"You've reached the third tier? That's pretty fast! This is only your second work, right?"

"Yes, I heard from my mom that the main reason is that the movie 'Shaolin Temple' has a lot of bonus points, which has boosted the score a lot."

"Not bad, maybe he can win the Best Newcomer Award at this year's Hundred Flowers Awards."

Why not Best Actress?

Fang Yang chuckled, "You're only in your first year, and Best Newcomer is already the highest honor."

Zhou Xin poked at the plate with her chopsticks, looking sullen.

"However, if you play Xiao Yanzi well in this 'Princess Pearl', no one can compete with you for the Best Actress award next year."

Zhou Xin looked up in shock. "Really? You're that confident about this 'Princess Pearl'?"

"You know that Director Wong's 'The Legend of the Condor Heroes' sold for a very high price, right?"

"Yes, I know. I heard it set a new high for TV dramas in recent years."

"Yes, it's really good. We auctioned it off, and the premiere episode was priced at 5 million yuan per episode, which was won by Yangcheng TV."

"Five million per episode? That's way too high. The current market price is just over one million. Two million is already an astronomical price."

Zhou Xin was beyond shocked. The best TV series her father's company had ever produced was only two million yuan per episode, and that was two years ago. Now, if it could sell for one or two hundred thousand yuan, they would be incredibly lucky.

"My target price for 'Princess Pearl' is at least ten million per episode. Anything lower is out of the question. So I said that as long as you play Xiao Yanzi well, you can rest easy about winning the Best Actress award. No one can take it from you."

"Hey, I'm telling you, with such a high price, what if no one buys it? Won't we lose everything?"

Fang Yang sneered, "Have you forgotten that I also have a video website? If no one buys it, it's perfect for the video website to premiere. Once it becomes famous, if I want to premiere it again, I'm afraid even ten million would be fought over."

"Really? You have such high expectations for 'My Fair Princess'? I didn't feel anything special about it."

That's because you don't understand!

Fang Yang shuddered as he recalled the 46% viewership rating in his previous life, which swept across China, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia and remains unmatched to this day. He simply couldn't bear to think about it!

Several days passed in the blink of an eye, and the filming progressed smoothly. Fang Yang announced the end of the day after finishing his afternoon scenes, which made everyone cheer because they thought they would have to film evening scenes. The past few days of consecutive evening scenes had left everyone exhausted, and they could finally get a good night's rest.

During dinner, Zhou Xin asked Fang Yang in confusion, "Wasn't there a performance planned for tonight? Why was it suddenly canceled?"

"Oh, the special edition of 'The Legend of the Condor Heroes' was released today. I had completely forgotten about it. Zhong Zhifeng just called and said the results were phenomenal. I'd like to take a look."

"Oh, I thought you weren't feeling well!"

Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief; it was good that everything was alright.

Back in his room, Fang Yang turned on his laptop, connected it to the TV, logged into the Yuewen Entertainment Media website, opened the music section, and scrolled down to the "Legend of the Condor Heroes" special album. Fang Yang checked the download data; the digital version had over 12.31 million downloads in just half a day. This number was truly astonishing. No wonder Zhong Zhifeng had called specifically to share the good news.

Zhou Xin brought several bags of snacks and was sitting cross-legged on the sofa, tearing open a bag of potato chips. She watched as Fang Yang opened an album, and melodious songs came from the television.

A vague dream seems to have appeared before, stirring up waves in my heart.

Cast aside worldly affairs and sever all sorrows and resentments

Together until the ends of the earth

Chasing grass across the vast desert, the cold wind blows across the sky.

Unafraid of the snow and frost, the vines and trees are intertwined.

Shooting eagles and drawing bows, galloping across the vast desert in fierce winds and sandstorms.

Laughing and carefree, never tiring of life, vines and trees intertwined.

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Zhou Xin, who was eating potato chips, was staring blankly at the TV with her mouth wide open. A potato chip was stuck on her lips, seemingly about to fall off, which was quite amusing.

Fang Yang listened carefully to their pronunciation and intonation. While not perfect, there weren't many flaws, except for a slight deficiency in their emotional expression.

Zhou Xin, who was listening to the song, didn't understand any of this. After the song ended, she grabbed Fang Yang's arm and cheered, "Fang Yang, this song is so good! How did you write it?"

Fang Yang laughed and said, "You know I wrote this book. Writing a book is the same as writing a song; you have to pour your emotions into it. Only by being extremely passionate can you be extremely skilled in swordsmanship! That's the principle."

Zhou Xin looked at Fang Yang as if he were an idiot. "I can understand every single word you say, but I don't understand them when they're put together. You graduated in the same year as me, so was the university I went to a fake one?"

Fang Yang stared blankly at Zhou Xin for a long time before he realized that these were people from another world who hadn't received instruction from Gu Daxia or Teacher Huang, so they naturally didn't know the power of these extremely refined words. He could only explain, "When you immerse yourself in writing a book, all the scenes in the book will appear in your mind. Naturally, you will be able to write songs that fit these scenes. The two are interconnected!"

Zhou Xin suddenly realized, "Now I understand. As for what you said about 'extreme emotion and extreme swordsmanship,' isn't that just confusing?"

Fang Yang smiled and began playing the second song, "The World Will Always Be Good to You":

Is this the highest mountain in the world?

Or there is another place higher than the sky.

There are mountains in the world that are higher than this one.

But love cannot find a better one than you.

There's always another mountain higher than the one before you start climbing.

True love is as high as the sky and has a thousand good qualities.

In terms of martial arts, no one in the world knows who is superior.

Or perhaps their ultimate techniques are different but the same.

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