Huayu's rise from top star to best actor

Chapter 685: Second Ascension to the Throne!

Chapter 685: Second Ascension to the Throne! (5.6k)

Finished taking the departure picture.

Xu Yien took his employees back to the Rosewood Hotel for afternoon tea.

That's how you enjoy life.

When Xu Yien is not filming and taking a break, he will ask the studio to write four words on the activity schedule:

enjoy life!

If you keep filming, you will lack experience in life, so you must travel around and see the world.

Why does Xu Yien like to fall in love? Because falling in love can better experience emotions;

If you never have a relationship, you won’t be able to act with feeling.

Well, actually this is just an excuse. Xu Yien simply wants to fall in love.

This afternoon tea actually requires reservations.

Fortunately, he had said he wanted to eat there yesterday, so Fu Liting made a reservation in advance.

Fat Brother... No, he's not fat now. Brother Fu is still very reliable as an agent.

But it is likely that he wants to eat it himself.

Because all this money was reimbursed by Xu Yien and paid from the studio account.

There are many beautiful women in the restaurant, all checking in and taking photos.

It is estimated that you will post on Xiaohongshu or other social platforms.

Several of them asked Xu Yien to take photos with them.

Xu Yien didn't refuse either.

After taking a few simple photos and signing autographs, Xu Yien finally calmed down.

Finally I can enjoy the delicious food.

Xu Yien ordered finger sandwiches for afternoon tea, and the waiter explained that the best order of eating is from left to right.

The shrimp sandwich had plump and firm shrimp meat and just the right amount of salad dressing. Xu Yien finished it all.

Since Xu Yien doesn't like ham and cheese, he only used a fork to cut off a little bit of the truffle ham and cheese sandwich to taste it;
The smoked salmon and tuna sandwich with caviar was relatively salty;
The egg salad sandwich tasted a bit bland, so Xu Yien only took one bite.

Of these four dishes, Xu Yien only finished the shrimp one, as the rest were more or less not to his taste.

Xu Yien was holding his phone when he suddenly realized that he had forgotten something.

Grooved, forgot to take a photo!

No, I still have to take a photo and send it to my partner.

This is a routine. It would feel inappropriate not to post about Xu Yien. It’s about sharing a beautiful life.

After all, every time they eat, they will take pictures to tempt Xu Yien, so it would be better to reciprocate.

Shen Yujie: [Wow! I want to eat it too!]

Dilraba: [Pack it up for me!]

Meng Ziyi: [It looks delicious~]

Cheng Xiao: [Don't be greedy for me, look at my abs.]

Xu Yien replied one by one.

【I'll bring you here to eat next time. 】

[Yes, that's not impossible.]

【necessary. 】

[You pervert, go back to the mainland first.]

I'm still a little overwhelmed with online one-on-three chats.

Especially since they are all quite talkative.

How should I put it, it’s not that they are chatterboxes, it’s just that Xu Yien couldn’t respond, so he thought they were chatterboxes.

In short, this restaurant is quite expensive, 568 Hong Kong dollars per person, and you have to give the waiter a 10% service fee, which is the same as in foreign countries. The tips are still very comfortable to earn.

Feeling a little full after eating, Xu Yien and the employees leaned back in their chairs, touching their bulging stomachs.

Picking up the lemon tea and taking a sip, Xu Yien asked, "Are you full?"

"I am full!"

"If this still doesn't make you full, then that's a bit exaggerated, hahahaha."

“It doesn’t feel worth more than five hundred.”

"Okay, eat it whether it's worth it or not." Xu Yien said with a smile.

I looked at the time, it was 2:30 in the afternoon.

It’s still early for the red carpet.

The Asian Film Awards will be broadcast live from the red carpet at 5pm, and the awards ceremony will be broadcast live at 7:45pm;

The online platform is YouTube, so it still has some attention. Although its value is not as high as the highest academy awards in China, Japan and South Korea, it still has some value.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many well-known directors coming this time, such as Hirokazu Edada who will also be present to receive the award.

Director Zhang Yimou was also on this trip. He sent a message saying that he had just arrived, so Xu Yien did not meet up with him.

Let’s open the champagne together after the award ceremony.

After all, Xu Yien is also a "Mou Manlang".

While Xu Yien was still resting in the afternoon tea restaurant, people on Weibo were still paying close attention to the Asian Film Awards.

In fact, very few people pay attention to this award on Weibo.

The reason so many people paid attention to it this time was purely because of Xu Yien.

[Actor Xu Yien's personal film and television awards: won the Changchun Film Festival Best Actor, nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor, and nominated for the Asian Film Award for Best Actor. To be continued!]

[Xu Yien has been the focus of every movie he has starred in, including "Hug You Through the Cold Winter", "Sniper" and "The Journey Home", and has achieved remarkable results both at the box office and in terms of word of mouth.

He was even nominated for the Best Actor at the 16th Asian Film Awards for his role as Zong Dawei in the movie "The Journey Home"!
He used his unique charm and strength to prove his worth! 】

Filmmaker Xu Yien is growing step by step, and every effort is rewarded. He was nominated for Best Actor in the #Asian Film Awards shortlist#, a truly remarkable achievement. As a fan of Xu Yien, I'm incredibly proud of him. Congratulations to filmmaker Xu Yien!

The Asian Film Awards are considered one of the most prestigious film awards in Asia, often called the "Oscars of Asian Cinema," reflecting their importance within the Asian film industry. The nominees and winners represent outstanding films and talent from across Asia! Looking forward to Xu Yien winning!

Everyone was bragging about Xu Yien's achievements on Weibo.

Or maybe it's to brag about Xu Yien's fashion treatment.

It can't be considered bragging.

Because these are all facts.

But we can't exaggerate too much, after all, this is how high-end luxury endorsements are treated.

It would be better to brag about Xu Yien's unique double-digit luxury brand endorsement than this.

Anyone who brags about their treatment will be labeled as having nothing else to brag about.

Xu Yien wore a custom-made LV outfit, a Tiffany & Co. bird brooch, and a custom Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso watch. These three luxury pieces complemented his look of class and elegance. Looking forward to the awards ceremony red carpet!

Xu Yien appeared on the streets of Hong Kong wearing a custom Louis Vuitton dress. Her elegant charm was unstoppable even after working non-stop.

Xu Yien is pictured! Wearing a custom Louis Vuitton back and Tiffany fine jewelry, he looks quite stylish as a top-tier actor.

With the efforts of fashion bloggers, fans are naturally very satisfied and give comments and likes.

Don't be stingy with the red manuscript at all.

“Stylish, elegant and gentlemanly.”

"So pretty! So elegant!"

"So handsome, such great conditions, I love Xu Yien so much~"

"This is absolutely amazing, so stylish and full of atmosphere, a handsome Hong Kong guy ah ah ah ah ah!"

"Why can't I see such a handsome guy on the street? If I could see him walking around every day..."

"Life is just two words, two words... I typed it wrong, life is just two words, Mr. Xu!"

"Because of his kindness - Guo Degang.JPG"

"The above one, the messed up formula, 0 points."

Kudos to the fashion blogger.

Xu Yien also learned about this from Fu Liting;

In fact, for such a major event, it is best to prepare multiple outfits.

For example, one set for walking on the red carpet and one set for the backstage, a total of two sets.

In addition, another option is haute couture dresses.

The ES golden haute couture dress that Zhao Liying wore when she won the New Generation Award in the original Time and Space 2024 was still very grand.

Like this time, Xu Yien was not prepared...

Xu Yien will still prepare two sets of looks for this year's Golden Rooster Awards.

Try a white suit next time.

The most important thing at the moment is to reunite with Li Miao.

To be precise, it was Li Miao who came to meet up with Xu Yien. He was not staying at the Rosewood Hotel, but at the Ritz-Carlton.

The organizer gave them a choice, but Xu Yien searched on Xiaohongshu and found that the furnishings of Ritz-Carlton were too old, so he finally chose the magnificent one.

Not long after, Xu Yien noticed a bald man suddenly jumped out of the crowd!
That’s right, Li Miao is a bald man. He adjusted his glasses and raised his hand to greet Xu Yien.

"Yien, long time no see."

"Hi, Teacher Li."

The two shook hands.

In fact, I am not very familiar with him. After all, he is an art design teacher and has little connection with the leading actor Xu Yien.

The two of them chatted casually and ordered afternoon tea for him.

Eating, drinking and chatting is a very pleasant day, but it is not good to just have awkward conversations.

Li Miao took a bite of the egg tart and asked, "Are you confident this time?"

"Actually, no." Xu Yien shook his head slightly.

Li Miao smiled: "Me neither."

Xu Yien grinned, "It's okay to be nominated."

"Hahahaha, that's what I thought too."

"Awards still depend on luck. I think the most likely winner for Best Actor is Tony Leung Chiu-wai. After all, he has the longest experience and the most awards. Once he arrives, everyone else will probably just be a runner-up."

Xu Yien shrugged and spread his hands.

Li Miao: "That's right, don't have too high expectations and you won't be disappointed."

Xu Yien: “Yeah.”

We chatted until almost five in the afternoon.

Xu Yien and Li Miao drove to the venue.

The 16th Asian Film Awards was held at the Hong Kong Jockey Club Lecture Hall of the Palace Museum in Hong Kong;
This venue is actually not that big, and that’s how awards are in Hong Kong.

It is far less grand than the awards ceremonies held in mainland China, Japan and South Korea.

The stage effects are not very good, but don't expect too much.

As long as it can be done, that's fine.

Hong Kong is a very small place, so it would not be appropriate to expect to hold an extra-large venue for the awards ceremony.

Every inch of land is valuable; even renting a venue is very expensive and the costs are enormous.

Even if the award ceremony has brand sponsorship, you still have to save some money. Arriving at the venue, Xu Yien ran into Zhang Yimou backstage.

Zhang Yimou and Xu Yien hugged each other and said with a smile, "Are you confident this time?"

"No." Xu Yien smiled and shook his head.

Zhang Yimou patted Xu Yien on the shoulder and said encouragingly, "Hey, you have to have confidence in yourself! I voted for you!"

Xu Yien was puzzled: "Is there such a thing?"

"Don't overthink it. I didn't cheat for you, so I only cast one vote. I can't control the rest of the votes. If they didn't take it, then it's because they had no vision. If they did, then it's all your own ability."

Xu Yien felt relieved after hearing what Zhang Yimou said.

Otherwise, if others knew, they would think Xu Yien was cheating...

It is not appropriate to use plug-ins.

You will be scolded.

Zhang Yimou encouraged: "Just keep your mind at ease. Even if you don't win this time, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future."

Xu Yien nodded modestly and said, "I understand Director Yimou."

Zhang Yimou is the chairman of the jury of this year's Asian Film Awards and has a high status in the industry.

Since he could vote, he naturally supported Xu Yien, with whom he had worked before.

Not to mention that Xu Yien's acting in "The Journey Home" itself is enough to win an award.

Even if he wins an award, it is well deserved.

This year's Asian Film Awards was quite grand.

The guests present were all very important.

In addition to Xu Yien and Zhang Yimou, there are also Tony Leung, Carina Lau, Hirokazu Koreeda, Hiroshi Abe, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masaki Okada, Heo Kwang-han, Ji Chang-wook, Sammo Hung, Im Si-wan, Irene Wan, Chrissie Chau, and Carol Cheng.

Zhang Yimou also introduced Hirokazu Koreeda to Xu Yien;

The two great directors standing together are about the same height.

Zhang Yimou looks obviously more energetic, probably because he had his hair permed.

Hirokazu Koreeda looks less energetic with his gray hair.

This director is very good. The movie "Shoplifters" he directed won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2018.

Last year's "The Broker" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of Cannes, and the leading actor Song Kang-ho also won the Cannes Best Actor Award.

It’s a pity that Japanese directors basically don’t work with mainland actors.

Even if they choose to cooperate with Chinese people, most of them will be from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Although we cannot cooperate, we still have to socialize, not to mention that it was introduced by Zhang Yimou.

The only film by Xu Yien that Hirokazu Koreeda has seen is "Sniper", and that was because of director Zhang Yimou.

He still approves of Xu Yien's acting skills.

After this conversation, he also had a good impression of Xu Yien.

But it's only good.

There is no intention of cooperation, just a casual chat about opinions on movies.

After a while, it was Xu Yien and Li Miao's turn to walk the red carpet together.

The hosts all speak Cantonese and English, and their Mandarin has a bit of a Taiwan accent, probably because they were invited from Taiwan.

The host was still very enthusiastic about Xu Yien, with his usual reaction when seeing a handsome guy.

The host asked: "Mr. Xu Yien, this is his first time attending an awards ceremony in Hong Kong. How do you feel about being nominated for Best Actor?"

Xu Yien replied: "Happy, excited, and honored."

She then asked, "Which outstanding Asian director would you like to work with, Mr. Xu?"

Xu Yien said politely: "I am willing to cooperate with any director who is willing to believe in me, can help me and believe that I can create better new roles."

"Okay, thank you again, Mr. Xu..."

There were also many Hong Kong barley fans in the audience cheering and screaming: "Xu Yien ah ah ah!"

It's still quite enthusiastic.

Xu Yien smiled throughout the whole process and waved to them.

After the red carpet session ended, Xu Yien and Li Miao entered the backstage together.

The next part of waiting for the awards ceremony was very boring.

There were several languages in the venue, including Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, and English, which sounded very confusing;
This is the case with all international awards.

The only two mainland Chinese films nominated for the Asian Film Awards this year were "The Journey Home" and "Life Matters."
"Life Events" received three nominations for Best Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best New Actor, with the nominees being Yang Enyou;
"The Journey Home" was nominated for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Art Direction.

The nominee for Best Supporting Actress was Yin Tao, but she did not come this time. She probably felt there was no need to come as a runner-up.

We waited in the backstage until 7:45 pm.

The award ceremony finally officially began.

The award ceremony took half an hour to start.

It's so boring...

Finally, the first award was presented——

Best New Performer;

The award presenters are Xu Guanghan and Lin Bohong, and this time they are not only here to serve as award presenters.

It was also to promote their new film, "About That Time a Ghost and I Became Family."
This movie grossed NT$3.6 million in the local box office and also did well in Hong Kong, but it was not released in mainland China because it was a Nantong movie.

The original Douban score was 8.8, but this high score deceived too many viewers into watching it, and as a result, it quickly dropped to 8.1.

If this didn't have the added buff of being a Taiwan movie, a Douban score of 7.5 would be considered very high.

Xu Guanghan also wore a Tiffany bird on the stone on his chest, but it was not as expensive as Xu Yien's;
He has also been in contact with Tiffany recently and will be officially announced as Tiffany's brand ambassador in the second half of the year. He is still very popular in the fashion circle.

The nominees for Best New Performer this time are: Wang Danni (Anita Mui), IU (The Broker), Yang Eun-ya (Life Events), Park Min-ji (Return to Seoul), and Mai Pei-dong (Corridor of Justice).
The final winner was Mai Peidong.

Because the whole place was too boring, Xu Yien played with his phone.

Looks like you have nothing to do?
Why not chat with your girlfriend?

Tian Xiwei: [Aren't you at the awards ceremony? Why are you still messaging me?]

Xu Yien: [Boring, Weiwei~ Oh, so boring.]

Tian Xiwei: [What do you want to talk about? What did you eat tonight?]

Xu Yien: [I haven't eaten yet. I was thinking about buying you some qqny clothes.]

Tian Xiwei: [Just buy it. I’ll wear it if you buy it.]

Xu Yien: [So straightforward?]

Tian Xiwei: "What haven't we done? What's there to be ashamed of? Why are you making such a fuss? Buy something of better quality and a nicer design, or I won't wear it."

Xu Yien: [No, how can I tear it if the quality is too good? I can’t buy something of too good quality.]

Tian Xiwei smiled obscenely on the other end of the phone and typed back: [You kid, hiahiahia~]

This award ceremony was totally boring.

Xu Yien kept chatting with Tian Xiwei.

The most crucial point is that Xu Yien can't understand Japanese and Korean. When the winners came on stage and spoke, Xu Yien really didn't understand a word.

Later, Xu Yien will come on stage and speak standard Mandarin. I don’t understand it, so I will make sure you don’t understand it either.

Wait, Xu Yien clearly has no confidence, so why is he thinking about going on stage?

Xu Yien reflected on himself and realized that he subconsciously still believed that he could win the Best Actor award this time.

Maybe this is ability and confidence.

At ten o'clock in the evening, two and a half hours after the award ceremony began, it was finally time to present the Best Actor award.

The list of nominees for Best Actor was shown on the big screen.

【Nishijima Hidetoshi "Driving My Car"】

[Park Hae-il's "Decision to Break Up"]

Tony Leung Chiu-wai: When the Wind Rises

Xu Yien's "A Thousand Miles Home"

Mawson Tannerband, World War III

[Suzuki Ryohei: Egoism]

The line chosen for Zong Dawei this time is "Bring it back to the country! It's my responsibility. Don't you understand what I'm saying?!"

Xu Yien was very satisfied because he was very handsome.

When Zhang Yimou came on stage to present the award, Xu Yien was slightly stunned.

In the original time and space, wasn’t it Carina Lau who presented the award to her husband Chow Wai?
How come it became Director Yimou who presented the awards?
Xu Yien's mind suddenly came to his senses.

Okay, okay, it’s stable!

Zhang Yimou stood on the stage and smiled: "Best Actor - Xu Yien!"

Xu Yien covered his chest and deliberately imitated Reba's "surprised" expression when she won the Golden Eagle Award.

Love her, imitate her~
The difference is that Xu Yien is not watery.

In fact, it is good to have some water in your mouth because it is moisturizing.

Coming to the stage and receiving the trophy from Zhang Yimou, Xu Yien's face was visibly filled with joy;
At the coronation ceremony, Xu Yien was crowned emperor for the second time.

Although this enthronement venue is not very grand.

But it is enough that the award is valuable.

This time, Xu Yien's acceptance speech was very concise: "Hello everyone, I am actor Xu Yien. I am very happy to receive the honor of Best Actor. Thank you to the judges for recognizing me, and thank you for your love for Zong Dawei. I will continue to work hard to create more good roles."

Zhang Yimou stood by and applauded him, with pride in his eyes.

In any case, Xu Yien's first leading role in a film was in "Sniper", which he and his daughter co-directed.

The more important winners of this year's AFA are as follows.

Best Film: "Driving My Car"

Best Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda, "The Broker"

Best Actress: Tang Wei, "Decision to Break Up"

Best Actor: Xu Yien (The Journey Home)

Best Supporting Actress: Kim So-jin (Emergency Declaration)

Best Supporting Actor: Miyazawa Hyouo (Egoism)

[Outstanding Asian Filmmaker Award: Abe Hiroshi]

[Asian Film Contribution Honorary Award: Tony Leung Chiu-wai]

Lifetime Achievement Award: Sammo Hung