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Chapter 473 So it turns out I, Lu Yang, am the pillar of the company?

Boom!

Thunder roared through the sky.

Large raindrops pounded violently on the stone pavement in front of the villa, each strike creating a trail of colorful speckles in the dust. Soon, the speckles merged into one, followed by a torrential downpour.

He Daqi was pulled to stand behind the villa gate. Outside, lightning flashed and thunder roared. The two little ones were too scared to stand at the door and watch the rain by themselves, so they dragged He Daqi over and hid behind him, peeking out through the glass of the gate.

Looking at them so eagerly, it seemed that if it weren't for the loud thunder outside, these two mischievous kids would have already rushed out to get some rain.

This is the first rainstorm in Beijing since the start of summer. The timing is a bit awkward, as it comes earlier than usual. In previous years, such heavy rainstorms usually occurred at the end of July or the beginning of August, but today's rainstorm came about half a month early.

My two little ones just started their summer vacation and were in the midst of their excitement. They hadn't even been making a fuss for a few days when this heavy rain came. I don't know how they can jump around a bit to express their joy.

"You promised them that you'd take them to South Korea for another speedboat ride during your vacation, and they've been looking forward to it for a while now. These past two days, I've seen you at home with a pen in hand, frowning as you write and draw. I didn't want to bother you, afraid that disturbing your inspiration would prevent us from going to South Korea. Today, it's finally raining and thundering, so you're not busy anymore, and look how excited these two little ones are."

Looking at the two children who were grinning from ear to ear, Zhou Huimin suppressed her laughter and whispered to He Daqi about the two little ones' secrets.

He Daqi was slightly taken aback, only then remembering the promise he had casually made to his child. His first reaction was a little guilty, blaming himself for being so crazy as to focus on work these days.

Since you don't have to worry about money anymore, why bother with career ambitions when you have nothing better to do?

He quickly squatted down, his big head level with the two little ones' heads, and hugged them closer. He kissed each of their little cheeks first, then asked with a smile, "Are you two looking forward to going to the beach to play in the water or to riding on a big ship?"

"Let's play in the water!"

"Take a big ship!"

The two little ones, who usually have great chemistry, were not of one mind this time, each having their own wish.

Seeing that what the other person said was different from what they had said, the two immediately started pouting and glaring at each other, hoping to make the other person give up, for fear that He Daqi would only grant one wish and abandon the other.

He Daqi chuckled softly, playfully pinching the two little duck beaks with his hands, then smilingly pulled them into his arms, pressing their little cheeks against each other, before whispering enticingly:

"Later, Dad will take you two to the indoor gym with a big umbrella, and then we can go play in the pool. I remember we bought a few water guns before, right? Dad can take on two of you at once. If you two beat me, we'll go to South Korea early and take a boat trip out to sea."

Upon hearing He Daqi's words, the two little ones' eyes lit up immediately. They were so happy they could practically fly. Each of them grabbed one of He Daqi's arms, jumping and skipping around. They were so eager that it seemed they didn't need an umbrella and could just rush to the stadium in the pouring rain.

Zhou Huimin poked He Daqi's head with her finger in disgust. All he does is cause trouble every day. He was planning to take the two kids to the indoor pool for a water fight in the pouring rain. She had no idea what he was thinking.

Despite Zhou Huimin's disdainful look, when He Daqi, carrying a large black umbrella and several water guns, led the two grinning kids running towards the indoor sports center in the rain, Zhou Huimin followed behind with a smile, holding an umbrella as well.

It's been a long time since I've had this much fun with these two little rascals, especially since He Daqi won the international Best Actor award this year. He's been busy with some incomprehensible nonsense all day long, but he seems quite attentive to it. Even if Zhou Huimin wanted to complain, she wouldn't know how.

Today, on a whim, Zhou Huimin realized that she somewhat missed the happy times when He Daqi led the two children in their carefree antics.

Looking at He Daqi now, who was grinning like a fool, with his mouth wide open, he was making the two kids shout and yell while holding water guns. Zhou Huimin, who was sitting by the pool, was also laughing along.

Today, He Daqi was like a god of war descended to earth. Not only did he beat the two children until they begged for mercy, but now his ego was inflated. He thought he could also beat up women. With a strange cry, he lunged towards the edge of the pool and, ignoring Zhou Huimin's screams, pulled her into the water as well.

Now things have really gotten out of hand, with the whole family of four starting a fight. Vivian Chow led her two children in a battle against the big devil, Ho Tai-kai, and the fight went on for quite a while before finally stopping.

The heavy rain didn't stop; it started in the morning and only gradually subsided in the evening. He Daqi spent the whole day playing with the two children, something he hadn't done in a long time, and didn't care about anything else.

I received the overseas call after dinner.

To be honest, he had almost forgotten about asking Chen Shuangxi to go to Bald Eagle to discuss investing in the game company. He frowned for a long time before answering the international call. If Chen Shuangxi hadn't called from a private number, he probably would have had to hang up several times before getting through.

"Mr. He, the deal is done here, but the idea of ​​directly bringing the game to China might be a bit complicated. It seems that Tencent has other plans, so we'll have to discuss that back in China."

"So, in other words, we and Tencent together now own more than 50% of that company's shares?"

"Yes, I followed your instructions and acquired the shares at a premium of up to 60%, which is why it was so fast. Otherwise, it might have dragged on for more than a year."

Tsk! Another huge sum of money lost.

While on the phone, He Daqi glanced discreetly at Zhou Huimin, who was chatting and laughing with the two children. He then quieted down his phone call considerably.

After chatting with Chen Shuangxi for a while about the game company, and having made most of the arrangements, Zhou Huimin wanted to go over some more details. However, perhaps because the phone call had been going on for too long, and because He Daqi had spent the whole day playing with the two children, making them a little dependent on him, the two little rascals, who were snuggled up on the sofa with Zhou Huimin, started nagging her to finish the call quickly so they could watch cartoons together.

"That's all for now, bye."

After He Daqi hung up the phone and sat down on the sofa, Zhou Huimin smiled and chirped:
“Our boss He is so busy with work these days, but the key is that we don’t know what he’s busy with all day long. If you want to make quick money, why don’t you hold concerts? If you want to make some long-term investments, why don’t you think about the stock issues of your own entertainment company? Sigh~ We don’t know what tricks the entertainment industry is playing these days. We don’t understand it, we really don’t understand it.”

He Daqi had been causing trouble all day, and he's probably feeling a bit cocky now. When he heard Zhou Huimin teasing him, he chuckled and went over to pinch Zhou Huimin's cheeks to make her smile. He even used his thumb to pry Zhou Huimin's nose and turned to ask his two mischievous kids, "Look, doesn't Mommy look like a little pig?"

"Same!" X2
The two little ones were quite good at imitating, and they also puckered their little noses and made a couple of "choo-choo" sounds.

"He Daqi, are you crazy?!"

A good mood for the day was suddenly ruined by someone. Zhou Huimin angrily grabbed He Daqi by the neck and shook him back and forth. Perhaps because the mother and her three children had worked together quite well in the pool today, the two little ones were very happy to see their mother fighting with their father again. They came over and started wrestling arms and pinching noses, helping Zhou Huimin punish He Daqi.

"Hahaha, hit him! Hit him! Down with Daddy, that big bad guy!"

Hearing his own child happily taking sides, He Daqi felt a chill in his heart; he was afraid he had ruined these two kids.

……

……

At the Asia-Pacific Film and Television Post-Production Center, only director Lu Yang is currently working on the project. Before filming began, Ning Hao had offered Lu Yang some advice, but now that he's left to do everything himself, Lu Yang is feeling quite lonely.

It's not that he's lonely; he has plenty of post-production staff at Asia Pacific now. It's just that he has no one to discuss things with, leaving him with nowhere to vent his desire to show off. He finally got to take the lead and shoot a blockbuster, but it all felt like he was hiding his true colors in the dark. He was really annoyed.

However, Lu Yang soon realized that being alone was actually quite nice.

Because he saw He Daqi casually nodding and greeting the employees as he leisurely walked towards him.

"Senior brother, are you not busy now?"

"Don't be busy. I'm just worried you'll be lonely, so I come here every day to give you some advice."

"Actually, it's not necessary."

Lu Yang understood He Daqi's intentions perfectly well; he had come to check on his progress.

There are two people currently monitoring Lu Yang's progress: Han Shanping and He Daqi.

Their goals were different. Han Shanping wanted the movie "After the Flowers Bloom, a Hundred Flowers Kill 2" to be completed as soon as possible and released this year.

He Daqi's words meant he wanted Lu Yang to help him prepare for a variety show, which is why Lu Yang doesn't want to see He Daqi right now.

After finally making a big-budget production, instead of letting me polish it carefully and strive for a stunning debut, you're just indifferent and ready to pull people to work as soon as this is finished. Don't you take this big-budget production seriously?

Hmm... thinking about it carefully, it seems that He Daqi really can take big-budget productions for granted...

Lu Yang shook his head, looking somewhat worried.

"Deng Chao's acting is terrible! Who taught him to act like this?" He Daqi dragged a chair over and sat down next to Lu Yang, and immediately began his sharp critique.

"……I."

"Really? Upon closer inspection, it's actually not that bad." He Daqi leaned forward with an air of seriousness, as if he hadn't been paying attention earlier.

“Senior brother, I won’t finish this until at least mid-August. I’ve also heard from Sister Hua about your new variety show. I feel like it’s unlikely to be filmed this year. Think about it, last year I spent more than half a year preparing for 'Where Are We Going, Dad?' and that was after you had already thought about the script and everything. Even if I’m an expert at this, it will take at least three months to prepare for this new variety show, right? That will basically mean it will be next year.”

“I know it will take at least next year, but it’s not what you think. The pre-production preparation time for this variety show won’t be too long, at most a month. The main thing is the long recording time. There will be a total of twelve episodes, with two episodes in each city. Each episode will be recorded for a maximum of four days, without interruption. In other words, it will take at most two months to record before we can come back to do post-production and prepare for broadcast. Moreover, there will be one episode per week, so we can produce while broadcasting,” He Daqi explained with a smile.

Unfortunately, Lu Yang didn't want to laugh, because if he calculated the time, the variety show would be more than halfway through filming when "After the Flowers Bloom, the Hundred Flowers Kill 2" was released, which would interfere with his important business.

They spoke their minds freely, and since they were so familiar with each other, He Daqi often joked with Lu Yang. Lu Yang didn't have too many concerns: "Senior brother, I've calculated the time, and I'm afraid that if we film halfway through, my movie will be released. I can't just rely on the lead actor to promote it everywhere without showing up myself, can I?"

"You're afraid of this? Don't worry, I've found you two assistants. They're very talented. You can lead them to film half of it first. If it's okay, let them film the rest. If it goes well, they can be in charge of the second season, and you can focus on making the movie."

He Daqi hasn't been idle lately. He secretly had Wang Jinghua poach Ya Yue, the director of the first few seasons of the Chinese variety shows "Infinite Challenge" and "Running Man," not for any other reason than to start training them as soon as possible so that they could take over the shows sooner.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Infinite Challenge will be completed this year. As for when it will air next year, it depends on what Shanghai TV says. Shanghai TV is even more eager for this project than He Daqi. If they didn't know that He Daqi had already acquired the copyright for Infinite Challenge, Shanghai TV would probably have wanted to pull someone else and do it themselves.

Of course, they couldn't recruit as many people as He Daqi had assembled, so even if they were in a hurry, they could only wait for Ya Yue to make progress little by little.

He Daqi, having finished all the preparations, was happily teasing Lu Yang to cause him trouble when he looked up and saw Xu Guangtou leading a group of people carrying cassette tapes, looking somewhat worried, heading towards the film and television post-production center.

Coincidentally, he and He Daqi made eye contact, and then he saw Lu Yang next to He Daqi looking utterly hopeless. Xu Guangtou's gloomy expression immediately disappeared, and he grinned as he strode over.

"You're done filming? You filmed so quickly?" He Daqi raised an eyebrow at first, then thought about the plot of Lost in Thailand and realized that it really didn't take too long to film, so he calmed down.

Sure enough, Xu Guangtou's explanation was similar: "This movie doesn't have any complicated shots, and it's a comedy, so even if I'm a novice, it won't take too long to film, no matter how slowly I shoot it."

After speaking to He Daqi, Xu Guangtou greeted Lu Yang warmly, "Little Lu, it's so great that you're here at the company. When I came back, I was thinking that if there wasn't someone in the company to guide me in post-production, I would really be at a loss. Luckily you're here, I feel relieved now."

Xu Guangtou was relieved, but Lu Yang suddenly became uneasy.

What kind of mess have they made? Their first big-budget production hasn't even been released yet, and it feels like they're doing three jobs. They're still a baby themselves, so how come they're already helping other babies?

Not only do I have to teach two apprentices for variety show filming, but I also have to teach an apprentice for film and television post-production during this period. Can't I just focus on polishing my first carefully filmed big-budget production?

(End of this chapter)