After Fang Qiu arrived at the Central Television station, he was led into the backstage studio by the staff.
Soon, Director Li Huawen came and said with a rather innocent expression, “Fang Qiu, you just caused a big piece of news for us, but it can be regarded as increasing the clout for the gala.”
Hearing that, the staff in the studio were all dumbfounded.
They had never seen Director Li Huawen being so easy-going. If it were someone else, they were not allowed to hype up in the slightest. However, Fang Qiu caused such big news, but he was still fine. On the contrary, the director still thought it was good. Was this still the director they were familiar with?
“I didn’t expect so many media reporters to come either,” Fang Qiu said with a wry smile.
“There are a lot of media reporters coming at this time every year.” Director Li Huawen answered and then asked, “How are you feeling? Are you nervous?”
“Nervous?” Fang Qiu smiled and said, “I’ve never encountered anything that can make me nervous yet!”
“That’s because you haven’t seen your future father-in-law and mother-in-law yet,” Director Li Huawen laughed.
Fang Qiu was speechless.
The staff was even more surprised.
Since it was confirmed that he was the director of the New Year’s Gala, Director Li Huawen had been particularly serious. Everyone could see that he attached great importance to directing the New Year’s Gala this time. He was simply meticulous!
As a result, almost no one saw the director joking with anyone.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Fang Qiu arrived, the extremely serious director instantly became lively. He was not so serious that he could even make a joke.
That was a great contrast.
“It’s good that you’re not nervous,” Li Huawen nodded with a smile and said. “Let’s see the program first.”
After that, he directly brought Fang Qiu a program for the New Year’s Gala.
Fang Qiu took over the program and had a careful look, only to find that he had been arranged to make the last performance before the countdown.
Seeing this arrangement, he was instantly surprised.
This time slot could be considered the central role of the New Year’s Gala and the most memorable time of the gala. As long as the show was performed well, there would be no problem at all.
“Why did you arrange for me to perform at this slot?” Fang Qiu quickly asked, pointing at the time marked on his show.
There was a lot of pressure if he needed to perform at this slot!
“You’re not the only one who is surprised!” Director Li Huawen gave a wry smile and said, “After the program was submitted, your show was moved here. I don’t have the power to change it. I guess it may have something to do with your performance at the medical exchange conference, which helped to improve the national image.”
Hearing that, Fang Qiu knew that it was done by the higher-ups.
Although he wore a wry smile on his face, he thought to himself, “Why do I feel that it has something to do with my identity as John Doe?”
Was this a reward?
“I feel that performing at this time is very stressful,” said Fang Qiu with a wry smile.
“I’m also under a lot of pressure!” Director Li Huawen sighed and patted Fang Qiu on the shoulder, saying, “You must perform well.”
“I will do my best.” Fang Qiu took a deep breath and nodded hard.
“Okay, have a good rest here and get ready. I’m leaving.” The director nodded knowingly and then turned to leave.
As he walked out of the studio, the director also particularly called a member of staff over, instructing him to directly paste Fang Qiu’s name on the door of this studio so that they could turn it directly into Fang Qiu’s dressing room.
After that, when the people passing by the dressing room saw Fang Qiu’s name pasted on it, they were immediately shocked because this was Central Television station, the studio of the rehearsal of the New Year’s Gala!
There were countless artists who came to attend the New Year’s Gala.
Among them, even those celebrities would find it hard to get themselves a dressing room. Many people even shared one dressing room, while most people could only prepare on the aisle backstage. In this case, Fang Qiu actually got an exclusive dressing room!
This time, everyone was stunned.
“Awesome. Fang Qiu actually has a separate dressing room.”
“Can Fang Qiu enjoy such treatment?”
“He’s so f*cking pretentious. He didn’t even show up in the last three rehearsals. He didn’t come to the scene until the last rehearsal, but he actually asked for an exclusive dressing room.”
“Fang Qiu is so good at putting on airs!”
“He must have shamelessly demanded the room.”
Some people were shocked by the treatment Fang Qiu received. Many people also thought that Fang Qiu was putting on airs and that his fame was not worthy of an exclusive dressing room.
In the dressing room, Fang Qiu knew nothing about the remarks outside.
Looking at the time, he found that there were still five hours left before his rehearsal.
He immediately turned to the assistant left by Director Li Huawen in the studio and asked, “Can I go out for a walk?”
The female assistant was stunned and asked, “Huh? Aren’t you going to prepare for your show?”
Fang Qiu answered, “I’m ready.”
“Hmm?” The assistant was speechless when she heard that.
However, Fang Qiu didn’t look nervous at all.
But she also knew that Fang Qiu’s performance was at the most critical point, which was the last performance before the countdown with all eyes on it!
Although that was the case, she couldn’t stop Fang Qiu if he wanted to go.
Helplessly, he could only follow Fang Qiu to go out.
As soon as he walked out of the door, Fang Qiu saw the corridor, which was packed with all kinds of artists who were preparing. Everyone was particularly busy.
“The gala is held once a year. For the sake of entertaining the public, everyone has to meticulously prepare for such a long time. They have to practice and rehearse repeatedly in order to get the exclamation, applause, and compliment of the audience on Lunar New Year’s Eve.”
Fang Qiu sighed with emotion because he had a deep feeling at this time and place.
Of course, there were also many people who recognized Fang Qiu.
On the way, Fang Qiu even met a number of people who came up to ask for autographs.
Fang Qiu signed his autograph for them one by one.
Fang Qiu also met a person who took out Chinese Medicine in Human Body to ask for his autograph. Fang Qiu didn’t only sign his name but also talked to him for a while.
After that, Fang Qiu continued to walk.
As he was walking, he suddenly saw a little girl squatting in the corridor with her head drooping. She stayed motionless.
As Fang Qiu saw the little girl, the smile on Fang Qiu’s face froze, and he immediately walked up.
“Little girl?” Squatting down beside the little girl, Fang Qiu called her and gently placed his hand on her forehead. He asked, “You’re having a fever. Why didn’t you tell your parents?”
“Hmm.” The little girl shook her head, reached out to grab the corner of Fang Qiu’s clothes with a red face, and pleaded nervously, “I don’t have a fever! I don’t! If I have a fever, I won’t be able to go on stage. I have to go on stage to perform. I want my parents to see me on TV.”
“Is that so?” Fang Qiu’s heart ached for her slightly. He stroked the little girl’s head and said, “Let me help you, okay?”
“Are you going to help me?” The little girl asked with her eyes wide open.
Fang Qiu said with a smile, “Yes. I’m a doctor. I can help you.”
The little girl asked, “Can you stop my fever?”
“Sure,” Fang Qiu nodded and said, “I’ll help you now. Don’t move, okay?”
“Okay.” The little girl nodded obediently.
Fang Qiu then reached out his hand and used his internal Qi to give her a Scraping Treatment on her spine through the clothes. He was doing it repeatedly. Although the little girl felt very painful, she gritted her teeth and endured it.
She knew that as long as she cried out, she might not be able to get on stage. Therefore, no matter how much it hurt, she did not dare to make a sound.
It lasted for three minutes.
With the help of internal Qi, Fang Qiu only used three minutes to help the little girl sweat all over. When the little girl was covered with sweat, Fang Qiu immediately channeled his internal Qi to quickly evaporate all the sweat on her body.
“All right.” After finishing this, Fang Qiu said as he smiled and stroked the little girl’s face.
“It’s true,” The little girl widened her big eyes and said in surprise, “I’m much better. I don’t feel dizzy anymore.”
“Shh—” Fang Qiu put his finger close to his mouth, made a gesture of shushing her, and said, “This is a little secret between you and me. Don’t tell others, okay?”
“Okay.” The little girl nodded excitedly.
Fang Qiu reached out to stroke the little girl’s head with a grin and said, “Come on!”
“You too, sir!” The little girl also cheered for Fang Qiu with a smile.
The others around didn’t pay much attention to them because the noise around was too loud. No one heard the conversation between Fang Qiu and the little girl, but the assistant who had been following Fang Qiu witnessed everything.
“Fang Qiu did live up to his reputation. He’s a real doctor.” The assistant sighed with emotion in her heart.
In such busy hours, who would care about others?
Only Fang Qiu could do that.
After curing the little girl, Fang Qiu walked around again. Seeing that everyone was busy, he was too embarrassed to disturb them, so he decided to return to his dressing room.
However, as soon as he returned to the dressing room, Fang Qiu found two familiar figures—Liu Qingshi and Song Yaqi!
“Oh my, Master Fang, you finally come back.” Catching sight of Fang Qiu, Liu Qingshi immediately went up to him.
“We’ve been waiting for you for a while.” Song Yaqi also came up and said with a smile, “If you don’t come back soon, we’ll have to leave.”
“Why are you here?” asked Fang Qiu curiously.
“Of course, we are here to welcome you, a monster who can perform the grand finale at the Spring Festival Gala!”
Liu Qingshi wrapped his arm around Fang Qiu’s shoulder and said, “Kid, you don’t actually become a celebrity yet. You’ve already received the superstar-level treatment. Do you know that people envy you badly?”
“So…” Fang Qiu looked at the two of them and teased, “Are you both coming here to express your jealousy?”
Hearing that, Liu Qingshi and Song Yaqi couldn’t help but laugh.
The three of them talked for a while. Because their separate programs were about to begin rehearsing, they all returned to their own places and got ready to go on stage.
After the two of them left, Fang Qiu sat down again and picked up the program that Director Li Huawen had given him. After looking at it carefully, he found that Liu Qingshi’s show was a sketch while Song Yaqi would perform a solo song!
