Chapter 561: The Prelude to the Double Ice Bitch Fight

To be fair, Li Bingbin, a top-tier female star who rose from a small city in Heilongjiang, truly has some real skills to have reached this point.

Whether you call her manipulative or a socialite who climbed the ladder, one must admit she has mastered the entertainment industry's trends and true nature. Her obsession with fame, reputation, and status at this stage has reached a near-paranoid degree.

For news coverage and fame, her skin has been tempered to be as thick as a city wall.

Just from Zhou Yi's impression, this woman has had several extremely dramatic incidents—

For instance, in the future, while filming "Castle in the Sky," she and Zhu Xiaotian from F4 played a "couple from the set." The media reported that Zhu Xiaotian couldn't wait to meet Li Bingbin, even releasing surveillance footage of the two entering and exiting a hotel and even kissing, catching both completely off guard.

Because they indeed stayed in the hotel all night until noon the next day, Zhu Xiaotian had to find a lame excuse, clarifying that he and Li Bingbin were just watching DVDs in the hotel and that the reports were false.

As a result, Li Bingbin, whether her brain was broken or for some other reason, immediately sarcastically claimed the other party was riding her coattails for heat, which made Zhu Xiaotian so angry that he soon overturned his own testimony, directly naming her without hesitation and saying that since she was so dedicated and worked so hard, he would take the blame if he had to, and from then on, the two became enemies.

Another example: at the Shanghai premiere of "A World Without Thieves," to grab news heat and coverage, she chose to be late and play the victim on the day of the premiere, wearing Shengtian Changfu—

and stated that the reason she didn't wear a gown was that the matching shoes couldn't be found; for the sake of her fans and the premiere, she had no choice but to attend in Shengtian Changfu, and while speaking, she even cried on stage, successfully securing a huge wave of front-page headlines.

Or, her most famous "lotus" statement—

After the Hundred Flowers Awards ceremony, she publicly declared that she was a lotus rising from the mud without stain in the entertainment industry, walking a path that was upright and noble all the way, stating she simply didn't understand and wouldn't engage in hype, that entering the acting circle was a joke, and compared to many others, she was just a brainless fool, and so on and so forth.

Because this statement was too full of "tea," after it spread, she earned her own exclusive entertainment industry title: Li Lianhua (White Lotus).

As for openly force-kissing Chen Kun at a press conference until he was stunned, or being repeatedly asked to leave by security while riding a red carpet abroad but ignoring them and continuing to walk slowly like a turtle on the red carpet, these live awkward famous scenes further prove that this sister's psychological quality is indeed too strong—

truly a woman worthy of competing on equal footing with the darkened Fan Xiaopang in the field of fame and fortune.

You have to know that Fan Xiaopang is eight years younger than Li Lianhua, and even so, during her peak years of beauty, she couldn't shake off Li Lianhua.

And now, it is obvious that because Fan Xiaopang snatched the female lead role in "A World Without Thieves," she has set her sights on him.

A hint of amusement curled at the corners of Zhou Yi's mouth.

When the movie ended, as the female lead Fan Xiaopang went on stage with the creative team to accept applause and a barrage of flattery, she felt a strong sense of crisis when her gaze swept across the audience—

That Li Bingbin was practically pressing her body right up against Zhou Yi's face!

Damn! Why didn't I realize you were so shameless before!

Fan Xiaopang, feeling that inviting Zhou Yi over this time to support her might have been asking for trouble, felt a bit panicked in her heart.

Because Zhou Yi himself was not involved in the film and television field, she completely ate up all the film and television resources that wanted to apologize or befriend Zhou Yi. Living such good days, she literally took off on the spot and was selected by "Southern Entertainment Weekly" as one of the "Four Dan and Two Bings."

Currently, the six of them are the most famous top-tier female film and television stars in the mainland.

If Li Bingbin were to cut in like this, wouldn't she be unable to eat alone in the future?

Fan Xiaopang, who had already grown accustomed to good days, felt something was wrong; the laziness that had just sprouted in her heart along with her life was instantly stimulated into vanishing by this yet-to-happen, baseless thought.

Zhou Yi, who did not know the inner thoughts of the "Bing" lady on stage, did receive several quite obvious overtures of goodwill from Li Bingbin at the banquet after the premiere; she even knew which games he liked to play and which movies and TV shows he liked to watch during his rest time.

All topics between the two revolved around these subjects, and the level of detail was so great that even Zhou Yi himself felt incredibly surprised in the end—

Leaving aside other things, just this preliminary preparation work is indeed worthy of praise.

After all, he didn't believe Li Bingbin would be a player of the "Resident Evil" series.

However, upon hearing "Resident Evil 2" from her mouth, Zhou Yi thought of Ada Wong.

It must be said that the Ada Wong character that Li Bingbin would portray in the "Resident Evil" movies in the future belongs to the rare roles among Chinese female stars in Hollywood films that not only had no sense of incongruity but were also widely praised both domestically and internationally.

The only regret is that Li Bingbin was indeed too old when she acted in the "Resident Evil" movies; if it were Li Bingbin in 2003 cosplaying—

Hmm?

Zhou Yi, suddenly realizing this point, blinked his eyes and scanned the woman chatting with him up and down.

Hmm...

If Musk lets the peak Queen of the Sea cosplay an angel, is it too much for me to let peak Li Bingbin cosplay Ada Wong?

"What's wrong? Is there something on me?" Li Bingbin asked, puzzled, noticing the man's gaze.

"No, I was just thinking about what kind of role you, Sister Bingbin, would be suitable for if you really participated in the MV," Zhou Yi chuckled lightly, saying words that made Li Bingbin's eyes light up.

"With words like that, I can do anything."

Li Bingbin acted quite magnanimous, joking: "Right now, people outside are fighting to get into your MV; how would I dare to be picky?"

Zhou Yi nodded in agreement: "Indeed, I'll ask the director's team and my agent later to see if they have any opinions."

Zhou Yi, who gradually had an idea in his heart, did not agree immediately.

He planned to have Li Bingbin wear a US military uniform and play a US female soldier in "The War of the Dead"; don't ask, just ask, because this woman indeed has a unique temperament boost when wearing this type of uniform.

The specific representative is "The Message," the film that made her win big.

But if that were the case...

Wen Yongshan goes to "New Earth";

The school era in "Qi Li Xiang" is the one-star Sun Yanzi fragment, Gakki.

As for "Writing Poems for You"... perhaps the more intellectual Qin Lan?

"Blue and White Porcelain"... among the current people, the one with the longest legs suitable for wearing a qipao is Tang Yan? Anyway, she wore a qipao during the eight minutes of the Olympics. Although that qipao was purely due to the aesthetic problems of the styling team, designed to be hideously ugly with no sense of beauty at all, purely selling flesh.

"Forever Love" can be thrown to Chan Keung; having big breasts looks better in a wedding dress.

"You Were Once a Young Man," the scenes of the youth era can be filled with connections, for example, the leader being Yang Mi recommended by Zhou Xun?

As for "Swallows Return to the Nest," for this kind of song about homesick wanderers, it doesn't really matter...

Calculating it this way, the songs on Side A are indeed the ones suitable for Li Bingbin. Considering the filter boost from "The Message," Zhou Yi actually wanted to throw her into "The War of the Dead" to play a female officer.

Pondering these permutations of MV female leads, the ideas in Zhou Yi's mind gradually became clear.

As for Lu Yi?

He actually wanted Lu Yi to be his grandson in "Sunzi Bingfa," but he just didn't know if Lu Yi would strangle him...