Veteran Hong Kong stars reorganize the Chinese entertainment industry.

After taking a shower, Lin Luoying remembered what she wanted to say to Liu Zhongze. She walked out of her room and immediately saw Liu Zhongze washing the dishes after exercising.

She leaned quietly against the kitchen door. In fact, she had long thought that this was what cohabitation would be like. However, as Liu Zhongze's attitude towards her became more and more different, she found that she could not live without Liu Zhongze.

After a while, Liu Zhongze put down the bowls and chopsticks and then saw the pretty woman behind him. He was immediately terrified and broke out in a cold sweat. After all, although she and Liu Zhongze had the same name, they were not the same person.

"What...what are you doing here?"

Lin Luoying found it amusing, made a threatening gesture, and then said, "What's wrong? You've been seriously ill, and now you're afraid of me? Have you gone through a life-or-death experience and are you completely worn out?"

Liu Zhongze coughed and asked again, "What do you want from me?"

"Look at you, putting on airs, humph!" Lin Luoying took her phone and came to Liu Zhongze's side.

Liu Zhongze could smell the fragrance emanating from Lin Luoying. He originally wanted to back away, but thinking about the possibility of encountering scenes with couples or spouses in the future, he forcibly held back.

"I was just looking at the comments section of your short drama video, and a lot of people said that you've improved professionally and know how to play different roles now, unlike before when you would insist on playing a wolfhound when asked to play a monkey."

Liu Zhongze kept his eyes a certain distance from the screen, then swiped his finger across it, asking, "Is there anything special about this?"

"Look at this one!" Lin Luoying took back her phone, found a comment, and pointed it out to Liu Zhongze. "This person asked in the comments section if they could get the contact information from the people on your short drama team, saying they're inviting you to collaborate."

Lin Luoying tapped the person's profile picture, and her phone screen went to that person's homepage: "Look, this person has an officially verified blue label. It's a low-budget tokusatsu drama. I sent him a private message."

Lin Luoying opened her private messages with this person, and the conversation history between the two appeared.

Lin Luoying asked the other party: What do you want to do with Liu Zhongze?

The other party replied simply and clearly: I am an official staff member of Heroic Spirits, a low-budget domestic tokusatsu drama. I found Mr. Liu's performance this time to be superb, and he is very suitable for the role of the third male lead in this drama, who is also a knight summoner. He is quite unconventional in the plot, a funny guy with a comedic rhythm. I wonder if Mr. Liu is interested?

The next information Lin Luoying asked the other party about some qualifications, as well as the filming location and possible actions involved. After learning that there would be a stunt double for the transformation scene, she agreed to ask Liu Zhongze for his opinion and asked him to wait a moment.

"How so? If you're interested, I can negotiate a price for you."

Compared to Liu Zhongze, Lin Luoying seems more professional. She doesn't rush to the film set just because there's a role available, but rather she learns about it before even discussing the price.

"Sure, I can act in anything."

Lin Luoying nudged Liu Zhongze angrily, saying, "Have you forgotten your brain? How could you go and film a movie without even asking the price? They said it's a low-budget tokusatsu series, and they'll give you a thousand yuan to act in for six months. What are we going to do?"

"It's okay, I just want to act right now."

Liu Zhongze is so determined now entirely because of Zhou Xingxing.

The Stephen Chow he knew had a similar experience to his own. Perhaps because of his position as a host, Stephen Chow was in a better position than him, but Stephen Chow didn't actually like that job.

More than forty years later, seeing his good friend completely master the rhythm on screen and pioneer the nonsensical style of comedy was a complete shock to him.

Three people: one was showered with love and became a leading actor right from the start; another was tenacious and resilient, sticking to his own ideas and path, and eventually achieved great success; only he was despondent and fell into the cold sea.

"You're so naive! Sigh, let me have a good talk with him. You can go if you want, anyway, the money for your short drama has arrived, you won't go hungry for a while, I'll try my best to get more for you."

Lin Luoying lowered her head and began communicating with the special effects crew via private messages. She took everything concerning Liu Zhongze very seriously.

When Liu Zhongze came out of the shower, he found that Lin Luoying was still chatting with that person on her phone, and her expression was very serious, like a skilled bargainer.

Liu Zhongze took his blanket and went to sleep on the living room sofa. Lin Luoying didn't say anything.

Just when Liu Zhongze thought he could get through the night peacefully, he was suddenly woken up by someone tapping him. He looked closely and saw that it was Lin Luoying, wearing pajamas and looking tired, standing in front of him.

She said, "We've agreed, you can go there in the next couple of days. They're about to start filming. Here's my phone, take a look."

"Thanks."

Liu Zhongze took the phone and started reading the chat between Lin Luoying and the person in charge of the tokusatsu drama. After reading for a short while, Liu Zhongze frowned and then shook his head helplessly.

Lin Luoying, a young woman from Beijing's social circle, has no idea how to bargain. Whenever money is mentioned, she will take the initiative to lower the price if the other party is slow to respond.

If she doesn't receive a timely response to her new price offer, she'll tentatively add another price until the other party replies.

She was told that the filming would take about three months, and Mr. Liu would be in charge of the dialogue scenes. All the action scenes, or fight scenes, would be done by stunt doubles. Moreover, the price for the third male lead was fixed at 15000, which is 5000 per month, equivalent to the monthly income of an average person.

This is quite different from short dramas. Although Liu Zhongze doesn't know the ins and outs of it, he can sense that short dramas are fragmenting the film and television market.

Perhaps it's because director Chen Yu-yi is too authoritative in the short drama genre, or perhaps it's because this tokusatsu drama had too little investment, that there is such a significant difference.

Liu Zhongze took a picture of the address in the message, then took Lin Luoying's phone and went into the room. He found that Lin Luoying was already asleep.

Lin Luoying looked like an adorable kitten when she was asleep. Even though she wasn't doing anything, her outstanding appearance was still undeniable.

Quietly putting down his phone, Liu Zhongze tiptoed back to the living room and gently turned off the bedroom and living room lights.

After doing all this, he lay down on the sofa and gradually drifted off to sleep.

Silent all night.

When the sunlight shone through the cracks onto Liu Zhongze's face, this early riser opened his eyes. Before he even moved, he felt aches and pains all over his body.

"Ugh... My god, my body is so weak! How come I only exercised a little bit and my whole body is protesting..."

Liu Zhongze tried to get up, but the soreness in his body was too much for him to bear. He could only collapse weakly on the sofa, staring blankly at the ceiling.