Rebirth and Conquest

The small room was quiet, with no furnishings around. In the corner, a thin boy squatted, his hair disheveled, his once pure white shirt stained with a few stains. He hung his head, looking quite disheveled. He had been kidnapped and was handcuffed.

Suddenly, the door was opened from the outside, and a man with a fierce face walked in. The man went straight to the boy, grabbed his arm, and dragged him out until he reached a spacious hall. Then he forced the boy to sit down in a chair in the center of the hall.

"Officer Liu, your son is here."

At this moment, two groups of people were facing off in the hall. One group was the international criminal organization that had kidnapped the boy, and the other group was the police who had come to arrest these criminals. The leader of the group, Officer Liu, was the father of the kidnapped boy.

"Xiao Yan, are you alright?" Officer Liu looked at his son with concern, then said to the person opposite him with righteous indignation, "Release my son."

"Release him? Of course." The man in charge of speaking with Officer Liu said with a smile, "As long as Officer Liu hands over the items and lets us leave, I guarantee your son will not be harmed in the slightest."

"I'm a police officer!" Officer Liu said arrogantly. "You can't escape. You'd better surrender immediately and face legal judgment."

"Since Officer Liu has said so, then there's nothing we can do." The man sneered, gave a wink to the person standing next to the boy who was holding him down, and then that person pulled the boy's hand out, took out a large pair of scissors, and made a gesture as if to cut off the boy's fingers.

"I heard your son plays the piano. If he loses those fingers, tsk tsk..."

The boy, who had been silent all along, finally looked up at Officer Liu across from him. Fear was evident on his face, but he stubbornly refused to ask for help.

This is a scene that Chen Yan is filming. Chen Yan plays the kidnapped teenager, and the police officer opposite him is naturally Liang Sijie. This scene is mainly to show the difficult choice this great policeman makes between his family and the law. Chen Yan still doesn't have any lines. All he has to do is pretend to be scared.

Of course, it's a movie after all, and victory always belongs to the side of justice. The next scene is that the police reinforcements arrive, followed by a spectacular police-criminal battle, a big action-packed drama combining gunfights and kung fu.

After the two sides started fighting, Officer Liu came to rescue his son. He ran to his son, who had been thrown to the ground, and with a cool shot, the shackles on his son's hands came off. Then, he switched into fatherly mode, hugging his son and comforting him: "It's okay, Dad is here to save you."

Chen Yan was held in Liang Sijie's arms, looking terrified. But heaven knows how much Chen Yan wanted to roll his eyes, but he had no choice. He had to follow the script and play a boy who was so scared that his legs went weak, and then be carried away by this 'father'.

"Cut!" Finally, with the director's command, the scene ended.

Chen Yan immediately jumped down from Liang Sijie's arms. His scene for the day was over, while the others had to continue filming the exciting fight scenes.

After the play ended, Chen Yan returned to the hotel. As soon as he entered his room, he saw Fu Mingxue sitting on the sofa in the living room, burying her head in writing and drawing on the table.

Since Fu Mingxue arrived as an assistant, she hasn't done a single thing that an assistant should do. She even took up the sofa and table in Chen Yan's living room, which were covered with Fu Mingxue's documents and sketchbooks. She sits there every day writing and drawing, and then making phone calls. She seems to be busier than Chen Yan.

However, Chen Yan didn't mind at all. After entering the room, she greeted Fu Mingxue: "Mr. Fu, how was your writing today?"

Fu Mingxue looked up and adjusted her glasses. "You're back so early."

Chen Yan poured herself a glass of water, then sat down on the sofa next to Fu Mingxue and said with a smile, "Well, I don't have many scenes."

Fu Mingxue is a man in his forties, short and chubby. Perhaps because he wears glasses, he always gives people a sense of honesty and dullness. Moreover, once he starts burying himself in his 'work', he ignores everything else and is completely immersed in his own affairs.

"By the way, has Mr. Fu made contact with his investors yet?" Chen Yan asked with a smile.

Fu Mingxue's face showed some disappointment, and she sighed and said, "Sigh, not yet."

Fu Mingxue was originally a member of a film crew. He had done many jobs on set: script supervisor, assistant, lighting technician, and even stunt double. He has a deep passion and love for film, and his biggest wish is to become a director and make the films he wants to make. Now, he is preparing for his first film, a film with a script he wrote and a film he directed himself.

However, despite his good intentions, he was an unknown and unqualified person who couldn't find any investors willing to invest in him. He had approached Lu Mengli, but Lu Mengli rejected the script he sent without even looking at it.

Fu Mingxue looked at Chen Yan with some difficulty on her face, but still said, "Young Master Chen, you are quite familiar with President Lu. Could you talk to him for me about investing in my movie?" President Lu was naturally Lu Mengli. In Fu Mingxue's view, Chen Yan was brought by Lu Mengli, so the relationship between the two was obviously not ordinary.

Fu Mingxue's question was very polite, even somewhat pleading. Indeed, when you have nothing and haven't achieved success, you have no choice but to put aside your pride and ask for favors.

“Sure, I’ll talk to him,” Chen Yan readily agreed. “However, I don’t know if he’ll be willing to invest.”

Although Chen Yan agreed, he couldn't possibly tell Lu Mengli about it. Chen Yan knew that the person in front of him, who was currently unknown and couldn't even find anyone to invest in his film, would soon become famous. In his previous life, Chen Yan had heard of Fu Mingxue's name like thunder. As long as movies were mentioned, no one didn't know Fu Mingxue. He was a top film master in the country, and every film he made was successful and a box office hit.

However, Fu Mingxue is a typical late bloomer. He didn't make his first film until he was forty years old, and it was a low-budget film. Of course, this was also related to his inability to attract investment. But even so, it was enough for him to make a name for himself in the film industry. After that, his film career went further and further, and his status in China was once unmatched.

At this time, Lu Mengli looked down on Fu Mingxue and was unwilling to invest in him. However, not long after, Lu Mengli would still be unable to resist Fu Mingxue's pleas and would allocate a sum of money to him. Fu Mingxue was a very grateful person, and because of this money, he was very grateful to Lu Mengli's company. As a result, all the movies he made were handed over to Lu Mengli's company for production and distribution. Fu Mingxue also became the biggest money-making machine for Lu Mengli's company.

Chen Yan pretended to call Lu Mengli, and then told Fu Mingxue that Lu Mengli was still unwilling to invest in him.

Fu Mingxue was very disappointed and devastated after hearing this. Just then, Chen Yan said with a smile, "However, I have a friend who is quite interested in movies. He once said he wanted to invest in movies. I'll ask him for you. Maybe he'll be willing to invest in your movie."

"Really?" Fu Mingxue's eyes lit up immediately, and she looked at Chen Yan with hopeful eyes.

“Okay,” Chen Yan nodded, “I’ll ask him for you, he should be willing.”

"Okay, thank you so much." Fu Mingxue excitedly grabbed Chen Yan's hand, extremely grateful for Chen Yan's help.

So that very day, Chen Yan called Yan Minghui and asked if he could provide some funds from the company. However, upon hearing this, Yan Minghui immediately replied with two words: "No money!"

Chen Yan gave a wry smile and hung up the phone. However, when she faced Fu Mingxue again, she still smiled and reassured him, telling him to prepare first and that she would tell her friend about it after she finished filming.

Two days later, Chen Yan filmed his last scene, a farewell scene with a somewhat sentimental feel. In the play, his policeman "father" finally defeats the criminals but still wants to continue working as a policeman. However, for his son's safety, he has to send his son abroad.

Standing at the airport entrance, Chen Yan said goodbye to his "father." Liang Sijie, playing the "father," first lovingly wrapped a scarf around Chen Yan's neck, then offered some earnest words of advice. Chen Yan didn't have many lines, because as the son in the play, although he understood his "father's" work, he still had some complaints. It wasn't until he reached the entrance and just as he was about to enter that he turned around and said to his father, "Dad, take care of yourself."

And with that, the entire play came to an end.

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