After The Vicious Cannon Fodder Was Reborn

Growing up in an orphanage since he was a child, Tao Mu, who had suffered so much, never thought that his life was actually a result of picking up the wrong script.

Eighteen years ago, two ch...

Chapter 239

After "Black and White" was released in Hong Kong, it received very good reviews. The box office exceeded 18 million in the first week of its release, directly becoming the champion of the box office rankings that week. The box office growth in the second week was even more rapid, directly breaking through 25 million. At this time, the Xiangcheng Golden Crow Award also announced the shortlist for this year's award. The crew of "Black and White" was nominated for a series of heavyweight awards including Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, etc., becoming the biggest dark horse of this year's Golden Crow Awards.

Under such circumstances, all the crew members were very excited. Director Xu Musen and members of the production team began to look forward to the box office of "Black and White" when it was released in mainland China. According to conservative estimates, it will at least break the 200 million mark.

Driven by money, the entire crew was busy as a top, devoting all their efforts to reshoot the mainland remake of "Black and White". In order to ensure that the plot is exciting enough, the screenwriter team of "Black and White" once again approached Tao Mu, the producer of the mainland remake of "Black and White", and took the initiative to discuss the script with the mainland screenwriter team, wanting to continue polishing the lines and camera expressions, in order to continue the production style of the Hong Kong version of "Black and White".

Because of the memories of the previous life and the concern that the Xiangcheng production team would not be careful in the remake, they found the screenwriter team of "The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood" to adapt the script of the mainland version of "Black and White". However, due to the different production styles, the mainland version's re-shot plot is clearly different from the Hong Kong version in terms of lines and camera performance. Even though Tao Mu has tried his best to make up for it with the cooperation of the Xiangcheng production team, some things can still be seen. Especially the part where Gu Yuzhang participated in the filming. To use a more vivid metaphor, it was like a mainland soldier intruding into the Hong Kong police team. The style was strange and surprising.

But there is nothing we can do about it. First of all, Gu Yuzhang is a mainland actor, and he graduated from Yanying Film Academy. Although he is only a freshman this year, his performance style is influenced by the mainland and always tends to be closer to drama. Secondly, before joining the group, Gu Yuzhang had been receiving training in the army. Even after joining the crew, in order to ensure that his training progress was not left behind, Gu Yuzhang was actively exercising besides filming. Therefore, his every move and gesture exudes the decisiveness, uprightness and uprightness of a soldier. This kind of appearance is also different from that of Hong Kong police.

In order to make Gu Yuzhang's performance closer to the Xiangcheng police, Tao Mu also threw Gu Yuzhang into the Xiangcheng Police School for a week of experience. He even introduced Gu Yuzhang to Jiang Jingwen and several other police officers at a friend's party. This allows Gu Yuzhang to closely observe the words and deeds of the Xiangcheng police and imitate them.

It has to be said that although Gu Yuzhang's emotional intelligence is a bit low, his acting talent is absolutely impeccable. After just one week, Gu Yuzhang's Xiangcheng policeman looked 70% similar to him. The missing two points are due to the behavior style that was influenced by the innate environment, and the different temperament after training in the mainland army. But this difference is perfectly matched with Yan Yu's black and white character traits which are originally incompatible with the movie.

Tao Mu's production level once again conquered the Xiangcheng production team. This is also the reason why the screenwriter team of "Black and White" was able to put aside their prejudices, adjust their attitudes, and take the initiative to polish the script.

With the full support of the screenwriter team, the script of the mainland remake of "Black and White" strives to approach the production level of the Hong Kong version in terms of details. Although the shooting period was delayed by half a month compared to the original plan. But the resulting film is really satisfying. All that remains is post-editing. Director Xu personally took charge of the production and went into seclusion with the post-production team of "Black and White". The big-name actors who have re-finished filming cannot rest either, but are instead working hard on the publicity for the Golden Crow Awards.

For his first film, he was nominated for two awards: Golden Crow Award: Best Newcomer and Best Supporting Actor. Tao Mu himself is undoubtedly a dark horse among the finalists of this year's Golden Crow Award. He is also the most popular winner of the Best Newcomer Award in the eyes of movie fans and the media - because the nominees for the Best Supporting Actor award are all well-known celebrities in Hong Kong. Two of the nominees are even as famous as top-tier celebrities such as Zhou Yanqing, Wang Jinsheng and Luo Daming. Therefore, the outside world is not optimistic that Tao Mu can win the Best Supporting Actor award. It's not that Tao Mu's acting is bad, but compared with his qualifications and connections in the circle, everyone thinks Tao Mu is relatively inferior. Coupled with the tacit xenophobia in the Hong Kong film industry, it is estimated that even among the Golden Crow Awards jury, there are many people who do not want Tao Mu, a new film star who has just debuted, to win such an important award as the Best Supporting Actor.

But apart from that, everyone felt that Tao Mu was sure to win the Best Newcomer Award. After all, among the five nominees for the Best Newcomer Award, only Tao Mu was shortlisted for the Best Supporting Actor. Similarly, only Tao Mu's acting skills can beat the other four finalists. This is a fact that is obvious to all. Therefore, many people are speculating that Tao Mu will definitely do his best to publicize the Best Newcomer Award. The Golden Crow Award jury would certainly be willing to offer this insignificant award to encourage newcomers from afar. Create a fair and just image for the Golden Crow Award.

When the other four nominees heard this convincing atmosphere of public opinion, they naturally felt sad, unconvinced, and unable to refute it. The other three nominees are aware of the gap between themselves and Tao Mu - whether in terms of background capital or acting skills, they are incomparable. I can only accept my fate while feeling sad. He even thought about making friends with Tao Mu at the Golden Crow Award ceremony, so that he could get good resources in the future.

Only Shen Yu, who had always called himself a rival, could not accept such an evaluation. However, family members know their own business. Even if Shen Yu secretly feels that he is no worse than Tao Mu, the performances of the two in the movie cannot fool people. In all the rival scenes between Tao Mu and Shen Yu - or to be more precise, between Zhou Yuanting and Yan Yu, Tao Mu's acting skills can beat him. Especially in the scene where the incident broke out in the police station, Tao Mu's wonderful acting skills and powerful aura directly overwhelmed Yan Yu who was also in the scene. So much so that after the film was released, all the professional film critics and non-professional fans who watched the film praised Tao Mu's acting skills. Many people even went so far as to say that they had never noticed the character of Shen Yu at all. It's just a background board from beginning to end. Even though his character is so good, his acting is not as good as the gang leader played by Du Ze.

Many fans honestly said that the only scene of Yan Yu that impressed them was probably the gunfight at the dock in the last ten minutes of the film. There was a small detail that Yan Yu's finger did not pull the trigger when he confronted Zhou Yuanting with a gun, and the last scene where Yan Yu died after blocking the bullet for Zhou Yuanting.

Well-informed industry insiders all know that the performance of these two scenes was based on Tao Mu's suggestions. Shen Yu's worries during the filming came true - everyone attributed his outstanding performance to Tao Mu.

What’s even worse is that there are still many paparazzi in Hong Kong with bad intentions. Because "Black and White" is still in theaters, all actors have to cooperate with the crew to participate in promotional activities. Therefore, when being interviewed, many entertainment reporters would take the initiative to ask Shen Yu what he thought about the mainland remake of "Black and White" and the selection of another actor for the role of Yan Yu? He even brought up the old grudge between Gu Yuzhang and Shen Yu, and asked Shen Yu directly who he thought had better acting skills, him or Gu Yuzhang? Who is more qualified to play the role of Yan Yu?

These are all questions related to movies. It is impossible for Mr. Shen Yu to use the official statement of "not answering questions not related to movies" as a shield. But this kind of sharp question is actually difficult to answer. Especially at the critical moment when Shen Yu was preparing to compete for the Golden Crow Award for Best Newcomer -

You think you performed well and want to win an award, but the role you played is replaced by someone else. What's even more embarrassing is that the person who replaced Shen Yu happened to be the producer Tao Mu. Tao Mu's acting skills and production level are already recognized as first-class in the industry.

This situation is very unfavorable for Shen Yu Public Relations Best Newcomer Award. Even Shen Yu's public relations team said that if Tao Mu himself did not break any negative news before the award ceremony, they would not be able to publicize the Best Newcomer Award on behalf of Shen Yu - after all, no matter how powerful the Lin family is in Xiangcheng, no matter how high their influence is, the Golden Crow Award still has to be respected. With Tao Mu's outstanding performance and the overwhelming media opinion, they would never give the Best Newcomer Award to Shen Yu.

Tao Mu, Tao Mu, it's Tao Mu again!

Shen Yu didn't understand. Why can't he avoid Tao Mu at every step of his life? This person has become a stumbling block in his career. As long as Tao Mu was around, his life would never be smooth.

Fame and fortune were in the face, and Shen Yu, who had long been resentful of Tao Mu, found it increasingly difficult to bear. At this time, the mainland media once again broke the news with solid evidence that "Shen Yu's biological mother lied, and someone broke the news that Shen Yu's biological mother abandoned her baby in a rental house in Yanjing."

——A single mother took her newborn baby, abandoned the child in a rental house and left. The incident happened in Yanjing. Does this experience sound familiar? A group of netizens and fans who often watch melons online immediately linked it to a man who could stir up bloody storms in the entertainment industry. When thinking about this man and the Shen family, more specifically the various conflicts between him and the siblings Shen Yan and Shen Yu... Damn, it's even more ups and downs than the plot of a melodramatic TV drama! ! !

In addition to being shocked, public opinion instantly became boiling. Shen Yu's biological mother, who was originally thought to have won the love of netizens with her image of a strong and honest mother, was instantly portrayed as a scheming and vicious bitch. Some netizens even started conspiracy theories, suspecting that Shen Yu's biological mother had seen Shen Yan secretly switch the child, which was why she was discharged from the hospital overnight, and even threw the child thousands of miles away to a small rental house in Yanjing in order to silence him.

You have to know that the child was less than two months old at the time. Such a young child was taken thousands of miles away and abandoned in a rental house for several days. That's not just a crime of abandonment, it's actually intentional homicide.

He let his own biological child replace the second son of the Shen family in wealth and glory, and then threw the real second son of the Shen family away in Yanjing, thousands of miles away. This simply cuts off the possibility of the child being reunited with his or her biological parents. Even if the Shen family discovered the truth, if the Internet had not been so developed and information had not been so convenient and well-informed more than a decade later, I am afraid that the Shen family would never have been able to find the real second son of the Shen family.

Public opinion reversed in an instant, and Shen Yu's biological mother immediately became a vicious woman who was hated by everyone. Shen Yu's biological mother never expected things to turn out like this. Of course she refused to admit that she had such vicious thoughts.

"I didn't lie. I really didn't know about the child swap. If it's true as you said, that I intended to abandon the child. Why would I take the child all the way to Yanjing to work, and keep him for more than a month?" Shen Yu's biological mother was less than 20 years old at the time, but she gave birth to a child out of wedlock. In such a conservative era, you can imagine how much pressure a single mother was under.

Shen Yu's biological mother really wanted to raise her child well. But she didn't realize how hard it was for a single mother to raise a child. This kind of hard work cannot be compensated by money. So in the end, Shen Yu's biological mother regretted it. That's why they just abandon their children in the rental house and leave. She had no intention of killing the child.

But Shen Yu's mother also understood that if she told her husband and son that she had abandoned her child, not to mention whether her current husband and son would think she was cold-blooded and irresponsible, she would not be able to bear the crime of abandonment alone. Moreover, if the Shen family knew that she had deliberately abandoned the child in the rental house and left him there... she was also afraid that the Shen family would vent their anger on her and Shen Yu.

Shen Yu's biological mother was a typical full-time housewife. As a mother and wife, Shen Yu's mother's daily routine is to take care of her parents-in-law, raise children and do housework. In her own words, she doesn't usually go online. So I don’t know about those messy hot search headlines on the Internet. I won't even know Tao Mu's life experience.

In her opinion, the child who was abandoned in the rental house must have died. Although she felt very sorry and heartbroken, so many years had passed since the incident. Did she still want to ruin her current life just for an abandoned baby? Since the child is gone, what is the difference between deliberate abandonment and death due to illness?

People seek benefits and avoid harm. Chen Yan's biological mother felt that she was just trying to keep her stable family and life. What happened nineteen years ago is a stain on her life. She didn't want to recall the past, but she had to do so under the pressure of the Shen family. So in order to protect herself, is it not okay for her to conceal the truth?

Who would have thought that it would be such a coincidence that there happened to be a scandalous man in the circle, and his background was that of an orphan who was abandoned in a rental house by his biological mother when he was young?

Not to mention Shen Yu's biological mother, even the people in the Shen family who were at the center of the vortex were dumbfounded and couldn't believe it. Mrs. Shen, who had always believed that her youngest son had died innocently and tragically, even couldn't wait to book a plane ticket and wanted to fly to Xiangcheng to recognize her son. Even the Shen family father and son, who had always been calm and basically didn't take the search for the child seriously, were moved and prepared to follow Madam Shen to Xiangcheng.

Shen Yan felt like a bolt from the blue. She didn't forget how she offended Tao Mu in the first place. And considering Tao Mu's vengeful character, if he really became the second son of the Shen family, would he take revenge on her?

No, that's not right. If Tao Mu is really the second son of the Shen family, then Shen Yan is Tao Mu's biological sister. By then, she will be the biological sister of the president of Feixun.com and Danmu.com? Could it be that Tao Mu dared to take revenge on his own sister regardless of blood ties?

Thinking of this, Shen Yan was not afraid at all, but became confident. She even felt that Tao Mu was worthy of being a man of the Shen family. It was because he had the blood of the Shen family that he was so capable. Much better than that fake Shen Yu.

——No, if Tao Mu is really the second son of the Shen family who was abandoned that year. In other words, Tao Mu should be Shen Yu. He is a beautiful and talented child of the Shen family. Thinking of Tao Mu's disgust for Shen Yu, and Shen Yu's concern for this name, Shen Yan became more and more gloating. She even wanted to suggest that the family recognize Tao Mu after they met, and then return the name to Tao Mu!

It's so disgusting!

Tao Mu and Shen Yu, who were far away in Xiangcheng, certainly didn't know that Shen Yan was so disgusting and was killing two birds with one stone. Although he didn't want his life experience to be exposed, Tao Mu today was no longer the Tao Mu who allowed the Shen family to manipulate him in his previous life. Even if the Shen family really came over, Tao Mu just had to deny it. Even if the Shen family wanted to take advantage of him, Tao Mu was sure that he would not suffer any loss. You should know that his household registration has long been included in Liu Yaomengqi's family's household registration book. He has legally recognized family members, including his father, grandfather, and Li Xiaoheng, and he is already over the age of 18, which is the age at which he legally needs a guardian. He is no longer the Tao Mu who desperately needed recognition from his family.

He is living a good life now. The Shen family is no longer needed.

In his previous life, he was not the real Second Master Shen, so there was no need for him to be crowned with that identity in this life. He has no fate with the Shen family. So it’s best not to interfere with each other. Based on Tao Mu's understanding of the Shen family, if he really doesn't want to return to the Shen family, he only needs to start from the interests and let the Shen family father and son clearly recognize that his existence will never bring any benefits to the Shen Group, and may even damage their own interests. For example, if the Shen Group is likely to be swallowed up by Feixun.com or Xiaoheng Capital, the father and son will never let him return to the Shen family. They might even treat him like a vicious snake.

Tao Mu planned very well, but what Tao Mu didn't expect was that just when he was prepared for the worst, things turned around again -

"No! This is impossible! I don't believe it!" After the news that Tao Mu was most likely the second son of the Shen family spread, the person who could not believe this fact the most was of course Shen Yu. He never thought that Tao Mu would be the missing second son of the Shen family. Impossible, how is that possible!

Shen Yu felt as if a basin of ice water was poured over his head, and he was shivering from the cold.

"Where's the test report? The report I asked you to steal Tao Mu's hair for DNA testing should be out, right?"

In a flash, Shen Yu thought of the only life-saving straw, and quickly grabbed Lin Rongan's sleeve and asked, "Is he really the child of the Shen family?"

"Of course not." Lin Rongan curled his lips meaningfully and handed the DNA test results to Shen Yu.

Ever since he stole Tao Mu's hair for DNA testing, Lin Rong'an secretly uploaded the sample to the missing children gene bank for comparison. If Tao Mu is really the child of the Shen family, then this DNA test sample should be able to be successfully compared with the sample left by Chairman Shen in the gene bank. Unfortunately, the final result showed that Tao Mu was not the child of the Shen family.

"I knew it. I knew it." Shen Yu held the inspection report tightly as if it were a treasure. With an ecstatic expression, "This must be Tao Mu's conspiracy. He just wants to make things difficult for me. He just wants to replace me. I won't let him succeed. Absolutely not."