“My…..mother?”

Shen Yu, who never gave much thought that he had a biological mother, or that he would call another stranger “mother” in addition to Mrs. Shen, was instantly at a loss. He subconsciously looked at Tao Mu. Shen Yu was actually a little afraid of a blood relative who he had never met and didn’t know the details of.

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At this moment, Shen Yu suddenly understood why Tao Mu never mentioned the matter of finding his biological parents after he became famous. Relatives who were completely strangers with unknown character. The uncertainty of what the other party would do after learning of their blood relation identity. Shen Yu prided himself on being pure and kind, and he also hoped that his biological mother could be a kind and gentle person as well.

At least don’t be like Tao Mu’s parents who abandoned him in a rental apartment when Tao Mu was just a baby, regardless of his life or death.

Tao Mu frowned inexplicably. He didn’t understand why Shen Yu would look at him at the first moment after hearing the reporter’s question. Thinking of what the reporter said about “the number one most searched on FlyNews.com”, Tao Mu finally understood. Could it be that Shen Yu suspected that his biological mother was found by someone Tao Mu sent?

Oh please, am I such a idle person!

Tao Mu rolled his eyes secretly in his heart.

“I’m sorry, this is the premiere of “Black and White”. I hope our reporter friends won’t ask questions that have nothing to do with the movie.” Although he was a little bit uncomfortable with Shen Yu’s behavior, Zhou Yanqing, who had always been used to being a good guy in the circle, still stood forward and helped Shen Yu out of the siege. Besides, he didn’t want the premiere of “Black and White” to be implicated by Shen Yu’s personal affairs.

The news that Shen Yu’s biological mother was found just climbed to the top of FlyNews.com’s hot search list. Speaking of which, the mainland media were indeed hard-working. Because SARFT issued a ban on Shen Yu, and the mainland media were not allowed to use words related to Shen Yu in their reports. In order to publish the report smoothly, FlyNews Entertainment’s reporters racked their brains, and finally the headline of the news report turned out to be “Shen Group broke the news again, the eldest miss of the Shen family found her adoptive brother’s biological mother, does this mean there is hope to find the real prince?”

This title was really explosive enough, and within an hour of the news report being uploaded to FlyNews.com, it had been hotly searched by many melon-eating netizens. In less than three hours, it had already ranked first on the hot search list.

Speaking of which, this scoop was actually one that the daughter of the Shen family took the initiative to find FlyNews Entertainment and asked FlyNews Entertainment to follow up and report.

Of course, according to Shen Yan’s selfishness, with the hatred she had for Tao Mu, she absolutely did not want to cooperate with FlyNews Entertainment. She didn’t even want to send this kind of hot news to FlyNews Entertainment’s hot search. It was Zhuo Yan who advised her not to act impulsively. After all, FlyNews.com was now the largest social platform in China. Relying on the strong user base of FlyNews.com, FlyNews Entertainment had gradually become the entertainment media with the most influence and the highest publicity in China.

Any news report that appeared on FlyNews.com’s hot search rankings could immediately get the attention of netizens and other media. If Shen Yan really wanted to find the second son of the Shen family as soon as possible, then cooperating with FlyNews Entertainment would undoubtedly be the most efficient.

And taking a step back to tjink about it, even if Shen Yan didn’t want to cooperate with FlyNews Entertainment, and chose other media to report. FlyNews.com and FlyNews Entertainment could also reprint reports from other media. At that time, Shen Yan would not be able to stop netizens from clicking on the search, and FlyNews Entertainment would still be able to put the news on the hot search. Shen Yan’s rejection and resistance were useless and only a waste of time. In this case, it was better to cooperate with FlyNews Entertainment from the very beginning.

With Shen Yan’s arrogant and spoiled temper, if it were someone else, even if it was her own father and brother, Shen Yan would never be so obedient. But Zhuo Yan was different. Shen Yan really liked Zhuo Yan, even if her eldest lady’s temper was always uncontrollable. Because she liked him, she was always suppressed by Zhuo Yan in the end.

So she was willing to listen to Zhuo Yan’s advice. Not only did she cooperated with FlyNews Entertainment, but also took the initiative to hold a live broadcast conference on BullerScreen.com. allowing FlyNews Entertainment’s reporter interview Shen Yu’s mother online. Forcing the woman to tell the truth from many years ago——mainly to explain the clues on the whereabouts of the second son of the Shen family.

Shen Yu’s biological mother was a woman in her thirties. Her eyebrows and eyes were as delicate as Shen Yu’s. At first glance, the mother and son looked very much alike. If they stood together, others would never mistaken their blood relation.

Probably because of proper beauty and age maintenance over the years, even if she was in her thirties, she still looked like a girl in her twenties. The skin was fair and delicate, and the aura was clear and gentle, and just sitting there, it gave pople the feeling of a lotus flower swaying in the wind, the fragrance clear and moving. Actually possessing even more feminine attraction than Shen Yan next to her.

The appearance obsessed netizens who were watching the live broadcast immediately became high. After the ban was issued from SARFT, a turbulent heart had nowhere to go, so these netizens who could only climb the wall to follow other stars to find comfort as well as fans of Shen Yu also went to the live broadcast room to show their love to the “mother-in-law”.

Probably because she seldom accepted media interviews, Shen Yu’s mother in front of the camera looked a little nervous. In fact, she didn’t want to reveal her current identity. At that time, for 100,000 yuan, she agreed to be a surrogate mother for Mr. Tan’s child. Although this kind of thing was very common abroad, in that era and in that social environment, not many people could accept it. Even today, surrogacy was still illegal in the country.

So Shen Yu’s mother was tight-lipped about this experience. Her current husband and son did not know at all. Shen Yu’s mother originally thought that she could take this disgraceful past into the coffin. She never thought that all this would be dug up by the eldest lady of the Shen family. And because Shen Yu’s mother was unwilling to stand forward, Shen Yan actually used the influence of the Shen family to find trouble with Shen Yu’s mother’s current husband.

Shen Yu’s mother didn’t want her past experience to affect her husband’s career, so she could only obey Shen Yan’s wishes and stand forward to explain clearly.

“…..That child has already passed away.” Shen Yu’s mother said in front of the camera, with tears in her eyes, seeming in great pain: “I didn’t know that child was the second young master of the Shen family. Back then I agreed to be a surrogate mother for Mr. Tan’s child, but Mrs. Tan was discovered to be pregnant during my pregnancy. The couple regretted it and didn’t want the child anymore. Mr. Tan and Mrs. Tan discussed with me and were willing to give me another 200,000 yuan in exchange for bringing the child back to my hometown to raise.”

“I was young at that time. I just came out of my hometown to work, and I have never seen the world. I have never seen so much money. Because of my greed, I agreed to Mr. Tan’s request for surrogacy. Both Mr. Tan and Mrs. Tan are good people. They have been very kind to me. They have been married for years and have no children, so they promised me that if I could have a child for them, boy or girl, they would treat it as their own.”

But who knew that such a coincidence would happen.

“Not long after I gave birth, I took the child back to my hometown. The child was very weak, and I didn’t know how to take care of the child. I took the child with me on a long journey, both by train and by car. As a result, the child became ill so I had the child treated again. But the child did not survive.”

When Shen Yu’s mother said this, she covered her face, seemingly in a more and more collapsed state, tears falling like raindrops on a petal: “I was very broken at that time. I also suffered from depression. Later, I met my current husband. He actually doesn’t know my past experience. I deceived him. I regret not taking care of that child well. I never thought that it was not my child, but the blood of the Shen family. The Shen family had raised my child carefully for so many years, and they treated him so well. Yet I didn’t take good care of the Shen family’s child…..I’m guilty…..”

When Shen Yu’s mother said this, she was already choked up with sobs.

Even the netizens sitting in front of the computer also wept silently. For a while, they didn’t know whether to sympathize with Shen Yu’s mother or the unlucky second son of the Shen family.

Shen Yan, who had known all this from Shen Yu’s mother a long time ago, also cried. With a choked expression, she expressed that it was all her fault, and it was because she replaced her younger brother out of fun. She killed her own brother.

The impression Shen Yan left on the public had always been arrogant, domineering, bullying, vicious, rude, and uneducated. Sitting in front of the camera at this moment and sincerely repenting, sobbing with her head buried in her hands, it made many keyboard warriors who have only seven seconds of memory feel pity. Instead, they began to comfort Shen Yan. Saying that none of this was her fault. She was only five years old at the time, and she didn’t do it on purpose.

It could inly be said that this was just life. It was the second son of the Shen family who had a bad fate.

This kind of generous handing out of forgiveness immediately angered the sober and logical netizens and the scolding fans of Tao Mu.

——Because Shen Yan had repeatedly made things difficult for Tao Mu before, all fans who have a good impression of Tao Mu would reject Shen Yan. What was more, Shen Yan’s viciousness and rudeness was not only reflected in one or two things. She used to bully so many people based on her family background, and this dark history could not be offset by leting out a few crocodile tears in front of the camera.

That’s right. In the eyes of many netizens and Tao Mu’s fans, Shen Yan’s crying and repentance was just a pretense, and it was the kind of performance that wasn’t believable at all. Tao Mu’s technical fans even specially cut the scene of Shen Yan crying, to compare it with the crying scenes of many actors and actresses in the entertainment industry. They even specifically compared the scene to some legal programs where the family members of the victims who lost their loved ones wept bitterly in front of the camera. After careful comparison, it was concluded that Shen Yan’s crying was too fake.

A woman who switched her younger brother with someone else’s child just for fun, and kept it secret for 18 years, who could believe that her switching was just a prank by a child, unintentional?

What’s more, Shen Yan didn’t take her own younger brother seriously at all. The appearance come from the heart, Shen Yan, who had no professional training at all, was unable to give a wonderful act even if she was acting in front of the camera.

On the other side, after hearing the explanation from Shen Yu’s mother, Chairman Shen and Shen Chen, this father and son pair, actually felt a little relieved besides regret. Although the moment when they learned of the death of their own son and brother, both father and son were a little pained. But at the end of the day, it was just a person whom they hadn’t seen in nineteen years. Not having any personally contact with the other, so the impact was not that great. Therefore, although they regretted the early death of the child, it also eliminated the possibility of a falling out between the brothers due to inheritance issues.

At the same time, also feeling relieved and fortunate was Shen Yu who was far away in Hong Kong. His biological mother was indeed a beautiful, kind and gentle person. And the real second son of the Shen family was no longer in this world. The deceased was left in the past, and although it was heartbreaking, the living would of course live on. And live a more wonderful and happier life.

Even Tao Mu, who had been secretly paying attention to the progress of the matter, breathed a sigh of relief involuntarily. He was glad he could continue to maintain his sockpuppet securely. There was no need to worry about the exposure of his birth background anymore. There was no need to worry about how to face the problems of the Shen family in the future.

The only one who felt true hesrtbreaking pain was probably Mrs. Shen. Ever since she knew that Shen Yu was not her own son, Mrs. Shen had been imagining her own son’s appearance. In her fantasy, her baby should be a more intelligent, beautiful and well-behaved boy than Shen Yu. Who was very obedient to her, like a caring little padded jacket. Mrs. Shen even fantasized about how to pamper him after finding her biological son. Give him back double the mother’s love that had been wrongly placed over these nineteen years.

But all these beautiful things were brutally shattered by Shen Yu and his mother. Such that Mrs. Shen never even saw her own son once, yet she lost him forever. This kind of realization was too heart-wrenching, and made Mrs. Shen, a mother, full of hatred for Shen Yu and Shen Yu’s mother, the two culprits. And this hatred would deepen with the passage of time and the accumulation of years. But there was also nothing to be done about it either.

Just when everyone felt that things could finally be settled, a message appeared on the Internet. “Watching the live broadcast with grandma. Grandma said that Shen Yu’s mother looks very familiar. It seems that she rented our house many years ago. She even left a baby in the rental house. Does this experience sound familiar? Do you suddenly have feeling of fatalism and conspiracy theories? I was so scared that I quickly made up a 38-episode dog-blood idol drama in my mind. Hahaha.”

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FlyNews.com was the largest social platform in China. Every day, hundreds of millions of netizens uploaded FlyNews messages. Most of these messages were like water droplets submerged into the sea without a trace. Rarely were they noticed. This message didn’t get much attention at first either. The only one who noticed the message was a reporter from a gossip tabloid. The reporter from the gossip tabloid thought this message was very useful. So he took the trouble to find the IP address of the message, and made his way to Beijing despite the distance. Just to interview the grandma that the netizen mentioned.

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At 7:30 in the evening, Hong Kong Grand Theater.

In addition to the invited media reporters, industry colleagues and professional film critics, the “Black and White” crew also invited about 100 fans to participate in the premiere. Most of these fans were loyal fans of the male and female leads and important supporting actors.

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As the most recent and popular behind-the-scenes producer, Tao Mu also saw his fans. In addition, he also saw a few very familiar faces——it turned out to be the several police trainees from the Hong Kong police academy. No, that wasn’t completely accurate, they were no longer police trainees, but official Hong Kong policemen.

Noticing Tao Mu’s gaze, the several Hong Kong policemen waved at Tao Mu excitedly. They had made guest appearances in the film, but their scenes were too short and so they could not attend the premiere as actors. So Director Xu sent an invitation to them so that everyone could watch this movie as just a regular audience.

Taking advantage of the brief moment before the movie began playing, Tao Mu walked over to the audience section where the several policemen sat and greeted everyone. The fans did not expect that Tao Mu was so approachable, and they all screamed excitedly. There were even other people’s fans shouting the names of the other actors. Strongly indicating that they also want this kind of interaction too.

The bigwigs who have already sat down in the front row frequently turned their heads to look. The atmosphere was too lively, and everyone was a bit undecided. On the one hand, they wanted to meet the requests of their fans, but on the other hand, they were a little worried about the order of the theater and their own safety.

Tao Mu said with a smile: “After the movie is over, there will also be a gift thanking activity by the cast and also a mini-game section that will allow fans to interact with the actors. So don’t worry, be good a bit.”

After experiencing the high-intensity training of the troops, Tao Mu, who was nearly 20 years old, had a more upright physique, intimidating aura, and skin that was two shades darker. Every gesture he made commanded attention. So when he suddenly smiled gentlely, it was like an explosion of pheremones, causing the fans to scream excitedly while sitting down obediently.

A potential commotion was invisibly and subtly dealt with. Only then did the bigwigs felt their worries ease.

The several police officers were so excited that heir faces were flushed red. They did not expect Tao Mu to remember them and even came over to talk to them. Everyone of them was both excited and flustered.

“This is the first time I have participated in the premiere of a movie.” Jiang Jingwen, who was in the same dorm as Tao Mu, said excitedly: “It feels very different.”

Tao Mu chuckled, and took the initiative to say, “Long time no see. After the premiere ceremony, let’s hang together.”

The several police officers froze, seemingly not having expected that despite Tao Mu’s status today he would actually extend an invitation to ordinary policemen like them. Jiang Jingwen asked subconsciously: “Still going to a nightclub like back then?”

Tao Mu laughed: “That’s also okay!”

Everyone smiled nostalgically. At this time, some staff members came over to remind Tao Mu that it was time. Tao Mu nodded at everyone and returned to his own seat in the front row.

At eight o’clock in the evening, the movie officially started. The lights in the screening hall were darkened, and the large screen slowly lit up.

As soon as the film opened, it was a scene of the male protagonist played by Yan Sheng connecting with another undercover spy. At that time, Yan Sheng had been undercover among the mafia for ten years already, and had successfully won the trust of the big guys, entering the inner heart of the mafia gang. Using his change in status, Yan Sheng continued to expose the actions of the mafia to the police. But for some reason, the arrest operations were repeatedly being known in advance by the mafia. So the police speculated that someone in the police station was bought by the mafia. While investigating this on their side, the male protagonist was also asked to find a way to dig out that person’s identity.

At the critical moment, the hero suddenly received a notice from his partner. The partner said he had found a clue. But because of negligence, the mafia was beginning to suspect him. Although the partner’s identity was special so they dared not do anything to him. However, he had become tightly monitored by the mafia and had no way to pass on intelligence. So he requested the hero to meet him immediately. The place to meet was the rooftop of a certain building.

The scene changed. With the sound of excited and wild screams, the scene became a sea of heads and colorful glow sticks. At the loud and lively concert, the male lead played by Yan Sheng stood indifferently in the crowd, looking at the watch from time to time. Next to him there was the mafia boss playdd by Zhou Yangqing and several other bodyguards. The bigwig also held a glow stick and said seriously: “I like heavenly king Zhou the most. I listened to his songs while growing up….. “

The camera slowly moved to the other side of the sea of ​​people. Zhou Yuanting, played by Tao Mu, and Yan Yu played by Shen Yu, and several other police trainees dressed in concert t-shirts were squeezing their way through the crowd, happily listening to the concert. During this period, Zhou Yuanting, played by Tao Mu, was particularly restless, flirting with girls everywhere. Causing them to giggle in delight while his own girlfriend stewed in jealousy.

On the other side, the male lead played by Yan Sheng made excuses to leave and rushed to the rooftop of the next building to connect with his partner. However, just when he walked to the door, he heard a loud noise, and the corpse of his partner smashed down from upstairs. The male lead played by Yan Sheng looked at his partner’s wide opened eyes in shock.

At the concert, the mafia boss played by Zhou Yanqing grinned and threw an arm over the shoulders of a confidante, and complained: “How many year already since “XXX” has been filmed. Yet these undercover cops still select rooftops as a meeting spot. Could it be that they all think the mafia has low IQ, and don’t understand the routine?”

He then asked: “Where is Yan Qi? Wasn’t he just tlhere?”

Ah Ze, who was standing beside the big boss, smirked: “Maybe the toilet? It’s not like you don’t know he urinates frequently.”

The big boss shook his head: “At such a young age, yet the kidney is like this.”

At the end of the concert, the bigwigs left the scene in a good mood. And just happened to encounter the police trainees who were also exiting the concert. Unsurprisingly, both sides came face to face. Seeing Yan Yu, whose aura was so weak that he would only target him, Ah Ze smirked and said, “What d’ya want, I pay taxes, y’know. Does Hong Kong law stipulate that the taxpayer is not allowed to attend concerts?”

Seeing that Zhou Yuanting, played by Tao Mu, also raised his fist, another gangster subordinate also sarcastically sneered: “Go ahead. Be careful I don’t find a lawyer to sue you——”

Before the words even fell, Zhou Yuanting had already threw a punch. After a successive of cracks, the gangsters who were guarding the car all stepped out, and raised their guns at thw several police trainees.

Yan Yu frowned and patted Zhou Yuanting’s shoulders. Expressing that he was too impulsive. Zhou Yuanting stared at the group of gangsters and shrugged it off: “What are you doing? Do you want to attack the police?”

“It’s already night, police officer.” The mafia boss watched Zhou Yuanting with a smile: “Don’t be so impulsive. Otherwise, it will only by you who will suffer a loss.”

Zhou Yuanting sneered. Taking advantage of his speed and agility, he snatched a gun and pointed it at the mafia boss’s head: “Future losses can be worried about in the future. If you have the balls then order them to shoot, I am just defending myself. Let’s see whose marksmanship is faster. “

Facing this threat to his life, the mafia boss kept his grace and composure and did not quibble with these young’uns. Leading his own people to enter their cars. Before driving off, the mafia boss once again asked where Yan Qi was?

“I’m over here!” As soon as the car door opened, Yan Qi sat down as if nothing had happened, even holding a box of popcorn in his hand, which he handed to the big boss.

“It’s not watching a movie. What you buy this for?” The big boss pushed the popcorn away disgustedly, suspecting that a certain someone did not even wash his hands after he went to the toilet.

Yan Yu stood expressionlessly on the street, looking at Yan Qi in the car. Zhou Yuanting patted his shoulder curiously: “What’s wrong?”

“It’s nothing.” The police trainees returned to the police academy.

“Black and White” was a very standard Hong Kong cop vs. crook film. The following plot separated into two parallel lines. On the one side, Yan Qi tracked the clues independently after his partner died, but made a slow progress because there was no one to cooperate with him. At the same time, the mafia boss also began to become suspicious that there was an undercover spy close to him. Yan Qi had no choice but to play a cat and mouse game with the mafia boss. The plot had many twists and turns, ups and downs. And the two major film kings served up a very exciting and stunning performance.

On the other side, the police department were preparing to send another partner to Yan Qi and wanted to choose from the police academy. After picking around, some senior inspectors chose Yan Yu, because Yan Yu was Yan Qi’s younger brother. And the reason why Yan Qi came under suspicion was because his younger brother was a policeman. Therefore, the police suggested that the brothers cooperate with each other to cover each other. At the same time, it could also dispel the doubts of the mafia. Another part of the inspectors valued ​​Zhou Yuanting. Because Zhou Yuanting’s performance during school was the best. The two views were deadlocked. But both were also opposed by Yan Qi.

Yan Qi felt that the situation was very complicated now, and he indeed needed a partner, but he wanted a mature and stable partner with strong psychological endurance. Rather than a newcomer who was just fresh out of the police academy, who didn’t understand anything, and had an unstable status.

Unfortunately, it was not effective in the end, because Zhou Yuanting looked for death himself. On the eve of graduation, he took his roommates to the nightclub. And because of flirting with the mafia boss’s woman, he caught the attention of Ah Ze and the other gangsters. Old gruges adding to new hatred, the sides broke out into a brawl. In the end he was expelled, so Zhou Yuanting, in order ti save his future prospects, volunatrily agreed to be an undercover agent.

Compared to the two big male leads played by Yan Sheng and Zhou Yanqing, Tao Mu’s scenes in the movie was not much. In just twenty minutes of appearance, and each time he appeared, he had to pit his acting skills against the two film kings. If not careful, he might not even have any sense of presence like a certain actor. Even the audience clearly picked up on the incongruity and be unable to become immersed in the story.

However, Tao Mu’s several appearances gave the audience a satisfying feeling. Because Zhou Yuanting’s image in the beginning was that of a troublemaking, prideful young police trainee, so when Tao Mu played the role, he chose a more expressive acting manner. Tao Mu’s good looks and acting skills were originally online, and Tao Mu also possessed more than ten years of future knowledge, so he was particularly familiar with all the acting cool routines.

Whether it was his indiscrimate flirting with girls when he first appeared in the concert scene, or how he barehandedly snatched a gun in the first conflict scene with the mafia boss, or secretly sneaking off to the nightclub to dance and pick up girls. In every camera shot, h tried his best to up his hotness factor to another level. Originally, those lines that were rather embarrassing and middle school, when spoken from Tao Mu’s mouth, actually made the girls in the audience blush. Some controversial plots that might attract antis, through Tao Mu’s interpretation, became full of youthful energy and flashy coolness. Coupled with hus inexplicable affinity with the audience, Zhou Yuanting in the early stage, played by Tao Mu did not cause much dislike in fans, but became the most handsome role in the minds of many girls.

In particular, in those sveral climax scenes involving the film kings, that kind of head to head, toe to toe, explosive acting skills with crushing momentum had the audience enjoying the film immensely.

And because of this early pavement, Zhou Yuanting going dark in the later stage also seemed to be very natural. In the early stage, he was so handsome and cool that it had everyone screaming, and in the later stage, he was so bad that it had people grit their teeth in hatred. Especially after Ah Ze’s death, Zhou Yuanting, who was greatly affected, slept with the mafia boss’s woman. And also made it difficult for the hero everywhere, destroying the hero’s plan and causing many people to die. He even caused the death of the superior who arranged him to be undercover but also tried his best to protect him——a senior inspector played by Wang Jinsheng. And revealed Yan Qi’s undercover identity to the mafia boss.

Towards the end of the plot, Zhou Yuanting, who had gone completely rotten to the core, even set up Yan Qi. After Yan Yu block the gunshot and died for him, he successfully made it onto the yacht with the mafia boss and smuggled to Southeast Asia. This shattered the three views of the fans and caused them to break out into applause.

There was no other reason for it, because although Zhou Yuanting was bad, he was so handsome and smart. In just twenty minutes of appearance, his sense of presence could be comparable to the two major leads. So Yan Yu, played by Shen Yu, who clearly should be just as an important role as Zhou Yuanting, actually had no sense of presence in the entire movie.

Except for the last scene when he died which caused some sadness.

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Therefore, after the movie ended, when the actors got on stage and bowed their thanks, the names that the fans shouted the most was Yan Sheng, Zhou Yanqing and Tao Mu. However, during the media interview, the most popular actually turned out to be Shen Yu.

“The top listing on FlyNews.com hot search reported that your biological mother has been found. What do you want to say about this?”

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“Mr. Tao.” Lin Rong’an looked at Tao Mu with a playful smile, and took the initiative to say hello: “I haven’t seen you for a long time, but Mr. Tao is still as pretty as ever.”

Tao Mu frowned. No man liked to be praised as pretty, and Tao Mu was no exception.

“I haven’t seen you for a long time, but Mr. Lin is the one,” Tao Mu paused here, looking at Lin Rong’an’s more flamboyant clothes than before, smiled and continued: “who is much more exquisite than before.”

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Lin Rong’an’s face changed slightly. He said that Tao Mu didn’t look like a man, and Tao Mu responded that he was no longer a man. Lin Rong’an was not stupid, he was even more sensitive than ever because of certain encounters. Of course he could hear the hidden meaning in Tao Mu’s words.

As expected of the person who had his high regards. That temper was really spicy enough.

Lin Rong’an hooked up the corners of his mouth and continued: “Today is the premiere of “Black and White”. I have been looking forward to Mr. Tao’s performance for a long time. I hope I can feast my eyes today.”

The words were more frivolous one after the next, and even held hidden provocation. Fortunately, the two leading actors in this film, Zhou Yanqing and Yan Sheng, were known for their good temper in the circle. They did not blame Tao Mu for stealing the scene because of Lin Rong’an’s words, but instead frowned, disapproving of Lin third young master’s provocation.

“Then Mr. Lin should be more serious when watching the movie. After all, I don’t have much scenes in the movie.” Tao Mu said with a mild expression: “Of course, if Mr. Lin thinks it’s not enough to watch, you can search for “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” on BulletScreen, or directly search for my cut clips. I will just think of it as contributing views to BulletScreen.com.”

The bigwigs sitting in the backstage almost laughed out loud. Once again, they realized the benefit of Tao Mu’s sharp tongue. Not only could it immediately resolve Lin Rong’an’s verbal provocation and subtle offense, but also promoted his own website by the way. And the key was that his response was generous and magnanimous, unlike the third young master of the Lin family, who spoke with an insinuating tone.

Lin Rong’an didn’t manage to be at an advantage despite making the effort of starting this round of verbal exchange. Although he was angry, he didn’t show it. He just smiled and said meaningfully, “Okay. I’ll definitely watch it.”

Tao Mu was too lazy to pay attention to Lin Rong’an, and was about to find a seat to sit down when he saw the female artist who had just been slapped by Shen Yu walk up to Tao Mu, and said aggrievedly and coquettishly, “CEO Tao, can you hold up justice for me. I just said a few words of the truth, but that surnamed Shen flew into a rage and even hit me. The movie premiere is going to start soon. It’s not like I can stand on stage with a swollen face? How will I face the crowd?”

Before Tao Mu could speak, Shen Yu said coldly, “If you know you can’t be seen, then piss off. I think you don’t need to go on stage either.”

As soon as these words came out, the whole crew frowned. They all felt that Shen Yu’s attitude was too arrogant. Compared with the young master of the Shen family who was always hiding behind others in the past, he was completely different now.

Could it be that the Lin family’s family style was so powerful? Could a bunny turn into a rooster after being immersed in it? Seeing the appearance of Shen Yu puffing up and entering a fighting state at any time, Tao Mu secretly added: A fighting machine among roosters!

“What, you still want to help her speak justice?” Noticing Tao Mu’s thoughtful look, Shen Yu continued with a sneer: “If I remember correctly, doesn’t Mr. Tao have an affair with Mr. Li of Xiaoheng Capital? The sexual preference does not even match, yet you still know how to appreciate fragrance and cherish jade?”

Tao Mu faintly smiled and said, “This has nothing to do with appreciating fragrance and cherishing jade. I just think that as a man, it is the most basic manners not to hit women.”

Shen Yu sneered: “I also think that as a human being the most basic manners is not to gossip behind others’ backs.”

Shen Yu pointed at the female artist who was slapped in the face by him, and asked back: “You stand up for her now, but do you know that just backstage, she was scolding me for selling myself for glory in front of everyone, that I was willing to degenerate, and also said that when I was drugged at the time, I couldn’t ask for it more, and even said that I deliberately followed third brother Lin to get today’s resources.”

Not only that, the female artist also ridiculed Shen Yu for throwing away the watermelon and picking up sesame seeds instead, and for this resource, actually giving up such a good lover as Yan Sheng for just this bit of resource. The female artist claimed to be a fan of Yan Sheng and wanted to speak justice for Yan Sheng.

But she didn’t expect that it was these last words that directly poked into the deepest part of Shen Yu’s wound.

Shen Yu sneered again and again: “It’s so funny. I’m the second son of the Shen family, I don’t want for anything. How could it be possible that I would sell myself for these so-called resources?” If he really had such thoughts then he wouldn’t have happily made public his relationship with Yan Sheng and then was tragically betrayed by his lover.

“Since she dares to speak her mind, I dare to hit her.” He wanted everyone to know that he was no longer the easily bullied Shen Yu. From now on, he would protect himself and never let himself be hurt again. He won’t give anyone a chance to hurt him.

The female artist standing beside Tao Mu snorted coldly, and relying on Tao Mu being next to her, directly retorted: “That sounds nice. The second son of the Shen family? Is your surname Shen? Are you Chairman Shen’s biological son? Do you have the blood of the Shen family? Does Mrs. Shen recognize you? As far as I know, just because Chairman Shen donated a library to send you to Yan Film to study, Mrs. Shen went to the Shen Group headquarters to throw a fuss, forcing Chairman Shen to take back the mansion and the company that were given to you. The eldest lady of the Shen family also pointed at your nose and scolded you that you are not part of the Shen family.”

“You still keep saying that you are the second son of the Shen family, don’t deceive yourself. Who doesn’t know that you, Shen Yu, are a fake who occupied the nest. It was only because the eldest lady of the Shen family switched you with her real little brother that you are able to comfortably grow up in the Shen family for nineteen years. What, it’s been a long time, so you, a fake, really think that you are the real thing? You also say that I am speaking nonsense. But if you are really not greedy for fame and wealth, you should have left the Shen family when your birth secret was exposed back then and go find your own biological parents. Even if you don’t want to leave, you shouldn’t enjoy the resources of the Shen family with such peace of mind. The eldest lady of the Shen family was so kind to you, but didn’t you pay her kindness with enmity and ruined her reputation?”

“If I was part of the Shen family, and a fake ruined the real eldest daughter of my family like that, I would also feel discomfort. So cold and ruthless, vicious and cruel, no matter how innocent they pretend to be, aren’t they just an ungrateful white-eyed wolf? It must be said that the Shen family has already showed you enough benevolence and righteousness.” The female artist had a handprint on her face, but her words were sharper than the next: “After investing so much in you, if it was another, they would have already climbed to B-list. Yet you squandered it all to the point if being banned in the mainland, and even implicated film king Yan to be unable to stay in the mainland. He had no choice but to leave his domestic career and go to Hollywood. Playing such a good hand of cards into this, you are simply mud that can’t even be supported by the wall. It’s indeed not a lie that you are not from the Shen family.”

“You——” Shen Yu didn’t expect the female artist to say such things. Immediately he was both anxious and angry, embarrassment turning into anger. Wishing nothing more than to slap her again.

After the female artist finished speaking, she hid behind Tao Mu. She usually played FlyNews and BulletScreen, and knew that Tao Mu and Shen Yu were incompatible. So she believed that Tao Mu would not let someone like Shen Yu hit her again.

And indeed, Tao Mu really wouldn’t. As a man, he would never let another man hit a woman in front of him, whether out of social courtesy or otherwise. What was more, there were so many reporters guarding the backstage of the premiere of “Black and White”. Even if Tao Mu didn’t care about anything else, he had to consider how it would influence the crew.

He didn’t want the headlines of tomorrow’s newspapers to be full of “Black and White” cast members getting in a disagreement and fighting backstage. Especially as Yan Yu played by Shen Yu and the role played by the female artist was actually a loving couple in the movie.

The rest of the crew also took into account these problems and quickly stepped up to prevent things getting physical. Shen Yu glared at the female artist with a cold expression. He clenched his hands into fists, gritted his teeth and said nothing.

Xu Musen had a splitting headache, yet he had to think about their image and reprimanded in a low voice: “Don’t make trouble. Do you really want to attract the paparazzi?”

He also sternly instructed the backstage staff not to disclose today’s events to media reporters. Luckily it was almost time for the premiere to begin. Xu Musen quickly sent the actors to walk the red carpet in order. And specially avoided Shen Yu and the female artist whose words were like knives walking near each other.

Yan Sheng frowned, and moved close to Tao Mu. But just as he was about to say something, he was called away by Director Xu again.

Tao Mu slightly frowned, looking at Shen Yu’s back. He kept feeling that after Shen Yu came to Hong Kong, his image had slightly collapsed. He was completely different from the Shen Yu he knew in his impression.

On the other side, Shen Yu asked Lin Rong’an with a cold expression, “Have you got the thing?”

“Of course I have.” Lin Rong’an said with a smile, “But have you thought it through? It’s illegal to steal someone’s hair for DNA testing. Are you not afraid that Tao Mu will send you another lawyer’s letter?”

“Then he has to have evidence to prove that I did it.” Shen Yu sneered: “I was too stupid before, admitting to everything. I will not give him a chance to hurt me. I’m not that stupid now.”

When Shen Yu said this, he looked at Lin Rong’an. A faint smile appeared on his delicate and handsome face: “Besides, wasn’t it you who had someone steal those hairs?”

Lin Rong’an raised his eyebrows and praised with a smile: “As expected of a child raised by the Shen family.”

Shen Yu clenched his fists. That’s right, he was the child raised by the Shen family. He was the most beloved person of his father and brother. As long as he showed his father and eldest brother what he was capable of, he would definitely be able to return to the Shen family. And take back everything that belonged to him again. Before, he was too stupid and didn’t know how to cherish the sacrifices of his family for him. But not anymore.

Thinking of Mrs. Shen and Shen Yan who already held grudges against him, Shen Yu secretly swore that when he returned to the Shen family again, he would definitely try his best to please his mother and sister. Mom and sister once loved him so much, they would never really be angry with him. As long as he was obedient and good, he could definitely coax his mother and sister.

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Those people were right, he had grown up in the Shen family for nineteen years. He was raised by the Shen family. Nineteen years of relationship, even if it was raising a cat or a dog, the affection would be very strong, not to mention raising a child. Shen Yu believed that the familial love that developed over the years must be stronger than the familial closeness of blood relation. He didn’t believe his mother and sister would really be so cruel. What was more, there was not even a shadow of the so-called second young master Shen…..

Shen Yu, who was currently immersed in his thoughts, didn’t know that in Shanghai, thousands of miles away, Shen Yan, who had been trying to find a certain someone, received a call and shouted in surprise, “What, that woman has been found?”

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The atmosphere of the crew during the filming of “Black and White” was very good. Zhou Yanqing, Yan Sheng, Fang Ruoti and other big names were known in the circle for their good personality, good temper, and kindness to others. Especially after Yan Sheng broke up with Shen Yu, his thinking logic went back to normal. He had been in the industry for so many years, and he had a good personal relationship with the bigwigs. Now that he had left China’s entertainment circle and moved to Hollywood, everyone was more curious about how Yan Sheng was doing in the US. Although Wang Jinsheng and Luo Daming have a more challenging temper, they would not act like divas in front of their friends of the same status in the circle. As for Tao Mu himself, there was no need to mention, his high EQ and IQ had long become well-known even outside of the circle.

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So this group of people when sitting together was actually quite chatty. Especially as they also needed to communicate about the filming of the mainland version. However, since Shen Yu was also present, everyone was more restrained in their conversation. The dinner gathering hastily disbanded before eight o’clock.

All the big names felt unsatisfied. They had the heart to schedule another gathering, but in front of Shen Yu and the newcomer Gu Yuzhang, it was not good to show it. They could only just exchange looks with each other.

Shen Yu noticed everyone’s reaction, and couldn’t help feeling a little sad. He had been in Hong Kong for a few months. With the Lin family behind him, there was nothing to complain about resources. But Shen Yu always felt that he couldn’t fit in here. And many Hong Kong artists have a very unfriendly attitude towards him.

This time when Director Xu organized the dinner party, he didn’t invite him at all. But Shen Yu felt that he was also a member of the cast of “Black and White”. With the strong support of the Lin family, he would also participate in the publicity activities of “Black and White” during the release of “Black and White” in Hong Kong. If Director Xu was hosting a dinner party yet he didn’t come, people wouldn’t say that Director Xu didn’t invite him, they would only gossip how Shen Yu was acting like a diva.

So Shen Yu came uninvited.

Unfortunately, during the whole dinner party, Shen Yu was left out in the cold. The several big names didn’t want to pay attention to him, and even Yan Sheng, who used to take good care of him, wasn’t even willing to look at him. Moreover, Tao Mu also brought that stand-in. The existence of Gu Yuzhang made Shen Yu feel more and more embarrassed.

Shen Yu didn’t understand why these people were targeting him. He didn’t even know why Yan Sheng ran to the US without a word to him after the press conference. When clearly he had admitted their relationship, didn’t he?

When Shen Yu came to the dinner party this time, he actually wanted to make amends on this relationship. So even if Yan Sheng was indifferent to him, Shen Yu still wanted to try. At least he had to ask clearly why Yan Sheng suddenly became so cold. So after the dinner gathering, he quietly followed Yan Sheng to the bathroom. But halfway there, Yan Sheng met Tao Mu who had just come out of the bathroom and also stopped Tao Mu.

“I saw that Shen Yu’s expression was a bit strange just now…..” Yan Sheng paused, but still explained what he had observed. He also said that he had sent a text message to the assistant to ask the assistant to find a way to get that pair of chopsticks back. Yan Sheng intended to show goodwill to Tao Mu. And after experiencing “Cao Miao breaking the news”, Yan Sheng was really wary of Shen Yu. Although his relationship with Tao Mu wasn’t that good, Yan Sheng didn’t want to see Tao Mu end up in the same situation he did.

Yan Sheng knew that Tao Mu was also gay and was in a relationship with CEO Li of Xiaoheng Capital. Although the mainland had passed the “Same-sex Marriage Law”, the public’s acceptance of homosexuality was not high. Tao Mu was now cooperating with the military to shoot a conscription promotion drama. If a sexuality scandal broke out at this juncture, Tao Mu’s acting career would be implicated.

Yan Sheng felt that Tao Mu, like himself, was a person who truly loved acting. He didn’t want Tao Mu to repeat the same mistakes he did, so he hesitantly warned Tao Mu to be cautious: “Do you feel discomfort? Did you bring an assistant and bodyguards to Hong Kong this time? If there’s nothing urgent, it’s better to go back to the hotel early to rest.”

Yan Sheng was worried that Shen Yu would drug Tao Mu. After all, Shen Yu was now hanging out with the Lin family. Lin Rong’an, that rotten guy, liked to give drugs to people the most. Yan Sheng was afraid that Shen Yu would learn these bad habits as well, deliberately drugging Tao Mu to create a sexual scandal. At that time, it would not only tell the media that Tao Mu was gay, but also drive a wedge in Tao Mu’s relationship with CEO Li. Killing two birds with one stone.

Shen Yu, who was hiding in the dark corner, couldn’t bear it any longer, and walked out directly to ask Yan Sheng: “Big brother Yan, why do you think I’m such a vicious person? Why do you think this way? Why do you think I would harm Tao Mu?”

Yan Sheng turned his head and looked in surprise at Shen Yu who suddenly appeared behind him: “Are you following me?”

Seeing the wariness flashing across Yan Sheng’s face, Shen Yu became more and more sad. He turned his head to look at Tao Mu, and asked heartbrokenly, “Tao Mu, what kind of medicine did you give big brother Yan? Why does big brother Yan think I’m going to hurt you? Why does everyone like you? Just what am I lacking compared to you? Why does everyone hate me so much?”

Hearing Shen Yu’s questioning, Tao Mu remained completely unmoved, and he even wanted to laugh a little. He was the one who wanted to know why! Why did everyone like Shen Yu in the previous life? Why was everyone always taking Shen Yu’s side? Why did everyone think that Shen Yu was right and he was always wrong?

Tao Mu recalled Shen Yu’s high-sounding response when he questioned Shen Yu in his previous life. Unconsciously, he smiled: “Shouldn’t you ask yourself this? Shen Yu, if a person hates you and thinks you are wrong, maybe that person has a problem. But if the whole world hates you and thinks you are wrong, then it’s your own problem.”

Shen Yu sneered: “Sophistry. It’s obviously because you are richer and more powerful. The reason why those people are on your side is not because of justice, but because of interests. It’s just because I don’t have as much use or value as you do. So those people gather around you like sycophants. Even though they clearly know that I am right, I am innocent, yet they still hurt me just to please you.”

Shen Yu’s face was full of cynical sorrow. At this moment, he felt that he saw the whole world clearly, and was betrayed by the whole world. His eyes as clear as autumn water stared coldly at Tao Mu, as well as Yan Sheng who was standing beside Tao Mu. Even if his heart was like being cut by a knife, he still held his head up and his back straight, like a white lotus facing the wind and rain.

Tao Mu looked at Shen Yu slightly in surprise. He always felt that there was something wrong with Shen Yu’s brain, but he didn’t expect that Shen Yu could see clearer than him. It took Tao Mu two lifetimes, plus one death, to understand this truth. But he didn’t expect Shen Yu to see clearly in just a few months.

“You’re actually not stupid.” Thinking of the innocence and pureness that Shen Yu had maintained in his previous life even until his death, Tao Mu laughed involuntarily. If Shen Yu really had such wisdom then he didn’t lose wrongly in his previous life.

“I’m not stupid. I just don’t want to believe that the world is really so dark.” Back then, Shen Yu was an innocent little prince who didn’t know the world. Living with his head in the clouds and enjoying the cherish and adoration of others. Even though he knew that some people had ulterior motives, he was not willing to quibble over it. However, Shen Yu felt that he was gentle and sincere to the world, but what he got in return was not the warm embrace of the world. The abandonment of his family, the betrayal of his lover, the indifference of the world. The sharp edges and corners of his crystal-clear soul had been polished and shattered by the cruel reality. He was now bruised and wounded and had no choice but to wake up from a fairy tale world.

He was only nineteen years old, but he was forced to grow up and face the harsh reality.

“Listen well. From today on, I will no longer believe in this world’s hypocritical deception. I will prove to the world that I am right. I will try my best to get back what I lost.” Shen Yu’s eyes were cold. Looking at Tao Mu and Yan Sheng coldly, he declared war on them: “I won’t let you hurt me again without knowing how to fight back. Tao Mu, Yan Sheng, what you owe me, I will take my pound of flesh one by one.”

After Shen Yu announced his fierce declaration, he turned and left resolutely.

When Yan Sheng heard Shen Yu’s ruthless remarks that reversed right and wrong, he almost laughed in anger: “He still doesn’t know where he is wrong. What wrong have I done to him? Actually wanting to take revenge on me…..”

Yan Sheng’s mood at this moment could not even be described as “beeping a dog”. Even if he raised a dog, and put so much emotional energy into it, the dog still knew how to be a loyal dog by wagging its tail at him. And what about Shen Yu? He, Yan Sheng, was simply a farmer who picked up a poisonous snake and held it in his arms as a treasure. After finally warming up the snake, it turned around and bit him. Now still feeling that just one bite was not enough, it wanted to bite him to death directly!

Yan Sheng clutched his chest, so depressed that he felt as if he was about to suffer a heart attack!

Tao Mu, who had long been familiar with Shen Yu’s character image, was not surprised. Since his previous life, the Shen Yu he knew had never felt that he had done something wrong. After all, Shen Yu was the male lead, how could the male lead do anything wrong? Even if there was a fault, it must be someone else’s fault. After all, according to the logic of the original book, whoever did not make the hero happy was the bad guy. Now that Shen Yu’s life was so bad, it was natural that the whole world was wrong.

Tao Mu was not surprised by Shen Yu’s logic. He was just curious, even if Shen Yu went dark, with his IQ, what would he do to retaliate against him.

Thinking of the thing Yan Sheng alerted him of, Tao Mu felt that with Shen Yu’s IQ, it was estimated that at best, he would target his birth background and/or sexuality.

Tao Mu was not worried about his sexual orientation being exposed. Although he never concealed his relationship with Li Xiaoheng, he never made any intimate actions in public. Even if Shen Yu sent someone to follow him and tip off the entertainment paparazzi, he believed that no newspaper would dare to expose his privacy at the risk of angering the Li family and FlyNews.com. As for his birth background…..

Tao Mu thought of Shen Yu’s act of hurriedly knocking off the chopsticks at the dining table, and then asking the waiter to remove the chopsticks. It couldn’t be that that little idiot thought he could extract his DNA from the saliva on his chopsticks?

Tao Mu rubbed his chin and walked back to the hotel thoughtfully. He then called his assistant to instruct a few things in detail.

The next day was Christmas Eve, which was also the premiere of “Black and White” at the Hong Kong Grand Theater. According to the thinking of ​​​​the producer, he hoped that the several leading actors could walk the red carpet and participate in the premiere in the image of their roles in the movie. This was also a promotion method for the movie. However, when Director Xu communicated with everyone about this matter, he specifically explained that this was all the Lin family’s idea.

The Lin family was a wealthy family in Hong Kong, and was also one of the investors of this film. Although Lin Rong’an became a eunuch, he was still part of the Lin family. The Lin family also had done a favor for Director Xu. Now for just such a small request, and it was also for the sake of movie promotion, of course Xu Musen would not object.

It was just that the costumes used for the filming have long become dirty and worn because of long-term wear and tear. As Lin Rong’an’s request came so suddenly, the crew didn’t have time to prepare. Fortunately, Lin Rong’an was very considerate to help everyone re-customize the costumes, but he just needed the bigwigs to go to the Hong Kong Theater for makeup and styling.

Although it was a bit of a tossing, the bigwigs didn’t want to get into trouble with the Lin family because of such trivial matters. So they could only come ahead to prepare for makeup and styling.

Tao Mu, who had been guarding against this move for a long time, arrived at the theater with his assistant and bodyguard without saying a word. It was just that when the stylist was doing his hair, he accidentally broke the wooden comb.

“I’m so sorry.” The stylist said apologetically, “How could this happen? Mr. Tao, are you okay? Did I hurt you?”

“It doesn’t matter.” Tao Mu said warmly, “It’s just a wooden comb.”

The stylist was the stylist for the “Black and White” crew and had also done styling for Tao Mu before, and knew that Tao Mu had a good temper so he was not too worried. Immediately he rummaged through the vanity case for other wooden combs. But for some strange reason, although he would usually put a few wooden combs in the makeup box, today he didn’t find any of them.

Seeing that it was almost time to walk the red carpet, the stylist was a little anxious.

Tao Mu said in a warm voice, “Don’t worry. If you don’t have any extra, just go to another room to borrow one.”

“But…..” The stylist looked at Tao Mu with an embarrassed expression. Everyone in the crew knew that Tao Mu was a bit of a clean freak. Things that could not be shared with people would never be shared with others. Especially personal things like make-up tools and wooden combs.

“It’s okay.” Tao Mu smiled and motioned his assistant to go borrow one from another dressing room.

After a while, the assistant came back with a wooden comb. There were a few other people’s hair on it. The assistant cleaned it up and put it on the dressing table. And then disinfected the wood comb.

After this tossing about, another five minutes passed. The stylist quickly did Tao Mu’s hair. After using the comb, Tao Mu asked his assistant to clean up the comb and put it back. Only a few strands of hair remained on the dressing table.

Seeing this, the stylist smiled and said, “Mr. Tao is really attentive.”

Tao Mu smiled slightly, getting up and walking out of the dressing room. When passing by the backstage area, he suddenly heard a “slap” sound, and then Shen Yu’s voice in a surprisingly cold tone, “Don’t talk if you can’t speak well, no one will treat you as a mute.”

The backstage fell silent. All the big names were sitting in their seats and playing with their phones. Only Shen Yu and a girl with fluttering long hair and a white lace dress stood facing each other in the middle of the room. Tao Mu noticed that the girl was the artist who played Zhou Yuanting’s girlfriend and Yan Yu’s wife in the film.

“Clap! Clap! Clap!” A lone applause came from the corner. Lin Rong’an in a pink suit stepped out of the shadows. Walking to Shen Yu’s side, he stood still, and said with a gentle smile, “Don’t use too much strength when hitting someone, be careful of hurting your hands.”

Before he even finished speaking, Lin Rong’an looked at Tao Mu with a smile. Since losing his third leg, Lin Rong’an’s voice had changed. It used to be warm and hearty, but now it was a bit more gentle and high. His appearance was also much more feminine than before. His dressing style was also more exquisite.

Lin Rong’an looked at Tao Mu, whose looks became more handsome and aura more aggressive, with complicated feelings. He didn’t know whether to hate or continue to like the other. No one knew that the reason why Lin Rong’an went to Beijing to manage the Lin family’s business was actually because of Tao Mu. Ever since they met in the crew that day, Lin Rong’an had been obsessed with Tao Mu. So he did everything possible to persuade old madam Lin to let him take charge of the Lin family’s business in Beijing. After all, the close distance meant a greater chance. But he didn’t expect that just because he teased a wild flower in a moment of boredom, he would be implicated into losing his third leg.

Speaking of hatred, of course Lin Rong’an hated Shen Yu, the culprit even more. But old madam Lin would not allow him to take revenge on Shen Yu. Instead, she hinted that Lin Rong’an should try to please Shen Yu. Because old madam Lin felt that the Shen family still cared about Shen Yu, the adopted son. And the Shen family had a lot of power in Shanghai. The Lin family had gained their riches in Hong Kong, but in fact, they have long planned to develop to the mainland.

Unfortunately, in recent years, the competition in the mainland market has also been fierce. The forces of foreign companies, joint ventures and local companies were intertwined, all vying for market share. Compared with the strong capital of foreign companies and the strong network background of local companies, although the Lin family was an affluent family of Hong Kong, it had no advantages in these two aspects. Therefore, the Lin family must find a qualified ally to gain a firm foothold in the mainland and expand its market share.

The first potential partner the Lin family took a fancy to was actually the Li family and Tao Mu’s FlyNews.com. However, Mr. Li and Mr. Tao were not interested in the Lin family, and they did not accept the olive branch from the Lin family. Even after Lin Rong’an went to Beijing, he failed to connect with Tao Mu. Instead, because of Shen Yu he lost his dignity as a man.

Lin Rong’an felt that he was very unlucky. However, the Lin family felt that misfortune and fortune came hand in hand. Relying on the fact that Shen Yu was the culprit, old madam Lin went directly to Shanghai to talk to the Shen family father and son. While implying that she was fond of Shen Yu very much and wanted Shen Yu to be her granddaughter-in-law, she also implied that the Lin family intended to form a business alliance with the Shen family. Suggesting that they make an alliance of two strong companies to jointly seek market share.

At that time, the Shen family was being suppressed by the Yan family and was also feeling a little out of breath. At the critical moment, it was Shen Yan’s boyfriend Zhuo Yan who took the initiative to stand forward and help the Shen family come up with two strategies, allowing the Shen family to connect with the Yan family’s rival. Finally stabilizing the declineling situation. The Shen family was very satisfied with Zhuo Yan, and they also arranged for Zhuo Yan to be in charge of the marketing department of the Shen Group.

Just at this moment, the Lin family took the initiative to run out to take over Shen Yu. In addition to letting the Shen family see the value of Shen Yu’s use again, the Yan family also saw the hope of Yan Sheng’s severance from Shen Yu. So under this tacit understanding, the Yan family, who was almost unable to get off the tiger (TN: impossible to stop halfway), also withdrew their intention to suppress the Shen family. The Shen family took advantage of the situation and sent Shen Yu to Hong Kong. And schemed on how to use this in-law relationship to seize the assets of the Lin family.

Coincidentally, the Lin family thought the same thing too.

As one of the two key chess pieces in this marriage alliance. Of course, Lin Rong’an couldn’t show any dissatisfaction with Shen Yu which would arouse the vigilance of the Shen family. However, Lin Rong’an suffered an unpredictable disaster because of Shen Yu, so how could he swallow his anger and treat Shen Yu like a treasure in the palm of his hand. Therefore, under Lin Rong’an’s subtle hinting, many people secretly made things difficult for Shen Yu. But Shen Yu didn’t know.

In Shen Yu’s opinion, because of the SARFT ban, not many people knew that Lin Rong’an took him to the entertainment club and drugged him. Back then, what the media frantically reported was only the news that Lin Rong’an and Luo Yang, these two big playboys, fought with each other because of jealousy, and one broke his leg and the other broke his third leg.

But Shen Yu never thought about the fact that there was no impermeable wall in this world, people in the circle were well-informed, and naturally knew everything that should be known. The Lin family had always been domineering and had a tough attitude in Hong Kong. Relying on the power of the Lin family, Lin Rong’an had caused many calamities to young men and women before. However, because the Lin family only covered the sky in Hong Kong, even if someone called the police, there was no way to seek justice. Instead, they would anger the Lin family because of this “ignorant” behavior, and even be forced to be unable to stay in Hong Kong.

When the news that Lin Rong’an got in a jealous fight with another and broke his third leg as a result first came out, everyone who had been bullied by Lin Rong’an applauded. There were also some people who knew the inside story and sympathized with Shen Yu, but also felt relieved for Shen Yu. After all, Shen Yu was rescued by Luo Yang at that critical juncture, and could be considered to have successfully kept his chastity. There were also people who speculated whether Shen Yu would break up with Yan Sheng because of this matter and turn to Luo Yang’s arms instead.

However, what everyone did not expect was that Shen Yu would choose to sign under the Lin family’s film and television company in the end, and was even taken to Hong Kong by old madam Lin, and now lived in the Lin family mansion. Afterwards, he even appeared in and out with Lin Rong’an inseparably. And with the support of the Lin family, he even stole the resources of other artists. Transforming from a victim to a beneficiary. This kind of development instantly disgusted some of the people who pitied Shen Yu. It made those who had been hurt by Lin Rong’an deeply feel that fate was unfair.

Lin Rong’an, as the third son of the Lin family, relied on his family background to commit all kinds of crimes while believing himself to be romantic, and calling himself a hunter of flowers. The prey he set his sights on all had very good conditions. And these prey that could come into contact with Lin Rong’an, except for those first batch of school classmates, the rest were mostly entertainers or models. The entertainment circle of Hong Kong was small, and many people had more or less opportunities to meet or cooperate. In addition, Lin Rong’an was not one to be picky on gender, and did not shy away from the principle of “rabbits do not eat grass on the edge of the nest”, so he often targeted the artists of the Lin family’s film and television company. In other words, in the same company, there was no lack of men and women who had been harmed by Lin Rong’an.

——Because of the power of the Lin family in Hong Kong, these people did not dare to retaliate against Lin Rong’an, and even tried their best to please him. But towards Shen Yu, who obviously had the same experience as them, yet was much luckier than them because of the favor of old madam Lin, and even moved into the Lin family manor, the others were not so polite.

Due to the power of the Lin family, although these people didn’t dare to bully Shen Yu outright, it was very easy for them to secretly play tricks and make things difficult for Shen Yu during the work periods. After all, Shen Yu’s reputation of having poor acting skills and an inability to suffer had long become well-known even out of the circle. When working they would be as perfunctory as possible, and stay far away from him during breaks. They would also speak ill of him behind his back. Several times, when Shen Yu was hiding in the bathroom, he could hear company artists discussing his shamelessness.

To say that what Lin Rong’an hated most was that Shen Yu was obviously not kind, but he deceived himself and believed himself to be very pure and kind. Lin Rong’an would rather see a Shen Yu who was bad outright than Shen Yu who was bad and didn’t know it. Lin Rong’an was even more curious about what would happen if Shen Yu really put aside his disguise and clearly realized his true nature.

Therefore, under Lin Rong’an’s deliberate training and guidance, Shen Yu, who was always bullied, finally went dark as expected.

The idea of ​​helping Tao Mu find his biological parents was proposed by Shen Yu himself. Shen Yu felt that everyone in the world was confused by Tao Mu’s appearance, so they felt that Tao Mu was fine everywhere. But in truth, Tao Mu was essentially a cold-hearted person. So he wanted to help Tao Mu find his biological parents. See what Tao Mu would look like when facing his biological parents.

But Lin Rong’an did not hold much hope on this matter. First of all, the Lost Children’s Gene Bank created by the Shen family was actually less effective than it was hyped up to be. Anyway, in the past two years, there have been too few cases of finding children through the gene bank. And even if Tao Mu found his biological parents, his biological parents might not necessarily be low-level people who had no money, no power, and were excessively greedy——

Others might not notice, but Lin Rong’an didn’t forget Tao Mu’s resemblance to the Shen family. He was not certain, but if the DNA identification was done and Tao Mu, who was always butting heads with Shen Yu and better than Shen Yu on all aspects, turned out to be the missing child of the Shen family. Moreover, this truth was discovered by Shen Yu himself, who treated the Shen family as his own…..

Then things would truly become interesting.

Lin Rong’an was not at all worried that he would sabotage the Lin family’s plan to scheme and seize the Shen family’s assets. He was now a eunuch. Without the possibility of producing heirs, he was destined not to inherit the Lin family. Then why should he wrong himself for the future of the Lin family?

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It was better to just live a life of willfulness——Lin Rong’an, deep down, always felt that it was because of Tao Mu that he encountered that kind of misfortune, and that he became like this. So he couldn’t bear to see Tao Mu’s smooth climb upwards. Something must be done to cause Tao Mu some trouble.

So long as Tao Mu wasn’t happy, he would be happy.

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The news that Tao Mu was the producer of the mainland remake of “Black and White” immediately made headlines in the larger entertainment sector. At the same time, news of the release time of “Black and White” in the mainland being set for the New Year’s holiday slot, and the mainland remake would be making changes to the ending, as well as the replacing of the actor of Yan Yu also spread.

Everyone knew that the main reason why Yan Yu’s actor would be replaced in the mainland remake of “Black and White” was because Shen Yu was banned by SARFT. If “Black and White” wanted to be released in the mainland, all the scenes with Shen Yu must be deleted. Of course, Shen Yu himself didn’t perform well during the filming and Xu Musen had long wanted to replace him, but because of the persistence of the investor, the Shen Group and later, the Lin family, he had to dismiss the idea in the end.

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Now SARFT had stood forward with a strong attitude and asked the “Black and White” crew to delete all the scenes of the banned artist. So in order to maintain the integrity of the work, Xu Musen was happy to push the boat along the flow——on the one hand, he could smoothly replace the role’s actor, and on the other hand, he could push the black pot to SARFT. The solution was simply perfection. Even the Lin family, who had always been domineering, likely not have the confidence to challenge SARFT either.

However, in the eyes of Shen Yu and Shen Yu’s fans, Tao Mu, as the producer of the mainland remake of “Black and White”, the fact that the first thing he did after taking office was to kick Shen Yu out of the crew and replace him with another person to play the role of Yan Yu. This was undoubtedly iron-clad evidence that Tao Mu was targeting Shen Yu.

Not to mention that the actor of Yan Yu in the mainland remake of “Black and White” turned out to be Gu Yuzhang——the Yan Film student who was scolded by Shen Yu’s fans in the hot search for “bullying” Shen Yu back then. Under normal circumstances, melon eating netizens have poor memory. If many news were not tracked and reported, the heat would dissipate within three days at most. But only in one case did netizens have a particularly good memory. The kind that even the most trivial things from more than ten years ago could still be vividly remembered——that was when the fans and antis were fighting.

Under the digging attitude of Shen Yu’s fans, soon, the news that Gu Yuzhang “betrayed” Yan Film and went to audition for “Soldier Elite” while Yan Film was planning to film their own TV series, and after passing the audition, regardless of his status as a freshman, he even asked the school for a half-year leave to experience life in the army was dug up.

Then connecting this to Gu Yuzhang’s success in hugging Tao Mu’s thigh a few days after he joined the crew of “Soldier King”, and replacing Shen Yu in the role of Yan Yu. Many netizens (mainly fans of Shen Yu) immediately gave Gu Yuzhang the hat of “scheming boot-licker”. And it’s a boot-licker that “after licking to the end, manages to gain everything”.

Shen Yu’s fans were furious, and immediately rushed to Gu Yuzhang’s FlyNews, insulting Gu Yuzhang with the most vicious remarks. Personal attacks and photoshoped posthumous photos were considered light, there were even fans who came all the way to throw wreaths at the gate of Yan Film. If it wasn’t for the fact that Gu Yuzhang had already flown to Hong Kong to join the filming crew, these fans would have likely even thought of beating him up.

Now that Gu Yuzhang, the culprit, couldn’t be beaten, the furious Shen Yu fans have nowhere to express their anger, and in the end ran to Tao Mu’s FlyNews to spew a new round of abuse. Tao Mu’s scolding fans certainly couldn’t tolerate Shen Yu’s fans being so presumptuous. The two fan clubs who already had it out for each other once again waged a new war.

However, Tao Mu, who was in the center of the whirlpool, felt a little wronged. Because the decision to cast Gu Yuzhang in the role of Yan Yu was really not made by him. It was actually at the insistence of director Xu Musen.

After the script of the mainland remake of “Black and White” passed the review of SARFT, Tao Mu and the Hong Kong’s producers negotiated with the mainland theaters the schedule of the Lunar New Year slot time with the approval document from SARFT. While taking the time to communicate with the other actors in the crew about reshoots, they also had to find Yan Yu’s new actor.

In line with the mindset that the fertilizer would not flow into the outsider’s field, Tao Mu directly had several Beijing Film classmates who signed under his film and television company to audition. According to the script’s requirements for the role of Yan Yu, this was a righteous and upright, strong-principled, and even a bit stubborn good guy character with a black-and-white moral viewpoint. At the same time, he must have the compassionate heart of Buddha to cut hisbown flesh to feed the eagle. In the words of director Xu Musen, there must be both the compassion of Buddha and the thunderous wrath of Vajrapani, Buddha’s warrior attendant. Coupled with some appearance descriptions, although Wen Bao’s stature was a little short and did not meet the requirements, Du Kang and Chu Sui’an’s stature were enough. It was just that their aura was a bit lacking. But this kind of thing could be made up for by acting skills.

According to Tao Mu’s selfishness, he actually wanted Xu Musen to choose between Du Kang and Chu Sui’an to play Yan Yu.

As a result, Tao Mu, in order to save time and fearing that others would delay the training of the troops, took advantage of Xu Musen’s convenience of negotiating schedules with the mainland theaters, and directly dragged him over to the military camp for the audition. By the way, he also wanted Xu Musen to guide the production team of “Soldier Elite” on how to shoot the gunfight scenes. After all, as we all know, Xu Musen was the most famous director in Hong Kong best at shooting gangsters, police and crooks. Tao Mu wanted his own production team to learn from Xu Musen’s production team and carry out the audition by the way.

But who knew that Xu Musen immediately took a fancy to Gu Yuzhang and picked him out from the crowd. Insisting on having Gu Yuzhang audition as well. Well, no wonder it wqs said that Director Xu’s eyes were sharp, right? Gu Yuzhang’s personality was a bit similar to Yan Yu, both of whom were low emotional intelligence but strong in principle, and possessed a great sense of justice. After training in the army for a month, Gu Yuzhang’s aura became more and more upright. Moreover, when his whole person stood there straight and at attention, he was like a cypress tree proudly facing the wind. When the Hong Kong policeman uniform was on him, there was no need to mention the effect it had.

It simply caught Xu Musen’s eyes and nothing could pull his gaze away. In Director Xu’s words, Du Kang and Chu Sui’an who auditioned before were indeed very good, but they just lacked something special. And this special something was reflected most vividly in Gu Yuzhang.

Tao Mu had always had a habit of nepotism. In his thinking, even if Xu Musen didn’t like Du Kang and Chu Sui’an, he should at least choose a student from Beijing Film to play Yan Yu. Now that Xu Musen had eyes only for Gu Yuzhang, it was not just the problem of fertilizer flowing into the outsider’s field, it was simply the fertilizer flowing into the opponent’s field.

Absolutely not.

Xu Musen could also understand Tao Mu’s thoughts. In fact, Tao Mu’s mindset was a problem that many producers and investors would have. It was just that Tao Mu was much better than the average investor and producer. He didn’t ask the crew to forcefully support a certain actor, or add scenes to a certain actor, but only asked Xu Musen to find actors from within the scope of his choice. Tao Mu invested money and energy and pulled connections to help the crew reshoot, and it was not right that after doing all this it ended up benefitting an outsider instead.

But Xu Musen really liked Gu Yuzhang. So he suggested that Tao Mu sign Gu Yuzhang to his film and television company. After learning about Gu Yuzhang’s experience of being violently cyber abused by Shen Yu’s fans on the Internet, he also used this incident to convince Tao Mu that using Gu Yuzhang as Yan Yu would definitely arouse discussion among netizens and add topicality to the movie. This way it was even more convenient for the crew to hype and promote. As expected of a Hong Kong director, this marketing hype was very skilled. It was a pity that Tao Mu didn’t buy it. He only wanted to use Beijing Film’s students. Either Du Kang or Chu Sui’an, or someone else from Beijing Film. Yan Film was not possible.

Director Xu had no choice but to go to Gu Yuzhang behind Tao Mu’s back and give Gu Yuzhang an idea. As a result, that night, Gu Yuzhang went to Tao Mu’s room and offered to sign the contract.

“I don’t have to have such a high share. I have inquired about it. There are three types of artist contracts in our company. Senior Chu, Senior Du and Senior Wen signed A-level contracts, and other Beijing Film students signed B-level contracts. Only the artists selected from the talent shows would be given the 3/7 dividend when they sign with the management company. This is because Longteng Entertainment and Summer Star Entertainment also need to sign artists, and it is not good for the company to increase the industry price on their own. Therefore, I can also sign according to 3/7 dividend contract for ten years. So long as you give me filming opportunities.”

Gu Yuzhang looked at Tao Mu steadily. He was very serious. He liked filming and enjoyed the feeling of acting. But in the entertainment industry, if you don’t have connections or background, then don’t even think about being able to pick a good role. Gu Yuzhang was not reconciled, he also wanted to become famous and successful. From the incident with Shen Yu, he knew that in the entertainment industry, regardless of what was right or wrong, fame was justice. Even if the little transparent with no fame was in the right, there was still no place for him to speak reason.

Gu Yuzhang felt that this situation was wrong. But he was powerless to change it. All he could do was try to make himself popular. At least when that day came, he could guarantee that he would not be wronged. If someone encountered this kind of thing, he could also help others to speak a word of justice.

Moreover, he had long wanted to sign a contract with Tao Mu’s film and television company. It was just that he never had a chance to bring it up before.

The three roommates and Gu Yuzhang have been training together for a month, and they were also very fond of this young and energetic Yan Film student. Knowing the stalemate between Tao Mu and Director Xu, they also privately persuaded Tao Mu to sign Gu Yuzhang. And also consoled with a smile: “It’s just a role. You are now a well-known top level producer in the industry, so what is there to worry that we will not have filming opportunities in the future. As long as you have the heart, when our sophomore year is over, you can directly tailor a big movie for us. And make us brothers famous.”

This was the truth. With “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” and “Fashion Storm” in front, the three roommates were really not worried about filming resources and whether they could become popular. Including the other students of Beijing Film, they now have a kind of confidence in Tao Mu, and they felt that so long as Tao Mu was willing to support them, they would definitely become popular. So instead of fighting for resources, it was better to behave well and let Tao Mu remember them. At that time, Tao Mu would also tailor a drama for them, and it would be a matter of minutes to become famous.

Even Tao Mu himself did not have this confidence. But he could feel the good intentions of his roommates. And Gu Yuzhang was indeed more suitable for the role of Yan Yu than Du Kang and Chu Sui’an. To put it bluntly, it was simply acting himself.

And just like what Du Kang and Chu Sui’an said, it was just a small supporting role who showed up in a total of less than ten minutes. As long as the resources remain in their own hands, whoever acted was really not much different. It was not like it was the male lead of a big movie, they really didn’t care.

So in the end, Tao Mu gave in. According to Gu Yuzhang’s proposal, he signed him to his company, and directly helped him take a ten-day leave from the military training so that Gu Yuzhang could make up Yan Yu’s scenes.

When Tao Mu arrived in Hong Kong with Gu Yuzhang, it just happened to be the night before the premiere of “Black and White”. According to Director Xu, the cast haven’t seen each other for a long time, so why not get together for a meal. As a result, it was only at the dinner party that Tao Mu found out that not only the other cast members of the cast of “Black and White”, but even Shen Yu had come.

Seeing Tao Mu and Gu Yuzhang following behind, Shen Yu’s expression was a bit complicated. There was some unwillingness and also somewhat resentful, but Shen Yu himself knew that he was now banned in mainland by SARFT, and the crew had no choice but to delete his scenes.

The only thing that Shen Yu couldn’t let go of was Tao Mu coldly watching on the side and even throwing stones at him when he was down. Others say that Tao Mu had a very good relationship with the SARFT leaders. If Tao Mu was willing to help him, could it be possible that his ban would be lifted? Could he continue to return to the mainland to film?

Third brother Lin said that Tao Mu refused to help him because he was worried about the competition for the Golden Crow Award for Best Newcomer. Both of them were shortlisted, and now Tao Mu was the one with the highest shoutout to win. However, Shen Yu was banned from the mainland because of the constant scandals. Even with the full support of the Lin family, the chance of winning was not very big. Unless Tao Mu became embroiled in any scandal at a critical moment in the competition for the award that the public could not accept. For example, as an orphan, Tao Mu refused to recognize his parents after he became famous and successful.

Lin Rongan’s words made Shen Yu’s mouth go dry subconsciously. He also didn’t understand why Tao Mu didn’t want to recognize his biological parents. Clearly, both of them were orphans. He was so eager for family and affection, but Tao Mu didn’t even want to know who his biological parents even were.

Was he really so cold and ruthless?

Shen Yu didn’t know. But he subconsciously felt that maybe Tao Mu was indeed such a ruthless person. Otherwise, he would not have reached such heights at such a young age. Third brother Lin had said that the business world was like a battlefield, and the reason that Tao Mu could thrive in the capital circle that was described as the battlefield. It must be because of his hard heart. After all, how could a person who was unwilling to recognize his biological parents be a kind person?

Third brother Lin said that people with a hard heart should not be liked by anyone. Just like Yan Sheng…..

Thinking of this, Shen Yu bit his lip. Even more unwillingly, he glanced at big brother Yan, who hadn’t said a word to him since he sat at the dinner table. His heart ached as if even his intestines were twisted up.

Shen Yu took a deep breath. Thinking of Lin Rongan’s advice to him, he forced a smile and raised his glass, and said to Tao Mu, “It’s been a long time since I saw you. I used to be ignorant and caused so much trouble to CEO Tao unintentionally. Now I toast to you as an apology. I hope CEO Tao will be magnanimous, and don’t bother quibbling with me.”

Tao Mu looked at Shen Yu in surprise. He didn’t know what medicine was being sold in Shen Yu’s gourd (TN: what one’s intentions were). But in front of so many bigwigs, Tao Mu didn’t want to be a mood damper. He directly took his wine glass and drank it, then took a bite of food and said, “As long as we can keep the water from the well and the water in the river (TN: both go their own separate ways), it’s fine.”

Shen Yu hooked up the corner of his mouth. When he sat back down, he was a little lost, accidentally knocking down Tao Mu’s chopsticks.

Shen Yu quickly apologized and asked the waiter to remove the chopsticks and put out a new pair.

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Because Shen Yu usually did things clumsily, Tao Mu didn’t care. Naturally, he didn’t notice that Shen Yu glanced nervously at the dropped chopsticks that were brought out by the waiter.

Since sitting at the wine table, although he hadn’t said a word to Shen Yu, Yan Sheng, who had been paying attention to Shen Yu, still noticed this anomally. He frowned suspiciously then took out his phone subconsciously, and quietly sent a message to the assistant who was waiting outside.

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Tao Mu had always acted resolutely and decisively. Now that he had decided to be the producer of the mainland remake of “Black and White”, he asked Director Xu Musen to bring the screenwriter of “Black and White” to the capital that night. Tao Mu also invited Zhou Hong, the director of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”, and the screenwriter team to serve as a consultant.

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Sure enough, when professionals go all out, the efficiency is simply on another level. Under the guidance of director Zhou Hong and screenwriter Fan, combined with the various professional film critiques Tao Mu had seen in his previous life to give a general direction for the revision. The script for “Black and White” took only a week to revise. Screenwriter Fan was best at adapting war dramas. The characteristic of classic Second Sino-Japanese war dramas was that the plot was full of ups and downs. The original script of “Black and White” focused more on the description of human nature. Whether it was the plot or the lines, the whole script was full of concise but thought-provoking fatalism. Now with this strong alliance, the revised script not only echoed the mainstream theme values, but also became more sophisticated and effective in terms of lines.

A week later, Tao Mu went to visit the leaders of SARFT with the revised script. Tao Mu was a person with high EQ, and was sophisticated in all aspects related to socializing. Normally he liked to keep good relations with all the people he came across and valued maintaining these contacts. So when he had use of them, it would not give people a tendency to “use people when he had need and forget people when he didn’t”. In addition, at the previous Lingxiao Award ceremony, Tao Mu left a good impression on the leaders of SARFT. Therefore, in this meeting, when Tao Mu took the initiative to bring up the passing of the script of the remake of “Black and White”, the leaders of SARFT were not too rigid.

But they couldn’t help but drag Tao Mu to listen to a spew of complaints.

“…..You don’t know how difficult those people in Hong Kong are. Their eyes and noses practically grow on their foreheads, acting so arrogant just because they could make a few movies. They look down on mainland movies and feel that our mainland cultural system is lacking any positive aspects. We spent great amounts to invite Hong Kong production teams to co-produce a movie because we see that the development of Hong Kong film industry is good, so we want to exchange money and resources for them to support mainland movies, right? But in the end, what do they do?”

“While looking down on us, they also want to come to the mainland to make money. It is the same crew but the treatment is completely unequal. Even if it is an unknown third-rate star who comes from Hong Kong, when they come to make a movie, they want nothing more than to live in a five-star hotel. Looking down on mainland actors, and saying that mainland actors are not good at acting in movies and TV dramas. Though it is called a co-production film, but the hero and heroine have to be their Hong Kong people, Taiwan people, and only the corner roles are left to us.”

Yet it was not enough for the mainland to retreat to such a level. The Hong Kong people could still stir up all kinds of trouble: “…..often uniting to reject and bully our mainland actors. And the most overboard thing is that they could even spread the unequal treatment to two different lunch boxes.”

So later, SARFT issued a written document.  Clearly pointing out that in the co-production of Hong Kong/Taiwan and the mainland, mainland actors must play the main role. And various other clauses. The main purpose was also to protect mainland actors from being bullied by the Hong Kong/Taiwan crew.

As for the review of scripts, the leaders of SARFT were even more resentful: “…..things that clearly cannot pass the review. Don’t mention their Hong Kong movies, even if they are Hollywood blockbusters, we SARFT will treat them all equally. If it can’t pass, it can’t pass. Isn’t it the same process for our mainland moviemakers? Why are they so much more noble just because they are from Hong Kong? Asking them to change the script and they are full of complaints, shouting that we don’t understand the art of film and that we are just blindly directing. When dragging it to the end they half-heartedly serve up complete nonsense just to get by. And then after the release, when the response is not good, the blame is shoved to us again.”

“Our SARFT has simply become a professional scapegoat!”

“When the people from Hong Kong want to enter Hollywood, how come they can take into account the different aesthetics and cultural differences of foreigners? When their films are not popular in Europe or the US, why don’t they say that the Americans and Europeans don’t understand the art of movie-making? So it turns out that only us mainlanders don’t understand movies, huh? Could audiences all over the world be able to distinguish between three, six, nine, etc.? The Chinese yuan is just not worth as much as the dollar or euro, huh?”

“The way I see it, they’re just blindly worshipping everything foreign. They’re simply bullying people. They’re just looking down on us!”

The SARFT leader was filled with righteous indignation: “And we don’t need them to look up to us! Our mainland market is so big, and our Chinese consumer market has become the world’s largest consumer market. All over the world, people from any country who want to come to China to make money must abide by our rules. You do as the natives do. This is the right and proper thing to do.”

Tao Mu’s ability to supervise and produce such good TV series as “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” and “Fashion Storm” at the age of nineteen was enough to prove Tao Mu’s ability. After all, the profession of a producer was not the same as that of an actor. Actors were relatively single skills, and only needed to show their best side in front of the camera. Therefore, some actors who were “natural born talents” could make their debut as child stars, and their talent alone was comparable to the efforts of many people for more than ten years. In general, actors don’t need to think too much about teamwork and coordination. The biggest difficulty they faced that fell under coordination, was probably acting with a fellow actor. As for the rest of the time, it was others who had to conform to them. In terms of coordination, actors were relatively passive occupations. Even when saying a word in front of the media, one must take into account the opinions of the copywriter. This also led to the fact that even the most glamorous star actor in front of the stage might not have speaking powers in the industry than an ordinary director with a solid foundation.

But producers were different. Producers needed to coordinate the overall situation. A competent producer needed to consider the budget of the crew and consider all aspects of the entire crew. It was also necessary to take into account the artistic and commercial value of the film. Nor was it a job that one could do well with talent.

If Tao Mu didn’t have more than ten years of work experience in his previous life, he probably wouldn’t be able to play the role of a producer at all. But others didn’t know about Tao Mu’s fantastical experience, they only saw Tao Mu’s success.

What did a successful nineteen-year-old producer mean to a fledgling film market? At least in the eyes of the SARFT leaders, Tao Mu was definitely a young man worthy of cultivation. This could be seen from the fact that “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” and even Tao Mu himself became the biggest winner at the Lingxiao Awards ceremony. The SARFT leaders definitely had high hopes for Tao Mu.

China had a tradition of “heroes come young” since ancient times. Even the most stubborn old-fashioned old fogey would maintain a tolerant and gentle heart when facing young talents. What was more, although Tao Mu was young, he was not arrogant and prideful. Although he was full of mettle, he was not conceited. Both his mannerisms and way of doing things made others feel very comfortable. The SARFT leaders were also willing to cultivate young people like Tao Mu.

They firmly believe that if there were more filmmakers like Tao Mu who promote the mainstream theme and promote positive energy, what need was there to worry that  the mainland film market would not develop?

“This time you can accept the producer job of the mainland remake of “Black and White” is also a good thing. You have to do the job well, do it seriously, and let those people in Hong Kong see the capabilities of our mainland filmmakers. Although our mainland film market has started late, our mainland filmmakers can also make good movies. Hong Kong people can’t make good movies in the mainland, not fully because of the restrictions of the mainland’s cultural system, but because they themselves don’t care about it and haven’t considered respecting the customs of our land.”

“We have a vast territory in China. Even if people from the south go to the north, they may be unaccustomed to the status quo. Let alone cultural ideas?” The SARFT leader said: “If a mature filmmaker only films those prohibited themes. And without these vulgar gangsters, gunfights, pornography, gambling, drugs, he could no longer make good works. Then how could we recognize that he is a good filmmaker?”

The SARFT leader’s mindset was simple. Our Chinese imperial examination system for thousands of years could produce so many beautiful literary articles. Even the standard eight-part essay (TN: one had to master to pass the imperial exams in Ming and Qing dynasties), there are many classics passed down to the present. Now we are just asking you to write a simple propositional essay——and we haven’t delineated the scope of writing either, just warned you what you couldn’t write.

Something so simple couldn’t even be done. Yet you blame us for the many restrictions we have given!

The SARFT leader patted Tao Mu on the shoulder and said earnestly: “You are still young and have great potential for development. Don’t learn some bad habits from those bad people. Blaming the gods and accusing people, a belly full of complaints, able to say 10,000 words of complaint without repeating. Yet when you ask them to make a movie, they can’t even make 100 million!”

Either complaining that this year’s SARFT was not capable, or that this year’s audience was not good. Anyway, if the film was not good, then it was the whole world that had no vision.

The SARFT leaders didn’t want Tao Mu to learn this kind of ethos at a young age. Instead, he should have a positive attitude and make more classic works such as “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”, which was well-received critically and in the box office, and was also especially mainstream.

In order to express their support and encouragement, the leaders of SARFT also carefully studied the script of the remake of “Black and White” brought by Tao Mu. After examining it carefully, they confirmed that there was no sensitive content that may be reported by others. So they directly passed the script.

After the script was passed, the leader of SARFT recalled the previous actions of the Hong Kong director, and couldn’t help but remind: “When shooting, you must follow the script. Don’t give us one script, and then when you shoot it is another script. The final review is still required before the final version is released. If you do this kind of operation, the film will not pass the review and the release schedule will be delayed, so don’t complain that we didn’t warn in advance.”

Tao Mu almost laughed out loud. It seemed that SARFT leaders have also developed psychological shadows from these flashy operations. Otherwise, they wouldn’t even utter such a remark that was part complaint and part reminder in front of his face.

Sounded like extremely pained words from the bottom of the heart.

What else could Tao Mu do? Of course, he could only obediently agree. And express that as the producer of the mainland remake of “Black and White”, he would definitely keep an eye on the crew and not let them mess around. Try their hardest to catch up with the New Year holiday schedule.

“Then I wish you a great box office success in advance.” The SARFT leader continued to pat Tao Mu on the shoulder in encouragement.

By the way, he also secretly reminded Tao Mu that when he was supervising the remake of “Black and White”, he must steal lessons from the Hong Kong film team. Although the SARFT leaders hate some of the styles and habits of the Hong Kong filmmakers, they have to admit that the production standards of the Hong Kong filmmakers were still very good. Therefore, the leaders hoped that Tao Mu could steal lessons and learn their art, and then make a critically acclaimed blockbuster movie that belonged to the mainland.

There were even leaders who had a whimsical thought, suggesting that Tao Mu could also make a movie version of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”. They felt that the ratings of the TV series were so high and the reputation was so good. The audience base was also so solid. Moreover it also contained hot-blooded shootout scenes. So there was no reason it could not compare to the Hong Kong shootout movies and Hollywood blockbusters, right?

Tao Mu was a little surprised. Following the trend to remake big IP was the development direction of the mainland film and television industry in the next few years. Could it be that there have already been signs since now?

Tao Mu smiled and agreed. Promising that he would work hard to learn every day to improve. Most of the leaders who could hold power were in their 40s and 50s, or even in their 60s and 70s. In their eyes, Tao Mu was about the same age as their own children and grandchildren. Elders like children who are humble, polite and well-learned. So when Tao Mu showed this side of himself, he really got the favor of all the leaders.

So when the leaders wished Tao Mu’s movie a big success, they also told Tao Mu not to neglect the shooting of “Soldier Elite”. Someone mentioned: “Cooperating with the military to shoot a promotion drama for conscription is also a political task. You must put more energy on this drama. If there is no way to balance it, we would rather you relax your supervision on “Black and White” and instead focus on making “Soldier Elite” well.”

This was also a sincere statement. Tao Mu understood.

However, when Tao Mu tried to propose that he wanted to invite the SARFT leaders to dinner. The SARFT leaders refused without hesitation. The leaders expressed that they didn’t want to have dinner with the hypocritical Hong Kong director who disdained them for not understanding the artistry of movie-making, and always throwing the blame to them!

Tao Mu had never been in contact with this level before, so he really didn’t know that the two sides were this sick of seeing each other.

But even if there were many filmmakers complaining that the SARFT leaders were not good. However, Tao Mu still felt that the leaders were quite cute because of his own position. Just like his old man Song, although old-fashioned and stubborn, as well as difficult to communicate sometimes. But as long as you find the correct communication method, you would find that these old grandpas and grannies were actually very agreeable. The most important point was that they were very protective of their own people. As long as they made up their mind to support someone, they would give the maximum tolerance and support within their authority.

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And as we all know, Tao Mu, who had just become the biggest winner of the Lingxiao Award, was an obvious biological son of SARFT. Backed by a big tree, it was good to enjoy the shade. Under the shade, although Tao Mu knew that some of the review requirements of the bigwigs really limited the artistry and integrity of the movie, he still couldn’t say anything bad about them. And he really felt that the SARFT leaders were still very easy to communicate with.

At least much easier to communicate than those people he had encountered in his previous life.

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