Chapter 839

Wang Xiao first introduced why this project was initiated.

"When we were in contact with Director Zheng Ximo, Director Zheng took out this script. After we read the script, we liked it very much. At the same time, when I was reading the script, Zhibai's figure appeared in my mind," Wang Xiao said with a smile. "So I asked Director Zheng if he had any ideas for the male lead. If he already had ideas, I would definitely have to respect Director Zheng's ideas, so I wouldn't mention it. I didn't expect Director Zheng to say that he only had one requirement for actors: to respect his script and respect him as a director."

The whole audience made a sound of "eh."

Zheng Ximo hugged his chest with both hands, not smiling.

Wang Xiao said: "But after Director Zheng said so, I was quite uneasy, because you all know that Zhibai still has a bit of temper and personality in the rumors."

Li Zhibai smiled.

Everyone off the stage also smiled knowingly.

Wang Xiao said: "However, I really haven't heard any news about Zhibai playing big names, so I asked some common friends. Finally, when I went to find Zhibai, Zhibai said directly to me, in a very yin and yang tone, Mr. Wang, the heavy tone should be on the word 'Mr.'—"

Wang Xiao emphasized this, and the whole audience burst into laughter.

Li Zhibai also grinned and made a gesture of "he deserves it."

Wang Xiao continued: "He said, Mr. Wang, my temper is only for those who have really angered me. If I were really hard to cooperate with, I would have been hammered long ago after filming so many plays. To be honest, I have filmed for so many years, and the rumors that I am hard to cooperate with were the most rampant when you were inquiring about the situation everywhere these days."

Li Zhibai nodded seriously, indicating that what Wang Xiao said had no problem at all, and the situation was just like that.

Wang Xiao immediately said: "Indeed, later I also realized that my approach was problematic, so I hurriedly thought about apologizing to Zhibai."

"No need to apologize. I do have a temper, I admit," Li Zhibai shrugged, laughing. "But, those who have really cooperated with me know very well that my temper is definitely not random, and having a temper doesn't mean I can't tolerate or cooperate at all. That's not the case. In fact, about my temper, maybe someone can't look at me, and has been spreading such rumors outside for a long time, so that when Wang Xiao, Mr. Wang, came to find me to film, he had so many concerns. I am still quite grateful to him for not believing the rumors after hearing so many rumors, and finally passing me directly."

Wang Xiao: "I'm crazy. If I passed you directly because of this reason, let alone this is my unprofessionalism, if my junior brother knew, he would definitely help you find the place back, at least he would call and scold me for an hour first."

Junior brother?

Many people reacted after a while that Wang Xiao's junior brother was Lu Yan He.

Li Zhibai: "Then you are also strange. You clearly know your junior brother, but you go to ask others. Isn't the person who knows me best him?"

Wang Xiao was crying and laughing.

"If I had asked him, I would have to answer why I didn't ask him to act."

Li Zhibai: "You are indeed a bit strange. Why don't you ask him to act? That's Lu Yan He. Who doesn't want to cooperate with him?"

Wang Xiao: "I want to, but who let the first person to appear in my mind when I read the script be you."

Li Zhibai: "Okay, I will brag like this in the future, I am the actor who defeated Lu Yan He to get this role."

The whole audience laughed and cheered.

Wang Xiao looked at Zheng Ximo.

"Director Zheng, later when you met Zhibai, what made you decide that this movie would be played by Zhibai?"

Zheng Ximo picked up the microphone and said: "Li Zhibai is willing to act, do I still need to agree? I can't ask for it."

He first smiled and praised Li Zhibai, then continued: "At that time, after Li Zhibai met me, the first sentence was to ask, Director Zheng, are you my fan? I said, I have heard of your name for a long time and have seen many of your plays. Li Zhibai smiled, no wonder, Director Zheng, your eyes are shining when you look at me for the first time. I said, this is a reaction that a poor director will have when seeing a big star. Li Zhibai said, then director, you are blessed. If I were a director, I would also like to cooperate with an actor like me. I really haven't met an actor who is so confident when we first met. I said, okay, then I rely on you. Li Zhibai said, for things outside the set, you rely on me, and for things on the set, I rely on you. At that moment, I was a bit surprised. I said this kid is a bit interesting."

Li Zhibai nodded old-fashionedly and said: "I am such an interesting person."

Zheng Ximo showed a helpless expression and shook his head.

But the reporters saw a kind of smile from an elder looking at a naughty junior on his face.

"Indeed, after Zhibai confirmed the lead, everything went smoothly," Wang Xiao said. "Originally, because this movie is an art film, it was a bit difficult to find a joint investor. We at Beijiguang Film were ready to fully fund it ourselves, but as soon as Zhibai came, we really didn't lack funds at all."

Li Zhibai said: "Then I have to thank my fans. Without them, I wouldn't have the physique that investors like so much now."

After they chatted for about thirty minutes, finally, they entered the media interview session.

The media on the scene had been waiting for a long time.

When this session started, the hands raised on the scene were like bamboo shoots after a rain, pulled up one by one.

In fact, before holding this press conference, they had already thought about what kind of situation they would face on the scene.

And they dared to appear at this time, naturally because they had already thought about how to say it.

The first question asked by the reporters was directed at Zheng Ximo.

"Director Zheng, some time ago, the internet was buzzing about your unpleasant cooperation with Chen Pinhe in *The Pianist*, and he was a scene stealer on the scene. You also sent a sentence 'People are doing, heaven is watching' on Weibo later. May I ask what you want to say about these discussions on the internet?"

Zheng Ximo shook his head: "What should be said has already been said. I am not a director who pushes problems to others after cooperation. *The Pianist* is very controversial, and I have seen it all. For myself, no matter what, the movie is controversial, and the first to bear the brunt is me, the director. And my attitude is also very simple: if there is, change it; if not, encourage it."

"Director Zheng, then you are cooperating with Li Zhibai in this next movie, are you not worried that Li Zhibai is also a scene stealer?" A reporter immediately asked the second question.

Li Zhibai stared in shock, looking at the stage in disbelief.

"Hey? I'm still here? You are spreading rumors in front of me? Don't pull me when you pull scene stealers. What year is it and you are still doing joint punishment?"

Other reporters laughed into a group.

The reporter who just asked the question immediately said: "This is a hypothesis, Brother Bai, please forgive me."

"Forgive your head," Li Zhibai said. "Sit down quickly, be careful of receiving my lawyer's letter."

Li Zhibai has always been known as a "living person" in the eyes of the media.

This point, in fact, Lu Yan He, Li Zhibai, and Yan Liang are all like this in the eyes of the media.

However, among the three of them, Li Zhibai is the one with the most distinct personality.

Therefore, his "living person feeling" is the strongest.

If the celebrity artists that media reporters like most are ranked, Li Zhibai is definitely in the top three.

You interview him, as long as you can talk to him, you will definitely have something to write, and you won't scratch your ears and cheeks because there is no content.

Such a press conference, under normal circumstances, is difficult to attract large-scale attention.

Unless you say this is a particularly large project.

Famous directors and big-name actors gather, and the project itself has a lot of media value.

However, because of Li Zhibai's existence, this art film *The Traveler of Life* has 13 related topics in the top 30 of the hot search list.

10 of them are directly with Li Zhibai's name.

The most popular one is the sentence "Sit down quickly, be careful of receiving my lawyer's letter."

Having a temper is really having a temper, but being a person is also really generous.

He said so, and everyone realized that usually so many media and marketing accounts consume Li Zhibai, and Li Zhibai has never sent a lawyer's letter to any media.

In the entertainment industry, such things emerge one after another.

Many celebrities have had their image damaged because of such things—

Especially those things that everyone thinks are very small and don't count as anything, but they send lawyer's letters at every turn.

In the eyes of the public, what kind of impression will it produce? Well, no entertainment spirit.

Of course, many actors will say that they are not here to entertain everyone.

Turning around, anyway, Li Zhibai has such a big temper, but is liked by the media. Comparing the two, there is still a reason.

There is another sentence in this press conference that is also very popular.

Li Zhibai's sentence "Don't pull me when you pull scene stealers. What year is it and you are still doing joint punishment?" was interpreted by many as directly calling out Chen Pinhe.

In fact, this has nothing to do with Chen Pinhe, of course. Li Zhibai is not stupid enough to directly satirize Chen Pinhe. This is entirely because a reporter mentioned it, and Li Zhibai replied like this. However, Li Zhibai and Chen Pinhe had just fought because of the competition between the two dramas last month. Chen Pinhe's fans were very angry because of the smoky public opinion on the internet recently, and Li Zhibai directly mentioned the two words "scene stealer" in his words. Chen Pinhe's fans naturally regarded Li Zhibai's move as a provocation.

For a time, Chen Pinhe's fans began to insult Li Zhibai on a large scale. It happened to be Li Zhibai.

Li Zhibai, who even the top streams who take the traffic idol route can't beat.

Li Zhibai, who has been popular for ten years since his debut at the age of sixteen.

Li Zhibai's fans began to dig out Chen Pinhe's past black materials in an organized and purposeful way, whipping the corpse repeatedly on various occasions, and yin and yang strangely raised money to buy a hot search—

#Anyway, the one accused of being a scene stealer is not Li Zhibai#

That's right, buying hot searches, black people's hot searches, don't even bring Chen Pinhe's name, but to accumulate heat for their own idols.

This entry doesn't even have Chen Pinhe's name, but everyone knows who it is talking about.

Chen Pinhe cherishes feathers and has not been in the front line for a long time.

In terms of current internet public opinion war, Chen Pinhe has status and popularity, but no ability.

The heat that finally went down was stirred up again by Li Zhibai's fans.

There is really no way. Zhang Yuezhen was furious, but could only try her best to withdraw the hot search.

Until this time, Chen Pinhe did not stand up to respond to any words. In fact, it is not that he didn't, but he couldn't.

Because Zhang Yuezhen and Chen Pinhe were not sure whether Zheng Ximo would stand up and attack them again if they responded.

The beginning of this matter was that Chen Pinhe's fans went to insult Zheng Ximo, and was ignited by Zheng Ximo's sentence "People are doing, heaven is watching."

Can only continue to pretend to be dead.

As a result, Li Zhibai's fans bought another hot search—

#Anyway, the one pretending to be dead is not Li Zhibai, fans don't force to save face#

Zhang Yuezhen was so angry that she smashed things at home.

Chen Ziyan sneered.

"Chen Pinhe's fans are also, who are they fighting with, going to fight with Li Zhibai's fans? That person is experienced in battle and has fought with fans of almost everyone in the entertainment industry. Even Yan He's fans are not their opponents."

Lu Qingzhen also laughed.

"Yan He's fans are mainly scared by Yan He's previous behavior of disbanding the fan club," Lu Qingzhen said. "It makes them a bit timid, and they don't dare to do anything too much. Where is it like Li Zhibai's fans? Li Zhibai himself is a temper that doesn't care about anything when he explodes, and his fans are even more so. When Li Zhibai was an idol, his fans were very combative, not to mention how many die-hard fans Li Zhibai added later when he acted."

Chen Ziyan: "I am sometimes quite curious, why are these most fan-absorbing roles, Yan He doesn't act himself, and gives them all to Li Zhibai."

Lu Qingzhen said: "Isn't it said that Li Zhibai is more suitable? The images of the two of them are indeed different."

Chen Ziyan said: "It's not that the image is completely unsuitable, but now I think Yan He just doesn't want to be as popular as Li Zhibai."

"Ah?"

"Li Zhibai's acting path is not as easy as Yan He's," Chen Ziyan said. "His popularity is too high, too popular. Basically, any role he plays, his Li Zhibai image must be in front of the role. It is impossible for any role to stand in front of his Li Zhibai again."

"Yan He... can he let the role stand in front of him?" Lu Qingzhen was a bit puzzled.

"When this movie is good enough and the role is good enough, it is still possible," Chen Ziyan said. "Because Yan He's personal personality now, unlike Li Zhibai, has formed a cultural symbol under the rendering of so many fans. Li Zhibai's artist image is basically a cultural symbol now, but Yan He has not reached this step. He is just famous enough and his life experience is very inspirational, but his own image, symbolism is still relatively weak."

Lu Qingzhen was thoughtful.

"You said Li Zhibai is a cultural symbol now, what do you mean?"

"It's hard to explain in one sentence, but how to say it, it's the same as the situation of Li Zhibai and Yan He now. Li Zhibai's fans must be crazier than Yan He's fans. Li Zhibai's fans must like him more as a person, while Yan He's fans may be mostly because of Yan He's career, talent, and roles, which has little to do with Yan He's own personality and character."

"I understand," Lu Qingzhen nodded.

At the end of November, Lu Yan He returned from the United States, preparing to film this year's *Friends*.

When he came back, he happened to catch up with the release of a movie distributed by Linghe, which was still a Thai movie starring Caina, but it was an old movie, eight years ago.

At the same time, Linghe also announced that it would adapt this Thai movie with a domestic rating of 8.5 points.

So, at the screening ceremony of the movie, not only Caina attended, but the heroine of the remake version, Xiao Yun, also attended.

Lu Yan He arrived halfway.

He entered the screening hall quietly and sat down.

On the stage, two actresses were blowing each other commercially.

Caina said: "Caina and Xiao Yun are very good friends, she is also a very good actress, Caina and I are both relatively cheerful people, the Chinese version of Xiaocao is starred by her, I think it is particularly suitable."

Xiao Yun immediately blew back: "Caina is the most popular Thai actress in China. Being able to cross borders and be loved so much makes me particularly envious of Caina."

Caina: "You are also very popular in Thailand!"

Xiao Yun: "Not as popular as you in China~"

Lu Yan He: "..."

This kind of mutual appreciation (commercial blowing) between girls sometimes really makes him feel goosebumps.

However, everyone seems to eat this set very much.

At this time, the host on the stage should have received instructions from the staff off the stage, telling him that Lu Yan He had arrived.

This event was held by Linghe.

The purpose of Linghe holding screening activities is to spend the least money to do the most things.

The boss is here, how can this heat not be rubbed.

Soon, the host said: "Just now I received a notice that a mysterious guest has also arrived at the scene."

Everyone on the scene was stunned, then turned their heads to look around, and began to look for who this mysterious guest was.

Lu Yan He was recognized by the audience sitting around.

A burst of cheers swept up.

People around took out their mobile phones and took pictures of Lu Yan He.

Lu Yan He smiled helplessly and took off his mask and hat.

When he revealed his complete face, a monstrous cheer and applause broke out on the scene immediately.

Lu Yan He took the microphone handed by the staff and said with a smile: "I just wanted to sit quietly off the stage, I didn't expect a traitor to betray me."

The whole audience burst into laughter.

Caina and Xiao Yun also looked at Lu Yan He in surprise.

They hadn't received notice before that Lu Yan He would appear.

Lu Yan He said: "I watched *The School Beauty Announcement* with my classmates several years ago. At that time, the movie was not released in China. We watched a pirated version. Sorry, there was really no domestic distributor to operate this movie at that time, we could only find resources on the internet. I remember that night, we all laughed, whether it was a man or a woman. After the heroine successfully got the university admission notice, we all felt very excited. At that time, my classmate told me that if one day my high school senior year preparation experience was adapted into a movie, it should be quite good. I said no, my high school life was far less exciting than this movie. For me, what makes this movie worth watching is that many of its plots are actually very exaggerated, but even if you know it is very exaggerated, you are willing to blind yourself and believe that this will be a story that happened at that age."

Lu Yan He recommended this movie.

Caina laughed very happily and said: "Now this movie can finally be released in China and meet everyone."

"Actually, three years ago, this movie was also bought for two years of broadcast rights by domestic video platforms, but because no publicity was done, not many people watched it," the host also introduced, "This time Linghe re-bought the distribution rights of this movie in China, and specially did this publicity for it, why?"

"Because this movie is good-looking," Chen Yin was also on the stage, he spoke on behalf of Linghe, "We Linghe are committed to introducing niche good movies overseas that are not known to our domestic audience to China. The name *The School Beauty Announcement*, actually we had disputes internally at the beginning, worried that this name was not attractive enough to the audience, and wanted to change the name, but because this movie has always been translated as this name, and in fact, if everyone searches for this name, they will find that people who have watched this movie are how much they like this movie."

Chen Yin also said: "Actually, Caina has starred in many good-looking Thai movies. There were very few introduced to China before. In June this year, we introduced another Thai movie *Summer ing* starring Caina, which achieved a box office of more than 60 million. As the most famous Thai actor in China, we cherish the cooperation with Caina. We will not only invite her to participate in Chinese film projects produced by Linghe, but we will also introduce good Thai movies starring Caina."

Caina smiled and said: "Linghe is my promotion ambassador in China."

Zhang Yuezhen frowned slightly.

She looked at the news on her mobile phone and said: "What is Linghe doing? They are so flattering Caina, is it because they are going to use Caina to star in one of their projects later?"

Chen Pinhe looked at his mobile phone and didn't answer. ===== CHAPTER 840 =====