Skip Beat TV Series Episode 5

Gong Xi and Liu Li Er face-off with words before they do it with acting talent yet again. This time it’ll be the tea ceremony.
During LLE’s moment her mind wandered off, resulting to her bad performance, she was scold by the director.
Then it’s Gong Xi’s turn and she waits for the “Action!” but before that, her knees is facing her face on the ground and her butt in the air. He Lian tells her that she should give up because when she does sit down on her legs, it’ll only worsen her pain and may damage her ankles more permanently. She doesn’t listen of course and tells him that she’ll go through with it, just wait!
Once the “Action!” is called Gong Xi surprises everyone at her poise again, and He Lian acts seriously alongside her, something he hadn’t done with LLE. GOng XI reacts naturally to his acting and becomes upset that her acting got influenced by him and made her react even when she knew the script.
The Director and the rest of the staff are impressed by the pair and LLE is completely offended and upset that they’re all (even He Lian) choosing Gong Xi. As she stomps away (unbecomingly) she passes by Manager Du who asks her if she really could do better than Gong Xi. Because the magic at work is not Gong Xi’s doing alone, it’s the fact that He Lian is acting seriously.
He Lian is acting seriously with Gong Xi because of her hard work and proper work ethic which can’t be ignored. The fact that Gong Xi is risking even her health to act is admirable and is respected by He Lian so he’s acting accordingly. Manager Du tells her bluntly that if she was in Gong Xi's situation, she wouldn’t have done that, Liu Li Er would have put off the filming schedule until her foot healed. LLE realizes as she hears Manager Du and sees Gong Xi acting as if her pain didn’t exist that she’s lost that verve, she remembered that determination that used to drive her when she was still a newbie and now drives Gong Xi.
Gong Xi’s pain level is coming to the point that she won’t be able to hold it in much longer, but she keeps remembering Shang’s mother and how she would tell her to hold it together in front of the customer. He Lian and the Director interrupt the filming as they see a film of sweat form on her forehead and her eyes turning vacant. She’s there but not there, she can’t stop smiling and relax because now she’s seeing He Lian as a customer, and only until he leaves will she be able to show her pain.
The director realizes that she views He lian as a customer and tells him to leave. As soon as He Lian is out of her line of vision, Gong Xi collapses.
After Gong Xi is carried out, LLE approaches the director, she finally realized what she needs to do. She will be as serious as Gong Xi is in her work and make He Lian act as her partner seriously by showing him her diligent hard working side. The Director is very pleased by her transformation and agrees to give her back her role.
When Gong Xi wakes up she is accompanied by LLE and her manager. LLE is a little afraid that Gong Xi will be upset that she went behind her back and made a deal with the director, of course she doesn’t show her fear to Gong Xi but Gong Xi sees through the prickly attitude. Gong Xi tells her that it’s as it should be, she fainted during a scene, it’s only right that the role went to someone who survive- it’s the law of the fittest.
Manager Du, He Lian and the Director are meanwhile having a discussion of a similar nature. Manager Du feels that after Gong Xi acted to the point of fainting she’ll feel cheated at the role being snatched back by LLE. However He Lian points out that Director probably never meant for the role to really go to Gong Xi (evil masterminds the pair of them, I say) he was just using the opportunity to teach LLE the fear of losing a role and urging her to work harder ( evil masterminds! i tell you!). The Director does want to do something for Gong Xi as an apology for letting her act to the point of fainting.
LLE has gotten Gong Xi to forgive her by giving her a 100 pt stamp for her help, and Gong Xi is extremely pleased by that, reconsidering her evaluation on LLE’s character. Gong Xi is also not too displeased at how the competition played out since she’s upset at having followed He Lian’s rhythm when they were acting.
She looks over at He Lian and when she sees him turn his eyes to her, she becomes jumpy and nervous and trying to pretend that she was so NOT staring at him just a few seconds before.
Manager Du and He Lian have a meal together and Manager Du tells him that He Lian’s acting that day with Gong Xi was completely different from his acting before. He tells him that before He Lian’s acting was great and today it was excellent. He Lian tells him that it was nothing really, just him acting according to Gong Xi’s perseverance. Manager Du also tells him that as a prize/apology the Director had arranged a photo shoot for Gong Xi.
Manager Du goes to sneak a peek at Gong Xi’s photo-shoot. Gong Xi is ecstatic, thrilled to have something to remember her transformation. As they are talking the Director tells her that she didn’t get the role not because a lack of talent, she might even have more than LLE, but things just worked out this way.
Gong Xi tells him that it’s alright and in fact she wants to apologize for letting herself be tricked and react naturally to He Lian. The Director tells her that that’s actually not something to apologize for since that meant she was into the role, it’s something that occurs often with professional actors. They become the role they play and as they interact with others they all react naturally and show different aspects of themselves in their work. Translated into Gong Xi speak this praise comes out to mean that she’s a “dumb dumb” who was being bent like a spoon through He Lian’s mental powers.
Just at that moment He Lian walks in to inform the director that there are paparazzi’s waiting to interview Gong Xi over the whole affair. (Gong Xi keeps glaring at him) The Director asks that He Lian and Manager Du escort Gong Xi out .
He Lian and Manager Du walk Gong Xi to her room. She only thanks Du first. HL asks her if Manager Du is the only one escorting her- she thanks the air around her. As they’re walking Manager Du asks her about her knowledge of the tea ceremony, asking if she’s gone to a “bride School” which she’s not familiar about. He tells her that it’s where skills like the ones she possesses are taught to ladies who wish to be “ideal” brides.
Gong Xi comes to the realization that everything she was learned all through her life was because of her association with Shang. Shang’s mother had taught her those important “ideal bride” skills because she was thinking of Gong Xi as Shang’s future wife. As she laments that she’s never learned anything for herself she falls to the ground.
He Lian helps her stand and walks closely with her steadying her steps with an arm behind her back and holding her tightly. She’s awkward about it but He Lian’s totally being the perfect gentleman and not because he’s putting up a “Nice guy” front, because she’s already seen how mean and caustic he can be, no it’s because he really does mean to be helpful for her.
Gong Xi freaks out when the make-up artist appears in her room to remove the make-up. Heh, it’s worse than the tantrums held by children, a panicked “I Don’t WANNA!!!!!!!!!” and what’s the only thing that calms her down? He Lian quoting a commercial that Shang has for a cosmetics line, and the a warning that if she were to let her skin “rot” she’ll never be able to get near beating Shang.
Also as a practical joke He Lian asked the make-up artist to give her “Magical Hair” .
The next morning as He Lian and Manager Du are heading towards the gym for an early morning work-out they run across Gong Xi who’s preparing to leave. He Lian expresses his worry that yesterday her pain had seemed pretty unbearable to make her drop to the floor like that.
Gong Xi’s a little embarrassed now that she recalls what happened and assures them that it wasn’t the pain that made her collapse like that. She admits that it was the fact that she realized that the fact that she knows the tea ceremony was due to her past association with the guy she now hates the most.
He Lian becomes disgruntled that the reason she worked herself so much yesterday was due to her determination to exact revenge, he asks her if it really was just that. Gong Xi is unable to refute him, because that was the initial motivation, but she now wants to learn how to act for her own self. He Lian expresses his disappointment by asking for her Love Me notebook and stamping it with a -10.
When Gong Xi is no longer in their presence Manager Du asks He Lian if he’s really not interested in knowing why Gong Xi has so much hate for Shang, He Lian says he doesn’t want to know and that he doesn’t agree with her use of hate as a motivation though he does admire how intense she is in pursuing her goal. Manager Du doesn’t buy it and thinks that despite He Lian’s denial he’s definitely interested enough that he carries with him the stamps.
Maria the LME president’s granddaughter is disturbing the rehearsals because she thinks the script sucks.
Gong Xi goes to the LME offices and asks for information on acting lessons but just as she exclaims that they’re expensive she comes face to face with Nan Qing who is looking at the same lesson.
Manager Shen comes running up to Nan Qin and begins to discuss about her addition to the Love Me section, which she tries to avoid discussing in front of Gong Xi. However as soon as she tries to leave the discussion, Gong Xi’s evil spirits tie her down and pressures her into accepting the offer, because Gong Xi’s tired of being the only member.
They walk around with their matching hot pink outfits, getting dissed by the acting students.
Gong Xi has a talk with the President. LME will waive the acting lesson fee if she helps out with the Maria issue.
Meanwhile Nan Qing is being a kick ass actress and showing up all the nay-Sayers. She plays both roles in the script flawlessly.
When the LME president shows up Nan Qing becomes a more gentle version of herself in an attempt to ingratiate herself with him.
Maria comes out at that moment and complains about the stupidity of a play where one sister causes the death of the mom but the older sister is very forgiving and tries to smooth the relationship between the father and the younger sister. It’s actually something quite similar to Maria’s story.
Gong Xi agrees with Maria’s reasoning and says that of course that it would be really strange that the sister be so kind and forgiving. The rest of the acting students get upset and tell Gong Xi that if she’s so great she should act out the story as she thinks it should be.
Maria becomes worried about Gong Xi’s involvement since it jeopardizes her position as a LME trainee. Maria doesn’t want anything to cause Gong Xi to leave since she’s the only adult that treats Maria as an equal and doesn’t mollycoddle her.

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Can I wait another day
Can I say what I say
Don’t leave me hanging on my own
Try to walk all these roads

Does it even leave a dent
All these moments left me spent
Am I all you really need
Is that what we agreed

Endlessly wishing
Trying to make it right
Has anybody said your love is out of line

Do you remember our day’s adventure
Up above and oh so wide
The stars cannot decide
Yet somehow you can’t leave me scarred, heaven’s not that far

Let it be here now
Standing upside down
You don’t even ask for help
All alone by yourself

Can I buy myself some time
You know you’re way out of line
You don’t ever see me cry
It hurts when you ask why

Endlessly wishing
Trying to make it right
Has anybody said your love is out of line
Do you remember our day’s adventure
Up above and oh so wide
The stars cannot decide
Yet somehow you can’t leave me scarred, heaven’s not that far

Don’t look back my dear it’s the past
All the dust won’t help you understand
Do you miss missing me all my life
Everyday’s the day to start and try
Everybody’s casting their line

Endlessly wishing
Trying to make it right
Has anybody said your love is out of line
Do you remember our day’s adventure
Up above and oh so wide
The stars cannot decide
Yet somehow you can’t leave me scarred, heaven’s not that far

Can you sing the way you do
Laugh the way we used to
When you’re holding me so tight
The pain gently subsides

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Skip Beat Tv Series Episode 4

We’re back at the Shang- He Lian face-off. Shang has kicked a trash bin and flower pot to block He Lian’s way.
He apologizes, with a “I’m not really sorry, what are you going to do about it” tone. He Lian takes him up on the silent challenge. “I understand, us people with long legs have this kind of problem all the time, knocking things over” then he kicks the trash can back at Shang.
Shang shows his dorky side, he’d caught the trashcan as He Lian kicked it, but as soon as He Lian leaves the building he’s down, rubbing his foot… and then being self-conscious about it as he looks around at the staring fans.
Manager Du can’t help but look over at He Lian as they walk towards their car. He’s surprised at the fact that He Lian had been so cool as if wanting to teach Shang a lesson.
He Lian just says that the one who challenged first was Shang. The manager smiles and asks him if Shang is the first to challenge He Lian so openly.
He Lian smirks, and says that he’s discovered something. Manager Du all interested leans in and He Lian just says “You’re a busybody”
In the car Manager Du agrees that fine, he’s a busy body so he won’t tell He Lian what he’s heard about Gong Xi then. He mimes smoking a cigarette and chilling as he keeps He Lian in the dark.
He Lian tells him that telling him about it is up to Manager Du to decide. And then proceeds to drive like a madman, making the manager promise to tell him.
Cut to a silly scene, that’s set to the song “Clementine.” Gong Xi has polished the floor she was asked to clean, and causes everybody that comes to slip, so when she tries to stop guests from slipping she slips herself and bowls them over.
To make things short, she gets a scolding and only ten points which cancels out the minus ten she received from the older actress before.
She hears music coming from a piano played by LME’s actress Liu Li Er. When Liu Li Er walks towards her Gong Xi imagines her as a fairy princess, so she doesn’t compute the haughty and rude attitude, and just takes it as the qualities of a princess.
Liu Li Er notices that Gong Xi is from Love Me section and immediately she tells her that she has a job for her. And Gong Xi agrees immediately to the job.
Gong Xi goes with Liu Li Er to her job site. Gong Xi hears her complain about the sun and then remembers seeing her all covered completely and using a parasol to go out and comes to the conclusion that Li Er is allergic to the sun.
The manager smiles and just agrees with Gong Xi’s assessment of Li Er’s weak body. However she obviously doesn’t believe Li Er’s excuses about the sun making her sick, knowing full well her diva tendencies.
Li Er is hating Gong Xi in her mind, because she thinks Gong Xi’s enthusiasm about “protecting” her is fake.
The van suffers a breakdown before reaching the job site, and the driver tells them that since they’re near enough they’ll have to walk to it. Li Er refuses at first, but as soon as the manager mentions how He Lian will have a bad impression of her, Li Er decides that she’ll walk.
After five minutes of walking Lin Er says she’s exhausted and has Gong Xi carry her.
After an unknown amount of time Lin Er makes it to film site and is greeted with the site of people playing around as they wait. She announces her entrance and barely gets a reaction from them.
She approaches the film director who asks her about her staff, she just tells him that they stayed back when the car broke down and she walked to the site alone.
The makeup artist praises Li Er’s trek in the mountain to reach the site. Li Er thinks about what actually happened: Gong Xi had twisted her angle carrying her and Lin Er had abandoned her in the mountain. Li Er thinks that it’s fair to leave Gong Xi behind, since she thinks that Gong Xi is getting to debut after a lot of sucking up to the higher ups.
Gong Xi tries to drag herself along, wondering if Lin Er really did leave her behind. As she’s lying their she suffers from the heat and starts hallucinating the people who left her behind before: Shang and her mother.
As she’s lying there, He Lian walks up to her and asks her if she’s sun bathing. She gripes at the fact that Liu Li Er just had to send him to her. He tells her that he wasn’t sent by her, he’d just gone on a walk and happened to see her there.
As they’re talking He Lian notices that her foot is injured. She denies it and tries to play it cool, but He Lian grabs her ankle and she screams in pain.
He picks Gong Xi up bridal style and takes her to the site, with Gong Xi protesting and asking to be let down.
Li Er and Manager Du are talking when He Lian comes up carrying Gong Xi. They are still arguing. He Lian tells her that it’s ok that she doesn’t thank him for helping but why does she have to be so negative, and she tells him that he’s never done anything to help her before. He informs her that he would never do anything to hurt an already hurt person.
He Lian asks Manager Du to look after Gong Xi’s foot and walks away without acknowledging Li Er. Li Er stews in silent anger as she watches Gong Xi being taken care of. Gong Xi feels the negative vibes aimed towards her but doesn’t notice Li Er’s presence.
Before they even start filming, rain starts to fall. Li Er stands behind He Lian and starts pacing wondering why he doesn’t even say hello to her. She takes the initiative and greets him but he scolds her in his gentle response about having been waiting long and impatiently. She stalks off.
The director notices it and tells He Lian that perhaps he should be nicer to her since half the reason she accepted the role was because of He Lian. However He Lian doesn’t believe in catering to others whims and tells the director that by being nice to Li Er she will not learn the error of her ways.
Manager Du has wrapped Gong Xi’s foot in the meantime and she thanks him heartily calling him a good person. He asks her if she doesn’t think He Lian is a good person too, since he carried her to safety. Or does she hate He Lian that much. She tells him that she doesn’t hate him, but that it’s he that hates her, after all he’s been the one who’s been discouraging her from the start.
Manager Du tells her that eventually she’ll understand He Lian as she gets to know him, but he’ll tell her one thing: Work ethic is extremely important to He Lian that’s why everybody who works with him feel extra pressure.
She refuses Manager Du’s suggestion of going to the hospital since she still has a mission to complete: Protect Princess Li Er.
Just then an angry Li Er is coming and Gong Xi hurries to see what’s wrong only to be faced with the same angry aura from before.
When she asks Li Er about who’s gotten her mad, Li Er starts spewing her hate towards Gong Xi and the Love Me section who are just like dogs licking and currying favors from the higher ups without having any talent. Manager Du feels awkward in the back and pretends to take a phone call as he overhears their argument.
Gong Xi’s image of Li Er as fair princess is turned into evil stepmother, and just as her own evil spirits are fighting to come out, Gong Xi stamps them down and instead puts on a pleasant face and tells her that her job won't be finish until Li Er is done with her job safely.
Li Er says that everybody can wait. Gong Xi calls over Manager Du and asks for his help. They approach a now fearful Li Er with inscrutable faces.
As He Lian and the director are talking, a screeching Li Er is dragged to the set by Gong Xi and Manager Du.
He Lian asks Gong Xi why she’s still here and not in the hospital, and Li Er’s jealousy peaks and she throws Gong Xi to the floor.
She starts spewing her venom and calls Gong Xi’s injury an act meant only to receive pity and attention from He Lian. The director scolds Li Er and everybody looks at her with faces that can’t believe how mean she could be.
They start filming and Gong Xi watches from a side porch. He Lian appears with a chair for Gong Xi but Gong Xi rejects it because it’s weird that he’s being nice to her all of a sudden. She also scoots away as he approaches because Li Er will only get angrier if she sees them standing close to each other.
He Lian tells her that he heard what Li Er said about Gong Xi only working hard to flatter those around her, but he doesn’t think so. Because if you work hard and try to smooth things over by agreeing to their whims so that work can go smoother, and not for yourself then it’s not flattery. She scoots closer to him as she listens to him saying encouraging words.
However he ruins the moment by saying that work can’t be only based on courage since she’ll fall badly. And Gong Xi feels that she’s been called stupid, so she scoots away again.
A fight between Li Er and the director breaks out. The Director asks that she walk back in since she’s been walking like a model and not like a highborn lady from a prestigious family, with grace.
Li Er rejects the director’s suggestions and tells him that since he thinks so highly of Gong Xi then Gong Xi should be the one who acts her role. Gong Xi accepts the challenge and tells her that she can’t take it back.
He Lian and Manager Du talk with the manager and ask him if he’s really going to let Gong Xi compete for the part with Li Er. The Director says that he will since Li Er was the one who suggested it and the one who decided that she didn’t want to act anymore. He Lian thinks it over and decides that he’ll agree with whatever the director decides.
Li Er is wondering what happened that the director is no longer trying to placate her. She overhears two workers talking about how inconsiderate she is making them wait just because of an umbrella.
Gong Xi is taken under the wings of two very enthusiastic make-up artists who get scared when Gong Xi’s evil spirits make an appearance, feeling the darkness of Gong Xi’s feelings.
Li Er begins to feel the danger of losing her role becoming a possibility. He Lian notices her sitting outside and asks if he can sit with her. She thinks that he’ll encourage her but he scolds her instead, telling her to stop being headstrong and threatening the director with the role since she’ll be the one who ends up hurt.
Before she can apologize, the makeup artist comes announcing Gong Xi’s transformation. Everybody waits for it and when she walks in they’re all surprised and can’t stop calling her beautiful and Li Er says that of course she is, anybody can be if they wear the right clothes and makeup.
Gong Xi doesn’t get hurt by that and instead agrees and gushes about how nice it is to finally be wearing nice clothes and make-up. Manager Du wonders how she’s lived if she’s never put on make-up, He Lian answers that “normal” isn’t something Gong Xi can be called.
They start filming and everybody’s amazed at her posture, her poise, and how natural the proper way of walking in the kimono appears to be in Gong Xi.
She recalls the hours of practice that she had in Shang’s household. The strict but not unkind instructions she was given by Shang’s mother.
Gong Xi’s praised by everybody and the director tells her to go have a rest. The only one who was silent throughout was He Lian. He notices that she’s limping as she leaving the room.
Sure enough when he finds her she’s pounding the walls as she tries to deal with the pain. He tells her that she should go to the hospital, but she doesn’t want to delay the filming.
Li Er thinks on how Gong Xi acted and admits that she understands now why the Director had rejected her entrance. As she’s walking around she notices that Gong Xi is really hurt and is being tended to by He Lian. She starts to smile assured of a win on the next round.
He Lian tells Gong Xi that perhaps she should give up and go to the hospital. The next scene is the tea ceremony and the whole time she’ll be sitting on her feet.
Li Er practices the tea ceremony and invites Gong Xi to practice, but Gong Xi rejects her offer saying she wants to rest a while before filming.
Gong Xi stretches and notices that Li Er is sitting in the sun and she asks if she’s not allergic to the Sun, Li Er tells her that it’s all her own misunderstanding. They start fighting like little kids.
He Lian, Manager Du and the Director hear the commotion and go running to see that the girls are pulling on each other, and calling each other names. The Director goes in and gets dragged in, but he manages to separate them by telling them to use their energy for the movie.
Gong Xi almost falls over after the fight from the pain in her ankle. He Lian helps her to sit down and asks her if she has brain damage to be fighting like that while she’s injured. Again he tells her that she should take care of her ankle.
Li Er confronts He Lian and asks if he really wants Gong Xi as the main actress, and that’s why he’s treating Gong Xi kindly. He tells her that he’s treating her kindly because she’s hurt not because of the lead position. He tells her that he doesn’t really cares who is the main lead, as long as she has a serious atittude towards work. Li Er finally notices that He Lian is down to earth and unbiased, but feels that she’s only becoming more distant from him.

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Skip Beat Tv Series Episode 3

The Cell Phone Reaction Test was going well at first; the President was impressed by the first half of her reaction. However, the caller had said things too similar to what Sho had told her and she lost it. Among her most impressive retorts “If an apology could change things, then there would be no hell.”

After she was eliminated from the audition, Gong Xi goes to ask Manager Shen why she was cut. He asks her what she thinks about love. “Love is the Music of destruction and despair!” Manager Shen tells her that because of her inability to love, she cannot be an entertainer. To be loved by the audience she needs to love them first. But she doesn’t have confidence in her ability to love an audience she’s never met, when she loved Shang and been so mistreated despite it.

She’s so depressed that she gets scolded by her tough love boss. He tells her that she should go to her room and rest and not show such a pitiful face to the clients.

She goes to her room, but her self loathing gets even worse. She realizes all that she’s lost because of trusting in someone who never even treated her half as well she did him.

President keeps thinking and pondering about Gong Xi. Just as she’s thinking about her, his granddaughter – the little girl whose cheeks were pinched by Gong Xi- comes up to him and asks him about Gong Xi and is disappointed at finding out she was cut from the auditions. Manager Shen also calls him up and asks him to consider another option for Gong Xi.
Gong Xi lies in her bed and remembers the last time she cried so hard. It was when she was very young and her mom abandoned her.
Suddenly she gets up and remembers the stone that she’s named “Corn”(in the manga she misheard Kuon as Corn). Somebody had told her that the rock would absorb all her troubles and sadness.
Once she has it out she feels a little better. Not the best but she’s able to move forward.
Boss is disappointed that he gave his special knife for her audition, only to have her give up before trying out every option. He calls her weak.
She goes out and finds a job in a gas station. She wonders if being so far from the entertainment circle will she still be able to get her revenge.
Meanwhile we cut to Shang who sneezes and wonders at his popularity, that someone must be thinking of him. His manager tells him that it might not be a fan who’s thinking of him but Gong Xi planning her revenge. He tells her not to worry because Gong Xi would be kicked out from the Entertainment business in two minutes flat.
At the gas station Gong Xi sees and interview with He Lian. Everything that he says doesn’t coincide with anything he’s ever said to her. He’s encouraging and tells the reporters that as long as the actor has guts and hardwork the results would be good. She starts to strangle the TV imagining that it’s He Lian’s neck that she’s wringing ever so gently… Her co-workers laugh at her weirdness, and she lets go embarrassed.
While she’s working at the Gas Station, she runs into a dreaded situation: Shang is right before her. We get a sequence of her flights of fancy: She imagines hitting Shang with a HUGE WRENCH. but then she thinks that the most probable one would be that he would knock her out with that wrench and mock her.
However when she faces him, and pretends that she’s a fan by telling him that he’s the number one, he doesn’t realize it’s her. she discovers that there is something worse than being ridiculed; It’s being forgotten. Shang doesn’t recognize her, though the Manager does think that there was something familiar about the girl.
Shang says that it was nothing but the same haircut that many of his fans have, and besides she was exceptionally plain. But she did have one thing different from many fans: She recognized right off that he was the most handsome man.
In her room Gong Xi attacks her voodoo doll. Upset that while she spent time hating Shang, and thinking of him everyday, he’s never thought of her and instead forgot even her face.
As she’s rolling on the bed thinking about what she should do. Boss come in and tells her to enter the entertainment business
The next day, Manager Shen is sharing the plan to let Gong Xi enter LME if she comes back within the week. He Lian wonders why the company has gone through the trouble of creating such a rule and making Gong Xi an exception. Manager Shen that He Lian’s interest in the girl must make the girl something special.
When Gong Xi finally makes it inside of the company building she bumps into an older actress with a diva attitude. The sequence is long and ridiculous, I don’t know why they even but Tchaikovsky’s beautiful piece “Waltz of the Flowers” for that. It’s sacrilege. So basically her run in gets her scolded and pressed into service as luggage carrier.
He Lian is in a piss mood because the lady is late. and when she makes excuses for being late he tells her to just go out early then. He Lian and Manager Shen are surprised to see Gong Xi come in rushing in with the old actress’s luggage.
He Lian surprises Gong Xi and takes one of the heavy pieces of luggage from her.
Outside of the building He Lian tries to explain the Ai Wo Ba Bu/ Love Me department that was just created. She laughs crazily about the name, not suspecting that she’s the first member of that department.
He then proceeds to tell her about the basic idea of points for a job well done. She’s so excited by the fact that if she gets enough points she gets to debut, she kick’s the luggage. She gets scolded for kicking the luggage and for letting He Lian carry the luggage instead of her. Minus 10 points for Gong Xi. She’s pissed that the one who offered and gave an irresistible smile as he helped her was one of the causes of her minus points. He Lian coolly tells her that next time she should refuse help from anybody.
She’s taken to have a talk with the President who gives her a notebook and stamps that will help in her Love Me jobs. After the talk she’s given her hot pink jumper.
He Lian and his manager are passing by the cafe that Shang is hanging out in and Shang can’t help his jealousy. He imagines himself standing above a He Lian who wonders at Shang’s handsomeness and dances to Sorry Sorry… heh. He kicks a flower stand to stop He Lian from walking past him.

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Skip Beat Tv Series Episode 2

Gong Xi promises to become a bigger star than Shang. She laughs out loud – really loud – and the two security guards from the television station heard her but they just rub it off as their imagination. However, she must first change her hairstyle. After what Lian said to the top host. After the phone call from the president, his manager reveals that the problem has been solved. The host is very apologetic for the actions of his manager. He even wrote Lian an apologetic email. Lian says he in not interested in the email but his manager reads it out for him anyway. In the email, it is revealed that the host has a daughter who suffers from an incurable disease and is wheel-chair bound for life. She didn’t want to socialize any more. The host used the autograph to motivate her to socialise again. She wanted to show it off and agreed to invite her friends over for her birthday party. The hosts promise him that he won’t let the same thing happen again.
Lian is standing by the window (what a big window!) listening to his manager read out the email. He sees a girl running towards the LME building. Who could that girl be? None other than Gong Xi of course! His manager finishes reading the email and wonders what sort of heartless person he is to have no reaction to such a meaningful letter. Oh, that’s right, other than work, Lian has feelings for nothing else. Downstairs, Gong Xi with a cute bob cut, is demanding the receptionists to allow her to see someone with authority even though she has no appointment because she wants to become a performing artist for their company. Luckily, she meets the head of the celebrities, Manager Shen. Manager Shen has a talk with to see what type of performing artist she wants to become – singer, actor, or host. She can’t sing, doesn’t have an interest in acting and don’t like forcing jokes.
It seems as though Lian is not so heartless after all. He has ordered a bear for the host’s daughter and he will go and visit her after work. Manager She accuses her for being He Lian’s fangirl. Gong Xi is trying get back up using the down escalator with Manager Shen trying to stop her. Lian and his manager come down the down escalator which startles her. While Manager Shen explains the whole situation to Lian, Gong Xi mutters to herself that she can’t possibly join the same agency as the horrible Lian. She then rethinks and realises that she is now mortal enemies with Po Shang and has no reason to hate He Lian anymore. Lian’s manager mentions that everyone is always happy to see Lian but Gong Xi is feeling hopeless and miserable to see him.
Gong Xi suddenly finds herself thrown out of the LME building but she tells herself that she won’t give up that easily. Manager Shen and Lian’s manager are inside talking. Lian sees Gong Xi kneeling outside. Gong Xi is outside with some very big posters that say “Manager Shen, it was me who was wrong. Please give me another chance.” Lian and his manager leave just as they wish him good luck dealing with this chick.
Manager Shen is off work and is relieved to see Gong Xi not there. Suddenly Gong Xi appears out of no where and follows him home.
Extreme situations need to be handled in extreme measures. Gong Xi goes and camps outside his house for three days while her spirits haunt Manger Shen every night causing him no sleep. On the fourth day, Manager Shen wakes up to find breakfast made by…Gong Xi. He gives up and decides to give her another chance.
Manager Shen makes a last-minute move and adds her into the talent contest as number 101. He is reluctant to give her the application sheet but he gives it to her in the end.
Gong Xi is filled with joy as she leaves because she is about to become a LME artist. On her way out, she bumps into Lian. He snatches her application form and tells her that she must have done everything to make Manager Shen give up. He just stares at her so she interprets that he is saying a person like you will no succeed. Lian tells her that since she knows that she is wasting her energy yet she still wastes other people’s time. The judges who have to watch her performances can do much better things. He is curious to know why she wants to enter the showbiz industry when she has no interest. She blurts out that she wants to take revenge on Bu Po Shang. At that moment, Lian turns around and takes out his phone to search up who Bu Po Shang is. Gong Xi is surprised and upset that he doesn’t know who Bu Po Shang is. (I was like OMG too.) She is about to say how good Shang but realises that he is her mortal enemy now. Lian walks off with her application form but she manage to get it back. He asks her if she is doing this purely for revenge. She asks her if it isn’t allowed. He said to forget about it and they will speak more when she passes the audition.
Gong Xi adds a picture of Lian alongside her picture of Shang on her wall and throws a dart at it. She pokes a voo doo doll that she calls Shang with a needle. She vows that she will take them both down and they will both have to call her Empress Gong Xi. Meanwhile, the restaurant owners are role-playing as a doctor and nurse when they hear Gong Xi in her room.
It’s the audition day. She looks around and sees people all looking their best because they want to be chosen. She looks at herself in the mirror. It’s all because of that rotten egg, Shang. She spent all of her money and could only afford to buy herself clothes, a mobile phone and do her hair and couldn’t afford to buy any make-up. (Hmm…maybe if she didn’t get that weird hair-do in the first place she would have had more money.) She took out her voo doo doll of Shang and started to berate on it. A woman suddenly fiercely walk out with a child ask who the mother of the child is. No one responds. She sees Gong Xi holding a doll and tells her to take the child out even though the child is not hers. She continues her insults to her and tells her to leave if she is not serious about this. Gong Xi’s anger builds up as she recalls the woman using the same words as Shang to describe her.
The auditions are well under way. However, the judges aren’t impressed with the first group of applicants. One of the judges asks Manager Shen why he suddenly added an extra person in. Is there something special about her? He tells the judge that doing what they feel like, including cutting her off. He then thinks about what Gong Xi will do to him if she gets cut off. He dreams that she will haunt him and his family for life. Lian is off shooting a film in a scene that reminds me of City Hunter. He asks his manager how the auditions are going. His manager is curious why he wants to know, maybe there is an applicant that he is interested in?
The remaining applicants file in to audition. The woman with Gong Xi wants to know where the president is. He makes a spectacular grand entrance coming out in a salsa dance. He is introduced as Luo Li. He welcomes the applicants and only asks them to impress him.
Gong Xi watches as each person performs. Each of the acts is brilliant to her. She remembers asking her boss for help with her act. He lends her one of his heirlooms. Number 100, Jiang Nan Qing, goes up to perform. She introduces herself and says that her goal is to become a successful actress. She asks for a script which the judges give to her. It is a script on an LME musical made famous by Abbott and Costello, “Who’s on First.” Qing skims through the script and when she is ready, she offers to perform any part in the script. The president selects out a scene for her to perform. She performs brilliantly, not missing a single line. The judges are very impressed that she could memorise the script in such a short amount of time and get into character.
Gong Xi is the last applicant to go on stage. She introduces herself and doesn’t know what to say afterwards. One of the judges tells her to say why she wanted to come into the industry. She tells them that she wants to be a bigger and better star than Bu Po Shang. The judges laugh and Manager Shen is wondering why she would say such things on stage. The president quietens the other judges down and says he doesn’t think she is a fan girl of Shang because if she is, she would want to join Shang’s agency and not LME.
Gong Xi begins her performance. She picks up a knife in one hand and a radish/daikon in the other. She tells herself to calm down and remembers that the boss lent her the knife under the requirement that she does not give up. She performs her act – peeling the radish/daikon into thinner than paper-thin translucent slices and arranges it into a beautiful rose. Gong Xi learnt this skill while living with Shang’s parents in order to impress them. The president tells her that her performance was the most interesting that he has seen all day.
Everyone leaves. Qing congratulates Gong Xi for her performance but she calls her a pig with an elephant nose. She, in return, calls her an elephant with a pig nose behind her back.
The second round of the audition commences. It is a reaction test. A mobile phone is passed from applicant to applicant. Each of the applicants must continue the conversation from the other end. Qing gets into character very quickly with a tear rolling down within three seconds. The judges are really impressed with her. Gong Xi gets the phone and the person on the other end of the line is a man who apologises to her. He says that he is sorry for being selfish, stubborn and heartless. She looks over and sees Shang and imagines talking to him.

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