Chapter 777
Pre-recording of the New Year's Eve Gala
The day Jinli filmed the pre-recorded stage was a snowy night.
Bilibili's pre-recorded stage is not a virtual set or a green screen, but a real, live stage.
The audience was arranged in advance. If it weren't for the fact that this was pre-recorded in preparation for New Year's Day, it would look like a real concert.
Pre-recording has one advantage: the website can spend more time editing to ensure that viewers get the best visual experience when watching online.
Bilibili is an online video website, and many people only choose to watch online and rarely go to the offline scene.
Jinli refused the airport pick-up service and all privileges arranged by the website, and like other celebrities, she quietly entered the venue in the afternoon.
Upon arriving backstage, she saw several nearby dressing rooms, each with the artist's name written on the door, and couldn't help but smile.
This website is very good at handling people; it arranged all the celebrities she is most familiar with together.
There was still a long time before evening, and even when evening came, her stage was relatively far back, so there was no need to start preparing so early.
So Jinli started visiting other people's homes with great enthusiasm.
She first knocked on Ji Qinglian's door next door.
Ji Qinglian's assistant opened the door and, seeing Jinli, exclaimed with delight:
"Sister Jinli, you're here?"
Jinli smiled and said, "Yes, I just arrived not long ago. Is Aunt Ji here?"
The assistant was a little stunned. "Aunt Ji? Who is she calling?"
Hearing this, Ji Qinglian, who was putting on makeup and getting ready, quickly replied, "Yes, I'm inside!"
Jinli quickly appeared in front of her.
Ji Qinglian couldn't make any big movements, so she just smiled and said softly:
"I checked the program schedule, and your stage is scheduled quite far back. Why are you here so early today?"
Jinli shrugged. "Since I had nothing to do anyway, I came early, hoping to run into someone I knew. And here I am, you."
Her eyes curved slightly: "The production team made interesting arrangements; all the people in the dressing room around me are acquaintances."
Ji Qinglian smiled and said, "I saw it. Shall we have a late-night snack together when tonight ends?"
Jinli readily agreed: "Okay."
While the two were chatting, there was another knock on the door.
Jinli turned her head and saw that Qi Guanmingzhu and Xi Mengze had come over together.
They looked like they had just arrived, dressed simply, with excitement in their eyes.
Xi Mengze: "I just realized that our lounges are really close to each other!"
Qi Guanmingzhu hummed in agreement. "The production team is definitely doing this on purpose. They might release a behind-the-scenes special and take a picture of our house number so they can give our former fans a treat."
Speak of the devil, and he appears; the production crew arrived in a flurry of activity, carrying cameras.
When the assistant opened the door for them, they were still catching their breath, looking as if they had rushed over at breakneck speed.
People who didn't know better would think they had just gone to Zhejiang TV to film "Go Fighting!"
Jinli noticed the cameraman's cheeks were flushed and couldn't help but say:
"Take it easy, we won't run away. We'll give you half an hour. Take your time, and don't get heatstroke and faint."
Qi Guanmingzhu laughed out loud: "With such a low temperature outside, how could you possibly get heatstroke?"
Xi Mengze: "I think Jinli probably wanted to say 'sudden death,' but was afraid of hurting people's feelings, so she changed it to heatstroke at the last minute." Ji Qinglian was still putting on makeup and could only say in a breathy voice, "Agreed."
Jinli's eyes curved slightly, her smile resembling a crescent moon.
“You guys really understand me, that’s exactly what I meant.”
She glanced around and couldn't help but look at the cameraman who was panting.
"Didn't you call Yu Lina and Gong Zitong over?"
The cameraman shook his head. "When we contacted them, one had already agreed to go to another video website's gala, and the other had no interest in participating in the New Year's Eve gala."
Jinli sighed, "What a pity, I thought you guys would be able to collect all the dragons."
Later, this backstage interview video was released, and netizens made a lot of jokes about it:
[So the entire pink-clad girl group knew that netizens were making wishes to collect dragons every year?]
So when will the day come when all the dragons are gathered?
[I feel like it's coming soon. The pink-loving girls never used to joke about combining, but Jinli actually brought it up herself, so I guess they'll be combining very soon!!]
[Each member is doing quite well. Yu Lina even had a hugely popular drama last year. Gong Zitong is the least successful, but she's still a top-tier second-tier artist with regular variety show appearances. She doesn't need to reunite to make easy money, right?]
Other disbanded classic groups might have reunited to make easy money, but Pink Girls would never do that; they don't need to cash in!
[Yes, yes, I'd love for them to reunite! There's so much hype online about them getting back together; if they had any ambition, they would have done it already!]
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After Jinli and the others finished their interviews, they chatted for a while in Ji Qinglian's dressing room before returning to their respective dressing rooms to put on makeup.
They all brought their own makeup artists, so they didn't need the ones provided by the website.
Each celebrity has a different makeup artist style. Basically, once a celebrity's image is fixed, their makeup is also fixed, and the makeup artist won't easily change it.
Some celebrities may change makeup artists, but they won't change their makeup style.
However, once a different makeup artist is used, subtle changes often occur in the makeup.
Netizens will scrutinize the high-resolution photos, analyzing frame by frame the new makeup artist's skills and the quality of the makeup and styling.
Therefore, being a makeup artist is considered a high-risk profession in the industry. If a celebrity is in a bad state, the makeup artist will also be criticized.
Jinli has great skin, and her makeup is always bright and clear.
While she was getting ready in the lounge, the website staff checked the venue and gossiped about the celebrities who had come that day.
When the March band arrived, they overheard the staff gossiping about celebrities' bare faces.
The four of them arrived in a low-key manner. Because of the cold weather and the snow that had been falling for the past few days, they wrapped themselves up tightly, dressed in black from head to toe.
Add to that the black hat and black mask... this outfit makes him look incredibly ordinary in a crowd, completely lacking any star quality.
The staff member glanced at him briefly before looking away, assuming he was just another odd-job worker.
"The celebrities you mentioned all wore makeup. Are there any who didn't wear makeup?"
"Yes, it must be Jinli, as well as Qiguan Mingzhu and Xi Mengze. Neither of them wore makeup, but their skin was really good, especially Jinli, whose skin seemed to glow even without makeup!"
"Jin Li's clothes and appearance are very ordinary and low-key, but you can tell at a glance that she is different from others. Is this the aura of a top artist?"
"I also saw Jinli. She even tried to say hello to me. She's so sweet and gentle. She truly deserves to be called the world's sweetest girl. Her fans are absolutely right."
"They used to eat so well, waaaaah..." (End of Chapter)