Chapter 399: You Do the First, I Do the Fifteenth

"On the Best Actor award, the nine judges conducted four rounds of voting. In the first round of voting, Liu Teli got four votes, Chen Pinhe got four votes, and Yan He you got one vote. This was the result of the first round of voting. He Daren and Shang Yongzhou got zero votes."

"At this time, Xi Wei'an, as the chairman of the jury for this year, began to lead all the judges to conduct a new round of discussion, stating that under these circumstances, everyone needs to state their reasons again to see if they can convince each other. At this time, someone suddenly mentioned that He Daren also deserved this award. Then, the result of the second round of voting was: Yan He you got one more vote, He Daren got one vote, Liu Teli and Chen Pinhe got three votes each, and still no winner was decided."

"Xi Wei'an saw this and proposed that the three judges who didn't vote for Liu Teli or Chen Pinhe in the second round vote between Liu Teli and Chen Pinhe. He thought that in this way, the three of them would definitely be able to vote for one with more votes. As a result, the judge who had been voting for you chose to abstain, and the other two both voted for the side they originally supported."

Chen Ziyan showed an expression of disbelief.

"The judge who supported you said she insisted that you were the one who should win the award this year because, in her view, although Chen Pinhe's performance this time was exquisite, it wasn't worth winning the Feihong Awards for the third time. If he had never won the Feihong Awards before, then he would certainly be worth winning, but he already wasn't. And Liu Teli acted vividly, indeed showing skill, but his character itself didn't have the rich and complex literary quality like your character in *Late Spring*. You performed the depth and height that other twenty-year-old actors couldn't perform at the age of twenty, which is of great significance to the Feihong Awards. There has never been a Best Actor winner who was a twenty-year-old male character."

"Because she firmly refused to support anyone other than you, the third round of voting still had no result. At this time, Xi Wei'an and the other judges were all very painful, no one could convince anyone, but an award had to be decided. In the end, Xi Wei'an even proposed the 'double egg' proposal, letting Liu Teli and Chen Pinhe win at the same time, but it was unanimously opposed by other judges because they felt that doing so would instead belittle the competing actors."

"It was at this time that Xi Wei'an proposed that each judge propose two candidates, and the two candidates must be different people, so as to calculate the final votes. No matter who the final result was, respect the result of the votes. Although the judges had many objections, they had no better solution, so they agreed to this approach. Then, something no one expected happened: the judges who supported Chen Pinhe and those who supported Liu Teli, because they were worried that the person they supported wouldn't win the award, all chose He Daren as the person they supported, and several others chose Shang Yongzhou. And the judge who supported you also thought that besides you, He Daren was the actor that the Feihong Awards should recognize the most—this judge seemed to value significance very much. She thought that awarding it to He Daren had very significant meaning because He Daren was the least famous among the five nominees, and had never won any film acting award before. So, the result became He Daren winning the award."

Lu Yan He listened to Chen Ziyan's review of the voting process for the Best Actor award based on the revelations on the internet, and only had one feeling, which was that it was too ridiculous.

It turned out it wasn't that the judges had unique eyes and found a hidden gem of an acting school, but because the judges who supported Liu Teli and those who supported Chen Pinhe were equal in number, they couldn't vote, and as a result, they inexplicably used another voting formula to select someone they hadn't expected.

Regarding the revelations about the judging process, all the judges kept their mouths shut and refused to respond.

The Feihong Awards also stated that the organizers didn't know what the voting process was like; they just finally got the result of the discussion from the judges.

But from the news Chen Ziyan went to inquire about, this revelation was extremely likely to be true.

Lu Yan He was still immersed in shock and disbelief.

"The matter of charging for awards is really full of accidents you can't even imagine." Chen Ziyan said, "Fortunately, your performance in *Late Spring* didn't have much buzz in the early stage, otherwise the person who held huge hope and welcomed huge disappointment would be you."

Chen Pinhe's film fans and fans were even more furious after this revelation came out.

If it was really defeated by Liu Teli this time, or Lu Yan He made a big upset, it was really that some judges thought they should win, although they were not convinced, they wouldn't be so stifled.

This clearly meant that two particularly awesome actors were competing, and as a result, they were inexplicably fished by someone who was not favored by the judges.

After the revelation came out, He Daren's name was also hung on the hot search and didn't come down for a long time.

"If the revelation is true, then He Daren can only be said to be lucky, but this kind of luck makes people feel too helpless." Entertainment critic Guan Su Chen would definitely not be absent from these things, and immediately published his own comments, "The result of any award should not be the fisherman benefiting from the snipe and clam fighting. I think, on this matter, Teacher He Daren might be more uncomfortable than anyone else—he probably doesn't want to win the award like this either."

Lu Yan He saw what Guan Su Chen said, and felt quite identified and sighed in his heart.

Now whether it is Chen Pinhe or Liu Teli, in this chaotic smoke, at least everyone is saying that they are both worthy, no matter who is given it, it is worthy, even if it is a double egg in the end, it is better than both missing out.

However, for He Daren, everyone's impression is—

He just picked up a leak, he doesn't deserve this award.

Unless the jury stands up at this time and says, no, He Daren is the best candidate discussed by them seriously. Then the controversy is at least not on the thing that "picking up a leak to win an award" that any actor is unwilling to face.

At this time, Long Yan Pictures suddenly announced the re-release of *Late Spring*. This news didn't attract much attention. It wasn't until the next day that *White Pearl* and *Upstairs* announced re-releases that everyone realized that these films might have discussed it together and wanted to re-release them together.

*Galaxy Nine Curves* followed closely and announced its re-release.

"This re-release was communicated early on. The Feihong Awards organizing committee communicated this matter with almost all the production companies that were shortlisted for Best Picture, and they also coordinated with several major theater chains. No one expected to encounter such a thing at the awards ceremony this year, but after discussing, everyone decided not to change the original plan."

Liu Bige said to Lu Yan He on the phone, "The awards and the box office are too separated. We also hope that domestic films can be stimulated by awards to increase the box office and let more people walk into the cinema to watch movies."

The re-release started three days after the awards ceremony ended. The nine films shortlisted for the Feihong Awards were re-released collectively, occupying nearly 25% of the market's screenings.

This number was very high. Being able to fight for such a screening rate with the theater chains, the Feihong Awards organizing committee must have made great efforts.

And with the help of the heat of this award, these nine films actually got a total daily box office of more than 40 million on the first day of re-release, which was very surprising.

Among them, the ones with the highest box office were *White Pearl* and *Upstairs*, benefiting from the heat of the two male leads in the past few days, as well as the discussion about their acting skills, plus the box office of *White Pearl* was indeed not high before. This time, it suddenly sparked such a large-scale discussion, and many people also wanted to go and see how well Chen Pinhe acted in this film.

By comparison, *Late Spring* ranked third. On one hand, the previous large-scale publicity had already made potential audiences interested in this film watch it, and on the other hand, this film didn't stir up as much topic heat as the former two in this awards ceremony.

Instead, *Galaxy Nine Curves*, with a box office of only 720,000, had a first-day box office of 1.13 million after re-release, directly refreshing the previous total box office record.

A spokesperson for the Feihong Awards said: "We have been striving to make our Feihong Awards a more influential and representative award, which can really bring more vitality to the film industry and help filmmakers and film producers. This time we are also a new attempt, communicating with theater chains, helping films shortlisted for the Feihong Awards get screenings, and helping films get higher box office through the influence of awards. From the current results, our idea has been initially realized. The nine films shortlisted for the Feihong Awards got a box office of more than 40 million on the first day of re-release, which is an incredible number. Everyone didn't expect that this re-release could get such a high box office. After all, they are all films released not long ago, far exceeding our expectations."

This speech didn't accept interviews, and he left the stage after saying this.

Obviously, he didn't want to answer the judging storm of the Best Actor award.

Actually, aside from the Best Actor matter, it can indeed be seen from many aspects that the Feihong Awards are striving to change and striving to do more things.

From the red carpet segment where various media can broadcast live on their own, to the adjustment of the awards segment, and then to the collective re-release of shortlisted films.

The Feihong Awards are not only committed to maintaining their own status, but also striving to innovate.

On this point, Lu Yan He is very moved.

However, there have been countless facts to prove that no matter how high the heat is, it will slowly cool down with the passage of time.

Without exception.

The revelation is just a revelation. After this, no one stood up to respond to whether the revelation was true. No matter how noisy the internet was, because there was no new situation, it finally slowly lost its initial heat wave.

Lu Yan He thought this matter had subsided.

At most, it would become material for every inventory in the future.

At this time, Ye Mai Network suddenly announced one thing.

—Ye Mai Network will create a new electronic magazine *star! * and invite the famous writer/screenwriter Teacher Yu Jiang to serve as the editor-in-chief.

Then, Yu Jiang forwarded this news and said: "For the first issue, we invited Teacher He Daren, who has recently fallen into great controversy, to accept our interview. Regarding the Feihong Awards, regarding acting, regarding the belief as an actor, in this interview, we seriously talk about fame and art."

The heat that had finally disappeared came back again.

What did He Daren respond to?

What does he think about winning the award?

*star! *, this newly created electronic magazine, soon hit the hot search with the help of Ye Mai Network.

*star! * also opened reservations for the first time—just like *Jump Up* back then.

"Have you heard about the situation before?"

"No."

"Ye Mai Network actually suddenly created another magazine, really... forget it, anyway, we don't plan to continue publishing on Ye Mai Network, they do theirs, we only have two issues left." Chen Siqi said.

Lu Yan He: "I asked Sister Zixing about this, Sister Zixing didn't know either, she was completely unaware, but I guess she is also very passive. After all, she is about to leave Ye Mai Network soon. Ye Mai Network should have known some news, so they hid it from us and did another magazine."

"The key is that they actually found Yu Jiang to be the editor-in-chief!" Chen Siqi finally couldn't help her anger and complained.

Compared to Ye Mai Network hiding from them and making a new magazine, what was more annoying was that this matter had something to do with Yu Jiang.

Chen Siqi had fought with Yu Jiang I don't know how many times in the past two years.

Now *Jump Up* hasn't announced the end of its cooperation with Ye Mai Network.

Chen Siqi said: "When should we announce the news that we are ending our cooperation with Ye Mai Network?"

Lu Yan He thought for a while and said: "This can be done anytime, what do you think?"

"I wish I could announce it today. But if I do that, the smell of gunpowder will be too strong, so forget it." Chen Siqi said, "I don't want to put *Jump Up* on the cusp of the storm for a moment of anger. However, I am also thinking about one thing. You say, should our *Jump Up* continue to cooperate with other platforms later, or should it be released exclusively on our own self-media?"

Lu Yan He said: "I think it's better to be gradual. You are facing the pressure of insufficient manpower. If we release *Jump Up* exclusively on our own self-media, it's not just a matter of content transplantation. You definitely have to keep up with a lot of supporting things. Just how to handle the payment is very complicated. We used Ye Mai Network's system before, and we didn't need to worry about many things. Now we have to worry about it ourselves."

Chen Siqi said: "You are right. However, when our *Jump Up* app is made later, exclusive release must be put on the app."

"Do you want to make the app a comprehensive media?"

"Hmm." Chen Siqi said, "Currently we are involved in literary creation, character interviews, film and television reviews, and many other sections. When our content sections become more and more, and there is enough basic accumulation, I am ready to start doing this. Of course, currently for me, the most important thing is to compile *Jump Up* into different collections and push them overseas for publication."

Lu Yan He asked: "The difficulty of this is not small, just translation is a lot of effort."

"Yes, but it still has to be done." Chen Siqi said, "Since we are already the best-selling literary magazine in the country, the next step is naturally to go overseas. There is another important reason, I don't just want to be a media that only has influence in the country."

A junior student saying such words, if heard by others, I guess they would feel she was talking big.

But Lu Yan He understood Chen Siqi's thoughts, knew her meaning, and understood her ambition—and, Lu Yan He also ignited the same ambition.

Xin Zixing's resignation report was placed on Liu Qiao's desk in advance.

She wrote in her resignation letter: "In the past year, I gradually discovered that the direction of my efforts is different from the company's key strategic direction, and they are drifting apart. After the company publicly hyped up the private affairs of me and Huang Kai, I clearly expressed the hope that the company would make a formal response to this matter, but I have not received this response until now. When I worked hard to keep the electronic version of *Jump Up* on Ye Mai Network and brought a large and stable number of users to Ye Mai Network through it, the company also established a competing magazine without my knowledge, and invited Yu Jiang as the editor-in-chief—as everyone knows, she has an extremely unpleasant past with Lu Yan He, an artist who cooperates deeply with our Ye Mai Network. The various things experienced this year make me unable to continue working in the company with trust and a happy mood."

After Liu Qiao finished the meeting and returned to the office, he saw such a resignation letter on the desk, especially reading this paragraph, his mood was like falling into a deep well.

Liu Qiao had long been prepared for Xin Zixing to leave. However, he didn't expect that Xin Zixing would put a resignation letter directly on his desk and wouldn't even talk to him face to face.

Xin Zixing's resignation letter was all about her drifting apart from the company, but in Liu Qiao's eyes, it was about her drifting apart from him.

When did it start?

Why did it become like this now?

Liu Qiao picked up his mobile phone, his movements paused for half a second, and then put it down again.

This phone call was not made in the end.

*star! * magazine is going to be created, and the first issue interviewed a hot figure like He Daren, which can be said to be aggressive.

However, at this time, no one felt that *Jump Up* was going to leave Ye Mai Network.

Instead, many people felt that Ye Mai Network had tasted the sweetness of *Jump Up*, so they wanted to run another electronic magazine.

This news even made many portal websites think, should they also run an electronic magazine?

Anyway, this thing has low cost, but once it is done, it can completely achieve self-sufficiency, or even make a small profit. The most critical thing is that having such a magazine that is launched stably means it can bring stable readers.

In fact, many self-media now are the evolution of former magazines.

Whether it is public accounts or other text-based media, essentially they are continuously and stably launching a certain style of text content. However, many portal websites calculated and felt that the return rate of electronic magazines was still too low. If they had such energy, it would be better to use it to make other products.

Forget it.

After Xin Zixing handed in her resignation letter, she told Lu Yan He and Chen Siqi about this matter for the first time.

Chen Siqi didn't expect Xin Zixing to leave in advance.

Originally, Xin Zixing promised to accompany *Jump Up* until the December issue was finished.

It can be considered to have a beginning and an end—if it weren't for Xin Zixing, *Jump Up* wouldn't have been released in electronic version on Ye Mai Network.

Chen Siqi said: "Sister Zixing, you resigned, didn't they say anything to you?"

"I guess they won't say anything to me either. They must have known that I was going to leave. If they really wanted to do something, they would have looked for me long ago." Xin Zixing said, "And, I think there must be many people in the company who hope I leave. After all, if I leave, there will be no threat to them."

When Xin Zixing said this, she felt a bit subtle and listless in her heart.

Maybe there was a place in her heart that still hoped someone from Ye Mai Network would come to keep her—even if she had made up her mind to leave, no matter who came to keep her, it would be useless—well, she just stayed at Ye Mai Network for a long time and made so many contributions, she couldn't help but feel a trace of sadness. It was she who wanted to leave, but she left because she couldn't stay at Ye Mai Network. It wasn't that she wanted to leave actively.

And under such circumstances, there wasn't even anyone to keep her.

It seems that it was an illusion before—she held *City Travel* and *Jump Up*, and was the most crucial person in these two jobs. After working for a long time, she couldn't help but have an idea. If there wasn't her, these two jobs might not be able to be picked up by anyone for a while. Facts proved that at least in the eyes of Ye Mai Network, it was not like this.

She took a deep breath, opened the car door, got out, and walked towards the restaurant.

Tonight she had an appointment with a few cores of the *City Travel* team to have dinner.

Photographers Chen Liang, Tian Baihe, photography assistant Xu Chao, art designer Zhou Fang, assistant Xiao Mei.

These were all people who had been following her to do *City Travel* from the beginning. Before she had the idea of leaving, she had already communicated with them, and they all expressed their willingness to follow her, which was the most comforting thing for her.

No matter what, the team she pulled up with one hand was still willing to follow her, and willing to follow her at this time, which was the greatest trust and support for her.

Before going in, Xin Zixing took a deep breath and adjusted her state. She didn't want her affected emotions to be expressed. At this time, she couldn't let everyone see her low side, which would be very demoralizing.

Just about to go in, Xin Zixing's mobile phone suddenly buzzed and vibrated.

She took it up with some surprise and took a look. It was actually a message from Tian Baihe: Zixing, sorry, I can't go tonight.

Xin Zixing was stunned, just about to reply to ask what happened, Tian Baihe's second message was sent: President Liu looked for me, he promised to let me be the director of *City Travel*, as long as I stay.

Xin Zixing stood in the sunset dusk, swaying for a while.

The door was suddenly opened from the inside, "Ah, Sister Zixing?! Why are you standing at the door and not going in?"

The person who opened the door was Xiao Mei.

This assistant, who usually looked like a vase, but was actually very trustworthy, looked at Xin Zixing with surprise.

Xin Zixing came back to her senses and said with a smile: "I was checking messages just now. Tian Baihe just sent me a message saying he couldn't come."

Xiao Mei immediately frowned, "What's wrong with him? He said no problem two hours ago. No, I'll give him a call. How can this person stand us up? I want to see which little sister hooked his soul away again."

"Xiao Mei." Xin Zixing pulled Xiao Mei, "No need."

Xiao Mei was stunned, "Ah?"

Xin Zixing said: "He won't leave with us."

Xiao Mei was confused for two seconds, then came back to her senses.

"What?!" Her face immediately became angry, "This traitor!"

"It's okay, everyone has their own choice." Xin Zixing patted Xiao Mei on the shoulder and asked: "Are the others here? Let's go in first."

"Ah, Zhou Fang hasn't come yet." Xiao Mei said, "He told me he was on the way just now."

Xin Zixing said okay.

She also instructed: "Don't talk about Tian Baihe's matter when eating at night, just say he has something to do and can't come, don't spoil everyone's fun because of him."

Xiao Mei nodded and said hmm.

Suddenly, at this time, Xiao Mei's mobile phone rang.

"Zhou Fang called me." Xiao Mei said, "I'll answer it first, Sister Zixing."

"Okay."

Xiao Mei answered the phone, and after two seconds, her face suddenly became ugly.

"If he looks for you, you go? Who did you make an appointment with first?" Xiao Mei questioned with dissatisfaction, "I tell you, Zhou Fang, you can't be led by the nose by Tian Baihe. He usually likes to order you around and treats you like a follower. Can you stop paying attention to him?"

Xin Zixing heard what Xiao Mei said, and her heart skipped a beat.

It turned out that Liu Qiao was not without action, but his action was not on her.

Xin Zixing couldn't help laughing.

Laughed with a bit of relief.

Why worry about the retention of someone who is not worth worrying about?

Since you have decided to leave, don't be nostalgic, don't look back, move forward.

At this moment, a bit of determination grew in Xin Zixing's heart.

Then let's wait and see, whether she left Ye Mai Network and couldn't play, or *City Travel* started to go downhill without her.

Xin Zixing had never wanted to make some achievements more than now.

Xiao Mei complained, "Zhou Fang is a fool. Tian Baihe asked him to return to the company, saying there was something to tell him. He didn't dare to refuse Tian Baihe. Usually, Tian Baihe used Zhou Fang as his follower. I taught Zhou Fang a lesson and told him that Tian Baihe will not be on our way in the future. Only then did he dare to say he wouldn't pay attention to Tian Baihe and came over immediately, and specifically confirmed with me, asking if Tian Baihe really wouldn't leave with us in the future, this coward."

Xin Zixing listened to Xiao Mei's complaints, between laughter and tears.

"Does Zhou Fang usually get bullied by Tian Baihe?"

"It can't be counted as bullying, it's just that Tian Baihe knows Zhou Fang has a soft temper and is easy to talk to, and won't refuse people, so he always throws some dirty and tiring work to him."

Xin Zixing couldn't help frowning, "Is this phenomenon very serious? Why have I never had any impression?"

Xiao Mei said: "Tian Baihe is always dog-legged in front of you, where would he let you find out? Mainly, he didn't do anything beyond the principles, and it's not good for us to complain."

Xin Zixing nodded and understood.

The mobile phone rang again at this time.

Xin Zixing took a look and saw an unexpected name.

Liu Yajing.

Strictly speaking, the original trio of *City Travel* was her, Chen Liang, and Liu Yajing.

But later, because Xin Zixing put her focus here, the fashion section she was responsible for had no one, so Xin Zixing recommended Liu Yajing to go over, and Liu Yajing took on her original work, and thus withdrew from *City Travel*.

Liu Yajing, a rich second generation who is not short of money, is usually very interested in these things. After doing this job, she did it like a fish in water and was very popular. In May this year, she became the editor-in-chief of the fashion section.

Xin Zixing also made appointments with Liu Yajing quite frequently, and the little girl likes to eat with her very much.

This time she wanted to leave, in order to keep it secret, she didn't tell anyone except the *City Travel* team she wanted to take away.

She answered the phone with doubt and asked: "Yajing?"

Liu Yajing said angrily: "Sister Zixing, you don't treat me as a friend too much, right? You are taking people away from Ye Mai Network, and you didn't even tell me? Do you still treat me as your own? How could you think of taking others away without thinking of taking me with you?"

Liu Yajing's questioning made Xin Zixing stand in place, and didn't come back to her senses for a long time.

After a while, she laughed and said: "I'm sorry, Yajing, it's my fault."

"Then do you have time now? I'll send you an address, come and have dinner with us?"

"That's about it." Liu Yajing said, and hung up the phone angrily.

That night, Xin Zixing updated a status on her social platform, saying: Today I submitted my resignation letter and left Ye Mai Network. From today on, *City Travel* documentary will no longer be responsible by me, and the electronic version of *Jump Up* magazine will no longer be responsible by me. I have worked here for many years and was lucky enough to make two projects that everyone likes. I have been working desperately for the past few years, wanting to make good achievements. Now I have the opportunity to rest for a while. I want to take a vacation for myself, set off for a trip tomorrow, and when I come back, we will continue.

Xin Zixing's update was a thunder on the flat ground, making her fans stunned, shocked, and unexpected.

Before this, Xin Zixing didn't reveal any signs of leaving Ye Mai Network at all.

Why did she leave suddenly?

No one expected that an hour later, *Jump Up* official Weibo posted: Back then, because of the matchmaking of Miss Xin Zixing, our *Jump Up* started to publish electronic versions on Ye Mai Network. In nearly two and a half years, nearly thirty magazines, we met many readers. Now we must apologize and say to everyone, the December issue of *Jump Up* this year is the last issue published on Ye Mai Network. From next year on, *Jump Up* will no longer cooperate with Ye Mai Network for electronic reading. Thank you for your attention and love.

If Xin Zixing's update only attracted a small number of people's attention, then the speech of this *Jump Up* official Weibo exploded many people who hadn't slept yet.

As a magazine with stable monthly sales of over 300,000 and an estimated readership of over one million, its influence cannot be underestimated.

Many people's first reaction was, where will they read *Jump Up* in the future?

Many readers don't buy physical books, they only read electronic versions. ===== CHAPTER 400 =====