Entertainment: Who still wants to fall in love when there are cheats?

Chapter 139 Going to be on the Spring Festival Gala
After the TV series "The Legend of Xue Pinggui" aired, Li Boda's cheat ability was triggered, so it's not surprising that he sleepwalked through the show.

However, the feedback Li Boda received from the character Xue Pinggui was somewhat of a pleasant surprise.

At first, Li Boda didn't pay much attention to the character of Xue Pinggui.

After all, what feedback could the character Xue Pinggui give Li Boda?
martial arts?

Li Boda didn't care about this thing at all.

After all, he's a god now, why would he need that little bit of martial arts?
However, to Li Boda's surprise, what he received most was military strategy, command, and the ability to mobilize troops.

Of course, in this era, there was no war, and no army of tens or hundreds of thousands would be mobilized to fight with cold weapons. You could say that this thing was like a useless tool.

but!

Xue Pinggui's ability to easily mobilize tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people is truly extraordinary.

If any activities need to be organized, it would be absolutely easy for Li Boda to mobilize them. How many people to assign to each place, how much work to do, how to arrange them, how to mobilize them, etc., are all child's play for Li Boda.

Putting aside other things, just look at TV dramas and movies in the entertainment industry.

Some directors are very good at making small-scale films, but when it comes to shooting large-scale scenes or scenes with a large number of people, they become helpless and make a mess of things. This is the case for most Hong Kong directors. This is because they lack the ability to manage large-scale scenes and cannot calmly arrange the work of so many people.

Therefore, some directors, like Zhang Yimou, can make particularly beautiful and impactful large-scale scenes. However, some directors, while making other films quite well, tend to produce messy and disorganized war films or films with a large cast of characters.

This is due to a lack of personnel mobilization capabilities.

Li Boda, on the other hand, can now easily command the mobilization of tens or hundreds of thousands of people.

In other words, Li Boda himself lacked directing skills and only had a superficial understanding of many aspects of directing. Otherwise, with his abilities, he could probably have directly served as the chief director of the opening ceremony of the 08 Olympic Games.

So although Xue Pinggui's military strategy and command skills were practically wasted on Li Boda, they did indeed improve Li Boda's other abilities considerably.

After realizing this, Li Boda thought it was a good thing.

At the same time, Li Boda's executive agent, Sister Wang, also appeared in the crew of "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng".

She came to see Li Boda, and at the same time, she also came to deliver a script and an invitation to him.

Li Boda is currently very popular, and his salary is skyrocketing. Yet, many people are still frantically trying to get him to act in their films and TV shows, and a lot of scripts and invitations are being sent to Sister Wang.

When Sister Wang arrived at the film crew, she was all smiles, beaming with joy.

"Boda!" Sister Wang called out to Li Boda in a cheerful and happy voice.

"Sister Wang!"

"Berda, I have good news for you."

"Good news? What good news? You have the script I want?" Li Boda asked with a smile.

Li Boda had previously told Sister Wang that he wanted to play a domineering CEO or a genius director, or some other special role. So when he heard Sister Wang's good news, that was the first thing that came to mind.

"No, that's not what I meant, it's the Spring Festival Gala! The Spring Festival Gala has invited you to participate in this year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala," Sister Wang said excitedly.

These days, the Spring Festival Gala is very prestigious, and anyone who has appeared on it receives tremendous help or promotion.

Many celebrities dream of performing on the Spring Festival Gala, but never get the chance. Li Boda, however, has received an invitation to the Gala, so it's no wonder Sister Wang is so excited.

Upon hearing this, Li Boda was also taken aback and asked in disbelief, "Sister Wang, you invited me to the Spring Festival Gala?"

"Yes, the Spring Festival Gala invited you. They invited you and Zeng Li to sing 'Wujiapo' together on the Spring Festival Gala." Sister Wang nodded vigorously.

Upon receiving confirmation, Li Boda was overjoyed. The Spring Festival Gala! In those days, the Spring Festival Gala was so prestigious, something almost everyone longed for, and now he had actually received an invitation.

For a moment, Li Boda was so excited that he didn't know what to say.

"I knew you were destined for stardom, Boda! After signing with Tangren, you were able to become famous no matter what resources they found for you. Even though President Cai didn't think highly of you, you rose step by step. Now, you've reached the top among domestic artists. If your performance of 'Tiangou' wins an award next year—Boda, you, you really, really have no problem in any aspect." Sister Wang became more and more excited as she spoke, her face flushed, looking even more excited than Li Boda.

"It's all thanks to your help, Sister Wang. Without you, I wouldn't be where I am today." Li Boda chuckled. Anyway, saying these things costs nothing and can win people over, so he really didn't mind saying them.

"Haha, although I know I didn't actually put in much effort, I like hearing what you said." Sister Wang laughed heartily.

The two talked for a while about the Spring Festival Gala. After their emotions calmed down a bit, Sister Wang took out a lot of scripts and placed them in front of Li Boda. "Boda, now that your salary has gone up, a lot of scripts have been sent to me, just waiting for you to choose. Look, there's even a Jin Yong drama script by Zhang Dahuzi here. It's this one, 'The Sword Stained with Royal Blood.'" The first script Sister Wang gave Li Boda was Zhang Dahuzi's Jin Yong drama.

Li Boda only glanced at it before putting it aside; he no longer wanted to act as Zhang Dahuzi in his plays.

The main problem is that Zhang Dahuzi's filming speed is too slow. Although he does a lot of things very well, and there is no need to worry about the quality, Li Boda really doesn't feel anything for this kind of film anymore.

After all, he is already a top artist and doesn't need to worry about whether this film will bring him greater fame.

As for his "golden touch" (a term referring to a powerful, influential figure), the role of Yuan Chengzhi doesn't seem to bring him much. And yet, his dramas always have such long filming times.

Seeing Li Boda's attitude, Sister Wang didn't continue the conversation. Instead, she took out another script: "This is the Jin Yong drama 'The Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain' that Wang Jing is going to film. You can also consider it."

"Let's put it here for now." Li Boda placed the script on top of the script for "The Sword Stained with Royal Blood".

"...And you probably aren't interested in 'The Legend of the Great Banner Hero' or 'The Legend of Chu Liuxiang' either?" Sister Wang asked, somewhat helplessly, looking at Li Boda's attitude.

“I’m really not interested.” Li Boda shook his head. Martial arts dramas really had lost all their appeal for him.

Of course, if there really isn't a better or more satisfactory script, Li Boda can only go back and look at the scripts for these martial arts dramas again.

"Actually, there are some war dramas out there. Do you want to film them?" Sister Wang said to Li Boda. "Didn't you want to film something special?"

"Anti-Japanese War drama?" Li Boda was taken aback.

"Yes, it's a war drama. The main character is like Captain America, the kind who can tear Japanese soldiers apart."

"No!" Li Boda refused without even thinking.

"However, there are also relatively rigorous ones in war dramas."

"Not interested. I'm not interested in this kind of TV series." Li Boda shook his head. He thought it would be better to make a martial arts drama instead of this kind of TV series.

"What about mythological dramas? 'The Fairy Couple.' The story of the Seven Fairies and Dong Yong."

"No way!" Li Boda scoffed. Dong Yong was just a mortal, nothing special. He didn't even look down on him. As for the Seven Fairies? Could he possibly play a female fairy? The gender wouldn't even be right.

"...Berda, you really are getting more and more picky."

"...Sister Wang, I just want to play something special."

"Alright, but since you've rejected so many, there aren't many left now."

"Let's see it."

"Okay, this one, [New Shanghai Bund], Xu Wenqiang."

"【New Shanghai Bund】, Xu Wenqiang? Let's put that aside for now." Li Boda continued to shake his head.

"...This show is actually very popular, and many people are trying to contact the production team."

"I know, I know, is there anything else?"

"【Soldiers Sortie】, a group of soldiers, but the male lead Xu Sanduo is not suitable for you."

"A soldier? Forget it, I'm not interested."

"The Republican-era drama 'Women's Flower,' the modern drama 'Pure White Love,' and 'Ugly Betty.'"

"Let me see the scripts for these two modern dramas."

"Here you go!" Hearing Li Boda's words, Sister Wang wasn't surprised. After all, Li Boda had indeed expressed a preference for filming modern dramas—no, more specifically, historical romance dramas featuring domineering CEOs. Unfortunately, while these two modern dramas could be considered idol dramas, they didn't feature any domineering CEOs. Therefore, Sister Wang didn't think Li Boda would accept these two roles. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that these two scripts were modern dramas, she wouldn't have even brought them over, as their quality was considerably lower than other scripts available.

As expected, Li Boda picked up the two scripts, glanced at them briefly, and then put them down.

"Sister Wang, there's no script left?"

"Well, actually there's another one, but it feels pretty absurd." Saying this, Sister Wang pulled out the last script: "This script is just too ridiculous. Time travel, high-tech cell phones, silly girls, even demons and monsters, Sun Wukong, the Bull Demon King, and all that—it's a complete mess, utterly nonsensical. It's not mythology, it's not science fiction, it's not fantasy, it's not magic. This script even reminds me of 'The Promise' and 'The Banquet.' In a word, chaos!"

After hearing what Sister Wang said, Li Boda lost confidence. However, since this was the last script, he still picked it up and took a look at "Magic Phone".

(End of this chapter)