Chapter 448

"No, wait, weren't we discussing the awards? Where did you all wander off to?"

Finally, Liu Tao tore open the next envelope, a look of ecstatic joy on her face.

"The winner of the Best Director award is... *Naruto*, Xu Feng."

For a few seconds, the atmosphere at the venue stalled.

Then, thunderous applause erupted.

"Oh, oh, oh, oh!!!"

"Long live, long live, long live!!!" Peng Yu sang, and Han Haolin and the other little troublemakers jumped and shouted in excitement, leaving Zhao Jinmai, Zhang Zifeng, and the others sitting next to them feeling embarrassed.

"Brother Xu Feng, congratulations! Mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah!"

Yang Enyou, who had already been sitting on Xu Feng's lap, seized the moment before Uncle Xu could react, wrapped her arms around his neck, and performed a "chick pecking at rice" style of kissing.

On his cheek, of course.

Otherwise, the awards ceremony wouldn't even have finished.

Xu Feng would have been dragged away within three minutes.

The fans in the back were no better, acting even crazier than the lead actors in the front.

Xu Feng, however, remained calm.

Given the dominant performance *Naruto* had displayed,

as long as the Golden Eagle Awards weren't insane, they had to give him at least one major award.

Otherwise, setting aside whether he would accept it,

the audience wouldn't accept it either.

The consequences of the Hundred Flowers Awards giving the prize to Li Sanzi back then while sidelining powerhouses like Duan Yihong and Deng Chao were likely still fresh in the minds of the major award committees.

Long Pingping, who had just won Best Screenwriter, wore a bitter expression.

Damn it, when she went up on stage, the people below just clapped perfunctorily.

Some of them were even playing on their phones.

The gap in popularity was truly not just a little bit.

"Thank you to the Golden Eagle Awards, thank you to the many young actors in our crew, and thank you to the countless viewers who supported us. To be honest, I'm a bit worried. I haven't even brought out my best work yet, and I've already collected the Grand Slam. What awards will there be left to win in the future?"

Xu Feng didn't try to be modest.

There was no need to be modest at a time like this.

Countless people on and off the stage made the same expression as the Yao Ming meme.

Damn it, would you die if you didn't show off?

However, countless people were also extremely curious about what Xu Feng meant by his "best work."

Was it the one he had previously promoted about collaborating with Big Brother Cheng?

"The winners of the Outstanding Television Series award are... *Steel Will*, *Life*, *Naruto*..."

Mr. He read out eight drama titles in one breath.

The group that went up to receive the award all smiled somewhat reluctantly.

Awards are like endangered animals; the rarer they are, the more valuable they are.

Damn it, having eight winners for one award—there’s no sense of achievement in winning it.

Xu Feng felt that rather than calling this an "Outstanding Television Series award," it was more like a consolation prize.

Because the next award to be announced would be the biggest winner of this year's Golden Eagle Awards—the winner of Best Television Series.

And giving you this Outstanding Television Series award was equivalent to telling you people, "We've already given you a consolation prize, don't even think about the big one."

Xu Feng had been thinking about whether he should just let Peng Yu go up and accept it.

Standing with a bunch of old men, smiling extremely reluctantly at the camera—to be honest, it felt pretty stupid.

But Xu Feng thought about it and decided he shouldn't act special.

He went up anyway.

"The Best Television Series award goes to... *The Awakening Age*!"

There was no surprise at all with this award.

Although the final season of *Naruto* was currently sweeping through the film and television industry,

that was a matter for the end of the year.

In the first half of the year, Xu Feng had put all his energy into *Fate/Zero* and *Mulan*.

The talk of the town in the film and television industry was *The Awakening Age*.

But even if the two had clashed, Xu Feng didn't think he could beat them.

Not to mention the historical significance of this drama.

Just the moment the martyr Zhang Yannian looked back, the result was already beyond dispute.

However, what made the audience drop their jaws was that,

even though *The Awakening Age* won, when the director Zhang Yongxin went up to receive the award, the camera kept zooming in on Xu Feng's face.

The audience wondered if the Golden Eagle Awards were trying to stir up trouble.

And when Zhang Yongxin took the gold trophy, he was very gracious, joking half-heartedly: "The greatest achievement of the drama I filmed, besides telling our audience about the great history of our motherland's birth, was defeating Director Xu."

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole venue burst into laughter.

Even Xu Feng grinned and clapped.

"The Emperor of the Film Industry Falls, Is Xu Feng’s Talent Exhausted?" "Xu Feng Suffers First Defeat After Starting His Self-Written and Self-Directed Path," "Xu Feng's Smile Seems to Have a Deeper Meaning, Is He Unconvinced About Losing the Best Television Series Award?" If nothing unexpected happened, these would basically be the trending topics for the next few days.

However, the first thing Xu Feng did after walking out of the venue was to take out his phone and repost a promotional poster for *The Awakening Age*.

And he added four words: "Well-deserved."

*The Awakening Age* was truly excellent, and Xu Feng didn't want to have any conflict with them.

The key was that fans, in many cases, really aren't something you can control just because you want to.

It was necessary for Xu Feng to give some of the fanatical "two-dimensional" fans a preventative shot.

And Zhang Yongxin walked over and happened to see Xu Feng's action of posting on Weibo.

Without a word, he also reposted a handsome picture of *Naruto* and wrote: "Do not worry about having no friends on the road ahead, who in the world does not know you?"

Tsk tsk, cultured people are just different.

The question of who should have won Best Television Series between *Naruto* and *The Awakening Age* also sparked a certain degree of discussion.

However, after both directors posted on Weibo, the discussions among those irritable guys online weren't too intense.

The principals themselves weren't in a hurry, so what the hell were you getting excited about?

After winning the Golden Eagle Best Director award, although he hadn't achieved 100% completion, it could be considered a successful path to the Grand Slam of the three major film and television awards.

You have to brag when you have to; since you won an award, you naturally have to market it a bit.

Otherwise, why run so far?

But there has to be a limit, not the kind that the audience can see through.

Like Lu Han, every time there's some scandal, someone jumps out to say he donated a stadium.

Damn it, Xu Feng wants to ask how many stadiums he has donated?

With so many scandals, relying on donating stadiums to whitewash them—wouldn't you need to donate a hundred or eighty to wash it clean?

But no matter how the fans discuss it, the result is already out; no matter how flowery your talk is, the facts won't change.

And at this time, many netizens discovered that the official website of Two-Dimensional Film and Television had been updated. After the relevant entry for *Naruto*, a new work had been added—*Ultraman Tiga*!

Starring: Xu Feng, Gao Yuanyuan, Chen Daoming, Shen Teng... Holy crap, this cast, that's awesome!

But everyone thought about it again.

Sigh, wait, there's no need to be surprised.

With Xu Feng's current status, what kind of actors couldn't he find?

On the contrary, this kind of cast is normal, okay?

And so, the focus of many "two-dimensional" fans shifted from the ownership of the "Best Television Series Award" to this new drama of Xu Feng's, which really couldn't be analyzed from its name.

[Ultraman Tiga? I clearly recognize every word, but I don't understand them when they are put together. What kind of drama is it exactly?]

[Shen Teng, a movie star, is actually willing to come and act in a TV drama. I have to say, Xu Feng's appeal is terrifying.]

[Damn it, Big Brother Cheng is already acting in Xu Feng's drama, so what is Shen Teng?]

[There's no Big Brother Cheng, it seems this drama is not the one Xu Feng claimed to be his strongest work in his heart.]