China Entertainment: I just want to give my child a home

"Manager Zhong, I have already discussed the investment ratio with Zhou Xingchi on the phone for his new movie The Mermaid. Please send someone to follow up."

"Okay, Director Chen." Zhong Lifang nodded. Seeing that Chen Dong had no other instructions, she paused and began to report on her work situation: "Regarding the trailer release conference for Detective Chinatown, Director Chen, are you free to come back and attend?"

"It's the day after tomorrow, right?"

"Yes."

"...Okay, I'll come back and participate."

"Ok."

At this moment, Zhong Lifang suddenly remembered something. "Oh, by the way, Director Jiang Wen said that he might not have time to continue to be a regular guest of the third season of Go Fighting. Director Chen Xi wanted to replace him with a Chinese member of the EXO boy band because he is very popular. What do you think, Director Chen?"

"Which one?"

"Lu Han, because his captain Wu Fan became a top star after returning to China, Director Chen Xi found out that he was also preparing to quit the group and return to China. I also asked someone to investigate and found that many domestic companies have noticed his potential and are trying to poach him."

"You think highly of him, too?"

"Yes."

"Then you can make your own decisions."

Among the four returnees, Chen Dong actually had no prejudice against the other three except the Canadian.

In this case, he naturally would not deliberately exclude these three people.

Of course, another reason why he didn't stop them was that these people really became top stars after returning to China.

As a boss, who would refuse to have another employee in his company who can make money for him?

This is Chen Dong’s mentality at this moment.

However, when he put down the phone, he stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom, took a deep breath, and then opened the door and went out.

When he saw his wife's accusatory expression, he had already prepared himself mentally: "Wife, I was wrong."

The storm he thought would come did not appear. Liu Yifei's expression relaxed at this time, and she said in a persuasive tone: "Husband, remember to control your temper next time. I don't want my newly hired assistant to be scared away by you so quickly. The key is that she is still my cousin."

"Okay, I understand. I'll pay attention next time."

"Okay, honey, you don't have to be so serious. I know you're under a lot of pressure during this shoot... Well, it seems to be much greater than your previous shoots. Is it because the cost is too high this time? Maybe you should do less big productions like this in the future."

"it is good!"

After some activities, they both fell asleep breathlessly.

The next evening, after finishing a day's filming, Chen Dong did not have dinner. He got directly into the crew's car and drove towards the capital city.

However, on the day when chief director Chen Dong took leave, his crew did not stop operating, but the baton was handed over to Zhang Yimou.

The next day, at the trailer release conference for "Detective Chinatown", in addition to director Chen Dong, also present were Wang Baoqiang, Liu Haoran, Di Lieba, Zhang Zifeng, Xiao Yang and Pan Yueming.

Basically all the main cast members were there, except Xu Zheng, because he was currently filming "Dying to Survive" with Wen Muye's crew, and this crew was out of town.

There has been news about "Transformers 4" on the Internet every day recently. There is no way around it, this movie is just too awesome. It really has swept the entire July schedule in an unrivaled manner.

And it's not limited to China.

Chen Dong's "Tangren" held a trailer press conference at this time, and it was natural that it would be compared by reporters.

However, Chen Dong did not answer Zhang Yimou as directly as he did last time. He still used an official tone to avoid the media taking his words out of context and saying that he was afraid before the battle even started.

Instead of praising him for his foresight.

When the press conference ended and Chen Dong was about to return to the crew, he keenly noticed that Wang Baoqiang was not in a very good mood this time. Although he didn't know the reason, since the other party didn't say it actively, he didn't ask, but just patted him on the shoulder before leaving.

Wang Baoqiang wanted to say something but stopped himself. But until he watched Chen Dong's back disappear as the car door closed, he still didn't say what he wanted to say.

In fact, he wanted to ask if the flashback scene of Tang Ren, played by him in "Detective Chinatown" could be deleted.

Yes, he had discovered some signs that his wife was cheating on him, but he didn't dare to investigate further because he hoped that it was all fake.

Although he knew that deleting the movie clips would have little significance for the truth, and the reason he wanted to do so was just to give himself a psychological hint, or in other words, he was escaping.

However, he didn't even have the courage to suspect that his wife was cheating on him, so what reason did he have to ask Chen Dong to delete the movie plot that he had requested to be added in the first place?

Therefore, until Chen Dong's car disappeared from his sight, Wang Baoqiang still chose to remain silent.

……

After Lu Han followed Wu Fan's example and left the group and returned to China, many agencies contacted him.

Among them are film and television giants such as Dongcheng, Huayi, and Chengtian, but he ultimately did not choose to sign with these big companies, but instead signed with Wang Jinhua’s apprentice Yang Tianzhen’s Yixin Entertainment.

This was very unexpected, but Chen Dong, who was filming in Hengdian, just smiled without comment after hearing the news.

He even thought that if Chen Xi asked him to recommend someone again, he would just give Dilraba Dilmurat to her.

After all, no matter how you look at it, having one's own variety show without any of its own artists does seem a bit of a waste.

However, he did not receive a call from Chen Xi until the day when "Transformers 4" was taken off the screen after grossing 21.21 billion yuan in Chinese theaters.

But just when he was about to forget about it, the phone call finally came.

It was still Zhong Lifang who called for Chen Xi.

"What? You said Chen Xi went to South Korea and poached Zhang Yixing from SM Entertainment?"

"Strictly speaking, it's not poaching, but borrowing from SM. However, SM agreed to transfer Zhang Yixing's agency contract to Dongcheng after two years."

"Is SM so easy to talk to?" Chen Dong thought, would he have another 'friend'?

"No, they have one more condition."

"Khan, why didn't you tell me earlier, what is it?"

On the phone, Zhong Lifang relayed SM's conditions to Chen Dong.

It turned out that SM wanted to send Yoona, the face of their company's second-generation girl group Girls' Generation, which was once popular in Asia, to China to debut as an actress, but they had not found a satisfactory company to cooperate with before. It happened that Chen Xi came to South Korea again on behalf of Dongcheng, and sat down at the negotiation table with SM regarding her target person this time - Zhang Yixing. The latter took the opportunity to exchange Zhang Yixing's subsequent contract for Dongcheng Pictures' help for Yoona's debut in China, and reached a preliminary cooperation intention with Chen Xi.

The reason why it was only a cooperation intention was that Chen Xi, as the head of the variety show department, was not qualified enough to represent Dongcheng and SM to sign a contract, so she contacted Zhong Lifang. Then Zhong Lifang called him again after hearing that Chen Dong had finished filming.

"Do you think you can cooperate with SM?" After thinking for a moment, Chen Dong threw the question to Zhong Lifang.

"I think it's possible, but the conditions still need to be discussed, such as whether Zhang Yixing's contract with the company can be shortened a bit, and if we help Lin Yuner debut, how much resources can be provided to her every year, etc."

"Well, since Manager Zhong has made up his mind, then go and talk to SM according to your idea. By the way, is Chen Xi still in South Korea?"

“Yes, she’s still in South Korea.”

"Okay, I got it." Three days later, Chen Dong finally received a personal work report from Chen Xi.

The content of the report was actually a supplement to what Zhong Lifang had relayed that day.

For example, Zhang Yixing's contract with SM was shortened from two years to one year.

For example, Dongcheng Pictures will only sponsor Lin Yoona's resource package for one year. After one year, if she still wants to continue to enjoy Dongcheng's resources, SM must help her get an annual card.

In fact, SM still wanted to deepen cooperation with Dongcheng Pictures, but was rejected by Chen Dong with the tactic of procrastination. His reason for refusal was very simple. There would be a big change in two years, and Korean entertainment would completely withdraw from the Chinese market after that big change.

There is no need for Chen Dong to do such a thankless task.

Of course, the deeper reason is that SM cannot provide the resources that Chen Dong values, or in other words, the South Korean market is too small and he is a little disdainful of it.

On August 8, Chen Dong took another day off to hold the movie premiere of "Detective Chinatown".

"You just took one day off?" Jiang Wen was a little bit unbelieving.

"One day is enough."

"Bullshit, you're not going on the roadshow anymore? Or are you just not serious about your own movie?" In Jiang Wen's opinion, it would be reasonable for Chen Dong to be excused for at least a week.

"Don't we still have you, Director Jiang Wen?"

"Get lost, I'm just a deputy, you Chen Dong really treat me like a donkey."

Chen Dong smiled and said, "Who said you were the deputy? It was said on the Internet before that the film's director was actually named Jiang."

"Fuck, you really have your eyes on me."

"Well, you're also a director..."

"Stop, stop, stop. Stop using these jokes from netizens to blackmail me. Be careful or I'll sue you, Chen Dong, for defamation. I'll sue you for defamation."

In the second half of the sentence, Jiang Wen even imitated Xiao Yang's speaking tone in the play. The expression and demeanor were very vivid, except that they lacked Xiao Yang's inherent greasiness.

Seeing Jiang Wen acting with him, Chen Dong also put away the playful smile on his face, his expression became serious, and then he said in a somewhat threatening tone: "I don't really care, but don't forget, Jiang Wen, do you still have a stake in "Detective Chinatown"? "

"How dare you threaten me? Say it again if you dare." Jiang Wen was equally aggressive. He even took a step forward. To outsiders, it seemed that they were really ready to fight.

Only two of them knew that they were actually acting.

"Okay, then I'll ask you again, are you going to take the team to the roadshow or not?"

"Even if you ask me a hundred times, my answer will still be go."

"Pfft~" Seeing Jiang Wen say the softest words in a hard tone, Chen Dong couldn't hold it back and broke down.

But he restrained himself in time and still used his tenacious will to finish the scene: "It would be fine if I didn't do this earlier."

After saying that, both of them laughed.

This made those around them really think that the two of them were arguing and wanted to step forward to persuade them to stop, but they were now completely confused.

After laughing, Chen Dong and Jiang Wen did not continue the previous topic, but went to greet the guests respectively.

What surprised Chen Dong was that Chen Xi actually brought the two young people she brought back from her trip to South Korea to the premiere.

"Hello, Director Chen. I'm Zhang Yixing from EXO. Please take care of me in the future."

Chen Dong smiled and nodded at the kid. Although he didn't like some of the rules that the kid brought back from South Korea, it didn't mean that he hated the young man's humble attitude.

As for Yoona, she knows a little Chinese, well, just a little, not more.

However, the way to greet Chen Dong must have been specially practiced before coming here. After all, he is her future support in China.

"Keep going! I hope you can shine in China as well."

Chen Dong knew that Lin Yuna couldn't understand his Chinese sentence yet, so he switched it to English and gave it to her.

"Thanks, thank you."

"Okay." Chen Dong smiled and nodded, then turned to Chen Xi and said, "There are many big names here today, you can take them to meet them."

Chen Xi could tell that this was actually the closing remarks.

"Okay Director Chen, you go ahead and get busy then."

"Um……"

Wang Baoqiang's days were dark during this period, because after the seed of doubt was planted last time, although he was unwilling to believe that it was the fact, more and more evidence showed that his wife had cheated on him.

It can be said that there is only a thin layer of window paper left to be broken.

At this time, the movie had already started showing in the cinema. One joke after another made the audience laugh one after another, one wave after another.

But no one noticed that Wang Baoqiang, who was sitting in the crowd and looking at the 'self' who was making people around him laugh, was actually more like a clown. He pleased others, but who understood how entangled, struggling and torn he was inside under the mask?

Yes, Wang Baoqiang watched the character he played and unknowingly put himself into the character, and then, tears flowed down his face uncontrollably.

Although the lights in the cinema were off at this time, the light from the big screen in front was not enough to prevent the guests sitting in the audience from seeing each other.

So some people noticed that something was wrong with Wang Baoqiang, but no one speculated that he was so sad because his wife had cheated on him. Instead, they thought he was crying with joy because he saw that the role he played was so successful.

Chen Dong also turned around, and he was the only one who had a vague guess in his mind at this moment.

"But it shouldn't be this early..."

As soon as the premiere ended, Chen Dong met with Wang Baoqiang alone and took the initiative to bring up what he wanted to say but didn't say at the trailer release conference.

Wang Baoqiang was shocked that even an outsider like Chen Dong knew about his wife's affair.

Then he broke down again.

"Alas, although I sympathize with your situation, I know this kind of comfort is pale. Anyway, Baoqiang, you have to believe that there is no hurdle in life that cannot be overcome. No matter how big the current difficulties are, when you look back, they are actually just like that. So, think more positively and face them when you have to... If you have any difficulties, you can contact me at any time."

Wang Baoqiang was sent to Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts when he was young. He became a migrant worker in Beijing when he was underage. He has suffered a lot, so his will is not that fragile. At least, the current difficulties will not make him commit suicide.

With Chen Dong's encouragement and support, Wang Baoqiang quickly adjusted his mood.

"Director Chen, thank you so much."

Of course, in the end he did not ask Chen Dong to delete the part of Tang Ren's memories in the play.

because,

That is just self-deception. (End of this chapter)