Huayu started by playing Lao Ai

Chapter 213 Three Versions of A Step into the Past
Jing Tian and Shu Chang made a bet, and Shu Chang lost in the end.

After Zheng Jing and Ye Jingzi finished their meal, they took a car back to the hotel.

He directly rejected Li Zi's phone invitation.

So much so that when Li Zi met Zheng Jing on TVB the next day, her face was full of resentment.

"Mr. Jing, it's really hard to ask you out now."

Hearing Li Zi's words, Zheng Jing smiled and said, "Hong Kong Island's law and order is too bad. Zeng Zhiwei, a local expert, was killed. I don't know if I have offended any villain.

I had to be more honest and not go out at night."

After hearing this, Li Zi felt a little embarrassed.

She made an appointment with Zheng Jing last night. Besides wanting to have a one-night stand with him, she was also asked by Xiang Huaqiang to discuss cooperation with Zheng Jing.

Although the Hong Kong circle is quite hostile towards Zheng Jing and the media has reported a lot of negative information about him.

But when Zheng Jing came to Hong Kong Island, there were still some people who wanted to cooperate with him.

As a star, Zheng Jing's popularity in the mainland, Japan, and Europe and America is real;
As a writer, he also has big IPs such as "The Da Vinci Code" and "Twilight";

As the boss, he took the lead in establishing the project and invested 2 million yuan to shoot a commercial blockbuster such as "La Bate".

These are all business opportunities.

No one has trouble with money.

The same is true for sliding towards the wall.

This guy was badly cheated by Xu Ke this year. The Shu Mountain Legend, which he invested 8000 million Hong Kong dollars in, only had a box office of about million, and he lost all his money.

It's really a waste even to wash rice.

He wanted to cooperate with Zheng Jing to raise the company's stock price.

But for many people in Hong Kong Island, they want to make money and save face at the same time.

It would be best if mainlanders kneel down and beg them for cooperation.

It is just like when people from the mainland come to Hong Kong Island to travel and spend money, the people in Hong Kong Island make money while looking down on customers and engaging in various forms of discrimination.

Therefore, Xiang Huaqiang did not take the initiative to look for Zheng Jing, but wanted to use Li Zi's invitation to create an "encounter".

Li Zi took Zheng Jing’s arm and said coquettishly, “You can’t hide anything from Master Jing, but I am sincere.

I know you like playing billiards, so I set up a billiard game for you tonight and invited a billiards expert, who is a beautiful lady~"

"A master at playing billiards? Could it be Zhou Huimin?"

Li Zi was stunned for a moment, pouted and said, "It's really boring to talk to you. You guessed it all."

After retiring from the entertainment industry, Zhou Huimin became obsessed with two hobbies, one is painting and the other is playing billiards.

She became a member of the Hong Kong Island American Billiards Association and participated in several competitions.

Of course, the results are not good enough.

After all, it's just a hobby, which is very different from a profession.

"Forget it, let's make an appointment another day. I have to attend a treasure exhibition tomorrow, so I need to go to bed early tonight to stay in shape."

Seeing that Zheng Jing still refused, Li Zi was very surprised, but Shu Chang smiled happily.

Li Zi muttered quietly, "I haven't seen you for a while. Have you changed your personality? You've changed so much."

Zheng Jing smiled and didn't explain.

There must be other people involved in Lizi’s conspiracy.

Zheng Jing didn't want to deal with people like Xiang Huaqiang, so naturally he was too lazy to deal with them.

Seeing Zheng Jing's firm attitude, Li Zi said nothing and turned around to go back to work.

Zheng Jing took Shu Chang to sit in the lounge, waiting for the makeup artist to arrive.

Zheng Jing was free and saw some newspapers and magazines in the newspaper, so he picked up a newspaper and started reading.

【Xiang Shaolong represents modernity and civilization, while Lao Ai is an evil authoritarian ruler.】

This is a report from Pingguo Daily.

[As TVB's anniversary drama this year, A Step into the Past will be aired on October 10th.

According to producer Zhuang Weijian, the drama has made certain adaptations to the original novel, focusing on the confrontation between the two men, Xiang Shaolong and Lao Ai.

We understand Zhuang Weijian's adaptation. After all, Zheng Jing was somewhat popular in Japan at that time.

For the sake of the market, he had to compromise.

But it must be pointed out that no matter what, the protagonist of A Step into the Qin is Xiang Shaolong. It is because of Xiang Shaolong, a modern man, who traveled through time that this wonderful story came into being.

Xiang Shaolong represents modernity and civilization, progress, democracy, and the brilliance of humanity; while Lao Ai is a product of the centralized power of ancient feudal society. He seems powerful, but in fact he is backward and corrupt...

It should also be pointed out that even though Zheng Jing had gained some fame, he was still a supporting role to Louis Koo.

This year, in the ranking of celebrities that Hong Kong’s wealthy women most want to keep, Louis Koo is first, Xie Tingfeng is second, and Zheng Jing is not on the list.

In terms of endorsements, Louis Koo has signed contracts with 17 brands with a total contract value of over 2 million, which also far exceeds Zheng Jing.

This is the embodiment of popularity and value...】

There are two core points in this report. One is that Xiang Shaolong and Lao Ai are used to compare Hong Kong Island and the mainland. Any smart person can see the irony at a glance. The other is that Louis Koo is more famous than Zheng Jing and he is promoting Hong Kong Island's own stars.

Pingguo Daily is a newspaper under First Media, founded by the traitor Li Zhiying.

The comments in this report are very consistent with the thinking of local people in Hong Kong Island.

Therefore, the sales of Pingguo Daily in Hong Kong Island are increasing.

After reading the newspaper, Zheng Jing shook his head and asked the staff, "How long will it take for the makeup artist to arrive?"

The staff member said, "The station is quite busy today and we are short of makeup artists. Please wait a moment."

Zheng Jing was a little speechless. He said, "No need, I can do it myself."

Hong Kong Islanders have a lot of little tricks, such as makeup artists being late, makeup not being done well, and being overshadowed on camera. This is also their common routine to suppress mainland artists.

A typical example is when Zhao Ruth Zhao attended an event in Hong Kong Island and was ridiculed by the entire Internet.

Among the young actresses, Zhao Lusi is considered to have a recognizable appearance, otherwise she would not have been able to become a star from an internet celebrity.

After being mocked by many people after just a visit to Hong Kong Island, Zhao Rusi started to insist on wearing her own makeup and micro-dos, becoming more and more pretentious, and ruining her popularity among the public. This time, Zheng Jing brought a styling team with him for the promotion.

It’s just that Jing Tian wanted to hype up her image as a rich and beautiful woman, so the styling team followed her.

Fortunately, Zheng Jing has "secret travel" skills and is very familiar with makeup, and he often does his own styling when filming on the crew.

He was very skillful. Not only did he put makeup on himself, he also made Shu Chang look beautiful.

The TVB staff were stunned.

During the daytime program recording, TVB kept making small moves. Zheng Jing did not have any big reaction and just responded to them.

In the evening, Zheng Jing and Zhuang Weijian participated in TVB's ace program - Dong Zhang Xi Wang.

Dong Zhang Xi Wang is a daily information program that takes the form of a news broadcast, broadcasting daily current affairs and entertainment news.

A Step into the Past will be aired tomorrow, and TVB has specially arranged a special edition of Dong Zhang Xi Wang to interview Zheng Jing and Zhuang Weijian in a live broadcast.

After not seeing each other for a while, Zheng Jing found that Zhuang Weijian had changed a lot. He was in an excited state and talked a lot during the interview.

Because the character card of Lao Ai has been fully developed, Zheng Jing actually no longer pays attention to A Step into the Past.

According to Zhuang Weijian, The King of Qin has now been edited into three versions.

The first version starred Xiang Shaolong as the male lead and Zheng Jing as Lao Ai as the male second lead. It was broadcast exclusively in Hong Kong Island. Zhuang Weijian specifically emphasized that this was the original version.
In the second version, Lao Ai has the most scenes and is the most outstanding person in the whole play. Xiang Shaolong becomes a pure tool, a bit like the useless male protagonist in Japanese comics.

This edition was broadcast in Pan-Asian regions including Japan and Korea.

The third version was relatively balanced, with Zheng Jing and Louis Koo having similar roles, but the pace was relatively slow, and a lot of the plot was watered down, so a total of 56 episodes were edited.

This version will be broadcast on Mango TV’s late-night theater on October 10, which is tonight, one day earlier than Hong Kong Island.

This is very much in the style of TVB and Hong Kong Island, where everything is based on commercial interests.

Zhuang Weijian is very proud of this situation, he said: "Being flexible and adapting to the market is our way of survival.

The Japanese like Zheng Jing and Lao Ai, so I will edit more highlights of these characters for them to see.

Toyama TV was very satisfied with my editing and bought our drama at a high price of 4 yen per episode.

The drama "A Step into the Past" is the most profitable drama produced by TVB in the past decade!"

Because of Zheng Jing's sudden popularity, A Step into the Past unexpectedly became a hot commodity, and was sold at high prices whether it was sold to mainland China or Japan.

The drama was so successful, and Zhuang Weijian was becoming very popular in TVB.

The host Lai Chi-san also praised him and said a lot of nice things to him.

Hearing Zhuang Weijian's words, Zheng Jing retorted: "The editing of film and television dramas must be cautious, to ensure the integrity and coherence of the story, and to keep the overall rhythm smooth.

Random editing will only destroy the quality of the work.

As for water injection, it is an act of bad money driving out good money.

You are lazy and cutting corners, thinking you are making money, but in fact you are disrupting the normal market.

Over time, everyone started to add water to fool the audience.

Audiences will not like to watch water-injected dramas, and the ratings will drop. Advertisers are not stupid either, and will reduce the advertising fees per episode.

As the unit price of advertising decreases, producers and TV stations are pumping more water into the content in order to make money, thus forming a vicious cycle.”

Hearing Zheng Jing's words, Zhuang Weijian shook his head and said, "Mr. Jing, you are not short of money, so you can focus on the quality of the work. Even when selling TV series to TV stations, you would rather lower the price and sign a clause that prohibits further editing.

But we are different. We have to be responsible to the investors when we make movies, and we want to make money.”

Zheng Jing smiled and said, "In the final analysis, it's because you don't have confidence in your own dramas and only dare to operate them in a monopoly in Hong Kong Island.

The reason why "A Step into the Past" sold so well is because I starred in it.

Without me, you can only earn some hard-earned money in Hong Kong Island."

No one expected Zheng Jing to speak so directly, and there was silence at the scene.

Zhuang Weijian wanted to refute, but felt that he couldn't refute.

The reason why A Step into the Qin was sold at a high price was indeed because of Zheng Jing.

He could only shrug his shoulders and said awkwardly: "The whole industry is like this, we just follow the market."

Lai Chi-shan reacted quickly, she changed the subject and said: "The male lead of A Step into the Past is Louis Koo, the female lead is Li Zi, the cast is great.

The good sales of this drama are all thanks to everyone. The role you played, Lao Ai, was just the second male lead. "

Zheng Jing said calmly: "If that's the case, why bother editing it into three versions?

Whether in mainland China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and other places, when promoting this drama, I am said to be the leading male role.

In the promotional videos and posters, I always take the first position.

Only Hong Kong Island produced a special edition editing, and it is believed that Louis Koo is the one who can carry the show.

Isn't this equivalent to the whole world believing that the sales of A Step into the Past depend on me, but Hong Kong is deceiving itself, unwilling to read news from the outside world, and insisting that Louis Koo is better than me?

In fact, Gu Zai and I are not on the same level.

If you were tougher and refused to make the money and insisted on deleting my scenes, I would still think you have some backbone.

But you are reluctant to spend your money, you make money from me, and you even belittle me.

I came here to record the show today to help you promote A Step into the Past. You don't have a makeup artist, so I did the makeup myself. I also did a lot of little tricks on the show to disgust people.

Isn't this just a case of a dog taking advantage of the power of its master and biting back at the director?

Such an ungrateful dog is unacceptable."

Tonight's show is live, and no one expected that Zheng Jing's words became more and more impolite, and he even directly ridiculed TVB and some Hong Kong media as dogs.

From TVB's perspective, Zheng Jing's visit to Hong Kong Island to promote TVB will give him some respect on TVB's home turf.

Little did they know that their little actions, coupled with media reports, had already made Zheng Jing unhappy.

He just kept silent during the day and started to fight back during the live show at night.

Dong Zhang Xi Wang is TVB's flagship program and has a large number of viewers watching it.

This time it’s live again.

Zheng Jing's remarks were directly seen by a large number of viewers and soon set off a public opinion storm in Hong Kong Island.

(End of this chapter)