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Chapter 645 This Investor Knows Movies Too Well

Zhuang Wenqiang thought he had misheard, so he asked, "Wu Xiuqing? Isn't it Ruan Wen? Let me explain in more detail. The leading actress of the movie is Ruan Wen, not Wu Xiuqing."

Ruan Wen is Li Wen's girlfriend.

Both of them were painters. Li Wen promised to give Ruan Van a good life, but 10 years later they were still extremely poor and could not even pay the rent and utility bills.

However, Ruan Wen was favored by another famous painter.

The famous painter spent a lot of money to package Ruan Wen and even helped her hold a solo exhibition.

Since then, Nguyen Van became an overnight sensation and a famous painter.

At an art exhibition, in order to help her boyfriend Li Wen, Ruan Wen exhibited Li Wen's most proud painting in the exhibition.

The result was embarrassing: all of Ruan Wen's paintings were sold out, but no one was interested in Li Wen's painting.

This incident dealt a huge blow to Li Wen.

He broke down, and he was starting to turn evil.

Ruan Wen comforted him and told him to always walk the right path.

In Li Wen's heart, Ruan Wen is his white moonlight.

As for Wu Xiuqing, he was just a substitute for Ruan Wen.

He fell and became the leader of a counterfeit money organization, but he felt inferior in front of Ruan Wen.

He had Wu Xiuqing undergo plastic surgery to look like Ruan Wen, and also bought Wu Xiuqing a new identity, also named Ruan Wen.

That is to replace Ruan Wen with Wu Xiuqing.

So the actress who plays Ruan Wen is the leading actress of the movie.

After Wu Xiuqing's face was replaced, the subsequent scenes of Wu Xiuqing were played by Ruan Wen's actor.

Li Yu is a financial sponsor, so it is natural for him to take care of his confidante.

However, when the financial sponsor arranges his confidante, he usually arranges some more outstanding roles.

Ruan Wen played two roles and was much more outstanding than Wu Xiuqing.

Zhuang Wenqiang was afraid that Li Yu would confuse the two roles after only reading the script for the first time, so he kindly reminded him.

As it turned out, Zhuang Wenqiang was worrying too much.

“I know that the leading actress of the movie is Nguyen Van, but the role I want is Wu Xiuqing, you heard it right.

The character of Ruan Wen shares the same face with Wu Xiuqing in the later period, and the actor needs to perform two different states, which is quite difficult.

It's normal to take care of your own people.

But I am not the kind of person who would try to praise someone even though I know he has no ability.

The role of Ruan Wen still needs to be played by an actor with good acting skills."

Li Yu said earnestly.

He is well aware of Da Tiantian's abilities, and he thinks she can play an easy-to-play vase role.

Vase is not a derogatory word, people are animals who love beauty.

In a good movie, no one would mind having one more good-looking female character, it is pleasing to the eye.

With Da Tiantian's beautiful looks, it is more than enough to make the audience feel pleasing to the eye.

Asking her to challenge herself by playing two roles is not only difficult for her, but also a torture for the audience.

If the director of the movie was Li Yu, he could have pushed Da Tiantian a little, and Da Tiantian might have played Ruan Wen badly.

The problem is that the director of the film is not Li Yu.

So the question arises, if Da Tiantian performed badly, would Zhuang Wenqiang dare to criticize Da Tiantian?
In Li Yu's opinion, he definitely wouldn't dare.

He said he didn't dare to do it anymore, even if the National Master and Cheng Long came.

In the previous life, these two people had worked with Da Tiantian. They were both veterans who had been through many battles. Couldn't they see that Da Tiantian's performance was very poor?
They must have seen it, but Da Tiantian’s money ability is too strong, so they dare not say it out loud.

After all, how many people have the courage to confront their financial sponsor?

Zhuang Wenqiang became even happier after hearing what Li Yu said.

It turned out to be the right choice for him to contact Li Yu through Wang Jing. Li Yu is an investor who truly understands movies.

Know which roles can be assigned to people with connections and which roles must be assigned to people with real talent.

If investors in Hong Kong understood movies as well as Li Yu did, why would Hong Kong films not be able to revive?
Finally, after signing the contract, Zhuang Wenqiang and Zhou Runfa happily left Hualiu Company.

Before the two of them set off for Hong Kong Island, Li Yu played the role of a good host and treated them to a meal of authentic private Tan family cuisine.

This private restaurant is opened by Li Yu.

Li Yu had previously invested in and purchased several courtyard houses.

This courtyard house could not be left empty, so Li Yu recruited several famous chefs and opened a private restaurant.

With the added fame of Li Yu, the private restaurant will never lack business.

In recent years, whenever Li Yu invited people to dinner in Beijing, he would invite them to private restaurants.

Most of the people Li Yu invited were from the same circle.

Over time, this private restaurant has gained a high reputation in the circle.

Many celebrities in Beijing are regular customers of private restaurants.

Especially some female artists, they would specifically come to private restaurants to create opportunities to meet Li Yu by chance.

Their purpose is simple, they hope to be noticed by Li Yu and become famous overnight.

But Li Yu ignored them.

“These dishes have a unique flavor, they are really good,” Zhuang Wenqiang commented.

"This is Tan's cuisine. In the past, it was considered official cuisine and only the rich and powerful could eat it. The skills of the chefs I hired were all passed down from their families. It has an authentic taste."

Li Yu introduced the origin of Tan's cuisine to Zhuang Wenqiang and Zhou Runfa.

Many descendants of Tan’s cuisine say that their skills were passed down from their ancestors. Their surnames are different, and most of them are not Tan.

This may make some people who don’t know the ins and outs of the matter feel a little strange. If your surname is not Tan, why do you call yourself the successor of Tan’s cuisine?
Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to call them the descendants of Li’s, Zhang’s and Huang’s cuisines?

Tan's cuisine is the family tradition of Tan Zongjun, a bureaucrat in the late Qing Dynasty.

At that time, the owner of the Tan family loved delicious food. As a bureaucratic family in the late Qing Dynasty, they must be rich and powerful, so they were able to hire a large number of chefs with superb cooking skills.

The Tan family allowed these chefs from all over the world to combine the characteristics of various cuisines and eventually form their own unique style.

So it is actually reasonable that many people who claim to be descendants of the Tan family do not have the surname Tan.

Many of them are descendants of the chefs of the Tan Mansion, so it is normal for them not to have the surname Tan.

There is a TV series called "Love in the Courtyard". The protagonist He Yuzhu's specialty is Tan family cuisine. His ancestors were chefs in the Tan family.

Of course, there are also many impostors. There are impostors in all walks of life. It is very normal to have scammers in the catering industry.

In recent years, hasn’t someone in the capital started cooking imitation dishes? He claims that his ancestors were the imperial chefs around Empress Dowager Cixi, and boasts that he was loved by Empress Dowager Cixi.

He said that all the dishes in his restaurant are authentic palace dishes. As long as you go there, you can taste the same flavors that Cixi and the emperor had in the past.

As a food lover, has Li Yu ever really tried these imitation dishes?

His comment on most of the imitation dishes was that if they had served those dishes to Cixi and the emperor back then.

The dishes they serve today will mean that you won’t see them in the palace tomorrow.

Most of them are just marketing hype and gimmicks.

(End of this chapter)