Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 69 How is your relationship with Yang Mi?

The crew of "Strange Hero Yizhimei", hotel.

Shen Yancai returned to the room and received a call from Ji Xiang.

Huace is ready to launch "Lotus Tower"!
"Is it directed by Li Huimin?"

"Yes, Huace brought in Zhejiang TV and invested 3500 million to create..."

“…Who did the screenwriter contact?”

"Li Xiaoping, the screenwriter of 'Meteor Butterfly Sword,' read the original novel and is very interested in taking on the role..."

Shen Yan quickly asked what he was most concerned about: "What about my male lead?"

Ji Xiang: "It's settled... This is what we wrote in the contract... Oh, and Zhejiang TV is planning to create a new mainland martial arts trilogy... 'Lotus Tower' is the first one!"

"New Martial Arts Trilogy...Which three?"

"Not sure... I'm probably still choosing..."

"So when does it start?"

"Next June..."

"so late?"

"The script hasn't even been written yet..." Ji Xiang changed the subject: "By the way, do you have any recommendations for actors?"

"Qiao Zhenyu and Chen Xiao..."

“…Where’s the actress?”

Shen Yan immediately remembered something and said quickly, "Shi Shi said she wanted to play the role of Li Qiao!"

Ji Xiang: "Who is Jiao Liqiao?"

"The reference is Lin Xian'er, the crazy villain~"

“…No, Cai Yinong will never allow Shi Shi to play the villain!”

"What?"

"Her role is that of a female Hua Dan. Have you ever seen a female Hua Dan play a villain?"

Shen Yan immediately said: "Fan Bingbing!"

Ji Xiang was stunned for a moment: "Has she ever played a villain?"

"She played Su Daji!"

“…Su Daji isn’t a villain…”

Shen Yan interrupted him: "Let me ask her first..."

"Well," Ji Xiang suddenly said, "Do you know Yang Mi?"

“…I know, Xuejian from Chinese Paladin III!”

"Huace wants Yang Mi to play in 'Lotus Tower'. I'd like to ask for your opinion."

"Ask me? I have no objection... No, will Huace change the casting because of my opinion?"

"That's not the case," Ji Xiang said in a low voice on the other end of the phone. "I heard that Tangren is going to ban Yang Mi..."

Shen Yan was puzzled: "...Is Cai Yinong so powerful? Do you all listen to her?"

"...She's nothing, forget about her...even the TV station is useless!"

"Then why are you saying this?"

"...You kidnapped Tangren's number one sister, and now you're planning to team up with Cai Yinong's thorn in the flesh... You don't plan to see her anymore?"

Shen Yan scratched his head: "...I'll ask Shi Shi later..."

……

After Yang Mi terminated her contract with Rong Xinda, she filmed a lot of dramas and became very close to Huace...

It's normal. After all, Huace is a top TV drama production company in the domestic entertainment industry. Yang Mi... is well-known enough now, has a good reputation, and her salary is not high~
Another thing is, I don’t care much about the ranking!

She has really acted in a lot of weird TV series in recent years, such as "Secret Fragrance", "Legend of the Chinese Zodiac", "We Are Family", "The Great Qin Straight Road", "Hongwu Case"...

None of them are the protagonists.

Besides, "Palace" is just one of her recent crazy filming schedules...

And then it became popular!
Many people say actors take on multiple roles for the money… but that’s not entirely true. The main reason is to become famous! This is called increasing your opportunities!
It is difficult for an agent or an actor to accurately predict the possibility of fame brought by an opportunity.

If you can only take on one drama at a time, making the wrong choice could mean you lose your chance at fame. On the other hand, if you take on as many as possible during the same timeframe, you might just stumble upon a hit...

Then he became famous with one play.

Directors are of course very disgusted by actors overlapping their roles, after all, overlapping roles does mean distraction...

But... you can't guarantee that the movie you shoot will go viral!

Everyone wants to be a good actor and act well, but can you guarantee that the work you shoot is a good one?

Ahem...

After hanging up the phone, Shen Yan returned to the bedroom and looked at Shi Shi who was playing a dungeon. He asked, "How is your relationship with Yang Mi?"

“…It’s alright…”

"Okay?"

"...We had a pretty good relationship for a while." Shi Shi realized something and looked up at him: "What's wrong?"

"...Brother Ji Xiang told me that Huace is planning to develop 'Lotus Tower', and Yang Mi is the female lead..."

“I can act too!”

Shen Yan shook his head: "'Lotus Tower' is a man's play, coupled with a suspenseful detective plot, the female characters are more of a foil and foreshadowing, not the main plot... I don't think it's necessary for you to play such a role..."

"I can play the role of Li Qiao!"

"That's the villain..." Shen Yan shook his head decisively, then said: "I've been thinking about a time-travel drama recently..."

"Qing Chuan?"

"No," Shen Yan continued, "Let me tell you the plot outline... Gong Ming, a scholar-official of the Western Han Dynasty who is determined to uphold orthodoxy, accidentally discovers that he can freely travel through time for thousands of years. During these time travels, he embarks on a sweet and tragic love affair with Lin Xiangxiang, a frustrated modern actress, that spans thousands of years..."

Shen Yan was talking about "Love Through the Millennium", okay, actually it was "Queen Inhyun's Man"...

He has watched this drama twice, because the screenwriter Song Jae-jung's representative work is "Funny Family"...

"Funny Family" is his best drama to watch while eating, I have watched it several times!

I also watched "Queen In-hyun's Man" and it was pretty good. The male lead was pretty normal...

Korean dramas have been evolving all the time. The earliest leading male actors were the type like Song Seung-heon in "Autumn Tale", Bae Yong-joon in "Winter Sonata" and Jang Dong-gun in "Temptation of Eve".

In short, she is gentle as jade, kind and considerate.

Then Korean dramas encountered aesthetic fatigue, and Korean dramas that have always been about the aesthetic and pure love atmosphere encountered a bottleneck period.

In 2004, "Full House" came into being, washing away the weeping, grieving and resentful atmosphere of Korean dramas for many years.

As a result, copycat works have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, with a large number of TV series featuring a tsundere man meeting a tolerant woman, and marriage before love. From South Korea's "Goong" and "Boys Over Flowers" to Taiwan's "Fated to Love You", almost every work of this type will become a hit...

Then, everyone thought that the plot pattern that the audience likes to watch is a tsundere male lead + an all-round male second and a gentle female lead...

It's about abusing your wife and then chasing her to the crematorium...

"Queen Inhyun's Man" is obviously different. The male protagonist is: wise, calm, and elegant...

A modest gentleman is as gentle as jade!

Uh, isn't it because they don't want Shi Shi to film "Scarlet Heart"?

Then we must make a work of comparable quality, and it has to be a costume drama...

Most importantly, Shen Yan can act too!
Then let's watch "Queen Inhyun's Man"...

Change the name to "Love Through the Millennium"...

After listening to the synopsis of the script, Shi Shi asked, "Shall I play the actress Lin Xiangxiang?"

"Yes, playing myself!"

Then Shi Shi changed the subject: "...So Yang Mi will act in 'Lotus Tower' with you?"

"what?"

Shen Yan was stunned for a moment, then explained: "This is the business of the producer Huace, I'm just a new actor..."

Shi Shi didn't believe it at all: "Don't play tricks on me. You're the original author and the male lead... If you don't like it, they will definitely consider your opinion!"

(End of this chapter)