I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 562 Heaven and Earth Watch Over Us (5225)

"Fake!"

Wearing a half-length white theatrical costume, Da Mimi glanced disdainfully at Liu Feifei, who was trembling incessantly.

After all, Da Mimi had already achieved the extraordinary, and although she collapsed later than Liu Feifei, she recovered much faster.

"With the movie version already out there, who knows who the imposter is?" The alluring Liu Feifei wasn't going to tolerate her. She tugged at the strip of cloth covering her and gave Da Mimi a cold, sidelong glance.

"Donghua, look at her~" Da Mimi hugged Fang Yu tightly, her voice sweet and coquettish, "I'm just a little fox who's 140,000 years old, she's so fierce, I'm so scared~"

Seeing this, Liu Feifei raised her eyebrows, stood up, touched Fang Yu's face with her right hand, and gently gathered his tattered clothes with her left hand. Her expression was full of guilt, regret, and reluctance.

"Donghua, you are the Emperor, and Fengjiu's husband. I have failed Yehua and Fengjiu. We are destined... destined... to be just a mistake..."

Da Mimi looked at Liu Feifei in disbelief.

This woman... she actually uses professional skills for role-playing!

And to use the forbidden love trope is utterly shameless!
Da Mimi was stunned for a moment, then her expression changed, abandoning her previous coquettish demeanor: "Donghua! Don't listen to her nonsense! Since that's the case, why not call Feng Jiu here too, and see who Feng Jiu calls 'aunt'!?"

Da Mimi had a serious expression, pure and unapproachable.

He glanced at Liu Feifei with a disdainful look, thinking to himself, "Feng Jiu is my person, and you still want to fight me?"

Seeing the two Bai Qian beside him each devising their own schemes, vying for supremacy, and their plans finally coming to a head, Fang Yu couldn't help but feel a surge of joy.

What does it matter if it's a movie version or a TV series version? The one you watch yourself is the original.

Absolutely devastating!
Although neither of the two actresses were particularly good at acting, it was enough for them.

The thought that after both the movie and TV versions of this show were released, fans would only be able to watch the edited version is actually quite exciting.

Fang Yu stood up, straightening his robes: "Stop arguing. How about I calculate which version, the film or the TV series, will be promoted to the rank of High God?"

Let's calculate?

Liu Feifei and Da Mimi blinked in confusion, only to see Fang Yu flip his wrist and three gleaming gold coins appear in his palm.

So it really was just calculation? He can do that too?
Liu Feifei casually tucked her hair back, but Da Mimi was very interested and didn't care about maintaining her goddess demeanor: "Let's calculate the TV version first, let's calculate the TV version first."

Although she is no longer too worried about the performance-based agreement, with so many projects running concurrently throughout the year, this drama took up almost a third of her work time, requiring a huge amount of resources and energy. The level of stress far exceeded that of Liu Feifei, who was in a period of resource shortage when she took on this film.

"Clang clang"

"Clang clang"

……

After throwing it six times, Fang Yu pretended to do some calculations and said, "Great luck! It should be a hit both online and offline. It should be the most popular drama of the year."

Upon hearing this, Da Mimi became excited, her eyes sparkling: "It's really going to be a huge hit!? What did the divination say?"

Fang Yu coughed lightly and said in a serious tone: "The original hexagram is Xun above Li below, which means family, and it is advantageous for a woman to be chaste; the second line is the moving line; the resulting hexagram is Xun above Dui below, which means in-between, and it is auspicious for pigs and fish, and it is advantageous to cross great rivers, and it is auspicious for a woman to return home, and it is advantageous to be chaste."

"This hexagram is the Family hexagram, which signifies a strict ruler within the family, which is auspicious. Since we are divining about a drama, it can mean that the relationships between the characters in the drama are successful, and it can also mean that your production team is filming smoothly without any major problems."

"The Zhongfu hexagram changes, with the second line changing from yang to yin, resulting in the Fengshan Jian hexagram. It signifies that the woman's return is auspicious and favorable to be steadfast. This indicates that the process will be gradual and orderly, lasting and prosperous, and that the woman will have a large number of female fans."

"According to the divination, it will generate a lot of buzz and should be no less than last year's 'The Journey of Flower.' It should be the most popular drama of the year, and it might even become your representative work."

Fang Yu's seemingly professional and cryptic explanation left Da Mi Mi completely bewildered. When she heard the statement that it was no worse than last year's "The Journey of Flower," she couldn't stop smiling.

"Do you want to have your fortune told too?" Da Mimi asked Liu Feifei with ill intentions, raising her chin at her.

Liu Feifei gathered her hair with both hands, pretending not to care: "I'm fine with anything."

Fang Yu shook his head indifferently: "No need to calculate. If the TV series is a hit, the movie version will definitely flop. Even if it doesn't flop, it's unlikely to be a hit."

In reality, he didn't understand the Six Lines divination method at all; the divination text was completely made up.

However, the conclusion that the TV series will reveal this big secret is not made up; it was actually calculated using "divine prophecy."

He also "predicted" the film version, only to find that it was a huge flop, with the box office revenue the production company received not even enough to cover the salaries of the two lead actors.

However, judging from the interpretation given by the prophecy, the transit of Venus seems to have been overshadowed by another blockbuster film. The screening schedule for the film version of "Three Lives Three Worlds" has not yet been announced, and we do not know what film it is.

Da Mimi smiled smugly, while Liu Feifei pretended not to care, but because her acting was so bad, it was obvious at a glance that she was faking it.

Fang Yu rolled the dice a few more times, then turned to Liu Feifei and said, "However, that movie you just finished filming, the one about the fairy, did pretty well at the box office."

"The hexagram is Dui above Kun below, Ze Di Cui. Although the plot is controversial and the reviews are divided, the actors and investors have still made good profits."

Liu Feifei's lips relaxed slightly, and she smiled as she looked directly at Fang Yu with her two dark eyes.

"The special effects makeup for this movie was a huge hassle, but hopefully it will turn out well."

With her big eyes wide open, Da Mimi hurriedly asked, "Could you also help me calculate how my two movies performed?"

Fang Yu asked in confusion, "Which two?"

Da Mimi said sarcastically, "Brotherhood of Blades 2 and Reset, you seem to remember her movies very well."

"Who told you to film over a dozen movies a year? Who can remember what you've actually done?"

Fang Yu retorted without hesitation, making Da Mimi roll her eyes.

"It's all gone, the investors are losing a fortune." Fang Yu casually tossed the balls a couple of times and shrugged.

"Impossible!" Yang Mi exclaimed. "The first one was such a hit, and everyone says the script for this one is even better than the first. How could it possibly flop?"

"Besides, I had to stop filming 'Three Lives' for half a month to make this drama!"

Liu Feifei couldn't help but chuckle: "You finished filming the female lead role in half a month, and then went back to film a TV series. And the TV series became a hit. You really are an acting genius."

Da Mimi was so angry that her chest hurt when she heard this.

But as someone who knows their own situation, she really didn't have the confidence to refute Liu Feifei's sarcasm.

Originally, her acting talent was better than that of Liu Feifei, who was more spiritual, but so many years of taking on multiple roles at once had long since made her lose the ability to portray complex characters, and she had no time to hone her skills or design her characters well.

Acting is also a highly professional job. Each role can be compared to a project, and the actor is the project manager. A project manager who is highly professional, responsible, and only manages one project at a time can naturally refine the project and might even win a Luban Award.

However, if a project manager takes on several projects at once, the final result can only be to follow the established procedures.

With proper process control, this approach would likely work fine for ordinary residential projects, but what if it's a complex project like the National Stadium?

Ancient costume fantasy dramas are set in residential buildings, while theatrical films, especially those with a bit of ambition, are set in national stadiums and grand theaters.

Da Mimi is used to building large-scale residential communities, and it's a residential community of Green Garden. It focuses on high turnover. They don't even bother to peel the radishes, and they don't even wash off the mud when they're in a hurry. In the long run, they can only cook everything in a big pot and they can't cook for themselves.

"Didn't you want to move behind the scenes? Why are you so concerned about these things?"

Fang Yu gathered the three coins and shook his head.

Da Mimi gritted her teeth: "No way, even if I switch to behind-the-scenes work, I have to achieve something before I do it, otherwise I'll be suppressed by this woman for the rest of my life."

Fang Yu thought to herself, "It seems like you were down there just now."

"No, you need to calculate again which of these movies will be hits in the next few years. These are the shortlisted scripts. Pick one for me. I absolutely have to win Best Actress."

Da Mimi wouldn't let it go, and found a list of movie scripts she had recently come across on her phone. Liu Feifei was so happy she almost blew her teeth out.

Fang Yu looked at the titles and thought, "What kind of terrible movies are these?"
Some movies, you don't even need to read the content, their titles alone exude a strong sense of being a bad movie.

Detective Pu Songling? You idiot, Pu Songling is a detective now? There's only one truth—it was done by a ghost? Terrible movie.

The next ex, isn't that just a "returning ex"? Giving it a name like "returning ex" might attract a bunch of artsy young people who love to go back to their exes.

I'm not a medicine god, medicine my ass! Medicine god? This is just a tired old trope from online novels and light novels. This is going to be a terrible movie.

London Raiders: Thunderbolt Sword... This is just utterly ridiculous, a truly terrible movie, skip it.

Oh, there's also a guide to Youzhou below, which is probably another terrible movie by Jingle Ma.

Wandering Blue Star? Is that the book by Liu the Electrician? His books are hard to adapt; it'll probably just be another bad movie that exploits the IP.

Bell Ring, another movie about monsters, is likely to be a terrible film.

……

Of the forty-odd films in total, less than a third had decent titles. Fang Yu pretended to toss coins a few times, secretly casting a prophetic spell.

Huh? Holy crap, there's actually some good stuff in here?
In Fang Yu's field of vision, among dozens of film titles, only two or three seemed to be highlighted, pulsating with a golden halo, like soaring arrows on a K-line chart.

Among them are "Dying to Survive" and "The Wandering Earth," two terrible movies that I just criticized.

Could it be that China can actually make good sci-fi films?
Oh right, AI has been born, probably using my AI.

Fang Yu took all the credit for himself without a second thought.

"Both of these should be huge hits."

Fang Yu pointed to the names of the two films.

"I'm not the God of Medicine and a wandering planet?" Da Mimi frowned, skeptical. "How accurate is your divination?"

"Dying to Survive is alright. It was directed by Xu Zheng, and the script was plagiarized from Dallas Buyers Club. It was said to have a domestic prototype. The previous Lost series had also made a name for itself and had a certain appeal."

"But this Wandering Blue Star... Director Guo Shun has only directed Gao Xiaosong's 'My Old Classmate' before, and there was also a short online film called 'Adventure' before that."

"The most important thing is still science fiction; anyone who touches this genre is doomed."

"Moreover, the salaries for both films were extremely low, and for The Wandering Earth, they only asked me about it once and didn't even give me the script."

Fang Yu shrugged, saying indifferently, "It was calculated by fortune telling. Believe it or not, it's up to you."

Seeing Yang Mi's hesitant expression, Fang Yu added, "If you think the pay is too low, you might as well talk about profit sharing, which might be much higher than the pay."

"I'll think about it." Da Mimi's eyes darted around, neither confirming nor denying.

Fang Yu didn't try to persuade him, respecting his personal fate.

"Actually, it's a real pity that I turned down the Honghai Operation in the first half of the year," Liu Feifei said regretfully. "The original team for the Jiulongjiang Operation was too tough for my mom, so she didn't let me take it."

"However, I heard that the second male lead for this movie was replaced recently. The original second male lead, Wang Mingliang, was a newcomer. I don't know why he was replaced."

I've heard of the movie "Operation Honghai," but because it's a patriotic film, I never contacted her.

However, Yang Mi actually knows why the person was changed.

They were abandoned by capital.

As for why it was abandoned by capital...

Da Mimi gave Fang Yu a half-smile.

Fang Yu was puzzled: "Why are you looking at me?"

"It's nothing, I just think you're pretty." Da Mimi looked away and picked up three coins, looking for trouble. "These are gold? I thought only copper coins existed in ancient times."

These three gold coins are typical traditional copper coin designs, with a small square hole in the middle. They feel heavy in the hand, weighing at least seventy or eighty grams.

The obverse of the three gold coins is inscribed with "Long Live the Emperor," "Peace Under Heaven," and "Upright and Honest," respectively, and the surface is also decorated with many auspicious symbols such as gourds, ruyi scepters, and banana leaf fans.

The back features four curved letters.

Each gold coin is stamped with the inscription "Qianlong Twenty-Five Years Yuanmingyuan Jiuzhou Qingyan" on one side of the coin wheel.

"These are imperial prayer coins made in the twenty-fifth year of the Qianlong reign, a set of twelve."

Fang Yu shrugged, unconcerned.

He didn't steal this set of coins from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but rather obtained it from the Christie's auction house in England.

Although it didn't cost any money, it wasn't stealing either.

Can taking back your own things be called stealing?

The inscription on the money wheel reveals how the money ended up in England. To spend money to buy it is simply foolish.

The prophecy that just now was so clear was definitely inseparable from those three coins.

The higher the value of the divination tools used in prophecy, the more accurate and clear the prophecy will be. Is there any divination tool with a higher value than the Qianlong Imperial Blessing Money?
"By the way, how's the filming of the digital humans in Taihuang Mountain and Sea Realm going? How's Director Chen doing?"

Fang Yu put away the three coins and casually asked.

Yu Dan specially invited Director Chen, who had previously directed Farewell My Concubine, to be the art director of Taihuang Mountain and Sea World. He also created the title of "worldview director" to have Director Chen design the personalities and plot settings of the NPCs in Taihuang Mountain and Sea World.

Liu Feifei thought for a moment: "I've never worked with Director Chen before, so it's quite special. It's just that I don't understand a lot of what he says, so I'll have to learn more."

Da Mimi chuckled: "Didn't he say your posture wasn't 'Yiguang Chushui' enough? How did you get through that scene? What exactly does 'Yiguang Chushui' mean?"

Liu Feifei couldn't help but laugh: "I don't know how I got through it either. I felt that it was no different from the previous twenty or so. Who knows why he got so excited on that one, clapping and cheering?"

"You still dare to criticize me? Do you even understand what 'a heavy rain falls on Youyan, white waves surge to the sky,' the surging power of an impending storm, the shimmering light before a great river flows eastward,' means?"

Hearing Liu Feifei say that, Da Mimi laughed so hard she covered her stomach.

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"Hey, I heard he wants to change the plot and add an NPC, you know? I bet he'll be talking to Yu Dan and Wei Ao in the next couple of days."

Da Mimi suppressed a laugh and patted Fang Yu on the shoulder.

Fang Yu looked puzzled. Rewrite the script?
Where would a script come from for my purely world-evolutionary game?

"He said that the character of Changxi, the Moon Goddess, is not well-developed enough, and he wants to give Feifei a younger brother named Xuanxi."

"One of the Three Sovereigns of the Primordial Era, known as 'Night Lord,' was originally a son of the Heavenly Realm, but was banished to the mortal world for advising Yao Ji against secretly descending to earth. He possesses the ability to control the 'Dream Realm,' and although young, he enjoys extremely high prestige in both the Yin and Yang realms. I hope this character can join the protagonist's adventure team to enrich the game's plot depth and philosophical reflections."

"They also said that they must find a young actor with the temperament of a 'young god' and a 'noble immortal' to play this role, and that he must have 'spirit' and 'youthful spirit'."

“The casting director was initially stumped, saying, where are we going to find the kind of young actor you’re talking about?”

"But they just waved their hand and said it was fine. They believe in recommending talented people regardless of personal relationships. My son can give it a try."

"Hahahahaha."

"Hey? Why aren't you angry? I thought I told you that you were going to replace Yu Dan soon."

Fang Yu pursed her lips: "What's there to be angry about? Everyone loves their child; it's normal to have selfish desires. But..."

Da Mimi's eyes lit up as she leaned on Fang Yu's shoulder: "But what?"

Liu Feifei also pricked up her ears and quietly watched Fang Yu.

"But does his son also have a protruding mouth? A protruding mouth has absolutely nothing to do with a 'young god' or a 'noble immortal'..."

Da Mimi chuckled and punched Fang Yu twice, but Fang Yu grabbed her fists and instantly... uh, not refined, instantly unified.
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Haixi, eastern suburbs, Sanlizha.

A few months ago, this place was a barren wasteland, but now, several simple factory buildings, each over 20 meters high and covering several acres, have been erected.

The factory buildings, which look similar to various industrial parks on the outside, are quite different inside.

The ground was divided into several areas of several hundred square meters, each separated by yellow barriers. Various professional lights and instruments were suspended from the ceiling, and several oddly shaped instruments were aimed at Liu Feifei in one of the areas.

"That's not right." Director Chen, dressed in a traditional Chinese jacket and waving a folding fan, stared intently at a monitor in front of him. On the monitor was Liu Feifei, who was in the arena.

Unlike ordinary monitors, this one is covered with a fine grid, allowing operators to rotate Liu Feifei's position on the monitor 360 degrees simply by swiping their fingers across the screen.

"Director Chen, what's wrong?" the technician next to him asked, sounding slightly nervous.

“Something’s not right.” Director Chen pursed his lips, a wise glint in his eyes.

The wind is wrong? The scene designers at Yugo Games were dumbfounded. This is indoors, where is the wind coming from?
“If you want to create a ‘desolate atmosphere,’ you need to have a sense of history, a sense of destiny, and an atmosphere of intertwined sorrow and joy. It can’t just be about ‘finishing this battle and moving on to the next one.’”

"This scene is Chang Xi's past, the 'origin' of why she gave up the position of Moon Goddess and was willing to perish with the Great Wilderness."

"She must be like an unfulfilled moon, with that feeling of 'eternity in regret'."

"She was like a kite in the wind, unable to break free from the string that bound her to fate."

"The sky is high and the earth is vast; man is but a speck of dust."

"Therefore, there must be wind here. This wind is not blown in, but comes from the Book of Songs, drifting from the lone smoke in the desert and the setting sun over the long river, as if heaven and earth are watching her departure."

"Add a touch of 'the world watching over us' to my name!"

The scene designer at Yugo Games almost smashed his keyboard.

What kind of bullshit is this "Farewell from Heaven and Earth" nonsense?!
(End of this chapter)