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In less than a week, Jiang Fanxing received the time and location of the official start of the film crew and also had to shoot some makeup posters and other matters one day in advance.

 

 

After all, this was the most important project at present, apart from the litigation. Shen Tianqing specially pushed back other jobs and brought Jiang Fanxing to meet people on the set.

 

 

In case he really got into it with Zhu Guofu again, at least if he was there, Jiang Fanxing wouldn’t go too far.

 

With this thought in mind, Shen Tianqing turned a blind eye to Xiao Zhou making another indulgent meal for Jiang Fanxing. If this ancestor could be a little more emotionally stable after eating, eating would be fine.

 

Jiang Fanxing was again sent to the hotel where the film crew was located in a dazed and confused morning.

 

As the third male lead, Jiang Fanxing had a room contracted for him by the crew, and if he wasn’t satisfied with the conditions, he could also live in other hotels nearby at his own expense. Assistant Xiao Zhou, on the other hand, wasn’t treated so well, either bunking in Jiang Fanxing’s room or renting a cheap one elsewhere, arriving every day before the crew went to work and going back after work.

 

However, most artists still let their assistants sleep in the same room as themselves for convenience, and some even slept in the bathroom.

 

 

Jiang Fanxing didn’t like to engage in this kind of differential treatment. He even paid for Xiao Zhou to book a standard room in the same hotel, but the layout and orientation of the room weren’t as good as Jiang Fanxing’s.

 

Xiao Zhou was moved to tears. He was optimistic about the cheap hotels near this hotel; he didn’t think that Jiang Fanxing would pay out of his own pocket, especially since he hadn’t made much money yet.

 

Xiao Zhou became even more attached to taking care of Jiang Fanxing.

 

 

After the luggage was packed and sent to the hotel, Shen Tianqing took Jiang Fanxing to visit the main cast and crew again.

 

Zhang Jie naturally welcomed Shen Tianqing and Jiang Fanxing very politely, and her words were full of warmth. After all, the salary had already been deposited into the company’s account, the year-end report could be done much better, her bonus could also be stabilized, and she could do more in this project budget .

 

When he got to Zhang Jie, Jiang Fanxing realized that the scriptwriter who had secretly praised him was also a member of Zhang Jie’s team; she was her little sister, and she came to learn from the group. After all, the chief screenwriter of this time, Sui Pingan, was a well-known screenwriter. Being able to work on projects with her and having her name on the writing team was a great bonus for future work.

 

“Hello, my name is Zhang Yu.” The screenwriter girl smiled adorably, “If Teacher Jiang has any unanswered questions about the roles, you can always look for me to discuss.”

 

Jiang Fanxing smiled and added her on WeChat. With a screenwriter in the crew who had a good relationship with him, he didn’t have to worry about pitfalls being added in his lines when the time came.

 

 

After bidding farewell to Zhang Jie, he went to Zhu Guofu’s place again.

 

 

Shen Tianqing brought a gift and was extremely good at speaking. Even though Zhu Guofu didn’t want to, he reluctantly accepted the gift. However, judging from his appearance, there was still some resentment, but Shen Tianqing couldn’t ask for more.

 

If he could, Shen Tianqing even wanted to give Zhu Guofu money to buy life insurance. If he really fell ill due to Jiang Fanxing, he could at least seek compensation from the insurance company.

 

When they arrived at Qiao Qiao’s place, the atmosphere loosened up quite a bit again.

 

“I didn’t expect you to be more capable; I thought that after something like what happened before, your artist wouldn’t be able to go on this show.” Qiao Qiao didn’t know the reason and thought that Jiang Fanxing was able to keep the third male lead role due to Shen Tianqing being a capable agent.

 

 

In order to not let Jiang Fanxing’s “infamy” spread far and wide, Shen Tianqing took this pot against his will, only hoping that Jiang Fanxing’s infamy could be hidden for a little longer; otherwise, he was afraid that Jiang Fanxing would be blacklisted by major directors before he became famous.

 

“Xiao Jiang is still relatively young in his acting skills; if you think he’s not acting well, Teacher Qiao, just speak freely.” Shen Tianqing gave Jiang Fanxing a wink, signaling him to hurry over.

 

Jiang Fanxing looked at Qiao Qiao and smiled kindly; he looked like a good-looking college student schoolboy, completely lacking the ruthlessness he had when he disliked the director. “Teacher Qiao, I’ve seen all of your works, especially that orphan girl role you played before. I think you performed very well in the part dealing with the self-esteem of the orphan girl, and it looked like you did a lot of homework.”

 

Qiao Qiao originally didn’t expect Jiang Fanxing to say anything nice, but she didn’t expect the other party to really speak and touch her heart. “Do you think I performed that part well?”

 

 

“Yes, although the clip you won the award for wasn’t that one, I thought that was the one that best embodied your acting skills.” Jiang Fanxing complimented very sincerely, “Many people feel that the common masses are inferior and arrogant regarding dignity and always like to interpret it with a one-sided impression. In reality, for the true underclass, dignity is something that they have the strength to acquire only after they have enough to eat. Your performance in that section blew me away quite a bit, and it wasn’t half the same as your previous roles.”

 

Qiao Qiao was delighted, “Thank you. Xiao Jiang, you’re several years younger than me; if you really don’t understand anything, you can ask me on the set.”

 

“Thank you, Teacher Qiao.” Jiang Fanxing behaved flawlessly here.

 

After walking out of Qiao Qiao’s room, Shen Tianqing even complimented, “You’ve done a good job with this homework; Qiao Qiao is very happy; if only you could behave like this all the time.”

 

“She is really good; I have a lot of respect for people who have the ability to seriously want to do a good job.” Jiang Fanxing casually said, “Which people are doing it to make money in a perfunctory manner, and which people really love performing? It’s obvious if they’re using their hearts or not. I don’t just dislike people when I see them; I dislike those who are unreasonable.”

 

The next step was to go to the second female lead’s place. Shen Tianqing had dealt with her in the past, so he still got along with her happily.

 

As for the two male leads, they didn’t go there for the time being.

 

They were originally competitors, and these two people and their team behind the scenes were still fighting over who was the male lead and who was the male lead two. Their fans outside argued fiercely, and it was only after seeing the criticism from the central media that it finally stopped. However, their relationship was undoubtedly not much better. At this moment, Jiang Xingxing was nothing but cannon fodder. It’d be too easy to make a phone call and give a simple signal for his attack.

 

“Are their fans still tearing each other apart?” Jiang Fanxing sighed somewhat but couldn’t help but have a gossipy heart. “Brother Shen, do you think Lin Lin or Qiu Songsheng can win the male lead role?”

 

 

People couldn’t be fooled by what the outside world was saying; if it really didn’t matter, there wouldn’t be so many artists shamelessly fighting. To put it more down-to-earth, when writing an academic paper, the value of the first and second work couldn’t be compared.

 

Even if the work done by the second had a stronger understanding of the paper than the first work, the general public would still believe in the value of the first work.

 

 

TV dramas and movies were huge projects worth tens of millions or billions of yuan, and those that weren’t being fought for were definitely unattainable rather than unwanted.

“What do you think?” Shen Tianqing asked in return.

 

“Lin Lin, right? He’s old in qualifications, and as a former top star, he still has a fighting chance. Although Qiu Songsheng has many battle fans and a large audience, he is now criticized for this kind of unhealthy trend. His fan circle is younger, so he must give in. “Jiang Fanxing analyzed with reason and evidence, “What’s wrong, brother Shen?”

 

“I just kind of miss Qin Shi and Yi Zhu; at least by their side, I was a qualified agent.” Unlike now, it feels like I’m useless.

 

“How come, Brother Shen? I’m still just a small rookie now, and many people are being tolerant of me because of your face. When filming officially starts, there will definitely be a whole lot of people hacking me, and then I’ll be waiting for you, Brother Shen, to save the day.”

 

 

“Actually, you can be a bit more restrained in what you do.”

 

“That can’t be restrained by half.” Jiang Fanxing reasoned, “What’s the point of being a perfect artist?” As long as I don’t break the law and don’t go against social order and morals, I’ve already surpassed ninety-nine percent of male artists. Being a perfect artist involves pretending for the rest of my life; I can’t do it, so I might as well give it up early and become a freelance artist so that the public will slowly discover me as a treasure.”

 

 

It was a bit too early to give up before he’d even tried!

 

Shen Tianqing felt that he had aged a bit more. “Xiao Zhou, just work a bit harder on your side. If there’s anything, call me directly; I’ll definitely pick it up when I see it. Right, Jiang Fanxing, your personal account still needs to be cleared of some unnecessary people, lest at that time others go around blabbing to betray your privacy.”

 

“Oh, this, you can rest assured, I haven’t added those inexplicable people.” Jiang Fanxing was smug, “In school, my contact information can be priced for thousands of yuan. I have two phone numbers; everyone can only see the one I have for the outside world; the private number is only known to a few people. WeChat and Penguin are the same; my friends add up to no more than a hundred. As for other operating platforms, I am also very careful; after all, I was previously motivated to become a lawyer.”

 

Shen Tianqing left with a complicated expression.

 

 

What did he have to worry about with Jiang Fanxing? It was the people who should be worried about going against Jiang Fanxing!

 

As an “Immortal Drama” that was favored by all major fan groups, once the official announcement of the project was made, it immediately spread throughout all major fan circles while hitting the platform’s hot searches, ruthlessly harvesting a wave of traffic.

 

 

Female Lead: Qiao Qiao.

Male Lead: Lin Lin.

Second Male Lead: Qiu Songsheng.

 

Although Qiu Songsheng was popular as an idol, he was still a pure newcomer in the field of acting. Even though Lin Lin hadn’t made new dramas recently, he still had achievements in that industry. So Qiu Songsheng’s fans, nicknamed “Pine Needles,” had also regrouped and were ready to cheer for his debut on screen.

 

 

It didn’t matter if he lost this time, as he was younger, it made sense for him to give way to his senior. After all, the leaked script showed that the roles of the first male lead and the second male lead weren’t much different. They’d see what happened when the show aired.

 

 

Then there was the second female lead, Yang Hanguang. She was a powerful actress with a background in drama. She had both reputation and strength. She was waiting for this drama to become popular so she’d gain popularity and national recognition.

 

 

She was already in contact with a drama crew for a role as the main female lead.

 

 

Next up was the third female lead, a low-budget actress who played the role of the heroine’s junior sister.

 

Then there was the third male lead, Jiang Fanxing.

 

 

Hmm, who was Jiang Fanxing?

 

 

All the major fan groups looked at each other; could it be that the newcomer came from a powerful company that directly stuffed him into the group? Wow, he was so tightly covered by the mask that it was hard to see him clearly. They could only barely tell that he was a handsome guy; they’d have to wait until the official makeup photos to see what he looked like.

 

But at the same time, the law department of A University and the group chat of the law firm Jiang Fanxing once interned in directly explo-ded.

 

Jiang Fanxing? Was it the Jiang Fanxing they knew who had a very advanced mental state?

 

Even if he couldn’t survive as a lawyer, he couldn’t just switch careers and enter the entertainment industry at once, right?

 

In Jiang Fanxing’s friend group, his friends had gone crazy, frantically tagging Jiang Fanxing in the group.

 

“Didn’t you say that you were just going to be an extra? How come you’re running as the third male lead? You’re actually going to film with my goddess Qiao Qiao? Jealousy has made me facepalm.”

 

“Schoolmaster, aren’t you interning at that super famous law firm? Give us brothers a way out.”

 

Even Gu Fan, the law firm’s senior, made several WeChat calls.

 

 

Jiang Fanxing uniformly didn’t answer; anyway, the people in a hurry were them, not him.

 

“That’s right, brothers, I’m entering the entertainment industry. Only this path can live up to my beauty, so that I won’t turn into the same pitiful social animal as Senior Gu Fan, who not only has no beauty but also no money.”

 

Gu Fan in the group was so angry that he wanted to leave the group chat; he was already getting a hair transplant!

 

“Everyone, when I earn a lot of money in a day and later open a company and set up my own specialized team of lawyers and escorts, I’ll ask you to come and give me a hand. I will provide you with the top five insurances and one housing fund. During holidays, you will take compensatory time off according to my work schedule. When the time comes, I will be your first-party father. Instead of being angry with those slave owners and bosses outside, why don’t you fly with me? Buying a house and a car is not a dream!” Jiang Fanxing made bold words. He wasn’t the kind of person who flew alone without bringing others along.

 

How can anyone work without a team? How tiring would it be to be alone all the time?

 

“Your Majesty, the old slave is late!”

 

“Brother Jiang, whatever you say.”

 

 

“From now on, you’re our future boss; I’m going to drive your car and carry your bags; no one can stop me!”

 

Gu Fan wanted to type something but finally finished deleting a large paragraph. Thinking of Jiang Fanxing’s character, he knew it wouldn’t be difficult for him to make a living in the entertainment industry.

 

“I’m waiting for you at the law firm.”

 

In the same hotel, on the top floor of the room where Jiang Fanxing was.

 

Qiu Songsheng was having a temper tantrum with three or four assistants.

 

“Brother Qiu, Brother Qiu, you’re such a big shot; it’s too much of a drop for you to take the initiative to add Jiang Fanxing.”

 

“How about this? Let’s go find Shen Tianqing first? Let Jiang Fanxing come over to pay you a visit.”

 

 

“Brother Qiu, recently the private fans are rampant; you’d better stay honestly in your room first and don’t go out; let’s go find Jiang Fanxing, okay?”

 

 

Qiu Songsheng’s furrowed eyebrows relaxed. “Alright, your attitudes must be good; I want to make friends with him.”

 

The assistants laughed bitterly.

 

It’ll be good if he doesn’t think you want to show off your power. You’re from the same crew; won’t this make people speculate?

 

 

At the same time, on a certain short video platform, a person’s upper body was bare. The masked man, with his injuries bandaged and a general’s armor hanging below his waist, quietly went online.

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