TRMP Chapter 94

When Jiang Yifeng woke up, his vision was still hazy and watery. He saw Xie Jingshen’s silhouette and instinctively wanted to snuggle closer, but the rough texture against his cheek stopped him.

The next moment, Jiang Yifeng stood in the bathroom, awkwardly looking at the dirt smeared all over his face in the mirror.

“How did I get this drunk?” Jiang Yifeng lowered his eyes and washed his hands, his cheeks growing hotter the more he thought about it.

He’d been drunkenly hugging Xie Jingshen’s portrait to sleep. If the person had been there, Jiang Yifeng was afraid he would have jumped right into his arms.

Jiang Yifeng’s mind was a jumble of thoughts, and he felt a wave of shyness wash over him.

He patted his face haphazardly and went out to see the messy bedding and the smeared portrait, a wave of distress washing over him once more.

Jiang Yifeng felt like he might be a little love-struck.

To stop himself from overthinking, Jiang Yifeng decided he needed to find a job.

Years of working habits had made him almost unable to stay idle for a moment.

First, he took on two small translation tasks, and then he communicated with Long Li about the progress of the perfume development.

Long Li had already begun to gradually perfect the small company model, handling business licenses and sales permits, renting a small office, and recruiting employees. He was taking care of everything except putting up the money.

However, Long Li didn’t need to bear any financial losses, and he could delegate the remaining tasks to his underlings, so he was happy to do it, secretly thinking that Jiang Yifeng lacked social experience and was being taken advantage of.

“The process is almost complete, and the factory is ready to start production.”

After Long Li finished speaking, he inquired about Jiang Yifeng’s affairs from a few days ago.

“Did it affect you? I saw several posts with your name… I can’t read that many words, I don’t understand what they’re saying.”

Jiang Yifeng thought to himself that Lio was probably the only endorsement that hadn’t asked him to terminate the contract because their regional director couldn’t understand their language at all.

What a humorous story.

“It’s okay, it’s been resolved.” Jiang Yifeng said quickly, “When will the perfume be available for sale?”

“Probably after August, or early September.” Long Li always felt that Jiang Yifeng seemed more anxious than he imagined. He asked with a rare pang of conscience, “Is there a problem with the funds? Do you need my help?”

“No, I’m just really looking forward to your perfume coming out.” Jiang Yifeng’s eyes were filled with a smile, “Especially looking forward to it.”

It was the first node he had tried his best to create.

Jiang Yifeng just wanted to meet Xie Jingshen sooner.

Jiang Yifeng had been resting for more than half a month, and online discussions about that incident had been covered by new hot topics, but Jiang Yifeng’s popularity remained stable.

The variety show he had been filming non-stop provided fans with endless content. In addition, many of the new people who fell in love with Jiang Yifeng were drawn in by their imagined image of him, and Jiang Yifeng’s beautiful face perfectly matched the image of a tragic hero, so he had a lot of active fans.

While working online, Jiang Yifeng also submitted resumes and searched through all the movie and television drama invitations.

While he was looking for work, Zhao Wenjun and Zhu Kuoyang also began operating according to the methods provided by Jiang Yifeng.

First, they secretly looked for suitable actors. The swordsman who was originally set to be as beautiful as a woman was replaced by a simple swordsman, and then they found a middle-aged actor from among the early martial arts actors who had a good reputation but were completely unknown.

Zhao Wenjun helped to hype up the plight of the old martial arts actor who couldn’t get roles due to his age. When filming started, the sudden replacement of actors didn’t cause too much of an uproar – not many people saw the news that Jiang Yifeng might participate. Most of Jiang Yifeng’s new fans didn’t know the past grievances, and the news that the old martial arts actor had no roles to film due to his age covered up most of the accusations that the crew was using Jiang Yifeng to hype things up.

Although the start of filming was bumpy, it finally proceeded smoothly.

The only thing that wasn’t smooth was probably the investor’s side.

Two investors withdrew their funding as soon as the crew started filming. The remaining investors didn’t withdraw their funding out of respect for Zhao Wenjun, but they were still very unhappy.

Zhu Kuoyang could only lower his posture and explain to the other party, but the other party was very irritable: “Didn’t you say it was Jiang Yifeng?”

“The current person is also good, and the online reviews of our TV series are also good. Aren’t the viewers saying they want to watch it? Why does it have to be Jiang Yifeng?” Zhu Kuoyang didn’t understand.

However, the investor thought that Zhu Kuoyang was particularly naive: “Didn’t Director Zhao tell you? Online ‘want to watch’ ratings don’t mean anything. It’s fine if your quality is good, but how can you guarantee that your TV series will be more durable than a romance movie? How many action or martial arts movies do you think can beat romance movies in the same period after they are released? Having fans can at least guarantee you something, but without fans, who will be responsible for the losses?”

Zhu Kuoyang was scolded severely, but he kept the other party’s investment, which was obviously a sign that they still had some expectations for the film that Zhao Wenjun had guaranteed.

Zhu Kuoyang breathed a sigh of relief.

After everything calmed down, Jiang Yifeng received the script sent by Zhao Wenjun.

Almost all of them were other people’s projects, but the directors were all leaders in their fields who had created good works.

–The quality was also much higher than the group of people who were looking for Jiang Yifeng.

Jiang Yifeng now had another nighttime activity – reading all kinds of scripts to Xie Jingshen.

Only one of the scripts gave him the leading role, and the rest were supporting male roles – but they were also important supporting male roles.

However, Jiang Yifeng was most interested in one of the scripts.

“The male lead’s closest friend, the most trusted psychologist?” Xie Jingshen’s eyes showed a hint of a smile as he listened to Jiang Yifeng’s introduction: “It’s a very charismatic character.”

“Especially when the plot twists, it should be even more amazing?” Jiang Yifeng finished reading the entire script, and the shock in his heart was extremely strong.

“That character is very cruel and very charming. I think it’s better than the previous male lead.” Xie Jingshen thought about the script content that Jiang Yifeng had just read, and added, “And the plot setting of the entire script is very complete. If the director knows how to shoot it, it should be filmed very well.”

Jiang Yifeng also thought it was good.

He smiled and turned to the title page, where he saw a completely unfamiliar name.

–Who is this?

Jiang Yifeng searched through all the famous directors in his memory, but he had no idea what films “Liu Cheng” had directed.

Jiang Yifeng decided to seek help from the internet.

However, facing a blank internet, Jiang Yifeng’s brain was also blank.

“Could it be that he hasn’t even filmed a single TV series?”

Jiang Yifeng slowly said, pointing to the director’s name on the title page.

“Maybe?” Xie Jingshen frowned: “The content of this TV series is very complicated. Can a newcomer like him really film it?”

After all, no matter how prominent the script content is designed, if you don’t know how to film it, it will only evolve into a disaster.

What’s more, the thing that suspense films avoid the most is setting things up mysteriously, but dropping the logic when unraveling the mystery.

And new directors, in order to show off their skills, often adopt all kinds of weird, absurd, and chaotic shooting methods. The audience can’t understand the content, and the mystery-solving routine doesn’t live up to expectations, resulting in a terrible movie.

Jiang Yifeng and Xie Jingshen both fell into silence.

“I don’t know if I should take a gamble.” Jiang Yifeng covered his cheeks with his hands: “Even if I don’t let him shoot it, I can shoot it myself…”

Jiang Yifeng thought the script was excellent.

Provided that the director was competent.

“But if you film it, this psychologist is a bit ambiguous with the male lead.” Xie Jingshen lowered his eyes, seeming a little jealous.

The disappointment and nervousness in Jiang Yifeng’s heart were dispelled by Xie Jingshen’s words. He curled up the corners of his mouth and smiled, looking up and saying softly in a coquettish manner: “But when I filmed Xu Chen’s plays, it wasn’t ambiguous, I just liked that daddy.”

Xie Jingshen rubbed his eyebrows. That old actor, both inside and outside the plot, except for a small number of scenes, was completely like a father when facing Jiang Yifeng.

–Even if he was jealous, he couldn’t be jealous of his daddy, right?

Wouldn’t that make him a love-struck fool?

Xie Jingshen thought randomly.

“Just a little irritable.” Xie Jingshen’s fingers rubbed the round face of the little doll, and Jiang Yifeng also felt that his jaw seemed to be pinched by a hand, the pads of the fingers rubbing against his cheek, the light touch making the skin on Jiang Yifeng’s jaw itch.

It was as if he wanted him to feel Xie Jingshen’s anxious mood as well.

“Don’t touch…” Jiang Yifeng couldn’t move Xie Jingshen’s hand away, so he could only use the quilt to cover the tip of his chin, only revealing a pair of eyes looking at Xie Jingshen eagerly: “I think this is the best script, but the directors of the two scripts I picked before are very guaranteed… It may not be popular, but at least it can be released, and I can still be the male lead.”

However, Jiang Yifeng finally decided to try Liu Cheng.

He contacted Liu Cheng, and after meeting the real person, Liu Cheng was also very happy to talk to Jiang Yifeng about his ideas.

He had just graduated from school and planned to make a great achievement after receiving a script.

Jiang Yifeng hesitated a little while listening to Liu Cheng talk about the script, and asked in a low voice: “What about the screenwriter?”

Logically speaking, the screenwriter should come forward and discuss the script with them.

“Oh, the screenwriter.” Liu Cheng scratched his head and said irritably: “I am the screenwriter.”

Jiang Yifeng looked at Liu Cheng calmly.

In Liu Cheng’s irritable expression, Jiang Yifeng felt that there was a problem – Liu Cheng’s ideas about the characters were fundamentally problematic, but as a new director, Jiang Yifeng could consider it as a common problem of literary directors thinking too much, or that the new director didn’t even look at the script much.

But there was a problem with him saying he was the screenwriter.

“Are you the only screenwriter?” Jiang Yifeng asked casually while flipping through the script.

“Yes, our studio only has me as a screenwriter.” Liu Cheng said firmly.

Jiang Yifeng nodded and smiled. He casually asked a few more questions, and when he left, he began to check the producer of the show and Liu Cheng’s studio.

Liu Cheng’s studio was just a small studio, but it had six employees, and it was registered as an editing and writing studio. Jiang Yifeng thought about the operations in the industry and roughly understood what was going on.

Opening a studio to recruit screenwriters, and then crediting them after having a good script.

Jiang Yifeng frowned unhappily – even if it was a common operation in the industry, it was too hasty to snatch someone else’s script and not cherish it well, and instead rush to form a crew and recruit actors without even understanding the characters thoroughly.

He told Xie Jingshen about the matter, and Xie Jingshen sighed with his chin propped up: “If it is really a script from that new team, it is indeed very powerful… and if we recruit them, we won’t have to worry about future plays.”

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