You're Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 34 Part 3

Under the urging of the photographer, Tong Yao walked in front of the

camera for her solo photo shoot.

Tong Yao was the last to have her individual photos taken. The photographer,

in consideration that later on it might be necessary to Photoshop all the

individual shots into a group picture, was asking Tong Yao to pose in certain

positions. He instructed her to cross her arms in front of her chest, raise her

chin a bit to look at the camera, and cast down her eyes a little bit-- --

People who were familiar with promotional pictures would know that it was

the pose usually reserved for the person who would be put in the middle of

the group picture. It would be such an honor and show how the team valued

her-- --A team that had a player like Lu Sicheng, who would make the

newcomer stand in the center-- --If it was someone else, the person would be

elated, yet Tong Yao was like a chatterbox: “......This way? Like this? Raise the

chin this high? Are you sure? Would it make my face bigger? Lower my eyes,

would it make my eyes disappear? My eyes aren't big to start with……”

The photographer: “Yes, it would.”

Tong Yao: “? ? ? ? ?”

The photographer: “But it would make you look domineering. Just imagine

yourself as the queen.”

Tong Yao was confused: “The queen?”

Xiao Rui, looking on from the sidelines, wanting to go up and hit her with a

stick…...Lu Sicheng, sitting with legs crossed by the side, suddenly spoke as

he was focused on his cell phone: “You're asking Thumbelina to pretend to be

a queen. You have to consider whether the person has the ability or not.”

Finally, the photographer went up to Tong Yao and forced her head into the

position he desired, then quickly took the shot. The end results were pa.s.sable,

later on he would have to do more work on Photoshop……

After the solo shots, Xiao Rui strongly demanded that Tong Yao and Lu Yue

take pictures together.

“I want the feeling that the two of you are destined to confront each other.

Full of confrontation, aggression, and the silent battle between the player and

its subst.i.tute. You have to create the sense of contradiction because of your

compet.i.tive relations.h.i.+p!”

Xiao Rui tried his best to create the emotional condition for Tong Yao and

Lu Yue. Lu Yue listened with no facial expression at all, there was no way to

tell whether he was actually listening. Tong Yao kept nodding with a confused

face, there was no way to tell whether she actually understood what he was

saying. Lu Sicheng stretched his long legs: “Weren't you two already doing that?

Use that same childishness when you fought over the chair. Xiao Rui is just

asking you two to act as your usual selves.”

Tong Yao rolled her eyes in the distance.

……

That night, they got back to the base exhausted. Tong Yao collapsed in her

chair and ordered take out for everyone on her phone. When she was asking

one by one what they would like for dinner, Little Fatty suddenly screamed in

front of his computer. Startled, Tong Yao almost dropped her phone. She got

up from the chair with some difficulty: “What's wrong?”

“The Weibo official site just released some of the pictures we took this afternoon!”

Little Fatty pointed to the screen. “This one is really good!”

Tong Yao thought about the poses she was forced to do in the afternoon and

got nervous about the end result. She hurried onto Weibo and saw on the front

page a picture that had been reposted from the official site-- --

Tong Yao's eyelids twitched.

The picture was her and Lu Yue.

The post-production had made the background dark, with a beam s.h.i.+ning from

the left side of Tong Yao, lighting up half her face and leaving the other half in

shadow. Behind her was the much taller Lu Yue who stood back to back with her,

like a huge hill behind Tong Yao. He slanted his head slightly towards the source

of the beam. The light outlined his tall nose bridge and indifferent lips. He had

his eyes slightly lowered, the long eyelashes cast tiny shadows under his eyes……

One could sense the vigorous energy between his eyebrows.