I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 136 The makeup artist on set asked the extras to have their eyebrows trimmed (Yu Mei's

Once, when Yang Yumei was at her home in Northeast China, when her last entrepreneurial venture, a soy sauce factory, failed, she unintentionally flipped through her old little motto and wrote, "She wanted to be a star, she wanted to talk to directors, and then she suddenly forgot about this original dream."

By chance, she saw the phrase "Talk to the director," which touched her heart once again. Then, hearing about the interactions between extras on Douyin and Huoshan Live on her phone, she learned about the film studio. So, she said goodbye to her family, even temporarily leaving her two daughters behind, to live for herself. She came here.

But reality is not what everyone imagines; often, reality is more cruel and terrifying than imagined!

When you have status, fame, and money, you step on those with lower status; when you have no power, status, or money, you are the one being stepped on. Even if you are stubborn, capable, and unwilling to accept it, what can you do? It's just a change of scenery. When you enter a similar work environment, you will need to adapt to this unfamiliar position.

Therefore, when you lack the ability, you should try to obey the arrangements of your superiors.

Often, lower-level leaders are more powerful than higher-ups. Higher-ups don't have the opportunity to subdue you face-to-face; only lower-level leaders can personally restrain your behavior.

When Yu Mei first arrived, she joined the film studio's union and became the leader of the first extras' group, Wang Dalai. He was quite considerate of the extras.

Once, on set, Yu Mei took off her earrings and put them away. Then, the makeup artist insisted that Yu Mei remove her gold ring. She refused, and the team leader, Wang Dalai, sided with Yu Mei, telling the team leader that it was fine to wear a ring while filming and not expose herself. The makeup artist then stormed off in a huff.

Then, after Yu Mei returned from her home in Northeast China, she switched to a second group and became the group leader.

When I switched to the third group, the group leader of Wei Daming, who was from the same hometown, was particularly good at flattering the rich and belittling the poor. The young male leader of the group would take care of the extras who were slightly prettier, and those who knew how to curry favor with the leader and give him gifts would also receive preferential treatment on set.

Yang Yumei didn't have their sophisticated way of dealing with people. She still did things her own way. Once, when her fellow villager Wei Daming signed up for a film shoot, she was notified that she had a call to join the service department at 12:30 a.m. the next day. It was too early. Yumei usually went to bed around 11 p.m. when she had nothing to do. Since the meeting was at 12:30 a.m., she basically just lay down and rested for a while. When it was almost 12:30 a.m., she got up at 12:00 a.m. to go to the meeting.

After roll call, we boarded the bus and arrived at the filming location. We followed the group leader to find the rest area, where we placed our chairs and other items. Then we went to the crew vehicle to get the costumes needed for the filming period and changed into them in the rest area.

Then they went to the set for makeup and hair styling. A while later, during filming, Yu Mei put on a gold ring and a pair of gold earrings. She asked Wang Yu Feng to help her remove the gold earrings and put them away. Then she didn't take off the gold ring on her finger and insisted that Wang Yu Feng take it off. When she refused, the makeup artist got angry and went to call Wei Daming. Wei Daming left without saying anything, and the makeup artist left feeling humiliated.

Then, when Wei Daming was arranging the scenes, he punished Yu Mei by giving her fewer scenes. Later, she secretly sent him a private message to admit her mistake of not following the arrangements, and then secretly sent Wei Daming a 200 yuan red envelope for his birthday before the matter was considered over.

On another occasion, when filming began, Yu Mei was wearing two gold earrings. The director on set noticed this and, with his golden hair reaching his shoulders, said to Yu Mei with a smile, "You're really rich. Be careful."

Therefore, "It's easier to see the King of Hell than to deal with his underlings!"

Especially that male team leader named He Yan in Wei Daming's group chat, he's like a male sycophant. On set, when checking performances and seeing any crew member, whether they're up or down, he's always all smiles and bowing. Then he turns around and reveals his sly, sly face to the extras!

During a filming session, the extras arrived at the filming location. The makeup crew set up a temporary wooden table outside as a makeup workbench for the extras. They then asked each female extra to have her eyebrows trimmed, and all the female extras obediently did so.

The reason these obedient female extras were obedient was partly because they dared not disobey the group leader, a male leader in his thirties named He Yan.

More importantly, these obedient older women are all of average appearance. Their eyebrows are either drawn on by themselves with an eyebrow pencil or tattooed at a beauty salon. They don't have any real eyebrows. If they didn't draw their eyebrows, they would look like they had nothing at all!

Once, when Yang Yuhan was running a hair salon in Northeast China, she went to a hairdressing school in Qishi to recruit students for further training. The name of this hairdressing and beauty school was "Yajiali Hairdressing and Beauty School". When the female boss was teaching the students how to cut hair, she saw Yumei's thick black eyebrows, which were shaped like willow leaves. In front of many people listening to her lecture, she said to Yumei seriously, "Yang Yumei, your eyebrows are too dark. They don't look good. You might as well cut them off and get them tattooed."

Yu Mei, surprisingly, didn't say much in anger this time. She slightly opened her mouth and said seriously, "You mean, I should shave off my real eyebrows and become bald, then get fake eyebrows like you guys and look good. Then my eyes, especially bright ones, will be turned into single eyelids, just like yours. Where will you make money if you get double eyelid surgery?"

Yu Mei's words left the female owner of "Ya Jiali Hairdressing and Beauty Technical School" speechless.

Then Yu Mei added, "Some people are just sour grapes; they can't grow nice eyebrows themselves, so they're just jealous of what others have that they don't."

Yu Mei truly understood. It was a story—the story of an old man, his young grandson, and a donkey! No matter what you do, you won't please those who are jealous of you.

During this filming, the makeup artist on set asked the female extras to have their eyebrows trimmed, not because Yu Mei was naturally blessed with beautiful willow-leaf black eyebrows, but because she wanted to use these extras' eyebrow trimming to practice and improve her own skills so as not to harm the extras' interests.

The extras were just background figures, so there were no close-up shots. Yu Mei was in a dilemma because she wanted to protect her eyebrows. Not trimming her eyebrows was not disobeying the makeup artist's orders, nor the group leader's orders, but rather the group leader Wei Daming's orders!

Humans are inherently selfish. When you are useful to others, human nature is kind. When you are useless to others, human nature is selfish. And of course, when you infringe upon others' interests, human nature becomes malicious.

He Yan has a bad habit: when he encounters extras who are disobedient or disobey his orders on set, he goes to the group leader, Wei Daming, to complain and expose them, and then Wei Daming kicks Yu Mei out of the group.

Wei Daming immediately called Yu Mei and scolded her for not listening to the makeup artist's instructions.