Chinese Entertainment 2017: Starting from the Top Writers

Chapter 781: Rejection, Recollection, Official Announcement
6:30 pm, Nanxun Culture.

The phone vibrated in his pocket for the seventh time, and Lin Li finally pressed the answer button.

Liu Yifei's voice came with an electric current, carrying a hint of grievance.

"Can I call you Ali now? When I was at your company today, I almost thought we had never met before."

"Sister Yifei, you're joking. There are so many people here. I'm doing this for your sake."

"Why don't you avoid suspicion with Chen Duling and Zhang Jingyi?"

"My relationship with them is well known, isn't it?"

"That's right... the bruises I got during the audition seem to have gotten worse~"

Her deliberately light breathing was like a feather brushing across the eardrum, with a hint of coquettishness.

Lin Li looked at the busy traffic outside the floor-to-ceiling window. In the reflection of the glass, Chen Duling and Zhang Jingyi were talking hand in hand, and their pearl earrings were swaying in the twilight.

"Sister Yifei should go to the hospital."

He tapped the windowsill with his fingertips and raised his eyebrows slightly as he looked at the hustle and bustle of traffic downstairs.

"Or... should I ask my assistant to send a bottle of safflower oil over?"

There was the crisp sound of a cup falling from the other end of the phone, followed by a burst of heavy breathing.

"No need, Teacher Nanxun is busy. Goodbye!"

"Dudu..."

Hearing the busy tone on the phone, Lin Li smiled and was about to put away his phone when Ni Ni's WeChat message popped up and the location of the Forbidden City Corner Tower Coffee flashed red.

"Waiting for Teacher Nanxun to come (red lips)"

Lin Li curled the corner of his mouth slightly and turned off the screen.

Although she also wants to make progress, Ni Ni is obviously not proactive enough. Yang Mi has already sent her a selfie of herself leaning over in a sexy long skirt, which is so white that it is blinding.

As for the older married woman with the bad eyesight, her hints were too subtle and he didn't want to pay any attention to her.

After all, we are not divorced, so it is better to stay away from each other.

In the past, he had some leisure to play friendly matches with these older sisters, but now he decided to give up.

When he turned around, Lin Li saw Chen Duling tuck Zhang Jingyi's loose hair behind her ears. The tips of the girl's ears shone coral color under the light.

What does this say?
"Did you finish the phone call?"

Seeing him turn around, Chen Duling raised her head and said softly with her eyes curved.

"Yes, what do you want to eat tonight? Let's have dinner together."

His eyes swept over the two of them, and Lin Li asked for their opinions with a smile.

"You guys go ahead. I'm a little tired. I'll go back and rest early today."

Before Zhang Jingyi could speak, Chen Duling spoke first with a smile.

"Hmm? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"

Lin Li hurriedly squatted down in front of her and nervously held her hands.

Zhang Jingyi, who was standing by, noticed something was wrong.

"No, I'm just a little tired. You and Jingyi go, I'll go back first."

Chen Duling smiled and shook her head, then turned her gaze to Zhang Jingyi.

"Jingyi, you guys come along. We can have afternoon tea when you're free."

"Okay, no problem."

Zhang Jingyi held her arm, looked up and smiled obediently.

"Okay, then I'll let Sister Wen take you there. The babysitter I arranged for you should be in place by now. If you're tired, go back and rest early."

Patting the back of her hand, Lin Li gently admonished.

Things are different now, he wants to ensure that Dudu's health is always in the best condition.

"Oh, I see."

Chen Duling nodded slightly and followed the advice.

Zhang Jingyi looked at this scene, had some vague guesses in her mind, and pursed her lips unconsciously.

After parting with Chen Duling in the parking lot, Lin Li planned to take Zhang Jingyi to an old place.

7pm, Yubang.

"I was surprised to meet you here. At that time, I didn't have too many improper thoughts about you. I was just a little fangirl."

Zhang Jingyi poked the crystal shrimp and chuckled, her almond eyes curved into crescents.

The warm yellow light of Yubang spread over her newly dyed chestnut hair, gathering into a golden luster at her collarbone.

Lin Li watched the steam condense into stars on her eyelashes. Her bright eyes flickered gently, revealing a hazy beauty.

"Why do I feel that you already had other thoughts about me at that time, but you just haven't realized it yet?"

Lin Li looked straight into her eyes and gently shook the oolong tea in his hand.

Ice cubes floated in the tea, reflecting the street lights that were just turning on outside the window.

"Now whatever you say is what it is. I think that the reason you helped me to settle that bill was because you wanted me to remember you and leave a deep impression on me."

"Ali, you are too scheming."

Zhang Jingyi squinted her eyes and looked at him, with an expression that said, "I see through you."

"Ah……"

Lin Li smiled and shook his head.

He felt that the princess seemed to have become more lively recently, and was becoming increasingly different from her previous obedient and quiet self.

"Sister Duling's baby...

After a moment of silence, Zhang Jingyi's silver fork drew tiny star tracks on the porcelain plate.

“Will it come next fall?”

Zhang Jingyi's earrings suddenly trembled, like dewdrops about to fall.

Suddenly, a drizzle began to fall outside the window, and the raindrops formed a flowing Milky Way on the glass.

The smile on Lin Li's face gradually faded, and he stared at the girl opposite him with drooping eyebrows.

"Am I being obvious?"

He suddenly smiled and picked up a piece of tender meat from the fish belly for her.

"Your nervousness towards Sister Duling is almost written all over your face, and I'm not stupid."

"First it was Sister Ruonan, and now it's Sister Duling. I'm so envious."

"Why didn't I make any movement? We obviously didn't take any measures."

Gently stroking her belly, Zhang Jingyi puffed out her lips and felt a little emotional.

She also wants to have a baby, a baby full of babies.

"Silly boy, do you still want to leave school as a family of three?"

"Don't worry, we will have it."

"Just focus on your studies first. You also need to prepare for the role of Ling Shuang in advance. I will give it to you in advance after the script is polished."

Lin Li leaned over and raised his hand to gently poke her head, chuckling dotingly.

He could feel that ever since Xiao Zhang became pregnant, they all seemed to have a sense of urgency.

"Hey, Ali, you are bullying me."

Zhang Jingyi touched her forehead and accused him.

"And if you do this, don't I suspect you're using a backdoor?"

She rolled her eyes and looked at him with a smile on her face.

"It's not normal to bully you, as for using the back door..."

Lin Li took it as a matter of course and drew out the last syllable of his words.

"What happened?"

Under Zhang Jingyi's expectant gaze, he raised his eyebrows and spoke confidently.

The girl blinked blankly, then suddenly covered her mouth and laughed softly, her eyes curved like stars falling. Yes, what happened?

hey-hey……

Lin Li's gaze fell into the nebula vortex in Zhang Jingyi's pupils and was deeply immersed in it.

As he leaned back in his chair, the cuffs of his sweater slipped down half an inch, and the shadow cast by the protrusion of his wrist bone just happened to outline the contours of her dimples, like the imaginative light and shadow markings he made on the set.

"Ali, you..."

Zhang Jingyi suddenly leaned forward, and the tip of her ponytail swept across the celadon fruit plate, causing three pomegranate seeds to roll onto the table.

The lip gloss creates sparkling light between the teeth, and the cunning at the end of the eye flickers with the rhythm of the fluttering eyelashes.

"You can't learn to be humble."

The lisianthus inserted diagonally in the glass bottle just appeared at this moment, and its floating fragrance was sprinkled in the shortened distance between the two people.

Lin Li paused in mid-air as he tapped the table with his fingers, then used his palm to rub the newly sprouted green stubble on his chin.

Zhang Jingyi suddenly stretched out her hand and poked at his forehead, but her fingertips stopped just before touching him, and she gestured in the air.

"There should be a tattoo of the word 'king' here."

The tail end of her voice was mostly carried away by the breeze that suddenly blew in through the window, and the remaining sound collided with Lin Li's sudden burst of laughter in the air, causing her to shudder.

Amid the girl's scolding, Lin Li kept begging for mercy, and the dinner came to an end in this cheerful atmosphere.

The neon lights of Wangfujing turned into a watercolor painting in the rain.

Zhang Jingyi pulled her baseball cap even lower, but her fingertips dug into Lin Li's palm.

Her body temperature seeped through the surface of her skin. Lin Li felt her soft, boneless little hand and looked at her from the side.

"It's been a long time since I wandered around on the road like this..."

The end of the words disappeared in the sweet aroma of sugar-roasted chestnuts.

When turning into an empty narrow alley, Zhang Jingyi's breath suddenly brushed past his ears.

"I want a daughter with eyes like yours."

The sycamore leaves wrapped in raindrops fell on her hair, and the light from the advertising screen in the distance turned into warm orange at this moment.

Lin Li took off her mask and found that there was still peach jam from the restaurant on her lips.

He hooked his hands around her soft waist and slowly lowered his head.

"I think your eyes look better..."

After stopping at her ear, Lin immediately spoke slowly in a low voice.

"I told you that you have a pair of eyes that are very loving."

"Princess."

Then, he found a hint of pink on the girl's profile.

On the dark red brick wall, two shadows gradually overlapped.

-

Three days later, at the usual time of 10 a.m., the official Weibo account of Nanxun Culture updated the news on time.

Suddenly, one stone caused a thousand waves!

"The first chapter of the Chinese superhero universe, "Chasing the Sun", has been officially announced - recasting the mythological epic with the soul of the East!"

"Title: "Chinese Superhero Universe: Chasing the Sun""

“Genre: Oriental mythology superhero/action adventure/epic masterpiece”

"Project registration number: XHX-S001"

“Production period: 2019-2021”

Release plan: 2022 summer release worldwide
"Worldview Opening"

When the ancient oracles turned into genetic codes, the ancient civilization technology that had been dormant for three thousand years began to awaken.

"We used the Classic of Mountains and Seas as a blueprint, rewrote the Huainanzi using quantum mechanics, and buried the key to killing gods deep in the Dunhuang star map."

"This is a hardcore mythological universe where a bloodline awakener fights a mechanical glutton on Mount Buzhou, and drives a Yinglong mecha to break through the ninth heaven."

[Core plot]

"Young engineer Jiang Yan accidentally awakened the Kuafu gene in his body and traveled through modern cities and ancient ruins carrying the fusion core of the Xihe."

"When the apocalyptic prophecy of ten suns merging into one sky intersects with the quantum conspiracy of a multinational technology group, he will form an alliance with the archaeologist Ling Shuang [the heir of Hou Yi's bloodline] and the awakened AI [Zhu Yin], use controlled nuclear fusion to recast the Sun-shooting Bow, and start a war of killing gods in the center of Lop Nur."

【Making Matrix】

“Visual Spectacle: Created jointly by the core visual effects team of The Wandering Earth and the mythology aesthetics team of Nanxun Culture, it brings the world’s top visual effects.”

"Research on the Weapon List: Shuimu University Institute of History of Science and Technology x National Museum Experts Team, Restored 28 Ancient Magical Weapon Technology Trees."

"Action Design: Xu Ke's martial arts director reconstructed the [Bagua Formation Mecha Combat System] to present a cross-dimensional duel between the electromagnetic whip and the bronze spear."

"Music epic: Tan Dun fused the frequency of Zenghouyi chimes with the sound waves of electronic nuclear explosion!"

【Message from the creators】

"Director Lin Li: We want to prove that Chinese superheroes don't have to fly over the Statue of Liberty. The moment they awaken under the Sanxingdui bronze sacred tree is the ultimate romance of the civilization gene."

"In the summer of 2022, watch Kuafu's bloodline ignite the heart of fusion and let Houyi's arrows penetrate the cyber sky."

"This is not just the birth of a hero, but also an awakening ceremony for a nation to rediscover its own mythological DNA."

"The foreshadowing of the second part [Zhenhai Chapter] has been buried in the secret realm of 30 degrees north latitude."

"Chasing light for the common people and daring to race against the laws of nature"

"The Chinese Superhero Universe Officially Begins"

Producer: Nanxun Culture
Co-producers: Penguin Films, Ali Films, Enlight Media

Chief Director/Screenwriter: @林立
Executive Producer: Xu Fei

Co-producers: Sun Zhonghuai, Chen Chao, Chen Duling
Leading actors: @张驿@吴惊@黄小明@朱艺龙@陈嘟玲@张婧怡@杨讓@刘亦霏@娜扎@张天艾

"Filming will start soon, please stay tuned!"

#China's Superhero Universe Trilogy [Sun Chaser] Official Announcement#
After reading Nanxun Culture’s official announcement, netizens rushed into the comment section and excitedly expressed their opinions.

"Wow, this lineup is unprecedentedly strong!"

"I never thought that one day I would see Liu Yifei and Yang Mi appear in a movie together!"

"Zhang Yi and Wu Jing! This is the ultimate combination!"

"I'm already looking forward to it after reading this plot synopsis. The Chinese people's own superhero! Ahhh! I want to hurry to 2022. I want to buy a ticket!"

"Isn't NanDa going to perform himself? Even a cameo appearance would be fine!"

“It feels like there are still many characters that have not been announced. The previously mentioned Yinglong, Nine-tailed Fox, and Suzaku suddenly give me the feeling of breaking through the dimensional wall. The collision of ancient mythology and future technology is simply explosive!”

"I have a feeling that this movie will rewrite the history of global box office after it is released!"

"Don't get too excited upstairs. What can you use to fight the Avengers? They have accumulated so many years of experience, you can't defeat them just by your enthusiasm."

"That's right! And getting those barbarians from other countries who have no literary background to recognize our thousands of years of culture is even more difficult than asking them to read a book without words."

"That's right, and I feel that special effects and other things are still better abroad. Although The Wandering Earth is good, I think our domestic film industry still has a long way to go."

"This movie hasn't even been released yet and so many people are already kneeling in the comments section. It's hilarious!"

"That's right, don't you even look at who the production company is or who the director is? Trust Nanda!"

"I just found out that the princess is also in the cast list. The princess and Li Xun are working together again!"

“Even though one is a director and the other is an actor, why don’t they count?”

"Ahhh! My Life Rhythm Ring!"

“Look forward to the Chinese superhero movie universe and the Sun Chaser episode!”

……

The entire network is discussing this hotly, with six of the top ten Weibo posts being occupied by related terms.

The entire industry was attracted by it, and Hollywood also cast a watchful eye on it.

At this moment, Lin Li no longer had the energy to pay attention to these things.

He is very busy now.

(End of this chapter)