Chapter 66
Su Ning: ...
Why does this person react even more strongly than Ji Xue?
In fact, Lu Fei had not made any move since Ji Xue broke up with him that night. People like him have always been praised and have a strong self-esteem. Ji Xue had already said that, and if he continued to pester her, he would appear to be too shameless.
Of course, he was not completely unconcerned. He had contacted Su Ning during this period. When he learned that Ji Xue had renewed her contract with Guangying Entertainment and was preparing to return to filming, he only replied, "Very good."
Then, there was no contact anymore.
Su Ning knew in his heart that the two people liked each other, but too many feelings in the world can be easily worn away by one thing or another. This is what it means to be destined to be together but not to be together.
But he didn't expect Lu Fei to be so excited now. He thought that this matter was over, as if it had been hidden well before, but now it has been suppressed for so long and finally can't be hidden anymore.
In a fit of rage, Lu Fei posted more than ten messages on the Internet, causing passers-by who originally didn't care about the matter to come and watch the fun.
"It's so funny. As soon as this came out, several accounts over there deleted it instantly and issued an apology statement right away."
"Let me check the verification. Could it be that the account was hacked by a fan?"
Then Lu Fei posted a selfie to personally verify that it was indeed him.
Someone else said sarcastically that he had such a strong background right after his debut, so Lu Fei went straight up to confront him.
That was the company that Ji Xue signed with herself. If he was the one who spent the money, there would be many female lead options. Why would he go to reshoot and play a supporting role and be criticized like that?
Strictly speaking, what happened between Ji Xue and Lu Fei is not really a scandal. They are just a normal relationship. If you want to say anything negative about it, it is not extremely negative. Passersby seem to be quite happy about it.
Su Ning was thinking whether to suppress the heat. After all, they broke up, so he should try not to affect Ji Xue. But soon, Lu Fei called him and asked him the first question: "Is Xiaoxue okay?"
"She's fine," Su Ning said, "She's still filming normally, there's no impact."
Originally, the popularity of this matter was not high. The rumor-mongering and insulting content was taken down by Su Ning after only a few minutes on the low-ranking hot search.
Not to mention, after Jiang Chenfeng went to jail, the Langbo platform also made a lot of changes. Moreover, the Jiang family has many children. President Jiang has at least eight illegitimate children. If this one is gone, there is still the next one. Sons are not as important as business.
The one that was replaced is indeed much more law-abiding, at least it is beneficial to Su Ning. They are all in the Haicheng circle, so it is a simple matter to help suppress a low-level hot search that is suspected of spreading rumors.
After hearing this, Lu Fei breathed a sigh of relief, and then hummed on the other side: "You are really attentive, otherwise I would never let her sign a contract with you so easily."
The Lu family is wealthy, but different industries have different worlds. He doesn't know much about the entertainment industry, and now is not the time to just spend money to get everything. He still needs to find a trustworthy company to help Xiaoxue. Besides, she did choose these resources herself.
"Since we're talking about this, I'd like to ask you something, Mr. Lu, what do you think?" Su Ning asked, "Ji Xue wants to be an artist now, and her love life will affect her career. Whether from the perspective of her agent or her friend, I want to know."
After listening to this, Lu Fei remained silent for a while.
"Boss Su, you are a married man, don't you understand?" He whispered, "I really thought about giving up. She even lied to me. I think there are so many other people in the world. There must be someone better than her. What kind of person can't I find?"
"But I just realized now that emotions really can't be controlled. When I see her being bullied, I get really angry and I just... miss her. I miss her all the time in my heart."
Su Ning didn’t quite understand.
Putting himself in other people's shoes, he felt that there were not so many uncontrollable aspects in his relationship with Shen Mingzheng. Even things in bed could be governed by three rules, so everything was still within his plan. Now that Lu Fei had uncontrollable emotions, he had no way to offer any advice.
So he just listened quietly.
"Oh, forget it. If you reach my level, you will understand. Face is nothing. How can it be more important than a wife? I just want to follow my heart and try to understand her a little more. If I give up without fighting for it, I will regret it for the rest of my life."
Lu Fei added: "True love has its ups and downs. She wants to film now, that's fine. I'm not pestering her to make her unhappy. I spend money chasing stars, that's fine, right?"
Su Ning: ...
Then he really can't stop people from chasing stars.
Ji Xue has never responded directly to this matter, and Lu Fei certainly doesn't want to make a big deal about it, so the heat soon passed.
A few days later, she started applying for her own online account. Su Ning asked her if she wanted to choose a stage name, and she thought about it and said she wanted to continue using the name "Jixue".
She said, "I'm used to this name. It's good."
It is both the same and different from her original name.
Su Ning said yes, and then helped her apply for artist certification. As soon as the application was successful, Ji Xue's first fan came.
——It’s Mr. Lu Fei, the famous president with the gold V certification.
Not long after, Ji Xue's reshoot was completed with great results, and Gaoshan Pictures had no more complaints.
The resources for her next film were not confirmed so quickly, and her account gained some new fans and onlookers, but she did not take a rest and followed her teacher back to class.
This was Ji Xue's initiative request. After all, she had been away for too long. After joining the crew, she realized her shortcomings, so she immediately began to race against time to make up for her professional courses.
Like her, Su Ning has been thinking about whether he should improve now. In this circle, it is like sailing against the current. If you don't move forward, you will fall behind. To some extent, the company is like the artist. How they fight is actually secondary. He and Shen Mingzheng have fought enough before. Now the work they produce is the most important.
The ability to produce successful film and television works is the foundation of a film and television company.
The current main business of Guangying Entertainment is the operation of idols. Glory is of course very successful and has achieved remarkable results, but Su Ning signed Ji Xue and recruited a lot of people. After regaining some of the original foundation of the old president Su, he put forward the plan for the next year at the year-end meeting, focusing on the film and television projects led by the company.
——“Rooted in works, create greater glories”.
It turned out that some of the old employees of Guangying Entertainment couldn't help but feel excited after hearing this slogan, knowing that he was going to pick up the old business.
While Su Ning was discussing Glory's next album with Shen Mingzheng, they were also planning to co-produce a drama.
Guangying Entertainment has a lot of copyrights, which are the company assets that Su Ning was determined not to sell during the most difficult times. After discussing with Shen Mingzheng, he first chose a script for a palace fighting and political fighting drama, the original novel of which is called "The Ambitious Family".
It tells the story of the heroine and the prince, who were childhood sweethearts and promised to spend their lives together. However, because the emperor was superstitious about celestial phenomena, she had to enter the palace and marry the father of her beloved. In order to protect herself and her family, she started a palace fight.
The old emperor died halfway through the plot, and the heroine successfully became the empress dowager in the palace fight, with her own young children by her side.
The prince ascended the throne and the newcomer entered the palace, and a new round of palace fighting and political fighting began. As the queen mother, the heroine and her former lover fell in love and hate over power, and even her child could not tell whether it was the old emperor's child or the current emperor's child.
In the end, both emperors died in her hands. The woman ascended the throne with her young son and became the regent empress dowager who ruled the country from behind the scenes. She lived until she died at the age of eighty.
The original novel is very popular and well-written. The plot is interlocking, the struggle of human nature is very eye-catching, and it has a sufficient audience base. The reason for choosing this book is that after Mr. Su bought it, he had already hired a screenwriter to write the script first, and then asked the original author to revise it several times. The script was roughly finished, and it was time to officially form a crew, and then he fell ill.
This was obviously a big investment in a drama. Old President Su was still thinking about it before he closed his eyes, and repeatedly mentioned that it couldn't be filmed casually. Su Hongda was obedient in this regard and kept the script until Su Ning brought the matter up.
Compared to other projects, this one already has the influence of the original work and a solid script, so things will go much more smoothly later on.
Palace fighting dramas are obviously women's dramas, with many outstanding female characters and a relatively wide audience group. He wants to find a suitable role with important scenes for Ji Xue in it, so that she can slowly accumulate popularity by playing supporting roles, and then she will have a better foundation to play the leading role, which can also be regarded as honing her acting skills.
The investment in this play was too huge, so Su Ning chose to work with Shen Mingzheng. Guangying Entertainment first invited a director, and his intention was to be Guo Baomu, a well-known figure in the television industry who had cooperated with Guangying Entertainment a few years ago. Su Ning visited him several times. The other party had read the script and had a general intention to cooperate, but he emphasized to Su Ning a few candidates for the main actors.
The most important thing is the heroine.
This is a standard drama with a strong female lead. None of the contracted actors of Su Ning and Shen Mingzheng can take on the role of the female lead as they are all too young. Only someone with some experience can take on this role. Many of the main actors must be recruited from outside. Zhu Lan and Su Ning mentioned it several times and wanted to insert people, but most of them were rejected by Shen Mingzheng.
Su Ning didn't care about some minor roles and just considered it as a favor, but he refused to give up the main actors and insisted on taking the matter into his own hands.
Zhu Lan argued about this for a while, and then the matter was finally settled. After New Year's Day, Su Ning met her again at the "Audience Choice Awards" in January.
The "Audience Choice Award" is of great importance in the circle, especially selected at the key point of summarizing the year, and Glory is naturally shortlisted.
This is a semi-official award, now in its ninth year, and is hosted by a large Internet company. The main basis for judging is streaming data, plus some audience votes and judges' scores.
Because the data source is relatively reliable, they are willing to spend a lot of money to hold the ceremony, and there is official endorsement behind it. In addition to live broadcasts on the Internet, the broadcast platform also broadcasts simultaneously on CCTV and several local stations with high ratings. The "Audience Choice Award" is currently one of the most authoritative awards in the entertainment industry, representing the public index and audience recognition.
Zhu Lan is one of the judges, and she is also the vice chairman of the Audience Choice Award. This alone is enough to show how high her status is in the circle. As soon as she entered the venue, many people greeted her and many people surrounded her.
But after a brief greeting, she walked past so many people and came to Su Ning who was sitting alone. She sat next to him and the first thing she said was: "Why, Ming Zheng didn't come with you today?"
She was still the same, covered in jewels, and at first glance it looked as if money was falling from her every move.
Su Ning turned around and smiled politely: "Don't you know? He has official business."
It was because of the need to find a leading actress for the remake of "The Ambitious Family" that director Guo Baomu recommended a female actress, and Shen Mingzheng went to invite her personally.
Zhu Lan knew it clearly, so he laughed and said, "Okay, you don't want the actress I found, isn't it just that the pay is a bit expensive? In fact, what they want is within the normal range, the market price. You insist on saying it's not suitable and have to find that kind of down-and-out one."
The actress Su Ning found was not as down and out as she said. She started out acting in period dramas. Her name is Ye Qiuxin, and she has the kind of "peace and prosperity" face that the elders like very much. She is not glamorous but dignified, and particularly recognizable and approachable. She doesn't have a high voice on the Internet, but several of the TV series she starred in have had high ratings.
In her last film, she played a hard-working female peasant entrepreneur. Middle-aged audiences should be familiar with her. She is very well-known in the country, no less famous than any other movie queen. She is 30 years old this year, which is just the right age for a heroine.
What's important is that her acting is great, and her energetic look makes her a suitable choice for the role in the play. No wonder director Guo Baomu tried his best to recommend her, saying that he would direct her if she was signed.
"As for roles, it's not about whether they are famous or not, it's just about whether they are suitable or not," Su Ning said. "The original novel of this play is so famous, I believe that the majority of book fans are not the kind of people who want the most expensive ones, not the right ones, don't you think?"
He was speaking from the heart.
Zhu Lan waved his hand, seemingly not taking his words seriously, and said, "Su Ning, let's talk about something practical."
"I know Shen Mingzheng is not here, so I came to see you today. He is adamant, so you can still make some concessions."
"You have to know that the reason why I specially recommended that actress was because the platform wanted to choose her. The female lead insisted on choosing Ye Qiuxin, and was determined to do so. But where should this drama be broadcasted? Have you thought it through?"
Regarding the broadcasting platform for this drama, Su'ning has always been in contact with Haicheng TV Station. Guangying Entertainment is also a local enterprise, and the TV station in discussion is Haicheng TV Station.
But the situation of Guangying Entertainment in the past few years is there. Several dramas have failed. Now the TV stations are unwilling to pay too high a price. Moreover, the most important and most profitable platform for broadcasting dramas is the online video platform.
For dramas with large investments like this, people usually consider introducing investment from video platforms, so that the platforms will be biased when broadcasting. After all, Haicheng TV station has average ratings.
Su Ning certainly didn't make the film for his own pleasure. To be responsible for the company, he had to at least make back the money, and he had to consider all the business matters. While Zhu Lan was getting involved, she did recommend to Su Ning the video website with the highest market share at present - Yuedong Video.
Su Ning was more familiar with Chen Yuan's Orange Video before, but to be honest, it is not as good. Orange Video's variety shows are okay, but its investment in big dramas is very limited and has great limitations.
But when they were contacted, Su Ning first rejected the arrangement of the female lead role of Yuedong Video, and was unwilling to give up other important roles. Director Guo Baomu wanted to audition each role one by one and could not cut in, so he was not very satisfied with the situation.
Zhu Lan mentioned this here to remind him not to be too stubborn like Shen Mingzheng, but to relax a little and give way to others.
The reason why Yuedong Video is so powerful is that it has a parent company, the nationally renowned Internet company Yuedong Technology. Today's Audience Choice Award has the support of this company behind the scenes, so it is held so grandly today.
"You can meet the person in charge later and discuss it again," Zhu Lan said, "I think there may be room for negotiation on this matter."
Su Ning also came with this idea in mind. He understood the other party's intention to make money. If possible, he would try to find a balance between the two, all for the sake of the work.
Soon, Zhu Lan came with Mr. Sheng from Yuedong Video.
He looked quite kind, and shook hands with Su Ning first, praising him for his youth and potential. He seemed to know that Su Ning was unwilling to make concessions on production to help them promote him, so he waved his hand and said, "If that's the case, forget it. Your Shen family and I have known and cooperated for so many years, so it's okay for me to make concessions."
It sounds like it's very generous.
But when he got to this point, he changed the subject and said, "Boss Su, I actually have another suggestion. As long as you agree, we will never interfere with the show "The Ambitious Family". In addition, I will find you the best time slot of the year and give you the best advertising space. I also know the people at the TV station well. Look, isn't it standing right there? The TV station I recommend to you is definitely better than Haicheng TV Station."
"Anyway, I'll find you any configuration you want," he promised. "If you don't believe me, ask President Lan. I've worked with President Lan for many years, haven't I ever made a mistake? Even Mr. Shen has praised me."
Zhu Lan nodded: "Indeed."
The conditions he proposed were too good, and the pie he drew was too big. Su Ning became alert and asked cautiously, "So, what is Mr. Sheng's proposal?"
"You can ask Glory to come to my place to film, especially Li Chu, I think he is the most popular one," the other party said with a smile, "I have a few idol drama scripts here, I promise, let him play the male lead, and Ji Mowei, they are all good, come, don't worry, I will definitely pay them less."
"Boss Su, my proposal is very considerate. Do you think it's not bad?"
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