"If Director Cheng is not busy filming, I'll go to the bathroom first!" Tao Mu suddenly spoke, stretched out his hand and waved to the two childhood friends who were trembling with regret that they had made a mess of things, and said without hesitation: "You come with me."
Long Tianao raised his paw with a smile, and joined in the fun with a shameless face: "Me too——"
Before he could finish his words, he was frozen by Tao Mu's expressionless look. He didn't dare to finish his words, and could only watch Tao Mu take his two childhood friends to the bathroom lovingly.
Cheng Baodong felt that he didn't get Tao Mu's outburst, and looked around inexplicably: "What's going on?"
No one responded. Only Wang Boyuan looked at Tao Mu's back thoughtfully. He found this kid quite interesting. He clearly distinguished between public and private matters and seemed a bit protective of his own people.
This is not consistent with the smoothness and sophistication he has always displayed.
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"I say, what's going on with you two?" Under the guise of running away to pee, Tao Mu dragged Da Mao and Xiao Pang into the bathroom, kicked open all the partition doors, and asked after confirming that there was no one inside.
Big Hair and Little Fatty looked at each other listlessly, like wet dogs washed by heavy rain, and pursed their lips in disappointment: "We just want to help you."
The tall and plump girl stood timidly in the corner, trying to curl herself up into a ball, which made Tao Mu angry and amused.
"How do you want to help me?" Tao Mu asked with his arms folded and eyebrows raised.
"You said it before! Because your capital value is not high, those people don't take you seriously. We discussed it and felt that it was indeed the case. So we came up with this idea - aren't you very good at stock trading? If you can help those big stars and directors make money by stock trading, they will definitely be nice to you!"
Da Mao sniffed and confessed dejectedly, "I checked it all on the Internet. Wang Boyuan also likes to trade stocks, but he is unlucky. This time the market fell, and he lost tens of millions in total. Many entertainment media are reporting on this matter. So we thought, if you can help him trade stocks, he is a first-line star after all, he will definitely protect you!"
What a beautiful thought. Tao Mu laughed: "What if I lose money?"
Da Mao and Xiao Pang were full of confidence: "How could that be? Brother Mu, you are such a genius and have such a good eye, you will definitely not lose."
"Do you think our family runs the stock market?" Tao Mu looked at his two childhood friends. He had good intentions, but that was not how things should be done. "Have you two ever thought about what would happen if I lost money helping these big shots to invest in stocks? Even if they can't kill me, will they have to join forces to ban me to vent their anger?"
Is this kind of operation still possible?
Big Hair and Little Fatty were startled. Finally realized the danger: "No way?"
They just felt that they were acting too hastily and might affect these big stars' views of Tao Mu. I never thought that Tao Mu would lose money.
This kind of trust in Tao Mu is really... Which singer gave them the courage? !
"Of course not." Tao Mu snorted, but he didn't mean to scare the two childhood friends.
As the saying goes, money can move people's hearts. In his past and present lives, Tao Mu knows best how much money, especially a huge amount of assets, can push a person to. There is a popular saying in later generations that goes "If you have money, you can do whatever you want," which is absolutely true. However, Tao Mu has lived two lives, and he has a deeper understanding of the saying that if you don't have money, you have to accept your fate.
Before becoming a star, Wang Boyuan came from an ordinary family. All his life savings were lost in the stock market overnight, and he went from being "rich and willful" to "poor and resigned to his fate" without any transition. No one would believe that Wang Boyuan could still remain calm.
At this critical juncture, Wang Boyuan will definitely be more sensitive about money issues. But Big Hair and Little Fatty just rushed over and bumped into them. Wang Boyuan therefore guessed that Da Mao and Xiao Pang were instigated by someone, and then suspected that Tao Mu had ulterior motives, which was also expected.
It is precisely because of this that although Tao Mu is very confident in himself, he does not want to get involved with Wang Boyuan at this time - he has no other concerns, he just thinks it is not a good deal.
In other words, even if Tao Mu wanted to use stock investment to win over Wang Boyuan, it had to be Wang Boyuan who took the initiative to propose it, and he would only agree reluctantly after careful consideration. Instead of the hasty self-recommendation of Big Mao and Little Fatty——
Of course, Da Mao and Xiao Pang could think of opening up the situation from the perspective of stock dividends and helping Tao Mu expand his social circle. This starting point was still good. But sometimes good intentions may not get things done, and more often than not, you can't get the best results if you're too impatient.
——Living a new life, Tao Mu relied on the golden finger in his hand. As long as he took steady steps, the first pot of gold was already in sight. After waiting for another year or so, Tao Mu is even confident that he can operate hundreds of millions of capital for himself under the global unfavorable market situation. Although this amount of money is still nothing to those wealthy conglomerate business families. But it was enough for Tao Mu to build his own entertainment empire.
With such good prerequisites in hand, Tao Mu naturally doesn't need to rush to please anyone. Therefore, when it comes to accumulating personal connections and building a network to infiltrate the Beijing circle, he always maintains the basic approach of "making himself familiar to the public" - not rushing, not rushing, not being too lukewarm, and just making his presence felt from time to time. By the way, you can also observe the personalities of the old hands in the Beijing circle. Just like Li Xiaoheng had observed him before, Tao Mu also needed time to observe these bigwigs in the Beijing circle. Determine among the groups of people who can be close friends and who only care about profit. Tao Mu naturally has to use different methods to treat different people.
In fact, this kind of observation attitude of a bystander was learned by Tao Mu from a very popular top red card. That person once told Tao Mu that everyone sees different scenery at different times of life, whether they are at the bottom or at the peak of their life. The so-called "all beings are in different states of being" means that different people will have different attitudes when facing strong groups and weak groups.
Before rebirth, Tao Mu didn't understand the use of this kind of observation. Of course, I don't have the energy to calm down and watch the world and human nature with a cold eye. After his rebirth, Tao Mu found this bystander's perspective quite interesting - not to mention that these observation processes can eventually be applied to acting, the observation results alone are enough for Tao Mu to achieve the achievement of "seeing people and serving dishes".
In this way, when Tao Mu's capital and reputation are accumulated, he can target different groups of people, either take the initiative or wait for those who want to make money to come to him. Then, they will appeal to their emotions and lure them with benefits. Once all these connections are sorted out, they will use them as a stepping stone to further contact the most powerful distributors and producers in the film and television industry. Once you have established your own network of contacts, many things will become easier - whether it is investing in good projects that outsiders may not be able to access even with money, or making your own movies and TV series. At least you don't have to be constrained by others in terms of distribution and scheduling.
People in the world pursue profit, so they can be tempted by profit. From this perspective, Tao Mu felt that the two childhood friends were not wrong. It's just that the means are not enough - in Tao Mu's opinion, whether it is money or talent, it should be spent on the right things. Blindly showing off wealth may attract attention, but it is too wasteful. It is better to let things flow silently and imperceptibly, and many things will naturally come to fruition like a trickle of water flowing into a ditch.
Please explain it more clearly. As the saying goes, money can move people's hearts. Since Tao Mu is the money-giving boy who can help people make money, he doesn't need to be so shameless as to approach him - since he is giving money to people, then apart from anything else, he must be well-mannered. Wait for people who want to make money to come to you voluntarily, then lower your attitude and beg them. Only in this way can you slowly improve your status and influence in everyone's mind.
This is also what we learned in junior high school politics: the economic base determines the superstructure.
After these words were said to the two childhood friends, Da Mao and Xiao Pang suddenly understood. The two of them gave Tao Mu a thumbs up, and said flatteringly with the faces of traitors in the anti-Japanese war drama: "You are so cunning."
"Can you talk? What's cunning? This is called wisdom! Do you understand wisdom? Ruisaosi or not!" Tao Mu couldn't help itching to stroke the dog's head twice: "So you two don't have to worry. Since the economic base determines the superstructure, no matter what you two say or do, as long as it is profitable and guarantees a win-win situation, it will eventually be a good result."
So there is no need to worry about making things worse.
Big Hair and Little Fatty suddenly realized again. Then he said awkwardly: "That's what I said. But we are still worried that our actions will make those people look at you badly..."
Tao Mu sneered. That’s why young people are too naive. What does it matter what other people think? If you have the ability, people with different opinions will have to keep them to themselves. If you are a hopeless case, you will be trampled underfoot even if you have a great personality.
People in the world admire the strong and pity the weak. The more respectful they are to the strong, the more unscrupulous they will be to the weak. This is human nature. Da Mao and Xiao Pang may not understand now, but they will slowly understand in the future.
"Alright. If you have nothing else, just go out. If we stay any longer, people will think the three of us have kidney failure!"
Seeing that Tao Mu really didn't care much about this kind of thing. Da Mao and Xiao Pang, who always trusted their brother Mu, also felt relieved. Da Mao scratched his chin, and then he felt like making a joke: "You mean frequent urination, urgent urination, and dripping urine?"
"What's the connection? We're clearly in a state of waiting to urinate!" Before Xiao Pang could finish his words, Tao Mu slapped him on the big round head.
"Get lost. Can you wait less than 20 minutes to pee? Is this the Yellow River?"
"Why is it the Yellow River?" Damao was confused when he heard this, but then he suddenly realized: "Could it be that the urine is yellow because of inflammation?"
Who the hell wants to listen to your kind of popular science! Tao Mu was speechless and pretended to kick the two childhood friends out of the bathroom.
A few people were joking and playing back to the set, and Mu Huating, who finally got the chance, came up and said, "Tao Mu, Brother Zhao asked me to say a few words to you."
Mu Huating has actually been following Tao Mu for a long time. It's just that Tao Mu's aura was too strong just now, and he actually looked intimidating without even getting angry. Even an arrogant and domineering young man like Long Tianao didn't dare to go up and argue, and Mu Huating didn't dare to follow too closely. Just standing far outside the bathroom. A position with an excellent view that ensures that he cannot hear the conversation between Tao Mu and the other two, while being able to closely monitor the movements at the door.
"I was just helping you watch, no one went to the bathroom." Mu Huating awkwardly showed goodwill and hurriedly told what Zhao Keping had told him: "Brother Zhao asked me to apologize to you on his behalf."
According to Zhao Keping's idea, he originally planned to leave Tao Mu alone for a few days after he was kicked out of "The Legend of Heroes", and then come up to him to show his goodwill and persuade him after Tao Mu felt the great gap. Then give him a better audition opportunity than "The Legend of Heroes". Zhao Keping is already very familiar with this method of giving a slap in the face and then giving a sweet reward - every artist under him has gone through this.
But he didn't expect that as soon as Tao Mu came out of "The Legend of Heroes", he was blocked by Ning Yuan at the entrance of the film and television city and tried to sow discord between them. Before Zhao Keping could come up with a countermeasure, Tao Mu joined the crew of "Jianghu Zhiyuan" under the introduction of Gou Rixin.
This series of developments happened so fast that Zhao Keping was caught off guard and felt a little overwhelmed. Even more unfortunate was that one of Zhao Keping's artists acted like a big shot during the filming of a variety show and angered the TV station, so much so that the TV station leader threatened to ban him. Zhao Keping had to rush to another place to put out the fire. This back and forth delay took nearly a week.
After Zhao Keping resolved these issues and returned to H Town, he didn't know whether Tao Mu had calmed down or not, so he asked Mu Huating, the only one of his men who had had contact with Tao Mu, to meet Tao Mu to test his nerves.
Mu Huating actually doesn't like Tao Mu very much, especially after Tao Mu deliberately suppressed him, Mu Huating always has the illusion that Tao Mu will suddenly attack and hurt people at any time. But he dared not disobey Zhao Keping's words - Wan Meihong was right. Mu Huating had been assigned to Zhao Keping's subordinates by the company for many years and had been trained by Zhao Keping a lot. His temper that dared to show off his anger had long been smoothed out.
It was precisely because of this that even though Mu Huating was very afraid of Tao Mu, he still came here despite Zhao Keping's instructions.
"Brother Zhao said he wanted to treat you to a meal and have a good chat. He said that he watched you being kicked out of the crew of "Heroes of Legends" and did nothing, which was a bit unkind. And he also took 10,000 yuan from you. Now he wants to return the 10,000 yuan to you."
Having said that, what Zhao Keping ultimately wanted was just an excuse to meet Tao Mu.
Tao Mu did not comment on this. But he really has no time to deal with Zhao Keping recently - although Cheng Baodong doesn't speak human language, he is right about one thing, Tao Mu is indeed a profit-seeking person. He will only spend his energy and time on people or things he thinks are worth it. Now, Tao Mu's energy is focused on the people in the Beijing circle and the periphery of the Olympics. He also has to squeeze out time to pay attention to the international futures market. He simply didn't have the extra energy to take care of Zhao Keping's emotions or to pretend to be nice to him.
"Not recently, I don't have time. Go back and tell Brother Zhao that I didn't take the "Heroes" incident to heart, and he doesn't have to mind it. I understand, and we can still cooperate if there is a chance in the future." Tao Mu sent Mu Huating away with just one sentence.
Mu Huating looked at Tao Mu awkwardly, wanting to say something, but in the end he didn't say it, and left early in disgrace - after all, he had come to the crew of "Jianghu Zhiyuan" with Shen Yu and his gang, not to visit the set.
On the other side, Zhao Keping, who received a call from Mu Huating, also sighed silently.
In fact, Zhao Keping began to regret it as early as when he saw Tao Mu's remarkable calm performance when he was kicked out of the "Heroes" crew.
Tao Mu's style of doing things is very different from the 18-year-old boy Zhao Keping had in mind. He was neither young and frivolous nor impulsive. He was able to always keep in mind the maximization of interests in such an extremely unfair situation, and actually extorted hundreds of thousands of compensation from Zhao Xin. This kind of scheming means that one cannot fail to see his own inaction in this matter.
Although inaction is not a mistake, the key lies in Tao Mu's mature mind. After knowing his inaction, can he tolerate this?
Zhao Keping judged others by himself and felt that Tao Mu might not care about this matter. Because Zhao Keping always believed that Tao Mu was the same kind of person as him. The pursuit of profit is based on one's own ambitions, and most importantly, one must use any means necessary to achieve the goal. They are also people who value results more than process.
But judging from the information Mu Huating gave back, Tao Mu was actually so talented in stock trading?
Only after confirming this with Mu Huating again and again did Zhao Keping finally become discouraged. Because he knew very well that with Tao Mu's profit-seeking style of doing things, there was really no need for him to be hypocritical with him. As long as he can maintain his image as an investment genius and make some achievements in the stock market. Then with Tao Mu's superb skills in making connections and winning people's hearts, he will soon be able to combine the interests of these people with his own interests. Then he can further improve his personal connections, and then he will be successful in the entertainment industry.
Therefore, Tao Mu really doesn't need to "join forces" with Zhao Keping. He can complete the tough transformation from a newcomer with no background to "I am the sponsor" by himself.
And Zhao Keping, who prided himself on being smart, actually let such a master slip through his fingers. Whenever he thought of this, Zhao Keping felt extremely annoyed. For the first time, I felt angry at my habit of manipulating people's hearts and showing off my skills.
Tao Mu naturally didn't know about Zhao Keping's regret. When he returned to the set from the bathroom with his two childhood friends who had suddenly realized something, he found that a group of people who had come to visit the set were carrying small stools and sitting behind Cheng Baodong. They were as well-behaved as kindergarten children sitting in a row waiting to share fruit. Cheng Baodong was sitting in the director's chair in front of the monitor, watching Wang Boyuan and Guo Yaning, two acting masters, perform.
Noticing Tao Mu's return, Cheng Baodong turned around to look at Tao Mu, and as expected, he sneered, "You are so young, but you have kidney deficiency. It takes you so long to go to the bathroom? Do you want me to recommend some health supplements to you?"
Tao Mu smiled: "Director Cheng, if you have any good supplements, please introduce them to me. It just so happens that my old man has poor kidneys and always likes to get up at night."
Cheng Baodong asked suspiciously: "Aren't you an orphan?" Where did this old man come from?
He immediately realized what was happening and was furious: "Who told you I used this? My kidneys are fine. Seven times a night, do you understand?"
A loud roar was picked up directly by the microphone on the scene. Wang Boyuan and Guo Yaning, who were acting together, stopped helplessly and looked at Director Cheng.
Director Cheng blushed and said quickly, "Click. Do it again."
Turning back to vent his anger on Tao Mu, he said, "Don't keep talking to me. This is a live recording. Do you know that?"
Tao Mu smiled but said nothing.
Director Cheng snorted and continued to stare at the performance between the male and female protagonists.
Half an hour later, the drama between the hero and heroine was finally over. Next, it was Tao Mu and the heroine's stand-in's turn to film the fighting scenes. Cheng Baodong said nothing and turned to look at Tao Mu. Tao Mu walked into the venue calmly and was immediately surrounded by the props team.
A large group of people surrounded Tao Mu and put on his wire suit. The martial arts director held the storyboard and explained the play to Tao Mu. The girl who was acting as a stunt double for Guo Yaning stood next to Tao Mu with a smile on her face. Suddenly she thought of something and said with a smile, "When we act together later, you can do whatever you feel comfortable with. It doesn't matter to me."
Tao Mu couldn't respond to what he said. Several prop masters who were putting on wire plays for Tao Mu laughed and joked: "Handsome guys are treated differently."
Wu blushed and said nothing to the little girl. Wang Boyuan stood behind Director Cheng and watched the monitor, his mind full of Tao Mu's huge profits in the stock market.
Cheng Baodong looked at his old partner who was rarely silent with a strange look, frowned and asked, "What are you thinking about? Why are you so deep?"
"It's okay." Wang Boyuan came back to his senses and continued to stare at Tao Mu's figure on the monitor in a daze.
Tao Mu's smooth and handsome fighting scenes are well-known in all crews. After the scheduling problem of more than a hundred extras was solved, Tao Mu's fighting scenes were almost passed in one take. The movements were so precise and beautiful that Cheng Baodong had the illusion that Tao Mu's acting skills were even better than Wang Boyuan's.
But how is this possible?
Wang Boyuan is an old actor who just won the Golden Crow Award, while Tao Mu is just a pure newcomer who has not received any systematic training. No matter how talented one is, it won't be so terrifying. unless--
Cheng Baodong pondered for a long time, and couldn't help but call Tao Mu over when the group performance was NG again, and brought up the old matter again: "I said, do you really not know Yan Sheng?"
Tao Mu had no expression on his face: "I don't know him."
Shen Yu, who had been paying attention to Tao Mu, moved his ears and immediately replied: "Are you talking about the actor Yan Shengyan? That's my idol."
"You're right, it's him." Cheng Baodong, who has always been a tyrant on the set, was rarely kind when facing Shen Yu: "I think Tao Mu's acting style is very similar to Yan Sheng."
As Cheng Baodong spoke, he glanced at Tao Mu. Knowing that Tao Mu hated others mentioning Yan Sheng, he insisted on asking again and again. The beating index is ten stars, just to avenge Tao Mu's false accusation of him for "tonifying the kidney".
Of course, apart from this, Cheng Baodong was also really curious.
Tao Mu frowned. He knew what Cheng Baodong was curious about, but he couldn't say, the reason I look like Yan Sheng is because I was suppressed by this guy for seven or eight years in my previous life. Damn it, no matter what movie I'm filming, this bastard will definitely take it. I'll take it even if I have to be a supporting role. When filming, I don't do anything else but give my all to my role. He even said shamelessly that he was avenging Shen Yu——
Tao Mu felt furious when he thought about this. If he had been able to hone his acting skills to perfection in his previous life, it would have been a shame because of this bastard. If Yan Sheng hadn't been too bullying, Tao Mu wouldn't have been so crazy honing his acting skills - locking himself in a dark room, imitating Yan Sheng's shots in front of the mirror, trying his best to suppress Yan Sheng's acting, and finally defeating Yan Sheng in the pursuit of the Golden Crow Award.
Unfortunately, that was also the last highlight of his acting career. Because Tao Mu angrily scolded Yan Sheng for licking Shen Yu and Shen Yu for occupying the magpie's nest at the award ceremony, which directly angered the fans of the two families and Shen Yu's admirers. After the award ceremony, Tao Mu was jointly banned by Shen Yu's admirers. The admirers, led by Yan Sheng, retaliated by buying off marketing accounts and major media outlets to spread Tao Mu's negative information on the Internet for several rounds. Tao Mu naturally would not surrender, and both sides fought fiercely, and various forces took the opportunity to fish in troubled waters. The infighting among several parties caused chaos in the entertainment industry, which eventually attracted the attention of the police and directly banned a number of artists and marketing accounts with black spots. Tao Mu was among them.
Tao Mu really didn't want to mention such a deep hatred. Of course there is no way to explain it. But Cheng Baodong kept asking questions. Faced with such an oversized naughty child who couldn't be beaten or scolded, even a calm person like Tao Mu felt a little impatient.
"Director Cheng!" Tao Mu suddenly spoke, his expression solemn and serious, with some newcomer's uneasiness and shyness between his brows: "I have been in the crew these days, thanks to your careful teaching, and I have some superficial understanding of filming. If you don't mind, I would like to tell you my thoughts."
"Oh?" Cheng Baodong became interested and looked at Tao Mu with a smile: "Then tell me." He wanted to see what Tao Mu, a high school student who had just graduated, could say.
"Okay." Tao Mu nodded. Combining my own feelings after watching "Jianghu Zhiyuan" in my previous life, as well as the professional film reviews written by major film magazines and authoritative film critics, I have pointed out two-thirds of the shortcomings of this film in terms of directing - the remaining one-third are the parts that Cheng Baodong has not started filming yet. His attitude is tactful but his words are sharp, which is very consistent with Tao Mu's usual style of being gentle and humble but striving for perfection in his work.
Although Cheng Baodong said that he was very optimistic about Tao Mu's acting skills, he actually didn't take Tao Mu seriously. His face turned red, and he felt a series of slapping sounds in his ears.
He looked at Tao Mu for a long while, then said angrily, "Okay, I really didn't realize that you are a real person who doesn't show your true colors!"
Damn, she usually acts like a little white rabbit. She won’t bite when she gets angry. She just keeps “discussing” your various mistakes at work. Be sincere and targeted with your attitude so that you won't even feel comfortable getting angry - if you do, it would be considered unreasonable.
But Tao Mu smiled slightly, looking at Director Cheng more sincerely and modestly: "It's all because of Director Cheng's good teaching."
Cheng Baodong: “…” It’s not that I don’t have it!
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