students from institutions like Central Academy of Drama and Beijing Film Academy have to cross it twice.

However, the benefit is that some renowned directors, armed with excellent scripts, come to the school to select actors. Not only can the performance department participate in the casting, but the entire school can as well.

This is the preferential treatment the entertainment industry extends to these prestigious schools. Those without such professional backgrounds can only go to film sets, enduring minor roles and waiting for a day when a huge opportunity might present itself.

But students from these schools are already standing high above, as if born superior.

So if No.4 Middle School is already a place where talents gather, and students there with slightly less glowing auras get marginalized, then the Central Academy of Drama is a place that further amplifies this situation.

Everyone who comes here has a desire to perform—why else would they come? And anyone who makes it here has acting skills; otherwise, they wouldn’t pass the audition.

As the saying goes, "Life is like a play; it all depends on acting." Before, Ren He worried about having to encounter pretense every day at school, since after all, you can’t tell whether people are acting or not.

But, as it turned out, he was worried for nothing; while these kids do have acting abilities, their personalities are on full display.

Few are so calculating that they’re acting all the time.

The main entrance to the Central Academy of Drama leads to a tree-lined boulevard; banners flutter in the wind and streamers hang from every tree, each bearing the names of different departments: Acting, Directing, Dance Art, Theater Literature...

Under each banner, several energetic upperclassmen stand, welcoming the new students.

Those who welcome the new students are usually sophomores, whose enthusiasm for university life hasn’t yet faded—they enjoy activities, socializing, and having fun.

By junior or senior year, some are out working, seizing opportunities to shoot TV series. If they’re lucky, they might become stars, and if not, they still have to endure it.

Others spend their time in the dorms playing cards, mahjong, watching movies, playing video games...

Some even dare to bring electric mahjong tables into their dorms!

Standing at the entrance and watching the crowd, Ren He has one impression: the Central Academy of Drama really does have a lot of good-looking guys and girls.

He’s not interested in the guys, but there are plenty of beautiful girls—and typically, freshman girls don’t wear makeup yet, nor do they dress up much, so people often say that freshman girls are like green apples, tasty but not good-looking.

But the Central Academy of Drama is different. From the start, freshman girls here all possess the potential to be devastatingly beautiful...

No wonder Yang Xi has recently been exceptionally vigilant with him; it seems Yang Xi knows all too well what the Central Academy of Drama is like.

The little girl gritted her teeth yesterday in the Courtyard House and played four rounds of support for herself, leaving Ren He wondering if she had changed her temperament. Yang Xi had always been competitive and playing support wasn’t her habit. Recently, however, she got the hang of it and especially loved playing mid-lane, taking any chance she could to go out and pick fights.

As a result, after playing support for four rounds yesterday, her goal was to have Ren He willingly promise her that he would remain utterly unaffected by any temptation in university.

This delighted Ren He, who immediately agreed, warmed by the feeling of being cared for by Yang Xi—it’s always better to be cared about than not at all.

And now that Ren He had set his heart on Yang Xi, he would not consider changing. Their relationship had gone through so many trials and tribulations, making it all the more precious.

Compared to the students here who were just starting out, Yang Xi was already a Queen, beautiful, with a great figure to boot.

If he were to stray now, it would be like giving up driving his own Aston Martin for a cheap and cheerful Volkswagen...

The freshman orientation event had begun, and Ren He watched those senior students who were dazzled at the sight of a beautiful girl, feeling a sense of superiority as someone who was no longer single and very happy in his relationship...

As soon as these seniors saw a pretty girl, regardless of whether she was from their department or not, they would strike up a conversation first. A senior from the drama and literature department took a freshman girl from the acting department and helped her through all the registration processes, a preemptive strike that made the acting department’s own seniors gnash their teeth in envy...

While walking, Ren He looked for the acting department’s banner, and when he stood under it, he was somewhat surprised...

"Freshman of the acting department, right? Come on, fill out this form," Xia Yuting sat under the shade of a tree with a radiant and inviting smile. Xia Yuting kept it simple today, but she still managed to captivate, as if her heart was saying... A girl like this should be on screen for everyone to see.

Ren He hadn’t expected Xia Yuting to be here, and she pretended not to know him, as if she understood his desire to keep a low profile on campus.

He thought Xia Yuting would be busy, especially since she now had countless film offers, and her schedule was packed to the brim. She took on any script that was good enough.

And yet, here they were, meeting each other.

A male senior from the acting department said to Ren He with a smile, "Finally, another guy shows up, and a good-looking one at that. Hurry up and fill in the form; I’ll take you to pay tuition fees, buy necessities, and sort out the dormitory arrangements afterward."

"I’ll take him," Xia Yuting said with a smile, standing up to smooth out her crumpled skirt.

At her words, the seniors nearby were all stunned. Technically, Yuting’s presence was a bit peculiar, given that she was a third-year student who didn’t need to do orientations and she was quite busy.

So the seniors were unbelievably thrilled—having their own national film Queen join them to welcome new students was exceptionally rare indeed.

Yuting hadn’t even stood up once while receiving students before, and they wouldn’t have dared to ask their Queen senior to bear the sun and arrange for freshmen’s admissions.

But now, Xia Yuting had volunteered to guide a freshman...

"Kid, you’re in luck..." sighed a senior. "Do you know who this is?"

But Ren He was visibly excited: "Could you give me an autograph? I’m a huge fan of yours!"