Xiao He's one-hour teacher trial card has officially ended.

He was greeted with enthusiastic applause and cheers. The students were still eager for more, and several of the bolder boys had already rolled their hands into tubes and loudly invited, "Teacher Xiao, please come and teach us at Peking Opera School when you have time! We all welcome you!" 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

"Yes, yes, Teacher Xiao, please come! If you come, I'll definitely attend your class!"

"Waaah, Teacher Xiao, please say a few more words! I haven't had enough!"

"Teacher Xiao is awesome! You're my teacher from now on!"

The students' words left Xiao He both amused and exasperated.

However, the huge weight that had been hanging over my heart has finally been lifted.

It seems the lesson went quite well.

Especially when he saw the students' bright eyes and the approving looks from the old men next to him, Xiao He felt a rare surge of pride and self-satisfaction.

He took a step back, bowed slightly to everyone with great solemnity, and expressed his gratitude: "Thank you very much for your cooperation, and thank you for your personal support and affection. Thank you so much—"

He wouldn't have achieved this result without the cooperation of all parties.

"Don't mention it, Teacher Xiao! From now on, I'll tell everyone I'm your personally taught disciple!"

"Teacher Xiao, please come visit often when you have time!"

The students, having finished their lessons, began chatting and joking around. Yang Heng, smiling, walked over, patted Xiao He on the shoulder, and gestured for him to look in the other direction: "Now, please allow me to formally introduce you. This is Qu Yuan, the vice president of the National Theatre, and also my teacher."

Yang Heng turned to the side and introduced himself to Xiao He very solemnly.

Xiao He had already read the dean's information before coming and knew that the other party was a heavyweight figure in the country. He immediately straightened up a little and bowed slightly to Qu Kangcheng: "Greetings, Dean Qu!"

Qu Kangcheng is very old, a somewhat withered and thin old man, but he currently appears to be in good health and vigorous. His eyes are clear and bright, carrying the composure and tranquility that comes with age, as well as a touch of wisdom and gentleness from having experienced many vicissitudes.

His attitude towards a young man like Xiao He was not as extreme as Li Jian's. Instead, his smile was very amiable. He looked Xiao He up and down, his eyes full of approval: "I know you. Xiao Yang once mentioned to me that he would be bringing a friend to visit the theater soon."

Xiao He was surprised.

Given his current superficial relationship with Yang Heng, does that already qualify him as a friend?

This is only their second meeting, isn't it?

Hmm... but actually it's almost done.

Isn't this how you make friends?

A smile spread across his face: "I am very happy to visit the theater and honored to meet Dean Qu. I was so nervous before I came. I didn't expect there to be such a performance class. I am really sorry for showing off my limited skills in front of you seniors."

"No, no, it was a wonderful lecture."

Qu Kangcheng shook his head, speaking from the heart: "Actually, we had studied the stage adaptation of the play 'The Twelve Evils' more than ten years ago, but we eventually gave up on the play."

"The Twelve Evils" is the prototype of the stage play "The Twelve Mirrors". At that time, the development of domestic theaters was quite good, and they also thought about introducing a few foreign classic works to expand the overseas market.

At that time, everything was developing very rapidly, the economic market was booming, and everyone at the National Theatre was full of confidence, looking forward to leading the theatre to the world stage and letting more people see them.

But it also means that many of them are feeling their way across the river, completely unaware of market trends or popular tastes...

Therefore, when choosing these scripts, we were indeed making attempts and breakthroughs, and the script of "The Twelve Evils," which deals with split personality, was undoubtedly a huge challenge.

They even considered hiring twelve people to play twelve different personalities and then merging them together... but without a doubt, they failed.

It's not that their vast national theater couldn't find a group of outstanding talents capable of portraying multiple personalities, but rather that such an investment was of no value to them at the time.

After all, many people think that a stage play only lasts for a little over an hour, or even less, but for the actors backstage, it is an extremely long and grueling rehearsal process.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be the saying, "One minute on stage requires ten years of practice off stage."

Considering the time and personnel costs of rehearsing this script, they opted to create a new script instead.

Therefore, the script for "The Twelve Evils" was ultimately scrapped.

This is also why there were no related "Twelve Mirrors" stages in China before Xiao He.

The risks are high and the rewards are disproportionate. Aside from being a show-off work by acting fanatics, they really couldn't imagine that anyone would take on such a script.

—Later, a young actor named Xiao He, at his birthday party, delivered a perfect performance that shocked everyone in the industry in what seemed like a rather informal setting.

When Yang Heng showed him the video of that stage play, Qu Kangcheng realized that it wasn't that they couldn't do it back then, but perhaps they were just unlucky in their timing.

"What a pity, if only you had appeared ten years earlier..." Qu Kangcheng paused, then shook his head with a helpless smile, "No, you were still in school ten years ago, it would have been impossible for you to be on stage, I'm getting senile, hahaha."

If this person had appeared ten years earlier, he would have racked his brains to invite him to work at their national theater, even offering incredibly generous benefits and conditions. He would have then used every means to promote him to the leading position, allowing him to step onto the national and even world stage, so that more people could see the outstanding actors of their country...

However, times have changed.

Many things have changed. This place is no longer a place for young actors. He was even embarrassed to invite Xiao He to stay, and could only sigh with emotion.

Xiao He was completely unaware of the complex emotions expressed in Qu Kangcheng's few sighs, and simply changed the subject: "It just so happens that I came here this time to learn from you seniors. It is my honor to have the opportunity to show myself."

—And this young man is quite eloquent.

Qu Kangcheng glanced at the young genius Yang Heng, who always disdained to communicate with "idiots," and then thought that the root of this °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° incident was his jealous student Li Jian. Qu Kangcheng's head began to ache again.

Look at other people's children, then look at my own...

What a terrible thing to do!

Why is it that we just can't seem to find the right people?

well--

Qu Kangcheng sighed inwardly, feeling a bit disappointed in Li Jian, and immediately turned around to call out to him as he was about to sneak away.

"Li Jian, come here!"

If it weren't for the fact that there were students all around, Qu Kangcheng's words would probably have been even rougher.

In other words, it roughly translates to: "You bastard, get over here now!"