early morning
Liu Xu walked in and opened the curtains. The dazzling sunlight stimulated Du Yuanzhe to squint his eyes.
"It's morning so soon?"
He sat up from the bed in a daze.
Liu Xu said, "Hurry up, we have to go to the set after dinner."
Du Yuanzhe didn't have time to stay in bed, so he got up and went to the bathroom to wash up.
While eating breakfast, Xiaopang said, "Brother Zhe, everyone on the Internet is discussing what happened to Teacher Yang last night when she met a stalker. The hotel she stayed at was also exposed."
Du Yuanzhe was surprised: "The news spread so quickly?"
"Last night, Teacher Yang was photographed while going to the police station to give a statement."
Du Yuanzhe suddenly realized: "No wonder."
"Now all of Mr. Yang's fans have gone to the official Dushi Weibo account, hoping that Dushi Hotel will not make the same mistake again."
Du Yuanzhe smiled and said, "Free publicity is also good."
Protecting the privacy and security of guests is the hotel's responsibility, and there is nothing wrong with the request of Yang Shiyao's fans.
Film Set
Yang Shiyao apologized: "I'm sorry Yuanzhe, my fans are too excited, I have asked the studio to restrain them."
No matter what, Du's Hotel came to the rescue last night. Yang Shiyao's fans didn't know the inside story and were somewhat emotional.
After all, fans were worried about her, and Yang Shiyao felt that she should apologize.
Du Yuanzhe smiled and said, "No one has any bad intentions, Sister Shiyao, don't take it to heart."
Du Yuanzhe doesn't think the Du family will suffer any losses. As long as they can withstand this wave of public opinion, it will actually be beneficial to the Du family.
Yang Shiyao didn't say anything else.
A few days later, Liu Xu told Du Yuanzhe: "Yang Shiyao has helped you get an endorsement."
Du Yuanzhe clearly understood Yang Shiyao's thoughts: "Yang Shiyao is apologizing on behalf of her fans."
Liu Xu nodded: "Yang Shiyao has been able to maintain her position as a top actress for several years. In addition to her outstanding acting skills, it is also related to her interpersonal relationship. Many actors in the entertainment industry have praised her, and many seniors have publicly expressed their love for her."
“What endorsement?”
"It was a two-person endorsement. Yang Shiyao proposed that she would only agree to the endorsement if she cooperated with you. The advertiser was not satisfied, so they negotiated with the company. Then the company rejected Yang Shiyao's proposal and asked Yang Shiyao to sign the original contract with the advertiser."
Liu Xu was actually very confused about the company's decision.
It is very common to promote newcomers in the entertainment industry. With Du Yuanzhe's performance in "The Legend of Yun Lan", he will surely become more famous after the show is broadcast. Although it may seem that advertisers are losing out by having him and Yang Shiyao endorse the product now, they will definitely make a lot of money in the future.
The most important thing is that in the drama, Luo Xun is infatuated with Yun Lan. After the drama is broadcast, the endorsement at this time will be the sugar in the future. Netizens will definitely love it to death. This is free promotion.
No matter how you look at it, the company should have helped Du Yuanzhe get this endorsement, but why did they refuse?
Liu Xu asked Du Yuanzhe: "Yuanzhe, have you offended the company's senior management?"
Du Yuanzhe said firmly: "It's impossible!"
What a joke! He and the company president live together and often play games together. None of the artists in the company have a stronger relationship than him.
"Then why didn't the company get the endorsement?"
Yes, why?
While waiting for the show, Du Yuanzhe called Xia Ningmi to inquire about her.
"This is your first drama with a romance. If you hype up your CP now, will you have to do it every time in the future? By then, the netizens' impression of you will only be hype, and no one will care about your acting skills."
"Do you want to be a star or an actor?"
Xia Ningmi's soul questioning instantly woke Du Yuanzhe up.
He couldn't help but think about problems according to the thinking of his previous life. In the entertainment industry, hyping up CPs is a basic operation, and everyone tacitly accepts that this is normal business, but for actors, these are not necessary.
What's more, he is only the second male lead, and it is not his turn to be paired with the female lead. This is equivalent to stealing the limelight from the male lead. Zheng Xiao's fans will scold him to death when they find out.
Du Yuanzhe figured out the key point and said, "Thank you, President Xia, for reminding me."
He then asked, "Please help me reject any proposals for CP in the future, Mr. Xia."
His refusal showed that he didn't take the other person seriously, and it was just right that the company refused.
Xia Ning's eyes flashed, and she said calmly, "I will."
Cheng Yu watched Xia Ningmi fool Du Yuanzhe with his own eyes. What she said was very logical and reasonable, but she did not mention her own selfish motives.
I wonder how Cheng Yu would feel if she knew that Du Yuanzhe authorized Xia Ningmi to help her reject all future plans to hype up their relationship.
You may sigh that a president is a president and can achieve your goal with just a few words.
After he hung up the phone and came back, Liu Xu said, "I asked the company, and they said that it was CEO Xia who personally rejected the proposal. Although others were confused, they didn't dare to ask."
Du Yuanzhe no longer had any doubts and said with a smile, "It's just a rejection. It's just an endorsement. It's no big deal."
Liu Xu nodded: "President Xia has always been a long-term thinker. She may have other considerations."
The staff of Qianying Entertainment all have a blind admiration for Xia Ningmi.
When Xia Ningmi took charge of the company, Qianying Entertainment was still an inconspicuous small company. It took her a very short time to develop Qianying Entertainment to the point where it could compete with Huanxing Entertainment.
It's impossible not to be impressed by this ability.
For Xia Ningmi, the success of Qianying Entertainment allowed her to smoothly control Xia Corporation, which was also the reason why she moved her office to Qianying Entertainment, as it was more like her base.
After Du Yuanzhe learned about Xia Ningmi's experience, he also admired her. No matter which industry, it is more difficult for women to succeed than men. People always have various prejudices. It is not easy for Xia Ningmi to achieve this.
With Xia Ningmi's current status, even if she said nothing, her mere presence could inspire countless women.
Du Yuanzhe only recently discovered that Xia Ningmi also has a super topic and has quite a few fans, even though there is not a single photo of Xia Ningmi on the entire Internet.
Fans of the super topic simply admire her abilities.
......
Live streaming in the entertainment industry has become increasingly popular recently, and it seems like everything can be live streamed.
Wang Ligang had originally planned to invite some media to interview him, but after hearing about the live broadcast, he decisively chose the live broadcast, which was easier and he didn't have to deal with the media.
Wang Ligang scheduled the live broadcast time for November 20th.
After the official Weibo account of "Legend of Yun Lan" posted a Weibo to inform fans of the news, fans were very excited and left messages in the comments, saying that they would wait patiently for the live broadcast to watch the brothers and sisters.
What is rather outrageous is that among the many comments expressing anticipation, Xiaopang actually saw some comments saying they wanted to see how Du Yuanzhe would ruin the character.
"Brother Zhe, the fans of the original novel are so persistent. They have been following you for so long."
In the past few months, Du Yuanzhe has been concentrating on filming in the crew, and there has been no news about him in the entertainment industry. Even so, those people did not let him go.
Du Yuanzhe lowered his head to read the script and said, "Original fans are just fans of the book after all. They won't keep staring at me. I guess they are really my haters."
Liu Xu agreed with Du Yuanzhe's guess.
Xiaopang was puzzled: "But the show hasn't aired yet, where did Brother Zhe get all his haters?"
Liu Xu explained: "Sometimes it's very inexplicable to dislike someone. Maybe they think that their own protagonist is more suitable to play Luo Xun, maybe they think scolding Yuan Zhe can make them stand on the moral high ground, or maybe it's just for popularity. Anyway, any reason is possible."
After Xiaopang joined the company, he has been following Du Yuanzhe, but because the original owner was too lazy, Xiaopang has not had much contact with the entertainment industry in the past three years and does not know much about some things in the entertainment industry.
After hearing Liu Xu's explanation, Xiaopang sighed: "There are so many weird things."
Du Yuanzhe said gently, "In fact, many people only judge likes and dislikes based on their subjective judgment. For example, if you are my assistant, I will definitely have resource conflicts with other male actors in the future. Will you dislike those male actors?"
Xiaopang retorted: "How can it be the same? I won't scold them for no reason."
"But if you see bad rumors about them, your mood will change subtly, right?"
Xiaopang was speechless.
Du Yuanzhe continued, "This is human nature. We are not saints. If we dislike someone, we dislike him. We don't need to think about whether we should dislike him or not."
So Du Yuanzhe will not try to make people who dislike him like him, that is their freedom.
Xiao Pang said unwillingly, "Are you just going to let those people who spew shit all over their mouths go?"
Du Yuanzhe looked puzzled: "How is that possible? Do I look like such a generous person?"
"Then we..."
"Of course I will take legal action to protect myself. We must trust the country. Anyway, I have no shortage of money or time."
Xiaopang blinked his eyes: "Aren't you talking about human nature?"
"Yeah, but those things are no longer human."
It turns out that this is how it can be understood.
Liu Xu was laughing as he listened to this. With Xiaopang's intelligence, being fooled was just a matter of whether Du Yuanzhe was willing or not.
After teasing Xiaopang for a while to calm him down, Du Yuanzhe soon immersed himself in the script again.
A few days passed in the blink of an eye, and soon it was December 20th.
As soon as we arrived at the set today, Wang Ligang arranged: "We will broadcast live for two hours. Shiyao, Zheng Xiao, and Yuanzhe, you will take turns interacting with the fans watching the live broadcast. Whoever is free will do it."
Yang Shiyao joked, "It seems like there will be Luo Xun's blood pool healing scene today."
Wang Ligang said: "I was planning to broadcast live at that time."
Du Yuanzhe's eyes widened: "Director Wang, aren't you afraid that your live broadcast room will be blocked?"
Wang Ligang said disdainfully: "What a big deal! It's just exposing my upper body. And it's impossible to show them a close-up view. Just let them see the outline from a distance."
Zheng Xiao joked, "Yuanzhe, whether you can attract netizens to watch our drama depends on you."
Yang Shiyao had a wicked smile on her face.
Du Yuanzhe's eye twitched: "You guys really just want to make trouble."
Wang Ligang waved his hand and said, "It's settled. The live broadcast will start at 4 pm."
When Liu Xu heard Wang Ligang's plan, he actually agreed with it and asked, "Yuanzhe, have you trained your abdominal muscles?"
Du Yuanzhe was too tired to complain and said, "Director Wang said that we would only shoot distant scenes during the live broadcast."
According to the description in the novel, the blood pool was surrounded by blood energy. Luo Xun sat in it to heal his wounds, and people outside could only see his outline. However, this had to be achieved through special effects to achieve the effect of being surrounded by blood energy, and he was really shirtless on the scene.
Du Yuanzhe had already made preparations, but he did not expect Wang Ligang to broadcast live at this time. Fortunately, Wang Ligang still treated him as a human being and did not let him expose his chest and back in front of tens of millions of viewers.
Seeing him like this, Liu Xu laughed and said, "It's just topless. There are a lot of clothes that expose the chest nowadays. It's nothing. Why are you acting like you're going to lose your innocence?"
Du Yuanzhe said: "It's just that I'm not used to it for the time being."
......
Soon it was time for the live broadcast. The staff started the live broadcast at 4 pm on time, and the fans who had been waiting for a long time immediately rushed in.
【Yaoyao, here I come】
[I have been looking forward to Brother Xiao’s costume look for a long time]
[I hope there will be a role for Yingxue today]
【......】
Fans entered the live broadcast room and spoke out to support their idols immediately. For a while, the entire live broadcast screen was flooded with bullet screens, and it took a long time for the screen to appear.
The male and female lead roles are currently being filmed. You Yingxue did not come today as she did not have any scenes to act. Among the main actors, only Du Yuanzhe had time to interact with the audience.
After being reminded by the staff, Du Yuanzhe appeared in front of the camera, wearing Luo Xun's iconic black robe and his hair fixed with a crown.
"Hello everyone, I am Du Yuanzhe, and I play Luo Xun in "The Legend of Yunlan"."
When Du Yuanzhe appeared, the barrage disappeared for a while and then reappeared.
[Is this Du Yuanzhe? He looks very handsome]
[From the looks alone, he is very similar to Luo Xun, but I don’t know how his acting is.]
[Wow, this look totally hits my aesthetics]
[Friendly reminder: Du Yuanzhe's acting skills are extremely poor, don't expect too much from him]
[So what if he is handsome? A resourceful person is a resourceful person. Du Yuanzhe will be criticized for his whole life]
Those who came in were all fans of various groups. Many of them had no feelings towards Du Yuanzhe before, but everyone likes beautiful things, so the barrage was relatively friendly at the beginning. It was a pity that it was soon occupied by **.
Du Yuanzhe simply ignored the comments and said, "Sister Shiyao and Brother Xiao are filming a movie."
The camera turned to that side and two blurry figures could be seen.
Finally seeing my idol, the screen started to be flooded with comments again.
"I will now introduce some of the crew's situations. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me."
Du Yuanzhe avoided the filming location and took the audience to wander around the crew to let them see the scenes built by the crew.
"You should have seen these palaces. They are all real scenes. Director Wang spent a lot of effort on this aspect, just to present a more realistic feeling, so that we can feel more involved when acting."
Du Yuanzhe smiled and said, "You should know that sometimes there is nothing and the actors can only perform in front of the curtain. Do you think that we actors have a strong sense of belief?"
After hearing this, the comments echoed the sentiment and began praising their idol.
"If nothing unexpected happens, the behind-the-scenes footage will be shown. You can watch it then. It's quite interesting even without those fancy special effects."
Du Yuanzhe took the audience on a tour and then began to respond to questions from the barrage.
"When will it be finished? According to estimates, it should be in January, but I should be finished about half a month earlier than Sister Shiyao and the others."
"Yes, Brother Xiao has a good temper. He took good care of me on the set and taught me a lot."
"Don't worry, everyone. Sister Shiyao and Brother Xiao will come over to say hello to everyone after their scenes are over. I'm just playing the role of tour guide."
"Is Director Wang strict? It's not that bad. Director Wang is just serious about the drama. As long as we act well and study the role carefully, he will be in a good mood. He often takes us out for dinner. We said before that we would gain a few more pounds after filming this drama."
"Yes, there are many scenes of rivalry between me and Sister Shiyao, but we are in the enemy camps, and we are mostly at loggerheads."
"......"
Du Yuanzhe answered the questions selectively because, having been reminded by Xia Ningmi, he consciously avoided getting involved with Yang Shiyao.
The atmosphere of the live broadcast was relatively harmonious. Even though some black fans continued to speak negatively, they were pushed back by fans who had lost their patience. They came to see their idol, not to see them scold Du Yuanzhe.
Half an hour later, Zheng Xiao finished his scene and stood in front of the camera with Du Yuanzhe. The two exchanged a few friendly words, and Du Yuanzhe left on the pretext of preparing for his next scene.
Xiaopang promptly handed over water: "Brother Zhe, you performed so well in your first live broadcast, it's amazing."
Liu Xu was also very satisfied. Although Du Yuanzhe had little experience, he was calm and composed and managed to hold the situation.
Du Yuanzhe took a few sips of water to moisten his throat: "It's just answering questions. It's much easier than doing it alone."
Xiaopang wondered, "Teacher Yang obviously has more fans than Zheng Xiao, so why are there more Zheng Xiao fans asking questions in the comments?"
Eight out of ten questions Du Yuanzhe answered just now were about Zheng Xiao.
Liu Xu explained to him: "Because the less famous the star, the more eager their fans are to show off. Zheng Xiao was outshined by Yang Shiyao, which proves that Zheng Xiao is not as good as Yang Shiyao. His fans are eager to surpass Yang Shiyao in other aspects."
Xiaopang opened his mouth in shock: "Zheng Xiao's fans are too ignorant of themselves. Zheng Xiao is still far from Teacher Yang, right?"
Liu Xu laughed and said, "In the eyes of fans, their idols are the best, so they will automatically ignore these things. But big fans are supposed to be more rational, and usually warn fans not to mess around outside and attract negative attention. Now the situation doesn't seem right."
Du Yuanzhe pointed out: "It's nothing more than creating momentum."
Liu Xu suddenly realized: "I almost forgot that Huanxing Entertainment is promoting Zheng Xiao."
Xiaopang seemed to understand what he was saying, but he thought it was a very tricky trick: "Do we have to do this in the future?"
Liu Xu looked at Du Yuanzhe and said, "It depends on what path Yuanzhe wants to take."
Xia Ningmi had already asked this question once.
Du Yuanzhe still gave the same answer: "I just want to be a good actor."
Liu Xu was not surprised by this, as some of Du Yuanzhe's actions had already revealed his thoughts.
"Being an actor is good. But being an actor doesn't mean you just focus on filming. You will definitely have to appear on variety shows for promotion. Don't refuse them out of hand."
Actors and stars are not actually separate, they just have different focuses.
Du Yuanzhe said: "I will cooperate."
He is not obsessed with drama, and it is fun for him to appear on variety shows occasionally. He is very interested in variety shows with a slow pace or those involving games.
......
"Teacher Du, it's time to shoot."
Next is Du Yuanzhe's part. He first goes into the dressing room to take off his clothes, mainly his outer robe and inner shirt, leaving only a pair of black trousers.
The one interacting with the audience at this time was Yang Shiyao, who had just finished a show. Zheng Xiao wanted to do a live broadcast with her, but Yang Shiyao politely declined.
"Hello everyone, long time no see. Oh no, I met some fans on my birthday."
"Thank you for your concern. I am fine now. I was really scared at that time. Thanks to Yuanzhe for finding a hotel in time. I am very grateful to him."
"Next is Yuanzhe's part, and it's the scene where Luo Xun heals his injuries in the blood pool. Those who have read the original novel should know what it means. I'll take you to see it."
Yang Shiyao turned the camera to the blood pool that had been set up long ago. At this time, Du Yuanzhe had not come out yet.
"How was the blood pool made? It's actually the same as the blood bag, just add some red pigment, maybe something else, I'm not sure, this is all done by the props team, they are amazing, the Taoist drama they made is exactly the same as described in the book, you can take a good look at it when the drama is broadcast."
After a while, some noises were heard from the blood pool.
Yang Shiyao immediately said, "Yuanzhe should be coming out."
As soon as he finished speaking, Du Yuanzhe appeared on the set.
Yang Shiyao, however, looked disappointed: "Yuanzhe is too reserved. He just showed his upper body, but he even covered it with a blanket."
The audience in the live broadcast room were also disappointed to see Du Yuanzhe wrapped in a blanket, and they all spoke up to echo Yang Shiyao, saying they wanted to see it.
As Wang Ligang shouted "start", the filming officially began.
Just as the audience was waiting to see Du Yuanzhe's next move, the live camera suddenly became out of focus. When it became clear again, it had been adjusted to a distant view. They could only see a silhouette, and the barrage of comments made them so angry that they wanted to curse.
[Wow, wow, wow, I want to see it too]
[Sisters, judging from my 24k titanium eyes, Du Yuanzhe definitely has abdominal muscles]
[I don’t know if he has abdominal muscles, but his lines look nice, so he must work out regularly]
[It's rare to see an actor who doesn't look like a white-cut chicken. I want to see it.]
Yang Shiyao did not mind adding fuel to the fire: "It's okay, I saw it for you, well, you guessed it right."
Qianying Entertainment Top Floor, President's Office
Cheng Yu shrank his neck, worried about Yang Shiyao who was dancing in the minefield.
Xia Ning frowned as she watched the live broadcast and asked, "Why wasn't this reported?"
Cheng Yu said softly: "Maybe Liu Xu doesn't think it's necessary."
"No need?" Xia Ningmi said in a bad tone: "When did the artists of Qianying Entertainment need to take off their clothes to attract attention?"
".....This should be the director's arrangement."
Xia Ningmi was inexplicably irritated: "Give the order, report all such incidents in the future, and it's best not to happen again."
Cheng Yu asked reluctantly, "President, what reason should I use?"
Xia Ning was silent and waved her hand: "That's it for now."
Looking at Yang Shiyao who was broadcasting live, Xia Ningmi asked, "When did Du Yuanzhe and Yang Shiyao become so close?"
Xia Ningmi could see that Yang Shiyao was deliberately helping Du Yuanzhe create a good image.
Cheng Yu said: "It should be the illegitimate incident before. Yang Shiyao wanted to use the double endorsement as a thank you gift, but you rejected it."
Xia Ningmi inexplicably felt like she was lifting a rock and dropping it on her own feet.
Favors are something that you forget about once you’ve repaid them, but will always keep in mind if you can’t.
Xia Ningmi's brows were becoming more and more furrowed.
Cheng Yu spoke up at the right time: "But judging from the Second Young Master's attitude before, he and Yang Shiyao probably aren't that familiar with each other."
Du Yuanzhe had been trying to distance himself from Yang Shiyao, intentionally or unintentionally.
Only then did Xia Ningmi relax her brows.
......
With ten minutes left in the live broadcast of "Legend of Yun Lan", Du Yuanzhe and others appeared in front of the camera to interact with the audience. Because Yang Shiyao had said a lot of good things about Du Yuanzhe before, a lot more people paid attention to Du Yuanzhe at this time.
When the live broadcast ended, Yang Shiyao joked, "Yuanzhe, everyone is sorry that they didn't see your abdominal muscles."
Anyway, the filming has been completed. Du Yuanzhe said calmly: "That's a pity. I don't mind letting them watch it, but it's a pity that Director Wang doesn't agree."
Wang Ligang raised his eyebrows: "Then let's shoot it again?"
Du Yuanzhe said righteously, "I can't waste everyone's time because of me."
"Ha ha ha ha--"
Everyone laughed, and no one exposed someone's stubbornness.
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