Chapter 48

Over these years, it wasn't as if Qi Hao hadn't been learning cultural knowledge himself.

But he hadn't learned well in school, so how could he possibly achieve anything after leaving school?

Could it be that the teachers were hindering his progress?

The life of a poor student has two major skills: he can't do this, and he can't do that.

Therefore, Lao Tian established the "cold and aloof male god" persona for Qi Hao.

If your brain is empty, just talk less.

Fortunately, as time passed since his debut, his experience kept growing, and Qi Hao hadn't made any blunders in his social interactions or during interviews.

At most, when the Four Young Scholars were being selected, Qi Hao's educational background was used as a means of attack.

At the time, the young actors of the same period included Huang Xiaoming from the Beijing Film Academy, and Tong Dawei and Nie Yuan from the Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Going further back, Lu Yi and Ren Quan were from the Shanghai Theatre Academy, Li Yapeng was from the Central Academy of Drama, and Huang Lei and Chen Kun were from the Beijing Film Academy; even the first batch of filler actors like Hu Bing were at least graduates of specialized sports schools.

Only Qi Hao had a junior high school graduation level.

A brain teaser netizens often played was asking why Qi Hao didn't have any high school classmates...

As he became more and more popular, few people brought up his educational background anymore.

But this thing was always a landmine for Qi Hao; you never knew when you might step on it.

Now, Qi Hao's dearest friend—Brother Tongzi—had benevolently given Qi Hao a pair of glasses that granted photographic memory, and all problems would be solved.

When the time came, others would say "Autumn shadows do not disperse, frost flies late, leaving withered lotuses to listen to the rain," and you would say "Autumn shadows do not disperse, frost flies late, leaving withered lotuses to listen to the rain."

When others said "July flowing fire," they all said it meant it was extremely hot, but you would know that wasn't the meaning.

You know it, but you don't necessarily have to say it; always preaching everywhere makes people very resentful.

But you cannot not know.

【Task 10 completed, reward obtained: Charm +10, script "Shaolin Soccer", Gentle Glasses (System Version)】

【Task completed, training opportunity obtained】

【Training NPC choice of three: Yang Mi/Liu Shishi/Hu Ge】

【New task starting now】

【Task 11: Stars and the media have a love-hate relationship. As a seed for stardom favored by the system, you should bravely face the media. Accept a media interview now. Task difficulty: 3 stars, time limit: 60 days】

【Task completion reward: Lines +10, song "Men Cry, It's Not a Sin", career startup capital of 100,000 yuan】

This new task had three system rewards, but unfortunately, the third one wasn't a special item, but 100,000 yuan.

I don't know why, but I get annoyed whenever I see money now.

If it were the first year or two after his debut, 100,000 yuan would indeed be a huge sum.

Qi Hao still remembered that because he was handsome, he played bit parts for a while before being pulled to film commercials, earning tens of thousands of yuan at a time.

If he went to film music videos for singers, he might get paid a bit more, but it was hard to avoid being taken advantage of.

Well, just a little bit of that kind.

After all, if it was filmed too lewdly, it couldn't be released.

However, 100,000 yuan really wasn't much money for the current Qi Hao.

When he took on "Sword 3," it was 120,000 per episode, and he could get nearly 4 to 5 million for the whole TV series.

It can only be said that this mechanism, which caused an information gap between the system and reality due to loading ten years, had both good sides—such as letting Qi Hao obtain 6.3 million shares of Penguin stock—and bad sides, which was that many things given were based on standards from around the year 2000.

For the sake of the glasses, I'll forgive this dog system.

As for the glasses, the system let Qi Hao get them fitted himself this time; just find any optical shop, get any glasses fitted, and those glasses would belong to the "System Version" and have the photographic memory function.

Is it that casual?

The bad part about this is that it makes people feel this system version is very low-end and not metaphysical enough.

However, Qi Hao could choose the style.

Originally, he was a bit worried: what if it gave him gold-rimmed glasses? Should he wear them or not?

Wearing them would be a bit perverted; not wearing them would be stupidly perverted.

Fortunately, getting the glasses fitted was a task for tomorrow.

Qi Hao had the whole night to think.

So, who should he choose to spend this long night with?

Yang Mi? Liu Shishi? Or Hu Ge?

It didn't seem to make much difference, so Qi Hao chose to give up.

Scattering peppercorns at the neighbor's door—numbing the neighbor.

Not choosing anymore.

In the future, he couldn't take on projects like "Sword 3" that lacked technical content, making it so he couldn't even pick a training NPC.

Actually, "Sword 3" really wasn't chosen by him.

It belonged to the show Ziwen picked for him.

Just as Qi Hao was preparing to enter the training space, the three options he had given up on shifted, and new names appeared.

Eh, if you don't choose, it seems you can update the options.

If I had known, I wouldn't have chosen Tang Yan last time.

Akasaka Rei/Momoe Yamaguchi/Loletta Lee.

Uh...

Qi Hao looked at this outrageous combination and really couldn't figure out what kind of rule the dog system used to put these three names together.

Did my goddess Yamaguchi Momoe commit some heavenly crime?

Or was there some benefit that ordinary people didn't know about that was missed?

Qi Hao chose Yamaguchi Momoe without hesitation.

Of course, Yamaguchi Momoe's acting skills weren't particularly outstanding, but she had quite a few classic movies and TV shows, and the genres were quite varied.

The first Japanese TV series introduced to China was "Blood Suspicion," starring Yamaguchi Momoe, which told the tragic love story between a young man and a young woman suffering from leukemia.

At that time, leukemia appeared in front of Chinese people as a romantic plot device for the first time; later, this plot was learned by the neighbors as a "national essence."

Car accidents and leukemia are the favorites of the neighbors.

The bizarre plot and romantic love earned plenty of tears from men, women, old, and young.

The heroine Sachiko, played by Yamaguchi Momoe, also became the white moonlight in the hearts of young boys and girls.

A typical example is Zhang Yimou.

This taciturn man from the Northwest didn't say it out loud, but it was clear at a glance in his movie casting.

Generation after generation of "Yimou Girls" all had a resemblance to Yamaguchi Momoe.

The first-generation "Yimou Girl," Gong Li, was called "Little Yamaguchi Momoe" as soon as she debuted.

Another young man from a small town in Shanxi, Jia Zhangke, bluntly stated that his room was covered with posters of the goddess Yamaguchi Momoe back then.

Actually, the Japanese are the same; the naturally restless Takeshi Kitano liked Yamaguchi Momoe very much, but regretted never having met her in person!

Later, when filming "Outrage," Takeshi Kitano decided to find Yamaguchi Momoe's husband, Tomokazu Miura, to play an important role.

Every time Takeshi Kitano invited Tomokazu Miura out for tea, it was because he wanted to see the real Yamaguchi Momoe.

Madam, you wouldn't want your husband to lose this role, would you?

But every time, it fell through.

So, in the sequel to "Outrage," Tomokazu Miura's character was killed as soon as he appeared.

Qi Hao didn't have any obsession with Yamaguchi Momoe.

At most, he just liked Yamaguchi Momoe's "The Dancer of Izu."

And then using the goddess of Zhang Yimou, Jia Zhangke, and Takeshi Kitano as a training NPC was inexplicably stimulating and secretly satisfying.

Next time he saw Zhang Yimou, he would definitely be full of superiority.

The movie "The Dancer of Izu" was actually a remake; the earliest was Kinuyo Tanaka, later Sayuri Yoshinaga, and then Yamaguchi Momoe; even the Sayuri Yoshinaga version and the Yamaguchi Momoe version were by the same director, Katsumi Nishikawa.

It can't be said that Yamaguchi Momoe acted better than the two predecessors, but the feeling of that first love was indeed very on point.

So after Qi Hao chose Yamaguchi Momoe, the training dungeon he chose was also "The Dancer of Izu."

However, after going in, he discovered a big problem.

Damn it, I can't speak Japanese!

Damn!

Yamaguchi Momoe, as the training NPC, was also very confused.

The two were talking at cross-purposes, and it took a long time before they started acting, so they could only act their own parts.

Qi Hao finally got a taste of being Tomokazu Miura.

The next day, Qi Hao asked for leave and found an optical shop that could make lenses on the spot.

He chose the sturdiest frame and bought the most wear-resistant lenses.

He didn't know if the system would give him another pair of glasses if these broke.

When he appeared on set, Qi Hao was already wearing the glasses.

They had no prescription, mainly for blue light protection.

When playing on his phone or computer, it would probably have a tiny bit of effect.

"Boss, why are you wearing glasses?" Zhang Nan asked curiously.

Qi Hao said he had something to do in the morning and went out sneakily by himself; when he came back, he had an extra pair of glasses, which seemed extra weird.

"It looks scholarly..." Qi Hao said in a low voice.

"Scholarly..." Zhang Nan subconsciously wanted to say "scholarly scum," as this term was often used together.

However, this little thing was harmless.

As long as the boss likes it.

Anyway, Qi Hao after wearing glasses did look a bit more scholarly and handsome to a new height.

"From now on, my glasses will be kept by you; you must keep them safe, absolutely don't let them get bumped, and definitely don't lose them."

Qi Hao confirmed with the system.

If these glasses broke, they could still be used after being repaired, but if they were lost, he would lose the ability of photographic memory.

However, the person who found the glasses wouldn't gain the corresponding ability.

These glasses belonged exclusively to Qi Hao.

Qi Hao + Glasses = Photographic Memory.

"A woman gave them to you?" Zhang Nan could only understand it this way.

"Uh... don't always think about women; if you miss your wife and kids, I'll give you a vacation to go back; I'm just going between the hotel and the set here, having Yang Liu is enough."

Qi Hao hesitated for a moment, still unable to classify the glasses as a token of love.

Because he didn't have a woman.

"They are coming to Zhejiang for a trip in two days, and I'll see them then." Zhang Nan shook his head.

"Then if you're not leaving, do me a favor." Qi Hao was not polite at all.

"What is it?"

"I want to accept a media interview..."

If Lao Tian were here, he would think Qi Hao was having another episode, but Zhang Nan wouldn't find it strange.

Instead, he asked very seriously: "Is there anything you want to announce?"

"No, I just feel that filming is too boring; since we joined the crew in February, we've been filming for more than two months."

"Then there's no need for a press conference."

Zhang Nan breathed a sigh of relief; he thought Qi Hao was going to announce a relationship or something.

"You arrange it as you see fit."

What's the point of holding a press conference at this time? To clarify that he isn't gay, or to clarify that the relationship with Yang Mi is false?

None of these need to be deliberately clarified.

"Then let's arrange a media set visit; Tangren wanted to arrange a media set visit before, but we rejected them all."

Zhang Nan thought for a moment; this should be able to satisfy the boss's request.