Huayu 2015, the Artist of Light and Shadow

Chapter 145: "Idol Producer" concludes, Kun Kun debuts as the undisputed center! Lu Yunzhou's fortune is emptied?

3 month 16 number.

The finale of "Idol Producer" has come to an end.

Without a doubt, Cai Xukun won first place with an overwhelming number one score and debuted directly.

On the night of the finals, Cai Xukun received more than 50 million online votes, far ahead of the second place by more than half, contributing more than a quarter of the total votes in the finals!

#Cai Xukun debuts in center position#

This topic immediately topped the Weibo hot search list, with a popularity value exceeding 340 million.

Of course, compared to the scandal involving Yang Mi a couple of days ago, the buzz surrounding it has halved.

Yang Mi is a veteran artist who has been at the top for many years, while Cai Xukun is just a newbie who became famous overnight through a small talent show. It is quite remarkable that he can have half the popularity of Yang Mi.

In just three months since the show aired, Cai Xukun has amassed over 1000 million followers on Weibo, making him a highly popular idol.

Naza has been in the entertainment industry for so many years, but she only has 2000 million followers on Weibo.

Liu Haocun worked with Lu Yunzhou on a movie that caused a sensation around the world, and currently has around 800 million fans.

One can imagine how popular the talent show "Idol Producer" was in the Chinese entertainment industry.

After all, this is the flagship variety show that ushered in the first year of idol talent shows!

[A stunning beauty, a sweet girl, and a newbie]

This group has been silent for a long time.

The main reason is that Cai Xukun participated in "Idol Producer" and only slept a few hours a day. He also had to compete with Fan Chenchen in the show, so he really didn't have time to chat in the group.

Today, he is finally free.

At that moment, Cai Xukun couldn't wait to show off his final achievement after two and a half years of practice.

"Trainee on the Star Power Ranking, 13 consecutive weeks at number one!"

"Three-time champion on the Rising Star Chart!"

"I advise you not to be so arrogant. Otherwise, a year from now, I'll let you know that my nickname, Tian Dali, isn't for nothing!"

Click!

As she spoke, a plastic water cup made a snapping sound in Tian Xiwei's hand.

Too embarrassing!

Cai Xukun, that good-for-nothing, it's one thing to be arrogant in WeChat groups, but he dares to show up offline?

They're utterly courting death.

"Fine. Today, the two of you will fight one of us. I'm a smart man and I won't stoop to your level."

"However, you forced me to do this!"

Cai Xukun looked down at his brand-new leather shoes.

At some point, a footprint was left on it.

It should be size 40.

Perhaps because he stepped on it too hard, Cai Xukun felt that his toes were not very painful at the moment, but they were a little numb.

"Alright, I'm off to report to the film set."

The main filming location for "The Untamed" was Hengdian World Studios. In addition, the crew also filmed some scenes at a film and television base in Guizhou.

However, after leaving the company, Cai Xukun did not go to Hengdian, but instead flew to Yanjing first.

Holy crap!

"My toes hurt so much—that wretched Wang Dajiao, is he trying to cripple me?"

I didn't feel much pain at first, but after boarding the plane, probably because of the strong gravitational acceleration during takeoff, all the blood rushed to the soles of my feet.

Cai Xukun suddenly noticed that his toes were a little numb and had a tingling sensation.

Oops.

This is a sign of internal injury.

That wretched Wang Dajiao, I never expected you to kick so viciously.

Poor older brother, he's been deceived by Wang Dajiao for so long—who knows what kind of domestic violence he'll suffer in the future.

Cai Xukun felt that he had only chatted with Wang Churan occasionally, and occasionally said a few words that did not please Wang Churan, yet he was beaten like this by Wang Churan.

My toes are almost crushed.

Lu Yunzhou has an even more straightforward temper than I do. If he accidentally says something wrong and Wang Churan takes revenge on him, how much suffering will he have to endure?

Lu Yunzhou is a proud man, so he definitely wouldn't tell anyone; he could only swallow his bitterness.

"Thinking about it makes me feel sorry for my older brother."

"My elder brother is a man of unparalleled righteousness, a truly great man in the world. How could he endure such hardship?"

At this moment, Cai Xukun truly felt sorry for Lu Yunzhou.

Lu Yunzhou is good in every way, except that he has a bad eye for women.

Especially Tian Xiwei and Wang Ran, these two are truly best friends, each more violent than the other.

The entrance to the Beijing Film Academy campus.

A black van pulled up.

Zhang Jingyi waited at the school gate for a while, and after confirming that the nanny van was the one she was waiting for, she hesitantly got on.

"Jingjing, what are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen someone as handsome as me before?"

In the van, Cai Xukun sat with his legs crossed, his hair gelled in layers; any fly that touched it would probably have to break a leg to escape with its life.

After getting into the car, Zhang Jingyi instinctively covered her nose and said with disdain, "Brother Kun, your perfume smells so strong. How much did you spray?"

"I only sprayed it twice. Not much. Is the smell strong?"

Cai Xukun smelled it for a while and didn't find anything strange about it.

These were all minor matters, and Cai Xukun didn't dwell on them.

He turned to Zhang Jingyi, raised an eyebrow, and tentatively called out, "Sister-in-law?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Jingyi blushed instantly, but a faint smile appeared on her lips as she said coyly, "Don't call me that. Who's your sister-in-law?"

"I knew it."

Cai Xukun laughed heartily: "When did you and my older brother get together? Why didn't you tell me?"

Zhang Jingyi shook her head seriously: "Relationships are a two-way street. I like him, and he likes me back, that's enough. I don't need to share him with anyone, right?"

"That's true."

Cai Xukun gave Zhang Jingyi a thumbs up: "My older brother has been filming in Qingdao for a month now. I'm planning to visit him tomorrow. Do you want to come with me?"

Zhang Jingyi hesitated, lowering her head to fidget with the hem of her clothes: "Maybe I shouldn't. He didn't invite me, and if I go without permission, it might cause unnecessary misunderstandings."

What if he has a girlfriend there? How am I supposed to handle this?

How embarrassing would that be?

"I know you're too shy to ask, so I came over. I'll ask for you. Otherwise, with your personality, how do you expect to win?"

Cai Xukun said earnestly.

With your personality, you'll be bullied to death by Wang Churan and Tian Xiwei sooner or later.

"Alright, Big Brother agrees."

Cai Xukun chatted with Lu Yunzhou for a while, then showed the conversation to Zhang Jingyi.

In the chat history, Lu Yunzhou himself said, "Is Jingjing coming too? That's great! Should we arrange some Hunan cuisine?"

"Jingjing, I don't want to hide it from you, my brother is very rich, extremely rich, very, very rich—probably the richest male celebrity in the entertainment industry."

Cai Xukun hesitated for a moment before deciding to tell Zhang Jingyi the truth.

If Zhang Jingyi can pass this test, then she can become his real sister-in-law.

And she's the perfect, genuine sister-in-law.

At that moment, Zhang Jingyi's eyes dimmed for a second time, but then she raised them again, her gaze unwavering: "I know he's very rich, and some people might misunderstand and think I'm after his money. Actually, I'm not after his money."

"I can earn all the money myself. I even hope he goes bankrupt tomorrow. If he goes bankrupt, everyone else will leave him."

Unfortunately, these things only existed in Zhang Jingyi's dreams.

How could Lu Yunzhou possibly go bankrupt?

As long as he doesn't make reckless investments, gamble, or speculate in stocks, and simply sells his luxury goods, there's no way he could go bankrupt.

"Jingjing, you are truly different."

"You have passed the first level of the test."

"Next, I'm going to tell you the truth—"

Cai Xukun took a deep breath and, under Zhang Jingyi's questioning gaze, revealed a truth that outsiders could not imagine.

"Actually, although my older brother is very rich, none of that money belongs to him."

"He was so kind—every time he had a girlfriend, he would give them a portion of his assets so they could become legal representatives in those companies."

"Over time, these companies started to disobey him and were taken over by his girlfriends."

"Actually, he's already just an empty shell."

"His girlfriends were all different: one was cunning and treacherous, one was incredibly strong, one had a bad temper, and one could even transform."

Tang Yan is treacherous and cunning.

Wang Churan possessed immense strength.

Tian Xiwei has a bad temper.

Zhang Ruonan looks like a cute little thing, but she can actually transform; for now, she's a domineering CEO. But what she'll become in the future, nobody knows.

"Actually, none of them were his true love."

"It's all because those women were good at pretending and fooled my brother—now, my brother has lost both his money and his wife, and is living a very difficult life."

Cai Xukun went on and on about how bad other people were being spoken of in front of Zhang Jingyi, but Zhang Jingyi looked at him with suspicion, clearly not believing him.

In the end, Cai Xukun had no choice but to resort to his last resort, asking Zhang Jingyi, "Don't you feel that there's always a sense of loneliness about my brother, a feeling that he doesn't belong in the world?"

Absolutely.

No one can deny that.

Lu Yunzhou does indeed possess this kind of temperament.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Jingyi's heart wavered slightly. She stared blankly at Cai Xukun: "Are you telling the truth? He was deceived by so many people? He really lost everything?"

It's so heartbreaking.

I will go and save him, just like a knight saves a princess, to defeat the great demon king and rescue him from the demon's lair!

Seeing that Zhang Jingyi seemed to be wavering, Cai Xukun nodded firmly: "Didn't you notice? Big Brother doesn't have much money in his pocket."

If you invite him to dinner, he'll hesitate for a moment, but will eventually accept. And he'll even ask you not to treat him to anything too expensive.

"Because he fears that once he gets used to lavish meals, it will be difficult to go back to frugality and he will never be able to go back."

this----

Zhang Jingyi didn't know what kind of spending mentality Lu Yunzhou had, but although Lu Yunzhou seemed to be very rich, his lifestyle was not extravagant.

She's pretty much the same as me.

The gifts Lu Yunzhou gave her were all taken from the trunk of his car; he never took her out to buy luxury goods.

Moreover, every time Lu Yunzhou took something out of the trunk, his assistants would watch him silently, their eyes filled with scrutiny.

This made Zhang Jingyi wonder if Lu Yunzhou was really being monitored?

At this moment, Zhang Jingyi was so worried that she became extremely nervous. She grabbed Cai Xukun and kept saying, "I want to go to Qingdao, right now."

"Okay! I'll buy the tickets right away!"

Upon hearing this, Cai Xukun was filled with motivation.

What an innocent little girl.

They're so easy to fool!

Only an innocent and adorable girl like this is a perfect match for Lu Yunzhou.

That afternoon, Cai Xukun took Zhang Jingyi by plane to Qingdao, to Lu Yunzhou's film shooting base.

When Cai Xukun and Zhang Jingyi saw Lu Yunzhou, they were taken aback.

"Big brother, you're working too hard!"

At this moment, Lu Yunzhou was completely different from his usual glamorous self. He was travel-worn and his hair was covered in dust.

My skin got tanned.

After all, his scenes have already been filmed, and the rest of the filming will be Liu Haocun's scenes, as well as some special effects.

Lu Yunzhou no longer cared so much about his personal image.

Anyway, outsiders can't see it.

Cai Xukun could understand Lu Yunzhou's mindset, and at this moment he followed Lu Yunzhou and took a tour of the photography studio.

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This gave Cai Xukun a real eye-opener.

How is this any different from a factory?

Machines are everywhere.

"Brother, what are these two large mechanical cranes for?" Cai Xukun asked after walking around the studio.

"It's very simple. Just suspend the person in mid-air and simulate swimming in the ocean."

Lu Yunzhou offered a few casual explanations.

Cai Xukun nodded vigorously, muttering to himself, "Making movies is really different; it feels so high-tech."

Lu Yunzhou laughed and said, "Otherwise, why do people always say that Chinese films are industrialized? Actually, the level of industrialization of our country's film industry is quite good."

At least, the Oriental Film City in Qingdao is already an internationally leading film industrialization production base.

A film and television industry base with an investment of 500 billion yuan.

The annual box office revenue for the Chinese film market is only about this much.

How many years will it take to break even?

Besides, making blockbusters is too risky—you can easily invest hundreds of millions, only to find out at the box office that you can't even break even?

Then why bother investing?

Why don't we all make a comedy together?

With AI, things will be even more convenient in the future. We won't even need to create special effects; we can just let AI generate them.

A special effect score of 90 might cost 1000 million.

A decent special effects score of 60 could probably be achieved for around 1000 yuan using AI.

From a business perspective, everyone would choose to use AI to create cheap special effects.

"I might become the only major client of this 500 billion yuan film and television base in the future."

When everyone started using AI to create special effects, Lu Yunzhou knew that he couldn't take this shortcut.

Because the system won't give him a rating.

In a few years, this Oriental Film and Television Base may only have him as its one major client.

Cai Xukun was touring the photography studio, thoroughly enjoying the exhibits.

Just then, Zhang Jingyi gently tugged at Lu Yunzhou, her eyes gradually hardening: "Big brother, come with me for a moment, I have something I want to ask you."

Paper cannot hold fire.

What was bound to happen has finally happened.

Lu Yunzhou knew that he had acted inhumanely, juggling several relationships while also trying to harm Zhang Jingyi. It was truly wrong of him.

He sighed softly and followed Zhang Jingyi to a corner, preparing to face his fate.

Just then, Zhang Jingyi spoke first: "Big brother, do you have four girlfriends?"

"Um."

Lu Yunzhou felt ashamed and found it difficult to speak.

But he wasn't very good at lying, and he nodded slightly, readily admitting it.

Zhang Jingyi then asked, "Do all four of your girlfriends own a company under your name? Do they help you run that company?"

Lu Yunzhou thought for a moment and corrected the wording error: "I wouldn't say 'master.' However, they are all the legal representatives of the company. As for running the company, there is a professional team."

"I see."

Zhang Jingyi suddenly let out a long sigh of relief and rushed forward to hug Lu Yunzhou: "Big brother, they all love your money and want to drain you dry, to become your bloodsuckers. You've had it so hard. My heart aches for you."

Where does this come from?

Lu Yunzhou was completely dumbfounded.

Making Auntie the legal representative is a brilliant idea devised by countless elders in the region. They've always managed their family with the mindset of running a business, and there have never been any problems.

If any woman has a disloyal heart—

With a few clever tricks, he emptied the company's coffers, making the other party a defaulter and leaving them with huge debts.

In that case, wouldn't they kneel down and beg me for forgiveness?

of course.

Such a tactic of eliminating any offspring is not normally used unless the relationship has truly broken down to the point of no return.

That's so vicious.

It's absolutely outrageous!

However, one should always be wary of others.

With this backup plan, we can prevent some women from taking advantage of us, becoming arrogant and overbearing, and forgetting who is in charge of the household.

If King Zou had studied similar techniques with them, he could not only live a carefree life but also have women on both sides of him.

At home, his wife still has to obediently prepare the water for him to wash his feet; there's absolutely no way she'd take advantage of him.

How come Zhang Jingyi made it sound like she was the victim?

That doesn't make sense.

Just then, Cai Xukun, who was in the distance, finished his tour and winked at Lu Yunzhou, as if to say, "Big brother, wasn't I good enough?"

In that moment, Lu Yunzhou instantly understood what was going on.

He looked at Zhang Jingyi in his arms, gently stroked her back, and said softly, "Jingjing, I'm sorry, I didn't tell you the truth. Actually, I'm not a good person. At least, not the kind of person you think I am."

"I know, I know everything."

Without Lu Yunzhou needing to explain, Zhang Jingyi raised her head and took the initiative to defend Lu Yunzhou: "They only want your money and will try every means to seize your family property. They are all bad women."

"You work so hard here, and all they do is fight over the family fortune at home, they don't care about you at all."

"I didn't come before because I was afraid of running into them, putting you in a difficult position, and making you a laughing stock."

"Today, I came here and realized that you've always been all alone. Even when your clothes were torn, no one helped you mend them."

"Big brother, my heart aches for you."

In the end, Zhang Jingyi couldn't help but shed tears.

She held Lu Yunzhou tightly, and said in a firm yet gentle tone, "Brother, don't be too sad. They're not worth your sadness."

"From now on, I will always be with you, even if we have to start from scratch."

"You can tell from my appearance that I can endure hardship."

Lu Yunzhou was really drunk!

Zhang Jingyi has already developed her own set of beliefs.

She portrayed everyone else as utterly wicked women, while depicting herself as a saint who had come to save him.

It was as if fate had arranged for her to appear before Lu Yunzhou to save his soul.

In another time and space, Lu Yunzhou had watched some movies starring Zhang Jingyi.

In his mind, Zhang Jingyi was the kind of girl who seemed stubborn on the surface, but was full of brokenness inside, and not very smart.

It's like on a certain evening, on a bustling street, a blond guy riding a motorcycle with a stunt on it could just spin around in front of Zhang Jingyi and steal this little princess away.

At that moment, Lu Yunzhou suddenly realized that Huang Mao was actually himself.

"Wow, wow—I've got an idea!"

"I want to write a song for both of you!"

Cai Xukun watched as Lu Yunzhou and Zhang Jingyi gently embraced each other in the corner.

Lu Yunzhou's face showed a hint of embarrassment and guilt, but Zhang Jingyi's face was full of happiness and a saintly glow.

Cai Xukun felt that he had found some inspiration for songwriting.

The song will be tentatively titled "Lover No. 5".

My heart is pounding. From sunset to the morning moonlight, I hold you until dawn. Your gentle kiss makes me go crazy. The atmosphere starts to heat up, dangerous yet alluring. I really want to dance tonight!

That evening.

Cai Xukun treated everyone to Hunan cuisine.

"Brother, how can you be our Hunan son-in-law if you can't eat spicy food? You should practice more. In the future, the Hunan blood in your veins will slowly awaken."

Cai Xukun ordered a large table of Hunan dishes.

The basin was full of dried chili peppers.

Zhang Jingyi glanced at Lu Yunzhou furtively from the side, occasionally smiling shyly.

Lu Yunzhou sighed softly, "Actually, I really like spicy food, and I can handle a lot of it. However, because I like spicy food so much, I accidentally developed superficial gastric erosion when I was in college, which left me with a chronic condition. Since then, I've given up spicy food."

Upon hearing this, Cai Xukun looked puzzled. Really?

How come I've never heard this story before?

But when Zhang Jingyi heard this, she was heartbroken and immediately asked the waiter to remove the particularly spicy dishes and replace them with the milder dishes that Lu Yunzhou usually ate.

At the same time, Zhang Jingyi turned her head and glared at Cai Xukun a few times, as if to say, "Who told you to order so many spicy dishes?"

Are you deliberately trying to embarrass me?

Believe me or not, I'll turn into the Zombie King and strangle you to death. Or do you want me to turn into a five-step snake from Hunan and tear a piece of rotten flesh from your shoulder?

"We're doomed!"

Seeing this, Cai Xukun couldn't help but facepalm: "I made a mistake again. Jingjing's disguise was too good!"