Chapter 61: This Is Supposed To Be A College Student?
Readers are in their rebellious phase again…
Sometimes Yu Wei really hoped this was in an entertainment novel, after all, the netizens in novels are all NPCs who only cheer, without so many tricks.
Unlike his group of living reader fans, each one more cunning at stirring things up, and there are many IDs called Rating Bro Wei Yu giving scores everywhere, can you believe it?
Even a dog by the roadside would get scored by them.
Last time Yu Wei scrolled to a soldier he had trained, who sorted short video collections into four tiers by score, each collection full of beautiful women.
If you cause trouble later, just don’t mention your master…
Reporting the book was something Yu Wei hadn’t expected. Readers wanted to listen to music and felt writing the book delayed progress and took time, but if his book was really gone, where would the song come from? Why go this far?
Stir away, you all stir! If it’s really reported and gone, no one will be happy.
Reporting is like ghost knocking at the door; if you haven’t done anything guilty, there’s nothing to fear. Otherwise, books that easily attract hate would have gone off sale long ago.
“Good thing I didn’t write a female lead.”
Yu Wei couldn’t possibly write other irrelevant things anyway, and the only risky erotic stuff he had no chance for either, so this book is still very safe for now.
Report if you want, just remember to follow-up read.
When redeeming “Treading Waves,” the system’s data requirement had already inflated to 3000. In a while, the novel would go on sale again, free chapters turning into paid ones, and the system’s requirements would definitely change…
Worried, new book periods are all small-scale stuff, real failures get nervous just seeing it go on sale. It made this old failure who struggled to hit 200 average subscription laugh.
Just as he was communicating the on-sale date with the editor, agent Liu Ning sent over a string of mysterious code that looked like a phone number.
“After the program recording ended, Director Qi contacted the company for your contact info.”
He could have clearly asked Qi Yuan for it, but he contacted the company instead? Indeed, this is the normal process; a father is much more proper than his daughter…
“What’s up, to discuss cooperation?”
After the “Chao Yue Ban” recording ended, there were indeed many professional judges on-site who wanted to chat cooperation with him, but Yu Wei really hadn’t expected the thoroughly slacking Qi Yunming to have this idea too.
“That’s what he said, but he also mentioned a bit… private matter.”
Private matter?
Yu Wei instantly got it; Qi Yunming must have discovered his daughter was the female lead in his MV, so this was to probe the waters.
Ghost knocking at the door had come, but Yu Wei wasn’t panicked at all, since he and Qi Luo An really had nothing, all clear and innocent with nothing to avoid.
After adjusting his mindset, he calmly dialed the number following it. Don’t judge Old Qi by his many bad movies; his status in domestic film history is also undisputed.
Though a bit unscrupulous, if Old Qi finished that masterpiece and then kicked the bucket right away, he would absolutely be the undisputed number one person in movies right now…
“Director Qi, looking for me?”
“Call me Uncle Qi. Qi Yuan is your friend, An An knows you well too… heh, calling uncle isn’t too much.”
He thought he would directly grill him about his relationship with his daughter, but Qi Yunming didn’t mention it at all, instead seriously talking about cooperation.
He really wanted to cooperate. Qi Yunming made a bad movie every few years; the last one was three years ago. Calculating the time, he wanted to come out and make “history” again.
Cooperate with the King of Bad Movies? Has Yu Wei gone mad?
But soon, Qi Yunming offered a condition hard for him to refuse: as director, he wouldn’t meddle at all, and Yu Wei could control the specific work throughout.
This was really something only a slacking director like him could do. Which other director would dare delegate power like this?
His previous bad movies were actually shot this way: director ignores state affairs, screenwriter and actors seize power, audience suffers.
Don’t underestimate “delegating power”; it’s equivalent to him taking all the blame, sharing the benefits with everyone. His previous movies turned out so rotten, yet only Qi Yunming got flamed in the end.
Movie flops, director takes full blame; movie succeeds, others take the glory. That’s the King of Bad Movies’ reputation…
“Forgive my boldness, but what’s in it for you?”
Yu Wei was actually a bit tempted; this kind of slacking director was perfect for him to show his skills, and without taking the blame either. If it turns out good, it’s his script that’s great.
The only thing puzzling him was, what was Old Qi aiming for by always filming this way? Directors either crave money or fame, but he seemed indifferent to both.
“Bored, fishing all day with empty lines, can’t I find something to do?” Qi Yunming’s lazy tone inexplicably grumbled a bit. “No rush, script can be written slowly. Best if I finish recording the program and lie low for half a year, we start filming next year.”
Fishing enthusiast, alright then, no issue.
Qi Yunming was just lazy, not stupid. Though he didn’t care much about box office or reputation, who wouldn’t want better evaluation for their thing?
He himself really didn’t want to work hard, so to make something, he could only find capable people. The more capable the second-in-command, the more comfortably he could slack.
Previous bad movies were said to be due to delegating power, but when trouble arose, he still had to handle it, tossing and turning until he was annoyed to death.
Yu Wei was very talented, could do script revision and act, and most importantly truly understood the core of movies. Stuff written by someone like this definitely wouldn’t be too bad.
Of course, specific cooperation details weren’t settled yet; it would depend on the script later. Today’s talk was mainly about cooperation intention.
Yu Wei could accept this. This “power over the set” opportunity wouldn’t come again; whether they actually cooperate was another story, but contacting ahead was good.
Wants to lie low for half a year? Give you a full script in three days and you’ll behave!
Though preparing the album, that would take at least a month or so anyway. In the novel, the protagonist can’t stall on instances without upgrading either; arrange some transition first.
“Also, An An said you were introduced to her by Qi Yuan, is that true?”
“?”
Qi Luo An dug a good pit for her bro, but logically speaking, this was fine. Qi Yuan did give his younger sister Yu Wei’s contact info, wasn’t that an introduction?
Chinese culture is vast and profound; the process was like that, but in Qi Luo An’s context, it became Qi Yuan taking the main blame.
Thought it was pig rooting cabbage, but there’s an inside ghost?
Now Qi Yuan was in danger.
……
This same name was pretty interesting.
Xue Ying glanced at the glaring “Yu Wei” in the movie’s main creators, thinking he saw wrong.
He wasn’t a Yu Wei fan, just because the kid at home loved listening to Yu Wei’s songs: “Full of Yu Wei desire to sleep, scatter sleep steps in east garden,” from Song Dynasty Wang Zhi Dao’s “Du Bu.”
He happened to know this poem, so subconsciously remembered this star. As deputy chief editor of the film newspaper, he had this bit of literature literacy.
“Fine, let me see Yu Wei’s movie.”
There were many big shots among the judges for the college student microfilm competition, including from the Film Association and art research institute, but they were just nominal; the real work was done by their group from newspapers and websites.
At least, they wouldn’t meddle in the qualifiers.
“Not a same name?”
A few seconds into the film, Xue Ying saw Yu Wei, bare-chested upper body, sitting at the piano playing; this scene was somewhat similar to his live broadcast singing and playing.
His daughter had watched it so many times in front of him; he could recognize this kid even as ashes…
But soon, he was drawn into this clever suspense story. The 14-minute short film had almost no superfluous frame.
Unknowingly, Xue Ying finished the whole film: Hitchcock-style suspense, O. Henry-style twist, with some black humor flavor. This from a college student…
Which college student is this? This damn isn’t a college student!
What kind of college student is Yu Wei? Professional team coming to abuse of vegetables?
The college student microfilm competition’s participants are national current college students and youth microfilm enthusiasts graduated within 5 years.
Even from the youth enthusiast angle, Yu Wei entering was compliant, not to mention their team really had a current college student.
Compliant is compliant, but it’s inexplicably weird… A star coming to participate in a college student gilding competition, is there any law?
“Whatever, let the audience judge during broadcast.”
