"I declare that the film "Up" is officially finished today!"
When Xu Cheng shouted this out into the loudspeaker, everyone on the set cheered.
Du Yuanzhe had just come out of the dressing room after changing his clothes when several people suddenly appeared in front of him, holding bouquets of flowers and saying, "Congratulations, Teacher Du, on your success."
Du Yuanzhe accepted the bouquet and said, "Thank you very much. Thank you for your hard work."
Xu Cheng came over with his phone and said, "Yuanzhe, it seems we haven't taken a photo together yet. Come on, take one."
Before Du Yuanzhe could react, Xu Cheng put his arm around his shoulders. He looked at the camera and consciously smiled his standard smile for taking photos.
Snap——
Xu Cheng was very satisfied after taking a look at the photo, and told his assistant: "Retouch this photo, it will be very useful to me."
Du Yuanzhe probably guessed what he was thinking and said with a smile, "Director Xu, we just finished filming, and it will take at least another half a year before the movie is released. No matter how hard you promote it now, netizens will forget about it in a few days."
Xu Cheng said: "It's okay if others forget, as long as your fans don't forget. I have been trying to understand your situation these days, and I didn't expect you to have so many fans."
Xu Cheng smiled happily: "With my work and your traffic, we don't have to worry about the early promotion of the movie."
Du Yuanzhe was stunned: "Director Xu, have you gone crazy from filming? Everyone knows that the audience chooses movies mainly based on the director. Traffic stars can't even support the ratings, let alone the box office. You are the golden signboard, and the role I can play is limited or even nonexistent."
Xu Cheng glanced at him and said, "You underestimate your fans. Traffic fans can't support the box office, but they can support pre-sales. Don't you know how important pre-sales are to movies?"
"But with Director Xu here to pre-sell it won't be a problem."
"It's not bad, but the more the better. The better the pre-sales, the higher our screening rate will be when the time comes."
Who would think giving away too much money? Xu Cheng, a money-grubber, would not miss the opportunity to make more money.
Xu Cheng patted his shoulder and said, "Yuanzhe, your Du Group is the largest investor. The harder you promote, the more money your Du Group will make."
Du Yuanzhe finally understood Xu Cheng's thoughts.
Traffic cannot replace box office revenue, but it can add icing on the cake.
No wonder Xu Cheng was able to get so much money from investors, this guy always knows how to seize opportunities.
Du Yuanzhe increasingly felt that Xu Cheng was unusual. Basically, good directors were against traffic actors, and this rejection was particularly evident in movie directors. However, Xu Cheng was different and thought of using traffic actors to make profits for himself.
......
Liu Xu has booked a flight for tomorrow, and there will be a wrap-up banquet tonight.
Perhaps realizing Du Yuanzhe's value, Xu Cheng still let them order whatever they wanted without showing any pain.
Du Yuanzhe silently complained about the reality.
Knowing that Xu Cheng would not make a fool of himself if he got drunk, Du Yuanzhe no longer had the intention of forcing him to drink. Neither of them drank much, they just ate and chatted.
The next day, Du Yuanzhe was waiting for a flight at the airport when he received a message from Xu Cheng, asking him to forward the message on Weibo.
Du Yuanzhe opened Weibo and found that the crew had opened an official account. Immediately afterwards, they posted a wrap-up post. Below the text was a nine-square grid. The middle one was a photo of Xu Cheng and Du Yuanzhe, and they looked very happy.
Seeing that Ming Zhanshu and others had already forwarded it, Du Yuanzhe did not hesitate and quickly forwarded it on Weibo.
At the same time, the caption reads: The film "Surfaced" has been completed and will be released on National Day, so stay tuned!
At the wrap party last night, Xu Cheng told Du Yuanzhe that the film would be released on National Day.
It is March now, and there are less than seven months left until National Day. To be honest, the time is a bit tight, but since Xu Cheng said so, he must be confident that the film can be scheduled for National Day.
Smoking City
After leaving the airport, Du Yuanzhe returned to Huahu Apartment first.
Xia Ningmi was still working in the company. He did not tell her when she would be back, wanting to give her a surprise. However, he received a call from Xia Ningmi as soon as he got home.
"Are you home yet?"
Du Yuanzhe was stunned: "How do you know?"
Xia Ningmi: "Your team has all returned to the company, how could I not know?"
Du Yuanzhe slapped his forehead and said, "I forgot that they had to report back to the company. I wanted to give you a surprise."
Xia Ning was silent for a moment, then said, "The brain is a good thing!"
Du Yuanzhe was dissatisfied: "I just forgot, remember to come back and have dinner with me tonight."
"good."
"When did you get off work while I was away?"
Xia Ningmi said nothing.
Du Yuanzhe sighed: "So you were also in the company when I called you? Can't you pay more attention to your health? No matter how healthy you are, you can't stand such torture."
Xia Ningmi said, "Don't you often shoot movies until late at night?"
Du Yuanzhe choked and said, "I only act like this when I'm filming."
"I only do this when you're not home."
Du Yuanzhe admitted that he couldn't convince her, and reminded Xia Ningmi again to remember to get off work on time before hanging up the phone.
He put his luggage back in the room first and then drove back to the Du family's old house.
As the execution was near, Du Yuanzhe had no free time at all and did not even attend his nephew's full-month party. He just sent the gift back.
Du Family Old House
When he walked into the house, he saw Zhao Zhimeng pushing a stroller in the living room.
Du Yuanzhe laughed and said, "At this time, your sister-in-law is actually at home?"
Zhao Zhimeng looked helpless: "Your elder brother always said that if I rest for a month, my insurance will not work, so he asked me to rest for another month. The doctor said that I was fine, but he still insisted on his way."
Chen Rongshan said: "Giving birth will cause physical damage to women. One month won't restore the body. It will be better for your health to take care of it for an extra month."
Du Yuanzhe understood instantly.
Only Du Yuanwen could not convince Zhao Zhimeng, and Chen Rongsan must have followed suit.
Du Yuanzhe placed the gifts he bought for everyone on the table and said, "Mom is definitely right."
Chen Rongshan just glanced at the gifts and then looked away, with no intention of opening them at all.
Du Yuanzhe felt something was wrong and asked, "What's wrong with Mom?"
Chen Rongshan glanced at Du Yongliang and snorted coldly: "Your father insisted that I go fishing with him. Who can stand sitting there for a whole day to fish?"
Du Yongliang said, "Fishing helps to improve your character. You'd better change your temper. You are so nice to let your son go to the police station to pick you up."
Chen Rongshan: "It wasn't me who started it."
"You dare to say that the incident at the police station has nothing to do with you?"
Chen Rongshan still didn't think she was wrong: "I was just giving Xia Yiyao a lesson, letting her know that I'm not someone you can easily mess with."
"And then you gave yourself to the police station for a lecture?"
"I didn't expect them to call the police."
Du Yongliang sneered: "You really can't think that far ahead."
"Du Yongliang!"
Chen Rongshan was angry: "Just keep your words to yourself, don't make personal attacks!"
Hearing this, you know he's a surfing expert.
Du Yuanzhe had already understood. In the final analysis, it was about the fight between Chen Rongsan and Xia Yiyao.
Du Yuanzhe glanced at Zhao Zhimeng and saw that she was not surprised at all, so he knew that this was not the first time these two had quarreled.
"Dad, this matter is in the past. How can you, as a grown man, keep bringing up the past?"
Du Yongliang snorted coldly: "The wife of the Du Group's president got into a fight and was taken to the police station. This matter has spread in the circle. When I was fishing, people asked me to verify this matter more than once. Thanks to your mother, this time the Du Group has become a big sensation."
Chen Rongsan felt a little guilty. She also knew that she had caused a bad influence, otherwise she would not have let it go so easily after Du Yongliang said that to her just now.
Du Yuanzhe had been filming outside and had no idea that the matter had spread.
The other person in the fight was Xia Yiyao.
Du Yuanzhe asked hurriedly, "What about Xia's?"
Chen Rongshan's face suddenly turned bad: "You just came back, and you don't care whether Mom is injured or not. Is Xia's the only thing on your mind?"
Du Yuanzhe was helpless: "Mom, my brother told me that you are fine and you won the fight."
"Why, you blame me for beating your girlfriend's mother?"
"Qiqi doesn't blame you, so how can I blame you?"
Chen Rongshan didn't believe it: "Didn't she say bad things about me to you?"
Du Yuanzhe: "Mom, what do you think of Qiqi? How could she say bad things about you?"
Before anyone answered Du Yuanzhe's question, he turned and looked at Zhao Zhimeng.
Zhao Zhimeng said, "After my father found out, he blocked the news. This matter was only circulated in a small circle of the circle and did not cause a big impact. There was no disturbance at all in the Xia family."
It is said that a new emperor appoints new ministers, and the same is true for enterprises.
When Old Master Xia was in charge of the Xia family, no matter how eccentric and unique Xia Yiyao was, she was always the eldest daughter of the Xia family.
But after Xia Ningmi took over Xia Corp., she never mentioned Xia Yiyao in public, nor did she invite Xia Yiyao to the company's anniversary celebration. Anyone could see that she disliked Xia Yiyao.
Nowadays, no one in the Xia family cares about Xia Yiyao anymore. Even the front desk of Qianying Entertainment dares to confront Xia Yiyao. This is the best proof.
If Xia Yiyao wants to influence the Xia family, perhaps she can only do so if she commits a serious crime.
Chen Rongshan thought of Xia Ningmi's attitude towards Xia Yiyao that day, and snorted coldly, "Xia Yiyao deserves what she has today. Old Master Xia was thinking about her wholeheartedly and took great pains to pick out several decent men for her to choose from, but she didn't want them. In the end, she chose Zhou Heng, who had bad intentions, and turned her from the eldest daughter of the Xia family into a laughing stock in Yancheng."
Chen Rongshan saw with her own eyes how Xia Yiyao fell from the peak to the bottom, but she couldn't blame anyone else for this. Zhou Heng could say that she was ignorant and worthy of sympathy, but the strained mother-daughter relationship between her and Xia Ningmi was completely what she deserved.
However——
Chen Rongshan frowned: "Even if Xia Ningmi doesn't like Xia Yiyao anymore, she is still her mother. This blood relationship will always exist. If you insist on being with her, Xia Yiyao may have ideas about you."
杜元哲道：“她要是真敢找我，我就告訴七七，反正只要有七七在，不論夏憶瑤有什麽謀劃，都不可能成功。”
陳蓉珊眉心一跳，不滿道：“你能不能有點出息，遇事不想着自己解決，反而只想着找人幫忙。”
他們杜家也不是小門小戶，杜元哲這樣子就跟吃軟飯似的。
杜元哲不以為意：“媽，我只是選擇用最輕松的辦法解決罷了。”
陳蓉珊更氣了，扭頭看向杜永椋：“遇事就想着讓夏凝覓解決，他這是想吃軟飯嗎？”
杜永椋道：“吃軟飯也比惹事生非強。”
“杜永椋！”
陳蓉珊咬牙切齒：“這事過不去了是吧。”
說着話，陳蓉珊左右看看，似乎在趁手的東西。
杜永椋頓時身體一僵，幹咳一聲道：“元哲，你媽說得有道理，你是男子漢，得有男人該有的擔當。”
杜元哲覺得陳蓉珊太過激動了，道：“我和七七又不分你我，我也可以幫她解決事情啊。”
陳蓉珊問道：“那你說說你幫過她什麽？”
“暫且還沒有。”
陳蓉珊的期待落空，心裏難受得很，她真沒想到自己兒子是這個樣子，又想到杜元哲是千影娛樂的藝人，夏凝覓估計幫過杜元哲不少次，心裏更加難受了。
杜元哲有些摸不着頭腦，不太明白陳蓉珊怎麽突然就emo了。
趙之夢看到這一幕，眼中若有所思。
吃完飯，杜永椋又拉着陳蓉珊出去釣魚，這次陳蓉珊沒找借口推脫，她覺得自己可能真的需要養養性。
趙之夢讓保姆把右右抱下去，道：“元哲，我如果有辦法讓媽同意你和夏總的事，你打算怎麽報答我？”
杜元哲眼睛一亮：“真的？”
趙之夢點頭。
杜元哲毫不猶豫道：“只要大嫂能讓媽不再抵觸七七，我就任大嫂吩咐，随叫随到。”
趙之夢笑道：“算你有誠意。”
“你應該很困惑，夏總那麽優秀，媽為什麽還這麽反對？”
杜元哲點頭。
趙之夢道：“那是你不懂一個母親的心，在媽心裏，你哪哪都好，這世上沒有比你更優秀的人，她希望你能找個以你為主導的女朋友，但你和夏總在一起，明眼人一看就知道是夏總主導。”
“媽這麽疼你，怎麽能接受你在感情中處于弱勢地位。”
當然，陳蓉珊抵觸夏凝覓還有擔心她搶走兒子的原因，這就是婆媳之間的微妙了，趙之夢不好和杜元哲明說。
杜元哲覺得荒謬：“兩個人在一起，是因為相愛，誰主誰次有什麽關系，又不是搭班子搞事業。”
趙之夢搖搖頭：“你不懂媽作為母親的心，不過這不重要，你如果想要讓媽接受夏總，就要打破你在媽心裏的優秀标簽，同時要讓她對夏總心生愧疚。”
杜元哲皺眉：“什麽意思？”
趙之夢想了想，總結道：“你要讓媽生出人家不嫌棄自己廢物兒子就不錯了，自己哪有資格挑三揀四的想法，基本上就成功了。”
杜元哲瞬間就懂了，笑道：“還是大嫂聰明。”
趙之夢道：“你得慶幸你找的是夏總，如果是之前那個女明星，我可一點辦法都沒有。”
說到底只有對方是夏凝覓，杜元哲立的廢物人設才可信。
杜元哲無奈：“我不是已經解釋過了嘛，人家和蔣澈霖才是一對，大嫂這話如果讓蔣澈霖聽到，他又得吃幹醋。”
趙之夢笑眯眯道：“我只是打個比方而已。”
得了趙之夢指點，杜元哲心情極好，默默思索該怎麽立這個廢物人設。
然後他就發現，他好像本來就很依賴夏凝覓，不論什麽事都會和夏凝覓商量，基本上夏凝覓怎麽說他就怎麽做。
《雲瀾傳》播出後，他名氣暴漲，如果不是夏凝覓親自開口讓他自由安排行程，公司肯定會給他安排一堆行程。
杜元哲越想越覺得他雖然還沒到廢物的地步，但離得好像也不遠。
現在他要做的就是讓陳蓉珊知道夏凝覓的付出。
看來今後回家得變勤一些。
......
雲岸會館
路軒走進包廂，挑眉道：“大忙人怎麽想起來聯系我了？”
杜元哲道：“我剛拍完戲回來就來見你，你這話可傷我心了。”
路軒撇嘴：“得了吧，你要是真才回來會不去找夏總，來找我？”
杜元哲無奈：“我說的是真的。七七還在上班，我不好去打擾她。”
“我就知道我是退而求其次的選擇。”
杜元哲：“我離開了這麽長時間，煙城有沒有發生有趣的事？”
路軒走過去坐下，翹着二郎腿道：“有趣的事？好像沒有，這幾個月挺平靜的......如果非說有的話，那就是汪憐萱那件事了。”
杜元哲立刻問道：“什麽事？”
“大概一個月前，汪憐萱參加聚會，整個人就跟被黴運附體似的，就沒一件順心事，跳舞被舞伴踩腳，禮服被服務員潑酒弄髒，換衣服時恰好撞破一起奸情，她本來沒想聲張，但偏偏在離開的時候被一只蟲子吓得大叫，導致所有人都知道劉家老大出軌妻妹，劉家和喬家這段時間一直鬧個不停，就沒安生過，劉家老大恨死了汪憐萱，正想着報複她呢。”
路軒笑道：“我都懷疑汪憐萱是不是撞邪了，要不然怎麽能這麽倒黴，和她跳舞的舞伴和別人跳都好好的，就偏偏踩了她的腳。”
路軒把這事當樂子說，但杜元哲不能當樂子聽。
他想到一種糟糕的可能，汪憐萱可能把自己的氣運給了氣運掠奪系統，而且不是一點，要不然不會嚴重到影響她的日常。
杜元哲忍不住在心裏問道：“系統，汪憐萱這種情況是不是損失氣運的表現？”
【是】
果然！
杜元哲心底一沉。
路軒見他臉色不對勁，問道：“你怎麽了？”
杜元哲勉強笑道：“沒事，我在想汪憐萱是不是應該去拜拜佛，去除自己身上的黴氣。”
路軒道：“我們還真讨論過她會不會去拜佛，但自那以後她就躲在蔣家老宅不出來，劉家老大想報複她都找不到機會。”
......
花湖公寓
等夏凝覓下班回來，杜元哲已經做好大餐等着她。
吃完飯，夏凝覓道：“你心情不好。”
杜元哲苦笑：“我已經盡力掩飾了，還是瞞不過你。”
“出了什麽事？”
杜元哲嘆氣：“這件事有些複雜。”
事關氣運掠奪系統的存在，他沒辦法告訴夏凝覓。
夏凝覓一聽就知道又和劇情什麽的有關，沒再多問，只是道：“如果需要我幫忙，記得告訴我。”
杜元哲點頭。
不論是他身上的系統還是汪憐萱身上的氣運掠奪系統，都不是尋常人可以看到的存在，哪怕他調查汪憐萱，也查不到蹤跡。
就像衛菱菱之前那次車禍！
夏凝覓道：“你又上熱搜了。”
杜元哲并不意外：“是不是又有人罵我？”
用粉圈的話說，徐程的電影就是塊金餅。
這塊金餅消無聲息地給了杜元哲，現在電影都拍完了他們才知道，很多人估計都接受不了這個事實。
夏凝覓道：“罵你的确實不少，不過護着你的人同樣不少，評論區還算能看。”
杜元哲很好奇：“除了我的粉絲還有誰護着我？”
“你是不是沒注意自己有多少粉絲？”
杜元哲愣了：“不就是兩千多萬嗎？”
夏凝覓挑眉：“不就是？你眼光挺高。”
杜元哲道：“什麽就我眼光高了，在娛樂圈兩千多萬粉絲本來就不夠看啊。”
夏凝覓：“兩千多萬僵屍粉和兩千多萬活粉區別很大，你的粉絲全都是因為綜藝和電視劇新增的，這裏面大半都是活粉，你不妨想象一下幾十萬甚至上百萬粉絲控評的畫面，你覺得娛樂圈做到這一點的人很多嗎？”
他第一次當流量，原諒他見識淺薄，原來他已經這麽牛逼了。
別的不說，那麽多人維護自己的感覺真的很好。
夏凝覓補充道：“一開始确實有很多人罵你，但這些評論全都被你的粉絲壓了下去，可以說你粉絲第一次出戰，大獲全勝。”
杜元哲看着夏凝覓給他解釋的樣子，忍不住笑道：“七七，你恐怕是最了解娛樂圈的總裁。”
蔣澈霖同樣是娛樂公司總裁，但他其實并不是太在意娛樂圈，很多事都是吩咐下面人去做，他更懂娛樂圈裏的博弈，對粉圈的事并不了解。
但夏凝覓是真的了解，而且還了解得很透徹。
夏凝覓淡淡道：“看得多了自然而然就了解了。”
杜元哲道：“七七不愧是我的軍師，我今後都聽七七的。”
夏凝覓瞥他：“這麽說，你本來沒打算聽我的？”
杜元哲喊冤：“不帶這麽摳字眼的，我明明一直都聽你的。”
夏凝覓滿意地勾唇：“乖。”
杜元哲一臉黑線，莫名有種被當成寵物哄的感覺，他趁夏凝覓不注意把她撲到在沙發上，意圖從另一件事上壓制夏凝覓。
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