"Cut!"
Shao Yichen called for a stop, then decisively clapped her hands: "This shot is good. Let's prepare for the next one."
Hearing this, most crew mbers breathed a sigh of relief, especially Qin Lu and Jiang Miaomiao. As loyal team mbers who had followed Shao Yichen since the beginning of her filmmaking career, they knew very well that in previous productions directed by Shao Yichen, none had ever managed to get the first shot right on the first take...
Whether superstitious or not, this usually had a certain negative impact on crew morale.
Unexpectedly, this ti filming went so smoothly that seeing the situation, they felt relieved.
Li Xingyu walked to Duan Wenyue's side and helped her up gentlemanly: "Are you all right?"
Duan Wenyue shook her head. Although this scene appeared dangerous, it mainly relied on post-production effects. She had simply pretended to be knocked down by the sword's force, without any real danger.
Besides, even if she had been hurt, she wouldn't dare say anything in front of Li Xingyu—for so reason, although Li Xingyu was two or three years younger than her, she never dared get too close to this young actor, always feeling that he could easily see through her thoughts.
Originally, before joining the crew, she had planned to stir up so rumors about herself and Li Xingyu, but after eting him in person, she completely abandoned that idea.
Li Xingyu naturally didn't know what she was thinking. Seeing she wasn't injured, he didn't linger and walked to the cara to review the shot with Shao Yichen.
"Are you sure we don't need another take?" He gathered his long hair (attached with a hairpiece) to one side of his shoulder and tilted his head to look at Shao Yichen's monitor.
Shao Yichen shook her head, looking very satisfied: "Another take won't bring any substantial improvent. At most, it would just be a different approach to the performance. Better to save our energy for the next scene—after all, the character differences are quite significant."
Indeed, in the next scene, Li Xingyu had to transform to play the heart demon character.
This entire segnt depicted the first eting between the male and female leads. The female lead appeared to have accidentally wandered onto Changge Peak, but was actually lured there, hoping to et the rarely-seen immortal lord to uncover the mystery of her own origins.
Qi Changge might have his suspicions, but without evidence, and being righteous, he couldn't mistreat a young woman. Thus, the two t while each harboring their own thoughts.
But while they could maintain a peaceful appearance, the heart demon could not—being ford from demonic energy mixed with Qi Changge's desires, he was naturally unrestrained.
Through his demonic energy, he imdiately saw through the female lead's identity as a reincarnated powerful being, yet deliberately didn't expose her. Instead, he claid to be tired from traveling down the mountain and wanted to rest. Since the young lady had trespassed on immortal forbidden grounds, she naturally owed an apology. Why not let them stay overnight at her ho as compensation? While the female lead hesitated, the heart demon spoke vague words before her, each sentence hinting at her past life entanglents. In her mont of hesitation, the heart demon took advantage of the situation, and that night, Qi Changge and the heart demon both stayed at the female lead's ho.
In this part of the plot, although the heart demon wore a mask, both his actions and voice needed to be perford by Li Xingyu himself and couldn't be delegated to Little Bai, the stand-in.
Shao Yichen had initially been concerned about such significant character transitions, but when Li Xingyu returned to the scene in black robes, she was reassured by his transford presence.
Though masked, Li Xingyu's deanor was completely different.
His eyes held an ambiguous smile, and his voice lost its previous resonance, becoming languid instead.
Recalling various public accounts' evaluations of Li Xingyu, Shao Yichen felt that the title "most promising new-generation male actor" was truly well-deserved.
...She hoped this film wouldn't beco a stain on his performance record—not just for Li Xingyu, but for all other actors in the crew.
Filming for quality rather than loss for the first ti, Shao Yichen felt sowhat anxious about the results. She shook her head, raised her spirits, and called out: "Three, two, one, action!"
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The filming progressed very smoothly. Even though the crew maintained healthy nine-to-five working hours to accommodate Shao Yichen's laid-back lifestyle, the schedule didn't fall behind at all. Sotis they even completed filming ahead of schedule.
This was largely thanks to the seamless collaboration between Li Xingyu and Shao Yichen.
On this day, since Li Xingyu had successfully completed several important shots in one take, the crew wrapped up two hours early, finishing before four o'clock.
Shao Yichen was planning to return ho to study the script when she received a phone call—on her work number.
She looked at it and saw an unfamiliar na: Luo Anan.
Luo Anan? If she rembered correctly, wasn't this Li Xingyu's elusive, mysterious agent?
Shouldn't she be calling Li Xingyu instead?
Confused, Shao Yichen still answered the phone.
"Director Shao," Luo Anan got straight to the point after the call connected. "I have good news and bad news. Which would you like to hear first?"
Shao Yichen: ?
Are we close enough to play this guessing ga?
And what news concerning herself would Luo Anan know about—perhaps the good news was that she and Brother Lezi were finally ending their lovesick phase and getting married, while the bad news was that they planned to extort a large sum of wedding money from her?
She tentatively asked: "Can't you just tell both at once?"
Luo Anan: "Of course."
Shao Yichen: ...Then please do.
While Shao Yichen waited anxiously, agent Luo Anan hesitated. She explained to Shao Yichen: "Actually, this matter should have been told to Li Xingyu by ... but I'm not very familiar with him. This matter might be sowhat related to , and I feel a bit sorry, so I ca to tell you first."
"The good news is that the annual Golden Leaf Awards ceremony is coming up, and 'The Web'—directed by you with Li Xingyu as the lead—has been nominated."
Shao Yichen thought for a mont and suddenly realized that it was indeed the Golden Leaf Awards season.
The Golden Leaf Award was one of the most authoritative film awards in the country. Although it was sponsored by so private consortiums, the selection process was generally fair, giving it considerable prestige.
Moreover, it was regarded as a weathervane for the biennial highest film award, the "Golden Man Award." If you could win a Golden Leaf Award, your chances of winning a Golden Man Award the following year were quite high.
Her "Journey to the West on Film" was released after the Chinese New Year as part of the Spring Festival lineup, so it couldn't participate in this year's Golden Leaf Awards. But "The Last Wish" and "The Web" were both released last year, making them eligible for the competition.
As for why only "The Web" was nominated, that was perfectly normal—did "The Last Wish" have anything worth seeing besides Li Xingyu's face and acting?
The ghastly end credits song alone would probably scare the judges away on the spot.
If anything, Shao Yichen was pleasantly surprised that "The Web" had been nominated, especially since she had completely forgotten about the Golden Leaf Awards.
She pondered and felt this was entirely good news.
So what was the remaining bad news?
As if knowing what Shao Yichen was thinking, Luo Anan continued: "The bad news is that, from inside information, I learned that Li Xingyu had originally won the Best New Talent Award, but was replaced with soone else."
She hesitated before adding: "It might be related to ."
Shao Yichen: ?
Wasn't Luo Anan being a bit too self-important? As just an agent, could she really influence the notoriously fair Golden Leaf Awards?
After so back-and-forth with Luo Anan, she finally understood the specific situation.
It turned out that Liming Group was behind the removal of Li Xingyu's award.
What caliber of corporation was Liming Group? It was far more powerful than Shao Yichen's small company! After earning 300 million from one film, Shao Yichen's company could barely compete with the dia company under Liming Video Platform, but that was just a small subsidiary acquired by Liming Group.
Even the assets of Shao Yichen's family before her rebirth might not have been larger than Liming Group's scale.
As for people she knew after being reborn, Nan Rongyu and Nan Rongzhou's family assets might be comparable to Liming Group, but since the Nan family focused on manufacturing physical products like toys, they were far behind Liming Group in entertainnt industry influence.
With a conglorate of this caliber involved, even the Golden Leaf Awards, known for fairness, had to yield—after all, they still needed sponsors.
But what did this have to do with Luo Anan?
When she questioned Luo Anan, she learned about the convoluted process—Le Ziyao's family controlled 20% of Liming Group's shares, and because Le Ziyao was disapproved of by his family for persistently pursuing her, she suspected that Liming Group's executives might have revoked Li Xingyu's award to pressure her.
Shao Yichen was confused by this complex relationship for quite a while before barely understanding it.
But honestly, she didn't think this matter was related to Luo Anan—after all, if Luo Anan hadn't gone to the trouble of inquiring about the award, she wouldn't have known the inside story that the award wasn't going to Li Xingyu, making any notion of pressuring her aningless.
After hanging up, she went to discuss this with Li Xingyu.
Unexpectedly yet understandably, Li Xingyu wasn't particularly surprised by this news. However, when he heard that Luo Anan felt she had implicated him, he displayed a subtle expression.
He hesitated before saying: "I think this matter has nothing to do with Luo Anan."
Hearing this, Shao Yichen instinctively sensed gossip: "If it's not related to Luo Anan—then it's related to you?"
Li Xingyu neither confird nor denied, only saying: "Le Ziyao's family has always been supportive of his decisions and probably wouldn't use such thods to pressure him."
After thinking for a mont, he added: "I'll explain to my agent personally—but now that we know there's only a nomination, should our 'The Web' crew still attend the awards ceremony?"
Hearing this, Shao Yichen slapped the table and stood up: "Of course we should go! If there's no award this year, does that an there won't be one next year? We're scouting for next year now!"
"A new talent award doesn't an much now. Next year you might win Best Actor!"
Author's Note: Li Xingyu to the Golden Leaf Awards: holding a grudge.jpg
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