“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh……..”

“I can’t, I can’t, I’m going to die…..”

“Wuwuwuwu, I announce that I am Mu Mu’s boyfriend fan starting today…..”

“So beautiful, I really want to marry him home…..”

“I feel like he is prettier than those female stars in the entertainment industry…..”

In fact, after Tao Mu finished dancing, the whole studio was silent for a while. There were hundreds of people in the huge studio, but except for the sound of machines running and snowflakes falling, there was no sound at all. Even Director Zhou Hong forgot to call out ‘Cut’. It wasn’t until a few seconds later, or a few minutes later, as the red figure got up under the street light, did everyone seem to have been awakened by the person in the painting who had broken the spell.

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Then the silent studio was instantly filled with uproarious noise. With applause, screams, and shouts of confession, everyone rushed to Tao Mu’s side to ask for photos and hugs. Previously, the class beauty, who had clamored to be Tao Mu’s bankroller after becoming successful, hugged Tao Mu and didn’t let go, crying loudly that she wanted to stop being a woman, and that she was an embarrassment to women. And the boys who were on friendly terms with Tao Mu all knelt down and called Tao Mu Goddess. Even the cast and crew couldn’t help but crowd around, asking Tao Mu how long it took him to practice such a beautiful and difficult dance.

Zhan Baoli, the heroine of the crew who especially loved classical dance and Peking Opera, was also a well-known opera actress in China and even she couldn’t help but praise Tao Mu’s dancing skills. She said that such a beautiful dance was rarely seen in real life, even in film and television dramas. Especially in the second half of Tao Mu’s dance, with all kinds of flipping and aerial martial arts, most girls couldn’t jump with such strength at all. Even male dancers with stronger physical strength were rarely able to jump with such smoothness in coordination with the water sleeves. In particular, Tao Mu’s dance also incorporated a lot of martial arts movements, Peking Opera elements and whipping techniques. It looked heroic and valiant, and it gave people goosebumps.

“It was truly beautiful.” Zhan Baoli sighed for the 108th time: “Who choreographed the dance moves for you?”

Of course it was himself.

Tao Mu had been filming since his last life, and he had also met many martial arts instructors and dance teachers, and had filmed many fighting scenes, so his vision and knowledge were definitely not worse than others. Coupled with the fact that he had entered Beijing Film to study professionally in this life, he had to practice all kinds of modern dance, ballet, folk dance and opera postures. So improvising or something, he wasn’t afraid at all.

But Tao Mu didn’t expect himself to dance so successfully. He originally planned to dance a few more times as he did not expect it to pass in just one try.

As he was talking, he felt a weight on his shoulders suddenly and his body warmed up instantly. When Tao Mu turned around, he saw that Li Xiaoheng had walked up to him at some point and draped a down jacket on him.

“Aren’t you cold when you wear so little?” Li Xiaoheng said, squatting down and zipping Tao Mu’s down jacket. The long black special down jacket covered Tao Mu from head to toe, causing his body to immediately warm up.

Only the thin layered red silk dance shoes still on his feet could be seen, and as they stepped on the snow, it looked very cold indeed.

“Why don’t you go back and change your clothes first?” Li Xiaoheng frowned, disapproving of Tao Mu wearing so little and chatting with everyone in the snow. It was not good for the body if he caught a cold.

Everyone was slightly taken aback. And for some reason felt that the atmosphere in front of them was a bit weird. Long Tianao blinked his eyes blankly, and laughed carefreely: “CEO Li is worthy of being the most valued partner of CEO Tao, caring about CEO Tao’s physical condition this much. You see, we were all only paying attention to CEO Tao’s beautiful appearance, only CEO Li cared about whether Tao Mu was cold or not.”

As soon as these words came out, everyone felt even more weird.

The originally noisy and boiling set was quiet for a moment. Tao Mu coughed lightly and said, “It’s really cold. I’ll go back and change my clothes first.”

Class beauty Jiang Cheng raised her paw and asked, “Tao Mu, can I borrow that costume of yours? I want to take some pictures wearing it.”

As soon as these words came out, many girls echoed in agreement. Even the female No. 2 and No. 3 in the crew couldn’t help making this request. There was no other reason, it was because Tao Mu danced so beautifully just now in it.

Tao Mu sneezed, and glanced at the three roommates who were hiding in the crowd while smirking: “Okay. But the three of them will go first. After they are dressed they can do a dance, just take it as promoting our crew.”

“Why us?” The three roommates wailed. As if they were relaying ‘baby won’t do it, baby will make trouble’: “We are men, we don’t wear women’s clothes.”

Tao Mu looked at the three roommates, let out a hehe, and repeated without a smile, “Bao’er, could it be you think it’s too embarrassing for a grown man to dress up as a woman and dance? Actually, don’t put too much psychological burden on yourself. As an actor, you need to play all kinds of roles. Acting the opposite sex is also part of acting. At most you will just be experiencing it in advance.”

Wen Bao: “…..” What do you call digging a hole and burying yourself? This.

“That doesn’t work! You look at your height of 1.82 meters, and I’m only 1.75 meters tall. I can’t wear those clothes.” Wen Bao was still struggling to the death. Du Kang who had been heckling particularly loudly earlier also echoed: “I’m 1.89 meters tall, and I can’t wear these clothes. Xiao Anzi is about the same height as you though. He can wear it.”

Chu Sui’an, who was standing on the side quietly was dragged out by his roommate, an innocent stumbling across a crossfire: “…..” Meow Meow Meow?

“No!” Before Chu Sui’an could speak, several female classmates in Beijing Film were already screaming in protest: “You can’t let a bunch of stinky men wear such a beautiful costume.”

Jiang Cheng hugged Tao Mu’s costume tightly, and hugged Tao Mu who was wearing said costume along the way: “This is for us girls to borrow. Let them change to other women’s clothes. Anyway, this is H Town. There are all kinds of costumes. If it doesn’t work, we can lend them our Republic of China female student uniforms.”

These words inspired many classmates: “By the way, didn’t Wen Bao dance yangge at the end of the term finals performance play? Let him put on a student uniform and wear a big red silk scarf to dance yangge.”

After being reminded by his classmates, Wen Bao suddenly realized. That’s right, his own crossdress show had long been offered up already. Then this wasn’t the first time for him at all, so why was he acting like a shy virgin girl?

The dark devious eyes swept over Tao Mu without a trace. Wen Bao knew in his heart that Tao Mu’s performance was too good just now, which made everyone feel a little psychological pressure.

But how could one say it, being able to live in the same dorm with a black-bellied guy like Tao Mu and get along very well, the three roommates were also quite thick skinned fellows themselves. Hearing these words, he no longer shied away, and squeezed into the girls’ changing room like a silly roe deer, looking for girls’ school uniforms from the Republic of China everywhere——he really was ready to dance it seemed.

And it was not only them who would crossdress, but also the entire cast of actors were also dragged down the pit with them——bah, dance with them. Except for Zhan Bin and other veteran teachers who they did not dare to approach, the others were all harassed by Wen Bao and the others. Not even Director Zhou Hong and Screenwriter Fan could escape their clutches.

Tao Mu went back to the dressing room to remove his makeup and costume. When he came out again, all the actors in the crew were wearing cheongsams or schoolgirl outfits that was a sight enough to blind the eyes. A large group of people were standing on the set, contemplating what dance to do——Tao Mu’s ultra-difficult dance definitely didn’t need to be considered. It was best to keep it simple and easy to use. Some even suggested radio calisthenics.

The large group of people stood on the set, and Tao Mu had a flash of inspiration. He remembered a dance move that was very popular in later years. He gathered everyone in the middle of the set, clapped his hands and said, “Dance with me. Come, get ready, one, two, three, four…..”

Everyone looked at Tao Mu in unison, seeing Tao Mu’s upper body remaining still and only his feet sometimes kicking forward, sometimes sideways, the movement was simple and smooth, there was basically no difficulty, but it looked quite cool.

Everyone present, most of them had attended professional training schools. Even Director Zhou Hong and Screenwriter Fan practiced voice, stage presence, posture and appearance when they were in college. Such a simple action certainly couldn’t beat them. So under the leadership of Tao Mu, the large group of people quickly began dancing.

Soon after getting high from the dance, Tao Mu even pulled his Yao Dad and Xiao Qi Dad in. It wasn’t until the crew’s post-production came over to say that the video of Tao Mu’s dancing had been edited did everyone stop.

Tao Mu said that he wanted to promote the crew, and his way of publicity was also very simple and crude. He directly titled the video “Dancing at the Filming Site of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”, uploaded it directly to FlyNews.com’s official account, shared it by himself, and then @ “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” official FlyNews account.

Zhou Hong indicated that the staff in charge of managing the official FlyNews account of the crew also shared it.

The netizens who have been waiting to be fed on the Internet have finally waited for this video and couldn’t wait to click it. Then——

“Ahhhhhhhhhhh…..”

“So beautiful!”

“The posture is also too good!”

“Are you sure it’s not a stand-in? Wasn’t it filmed and edited? Isn’t there a hanging wire? I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it! I don’t believe this dance was done in one go!”

“The one who asked if it was a stand-in, are you blind? Except for a few fixed-frame top-down angles, this video was shot with a long camera. Yet someone is asking if it’s a stand-in if it was edited or not? Go see a doctor if your eyes are bad!”

“The water sleeves are thrown with so much strength and power!”

“The last pose was so beautiful, I cried at how beautiful it was.”

“I don’t know why, our Mu danced so beautifully, but I cried after watching the dance.”

“I cried too.”

“Cry +1”

“Water sleeves, Peking Opera postures, a few martial arts moves and the nine-tail whipping technique, wow, our Mu knows a lot of things.”

“Am I the only one who thinks the background music is particularly good? Especially the last gunshot, and then the twirl and fixed opera pose at the end, wasn’t it amazing? Got goosebumps in an instant.”

“The people upstairs talk a lot. I just want to ohhhhhhhh…..”

“I announce that I will be Tao Mu’s boyfriend fan from now on.”

“My motivation for work is to make money and marry Tao Mu home!”

“Upstairs, that is a bit difficult. I don’t fully agree, our Mu is now a rich daddy worth billions. And that’s in US dollars!”

“…..The idol I fan is not only handsome, good at acting, but also rich, what should I do?”

“What else can you do, of course, to continue loving him!”

Most of the netizens who only knew how to lick at good looks only cared about licking the screen after seeing the video, ohhhh woof woof ahhhhh. After seeing this dance, professional dancers and artists began to analyze this dance in terms of technical difficulty and emotional rendering. Some people noticed that the title of Tao Mu’s dancing video was “Filmed on the set of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”, and then followed the title to find the “Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” crew’s FlyNews account, searched for the synopsis, and some people even bought the original novel.

After reading the synopsis, they immediately understood what Tao Mu was trying to express in this dance. So they switched back to their own FlyNews account, and analyzed from the background of the times during the Anti-Japanese War to the reason why Tao Mu danced this dance. The country was in danger of being destroyed, the motherland was at stake, and the nation’s people were faced with the matter of survival. The innocent girl in the boudoir would finally put on combat uniforms and pick up guns to fight on the battlefield. Even if she ended up sacrificing herself to the revolution in the end, it was also necessary to use flesh and blood to form the Great Wall to keep the invaders out of the country.

——Now the bright peaceful lands of China was washed clean with blood by these revolutionary ancestors.

A eloquent long essay was typed out, which directly made many people cry. Netizens who were easily moved watched Tao Mu’s dance video over and over again, while they searched for the crew of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” over and over again, and even bought the original novel to read. Before everyone knew it, “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”, which was originally filmed in a low-key manner, had become well known on the Internet.

Tao Mu pinpointed the time, and asked the “Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” crew to upload the infectious step dance video of all the crew members dancing together to the crew’s official FlyNews account. Adding an especially sentimental voiceover at the beginning of the video that spoke: “The ancestors of the revolution made up the Great Wall with flesh and blood and fought the invaders with all their might, so that their descendants could live like this”——then the video started and one could see a group of dudes wearing female student uniforms of the Republic of China or the cheongsam of concubines, appearing so ‘beautiful’ it blinded the eyes. And dudettes in the red army uniform, with hair done in two big braids, appearing valiant and heroic. All standing in front of the camera and dancing the shuffle.

——The netizens who were quite emotionally moved and on the verge of crying, bursted into laughter when they saw such a group of demons and handsome girls dancing together in a group dance that also appeared particularly cool and handsome.

“This is too funny!”

“Why are the guys made to look so ugly, and the girls are so handsome and beautiful. By the way, our Mu Mu is indeed worthy of being known as a girl’s best friend, all the girls under his lens are very beautiful and handsome!”

“Who the hell came up with this kind of dance, it seems so strange. But after watching it a few times, damn it looks really cool.”

“Really cool +1. And it’s very simple, I can dance it too.”

As some netizens chatted, they even opened their FlyNews accounts and uploaded a video of themselves dancing the shuffle. Netizens were the kind of special existence where someone takes the lead and someone follows suit. So soon, netizens in different job positions, different occupations and different outfits uploaded videos of themselves dancing the shuffle with their friends. The shuffle dance, together with the crew of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”, which was the “originator”, suddenly shot up the hot search headlines.

Of course, as photos of many female classmates changing into Tao Mu’s dance costume came out, many people also started uploading videos of them dancing Tao Mu’s dance. However, the technical difficulty of Tao Mu’s dance was too great, and most netizens tragically pitted themselves. The only few survivors were all professional dancers who were among the best in the industry.

This time, what was recognized by the public faster than Tao Mu’s acting skills, in addition to his net worth and business talent, turned out to be his dancing skills. So Tao Mu was once again crowned “the most unprofessional actor”.

For a while, the entire Internet was discussing Tao Mu’s two dances and the war drama “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”. Due to the significant improvement in national popularity, what was different from the previous life was that before the crew of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” had even finished filming, many TV stations had already come to them to buy the broadcast rights of this TV series.

In comparison, Guo Yaning, who also released an album on Valentine’s Day, felt bad——after her album was released, it was swept away by the tsunami that was Tao Mu’s dance video, and no one cared at all.

Guo Yaning, who was really unwilling to see this, called Tao Mu directly to complain, crying and wanting Tao Mu to compensate her for a hot search. Tao Mu had no choice but to say, “In order to fulfill the hundred million users promise, I actually made another dance video earlier. How about you take the video and talk to the people working on your album to match it with a song? “

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He remembered that in Guo Yaning’s new album, there seemed to be a song similar to Suzhou opera. If it was paired with the dance video, it should be fine too.

Guo Yaning’s eyes lit up, and she stretched out a hand in seconds: “Where is the video, gimme!”

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“Why go through so much trouble?”

When Gou Rixin asked Tao Mu with anticipation if he needed the help of the camera crew to record the dancing video, Tao Mu said blankly: “I have already recorded the video before. Just waiting for FlyNews.com’s registration data to exceed 100 million and then I can just upload the video directly.”

Ever since he took the role of Su Dingbang, Tao Mu knew that his winter vacation would be very busy. FlyNews.com had more than 99 million registered users. Tao Mu had always been a person who liked to plan ahead. Worried that when the data exceeded 100 million, he did not have extra time to record the dance video, so in the first few days of winter vacation, Tao Mu recorded the video in Beijing Film’s dance studio. Everything was ready, and all he had to do was just wait for the east wind to arrive, and upload the video to the Internet.

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“What?” The crew members, who had been keeping their ears open to pay attention to the situation, looked at each other and couldn’t help screaming in disappointment.

“When did you record the video?” Jiang Cheng, who once played Zhang Wuke in the end of terms finals performance and now played a progressive female student in “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”, stood up from behind the prop box with great excitement: “Wasn’t it agreed that the camera crew will help record the video, and you will dance on the set?”

“Who agreed?” Tao Mu was also confused. How come he didn’t know? Also: “Jiang Cheng, why are you hiding behind the prop box and eavesdropping on us…..Your costume has become dirty.”

“That’s not important.” Jiang Cheng looked at Tao Mu with disappointment: “How could you do this, Tao Mu, we have been looking forward to it for a long time.”

Gou Rixin touched his nose in embarrassment: “We all thought you had not prepared it, so everyone discussed how to record the video with you. The reason why I didn’t tell you was because I wanted to give you a surprise.” They all wanted to join in the fun.

Director Zhou Hong also added with great disappointment: “I was also thinking, why don’t we take a break from filming tonight and record the dancing video for you first.”

The lighting and cameramen all nodded. They were also ready. Even the masters in charge of the set were discussing which venue Tao Mu could choose to dance in, and whether he needed help setting up the background or something.

Only to find out, Mr. Tao secretly prepared everything and recorded the video already. So disappointing.

Gou Rixin continued to add: “Also, brother Yao and brother Xiao Qi said they wanted to see the dance in person, and they even bought a plane ticket to rush here, and visit the set as well. If they knew you weren’t going to dance, they would be very disappointed.”

“That’s right!” Several other female classmates of Beijing Film also echoed: “We were also saying, if Tao Mu needed back-up dancers, we could also help out in friendship.”

Tao Mu: “…..” I say, you guys have quite the happy daydreams together, why don’t you know how to communicate with the person concerned (me)?

“I don’t care! We want to watch the dance!” Seeing that the plan was about to fall apart, relying on their familiarity with Tao Mu, the three roommates in dormitory 301 took the lead in heckling. With the thick chopsticks made by the props maker, they drummed a big chipped bowl: “We want to watch the dance!”

“Crossdress as a woman!”

“Watch the dance!”

“Crossdress as a woman!”

Towards the end of the commotion, once the three roommates shouted to watch the dance, the entire crew would echo “crossdress as a woman”. The chant was uttered with such a powerful aura, those who didn’t know might think the crew was filming a demonstration!

——Even when they were actually filming, they were not in such high spirits and full of emotions.

The key was that Gou Rixin was still beating on the side and pretending to be pitiful: “I heard that brother Yao and brother Xiao Qi will also bring dean Tao and Mr. Song here together. In such a cold winter, going through so much trouble, if they can’t watch the dance, they will be very disappointed!”

“Tao Mu, could it be that you think it’s embarrassing for a grown man to dress up as a woman to dance?” Wen Bao winked at Tao Mu: “Actually, you don’t need to have too much psychological burden. As actors, we need to play various roles. Acting as the opposite sex is also a part of acting. At most you are just experiencing it in advance. Besides, you have practiced for so long. Dance it for us. Let us all appreciate it. Either way, everyone will watch the video online. You are going to upload the video tonight, right?”

Tao Mu glared at Wen Bao with annoyance. He thought of what Gou Rixin said that all the family members had bought plane tickets to come to see the dance. There were also the puppy eyes of Wen Bao and the others who were eagerly waiting to join in the fun. He was always reluctant to let down the people around him who really cared about him. And it was the cold winter, it was not easy for the family to travel all the way here——

“But I never thought about dancing on the set. The costume I ordered is back in Beijing, and I didn’t bring it over.”

He finally agreed!

Wen Bao and the others’ eyes lit up, and they immediately said, “That’s easy to handle. What is this place, H Town! If nothing else, there are costumes of all kinds. You just tell us what you want, and we will rent it now.”

“It won’t necessarily fit!” Tao Mu frowned, especially for dancing. Tao Mu’s outfit was customized for him. And including the hairpiece it cost him more than 100,000 yuan!

“Then let someone send you the outfit you left in Beijing!” Long Tianao, who hadn’t spoken much, was also eager, his eyes so excited they practically gleamed: “Where did you put the costume. I’ll give Summer Star’s person a call and ask him to pick it up now.”

It seemed they were really not afraid of the height of the stage when watching a play!

Tao Mu gave Long Tianao a speechless look, and simply called his old man and asked them to go to his apartment opposite Beijing Film before they rushed to the airport, and bring along the dance costume: “…..It’s in the closet. You will see it when you open the door.”

When everyone saw this, they immediately clapped their hands in anticipation. Zhou Hong was particularly interested: “What kind of background scenery do you think will be good, do you want an interior scene or an exterior scene? It doesn’t matter what scene you want, even if you want a stage, we’ll get it for you.”

That was not necessary. Tao Mu looked back at the background scenery the crew was shooting today. The scene to be filmed today took place after the full-scale war broke out, the Japanese invaded Shanghai, and everywhere was gunpowder and scenes of war, but the Shanghai French Concession was still full of song and dance. The Su family had already hid in the Concession in advance, but the Japanese who got the tip captured Su Dingbang who hid in the Concession, and tortured him to force Su Dingbang to defect.

Tao Mu looked at the filming scene, and was suddenly inspired: “No need to change. Just this scene. By the way, let’s also make a promotion for our crew.”

Having said that, Director Zhou Hong still directed the lighting team and camera team to set up the background with great interest. Just one street away, the war was raging outside, but here there was wine, feasting and dancing. A dim yellow street lamp stood quietly beside the street, emitting a dark golden light.

When Liu Yao and company arrived at H Town with Tao Mu’s costume, it was already past seven o’clock in the evening. There was no flight at this point. They were on the Li family’s private plane——yes, Li Xiaoheng, who saw the news on the Internet, also flew over.

When they arrived on the set, it just started to snow. The fluttering snowflakes, like goose feathers, soon covered the ground with a layer of pure white.

Tao Mu changed into his deep crimson costume dress, his face was painted like that of a Peking Opera actress, and the emeralds and diamonds on his hairpiece swayed with his steps. Just walking quietly under the dim yellow light, the dark golden light sprinkling from overhead, splitting the whole picture into two parts. And behind him, one half was war raging, and the other half was singing and dancing. Light and dark were alternately intersecting, just as life and death blended into each other. In an instant, that kind of inexplicable but shocking feeling overcame everyone seeing this.

The studio, which was still a little noisy and turbulent, suddenly quieted down. The lights and cameras were all doing their due diligence. Director Zhou Hong couldn’t help but pick up the loudspeaker and shout “Action” in person.

There was a lingering and meandering sound of the pipa, which was as gentle as jade beads falling into a golden bowl. The first thing that appeared in front of the camera were two crimson sleeves that hung side by side. The arms moved slightly, and the sleeves were hooked, revealing ten slender fingers. The white fingers reflected the layered flowing sleeves, which looked particularly beautiful under the light. Immediately after the index fingers exerted force, tossing the two flowing sleeves upwards. The figure turned around, flipping the flowing sleeves, one flowing sleeve was thrown forward and the other flowing sleeve was thrown backward, and at the same time, the figure turned over and stretched out his arms, the flowing sleeves stretching out to their full length of seven feet. And the crimson flowing sleeves bloomed like a red wave in an instant.

The music paused slightly at this time, allowing Tao Mu the time to freeze in a pose. The lingering sound of the pipa sounded again, Tao Mu neatly rolled in his sleeves, and then threw them into the air again, turning his body at the same time, and throwing both flowing sleeves to each side at the same time, instantly producing billowing red waves that bloomed unbridled against the dark backdrop.

Flecks of snowflakes floated down one after another, the black night, the dark golden streetlights, the crimson dress and the white snow, all painting a devastatingly beautiful picture.

Tao Mu retracted his sleeves and turned around, his whole body gathered strength, and then followed with another side flip. At the same time, his arms swayed, two red sleeves rippling and flying in the flying snow. With the sound of the pipa, Tao Mu leaped into the air, jumping out and touching the golden crown on his head with the back of a foot, the two red sleeves were like arrows flying from the string in an instant, flying up and across the floating white snow, as if Tao Mu was also flying. Immediately following was another big turn, the pipa was gently hooked and the notes slowly trembled like the song of a warbler, and Tao Mu made all kinds of gentle and graceful movements such as lifting, coiling, and raising sleeves in accordance with the music, just like a boudoir young lady with the appearance of a sleeping begonia, innocent and charming.

However, soon, along with the ups and downs of the situation, the current political situation worsened. The lingering sound of the pipa also melted into a slight killing intent at this time. The pipa sounded harshly, like the metallic clanging of weapons and iron-hoofed steeds, and Tao Mu’s dance also changed from the previous soft and graceful to heroic and valiant. The original gestures such as hooking, flirting, twisting, and raising have been reduced. Sleeves were flicked, thrown, with big throws and swings, followed by side flips, back flips, and other moves. Tao Mu was originally a martial artist, and he danced more explosively than if he were a true girl. Before, he specially learned the water sleeve dance and whip method for acting. At this moment, many martial arts movements and whip techniques were integrated into this water sleeve dance. From a distance, the originally gentle and flirtatious water sleeve dance actually gained a warrior-like appearance, permeated with an imposing danger.

The dark moon follows the shadow of the sleeves, and the sword brushes away the frost flowers.

Everyone listened to the murderous sound of the pipa in their ears, and felt cold to the bones. If the graceful dance before only made people feel the elegance and beauty were unparalleled and charming, then the warrior-like dance now with wide and open moves filled with male strength made people unable to bear even blinking their eyes. It was as if their entire soul had been taken away by that dazzling figure, the heart beat violently, and the mouth went dry.

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Accompanied by the sound of a gunshot, the fast-spinning figure under the streetlamp suddenly fell to lay down in a classical Peking opera posture, freezing in that graceful pose on the snowy ground. The night was dark, the lights were dim, white snow and crimson dress, and two long flowing sleeves winded through the snow around the crimson figure. The camera looked down from above, giving an aerial view to the crimson sleeves which looked like two meandering bloodstains that stood out shockingly against the white snow and dark sky.

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Tao Mu couldn’t bear Li Xiaoheng’s overbearing attitude like he had taken a stimulant, so he couldn’t help but change the subject: “Actually, there are several good online shopping platforms on the market now…..”

For example, Maotao.com, which was very popular in later years, had started Double Eleven activities this year. There was also Gouging.com, which had been competing with Maotao.com, and would also start 618 activities in June next year (TN: mid-year e-commerce shopping festival known as 618/June 18. It’s the second-largest e-commerce shopping day in China—second only to Single’s Day/November 11). This cat and dog war continued even ten years later. The plan that Tao Mu gave to Li Xiaoheng basically covered the various disturbances encountered by the two major online shopping platforms in the next ten years and how to deal with them. In truth, many times, the entrepreneurial team was not short of inspiration, but what was missing was the transformation of inspiration into something practical and maintaining the ability to move forward steadily.

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Tao Mu felt he didn’t have that ability, of course, the main reason was that he didn’t have the energy to take care of such a big business. His own FlyNews.com was already taking up too much time, and moreover he also had his acting career. But Li Xiaoheng was different. He had Xiaoheng Capital, and the backing of the Li family. If Li Xiaoheng really intended to start an online shopping platform, at least he didn’t need to worry about the two crucial aspects of capital and logistics. In addition, there was also no need to worry about how to deal with the website needing to communicate and negotiate with all aspects of the problems encountered in the actual operation.

Therefore, cooperating with Li Xiaoheng was the most time-saving and labor-saving way that Tao Mu could think of, and it could ensure the maximum benefit——other than for the troublesome fact that a certain someone who always wanted to eat the grass next to the nest, and harassing his business partner.

But Tao Mu believed that if Li Xiaoheng really intended to do this project, then, with the occupational disease that Li Xiaoheng possessed, being serious and responsible for his work, he would definitely devote all his energy to his work——at least in the early stages of the project.

At that time, Tao Mu could guarantee at least one or two years of respite. As for one or two years later, it was likely that Li Xiaoheng would have forgotten the initial interest he had for him. After all, the various impulses caused by hormones were the most unreliable things.

“If you are interested in doing this project, I can negotiate with major brands about entering the website. Nowadays the world is in an economic crisis, which will definitely affect the sales of major brands. So talking to them about this at this time might be easier than normal.”

As for how to negotiate, Tao Mu would of course not use the normal business negotiation model. Anyway, he also had to discuss with major brands about sponsoring FlyNews.com to film the idol drama. It was better to take this as an opportunity to engage in a large-scale publicity campaign. If the discussion went well, maybe at the beginning of the website’s establishment, they could also collect a publicity and planning fee.

Tao Mu’s abacus was sounding, and he had already begun to think about how to trick——bah, to convince those brand owners. When filming a TV series, how about designing a makeup look or style, or a classic first appearance scene for each brand?

Li Xiaoheng sat next to him, looking at the seriousness of his partner who threw himself into work after just a few words, and he couldn’t help but smile.

He sat closer to Tao Mu and said, “If you want to convince those brands, then do you have to find a chance to visit their headquarters? Since it’s for our website, I’ll go with you. I happen to know the shareholders of some of these brands, maybe I can help out.”

Tao Mu nodded casually and recorded this in his itinerary. In his original thinking, there was no need to go to such efforts. He just needed to communicate with the person in charge of these brands in China. But Li Xiaoheng’s idea was not bad. To solve the problem from the source, maybe the price could even be discussed——although the price of luxury brands was basically unified globally. But there would definitely be more discounts negotiated with the headquarters than with the branch. At that time, the profit margin of the website would be greater. When hosting activities, it could also be larger.

Li Xiaoheng saw through Tao Mu’s little calculations at a glance and couldn’t help twitching the corners of his mouth upwards. However, in his heart, the amount of profit margins that could be negotiated came second, and the most important thing for him was the negotiation schedule, which required him and Tao Mu to act together.

Thinking about it in another perspective, it was basically a globetrotting trip for just the two of them.

It felt pretty good. He was really looking forward to it.

However, no matter what Li Xiaoheng was expecting in his heart. The days had to go by gradually and one at a time. What Tao Mu had to do now was to play the role of Su Dingbang seriously.

During this period, news came from Jinxi that the Boss Huang had done a lot of other illegal things besides opening the black coal kiln without licenses. For example, when the illegal operation of the black coal kiln caused the miner to be injured, not paying the employees’ insurance, not being responsible for the medical expenses of the injured employees, and also injuring the family members of the employees who went to the coal kiln to ask for justice, etc…..

Relevant departments that received the report took it very seriously. An investigation team was immediately established to investigate the black coal kiln. Boss Huang, who originally stayed in H Town and wanted to invest in a different crew and sleep with some female stars on the side, immediately panicked when he heard the news. He had no choice but to hurry back to Jinxi.

However, it was only after Boss Huang returned to Jinxi that he realized that it was the eldest son of the Li family in the capital who reported him. And the one who helped to submit various materials and was in charge of the follow-up process was the Boss Wang who had warned him.

Now, Boss Huang finally knew that he had kicked the iron plate. But he still didn’t understand how he had provoked the Li family? Of course he had heard of the reputation of the Li family and the Fengxing Group in the capital. If he had met such a person, he would definitely rush to ingratiate himself to him. How could he take the initiative to anger him instead? Everyone was thousands of miles apart and never knew each other, and it was not like the eldest son of the Li family suddenly developed a momentary sense of justice and reported him, right?

In the end, after some inquiries, Boss Huang finally knew the relationship between the eldest son of the Li family and Tao Mu, as well as the investment of the eldest son of the Li family in the production of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”——

F**k, didn’t they say that the investor Tao Mu had brought in was just a little shrimp with no background? For just a mere five million yuan, he even ignored the New Year’s holiday and personally flew to H Town to visit the set. How the hell did he know that the eldest son of the Li family was so idle? If he knew earlier then even if he borrowed the courage, he still wouldn’t dare to slap a tiger’s butt!

But it was too late to say anything. At the beginning, Boss Huang relied on his own money and power, and he acted arrogantly and did all kinds of evil. Those who were oppressed by him dare not speak out. But now the relevant departments have received reports and started to investigate the bad guys, and the state now supported the victims. Naturally, these ordinary people would spill everything they knew of their grievances when the investigation team came to investigate. Due to the influence of Boss Huang, some people did not dare to say more, so they hesitantly took the investigation team to the home of the injured employee and let the victim himself speak to them in person…..

Until the day that Boss Huang stumbled into prison, he never dreamed that he would be thrown in for this reason. He didn’t regret the things he had done that hurt the world, violated the law, and violated morality. Instead, he was annoyed that he shouldn’t have offended Tao Mu and the eldest son of the Li family so casually. Even when he was interviewed by the media, he still complained that Tao Mu’s methods were ruthless. He also said that his son and daughter were only in elementary school and junior high school, and they were very pitiful without a father.

Later, a reporter relayed the coal boss’s remarks to Tao Mu. Tao Mu didn’t even bother to evaluate this kind of brain circuit. If it was said that pitiful people sell their miserable stories to make everyone sympathize, then when the bad people sell their miserable stories it would only just make people feel happy and applaud. Tao Mu was not the type to sympathize with others casually. What was more, he didn’t feel that Boss Huang’s actions were worthy of sympathy.

On the contrary, after learning of Boss Huang’s charges, Tao Mu also asked Lawyer Zhou to go to Jinxi, and in the name of Song Huai Foundation, he donated 100,000 yuan to the injured miner who was injured in the mine but did not receive timely treatment. Although for families who have lost their breadwinners, the 100,000 yuan was just a drop in the bucket. But Tao Mu would rather spend his sympathy on these innocent and affected ordinary people than sympathize with a rotten person with blood on his hands.

Although he didn’t comment a word, Tao Mu’s attitude still made a lot of media and melon-eaters talk enthusiastically about it.

But these were all afterwords.

On the second day of discussing new cooperation projects with Li Xiaoheng, the very busy CEO Li flew directly to the US by plane. In terms of action execution, Li Xiaoheng, who was able to create Xiaoheng Capital in his freshman year of college, was definitely no worse than Tao Mu. Since the two decided to start an online shopping platform, apart from the process that Tao Mu must participate in, the rest of the matter must be resolved by Li Xiaoheng within the deadline. There would definitely not be any delays.

This was also an important reason why Tao Mu was sure that he could throw a good project at Li Xiaoheng, and Li Xiaoheng would devote his full attention to his work and would never have time to chase after him.

So Li Xiaoheng flew to the US this time because he wanted to negotiate the acquisition of a certain payment tool——thanks to this economic crisis caused by the subprime mortgage crisis in the US and gradually spreading to the world. All walks of life have been affected by this financial tsunami. Even those world-renowned manufacturers were struggling to survive, let alone some other industries that were heavily dependent on economic conditions. This also brought a lot of convenience to Li Xiaoheng’s acquisition plans.

Directly acquiring a payment tool with mature technology, and then adding various functions on top of it. It was indeed easier than developing the technology yourself from scratch. Li Xiaoheng’s method was especially good at this. By the way, the employees of the investment department who stayed at the headquarters in the US were also asked to focus on other projects worthy of investment and acquisition. Only then did he return to China with a payment tool named “Easy Pay” and a large number of technicians.

At that time, Tao Mu was still in H Town for filming. However, the internet had exploded.

February 14, 2009, the first month of the lunar calendar had not yet passed. Thanks to the concerted efforts of everyone, the highly anticipated registered users of FlyNews.com finally exceeded 100 million.

Immediately, netizens posted screenshots on their FlyNews page, and drummed their bowl with chopsticks as they waited for Tao Mu to dance in women’s clothes. A group of netizens who worked hard to eat melons and watch the fun have commented and forwarded them below. In just one hour, this FlyNews had more than one million comments and hundreds of thousands of retweets, and instantly topped the FlyNews hot search list.

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The technical department that had been monitoring FlyNews.com also noticed this comment, and helped to highlight it in hot red and push it up to the top. Meng Qi, who was still in charge of FlyMews Entertainment in Beijing, found that the phone in the office instantly began to ring constantly, all to urge Tao Mu to fulfill his promise.

Meng Qi also joined in the fun, calling Tao Mu’s phone directly. Tao Mu was filming at that time, and Gou Rixin took the call. Hearing this news, Big Dog was also happy, and smiled honestly: “Mr. Meng, don’t worry. I’ll tell him when Tao Mu is free. I’ll definitely have him film the video of him dancing in women’s clothes as soon as possible.”

After a pause, Gou Rixin asked with evil intentions, “Do you want to come and see the dance in person?”

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After hanging up the phone, Tao Mu was shocked to realize that he hadn’t seen Li Xiaoheng for two days.

It was also because there were too many things happening in the past two days, and Tao Mu had the problem of focusing all of his attention as soon as he started on something. He didn’t even notice when Li Xiaoheng, who had been wandering beside him, disappeared.

It wasn’t until he made this phone call with Wang Ye’s father that Tao Mu knew that Li Xiaoheng had gone back to Beijing specifically for this matter to ask the elders of the Li family to communicate directly with the relevant departments in western Jinxi. Li Xiaoheng himself acted as a whistleblower, and he reported it under his real name. As for the other procedures after the report, it would be fully handed over to Wang Ye’s father.

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Without the need for Wang Ye’s father to elaborate, Tao Mu could also guess how much favors Li Xiaoheng had put in for this matter.

Was it worth it?

Tao Mu frowned. He felt that if it was him, since he had already entrusted the matter to Uncle Wang, he would never let the Li family come forward. This was obviously a waste of resources.

The key thing was that the reason why Li Xiaoheng did this was to vent his anger. In other words, Tao Mu would have to pay back all the favors Li Xiaoheng had promised in this matter.

Tao Mu’s brain was spinning fast, and he was already thinking about how much profit he should create for Li Xiaoheng in order to repay this favor——Li Xiaoheng specially went back to Beijing to ask the Li family to come forward. If nothing else, just for the sake of this concern for him, at least it should be worth more than several billions.

That night, as soon as Tao Mu returned to the hotel, he began to swipe through the notebooks that only he could understand. Trying to find business opportunities in it. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for him to be interrupted by the visit of Long Tianao and Luo Xi.

Long Tianao and Luo Xi also contributed to the matter of the coal boss bringing trouble to the crew. Tao Mu understood in his heart and when facing the two of them, his attitude was a lot more casual. He even made up his mind to give up part of the profits in the follow-up cooperation between them.

Long Tianao and Luo Xi never thought that the two of them would have such an unexpected joy when they fought for righteousness. Long Tianao was simply standing up for his friend, and he had long regarded Tao Mu as his brother, so of course he was willing to accept the benefit of his brother. Therefore, there was no pressure on Long Tianao at all. When Tao Mu promised the benefit, he didn’t even ask any further, nor did he demur, directly accepting it.

On the contrary, Luo Xi was worried. She wanted profits but was also afraid that Tao Mu would think she was insatiable, and she was even more afraid that if Tao Mu gave the benefits to Longteng Entertainment, then he would not give her advice on the stock market after that. In worrying about gains and losses, it was inevitable that she appeared indecisive.

Tao Mu didn’t care either, and continued to discuss with the two about the specifics of holding a new talent show.

Long Tianao said carelessly: “I think the voting model of the school beauty school hunk was very good. When the contestants first entered the competition, they didn’t understand anything. We hired professional teachers to teach them their talents, and then let them perform. When the audience watches it, it gives them the pleasure of cultivating and watching an idol grow. They can see how stars are born. So this time, we are going to do the same for the talent show of “National God and Goddess”. After a public pre-selection, gather them all in the filming venue, and then have mentors teach them the four aspects: voice, stage presence, mannerism, and appearance. Then they will perform on the stage, and the mentors and the audience will vote to decide who will advance. The last remaining national top 16 will be invested by the three of us to shoot an idol drama. Directly promote them in their star debut.”

“But this time, it’s not the same as the “National School Beauty School Hunk” competition. Our company will also introduce artists from our performance classes to participate in the audition. So the voting mechanism…..” As Luo Xi said this she tentatively looked at Tao Mu .

Tao Mu frowned: “Whether it’s an artist you want to support within your company, or a contestant who is popular among the audience, if you want FlyNews.com to be the organizer, I don’t want any tampering in regards to the voting mechanism.”

Speaking of this, Tao Mu also felt strange: “Why are you so stingy? Anyway, the contestants who advance to the top 16 will definitely sign with your companies. The meat is already in your bowl, is there a difference between who you support?”

Luo Xi shook her head and smiled bitterly. If only it could be as simple as Tao Mu said. However, she also knew that with Tao Mu’s temper, he would definitely not agree to this request made by Longteng Entertainment. She just inquired on a routine basis, so that she could explain to other shareholders when she went back.

Long Tianao didn’t think too much: “The competition is handed over to FlyNews.com to host, of course, FlyNews.com can do whatever it wants. With FlyNews.com’s audience base, if these signed junior artists can’t even make a name for themselves under this fair competition system, it is likely that the company won’t be able to support them to stardom them even if forcefully. So don’t make it difficult for Tao Mu.”

As Long Tianao spoke, he then mentioned another thing to Tao Mu: “The idol drama we are going to film is mainly about the fashion industry. It’s similar to the Hollywood movie “The Devil Wears Prada”. There will be a lot of international brands. Don’t you have a good relationship with the fashion industry? Don’t they love you very much? When filming, can you come forward and meet those international brands and fashion magazines and have them help out on the art direction? And mainly to see if these big brands are willing to give us a friendly sponsorship.”

Otherwise, with so many luxury goods showing up in the drama like goods on an assembly line, how much budget would it take to shoot such an idol drama?

Long Tianao rolled his sleeves eagerly: “I’ll tell you the truth. This project was proposed by me. I just want to make a real idol drama, not one where the supposed heir of a big group worth tens of billions of dollars go out on a date at Starbucks, and shop with girlfriends at cheap foreign trade stores…..I just want those ordinary boys and girls to experience the real high society. Of course, if I can, I wonder if I can apply for a particularly handsome and rich supporting role?”

Understood. He just wanted to be handsome and show off his wealth, right?

Tao Mu laughed. Luo Xi added: “There is one more thing, there are many department stores under the Luo Group. We hope that when the TV series is filmed, we can shoot the scenes in the department stores under the Luo Group. Moreover, the high-end communities and villas developed by the Luo Group will be launched one after another at the end of the year. We hope that when shooting the TV series, we can also give some publicity to the real estate developed by the Luo Group. “

Tao Mu: “…..” Do you folks want to film idol dramas or commercials? With so much side stuff, why don’t we just make an idol drama for you as a commercial?

Long Tianao’s eyes lit up: “It’s actually possible to have this kind of operation! Why didn’t I think of it. Then I also request to film our Long family’s properties when filming the dramas. Our Long family also has real estate development and department stores. By the way, Tao Mu, don’t you want to negotiate with those international luxury brands? Could you maybe talk with them about having their goods displayed in our Longxing Department Store as well? It’s no problem if they disdain our Longxing Department Store as being too low-level, we can rebuild a high-end shopping mall according to their requests. Wow, in order to shoot an idol drama, a department store had to be built first. Say, do you think other people would especially want to watch this idol drama if they found out? I am a genius!”

So this was how a hedonistic son of the rich who was not the breadwinner did things. Towards this imaginative daydreaming fellow, Luo Xi didn’t even bother to pay attention to him.

Tao Mu couldn’t help shaking his head. Disapproving of classmate Long Tianao’s unsophisticated appearance. In his heart he thought it was nothing novel to build a department store just to shoot an idol drama. With this kung fu, he might as well create an online shopping and retail platform directly and throw all the brands on the Internet——hey, wait a minute!

Tao Mu had a flash of inspiration and suddenly sat up straight. He looked straight at Long Tianao: “You especially want to produce a popular idol drama that could lead fashion trends, right?”

“…..Ang!” Long Tianao blinked, looking at Tao Mu who was inexplicably excited, a little confused.

“Then do you want to produce a world-shattering idol drama?”

Being reborn ten years into the past, what was the most precious thing! Of course it was experience!

Using ten years of experience to compile a business idol drama with a business thinking that was far ahead of the times, what kind of waves would it make?

All kinds of classic cases of business warfare that have not happened yet but would happen in the next ten years were just emerging now, but ten years later, all Chinese people have become accustomed to the Internet daily life. Online transactions, electronic payments, all kinds of social software…..

What if these concepts that seemed so new in 2009 all appeared in a fashion idol drama?

In the future, when some bigwigs talk about their entrepreneurial experience, they say that they got their inspiration from an idol drama…..that would be too awesome, alright!

Thinking of that embarrassing scene——wait, would he be caught and experimented on as an oddity?

Tao Mu, who was overwhelmed with self-confidence in his mind, blinked, and the passion and impulse of whims all subsided at this moment.

He needed more careful consideration and more thoughtful advice. Like he said himself, if he really wanted to make this idol drama into a world-class commercial. Then Tao Mu must ensure that he himself would be the biggest beneficiary after the release of this idol drama.

Tao Mu looked at the two people in front of him thoughtfully——one was trustworthy but not smart enough, and the other was smart enough but not trustworthy.

“I will consider this matter carefully.” Tao Mu stood up with a serious face: “It’s getting late. You should go back to rest first.”

“Huh?” Still waiting for Tao Mu to continue only for Tao Mu to suddenly evict his guests.

Long Tianao and Luo Xi stared blankly at each other, and finally left Tao Mu’s room full of question marks.

After seeing off his guests, Tao Mu immediately turned on the computer to write a plan. He typed down his ideas one by one on the document and straightened them out one by one.

Then, Tao Mu subconsciously scrolled down to Li Xiaoheng’s mobile phone number while sitting in front of the computer screen.

When Tao Mu realized it, the call was already connected.

Tao Mu: “…..”

On the other end of the call, just after flying back from Beijing, Li Xiaoheng, who was standing outside the door of the Tao Mu’s hotel room, answered the phone and asked in a warm voice, “What’s the matter?”

Tao Mu pondered for a moment, then said, “…..Nothing. I just have a business plan that I want to discuss with you.”

As Tao Mu spoke, he glanced at the time displayed on the computer, and said hesitantly, “It’s too late. If you need to rest——”

“It just happens that I also really want to chat with you.” Li Xiaoheng didn’t wait for Tao Mu to finish speaking, and interrupted him directly: “Open the door?”

“Huh?” Tao Mu was stunned for a while before getting up to open the door: “You came back from Beijing so late?”

Li Xiaoheng hooked the corner of his mouth and dragged his suitcase into the door: “Everything over there is almost done being taken care of. So I came back.”

Tao Mu thought for a while, and still said, “Thank you.”

“No need for thanks. That’s what I should do. After all, I’m also one of the investors in the crew.” Li Xiaoheng paused, then added: “Of course, we both know that the reason why I acted was not because of this.”

Tao Mu poured a cup of hot water for Li Xiaoheng and handed over his freshly typed plan. Li Xiaoheng put the laptop on his lap, scrolled down a few pages, and looked up at Tao Mu: “I can understand the function of video calling, after all, we have discussed it before. But an online shopping platform? Electronic payment? Why do you suddenly want to do this?”

“It’s not me.” Tao Mu corrected: “I’m insignificant and weightless. I can’t do such a big project. This plan is written for Xiaoheng Capital. Anyway, you have the backing of the Li family, and Xiaoheng Capital has strong capital and won’t be afraid of wind and waves. Of course, if you’re not interested——”

“Why?” Li Xiaohe looked at Tao Mu with interest: “Why did you give me this plan?”

“To thank you for your help before. I heard Uncle Wang say that you also asked the Li family to help you for this matter——”

“It’s just a minor effort.” Li Xiaoheng interrupted Tao Mu’s words again: “We all know the value of this plan. With the backing of Xiaoheng Capital, if you follow your plan, within ten years, your company’s market value will be increased at least hundreds of times. Don’t say my little effort is worth so much.”

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Tao Mu frowned: “Don’t think too much. Just now, Long Tianao and Miss Luo came to me to discuss the talent show and the later filming of an idol drama. We just talked about this. I just came up with this on a whim and the plan I wrote for you is a plot point I want to shoot in this drama. If you want to do this project, it just so happens that the drama can help you promote it.”

“Have you talked to them about your thoughts?” Li Xiaoheng tapped on the computer screen. He said confidently, “You haven’t.”

Before Tao Mu could speak, he saw Li Xiaoheng staring at Tao Mu with bright eyes as if he had taken a stimulant, as he said with a dazzling smile: “When you think of a good project, you first think of me, and you come up with such a good project just to repay my favor. May I think that in your heart, I actually carry a lot of weight?”

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The efficiency of dispatching the police in H Town was particularly fast. Almost ten minutes after the crew called the police, the police arrived at the scene. But faster than the police were always the reporters who got the news from who knew where.

These people also knew to divide into two groups, one group swarmed the crew for an interview, and the other group followed the ambulance to the hospital. In order to hear the news of the wounded being saved or dying as soon as possible.

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“Director Zhou, may I ask whether the explosion in the crew was man-made or accidental?”

“CEO Tao insists on calling the police, do you suspect that someone maliciously retaliated against the crew?”

“Mr. Zhang Mengcheng, I heard that the stuntman was helping you rehearse your position when the explosion happened. If it was filmed as normal, you should be the one who was injured. Was this explosion aimed at you?”

“Excuse me…..”

“Everyone, be quiet for a while.” Director Zhou Hong touched his scalp and said, signalling everyone to be quiet: “The cause of the accident is still under investigation. Whether it is an accident or man-made, it will take a police investigation to get the results. At that time, the crew will hold a press conference and explain it to everyone. Now please leave the set, so as not to affect the police handling the case.”

Zhou Hong and the rest of the crew managed to persuade the reporters to leave the film set. The accident site had been cordoned off by the police. After a demolitionist expert inspected the scene, it was judged that the accident was caused by man-made actions——someone had done some tamperings when arranging the bomb which was why it exploded ahead of time.

Now that the cause of the accident had been determined, the rest was much easier to handle. Because Tao Mu chose to call the police immediately, all the demolitionist of the pyrotechnic team stayed on the set and did not leave. Allowing the police to ask them to go back to cooperate with the investigation.

It was investigated that night that a demolitionist in the pyrotechnic team was instructed to make some trouble during the filming. But he explained that he didn’t mean to hurt anyone, he just wanted to scare the crew. It was Zhou Hong who changed the filming schedule, and moved the scene that should have been shot in the afternoon to the morning, therefore people were accidentally hurt.

However, when the police asked him to confess the one behind the scenes, the demolitionist who accepted the bribe couldn’t say a name. He only knew that the other party was bald, not tall, looked quite strong, and spoke with a Jinxi accent.

Jinxi? Wasn’t that former investor coal boss from Jinxi? Almost subconsciously, everyone connected these two together. But without conclusive evidence, the police could only find Boss Huang for routine questioning. Of course, Boss Huang did not admit that the explosion accident of the crew was related to him, and even gloated at the misfortune: “…That surnamed Tao is usually so arrogant, and there must be no less people who were offended by him. The way I see it, it must be some people who don’t like him who deliberately did this to scare him, but it ended up as an accident. The actor who was injured is really unlucky. The one behind the scenes didn’t dare to do anything to Tao Mu, so of course he would direct the attack on the small fries in the crew. As I see it, this whole thing might not be over just yet. If the actors who are still in the crew are smart, they should leave as soon as possible. Otherwise, they might not have the life to spend the money they make.”

Of course, the police who recorded the statement could also see that Boss Huang was gloating at the misfortune and deliberately provoking anger. But it was not like they could stop him from talking like this. In the end, the police could only leave after recording a bunch of nonsense. As for the bald-headed man who the demolitionist revealed that spoke with a Jinxi accent, he had long since disappeared without a trace. The police in H Town did not have sufficient police force to track down the bald man, so they could only record the physical features of the suspect in detail according to the description of the demolitionist, and track him down slowly. As for the responsibility for this explosion accident, it was naturally fully placed on the demolitionist.

The case having progressed to here, everything was basically solved. But even Long Tianao and Miss Luo who came to visit the set were unwilling to accept this answer, let alone Tao Mu. The two got the physical characteristics of the suspect criminal from unknown channels, and then directly posted a reward online.

Of course, such a big movement could not escape the reporters outside the studio. The entertainment reporters who were always ready to report big news collectively climaxed. News or rumors related to the explosion instantly squeezed onto the headlines of major newspapers and weekly magazines. As the news spread, some gossip tabloids even compiled rumors that “Tao Mu was injured on the set due to an act of malicious revenge, and is now lying in the hospital, alive or dead unknown” to deceive sales. It was simply infuriating.

On the other side, the people around Boss Huang became a little flustered and panicked when they learned that the two major shareholders of Summer Star Entertainment and Longteng Entertainment had posted a reward on FlyNews.com.

“Boss, they are making such a fuss online, would there be anyone…..”

“What are you afraid of?” Boss Huang disagreed: “They don’t even have a photo. Just based on these verbal descriptions, who the hell would know who they are looking for. You just tell Qiangzi to hide carefully at this juncture, and if the situation really goes bad, send him to Southeast Asia by boat to play for a few days. He can then come back when the limelight passes.”

Speaking of this, Boss Huang frowned fiercely and couldn’t help scolding: “…..Motherf**ker, can’t even handle such a trivial matter. He almost killed someone.”

He also didn’t expect the demolitionist to be so shoddy when doing things. He was kicked out of the crew by a little brat like Tao Mu so of course Boss Huang couldn’t bear it. He had been paying attention to the movement of the crew of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” this whole time. Then he found out that Boss Wang didn’t invest in the crew at all, and that Tao Mu pulled in a young man who was not even a few years older than him instead. Apparently this newcomer was in finance. It seemed that the surname was Li or something.

But whether it was finance or the Internet, in the eyes of an industrialist like Boss Huang that was all synonymous with having no background. Because in China, people with real background were all engaged in industry or real estate. Because of such a mindset, Boss Huang didn’t even investigate Li Xiaoheng’s net worth and background——after all, a big boss with real wealth would not personally fly to a small town like H Town for the New Year because of a mere five million yuan investment. At the same time also put on the face of holding an inspection of the set. It was estimated that this person, like Tao Mu, was just lucky enough to make some money in the financial market and actually dared to run over to snatch his bread crumbs.

As for Boss Wang who had talked harshly to him on the phone, Boss Huang didn’t even have to think about it——he wouldn’t even make an investment of 5 million yuan. It was estimated that Boss Wang and Tao Mu were just perfunctory acquaintances.

Because of such a misunderstanding, Boss Huang directly determined that Tao Mu had no background. Since there was no background and no backing, it was natural to carry out his revenge. But concerned about Boss Wang, Boss Huang didn’t dare to go too far. He simply bribed the demolitionist from the crew and asked him to cause a few more accidents when setting up the explosion scene, so as to scare the crew. He would then take the opportunity to spread rumors, and scare the cast away. See how this little bastard planned to shoot his film without a crew.

But Boss Huang didn’t expect that the demolitionist he bribed was so useless. Not only did he fail to get things done, but he almost killed people. If this happened in his coal mine, this kind of idiot who did things without regard, he would definitely throw him into the mine to dig coal.

“Then what should we do now?” Boss Huang’s confidant asked. That demolitionist made such a huge mistake, should they still keep going?

“Aren’t you speaking nonsense? Everyone knows that I don’t get along with surnamed Tao, and I already made my declarations. Yet I didn’t do anything in the follow-up. Won’t they suspect me even more?” Boss Huang’s thinking was also amazing, he felt that when doing bad things one must do it frankly. That way people won’t associate him with the previous wave of bad incidents. His actions could only be considered as throwing stones while his enemy was already down, revenge on Tao Mu and the crew of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”.

Besides, Boss Huang felt that he cleaned up any trails left behind. Even if those people were suspicious, they couldn’t find any evidence.

Boss Huang had done this kind of thing many times, and he had never made a mistake. He didn’t care this time either, and was happily preparing to watch a good show where the little bastard hit a wall because the crew members went on strike and didn’t perform.

Damn him, he deserved it. Who asked a bastard like you to not keep your eyes peeled, offending me for a little girl!

Of course, Tao Mu didn’t know just how proudly Boss Huang thought of himself. He had to keep an eye on the police to investigate the truth of the accident, hire someone to take care of the stuntman who was accidentally injured in the blasting accident, and maintain the normal filming of the crew——

On the second day of the blasting accident, the stuntmen and extras hired by the crew went on strike one after another, insisting that the blasting accident of the crew was a deliberate act of revenge, and they dared not go to work normally, for fear of encountering the same end as the injured stuntman.

“CEO Tao, it’s not that we want to make trouble on purpose. You also understand us. Now the police have come to the conclusion that the blast was caused by man-made reasons. Although those demolitionists were all invited by the police for questioning. But none of us dare to guarantee that the person who wants to take revenge on the crew only bribed one demolitionist, what if he also bribed the props engineer, or other staff? If the crew has accidents one after another, it would not be auspicious, right?”

“Yeah! CEO Tao, don’t worry. It won’t be too late to start working again when everything has been investigated.”

“My ass!” Zhou Hong, who was already devastated by the blasting accident, became even more anxious when he heard this: “Waiting for the investigation to be clear? How clear do you want it to be? With such a big project in the works, the loss of one day’s work means a waste of hundreds of thousands of yuan. Can you take out this money?”

Everyone was silent for a while.

“Anyway, we quit.” After a long silence, someone said sheepishly: “We don’t make much money, and we have to risk our lives. Director Zhou, you are right, the crew is so big, it really can’t afford to be delayed. But our lives are more important.”

“I’ll double the wages.” Tao Mu pondered for a while, then said, “Everyone’s pay is doubled. This accident is indeed man-made, and we will pay more attention to filming safety in the future. If there is an accident, the crew will be responsible for everyone’s medical expenses and follow-up medical expenses. But I promise that such a thing will never happen again in the future. I hope everyone can tide over the difficulties with the crew. “

Some people instantly looked at each other in hesitance, tempted at the doubled wages. However, they had already received Boss Huang’s money, and they dared not do nothing——Boss Huang’s methods were much more ruthless than the approachable CEO Tao.

“Then what conditions do you want?” Tao Mu himself was an actor, and of course he was more observant. Looking at the exchanging looks of the leading group extras, he knew that someone might be playing tricks behind the scene so he probed subtly.

“CEO Tao, it’s really not about money.” The so-called greed for profit, with Boss Huang tampering behind the scene, and Tao Mu’s usually approachable and easy-going attitude in the crew, these people even dared to take advantage of the situation, and said greedily: “If you could increase all of our salaries tenfold, we’ll give in, and everyone will risk his life to help you finish this film.”

As soon as these words came out, some people immediately cheered.

“Yes, tenfold!”

“If you don’t give ten times the wages then we’ll quit!”

“That’s right. Everyone is putting his life at risk here, so you must pay us ten times the salary.”

“You guys are simply taking advantage of the situation!” Zhou Hong shook in anger, and the other main members of the crew were also very dissatisfied. One by one they all came over and tried to talk reason to these people.

“What? You people can get tens of thousands of yuan in salary for one episode. We are only paid fifty yuan a day for group extra performances, and 200 yuan a day for stunt performers. Now that something happened to the crew, we were all at risk. Can’t we even get a raise?”

“Yes, either raise the money or we’ll go on strike.”

“That’s right. Aren’t you afraid that you will lose hundreds of thousands a day if you don’t start work? Now let’s see if you want to lose hundreds of thousands a day, or give us a raise!”

“Hurry up and think about it! It won’t be just ten times the wages later.”

“Fifteen times…..twenty times…..”

Someone deliberately fanned the flames, and coupled with a large group of extras who were not high in IQ and only knew how to join in the fun, the large group of people raised the prices, and in just a while, the pay became even higher than the main actors.

It seemed that they really took Tao Mu as a pushover.

“Why are you doing this? Did Tao Mu mistreat you? Did the crew mistreat you? CEO Li visited the set and delivered takeaways, and even included your shares. At the beginning, you said that the crew’s treatment was very good, but now you turn your face and deny it?” Tao Mu’s Beijing Film classmates didn’t experience much, and when they saw this scene, they almost cried. They all felt injustice for Tao Mu.

However, this group of extras were originally instructed to come here to make trouble. They didn’t care what other people said at all.

“Brother Gou. Call Lawyer Zhou.” Tao Mu instructed expressionlessly, “Have Lawyer Zhou come over to file a lawsuit.”

He looked at the crowd of clamoring extras in front of him, and said calmly: “Group extras are not counted. The special actors and stunt performers signed contracts when they joined the crew. Either perform the contract or compensate for liquidated damages. You choose. “

Tao Mu had always been one to yield to soft approaches but rejected force. If someone dared to take advantage of the situation and rob him, then he would see if these people still have the ability to keep raising prices after he was done with them.

“Have the casting director remember the number of people. At this moment, those who are making a fuss about quitting the crew, write down their names. In the future, FlyNews.com will no longer recruit these people as group extras for movies and TV series invested by FlyNews.com.”

Long Tianao, who was watching from the side, immediately said, “Give me a copy of the list. In the future, the projects invested by Summer Star Entertainment will not need these people.”

Miss Luo was slower in taking the step and could only echo Long Tianao’s words,

As soon as the three of them said these words, the group of extras instantly exploded.

“Isn’t this bullying?”

“How can you be so unreasonable.”

“Damn it, I just know these guys don’t treat us like people. Come on guys, let’s beat them——”

Before he finished speaking, the person who spoke suddenly screamed. He was kicked three meters away by Gou Rixin.

“You all f**king give me a break!” Gou Rixin hadn’t returned to H Town for more than half a year, but he still had a lot of influence in the hearts of some old group extras in H Town.

Especially after Gou Rixin finished speaking, there was a sudden commotion outside the studio. It turned out that Da Luo had led Gou Rixin’s group of martial arts brothers and more than a 100 group extras over.

“Brother Gou, brother Mu, we aren’t late are we?” Da Luo hurriedly ran over with a grin: “I just got a call from brother Gou, so I contacted everyone. I called over all the group extras that could be recruited. Now, including the special and stunt performers, there are a total of 132 people. Some brothers are filming in other crews so they can’t come over today. If it’s not enough, we can call them to come over tomorrow.”

Anyway, the wages of group extras were calculated on a daily basis. Under normal circumstances, everyone would act in the same crew until the end of filming. But if there were special circumstances, quitting midway was also something that could not be avoided. Besides the crew wouldn’t care, anyway, group extras were like props, and no one cared about who they were.

“It’s enough for the time being. Thank you all.” Tao Mu walked in front of the crowd and said directly: “Thank you for coming to help. Not much to say, but for those who come today, the salary will be double the market price. Everyone will be paid later. Report all your names, in the future, when FlyNews.com, Summer Star Entertainment, and Longteng Entertainment film again and need group extras and special actors, we will give priority to everyone.”

As Tao Mu spoke he bowed deeply to Da Luo and the group of extras and martial arts brothers he brought. After getting up, he didn’t even spare a look to those group extras making trouble just now. He just directly said to Gou Rixin: “Tell them all to piss off!”

Tao Mu, who had always been heavily burdened by idol baggage, was so angry that he actually swore in public. While everyone was surprised, they also felt refreshed.

While the young students of Beijing Film might not see it, old fritters like Zhan Bin could see that these group extras were instructed by others to deliberately come to make trouble. The purpose was probably to keep the crew from filming. The crew of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” just started filming a few days ago. Who could have such a deep hatred for them? Everyone didn’t even have to think too hard about it.

On the one hand, they were disgusted with the behavior of the coal boss, and on the other hand, they were also worried about the crew. But unexpectedly Tao Mu was so capable at such a young age. And Gou Rixin, who followed Tao Mu silently and looked like a very honest lad, was actually able to pull in more than 100 people without making a sound, including special actors, stunt performers and group actors…..He was practically more competent than the casting director in their crew.

Tao Mu was determined to kill the chickens to set an example, and directly asked Gou Rixin and the crew to kick all the group extras who had made the most commotion out of the crew. The rest of the group extras who followed their lead looked at each other in dismay. Some people left by themselves out of pride, and some people stayed due to concerns about future consequences.

Tao Mu didn’t say anything. Although he had the heart to kill chickens to set an example, he couldn’t kick everyone out. So as not to cause this group of people to unite against him under shared hatred, it would be more troublesome at that time. Might as well dismantle them from within. Except in order to teach these group actors and stunt performers a lesson, Tao Mu had the crew double the pay for the new group actors and purposely overlooked the old group actors.

As for the group extras who were not incited just now and were still honestly waiting for the crew to go back to work, they were delighted to find that their wages also increased.

Sweet jujube along with a hard hit from a stick, and the crew that had been flustered and panicked completely calmed down. Some people were happy, and some people felt regret. But it all mattered not to Tao Mu.

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Tao Mu turned around and called Wang Ye’s father. He remembered that Wang Ye’s father once said that the small coal kiln of Boss Huang might not have proper procedures. He wanted to ask about the reporting process. As a result, he learned from Uncle Wang that it turned out that Li Xiaoheng had already asked him to do the reporting. Apparently Li Xiaoheng personally communicated with the Jinxi local government using his status as the Li family’s son.

It was estimated that this time, Weasel Huang wouldn’t be given a chance to escape at all.

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When Long Tianao and Luo Xi arrived on the set of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”, Tao Mu was filming a scene with Zhang Mengcheng, who played the second male lead. The main plot of the scene was about how Su Dingbang, played by Tao Mu, was on his way to a cocktail party when he came across the second male who was being pursued by the Japanese. Although he didn’t know the true identity of the second male lead, Su Dingbang intuitively believed that this fellow Chinese person who was being hunted down by the Japanese must be a good person. So he tried every means to rescue the second male lead.

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It was quite a simple scene, but for some reason Zhang Mengcheng, who played the second male lead, didn’t seem to be in good form. He NG-ed a line over and over more than ten times, which caused everyone to become a little impatient.

The director had no choice but to let everyone rest first.

Gou Rixin, who had been watching the filming, immediately picked up a thick military coat and put it on Tao Mu. Li Xiaoheng handed a thermos cup with chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea to Tao Mu and asked, “Are you cold?”

Tao Mu sniffed and said: “I’m fine.” As an idol, even if he didn’t wear cotton leggings in winter, he didn’t need to shiver himself to keep warm. Besides, he was wearing a military coat.

Having said that, Tao Mu still quickly strode to the side of his lounge chair. Gou Rixin moved the electric heater to Tao Mu and plugged it in. Tao Mu immediately stretched out his hands to warm them. The long legs that were not wearing cotton leggings also subtly stretched out.

Gou Rixin took out a bag of buns from the side, put it on the electric heater, and asked Tao Mu, “What kind of stuffing do you like to eat?”

Tao Mu: “Just heat me two milk buns filled with bean paste.”

Wen Bao, Du Kang and Chu Sui’an came over with grins, rubbed their hands together and asked, “Brother Gou, what kind of stuffed buns did you buy?”

Chu Sui’an asked, “Is there any stuffing with shiitake mushrooms?”

“Yes!” When Gou Rixin bought steamed buns, he took everyone’s taste into consideration and bought several kinds of stuffing. For example, Tao Mu’s favorite bean paste and custard buns, Wen Bao and Du Kang’s favorite beef stuffed buns, and Chu Sui’an’s favorite vegetarian stuffed buns. Putting it on the electric heater for heating, and eating buns while roasting them, it was very comfortable indeed.

Long Tianao and Luo Xi arrived at this time. As soon as the two entered the crew, they saw from a distance the fashionable student Tao Mu wearing a military coat and squatting in front of the electric heater. While reading the script and memorizing the lines, he ate buns and occasionally drank two sips from a thermos cup of water. This scene was simply just blinding to the eyes.

The unsophisticated Long Tianao and Miss Luo were immediately shocked.

“Tao Mu?” The two didn’t dare to confirm that this guy, who was wearing a military coat and squatting eating steamed buns, was indeed the heavily burdened with idol baggage business partner they remembered.

“How did you become like this?” Long Tianao took off his sunglasses in disbelief: “Where’s your idol baggage? Are you still the Tao Mu I know?”

“Piss off!” Tao Mu glared at Long Tianao in annoyance: “What are you doing here instead of being at home for the New Year in this cold winter weather?”

“Come and visit the set for you!” Long Tianao circled around Tao Mu, tsk-tsking in admiration: “Thanks to me for coming here. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to see this rare scenery!”

“You are a rare scenery!” Tao Mu sat back in the chair with his idol baggage back on: “Tell me, why are you here?”

Miss Luo smiled slightly, and glanced subtly at the eldest son of the Li family who was standing beside Tao Mu, who was holding water and carrying a bag, and said with a warm smile: “We just want to come see you. And on the way discuss the matter of continuing cooperation.”

The crew was full of people and many eyes, and Luo Xi did not plan to say too much. Obviously, Tao Mu had no intention to discuss the company’s future plans on the film set either. What was more, the filming atmosphere was tense, and everyone didn’t forget to memorize lines even when eating buns. In this environment, it was not suitable for small talk.

Although Tao Mu was an investor who brought in capital to the crew, and he only played a minor supporting role that lasted less than three episodes, his work attitude was as serious as that of the male lead. He had already memorized the script before he even joined the crew. When practicing the scene before filming, he could not only memorize his own lines, but even know the opponent’s lines like the back of his hand. When acting against Teacher Zhan, who played the leading role, he got a lot of compliments from Zhan Bin.

It must be said, with the tone set by Tao Mu, the professional atmosphere of the whole crew was very strong now. Needless to say, the veteran actors headed by Mr. Zhan, even the students from Beijing Film, have followed the same way, practicing their lines every day when they had nothing to do. So that NGs would only be kept down to two or three times. Zhang Mengcheng had NG-ed a scene more than ten times. It might not be a big deal if it was put in another crew, but in today’s “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” crew, he didn’t need anyone to say anything, he himself felt embarrassed.

Especially as the big boss came to visit the set at this juncture. This time Zhang Mengcheng not only flushed in embarrassment, but his heart also began to panic. Originally, he wanted to come over and practice the scene with Tao Mu, but now, holding the script, he stood hesitantly three meters away.

In the end, Tao Mu had sharp eyes and called him over.

Zhang Mengcheng greeted his big boss very carefully. Seeing this, Tao Mu simply shooed Long Tianao and Luo Xi away, and had them both hang out elsewhere.

Zhang Mengcheng breathed a sigh of relief and sat next to Tao Mu. In the past few days, because Tao Mu had always been very professional, Zhang Mengcheng almost forgot Tao Mu’s other status as a boss. Now that he saw his company’s big boss, he remembered that Tao Mu was the one who kicked another investor out of the crew just because of a disagreement. Thinking about it this way, the fact that he dared to NG more than a dozen times while acting with a domineering CEO, causing Tao Mu to be unable to finish work early, was simply the act of a fearless fool.

Just don’t know if Tao Mu would directly blacklist him in a fit of anger.

Tao Mu obviously didn’t know that Zhang Mengcheng’s inner drama was so rich in imagination. However, he did have some opinions on Zhang Mengcheng because the reason why they kept NG-ing in this scene was due to the fact that Zhang Mengcheng’s lines were not memorized. As a result, when the two acted against each other, Zhang Mengcheng’s lines were dryly recited, and he always forgot the words.

Tao Mu knew that Zhang Mengcheng was a signed artist of Longteng Entertainment, and he usually had many other appearances to make. Occasionally he would have to take time off to do so. For example, there was no Zhang Mengcheng’s part in the filming yesterday, so he went to the next province to record a TV program under the arrangement of his agent, and he went straight back to the crew the next morning by car. Naturally he didn’t read the script and didn’t memorize the lines, and now when directly put in front of the camera of course he was not in good form.

In the previous life, the film crew of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” was short of funds, and the director did not have a high degree of control over the cast and crew. Towards Zhang Mengcheng, as the second male lead who was put in the crew by the investor, he would not care too much about him as long as he didn’t go overboard during the filming. Besides, Zhang Mengcheng was also considerate. Although he occasionally had to make other appearances, he tried his best to schedule them at a time when there were no scenes of his own to film, and would not ask for leave casually. His usual performance was also satisfactory.

But even so, being fully committed to filming was naturally different from being half-hearted. This caused Zhang Mengcheng’s second male lead to be significantly weaker than the other main actors after the TV series aired in the previous life. Zhang Mengcheng also became popular with this role as well as given more resources by Longteng Entertainment. But even until ten years later, when someone did an inventory of TV dramas, they would still mention Zhang Mengcheng’s disrespectful behavior of taking other jobs during filming and have his acting being suppressed by the veteran actors. This experience had become his black history. Some people even firmly believed that if Zhang Mengcheng could be more attentive during the filming, the classic “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” would definitely be able to achieve a higher level of completion. After all, the male No. 2 played by Zhang Mengcheng was also very important in the drama series.

In this new life, Tao Mu accidentally became an investor in “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”. Under his operation, the filming funds have been directly increased from the 9 million yuan in the previous life to 16 million yuan. The unqualified actors who were stuffed in by the previous investor were also all replaced. The rest, naturally, were people who he felt matched with the roles’ image. Tao Mu hoped that the new “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” would be better than his previous life in terms of filming details and other aspects.

Although Zhang Mengcheng fit the character image very well. But if he remained in this state and couldn’t fully devote himself to the role, Tao Mu didn’t want to continue condoning this slack off.

“Can you talk to your agent, we should put all our energy into filming. I think this drama series is very good, and it will definitely be popular after it is broadcast in the future. This is also an opportunity for you. As for those miscellaneous variety programs, in fact, you can pick them up anytime. You are still young, and with a good film work under your belt, it is more useful than a dozen variety shows added together.”

Although Tao Mu was only nineteen years old this year, and when he talked he looked very adorably old-fashioned, but Zhang Mengcheng didn’t dare to laugh. His heart clenched, knowing that Tao Mu was dissatisfied with his state, and nodded quickly and said, “I will communicate with my agent when I go back. Before finishing the production, I will definitely stay in the filming crew. This kind of thing will not happen again.”

Tao Mu patted Zhang Mengcheng’s shoulder: “Everyone is doing this for the sake of producing a good film. Don’t be too nervous. It’s no big deal, just tell your agent directly, and say this is my request to keep you in the filming crew. If you want to take any other jobs after filming, tell me directly. I will communicate with CEO Luo.”

Using the resources of Longteng Entertainment to do a favor for others, Tao Mu would never be soft on this kind of thing. He also believed that Luo Xi would never refute him on such trivial matters. After all, the benefits he could bring to Longteng Entertainment were definitely more than the sparse three melons and two dates in the Longteng Entertainment bowl. Besides, from the trajectory of the previous life, Longteng Entertainment originally supported Zhang Mengcheng after the broadcast of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood”. By saying these words, it was nothing but a favor without cost.

But from Zhang Mengcheng’s point of view, this was definitely a delightful surprise. Now the filming atmosphere of the crew was different. If Zhang Mengcheng wanted to complete the filming smoothly and perform well, he would have to consider focusing more on filming. Otherwise, as soon as the TV series airs, even the small supporting characters who have few episodes of scenes perform better than him, how could he still have face then?

It was just that Zhang Mengcheng was in a dilemma about how to communicate with his agent. With Tao Mu’s words, he directly took the responsibility instead.

Zhang Mengcheng believed that his agent would not object to this request, if only for the relationship between Tao Mu and the company’s top management. What was more, Tao Mu also promised that after the completion of the drama series, the company would give him some resources.

Since Luo Xi was willing to go out of her way to fly to H Town to visit Tao Mu during the first month of the New Year, Zhang Mengcheng would not doubt whether Tao Mu’s promise could be fulfilled.

Tao Mu looked at Zhang Mengcheng’s excited expression, and hooked the corner of his mouth in nonchalance. Although he could directly put pressure on Zhang Mengcheng in the name of an investor, it was estimated that Zhang Mengcheng would not object at all. But Tao Mu had always been accustomed to giving a slap and then handing over a sweet jujube. It was better to have others work willingly than to have them slack off with resentment.

Twenty minutes later, the crew continued filming. This time, Zhang Mengcheng, who had adjusted his emotions, was as if he had been possessed by the god of drama, and finished the scene in one go. He was also very energetic for the next few scenes. Especially in the particularly important part of the plot, when the male No. 2 played by Zhang Mengcheng tried to develop Su Dingbang as a helper of the underground movement, he spoke a monologue regarding the family and the nation. Zhang Mengcheng’s emotions were full and impassioned. Even the people who listened to it live on the set were infected with the passion in his voice. When the director called cut, everyone couldn’t help applauding Zhang Mengcheng.

In the previous life, because of Zhang Mengcheng’s constant distraction, this episode was just normal, obviously not so infectious.

Tao Mu was quite satisfied with such a change. He liked this kind of filming atmosphere where all the crew members acted passionately together and enjoyed the filming themselves.

Because the filming went well the director temporarily decided to move the street battle explosion scene to be shot in the afternoon to the morning. All props and pyrotechnics began to set up the set and check the breakpoints and position times over and over again.

The scene to be filmed was the scene where the male No. 2 was being pursued by the Japanese. The male No. 2 was discovered by the Japanese when he was evacuating after completing a mission, and was injured after a gunfight. Because there was an explosion scene, everyone checked the set very strictly.

Long Tianao and Luo Xi just stood by and watched everyone filming. During this period, Luo Xi tried every means to talk to Li Xiaoheng: “I really didn’t expect filming to be so hard. It seems that CEO Tao truly likes filming.”

Long Tianao recalled when he first met Tao Mu, at that time Tao Mu was still an unknown extra in H Town whose film role could casually be taken away by him, and could not help but sigh with emotion: “Right? But Tao Mu does not have it easy. When he was filming in H Town, many people bullied him for not having a backer and a background, and what they did to him was really lacking in morals. Thanks to Tao Mu’s ability, he can now bring capital into the crew and become an investor himself. No longer need to be afraid of others kicking him out of the crew.”

Lifting the kettle that is not open! (TN: idiom used to indicate that someone is saying or doing something that shouldn’t be mentioned in front of others, or that someone is bringing up a sensitive subject)

Luo Xi glared at Long Tianao secretly. Li Xiaoheng smiled slightly and looked at Tao Mu on the set.

Seeing this, Luo Xi suddenly smiled and said, “I remember that CEO Li has always been uninterested in the entertainment industry, so why did you suddenly think of investing in a film crew?”

Li Xiaoheng’s eyes were always on Tao Mu. He liked to see Tao Mu’s high-spirited and engrossed appearance when he was acting. “Tao Mu asked me to invest, so I invested. I trust his vision.”

Luo Xi hooked the corners of her lips upwards and agreed: “Yes. CEO Tao’s investment vision is indeed very powerful. It is an honor for us all to cooperate with a person like CEO Tao. By the way, we Longteng Entertainment and Summer Star Entertainment, want to work with FlyNews.com once again to hold a talent show, the “National God and Goddess”. I wonder if Xiaoheng Capital has any willingness to invest?”

Before Li Xiaoheng could speak, a loud noise suddenly sounded in the set, followed by a commotion.

“It exploded suddenly!”

“There are people injured!”

“Quick! Quickly call 120. Someone is injured…..”

Zhang Mengcheng stood there with a look of fear. Just a little bit, if it was replaced by the official filming, then it would not be the stuntman who took his place in going over the positioning, but himself.

Tao Mu, who was in the middle of the commotion, watched the wounded who were rescued by the group extras from the sudden explosion, clenched his fists with a dark expression: “Call the police! Call 120!”

Director Zhou Hong and the rest of the crew quickly gathered around, and when they heard Tao Mu’s words, their expressions changed, and they repeated subconsciously, “Call the police?”

The assistant director in charge of the pyrotechnics team hurried over and asked in a low voice, “Just calling 120 is enough. If you call the police, I’m afraid we will not be able to explain it to the media?”

This incident would not be able to be suppressed then.

“We must call the police.” Tao Mu said decisively. He remembered that there was no explosion accident in the crew of “The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood” in his previous life. It didn’t make sense something would happen in this life just because he became part of the crew. Unless someone had done this on purpose——

Don’t blame Tao Mu for conspiracy theories. He himself knew about his own affairs, and Tao Mu’s luck had never been very good in both his past and present life. Part of this bad luck was caused by the cannon fodder halo, but more often it was man-made.

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If this accident was God’s will, then that was his misfortune. But if it was artificial…..Tao Mu clenched his fists subtly. He would fulfill their wish to die, whoever they might be!

Li Xiaoheng stood silently beside Tao Mu, quietly held Tao Mu’s hands that were clenched into fists, and pried them apart. Looking at the bloody palm from his fingernails digging into it, he frowned fiercely.

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