[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-that-year-in-huayu":3,"chapter-that-year-in-huayu-that-year-in-huayu-chapter-94":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","That Year in Huayu",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2286930,4473,"Chapter 94: Tiangong Colors, Signing","that-year-in-huayu-chapter-94",94,"\u003Cp>At this time, the Spring Festival Gala was still the most powerful platform for launching careers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Shenyang’s market value soared from a complete unknown to an A-lister.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Weiping would pop up from time to time to say a few words, revealing bits of news about Zhang Yimou’s films to attract media attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Nan drove Liu Yifei to Ning Hao’s home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Bo was actually there too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It hadn’t been long, but the baby had already become fair and tender.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, look, look, he’s looking at me...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yifei tugged at Lin Nan, looking excited as she asked him to look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sight made Xing Aina laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Babies’ vision is blurry at this age; it takes about three months before they can see things clearly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah? Is that so!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this moment, Liu Yifei showed a naive side of herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I really can’t believe Huang Bo is in the same class as you two; he looks like he’s a generation older, haha...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xing Aina glanced at Liu Yifei and Lin Nan, then looked at Huang Bo, and suddenly said with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haha...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He does look like a different generation,\" Ning Hao chimed in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s going too far, I’m only about ten years older,\" Huang Bo replied playfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yifei stayed with Xing Aina to look at the child, while the three men went to the living room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Hao would be back on set as soon as his child turned one month old, and Huang Bo was waiting for that too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s no chance of this film hitting 200 million now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Hao said this while gnawing on a pig’s trotter his wife had left over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s already very good, 160 million, my great Director Ning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Bo was quite happy regardless; he was now the lead actor of a 100-million-box-office film.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Tiangong Colors is about to officially open for business, just letting you guys know,\" Lin Nan interjected unexpectedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That special effects company of yours?\" Ning Hao reacted the fastest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, that’s the one.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s great. In the future, if I have some small shots that need processing, I’ll go to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re good friends, but business is business; the fees will still be charged as usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a few days, the first batch of equipment will arrive, and you guys can come over to take a look then.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So stingy? That doesn’t sound like you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Hao joked, though he could actually guess that Lin Nan must have spent a fortune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll have to live on bran and vegetables to support this company from now on,\" Lin Nan said, spreading his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s the big deal? Let Yifei support you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There should be plenty of actresses out there who want to support you. Well, probably a lot, hehe.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Bo laughed somewhat lewdly, earning an eye-roll from Lin Nan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today was mainly about bringing Liu Yifei to see Xing Aina, so they didn’t stay long before leaving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yifei drove while Lin Nan sat in the passenger seat, buckling his seatbelt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sister Na said I could learn about producing in the future, and it wouldn’t interfere with acting. What do you think?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How far in the future?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yifei glared at Lin Nan, her cheeks slightly flushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just in the future. Why do you have so many questions?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine, fine, I won’t ask anymore. You focus on the road.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Nan wore a knowing smile and surrendered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, Lin Nan had never had a good impression of Chen Kexin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This guy purely earned money from the mainland while looking down on mainland people, and he was unscrupulous when it came to greed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the last two days, his wife had been shooting her mouth off again, bringing up the Liu Feiren incident from last year in front of the media; that comment about \"eating shit\" was very malicious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainland netizens felt that it was one thing for their own people to talk, but why should an outsider say such things? They demanded an apology, but the other party cursed the netizens back with the same words, and the two sides started a flame war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a big director, Chen Kexin’s stance wasn’t to smooth things over, but to support his wife, which was very blatant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under these circumstances, others still went on making money as usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>China Film Group had suffered a loss once before and ignored Chen Kexin this time, so the guy turned around and went to Bona, co-investing and confirming a partnership.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*Bodyguards and Assassins* was officially greenlit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The media’s focus had originally been on these mainstream tribute films.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until the news about Tiangong Colors was reported.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A large shipment of imported equipment and machinery being transported to the Lin Nan Film & Television building couldn’t be hidden from reporters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The special effects company Director Lin mentioned at the *The Martian* premiere wasn’t just empty talk!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"According to the tariff documents, this batch of equipment is worth tens of millions of US dollars...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Engineers sent by the equipment supplier came to install and calibrate it in person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three-story office building reserved for Tiangong Colors was actually only using a little over half a floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Nan looked at the busy figures on-site and felt a bit emotional; the road ahead was long and arduous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Calls from the outside world started coming in one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>China Film Group, Shanghai Film Group, Huayi...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Changtian even made a trip over in person, and only after seeing so many new pieces of equipment in front of him did he confirm it was real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lin Nan, did you really spend that much?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s right, and this is only the first batch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You haven’t seen Warner’s special effects center; for a production as big as *The Dark Knight*, the special effects only took half a year...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Nan stopped there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Changtian swallowed hard; he knew about *The Dark Knight*, which had a global box office of over one billion US dollars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the special effects were done in just half a year, one could imagine how impressive Warner’s special effects team and equipment were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m just starting out here, and there aren’t many core employees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can’t take on any big jobs yet, so I’m planning to start with small ones. If Enlight has any business, you can bring it over...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Nan said to Wang Changtian, who nodded, \"No problem.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first group of people sent to Crystal Pictures back then had also returned this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tom told me you have already completed your training. So, Tiangong Colors is now in your hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We will continue to recruit domestically and encourage internal referrals. If you have any classmates you’re still in touch with who you have a good relationship with, you can introduce them...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the end of the day, the current Tiangong Colors was still a makeshift team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even so, relying on this hardware and the 11 people who just returned, it could already rank first among the many so-called \"special effects companies\" in the country.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Nan Film & Television and Tiangong Colors released a recruitment notice to the public.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This let everyone in the industry truly see Lin Nan’s determination. Was he really not going to do it at all, or if he was going to do it, was he going to do it without stopping?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you have any projects in the future, go ask Lin Nan’s Tiangong Colors first. If they can’t do it, then take it elsewhere...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Sanping specifically instructed his deputy that they must take the lead in supporting domestic special effects companies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many companies in the industry were watching from the sidelines, thinking a newly opened special effects company definitely couldn’t take on any big jobs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But looking at Lin Nan’s attitude, he was definitely going to continue to develop and expand, so there would be opportunities to cooperate in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Nan was thinking about the future development of Tiangong Colors; he would not let laymen interfere with experts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were three batches of people sent to Crystal Pictures in total, and these people would be the core backbone of Tiangong Colors in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would be divided into several project groups, letting those who understood technology manage the technology, creating mutual checks and competition...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s how it will be. The scale is still small, so there’s no need for that yet. Once it’s about right, we’ll implement it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the industry, the comments online were much more straightforward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Action speaks louder than words, I support Director Lin Nan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can it really succeed? Don’t just throw away so much money...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They said he couldn’t film *The Martian* back then, didn’t he still pull it off?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is nothing we can’t accomplish, only people who don’t want to do it...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Nan met Guo Fan at the company and took him to visit Tiangong Colors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That batch of equipment from New Line back then was even more backward than what’s in front of us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Director Lin, if everything goes as planned, I’ll be able to complete my registration procedures in September.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Nan really wasn’t surprised by this result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then congratulations, though I’ll be graduating in June.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How about that thing I mentioned to you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Guo Fan was clearly stunned for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't have the ability to work for you right now, Director Lin. Are you really willing to sign me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My company has only signed one actor so far, and that is Zhang Yi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you come, you will be the first director I've signed, a director-in-reserve, haha.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Nan looked at Guo Fan and said this candidly; it was also an invitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while, the other party nodded, \"Can I use everything at Tiangong Color?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then I have no problems, Director Lin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guo Fan smiled and reached out his hand, and Lin Nan shook it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over an hour later, at Lin Nan Film, Guo Fan signed the contract.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You learn first. When you think you're ready, or when I think you're ready, we'll talk about the script.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Nan saw Guo Fan out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mm, I hope that by following Director Lin, I can also become a great director.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guo Fan said with a smile. Actually, when Lin Nan extended the invitation at the second round of interviews, he had wanted to agree, but he had just stumbled over his words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having signed Guo Fan, Lin Nan felt a sense of relief. With one more person working for him, he was in a very good mood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The news that Lin Nan Film had signed a new person spread quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time it wasn't an actor or artist, but a director-in-reserve who was also a film and television management major, which left many in the industry puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But upon closer thought, most of the directors who came out of the Beijing Film Academy, other than Lin Nan, didn't seem to be from the directing department; it was truly bizarre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Driving the car, he returned to the villa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Nan went to find Liu Yifei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The girl was in the courtyard feeding the cats; she was raising more and more of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder Liu Yifei always said that if it were possible, she would like to open a pet store.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Qianqian, I'll have to rely on you to support me from now on.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sure, I'm already raising them anyway, one more won't make a difference, hee hee...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yifei looked up at Lin Nan, the sunlight spilling onto her face, making her smile appear even sweeter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm hurt that you'd say that. Can they compare to me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huang Bo said there are many actresses out there who want to support you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yifei stood up and walked over; her sweet smile made Lin Nan feel a bit uneasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't listen to his nonsense, mmph...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Lin Nan relaxed; she wasn't going to use force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while, their lips parted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Remember, you're the one who said you wanted me to support you. Don't go thinking about anyone else out there...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mm, that makes sense. I'll remember it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>………\u003C\u002Fp>",2031,"2026-06-20T03:22:09.099Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","b5bfa1757fa09ed3c10c24b4f87dd2d42d5c3ff2d9ba6deef2f4125ad085f262","that-year-in-huayu-chapter-95","that-year-in-huayu-chapter-93",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthat-year-in-huayu-cover.jpg"]