Actor: Thank you.

Inside the hotel room, Zhang Yuan felt a little hurt.

Well, just a little bit.

After all, he originally wanted to make some money by "investing" in "Home with Kids".

Because he will have a lot of money to spend soon, and the more he can make, the better.

Moreover, he has earned a lot of endorsement fees recently from his actions at the party, and his pockets are bulging.

But it's still not enough.

But it doesn’t matter, because…

Zhang Yuan picked up the remote control, turned on the TV and tuned it to Mango Channel.

"Isn't that a bit too hurtful to him?"

"Break your mother's head!"

Zhang Yuan felt relieved when he saw Yan Shifan, the young cabinet minister played by Mr. Zhang Zhijian, throwing away the carved inkstone made of red silk stone.

There is no light in the east and light in the west.

If you can’t get “Home with Kids”, there is still “The Ming Dynasty 1566”.

In early 07, this film was broadcast on Mango TV with great fanfare.

It can be said that there were loud gongs and drums, firecrackers blasting, and red flags waving...but there were no crowds of people.

It’s cold, completely cold.

In the eyes of outsiders, this is a piece of rotten meat.

But in Zhang Yuan's eyes, this is a big piece of fat meat!

The ratings of this TV series were not good, but Zhang Yuan watched it with great interest.

Facts have proved that ratings and box office cannot prove the quality of a TV series or movie.

This movie was good enough to be recorded in the history of Chinese TV dramas, but it flopped like this.

But as he watched, Zhang Yuan became distracted.

Because now whenever he sees Teacher Zhang Zhijian's Young Cabinet Minister, he always thinks of Gao Yuliang in "In the Name of People".

And discussing Ming history with Gao Xiaofeng...

The sense of déjà vu is too strong.

In particular, there are ghost videos on the Internet in later generations that cut the Little Cabinet Minister and Gao Yuliang together, and the two people's lines match each other.

To be honest, the TV dramas of that era were more refreshing.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about the lines.

"I'll hurt your head!"

It’s hard to get TV dramas aired after these words.

What's more, Lima Guocheng, who starred in the earlier "Yongzheng Dynasty", was even cursed.

In fact, swearing is not necessarily vulgar, it can express emotions very well.

Moreover, whether it is foreigners coming to China or Chinese people going abroad, generally the first three foreign sentences they learn will include swear words.

If the water is too clear, there will be no fish. He felt that there was no need to get so stuck on the lines.

I watched two episodes before going to bed, and I felt much better.

Early the next morning, he boarded a plane and rushed to Taiwan.

"Secret" has started filming.

As an investor, I have to visit the set and take a look at how Liu Qianqian is performing.

"You're here!"

The business car stopped in front of Tamkang Middle School in New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Now that the school is on holiday, the crew can use the space for full-day shooting.

The security at the gate was very tight, almost putting up anti-tank roadblocks.

After Zhang Yuan arrived, he was not only interrogated but also refused to enter.

Only then did they ask Jay Chou to come and take over.

There’s nothing we can do, Jay Chou is too popular.

I heard that he was filming a movie here, and there were hundreds or even thousands of fans coming to the vicinity of the school every day trying to catch a glimpse of their idol.

If we hadn't stopped them, the crew would have been in chaos.

The two of them walked carefree on the campus.

This is a private school with very good facilities.

Otherwise there would be no piano room.

I greeted the assistant director, cameraman, and others of the crew one by one, and met the main characters.

Sissi was putting on makeup and getting ready, so she wasn't here.

"Hello." Zhang Yuan looked at everyone and then waved to his assistant.

Zhao Xunxun came in front of everyone holding a large box of things.

I put it down and opened it, and found a lot of trendy accessories inside, which I had just got from Edison Chen.

Since most of the crew members are from the music industry, these things are just right for them.

Most of them were obtained by force and without spending any money.

Huang Junlang and Du Guozhang are Jay Chou's good friends, the lyricist and makeup artist, and they were quite happy after receiving the items.

But there were a few people who looked average, and although they were happy, they seemed a little reluctant.

"what happened?"

Zhang Yuan pointed at those people and said, "Is the filming going badly?"

"Bullshit, don't curse me." Jay Chou also glanced at him: "It's all because of you."

The ones with average looks are two members of Nan Quan Mama.

"Push someone in just before the shooting starts."

Jay Chou cautiously glanced at a tall and thin young man not far away.

Zhang Yuan raised his hand and greeted this person, who responded with a silly smile.

The one Jay Chou was talking about was Chen Chuhe.

After Zhang Yuan finalized the deal with the landlubber, he immediately arranged a job for his beloved eldest son to show his sincerity.

Well, this is the play.

Anyway, the acting requirements for this movie are not that high.

And the role assigned to him is mainly responsible for being handsome.

This is very consistent with his nature.

Zhang Yuan personally approached Jay Chou and got him the role of Yuhao.

No one knows his name, but in the plot, this person is the one who competes with Jay Chou in playing the piano.

The protagonist of this piano-playing scene is Jay Chou, and with a lot of special effects, isn't it just about showing off?

Playing to one's strengths and avoiding one's weaknesses is very suitable for Chen Chuhe, who currently has little acting skills.

The reason why people like Nan Quan Mama were so stunned after seeing him was because of this character.

The character's name is Yuhao because Jay Chou is too lazy to name things, so he just used the original actor's name.

The original actor was named Zhan Yuhao, and he was a member of Nan Quan Mama.

And like Jay Chou, he also graduated from Tamkang High School.

It was a good idea to go back to my alma mater and act in a play, but I was replaced just before filming started.

It must be depressing, and I have to complain to my teammates.

Besides, he can't afford to offend this person.

As soon as Chen Chuhe arrived at the crew, the makeup artist planned to cut his hair and give him a fashionable short style.

This person directly rejected it.

The makeup artist had to give up and changed the character's look to one with long hair.

There's nothing wrong with that. Chen Chuhe does look more handsome with long hair.

"Look, you did all this." Jay Chou half-jokingly and half-complained, "Just change someone else."

"I said I would take good care of my friends. After all, I helped to establish Nan Quan Mama."

"Don't talk about useless things." Zhang Yuan got angry when he saw his righteous look.

"If you take care of your friends wholeheartedly, you should use Leung Sin-yee as the second female lead!"

Liang Xinyi is the American-Russian-Chinese mixed-race girl in the second generation of Nan Quan Mama, the one who sang "Mudanjiang" and "Coral Sea".

She also complained that I replaced a member of Nan Quan Mama and promoted Zeng Kaixuan to the second female lead.

It’s all for picking up girls.

"Why don't you give her the second female lead?"

Jay Chou lowered his head and touched his nose embarrassedly.

"Besides, I'm an investor. If I want to change people, I have to consider your feelings!" Zhang Yuan put his hands on his hips and acted like a young cabinet minister.

"Oh, you're so cool."

"Yeah, you're here!"

Zhang Yuan was pretending to be cool and interrupting Jay Chou.

A familiar female voice came from behind.

Turn around and take a look.

Liu Qianqian was wearing an aristocratic school uniform that looked like a small suit.

A dark blue jacket with a grey sweater lining and a pure white shirt underneath.

After all, she is the heroine, so even if she is wearing the same uniform, her look is still unique.

The collar of the shirt was stood up, and a large pure white bow was tied at the position of the first button.

She looks very pure and pretty, with a girlish vibe that comes towards you.

Her hairstyle is very simple, just a single ponytail.

Jay Chou originally wanted to use Kwei Lun-mei, so the character was designed with a woman’s short hair.

So after arriving at the crew, the stylist wanted to cut my hair again.

But he was stopped by Liu's mother.

Because the contract didn't say it had to be cut short.

Xixi was happy about it and didn't mind shaving her head off.

But Liu Xiaoli still called Zhang Yuan.

Then Zhang Yuan called Jay Chou again.

"Don't cut her hair, she still looks better with long hair."

The stylist is about to cry. Am I a styling director or a makeup assistant?

No one in the crew listened to me. Two of them came and refused to let me cut their hair.

No one can afford to offend them. Jay Chou has to be polite to these two people who don't let him cut his hair.

Zhang Yuan’s visit to the set was fake, but meeting her was real.

I walked closer and took a look.

"Didn't you say you were going to put on makeup?"

"Have you put on makeup?" Xiao Longnu pointed to her lips: "I put on lip gloss."

"and then?"

"It's done."

Zhang Yuan: …

Then you, the heroine, have to save a lot on clothing!
She looks really good without makeup, and even more youthful.

Zhang Yuan remembers that later when she and Leehom Wang were filming "Love Announcement", she didn't wear any makeup and appeared completely naked.

There are very few people in the entertainment industry who dare to do this.

It’s all thanks to youth and strong foundation.

"You didn't even tell me you were coming so I could prepare." Liu Qianqian frowned and smoothed the strands of hair on her forehead.

"You're fine like this."

"And I purposely didn't tell you I was coming, so you wouldn't be too excited to sleep the night before."

"I won't be unable to sleep." She replied with a smile.

"Uh, cough... Zhang Yuan is here." Seeing her daughter's excited look, Liu Xiaoli coughed lightly and walked forward to greet her.

"Aunt Liu, are you used to the food in Formosa?"

"It's OK, but the chili here is not too spicy."

Liu Xiaoli has lived in Wuhan for most of her life. In order to maintain her figure, she eats light food, but actually she has a strong taste.

"Then I'll treat you to Baodao's spicy hotpot tonight." Zhang Yuan waved his hand: "Everyone in the crew, come!"

"Okay!" A bunch of rough guys responded quickly when they heard they could have a free meal.

"What are you shooting today?" Zhang Yuan turned to Director Zhou and asked, "Don't let me delay it."

"We're shooting the finale today, which is the group photo session."

"Oh..." He understood.

The photo at the end of the film shows the male and female protagonists at the same time, proving that the male protagonist successfully traveled through time.

"Then you guys take pictures...wait." Zhang Yuan just opened his mouth and then started laughing again.

“Do I fit into the costume in my size?”

"I think so...what are you going to do?" Jay Chou was puzzled.

"Give the audience a little Easter egg and let them find it."

Soon after, the school moved out the wooden steps for group photos.

There are four floors in total, which can accommodate forty to fifty people.

The extras had already been found and the filming was arranged properly by the crew.

But everyone could only stand there.

"Sorry for the long wait." Not long after, Zhang Yuan came running to the scene while buttoning his clothes.

When Zhang Yuan and Jay Chou first talked about “easter eggs”, he didn’t understand.

Now he understood.

Jay Chou and Xixi stood in the second to last row of the shooting area, relatively close to the middle.

Make it easier for viewers to find it.

Zhang Yuan was probably in a relatively corner of the last row.

He didn't even do his hair, but asked Jay Chou's personal makeup artist Du Guozhang to comb it.

The clothes were also borrowed, and coincidentally, they were Chen Chuhe's clothes.

He is a little over 180cm tall, which is considered very tall in Taiwan.

The largest costume in the crew is his.

But after Zhang Yuan put it on, it still felt a little tight.

"Um, Zhang Yuan, you..."

After he was ready, the assistant director hesitated to speak.

"what happened?"

"Is it the makeup or the styling that's wrong?" Zhang Yuan asked hurriedly.

"It's not like that, it's just that you attract too much attention."

The assistant director took a quick look and saw that Zhang Yuan was tall and handsome, standing out from the crowd.

Xixi turned her head to take a look, then covered her mouth and chuckled.

"He looks quite good in school uniform..." Xiao Longnu thought to herself.

"Then I'll hide to the side."

"Okay, that's about it."

Only after Zhang Yuan hid half of his face behind the head of a student in the front row did the assistant director nod in satisfaction.

The camera stopped working and the main actors came to the monitor to check.

"Oh, this way it can be discovered, but it's not easy to discover." Jay Chou found it novel.

"Yes, I'm far away from you and half of my face is blocked in the corner. Let them find it." Zhang Yuan replied proudly.

His plan was to use this photo as an easter egg, and when promoting the film, he would say that Long Yang CP had reunited.

You guys look for it.

Search till death.

After searching for more than an hour, it finally disappeared.

I didn't say anything nonsense, but it didn't really happen either. Anyway, I didn't lie, and it could provide another promotional selling point.

"When someone finds out that I'm in this photo, I'll start the second hype."

"They spread the news online, saying that I only showed half of my face, but I asked the crew for 100 million yuan in salary."

"Ah?" Jay Chou was shocked.

When he heard Zhang Yuan talking about Easter eggs just now, he felt that the other party was a genius.

Now I feel that he is not only a genius, but also a ruthless person!

"You will be scolded."

"What I want is to be scolded." Zhang Yuan's expression remained calm.

“Being scolded brings popularity.”

"If there is popularity, more audiences will know about it."

"The more people know about it, the more people will go to the theaters."

"As long as the box office is good, a few scoldings won't matter."

Jay Chou was moved when he heard him say this.

For the sake of a good film, I gave up everything.

Liu Xiaoli, who was listening nearby, also raised her eyebrows.

This is so grand!

He is the smartest one. He has already planned the promotional methods before the film is finished.

No wonder Old Chen said at first sight that he was capable of great things.

Liu Xiaoli originally thought that Xixi could get 10% of the box office revenue from this movie.

Even if the box office revenue is 400 million, she would only get about million.

She estimated that the film could take in 3 to 4 million at most, so her daughter's pay would be no more than 2 or 3 million.

But now it seems that this kid has big ambitions!

There should be much more than that.

"In the beginning, no one should answer questions while the film is showing."

"By the time the money is made, the movie will be out of theaters."

"You and I are separately clarifying this publicly."

"Then find an opportunity, I'll go to your concert and sit in the front row, and you can cue me, and I'll be photographed."

"This will completely dispel this self-directed rumor."

Zhang Yuan was not afraid at all.

It's okay even if you don't clarify.

It also helps to raise your own value.

Besides, people love to watch this kind of twist story, it is guaranteed to satisfy them.

"It's still not very good." Liu Qianqian said with a frown.

How can you criticize yourself?

She is often subjected to obscene rumors on the Internet and knows best the pain of being scolded.

"You're stupid. If the box office is good, you'll get a bigger share of the salary." Zhang Yuan looked at her.

“Then I’d rather not have so much money.”

"Even if you don't want it, I still want it!" Zhang Yuan nodded at her lovingly.

Liu Xiaoli was beside him, otherwise he would definitely hug her and give her a good RUA.

"It's okay. I know what I'm doing."

"you do not need to worry."

"Oh..." She was worried, yet willing to believe in Zhang Yuan's ability.

After this Easter egg trick was over, Zhang Yuan generously booked a spicy hot pot restaurant.

The so-called Formosa spicy hotpot was actually originally the Sichuan hotpot that the Sichuan soldiers who came to Formosa in 49 missed their hometown. It was improved from the local hotpot.

The main dishes are duck blood, tofu, large intestine, tripe, etc.

Compared to Sichuan hotpot, Baodao spicy hotpot is not that spicy, but the base of the hotpot is thicker and has more herbal flavor.

Generally speaking, it is milder.

After all, the taste of the indigenous people of Taiwan is closer to that of the Guangzhou area of ​​Fujian, and they can't stand anything too spicy.

Since we are all investors, we must be more generous.

After all, these people are his younger brothers who work for him to earn money.

"You should eat less. Isn't it too spicy?" Zhang Yuan advised when he saw Xixi's face turning red.

"Not spicy." She said pretending to be strong.

The sound of her voice was sticky, but it wasn't spicy.

But the Wuhan spirit does not allow her to be afraid of spicy food.

His stubbornness is about the same as Lao Wang at the mahjong table.

The dirtier, the stronger.

He couldn't have any intimate behavior when his mother was around.

We just kissed secretly in the corner of the hotel corridor at night.

After chatting quietly about their recent situation, they reluctantly went back to their rooms.

The next day, Zhang Yuan got up early, went to the crew to see her again, and then boarded the flight back to the mainland.

He still did not return to the imperial capital, but went to the birthplace of Taiwan Spicy Hotpot, Sichuan... (End of this chapter)