It was unheard of for someone as young as Jiang Ling to be selected for the teaching materials.
As soon as the news broke, the entire Imperial Capital Film Academy was in an uproar.
"What's going on? A play acted by an eighteen-year-old actor can also be included in the teaching archives? Are they kidding?"
"No way, no way. How good a play could an eighteen-year-old perform? Are they joking?"
"Could it be that these elderly professors intend to mingle with us youngsters by deliberately selecting a scene by a young actor for the archive teaching, thereby increasing our learning interest?"
"Do the professors have some misunderstanding? Acting skills are solid, hard work. Without decades of practice, how can one reach the stage of perfection?"
"Exactly. Performance is an art. Without years of painstaking effort, how can one succeed?"
"Are the professors blind?"
Despite their disbelief that an eighteen-year-old girl could be included in the Imperial Capital Film Academy's textbooks, they began to click on the video and watch it with patience.
In this parallel world, Longguo's economy is developed, but aging and low birth rates are serious. People come of age at sixteen and marry at eighteen.
Correspondingly, university graduation ages have also been advanced from twenty-three or twenty-four to twenty.
Jian Zhou, who graduated from university this year, returned to his alma mater to collect his graduation certificate. He happened to see this video and couldn't help but exclaim.
"Ah Zhou, what's wrong?" his roommate asked.
"Nothing... it's nothing..."
Jian Zhou suppressed his inner shock, his eyes wide as he watched Jiang Ling's scene.
The more he watched, the more he couldn't believe it. When did Jiang Ling's acting become so amazing?
Other students were also stunned by the performance after watching the video.
No heavy eye makeup, no black eyeliner, no hysterical yelling. With just a look and a smile, the character's descent into villainy was instantly completed.
"The professors are not blind; we underestimated Jiang Ling. Her acting is truly superb."
"Yes, yes. With the performance in the video, even if we practiced for twenty years, we might not be able to achieve it."
"This acting is truly terrifying. The teacher who taught us crying scenes used Jiang Ling as a negative example, saying her acting was too painful to watch and that we must never learn from her, otherwise we would surely fail after entering the entertainment industry. Who would have thought the turnaround would come so quickly? I wonder if her face hurts?"
"This performance is indeed worth learning from!"
"A popular celebrity who switched careers has such superb acting skills. How can we, who are formally trained, feel about this?"
"It's too discouraging. She's even one or two years younger than most of us, yet her acting is so good!"
The students chattered, putting aside their disdain and pride, subdued by Jiang Ling's performance.
It had to be admitted that this performance was truly textbook-level and deserved to be included in the teaching archives.
Jian Zhou was also stunned for a long time after watching the performance before he came back to his senses.
In his previous life, her acting was so bad it was universally disliked. In this life, her performance was stunningly brilliant.
Such a huge contrast could not possibly be turned around by human effort in such a short time.
Jiang Ling was very likely the person he was looking for.
Even if not, that person must be lurking around Jiang Ling.
It seemed that if he wanted to change his and his entire family's tragic fate, he had to start with Jiang Ling.
After staying in the crew of "The Little Fish and the Flowers" for four months, Jiang Ling finally finished filming all her scenes as Jiang Yuyan and Xiao Xiannv.