Imperial Century Theater.

This area is located near Liangmaqiao Road in Chaoyang District.

It was very famous in the 90s and often performed ballet, opera, drama and other art performances.

Today, more than ten years later, it looks a little old.

But the main hall, which has two floors and a total of more than 1700 seats, was more than enough to host award ceremonies in the early days of the Internet era.

Since he had promised to attend, Zhang Yuan arrived at the backstage of the theater early.

He thought that although the current online publicity effect was far inferior to that in the future, it was always beneficial to his popularity.

Although TOM.com has become unknown in later generations, it was a powerful platform that could compete with early major portals such as Sina and NetEase.

Even in early 05, its revenue and usage surpassed Sohu.

But the river flows east and the waves wash away all, and many heroes have fallen in the torrent of the times.

Moreover, this website cleverly set the date of the party more than a month earlier than the Sina Internet Ceremony, and when everyone named the award "The Most XXX of the Year".

He came up with the more eye-catching terms "Four Dan Actresses" and "Four Little Freshmen".

Just like the Four Dans and Two Bings are always remembered by people, the Four Young Masters of Beijing are also easy to arouse everyone's interest.

Forming small groups is a very eye-catching method.

And this website is more focused than Sina Gala.

He only relies on the entertainment industry, while Sina can select the best of the year from actors, movies, TV series, and even cars, home appliances, insurance, bank cards...

Even though I didn't care much about it, it would be somewhat disrespectful if I didn't go after getting first place in the popularity vote for male actors.

Besides, you can get 150,000 yuan in notice fees for just three hours. Even filming doesn’t make money that fast.

As soon as he arrived at the backstage corridor, Zhang Yuan saw a very familiar tall man with a big bald head.

"Brother Jinjiang!"

"Wow, long time no see!"

He greeted Xu Jingjiang warmly, who was today's award presenter.

pat!

As he was saying this, he felt someone tapping his shoulder, and when he turned around...

"Ting Feng!"

They had just met in Hong Kong not long ago, and then they ran into each other again here.

He is the most popular male singer of the year and will be performing on stage soon.

“Sister Xiao Ran!”

I just finished chatting here and turned around.

A glowing white figure appeared before his eyes.

"What a coincidence, you are here too." He walked up and shook hands with the other person.

"I have already confronted my roommate. She was stubborn at first, but later said it was because of work and she needed that person's connections and help."

Teacher Dabai leaned close to his ear and whispered.

She was talking about Xie Na's incident.

"Then what do you do now?"

"I forgive her."

Zhang Yuan: …

You have a really good conscience, no, really white, no, really good...

I can’t carry it with me, I really can’t carry it with me.

Zhang Yuan thought to himself, if I can forgive you for selling you out, then you’re on your own, I can’t do anything about it.

"But I talked to the man face to face and told him very seriously that I knew what he had done and would never be with him."

It would be great if everything could be resolved through negotiation, Zhang Yuan showed a helpless expression.

What you can't get on the battlefield, you can't get at the negotiating table.

"Everyone has his own destiny, and he chooses his own path." Zhang Yuan did not comment on this matter.

He felt that he should just be a fan of the other team.

After chatting for a while, I found out that she was also today's award presenter.

Zhang Yuan thought that this website was quite expensive, as the award presenters were all celebrities, not unknown little-known figures, but well-known figures.

"Mr. Zhang Yuan, your dressing room is over here. Please follow me." A staff member came up and led him to a separate room.

"This is the dressing room for the four young men."

"Across the street are the four great actresses."

"The finale of the evening will be the awards ceremony for the eight of you, and there will be important guests appearing."

The staff briefly explained to him the procedure that would follow.

"Okay, I understand." He responded after listening and then walked in.

After entering the house, there were already quite a few people crowded inside.

In addition to the makeup artist, there are also a group of assistants, agents, etc.

Zhang Yuan took a look at the three people in front of the dressing mirror and thought that he was very familiar with two of them, so he walked forward.

"Brother Nie Yuan, Brother Xiao Ming, hello."

Click!

The two of them lost face instantly.

When they saw Zhang Yuan's smiling face through the reflection in the mirror, they felt unwell.

I feel uncomfortable all over!
The two didn't have a good relationship, so a seat was left empty between them while they were putting on makeup.

Zhang Yuan stepped over and sat in the position, with the two people sitting on his left and right.

He first turned sideways and greeted the only colleague in the room whom he was not very familiar with.

"Hello, Brother Xia Yu."

Zhang Yuan, Huang Xiaoming, Nie Yuan, and Xia Yu are the four most popular young actors selected by the website.

Xia Yu just won the Best Actor Award at the Capital College Student Film Festival at the beginning of the year, and his development in recent years has been quite good, with many offers for both art films and commercial films.

Most of the people who vote on the website are college students, which is right in their comfort zone.

"Hello, it's the first time we meet, but I've heard of you for a long time." Xia Yu stood up and shook hands with Huang Xiaoming through him.

Among these four people, Xia Yu is definitely the least attractive in terms of appearance, which means that he has reached where he is today entirely due to his real strength.

How can I describe his appearance... He looks like the child of Jiang Wen and Zhang Yishan's affair.

"Although I've never met you, I always hear my family's Quan talk about you."

Zhang Yuan:!!!
A drop of cold sweat slid down his cheek.

"What did she...say about me?" Zhang Yuan asked while wiping his sweat.

"She said you were the most motivated young man she had ever met."

She probably meant that rushing forward would be the most powerful... Zhang Yuan nodded in agreement.

"She also said that your acting skills are very good."

The skills she's talking about may not be about acting...

"She also said she was looking forward to meeting you in the future."

This must be an addiction... Zhang Yuan always felt that there was something else behind Teacher Yuan Quan's words.

"By the way, you are the director of the Calligraphy Association, right? I am also a member. We can exchange ideas on painting and ink when we have time." Xia Yu is a playful person.

Calligraphy, painting, skateboarding, surfing, racing, there is nothing he doesn't try, he is a bit like a copy of Brother Qian.

"Okay, I'll have a chance to communicate more."

"Hehe, there aren't many young actors who can write calligraphy. I didn't expect that we are in the same field."

Zhang Yuan thought to himself, judging from Yuan Quan, we may indeed be kindred spirits...

After chatting awkwardly with the other party for a long time, Zhang Yuan was finally relieved when he was sure that Teacher Yuan Quan had not let the cat out of the bag.

But it also accumulated a lot of pressure.

So, he has to release the pressure.

Zhang Yuan smiled and looked at the two people on his left and right, then spoke in a low voice.

"I heard that you two bought votes?"

Huang Xiaoming: ...

Nie Yuan: ...

Huang Xiaoming's face turned blue, like a green pepper.

Nie Yuan's face turned purple, like an eggplant.

Together with Teacher Xia Yu's sallow smile, the three of them put together a famous Northeastern dish, three fresh delicacies...

Comfortable... Zhang Yuan felt a sense of relief on his shoulders as he watched the pressure coming upon the two of them.

Sure enough, the pressure will not disappear, it will only be transferred to the weak.

After fiddling with it for a while, Zhang Yuan, who entered the room last, was the first to finish his makeup.

After all, the makeup artist spent a lot of time tinkering with it, and just trimmed the eyebrows and fixed the hair, and there was nothing else to do.

Xia Yu knew what he looked like. He wasn’t an idol, so he didn’t think too much about it.

When Nie Yuan and Huang Xiaoming saw him put on makeup so quickly, they felt depressed.

He was able to do it so quickly, but we still had to work on it. Doesn't that mean that we are not as good-looking or as good-looking as him...

"You guys keep busy, I'm going to go out for a walk." After Zhang Yuan said that, he led his assistant out to see if there were any acquaintances or strangers around who they could greet.

In the dressing room, Nie Yuan and Huang Xiaoming looked at each other, revealing the sad looks of sympathy for each other, sharing the same worries, and being in the same boat, as if they were both wanderers in this world.

“In fact, we are quite similar.”

"Yes, the past is the past."

"Yes, these are all small conflicts caused by work."

"It's nothing serious. We compete with each other, but we're also friends."

"Yes, they are friends!"

Huang Xiaoming and Nie Yuan met and laughed away their grudges.

Teacher Xia Yu, who was standing by, was puzzled at first when he saw this.

"I heard that they have a grudge against each other, especially over the casting of The Return of the Condor Heroes. They fought each other so hard that they almost became mortal enemies. Why is it that now..."

Teacher Xia Yu forgot to look at the door and thought of the person who had just left.

"Oh, your harmony is all thanks to Zhang Yuan, right?"

Outside the door, Zhang Yuan just arrived in the corridor.

[Received thanks from Huang Xiaoming, acting skills +1! ]

[Received thanks from Nie Yuan, dialogue skills +1! ] "What did I do, so you two are thanking me?" He glanced at the attributes, puzzled.

He didn't even know that, because of his existence, the place was almost like the Three Heroes of Peach Garden.

"I didn't ask carefully, so I don't know who the four most popular actresses selected by this website are?"

Zhang Yuan thought that they would have to meet on stage later, so he might as well say hello to the award winners in advance so that he could get to know them.

Many friends, many ways.

He raised his hand and knocked on the door of the dressing room opposite.

After hearing the word "Come in", he carefully turned the door handle.

After all, it's a women's dressing room, we can't disturb others.

Zhang Yuan smiled, pushed open the door, looked inside, and then...

Boom!
He opened the door cautiously, which took three or four seconds.

He slammed the door shut in less than half a second.

The four girls who were putting on makeup inside were startled.

"what happened?"

"Who's knocking at the door?"

"Why are you still slamming the door?"

"Did you see who it was?"

Zhang Yuan, who was standing outside the door, looked pale.

"Brother Zhang Yuan, what's wrong?" Zhao Xinxin saw that his boss looked unhappy and asked hurriedly.

"Is there anything dirty?"

"No." Zhang Yuan shook his head and then quickly hid in a corner.

"It's an acquaintance."

"What are you afraid of when you're an acquaintance?" Zhao Xinxin asked in confusion.

"It's not the acquaintances that are scary, what's scary is the gathering of acquaintances."

The moment he opened the door, Zhang Yuan glanced at the "Four Beauties" in the room.

From left to right, they are Li Bingbing, Huang Shengyi, Liu Qianqian, Cheng Hao...

Of these four women, he kissed two and slept with two of them.

They get together to play mahjong, and they probably have a lot in common.

“Is this chosen by netizens’ vote?”

“Why do I feel like it was chosen for me?”

At this moment, Zhang Yuan remembered a famous saying of Teacher Ying.

"Who the hell signed me up for this?!"

This is totally a mess.

die, die, die...

"I said it seemed like you."

He was just worrying when a gentle and charming voice came to his side accompanied by the crisp sound of "tapping" of high heels.

Li Bingbing put one hand on her waist and looked at him with a sidelong smile.

"Hello, Sister Bingbing."

"I told you to stop calling me sister. You're getting old." Li Bingbing was wearing a white long skirt and a red waistcoat, looking rich and youthful.

"It's been a while since we last met, but you're becoming more and more popular." Li Bingbing smiled and praised, "I heard that you invested in your own movie and even asked Jinsuo to make a cameo appearance."

Neither of them called her by her full name... Zhang Yuan thought that these two were really fighting openly and secretly.

"Yes."

"Why don't you come to me? Does your boss Zhang think highly of me?" Li Bingbing asked with a raised eyebrow.

"This..." Zhang Yuan thought that this was a fatal question, and he quickly came up with an idea.

"She's cheap, and my budget is limited. I can't afford you."

“Hehehe…” Li Bingbing chuckled for a while.

Yes, I am worth more than her!
Zhang Yuan's words hit a sore spot for her.

"We are both in Huayi now, and we can help each other if we have the chance in the future." Li Bingbing replied seriously.

"By the way, you opened and closed the door just now, what were you doing?" She looked at Zhang Yuan with a wicked smile.

"Why, is there someone in the room that you're afraid of... or rather, are you afraid of more than one person?"

She still underestimated Zhang Yuan. To be more precise, he was afraid of everyone except Li Bingbing.

Li Bingbing knew from his expression that his guess was almost right, and he covered his mouth and laughed wildly.

Tap, tap, tap... Another sound of high heels was heard. Li Bingbing glanced at him with a smile, then patted his shoulder.

"Let's see what you can do, hahaha..." After saying that, he turned and left.

Then came an angry female voice.

"Zhang Yuan!"

Zhang Yuan now wanted to find a car and hide like Adu.

The person who came was Miss Huang Shengyi.

"Why don't you run away?" Huang Shengyi crossed her arms, wearing a navy blue suspender skirt, and asked through gritted teeth, "Don't you run away every time you sleep...?"

"I think there may be a little misunderstanding between us." Zhang Yuan explained with a smile.

"actually, I……"

"You don't have to say anything!" Huang Shengyi raised his hand to stop him: "You don't have a chance anymore."

"There is no possibility between us. I already have a boyfriend."

"No matter how much you explain, you can't win me back."

At this moment, she has hooked up with Yang Zi, and has fallen out with Stephen Chow, and is currently involved in a lawsuit.

This matter became known to everyone and was very ugly. She even went around crying to the media that Stephen Chow bullied her.

You may say this woman is stupid, but she comes from a famous family and has a good education.

She is so smart that she actually thought she had found a rich man by finding Yangzi.

Juli Group is quite powerful, but most of its shares are owned by the state.

Besides, the chairman is Yangzi’s brother, not him.

At most, Mr. Yang has a small share and can get some dividends every year. If you say he is rich, it's just that.

The key is that Yangzi’s own ability is average. He is just a standard second generation, or should I say, the first and a half generation. After all, he relies on his older brother, so he is only slightly stronger than Xiang Zuo.

Moreover, just when Stephen Chow made you famous, you turned against him. This is a bit confusing.

Who would dare to employ an ungrateful person?
Huang Shengyi is tantamount to cutting himself off from the entertainment industry.

Therefore, her abnormal behavior was most likely planned by Yang Zi.

Because in this way, Huang Shengyi can only depend on him.

One of them was making plans, while the other was just going with the flow.

This is a typical example of being clever but lacking a big picture.

Anyway, Huang Shengyi has been feeling very proud recently, thinking that he and Yang Zi are getting along well, and he has finally found a financial sponsor and a backer.

In fact, she was a mistress, and Yang Zi’s ex-wife was a senior executive of Juli Group, owning shares, and had a good relationship with Yang Zi’s eldest brother.

And this ex-wife is in charge of the extremely important North American market.

That’s right, the job of producing arresting cables for the Lighthouse Country’s aircraft carrier was taken by Yang Zi’s ex-wife.

You will know how important this person is within the group.

Yang Zi actually turned against this person and went to Huang Shengyi, which shows that these two are actually the same kind of people.

The two of them were just like the TV series they filmed later, the whole "The Legend and the Heroine".

Although Miss Huang felt that she was in power, she was furious every time she thought about how Zhang Yuan had run away after making her faint twice in a row.

She stood in front of the other person today just to show off.

Who do you think you are? I look down on you!

After she finished speaking, she saw Zhang Yuan's shoulders trembling, and even his arm was shaking continuously.

Are you sad?
Are you sad?
Do you know you missed me?

Go ahead and regret it!

You will never find a better and more beautiful woman than me in your life, huh!
When Huang Shengyi thought of this, most of the depression in his heart was relieved.

Zhang Yuan held her hands tightly with his trembling hands and shook them vigorously.

"Hiss..." Zhang Yuan took a deep breath, shook hands tighter than he would hold money, and his expression was happier than during the Chinese New Year.

"A word is settled!"

"Double happiness!"

Huang Shengyi:......

"Don't go back on your word!"

"Whoever goes back on his word is a puppy."

"You...you don't have any feelings for me at all?" Huang Shengyi wanted to break Zhang Yuan's defense, but he didn't expect that he broke his defense.

"Hey, that's wrong. You already have a boyfriend. It's better for you two to live a good life."

"Don't mention the past anymore... Don't mention it to anyone, especially tonight." Zhang Yuan warned seriously.

"I..." Huang Shengyi was a little overwhelmed.

Every time I recall it, I still remember it so fondly. How could he be so heartless?

Does this mean he dumped me?
No, I have to dump him!
"Wait for me, school will be over soon... No, don't leave after the party!"

After saying those harsh words like an elementary school student, she turned around and left angrily.

"If you don't leave, I'll wait for you to scold me..." Zhang Yuan said embarrassedly.

"Huh..." He wiped the sweat from his forehead and planned to go back to the dressing room to take shelter.

I have accumulated a lot of pressure and I need to find those two brothers to release it.

"Do you know a lot of beautiful actresses?"

At this moment, when he was about to take a step but had not yet taken one, an extremely familiar, magnetic female voice floated into his ears.

hum!
Zhang Yuan's head buzzed, then he turned away with a silly smile.

"Good sister."

He only saw Cheng Hao, wearing a black low-cut dress and walking towards him with a sexy and charming smile... (End of this chapter)