Chapter 392
This is her fifteenth year since her debut
Today is Ling Sui’s 32nd birthday.
When she was a teenager, she would have thought that turning thirty was a very distant and novel concept. She once thought that she must have a grand and formal birthday party for her 30th birthday.
Because she wants to cross this watershed with a new attitude and become a more mature and powerful person.
However, the reality is that her 30th birthday was spent quite dully. By the time she remembered the thought, her birthday had already passed for three months.
Ling Sui wrote in her memo that she would wait until her 31st birthday to get it done, but she only made a note of it and forgot to add a reminder. Last year, this day passed her smoothly, and although she received many birthday wishes, she still forgot about it.
After all, when she really turned thirty, she became disenchanted with this age.
However, Ling Suisui felt that this was not her fault - because in the first few years of her debut, she spent her birthday on the set.
She had never had the concept of holding a birthday party before. She had the urge to do so once after she became famous. However, as soon as she thought about the fact that the admission qualification would be resold by scalpers, her holding a birthday party would be equivalent to giving them a chance to make a lot of money from their fans. Ling Sui no longer wanted to hold it.
Anyway, with the size of her fans, even if she holds her birthday party at the Bird's Nest, only a small number of people can come, and most fans still have to watch the live broadcast, so she might as well just broadcast it live.
So…even though she finally added a reminder this year and remembered it a month or two in advance, she still didn’t do it.
She live-streamed for two hours today, and after the show she bought herself a 5-inch cream cake to enjoy alone. Since Ling Sui entered the industry, she has never eaten so many sweets in one day.
But she has been self-disciplined for more than ten years. It shouldn't be too much to celebrate her 30th birthday two years late, right?
If she wants, she can invite many friends to celebrate this day with her. But before sending out the invitation, Ling Sui suddenly realized that he was now an i person.
She is not introverted or afraid of socializing, she is just better at and prefers to get energy from being alone.
Ling Suisui turned on the TV at home and found a "Ling Suisui Works Column" in the projection area.
I forgot when it started, but every year on her birthday, each platform would have this area to celebrate her birthday. When she saw the words above, Ling Suisui realized that this year was her fifteenth anniversary since her debut.
It was too fast. This was Ling Sui’s feeling at the moment.
If there is any difference between before and after the age of 30, it is probably that time goes by extremely quickly after the age of 30.
It is now mid-December, and Ling Sui is reminiscing about the past.
In November, the filming of "Road to Fame" was completed, and she took a group photo with the main creators; she was invited to participate in the acting variety show where Chen Yuening was, and played a guest role for them. In the show, she experienced the extremely fast process of shooting a short film from shooting to post-production.
In early December, she shot magazine and commercial advertisements. A few days ago, the acting variety show she participated in was broadcast. The part where she explained acting to young actors was well received. Many netizens called on her to open a tutoring class in the domestic entertainment industry.
As the Christmas season approaches, the domestic box office of "Easy As Pie" has basically been determined, and there will no longer be any increase worthy of changing the data.
The initial increase in the film's box office was in line with her expectations. Later, word of mouth spread, and coupled with the lack of competing films during the same period, the film reversed the decline and experienced a small increase. The current box office is 1.328 billion, ranking seventh on the mainland's annual box office list.
It's said to be a tentative list, but looking at the lineup of films in the holiday season, exceeding this 1.3 billion is the opposite of a piece of cake.
Whether in terms of net profit or return on investment, "Easy As Pie" has performed at the top level in this year's mainland film market. Most importantly, it comes with prizes.
There are awards in Venice this year, and there will definitely be awards in mainland China next year. The film has already been released in North America and Europe, and the main creators are expected to go on a global tour to receive awards - this is nothing new to Ling Suisui.
If you pick any one of the above events and put it on other actors, it would be a big happy event that can make it to the hot search list for a month and the fan circle would also be excited. But when Ling Suisui looked back on the past two months, he found that his mood had not fluctuated much.
Well... this doesn't seem to be a problem just for her. Even Sui Si is not that active in making battle reports anymore.
Being praised for her acting skills, this kind of thing that happened to Ling Suisui is like her saying that she ate an apple today, which was ordinary and very common;
The movie box office revenue of 1.3 billion was indeed profitable, but she has never lost money. This number is just average in her past performance, slightly lower than "The Great Swordsman".
Ling Suisui has raised Suisi's standards. It is estimated that when she wins the annual box office championship in mainland China or the world, the calm lake will begin to ripple again.
The higher the achievement, the higher the threshold for happiness. If happiness can be expressed by specific numbers, then the curve graph of her absolute happiness in recent years shows an overall downward trend.
Ling Suisui is not dissatisfied with her life and career, nor is she sad, she is just not that happy.
She pressed the remote control, moved the cursor downward, and clicked on the acting variety show in which she appeared. Although she was just a flying guest, the program team still put her official photo at the front.
The news that Ling Suisui was going to be a guest on an acting variety show was kept secret until the day before she participated in the recording.
She only found out later that Chen Yuening had not even told the director in order to keep it a secret. He just said vaguely that he had a friend coming over.
The production crew thought that he was just some unknown actor who could be called over with just a word of greeting, so they didn’t pay much attention to the arrangements for food and lodging in the beginning, until Ling Suisui’s team came over to coordinate, which really scared the artistic director.
Of course Chen Yuening did it on purpose. He is a very hypocritical person. It’s okay for him to bring Ling Suisui to take advantage of the platform to make short films, but if the platform wants to take advantage of it too much and use Ling Suisui’s name to attract investment from the first promotion to the last, that’s not okay.
He even asked righteously, "If it wasn't Ling Suisui, but someone else, would you treat them differently?"
This sentence shut the production crew up. Even if this was something that everyone knew and did in private, they couldn't bring it up in public.
Thinking of this, Ling Sui felt like laughing.
She knew that Chen Yuening must have done it on purpose - in order to protect the actors he favored and prevent the good seedlings from being eliminated by the royal family, he had fought with the production crew many times in the first two stages and was just short of rolling up his sleeves and fighting.
He told Ling Suisui that it was a good thing that he invited her to come back in the third stage so that she wouldn't have to endure the previous anger.
Ling Sui thought at the time that if she had come earlier, it would be unknown whether the program could be recorded to the third stage. After all, she is already in her thirties, her temper is not as good as when she was young, and she doesn't have as many things to consider.
Fortunately, the results of Chen Yuening's group were good.
The actors he chose were all very young, the youngest being sixteen years old. Chen Yuening privately complained that when he was teaching them hand-in-hand, he realized how hard the teachers at the Film Academy worked.
The TV was playing. After watching the contestants' impromptu performances, Ling Suisui said this to him and bluntly said to him: "If we really want to compare the students' levels, the teachers back then had to work much harder than you do now."
The whole audience on the screen was laughing, and the comments were also laughing. This was a very good show effect.
Ling Suisui also smiled. She lowered her head and took a bite of the cake, and felt that 5 inches was still a little too big. Maybe she would have to eat this for breakfast tomorrow.
In the variety show, several young people looked at her with expectation and enthusiasm. Ling Suisui testified that this was not the effect of the show they performed in front of the camera. They would do the same even if they were not wearing a microphone and no one was filming.
Ling Suisui also jokingly asked Chen Yuening how he promoted the program to these kids. She felt like she was the walking Tang Monk's flesh, and as long as they cooperated with her, they could achieve immortality.
Chen Yuening snorted at the time and asked if he still needed to promote this. For them, the opportunity to work with a top actor like Ling Suisui may only come once in a lifetime.
Although his tone was exaggerated, it was true from a realistic perspective.
In the next few years, Ling Suisui has been working closely with Diland. There are still several movies to be shot and released in the fantasy universe (the name given to the IP of Kung Fu Master and subsequent series by mainland netizens). As for whether she will return to the mainland to film in the future, no one can say for sure.
Ling Suisui and her team knew that she would not retire easily, but others didn't know. Many big stars whose award resumes are not as good as hers, but they retired early to enjoy life, or moved behind the scenes like Tang Bing and no longer appear in front of the stage.
These positive and indirect praises and adulations did not make Ling Suisui feel happier.
She couldn't help but reflect on herself, was she too greedy and wanted too many things? Probably not. If it's greed, she doesn't want anything in particular right now.
Ling Sui glanced at her phone. Her message list was full of red dots. She didn't know how many birthday greetings she had accumulated that she hadn't yet viewed or replied to.
Because there were too many of them and the red dots were still increasing, her obsessive-compulsive disorder had become a bit desperate and she was no longer in a hurry to flare up.
Many people love her, and Ling Suisui knows it. This love may not be very pure, it may be conditional and mixed with other things, but Ling Suisui is not demanding.
After all, she can't say that she has unconditional love for every one of her relatives and friends. This is the way the adult world is.
As she mechanically ate the cake, she suddenly and deeply understood Shen Hui's love for extreme sports from the bottom of her heart.
...Tsk, is she going to find another "Ling Suisui" and let her become the big star while she starts from scratch as an extra?
Ling Suisui pushed this ridiculous idea out of her mind. She knew why she was most influenced by Chen Hui.
Because among all the roles she has played, Chen Hui is the one she performs best on the spot.
Just like she taught the contestants how to act a madman, Shen Hui's values cannot be substituted with normal logic. Her personality determines that her behavior is highly random. Because from her perspective, she can afford the consequences of all her reckless actions.
How to act a madman? If you know how to perform every expression and every action, and you have designed lines for the character with a complete narrative and clear logic, then the character you play will not be a madman.
Ling Suisui played the role of Chen Hui in the early stage of the script with this mentality. When she recalls it now, the corners of her mouth can't help but rise, and her mood becomes very happy.
This is the closest she thinks she is to happiness today, on her 32nd birthday.
It turned out that she was destined to be a good actress.
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