After signing the contract, Tao Mu took Lawyer Zhou to the Hong Kong Royal Police Academy. Mainly, he wanted to investigate the atmosphere of the police academy on the spot.

Responsible for receiving Tao Mu were the principal of the police academy and other teaching staff. In order to allow Tao Mu to better experience the school atmosphere, the school also gave Tao Mu an auditing certificate. Which meant that he also had a student number and uniforms, as well as also being given a bed in the dormitory.

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The school staff led Tao Mu around the school while introducing the school history. Many police academy students were pressed up against the windows that line the corridors of the teaching building or the windows of the dormitory.

“Wow, it’s actually the principal and all the school leaders accompanying the visit. Did it have to be that exaggerated? Who is that person below? He looks even younger than me.”

“He seems to be a rich man from the mainland. Have you played FlyNews? He seemed to have made it. I heard that he is only 19 years old this year, and his worth is already over a billion dollars. He earned it all by himself.”

“No way! Such an exaggeration!”

“You’re talking about FlyNews, isn’t that the FlyNews.com with more than 120 million registered users? It’s very fun, I play it every day. There is also BulletScreen.com, which lets you watch a lot of movies and TV series. Unfortunately, most of them are all mainland films. It would be great if there were also shows from TVB Jade.”

“What did that kind of big boss come to the police academy for?”

“It seems to be for filming. Don’t you watch gossip. I heard that he participated in the filming of “Black and White”, plays a policeman in it, and will also be filming with Zhou Yanqing and Yan Sheng. He came to our police academy to experience what Hong Kong police are like.”

“Ai. People truly can’t be compared. We take the police test to make a living. While he just wants to improve his acting skills. We want nothing more than to be locked in the school 24 hours a day, and yet the instructors are so mean to us. At best, he’ll just be here two days a week, and the people in the academic affairs office would just have a smile on their faces. Does it have to be so realistic!”

“Stop talking, they’re coming this way!”

The principal of the Hong Kong Police Academy and the instructor from the Academic Affairs Office introduced Tao Mu into the police dormitory. Don’t know if it was a coincidence or the school’s intentional arrangement but Tao Mu’s dormitory here was also 301. Of course, the layout and roommates inside were definitely different from Beijing Film’s.

“CEO Tao, you can live here when you come to experience police academy life on weekends. You can train with the students at that time. If you have any questions, you can communicate with the Academic Affairs Office.”

“Thank you, Principal.” Tao Mu held the police uniform and training uniform in his hands and said with a smile, “Principal, don’t call me CEO Tao. You can just call me Tao Mu.”

“Alright.” The principal of the police academy glanced at the other students in the 301 dormitory, as well as the students in the dormitory corridor, and said with a smile: “Let me introduce you to everyone. This is Tao Mu. In the next few months he will be studying and training with you all every weekend. I think you all know that Mr. Tao is about to take part in a movie co-produced by Hong Kong and the mainland. Mr. Tao will play a Hong Kong policeman in it. Coming here this time is also for the purpose of preparing for the film by getting a close look at what the Hong Kong police are like. I hope everyone can perform well. Let Mr. Tao see the excellent side of our Hong Kong police.”

Hearing the principal’s words, some lively students winked at each other and smiled. So the implication in the principal’s words was to act cool and capable!

Tao Mu waited until the principal finished speaking, and made a brief self-introduction. Very humble and low-key. Zhou Shenxing, who followed him, rolled his eyes while holding the other supplies issued by the police academy. He was a lawyer with an annual salary of tens of millions yuan, and now he was about to become a little subordinate who carried the boss’s bag. And the culprit was still pretending to be a big-tailed wolf here. He really didn’t know, with Tao Mu putting on such a low-key attitude, how he planned to squeeze these police students, who clearly didn’t have experience with the black heart of the capitalists, for all their worth in the next few months.

At the same time, the news that Tao Mu was going to use the weekends to experience life at the Hong Kong Police Academy for filming also spread to Shen Yu’s ears.

Since Shen Yu was bullied by the crew——the scene where he forced him to hang on wires that resulted in a fever was found out by Shen Yan. Shen Yan, who was unhappy that her little brother suffered grievances, ran to the crew again to make a scene.

Although Shen Yu had abided by his agreement with best actor Yan Sheng, he did not want to pursue revenge against Liang Xiao. But Shen Yan obviously didn’t think the same. She never thought that an actress who could only get a good role by climbing the bed of a bankroller would dare to treat her little brother like this. This was clearly not taking the Shen family seriously.

So Shen Yan rushed into the crew the next day, slapped Liang Xiao several times in front of everyone, slandered Liang Xiao and accused her for taking it out on Shen Yu because her love turned into hatred, and forced Liang Xiao to apologize to Shen Yu. She even wanted to use the influence of the Shen family to drive Liang Xiao out of the crew.

However, Shen Yan obviously forgot that she was still estranged from home and had to support herself. Chairman Shen personally said that he would let this spoiled daughter, who did not know the sufferings of the world, feel the pressure of life. Under the explicit instructions of Chairman Shen, the employees of the Shen Group certainly did not dare to violate the big boss’s wishes.

So in the end, Shen Yan failed to get Liang Xiao out of the crew as she wished. Instead, she offended Liang Xiao’s bankroller without knowing it.

Liang Xiao’s bankroller was also an investor in the crew. Although his business was not as strong as the Shen Group, it was not something that ordinary people could compare to either. Due to the wealth of the Shen family, this bankroller couldn’t quibble with Shen Yan. But towards an adopted son who was expelled from the Shen family, he was not so polite.

He directly implied to the crew that they must cut down a lot of Shen Yu’s stand-ins. At least when acting with Liang Xiao, Shen Yu had to act in person.

“If Miss Shen really feels sorry for your little brother, you can take your little brother home. Since he has come out to film, it’s better to have some professional ethics.”

In addition, the bankroller also hired the water army to expose Shen Yu’s use of stand-ins for filming, and also spread the news of bullying female artists in his crew on the Internet. For a while, because of the broadcast of “Purple Cloud”, Shen Yu, who played the leading role in the drama and attracted countless fans among young audiences with his lively and kind personality and exquisite and elegant appearance, became the target of public criticism once again. Mu Huating, who played a supporting actor in “Purple Cloud”, also took advantage of the situation to give his cents, and broke the news to the media that Shen Yu also used a lot of stand-ins in the “Purple Cloud” crew, accusing Shen Yu of not having professional ethics, and really rubbed off on a wave of heat.

Of course, the reason why Mu Huating said this was not just to gain popularity. It was mainly because he received hints from the company’s top management. Summer Star Entertainment was now cooperating with FlyNews.com to hold the talent show “National God and Goddess”, not to mention the personal relationship between Long Tianao and Tao Mu. Originally, the relationship between Long Tianao and Shen Yu was actually not bad. It was just a pity that after the scandal of the Yao family being exposed, Long Tianao was turned into an anti by Shen Yu’s disgusting actions that came one after another. Summer Star Entertainment also wanted to take advantage of this incident to befriend Tao Mu, so they asked Mu Huating and his agent Zhao Keping to secretly buy some water army to step on Shen Yu.

Speaking of which, Zhao Keping’s life at Summer Star Entertainment was not very easy either. He originally had the opportunity to sign Tao Mu to Summer Star Entertainment, but because of his superfluous actions, not only did he lose Tao Mu as a potential artist, he was even suppressed by the company in various ways. If it wasn’t for the fact that Tao Mu said that he didn’t care about him, it was likely that Summer Star Entertainment would have even thought of forcing Zhao Keping to resign.

But even so, Zhao Keping’s status in Summer Star Entertainment had plummeted. From an agent that the company highly regarded to a marginal person that no one cared about. Even the artists under him suffered. This time, instructed by the company to expose Shen Yu’s bizarre deeds in the crew, Zhao Keping and Mu Huating also had the idea of making up for their old crimes.

As Tao Mu’s net worth and social status rose higher and higher, Mu Huating, who once dared to confront Tao Mu, was now fully sober. If a person was only a little better than the people around him, everyone’s first reaction was jealousy. But if he was so good as to be out of reach, everyone could only keep looking up to him.

Mu Huating was targeted by Shen Yu in various ways because he framed Tao Mu on the set of “Purple Cloud”. At that time, Shen Yu was still the biological son of the Shen family and was much loved by everyone. He took the lead in targeting Mu Huating, and the entire crew followed suit and ostracized him. Although Mu Huating was angry about Shen Yu’s meddling, he dared not do anything.

Now that the tide turned and Shen Yu’s birth background was exposed, going from the once beloved son of the Shen family to a stray cat who was driven out of the Shen family. And Tao Mu, who had once been humbled in the mud, turned into a domineering CEO worth billions in US dollars. Mu Huating no longer dared to show his enmity with Tao Mu. But he could turn the gun to deal with Shen Yu, which could be regarded as getting revenge for himself from back then.

In an instant, Shen Yu, who was attacked by all walks of life, enjoyed the treatment of being attacked by enemies on all sides. Because of various irresponsible actions, he was criticized heavily online. Of course, Shen Yu’s die-hard fans were still fighting against all kinds of water army and passers-by. The two sides fought fiercely, and the final impact was a wider spread of the situation, creating the impression that Shen Yu was really unprofessional to all passers-by. Of course, for Shen Yu’s die-hard fans, this battle was undoubtedly a case of fan tormenting in which “the whole world wants to harm my baby”.

At least Shen Yan didn’t think that Liang Xiao’s bankroller and that insignificant actor would actually dare to stand up and throw stones at Shen Yu.

Shen Yan, who was so angry that she practically exploded, called Wen Shijin directly. She yelled at Wen Shijin on the phone, thinking that Wen Shijin, as Shen Yu’s agent and manager, failed to take good care of Shen Yu and let Shen Yu be bullied by so many people, which was really incompetent of him.

“If you take the money from our Shen family, you must do things well. At least you must be worthy of your own conscience. Don’t think that just because my little brother left the Shen family temporarily, you can be irresponsible.”

After receiving a complaint call from Shen Yan, Wen Shijin, who was discussing with Director Xu Musen in Hong Kong whether Shen Yu could have a chance to audition for the role of Yan Yu, was confused. He probably didn’t expect that Shen Yu would be able to cause so much trouble in the few days he had left the mainland. After learning about the cause and effect of the incident, Wen Shijin was also dumbfounded at Shen Yan’s unreasonable behavior. But he couldn’t quibble with his boss’s daughter. He could only retort mildly, “Miss Shen, I think you have probably misunderstood the responsibilities of an agent for a life assistant. Also, please don’t blame others for what is your fault. In fact, if it weren’t for Miss Shen targeting Miss Liang all the time in the crew, I don’t believe Miss Liang would have retaliated against Shen Yu.”

“As for whether I am competent or not, I don’t think it’s something that Miss Shen can be a judge of. If you have any doubts about my work style, you can propose to Chairman Shen to replace me as an agent.”

In fact, after Wen Shijin learned that Shen Yu was not the biological son of the Shen family, he somewhat regretted his decision to take over Shen Yu’s artist contract. It was undeniable that Shen Yu’s appearance was really good, his personality was soft and obedient enough, and he also had the halo of a wealthy son of an affluent family. If he was packaged well, he could definitely be popular.

This was also an important reason why Wen Shijin decided to accept the invitation of the Shen family. But what Wen Shijin didn’t expect was that Shen Yu’s birth background actually had such twists and turns. Now that Shen Yu was kicked out of the Shen family by Mrs. Shen herself and Chairman Shen and CEO Shen did not support Shen Yu as vigorously as they did before, in order to take care of Mrs. Shen’s emotions, and they no longer gave various resource preferences to Shen Yu.

So much so that it was so difficult for Wen Shijin to talk to Xu Musen about a small supporting role that would appear for less than ten minutes. If Shen Yan still insisted on pulling his hind legs without repentance, Wen Shijin really didn’t want to do it anymore.

Shen Yan was in a state of even more disbelief that Wen Shijin, as an employee of the Shen family, would dare to treat her like this. She was immediately unhappy and called Father Shen, and after complaining about Wen Shijin on the phone, she even proposed the idea of firing Wen Shijin and she could fill in as Shen Yu’s agent instead.

However, Shen Yan seemed to have forgotten her big words in the Shen family mansion that day. Fortunately, Chairman Shen had a good memory. He directly reminded Shen Yan that she was currently estranged from home and was no longer qualified to make requests of him. And sincerely suggested that Shen Yan had better stop meddling in Shen Yu’s affairs, and that instead find a way to find a job to support herself.

“Wen Shijin is right. If it wasn’t for you making trouble, Liang Xiao’s people wouldn’t hire the water navy to spread Shen Yu’s negative news everywhere, and there wouldn’t be so many people throwing stones at him. Originally, I wanted to announce the news that Xiao Yu will be the promotion ambassador for the gene bank after discussing it with your older brother. As a result, because of you, Xiao Yu’s reputation has become so bad and the announcement of the ambassadorship must also be postponed.”

“The saying ‘unable to achieve anything but good at spoiling things’ describes you perfectly. Yet you still have the courage to call me and complain about Shi Jin.” Chairman Shen lectured his daughter without holding back on the phone.

Of course he wouldn’t agree with Shen Yan’s whims. This daughter had been spoiled rotten by their family, and she only knew how to offend people when she went out the door. Shen Shiyuan didn’t want Shen Yu to offend people everywhere. Wen Shijin was the agent he carefully selected for Shen Yu. He also needed to rely on Wen Shijin’s ability to make Shen Yu an A-list superstar so that he could meet more talented and excellent people. At that time, it would also be good for their Shen family.

This was important business, and it must not be destroyed by Shen Yan.

Of course Shen Yan didn’t know Father Shen’s plans. When not only did her complaint fail, she was also taught a lesson, Shen Yan hung up the phone angrily. She decided to discuss with Shen Yu and join him in the crew as Shen Yu’s assistant.

As for finding a job or something…..she was already Xiao Yu’s life assistant and manager. Of course Shen Yu must pay her a salary. No, it should be said that Shen Yan wanted to take over Shen Yu’s bank card and help Shen Yu manage his assets.

Hmmph! Even if I don’t go back to the Shen family, I can still live a good life! Like I will go back to suffer other people’s attitudes.

The immeasurably self-satisfied Shen Yan didn’t realize what was wrong with her behavior at all. She just directly called Shen Yu over to announce her decision.

Shen Yu, who had always been obedient to his family, didn’t think there was anything wrong with Shen Yan’s actions. Knowing that Shen Yan was going to live with him from now on, Shen Yu obediently handed over all the bank cards on his body, and gave Shen Yan the master bedroom with the best lighting.

It was a pity that Shen Yan’s plan only lasted one night. It was destroyed by the Shen family. At the suggestion of Chairman Shen, Shen Chen directly sent his assistant to take over all the work of Shen Yu in the crew. And also arranged another life assistant for Shen Yu, who was responsible for Shen Yu’s interpersonal communication in the entertainment circle.

As for Shen Yan, who wanted to act as Shen Yu’s agent under the banner of Shen Yu’s life assistant and follow him into the crew, she was sent away by Shen Chen with a phone call.

Big Brother Shen believed that since Shen Yan was obsessed and didn’t recognize her own mistakes at all, then she had no right to spend the Shen family’s money, not even Shen Yu’s money.

Not only that, in order to punish Shen Yan for using the power of the Shen family to offend people everywhere, and even to delay the further promotion of the Lost Children’s Gene Bank by the Shen Group, Shen Chen directly drove Shen Yan out of Shen Yu’s apartment.

Shen Chen felt that the reason why Shen Yan had the energy to make trouble everywhere was because she didn’t feel the pressure of life. Then he must let her know about the suffering in the world and see if Shen Yan was still idle enough to make troubles when she couldn’t even find a job, couldn’t even live in a house, and couldn’t even afford food.

However, towards Wen Shijin’s suggestion that he wanted Shen Yu to join the crew of “Black and White”, Shen Chen felt that there was a lot of room for manipulation.

At least after Tao Mu personally recommended Shen Yu to be the promotion ambassador of the gene bank, the Shen family father and son felt that Tao Mu was not necessarily immune to Shen Yu’s influence. So it was feasible to find a way to get Shen Yu to befriend Tao Mu.

And if one wanted to make friends with Tao Mu, one must at least have the opportunity to get close to Tao Mu. Participating in the filming of “Black and White” this time was a good opportunity. Not only that, after learning about the details of the role of Yan Yu through Wen Shijin’s introduction, Shen Chen couldn’t help but think of the idea of ​​letting Shen Yu go to the police academy for a period of training under the banner of experiencing police life for character research.

——Wasn’t there water army outside who had been saying that Shen Yu’s use of stand-ins for filming was very disrespectful. Then they could take this opportunity to wash away the negative image. Shen Yu could also get closer with Tao Mu. At that time, the Shen Group could also take advantage of the opportunity to announce that it invited Shen Yu to serve as the promotion ambassador for the Lost Children’s Gene Bank.

Three birds with one stone.

Shen Chen’s idea hit it off with Wen Shijin. After the two talked on the phone, Wen Shijin found Director Xu Musen again, proposed that the Shen family wanted to invest in the production of “Black and White”, and sincerely asked Director Xu Musen to give Shen Yu a chance to audition.

Xu Musen also saw that the Shen family wanted to forcibly insert Shen Yu into the crew. Although he was dissatisfied, Xu Musen didn’t want to offend a wealthy and influential family like the Shen family, so he could only agree to Shen Yu’s audition request.

But having said that, both of them knew that no matter what Shen Yu did during the audition, it was a no-brainer that he would join the crew. The so-called audition was just formalities.

Xu Musen could only pray that even if Shen Yu was not good at acting, at least his attitude could be as serious as Tao Mu. However, he then thought of the reports that Shen Yu was not professional in the mainland entertainment gossip forums and suddenly felt very hopeless.

Other producers in the crew of “Black and White” also quickly learned that the Shen Group’s forced capital injection would also put Shen Yu into the crew. Instantly there were a few different thoughts running around.

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Even best actor Yan Sheng, who was filming with Shen Yu, did not expect that the Shen family would have such an attitude towards Shen Yu and could not help but ponder over it.

Then on the second day, best actor Yan Sheng, who had a very good reputation in the industry and had always been known for his love of supporting newcomers, found Shen Yu and offered to teach Shen Yu to act.

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Before Tao Mu officially joined the crew, he had already set off a hot search in the Hong Kong entertainment circle. As many Hong Kong netizens found FlyNews.com, soon, the news of Tao Mu’s participation in the film “Black and White” also spread in the mainland.

The Hong Kong film and television industry had always been known as the Hollywood of the East. Especially in the second half of the 20th century, there have been many popular classics. The cultural output included the entire East Asia and Southeast Asia. However, at the beginning of the new century, Hong Kong film and television dramas gradually fell behind. Although many A-list superstars were still sought after by audiences and fans. But whether it was a movie or a TV series, it often fell short in terms of box office and ratings.

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Of course, the development of Hong Kong film and television dramas had reached a certain stage, and it had entered an embarrassing bottleneck period where there was nothing to film. The more important reason was that the cultural censorship systems in Hong Kong and the mainland were different. Some classic themes that were immensely popular in Hong Kong often failed to pass the review when they arrived in the mainland.

Just like the film “Black and White”, because it was a police and gangster film, the subject matter was very sensitive. In addition, at the end of the plot, the mob boss, played by Hong Kong superstar Zhou Yanqing, managed to escape to Southeast Asia with huge assets after successfully plotting against the undercover cop played by Yan Sheng and several other higher-ups in the mafia. This was of course to lay the groundwork for turning “Black and White” into a series, but in the eyes of the bigwigs in China Film Administration (CFA), this kind of plot where the villain boss escaped justice was particularly inconsistent with the core socialist values. Not to mention the undercover cop Zhou Yuanting played by Tao Mu, actually went bad in the second half of the film. In order to betray the undercover cop played by Yan Sheng for profit, he joined forces with the mob boss played by Zhou Yanqing to set up the scheme, which almost caused the death of the hero played by Yan Sheng.

This part of the plot was even more impossible to broadcast in the mainland.

Therefore, after the film was released in Hong Kong, it was not passed when it was reviewed by the mainland. The opinion given by the CFA was that the villain must be punished for evil. So the director added a scene of the villain being caught and imprisoned for Zhou Yuanting, played by Tao Mu at the last minute. In the original plot setting, Zhou Yuanting, played by Tao Mu, should have escaped far away with the mob boss.

As a result, in order to promote the core socialist values, Zhou Yuanting was caught by the police when he was about to escape and was sentenced to ten years.

In fact, when the CFA gave its revision advice, the filmmakers did not want to revise it, wanting to keep the integrity and coherence of the plot. However, considering the vast film market in the mainland, they eventually compromised.

Of course, the main reason was that the Zhou Yuanting played by Tao Mu didn’t quite meet the director’s casting standards. The actor of Zhou Yuanting, who Director Xu Musen wanted to choose in the previous life, was originally a very popular young actor in Hong Kong. However, relying on the power of the Shen family, Tao Mu insisted on playing the role of Zhou Yuanting. And because the young actor that Director Xu Musen valued was caught in the whirlpool of public opinion because of the scandal of opening a room with his bankroller. So Xu Musen had no choice but to compromise in the end.

In this life, Director Xu Musen naturally first wanted to cast that popular young actor from Hong Kong. After his scandal came to light, only then did Tao Mu come to mind. But the main reason was Tao Mu’s identity as the founder of FlyNews.com. As for Xu Musen’s polite words when he sent a role invitation to Beijing Film, that he fell in love with Tao Mu’s dancing in H Town and thought that this role belonged to none other than Tao Mu. Although it was true, everyone knew that if Tao Mu was just a martial arts stand-in with no background and no support, then even if Tao Mu was the Zhou Yuanting in the movie come to life, Xu Musen would never use a pure rookie to play such an important role.

However, what people in the industry knew well, when it came to the people who ate melons, especially the fans, it was not the case.

As everyone knows, the film “Black and White” was a film that Director Xu Musen had polished for three years. The A-list celebrities from both sides of the strait and Taiwan were invited to star in the film. Even a small supporting role that had only a few minutes of screen time might become a hit with the big influence brought by the many superstars in the cast.

In this case, a role like Zhou Yuanting, which was visibly a character that would allow an actor a lot of room to play with, and if the role was acted well it would definitely stand out, so of course, the role became the target of all young actors.

So, including the popular young actor whose scandal with his bankroller was exposed, everyone was trying their best to pursue audition opportunities. But Director Xu Musen kept silent the whole time, he didn’t even go through the audition process, and directly handed the role to Tao Mu.

A student who had just been admitted to Beijing Film Academy and was still a freshman. What talent and ability did Tao Mu have that could actually PK out so many B-list and C-list popular male stars and gain Xu Musen’s favor?

Celebrity fans who have chased information on the casting of this character role all exploded. They all left messages on the Internet to diss Tao Mu for going through the back door, thinking that Xu Musen had bowed to capital. Some people even believed that Xu Musen would ruin the film and called on all fans to boycott the movie, to never compromise on a shoddy movie. Others diverged towards a new regulation just introduced by the CFA——that co-productions must be equal in the proportion of actors. That was to say, if one of the male and female protagonists was from Hong Kong or Taiwan, then the other must be from the mainland. These people believed that the mainland film and television industry was trying to suppress the Hong Kong entertainment circle.

All in all, it was like a gust of wind had unsettled all kinds of demons to pop up and dance wildly. In contrast, only Tao Mu’s fans were in high spirits and were simply happy that their idol had the opportunity to pit his acting chops with a lot of big stars——yes, pitting acting chops. Tao Mu’s fans have always been confident in Tao Mu’s ability. Even if they have never seen Tao Mu acting, they all agreed that Tao Mu’s acting skills must be very good. After all, according to the industry’s evaluation, he could KO Wang Boyuan and PK best actor Yan Sheng.

At the same time when netizens from both Hong Kong and the mainland fell into a state of eating melons, Tao Mu flew to Hong Kong in a low-key manner to meet Xu Musen and the production team of the movie “Black and White” in person to negotiate the contract.

Tao Mu, who had not yet found an agent, took their pitiful and helpless Lawyer Zhou as usual. As a top tier economic lawyer in China, Zhou Shenxing had never been in contact with a contract in the entertainment industry before. However, Zhou Shenxing could analyze whether each clause would cause losses to Tao Mu economically from the terms of the contract. This strange contract signing method also opened the eyes of Zhou Musen and the producers of “Black and White”.

Once again, they realized that there was a reason Tao Mu was able to create FlyNews.com from scratch at a young age and become a partner of Xiaoheng Capital. It was definitely not for nothing.

When signing the contract, Zhou Musen also smiled and asked Tao Mu if he had any intention of investing into the crew. Tao Mu politely declined.

He said that as a small supporting role who just appeared no more than 20 minutes, he was embarrassed to invest money into the crew. So as not to damage the normal ecology of the crew. Of course, the main reason why Tao Mu was so humble and low-key was that after the movie was released, the box office in the mainland was not high——because the reviewing of the movie by the CFA dragged on for too long, lasting half a year in all. So fans who couldn’t wait began watching pirated DVDs. So when the movie was finally released in the mainland, the attendance at theaters was very bleak——after all it was not the kind of 3D movie that had to be seen in a movie theater in order to really experience the stunning visuals. Fans who have already watched the pirated discs were really not interested in going to the cinema to watch it again.

This was also the embarrassing situation that Hong Kong films often encountered when it entered the mainland film market.

Because of the gossip paparazzi’s revelations, Xu Musen and the crew also knew that Tao Mu was going to experience life in the police academy a few months in advance before joining the crew. Xu Musen originally invited Tao Mu to play the role of Zhou Yuanting, mainly because he was interested in Tao Mu’s identity as the founder of FlyNews.com. Secondly, he also saw the news on the Internet that Tao Mu had actually forced himself into a fever in order to interpret a role, and even went to a drug rehab center to experience life. He inquired about Tao Mu’s acting skills through his personal connections, and even called his friend who was a teacher in Beijing Film, and finally confirmed that Tao Mu should be qualified for this role.

——As netizens said, there was indeed a bit of bowing to capital going on. But Xu Musen didn’t expect that Tao Mu had not even signed a contract with the crew, and yet he had already thought of going to the Hong Kong Royal Police Academy to experience life and prepare for the role. Moreover, he even got permission from the police academy.

No matter what Tao Mu’s acting skills were, first of all, this attitude made Xu Musen quite satisfied. He felt that the news from the mainland and his colleagues were really not exaggerating. At least in terms of work ethics and professionalism, Tao Mu really didn’t need anyone to worry about him.

After all, things like preparing months in advance for a role, even some popular young actors in the circle couldn’t do it, let alone a domineering CEO like Tao Mu, who was worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Usually, most young actors would only join the crew the day before the filming and then start reading the script on the day of filming. Occasionally, a teleprompter was even needed during filming.

In contrast, Tao Mu’s serious preparation at least allowed Xu Musen to see Tao Mu’s sincerity.

Taking advantage of the free time after signing the contract, Tao Mu also took out his script and character biography and gave it to Xu Musen. The main reason was to ask Xu Musen to help him look it over and narrow down what preparations Tao Mu needed to do to play the role of Zhou Yuanting.

Because he had acting experience in his previous life, Tao Mu knew that the role of Zhou Yuanting had quite a few fight scenes——this was also an important reason why Xu Musen invited Tao Mu to play the role. He had seen Tao Mu’s action scenes, and thought that Tao Mu’s role as Zhou Musen would at least not require a stand-in. This was very valuable when shooting. At least it could ensure that Zhou Yuanting’s shots would be smoother and there wouldn’t be a need to cut too many shots.

Therefore, when Tao Mu was designing the character biography, he also paid special attention to interpreting the character’s inner thoughts and mindset with fight scenes.

Tao Mu thought that when the character Zhou Yuanting first appeared, he could use the fighting skills of the police academy in the fight scenes. This showed that although Zhou Yuanting’s character was impulsive and seemed very audacious, he was actually very influenced by the environment and had always believed that he was a policeman.

With the deepening of the plot, Zhou Yuanting’s mood gradually changed after he entered the gang, and the fight scenes also changed from normal fighting skills to more lethal moves. Some fancy bells and whistles were reduced, and only direct and deadly moves aimed to kill remained. When fighting, he also changed from deliberately not hurting people’s lives to focusing on aiming at his opponent’s vital points. And then finally at the end of the plot where he killed with a single shot from his gun. Using the fight scenes to highlight his character’s inner evolution.

This was something Xu Musen did not consider. After all, although Xu Musen was good at shooting police and gangster films, the film “Black and White” was mainly about the intrigue between the two male protagonists and had few action scenes. The role of Zhou Yuanting was just a small supporting role who appeared for less than 20 minutes. The role was not even as important as the ones played by several veteran big stars. So Xu Musen and the screenwriter did not consider so much when writing the script.

Only Tao Mu started from his own point of view, plus he had played this role in his previous life, and he had read many film reviews written by professional film critics. Only due to these combination of factors could he think of starting from this point and interpreting the characters more three-dimensionally.

Of course, to a certain extent, it could be regarded as adding scenes to oneself.

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But Tao Mu’s action scenes were originally in his original set of scenes. What Tao Mu did was just finely traced a few circles on the original outline of the plot. It did not change the duration of the character’s appearance, nor did it violate the character settings. It could even make the rhythm of the film with too many speaking scenes more compact and exciting. So Xu Musen did not feel offended. He even praised Tao Mu’s character biography. He felt that Tao Mu had really thought deeply about the script and the characters.

Of course, this was mainly because Tao Mu’s identity was not the same as that of ordinary newbie actors. It was unknown if Xu Musen would still be so pleased if it was another young actor who had no background and no support, yet rashly proposed in front of the director that he wanted to design the fight scenes by himself before he even joined the crew.

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“Ah ah ah, ah ah ah, the beautiful scenery of the West Lake in March, the spring rain is like wine and the willow is like smoke…..”

That night, Tao Mu, who returned to the dormitory with the script, at Du Kang’s strong request, brought the three roommates in dormitory 301, and more than 20 students from class 1 of ’08 Beijing Film to Night. In Du Kang’s words, Tao Mu received such a good script so he had to treat everyone to dinner to celebrate. Of course, the root cause was whether or not Du Kang was afraid that Tao Mu would put on a face mask at midnight to scare him, then only Du Kang knew.

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Recently, the food he had been eating was very nourishing. So when Tao Mu entered the private room, he subconsciously called Wen Juxiang’s order number and ordered a table of mutton hotpot. Wen Bao’s father cooked the food himself, and had a worker bring it along with the hot pot. Wen Bao was amused: “Eating mutton hotpot while karaoking, brother, you sure know how to enjoy yourself.”

“I’m just afraid you’ll be hungry after singing later. So let’s sing while eating.” In any case, the private room was big enough.

Several boys immediately clapped their hands and whistled to show their support. There was a saying in China that the growing boys could eat their old man poor, and even the boys in the drama department could not resist their physical needs. Besides, the living environment of male artists in the entertainment industry was relatively better than that of female artists. It didn’t matter if they were fatter, thinner, taller, shorter, or a bit ugly. So long as they had the acting skills and connections, they would always find acting jobs. They were not afraid to eat late-night snacks, and they even ate very happily. The beer in Night was moved into their room in crates, and the boys could demolish seven to eight cases of beer all by themselves.

The girls were a different story. They had to consider weight management, and did not dare to eat. But looking at the food they also got the cravings. One must know that Wen Juxiang’s mutton hotpot was a time-honored brand in Beijing. Usually, a plate of meat was 70 to 80 yuan, and the per capita consumption was above 200 yuan. In 2009, most students could not hold this level of consumption. Therefore, the girls were particularly conflicted when eating this meal. On the one hand, they were afraid of getting fat, and on the other hand, they were reluctant to waste the opportunity. So they could only eat the cabbage, mushrooms, fish balls and shrimp balls in the hotpot. Acting like they were eating poison whenever they picked a piece of mutton. So of course they did not dare to touch the beer even more.

Du Kang looked at them on the side and felt tired for them: “I say, you might as well have a good meal. It’s no big deal, you can just go on a diet tomorrow.”

“Don’t keep talking about us!” The girls were unconvinced and deliberately teased: “I say, Du Kang, half of this semester has passed. Except for the AA system, you didn’t treat anyone to a meal. Isn’t that not very buddy of you?”

“Yeah. Last time you filmed in the crew of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”, didn’t you also get a small three thousand yuan in payment. Yet you don’t say to treat us to a meal.” A boy echoed with a smirk: “Why don’t you pay today’s bill.”

“I don’t have any money!” Du Kang cried out his poverty: “Besides, we sing karaoke and eat mutton hotpot today. There are so many of us, it will be at least 10,000 yuan in total. Towards such a large amount of money, only our big boss Mu can afford it. Yet you ask me to pay the bill. Just look at my clothes, is it even worth five hundred yuan in total?”

“Tsk!” Du Kang’s remarks were ridiculed by everyone. But no one refuted Du Kang’s words. After all, Tao Mu was a rich guy who could spend 9 million yuan to invest in a crew. He was different from these poor students.

To talk about the reason why Tao Mu was now able to have his call be responded to en masse in Beijing Film, even if he pulled his classmates to have dinner in the late evening, not a single classmate refused. In addition to Tao Mu’s popularity, there was also the reason that he could invest in film crews. Although the college students living in the ivory tower have not yet been tainted by society, and have not acquired too many utilitarian habits. But the instinct to seek advantage and avoid disadvantage was part of human nature. Tao Mu had money and could be an investor, and when he became an investor, he could introduce these classmates into the crew.

What actor didn’t want to film? But they couldn’t go to Tao Mu when it was about filming, and then ignore him when not. Besides, Tao Mu had a good personality, and every time he invited everyone out to play, he wouldn’t praise himself, or make everyone flatter him. The students all felt very comfortable. Some girls even had some secretive inetentions, wanting to spend more time with Tao Mu.

But Tao Mu was not at all enlightened in the romantic relationship department. All his keen sense of smell was trained on business investment.

“By the way, I heard that you are going to set up a film and television company?” After three rounds of drinking and everyone had drank and sang themselves high, Wen Bao asked casually, “Does your company sign artists? Or will it be like some studios, just serving yourself?”

Wen Bao’s plan was that if Tao Mu’s film and television company signed other artists, he would sign directly with Tao Mu’s company. He didn’t care if it would be awkward if his classmate became his boss, so long as there were acting jobs for him. Moreover, Tao Mu’s eye for picking scripts was very reliable. The most important thing was that Tao Mu was not the kind of person who only hogged all resources to himself. This could be seen from his investment in “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” crew.

Being roommates, Wen Bao was quite assured of Tao Mu’s character. He believed that Tao Mu would not cheat him. He would not go against his will, and make him take on some ridiculous and rotten scripts in order to make money for the company.

So after Tao Mu established a film and television company he’ll sign on, Wen Bao thought carefully.

As soon as these words came out, there was a slight silence at the originally lively dining table. All the students subconsciously paused their chopsticks and looked at Tao Mu. There were also a few classmates who were a little less urbane, and had obvious expressions of difficulty, consideration, hesitation and many other expressions on their faces.

Wen Bao suddenly came back to himself. It was only then that he remembered that this was not their dormitory, and the words spoken were too casual. It didn’t matter to him himself, but he was afraid that others would have ideas. For example, having a misunderstanding that he came out to take the lead, and deliberately tried to bring other people to sign to Tao Mu’s company or something. Actually he didn’t have such an intention at all.

Before Wen Bao could think of a proper response, Tao Mu took over the conversation calmly: “I haven’t decided yet. My Yao Dad didn’t even run down the formalities. You are well-informed though.”

Wen Bao instantly chuckled and said, “I heard it from my dad. My dad heard it from Mr. Song.”

Chu Sui’an, who had always been devious, immediately changed the subject and drew everyone’s attention to Du Kang: “What about you. Everyone has known each other for so long. Stop crying with us about being poor. Your clothes aren’t worth much money, but isn’t that body of yours not too shabby? It’s not a big deal, just sell your body to pay for it. I estimate that with your looks, you could actually make quite a fortune in Night. “

“Yo~~~~” Everyone immediately clapped and heckled, whistling and applauding.

Finally, the matter was smoothed over.

The foolery continued until after 3am in the middle of the night, when they finally walked out of Night exhausted and went back to school. Tao Mu couldn’t be bothered to go to the trouble, so he went straight to the boss’s office on the top floor of Night, pushed aside the resting room that Liu Yao had set up in the office, took a shower despite being tired, and fell asleep on the bed.

The next day was Sunday, and there was no class. Tao Mu studied the script for a day at home. Although he had played the exact same role in his previous life, but when re-reading the script, he still had quite a few different ideas.

Tao Mu had a notebook on the side, where he wrote a character profile while reading the script. Tao Mu had always been serious in his work. After the release of “Black and White” in his last life, he even went online to read magazines and found comments and reviews from all film critics and netizens. There were indeed many people’s analyses that were worth learning among the meaningless water army reviews that were either rainbow fart or plain anti hate.

In addition, Tao Mu also wanted to experience the police academy in Hong Kong for a while.

The system of Hong Kong was different from that of the mainland, including the establishment of police officers, the usual training and etiquette. When Tao Mu played the role of Zhou Yuanting in his previous life, many Hong Kong netizens responded that Zhou Yuanting’s role was not like a Hong Kong policeman at all. Instead, he just looked like a hooligan/gangster.

This was mainly because Tao Mu was incapable of doing the proper fieldwork in his previous life, and he had no idea what the police in Hong Kong was like. Even the gangster aura was discovered by watching movies. Fortunately, Tao Mu was acting as an undercover cop in a mafia gang at the time, so it didn’t seem so incongruous.

Thinking about it now, Tao Mu had no experience in filming in front of the camera at that time. He was not a professional, and he only worked as a martial arts stand-in a few times. In fact, at that time, he was indeed inferior to Shen Yu, who had played several leading and supporting roles. No wonder the entire crew rejected him because of this. In addition, he deliberately targeted Shen Yu during filming, and was deliberately suppressed in acting by best actor Yan Sheng, so his overall performance was not ideal.

However, that was Tao Mu’s first role in front of the camera after all, and he was even nominated for the Golden Crow Award for Best Newcomer for that role. Therefore, Tao Mu’s feelings for the character Zhou Yuanting were still different. Every time the movie was played again, Tao Mu was very regretful about his performance. He felt that if he could devote more energy to studying the script and character at that time, he could dig deeper into the contradiction and tragedy of Zhou Yuanting’s character. If his acting skills were sufficient, he could express more delicately in which expressions and which movements, and the complexity of the character could be interpreted in a more complete and three-dimensional manner.

Tao Mu had always believed that the role of Zhou Yuanting could be more classic and impressive. Instead of the thin 2D image that had been frozen on the big screen.

It was no wonder that the director and production team of “Black and White” disliked him so much. It was Tao Mu himself who failed such a good role.

In this life, Tao Mu had the opportunity to do it all over again. He just wanted to treat Zhou Yuanting with the care the role deserved. Therefore, he not only carefully studied the script and wrote character biographies and profiles, but also contacted the Hong Kong Royal Police Academy, wanting to use the weekend to go to the school to gain experience firsthand.

If it was an ordinary person, or an ordinary actor who made such a request, of course the Hong Kong Royal Police Academy would not agree. But Tao Mu was different. As the founder of FlyNews.com, and especially as a capital bigwig and a partner of Xiaoheng Capital, who was worth hundreds of billions of dollars, the Hong Kong Royal Police Academy was naturally too happy to agree to such a request. They even held the wish that once the bigwig could fund the school after the experience. Not only did they immediately agree to Tao Mu’s request, they also offered that if Tao Mu wanted to, they could even put Tao Mu into the Flying Tigers for a period of training. So that Tao Mu’s posture and gestures would be more standardized and beautiful when acting in front of the camera——

After learning about Tao Mu’s background, the people from the Hong Kong Royal Police Academy also knew that Tao Mu had once been a martial arts stand-in. When the film “Black and White” was promoted in Hong Kong, it was also called a cop and criminal film. It was conceivable that there would be a lot of action scenes and shootout scenes. The Hong Kong Royal Police Academy intuitively determined that Tao Mu would definitely do the action scenes in person rather than using a stand-in.

This was a pleasant surprise. Tao Mu’s eyes lit up, and he readily accepted the kindness of the Hong Kong Royal Police Academy.

So after Tao Mu hung up the phone, that night, the all-pervasive Hong Kong paparazzi immediately got the news that Tao Mu might be participating in “Black and White”, and before joining the crew, he even prepared to experience life at the police academy. Many paparazzi also introduced Tao Mu’s identity background while reporting the news——the main focus was that Tao Mu founded FlyNews.com and was also a partner of Xiaoheng Capital.

The crew of “Black and White” invited a lot of celebrities from both sides of the strait to participate in the film. This incident was not news in Hong Kong. But that the crew was able to pull in a bigwig worth hundreds of billions of dollars to play a supporting role. Towards this kind of news, even in the entertainment circle of Hong Kong where gossip was constant, it was also worth watching. After all, in the perception of public netizens, people who could be domineering CEOs would not be actors. But people who were actors always wanted to play the domineering CEO.

The domineering CEO in reality actually turned around to be an actor. It was indeed worth watching. What was more, the domineering CEO disclosed by the gossip paparazzi of Hong Kong was only nineteen years old this year. And looking at the photos, he was quite the handsome young man.

Seriously, at least give others some space to breathe!

All of a sudden, many people in Hong Kong who didn’t know Tao Mu or FlyNews.com started to search for related news online. Some people even went to FlyNews.com to register an account. After sating their gossip mongering hearts, they were then abducted into BulletScreen.com as well.

Then there was no stopping the trend at all.

But these were all afterwords.

Speaking of, the “Black and White” crew was still preparing for the launch, negotiating the shooting schedule with a lot of celebrities, and orderly arranging the follow-up shooting. Only to be pushed onto the hot search by their paparazzi. When they saw the news, they were all stunned.

They have heard before that the boss of FlyNews.com was a man who could raise a bloody storm in the entertainment industry. In fact, the reason why the crew of “Black and White” invited Tao Mu to play the role of Zhou Yuanting, other than because the director saw Tao Mu dancing in H Town and felt that Tao Mu’s image and temperament were very suitable for this role. The main reason was because of FlyNews.com.

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The “Black and White” crew felt that by inviting Tao Mu to play Zhou Yuanting, FlyNews.com would at least be a big help when the crew was promoting in the mainland. Besides, there was no harm in making more friends with investors like Tao Mu who did not lack money.

But what they didn’t expect was——Tao Mu was not only a man who could raise a bloody storm in the mainland entertainment circle, he was also not any less weak in Hong Kong either!

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Tao Mu: Yes, I am that man! ! !

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In the name of nourishing health, Tao Mu’s recent days were spent quite blissfully. When he stepped on the scales, he saw that he had gained three pounds, and his cheeks were visibly rounded. In the words of the three roommates, just after the Chinese New Year, he had started raising autumn fat.

“You are just jealous.” Tao Mu sat cross-legged on the bed in the dormitory, peeling an orange in his hands, and smirking as he bantered with everyone: “Can you call it fattening when it comes to the entertainment industry? It’s called energy storage——”

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But before he finished speaking, he saw the TA of the ’08 Drama Department appear at the door panting and shouting loudly: “Tao Mu, why didn’t you turn on your phone! Hurry up, go to our department office. The head of the department is looking for you.”

Tao Mu was stunned when he heard the words, and subconsciously pulled out his phone from the bed——the screen was pitch black, and it was indeed out of power.

“What does old Bai want from me this evening?” Tao Mu asked as he crawled out of the bed.

Old Bai was the head of the Beijing Film Drama Department. His surname was Huang, but because his skin was very pale, his classmates called him old Bai (TN: old white) in private. No one knew exactly who came up with the nickname but that was what every student called him anyway. According to rumors, it could be traced back to old Bai’s student days.

“It seems to be because of an audition.” The TA said, looking at Tao Mu with envy.

Because Tao Mu brought money into the crew “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”, and also gained the reputation of being willing to suffer in order to interpret a character role well. Recently, there have been many film crews asking to talk to Tao Mu about investment. In order to win over Tao Mu, some crews even promised to wait until the summer vacation to start filming. However, Tao Mu lacked interest and did not relent at all. Those crews had no choice, they either sent their scripts to the headquarters of FlyNews.com, or tried their best to connect with him through a teacher at Beijing Film.

So recently, Tao Mu had been called to the office a lot of times. Basically, each time it was a crew asking a Beijing Film teacher to connect them with Tao Mu, wanting to invite Tao Mu to invest in their film. As for the role, so long as Tao Mu was willing to invest money of course everything was negotiable. In this situation, in the eyes of everyone, it was like a group of beautiful concubines taking off their clothes and waiting for the emperor to come favor them. But the emperor felt that his dragon body was not feeling well, and insisted on sleeping in the imperial study by himself.

“There are so many beautiful beauties undressed and waiting for you, but you don’t even bat an eye. In this situation, how can you ask us bachelors to accept such injustice.” Wen Bao, who was eating melon seeds with his legs crossed, sighed and put on a pretentious pose. With a Peking Opera pose, he shook his head and sighed, “How can we accept such injustice~~!”

“Rtight?!” Du Kang also shook his head, disapprovingly: “I say, don’t go overboard. So many crew directors have come to you. And if they can have the teachers in our school introduce them to you, it is likely that the script is also good. You could at least choose a few. Even if you don’t want to act yourself, you can recommend it to us. Don’t just keep silent and unrelenting. If one didn’t know better, one would think your kidneys are not good!”

What did this have to do with my kidneys? Tao Mu looked at Du Kang speechlessly: “Don’t worry about my kidneys. My kidneys are fine!”

Always maintaining a gentle and elegant demeanor in front of outsiders, in fact, Chu Sui’an, who was very devious inside, also shook his head and sighed: “Sure enough, capital daddy is not like us ordinary folks. We little common people are still in school and studying hard. While some people have already enjoyed the pleasure of being chased by directors waving scripts. People really can’t be compared!”

“Then why don’t you hurry up and bow to this capital daddy, so that when you do take on filming and join a crew in the future, you could enjoy the pleasure of having a backer behind you.” Tao Mu snorted particularly arrogantly and entered the bathroom with his cell phone that had just been charged. In the bathroom, he didn’t forget to say to the TA, “Wait for me a bit. I’ll go there right away.”

Du Kang followed capital daddy directly to the bathroom door, closed the door, turned off the light, and waited for capital daddy, whose kidney function was particularly good, to relieve himself, before scaring him in a sinister tone: “Actually wanting someone behind you in this dark night. Don’t you feel a chill down your spine. Aren’t you afraid to walk through this long corridor alone? Looking at the pale face reflected in the glass window, do you feel ahhhh——”

The bathroom door opened, and Du Kang was caught off guard when he came face to face with a big white face, almost scaring all the hair on his body to stand at attention. The tall fellow, who was nearly 1.9 meters tall, jumped three feet high, and scolded in shock, “Tao Mu, you are mental. It’s like the middle of the night, do you have to put on a face mask?”

“You’re such a coward, yet you dare to come and scare me.” Tao Mu sneered and took off the face mask: “You just wait until midnight tonight. I will definitely stand by your bed with the mask on and sing “Black Friday” to you.”

After Tao Mu finished speaking, without waiting for Du Kang’s reaction, he put on a down jacket and jeans and ran out. Running all the way to the drama department office. The head of the department, old Bai, was sitting right there.

Seeing Tao Mu knock on the door and come in, he immediately smiled and said, “You’re just in time. There’s a script here, you should read it first.”

Tao Mu didn’t read the script, but put it on the edge of the desk. He picked up the big thermos of tea that old Bai had nearly finished, and went to fill it up with hot water.

Old Bai took the thermos with a smile and took a sip. No wonder he liked Tao Mu. Not only because Tao Mu had ability and capital, but also because this child was too good at presenting himself. Moreover, he respected his teachers, and spoke and did things in ways that made people very comfortable.

“Sit down.” Old Bai said with a smile while holding the big thermos: “This script is not the same as the crews from before. It’s a movie co-produced by our mainland and Hong Kong. The total investment was 50 million yuan, and the male leads will be Zhou Yanqing from Hong Kong, and Yan Sheng from the mainland. Many supporting roles are also filled with A-list superstars from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Even the small supporting roles that only have a few scenes are filled with the hottest young actors and actresses in the circle.”

“They want you to play an undercover cop role.” When old Bai said this, he suddenly laughed: “It just so happens that the director of this movie, Xu Musen, was said to have seen you dancing in a nightclub in H Town. Back then he already thought that your appearance and temperament were very consistent with this character. But he never found you. After searching for more than half a year, he almost gave up. Later, he accidentally saw the dance video you uploaded on FlyNews.com, and “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” promotional video that he finally recognized you. At that time, he tried every means to inquire about you, and finally sent the audition invitation directly to Beijing Film.”

Old Bai smiled and said: “This film has been in preparation for several years. It was planned to start filming in Hong Kong in June this year. You don’t have many scenes, so you can join the crew during the summer vacation. And after joining the crew, most of your scenes will be with Yan Sheng, Zhou Yanqing and also several A-list big names. For new actors, this is a very good opportunity.”

Tao Mu’s face darkened slightly as he looked at the script without expression. On the white cover were huge bold words – “Black and White”.

Even without opening the script, Tao Mu knew what the movie was about. The male protagonist played by Yan Sheng was an undercover cop sent by the police to a mafia gang. He lived in the gang for seven or eight years, from a small fry to finally gaining the trust of the gang boss and becoming the confidante of the gang boss. However, in an anti-drug operation, another undercover cop who cooperated with Yan Sheng was killed and his body was thrown into the sea.

In order to complete the task, the police must send another undercover cop to cooperate with Yan Sheng. In order to gain the trust of the mafia gang, the undercover cop must have a clean background and be able to withstand verification. Therefore, after thinking about it, the police finally decided to select students who have not graduated from the police academy. The undercover cop candidate selected in the end was the police academy student that Tao Mu would be playing.

In the script setting, the police academy student Zhou Yuanting to be played by Tao Mu was a person who loved to play and fool around, liked to fight and cause trouble, was impulsive but had a strong sense of justice. On the eve of graduation, Zhou Yuanting was pushed by a friend to sneak out of the school to go to a nightclub. In the end, because he offended the nightclub owner by dancing with the proprietress, and got into a fight with the gangsters watching the venue, he was arrested at the police station together with everyone on the scene.

According to school regulations, Zhou Yuanting would be punished for skipping class without permission to go to a nightclub. What was more, he was arrested at the police station for picking quarrels and provoking trouble. Originally, Zhou Yuanting was going to be expelled from the school according to the school rules. The police, however, have been choosing undercover cops. Zhou Yuanting, who had fought with the nightclub owner, came into the higher ups’ sight. Because the nightclub owner who fought with Zhou Yuanting happened to be one of the high ranking gangsters of the mafia gang where the male protagonist was undercover.

So the police conveniently negotiated with Zhou Yuanting and wanted to convince Zhou Yuanting to be an undercover cop. Zhou Yuanting had studied hard at the police academy for four years, so of course he refused. However, if he did not agree, then the police academy would expel him. But if Zhou Yuanting agreed to go undercover, after the undercover operation was over, Zhou Yuanting would be able to return to the police force and be promoted directly. With coercion and inducement, Zhou Yuanting had no choice but to agree.

So under the deliberate arrangement of the police, Zhou Yuanting, who was expelled from the police academy, went to the nightclub to take revenge. Zhou Yuanting became good buddies with the nightclub owner after the fight and was recommended to the gang. However, Zhou Yuanting’s actions were not understood by his good friend and brother Yan Yu. He and Zhou Yuanting were classmates of the same year who were admitted to the police academy, and they were even roommates.

Yan Yu’s character was morally black and white, and what he hated most was the underworld and gangsters. He didn’t expect that Zhou Yuanting would actually degenerate into that after being expelled from school. Every time he saw Zhou Yuanting, he either persuaded him to leave the gang with righteous words, or made all kinds of reprimands. The good brothers who were originally like-minded soon parted ways.

Zhou Yuanting joined the mafia gang as an undercover cop, and he originally had a huge responsibility. Usually, he had to be careful about the intrigue in the gang, and he had to endure the incomprehension and even verbal abuse from relatives and friends. Even his father, who had always had high hopes for him, severed their father-son relationship. Zhou Yuanting was like a stuntman walking on a tightrope every day. He was not sure when he would be discovered as an undercover cop and fall to his death at that time. The only thing that made him feel gratified was that his immediate superior Yan Li rescued him several times when he was almost exposed. In the end, Yan Li practically became the only pillar of support that could sustain Zhou Yuanting.

However, what made Zhou Yuanting collapse mentally in the end was when he accidentally discovered that Yan Yu was actually Yan Li’s younger brother. The undercover cop candidate the police originally wanted to select was actually Yan Yu. However, this decision was stopped by Yan Li.

There were only two children in the Yan family, and Yan Li had already embarked on this path. He didn’t want his own younger brother to have such a hard life as well. So at Yan Li’s insistence, the police changed their initial thinking and replaced the undercover cop candidate with Zhou Yuanting. In Zhou Yuanting’s opinion, he was the one who took on all this for Yan Yu, while Yan Yu could stand in the sun in a police uniform and reprimand him like he was an unruly dog…..

Even after a lifetime, Tao Mu still had a fresh memory of this movie. Because he also acted in this movie in his previous life. And it was in this crew that he saw best actor Yan Sheng for the first time. Thus began a difficult career of being suppressed by the other in acting for six to seven years. And the person who played Yan Yu in the movie also happened to be Shen Yu.

Tao Mu still remembered that in his last life, how he had gone to such effort, and even used a lot of means in private to win the role of Zhou Yuanting. After the film was released, both his and Shen Yu’s roles were well received by the industry, and were nominated for the Golden Crow Award for Best Newcomer in one fell swoop. It was a pity that at the awards ceremony, because his acting was too suppressed by Yan Sheng, he ended up losing to Shen Yu, who just “played himself”.

In this life, Tao Mu never even recalled this part of his previous life once. But unexpectedly, after going around in circles, the crew actually found him by themselves.

Tao Mu hooked the corners of his mouth upwards into a smile that was not a smile. It should be said that the halo of the plot was indeed really powerful. He already went to such lengths to avoid the center of the plot storm yet it still insisted on having him carry on the plot.

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Then should he also follow the plot master’s wishes just this once? It must be known that in his previous life, he was severely suppressed by Yan Sheng in this movie!

In this life however, he wondered if Yan Sheng still had the ability to suppress him in acting.

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“Hey, is it really okay for us to do this?”

“He locked himself in the dressing room for over an hour and didn’t come out…..”

“Was it too much?”

“We can’t be blamed for that. Who knew he would be so useless. It took so long to shoot one scene…..”

After Yan Sheng finished putting on his makeup and costume in his exclusive lounge, he felt a little uneasy when he thought of Shen Yu who was almost unconscious when the props master put him down from the wires. Just as he was about to visit Shen Yu’s dressing room, he ran into a group of whispering staff.

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After seeing Yan Sheng, most people left in guilt. A small group of people greeted him with awkward smiles: “Mr. Yan, are you here to see Shen Yu?”

“Don’t misunderstand. We didn’t bully him. It’s because he’s not in a good state. There were dozens of NGs in just one scene. Everyone was getting impatient.”

Yan Sheng was humble and had superb acting skills. He liked to support newcomers, and he would not act like a bigshot on the set just because he was a big celebrity. Therefore, his reputation in the industry had always been very good. These cast members didn’t want to affect their image in Yan Sheng’s eyes because of such a trivial matter——you must know that Yan Sheng’s next movie was a police and gangster film co-produced with Hong Kong. Two male lead roles, and the other male lead was Hong Kong superstar Zhou Yanqing. Even the main supporting roles were casted with A-list big names in Hong Kong and the mainland. According to rumors, the crew also wanted to select several young actors in the mainland at the request of mainland investors. As one of the male leads, Yan Sheng had always liked to help newcomers. If he was willing to recommend them to the crew, then the success rate would be much higher than if they auditioned themselves.

In this case, these actors certainly didn’t want Yan Sheng to have bad impressions about them. What was more, they didn’t really think they’d done anything wrong. When it came to filming, everyone had gone through the same thing. Who had not ever felt aggrieved. So why was it such a big commotion when it happened to Shen Yu?

Relying on the fact that her godfather was one of the crew’s investors, the female second lead who deliberately forced Shen Yu to hang on the wires himself, and hinted at the props master to tamper with Shen Yu’s wire suit, just to retaliate against Shen Yu offending her before, looked at Yan Sheng nervously. Mr. Yan wouldn’t think she was the kind of vicious woman who deliberately bullied others, would he?

“Mr. Yan, did Shen Yu cry to you again that we were bullying him? Don’t believe him. I just wanted to act the scene with him normally. You also know that since the filming of this film, I have almost always acted with a stand-in. This has made it hard for me to act. I want Shen Yu to act himself, and it’s also for the good of the crew.”

Yan Sheng smiled but said nothing. The actress who played the second female lead in the movie was Liang Xiao. She was not a bad actress and had some talent. Before, she had filmed two costume dramas with ratings breaking 3, so now her limelight in the entertainment circle was quite bright. In fact, the young lady had a good personality. Although she would occasionally act arrogant due to the reason of being backed by investors. But when filming, she was willing to endure hardship, and she also treated acting very seriously. In fact, this movie was Liang Xiao’s first film, and the young lady really wanted to film it well. Only to be met with Shen Yu, a spoiled young master who was only playing in the entertainment industry and was as delicate as glass. She at first wanted to flatter and form a good relationship, but in front of everyone’s eyes, she was scolded and accused of being a vixen by the eldest miss of the Shen family, and even slapped on the face.

Everyone has tempers. What was more, on this matter it was originally the Shen family in the wrong. Liang Xiao suffered a disaster because of Shen Yu. So it was quite understandable to want revenge.

But it was done in such a stupid way.

Even if Shen Yu was kicked out of the Shen family’s mansion by Mrs. Shen, Chairman Shen did not intend to cut off the relationship with this adoptive son. As far as he knew, the Shen family also arranged an apartment on the Bund for Shen Yu, and even the film and television company under the Shen Group also operated around Shen Yu as usual. Although due to Mrs. Shen’s anger, all the assistants originally allocated to Shen Yu were withdrawn. But so long as Shen Yu was not removed from the household registration book by the Shen family, he would still be a member of the Shen family and protected by the Shen family.

As the saying goes, one must see who the owner was before beating a dog. Shen Yu was raised by the Shen family for nineteen years. Even if his birth background was exposed, there were still the familial bonds that come from raising him for nineteen years. What was more, at the contract signing ceremony between the Shen Group and FlyNews.com, Tao Mu also personally recommended Shen Yu as the promotion ambassador of the Lost Children’s Gene Bank.

Yan Sheng believed that with the normal behavior of the Shen family, they should be able to respond quickly. At that time, Shen Yu would definitely return to the Shen family again. He just wondered how Liang Xiao would react at that time.

Yan Sheng could see clearly, he knew that the young lady was still too young and was not patient enough. But he didn’t say anything, just nodded at Liang Xiao, walked to Shen Yu’s exclusive dressing room, and knocked on the door.

For a long time, there was no response.

Yan Sheng frowned slightly and motioned for his assistant to knock the door open. Only then did he realize that Shen Yu was leaning against the door, tear tracks all over his face from having cried himself unconscious. His face was abnormally flushed, and he was still holding a mobile phone. On the phone screen was a news report from FlyNews.com about Tao Mu forcing himself into a state of high fever for filming.

Yan Sheng reached out and touched his forehead, it was quite hot. He quickly picked up the person and took him to the hospital.

In truth, Shen Yu’s illness was actually not a big deal. It was just that his body had always been delicate, and had never suffered like this before, so he caught a cold. Along with the little fever, he didn’t eat at noon as well, so he fainted from hunger.

After being given an IV drip, he woke up quickly. Looking at Yan Sheng, who was sitting beside the hospital bed, and the bowl of white porridge that Yan Sheng specially bought for him. Immediately, he burst into aggrieved tears.

“Brother Yan, why did they treat me like this!”

Originally an elegant and slender Persian cat, after being tossed around, he immediately turned into a small tabby cat. Yan Sheng chuckled, but patiently persuaded Shen Yu with a few words. On the way, he also explained why Liang Xiao targeted him like this.

Only then did Shen Yu know that Shen Yan had actually slapped Liang Xiao on the set. He was immediately shocked: “Why did Sister do this? Liang Xiao and I were just good friends!”

“So, Liang Xiao was also very angry. Think of it in her shoes, as a young lady scolded and slapped by your sister while being accused of being a vixen in public. She is also very pitiful, so can you forgive her once?”

Although he had not been in contact with Shen Yu for a long time, Yan Sheng, who had seen much in his life, could understand Shen Yu’s brain circuit. Sure enough, when Yan Sheng said this, Shen Yu nodded immediately and said: “Actually, nothing much happened to me. I just filmed a wire scene. Mu Mu forced himself into a fever for the sake of filming well. I just hung on wires, but I was so useless I actually got a fever.”

Yan Sheng found that Shen Yu seemed to be particularly interested in Tao Mu: “You seem to be particularly interested in Mr. Tao from FlyNews.com?”

Shen Yu hesitated for a while, but still said: “I think Mu Mu is very amazing. I want to be like Mu Mu.”

Yan Sheng remembered that there were rumors in the entertainment industry that the young son of the Shen Group was Tao Mu’s brainless anti. He didn’t disagree at first, thinking that either it was Shen Yu putting on an image and wanted to rub off on Tao Mu’s popularity; or Shen Yu actually hated Tao Mu, and the reason why he acted like a brainless anti was just for the sake of hating on the other.

However, based on his recent observation of Shen Yu, Yan Sheng was stunned to find that Shen Yu seemed to be Tao Mu’s brainless super fan. Not to mention that Shen Yu always paid special attention to Tao Mu’s news. Before, when some of Shen Yu’s fans exposed ugly photos of Tao Mu hanging on the wire and being shot at by a water hose for the sake of hating on Tao Mu. Shen Yu, who had always been soft and pleasant like glutinous rice, was so angry that he even scolded his fans for this kind of thing, @-ing Tao Mu and kept apologizing.

Yan Sheng originally thought that Shen Yu was pretending. However, at this moment, seeing Shen Yu’s attitude when mentioning Tao Mu——if Shen Yu was really pretending, then Yan Sheng had to admit that Shen Yu’s acting skills were really good. Even he couldn’t see any flaws and cracks in the mask.

“Since you like Tao Mu so much, you should have also seen the news that Tao Mu recommended you to be the promotion ambassador of the Lost Children’s Gene Bank, right?” Yan Sheng said casually. And then saw Shen Yu, who was like a pitiful cat soaked in water, raise his head quickly.

“Mu Mu recommended me to be the promotion ambassador? Why don’t I know what happened?” Shen Yu’s eyes were bright, like dusty black pearls with the dust washed away, the light dazzling and brilliant.

Yan Sheng looked slightly speechless at Shen Yu, who was now acting like a brainless fan seeing an idol: “The news came out this afternoon. Maybe you didn’t notice it.”

Without saying a word, Shen Yu immediately grabbed the phone from the bedside table to search for the news. Probably due to Tao Mu breaking the news at the contract signing ceremony that he was going to promote the Skynet system with Xiaoheng Capital, Skynet Technology and the Beijing Police was too shocking. Even the news of FlyNews.com’s “Just Take A Snap” public welfare activity had become a hot topic of current affairs. So much so that most of the media were chasing these two news stories. The few gossip magazines also focused on the news that Shen Yan made a big scene at the signing ceremony only to be slapped back by Tao Mu.

At the signing ceremony, Tao Mu proposed that Shen Yu should be the promotion ambassador for the Lost Children’s Gene Bank, but no one reported it at all.

But even so, Shen Yu was still satisfied. He felt as if he was recognized by Tao Mu.

Yan Sheng looked at the excited Shen Yu with some curiosity. He was delighted to discover that Shen Yu was really the same person as he presented on the outside. Such people were rare in this circle.

Tao Mu, who was far away in the capital, sneezed several times.

“Is your cold still not completely gone?” Meng Qi handed the tissue box to Tao Mu and asked with concern, “I heard that Mr. Li has been making medicinal soup for you recently. How are you eating?”

Tao Mu felt a headache when he thought of the soups that Li Xiaoheng kept preparing for him.

“I didn’t let him make it anymore. CEO Li’s work is too busy. Not only is he busy preparing for the online shopping platform and electronic payment project, but now he has to keep an eye on the Skynet system as well. Although capable people work a lot, I’m too embarrassed to let him add to his workload.”

Having said that, Tao Mu still felt that Li Xiaoheng’s enthusiasm was something he had a little trouble holding with.

Liu Yao and Meng Qi laughed. But they didn’t intend to comment on the children’s relationship problems. Meng Qi said, “By the way, there are many crews and directors who have come to FlyNews.com with their scripts. They want to invite you to be the leading actor and invest in the crew. I’ve brought back all those scripts for you. You can read them yourself.”

Tao Mu was speechless when he saw the scripts that were piled up like a hill. Since he invested 14 million yuan in the crew of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”, and also made a cameo role as a cannon fodder in it. After the news spread that he had forced himself into a high fever and even got a “drug addiction” in order to interpret the role, a lot of crews and directors came to the door with their scripts like sharks smelling blood in the waters.

At first, Tao Mu looked it over seriously, but most of the scripts that threw themselves at him asking for investment were mostly incoherent bad scripts. The clichéd idol dramas, the school dramas that follow the current trend, and illogical anti-Japanese war dramas. It all made Tao Mu’s head hurt. Eighty percent of them were rotten scripts that he had never even heard of.

Tao Mu estimated that these people took him as a fool, “a foolish person who throws away his money quickly”. It was a pity that he was not interested in acting in bad films. After several times of this, he simply refused all the scripts.

Those people couldn’t find Tao Mu, so they turned around and sent the scripts to FlyNews.com headquarters. Especially the FlyNews Entertainment department headed by Meng Qi. However, the scope of work of the FlyNews Entertainment department was mainly news media, and it had nothing to do with artist agency. Therefore, Meng Qi also had a headache.

“I think you should find an agent as soon as possible. You are also an actor now, and you will be filming in the future. Without an agent, and we laymen don’t understand either, what if there was a delay in business matters?”

Liu Yao also said: “Otherwise, you can simply set up a film and television company. Anyway, FlyNews.com is now cooperating with Summer Star Entertainment and Longteng Entertainment, but it also needs to invest in filming by itself. When you directly set up a film and television company, we can get everything ready, and it will be easier in the future.”

“Okay.” Tao Mu lazily slumped on the sofa and ate watermelon. Hearing his Yao Dad’s words, he replied with a smile: “Yao Dad, let’s work together to set up a film and television company. How about you be the boss and I’ll be the no. 1 male artist?”

What the hell?

Liu Yao glared at Tao Mu: “Are you mental. I open nightclubs, what do I do with a film and television company!”

“Isn’t that just perfect.” Tao Mu said with a smile: “Everyone is in the entertainment industry. Knowing one part of the industry, knowing all parts of the industry. It’s decided.”

Tao Mu remembered that in the previous life, when the entertainment industry was in its most blooming years, Liu Yao did actually want to start a film and television company. He also invested in a few films. Although they were all indie films produced at a low cost, the box office and ratings were not bad. Liu Yao had always relied on intuition when it came to doing business, and Meng Qi had been a serious student in business management of a prestigious university. One of them was responsible for finding projects and the other was responsible for specific management. They cooperated tacitly, and they really made a reputation for themselves in the circle.

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It was a pity that they were implicated by him and targeted by Shen Yu’s admirers. Even Night was not left unscathed, let alone their business in the entertainment circle which was Shen Yu’s home court.

In this second chance at life, Tao Mu didn’t think too much. He just felt that since he had the ability, he should try his best to make it so that the people around him could have a better life.

As Liu Yao said, he was going to set up a film and television company anyway. Rather than leave it to outsiders to take care of it, it was better to cooperate with his Yao Dad. After all, his Yao Dad wouldn’t stab him in the back.

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Shen Yu was having a hard time recently.

Since his birth background was exposed, and Mother Shen had kicked him out of the Shen family mansion. Although his father and older brother did not intend to cut off their relationship with him, and his sister often came to visit him, Shen Yu was still keenly aware of the changes in the people around him.

First of all, were the classmates who he went to school with. In the past, they were always on call to listen to him. But now, whenever Shen Yu was bored and wanted to talk to someone, everyone was always very busy. Part-time work, studying, it seemed that everyone had a busy life every day, which made it look like he was particularly idle.

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He felt very sad that he was kicked out of the house by his mother, and felt particularly aggrieved——could it be that because he was not the blood of the Shen family, Mom really didn’t even want the relationship they had over nineteen years. But what wrong did he commit? What happened back then was an accident, and no one thought it would turn out like this. But Mom thought everything was his fault. It was him who was the cuckoo that occupied the magpie’s nest and seized the life that should have belonged to the young master of the Shen family.

But he clearly didn’t want to. He also hoped that the Shen family could find the real Shen Yu as soon as possible and have a family reunion. He also hoped to be by his family’s side at this time and accompany everyone to get through this difficult time. But Mom didn’t give him the chance at all.

He couldn’t figure it out, so he could only talk to his classmates. His best friends understood him very well. They know that he missed his family. But there were still many classmates who not only didn’t understand him, but instead talked sarcastically everywhere.

“The Shen family is already very good to you. You’re clearly an outsider who has nothing to do with the Shen family, but even if the birth background of the Shen family was exposed, the Shen family is still willing to spend money to support you. I heard that Chairman Shen also put a luxurious three-bedroom apartment on the Bund under your name. Do you know how much a house of nearly 200 square meters on the Bund is worth? You are a cuckoo occupying a magpie’s nest, a fake young master occupying a mansion that we will never be able to afford in this life. The Shen family did not hold you accountable, and even settled you well, it can be considered to be quite benevolent and righteous already. Could it be that you really think you can stay with the Shen family all your life, and wait for Chairman Shen to die so that you can inherit the Shen family’s family business?”

But he never thought about this.

Shen Yu defended himself sorrowfully. He just didn’t want to leave the home where he had lived for nineteen years, the family that had been so good to him. He never thought about inheriting the Shen family’s family business. Even when his birth background was not revealed, he never thought of such a thing.

Shen Yu’s friends naturally knew that he was innocent and kind and did not have a manipulative bone in his body. But many people didn’t understand him. They have long been envious of Shen Yu’s family background, because of the power of the Shen family, those people did not dare to do anything before and could only blindly flatter Shen Yu. Now Shen Yu’s birth background had been exposed——it turned out that the little prince who used to be so high above them was not a prince of pure blood at all.

Nineteen years of pampering, when he clearly was not a child of the Shen family. But because the Shen family was rich and soft-hearted, even if he was kicked out, he would have everything arranged clearly for him. Thinking about it again, the Shen family also opened a film and television company for Shen Yu. Over the past year, they had invested in filming to support Shen Yu as the male lead, to ensure that even if Shen Yu left the Shen family, he could continue to live a glorious and comfortable life as an actor.

But what about them! Just because of their mediocre family background. Studying hard for so many years, just to snag a job in a big company like the Shen Group after graduation. Only earning a few thousand yuan a month, and spending frugally many years, just so they could save the down payment for a small dwelling on the outskirts of Shanghai. After that, it was likely that they would have to pay off the mortgage for 20 to 30 years.

——What other people have so casually, they might not be able to get it even with their hard work all their lives. And yet Shen Yu still felt dissatisfied and still felt aggrieved. Damn you, what are you aggrieved for! Do you really think of yourself as the little prince of the Shen family?

Not fated to be a prince, yet coming down with the prince’s syndrome instead.

Around Shen Yu, there were just as many people who hated him from the bottom of their hearts as there were people who truly supported and loved him. It was just that because of the power of the Shen family, those people did not dare to offend him, but instead tried their best to curry favor with Shen Yu. But now that Shen Yu was no longer the little prince of the Shen family. Although they dared not do too much, gossip was indispensable.

“I really don’t know if you are reluctant to part with the Shen family because of them or because of the Shen family’s money?”

“I would be reluctant as well if it was me. What a great feeling it is to be the young master of the Shen family. Everyone is pampering and coaxing me, and if something doesn’t go my way, I can force others to apologize. Now the prince has turned into a frog, and the gap in lifestyle is too great. Of course he can’t take it.”

“If you really care about family, why don’t you go back to your own father’s house. Is it possible that only the adoptive parents are important, and the biological parents don’t matter at all?”

“You can’t say it like that. After all, the Shen family and the Tan family are incomparable.”

The Shen family was one of the richest families in Shanghai. Although the Tan family had some assets, they have also fallen into decline over these many years. Compared with the Shen family, they were only middle class. It was likely that they don’t even have the ability to buy a luxury apartment for Shen Yu on the Bund. Therefore, the familial love of the biological father and stepmother was naturally not better than that of the adoptive parents.

Many people made malicious speculations to his face and behind his back. But they didn’t know that Shen Yu was also very aggrieved in this matter. After he knew his birth background, he also secretly went to see Mr. Tan. At that time, Shen Yan hadn’t revealed that she had secretly exchanged the two children. Everyone thought it was Shen Yu’s surrogate mother, who exchanged the children with a vicious heart. The Tan family thought so too. Because of their fear of the Shen family’s revenge, they simply refused to accept Shen Yu as a surrogate child. The younger brother of the Tan family who was only a few months younger than Shen Yu, because he was a die-hard fan of Tao Mu, even more disliked Shen Yu in every possible way.

Shen Yu only stayed at the Tan house for less than an hour, and he didn’t even eat lunch before being kicked out by his half-brother. When he was leaving, Mr. Tan gave him a bank card with one million yuan in it, and begged Shen Yu not to pester their family, lest the Shen family take their anger out on the Tan family.

Compared with the big and influential Shen family, the Tan family today was just a well-off family. They really couldn’t afford making such powerful enemies. This million yuan was the only thing Mr. Tan could compensate Shen Yu——he was Shen Yu’s biological father, but he was also the breadwinner of the Tan family. Shen Yu was nineteen years old and had never known the Tan family before. He hoped that they would continue to never have the opportunity to know each other again in the future. Although this million yuan was not much, in 2009, it was enough for the down payment to buy a two-bedroom apartment in Shanghai.

So many parents couldn’t afford a house in a first-tier city after their child went to college. Shen Yu and the Tan family have never spent time together, and just because of this blood relationship, the Tan family was willing to give one million yuan to Shen Yu. Both Mr. Tan and Mrs. Tan believed that they had done their best.

However, this kind of attitude of shooing poor relatives away with charity and generally avoiding him as if he was a plague, completely hurt Shen Yu.

Shen Yu grew up in the Shen family, and had been pampered and spoiled for so many years. Although he had a soft personality, he was actually very proud down to his bones. He went to the Tan family just to see what kind of person his biological father was. And on the way, ask them about his biological mother. He even wanted to ask what the real young master of the Shen family was like when he was a baby. Only for Mr. Tan and Mrs. Tan to try and get rid of him with money.

To tell the truth, no matter whether the Shen family still recognized Shen Yu as their child, Shen Yu had been raised by the Shen family for so many years, and he was not short of money. And he had no concept of money either. So he didn’t take the Tan family’s money, but left in a very sad state.

Now, when those classmates who were jealous of him slandered him behind his back for being greedy for money and profits, Shen Yu would not admit to such falsity. Shen Yu’s friends and fans were even less convinced. The two sides held their own opinions, and they wanted nothing more than to fight face to face. They practically turned Shanghai University into a debate arena.

However, if the students of Shanghai City University were still in the primary battle of just exchanging insults, then outside the ivory tower of the university, on the set symbolizing fame and fortune, some attitudes were exposed in more and more naked and hideous ways.

When Shen Yu’s birth background was exposed, he happened to be filming a movie. The male lead was the actor Yan Sheng, while he played the second male lead. Because it was a martial arts movie, there were many fighting scenes in it.

Before that, Shen Yu’s fight scenes had always been done by a body double. Even for some scenes that do not require a body double, if the difficulty factor was too high, the Shen family would insist on using a body double. Moreover, Shen Yu not only had a body double for action scenes, he also had many body doubles to say his lines. When Shen Yu was still the young master of the Shen family, Mother Shen and Shen Yan always doted on Shen Yu and refused to let Shen Yu suffer even a little. This led to a lot of body doubles for Shen Yu.

This was actually what Shen Yu was most criticized for when he was filming——he couldn’t endure hardship. So many scenes that required jumping into the river, hanging on the wires, fighting in the snow, and even getting slapped in the face, he used a stand-in. This also caused the parts with Shen Yu in them to be filmed in a manner that did not link up.

In fact, the director and many actors have always had opinions and complaints in their hearts. However, there was nothing they could do. Who let the Shen family’s film and television company be the largest investor in this movie? The young son of the Shen family was willing to come to act as a hobby, so they could only accompany him and coax him. Wasn’t even the biggest actor Yan Sheng also willing to follow in NG-ing more than a dozen times, and still remained patient as if nothing was happening. So what else could little shrimps like themselves say about this?

In order to curry favor with Shen Yu, some actors would deliberately be more friendly with Shen Yu in their spare time during filming. This was actually human nature. But once, it was discovered by Shen Yan who came to visit the set. The eldest miss of the Shen family lost her temper and thought that the actress was trying to seduce her younger brother. While Shen Yu went to the bathroom, she slapped the actress in front of everyone. The actress who was slapped played the female No. 2 in the movie, and she was also a popular little flower in the entertainment industry in the past two years. According to rumors, there was also a bankroller behind her. So she didn’t have any intentions towards Shen Yu at all, she just wanted to make a connection by establishing a good relationship. But in the end, she was slapped indiscriminately by the eldest miss of the Shen family.

Not only that, but even the young male actors who had a good relationship with Shen Yu were also rectified by Yao Wenxiao behind the scenes. At first, everyone didn’t know it, but unfortunately there was no airtight wall in this world. Later, when everyone knew of this, due to the power of the Shen family and the Yao family, these young actors could only swallow their anger. Now that they knew that Shen Yu was not actually the blood of the Shen family, and was even kicked out of the Shen family by Mother Shen, these people naturally took revenge.

So when Shen Yu returned to the crew to film, a wire scene that was supposed to be done by his stand-in was instead forced on Shen Yu to do it personally under everyone’s deliberate instigation.

“But I’m afraid of heights! I don’t dare.” Shen Yu didn’t know that these people were deliberately harassing him, and still wanted to do the same as before: “Wasn’t it done by my body doubles before——”

“Are you filming or is your body double filming?” The second female lead who was to act with Shen Yu unceremoniously interrupted Shen Yu’s words: “Do you know that this next scene has many closeups? If you don’t do it yourself, it will be very troublesome for the director to edit. The post production crew will have to cut out pictures later. Because of you alone, making trouble for us all. The most important thing is that it will reduce the quality of the finished film, don’t you have any shame?”

“If you can’t endure hardship, why be an actor! Why don’t you just go back and be your young master? Oh, right, I remember. You are no longer the young master of the Shen family. Since you don’t have that young master’s life, then don’t act as spoiled as one. You are just going to hang on a wire and make a few moves, do you have to drag your feet as if you are going to the execution ground?”

“Speaking of which, both are also actors. In order to film well a small supporting role with few scenes, Mr. Tao of FlyNews.com actually came down with a high fever of 39.3 degrees celsius. He even went to the drug rehab center to experience it himself, and filmed several days with a high fever. He didn’t even take medicine or sleep. Just to find the right state for the last scene. Now this is the attitude of one who sincerely wants to be an actor and actually likes this line of work.”

“It’s not like we are asking young master Shen to have this heart and professional ethics. You just have to hang on the wires and make a few moves. It’s not like you can’t even do this, right?”

Shen Yu originally wanted to say something, but when he heard the second female lead mention Tao Mu, he immediately stopped: “I’ll go.”

Shen Yu had a bone to pick, he just didn’t want people to say that he was much worse than Tao Mu. Although many people said so.

Hearing Shen Yu’s words, several actors looked at each other, and ticked up the corners of their mouths very subtly.

Female No. 2 gave the props master a wink. When the prop master who had prepared for a long time was putting on the wire suit for Shen Yu, he deliberately tightened it very tightly. Shen Yu felt uncomfortable, but the props master justified: “When filming, you have to hang up very high. If it is loose, you will fall off. Aren’t you afraid, young master?”

Of course Shen Yu would be afraid. So he didn’t make a sound. However, it was very uncomfortable when he was hung up, and his whole body, especially the inside of his thigh, was very painful. It was so painful Shen Yu cried, and was simply unable to make the requested moves of the scene at all.

The director NG-ed dozens of times, and finally got impatient and called cut directly. Letting everyone go to lunch break and rest.

Shen Yu breathed a sigh of relief. He thought the hardest time was over. But it turned out that everyone went to eat, and no one put him down at all.

He stayed out in the winter of minus ten degrees, wearing a thin costume, and hung midair by the wires for more than two hours. In the end, best actor Yan Sheng, who took a half-day leave to catch another job, came back and asked his assistant to call the props master. When he was finally down, Shen Yu’s whole body was frozen stiff.

When he got back to the dressing room, he started to have a fever. However, the crew still disliked him for being useless. It took a whole afternoon to film a scene and it was not done well, which was a waste of film. And even said that it was a good thing that it was all digital now. If it was filmed like in the past, who knows how much film would be wasted on this day.

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Finicky and useless, crying at every turn. Compared to Tao Mu, whose acting skills were so superb that even Teacher Zhan Bin praised him, and even his filming attitude was astounding, Shen Yu was so much more lacking.

Not comparable to Tao Mu at all!

Shen Yu, who was leaning against the door of the dressing room, slid weakly down to the ground. Listening to the discussions of the people outside, he only felt pain and cold all over his body.

He just didn’t understand why those people treated him like this.

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