Chapter 244 - Run in With A Liar (2/2)

“Thank you. Sorry for the trouble.” Meng Fan had never done such a thing before, and felt out of place. He finally let out a sigh of relief after changing back into his original clothes. He asked for directions to the washroom and hurried over.

“Huh? Fan!”

While Meng Fan was still shaking, a person appeared in the stall next to him. Halfway through his business, he called out Meng Fan’s name. He then said “I’m busy” and hung up the call he’d just been in.

Meng Fan turned his head and froze for a moment, too. “How unlucky am I to run into you in the toilet.”

“Stinky brat, what are you saying!” Tao Dong Li gave Meng Fan an unhappy glare. “Are you that unwilling to see me?”

“You’re a liar, why would I want to see you!” Meng Fan closed his fly and headed to the sink, suspiciously eyeing the guy. “What are you doing here?”

“I came down for a meeting.” Tao Dong Li finished up and approached the sink as well. Smiling, he said: “What are you doing here? Let me guess, you’re attending some reality show, right? You’ve been pretty busy lately, huh? Are you trying to break into the entertainment industry? Do you need me to help with anything?”

“Hold up. I’m here to help Bai Zhi, don’t meddle with me.” Meng Fan immediately turned off the sink and wiped his hands on a paper towel. “You’re a liar and that’s a fact. I won’t forget what you did to me anytime soon.”

“You stinkin’ brat, why do you have to be so sensitive! It’s already been a dozen years and you’re still holding onto it. I only sold you a fake anime figurine, why are you so angry?”

Meng Fan’s eyes widened. “Fake figurine? Is that really all? Do you know how many people laughed at me when I showed off my Batman figure in Spiderman’s underwear? You even told me it was brought from abroad and told me how amazing Batman was! Do you know what childhood trauma is?!”

Tao Dong Li heard this and began to laugh. “Didn’t you take it to fool Xiao Shan as well? Count it even!”

Hearing his nephew’s name, Meng Fan’s face finally cleared up. He asked for some videos and photos from Tao Dong Li, but he remained firm. “Even? Not in this lifetime. The figurine is no big deal, but the most important thing is that you cheated my sister from us. You promised you guys would return to Wenzhou after graduating college, hehe, but the two of you ran off to America instead! I couldn’t see my sister for years! And even later, you promised you’d return to Wenzhou again, but you went to Beijing instead. Now, I can barely see my sister twice a year.”

Meng Fan had four older sisters in his family and only his oldest uncle’s daughter, Meng Cai Ju, was the gentle type. The other three were as crazy and demonic as it got. Meng Cai Ju was almost 10 years older than Meng Fan, and Meng Fan relied on her heavily as a child. When she got married, Meng Fan was still a child. In addition to many things, including the fake figurines, Meng Fan had regarded his older brother-in-law as the biggest liar in the world.

After growing up, Meng Fan naturally learned the way of things. He was now used to interacting like this with him, and nobody bothered correcting him.

“I’m going back to Beijing tonight. You wanna come with me?”

“I’m still busy here. I’ll come visit when I’m free.”

“Then I’ll buy you dinner before you leave?”

“I don’t think I can make it. You can go about your own business.”

“Wait, take a photo for your sister. You’ve lost a lot of weight since last time, haven’t you?”

“You think I haven’t video chatted with her?”

The two left the washroom and chatted for a while before separating. Meng Fan headed to find Bai Zhi. Tao Dong Li turned around to a quieter area to answer his phone call. There were some important issues mentioned before their meeting got interrupted that he had to confirm.

When Meng Fan arrived in Bai Zhi’s booth, she was still in the process of filming.

“You’re done so fast?”

“Mine was simple.”

Ten minutes later, Bai Zhi completely wrapped up her film set. She quickly changed out of her clothes and makeup and was brought to the practice room by a crew member.

They arrived on set, but the voice acting producer hadn’t. The editor took out some voice clips and told Meng Fan and Bai Zhi to select one.

The annual finale of “Voice Legend” was organized as a one-on-one showdown, where the eight winning actors and their guests would separate into four groups to compete.

The procedure was simple.

First up was a vocal show of the celebrity contestants. During recording, both of them had to record a dubbing. The final broadcast will be one of the clips, where some of the guest star’s clips will not be broadcasted at all. This depended on whether the guest star was famous enough or good enough.

Once the individual voice clips were completed, it would be the contestant’s and the guest star’s collaboration stage. They also recorded two clips, where the clip that has better overall dramatic effect will be chosen for broadcast.

Lastly, it was the directors test. The two voice clips from each group performed according to the director’s request will be edited, and then broadcasted to the audience to determine the winners.

After the four groups compete, the audience will then decide the final winner.

Some of the selected voice clips had been prepared by Bai Zhi herself, while the rest were prepared by the crew. Meng Fan could have prepared his own clips as well, but he arrived too late to do so.

“Fan, take a look. If there’s none that you like, or something you really want to dub, you can let the program organizers know.”

Meng Fan looked at the prepared voice clips. To him, they were all too easy.