The Chang Kong Awards ceremony kicks off; Xi Ming is expected to win Best Actor.

"Youngest Nominee for the Chi Yan Growth Award"

"Fancy Cinema" brings you an exclusive interview with Ji Yan.

Before the awards ceremony began, online discussions about the Chang Kong Award never stopped. As the youngest nominee for Best Actor, Ji Yan naturally became the focus of attention. Even the day before the awards ceremony, the media kept trying to interview him.

Ye Ying put these interviews on hold.

The nomination for Best Actor at the Changkong Awards is both an honor for Ji Yan and a sign of increased attention within the industry. Since the nomination list was announced, Ji Yan's past has been revisited by marketing accounts. Of course, some of these accounts focused on Ji Yan's poor performance during the "Idol Century" period and dug up various connections between him, the Ji family, and Ji Ruan.

This naturally has only one purpose—to prove that Ji Yan's Best Actor nomination was illegitimate.

In fact, ever since "Wing" became increasingly successful in the entertainment industry, the Ji family has been trying to weaken its influence over "Wing". Ji Wei will not express any opinion on Ji Yan's career path in the entertainment industry, nor will he provide Ji Yan with any convenience.

Aside from making a splash in a business magazine when it came to allocating funds, Ji Yan never hinted at his relationship with the Ji family to anyone. Even after Ji Xuekong posted photos of the album "Crow" after its release, Ji Yan never retweeted or liked any of her Weibo posts.

He felt that maintaining this relationship with the Ji family was fine.

However, his relationship with the Ji family still subject him to scrutiny. While album sales and movie box office figures, which are based on numbers, are relatively easy to assess, his connection with the Ji family is repeatedly emphasized when it comes to awards, which are more subjective.

Ji Yan can now ignore such comments.

To some extent, Ji Yan's nomination for the Chang Kong Award certainly paves a smooth path for his career. However, the entertainment industry is a place where there are far more monks than porridge. There are only so many good scripts and resources. If more are given to Ji Yan, there will be fewer opportunities for others. On the surface, Ji Yan only has a bad relationship with Ji Ruan and Wen Xiang, but in fact, he has never lacked hidden competitors.

...

"Go, Teacher Ji! I'm passing on my lucky punch to you." Fang Yu punched Ji Yan's fist and then used the Kamehameha to send good luck to Ji Yan.

Ji Yan turned aside to avoid it.

Fang Yu: "?"

Ji Yan explained in a serious tone: "Humans and turtles are on different paths; you are just a turtle."

Fang Yu: "? Give me back my blessing!"

"come on."

Compared to Fang Yu, Xie Mingxuan and Lu Wei's blessings were much simpler, consisting of just one sentence: "Keep going!"

In fact, everyone knows that Ji Yan is likely to be a runner-up this time, and Xi Ming has been the most favored by the industry since the nomination list was announced.

This is Xi Ming's fourth nomination for Best Actor at the Chang Kong Awards. Including the Best Supporting Actor nomination, Xi Ming has been nominated for the Chang Kong Awards seven times. Although Ji Yan has not seen "One Me", he can understand Xi Ming's acting skills just from the performance clips.

The other person was even the source of Ji Yan's frustration—while Ji Yan was happy about his nomination for the Chang Kong Award, Xi Ming's performance in "One Me" made him realize the huge gap between himself and the other person.

Being an actor is a never-ending journey.

...

The car that came to pick up Ji Yan first stopped downstairs at the apartment building. After he got in the car, it drove to the other side of City A to pick up Ning Wei.

After the car door opened, a figure sat down next to Ji Yan.

The temperature in City A is gradually rising, but wearing the suit provided by "Engraving" doesn't feel hot at all. However, after Ning Wei sat down, the space in the car immediately became narrower. Actually, there was still a distance between the two of them, about the width of a hand, but when Ning Wei spoke to him, the distance gradually shrank until it was almost invisible.

Ji Yan didn't know why he had the time to pay attention to this.

Ning Wei didn't speak immediately, but gave Ji Yan a faint smile.

The other person has two dimples, which are not noticeable when they are not smiling, but at this moment, even if there is only a slight curve at the corner of their mouth, the dimples are revealed.

Ji Yan held back for a long time before he poked it.

"Here you go." Ning Wei handed Ji Yan a paper bag. "Eat something first, you'll definitely be hungry later."

There were two boxes of cookies in the paper bag. Ji Yan felt that the cookies looked familiar. Suddenly, he remembered that these were the cookies he had recommended to the other person at the supermarket before.

Ning Wei took out a paper bag, but Ji Yan handed her a square box instead.

"...A gift for me?"

Inside the box was a watch.

The watch is from the brand "Wings," and the price isn't particularly expensive. It's much more affordable than the watches that Ji Yan used to own when he was in the Ji family, which cost hundreds of thousands of yuan. As brand ambassadors, the brand gave each member of "Wings" a watch, while the one Ji Yan gave to Ning Wei was one he bought himself.

After discovering that Ji Yan was buying gifts for others, Fang Yu protested for a long time, saying that he was so good to Ji Yan, often treating him to meals and ice cream, but when it came to buying gifts, Ji Yan thought of others first.

Ji Yan wanted to give him a watch, but he disagreed, since he already had the same watch.

Fang Yu successfully extorted a camera and ten hot pot meals from Ji Yan, who then extorted ten meals from Xie Mingxuan.

Well, you get used to selling out the team leader after a while.

Ji Yan pointed to his wrist: "This is the one I'm wearing today."

Ning Wei put it on without hesitation.

There was still some distance between the "Blue" studio and the Changkong Awards ceremony. Ning Wei gave Ji Yan an earphone so he could listen to his recently collected playlist.

Ning Wei has a much deeper understanding of music than Ji Yan. He shares the latest pop music and also pays attention to the classical music field. Ji Yan has quite a few music albums that Ning Wei gave him. When the two meet, they often talk about music. Ning Wei doesn't go into too much depth, but he always talks more about music than other topics.

Ji Yan listened patiently to him, occasionally interjecting with a comment.

Before they knew it, the two were talking about the song "Healing".

“I went to see ‘My Beloved’ at the cinema,” Ji Yan said in a low voice. “I went to a cinema that was quite far from the company, because ‘My Beloved’ had very few screenings.”

"Young Love Poems" managed to get over 10% of screenings in the later stages, but that was still pitiful compared to other films released at the same time. In the end, "My Beloved" got even fewer screenings than "Young Love Poems." The film did choose the Qixi Festival (Chinese Valentine's Day) release date, but unfortunately, all of its screenings were taken over by two other romantic blockbusters.

Ji Yan felt that the quality of "My Beloved" was just so-so, but the atmosphere of the movie and the song "Healing" were really perfect.

"Healing" sounds like a song written by someone who has been heartbroken, but as far as he knows, no one in "Blue" has been heartbroken yet.

Feeling that today was a good opportunity, Ji Yan decisively asked the question.

Ning Wei was initially puzzled, then fell into deep thought: "Do you remember, there was a period of time two years ago when it rained heavily in City A?"

Ji Yan thought for a while, but couldn't remember.

Ning Wei continued, "That day I found a kitten in the flower bed downstairs. The cat was injured, so I took it to the vet." "And then?"

"I'm cured and now I'm recuperating in my studio. That should be the inspiration for writing that song."

Before Ning Wei could finish speaking, he felt Ji Yan suddenly lean in. He could even see Ji Yan's eyelashes and a pair of very bright eyes.

Duan Yiran had been saying that Ji Yan was very handsome, and had said it more than once. Ning Wei hadn't paid much attention before, but now that he was so close to Ji Yan, he really realized that the other person was indeed very good-looking.

Ji Yan stared at Ning Wei, his face serious: "Where's the cat?"

He didn't even know "Blue" had a cat!!

Ning Wei scrolled through her phone, showing Ji Yan photos of cats playing with a ball, cats napping, and a video of a cat's tail turning into a propeller.

Ji Yan: "...I'm so envious."

He's so envious, okay?

Moreover, the cat kept snuggling up to Ning Wei, unlike him, who was constantly disliked by the cat, to the point that he wondered if he was Jerry reincarnated in his past life.

Fang Yu disagreed, believing that Ji Yan was likely a reincarnation of a Tibetan fox.

"Teacher Ning, may I come to your studio for a look? I just want to look, not touch."

"Are you free tomorrow? I'll bring the conch shell out."

"It's called a conch?"

"The name was chosen by Duan Yiran."

Ji Yan thought the name was quite cute. Ning Wei couldn't bear to interrupt his fantasy. In reality, Duan Yiran was watching SpongeBob SquarePants at that time. When Du Jian asked him a question, he told Du Jian to ask the Magic Conch. Du Jian couldn't help but beat him up.

So the two of them listened to music and looked at cat photos along the way, and time naturally flew by.

When they were just a short distance from the red carpet, Ji Yan's assistant, Xu Zhou, reminded him to get ready. Only then did Ji Yan put away the silly grin he had been wearing while looking at the cat and put on a serious expression.

Ji Yan appeared in the middle of the show; the rest of the "Young Love Poems" crew arrived a little later than him.

This is not usually the time for big-name stars to appear, but the stars invited by the Changkong Awards are more or less well-known, so the reporters' cameras will not be idle.

Of course, the formality of the Changkong Awards means that there will be little excitement on the red carpet, and very few celebrities will try to stand out with their red carpet looks—unless they want to be excluded from the Changkong Awards forever.

Journalists from professional magazines such as "Film," "Movies," and "The Cinema," as well as fashion magazines like "Alex," stood on both sides of the red carpet, waiting to capture the moment each star appeared.

"This year... there's nothing new," a reporter from Film World complained.

Regardless, the red carpet is always a highlight of every film award ceremony. For viewers who don't care about the winners, the red carpet is probably the most exciting part of the entire ceremony. For marketing accounts, however, focusing on whether a star outshines someone else and then fabricating a few hundred words about the feuds between stars can easily meet their monthly KPIs.

Besides, there's been a real lack of gossip in the entertainment industry lately.

"Another car has arrived."

A reporter looked toward the front of the red carpet. The car was still a Volkswagen, but he vaguely remembered that it seemed to be the car that "Wing" often rode in when attending red carpet events.

This is true at least for events held in City A.

The reporter remembers this because "Wings" is somewhat unconventional in this respect, but "Wings" is already famous enough that even if they go a little out of line, it is not surprising.

The reporters didn't want to miss the moment Ji Yan appeared; as soon as he got out of the car, their camera shutters were already clicking.

However, after getting out of the car, he did not walk towards the red carpet immediately, but waited a while for the other side door to open.

"Ning Wei?"

Ning Wei and Ji Yan walked the red carpet together!

The entire red carpet erupted in cheers.