1982 Started from Hong Kong

Chapter 120 MV shooting begins

"Mr. Zhang, Ms. Chen, please take a seat."

Carlos Chan took the initiative to invite Leslie Cheung and the other woman beside him to sit down.

Immediately, he imitated Zhai Yuan's previous tone and pointed at the female employees around him: "Hey, go make two cups of coffee!"

When Zhai Yuan heard the words "Miss Chen", he glanced at the woman who had always been following Leslie Cheung and gradually remembered her identity.

Chen Shufang, the artist manager of Hong Kong Huaxing Records, was also Zhang Guorong's only agent in the later stage of his acting career.

ATV's actor department didn't send anyone to supervise the work, but she stayed with Zhang Guorong. It seems that the two of them really have a close relationship.

He was observing the two of them, and Chen Shufang was also looking at the layout of the secret garden hall.

There are more than a dozen workstations in the office lobby of more than a thousand square feet. Each workstation is separated by a specially made wooden partition. The partition is surrounded on three sides like a small room. There is a wired telephone and some miscellaneous daily necessities on each table.

If there were no such workstations, Chen Shufang would probably think that Chen Jiale was a gang groom based on the group of women hanging out in the hall.

"Boss Chen, your telephone company looks great. There are so many beautiful women. It's a pleasure to look at."

Although the company's employees were once prostitutes and some were even old, they looked pretty good now after putting on nice clothes and makeup.

Zhang Guorong put his arm around Chen Jiale's shoulders in a familiar manner and said with a smile: "Are you still hiring male employees? What do you think of me? It doesn't matter if you don't pay me."

Chen Jiale was a little unaccustomed to the other party's warm attitude. He smiled awkwardly and got rid of his arm around him: "I'm sorry, the company has no plans to recruit workers for the time being."

Zhang Guorong shrugged indifferently, thinking he was boring.

So he turned his eyes and winked at a few female employees who were staring at him curiously. The women in Secret Garden were no pushovers and immediately released a stronger electric current to tease them back. Zhang Guorong laughed exaggeratedly twice and dared not to provoke them again.

At that time, he was not yet famous and no one knew him in Kwun Tong. There were no fanatical fans asking for his autograph.

"Boss Chen, when can we start filming?"

The person who asked the question was Chen Shufang. She said to Chen Jiale, "Leslie has to go to the studio early tomorrow morning to film a new movie. Try not to be late."

Zhai Yuan looked back at her, feeling a little unhappy.

I paid Zhang Guorong to film a movie, but ATV didn't even say a word. How can a manager of a small record company say so much nonsense?
"Oh, this..."

"It doesn't matter, Sister Fang. I took the money from Boss Chen, and I'll do whatever he says."

Zhang Guorong spoke with a smile, without any star airs.

Chen Shufang frowned and looked at him, wanting to say something, but swallowed it back in the end.

But in my heart I was thinking that ATV's acting department was really short-sighted. Zhang Guorong has already made a name for himself in the music industry, and it would have been fine if they didn't strike while the iron is hot and work with him to produce a couple of high-rated dramas, but they actually accepted this kind of low-quality commercial.

The secret garden doesn't sound like a serious place.

"Boss, let's take out the theme song and let the male lead listen to it so he can get a feel for it."

Zhai Yuan's transformation of Nishixie Michiko was also in the final stage, so he spoke to Chen Jiale.

Chen Jiale said "oh" twice and went back to the office to get the tape recorder and tapes.

Zhang Guorong looked at Zhai Yuan with interest and came to the dressing table: "You actually instructed the boss to do something. You did what I always wanted to do. I admire you, handsome boy."

He immediately saw Nishikie Michiko's appearance and figure, and exclaimed in surprise: "Pretty girl, I admire you even more. Are you free tonight? I want to invite you for dinner."

Zhai Yuan was a little speechless about his social bull character.

"It's from the East."

He glanced at Zhang Guorong and continued, "After I finish putting makeup on her, you should also tidy up a bit."

"Okay, but don't put on too much makeup. I'm naturally beautiful."

Zhang Guorong smiled narcissistically and started to flirt with Nishixie Michiko again: "Japanese girls are good. I have never had a Japanese girl as a girlfriend. Next time I go to the East to sing songs, I don't need to bring a translator with me."

At this time, the Hong Kong music scene had already begun to show a trend of covering Japanese music.

For example, the song "The Wind Continues to Blow" released by Zhang Guorong at the beginning of the year is a cover of "The Other Side of Goodbye" by Yamaguchi Momoe.

To be precise, most of the famous songs of Hong Kong singers are covers of Japanese songs.

It is not groundless to say that Miyuki Nakajima alone can support half of the Chinese music scene.

This was the general trend in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s: the mainland imitated Hong Kong and Taiwan, Hong Kong and Taiwan imitated Japan and South Korea, Japan and South Korea imitated Europe and the United States. After Hong Kong and Taiwan movies became popular, they attracted imitations from Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States, and finally it became a mess.

However, what really made Zhang Guorong famous was his cover of the song "Monica" by Japanese sports star Yoshikawa Koji.

You are not famous yet, but you dare to flirt with the star in my company. If you become famous, you will be on top of the world, right?
Zhai Yuan slapped away Zhang Guorong's hand that was reaching out to Nishixie Michiko and looked at him unhappily.

He hugged the oriental witch and challenged him, "Mine!"

Zhang Guorong was stunned, watching his intimate actions towards Nishixie Michiko, who showed no resistance at all, and he immediately reacted.

"Excuse me, sorry, why didn't you say so earlier?"

He put his arm around Zhai Yuan's shoulders and said, "Good job, handsome boy. You have brought glory to our country! Leave me your phone number and I will teach you a few tricks next time."

Zhai Yuan felt helpless. He felt that people should not have such a lack of sense of boundaries.

"Nana, take the Japanese girl to change her clothes."

After using a brush to apply the eye shadow on Gao Michiko's nose bridge, Zhai Yuan felt it was almost done and said hello to Shen Nana.

"Come on, it's your turn."

Let Zhang Guorong sit in front of the dressing table, and Zhai Yuan will start to put makeup on him.

At this time, Chen Jiale also came over with a tape recorder.

Also accompanying him was his agent Chen Shufang. She was afraid that Zhai Yuan’s cooking skills might not be good enough, so she followed him and kept an eye on him.

"I think my eyebrows are in good shape and moderately thick, so they are the least necessary to trim."

Zhang Guorong looked at the mirror and saw Zhai Yuan trimming his eyebrows, and said with a smile.

Zhai Yuan thought to himself, what are you showing off for? Next time I ask you to star in "Gun King", I will shave all your eyebrows!
Taking advantage of this moment, Chen Jiale pressed the play button on the recorder.

The music of "Secretly Enchanted" began to play softly.

"Huh? You sang this song?"

Zhang Guorong only listened to two or three sentences and then asked in surprise.

Zhai Yuan asked back: "Can you tell that?" "I am a singer, don't doubt my professional level.

Zhang Guorong smiled and then asked curiously, "Hey, where did you get this song from?"

“No need to make an appointment, original creation.”

Zhai Yuan held his head high with pride, having no self-awareness that he was a plagiarist.

When these words were spoken, Zhang Guorong and Chen Shufang were both stunned.

They both fell silent, listening attentively to this sad and helpless song of secret love.

Then the expressions on their faces became more and more surprised. Could such mature rhythm and lyrics have come from the hands of a young makeup artist?

Zhai Yuan kept moving his hands. He glanced at the two of them and sneered in his heart.

Are you sweating profusely, brother? Do you know the value of originality?

Don’t underestimate Andy Lau’s acting skills, he is quite good at singing and is one of the few Hong Kong singers who covers Japanese songs.

"We'll use this song as the accompaniment when we shoot the MV later. I'll take this opportunity to tell you the plot."

Zhai Yuan continued to speak and told Zhang Guorong the script of "Secretly Obsessed" that he had designed.

The story is actually quite simple. A sloppy man who looks sexually depressed is tortured by work and family every day and is teased by his friends. He is like the Joker of Gotham.

One day, when he was walking on the street, he saw a flyer floating on the ground. It was an advertisement for the Secret Garden. The pink flyer also added the first touch of color to his black and white life.

So, the Gotham Joker played by Zhang Guorong tried to make a call, and Michiko Nishiwaki from Secret Garden answered the phone, and the two began to chat casually.

With Michiko's help, Zhang Guorong gradually became cheerful. He found out the location of the Secret Garden company, began to secretly observe Michiko's every move, and began to change himself.

After working out, shaving his beard, and changing his hairstyle, a new Zhang Guorong appeared in front of the audience. He became more and more cheerful, and his wife, who had originally looked down on him, also showed a good attitude towards him. Under the constraints of his family, he could not open his mouth to confess his love to Michiko. When he finally mustered up the courage and made up his mind to walk into the Secret Garden Company with flowers, he was told that Michiko had already resigned. He had to look at the empty workstation in the company with regret.

A very clichéd and old-fashioned story of a loser's fantasy and self-admiration.

But in this era when everyone is still shooting Yunnan folk song version of MVs, Zhai Yuan feels that the response will definitely not be bad.

"So today we're going to shoot the story of you changing your appearance, continuing to peek at the heroine with a conflicted and struggling mood, and finally mustering up the courage to go upstairs to look for her, but not finding her. We'll try to make sure we finish the filming tonight, OK?"

After telling the story and completing Zhang Guorong's makeup, Zhai Yuan patted him on the back to signal him to stand up.

Zhang Guorong looked surprised and re-examined Zhai Yuan: "Can you write songs?"

"Ah."

"Can you be an art director?"

"Ah."

"Can you also write scripts and be a director?"

"Yes."

Zhai Yuan answered as if it was a matter of course.

"Choose that mother, how could there be a man better than me? Except he's not as pretty as me."

Zhang Guorong muttered something, then remembered that Zhai Yuan had hooked up with a Japanese girl, and couldn't help but curse.

When I was his age, I was still learning new postures with my middle school female classmates, but he was already eating foreign food?

Zhang Guorong looked at Chen Jiale and asked, "Boss Chen, how much did you spend to hire such a master?"

Chen Jiale was startled, then laughed and said, "This is a trade secret."

Chen Shufang on the other side also stood up and stared at Zhai Yuan in surprise. All her previous disdain for his youth disappeared.

"What do you call this gentleman?"

"Just call me Ayuan."

"Ah Yuan, are you interested in becoming an artist? I am confident that I can make you as famous as Leslie in three years."

After hearing this, Zhai Yuan smiled and shook his head.

It took you three years to get as good as Zhang Guorong now, so aren’t you wasting my talent, Mr. Zhai?
"Let's film first, we'll talk about anything later."

As they were talking, Nishiwaki Michiko also came out again.

She changed into a blue denim jumpsuit, the upper part of which was like a tube top, revealing a large neckline and a beautiful back. Her chest, which was not very plump to begin with, was padded, and a deep cleavage was squeezed out, immediately from B to D, which even made the pearl necklace on her neck sink into it, looking very eye-catching.

In order to cover her muscular shoulders and arms, Michiko draped a small black jacket over her shoulders.

The denim jumpsuit wrapped around her wine glass thighs, and on her feet she wore a pair of black studded leather boots, revealing her smooth calves and ankles.

"Brother Master, I want to learn finger painting from you!"

Zhang Guorong was dazzled by Michiko's outfit and admitted that he was inferior to Zhai Yuan.

Zhai Yuan ignored him, stroked his chin, looked at Michiko, and waved at her.

First, he used powder to rub a circle on the exposed skin on Michiko's neck and chest to make it look brighter. Then he lifted her legs and continued to apply it on her calves and ankles.

Seeing how focused he was, Nishiwaki Michiko's heart started beating faster and her eyes became dull.

"It seems like something is missing."

After everything was done, Zhai Yuan looked at her again. This was the first time that an artist from his company played the leading role. Although it was a short MV, Zhai Yuan did not slack off.

After a few more glances, I finally figured out the problem.

Japanese girls generally have short legs, and Michiko's thicker legs make this problem even more obvious.

He thought about it, took out a black silk scarf, and gently wrapped it around Michiko Nishiwaki's waist, and her sensation immediately improved a lot.

"OK! You can turn it on!"

Without looking at the surprised looks of Zhang Guorong and the others around him, Zhai Yuan called Chen Jiale, moved out the rented video camera, and loaded the film with skillful movements.

"Everyone is ready, the first scene, the first shot of "Secretly Obsessed", action!"

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(End of this chapter)