The field was full of stars, and countless figures that even Ji Xinghe was familiar with sat under the podium. The moment Ji Xinghe walked in, he didn't know if it was an illusion, but he actually felt that many of these actors and stars were unusually uneasy.
Perhaps he was mistaken. He gathered himself and walked slowly towards the seat with his name on it. According to previous E-Gram conventions, as a Best Actor nominee, he wouldn't be seated with the crew, but with the other three contenders.
According to the Aegmei organizing committee, this approach would better reflect the competitive spirit of friendship first, awards second. Ji Xinghe felt that this was just a random quote to fool people.
Every year at the A-Grade Awards, the reporters and media’s favorite thing is to capture the expressions of the nominated actors. Most of the actors’ acting skills are indeed superb. Even if they wish the three people sitting next to them would faint and be sent to the hospital immediately, they still have a decent smile on their faces and chat and laugh with the people around them from time to time.
However, there are a few actors in the history of the A-list awards who are unlucky. They failed to manage their facial expressions and were photographed with expressions such as rolling their eyes, frowning, and showing contempt. Even if they won the awards in the end, these photos would be brought up by unscrupulous media at all times to attract traffic and attention.
Every time the AGM season comes, he would bring up old stories from time to time to give current fans and audiences a brief introduction to the love, hate, and vengeance of AGM over the years, and the hatred was definitely there.
With the lessons learned from their predecessors, the subsequent nominees did a very good job of managing their expressions. However, this year seemed to be an exception, and this exception only applied to Ji Xinghe.
It wasn't that the other three actors had any opinions about Ji Xinghe, so they gave him a cold look. Quite the contrary, when Ji Xinghe took his seat, everyone could see that they were quite excited.
Ji Xinghe was not someone who didn't understand the ways of the world. After he sat down, he began to greet the people around him, "Hello, I'm Ji Xinghe, from Country C."
For the first time, Ji Xinghe took off his mask and spoke his name in public, frankly and fluently.
"Ji, Xing, He?" The man next to him was from M country. He chewed on the three-character name carefully. Before this, he had actually been paying attention to Ji Xinghe. He got movie tickets from Joyce through his connections, and he had watched "Dream" over and over again countless times.
But before today, he only knew that his name was Xing. Obviously, Xing was just a code name, and Ji Xinghe was his real name.
Seeing Ji Xinghe's outstretched hand, he quickly extended his hand as well, "Hello, my name is Goodleeen, nice to meet you."
Goodlee was a little excited. Knowing that he was destined to be a runner-up today, being the first among Ji Xinghe's fans to know his real name was perhaps his biggest gain today.
He never doubted the authenticity of Ji Xinghe's beauty. Perhaps it was because of his profession. Like Joyce, he looked at people's faces as well as their bones.
People with beautiful faces may not necessarily have beautiful bone structure, but people with beautiful bone structure will definitely not be ugly in real life.
But God, don't you think you were too partial when you created this person in front of you? He deserves all the praise in the world. All those people's descriptions of beauty day after day can be piled onto this beautiful dream-like person in front of you, and then he can be deified.
His existence represents the pinnacle of human beauty. And the significance of the existence of "Dream" is probably that after several years, it will prove to the world that he has been here.
Ji Xinghe continued to introduce himself to the other people around him, but he had no idea that the person next to him had such complicated psychological activities.
However, after all, he wasn't very familiar with the people around him, so after saying hello, Ji Xinghe didn't feel like chatting any more. Sure enough, what Qi Kai had said yesterday was right. Although Qi Kai didn't take him out for a day of shopping, he still played games in his room until almost midnight.
In addition, Ji Xinghe got up early today, so he tried hard not to yawn in such an occasion and maintain his calm appearance.
Don't think he doesn't know. There are many people in the audience peeking at him, and some unruly actors are even secretly taking pictures with their phones! Ji Xinghe secretly told himself: This is the last time anyway, so whatever. Just think of it as a last-minute treat for the fans.
The entire award ceremony was indeed as boring as Ji Xinghe had heard. Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor were the heavyweight finale awards of the Academy Awards. There were also special awards, honorary awards, memorial awards, best photography awards, best screenplay awards, etc.
In addition to the winners' speeches, it took nearly two hours before the organizing committee announced the winner of the Best Director Award.
The Best Picture award had already been presented, and as expected, it went to Dream. Ji Xinghe, the lead actor, was supposed to be on stage to give a speech when accepting the award, but thinking of another award waiting for him, he gave the opportunity to the other crew members. After all, they had suffered enough from being kept in the dark by him and Joyce.
Joyce originally thought he wouldn't be awarded the Best Director award this year, for reasons he'd previously stated. However, to his surprise, he still won the award, making him the first director in Academy Award history to win back-to-back Best Director awards, including last year's.
Before each award is presented, the host will read aloud a message written by the organizing committee to the winner.
The passage that belongs to Joyce is very short and goes like this: You have discovered a treasure that shines forever for the world. It is not only your dream, but also the dream of everyone. This award does not belong to the director Joyce, but to the discoverer Joyce.
This was clearly Joyce's acceptance speech, but the entire message skewed towards Ji Xinghe. It was almost as if he was pointing at Joyce and telling him plainly: Your performance this time isn't worthy of the Best Director award at all, but we don't have any plans to establish a Best Talent Scout award for you just yet. As the person who discovered Ji Xinghe, we'll just give you a Best Director award.
But Joyce was happy, and he showed much more joy and honor than when he won the award last year.
It's not for this award, but for everyone's recognition of him as a 'discoverer'.
Joyce took the stage, accepted the trophy, and began to give his acceptance speech. However, he hadn't prepared anything and was completely improvising. However, he had already delivered a major blow to everyone present before Ji Xinghe did.
He said, "I don't plan to make movies anymore."
Everyone was shocked. A man who had just won Best Director twice in a row said he didn't plan to make movies anymore?
"'Dream' is the pinnacle of my life. Since I already know that I will never be able to make a work like 'Dream' again in the future, I might as well stay here. At least when people mention me in the future, they will say: Hey, isn't this the world's most amazing director Joyce? Instead of: Oh, is he that stubborn director who never recovered from his peak and kept failing?"
Joyce ended his acceptance speech with a humorous and self-deprecating remark. What he didn't say was that if Sun was willing to continue starring in his films, he could happily continue making movies until he grew old, but he knew that was impossible.
On the way here, he seemed to have vaguely sensed something. He could not change Sun's decision, so he let his memory remain in "Dream" forever. This dream was too beautiful, so beautiful that it was destined to be just a one-man show, and he was willing to sink into it for the rest of his life.
He's only in his thirties and has plenty of time to waste. He's dedicated the first half of his life to movies, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to do something else later.
For Joyce, who had been in love with a fantasy person for more than 20 years since he was a teenager, this decision was not difficult to make. This was a romance that belonged to him alone, and even if Sun didn't know it, he was happy with it.
Ji Xinghe cast a helpless look at Joyce who had already come down from the podium, and then heard his code name in his ears.
Everything happened so naturally and was what everyone expected.
"Your eyes and eyebrows are more brilliant than the stars.
Your lips are not as beautiful as the most beautiful rose in the garden.
Your every move attracts the attention of the world
You are the most perfect masterpiece and treasure of the Creator
From then on
The dream lover that everyone imagines has the most real vitality."
This phrase was originally coined by Joyce, and later became so well-known among Ji Xinghe's fans that they felt it was the perfect description for their star. It is now being used by the organizing committee as a congratulatory message for the awards ceremony.
Ji Xinghe is now able to remain calm and collected in the face of overwhelming praise. He is no longer the young boy who would blush at the mere mention of a few compliments!
Ji Xinghe walked up to the podium and looked at the crowd below, his thoughts drifting. As the finale, he had plenty of time to deliver his acceptance speech. Even if he ran over, no one would interrupt him. Unless that person wanted to incite public outrage.
Ji Xinghe picked up the microphone, and his usually clear eyes became a little blurry for the first time. The light in his eyes faded, and he looked a little misty, which added a touch of mystery to him.
Following Joyce, he also dropped a bombshell on everyone present, "I am officially announcing this: From today on, I will officially retire from the entertainment industry, and I don't think I will ever make a comeback."
"I should have been an unfortunate person." His voice was calm, and he didn't care about the different expressions on the audience's faces when he heard this. He continued, "For a period of time, for more than ten years, I thought I was very happy. I often had a smile on my face, and my steps were always light and cheerful. People who knew me said I was like a little sun, never knowing what sorrow was, and never knowing what darkness was.
Gradually, more and more people started to say this, and I began to sincerely believe that I was that kind of person. But how could it be so…”
The look on Ji Xinghe's face was heartbreaking. What had hurt him so much to make him look so sad? At that moment, they all wished they could immediately eliminate whatever or whoever had caused the man on the stage to be so sad.
Ji Xinghe murmured, "Most people who are suffering don't know that they are suffering. People who are sad from the beginning rarely feel that they are sad. Because they have never experienced a life without suffering, they can only desperately remind themselves: You are living a good life now, and it is good enough that you are still alive."
People who have never eaten candy will not feel bitterness in their mouths, but is that really not bitter? Once someone puts a piece of candy in their mouth and tastes the sweetness, they may no longer be able to tolerate bitterness.
If he couldn't have candy forever, he would rather not have eaten the first candy in the first place.
"But I'm fine now, really fine. I met someone who will never let me suffer. It seems like he always has a candy in his pocket. Every time I feel a bitter taste in my mouth, he can magically take out a candy for me to eat. Then I won't suffer anymore."
So how lucky is he in this life?
Ji Xinghe knew that Qi Yao must be looking at him at this moment, "Hi, you must be looking at me now, right?"
Everyone thought Ji Xinghe was talking about the live broadcast, and he might be greeting someone through the camera.
"I don't know if I have said it, maybe I have, maybe I haven't. But I will say it again today. I like my current life, I like our home, and I like you. I love you. Ji Xinghe loves Qi Yao, and Ji Xinghe will always love Qi Yao!" He made trumpet shapes with his hands and put them to his mouth, as if he treated the award ceremony as a confession party.
"My acceptance speech is over. Thank you everyone."
After forcibly feeding everyone a wave of dog food, Ji Xinghe withdrew, leaving behind broken hearts.
After the award ceremony, Ji Xinghe put on a mask and sneaked out to avoid the media. He saw Qi Yao at a glance.
Reflecting the flashing lights behind him, a line of poetry suddenly flashed through Ji Xinghe's mind: When I look back suddenly, that person is standing in the dim light.
Ji Xinghe jogged for a while, then gained strength from a position four or five steps away from the man and suddenly climbed onto Qi Yao's body.
The man looked calm as he walked towards the car with the boy, who was lying on his chest like a koala.
"Did you watch the live broadcast of the award ceremony just now?"
"I saw it."
Ji Xinghe was a little disappointed when he saw that Qi Yao didn't have any special reaction.
"I love you too. Qi Yao also loves Ji Xinghe." As a system, he fell in love with his host.
Qi Yao was not unexcited, but too excited, which made his expression seem a little ordinary.
"I knew it." Ji Xinghe rested his chin on the man's shoulder and muttered, "I love you, I love you, Tong'er, how can I love you so much? Did you cast a spell on me?"
"No." Qi Yao's ears turned red because of Ji Xinghe's straightforwardness, and he smiled secretly when Ji Xinghe saw it.
"The system and the host are a perfect match. Don't you think so?" Ji Xinghe whispered sweet words in Qi Yao's ear.
Otherwise, how could a group of data from an interstellar space 170 million light-years away from Earth 78 million years from now meet a human being on Earth?
It was an unrepeatable miracle, a miracle that transcended time and light years.
Fate is wonderful beyond words.
over.
The author has something to say: The main text ends here, and two more extra chapters will be updated starting tomorrow.
The tentative ones are: Ji Family Extra,
Extra chapters of later generations (this extra chapter is mainly in the form of a forum, which is to see how people in later generations praise the beauty of the stars), mixed with a little exposure.
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