Despite the small fish bone incident, the self-service BBQ trip was generally relaxed and enjoyable.
The next day, the crew returned to intense filming.
The current filming progress was over halfway complete, with the plot developing to where Old Tang, in order to protect his film tutoring class and avoid being labeled a fraud, was forced to boast to his forr students, promising that his film would definitely be released within half a year, and tricking his three half-disciples into making a film together.
Today's scene was an important conflict and turning point in the later plot—Xiao Sha, the only student among the four who harbored dreams of learning, finally discovered that the entire tutoring class was a scam and that Old Tang didn't even have a directing departnt diploma. Against the objections of the others, he confronted Old Tang.
The conflict eventually escalated into a physical fight, and the chaotic noise made Xiao Bai dizzy. The final sound of a vase shattering caused him to suddenly have a hysterical episode, crouching down and screaming before fainting and being taken to the hospital.
At the hospital bedside, Old Tang, looking at the unconscious Xiao Bai, revealed his true feelings for the first ti.
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After a busy day, Xiao Bai's condition finally stabilized. He had been given a sedative and was now sleeping in the hospital bed.
The golden sunset shone through the window of the hospital room, bathing Old Tang in its light. Motionless, he seed to have turned into a gold-plated statue.
Old Tang sat at the bedside with his hand against his forehead, resting his eyes. He heard footsteps approaching, stopping beside him.
"Why did you lie?" he heard Xiao Sha ask softly beside him.
Old Tang sighed, opened his eyes and turned to him, his gaze revealing deep fatigue: "You're still persisting with this question even now?"
"...Because you clearly have talent." Xiao Sha opened his notebook. "I looked up everything you taught us online, and it all aligns with what industry professionals say."
"And there's this."
He opened a post showing a group photo labeled "XX University XXXX Graduate School Graduation morial."
Old Tang's eyes narrowed slightly.
Xiao Sha didn't notice this reaction and continued: "I found this photo in an interview with a director. The person in the third row on the far left is clearly you! Didn't you attend the directing departnt of a renowned university?!"
"With such good credentials, why aren't you making films? Why are you running a fraudulent tutoring class claiming your qualifications are all fake!"
Xiao Sha beca increasingly agitated.
Rembering how he had struggled to apply to directing departnts year after year without ever being accepted, his voice began to tremble: "Why waste your life like this? If I were you, I would have already—"
"Because I never graduated," Old Tang interrupted.
"My graduation project was 'borrowed' by my roommate, who then accused of plagiarism. My roommate had money and influence, bought off the departnt's teachers. I had no way to make anyone believe ," Old Tang's tone seed calm, but unconsciously quickened, "Then family trouble struck. My parents and uncle's family of five went traveling and had a car accident. The truck driver was driving while fatigued and couldn't stop in ti, crushing our family's car. In the end, only my uncle's younger brother survived, but without money for treatnt, he was close to death too."
"My cousin and I were close. How could I watch him die?"
"But treatnt costs money, lawsuits cost money, and when my cousin woke up, he had brain damage. Ongoing recovery and treatnt required even more money."
"Where was I supposed to find that kind of money? Especially with my cousin's ntal condition,"
At this point, Old Tang glanced at Xiao Bai on the hospital bed,
"I couldn't just abandon him at the hospital, could I?"
"But what job allows you to bring a ntally disabled person with you?"
"I considered every option and finally opened this tutoring class, recruiting as many students as possible, setting high fees, and being able to bring him—I an, Xiao Bai—with during classes."
As Old Tang said these words, his tone was flat, but Xiao Sha could still see from his eyes that he was actually unwilling to accept this fate.
That gaze was like a frozen lake surface in winter, seemingly lifeless, but looking closely revealed unwilling life still stirring beneath.
Xiao Sha, staring at Old Tang's earnest expression that he had never seen before, was montarily stunned into silence.
Old Tang, completely unaware, continued: "If you want to leave, want a refund, I won't stop you. But the film has co this far, and it would be incomplete without any one of us."
"Let , a prideful man, ask you just this once—"
"Will you stay with us and finish this film?"
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"Cut!"
Assistant Director Jiang Miaomiao called for a stop, looked at the sunset in the fra, and felt satisfied—today's sunset glow was just as perfect, the fiery red color she loved most.
Such an important shot deserved exactly this color!
Shao Yichen sat behind the cara, frowning at the image on the monitor.
How had Teacher Dongqiang's acting seemingly made another breakthrough?
Previously, if asked to evaluate Qi Gelong's acting, she would have considered it rely adequate—after all, if acting were graded out of 100, Shao Yichen could only distinguish between genius-level performances above 90 like Li Xingyu's and abysmal performances below 10 like the Nan twins'. For middle-level performances, whether failing or scoring 80, they all seed equally unremarkable to Shao Yichen.
But Qi Gelong's performance in this shot, enhanced by the atmosphere, had reached a height of 90 points! Even Shao Yichen clearly felt that Teacher Dongqiang's emotional expression in this scene was restrained yet heart-stirring, even she was sowhat moved.
It's just that this plot now seed like a passive-aggressive dig at Li Qiaoqiao...
Did she have the ability to predict the future? How could she write such a script before everything happened?
This thought crossed Shao Yichen's mind briefly before being pushed aside—because she saw Dongqiang, no, Teacher Qi Gelong walking toward her.
Even though she thought to herself "I hope Teacher Dongqiang just performs casually," she knew it would be inappropriate to say that in front of this serious and responsible actor. She quickly stood up to congratulate Qi Gelong: "Dong—Winter is coming soon, Teacher Qi, are you cold? Would you like to add more clothes? You perford so well, you must take care of your health!"
She thought to herself, that was close, almost blurting out "Teacher Dongqiang" again...
Although Qi Gelong didn't understand why Shao Yichen suddenly shifted to the topic of winter warmth, hearing the director's sudden concern made him believe she must be very satisfied with his performance, relieving him. He cheerfully responded: "Thank you for your concern, Director Shao. My ability to understand Old Tang's mindset in this scene is all thanks to our previous conversation!"
Shao Yichen: ?
When did I have a conversation with Teacher Dongqiang? Don't I always run away as soon as work ends?
However, Qi Gelong, believing he had already completed an exchange with Director Shao, leisurely went to tease the actor playing Xiao Bai who was lying on the hospital bed, leaving Shao Yichen alone to contemplate life.
Before she could figure anything out, her phone rang.
She saw it was a call from General Manager Qianqian.
Shao Yichen answered and heard Qianqian reporting: "President Shao, I have leads on what you asked to investigate."
"The one who contacted the marketing accounts to release information was Minghui dia."
"And Minghui dia's currently heavily promoted top male star is Fu Lianghui."
"Your guess was correct, Fu Lianghui must be directing this exposé from behind the scenes!"
At this point, Manager Qianqian couldn't help but admire Shao Yichen's sharp intuition. She had originally thought it might be a director from the sa cohort who disliked Shao Yichen, never expecting it to be an actor with whom she had no connection.
With this in mind, she continued: "So, President Shao, now that we know who's behind it, what should we do? Should we spread negative rumors about Fu Lianghui too? I checked, and there are quite a few rumors about his diva behavior, perhaps we could start from there—"
"No need," Shao Yichen interrupted.
After all, if soone spreads negative information about you and you do the sa in return, wouldn't that be lowering yourself to their level?
Precisely because their thods were so detestable to her, her side should all the more avoid using such thods!
With this thought, Shao Yichen changed direction and asked: "Does Fu Lianghui have any new projects lately?"
Manager Qianqian imdiately replied: "Besides his regular variety show, Fu Lianghui recently announced a leading male role."
Hearing this, Shao Yichen imdiately understood—this person either had been rejected by the film industry or felt his foundation was unstable and needed to show his face on television again, so he had returned to acting in TV dramas.
The question was whether, after this brave retreat from the film industry, he would be able to return.
Shao Yichen naturally wanted him to stay as far away as possible, but feared that with his company's strong backing, her wishes might not co true.
How could she teach him an appropriate lesson?
While Shao Yichen was thinking, Li Qianqian continued her report: "His next drama is called 'The Long Ballad of Immortals and Demons,' another xianxia drama that's his specialty. He plays the righteous male lead—wait?"
For so reason, Li Qianqian suddenly made a surprised sound. She said: "President Shao, hold on, let check sothing. I'll get back to you in a minute." Then she left the phone, sounding like she was searching for sothing.
After a mont, she returned: "I just confird, President Shao, our company also owns the rights to 'The Long Ballad of Immortals and Demons'!"
"But we bought the film rights, while Fu Lianghui's side probably has the web series rights."
Hearing this, Shao Yichen suddenly understood. Morning Star dia's cash flow problems were partly related to its practice of purchasing scripts everywhere, resulting in many accumulated scripts without the money to film them. This "Long Ballad of Immortals and Demons" was probably a product of that period.
With this realization, Shao Yichen suddenly thought of sothing.
Different screen adaptations of the sa work would inevitably be compared.
If soone perford much better than Fu Lianghui—wouldn't Fu Lianghui's performance naturally be criticized by everyone!
In that case, his plan to regain his reputation through this work would also be shattered.
With this thought, Shao Yichen imdiately made a decision.
"I've decided, since we have the rights, we'll also film 'The Long Ballad of Immortals and Demons'!"
She firmly declared: "We'll use our work to honorably outshine Fu Lianghui!"
Author's Note: Li Qianqian: Huh? Is the boss up to mischief again?
I had too many things to report yesterday, collapsed from exhaustion and couldn't update...
Let see if I can post another update tonight!
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