Chapter 475: Cliff-like Lead

"I don't know how you did it."

In the courtyard of Pi Tiao Hutong, a few days after returning from Singapore, Cheng Hao came to him with a stack of information.

It is rare to see such a confused and surprised expression on the face of this extremely intelligent woman who has been an excellent learner since childhood.

What was different from the past was that the information she usually brought to Zhang Yuan was mostly from advertisers who came to her.

And today, in addition to business, there are also a lot of interview invitations from the media!
"More than 20 companies, basically covering all major cities across the country."

"I've never seen these TV stations pay so much attention to an actor." The good sister held her chin with one hand and looked straight at him, her eyes full of admiration.

"Because they don't want to interview me as an actor," Zhang Yuan replied.

The photo of him carrying Li Xiaofeng, who was holding the national flag, and named "He carries Chinese e-sports" went viral on the Internet.

Countless young people who had never known him in the field of film and television knew his name, which greatly broadened his "national popularity".

"Is there anyone from CCTV?" Zhang Yuan asked.

"No."

"Then I won't go."

"You're still so picky." Cheng Hao smiled and tapped his forehead with her finger as if in a reproachful manner.

"At times like this, exposure is necessary, but it cannot be blind exposure."

"Going around performing at various events will only cause resentment among those new supporters."

"People will think I'm using this to hype myself up," Zhang Yuan stated his reasons.

Cheng Hao thought about it, smiled and nodded, feeling that it was right for him to be so careful about his reputation.

"Although there is no CCTV, there is an appointment with Lu Yu. Are you interested?"

"That's fine." He nodded in agreement.

Although Lu Yu often asks soul-searching questions, this talk show is ultimately one of the most watched and well-known in China.

It is easier to increase publicity than interviews with ordinary provincial TV stations.

What many people don’t know is that Lu Yu was originally a CCTV host, and in 94 he was awarded the title of CCTV’s Top Ten Most Popular Hosts.

But a year later, he suddenly and quietly resigned from CCTV.

Later, he joined Phoenix TV and started the show "Lu Yu You Yue".

But unlike most programs, her relationship with Phoenix TV is more like a partnership.

"Lu Yu You Yue" is similar to a studio and a small company.

Later, he joined Mango TV with "Lu Yu You Yue", and later jumped to Anhui TV, and finally left Hainan TV.

But no matter how you look at it, being on this show is helpful to Zhang Yuan's reputation.

"Then I'll reply to their program team." Cheng Hao ticked the information.

"By the way, there are many more online games among the endorsements you are looking for this time."

If you are a brother, come and chop me up... When Zhang Yuan heard this, the image of Zha Zha Hui suddenly popped up in his mind.

"This... be more cautious." Zhang Yuan frowned and thought: "After all, e-sports is e-sports, and games are games."

"In our country, there is a difference between the two. E-sports has official support, but games may not."

"Okay, I understand. You think there is a risk, right?" Cheng Hao put a cross on the information again.

"Now you know why I have to spend so much money to support players and set up a club." Zhang Yuan stretched and said happily.

"I see. You are smart and far-sighted. That's enough." Cheng Hao chuckled happily, "How could I have known that this would cause such a big response."

"That's because you don't play games."

"Just like the adults on the Internet who are firmly against gaming."

"They believe that pornographic and violent information in games and on the Internet will poison young people."

"But they play mahjong and watch pornographic videos, and never think there is anything wrong with these things."

"It is never the games or the internet that poison young people, but these toxic adults."

"Well, there are indeed many young people on the Internet who support you. They now treat you as one of their own."

"That's good... Oh, right." Zhang Yuan remembered, "Go check out the car soon."

"It's the end of the year and I need to deduct taxes, so I bought a few."

Zhao Xunxun has never had the chance to touch the steering wheel since he passed the driving test. It just so happens that the money from buying a car can be used to deduct taxes, so why not do it.

"How many?" Cheng Hao asked puzzledly.

"You need it too, don't you? You're also a shareholder of the agency and you manage several people, so you need a private car."

"Find a professional driver to follow you. No one can be wronged."

"Including the one I use exclusively for entertaining and picking up artists, there will be at least three."

"Just see what's suitable."

"Oh." The good sister agreed.

I have seen that he had to bargain hard when buying a house in the beginning, but now he is rich enough to buy several cars and houses at a time.

She felt that Zhang Yuan was progressing too fast!
She had never seen an actor's popularity rise so quickly.

He wasn't the only one who felt this way.

The Wang brothers of Huayi have also been paying attention to Zhang Yuan's performance in Singapore in recent days.

"He always comes up with something new for us." Wang Zhonglei pushed a stack of magazines aside.

Although these magazines are about film, television and fashion, they have nothing to do with games.

However, due to Zhang Yuan's strong connection with film and television, he still appeared on important pages of many magazines.

"I've seen quite a few people online say he's a must-see when he makes a movie."

“In that case, his contribution to the movie box office should be much higher than that of actors of the same level.” Xiao Wang said, touching his chin.

“So, it was a lucky coincidence that he was cast as the second male lead in The Banquet?” Wang Zhongjun replied.

"No, he fought for this role himself."

"It was also his own fault that he went to Singapore and caused such a big commotion."

"We don't know."

The king thought that Zhang Yuan had done a lot of things behind Hua Yi's back, and it was not certain whether this was good or bad for Hua Yi.

"He's popular, so we can use more of him." Xiao Wang didn't have so many concerns.

"Anyway, the bet agreement has been signed. If he fails to achieve the revenue in the first year, he should make up for it with cash."

"When the time comes, we can convert this part of the debt into film contracts to offset the film remuneration, and let him work for us for free, wouldn't that be better?"

"Yes!" The king smiled when he heard his younger brother say this.

"It just so happens that we are also about to start preparing for the IPO. Next we need to start making big investments to support the financial statements, and we just happen to need someone who can support the box office."

"Speaking of this, I just remembered, brother." Wang Zhonglei mentioned: "The scene of "Night Banquet" has been almost completed."

“The construction of “Ink Attack” is also about to be completed.”

"It is expected that the two films will start shooting at about the same time."

"Hahaha, great!" Wang Zhongjun was overjoyed.

Huayi invested nearly 200 million yuan in the two films "A Warring States" and "The Banquet", which basically emptied Huayi's savings.

They really need to make a comeback after Sister Hua left!

And the Wang brothers are also very smart.

The actors used in "The Banquet" are basically the "newcomers" that Huayi wants to recruit in the next stage.

Including Huang Xiaoming, Zhou Xun and Zhang Ziyi.

How do we deal with the existing ones?
Especially the two ices under his command.

In order to "keep things fair", the two brothers of the Wang family adopted the method of "taking turns" of the two ice players, just like before.

Not long after Fan Bingbing won an award for "Cell Phone", she was asked to star in the commercial film "The Warring States".

Li Bingbing had just starred in the commercial film "A World Without Thieves", so she was asked to star in "The Legend of Mi Yue", an art film with a high probability of winning awards.

In this way, the two can make progress alternately in commercial value and acting honors, and neither of them has any complaints.

Therefore, the two kings felt that their methods of controlling their subordinates were very sophisticated, which was why they were so confident that they could control Zhang Yuan.

"Kaige's The Promise is about to be released."

"Since Lao Mouzi has opened the era of costume blockbusters, we can't fall behind. This is a major trend."

“Kaige is very confident in The Promise this time, spending nearly 100 million yuan on publicity and promotion alone, and opening up all channels at home and abroad.”

“This is a great thing for us.”

"After all, "Warrior Warriors" and "The Banquet" are also period costume blockbusters."

"As long as The Promise sells well and overseas film producers see the market potential of Chinese period dramas, then we won't have to worry about the overseas sales of our two films."

"Back then, 'The Emperor and the Assassin' caused us to lose tens of millions of dollars."

"This time, when he opens the door to the Chinese blockbuster market going abroad next year, we can also benefit from it."

"Let's consider it as his compensation to us!"

"Haha, Kaige, ah Kaige, he doesn't know that we are just unaware of the oriole behind us!"

What they don't know is that poet Chen is not Lao Mouzi. He is not good at "opening the door", but he is good at "closing the door"...

With a total cost of 4000 million US dollars, "The Promise" did not bring about the glory of a Chinese-language blockbuster, but instead a scene of misery.

In addition to these two brothers, there are two others who are also paying attention to Zhang Yuan’s recent performance on the Internet.

These two are Zhang Yuan’s “old friends”.

Huang Xiaoming and Nie Yuan.

A few days ago, when Zhang Yuan had just returned from Singapore, Huang Xiaoming was still beautiful.

"Finally I defeated that bastard Nie Yuan!"

What he was talking about was the voting for the “Four Little Freshmen” on TOM.com.

On the day of the audition and makeup for "Night Banquet", he learned that Zhang Yuan ranked first in the number of votes for male artist.

This "hard-working" guy decided to spend money!

Anyway, this is not the first time he has done this. In order to get the male lead in "The Return of the Condor Heroes", he even "recharged" the bearded man.

But at that time, his opponent was Nie Yuan, his "old enemy". They had been at odds for a long time.

After all, their positioning is similar, their reputations are similar, and they are in strong competition.

Last year, they were both awarded the title of Top Ten Actors of China Television.

They even fought fiercely over the casting.

The feud had already been established.

Huang Xiaoming asked his assistant to contact a large number of forum moderators, recharge and buy tickets, just to get the top spot in the website's selection.

For him, it is important to surpass his two competitors, Zhang Yuan and Nie Yuan, in any aspect.

What's more, the TOM.com voting is quite big. I heard that there will be a large-scale award ceremony and heavyweight guests in the industry will be invited to participate.

It's a good opportunity to show up.

Sure enough, after spending the money, he immediately surpassed Zhang Yuan in the number of votes.

But before she had been beautiful for a few days, the assistant came running to her anxiously.

"Brother Xiao Ming, bad news, your votes have been surpassed again!"

He looked up and saw that Nie Yuan had caught up with him at some point.

Huang Xiaoming's eyes suddenly turned red.

Angry!

"They must have resorted to such despicable means as paying for tickets!"

If someone who is not familiar with him heard this, they would think that his votes were innocent.

This time, both new and old grudges are settled together. Last time, "The Return of the Condor Heroes" failed to determine the winner and was snatched away by Zhang Yuan.

This vote must be decided!

"There's no movement on Zhang Yuan's vote count, right?" Huang Xiaoming confirmed with his assistant.

“There is growth, but it is very slow. They probably don’t spend as much money as we do to buy tickets.”

"Huh..." Huang Jiaozhu breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

"This way, I only need to keep an eye on Nie Yuangan!"

Next, just like when they competed for the role of Yang Guo, the two began to compete against each other again.

You sing and I take the stage, each showing off our talents.

The votes were so competitive that the first place could change hands several times in a day.

The two brothers are having a lot of fun “playing”.

The website was happy to see this situation and started to promote it heavily using it as a selling point.

This "game" never really had a winner until... Zhang Yuan returned from Singapore.

Someone shouted in the game forum, and after everyone knew that Zhang Yuan lost in the website voting, the game enthusiasts who were excited about winning the WCG world championship flocked to TOM's voting page.

When you say “I owe Zhang Yuan a movie ticket”, it’s mostly just talk, after all, movie tickets cost money.

But voting on the website doesn’t cost any money, so this kind of support is very affordable.

You know, the power of netizens when they unite is amazing.

After all, Zhan Ying was able to defeat Jia Jingwen, Gao Yuanyuan, Liu Qianqian, Qiu Shuzhen, and even Haibara Ai to become the Hupu goddess.

When they got there, Zhang Yuan and Cheng Hao discussed whether to buy Alpha or GMC RV.

As they discussed, they came to the point of going to bed.

Huang Xiaoming is paying attention to the voting list.

"Have you surpassed that bastard Nie Yuan?" he asked angrily.

Damn it, I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying tickets recently!
"More than."

"Okay!" Huang Xiaoming slammed the table and stood up excitedly.

"Website voting is about to end."

"Then I will be first, and Nie Yuan will be second."

"I can attend the award ceremony as someone who is better than him."

"I can't wait to see the look on his face!"

“After all, in any sport, the hardest thing is never the one who didn’t make the list, but the one who won the silver medal or the second place.”

"There is no first in literature and no second in martial arts. This website gives us the opportunity to compare our literary and martial arts skills."

Huang Xiaoming was so excited that he paced back and forth in the room, causing his assistant to want to speak several times but without a chance to interrupt.

"Brother Xiao Ming..."

After a long time, when he was planning to arrange for his assistant to buy a cake to celebrate, the other person finally had the chance to speak.

"You are better than Nie Yuan, but you are not the first now..."

Huang Xiaoming: There are more experts!

"I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the tickets. Who can spend more money than me?"

Brother Xiao Ming pulled the computer over and took a look at it in confusion.

The voting bar chart on the website shows that he and Nie Yuan are almost the same, with the difference being only a few pixels in height.

On the right side of the chart, there is a towering green pillar, standing directly in front of the two people like a magic needle that stabilizes the sea.

It is more than 1/3 higher than the other two.

The gap is so big that it can be described as a cliff-like lead.

"You must have made a mistake." Huang Xiaoming rubbed his eyes.

"Refresh the page."

Right-click, drop-down menu, refresh, and the page flashes.

Right-click, drop-down menu, refresh, and the page flashes.

Right-click, drop-down menu, refresh, page flashes...

After refreshing the number six or seven times in a row, Huang Xiaoming finally accepted the reality that Zhang Yuan was far ahead in the number of votes.

"You were ahead of me when I didn't spend money, and you're still ahead of me after I spent money, so my money wasn't wasted!"

"Why?"

Huang Xiaoming asked blankly.

It was a long time later that I learned the truth from the assistant.

"Oh..." He sighed.

"Nie Yuan and I will fight to the death."

"Zhang Yuan suddenly showed up and got the advantage."

"Hmm?" Huang Xiaoming pondered for a moment. Why does this scene seem so familiar to me?

There is a feeling that yesterday seems to be right in front of me.

Huang Xiaoming slumped on the sofa, unable to even lift a finger.

He is still okay. On the other side, it's Nie Yuan's side.

The assistant is giving Teacher Nie a quick-acting heart-saving pill.

He pinched his own philtrum.

At the beginning of the year, Yang Guo was robbed, and at the end of the year, the first place in the online vote was robbed.

It’s really a double-blocked situation!

It took Nie Yuan a long while to recover. He felt very sad as he thought that he had wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on buying tickets.

But after a while, he started laughing again.

His assistants thought he had gone crazy.

"Hahahaha, anyway, I'm not the only one who's unlucky!"

"I finally understand." Nie Yuan said angrily, gritting his teeth.

"Huang Xiaoming is not scary, the real man-eating guy is this kid."

"Because you never know when and where he will suddenly pop up!"

Nie Yuan felt that he was fighting fiercely with Huang Xiaoming when he suddenly felt a chill in his anus.

When both of them fell to the ground with blood gushing out of their bodies, Zhang Yuan jumped out from the ground.

"How did you two get hurt?"

"The ground is so cool."

This kid is still concerned about us.

Nie Yuan covered his face, his heart sank...

The gaze returns to the courtyard at Pi Tiao Hutong.

Zhang Yuan, Huang Xiaoming and Nie Yuan had completely different emotions.

Holding the warm and soft beauty in his arms, the sweat from his and Cheng Hao's passion mixed together and wet the bed sheets.

drop by drop...

The cell phone rang, he turned over the other person's white body and picked up the phone.

"Hey?"

"Hello, Mr. Zhang Yuan, we are from the TOM Network Entertainment Heroes Club."

"We sincerely invite you to attend our Internet Gala Party which will be held in a week."

"You are now the number one in the male star popularity poll initiated by our website."

Zhang Yuan thought about it and thought that this website might not be well-known in later generations, but it was considered a major portal at that time.

And since I happened to have time, I agreed.

Cheng Hao, who was standing by, listened with his eyes narrowed, then gave a mysterious smile.

A week later...

(End of this chapter)