Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 92: Sponsor and Song Selection
After returning to school and looking at the quiet campus, Cao Yang realized a problem: he came too early. Neither the school nor the Qingying Studio had started classes yet.

Cao Yang originally thought that he could stay in his hometown for about ten days, so he told Hou Keming before the New Year that he would return to school after the tenth day of the New Year.

There are still four or five days left before the agreed time, and it’s New Year’s Day, so I feel embarrassed to call Hou Keming to urge him. I can only wait.

This time when I came back from my hometown, I brought a lot of local specialties, which I put in the trunk of the car. They were all real local specialties that were worthless.

Given Cao Yang's current status, it would be most appropriate to bring some local specialties no matter whose house he visits.

We first went to Old Situ's house and had a meal. Old Situ was very happy to accept Cao Yang's local specialties.

I went to Lao Tian's house again, had a meal with him and got some local specialties.

We didn't even talk about work. It's not appropriate during the New Year.

Cao Yang originally wanted to go to Hou Keming's house, but after thinking about it, he decided that if he went now, Hou Keming would definitely not be able to sit still, so he promised to come to work tomorrow and, by the way, bring all the people who needed to assist Cao Yang in the post-production to come to work early.

Forget it, let’s wait until after the tenth day.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Gao Yuanyuan sent a message asking Cao Yang whether he would return to Hong Kong.

Cao Yang was a little confused. Why should I go back to Hong Kong? Why should I go back to Hong Kong?

He replied to Gao Yuanyuan with a “?” Did the other party send the wrong message, or was she still in the drama?
Gao Yuanyuan didn’t reply to the message.

How rude.

Years ago, Dong Xuan sent a message to Cao Yang, asking him when he would return to school.

Cao Yang replied that it has not been confirmed yet and he will let you know when he returns.

When he returned to school, Cao Yang sent a message to Dong Xuan, saying that he had returned to school. In fact, he didn't mean anything else and ignored it after sending the message.

Unexpectedly, Dong Xuan was quite interesting. On the morning of the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, she sent a message to Cao Yang: I’m back to school too.

Cao Yang certainly understood why the girl came back to school so early, so he drove her out for a big meal, and when he came back he asked her, "Why did you get here?"

"By train."

"Why don't you call me when you get to the station? I have a car and can pick you up at the station."

After hearing what Cao Yang said, Dong Xuan was obviously very happy. He couldn't hide his joy on his face. He smiled and whispered, "I was afraid of bothering you. I didn't know you had a car."

"I bought the car a long time ago, but I seldom drive it to school. As a student who hasn't graduated yet, I always feel a little awkward driving to school."

"Well, there are a few students in our class who have cars, but they don't usually drive to school. They said the guards stopped them from entering the school."

Cao Yang didn't talk about this topic anymore, but asked, "I'll take you back to school, can you get some clothes to change into?"

Dong Xuan lowered his head and hummed softly.

In fact, they were just a few pieces of clothes. Cao Yang would definitely buy several sets for Dong Xuan from start to finish. He mainly used this small matter to test Dong Xuan's intentions.

What if that’s not what they meant?

When the car was about to arrive at the school gate, Dong Xuan was about to say, "Wait a moment on the side of the road, I'm going to school to get my clothes," but he saw that Cao Yang had no intention of stopping the car and drove straight to the school.

The security guard at the door opened the door, saluted, and let us in without saying anything.

Dong Xuan laughed at himself in his heart. Director Cao was a very important person. The license plate must have been logged into the school’s internal system a long time ago. Why would the security guard stop him?

Cao Yang drove the car all the way to the downstairs of Dong Xuan's dormitory. He did not get out of the car, and let Dong Xuan go upstairs to get his things by himself.

Dong Xuan opened the door of the dormitory, closed it, closed his eyes, patted his chest with his hands, and suddenly felt dizzy.

She made the decision after she knew Cao Yang was back to school. Her biggest wish at that time was that Cao Yang could be a little touched. She even felt a little regretful for her impulsiveness while on the train.

"Director Cao asked me to bring some spare clothes. Does that mean I plan to stay in the hotel for a long time?" Dong Xuan thought to himself as he packed some underwear and common clothes.

"Luckily, the New Year has just passed and it's still early before school starts. There aren't many people in the school. Otherwise, if someone saw us..."

While thinking about all sorts of things, Dong Xuan got into Cao Yang's car wearing her usual clothes. She didn't know which hotel Cao Yang would take her to. Then she saw Cao Yang driving into a fairly new residential area.

"I bought the house here after I came back from Venice last year. It's close to school, so it's very convenient." Cao Yang explained as he opened the door while carrying Dong Xuan's luggage.

"I'll give you a key later, and you can live here from now on."

Dong Xuan blushed and her heart was pounding. Director Cao wanted to support me... Bah, what's the point of talking about supporting or not supporting? It sounds so ugly. To use the words that senior students often say nowadays, do I have a financial sponsor behind me?
There is one of the youngest big directors in the country as the financial sponsor...

In the remaining few days, Cao Yang and Dong Xuan played a lot of adult games.

The charming eyes are closed in shyness, and the red lips are gradually opened with a smile. The wind blows the grape belt, and the sun shines on the pomegranate skirt.

At the same time, we also started to consider the post-production issues of the film.

There is a plot in "Secret Sunshine" where the heroine, in order to challenge God and take revenge on the church, secretly changed the music during the church fellowship, replacing the church music with Kim Choo-ja's "Lies".

Cao Yang will definitely not use South Korean songs. He has been considering what song would be more suitable these days.

He initially wanted to change it to "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China" or "The National Anthem," but after thinking about it, he felt that the conflicting implications were too obvious and would have a big impact, so he gave up.

Later, Cao Yang thought of a popular song. He could only sing the climax lines of the song, which were more in line with the plot of the movie.

“…It’s all fake, fake, fake. I cried until I was hoarse, hoarse, hoarse. I kept thinking and thinking, who is this scam for? It’s all fake, fake, fake…”

Find someone to sing it, and then just play these few lines in the movie.

However, even though the meaning of playing this kind of pop song is conveyed, it always feels not shocking enough and cannot give people an unforgettable impression.

Unable to think of a more suitable answer, Cao Yang went online, logged into his Tianya account, and posted a message asking for help from the omnipotent netizens.

In the evening, after doing another win-win activity for both parties and achieving great harmony in life, Cao Yang turned on his computer and looked at Tianya Community. There were actually a few replies.

"Howling song?"

Cao Yang didn't react for a moment, he had never heard of this song, then he watched the other party explain...

Well, this definitely won't work.

Continue reading below.

"Internationale?"

The other party also specifically pointed out that in the 1939 Xiao San translation, there is such a sentence: There has never been any savior, nor do we rely on gods or emperors. To create human happiness, we must rely on ourselves...

Cao Yang's eyes lit up. These lyrics were really suitable. There would be no problem changing them to this. After all, it was a translated version, and "The Internationale" was also widely circulated in Europe.

　I originally wanted to schedule it for release at 8 a.m., but then I thought, it’s already this late, why bother with a schedule, I might as well just upload it.

　　Thank you brothers for your support. Recently, maybe because more and more brothers are reading the book, they have put forward various different opinions. Thank you very much. Everyone is working hard to make the book better and better. I understand.

　　But after all, it is difficult to meet the requirements of different readers. I am also afraid that the repeated changes will eventually disrupt my thoughts, resulting in the writing getting worse and worse, until it collapses. So sometimes I don’t adopt your opinions, and I hope you will understand.

　　In addition, I haven't written a novel for more than ten years, so I may have accidentally touched on some poisonous points. I would like to ask my brothers to point them out in time so that I can revise them as soon as possible.

　　Finally, I would like to thank my brothers again for their monthly tickets and recommendation support. Thank you all.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)