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Cui Yujie's first reaction to hearing Zhang Min's ridiculous words was: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! How could Jiang Xi be Xi Meng? Last year, "Wu Xia" magazine said that Xi Meng was admitted to Peking University..." Her voice gradually weakened.

Zhang Min said: "Yes, didn't Jiang Xi enter Peking University last year?"

Several girls looked at each other, shocked by this conjecture, but the more they thought about it, the more reasonable they felt!

Especially, Jiang Xi's name has the word "Xi" and Xi Meng's name also has the word "Xi". Although there is no necessary connection between the real name and the pen name, this is really too coincidental.

Some of the readers of Kyoto University had focused their attention on the students of the 1997 class who were admitted to Kyoto University last year, so they couldn't find Ximeng. But what if Ximeng was not a student of the 1997 class, but of the 1998 class?

This possibility made Cui Yujie feel bad. She said with an ugly face: "Can you guys stop being so ridiculous! Ximeng... How could Ximeng be Jiang Xi?"

Her voice was involuntarily louder. Students from other departments behind her heard it and came over to ask: "What are you talking about? Ximeng is Jiang Xi?"

Although Jiang Xi was somewhat famous among the sophomores, not everyone knew her. Many people didn't care about other people's affairs at all, but only focused on their own studies and growth.

But not knowing Jiang Xi didn't mean they didn't know Ximeng.

In the eyes of this generation of young people, cuteness is probably the same as Jin Yong and Gu Long, and it is the youth that their generation is experiencing.

Zhang Min and her friends realized that their whispers had affected the people watching TV around them, and they apologized embarrassedly and turned their heads to watch TV seriously.

The director team of "White Snake" was willing to spend 10,000 yuan in publicity fees to invite Jiang Bo to Beijing to participate in the Wanhua Film Festival because they evaluated several shortlisted films and felt that they were not strong enough in the three important awards of "Best Actor", "Best Actress" and "Best Supporting Actor", so they used all their public relations expenses to help Jiang Bo win the "Most Popular Actor" award.

Because the leading actors and actresses of the other nominated movies, including the supporting actors, are all veteran actors with a certain degree of fame. These people not only have acting skills, but also have backgrounds. They themselves have a certain influence and power in the Beijing circle and the film circle. For example, the two who won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards, while "White Snake" is indeed the box office leader, the leading actress is a pure newcomer from the film academy. Jiang Bai was nominated for the "Best Supporting Actor" because of the high box office of "White Snake" and Jiang Bai's popularity.

Sometimes, whether a movie can win an award is not only a matter of acting skills, but also various complicated relationships behind it, which are part of the reasons that affect the award.

Moreover, Jiang Bai and the leading actress themselves are not as good as those veteran actors in acting.

White Snake is a movie that has grossed over 40 million this year. After the award ceremony of the Wanhua Film Festival, most of the movie people on the scene, except for some big names, were not in a hurry to leave. Those who wanted to cooperate took the opportunity to find the people they wanted to cooperate with to make friends.

Almost all of them have seen the movie White Snake. As insiders, they have seen the movie more carefully and naturally know that Jiang Wu, who walked the red carpet with the White Snake crew, is not an actor in the movie White Snake. They can't help but curiously ask about Jiang Wu's identity. After learning that she is the author of the original novel of White Snake, many people who know Jiang Wu also extended an olive branch to Jiang Wu and asked about her next work.

If businessmen are superstitious, then people in the entertainment industry are even more superstitious.

Jiang Wu has only written three works so far. The first adaptation has a rating of 54%, which is at the top of the ratings pyramid and made the heroine of this drama famous.

If this work also took the credit of "Justice Bao", then the movie "White Snake" is a real money-maker. In addition, the third work "The Commander of the Imperial Guards" had a rating of over 10 as soon as it was released on October 1st, and then it continued to rise. The current rating has reached 30%. Although it cannot catch up with the highest rating of more than 50% of this year's phenomenon-level TV series "Happy Little Swallow", this rating is already a hit among TV series in recent years.

I heard that the movie version is also being filmed and is expected to be released during this year's Lunar New Year holiday.

Not to mention the high box office and ratings of each of her TV series and movies, even the physical books of each of her works have sold millions of copies. The sales of "The Great Song" are almost over 10 million. She also has the feat of directly bringing a magazine to fame with one of her works. In the eyes of many filmmakers, producers, and investors, Jiang Xi is destined to be famous. After hearing that she is Xi Meng, they all gave her their business cards, asked for her contact information, asked her about her next work, and wanted to buy the film and television rights of her next work in advance.

When they knew that the film copyright of "The Great Song" and the TV drama copyright of "White Snake" were still available, some people expressed to Jiang Xi on the spot that they wanted to discuss the film copyright and TV drama copyright of these two works with her.

The theme of "White Snake" is really very promising. Currently, there are two movies and one TV series based on this theme, all of which are classics. If a fairy movie with "White Snake" as the theme is made again, with the huge readership of "The Years I Was a White Snake Cultivator" and the influence of the movie "White Snake", the TV drama version of "White Snake Cultivator" can be said to be popular before it is broadcast, and there is no need to worry about the ratings.

Similarly, the work "Song Dynasty Constable" is also very promising. It can be made into a series of movies like "Young and Dangerous". "Young and Dangerous" was a hit, and now the third part has been filmed. It is estimated that there will be four, five, six or seven more in the future.

Even its TV series copyright can be re-adapted and remade, just like "The Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" have been remade several times, and there is still a huge audience group who will pay for this work.

More than one person on the scene expressed interest in the copyright of these two works. Jiang Xi naturally did not refuse, and even called Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang to introduce them to the director and producer on the scene.

They were not very interested in Tong Jin Gang, but they were very interested in Jiang Bo, who played the second male lead in "The King's Guards" and won the "Most Popular Actor" award at the Wanhua Awards for his super popularity.

Popularity is sometimes a guarantee of a drama's ratings. The audience likes Jiang Bo so much. If they invite Jiang Bo to film a drama, then they don't have to worry about the basic ratings and box office. The rest depends on the quality of the TV series or movie itself.

Although they were not interested in Tong Jingang, Jiang Bai and Jiang Xi both valued Tong Jingang and said that they could leave all their cooperation matters to Tong Jingang. Tong Jingang was thick-skinned and a social bull. When Jiang Baigang started to play minor roles, he was the one who negotiated for many minor roles, and then let both of them play minor roles. Now both parties are willing to cooperate, and they are very happy to talk and hit it off.

When the Wanhua Film Festival was over, Jiang Xi and Tong Jingang had been stuffed with half a box of business cards, and Tong Jingang had also distributed half a box of business cards printed. Many people remembered Jiang Xi's contact information.

Zhang Min and the others returned to the dormitory with mixed feelings. They all wanted to wait for Jiang Xi to come back and ask her if she was cute.

Especially Zhang Min and Cui Yujie.

Cui Yujie has a literary heart. She loves to write poetry, recite poems, and read novels. She is also a loyal reader of Xi Meng and has read every one of her novels.

Zhang Min simply thinks that knowing Xi Meng is very prestigious, and she also thinks that it would be very fashionable if she could get a signed photo from Jiang Bo.

Liu Yan and Yu Qianqian were fine. Before entering Peking University, they had only seen the name "Xing Meng" on the posters of the bookstore at the school gate. But they were all focused on their studies at that time and had never read any of Xiao Meng's books. They really started to know Xiao Meng after they came to Peking University. The movie "White Snake" was shown several times in their auditorium. It was a waste not to watch free movies. They had also watched free movies before slowly coming into contact with Xiao Meng's two works, "The Guardians" and "White Snake Cultivation".

They all thought that Jiang Xiao would go back to the dormitory at night, but they didn't expect that Jiang Xiao never came back.

When Jiang Xi and the others left the award ceremony, it was already nine o'clock. The White Snake crew and investors held a party and invited all the main creative team and the actors who came to the scene today to attend the celebration banquet.

Such a celebration banquet had been held once when the box office of the movie reached 40 million, but Jiang Bo and Jiang Xi were not there at that time. This time it was to celebrate the movie winning the "Best Picture Award" and Jiang Bo winning the "Most Popular Award".

The place they originally booked was a nightclub. Tong Jingang really wanted to go and see it, but Jiang Xi was afraid that going there would bring bad luck to his brother, and Jiang Bo was afraid that such a place was not suitable for his sister to go. Both the brother and sister said that they were tired after a day and wanted to go back and rest.

Jiang Bai is one of the protagonists today, and Jiang Xi is also an author they want to cooperate with in the future, so how can they not go?

The investors who originally did not consider whether they were suitable or not, but only considered whether they liked them or not, saw that the brother and sister were unwilling to go, and said: "Then let's not go to the nightclub, can we go to karaoke to sing?"

"Let's go, let's go to the Golden Cabinet!"

We can't go to any indecent places, so we can only go to a place where people sing properly. In this era, the first choice for young people for a place to sing properly is the Golden Cabinet.

Several investors are young second-generations, and everyone holds the most popular mobile phone this year. They immediately called the Golden Cabinet to book a large private room, and asked the manager there to send a lot of fruit snacks into the private room.

Even in the most formal KTV these days, Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang have never been there. Looking at the KTV with its magnificent decoration and bright lights, the two country bumpkins who have never seen the world feel that their eyes are not enough to see.

Jiang Bai is actually fine. He is mainly curious about the decoration here, which seems to be a world away from his hometown. Tong Jingang is eager to go there.

As a trendsetter of this era, Tong Jingang has long been interested in places like dance halls, Internet cafes, karaoke bars, and wants to see the world.

But his good brother Jiang Bai is a real bumpkin. He has no interest in these places. He even thinks they are bad places and that decent people cannot go. He frowns when he mentions them. He thinks that such places are a waste of life and time and have no meaning at all.

Tong Jingang saw that his good friend did not go, so he did not go alone.

Today, he finally came to see the world!

Jiang Bai just rejected the undecent places. He was also very curious about such a place for singing. He walked and looked. When he entered the private room, there were already two waiters waiting inside. Two large tea tables were filled with exquisite fruit plates, various snacks, ice cream balls, etc. They asked them what they wanted to drink.

Jiang Xi said he wanted tea, and the investors waved their hands and said, "What tea? We're in a good mood today, bring me some wine, beer, foreign liquor, red wine, all for me!" They then pulled Jiang Bo and said to Jiang Xi, "Today we are here to celebrate the award of our movie "White Snake", and also to celebrate your brother's award. We can't be disappointed. Don't worry, no matter how much you drink or whether you get drunk or not, I will be responsible for sending you home. If you have curfew and can't go back too late, don't worry!" They also called the nearest hotel and booked a room for everyone present, saying, "Now you can drink as much as you want!"

The investors booked the largest private room. They were originally happy today and wanted to spend more money at night, but who knew that they didn't go to the nightclub to save money for him.

The movie "White Snake" earned hundreds of millions of yuan, not counting the publicity and distribution to the theaters, and the income shared equally between investors and Director Yu. It was hundreds of millions of yuan in 1998, not to mention the continuous copyright income and peripheral income from discs. Today, it won another award, which shows that it is very rich.

They were really happy. They turned up the music in the box to the maximum, and the colorful flashing light balls on it started to spin. They started to sing first, and they all howled to their heart's content. They were young and had a carefree personality. They probably went to nightclubs and dance halls frequently. Not only did they lead the singing, but they also did the disco dance, singing and dancing, and invited Jiang Xi and the female lead to join them.

They mainly wanted to invite the female lead and Jiang Xi to dance with them. The female lead was just a student who had not yet graduated from the film academy and had never experienced such a battle. Seeing that Jiang Xi was very calm from beginning to end and refused with a smile, she followed Jiang Xi, eating fruits and drinking tea, and following Jiang Xi in everything.

She didn't dare to refuse the producer and investor, but Jiang Xi was very blunt and refused without hesitation.

They didn't get angry. Seeing that they didn't dance, they invited the female lead and Jiang Xi to sing. The female lead enthusiastically handed the microphone to them. In addition, she sang well, so she took the microphone and sang a song that was particularly popular at that time, "Sweet Honey". This song is a street song that everyone can sing in this era, and it is almost a must-have song for long karaoke.

After the female lead finished singing, they started to ask Jiang Xi to sing again.

But they dared to put the microphone in the female lead's mouth and let her sing. When they saw Jiang Xi's smiling eyes that looked like the dean's, they didn't dare to be presumptuous. They restrained themselves and called Jiang Xi: "Mr. Xi Meng, don't just sit and drink tea, sing a song too

." Jiang Xi certainly wouldn't spoil the fun, but he still said something ugly in advance, saying: "Of course I have no problem singing, but I have to tell you in advance that other people sing for money, but I sing for my life."

This sentence made the box laugh, and no one believed it.

It was really Jiang Xi's makeup and appearance today, which was really beautiful and fashionable. Who wouldn't believe that such a cool and beautiful beauty couldn't sing?

Because these second-generations have money from their families and have made money from investing in movies, they actually don't really take Jiang Wu and Jiang Bo seriously. The reason they are relatively restrained in front of Jiang Wu, giving her face, not crossing the line in their behavior, and being respectful to them in their words and deeds, is that they just want to continue to work with Jiang Wu and make money.

Since they want to hear Jiang Wu sing, Jiang Wu is not shy at all. She not only sings herself, but also invites Jiang Bo to sing with her.

Jiang Bo had been sitting quietly in the corner, watching the investors and producers howling loudly. When Jiang Xi called him, he waved his hands and said, "No, no, I can't sing."

Jiang Xi used the microphone to tell the waiter who was serving at the song request station in the private room, "Play "Returning Home and Going."

If we talk about the most popular songs in KTV now, apart from the theme songs of "Little Swallow" which was just released this year, Cantonese songs such as "Only Hard Work Can Win" from Hong Kong and Hong Kong Island, the theme song of "The Condor Heroes" which was a hit last year.

When the investor heard that Jiang Xi chose this song, he shouted: "How can you sing this song with your brother? Let me sing it with you, let me sing it with you!"

Jiang Xi smiled and said: "You also know that my brother is shy. If I don't lead him to sing, he might not open his mouth tonight. There are more songs later. I will lead my brother to sing this song first. If you want to sing with me later, I will accompany you."

As soon as this straightforward statement came out, no one argued with Jiang Bai anymore, and the microphone was given to Jiang Bai, one of the protagonists today.

After the hit of The Return of Condor Heroes, the song "Return and Go" was played on the stereos in the streets and alleys. Jiang Bai had also watched The Return of Condor Heroes, so he was naturally familiar with the song. After hearing the familiar melody, he took the microphone at the encouragement of Jiang Xi.

In the box that was so lively just now, only the colorful light balls were still spinning and the music was flowing. Everyone unconsciously stopped their previous unbridled body twisting behavior and waited for Jiang Bai and Jiang Xi to speak.

They only heard Jiang Xi sing the first sentence in a particularly calm and composed manner: "This time I have really decided to leave..."

Everyone who was originally full of expectations was stunned by the first sentence.

If it weren't for the opening credits of The Return of the Condor Heroes playing on the TV, the familiar and beautiful melody ringing in their ears, and the fact that they knew every word that appeared on the TV, they really wouldn't have heard that it was the song Return.

They were all extremely shocked as they looked at Jiang Xi who was still singing the lyrics calmly.

Every word she sang was correct, except that not a single word was in tune, as if the lyrics and the melody were completely separated and recreated.

They couldn't help but want to rush out, but they held back and didn't say a word, and listened to her finish the first paragraph.

The second paragraph was Jiang Bai's male voice.

With Jiang Xi's support, they thought, no matter how bad Jiang Xi was at singing, his singing couldn't be worse than Jiang Xi's, right?

As soon as Jiang Bo opened his mouth, he said, "Oh my goodness, these two are indeed siblings. They really sang their own songs, and the lyrics and tunes were also played separately. They can't be said to be exactly the same, but they have nothing to do with each other. Without the lyrics and music, it's almost impossible to hear that this is the theme song of "The Condor Heroes" that was popular all over the country last year. But

this brother and sister seemed to have no idea that their singing was completely out of tune. Not only did they run away, but they were almost creating a new song. Both of them sat on the sofa, holding the microphone, and sang the whole song seriously.

When they finished singing, the KTV box was completely quiet.

When they first entered the box, the place was very hot, but it was directly cooled down by the song of the brother and sister.

The investor who had said before that he wanted to sing a love song with Jiang Meng took a new microphone and commented objectively: "Teacher Meng Meng is really not humble at all!"

Everyone in the box laughed immediately.

After Jiang Xi finished singing, she smiled and asked the investor who had just said he wanted to sing with her: "Boss Wang, do you still want to sing with me?" The

young investor, who was called Boss Wang, looked at the smiling Jiang Xi, his mind was confused, and he immediately said with great interest: "Sing!" He said to the waiter at the song request station: "Give us a song called "Dang"."

"Dang" is the theme song of this year's hit drama "Little Swallow". It has a beautiful melody, a clear rhythm, and catchy lyrics. It can be said to be the most popular song this year. Even children on the street can sing a few lines of "Let us live freely in the world of red dust"!

It is really not easy to sing this song out of tune.

He really took a lot of trouble to choose this song. He also wanted to teach Jiang Xi to sing and bring her back to the right tune. In the end, not only did he not bring Jiang Xi back to the tune of Siberia, he himself was carried away and couldn't come back. After singing a song, he doubted his life. He couldn't believe that he was carried away to the point where he couldn't find his way back.

He sang in a daze.

After that, no one encouraged Jiang Xi and Jiang Bo to sing again.

If you don't sing, you can play something else.

Because of the popularity of the movie "God of Gamblers" a few years ago, movies about "God of Gamblers" are very popular in this era, and it has also brought about a trend of playing dice in places like KTV. Those who like to play are proud of shaking out points like leopards and pillars.

It doesn't matter if Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai can't sing. There are so many people in the box, but there are only two or three microphones. Most people can't sing. So why don't they play dice? The loser drinks!

People who come here to play are automatically drawn into such a lively atmosphere as soon as the place gets hot. Besides, it's not a nightclub. The actors and screenwriters who play Xu Xian and Fahai all gather around them. They gather around one of the tea tables and play the game of "bragging" by rolling dice.

The leading actress was invited to sing because she sings well.

Considering that Jiang Xi, Jiang Bo, Tong Jingang and other college students were playing this game for the first time and didn’t know how to play, the investors were particularly eager to explain the rules of the game to Jiang Xi and others, and teach them how to play.

The game is actually very simple, just shaking the points and bragging, and bragging is tax-free, it depends on whether you believe the other party’s lies or not. This not only tests everyone’s ability to shake the dice, but also their psychological quality, observation and calculation abilities. After

Jiang Xi and Jiang Bo, the three newbies, heard the rules of shaking the dice, they looked at the smiling faces of the investors who were excited to get them drunk, and they all agreed with a smile.