Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show

Chapter 2,Part 2: Rehearsal - Cover up the fact that 'father and daughter' are not familiar at all

“Change it to 7 years old.” Chen Yu looked at Lin Momo and thought to himself, ‘Even the relationship between father and daughter is fake, does her age really matter?’

Fortunately in this case, due to long-term malnutrition, Lin Momo was much thinner than children of the same age. If she said she’s only 7 years old, no one would doubt it.

Chen Yu asked Lin Momo to take a break, while the three of them had a meeting on a temporary desk set up in one corner.

“Because the timing is so rushed, the program team can only provide us with a filming process, and we need to prepare the script by ourselves,” Chen Yu updated the two assistants with the latest developments.

Wang Xi was dumbfounded when she heard this. “Prepare the script by ourselves? This workload is too much!” And it was hard to say whether the script they prepared could even pass the review of the program team.

Zhou Qi also frowned. “Two days is simply impossible,” he said, shaking his head.

“I know, that’s why I called you two to a meeting, so we can discuss this. First, we need to craft the personal settings,” Chen Yu said.

Set up the characters, then just let Lin Cheng and Lin Momo ‘act’ according to the character settings, and let them play the rest by themselves.

“Okay,” Zhou Qi nodded at that, then asked again, “But what kind of character design do you want to make?”

“How about a good-looking father-daughter combination? Anyway, Brother Cheng and Lin Momo are both good-looking,” Wang Xi suggested.

“No, I heard that this setting has already been set for Bai Yulin.”

“What about the gentle dad & cute daughter? This setting is less likely to make mistakes, and it’s easier to gain the favor of passers-by.”

Chen Yu glanced at Wang Xi and asked with a gloomy expression, “Do you think Lin Cheng can cooperate with us to perform the word ‘gentle’?”

“This…” Wang Xi remembered the scene when he saw Lin Cheng half a year ago, and fell silent. Lin Cheng didn’t say anything at the time, just stood there giving off an overwhelming aura which had nothing to do with gentleness.

“Oh! I think I thought of a good one!” Wang Xi suddenly said, all excited. “Why don’t we make Lin Momo a squeamish, little princess? Although such a character is controversial in the early stage and may not be flattering, it’s easy enough to reverse it later. And facing a squeamish daughter, even if Lin Cheng shows a cold face on the show, the audience should be able to accept it.”

This is indeed a good idea.

Chen Yu nodded.

Such a character setting will make the audience’s main attention focus on Lin Momo’s performance, but it will gloss over any uncomfortable interactions between the ‘father and daughter’.

“Okay.”

As soon as Chen Yu finished speaking, they realize that Lin Momo had already cleaned up the takeaway lunch boxes that the four of them had eaten, and then ‘clack, clack, clack, clack’ Lin Momo had already cleaned up the four empty drink bottles with her bare hands, skillful and agile.

The three people now have black lines on their faces.

“Let’s think about it some more…”

In the end, the three of them who could think of nothing better, reluctantly decided on a Buddhist father-daughter combination for this ‘father and daughter’ team: less talking, be easygoing.

Although such a character design was not very competitive and there was a great possibility that it would be ignored by the audience, but at least it would cover up the fact that the ‘father and daughter’ are not familiar with each other at all.

……

Early the next morning, Chen Yu recruited his girlfriend as external aid.

Xu Jia, who was dragged into the temporary practice room by her boyfriend, was still puzzled at this moment. “Your artist is going to be on a parent-child reality show—what’s the use of asking me to be a makeup artist for the team’s little girl?”

“There’s really nothing else I can do.” After speaking, Chen Yu pointed to Lin Momo who was sitting quietly in a corner of the sofa. “It’s only that, that child, see if you can help put on some makeup on her,” he told Xu Jia.

“Makeup? How do you want to change her look?” In Xu Jia’s view, children of this age are already good-looking, and they don’t need much makeup at all.

“Just…be a little bit more like a star’s child,” Chen Yu said.

Hearing this, Xu Jia was taken aback. “What do you mean?”

Chen Yu had no choice but to explain the whole situation to Xu Jia.

After listening to the explanation, Xu Jia suddenly understood and now looked at Lin Momo in disbelief.

She had met Lin Cheng himself in person, and if Chen Yu hadn’t told her, she would have always thought that this child was Lin Cheng’s.

“Where did you find a child who looks so much like Lin Cheng?” Xu Jia asked Chen Yu.

“Don’t worry about how she was found. Let’s just see if you can make her look more like she’s supposed to be.”

Lin Momo’s facial features already look a lot like Lin Cheng, so if she has to say something wrong, it’s that she is too thin—she’s not like a pampered child of a celebrity family at all, or even a child who grew up in an ordinary family.

After looking at Lin Momo for a while, Xu Jia nodded and said, “I’ll try.”

Xu Jia used her make-up skills and first treated Lin Momo’s withered and sun-bleached hair and made her hair look darker and have a healthy shine. Then a special makeup treatment was done on Lin Momo’s face to cover up her abnormal complexion resulting from long-term malnutrition, and then a highlight treatment to make Lin Momo look fatter.

Finally, Xu Jia used concealer to cover up the scars and bruises on Lin Momo’s face and body due to bumps or beatings she received while picking up scraps.

Xu Jia didn’t expect that there would be so many injuries on such a small child.

……

Half an hour later, Lin Momo was still Lin Momo, but her whole state had changed drastically.

Looking at her ‘healthy’ self in the mirror, Lin Momo’s eyes shone with surprise.

Xu Jia also nodded in satisfaction with her ‘work’, then turned to look at Chen Yu and asked, “How is it?”

“That’s the effect we want!” Chen Yu gestured towards Xu Jiabi in admiration .

“But at most, this can only cope with the filming of the pilot film and the initial interview,” Xu Jia said.

Once the reality show officially started recording, it was impossible for her to follow the ‘dad and daughter’ team, and it was even more impossible for the program crew to give them time to do Lin Momo’s makeup.

“I understand, let’s just deal with things as they come first,” Chen Yu said. He was actually thinking, ‘According to the program flow, after the filming officially starts, the fathers and child team will be sent to live in a family environment with average or even difficult conditions. Even if Lin Momo’s condition was a bit bad, it should still be reasonable for her to look the way she does.’

Xu Jia nodded, took out a few sticks of concealer from her makeup bag and handed them to Lin Momo.

“You take these. If the location of those injuries are exposed, you should cover them in time. Don’t let anyone find your injuries, you understand?”

“Okay.” Lin Momo nodded and wrote it down.