Huayu 2021: Isn’t he in the technology field?

Chapter 102: Asking for something, giving the world a little shock
Magic City, 7pm.

When Jiang Qing threw the belt of the hotel bathrobe onto the back of the chair, the screen of his mobile phone automatically lit up with blue light.

"Boss, the film and television project that Ms. Tian is auditioning for has been confirmed. It's [Daily Life of a Lady] starring Kiwi."

Its voice paused.

"Among the actresses currently auditioning, Ms. Tian doesn't have much of an advantage. The three investors behind this project each have recommended candidates."

Jiang Qing wiped his hair, grabbed his cell phone, and slowly walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.

"Who are the investors of [Daily Life of a Lady]?"

"Kiwifruit is dominant, along with New Classics Media and Revelers Pictures."

When Thirteen's voice fell, Jiang Qing casually threw the towel on the back of the chair beside him.

"If I remember correctly, the investor behind Kiwifruit seems to be Boss Li, right?"

He confirmed with Thirteen.

"Yes, the main capital behind Kiwifruit comes from Baidu."

"Then please put me through to Boss Li."

"Got it, Boss. Connecting you to Baidu's Li Yanhong."

The phone was picked up after the fifth ring, and Li Yanhong's voice was wrapped in the rustling sound of the pen tip scratching across the paper.

"It's rare for President Jiang to call me. Did the sun rise from the west today?"

Jiang Qing looked at the night view of the Huangpu River outside the floor-to-ceiling window, shook his head and laughed, knowing that this person still had some resentment towards him.

He had agreed to become a consultant for Xiaomi's voice assistant team but rejected Baidu, and he often used this to bully himself.

"Mr. Li, do you know that Kiwi is currently planning a project called [Daily Life of a Lover]?"

He didn't waste any words and just stated his intention directly.

"What daily routine?"

The shuffling of papers suddenly stopped.

"Everyday life."

"Wait...Xiao Liu!"

A vague questioning voice came from the other end of the phone, and it took more than ten seconds for it to become clear again.

"Oh~ I found out. A low-budget sweet drama? Why is President Jiang suddenly interested in this?"

"I've actually found time to watch some of your variety shows; they're quite interesting. So, is Mr. Jiang interested in film and television dramas now?"

Jiang listened to the continuous questions from the other side and could already imagine how excited Boss Li was at the moment.

"Want to ask Mr. Li for the leading female role?"

"wait……"

Li Yanhong suddenly laughed out loud, and the pen in his hand slammed against the table with a crisp sound.

"Jiang Qing, you came to me, the chairman of Baidu, late at night just to ask for the leading female role in a web drama on our video website that cost 50 million yuan?"

His voice through the receiver was full of disbelief.

Jiang Qing could already imagine what he looked like at the moment, and estimated that this matter would soon spread in their circle.

"Mr. Li said last year that he would give me a permanent Baidu cloud disk VIP membership."

He tried to lighten the other person's mood with a joke.

"Stop coming!"

Li Yanhong interrupted him with a smile, and the creaking sound of a chair turning could be heard in the background.

"Last year, I asked the CTO to bring the team to your company to learn, but you didn't even treat us to a meal. Now you're doing this for a female lead."

He suddenly lowered his voice.

"Honestly, is your sister going to debut? Isn't she Shuimu? If she is your sister, then I will..."

Jiang Qing raised his hand and knocked on the French window, interrupting him.

"Does Mr. Li know Tian Xiwei?"

Suddenly, there was a sound of choking water on the other end of the phone, followed by hurried footsteps.

"Tian what?"

Li Yanhong asked with a cough.

"Does this name sound like a host from Mango TV?"

“It’s an actor.”

Jiang Qing thought of the girl's big round eyes and curled the corners of his lips.

"She has a youth campus drama that is also broadcast on Kiwi, and it's quite popular."

……

"what……"

After five seconds of silence, Li Yanhong's laughter made the receiver buzz.

"Jiang Qing, Jiang Qing, the last time you came to me to discuss purchasing 300 million worth of servers, you weren't as serious as you are today. Is this girl your girlfriend? Aren't you with..."

"I can give the opening speech at the Baidu AI Conference next month."

Jiang Qing suddenly spoke.

There was a scraping sound of a chair moving forward suddenly from the other end of the phone.

"Seriously? Last year, you said in front of Zhang Yiming that our semantic recognition was like an elementary school student's composition!"

Jiang Qing shrugged.

"The premise is that Tian Xiwei can get the role."

"I'll have my assistant contact Gong Yu right now! This is settled!"

Li Yanhong suddenly raised his voice.

"But Mr. Jiang..."

He changed the subject.

"Your recent actions aren't quite right! Are you seriously planning on entering the entertainment industry? Don't you need to personally monitor that large model of yours that hasn't been released yet?"

Jiang Qing lowered her eyes and looked down at the Huangpu River below, not caring at all about his temptation.

"Mr. Li knows that I rarely take care of the company's affairs now. I do have some interest in film and television recently. Who knows, I may bother Mr. Li again later."

"No problem! Mr. Jiang is always welcome to call. So...is that all for now?"

"it is good."

The busy tone stopped abruptly along with Li Yanhong's laughter.

Thirteen's electronic voice then sounded.

"Kiwi has sent an expedited document to the production team of [Daily Life of a Lady], and the confirmation of the role will be sent to Ms. Tian's agent's email at 19:28 PM."

"understood."

Jiang Qing responded casually and stood there to admire the night view of the Huangpu River.

Just as I was about to turn around, a new message reminder suddenly popped up on WeChat.

Tiantian is not Tiantian: "(Ancient costume girl holding her chin.jpg)"

Tiantian is not sweet: "My agent suddenly received an email! It said I got the role!!!" Tiantian is not sweet: "Could Dr. Jiang really be Doraemon?"

He smiled, walked to the sofa, sat down, lowered his head and started typing.

Jiang Qing: "Maybe the surveillance video of you kissing a passerby by the Pearl River yesterday impressed the producers."

Tiantian is not sweet: "Then I will kiss you more next time (coquettish kitten)"

He smiled and didn't reply.

This girl talks too much.

At this time, Jiang Qing thought of another thing.

He leaned against the sofa, his fingertips tapping unconsciously on the armrest.

"Thirteen, let's talk about the script sent by Penguin."

Blue ripples appeared on the phone screen, and Thirteen, dressed in a suit and tie, a Q-version of a producer, staggered to the screen holding a stack of virtual documents.

"Report to the boss! We've selected four potential projects: the fantasy martial arts drama "Snow Swordsman", the detective drama "Hunting Crime Picture Book", the historical entrepreneurship drama "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the time-loop drama "The Beginning."

As he spoke, four glowing scripts suddenly appeared and circled above his head.

"Which one should we start with?"

"Tell me about them one by one."

Jiang Qing stretched out his hand and poked the screen on which the cover of [Snow Swordsman] was floating, and the ink-and-wash painting suddenly shattered into a data stream.

"I received this from you, Boss. This original novel is Fenghuo Xi Zhuhou's masterpiece, and it has a very high popularity base."

Thirteen transformed into the appearance of a storyteller and slammed the gavel on the virtual desk.

"A romantic and unrestrained figure in the underworld, with political intrigues and blood on the battlefield, but the screenwriter changed the plot to pieces and added an artificial intelligence fortune teller."

Jiang Qing almost spit out the tea he had just taken.

"WTF?"

"Don't get excited, I'm just kidding!"

Thirteen quickly switched back to serious mode.

"The original novel is based on Xu Fengnian's growth through three journeys through the martial arts world, supplemented by a grand narrative of group portraits and the interweaving of martial arts intrigue."

"But judging by the current script, the group scenes have been significantly cut, and the assassination plot has been emphasized as the main plot. Xu Fengnian has been portrayed as a wise warrior who knew the truth in advance, which has weakened the natural transformation from the "playboy prince" to the "King of Northern Liang" in the original novel."

"More importantly, there are too many slow-motion scenes."

"next."

Jiang Qing rubbed his temples and waved his hands.

The cover of the "Crime Hunting Guide" automatically unfolded, and Thirteen, who had transformed into a criminal investigation expert, pushed up his non-existent glasses.

"The script's dual male lead setting is indeed exciting, with the portrait artist and the criminal police captain working together to solve the case. However, the scene where the screenwriter arranged for the two to be trapped in the locker room is a bit difficult to comment on. Shen Yi is painting Du Cheng's abs."

The screen suddenly popped up with pink hearts all over the screen.

"Speak the key."

Jiang Qing flicked the screen of his phone.

"Cough cough!"

Thirteen quickly returned to a serious state.

"The original case focused on caring for women, but in the newly added bank robbery, the script insisted on having the male protagonist pretend to be a couple and take hostage. Even more outrageous is the finale, the murderer committed the crime because he had a crush on Du Cheng."

Jiang Qing looked at the red annotation "ambiguous eye contact" in the script, and his brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

Thirteen switched to the "Meng Hua Lu" interface at the right time, and ancient music flowed.

"This is Liu Yifei's first costume drama in 16 years. If you were to play Gu Qianfan, your official uniform alone would be on the trending searches for three days."

"Speak the key."

"You are 26, Liu Yifei is 34, but the ancients look old!"

Thirteen suddenly switched to the tone of a dating show host.

"In the play, Zhao Pan'er runs a teahouse and is set up as an ancient version of a strong woman. If you play the role, and Liu Yifei is added, the appearance alone will break the ceiling of costume dramas, and..."

Its increasingly excited words were interrupted by Jiang Qing before they could even finish.

"Tell me about that last [beginning]."

"okay!"

The phone screen instantly turned into a bus dashboard, and Thirteen's voice was filled with suspenseful sound effects.

"A Noon Sunshine production, set in a time loop, science and engineering man Xiao Heyun and university student Li Shiqing repeatedly die and are reborn to search for the passenger carrying the bomb. There's no emotional drama involved, relying entirely on logical reasoning. This role is practically tailor-made for you!"

"The script scenes mainly show the real plight of ordinary people through the group portraits of passengers on the bus."

"For example, migrant workers struggling to pay for their daughter's tuition, prisoners burdened with guilt, and asthmatic youths yearning for independence reveal the living conditions of marginalized groups in society."

"The protagonists' moral choices also offer profound discussion, such as Xiao Heyun's transformation from seeking profit and avoiding harm to actively saving others, and Li Shiqing's reflection on the need for kindness to be matched with ability."

Jiang Qing leaned forward and looked at the "bus structure diagram" marked in the script.

"Is the time loop mechanism reasonable?"

"The crew has invited a staff member from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to serve as a consultant!"

Thirteen brought up densely packed comments.

"For example, the third loop discovered a timing error in the mobile phone, which corresponds to the signal delay of a base station in reality. The tenth loop tried a window-breaking tool, which is completely consistent with material mechanics."

"Where's the production team?"

"The director worked on Nirvana in Fire, and the cinematographer is from the same team that worked on Wolf Warrior."

Thirteen suddenly lowered his voice.

"More importantly, this script only has 15 episodes in total. You can finish filming within days of joining the crew. It's perfect for you."

Jiang Qing stroked his chin and fell into deep thought. Thirteen took the opportunity to rotate the virtual posters of four scripts on the screen.

When the explosion effects of "Beginning" flashed by, he suddenly spoke.

"Reply to Mr. Li from Penguin, and it will [start]."

"Order!"

Thirteen exploded the fireworks happily.

Seeing the screen dim, Jiang Qing leaned back on the sofa.

Looking at the chandelier above his head, Jiang Qing narrowed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

Several major manufacturers are now very interested in the large model that Wu Wen is developing, and their attempts to test him have become more frequent recently.

In fact, he really wanted to tell this group of people that Wu Wen's opponents were never in the country, but they would not believe such words, and it would be a waste of words.

It just so happened that Thirteen had made good progress in Taohuawu, and his own emotional data model had been further upgraded. Xiutago’s guest appearance was too short, and the improvement was not significant.

With the olive branch extended by Penguin, he was more looking forward to what changes "Beginning" would bring to Thirteen.

He can also take this opportunity to "drift off from his job" in front of these big companies, so that they won't keep a close eye on him every day.

There is still nearly a year and a half left, and he can use this time to make adequate preparations.

then……

Give the world a little shock!

(End of this chapter)