Chapter 783: The state is wrong

This time Sui Lingfang replied seriously: "No, we don't need a large investment of one hundred million."

She paused and said: "Even if the total investment of the crew reaches over one hundred million in the end, it is impossible for you to pay it all alone. We need to pull other investors in."

She turned to look at President Yang, looked at each other, and then said:

"At most, I will give you 30 million, and the share ratio is relatively small. See if you are willing. If you are not willing, we will have a chance to cooperate next time."

Zhou Yuan pondered for a moment and asked: "No room for maneuver?"

Sui Ling

Zhou Yuan immediately agreed: "Thirty million it is, I'll invest!"

The meeting ended, and Zhou Yuan did not leave immediately, but stayed where he was to wait for Sui Lingfang.

Sui Lingfang also realized something and let Mr. Yang leave first.

Mr. Yang gave her a rare, envious look, then looked at Zhou Yuan, and left quite reluctantly.

This was a generous investor!

Every time he opened his mouth, it was a hundred million.

He had been in the business world for a long time, and it was quite rare to find someone who could just casually pull out a hundred million.

The conference room door was closed again, and Sui Lingfang looked at Zhou Yuan, saying in a businesslike manner:

"If Mr. Zhou has anything else to say, feel free to be direct. The contract has already been signed; we are now in the same boat."

She had originally thought Zhou Yuan kept her behind to fish for information.

As it turned out, Zhou Yuan asked: "What other investments has Jin Li participated in? Can you tell me? I want to invest following her lead."

Sui Lingfang was stunned for a moment, then shook her head: "You can't keep up. The investments she participates in are all small-scale; a few million is the limit. She alone is enough to cover all the investment.

Besides, she is very cautious and rarely participates in large-scale investment projects. Actually, it's not just you; many people have asked me about what other investment projects Jin Li has, wanting a piece of the pie."

"I've talked to her, and she said she will only participate in personal investments for the time being and doesn't intend to share the profits with others."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yuan said with some regret: "I thought she could bring me along."

Sui Lingfang's mouth twitched slightly. Being able to casually throw out a hundred million, Zhou Yuan's status in the industry certainly wasn't simple.

He might just be a big shot with superb investment skills.

Yet such a big shot wanted to follow Jin Li to pick up scraps.

Is this scientific? Is this reasonable?

Sui Lingfang said: "If there's nothing else, I'll be going."

"Wait, there's one more thing." Zhou Yuan's voice came from behind, and she turned to look.

His expression showed a bit of struggle; he seemed to be hesitating whether to say it.

In the end, he chose to say it.

"If you have time, please thank Jin Li for me. Thank her for not participating in the investment for 'The Bai Lianhua Strategy', which allowed me to withdraw in time and escape a disaster."

Sui Lingfang was stunned: "'The Bai Lianhua Strategy'? I remember this drama has been filming for over a month. Wasn't it said that filming was going very smoothly? Just a few days ago, paparazzi specifically leaked news that the actors were very professional and the director's control over the shots was also very impressive."

Zhou Yuan sighed: "Of course you have to say that to fool outsiders. Otherwise, if the true situation of the cast were revealed—seeing that this group is a mess—the audience would be scared away. How could you expect to harvest box office receipts after it's released?"

Sui Lingfang was a bit hesitant: "Can I know some of the news?"

Zhou Yuan: "This news has already spread in some investment circles. You can know, but don't spread it.

For the work 'The Bai Lianhua Strategy', the director is taking serious kickbacks, and the hired actors' acting skills are all subpar. It's only been a month since filming started, and the plot has completely collapsed.

Other investors are busy looking for someone to take over or are reorganizing the cast, but they are afraid of outsiders seeing the clues, so they specifically found paparazzi to release some rumors so that netizens wouldn't notice."

Zhou Yuan said gratefully: "If it weren't for the fact that no matter how I tried to persuade Jin Li to invest that day, she remained unmoved, I wouldn't have realized that this drama might have problems and decisively withdrawn my capital. Otherwise, I would be a victim deeply trapped in it now.

I am an investor; I don't participate in the cast's management, and I certainly don't know how to film. The only thing I can do is provide money.

Who would have thought that this drama was specifically designed to cheat investors' money, with the main goal being a total loss."

Sui Lingfang:...

She had seen the production team for this drama; although it wasn't considered good, it wasn't considered bad either.

A standard cast, paired with an excellent and professional actor, can easily spark chemistry.

Many so-called hits are polished out of ordinary teams.

That's why, at the time, she felt Jin Li could take this drama and specifically brought it for her to see.

But it was quickly rejected by her, as she thought the script wasn't quite clean.

She didn't expect that this script would be delayed for two years before filming, and it really wasn't any good.

Jin Li had finished dinner in the cast and was planning to read a book when her phone rang.

She answered it; it was a call from Sui Lingfang.

Sister Fang said: "Today was unexpectedly smooth, and the project is moving along very quickly. Once you finish 'Dawn 2', I estimate you'll soon enter the 'Invisible Secret' cast."

Jin Li raised an eyebrow: "Seamless transition? Can you leave me a few months to return to school to study?"

Sui Lingfang: "Of course you can. Dawn Entertainment wants to hold onto the right to speak, which is why we were worried this situation would arise.

Now that the bulk of the shares is with us, you can rest when you want to rest, and film when you want to film."

Jin Li chuckled: "You don't need to give me that much freedom. I estimate that after filming for Dawn 2 ends, there won't be many days left to study when I return to school."

There was only one week left until the start of the summer semester, and starting from this semester, she would be entering her junior year!

Before she knew it, the dream path envisioned by the original owner of this body had been completed for the most part.

"Jin Li, do you know an investor named Zhou Yuan?

I didn't contact him originally, but he somehow heard the news that we were recruiting investors and specifically volunteered, signing an investment contract with us very readily."

"Zhou Yuan?" Jin Li thought and thought, then shook her head: "No impression."

Sui Lingfang: "You met at the banquet last time. He even wanted to give you the good opportunity of recruiting for the supplementary share agreement, but you refused, saying you weren't interested."

"You might not believe it, but just because you didn't participate in the investment for 'The Bai Lianhua Strategy', he actually felt this was some kind of hint, and that even Heaven believed this drama wouldn't succeed.

Otherwise, why would you be so resistant to something that is clearly a way to make money?"

She cleared her throat; the story was entering its climax.

"So, he also decided to withdraw his hundred-million investment and came to me, hoping to invest in your new drama..."

Days passed by, and Qingbei University officially started!

It was a pity that on the first day of school, both Gu Cheng and Jin Li were absent; they were still rushing to film in the cast.

Because neither of them had returned, the campus forum that evening was filled with discussions about the two of them, whether by freshmen or seniors.

【Rational discussion: What is the status of Jin Li and Gu Cheng in the entertainment industry?】

【Have they already reached the top?】

【Does this count as having a successful career, being at the peak of attractiveness, and being very smart?】

【So, when will Qingbei students start working hard to become people who have both looks, talent, and money?】

【Gu Cheng didn't come to study for more than half of last semester, and Jin Li didn't come to school right at the start of the semester. Can the two of them keep up with the study progress?】

【Anyone who knows their grades wouldn't say such things about whether they can keep up with the progress.】

Jin Li and Gu Cheng had no time to pay attention to the discussions on the school forum.

They were once again plunged into busy filming.

The cast added many special effects scenes this month, and the actors all had to film in a pre-built green screen.

Sometimes they also had to wear special motion-capture suits to capture the characters' movement trajectories, and their faces had to be covered with dense instruments, which could restore their expressions in the movie.

Gu Cheng hadn't left 'Desperate Counterattack' for long, and he entered the state for non-object performance in special effects scenes very quickly.

By comparison, Bai Jiang was a bit slow to enter the state.

Once everything was filmed with green screens and there were no scene aids, Bai Jiang remembered the nightmare of filming the first Dawn movie.

It was precisely because his green screen special effects acting was so poor that Director Chu had him and Xu Ting undergo emergency training for a few days.

Those days were like a nightmare to him.

Every time he would wake up from Director Chu's angry scolding, only to find it was just a dream.

Fortunately, he had endured it in the end and gained Director Chu's recognition.

At the very least, compared to Xu Ting, he was standing in the filming of the second installment.

Bai Jiang had originally thought he had overcome the shadow of filming with green screens.

He had been in contact with filming from time to time before, and no problems had occurred.

But now that it had become full green screen filming, he had become very tense instead.

He was afraid of making mistakes and was very anxious.

Gu Cheng noticed that his state was wrong; this wasn't seen from daily life, but observed while standing in front of the camera filming.

As fellow actors, they understood each other's states very well.

Gu Cheng immediately told Director Chu about his discovery and asked with some confusion:

"It was clearly fine filming with green screens before, so why are problems appearing now that we are filming frequently? His expressions are too tense, and his entire body language is very nervous."

Director Chu hadn't discovered this problem yet, because the scenes being filmed now were inherently quite tense and exciting.

He thought about it and arranged a few gentler scenes.

After filming a few times, he also discovered that Bai Jiang had a bit of a problem.

So he called Bai Jiang over to talk.

Gu Cheng left at the right time and went to find Jin Li.

Jin Li was still reading junior-year material, and Gu Cheng, who carried his SLR camera around, simply went to take pictures of her reading.

The cast set was all green screens, so the background actually didn't look good.

But when filming Jin Li's face, Gu Cheng felt that the background and everything else were just foils, which instead highlighted the tranquility of Jin Li reading.

Chen Qin wandered outside and found Gu Cheng's assistant, asking him:

"Is Brother Gu's part about to wrap up?"

The assistant said: "Yes, but according to the cast's arrangement, it won't be filmed that quickly."

Chen Qin frowned: "What do you mean?"

Assistant: "The floor manager told us yesterday that after filming the last scene at the base, Brother Gu can leave the cast first and come back to continue filming when his part comes up later.

After all, Brother Gu also has to appear in the final battle at the very end; he won't be off-screen that quickly. Judging by what the floor manager said, the director doesn't intend to film the final battle that quickly."

The assistant was discussing this, and Jin Li and Gu Cheng were also discussing it.

Jin Li heard the sound of taking pictures, looked up, and saw Gu Cheng.

Gu Cheng noticed her gaze, gently and warmly pulled up the photos he had just taken to show her; whether it was the composition, lighting, or posture, they were all perfect.

If the background board wasn't a green screen, it would have been even better.

But even if it was, it didn't matter.

Jin Li flipped through a few and asked with some surprise: "Has your photography technique become even more amazing?"

Gu Cheng shrugged: "Has it? I don't feel anything."

Jin Li said affirmatively: "Yes, look, this is what you took for me two months ago.

And this one, you took for me half a year ago... look at this one you just took; you're making me look more and more beautiful."

Gu Cheng smiled: "Is there a possibility that it's not my technique, but that you are becoming more and more beautiful?"

Jin Li gave him a playful look: "I'm not going to reverse-age!"

The two talked about the upcoming filming schedule, and Gu Cheng mentioned the director's plan to let him return to school first.

"There won't be any scenes for me for at least a month. I actually told Director Chu that I could stay in the cast and do odd jobs.

But Director Chu said the Qingbei directing department has some substance, so he told me to go back and learn, and he'll call me back to film when the final battle comes, and he's even willing to give me a chance to direct."

"Direct? He really said that?" Jin Li was a bit surprised.

That was the big scene of the final battle, not the small-scale testing scenes from before.

Gu Cheng nodded heavily and smiled slyly: "But not the director's important shots, but there are a few side cameras that need someone to control, and he can let me take one to film then."

Jin Li realized: "So that's how it is. Otherwise, I would have suspected if you were Director Chu's child; why is he so good to you!"

Gu Cheng: "So the day after tomorrow, I plan to return to school."

Jin Li looked at him with envy: "I don't know when I'll be able to go back; no matter how I calculate it, it will be at least two months."

The second Dawn movie was being filmed more meticulously than the first, using more scenes and more filming material.

Plus, the movie's later stages would lean towards an ensemble cast, so in order to coordinate with the performance progress of other actors, she couldn't do a speed-run.

Gu Cheng saw her look of charming melancholy, which was truly cute, and his hand moved slightly, wanting to touch her head.

He had just reached his hand out when he suddenly realized this was the cast, and there were many people watching around them.

So he changed his movement halfway, turning it into reaching for the mineral water on the ground.

Bending down to pick up the mineral water, Gu Cheng slowly straightened his body, suddenly very close to Jin Li.

"Tonight, I'll come find you." Gu Cheng's voice was low and hoarse, with a silent confession.

Jin Li's eyes flickered, and she nodded lightly at him.

Director Chu specifically talked to Bai Jiang in detail, wanting to clarify the reason for his wrong state.

Bai Jiang didn't dare to say it was because he was afraid of being NG'd, only saying: "I've been a bit insomniac lately, which has affected my energy during the day."

Director Chu said: "If you are really nervous, I can arrange a few literary scenes that don't require a green screen for you to relax first."

Bai Jiang hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Okay, Director Chu."

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