Who would be knocking on the door?
Zhou Yun didn't move. Zhou Lan would deal with it in such an unfamiliar place.
The person who knocked on the door was a young girl. She had festive facial features and bright eyes. She should be about twenty years old.
"Hello, I'm Lin Xiaomiao. I'm here to do a pre-interview for the program."
Zhou Lan didn't let her go directly, but expressed his confusion.
"Pre-interview? Didn't we say that it would be done after the shoot?"
Lin Xiaomiao said, "Ah? Is that so? I'm not sure what's going on. I just received a notice to come and interview Zhou Yun. Will it be convenient?"
"We have arranged for the promotional photos to be taken later. Will there be enough time?" Zhou Lan asked.
Lin Xiaomiao said, "The interview will be quick. There are only a few questions. When the time comes, we'll broadcast it as a behind-the-scenes footage."
Zhou Yun was just a small artiste. It was not an unreasonable request. Even if they did not communicate in advance, it would not be good to reject them directly, lest she would have a reputation of not being easy to work with.
For an artiste like Zhou Yun, who had no background and was not famous yet, if she did not manage her reputation well, it would be even more impossible for her to get work.
Zhou Yun heard it very clearly from inside and had already sat up a little straighter. When Lin Xiaomiao brought the photographer in, a sweet smile was already on her face.
"Hello, Xiaomiao."
Both parties exchanged pleasantries and put on their headsets. After testing and recording, they were about to officially start preparing when someone suddenly knocked on the door.
Zhou Lan went to open the door. The other party was wearing a work pass with the words "The Weather is So Good" written on it. Zhou Lan suddenly remembered that neither Lin Xiaomiao nor her photographer was wearing this pass.
"Are you Sister Lan?" This person was a young man in his twenties. He smiled when he saw Zhou Yun. "We would like to invite Zhou Yun over for a promotional photo."
Hearing that, Zhou Lan looked back at Lin Xiaomiao and the others and said, "She is doing a pre-interview. It just started and she's not done yet."
"Pre-interview?" The young man looked puzzled. "The pre-interview we arranged for Zhou Yun will be done after the recording."
Zhou Lan stepped aside and pointed at Lin Xiaomiao and the others inside, saying, "We received the same arrangement before, but just now they said that there was a change."
The young man glanced at the people inside, and the confusion on his face became even more serious.
"Which group are you from? Why haven't I seen you before?"
Hearing the words, Zhou Lan was startled. She came back to her senses and hurried over.
"Where's your work pass? Let me take a look."
Panic flashed across the faces of Lin Xiaomiao and the photographer.
"W-We didn't bring it. Forget it. Since you still have the promotional photos to take, let's come back later." After saying that, Lin Xiaomiao was about to leave with the photographer.
"Wait!" Zhou Lan realized that something was wrong. She grabbed Lin Xiaomiao's arm and asked, "Who are you?"
When the young man saw this scene, he turned around and shouted into the corridor, "Call the security!"
Zhou Yun was at a loss. She had no idea what was going on.
Ten minutes later, Zhou Yun found out that these two people were not staff members arranged by the production team at all. They were paparazzi who had sneaked in and wanted to use the excuse of pre-interview to get an exclusive video interview with Zhou Yun.
"Liar!" Zhou Lan got so angry that her face turned pale. "Call the police!"
When Director Wang heard the news, he came over with the producer. After hearing the details, he felt a little embarrassed.
"What are you doing? Why did you let irrelevant people in?" Director Wang reprimanded the people beside him angrily.
The surrounding people looked at each other.
The filming of a variety show was originally messy with many people, but the management had always been very strict. For these two people to be able to sneak in, they must have been brought in by someone in the production team.
Seeing the director throwing a tantrum, Zhou Lan didn't say anything more.
"Director Wang, forget it. Fortunately, we found out in time and no damage was caused. The filming is about to start. You can go back to work first." Zhou Lan could only say 'magnanimously'.
After all, it was someone else's production team, and there were staff from various departments around. Zhou Lan didn't want Zhou Yun to fall into public opinion again at this time.
Who knew if someone would deliberately make some fake news?
In any case, in this day and age, just one sentence of "there's an inside scoop" could be used to throw smoke bombs and slander people.
Director Wang and the producer comforted Zhou Yun before leaving.
From the beginning to the end, Zhou Yun just stood behind Zhou Lan in silence. Occasionally, she would smile but did not say anything.
After everyone had left, Zhou Lan turned around and asked, "Are you alright?"
"It's nothing. I have to thank this young man. It was you who discovered it in time and let us realize that something was wrong with those two people just now." Zhou Yun smiled and said to Xu Zhijie, who was still standing at the door, "Thank you."
Xu Zhijie's face suddenly turned red.
"Y-you're welcome."
Zhou Yun said, "Didn't you say that you were going to take promotional photos? Let's go. We've already wasted time. Hurry up and go take photos. Don't delay the filming of the show."