Chapter 694: *Farming, Teenagers* Begins Broadcasting!

One Hundred Million Media attributes the reason why their recent TV dramas are terrible to the directors not being good enough.

But industry insiders know that a drama being terrible cannot just be the director's reason.

It is the entire production team, including the actors performing, who have problems.

If it were just a filming problem, netizens wouldn't have praised the actors' acting skills as good either, besides complaining about the chaotic filming.

But she has truly seen some scripts where the plot was very terrible and the character settings were very ordinary, yet the actors brought the characters to life.

Netizens only praised the actors' acting skills, claiming the actors' acting skills saved the drama.

Jin Li said thoughtfully, "Perhaps, this is also the reason why One Hundred Million Media is willing to let us change directors at will, willing to let us delete and change scripts, and willing to let us decide on other roles besides the second female lead and second male lead."

"They also know that their internal planning is somewhat chaotic, but they can't find the reason, so they simply threw everything to us."

Sui Lingfang thought about it and couldn't help but say, "Actually, when I heard the conditions given by One Hundred Million Media at the time, I felt we took a big advantage."

"Few film and television companies are willing to give actors such great power; they value you very much, which is why they are willing to let everything be based on your opinion."

"But now that I hear you say this, why do I feel something is wrong again? Could it be that we are helping them find internal contradictions and solve problems?"

She said with a wry smile, "If they are hiring outside help to solve their problems, then it wouldn't just be this price; it would also have to include a price for picking out faults."

Jin Li also smiled, "Regardless, One Hundred Million Media has shown their sincerity."

She paused, "If they can really help *Counterattack* launch on dozens of overseas film and television distribution channels, I am personally willing to take on their self-produced drama."

Sui Lingfang was silent, still thinking.

Jin Li said, "Sister Fang, looking at the terms of the contract, I am not at a disadvantage."

"They didn't make me lower my salary because I was asking for their help, and they are willing to give the normal market price."

"With my current market value, if I want to film a TV drama, there aren't many scripts left to choose from."

"Some excellent scripts don't necessarily have such a large investment to afford me. And the big productions that can afford me, I basically don't look down on them."

As Jin Li's manager, Sui Lingfang knows Jin Li's current situation very well.

Some films can be called big productions because special effects really cost a lot of money.

But you get what you pay for.

How much money is spent will be reflected on the screen.

If a lot of money is spent but the corresponding quality is not obtained, it is conceivable that this project was definitely exploited too much by people.

But TV dramas are different from films.

Currently, there are no so-called big productions for TV dramas; TV dramas like doomsday science fiction films often take the film channel and are filmed as series.

Only the production of Xianxia fantasy can touch it.

But if you really touch this subject, just the special effects fee will be a large sum, and basically, they can't afford Jin Li.

Unless it is to lure her with high sales dividends.

In short, because Jin Li's market value is too high in the industry, there aren't many choices for her.

Stars in the entertainment industry can still play students at thirty, can still play young girls at forty, stars who haven't given birth have no fatigue, and can still be a flower at forty-five.

Only when they are truly too old on camera will those female stars consider the transformation problem, and there aren't many subjects left for them to choose from.

Jin Li is not thirty this year, but she has already walked the path many people have walked, and her market value has risen again and again, causing her to have difficulty picking up plays instead.

So Jin Li suddenly saying she is going to college is also a good thing, which can reduce exposure.

Actors need a sense of mystery.

Appearing in front of the public will only frequently consume the audience's freshness.

It's not that the audience doesn't like watching her, but they prefer watching fresh faces; she has been on the hot search too many times before.

For an actor like her, filming one or two plays a year is enough.

This also led to Sui Lingfang being very cautious when picking up plays for Jin Li.

Picking this and picking that, she still hasn't looked down on a single drama this year.

Jin Li also knows her current predicament, so she feels that the contract handed over by One Hundred Million Media is an opportunity instead.

She can choose the director, she can change the script, and she can even pick the unimportant supporting roles.

It is no exaggeration to say that this drama is tailored according to her thoughts.

And she doesn't have to rack her brains to pull investment and rebuild the crew team; all of One Hundred Million Media's film and television connections can be used by her.

Jin Li feels that if people set the contract to this extent, it's either because her fame is really great, or One Hundred Million Media is in urgent need of a high-quality TV drama to break the stereotypical impression netizens have of them as the "Source of Terrible Films."

Otherwise, she took a big advantage in this contract.

Even now, she still feels she took advantage.

Sui Lingfang: "So, your opinion is that it can be accepted."

Jin Li smiled, "Two years is completely enough; if you feel it's not safe, you can try to see if the contract period can be negotiated to three years."

"If Dawn Entertainment still can't formulate a script I can act in within three years, then just lie flat and rot, and go directly to film the film and television script provided by One Hundred Million Media."

Sui Lingfang laughed, "No need to be so pessimistic; maybe they left a good script specifically for you."

"Last year, they had a drama that was filmed quite well, and the actors found were also okay, but the editing was too chaotic, leading to the audience not understanding."

A film-pulling blogger specifically reordered the editing, and netizens responded that it was much better; that drama's rating was just a little bit away from passing."

"So One Hundred Million Media actually has strength."

Since Jin Li has no problem here, Sui Lingfang also replied to One Hundred Million Media quickly.

After negotiations, both sides set the deadline for filming the self-produced drama within three years, one year more than the original two years.

At the end of May, Jin Li personally took a plane to One Hundred Million Media to sign the contract.

Once the contract takes effect, it will immediately feed back to the *Counterattack* crew, ensuring that this drama can be launched in major Southeast Asian countries' cinemas in July during the summer break.

Director Xu is very grateful to Jin Li.

But Jin Li didn't do the work for nothing.

Regarding overseas distribution channels, the dividend ratio needs to be re-planned.

Because she used a TV drama as an exchange to obtain this precious channel, her sales dividend is higher than some investors.

But those investors all expressed approval.

The reason is simple; when they filmed this drama, they didn't expect it could be launched in Hong Kong and other countries, mainly aiming at the domestic market.

Now that they can expand overseas channels, for investors, it is already an unexpected joy.

Many domestic directors heard the news and envied the *Counterattack* crew for being able to find such a conscientious actor like Jin Li.

On the importance of an actor to the crew.

Whether an actor loves or doesn't love, it can really be seen.

Unlike now, many actors only treat filming as a job.

When the play is finished, whether it is good or bad has nothing to do with them, and they don't do promotion.

These actors don't treat the drama as their own career at all, and they are very perfunctory.

In the past, this kind of thing only appeared in supporting roles; everyone competed to be a "drama drifter," taking pride in the number of dramas filmed, without valuing quality.

Now, even many leads have become drama drifters.

And it's not just the director who recognizes Jin Li's attitude, feeling that she is managing a drama with heart and really treating the drama as her own important work.

Investors who like to invest in film and television heard about this and also developed a good impression of Jin Li.

As investors, if actors can do their best to promote, and even pull extra film and television release channels for the crew, they will also be very grateful.

Such a good actor, why didn't they run into her?

Directors and investors slapped their thighs one after another, increasingly longing for a good actor like Jin Li.

So this led to Dawn Entertainment receiving a pile of film and television scripts again.

There are TV dramas and films, among which TV dramas are more than films, whereas before, the two were the opposite.

Jin Li's signing with One Hundred Million Media let many people in the industry know that she doesn't just film films.

As long as the TV drama script is good enough and the team is good, she will also try.

This gave many TV drama directors hope; after all, who doesn't want to film a hit?

But all of this, Jin Li has no way of knowing.

After being selected by many people, the scripts placed in front of her are still as few as ever.

Soon, it came to June 1st.

Jin Li logged into her blog and forwarded the launch promotion of *Farming, Teenagers*, indicating that she was also following the updates; come and farm happily together!

Fans came to comment one after another.

【Rare to see a business advertisement posted besides endorsements and collaborations; it seems Jin Li really likes farming~】

【Hehe, this is the "Farming Boy Group" that Jin Li personally went to the live broadcast room to tip!】

【"Farming Boy Group" fans are here; we watch their live broadcasts of helping farmers sell goods every day, otherwise we can't sleep; it's too funny!】

【I am currently brushing live broadcasts on two mobile phones; one phone brushes the Farming Boy Group, and the other phone brushes the talent show PK; I found that the Farming Boy Group's appearance is still more top-notch; they look good even without beauty filters, and their figures are also top-notch~】

Jin Li not only did copywriting promotion.

*Farming, Teenagers* has her investment, so she is not stingy in promotion, and she specifically filmed a VCR, wishing their variety show's broadcast volume a long rainbow.

"I yearn for pastoral life, so I was very surprised to see a variety show about farm work."

"You have displayed the demeanor of hardworking and simple laboring farmers, personally tilling, and selling the harvested fruits, which not only helped the farmers but also let me see the fruits of nature's harvest."

"If I have time in the future, I really want to personally experience farm work; come on, teenagers! Farm, teenagers!"

The gold content of this VCR of Jin Li's goes without saying.

The originally ordinary copywriting promotion had already attracted many people's attention.

Now that she has filmed a video promotion, netizens who didn't intend to watch are also ready to rush.

Just for Jin Li's such conscientious recommendation, they also want to see how this variety show is filmed?

*Farming, Teenagers* launched on Enterprise Video at 8:00 PM on June 1st.

Penguin specifically won the exclusive broadcast rights, and also very powerfully used the site's first-level resources, arranging big cover promotion and pop-up promotion.

Just one day after launch, *Farming, Teenagers* achieved the first place in variety show popularity on the whole site, and the fifth place in broadcast volume on the whole site!

The program team is very sincere; they updated five episodes in a row on the first day of launch, and the duration of each episode reached one hour!

Updating five episodes in a row made netizens worry whether it would be too watery, and whether they would randomly cut the film to fool them?

But after really running to watch, they found that each episode had a lot of content.

Can those 5 delicate teenagers who can't lift or carry really get used to farm work, and can they persist?

At the beginning of the program, netizens felt as if they were watching *Transformation*, with young masters from the city going to the countryside to experience rural life.

At the beginning, it was really *Transformation*.

Those 5 teenagers were very unaccustomed to life in the countryside, feeling that everything was inconvenient, and there were so many mosquitoes; even if they hung a mosquito net, they could drill in, and they didn't know where they drilled in from.

Although from episode 1, the program team arranged for them to reclaim farmland and loosen the soil.

But because the teenagers had no experience, they were sore after working for a while, so everyone couldn't help but be distracted and play.

【I actually saw a feeling of finding joy in bitterness】

【Before, I still felt they were quite pitiful, but watching them play with mud together, I suddenly wanted to say: Idiot, what are you doing?】

【Hahaha, the young masters from the city finally took off their noble shirts and put on their field equipment~】

【Although they are delicate and complain, I didn't see disgust from them, but curiosity about doing farm work】

【It's really good; watching *Transformation* can still see the yearning for a better life; what the hell is this?!】

【I really hope my leader can be like the leeks on the roadside, letting me cut a few handfuls at any time】

In the first and second episodes of *Farming, Teenagers*, netizens saw them go from being completely unaccustomed to gradually adapting, finding joy in bitterness in the days in the countryside.

But from the third episode, the program team gradually started to offer dry goods.

Besides farming, they also wanted to personally build some equipment and grind wood themselves.

Seeing that the people in the village had no machine assistance and farm work was very slow, they couldn't help but want to buy machines back to benefit the villagers.

But machines need money, and they have no money, so they went to raise money through various methods.

Don't say, it was filmed quite funnily.

After all, which variety show really filmed a sow giving birth?

*Postpartum Care for Sows*, check it out.

Netizens finished watching five episodes at once and became more and more attentive to this program.

Two episodes are broadcast a week, and before the broadcast time, netizens are discussing how the sow Huahua is doing and whether the postpartum care has been taken care of.

They also asked how the calf Huanghuang is doing, and is it used to eating after weaning?

And there are the two local dogs adopted on the roadside; one dog is all black and is called "Black Whirlwind," and one dog is pure white and is called "White Impermanence."

Netizens are also concerned about these two dogs, leaving messages to remind the crew to remember to vaccinate them.

Some netizens also wanted to ask for the crew's filming address to send them things.

The reason is—

【Watching you go to the countryside to do farm work reminded me of my parents; I was young and couldn't do anything at that time, but now I have the ability, and my parents are gone.】

【I want to send something over to fulfill my years of longing, just as helping me make up for my wish!】