Chapter 4: Challenging my moral bottom line

After making a guest appearance in *The Equation of Love and Death*, Teacher Qi Hao didn't take any money, not even travel expenses.

Since he chose to send a favor, don't drag it out.

Cao Baoping was very moved by this, pulled Teacher Qi Hao and asked him not to leave, arranged a hotel room for him, and treated him to a mushroom feast in Yunnan in the evening.

After dinner, he returned to the hotel.

After washing up, Teacher Qi Hao locked the door and closed his eyes according to the system's requirements.

Before officially entering, there were some options.

For example, choosing a script—as long as it's a film he has seen, it can be used as training material.

You can also choose film clips.

Teacher Qi Hao casually chose *Suzhou River*.

This is a film with a very distinct style, belonging to Lou Ye's representative works, a bit like Shunji Iwai, but more brutal than Shunji Iwai.

Teacher Qi Hao had auditioned for *Suzhou River*. At that time, as long as there was any possibility, he didn't want to miss the opportunity.

Of course, he was brushed off in the first round; the director thought he was too green.

Unexpectedly, he can now interpret the classic clips inside in a dream.

"Hi, Haozi!"

Switching into the scene, Teacher Qi Hao opened the door, and in came Zhou Xun, soaked by the rain.

He thought this training mode should be similar to a computer program, where everything inside is set by the system, and he just needs to act along the film's lens.

Unexpectedly, this younger Zhou Xun actually called out his real name as soon as she came up.

"Are you Zhou Xun?"

Teacher Qi Hao only felt his scalp tingling.

Did I eat too many mushrooms and have hallucinations?

If the scene wasn't wrong, if it were the scene in the hotel, he would even suspect that Zhou Xun had secretly sneaked into his room and intended to do something untoward to him.

"I am Zhou Xun, Mudan and Meimei were both played by me." Zhou Xun said with a smile.

"This is not right, are you a real person in my dream?"

Teacher Qi Hao started calling the system. If Zhou Xun still retained the memory of coming to his dream after waking up tomorrow, it would really be impossible to explain.

"What are you afraid of? I'm just an NPC, here to help you train."

No need for the system to say anything, Zhou Xun explained it clearly herself. Obviously, although she has wisdom, she also fully knows her identity as an NPC.

"Then what is your relationship with the real Zhou Xun?" Teacher Qi Hao once again suspected the system was sick.

Why don't you just set the training as a fixed program?

Why make it so "intelligent"?

"Don't worry, I'm fake, she's real, and I have no relationship with her," Zhou Xun walked close to Teacher Qi Hao, put her wet hand stained with rain on Teacher Qi Hao's chest, and said with a smile: "If you want to ask me about her secrets, I don't know anything, but here I listen to you for everything. No matter what you ask me to do, I will cooperate with you..."

"Fuck!" Teacher Qi Hao took a big step back and fell directly onto the sofa.

This is fucking challenging my moral bottom line!

"The training time is eight hours. After it ends, I won't exist anymore. Even if you want to do something now, it won't affect the training later. There is a sofa here... don't be afraid, just treat it as a spring dream... you wouldn't be unable to, would you!"

Zhou·NPC·Mudan·Meimei·Xun's voice was full of temptation.

"Stop! From now on, start training. I order you to act like a robot, only doing things that cooperate with my training."

Teacher Qi Hao wiped his face.

He had no interest in Zhou Xun. Even if he had interest, he would pursue her openly.

Instead of...

What is it now? He couldn't figure it out.

Fortunately, Teacher Qi Hao's words were like an imperial edict in the training space. Hearing this, "Zhou Xun" put away her flirtatious attitude and instantly entered the role of "Mudan."

*Suzhou River* was the first film Zhou Xun starred in, which won her the Best Actress award at the 15th Paris International Film Festival.

It was also the film where she completely unleashed her acting skills for the first time.

Although the most prominent thing was her performance, Jia Hongsheng, who collaborated with her, actually acted very well.

Teacher Qi Hao was training the part of Jia Hongsheng.

This is a way of acting that Teacher Qi Hao has rarely come into contact with.

He can understand and explore it himself during the training process, or he can take Jia Hongsheng as a comparison on the spot.

The system will have a very humanized scoring system.

Even the "Zhou Xun" who acts opposite him will point out some things to him during the process of acting opposite.

Of course, Zhou Xun herself belongs to the non-academic talent type, and there is not much she can take out to point out to Teacher Qi Hao.

Being able to cooperate with Teacher Qi Hao in acting was already enough to make Teacher Qi Hao benefit a lot...

After "tossing" with Zhou Xun all night, Teacher Qi Hao woke up the next day feeling physically and mentally exhausted.

The hotel provided a buffet breakfast, and he and Old Tian went to the restaurant to eat something before leaving Kunming.

"I finally understand why everyone likes to eat mushrooms. It was really satisfying to eat yesterday. I was worried about lying on the board." Old Tian took a tray and clamped things inside.

He is a manager, not a star.

So he doesn't need to control his diet at all, and he eats full every day.

"If you get any fatter, don't count on finding a girlfriend. You're almost forty, hurry up and find a partner, so you don't have to look for someone with a pension in the future."

Teacher Qi Hao is cold in front of people, but likes to complain about people in private.

"I'm fucking only thirty-one years old, how am I almost forty? Fuck..." Old Tian was half-dead with anger.

"Hi, Young Lady Zhou, you're here for breakfast too." Teacher Qi Hao saw Zhou Xun coming down with an assistant and felt a little nervous.

Thinking of the words of Zhou Xun in the training space last night, he was a little afraid to look directly at this person.

Some people are really born to eat the bowl of film.

Whether it's pure or enchanting, they can all handle it with ease.

"Yeah, have to eat something, otherwise I won't have the strength to film."

How would Zhou Xun know what Teacher Qi Hao was thinking?

The "Zhou Xun" in the training space really had nothing to do with her.

"Come on, this film will definitely be able to win another Best Actress."

Finding that Zhou Xun had no abnormalities, Teacher Qi Hao felt relieved in his heart.

He didn't dare to mess around yesterday, besides his own persistence, he was also worried that Zhou Xun in reality could detect it.

He even deleted the kissing scene in *Suzhou River* last night.

Such a banned film really lost a lot of color after removing the kissing scene.

Imagine, you can choose different female stars as training NPCs.

And you can do whatever you want in the training space.

This is definitely a geek artifact.

He is a proper person. If it were those who are not very proper, once they have such a training space, they will definitely be happy and forget to return, and get thinner day by day...

Well, they will die fast too.

After eating, Teacher Qi Hao took his manager Old Tian and left.

After learning this news, Deng Chao finally breathed a sigh of relief. He always felt that if Teacher Qi Hao didn't leave for one day, he might replace himself one day.

He was also worried that he wouldn't be able to help but kill Teacher Qi Hao.

When he marries Sun Li in the future, he definitely won't invite this guy to participate.

In the VIP waiting hall on the other side, Old Tian kept complaining.

"Do you know that by not playing the lead role and going to make a guest appearance, people on the internet are saying you're crazy. Could it be that you are really guilty and are yielding to Deng Chao because of Sun Li?"

"What do I have with Sun Li? Can't you fucking be clear?"

Teacher Qi Hao can endure most people's questioning of him, but as a manager who knows the bottom line, following suit is too hurtful.

"How would I know? Your ability to attract peach blossoms, I'm exhausted from publicizing these scandals for you. Can't you have a moment of peace?"

"For this guest appearance, just say the schedule is full. I want to participate in the promotion of *The Warlords* and don't have time to join the crew."

Teacher Qi Hao was too lazy to pay attention to Old Tian's complaints.

Paying Old Tian such a high salary is naturally to make him work like a cow and a horse.

"I understand. Explain to the industry that it's a favor exchange with Cao Baoping; explain to the outside that you don't forget your original intention, and you will treat both the lead role and the small supporting role seriously. Then find the crew to send a few photos of filming, saying that you didn't use a stunt double for the jumping scene, and your wig was knocked off by Deng Chao's car..."

As a manager, Old Tian's work ability is absolutely nothing to say.

Teacher Qi Hao being able to become one of the Four Young Dan + Best Actor, besides his own talent and hard work, is inseparable from Old Tian's escort over the years.

"You just handle it, and then... you help me do one more thing."

Teacher Qi Hao didn't dare to look at Old Tian's expression. He could imagine that once Old Tian knew he was going to endorse spicy sticks...

That expression must be more exciting than eating spicy sticks.

"Why are you so polite? I find you've changed." Old Tian smiled and patted Teacher Qi Hao.

"Help me contact and find an endorsement for spicy sticks."

Teacher Qi Hao swallowed his saliva.

"You... what did you just say?"

Old Tian suspected that his hearing had a problem.

Or Teacher Qi Hao's language function had a problem.

In short, one of them must be sick.

"Spicy sticks, I want to endorse spicy sticks!" Teacher Qi Hao thought of Old Tian, whom he paid to hire, and suddenly felt justified.

"Why?" Old Tian asked, panting.

"Why is there a why? I just want to endorse it, is that okay?" Teacher Qi Hao couldn't think of a reason.

"Is the money a lot?" Old Tian had a whim and asked: "Could it be another trick by Ziwun?"

Seeing that the contract is about to expire, Ziwun wants to renew, but Teacher Qi Hao has no intention of renewing.

After all, Ziwun hasn't brought Teacher Qi Hao any good projects in the past few years.

Most of the projects were obtained by Teacher Qi Hao relying on his own strength, the connections accumulated over ten years in the entertainment industry, plus Old Tian, a manager who is good at dancing with long sleeves.

For Ziwun's own *The Return of the Condor Heroes*, Teacher Qi Hao had to fight Huang Xiaoming and Nie Yuan to get it.

It can be said that Ziwun has been sucking blood from Teacher Qi Hao for the past few years.

A considerable part of the money Teacher Qi Hao earned in the past few years went into Ziwun's pocket.

Because Teacher Qi Hao was unwilling to renew, Ziwun played a disgusting operation.

They sold Teacher Qi Hao to Tangren, signed Teacher Qi Hao for a TV series, and let him play a supporting role for Hu Ge.

Hu Ge has gained some fame with many TV series such as *Chinese Paladin*, *Strange Tales of Liaozhai*, and *The Little Fairy*, and has also obtained a big opportunity like *The Legend of the Condor Heroes*.

But he is ultimately incomparable to Teacher Qi Hao.

This time, Tangren is preparing to film *Chinese Paladin 3*, Hu Ge plays the lead, and Teacher Qi Hao plays the second lead.

Teacher Qi Hao is standardly lowering his status to raise Hu Ge's status.

Tangren didn't want to make the situation too ugly, so they had to come up with a parallel lead, saying that Hu Ge and Teacher Qi Hao are both leads.

This move was probably learned from *The Forbidden Kingdom*.

This film is currently in the promotion period, and Jackie Chan and Jet Li are both leads.

In addition, Hu Ge's salary is 40,000 per episode, while Teacher Qi Hao's salary is 120,000. Teacher Qi Hao's salary is equivalent to three times Hu Ge's.

It's really too much.

Teacher Qi Hao received a salary of over 100,000 per episode, and he wasn't so resistant in his heart.

It's just that this kind of behavior of pressing the head to eat grass has made Old Tian hold a grudge.

"It has nothing to do with Ziwun. I just simply like spicy sticks. Find a more hygienic brand. Old Tian, I know you are very capable, and you will definitely be able to handle things well."

"You like spicy girls, that's about right. You like spicy sticks, you're fooling ghosts." ===== CHAPTER 5 =====