Pampered by the School Bully
Chapter 407 - 400. Red May rehearsing to win over Huo Feng! (3)

Chapter 407: 400. Red May rehearsing to win over Huo Feng! (3)

This week, although school days were exhausting and difficult, Pu Sangzhi’s whole week’s mood had been cleared up thanks to Huo Feng’s company over the two days of the weekend.

A new week of school days arrived with beautiful spirits.

This week, most of the classes had started rehearsing their programs for the Red May Festival.

Pu Sangzhi’s class was no exception.

After school on Monday, the class president Wu Beilei, Pu Sangzhi, the female lead Zhu Dandan, a few girls playing extras, and the male lead Chen Mo, who was dragged over forcefully, organized a rehearsal.

Truth be told...

When Chen Mo first laid eyes on the script, he was quite reluctant to play this poorly designed male lead!

But when the class president Wu Beilei told him he was chosen because he was the best-looking boy in the class... for the sake of that comment, Chen Mo felt he had to carry the responsibilities that came with his looks!

You know, the higher the looks, the heavier the responsibilities on one’s shoulders!

So, Chen Mo came with high aspirations and reluctance.

In the student activity center, class president Wu Beilei borrowed a classroom for rehearsal.

The script and lines had already been sorted out, with most of the play being dialogues between the male and female leads, so the focus of today’s rehearsal was mainly on Zhu Dandan and Chen Mo.

After consultation between class president Wu Beilei and Pu Sangzhi, the script had undergone some modifications, adding a time period background and changing a character setup.

Mainly set in a rural background of the old days.

The female character was designed as a peasant’s daughter, poor yet hardworking and eager to learn.

The male character as a millionaire’s son, affluent but averse to studying.

To highlight the comedic effect of the whole script...

Class president Wu Beilei named the female lead: Wang Cuihua!

The male lead was named: Zhuge Tieniu!

These two names, earthy to the core and inherently funny, made Zhu Dandan and Chen Mo, who played the female and male leads, quite resistant!

Pu Sangzhi also raised an objection with class president Wu Beilei, feeling that it wasn’t necessary to set up comedic elements with the names?

But no one could overcome the overbearing and arbitrary class president Wu Beilei!

Hence, the names of the male and female leads were tentatively settled as Wang Cuihua and Zhuge Tieniu!

Since it was their first run-through, there weren’t any props prepared in the classroom yet, so Zhu Dandan and Chen Mo started by reading the script and going through the lines to smooth over the process.

The opening scene was Wang Cuihua (Zhu Dandan) hurriedly heading to school with her worn-out backpack.

Class president Wu Beilei narrated from the side, "In the old times at the beginning of the Reform and Opening-Up, education was not deemed very important. People back then didn’t value going to school, reading books, or the idea that knowledge could change one’s fate. Thus, for children from poor families, learning was a precious affair."

"Wang Cuihua is the youngest daughter of farmer Wang Laotu’s family. Because of her excellent academic performance, she became the only child in her family able to go to school. In order to study in the town’s Tangxia No.1 Middle School, she walked there every day. Today, rushing all the way, Wang Cuihua was late. When she arrived at the school gate, the iron doors had already shut her out..."

As the narration ended, Zhu Dandan, with her backpack, pretended to stand outside the school’s iron gate, anxiously looking in.

Zhu Dandan began her lines, "Is there anyone who can help me open the gate... anyone?"

"Cut!"

Wu Beilei raised her hand to interrupt, "Wang Cuihua, you need to be more anxious in your emotion. You’re someone who loves studying so much, so when you’re late and can’t get into the school, you must be the type to cry urgently!"

"Oh..."

Zhu Dandan nodded.

"Okay, continue!" said Wu Beilei.

"Is there anyone who can help me open the gate? Anyone? Uncle, security uncle! Can you please open the gate for me?" Zhu Dandan shouted in a high-pitched voice.

The extra playing the security guard pretended not to hear, hands behind his back, walking further and further away...

Wang Cuihua (Zhu Dandan), stomping her feet in desperation, "Uncle! Can you open the gate for me! Open the gate..."

Just then, Zhuge Tieniu (Chen Mo) known as the bad student trope, came over from behind Wang Cuihua with a book bag slung over one shoulder and his steps arrogant and unrushed, saying, "No use in calling out, that security guard is hard of hearing, he wouldn’t hear you even if you screamed your throat out."

Wang Cuihua turned around, looking at Zhuge Tieniu with a bit of fear.

Because Zhuge Tieniu was famously known as the bad student in the class.

With a smile to Wang Cuihua, Zhuge Tieniu said, "Staring at me like that, do you know me?"

Wang Cuihua shook her head.

Touching his chin, Zhuge Tieniu said, "But I know you though, the top student of the whole grade, pretty and intelligent, a goody-two-shoes in the eyes of the teachers. What’s this? Even you can be late?"

Wang Cuihua spoke softly, "On the way over, I helped an old granny cross the street."