He plays Feng Yuxiu, and his girlfriend is a fairy-like beauty.

Ye Mo parked the car in the parking space, pulled the handbrake, and turned off the engine.

The carriage was quiet for a few seconds.

Liu Yifei turned her head to look at him.

"The Blue Dragon Awards, you're really not going?"

"I'm not going."

"That's the highest award in Korean cinema. As Brother Hua just said, no foreign actor has ever been nominated for the Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Actor. Even he wasn't nominated. You're the first."

Ye Mo unbuckled his seatbelt, his tone almost as if he were asking what he would eat tomorrow.

"I filmed 'New World' to play Ding Qing, not to win awards. The role is over, the elevator scene is over, and it's enough for Ding Qing to remain on the big screen. Whether he wins awards or not, he is still Ding Qing. Besides, 'Dying to Survive' will start pre-production next month, and the script hasn't been revised yet."

The main reason is that the Blue Dragon Award doesn't mean much to him.

If it were the Oscars, I would make time to attend even if I was unavailable.

They are different in nature.

Liu Yifei looked at him for a while and then unbuckled her seatbelt.

"Okay, so what if the director asks you about it?"

"Just say you don't have time, what can they do to me!"

He's no longer the little Kara who can be easily manipulated.

Now I have the power to make my own decisions.

Liu Yifei smiled as she pushed open the car door and walked towards the building entrance, stepping in the shadows cast by the streetlights. After taking two steps, she turned back.

"Looks like I'll have to suck up to someone powerful!"

.....

a few days later.

The final episode of "Raging Storm" has arrived.

In the same second, tens of millions of television screens were tuned to the same channel.

In the video platform's back-end data monitoring room, the curve of real-time online users jumped into a steep straight line the moment the opening theme started playing.

Gao Qiqiang stood in the dock of the Grand Court.

He was wearing a dark gray prison uniform, his hair was shaved very short, and there were a few white stubbles at his temples.

When the judge asked him to plead guilty, he remained silent for a long time, so long that viewers in front of the television began to wonder if he had a signal problem.

Then he lowered his head.

"I plead guilty."

What kind of confession was it? Not loud, not tearful, not dramatic.

Zhang Songwen portrayed Gao Qiqiang's entire confession process as a tearless breakdown.

His eyes were red, but not a single tear fell.

His lips were trembling, but his voice was steady.

His knuckles, gripping the bars of the defendant's dock, were white and bluish, but his body did not sway.

The scene editing on the monitor was almost identical to the scene where An Xin handed Gao Qiqiang dumplings during his first interrogation.

The iron bars were replaced with courtroom railings, one person went from standing to sitting, and one person went from wearing a police uniform to wearing a prison uniform.

Camera position, angle, the proportional relationship between the two people and the frame, and mirroring.

This confrontation completed the loop that was not finished in the interrogation room in the courtroom.

Gao Qiqiang's last meal before his execution was a plate of dumplings.

When the end credits started, the screen was filled with comments.

"If Gao Qiqiang has a next life, don't choose this path."

"The end! Hooray!"

"Anxin, don't go."

"I was devastated by the scene where An Xin stands alone in front of the fish stall on Old Factory Street. That's where Gao Qiqiang first appeared riding his tricycle. The first scene of the first movie was at the fish stall, and the last scene was also at the fish stall, with a gap of twenty years in between."

"I burst into tears when dumplings appeared; it's a perfect ending!"

"The last shot of the whole series shows An Xin's face as it was in the interrogation room back then, but her hair is a third white. Gao Qiqiang doesn't have white hair because he no longer has a chance."

......

The peak viewership rating exceeded 4.8.

This sets a new record for CCTV-8, the highest in nearly three years.

This data stayed on Weibo for a whole night without dropping.

The trending topic #CrazyFinale# wasn't just followed by "explosive," it was two "explosive" characters stacked together.

The platform system did not have a mechanism for handling two consecutive bursts; the operations and maintenance team added it manually on an ad-hoc basis.

There's no way around it, it's just too popular.

How popular is it!

You'd be embarrassed to go out if you hadn't seen "The Storm".

It's the kind of thing where you can chime in if you've seen it and are talking about it with others.

......

Li Xiang.

A 24-year-old programmer at an internet company in Beijing.

Watching TV series is not part of his daily routine.

He's too busy working overtime, and occasionally watching a movie alone late at night with headphones on is his entire cultural and entertainment life.

He first saw the name "Raging Storm" in the company's break room.

Two female colleagues were discussing last night's plot while sipping coffee, saying that the bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish—that line was absolutely brilliant.

Li Xiang stood in front of the microwave oven with a water cup in his hand, waiting for it to heat up, his ears involuntarily perking up.

The second time was when I saw the ending scene of GG on Go Fighting!

The third time was on Weibo's trending topics.

It pops up almost every few days, and tonight it exploded.

After watching two episodes, he also became a loyal fan of "Raging Storm".

It was almost dawn the next day by the time I finished watching the finale.

He turned off the TV and sat on the sofa.

I picked up my phone and turned on the notifications for the "Raging Storm" drama series group.

He was added to the group by a colleague the week the show premiered. There were eight people in the group, and the initial chat history was "What good shows are there lately?"

"The movie 'Raging Storm' is good."

"Really?"

Today, these records have been pushed to an invisible position.

The message list exploded.

"Have you finished watching?"

"I've finished watching it."

"When the dumplings appeared, I was so sad I couldn't speak. The last time I ate dumplings in the interrogation room, he cried, but he didn't cry before his execution."

"He can't cry anymore. When you stay in the abyss for too long, you stop crying."

"When Brother Qiang first appeared on his tricycle, he was so humble. After being kicked, he squatted down to pick up change. When he pleaded guilty in court, he and An Xin looked at each other through the railing. Did you notice that look in their eyes?"

Li Xiang typed five words and sent them in.

"And there's the mad donkey."

There was a moment of silence in the group chat.

Then someone replied.

"Michael Jack the Donkey".

Li Xiang laughed out loud.

I was just writing down my reflections on life, and then these three words broke me down.

It has to be said that Brother Chao's crazy donkey is absolutely in a class of its own.

Noon the next day.

He took an afternoon off and took the subway for an hour to his father's house.

His father was a state-owned enterprise cadre before he retired. He was a leader his whole life and never accepted anyone's recommendation to promote a drama.

He has to approve it, otherwise no matter who says the show is good, it won't matter.

When Li Xiang entered the living room, his mother was sitting on the sofa watching the news. She was making pancakes in the kitchen and peeked in when she heard her son arrive.

Have you eaten?

"You've eaten, Dad. I'll install a video app for you; there's a TV series you absolutely have to watch."

"I don't watch them; TV dramas these days are a waste of time."

Li Xiang ignored him, installed the app, logged into his account, and set "Raging Waves" to the first episode.

His dad said he wouldn't look, but his eyes were already glancing towards the screen.

Li Xiang pressed play.

The roller shutter of the fish stall on Old Factory Street was pulled up with a whoosh.

Gao Qiqiang made his entrance riding a dilapidated tricycle.

His dad told him to change the channel.

Li Xiang didn't move.

A dozen minutes later.

His father stopped suggesting changing the channel; he just leaned forward, adjusting his reading glasses.

His mother finished making the pancakes, carried the plate out of the kitchen, stood behind the sofa, glanced at the screen, and then watched the show with him.

"Is it that beautiful?"

His dad didn't say anything, but picked up the remote control.

Li Xiang thought he was going to turn off the TV.

He pressed pause.

Then I got up and went to the restroom.

After returning home, I put my reading glasses back on, sat down on the sofa, and pressed continue playback.

"Don't spoil it."

Li Xiang leaned back into the sofa.

He didn't need to go anywhere that afternoon.

From then on, "Raging Storm" gained two more elderly fans.

......