Global Film Emperor

Chapter 159 Upgrade
You have to admit that Lu Ze's system is amazing, but its brilliance lies in its practicality, unlike the flashy systems in other novels.

But to call it low-end is actually quite low-end. It doesn't even have internet connectivity. Shen Jinghan had to tell Lu Ze that his payment had arrived before the system belatedly reminded Lu Ze that he could upgrade.

Because of the occasion, Lu Ze remained calm and did not choose to escalate the situation. He continued to drink with the next person who came to toast him. After the investor left first, Lu Ze also took his leave and told Liu Ying that he was leaving as well.

"Okay, come to Qingguo in seven days and get the voice-over done. You can go back now."

"Then I'll be going now, Director Liu."

After saying goodbye to the other staff, Lu Ze left the lobby, took the elevator back to his room, started packing his luggage, and then got into Liu Bin's car and went home.

Although he has been filming in Shanghai, Lu Ze travels with the crew and rarely goes home. The last time he went home was more than a month ago.

He took out his key and turned the doorknob. The room was still as tidy as when Lu Ze left, but it felt cold and deserted.

Every Friday, a cleaning service comes to clean the house. Lu Ze's house is over 100 square meters, and they clean it inside and out for 200 yuan. They even wash your clothes.

It seems that once you have money, apart from getting married and having a son who is related to you by blood, everything else that you thought you had to do yourself can be done by someone else as long as you pay.

Because there isn't enough time to enter the system space yet, Lu Ze, even though he's incredibly anxious and impatient, has to hold back and wait until he goes to sleep that night.

With nothing to do, I went to the kitchen, opened the cabinet door, picked up a glass jar, unscrewed the lid, and smelled it. I had also replaced the coffee beans with new ones. I ground a cup of coffee, picked up the script of "The Boss," and sat in front of the French windows to slowly read it.

Feeling a bit hungry in the evening, and with plenty of fresh vegetables in the fridge, Lu Ze made himself some braised beef brisket with tomatoes and stir-fried some shredded potatoes. He then ate with rice, turned on the TV, and watched while he ate.

"It's time to go home, SpongeBob!"

"Hmm~ panting, panting~"

There weren't any good programs on TV. While flipping through the channels, he saw SpongeBob SquarePants, which Lu Nan really liked. He had watched it with her many times before, but now he was all alone in the cold room, watching a cartoon that he used to think was childish.

Suddenly, an idea popped into his head: he wanted a home of his own, a home with his name on the property deed. Deeply ingrained Chinese beliefs influenced him; only when a house truly belonged to him could it be called a home.

In a few days, Lu Ze will be shooting a few commercials. If he gets the endorsement fee, he will indeed be able to buy a house in Shanghai. Tomson Riviera is indeed unaffordable, but a decent neighborhood in Shanghai is not too difficult for Lu Ze to afford. Even if he can't buy it outright, taking out a loan is not out of the question.

This idea was amplified infinitely in Lu Ze's mind, occupying all his brain capacity except for the system. He now wanted to buy a house and no longer be a drifting, drifting drifter.

He looked up some newly opened residential complexes in Shanghai, but they were all in relatively suburban areas, not what Lu Ze was looking for. Now that he had the financial means, he definitely wanted to buy a house that suited his taste.

Until he saw the houses in Jiuzhou Hailan Bay, which had a good location and was a new community that opened last year, with prices starting at 120,000 yuan per square meter, he made a mental note of the community and planned to go and take a look later.

Looking up, it was already past seven o'clock. Lu Ze put on a hat and mask. Recently, some people had recognized him on the street, and quite a few of them. The worst case even caused a traffic jam. So from now on, Lu Ze would have to cover his face when he went out to avoid exposing his identity and getting into trouble.

With music playing in his headphones, he took a stroll in a nearby park, watching the elderly men and women dancing and the young men playing ball. The price of being a celebrity is sacrificing one's private life, and Lu Ze had no complaints about that. After all, the money you earn is worth the sacrifice you make. But sometimes, when he saw others having fun, he would have the thought of joining in.

He glanced at his watch; it was 8:30. He walked home, took a shower, lay down on his bed with only a warm yellow bedside lamp on, read for a while, and at 9:30, he put the bookmark in place, placed the book on his bedside table, went to the bathroom, went back to bed, and closed his eyes.

"Host detected to be in a resting state. Preparing to enter the system space."

"The host has been detected to meet the system upgrade requirements. Should we proceed with the system upgrade?"

Without hesitation, I chose "Yes." This minimalist system was still devoid of any grandeur or auspicious symbols; the course interface simply went black, then lit up again, followed by a pop-up window: "Congratulations, host, you have successfully unlocked the second stage of the system and obtained the title 'Thousand-Faced Actor.' You can now choose to piece together the first stage of the courses."

"What do you mean? What are you piecing together?"

Lu Ze didn't quite understand what "splitting" meant, so he closed the dialog box; there were no lessons available.
The system popped up another interface, which surprised Lu Ze. Compared to the upgrade conditions that were released after the completion of the first phase of the course, this time they were given directly.

"Upgrade conditions: 1. Star as the male lead in ten movies with a rating of 8.0; 2. Receive a salary of 100 million yuan."

To be honest, Lu Ze didn't think earning 100 million yuan in film salary was that difficult. It certainly wouldn't be possible in one or two years, but earning 100 million yuan in film salary over eight or ten years shouldn't be a very difficult thing.

The difficulty lies in the fact that he played the male lead in one of the ten films with a score of 8.0 or higher. This is a very rare condition. Films with this score are already quite rare, unless they become phenomenal hits. Otherwise, they are already qualified to win an award.

But upon closer examination, it's not impossible. However, this would require starting from the very beginning, making choices regarding both the script and the director. In the first place, a good director and a good script must be selected to complete this task.

Lu Ze didn't think too much about it, because good scripts are rare and don't just keep popping up. Lu Ze could only wait and then seize the opportunity.

The most important thing now is what kind of surprise or shock the system upgrade will bring to Lu Ze, just like before. The empty tutorial interface had already startled Lu Ze.

The original first stage's "course categories," "search bar," "cursor," "basic teaching," and other features are all gone, leaving a clean, empty space with only an "import" option in the top right corner.

What does "import" mean?

Clicking "Import" brought up another interface, giving Lu Ze a sense of absurdity. He now knew what this import meant.

"Import the script for the character Zhang Lixian in 'My Chief and My Regiment'."

"Import the script for the character Guo Xiaofei from 'Youth in the Capital'."

"Import the script for the character Qin Ming from 'Forensic Doctor Qin Ming'."

"Import the tree character script from 'Hello Mr. Tree'."

"Import the script for the character Wang Zewen from 'The Boxer'."

"Import the script for the character Jia Helong from 'The Boss'."

It has always existed in his brain, and Lu Ze is very clear about this. The system can see what he has seen, just like today when the system saw the WeChat message that Shen Jinghan sent to Lu Ze, which is why it issued an upgrade response.

But the system can extract scripts from its own brain. This is a bit scary. In this way, Lu Ze is a completely undisguised person in its eyes. To it, Lu Ze has no secrets.

This made Lu Ze very uncomfortable, because his last bit of private life was completely destroyed under the system's surveillance. Even though the system had no intelligence, he still felt uncomfortable all over, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Lu Ze froze for a moment. He knew he couldn't change anything and could only accept it. He sighed and, for his miserable situation, chose to import the "Jia Helong character script from 'The Boss'".

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(End of this chapter)