Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 295 The Great Battle

When I entered the door, I saw Ms. Wang Yanping sitting on the sofa peeling peanuts.

Little Yunmao squatted on the coffee table, watching her throw the peanut kernels into the basin, and scooping them up with his paws from time to time.

"Mom, I'm back."

Liu Qianqian greeted her reservedly, "Hello, Auntie, I'm Liu Qianqian."

"Oh, it's Xixi. I've heard Xiaofeng talk about you a long time ago."

Mother Chen quickly stood up and asked with concern, "You didn't eat well this morning, I'll go make you something to eat."

"Auntie, no need, we have already eaten."

Wang Yanping held Liu Qianqian's hand and couldn't stop praising her, saying what a pretty girl she was.

Xixi was praised so much that she blushed.

"Mom, say more. Xixi likes to hear this."

"Don't slander me. Why would I like to hear this?" Liu Qianqian got angry instantly.

"I can see you must be very happy, otherwise why would you act so restrained?"

"Chen Linfeng!" Liu Qianqian was anxious, "When you came to my house, I didn't ruin your show!"

Wang Yanping watched the young couple bickering with a smile on her face and found it quite amusing.

Little Yun Miao took the initiative to walk towards Chen Linfeng and rubbed his hand, meaning that he should stroke its fur.

Chen Linfeng followed the cat's wishes, stroked its head, and stopped teasing Xixi.

The two had lunch at home at noon and then left.

It’s not that Xixi has something to do, but Chen Linfeng is short on time. He has to go back to Yanjing to meet Jiang Wu and inspect his final fitness and weight gain results, and then he will start the promotion of his new book right away.

This is the last novel in the series, and Disney wants to boost sales to build up reputation for the film adaptation.

When Chen Shantong returned home in the evening, he saw his wife humming a song and cooking at home, and she seemed to be in a good mood.

"Is Xiaofeng back today?"

"Yes, and with that girl named Sissi."

"Oh, what do you think of it?"

"It's pretty good. He was a little nervous at first, but then we started chatting. I can see that he has a good personality and has a good relationship with Xiaofeng." Wang Yanping expressed her satisfaction.

"Whatever you think is good."

Chen Shantong looked around and found that Xiao Yunmiao was missing.

He laughed angrily, "This kid even caught the cat."

The next day, Chen Linfeng received the two brothers Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu at home.

Jiang Wen looked around the furnishings in the villa and praised, "Your house is nice, especially the bookshelf inside, it's quite tasteful."

Chen Linfeng poured a cup of tea for them. "Yeah, I think my bookshelf is pretty good, but it's still a little short of trophies."

"You said you were fat and you were breathless."

"Haha, it's so hard for Brother Jiang to flatter me, I have to take it."

Just kidding.

Chen Linfeng looked carefully at Jiang Wu's current appearance.

His upper body had grown visibly bigger, and he immediately looked threatening the moment he stood up.

Jiang Wu followed Chen Linfeng's request and hugged his chest without any effort, and the muscles of his arms were clearly visible.

His upper arm is almost as thick as his thigh.

Chen Linfeng pinched it and found that they were all solid muscles.

"Brother Wu, your training is really solid. It completely matches the image I had in mind."

The comparison is of course with Ma Dong-seok from South Korea in the previous life. The effect is even better because Jiang Wu is taller.

Jiang Wu couldn't help but grin when he heard this.

"Don't shave the beard completely, just trim it a little bit. It depends on the stylist when the time comes."

"Okay, I won't touch my beard."

Chen Linfeng and Jiang Wu agreed to start filming at the end of April. The specific time will be announced later.

After talking about Jiang Wu, Jiang Wen talked about "Let the Bullets Fly".

"You mentioned before that you wanted to play a role, and I thought about it, but..."

Jiang Wen felt a little embarrassed when he said this.

"What's wrong? There's no role suitable for me?"

"Not really, it's just that this role isn't the main character. I don't know if you're willing to do that. After all, my dear brother, your current situation is too different from what we agreed upon. It's not good to let you play a supporting role."

The supporting role given by Jiang Wen is the role of Lao Qi.

Lao Liu is not suitable. Jiang Wen has an idea about this role and it depends on appearance. Xiao Chen is not suitable.

As soon as Chen Linfeng thought about the appearance of Zhang Mo, whom he had chosen in his previous life, it became clear to him that he was indeed very similar to the person in history.

He had no intention of interfering with Jiang Wen's casting, or rather, it would be useless to interfere.

This guy looks like someone who would listen to other people's instructions. It's good enough that he doesn't interfere with others.

"If it really doesn't work, I'll just make a cameo appearance. If you don't mention it, this will become a problem later, Brother Jiang."

Indeed, if his status was obviously lower than Ge You or Zhou Runfa, it would not matter if he played a supporting role, but now the situation is the opposite, so he cannot play a supporting role at will.

Otherwise it would be like carrying a sedan chair.

Although you can ignore this kind of thing if you come across a good work, this is something hyped up by the media. There was no such thing in the past.

But times have changed after all, especially since he is a director.

In the past, few big directors would play supporting roles under other directors. For example, Jiang Wen, who played Guan Yu before, was of the same level as the protagonist. In any case, it was all very particular.

Chen Linfeng had no intention of going against public opinion, nor did he want to let others take advantage of him for no reason, so he decided to just do the same as Feng Xiaogang and make a guest appearance.

"So what guest role did Brother Jiang arrange for me? The priest?"

"Ahem, maybe this role is out." Jiang Wen blushed for a rare moment, feeling that this was not a fair thing to do.

Of course Chen Linfeng knew this; it was a widely circulated story in his previous life.

He said this just to tease Jiang Wen.

"Then I really don't know if there is any suitable role for me to play as a guest star."

"How about this, I'll add some plot and arrange it for you?"

"Oh? How do you mean?" Chen Linfeng became interested. This was equivalent to changing history.

"Well, isn't Zhang Mazi envious of Huang Silang for having a double? I'll arrange for Zhang Mazi's brothers to find a double for him. How about you play this double?" Chen Linfeng opened his eyes wide, "I'll play your double? Can you make me look like you?"

Jiang Wen looked at the other person like a fool, "With our looks, there are limits to what a makeup artist can do."

He snapped his fingers and said, "Everyone knows that we are not alike. When you show up, won't it be a humorous effect?

Then I will say, 'Can this person be my substitute? He looks gentle and refined, like a professor.' Then you say you are really a professor, and I will let you go. How about that?"

Jiang Wu was listening to the conversation between the two people while drinking tea, and he almost spit out his tea when he heard this.

"Hey, brother, you are so shameless. You are just trying to ride on the popularity of My Love from the Star."

Jiang Wen didn't blush at all. "Professor Chen lived from the Ming Dynasty to the modern times. How do you know that he has never met Zhang Mazi?"

"Hey, that's interesting." Chen Linfeng touched his chin and felt it was quite amusing.

As for riding on each other's popularity, when "Let the Bullets Fly" comes out, everyone will ride on each other's popularity.

If it is passed down to future generations, it will bring you great fame.

"It's quite interesting, I think so too." Jiang Wen drank his tea proudly.

……

The promotional activities for the new book release will start in China first.

Now it is different from the past. Activities like signing and selling books are absolutely not allowed to be held. If you dare to try, you will die.

Fans can really tire you out.

By the time Chen Linfeng reached this stage, traditional book publishing promotion methods were no longer applicable.

For example, asking a big shot to write a recommendation, or promoting it in literary magazines or newspapers, etc., may not be as efficient and convenient as just posting a blog post on his blog, which is then forwarded by netizens and passed on to others.

Of course, any use is useful, and various magazines, newspapers, and even their own websites are still promoting it.

Even for the slogan, he continued to ask Yu Hua for help.

"You have a much bigger hand than me now, and you still need me to recommend you something? I even want you to recommend me."

"From what you said, Mr. Yu is too modest."

Chen Linfeng always gives enough face to those who have helped him.

Yu Hua did not refuse. Xiao Chen was a writer he had watched grow up, and he had a feeling that was different from that of an ordinary friend.

In addition to him, Chen Linfeng also found Liu Cixin.

The two have maintained a good relationship since they met.

Chen Linfeng often communicates with the other party on Penguin, mostly about some issues related to writing techniques.

Liu Cixin is very good at writing grand scenes. His descriptions of the vast, magical and romantic extraordinary settings always evoke readers' emotions.

Chen Linfeng learned a lot from it.

When "The Three-Body Problem" was released, Chen Linfeng helped write a recommendation and strongly promoted it and expressed his appreciation in his blog.

This time it was Liu Cixin's turn to cheer him up.

In addition to these traditional publicity models, Chen Linfeng also adopted some publicity techniques commonly used in the film and television circles.

Like being on a TV show.

This is a method that few writers have used in the past, or to be more precise, almost no writers have used it in the past.

TV stations are not stupid. Whether they can get ratings by inviting writers to the show is a question. Ordinary books are not worth it for writers to do so.

Chen Linfeng did not need to expend any extra effort. As long as he nodded and was willing to appear on camera, there would be many TV stations willing to invite him, not to mention promoting his new book, even if he was asked to pay for it.

In order to promote his new book, he participated in variety shows such as CCTV's "Cultural Interviews", Mango TV's "Happy Camp", and Hebei TV's "Reading".

Overall, the programs are still mainly literature-related, interspersed with some entertainment variety shows with high ratings.

This form of participating in a TV program with the theme of promoting books is a first of its kind.

You know what, it really works, especially when combined with Chen Linfeng's own wide popularity and audience favor.

When most people hear about Xiao Chen’s program, they often tune into that channel and stay there.

The ratings will suddenly show an upward curve.

In this series of book promotion activities, the new books have not yet been released, so the effect is unknown, but the sales of the old books have increased significantly.

The most important one, "Infinite World", achieved sales of tens of thousands in a short period of time.

Writers in the literary circle are so envious that their eyes turn red with envy. You know, this sales data is almost as good as the weekly sales of their new books when they were first released.

Not only that, but he's also a best-selling author.

However, Xiao Chen’s book has been selling for several years.

It seems that he has this potential, but he just hasn't explored it well in the past.

What a waste!

Among the fan groups, especially the book fans, the news that the idol’s new book is going to be released has spread.

In other words, most of these fans had already bought the novels written by Chen Linfeng in the past, otherwise the sales in such a short period of time would be far more than tens of thousands of copies.

The reason why Chen Linfeng has been able to maintain a steady growth in sales over the past few years is not just because his novels are good.

The fans contributed a lot.

They even recommended Xiao Chen's new book to their friends.

Fortunately, Chen Linfeng started writing novels and then entered the film and television industry, otherwise the sales volume would probably be criticized as fans paying for love rather than the performance of his works.

Now, there are all kinds of people in Xiao Chen’s fan group. The composition is so complicated that it is hard to tell whether they are fans of the book or the drama. Most of them like both.

In early April, Chen Linfeng began a worldwide promotion campaign for his new book.

From Japan, South Korea, to the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy...

I have traveled to almost all the places that were once the great powers.

It has appeared on many TV shows, especially in Europe and the United States. Disney is indeed a giant in the field of entertainment.

There are abundant relevant resources, and national variety shows from various European and American countries take turns to be on the air.

It can be seen that the "Infinite World" project has truly become a key project for Disney headquarters.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain it with Disney Publishing Company alone.

The Oprah Show, The Ellen Show, The Graham Norton Show, On the Couch, The Today Show…

This is almost like promoting a movie.

Think about it, Harry Potter also went through this, and it happened many times in a row.

Plus the huge exposure that the movie brought.

No wonder JK Rowling is so famous. Chen Linfeng's eyes lit up and he felt a little excited.

(End of this chapter)