Chapter 280: 《Sword Fairy》 Begins Broadcasting

"Earth?" Li Junyi looked at Luo Mo and asked, "Brother Mo, is there some deep meaning behind choosing this name?"

Luo Mo looked at him and teased, "It's hard to explain right now, you'll understand later."

"Oh, okay." Li Junyi indeed stopped asking.

Just as 【Happy Twist】 constructed a 【Xihong City】, many films unfold within the location of 【Xihong City】.

Luo Mo's current idea is similar, only he has leaped directly from a city to—a planet!

If many TV series, films, and other works take place in a location called 【Earth】, then this "virtual planet" in the eyes of Blue Star people can gradually be constructed.

In Luo Mo's view, since he came carrying the brilliant civilization of an entire planet, he should do something big, shouldn't he?

This plan is too grand; there is no need to throw this concept out right now.

As more and more works are accumulated, everything can naturally take shape.

It's just that for everyone else, it is a virtual planet, but for Luo Mo, it is a past that cannot be returned to.

………

………

The recording site for *Masked Singer* is still set in Hangzhou, and Luo Mo personally saw Li Junyi off to the car.

Tong Shu and Li Junyi are both his "original little brothers," and Luo Mo is actually a bit anxious that he still hasn't made any waves in the industry.

But he still feels it is necessary for Li Junyi to continue to settle down.

Luo Mo himself struggled his way up from a young age; now that it is a new year, he has effectively practiced Opera for 20 years.

One minute on stage, ten years of work off stage.

Li Junyi's talent is far from Tong Shu's; could it be that the cold and warmth of the industry, along with the huge gap in development compared to his peers, will make his Folk voice more story-driven?

Luo Mo does not know exactly what caused Li Junyi to break through his shackles and finally find the right path in his vocal range and singing technique, but that is no longer important, is it?

Before getting in the car, Li Junyi told Luo Mo that Director Ke wants to play with the 【Motto】 that Director Ning Dan often uses in *Masked Singer*.

Perhaps the effect of those two mottos from Luo Mo was too good, and Ke Ming wants to learn from the master.

Li Junyi scratched his head and said, "Brother Mo, you know I don't have much literary talent, why don't you give me a parting gift of words."

"Sure." Luo Mo smiled and said, "I'll send it to you on WeChat in a bit."

"Alright!" Li Junyi nodded, the car started, and he embarked on his journey.

Luo Mo watched the nanny van drive away and sent a WeChat message to Li Junyi.

This time, he didn't write a poem, just a simple sentence.

But when Li Junyi saw this sentence, his eyes felt slightly sour.

At the same time, he also completely understood why Brother Mo wanted to name his codename 【Superstar】.

"I'll save it to say on the show," he thought to himself.

He is willing to offer all his efforts for this sentence.

……..

……..

The first episode recording of *Masked Singer* is also divided into two days.

This dog of a director, Ke Ming, is really putting his heart into keeping the identity of every participating Singer confidential.

After all, a major draw of this variety show is the unmasking; if the identity is exposed, it wouldn't be interesting.

Time passed, and just like that, it reached Friday, the day *Sword Fairy* is about to air.

In Beijing, Ding Xiaoyu hasn't had many scheduled activities these past few days, waiting at home for the broadcast of *Sword Fairy*.

But these past few days, she hasn't been relaxed staying at home; instead, she feels slightly stifled.

The reason for this is that her Contract has expired, and her mother, Chen Ru, wants to change her team.

Chen Ru has been busy to the point of exhaustion over this matter recently.

Whenever she is busy and in a bad mood, it is very easy for her to argue with her father.

She has contacted several companies and several well-known studios in the industry, and has spoken with many teams, but she hasn't been particularly satisfied with the conditions and promises she received.

The original team also had an inclination to renew, but they didn't offer many upgrades to the Contract.

"On the contrary, the Goose System side offered conditions that were a bit surprising," Chen Ru said to Ding Xiaoyu a few days ago.

The Goose System naturally refers to Penguin.

"But the Goose System's implication, between the lines, is that they want to have a Deep Binding between you and Luo Mo," Chen Ru said.

"Does your master really have such great energy that the Goose System values him so much in terms of film and television?" Chen Ru is a bit puzzled.

Ding Xiaoyu didn't pay any attention to that sentence at all, only thinking about the 【Deep Binding】 in the previous sentence.

How to bind? How deep?

Does it mean they can collaborate often?

Ding Xiaoyu later also spoke to her mother about the issue of signing with her master's studio.

But Chen Ru showed little interest.

"Mom isn't unwilling for you to maintain a good master-disciple relationship with him; haven't I told you to treat your master as an elder and to respect him?" Chen Ru said to her daughter.

"You said you wanted to act in *Sword Fairy*, didn't Mom agree immediately without even asking about the pay?"

"But signing with a company and having a good personal relationship are two different things," Chen Ru said.

After saying this, she stopped talking about the topic.

What she is most distressed about now is that the cards in her hand are too few, or rather, the cards are too small.

During such a critical period of changing teams, it is best to have recently participated in a hit drama or a high-box-office film.

In such a situation, you wouldn't even need to look for a new home yourself; everyone would come knocking at your door.

Of course, if you hold a big production waiting to be aired in your hands, it can also serve as a pretty good card.

It is just a pity... everyone seems to have no confidence in *Celestial Sword 5 Qixia Zhuan*, this upcoming drama starring Ding Xiaoyu as the lead actress.

Chen Ru did not pin any hopes on this drama either.

However, she would still accompany her daughter to watch this drama on time tonight.

Ding Xiaoyu mostly acts in movies, but usually in supporting roles. After all, she debuted as a child star, and there are relatively few movies with young girls as the lead.

Ding Xiaoyu rarely acts in television dramas; the path she took from the beginning was purely that of a movie actor, with the big screen as her goal.

Therefore, *Celestial Sword 5 Qixia Zhuan* is, in the strict sense, the first television series in which she plays the female lead.

When it reached seven o'clock in the evening, Chen Ru cast her mobile phone screen onto the large screen and opened Penguin Video.

Due to the Member Early Access feature, one could actually watch the first six episodes of *Celestial Sword 5* tonight.

Then, on the days when new episodes are released, one can watch two more each day.

After clicking on the first episode, Ding Xiaoyu said, "Mom, can you play the opening theme song once?"

"You want to watch it?" Chen Ru dragged the progress bar back.

There are also visuals to watch in the opening theme; if her daughter wants to watch it, then let her. She herself did not have much interest, so she began peeling an apple for her daughter.

The song "Killing, Breaking, Wolf" sung by Xu Chujing spread through the living room. Chen Ru felt this song was actually quite good; listening to it was very invigorating.

While handing the peeled apple to her daughter, she asked, "Yu, do you think there might really be something between your master and this Xu Chujing?"

Ding Xiaoyu lowered her head slightly and did not reply.

She had pondered this question before; she actually did not want an extra mistress.

But if there absolutely had to be one, if there really had to be one... then it would indeed be better if it were Jing.

But.

It is just.

Sigh.

After taking the apple her mother handed her, Ding Xiaoyu took a small bite, and the opening theme froze on the image of Luo Mo standing atop a mountain peak, with the large characters for *Celestial Sword 5 Qixia Zhuan* appearing.

Chen Ru sighed with emotion: "If nothing else, your master is still very handsome."

Chen Ru grew up in an era when handsome men in period costumes dominated the screen; when she was young, handsome men were rampant in television dramas, so her aesthetic standards were relatively high.

Even so, she had to admit that Luo Mo was truly no worse than them.

This kind of appearance easily makes young girls have dreams at night that are indescribable, and once described, would easily run into thousands or tens of thousands of words.

Once a man is handsome to an unreasonable degree, even if you are just reading books and studying with him in a library in your dream, you will still feel like you are having an erotic dream.

After the opening theme ended, the content of the first episode of *Celestial Sword 5* officially began.

Right from the start, the scene switched to Nanzhao Kingdom.

It told of how the Moon-Worshipping Cult Leader wanted to force the Empress, who was also a Nuwa Descendant, Qing'er, to her death.

Then, Qing'er fought with the Water Demon Beast.

On the other side, Jiu Jianxian and Li Xiaoyao went to save the grandmother and the young Zhao Ling'er.

Every scene that required special effects made the audience feel that money was Burning.

"How can those cheap special effects compare to this?"

"These special effects must have cost at least ten bucks, right?"

"With special effects made like this, can this drama really make money?"

And the subsequent Drama piqued the audience's curiosity.

Because Li Xiaoyao, who was highly skilled in martial arts and could perform Immortal Technique earlier, turned into a shop assistant in a store as soon as the scene shifted after saving Zhao Ling'er.

"Is it a flashback?" the audience wondered.

"Then which episode did they go to Nanzhao Kingdom in?"

However, the audience suddenly felt something was not right.

"That's not right! Zhao Ling'er was still a child back then, but the masked Li Xiaoyao already looked like a great hero!"

A viewer good at filling in the blanks thought: "That's simple, the one wearing the mask isn't Li Xiaoyao, it's his dad! For such a life-saving favor, it wouldn't be too much for him to be a daughter-in-law for my Li family, right?"

Immediately following this was the scene of Li Xiaoyao acting like a loafer, looking like a little hoodlum, but the overall plot was still quite interesting.

It was not until the aunt had a problem and Li Xiaoyao was tricked by the villains of the Moon-Worshipping Cult into going out to sea to Fairy Spirit Island to seek Medicine that the story began to unfold completely.

In reality, the gears of Fate began to turn at this very moment.

This was their meeting, and also their Fate!

Half an episode's content was watched very smoothly just like that.

Chen Ru did not feel the slightest impatience; she even watched it with great interest.

These days, everyone's pace of life is fast, and under the bombardment of short videos, many people are increasingly unable to sit through videos that are too long.

Precisely because of this, when many people pick a series to watch, if they find it boring after watching for ten minutes or so, they will likely click the 'X' without mercy.

Unless the word-of-mouth is truly explosive, they will not have much patience.

"Luo Mo's directing and editing skills seem... not as unbearable as I guessed?" Chen Ru thought to herself.

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(End of this chapter)