Huayu Tianxian: This director is such a hypocrite!

10 month 23 day.

Shih Wei-tsung has finished his location scouting trip, and the filming locations for "The Legend of the Stone" have been officially completed.

Chen Zhixi personally went to Vietnam and Hengdian to discuss the details of filming.

Ye Chong took Yi Fei to the film set and chatted with Zhang Jizhong for the whole morning. He even deliberately dragged Zhang Jizhong around in front of everyone, not knowing if the other people in the crew understood.

Time flies, and it's January 1th.

The box office revenue of "The Unknown" was 3900 million, which relieved the immediate crisis, and "The Little Fairy" entered the preparation stage.

On that same day, audition invitations began flooding the actors' inboxes.

At 3 PM, a villa in Lijing Garden, Shunyi District.

A cool breeze swept across the lawn, where God lay on a deck chair, covered with a brightly colored fleece blanket, flipping through the paper invitation his assistant had just handed him.

"Sister Li, honey pomelo."

"Um……"

Gong Li responded, took the water glass, took a small sip, and placed it on the table beside her.

"what?"

Gong Li's eyebrows, sharp as bamboo leaves, arched upwards. She pulled out the letter separately; it contained only a few dozen words:

To Gong Li: On November 3rd, Feiye Film & Media cordially invites you to participate in the audition for "The Legend of the Stone".

Gone.

Gong Li searched repeatedly and looked through the other audition letters below, and indeed they were gone!

"interesting."

Hearing Gong Li's mutterings, her assistant peeked out and saw it was Fei Ye's letter. She quickly advised, "Sister, this won't do."

"Why not?"

"This company..." The assistant's expression turned strange. Seeing that Gong Li was still looking at her, she had no choice but to explain, "This company has a bad reputation. I heard that Director Ye Chong is involved in sexual harassment of actresses."

"Then why wasn't he arrested like Huang Mouyu?"

"This..." The assistant hesitated for a moment, then pointed to the letter in Gong Li's hand: "This one doesn't even have a script, what's the point of auditioning? You can't possibly give up 'Memoirs of a Geisha' to act in this, can you?"

Gong Li hesitated for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's only half a day anyway, it's fine. The training for 'Geisha' is still a long way off, it starts in mid-November."

"But you signed a contract, didn't you?"

"You can breach a contract even after signing one, right?"

Assistant Xiao Tao was suddenly stunned.

She paused for a moment, then glanced down at Gong Li's expression.

She had a smile on her lips, but her eyebrows were slightly furrowed. Ever since she received the audition invitation for "Geisha" this year, she had been in a low mood.

As Gong Li's closest confidante, if she still doesn't understand Sister Li's thoughts, then she would be extremely incompetent.

"Sister, you mean...?"

Gong Li didn't speak, but picked up the light blanket and stood up: "Help me prepare the plans for the trip the day after tomorrow, cancel everything else, oh right."

"Cancel tomorrow's too."

……

At the same time, many filmmakers received audition invitations today, all without scripts and equally brief.

The reactions of the invited actors were polarized:

Duan Yihong rejected the letter outright, but he replied to Fei Ye with a letter explaining the scheduling conflict.

Zhang Hanyu was currently promoting "A World Without Thieves" when he saw the audition letter. He paused for a moment, thinking to himself, "Is Ye Chong really that ambitious, or is he just up to no good?"

He glanced at his schedule and became somewhat interested.

Andy Lau from Hong Kong is also promoting "A World Without Thieves". He just promoted it with Feng Xiaopao today. He saw Feng Xiaopao putting down Ye Chong, and then at three o'clock, Ye Chong sent over the letter.

After a moment's consideration, he decided to go and take a look.

Liu Ye, who had just finished filming "The Promise", also received an invitation and replied that he would go and take a look.

Fan Xiaopang also replied that he would be there.

They all shared a common thought: it wouldn't hurt to give it a try.

It had been rumored for a while that Fei Ye was going to make an art film, so the fact that he was chosen must mean he was very confident in the script.

In order to ensure that the script is not leaked, it is common for some production companies to conduct on-site auditions, which is not surprising.

Other actors, on the other hand, are the complete opposite.

Shu Qigang received an audition invitation from director Hou Hsiao-hsien and rejected it without hesitation.

Although Li Bing and Ye Chong were on opposing sides, strangely enough, she simply refused without saying anything more.

The most amazing thing is yet to come—

Zhang Baizhi: Frowning, she deleted it immediately. After thinking for a moment, she retrieved the file from her trash can, blocked the sender, and posted a status update:

Sorry, I didn't go to the audition preparations under that morally corrupt director.

"How do you read these words?"

At Feiye Studio, Ye Chong, with a cigarette dangling from his lips and his eyebrows askew, looked exactly like a hooligan.

"Let me see." Chen Zhixi flipped the computer on the coffee table and glanced at it.

"Um... I'm sorry, I won't audition for a director with a bad reputation."

"What the heck?"

Ye Chong rolled over and stood up, stubbing out the cigarette: "Who has the nerve to criticize me for this? She's the one who's..."

Ye Chong's voice stopped abruptly. Although that incident happened in 05, it wasn't until 08 that it came to light. Ye Chong still couldn't appreciate the prestige of the blue-clad police officer!

"Her?" Chen Zhixi looked at him suspiciously. "She's an innocent girl, completely different from scum like you!"

If Ye Chong were a cat, he would have bristled by now. He stared at Chen Zhixi incredulously: "Her? The Jade Girl?"

He pointed to his nose again: "Me, scum?"

"yes!"

"Let me read you some of the online discussions." Chen Zhixi moved the mouse and clicked on the posts on Zhang Baizhi's personal website homepage. Most of them were in traditional Chinese characters, but Chen Zhixi could understand them.

"Rule number one: Can you please stop causing trouble for Hong Kong? Go to the mainland and be a porn star, don't come to Hong Kong and try to extort money!"

"Second rule: Don't touch my goddess, Ye Chong, you bastard! Waaaaah, goddess, I will always support you, oppose tyranny, and fear no hardship."

"Thirdly: The cops in Tsim Sha Tsui are keeping a close watch on us lately. Brothers in Causeway Bay, listen to my orders."

The most popular comment: "Directors who engage in quid pro quo practices, get out! Don't bother my innocent girl anymore!"

"Am I really that awful?" Ye Chong's lips twitched a few times. He wanted to curse, but he had promised Little Potato to calm down.

He crossed his legs, lit a cigarette, and took a deep breath.

"You don't also think she's an innocent beauty, do you?"

"That's not the point!" Chen Zhixi wasn't as naive as him, and the conversation didn't go off-topic.

She lit a cigarette, exhaled a puff of smoke, and looked at Ye Chong with a stern face: "Look at the current situation. No matter how weak we are, we still have capital. Now, because of your reputation, people dare to directly post dissing you! Huayi is also starting to use 'A World Without Thieves' to put you down. What are we going to do? Give me a strategy. Aren't you quite the talker?"

Ye Chong clicked his tongue, tilted his head back, and looked up at the ceiling: "You said..."

"Is she a woman with a high sex drive?"