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Chapter 200 "The Girl": The Personification of the "White Moonlight"

"This script is good. Go and contact the company to ask about the details."

Sheng Ning closed the script, lit a cigarette, and asked, "How's the Spring Festival film season going?"

The assistant quickly shifted his attention back, jotting down the script assignments while saying, "Hmm... 'The Wrath of the Crown' is currently number one, with over 35 billion in box office revenue. It's been the daily box office champion for half a month. The other one is 'Fishing Operation' starring Peng Chen... Peng Chen has really stepped up this time."

"Finally... the youth film 'Fleet of Time' also broke 5 million yuan at the box office... which surprised both insiders and outsiders."

Sheng Ning remained silent for a moment.

The assistant paused, then added, "The name 'Fleet of Time' was changed before its release... It's a project invested in by Hong Kong's company this year."

"It seems...it seems to be because of the OST that Ikeno sang for her that she changed the name."

"...I know, it's Jin's project."

Sheng Ning showed no emotional fluctuation, but then she remembered something else: "Didn't Chaotian Entertainment also have a movie coming out? Why hasn't there been any news about it?"

"...Sister Ning, are you talking about Jinming's movie? He...he invested 200 million yuan, and it's been almost half a month since it was released, but the box office hasn't even broken 100 million yuan yet...it's really not making any waves...it's losing a lot of money."

Sheng Ning chuckled and shook her head: "I remember about coordinating the script with the company."

"I...I understand."

The assistant nodded quickly.

……

The first big hit of 2026 belonged to "My Love from the Star" and #SummerByThePool#, but the real blockbuster always belongs to the most watched film industry.

The Spring Festival film season in China had already begun before the Spring Festival Gala. At that time, the competition among various capitals and big names in the industry was already evident, but because "My Love from the Star" and "Blue and White Porcelain" were too dazzling, their screen time was cut off.

Only now, with the box office success of several "blockbuster" films, has the entire industry been thoroughly stirred up and reached a fever pitch.

First of all, the four-character name is indeed not associated with Chi Ye, because neither he, his fans, nor even casual observers believe that he should be associated with Chi Ye as one of the so-called "Four Top Celebrities".

Because—he is now close to becoming a "10 billion yuan actor," and in terms of film achievements, no top star in the Chinese entertainment industry can rival him, nor is he worthy of being his rival.

After its release, "The Wrath of the Crown" received mixed reviews and was once questioned as a "courtyard sitcom". There were also scandals involving ticket rigging and theft. However, its box office performance was undeniable.

As of now, "The Wrath of the Gods" has grossed over 30 billion yuan, with a projected box office of over 45 billion yuan.

As the second male lead in the film, Lin Yangqianrui once again "proved" his ability to "pull box office numbers." Combined with the fact that his previous films all achieved box office hits, Lin Yangqianrui has already established himself as a true leading man in the film industry.

—The only top-tier leading man in film, because as a "mid-career actor," almost no other young actor can make it big.

Compared to him, other young actors in the film industry either have less popularity or lower box office returns.

In short, for someone with the name "Four Characters" to be associated with Chi Ye is simply "paying a free ride" and boosting the other party's status. That's why Coco said back then that "Four Characters" was probably "tricked" by someone, and that the other party doesn't need to piggyback on his fame now.

If he really tries to piggyback on the success, his fans will be the first to object. This high-profile actor with billions in earnings and a future movie star would disdain to "descend to earth to help the poor."

The so-called "Four Greats" is nothing but a joke. The real ranking should be: the four-character name is the clear number one, Chi Ye and Yu Yan are the two top stars, and there's no need to look below them, they're all just roadside figures.

Of course, Peng Chen had a different opinion, because "Fishing Operation" also performed very well at the box office, ranking second in this year's Spring Festival film season.

Moreover, he is "stronger" than the actor with the four-character name. The actor with the four-character name is the second lead in "The Wrath of the Crown", while he is the lead actor!

Therefore, the competition within the industry has been quite fierce during this period.

—This year's earnings were also very "fierce".

……

"5 million already? My God, this song has such a huge impact?"

Hong Kong, light and shadow pick up dreams.

Looking at the reports in my hand this year, I suddenly felt an urge to "cry tears of joy".

"Fleet of Time" is the same as "Old Times in Firefly Alley".

Back then, we wanted to cast Ikeno as the second male lead in this movie, but he was unavailable at the time. In the end, as usual, I wrote an OST for my aunt.

Because of this OST, "The Old Days in Firefly Alley" was renamed "The Fleeting Years".

Because of this OST and the title of "Ikeno's Golden Hits"... and because it capitalized on the popularity of "My Love from the Star" and "Blue and White Porcelain", the box office of "Fleet of Time" was surprisingly high.

With an investment of less than 100 million, it grossed 500 million in just over half a month and is predicted to break 1 billion. This is indeed impressive, and it means they've already made a killing.

This year, no one expected that youth films could make so much money… She had been painstakingly trying to break into the Chinese entertainment and film industry, and so many big investments had failed. Unexpectedly, she finally managed to recoup her losses with "Fleet of Time," although… the reviews weren't great, but…

Compared to her brother who's lost everything, she's incredibly happy.

"Ikeno is quite mysterious. Ever since he left Yuena, anything associated with him seems to have improved."

My aunt exclaimed, "We absolutely have to make 'Flu'! We'll do whatever it takes, no matter the cost!"

Sister Zhang couldn't help but say, "...Although, shouldn't it be that acceptance has some mystical aspect?"

"Haha, no matter who has metaphysics, I'm going to call Jinming now. Without him as a comparison, I can't feel a sense of accomplishment."

This year, I also focused on my own pain stemming from my brother's bankruptcy. I took out my phone and dialed my brother's number.

……

at the same time.

The cast and crew of "Girl".

"This can predict a billion-dollar box office... Are youth films really that profitable?"

The film crew had been shooting for three days. On this day, Coco came to visit the set and reported to Chi Ye on the achievements of "Fleet of Time". She sincerely exclaimed that Chi Ye Studio had invested money in this film.

"Youth films are often the kind of films that achieve big results with small budgets, and... the aunt's marketing isn't very effective."

Ikeno was not surprised by the box office results.

Because there is a severe lack of youth films in this world, and the vast majority of them are bad.

While "Fleet of Time" is also quite melodramatic, with the support of its OST and the contrast with other bad movies, coupled with the current recovery of the market, its success is not surprising.

But 10 billion is probably not enough... Given the current reputation, 7-8 million is already the maximum.

Nevertheless, Ikeno still made a lot of money.

Furthermore, he genuinely felt that the reputation of "Fleet of Time" and his aunt's marketing efforts were not very effective.

In the current film industry, word-of-mouth determines the upper limit of a commercial film, while marketing determines how to break through that limit. After "My Love from the Star," Ikeno has already "expanded" into the Asian market, so his ambition and goal are not limited to the mainland, but to global box office.

"You Are the Apple of My Eye" grossed $5900 million (4.25 million RMB) worldwide in 2012 (fourteen years ago), with a critical acclaim of 8.1. It was a phenomenal youth film that ignited the Chinese entertainment industry at the time, a classic textbook of Chinese-language youth commercial films, and had a huge influence in Southeast Asia.

However, due to the era and filming location, some plot points are criticized.

Therefore, Chi Ye deliberately sought out the opportunity to learn from the skills of several top screenwriters, and with the help of Wang Zheng's plagiarism and drastic modifications, he had already written the complete script for "You Are the Apple of My Eye" a few days ago.

Localized, contemporary, without melodrama, youthful, pure love.

There haven't been any "pure love without melodrama" films in the Chinese entertainment industry yet, because people are used to wanting the plot to be more "dramatic," which is a market gap.

Chi Ye is different. There are too many pure love movies on Earth that have become huge hits, so he has a lot of essence to absorb and enough "foundation" to turn "Professor Chi" into "campus heartthrob" and Shang Youshu into "national first love".

This type of film, coupled with "My Love from the Star" marking his first leading role in a movie, and the key marketing strategies for youth films.

Studio Ikeno's first foray into the film industry: small investment, big returns.

This was the goal set by Ikeno: the filming period was only two months, which was very short, but the quality had to be guaranteed, while also getting the studio's film team to work together.

……

The story of "You Are the Apple of My Eye" is very simple.

Genre: Youth/Pure Love/Coming-of-Age.

In 2008, Qingchuan Middle School, a small town in southern China, welcomed two new first-year high school students, Zhou Ye and Shen Jiayi.

One is a carefree, poor science student, and the other is a stubborn and proud humanities class monitor.

From mutual dislike to growing together, they and a group of friends experienced the college entrance examination, the thrill of youth, and family conflicts. Finally, at their class reunion ten years later, they resolved all regrets and came together.

"Regret is the rhyme of youth, but love is the final answer." This is the theme of the film.

"We will eventually become ourselves, and then become 'us'." This is the story of Zhou Ye, the male protagonist, from inferiority to confidence, and Shen Jiayi, from obedience to courage, as they embark on their youth together. It also breaks the negative view that "youth should be melodramatic and regrettable."

In early November.

Crew.

The morning light slanted across the glass curtain wall of the corridor.

When Ikeno looked up, he was met with a flowing expanse of dark blue.

She was wearing the most ordinary navy blue school uniform, which was a little faded from washing, but it was clean and tidy, and had a fresh scent of laundry detergent.

Her hair was simple, just a high ponytail that girls her age usually wear, with a plain black hair tie adorned with a few small silver stars. Her fair and innocent face was bare, her figure slender, yet still retaining a touch of girlish innocence.

She was holding a book in her arms...a romance novel, and she just stood there quietly, but the crew members were stunned.

Beautiful, so beautiful.

Even though the most valuable thing she owns doesn't exceed 200 yuan, she stands there and seems to have an eye-catching effect, making any boy in her school fall in love with her "beauty" for "a lifetime" at first glance.

Yes, this isn't just any ordinary beauty; this is the kind of "she" that every teenage boy will encounter.

That "she" who made them feel inferior yet admired them, and who, as adults, they would occasionally miss and regret being such an idiot back then.

"Shen Jiayi" came to life without any acting skills; Shang Youshu simply embodied "first love" just by standing there.

The "white moonlight" has been personified, and no one can resist the current "Shen Jiayi"—unless he is not a man.

Chi Ye was a man, so he thought: It was definitely the right decision to hire Sister Shang!
You have this face, why don't you make some films like this to benefit the audience, instead of making those bad movies and being lazy?

shameful!
Thinking this, he blurted it out: "Sister Shang, if we were in the same school, I would definitely like you." "Hehe." Sister Shang smiled slightly, her composure instantly crumbling, but not quite... because the role of "Shen Jiayi" was tailor-made for her by Chi Ye.

On the surface, she appears to be a "fierce" academic high-achiever, but in reality, she's a quirky and clever "homebody" who secretly enjoys reading romance novels.

Because of her excellent grades and strict family education, she was a "good girl," but deep down, she had her own persistence and stubbornness.

"Mr. Koike, you're quite handsome too, just not as good-looking as me... Well, I'll still pursue you, because I like handsome guys."

Shang Jie shook her head, but her eyes were secretly glancing at Chi Ye.

Well... no need to say more about male gods, just like her, standing there is already a beautiful sight.

"Putting aside everything else, the projects that Mr. Chi directs are absolutely stunning in terms of looks... It's incredible. If this movie is released, even without considering the plot, I'd be willing to pay just for these two people's faces."

A newly joined film director made a comment, and it's unclear whether it was flattery or not, but...

"Teachers, get ready to begin!"

Chi Ye looked at Shang Jie: "Is your white moonlight ready?"

Sister Shang leaned forward on her tiptoes: "If the male white moonlight is ready, then I'm ready too."

"...All departments, to your positions! Action!"

With that, filming began for "You Are the Apple of My Eye".

……

2008, summer.

First encounter.

Qingchuan Middle School Opening Ceremony.

Under the scorching sun, the new students lined up crookedly.

Zhou Ye's voice-over says: "2008, two keywords: Beijing Olympics, and... Shen Jiayi."

The camera pans across the sycamore trees where cicadas are chirping, then freezes on the profile of a girl who is looking down to write her name.

On stage, the leader was rambling on about nonsensical literature, while below, Zhou Ye and his best friend Liu Jie were excitedly watching the intermittent text-based live broadcast of the NBA on their Nokia phones.

Suddenly, a piece of chalk struck his wrist with pinpoint accuracy.

Zhou Ye was taken aback. He looked up and saw the profile of the girl with a ponytail in the third row in front of him as she turned her head—there was a small, almost invisible mole on the tip of her nose.

"Hey, your phone's reflection is blinding me."

The note she handed me read this, the handwriting so neat and beautiful it looked like printed text.

Zhou Ye glanced at her, snorted, drew a blindingly bright Shiba Inu on the back of his phone and sent it back, only to receive an eye roll and another piece of chalk in return.

Later he learned that the girl was Shen Jiayi, their "predetermined" class monitor.

Legend has it that she always carried three colors of chalk in her schoolbag—white for explaining problems, colored chalk for drawing bulletin boards, and yellow chalk specifically for dealing with students who daydream in class.

……

After the first monthly exam, the seating arrangement changed, and fatefully, they were assigned to be deskmates.

One day, Shen Jiayi noticed that her ink bottle was always inexplicably half-empty, until she caught Zhou Ye secretly dipping his pen in her ink during lunch break.

"This is a long-established blue-black ink from Tianjin, with a pH value of 5.3 that won't damage the pen."

She suddenly spoke, startling Zhou Ye so much that he almost knocked over the bottle. He chuckled, "Would it kill you to just say it directly?"

"Yes." The boy's ears turned bright red.

"Stubborn to the end..."

She mumbled something.

The next day, a brand new bottle of ink appeared on Shen Jiayi's desk, with a Shiba Inu sticking out its tongue drawn on the label.

She unscrewed it, took a sniff, and suddenly laughed—this idiot had actually added a tiny amount of grass essence, because during their last chat she had said she loved the smell of a lawnmower after the rain.

……

Before the midterm exams, Shen Jiayi's physics notes were accidentally lost.

In the empty classroom after school, Zhou Ye tossed a hand-drawn notebook over—each question was accompanied by a comic illustration, Lorentz force was drawn as Superman in a cape, and electromagnetic induction was transformed into positive and negative charges dancing ballroom dances.

"The romance of a science student, just take it or leave it."

He pretended not to notice as he bent down to pack his bag, failing to see the girl's reddened eyes.

Later, Shen Jiayi bound and preserved these notes, and inserted a note in the chapter on electromagnetic induction: "Today I noticed that the way you look at the oscilloscope is like you're looking at the starry sky."

……

"...How come Shang Youshu's acting is getting better and better?"

A month into filming "You Are the Apple of My Eye," the director looked at the "golden couple" on the monitor, especially Shen Jiayi's reddened eyes and the way she looked at Chi Ye, and felt a strange pang in his heart.

"President Chi acted well too... He wrote the script himself; it must contain some of his past regrets..."

Another person shook their head: "Shang Youshu is clearly the kind of actress who immerses herself in the role. Her acting skills are always inconsistent. This situation can only mean that she really likes the script... and is very immersed in it."

The director nodded, then shook his head.

"what happened?"

"They are truly the 'white moonlight' of love."

Everyone: "..."

Shang Jie is indeed very immersive, and Chi Ye is also very immersive.

This will continue for a long time to come.

Time flows like water, passing by in a hurry.

Before we knew it, the filming of "Girl" was already halfway done.

That day, the director sat in front of the monitor, staring at the scene in the classroom, as if he had personally witnessed "Chi Ye" and "Shang You Shu" from their first encounter, to getting to know each other, to their budding affection, and finally... "falling in love" over the past month.

They "experienced" sorrow in another time and space.

……

On the night of the Wenchuan earthquake, the entire classroom was shaking.

The teacher's thermos rolled to the edge of the podium, and goji berries spilled all over the floor like drops of blood.

As Shen Jiayi's pen nib pierced her notebook, Zhou Ye was stuffing "The Three-Body Problem" into his desk.

They looked at each other across three rows of desks—this was the first time in six months since they met that Zhou Ye saw a crack in her eyes.

When the donation box was passed to the third group, Lin Xiaoyu suddenly screamed, "Zhou Ye, are you crazy?"

Two crumpled hundred-yuan bills lay at the bottom of the box, equivalent to half a month's worth of his breakfast money.

Shen Jiayi's red pen hovered over the register, the ink spreading out into a small exclamation mark.

……

The alley behind the snack shop at 2 a.m.

Zhou Ye counted the bruises on his arms, grimacing in pain.

The marks left by my mother's rolling pin were bluish-purple, the same color as the starry sky.

Suddenly, he heard the sound of a window opening overhead. Shen Jiayi's woolen gloves fell to his feet, containing half a box of Yunnan Baiyao.

……

One evening during the rainy season.

They encountered a downpour at the school gate.

Zhou Ye snatched Shen Jiayi's folding umbrella and opened it, but gave two-thirds of the area to the girl.

When they reached the fork in the road, Shen Jiayi noticed that his left shoulder of his school uniform was soaked with sweat.

"You idiot, how can you be my tutor when you have a cold?" She suddenly grabbed his backpack strap and pulled him toward her house: "My dad made ginger soup."

That day, Zhou Ye remembered the smell of the Shen family's entrance hall—the fishy smell of rain mixed with the fragrance of books, and the faint scent of mint shampoo wafting from Shen Jiayi's hair.

His hands, holding the bowl of ginger soup, were trembling, whether from the cold or from Shen's mother's words, "This is the first time Jiayi has brought a male classmate home."

……

"Click."

The director yelled "Cut!" This day marked the first half-month since filming began for "Girl." The film was about to wrap up, with only the latter half of the "torturous" plot and unexpected twists remaining.

An assistant ran over and handed her water and a towel. Shang Jie looked at Chi Ye with pleading eyes and said, "Teacher Chi, can we stop filming?"

Chi Ye, who had just received Coco's WeChat message, was taken aback and looked up: "Not filming anymore? Why?"

"I want Zhou Ye and Shen Jiayi to stay in this moment forever... I don't want to film the later parts of the story."

Chino was even more confused: "The ending was great, and the process wasn't melodramatic at all, so why wasn't it filmed?"

"...I don't want to, Shen Jiayi won't be able to handle it...You're a scumbag, Teacher Xiaochi, you have no heart."

Upon hearing this, Chi Ye paused, then looked down at the message Coco had sent.

Whether he's a scumbag or not is unknown, but in some people's eyes, he's definitely not a good person.

(End of this chapter)