"Why does he look like that?"

After leaving the dressing room, Zhang Yuan was still wondering.

"I don't blame him."

"Why is he so flustered?"

Huang Xiaoming felt that Zhang Yuan was still kind to him and was using this method to release his authority as the "number one boss in Huayi."

This is more painful than slapping him in the face.

After all, a slap in the face will only hurt for three days at most.

But communicating with him in such a warm manner was like a mountain pressing down on his heart.

But he completely misunderstood Zhang Yuan.

In his mind, it is normal for people in the entertainment industry to compete for roles with each other, and it is a zero-sum game.

And he knew very well that the main problem lay with the Huayi brothers, and Huang Xiaoming was just a fish they wanted to catch.

He had already figured out the main contradiction. Since the main problem was not with Huang Xiaoming, why should he go against him?

We'll meet each other every day, so there's no point in making things awkward.

But he didn't know that the other party was immersed in the "Huayi No. 1" dispute, which he had no interest in, and couldn't get out of it at all.

Also known as “the number one brother in Huayi”.

The layout is too small.

Zhang Yuan wants Huayi and his brother to call him brother one day.

Different from those guys who wanted to be "Song Jiang", Zhang Yuan was determined to be "The Great Sage".

Inside the audition room.

Feng Xiaogang, Yuan Hepin, Wang Zhonglei, and one of the founders of Huanya, have now become Johnson & Johnson under Lin Jianyue after the company was acquired.

Mr. Zhuang is also the planner and consultant of the Hong Kong Film Awards.

At this time, Zhang Yuan, wearing a white robe, came to the center of the room, folded his hands, leaned forward slightly, and made a standard bow as a courtesy for ancient men to greet each other.

He glanced at the four people behind the table.

Feng Xiaogang grinned at him.

Yuan Hepin had met him a while ago and waved to him.

Xiao Wang crossed his arms and wore his signature smile.

But when she saw Zhang Yuan enter the room, she instinctively put her left wrist inside... The key point was that she was wearing a watch and she was afraid that it would be stolen.

Zhuang Chen accepted Lin Jianyue's order and knew that the young man had already agreed with his boss, so he nodded slightly at him.

"The referees, the witnesses, and all the organizers and co-organizers are all my people. How can you fight me?"

After Zhang Yuan looked at these four people, Nicholas Tse's father's lines emerged in his mind.

Feng Xiaogang secretly glanced at Wang Zhonglei, then looked at Zhang Yuan.

"This kid is really good."

"As long as it's beneficial to me, aren't you afraid that Xiao Wang will be unhappy... But that's true."

Director Feng smiled with a crooked mouth.

"The best thing about him is that he is not controlled by emotions."

"He didn't get back the role that was taken away by Huang Xiaoming."

"If you do this, you're provoking the Wang brothers."

"He saved the role for Huang Xiaoming, which was to save face for Hua Yi."

"At the same time, I am also proving to the two brothers that not all my abilities were given by Huayi."

To be honest, Feng Xiaogang is a little envious of Zhang Yuan.

It’s good to be young!

He dared to test Huayi's bottom line, unlike himself, who could only pretend to be the grandson of those two brothers to make money.

"My father's soul is wandering outside this palace!"

After picking up the lines and story outline and taking a look at them, Zhang Yuan's expression changed and he gave his own interpretation of the role.

After Zhang Yuan said this, he felt numb.

It is completely based on the model of foreign stage plays and domestic dramas.

These days, several big domestic directors and big companies have collectively begun to turn to overseas markets because of the success of "Hero".

A bunch of blockbuster titles aiming to make inroads into overseas markets will explode next year.

Of course, after a while they will find that this approach does not work.

Just like how they later collectively turned to investing in the South Korean entertainment industry.

This is the limitation of the times.

But no matter what the role or the script is, he has always believed that as an actor, as long as he does his job well and interprets the role to the best of his ability, that's enough.

As for the rest, not all of them are under his control.

After finishing his lines, Zhang Yuan swung his wide robe and sleeves and began to dance on the wooden floor of the audition room, performing an elegant folk dance.

Soft yet strong, quiet as water, moving like fire.

He combined it with some martial arts moves, which made the "judges" nod their heads repeatedly.

"Okay, with him and his movement foundation, I can design more difficult moves." Mr. Ba said with a smile.

Yuan Heping is very busy. He just finished working on "Huo Yuanjia" and now he has to serve as the action director for this movie.

Wang Zhonglei narrowed his eyes and nodded slightly.

He had seen Wu Yan's group's performance last time.

How should I put it... A-Zu is pretty good.

Mainly because it looks good.

But although Zhang Yuan looked no worse than him, his temperament and expressions were obviously better.

There are also some fatal lines.

There is no way to cover up Daniel Wu’s accent, so it will definitely need to be dubbed in post-production.

There is no need for Zhang Yuan, he has a charming voice and his line delivery skills are obviously much better.

Coupled with the dance and martial arts skills, no matter who comes, there is nothing wrong with it.

In fact, when his brother knew that Zhang Yuan had a private talk with Lin Jianyue about getting the role, he was very unhappy.

"He didn't even say hello to us." Wang Zhongjun said angrily.

"We didn't tell him, and when we signed the contract, we said we would give him a role."

Zhang Yuan was recruited by him, so Xiao Wang naturally had to say a few words for him.

His brother knew he was in the wrong, so he kept silent.

"Besides, he didn't squeeze out Huang Xiaoming, so it won't affect our recruitment of him."

"Besides, he has just been to Cannes, which will help sell the film overseas." Xiao Wang and Lin Jianyue had similar ideas.

"I'm afraid that he will keep rushing forward and be difficult to control." This is what Wang Zhongjun has always been worried about.

"What's there to be afraid of?" Xiao Wang didn't care.

"As long as the Xiang family is here, he can't leave our Huayi."

"Plus, with the existence of the gambling agreement, he has to risk his life to make money."

"The more he fights, the better it is for us."

"With the Xiang family and the contract as two huge obstacles, can he still escape?"

"Besides, do you think those crappy TV series and low-budget movies he invested in can make money?"

"If we fail to achieve revenue, we will lose cash."

"The money he makes now will eventually go into our pockets."

"Hahahaha...that's right." The king also laughed.

The two brothers have similar but different temperaments. The elder brother is more pragmatic, while the younger brother is more arrogant, so they are always easily overconfident.

For example, now, he looked calmly at Zhang Yuan who had finished the performance and clapped his hands.

I thought to myself. No matter how much you struggle, there is the Xiang family outside and the gambling agreement inside, which are like two iron chains locked around this kid's neck. How can he run away?
"Is everyone okay with this?" Feng Xiaogang turned and looked at the people around him.

After getting the affirmative answer he knew he would get, Feng Xiaogang waved his hand and said, "Okay, Zhang Yuan, go to the next door to take the final makeup photos."

Zhang Yuan bowed, flicked his sleeves, and turned to leave.

The person who entered the room after him was Huang Xiaoming, who was wearing armor.

The armor he wore was well-made, with images of tigers and leopards carved on it, and looked very domineering.

But everyone noticed that when Huang Xiaoming stood there, his whole aura was very depressed.

It was not like this last time. At that time, the armor was not yet ready, so he was just wearing an ancient costume and his performance was majestic and much more energetic than it is now.

Feng Xiaogang scratched the bridge of his nose: "Is it because Zhang Yuan has suppressed him that he has lost his temper?"

"Xiaoming's mentality is not good. He is much worse than that kid."

Wang Zhonglei also saw Huang Xiaoming's problem.

Just now, Zhang Yuan looked domineering even when he was wearing a white robe, but this guy in armor looked weak.

A hint of dissatisfaction appeared between Xiao Wang's brows.

"I was hoping that after he came, he could help me suppress Zhang Yuan's momentum so that he would be more obedient."

"Tsk, with him like this now, who's going to suppress who?"

……

Not long after, Zhang Yuan took a few sets of photos, then changed into two sets of clothes and took more photos. It was not known how many times he was dazzled by the flash before he was officially finished.

"Brother Xiaoming, I'm leaving." After removing his makeup in the dressing room, Wang Xiaoming just happened to return to the room.

“Okay, I won’t see you off.” Huang Xiaoming had a smile on his face, but he was thinking in his heart, “You should leave soon!”
Just having you in front of me makes me feel uncomfortable.

"See you on the set later." Zhang Yuan shook hands with the other party and turned to leave.

He had to rush back to the mountain city to shoot the remaining shots.

The advantage of being an investor is that in the crew of "Crazy Stone", he can leave whenever he has something to do, and no one dares to say anything.

"Huh..." In the dressing room, Huang Xiaoming breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the door closed.

"It's not as stressful to talk to him as wearing more than ten kilograms of armor." He complained.

The assistant next to him is operating the computer.

Huang Xiaoming is quite fashionable and also knows the communication power of online forums.

So he asked his assistant to help him maintain it at all times.

"Brother Xiaoming, your number of votes has surpassed Nie Yuan!" The assistant said to him with a smile after fiddling with it for a while.

"What vote?"

"It's the one where TOM.com organizes an online entertainment hero meeting and lets the entire network audience vote."

"Oh, I remembered it. It was quite lively." Huang Xiaoming turned his head away.

Cheng Hao and Zhang Yuan had mentioned this before. A data analysis website run by the Li family in Hong Kong held an online festival for publicity, and both of them were on the voting list.

Huang Xiaoming, a popular young actor, is naturally also on the list.

"It's good enough to surpass Nie Yuan. At that time, he and I had a life-and-death battle over The Return of the Condor Heroes, and he even went to the media to expose me!" Huang Xiaoming clenched his fist angrily.

But he soon unclenched his fist.

Because in the end, no one ended up well when he came.

"Who else but me?"

"Chen Kun, Tong Dawei, Xia Yu, Yu Bo, Deng Chao..."

It basically covers all the popular young actors from mainland China in the TV drama and film industry in recent years.

This website has an interesting voting list for men and women, and those with the highest number of votes will be awarded the titles of "Four Famous Dan Actresses" and "Four Little Freshmen".

There will also be an award ceremony, which will be very grand.

"All the talented ones are here. Although online voting is not as good as the three gold awards and major awards such as the Popular Hundred Flowers Awards and the Feitian Golden Eagle Awards, online publicity is also very important now. Please help me keep an eye on it." Huang Xiaoming arranged.

The makeup artist was helping him remove his armor, giving his shoulders a sense of relief.

While busying himself, he asked casually.

"Who has the most votes now?"

"Uh..." The assistant was stunned and did not answer.

"Who got the most votes?" One of Xiao Ming's assistants didn't hear and asked again in a good-tempered manner.

"Yes... Zhang Yuan." The assistant asked cautiously.

But he saw his boss's shoulders tilted and he almost fell down.

Even after taking off his armor, Huang Xiaoming felt his shoulders became heavier.

The assistant thought to himself, I deliberately didn't mention Zhang Yuan's name just now, but you still had to ask again and again...

On the other side, Zhang Yuan walked out the door and led his assistant to the airport.

Zhao Xunxun was carrying two suitcases and walking briskly.

She glanced at her boss.

In the past, she thought that popular young actors like Huang Xiaoming were big stars, and it was a big deal for her to meet him once, so she had to ask him for an autograph and take a photo with him.

Now following Zhang Yuan everywhere, he saw Huang Xiaoming's submissive attitude towards his boss just now.

Zhao Xunxun thought this was not a good idea.

"Hello..." Zhang Yuan didn't know what his assistant was thinking about. He picked up the ringing phone, answered it, and put it to his ear.

"Zhang Yuan, I'm Liu Yanming."

"Hello, Mr. Liu..."

The two exchanged pleasantries, and the boss of Hairun Pictures was quite polite to him.

"I'm calling to tell you that 'Drawing Sword' will be broadcast on CCTV-1 tonight."

"You are one of the investors, I need to tell you."

"You are so thoughtful." Zhang Yuan hurriedly thanked him.

The first film that I prepared for the Huayi gambling contract is finally going to be released!

The initial investment was 700 million, the later production cost was 200 million, plus the additional funds of 450 million from him.

The total cost of this film is only 1350 million.

But CCTV only gave 10 yuan per episode and required that the 30-episode story be cut into 24 episodes.

There is no way. These days, CCTV's average purchase price for TV dramas is 20 per episode. After 08, the value of actors skyrocketed, and in 10, CCTV's average purchase price for each episode was only more than 80.

The movie "Drawing Sword" was not well received, so naturally the price for the film was very low.

Moreover, the potential of television stations is limited. Even after more than ten years, the price charged by the four major TV stations for a drama is at most 300 million per episode.

However, the price charged by online platforms at the same time could reach tens of millions per episode!
This is also why the Radio, Film and Television Administration later issued a salary cap order. Those online platforms really dared to give the leading actors a paper salary of over 100 million!
"Zhang Yuan, no matter how well this drama performs, I'm looking forward to working with you in the future," Boss Liu said politely.

"Hairun products must be high-quality, how can they be bad?"

"Hahaha..." Boss Liu was very happy to hear him say that.

After returning to the crew, Zhang Yuan became busy again.

A few days later, the premiere performance report of "Drawing Sword" came out.

Liu Yanming couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the soaring ratings.

The broadcast results made Boss Liu very happy.

CCTV did not expect the results to be so good and specially called Lao Liu to congratulate him.

Old Liu called Zhang Yuan to congratulate him again.

Everyone was immersed in the joyful and peaceful atmosphere.

Of course, there are also those who are unhappy.

Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei looked at the data report brought by their assistant in silence.

It was eerily quiet in the office.

They felt that one of the two chains hanging around Zhang Yuan's neck seemed to make a creaking sound and loosen... (End of this chapter)