novellhall Chapter 11 Joining the Group, Supreme Treasure
Chapter 11 Joining the Group, Supreme Treasure
On the afternoon of September 12.
Lin Zixuan dragged a suitcase and took a taxi to Huairou Film and Television Base.
Find the hotel where the crew of "Men's Bottom Line" is staying and report to the crew.
Although Lin Zixuan played a minor supporting role in the drama, the production team still arranged a private room for him, which was a benefit clearly stated in the contract.
Strictly speaking, "Men's Bottom Line" is an anti-corruption drama. The story revolves around Wei Haifeng, the deputy director of the Transportation Department, and portrays his triple adherence to moral bottom line, duty bottom line, and emotional bottom line under the temptation of power and interests. The series explores the moral bottom line and human nature challenges in modern society through a dual narrative of officialdom ecology and emotional entanglements.
The TV series is directed by Gao Xixi and features a star-studded cast including Pu Cunxin, Xu Qing, Yu Hewei, Sha Yi, and Sun Ning.
In fact, the other main members of the production team had already joined the crew before April 12th, and several script reading sessions had been held. Everything was ready, and they were just waiting to start filming.
Unfortunately, he didn't see any of the other main members of the crew until evening, let alone the beloved older sister Xu Qing.
However, he wasn't in a hurry. He would be staying on set for a month and a half anyway, which was plenty of time. He didn't believe he wouldn't find an opportunity.
He didn't go out that night either; he took out his laptop and connected to the room's internet.
He first posted a photo of the film crew on his blog with the caption, "Today I officially joined the cast of 'Men's Bottom Line'."
Fans quickly responded with likes and comments, wishing their "brother" (husband) continued success in his career.
Then I continued to write the script for "Someday or One Day," which was actually translating the TV series I remembered into words and writing it into a script.
Indeed, with the popularity of the three songs and the surge in ringtone downloads, he had the initial capital to launch the second step of his plan: to make himself famous with a hit idol drama.
He chose the TV series "Someday or One Day," which premiered at the end of 2019 and became a huge hit.
If the female lead hadn't been so plain-looking, and if Huang Yuxuan had been played by a beautiful actress who fits the general public's aesthetic standards, this TV series would very likely have become a phenomenon.
However, this also shows that Taiwan's entertainment industry has declined. There are no more beautiful women among the new generation of female artists. Beauties like Joey Wong, Barbie Hsu, Dee Hsu, Janine Chang, and Lin Chi-ling have disappeared from the entertainment industry.
When this drama aired, it was during the pandemic control period. Lin Zixuan watched it several times at home and was deeply impressed. With his many years of experience in the film and television industry, translating it into a script was not a big problem.
Most importantly, the male and female leads of this TV series are both very popular, which is perfect for Lin Zixuan.
He has already completed the script outline and is currently filling in the plot for each episode. He plans to finish the script within a month.
Of course, since this drama is set in Taiwan, the new script will definitely change the story location to Beijing.
He wanted to find an opportunity to win over the beautiful Xu Qing on set, hoping she could help him cultivate his skills and find a company to produce the TV series. Of course, he would be the male lead, which was a basic condition.
At 12 o'clock, he began his cultivation. Before starting, he opened the 12530 website, checked the backend data, and felt very pleased with himself.
"Autumn Never Returns" has been downloaded 155384 times as a ringtone.
"Wait a Minute" has been downloaded 128629 times as a ringtone.
"Damn Tenderness" has been downloaded 122861 times as a ringtone.
The total number of downloads has exceeded 40, and it seems that breaking one million downloads this month is no problem at all.
However, the growth of his blog's followers has slowed down, with only a little over 100 new followers in 4 days, bringing his total to just over 2200. But the followers are very active, with nearly a thousand comments every day.
The panel in the sea of consciousness displays:
Name: Lin Zixuan
Age: 21 (83)
人气：2673
Cultivation level: 0 (Not yet a beginner)
. . . . . .
The increase in popularity is also far from matching the popularity of the song, but Lin Zixuan is not in a hurry, since everything is developing in a positive direction.
On April 13, filming officially began.
According to the production team's announcement, the opening ceremony will be held at 10:00 AM. Those attending the ceremony will gather at 8:00 AM to change costumes and get their makeup done.
At 7:50 a.m. the next day, Lin Zixuan finally saw all the main creators at the crew meeting point.
Speaking of which, although this drama is not an idol drama, the main cast members are all extremely good-looking. Lin Zixuan even suspected that the director cast them according to the standards of an idol drama.
The female lead, Xu Qing, is, of course, an absolute beauty.
Although Sun Ning, the third female lead, isn't a top-tier beauty, she is still fresh, sweet, gentle, and graceful.
The male lead, Pu Cunxin, is also a handsome and charming man, known as a heartthrob among young women.
The second male lead, Yu Hewei, is a talented actor. His looks are slightly less than average, but still above average.
Sha Yi, the third male lead, is a handsome man. With the huge success of "My Own Swordsman" at the beginning of this year, his image as Bai Zhantang has been adored by countless young men and women, and he is now a hot young actor.
The choice of the second female lead was inexplicable. As the wife of the male lead, the two of them standing together had absolutely no chemistry. Calling them mother and son might be a bit of an exaggeration, but no one would doubt that they were siblings with an age difference of more than 10 years.
However, with the appearance of Lin Zixuan, both Pu Cunxin and Sha Yi were overshadowed by Lin Zixuan, and the actresses' eyes lit up when they saw him.
He had actually arrived long ago, but he didn't know anyone in the crew. To avoid embarrassment, he stood in a corner until he saw director Gao Xixi coming over, at which point he went over and greeted him.
When Gao Xixi saw him coming over, she happily introduced him, "Let me introduce you, this is Lin Zixuan, he plays Zheng Bin in the drama." Then she introduced him to the main members of the production team one by one.
Lin Zixuan also began to greet each of the main creators.
The first person to greet me was naturally the beautiful Xu Qing.
Seeing Xu Qing up close, he was struck by her breathtaking beauty.
With her curvaceous figure, she looked exceptionally tall and sexy in a fitted black dress.
Her face was fair and delicate, her eyes were beautiful as a painting, and she had two shallow dimples at the corners of her mouth. Her large, watery eyes seemed to steal one's soul.
She's truly a captivating enchantress.
Lin Zixuan immediately used the Moon Goddess Arrow spell, the effectiveness of which was unknown. At the same time, he looked like a fan seeing their idol, excitedly reaching out his hand, "Teacher Xu, you are my idol! I love your portrayal of Ren Yingying the most. Please give me an autograph later."
Xu Qing was originally a looks-obsessed person, and she found Lin Zixuan, such a handsome guy, pleasing to the eye. But for some reason, when she made eye contact with Lin Zixuan, she felt a strange sense of familiarity with this handsome young man and wanted to get closer to him.
She smiled gently and extended a fair hand to shake Lin Zixuan's hand. "No need to be so polite. Just call me senior from now on. Let's communicate more in the future."
The moment Lin Zixuan held Xu Qing's small hand, his mind stirred, and a panel automatically appeared in his mind's eye:
Name: Lin Zixuan
Age: 21 (83)
人气：17
Cultivation level: 0 (Not yet a beginner)
Target 1, Popularity: 27538163
. . . . . .
The long string of numbers left Lin Zixuan somewhat incredulous. Xu Qing's popularity was simply too high—over 2753 million! This was practically the ultimate treasure he had cultivated!
He secretly resolved that no matter what, he would win her over and use her popularity to cultivate. He believed that with so much popularity, he could surely master the basics of the Joyful Union Immortal Technique.
I wonder what changes the basics of the technique will bring me; I'm really looking forward to it.
These thoughts seemed numerous, but in reality, they only lasted a moment. He smiled slightly, revealing his most perfect smile, "Thank you, senior. I'll come find you again later."
He then shook hands and greeted Pu Cunxin, Yu Hewei, Sha Yi, Sun Ning, and others one by one.
He finally understood that only when he had physical contact with other celebrities could the panel in his mind scan their popularity.
However, the popularity of the other people is far inferior to that of Xu Qing.
Second place goes to Sha Yi, with over 800 million views. He truly rose to fame thanks to "My Own Swordsman".
Pu Cunxin, who is known as a heartthrob for young women and an idol for middle-aged and elderly women, only has over 700 million followers, ranking third. It's a bit unfair that he's ranked third, perhaps because middle-aged and elderly women aren't as enthusiastic about idolizing celebrities as younger people.
The other people's popularity was much worse; none of them even reached 100 million.
Sha Yi has a great talent for comedy. He was chatting and laughing with Pu Cunxin when he saw Lin Zixuan coming over. He immediately started making funny faces, saying, "Wow, Lin Zixuan, you're so handsome! Oh no, Pu-ge, you're doomed to lose your title as the number one handsome man."
Pu Cunxin was also humorous, saying, "I'm the number one handsome man among middle-aged men, Lin Zixuan is the number one handsome man among young men, and you can only rank second."
Lin Zixuan also joked, "Master Bai, you're actually quite handsome too, just a little bit less so than me."