Chapter 134: It was over in an instant
Zhang Yuan and Xu Lu, the "star-crossed couple" in "The Story of a Noble Family", have now both found satisfying roles, and they naturally congratulated each other and laughed all the time.

However, the joys and sorrows of people are not the same.

While the two of them were rejoicing, one of them fell into deep self-doubt.

"What do you mean I didn't get the role?"

Nie Yuan looked at his assistant with a confused look on his face.

Like Zhang Yuan, after receiving the second audition notice from the crew, Nie Yuan waited for many days but received no further notice, so he asked his assistant to contact the crew to inquire about the details.

He wondered if something unexpected had happened on the set.
Or is it that someone with connections has blocked my seat?
If Zhang Yuan knew his guess, he would definitely say something...

"You're really good at reading people!"

But unfortunately, he met a master this time.

The assistant looked embarrassed, knowing that his boss had a bad temper. Seeing his face darken after hearing this answer, the assistant glanced at the door and even started planning an escape route.

"impossible?"

After a while, Nie Yuan frowned and tilted his head in confusion as he thought.

“I performed very well in the audition and the role suits my temperament.”

Nie Yuan carefully recalled the situation at that time.

"The director and screenwriter were full of praise for my performance, so they must be very satisfied."

"After the performance, he asked me about my recent schedule in detail. It was obvious that he had finalized the role and was planning to arrange a work schedule."

During the audition, he felt that things went extremely smoothly and that he should be a sure thing.

"Weird thing!"

"It's weird to ask me to audition again."

Nie Yuan kept tapping the table with his fingers, thinking irritably, and it took him a long time to speak again.

"Help me find out who got the role."

After the assistant nodded in agreement, he hurriedly picked up his phone and asked around.

Not long after, he returned to his boss in a disheveled state.

"Brother Yuan, I found out that we don't blame anyone for losing this time."

"What do you mean?"

"The role of the Seven Nights Demon Lord was eventually taken by an actor named Zhang Yuan."

"Who?" Nie Yuan looked confused. After a few seconds, he slapped the table and stood up suddenly: "It's him!"

That day, Nie Yuan finally recalled the fear of being dominated by Zhang Yuan...

"No...he...is not right..." Nie Yuan kept repeating incoherently.

He never imagined that the person who snatched his role away was the unknown person he met during the interview.

He was already thin, but after pacing for a few times, his veins bulged. The assistant could even see the beating rhythm of the meridians on his forehead.

Losing is not painful.

But it is painful to lose to someone who is “not as good as you”.

At that time, he confidently asked Xu Lu to say hello and apologize to Zhang Yuan on his behalf, saying that he had a firm grasp on the role. Thinking of this, his originally gray face suddenly turned red.

It’s so embarrassing!

I wanted to install a big one, but ended up pooping a big one.

"You've only been in the industry for a year and haven't even attended a professional school. Why should you replace me?" Nie Yuan was naturally unconvinced.

"Boss, I heard that although this person has only been in the industry for a year, he has already acted in four dramas." The assistant said timidly.

"What?" Nie Yuan's face and mouth were crooked, as if he was about to have a stroke.

"Besides, one movie has already become a hit, and the remaining three are all popular and have the potential to become big hits."

"Just because of this, the crew chose him?" Doesn't Nie Yuan know how crazy it is to film four dramas in a year?
But what scares him is not this workaholic behavior, but the fact that he can get four dramas, four dramas with the potential to become big hits!

Nie Yuan felt astringent and sour sensation on his back teeth.

He is dodging here and there, making a lot of noise. He can only get one or two dramas a year, and not all of them can be broadcast, let alone become popular.

How can he, who has no education,... That's right, he must have a background!

"Boss, I heard that Zhang Yuan helped the crew solve the problems at the filming location, so..."

"No wonder!"

"I said how could I lose based on my strength, it turns out someone took the back door!" Nie Yuan gritted his teeth.

He himself used Huang Yi's back door to get into the crew of "Marrying the Wrong Man" and squeezed out Sha Yishi without caring whether others were gritted or not.

At this moment, Nie Yuan was filled with envy, jealousy and hatred, and his mentality exploded.

But people need to grow up. This is only the first time. With more contact with Zhang Yuan and more experiences in the future, you will get used to it after a few explosions.

Zhang Yuan had no idea about Nie Yuan's emotional turmoil.

Even if he knew, he wouldn't care.

In the entertainment industry, losers have no say.

He read the script carefully in the courtyard every day to prepare for the start of filming.

Brother Qian has been going to Guangde Building more and more often recently and is apparently addicted to it.

No wonder they met such a suitable partner. The two of them are like a perfect match and work together seamlessly.

This is also a good thing for Zhang Yuan, after all, their performances can make more money for the company.

However, although Zhang Yuan hinted at it, Brother Qian had no intention of joining the company. He just wanted to maintain this natural state of being close yet distant, performing when he wanted to and resting when he wanted to.

Otherwise, why do people say that Brother Qian lives a free and casual life?

He was enjoying a rare leisure time, waiting for Brother Qian to come home in the evening and preparing dinner.

It’s not that Zhang Yuan is lazy, it’s that Brother Qian likes to cook.

At the same time, his stomach and intestines were trained to withstand the destruction of the other party's cold dishes.

Zhang Yuan's strong stomach and Qian Ge's cooking "talent" are simply a match made in heaven.

A hot pot was lit in the room and just as they were about to start eating, Zhang Yuan received a phone call.

"Are you free tonight?"

Who's calling?
Wang Fei.

"Sister, I happen to be in the imperial capital."

"That's just right. Come to my house, the same villa we stayed at last time, and play cards." When Wang Fei heard that he was in the local area, he immediately started making arrangements.

After agreeing, Zhang Yuan greeted Brother Qian.

"I have to go out for a while, and I don't think I'll be back tonight, so don't hold the door open for me."

"What's wrong?" Brother Qian was peeling pickled garlic and looked up and asked.

"Wang Fei wants me to play cards?"

"Which Wang Fei?"

"Isn't it just Wang Fei?" Zhang Yuan said with a smile, "It can't be Princess Diana."

"Then we have to go to Babaoshan to play cards."

There are a large number of cemeteries in Babaoshan, the capital, and Brother Qian and the two of them were teasing each other.

"You also know Wang Fei!" Brother Qian reacted now and said in surprise.

He thought to himself that his little brother was becoming more and more unfathomable, as he was surrounded by important people.

"By the way, I've noticed that you've been wearing a new watch on your wrist lately. It looks pretty good. Is it a reward for yourself after you got rich?"

"This one." Zhang Yuan turned up his sleeves, revealing the Cartier watch.

"It was given to me by someone else. How could I afford to buy such an expensive watch?" When he saw the watch, he thought of the quirky Alyssa Chia.

"From Princess Diana?"

Brother Qian called back.

"It was given to me by Alyssa Chia. I went to Taiwan a few days ago." Zhang Yuan recalled his trip to Taiwan. The most unforgettable thing were the few nights of passion he spent there.

Brother Qian shook his head helplessly.

It's really frustrating to compare yourself with others!
When others want to pursue a girl, they have to keep going forward, treating her to meals and giving her gifts.

When it comes to my little brother, not only do I not see him giving gifts to others, but women actually come to him.

Brother Qian took a sip of the white wine and thought again.

It seemed like there was more than one person. When he left home before, a graceful and gorgeous woman came to visit him.

Judging from the look in his eyes, he obviously came for love.

"I don't know how many girls my brother will seduce in the future."

Zhang Yuan finished his meal in a hurry, hailed a car and rushed to Wang Fei's villa.

When I arrived at the gate of the community, I called the Queen first.

The access control of this super high-end residential area is very strict, and you can't get in without someone to pick you up.

Not long after, Zhang Yuan saw a thin figure rushing towards him in the darkness.

"Sister, you came to pick me up in person. This is such a great honor." Zhang Yuan did not expect that Wang Fei would come to the door in person.

"I have something to say to you." Wang Fei pulled him aside and spoke as they walked.

After playing mahjong last time, after a few days of silence, Wang Fei found someone else to play again.

After all, after the battle with Zhang Yuan, she felt that she had made great progress and wanted to show off her skills. As you can imagine, the result was that the queen lost so badly that she even lost her pants.

After Wang Fei left the table, he felt something was not right.

One last slap on the thigh.

"I understand!"

"Zhang Yuanwang me!"

She was the first to deny the possibility that she was the one who played so badly.

Instead of reflecting on herself, she blames others. The queen still has a good attitude.

"Remember to keep an eye on the cards for me later." Wang Fei said with a wink.

"I know." How could Zhang Yuan not understand what she meant? "But my card skills are not as good as yours, so I can only try my best."

"That's..." Wang Fei is particularly praised for his music, but not for his card playing skills.

Zhang Yuan's words almost made the queen's eyebrows fly up to the sky.

When I entered the room, there were already two tall, thin, middle-aged women sitting at the card table. One looked familiar, and the other unfamiliar.

"This is the little mahjong master of Pi Tiao Hutong, Zhang Yuan." Wang Fei was still playing for him.

If he wasn't thick-skinned enough, he would have crawled under the table.

Of course, Wang Fei reported the number not only to praise him, but also to praise himself.

After all, she had already spread the news of her killing of Little Sparrow Saint in three consecutive days throughout the entertainment circle of the imperial capital.

"This is Xu Fan."

"This is Lin Cong."

Zhang Yuan hurriedly greeted him politely, and at the same time he understood why Wang Fei called him over.

One reason was that he wanted to introduce him to some connections, and the second was the identities of these two players.

Needless to say, Xu Fan is director Feng's second wife and a top figure in today's television and film circles.

And this Lin Congke said it.

This middle-aged woman with ordinary looks once served as the executive director of "I Love My Family" and also co-directed the comedy "Idle Sister Ma" starring Teacher Cai Ming with Yingda.

Last year, he also co-directed an urban fashion comedy called "Diary of a Networm" with Lu Xiaopin.

This film may not be as famous as "I Love My Family" and "Idle Ma Sister", but one of the male protagonists of this drama became famous later.

He is the "Oil King" Huang Xiaoming. Many viewers' first impression of Huang Xiaoming is the character named Yu Baimei in the film.

That’s right, this character comes from the screenwriter of the film, Yu Baimei, a famous Chinese comedy screenwriter.

In this film, Huang Xiaoming already shows signs of being greasy, which shows that his greasy nature is innate, not acquired.

Since his debut, Lin Cong has not only worked with most of the masters in the northern Chinese comedy world, but is also Yingda's official disciple.

But if we talk about his most famous work, it is "Home with Kids", which is not yet released but will become popular all over the country in the future.

Zhang Yuan took a look and roughly understood it.

Based on the relationship between Yingda and Feng Xiaogang, Xu Fan and Lin Cong must be familiar with each other and can be considered as a group.

Wang Fei must have known that she would be at a disadvantage against two people alone, so she had to find a helper.

As for why we found Zhang Yuan.

Among the people she knew who was good at playing cards, who lived in the capital, and who was willing to support her in her playing, it seemed that Zhang Yuan was the only one.

If that sound was called, it would be good enough that the woman didn't argue with Wang Fei, how could she be fed cards?

“Zhang Yuan, there is no hierarchy at the poker table. You can’t be timid just because they are seniors in the entertainment industry.” Wang Fei started the pre-battle trash talk.

"Why are you wasting your words? I don't think he is nervous at all. But you, don't get too angry when you lose and use your daughter to pay off your debts. We can't afford that." Xu Fan rolled his eyes at her.

The game started, and after a few rounds, the people who were originally strangers gradually became familiar with each other.

"Zhang Yuan, your name sounds familiar to me." Xu Fan played a two-tube card: "I think someone mentioned it to me before?"

"Sister Fan, I seem to have heard of it too." Lin Cong on the side threw out a card and asked in confusion.

"Hey, you guys are not trying to get close to my friends and turn them over, are you?" Wang Fei immediately became alert.

"Look at how petty you are." Xu Fan said with a crooked smile.

Zhang Yuan sorted out the cards and thought for a moment. They had heard of me...

"Teacher Xu, Teacher Lin, I met Teacher Zhang Guoli when I was filming a TV series, right..."

"Yes, it's him. I remember him now!" Xu Fan suddenly realized, looking relieved: "It is said that I met a young actor who can write calligraphy and sing clappers on the set. It turned out to be you."

"Nice to meet you."

Xu Fan took some time to shake hands with him.

With this relationship, Zhang Yuan quickly became friends with his two new friends.

"Don't call me teacher, it's so formal. Guoli's friends are our own, just call them sister." Xu Fan waved her hand generously and pushed the cards away at the same time.

"Bullshit!"

"Take the money!" Then he stretched out his hand towards Wang Fei.

Queen Wang's mouth corners almost fell to the ground, and she winked at Zhang Yuan, as if saying something.

"You promised to help me?"

Zhang Yuan was also helpless.

We were ready to fight to the death, but Your Highness surrendered first.

I can't feed as fast as you do, I really can't keep up with your pace.

Beep, beep, beep... Wang Fei was frowning when suddenly his cell phone rang.

She hung up the phone reluctantly. She hated being disturbed when she was playing cards.

Beep, beep, beep...press off.

Beep, beep, beep...press off.

beep...

After three or four times in a row, Wang Fei clamped the phone between his chin and shoulder while shuffling the cards, and answered the call with his head tilted impatiently.

"Hey, what's going on? You keep hitting me. It's killing me!"

Xu Fan wrinkled his nose and shook his head at Zhang Yuan: "Look at her, she becomes a nobody when she plays cards."

"Everyone has to have some hobbies..." Zhang Yuan hurriedly tried to smooth things over.

Xu Fan smiled and thought, this kid is young, but he is quite straightforward in what he says and does, no wonder Old Wang called him here.

Gudong!

A few people were shuffling cards when they heard a loud noise.

Lift your head and look up and down.

“There wasn’t an earthquake either?”

Xu Fan and Lin Cong were still looking everywhere, fortunately Zhang Yuan reacted quickly.

"Where are the non-sisters?"

"Oh, yes, where is Lao Wang?"

The three of them lowered their heads, and Wang Fei fell to the ground along with the chair.

"Hey, help him up quickly!"

After all, Zhang Yuan was a man and very strong, so he and the other man quickly moved the chairs into position.

At this moment, the Queen's eyes rolled back, her lips were tightly closed, and her cheeks, which had been rosy just now, were now turning purple.

Xu Fan saw that something was wrong and quickly pinched his philtrum: "I just won against you, there's no need to be so angry."

His philtrum was almost pinched to bleed, and Wang Fei took a deep breath and suddenly woke up.

"Old Wang, what's wrong?"

"I, I fainted...what happened..." Wang Fei was confused and the computer was in a state of downtime.

"You just received a phone call and then fell unconscious."

"Yes, a phone call!" Wang Fei's expression changed drastically, as if struck by lightning.

Then there was a "ka" sound, and he fainted again and fell into coma.

"I don't dare play cards with her anymore. She's too damn scary!" Xu Fan panicked when he saw this.

Zhang Yuan hurriedly took off Wang Fei's slippers and pressed hard on several major acupoints on the soles of her feet.

Ah!
After a scream, the Queen woke up again.

After a few seconds of relaxation, Wang Fei had a blank expression on her face, and two lines of hot tears rolled out of her almond-shaped eyes, like melting winter snow, unstoppable.

"What's wrong?" Xu Fan squatted down, holding her head and asked.

Zhang Yuan picked up the hot tea on the table and put it to her lips.

Wang Fei's entire body was like an inflatable doll with a hole in it. He became limp and didn't even have the strength to straighten his spine.

"Tell me, what happened?"

Wang Fei gasped heavily, and it took him a long time to squeeze out a few barely audible words from between his teeth.

"Guo, Guo Rong, is gone..."

(End of this chapter)