Chapter 414 Best Friend
"Beep, beep, beep..."
Just after putting the soup on the stove, Li Yitong seemed to hear the electronic sound of a password key coming from the door.
"What's wrong?" Jin Chen, who was about to steal a bite, saw her listening and couldn't help asking, "What are you listening to?"
"It seems to be the sound of the door opening."
Li Yitong said, and then without looking back, she said "watch the fire" and ran out impatiently.
"Alas, silly girl."
Jin Chen looked at her back and shook his head and sighed, then pretended to observe the progress of the fire.
"Click!"
Meng Bai opened the door, and before he entered the house, he saw a slender figure trotting out of the house and then threw himself into his arms.
The two hugged silently at the door for a while, until Li Yitong felt something slowly growing, and then stepped back and separated.
Glancing down, she teased, "It seems that our President Meng has been very well behaved recently."
Meng Bai raised his eyebrows, "It's because he knew that Boss Li was coming back, so he took the time to recuperate."
"Tsk, President Meng is really old now. He used to be on call at any time, but now he needs to recuperate, alas..."
"Ha, it's so funny, I don't know who always cries and shouts "No", "Don't", "Please" and so on at the end."
Meng Bai mocked as he walked into the house and closed the door, throwing his coat in the closet at the door, and then walked forward a few steps and directly picked up the blushing Li Yitong upright.
"Hmm!"
Li Yitong exclaimed slightly, and her arms quickly wrapped around Meng Bai's neck, and her two long legs subconsciously climbed around his waist.
"Now you dare to take the initiative to mock, right? Okay, then I'll meet your request."
"Hey, there will be... Hmm!"
Li Yitong was panicking and wanted to say that there were others, but she immediately melted into the fierce verbal battle, and only thought about responding.
A woman's weight of more than 80 kilograms is nothing to Meng Bai, who has been keeping fit all year round. He just carried her into the house and pushed Li Yitong against the backrest of the sofa.
Just as he was about to lean over, Meng Bai suddenly felt that a figure seemed to appear at the edge of his sight. He turned his head and saw Jin Chen "covering" his eyes with his five fingers spread out, looking at him with a strange smile on his face.
Seeing that Meng Bai noticed him, Jin Chen waved his hands quickly: "It's okay, you guys are busy, just pretend I don't exist."
"Then you go out." Meng Bai said mercilessly: "Are you standing there intending to apply to join the online game?"
Li Yitong, who heard the voice at this time, was awakened from her confusion. She sat up with rosy cheeks and tidied her hair. Hearing Meng Bai's words, she couldn't help but pat him lightly and said angrily: "What are you talking about!"
"That's right, standing there without saying a word, like a ghost bound to the ground."
Meng Bai rolled his eyes, but didn't get up-
until Li Yitong tidied her hair and clothes and stood up, his emotions subsided a little. He glanced at Jin Chen standing at the door of the kitchen: "Why is there a third party here?"
"Hey, Boss Meng, can you be reasonable? Today is supposed to be a girls' party." Jin Chen complained: "You are the 'third party'!"
"Why are you talking about my man?" Li Yitong stood on Meng Bai's side without hesitation.
"Wow, this woman is really..."
Jin Chen was fed a lot of dog food, with a painful mask expression on his face.
Meng Bai, who was disturbed, was naturally not really angry. He and Jin Chen had known each other for many years. They were not friends, but acquaintances. He knew that she had this kind of carefree personality.
The two girls went into the kitchen and worked for a while, and it took a long time to bring out the finished product.
Of course, Li Yitong's cooking skills are just entry-level at best, and she hasn't had much chance to tinker with them in the past few years as an actor, so they are all simple home-cooked meals.
But no one cares about this. After all, at this time, the key to eating is not how the food is cooked, but who cooks it. '
Three people, four dishes and one soup, Meng Bai went to the wine cabinet and found two bottles of red wine, and a simple and warm dinner was ready.
"Come on, I'll raise a glass first."
How could three Shandong people not toast when they were having a meal. Just after a few bites, Jin Chen took the wine glass on the table first: "The first glass of wine, first of all, congratulations to our Tongtong, the new play has been successfully completed!"
Li Yitong has been filming "The Undocumented Crime" in Harbin some time ago. Except for coming back on the Spring Festival to celebrate the New Year with Meng Bai, she has never left the crew until yesterday.
The completion of the new play is indeed worth celebrating, and the three of them drank a glass without hesitation.
After drinking and filling the glass, Li Yitong raised the glass again: "The second glass of wine is to congratulate our classmate Daxi, who finally terminated the contract with the company and regained his freedom!"
Meng Bai held the empty glass and looked at Jin Chen: "Your contract has finally expired?"
"Yes." Jin Chen pursed her lips, and a complex expression flashed across her face.
To be honest, the relationship between her and Tang Ren was actually a mess. One side felt that she had done her best, while the other side felt wronged. In the end, the problem was finally solved in the worst way for both parties.
But no matter what, now I am finally free. Thinking of this, Jin Chen resumed her smiling expression, and stood up very servilely to fill Meng Bai's glass: "Hehe, I will ask President Meng to take care of me in the future. If there are any supporting roles that you don't want, please introduce them to me. I am very cheap."
"Oh, I didn't expect that our classmate Daxi could be so flexible."
"Well, it's just a way to make a living, not shabby." Jin Chen smiled brightly.
Li Yitong, who was standing by, naturally had to help her bestie: "Didn't you promise last time that if there was a suitable project, you would recommend it to Daxi?"
"Is there? When?" Meng Bai touched his chin.
Li Yitong's eyes widened: "How dare you say no! You asked me at that time..."
She was about to describe the scene of that day, but then she remembered that there were other people around, so she stopped talking halfway.
"Go on, what happened to you?" Jin Chen asked with interest.
She didn't care whether it was recommended or not, but was more curious about what happened to her best friend "that day".
Fortunately, Meng Bai had remembered it by now, and it seemed that it was indeed true, probably about something like "The Fall of the Elf Princess".
Since he said it, he would not break his promise. He thought about several projects he had seen recently: "Xiaotangren Culture is preparing a new drama recently, called "Amazing Girl", which follows the dual female lead route. I will ask the crew to contact you later to see if it is suitable."
At the beginning, Xiaotangren Culture relied on a fresh style "The Best of Us" to break through the siege in the field of youth films and became a dark horse in the film and television market that year.
At that time, the film and television market was booming, and Xiaotangren Culture, which held the "Zhenhua Trilogy" IP, was also favored by the capital market. After two rounds of financing, the valuation rose to more than 10 billion at its highest.
Arclight was the first to invest in Xiaotangren Culture, and followed in the subsequent two rounds of financing. Now the shares it holds have exceeded the founder Zhu Zhenhua and become the largest shareholder.
Speaking of which, the dramas produced by Xiaotangren later, including "Hello, Old Times" and "Unrequited Love in the South", are of good quality. Although the results did not exceed "The Best of Us", they are still acceptable.
The only problem is that the output is too low, almost one drama a year.
This year is a rare year of high productivity for them. They started two projects at once. The first one is the movie version of "The Best of Us", which was given to Zhu Xudan by Meng Bai as a bet gift.
The other one is the "Amazing Girl" he just mentioned.
Meng Bai had read the script outline of this project before. The overall routine is a bit similar to the "Golden Years" that he gave to Li Qin before. They are both stories of two girls who are classmates and besties, and grow up together.
In recent years, with the rise of feminism and the increase in female audiences, film and television works have gradually tilted towards women.
First, various fairy tales and ancient idols became popular, and then modern sweet dramas became popular. Then, the rise of the double male lead of Danmei became a new traffic code.
Especially since the explosion of "Soul of the Town" last year, Zhu Yilong and Bai Yu, the two leading actors, instantly became top-tier, and attracted many film and television companies to invest in it, and began to set up Danmei projects.
Of course, there are also some smart ones who feel that the competition in this route will be very fierce in the future, so they simply change to a similar but undiscovered track, double female lead.
But whether it is a normal male and female protagonist, or a double male and double female protagonist, in short, they are all aimed at a large female audience group.
This is why Arclight Film and Television has more and more male fans in recent years-even the "straight male style" team of Noon Sunshine has gone to shoot "Ode to Joy", leaving Arclight still sticking to the "criminal investigation suspense" field dominated by men.
Of course, as a mature capitalist, Meng Bai will definitely not give up the market of female audiences. It's just that he has divided this type of project to new labels such as Tianqi Entertainment or other funded companies.
Whether it is a male audience or a female audience, only those who can give him gold coins are "good audiences".
Back to "The Great Girl", the two female protagonists of this drama, "Lu Ke" and "Shen Siyi", have been classmates since middle school, and later became rivals in love. After the plot began, they became colleagues and have been friends for many years.
Lu Ke's personality is gentle and kind, while Shen Siyi is rational and straightforward, complementing each other but different.
In terms of the character setting of the characters, Jin Chen and "Shen Siyi" are quite suitable, and there should be no problem.
Although it was said that a "minor supporting role" would be fine, after all, it was Li Yitong who personally asked Meng Bai for the role, so it would be embarrassing not to give her a female lead.
Jin Chen was naturally very satisfied with this, and quickly picked up a piece of shrimp and put it in Meng Bai's bowl: "Thank you, Mr. Meng, come, have something good!"
"No..." Meng Bai looked at the shrimp in the bowl, "Girl, you are using my family's things to thank me, you are quite good at business."
"Then I don't have anything else to thank you for now."
Jin Chen said with a bitter face, and then patted his chest: "How about Mr. Meng, which piece do you like, I will give you this 80-plus kilograms!"
"Hey, hey! I'm still here, okay!" Li Yitong knocked on the table and said dissatisfiedly.
Jin Chen spread his hands: "I'm just expressing my sincerity."
"Sorry, I'm not interested in tree branches." Meng Bai said calmly on the side.
"Tree, tree branches?"
Jin Chen was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously looked down at himself, and then his face flushed instantly.
"I, I'm a tree branch? Are you kidding me?"
Jin Chen said, lifting up her clothes and revealing her flat belly: "See, I have a standard fitness figure, and it's good to have abdominal muscles!"
"You call that abdominal muscles?" Meng Bai glanced at her and snorted, "Yours is just thin. Besides, who looks at a girl's figure first to see her abdominal muscles."
"..."
Jin Chen was speechless, she really couldn't refute this. But...
"Hehe, isn't your boss Li similar?"
"What does it have to do with me?"
Li Yitong raised her eyebrows and pretended to inadvertently stick out her chest.
Well... It is indeed slightly better, but only slightly better.
Taking advantage of a little drunkenness, the two began to argue about the issue of body shape. Fortunately, they didn't drink much for the time being, so they were sober, and didn't start the actual comparison directly, which disappointed some people who were waiting to watch the fun.
After arguing for a long time, the two girls sat back in their seats. Jin Chen thanked him seriously again, and Meng Bai waved his hand: "It's okay, I'll put your account on Boss Li anyway, and I'll slowly get it back later."
"Oh, that's okay, just put it on your account."
Li Yitong rolled her eyes at her best friend's "betrayal" of her without hesitation, but she remembered another thing.
"From what you just said, the two heroines of this drama are also best friends. Otherwise, let Da Xi and I shoot together."
"This... is not impossible."
Meng Bai thought about it, and Li Yitong's image is really similar to the other heroine "Lu Ke". In addition, she and Jin Chen are friends, and they might spark some sparks when acting together.
"Okay, I'll ask Xiao Tangren to give you a copy of the script later, as you two have worked together before."
In the third part of Xiaotangren Culture's "Zhenhua Trilogy", "Unrequited Love: Orange Born in Huainan", Li Yitong played the female lead, which can be regarded as their second collaboration.
Li Yitong and Jin Chen were both very happy about this. After all, they have known each other for so many years, but they have never had the opportunity to work together.
"Thank you, Boss Meng!"
Jin Chen raised his glass: "This glass, first congratulates the movie for its 5 billion box office sales, and then wishes our new drama will also have a long-lasting ratings!"
(End of this chapter)
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