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Chapter 377: Tightening Curse

"Ok!"

"You've gained some weight!" Huang Ze's gaze returned to Ning Jing's face.

"That's because of you." Ning Jing said calmly, "Director Huang, you never asked me to act in a movie again. Director Jiang asked me to act in this movie, but he said I was too thin and needed to gain ten pounds."

"Do you think I should do what the director says?"

"That's right." Huang Ze nodded, smiled and squinted his eyes to look at you, "But, I think you've gained about 20 pounds since you were filming Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, right?"

"Hehe." Ning Jing raised her right hand and compared her thumb and index finger. "A little bit. It's so hard to control my weight, so I just relaxed a little bit. I usually weigh ten kilograms more than that time."

"But don't worry, I will be able to lose weight after finishing this film."

"Heh." Huang Ze didn't respond, his eyes fell on the face of the girl whose eyes looked like crescent moons when she smiled, "Yu Beibei?"

"I play Yu Beibei." The other party nodded.

"Her name is Tao Hong."

"Just hearing this name, you're going to be famous!" Huang Ze looked him up and down, and started to act like a charlatan. "But looking at your skin, you don't look like an actor. You look like you've been soaking in water for a long time."

"Wow, Director Huang, how did you know that?" Tao Hong looked at Huang Ze in surprise, "I'm from the synchronized swimming team. Did Director Jiang tell you?"

"Definitely." Ning Jing said.

"What is that? How could I sue him for so much!" Jiang Wen came out with a hoarse voice, "I only told him that you were the heroine."

Jiang Wen smiled and bowed to Huang Ze, "God of Wealth, you are finally here. Come inside and have some tea. I will make it for you myself!"

"and many more!"

Huang Ze said to Tao Hong who was looking at him curiously, "If you believe it, I calculated it."

"I'll tell you my fortune for free. Don't date or marry a bald man in the future!"

"Director Huang, you are so funny. I am only in my early twenties and I am bald. How old do I look like?"

"Haha, just treat it as a casual remark from me." Huang Ze then waved at Jiang Wen and asked him to lead the way and take him into the courtyard.

Then listen to Jiang Wen bragging.

"Let me tell you, I lived in a compound similar to this when I was a child."

"My dad was away from home for a long time at that time. As for classes, you know, I was born in 63, and I didn't even have classes during that period. Life was so hard."

"Just skipping classes?" Huang Ze rolled his eyes at Jiang Wen, "Has your teacher been...?"

"no!"

"Absolutely not!"

“I respect my teachers.”

"Forget it." Huang Ze had no phlegm, but he still spat out a mouthful of saliva. "I see that you are a rebellious kid. When you were a child, you must have educated your teachers a lot. When you grew up, you became an actor and educated the director. Now that you are a director, you have started to educate the investors."

"Five million!"

Huang Ze raised his right hand and opened it into a palm.

"A full five million RMB. Do you remember what you told me at the beginning?"

"Five million to guarantee that I can finish the filming. Even if you can only shoot 90%, even 80%, I will accept it."

"But you only took half of the photo for me!"

"How much will it cost for the subsequent filming and post-production? And if I'm not mistaken, the actors haven't been paid yet, right?"

"You guessed right." Jiang Wen chuckled and shrugged, "But which crew gives all the money to the actors?" "Which crew spends the budget halfway through filming?"

“How do you budget?”

"I just want to strive for perfection and make the film as good as possible."

"Oh my god..." Huang Ze's mouth twitched and his face turned upside down, "You dare to talk back?"

"Calm down, calm down!" Jiang Wen immediately changed his expression to one of flattering and apologizing. He invited Huang Ze into the room, sat him down at the main seat, and immediately began to pour tea and handed it to Huang Ze, "Don't be angry!"

"Brother Huang, you are a billionaire worth hundreds of millions. It's not worth it to get yourself hurt for a few million, right?"

"It's worth it. It's really worth it!"

"Look, you're saying those angry words again." Jiang Wen's eyes rolled around, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether Huang Ze was really angry or not.

What if the other party really gets angry and refuses to invest, then the film that I have put so much effort into will be ruined. More importantly, who would invest in a film directed by such a bad criminal record?

Is it possible that my dream of becoming a director will die before I even realize it?
Think about the relationship between the two of them, the other party shouldn't do that.

But now we are not in the same class anymore!

Five million, if I can't make it up, is what the man in front of me earns in a day. If I really don't invest, I won't necessarily feel bad at all.

"Damn it, next time I have to find someone who's not that rich to invest in my movie, or else I'll be in big trouble!"

Jiang Wen secretly made up his mind and held up three fingers. "Three million, give me another three million. This time I will definitely use this three million to finish the film and make it well!"

"Keep your word?"

"When a man speaks, he means what he says." Jiang Wen nodded affirmatively, "If it's not enough, I'll go borrow money and finish the film."

"Forget it, forget it!" Huang Ze just wanted Jiang Wen to be more restrained, not to let others have a piece of the cake, so he pretended to be embarrassed and waved his hands, "Three million, if you shoot like this, it will definitely not be enough, I will give you four million!"

"But let me be frank."

"This time I really only have four million. If you can't finish the filming, I will choose to take over the project directly."

"Ten million is a small amount to me. That's too much. It's just average!"

“But it definitely won’t make me feel heartbroken.”

"you understand me?"

"I understand!" Jiang Wen nodded. "Four million has been spent, but the film is not finished. My head is moving."

"Moving the head?"

"It's not much different from moving your head." Jiang Wen said with a sad face, "Brother Huang, you don't know, I put a lot of effort into this film. It just realized my dream when I was young."

"If this film dies, it will be like losing my head."

"Then you should prepare in advance instead of relying on grinding the film to achieve the effect you want." If it was just a general waste, Huang Ze would not say anything.

But the director in front of me is the one who consumes the most film among all domestic directors, no doubt about it.

Then you have to wear a tight hoop.

"Okay, sit down." After saying what he needed to say, Huang Ze patted the armrest of the chair, "Now that we've finished discussing business matters, let's talk about personal matters. I heard that you found an actor who looks a lot like you to play the male lead?"

"picture!"

"That's very similar." Jiang Wen slapped his thigh and said excitedly, "My mom said it looks like it when she saw it!"

(End of this chapter)