The Quiet Rise of Entertainment Superstars

Old Xing has been living a very comfortable life these days. Why?

Because there is a bootlicker named Lao Wang by his side.

As for Lao Zhou in the children's book section, he has been very unhappy recently. Why?

Because the copyright of Lou Zhongyue's animation was sold, and it was not handled by him, but by Lao Xing.

According to the management of the novel website, Lao Xing had overstepped his boundaries. However, Lou Zhongyue was originally a contracted writer of Lao Xing, so it seemed very reasonable.

Lao Zhou reported Lao Xing's crossing of the boundary to his superior, who criticized him as a result.

"Old Zhou, Lou Zhongyue went to your children's book section just to give children a better childhood. He doesn't belong to you, understand? Old Xing, he is Lou Zhongyue's designated agent, and even our novel website can't interfere with this matter. Don't have conflicts over this matter in the future."

Old Zhou was depressed. He seemed to have obtained Lou Zhongyue, but he also seemed not to have obtained her.

In fact, he also understood that Lou Zhongyue would leave sooner or later, and his "Lou Zhongyue Fairy Tales Collection" would be completed one day. But who could understand that the sadness would flow like a river.

As for Lao Wang, he has already deeply realized that if he wants Lou Zhongyue to publish a few novels in his short story section, he must first pass Lao Xing, so the most important thing is to lick Lao Xing well and make him feel comfortable.

Whenever Lao Wang has time, he goes to Lao Xing's place and never goes empty-handed. Lao Wang is given tea, cigarettes, and some trinkets that scholars play with as gifts. The words he says when giving gifts also make Lao Xing feel good.

"Brother Xing, this tea is produced in my hometown. It's not expensive. Let's share it and try it."

"My brother-in-law gave me some cigarettes. Would you like some too?"

In short, Lao Wang never says the word "give", which really reaches the highest level of gift-giving.

Old Xing felt very happy and had already made up his mind to help Old Wang if he had the chance.

It just so happened that the China People's Library had already sent him the contract for publishing Lou Zhongyue's Fairy Tales Collection, and he also wanted to talk to Lou Zhongyue about it.

Xiaoyue has been working overtime a lot recently, but not for long, just one hour.

When Lao Xing called, she had just finished working overtime and was about to go home.

"Master Lou Zhongyue, regarding the publishing matter, the People's Library has already given us the contract. When will you have time to look at the contract?"

Xiaoyue has been so busy lately that she almost forgot about this matter. After thinking about it, she realized that this collection of fairy tales will take at least more than a month to finish, so there is no need to rush.

"Don't worry, I'm very busy recently, let's talk about it after I'm done!"

Old Xing sighed. Could it be that Mr. Lou Zhongyue has already known that the share given by the People's Book Library is not high?

He really needs to have a good talk with the library about this matter.

"Okay. Mr. Lou Zhongyue, can I ask you something?" Old Xing finally spoke.

"What's the matter? Just tell me."

"After you finish writing the collection of fairy tales, are you going to write other short stories? For example, the fables you have written before."

Xiao Yue was not stupid, and she immediately thought of some twists and turns, and said with a smile: "I can write "The Fable of the Moon in the Building"."

"You mean to say that you will also write a collection of fables?"

"Ah."

"Thank you, Mr. Lou Zhongyue."

After hanging up the phone with Lao Xing, Master Li’s car arrived.

Xiaoyue didn't notice that a sneaky guy was hiding in a nearby green belt and filming her with a camera.

After Xiaoyue's car drove away, a guy came out from the green belt with a camera.

"Fuck, I'm almost bitten to death by mosquitoes. It's so hard to get an exclusive these days..."

This is a young man wearing a Tianyu security uniform. He has an honest face, but does dishonest things. He is Zhuo Qiang, the most famous paparazzi in the entertainment industry.

In fact, Zhuo Qiang was originally a reporter for a magazine. He often went to very dangerous places to get exclusive interviews, but later he found that no one read those exclusive reports of reality, so he couldn't get any money, and without money he couldn't support his family.

Once, when Zhuo Qiang was shooting an exclusive for society, he accidentally photographed a certain actor having a night out with a certain young actress, and then posted the video online. It became an instant hit, and he also received many benefits.

So, Zhuo Qiang quit his job at the magazine and became a full-time paparazzi in the entertainment industry. He also runs a Weibo account with more than 10 million followers.

Nowadays, the authorities have strict control over trending searches, so it is difficult for many artists to get on the trending searches, so they will pay Zhuo Qiang to deliberately film some of their negative material and expose it on Weibo, which makes it easy for them to get on the trending searches.

Zhuo Qiang is a smart man. He always strikes a balance when revealing information, so that he does not break the law but still attracts public attention. Therefore, he is quite famous.

This time, the person who secretly photographed Xiaoyue was actually someone who spent five million to let him come to Tianyu to take the photo of Yue.

However, he had been wandering around Tianyu for a few days and still couldn't find who Yue was.

For this reason, Zhuo Qiang applied for the security guard position at Tianyu and was successful, and then started working directly.

In fact, he was not sure whether the person he just photographed was Yue. He adopted the strategy of casting a wide net. Anyway, he would take pictures of everyone who worked in Tianyu and then go back to screen them one by one. It has to be said that paparazzi are all smart people.

Xiaoyue discovered these two days when she was at work that a security guard at the entrance of Tianyu was working unusually hard.

Everyone who passes by him will be swept by his eyes. His serious attitude towards work is very moving. This reminds Xiaoyue of the security guard at the gate of Pinghu Community, who is equally serious and responsible, and her favor for him doubled.

"Good morning." Xiaoyue greeted the security guard.

Zhuo Qiang didn't expect that a beautiful young lady would greet him. Her eyes turned into crescent shapes when she smiled, which was very cute.

"Uh, morning."

A smile appeared on Zhuo Qiang's honest face.

Just then, a voice interrupted the two of them.

"Director Cheng, wait for me..."

Xiao Yue turned around and saw that it was Wu Hao. She smiled and replied, "Director Wu, good morning!"

"Good morning, Director Cheng. I just happened to be looking for you regarding the shooting of a scene..."

Wu Hao seemed a little impatient and started talking to Xiao Yue as they walked.

Zhuo Qiang looked at the backs of the two people walking away. He also heard what they said. It seemed that these two people were from the film and television department, which meant they were not the people he was looking for.

He took out a small notebook and made some notes.

At the same time, he had a little expectation in his heart. Would Director Cheng greet him tomorrow?

She is really warm and lovely.

If Xiaoyue knew, she would definitely ask: "Are you sure you are talking about me?"

Wu Hao followed Xiao Yue inside, and Xiao Yue said, "Don't worry, let's go to my office."

When Wu Hao saw that there were people all around him, he thought it was not appropriate to continue talking.

"it is good."

The two entered the office, and Wu Hao quickly reported the difficulties he had encountered recently.

"The main scene of our movie is the telephone booth, but telephone booths disappeared from major cities thirty years ago. I asked people to help look for it in various cities, and finally found such a telephone booth in an old residential area that was to be demolished in the neighboring Jinshi. Now we have two options. One is to go to Jinshi for real-life shooting, and the other is to rent a shed in the Beijing Film and Television City to build a telephone booth for shooting. This involves the issue of funds. The main expenses of going to Jinshi are accommodation and food, while going to the film and television city will incur rent and food expenses. In comparison, the film and television city will cost one million more."

"Then let's go to Jinshi. The real scene shooting effect will be better."

Xiaoyue doesn't care about money. She thinks about some big productions in her previous life, all of which were shot on location.

"OK then!"

Wu Hao thought Xiaoyue was trying to save money, and looked embarrassed.

"But the Beijing actors must find the best hotel nearby for accommodation, and the crew's food can be contracted to Liuji."

Wu Hao became happy when he heard this. Director Cheng was indeed not a stingy person.

The best hotel nearby is a five-star hotel. With so many people in the crew, it would cost around 50,000 a day.

Liu Ji is a new popular chain store. The food is especially delicious and the prices are high.

"Also, the equipment our crew bought will arrive in three days, and it will cost 36 million..."

Wu Hao said that 36 million was too expensive! He also felt guilty that such a large transaction should not be handled by him.

"account."

"what?"

"Your account number, I'll transfer it to you."

"oh oh……"

Wu Hao frantically searched for his cell phone, then opened it with trembling hands and sent his bank account number to Xiaoyue.

After Xiaoyue received the account number, she immediately transferred 40 million to Wu Hao.

"It will be in the account soon. Anything else?"

"There is also the issue of photographers. The company does not have a photographer, so I found a photography team from outside because we do not need their equipment. I calculated based on the length of the shoot, it would cost about 1.2 million per month. There are about 10 of them, and they will eat and live with us."

"That's no problem, let's do it this way!"

Wu Hao didn't expect the problem to be solved so quickly?

What seemed like a big deal to me turned out to be nothing given Director Cheng's financial resources.

Xiaoyue is now earning 20 million a day from Fairy Tale and doesn't care about this expense at all. What she cares about is whether this movie can be completed.

She agreed to anything that could speed up the completion of the filming, and even if there was an overspending, she could make up for it herself.

"Ding..." The phone in Wu Hao's hand reminded him of the received message.

He opened it and saw, 40 million? Why was there an extra 4 million?

"Director Cheng, you gave me too much..."

"That's reserve funds, keep it for now."

"Hey, okay."

It was the first time that Wu Hao saw so much money in his bank account. Even though it was not his, he was happy to see it!

Now that he has money and is more motivated to work, Wu Hao has never felt that anything could be better than this moment.

At this moment, he admired his master Director Ma, he worshipped Xiaoyue, and was full of hope for the future.