Huayu: Starting from managing the Mahua FunAge Theater Troupe

The next few days.

Shen Feiyang had no further contact with Gao Yuanyuan.

He contacted several investigative journalists, commonly known as paparazzi, through a third party and assigned them tasks.

Meanwhile, Xue Xiaolu quickly assembled a team of screenwriters.

Xue Xiaolu obtained her undergraduate and master's degrees from the Department of Literature at Beijing Film Academy, making her a true member of the Beijing Film Academy's academic lineage.

She currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of Literature and a master's supervisor at the Beijing Film Academy.

When she was looking for help, she naturally started by looking within the Beijing Film Academy system.

The first helper Xue Xiaolu sought was her old partner Jiang Wei.

Jiang Wei was her classmate and fellow graduate student, and they had even collaborated before, so they had a very good working relationship.

Xue Xiaolu knew that Jiang Wei had the ability to create works that balanced realism with entertainment value.

This is a very important creative dimension for an anti-trafficking film that needs to raise social awareness.

The second helper Xue Xiaolu found was her colleague, Cao Baoping, who was also an associate professor in the Department of Literature at Beijing Film Academy.

Besides being colleagues, Xue Xiaolu was also Cao Baoping's student.

In 1989, when Xue Xiaolu was admitted to the playwriting major in the Department of Literature at Beijing Film Academy, Cao Baoping had already graduated from the playwriting major and stayed on to teach at the school, where he taught Xue Xiaolu.

After graduation, Cao Baoping created many excellent screenplays with realistic themes, which won recognition from several mainstream awards. He then began to try to transition into directing, and finally in 2001, Cao Baoping directed his debut film, "Absolute Emotion," thus becoming a film director.

Cao Baoping recently finished filming "The Glorious Wrath," which involves the element of trafficking in women. He had done research on the phenomenon of human trafficking. Although "Dearest" focuses on the trafficking of children, it is ultimately about human trafficking, and the creative logic is the same.

Although Cao Baoping was quite busy, he still made time to hold a small class for Xue Xiaolu, who had found the opportunity to direct a film, and provided valuable research materials for Xue Xiaolu and Jiang Wei to draw inspiration for their creation.

……

While Xue Xiaolu and Jiang Wei were working on the script, Shen Feiyang was also busy.

He first invited Liu Hongtao to manage the "Dearest" project.

Then contact the Women's Federation.

Shen Feiyang's contact with the Women's Federation is currently mainly through the Baby Come Home Project working group.

The "Baby Come Home" project working group was jointly established by the Women's Federation, the Civil Affairs Bureau, the Public Security Bureau, and other departments.

The group leader is a secretary of the Women's Federation Secretariat, and there are five deputy group leaders, who are cadres from several departments.

The Women's Federation appointed a section chief from the Rights and Interests Department as the deputy group leader to handle daily work.

Within the organizational structure of the Women's Federation, the Rights and Interests Department is the core functional department responsible for safeguarding the rights and interests of women and children.

Films like "Dearest" with sensitive themes must first obtain guidance from official authorities in order to pass censorship smoothly and mobilize more resources.

Shen Feiyang personally participated in the formulation of the project plan.

Most importantly, after recovering all investment costs, investors can receive a maximum return of 100% of their investment. All remaining box office revenue will be donated to the "Baby Come Home" program for anti-trafficking efforts or to support the education of left-behind children. If there is no profit, the investors will bear the losses themselves.

……

On February 17, the selection process for the 2005 CCTV Spring Festival Gala programs concluded.

On that day, the project proposal for "Dearest" was submitted to the Baby Come Home Project working group.

On February 21, the Baby Come Home Project working group held a meeting of group leaders to discuss the feasibility of the project.

The five deputy team leaders, representing their respective departments, all felt that the project was very feasible, but they did not have the authority to make decisions and had to apply to their superiors to see what they thought.

The head of the Rights and Interests Department contacted Shen Feiyang and told him not to worry and to wait for the decision-making process.

……

March 22th, around 2 AM.

In the conference room on the 12th floor of the Zijin Building, Tian Youliang organized the last script reading session before the filming of "Struggle" began.

All the main actors were present.

Shen Feiyang, as the chief planner, attended the meeting.

The purpose of script readings is to allow actors to quickly grasp the state of the characters they are playing by going over their lines with each other.

The entire script reading session will last a full day.

It is divided into morning and afternoon sessions, with a one-and-a-half-hour lunch and rest period at noon.

After finishing the morning's work, the boxed lunches ordered by the film crew were delivered.

Everyone ate in the conference room.

While munching on her boxed lunch, Li Xiaolu glanced at Shen Feiyang across from her, casually took out her phone, and sent him a text message.

drip...

Shen Feiyang took out his phone and looked at it.

Li Xiaolu: Have you tried it in the office?

This woman is definitely sick.

Shen Feiyang glanced at Li Xiaolu.

Feeling Shen Feiyang's gaze, Li Xiaolu deliberately licked the rice grains stuck to her lips.

Shen Feiyang replied with a text message: Idiot.

……

The script reading session lasted until after 6 p.m.

Before the meeting adjourned, Tian Youliang said, "Filming will begin on February 25th. We will inform you of the specific details later. Meeting adjourned."

Shen Feiyang chimed in, "Please stay a while, everyone. I'll treat you all to dinner tonight. If anyone is busy, feel free to go ahead. Don't worry about it, let's relax."

The words fell.

The group looked at each other, and no one took the first step.

……

After dinner.

Shen Feiyang made an excuse about having other social engagements and sent Jiang Yan back home.

Jiang Yan returned a few days ago, and Shen Feiyang even celebrated her nineteenth birthday with her.

The Lantern Festival hasn't ended yet, and the Beijing Film Academy hasn't started its semester.

More importantly, Jiang Yan's mother was still in her hometown and did not return to Beijing with her.

Without her mother's supervision, Jiang Yan wanted to stick to Shen Feiyang every day.

After dropping Jiang Yan off, Shen Feiyang turned around and went to the hotel room that Li Xiaolu had booked.

……

The next day, February 23, was the Lantern Festival.

It was a little after six in the evening.

Shen Feiyang arrived at Jiang Yan's house.

Jiang Yan had already prepared a table of Northeastern dishes and also cooked glutinous rice balls.

"I hope Auntie doesn't suddenly come back and catch us in bed together," Shen Feiyang joked as he put on slippers, took off his coat, and looked at Jiang Yan setting the table.

Jiang Yan rolled her eyes at him: "It's not like we did anything shameful. Go wash your hands and get ready to eat."

After washing my hands.

Shen Feiyang sat down at the dining table.

Jiang Yan picked up a piece of sweet and sour pork and brought it to Shen Feiyang's lips: "Try my sweet and sour pork, how is it?"

Shen Feiyang took a bite.

The crispiness of the outer crust of the sweet and sour pork is just right.

The seasoning was just right.

"Not bad, Chef Jiang's cooking skills have improved again."

"I practiced for half of the winter break."

They finished their dinner while talking.

Shen Feiyang helped clean up the house, and he and Jiang Yan sat in front of the TV to wait for the CCTV Lantern Festival Gala to start.

The winners of the first, second, and third prizes for "My Favorite Spring Festival Gala Program" will be announced at the Lantern Festival Gala.

Shen Teng and the others went to the scene to receive the award, but it is still unknown what prize it was.

Shen Feiyang didn't care much.

In any case, the influence has already been established.

Winning an award is just icing on the cake, and recognition from the Spring Festival Gala stage.

"It seems to have grown bigger again." Shen Feiyang hugged Jiang Yan rather inappropriately.

"Oh dear..."

Holding a plate of grapes, Jiang Yan said coquettishly, "Stop fooling around, I'm watching TV."

"Give me some of your grapes."

Jiang Yan casually fed Shen Feiyang one.

They cuddled for a while.

The live broadcast of the Lantern Festival Gala has begun.

The awards were presented in batches during the live broadcast of the gala.

The first awards ceremony was held after the second performance, "Sending Tangyuan," where the third prize was awarded.

The songs and dances that won third prize were "The Road to Heaven", "Wishing You Prosperity" and "Competing for Beauty - Popular Style".

The skits that won third prize in the language category were "A Real Man", "The Magic Olympics", and "Birthday Celebration".

The opera, folk art, and other programs that won third prize were the opera "Staying Up Late at the Grand View Garden" and the crosstalk "Consultation Hotline".

"Is 'Today's Happiness' going to fail to win an award?" Jiang Yan asked with some concern.

"If you go to the venue to claim your prize, you're guaranteed to win. If you don't win third prize, then it's probably second prize. First prize is out of the question; it's basically reserved for Zhao Benshan."

After the fourth performance, "The Old Mill," was completed, a second awards ceremony was held, awarding second prizes.

The song and dance programs that won second prize were the song "Fly" and the martial arts song and dance "Soaring Ambition".

The skits that won second prize in the language category are "Today's Happiness" and "Romantic Things".

The second prize-winning program in the categories of opera, folk art, and other arts was the acrobatic act "Thirteen People Balancing Bowls".

Wow, second prize!

Leaning against Shen Feiyang, Jiang Yan was very happy for him: "You won an award on your first Spring Festival Gala appearance! Baby, you're amazing!"

"As expected."

"Amazing!"

Jiang Yan provided ample emotional value.

The third awards ceremony took place before the eighth program.

The eighth program is Zhao Benshan's program.

As expected, "Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva" won the first prize in the song and dance category.

The skit "Kung Fu" unsurprisingly won first prize in the language-based program category.

The situational crosstalk "Talking about Life" unexpectedly won the first prize in the category of opera, folk art and other programs.

The audience was completely dumbfounded when they saw this.

Isn't this a language-based program?

How the hell could they win first prize in opera, folk art, and other categories?

If this show can win first prize, then why didn't "Today's Happiness," which had hundreds of thousands of votes from netizens, win first prize?!

In the following ten minutes, online public opinion exploded.

Netizens were not interested in the special grand prize added by the Spring Festival Gala for "Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva," but instead flocked to speak out on behalf of Mr. Shen.

However, the power of online public opinion is still too weak.

With the awards presented, everything was settled.