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

Chapter 157 Three Best Actor Awards
The list of nominees for the 26th Golden Rooster Awards has been announced.

Li Boda was nominated for Best Actor for his role in the film "The Dog".

At the same time, Jiang Wenli called Li Boda again, making it clear that Li Boda was almost certain to win another Best Actor award.

Li Boda never expected that he would win three Best Actor awards for just one movie, "The Dog".

This was, in a way, a pleasant surprise.

However, Jiang Wenli did not seem to have any intention of meeting or clashing with Li Boda.

To be honest, this surprised Li Boda somewhat.

After all, Jiang Wenli is at the age where she can practically suck up dust just by sitting down, and Li Boda doesn't believe she won't miss him.

However, Jiang Wenli only spoke with Li Boda on the phone and did not communicate with him in any other way.

However, after hanging up the phone, Li Boda remembered that Jiang Wenli had recently filmed a movie, and due to the needs of the plot, she had gained at least 30 pounds.

Although filming for that movie has wrapped up, it hasn't been long since then.

In other words, Jiang Wenli's current weight is clearly overweight.

It's no wonder that Jiang Wenli didn't come to meet Li Boda at this time; she obviously didn't want Li Boda to see her overweight appearance.

……

On the day of the 26th Golden Rooster Awards ceremony, Li Boda and the crew of "The Dog" met up and came to Suzhou together.

The others all seemed very excited, much like they had been at the film festival the previous two times.

However, this time, Qi Jian, the director of the movie "The Dog," seemed more excited than usual, and even the clothes he wore were more formal than the previous two times.

Seeing Qi Jian like this, many people in the crew couldn't help but chuckle.

However, most people actually looked at Qi Jian with a degree of envy.

Qi Jian was nominated for Best Director at this year's Golden Rooster Awards.

Although it's uncertain whether they'll win, just being nominated is already a remarkable achievement, especially considering it's the Golden Rooster Award! It's one of the three major awards in China, and even one of the three gold awards in Asia, with even greater prestige than the Huabiao Award.

It's normal for Qi Jian to be nervous and excited after never receiving a nomination before.

The host for this year's Golden Rooster Awards was Ni Ping, Zhao Benshan's dream girl, who is also a veteran host.

When hosting, she was poised and confident, speaking clearly with a touch of warmth.

Li Boda sat in his seat, a smile on his face, his mood calm.

After all, Jiang Wenli had already spoken to him beforehand, and his chances of winning the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor this time were over 90%, so there was no need to rush.

Not to mention, Li Boda no longer cares so much about awards, and his mood has naturally calmed down.

On the contrary, director Qi Jian, sitting here, became increasingly nervous.

At first, everything was fine, just a little nervous, but as time went on, he became more and more nervous, and more and more sweat appeared on his head, which was because he was anxious.

After a lengthy opening ceremony, the awards ceremony officially began.

The first award is for Best Feature Film, and the film "The Dog" is among the nominees for this award.

Unsurprisingly, the film that won the award was "The Knot".

Qi Jian and the rest of the crew were visibly disappointed.

Then there are Best Digital Film, Best Children's Film, Best Opera Film, and so on.

These things have absolutely nothing to do with Li Boda or the "Heavenly Dog".

After a series of Best Picture awards across various categories, we finally arrived at the part that Qi Jian was most looking forward to: Best Director.

Qi Jian sat in his seat, his big eyes wide open, but they lacked any spirit, and he even seemed a little dazed.

When Qi Jian heard that the winner was Yin Li, the director of "The Knot," his straight back immediately bent down, and he deflated like a balloon.

Seeing Qi Jian like this, Li Boda, Zhu Yuanyuan, and others patted his arm to comfort him.

"...and Qi Jian, [Tian Gou]. Congratulations to both directors for winning the Best Director award at this year's Golden Rooster Awards. Please come up to the stage to receive your awards!" Ni Ping's loud voice continued.

Qi Jian, who had been like a deflated balloon, suddenly looked at the stage with a dazed and confused expression.

"Director Qi, hurry up! They're calling you!"

"Director Qi, congratulations on winning Best Director!"

"congratulations!"

"Director Qi, congratulations!"

A series of congratulatory messages finally brought Qi Jian back to his senses. After confirming that he had really won the award, he couldn't stop smiling.

Qi Jian stood on the stage and began to give his acceptance speech. At first, he was a little hesitant and his speech was not very fluent. However, he gradually got used to it and his acceptance speech became more fluent.

"...I also want to thank Li Boda. To be honest, at first, I didn't plan to let Li Boda play the role of Li Tiangou, because my impression of Li Boda was that he was too handsome!" Qi Jian said with a smile, and waved to Li Boda.

At the same time, the large screen behind them was suddenly split in two. One half showed Li Boda playing Li Tiangou, while the other half showed footage of Li Boda being filmed by cameras on set and projected onto the screen.

One was a scruffy, unkempt figure. The other was handsome, dashing, and impeccably dressed in a suit. The difference between the two was stark.

Seeing these two images, the people below understood what Qi Jian said. At the same time, many people couldn't help but look at Li Boda. Putting everything else aside, just the comparison of their images alone was enough to prove that Li Boda himself was an excellent actor.

"...Li Boda probably knows that his image is not good—well, it's that his image is too good." Qi Jian's words caused another burst of laughter from below.

"So when Li Boda came to audition, he transformed himself into Li Tiangou, looking completely disheveled. When I saw him like that, I immediately decided, 'Li Boda, you are the Li Tiangou I'm looking for'—and now it has been proven that my choice was right! Thank you for playing Li Tiangou so well and for making the movie so successful!"

clap clap clap...

Amidst applause, Qi Jian stepped off the stage.

When Ni Ping was about to announce the Best Actor, almost everyone on the [Tian Gou] crew side held their breath.

When the winner was announced as Li Boda, the lead actor of "Tengu," the Tengu production team erupted in cheers. Li Boda smiled and continued to wait.

Given the usual pattern of the Huabiao Awards, the Best Actor award will most likely be a tie, just like the Best Director award just now.

To Li Boda's surprise, only his name was read out from above.

In other words, there is only one person who won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor this year, and that person is Li Boda.

This inevitably brought Li Boda a bit of joy even in his unexpected situation, since no one wants to share a trophy with someone else.

With light steps, Li Boda accepted the trophy, his expression sincere and joyful, and he read his acceptance speech with great excitement.

Even on this occasion, Li Boda still delivered a remarkably excellent performance.

However, after Li Boda, [Tiangou] did not receive any further awards.

However, the production team of "Tengu" is already very satisfied with this.

Six nominations and two major awards—what more could you ask for?

And that was the end of [Tengu]'s participation in various film festivals.

Actually, there was also the Hundred Flowers Award, but the "Tian Gou" production team did not participate.

The reason I didn't participate in the Hundred Flowers Awards was simply because the [Tiangou] registration was already full, and I missed it.

Actually, this year's Hundred Flowers Awards were held last year. At that time, the movie "The Dog" had just been released, and the crew was busy with the movie's release. They forgot about registering the movie for the Hundred Flowers Awards, so they missed it.

Otherwise, Li Boda might have won another Best Actor award for "The Dog".

However, winning three Best Actor awards for "The Dog" is already quite an achievement, something many people dream of.

……

Li Boda came to the CCTV headquarters building again, this time naturally to participate in the second rehearsal.

During the rehearsal, Li Boda gave another good performance of the magic trick he was going to perform.

The technique was so smooth that no flaws could be seen, which only made it seem more mysterious and magical.

Especially during this rehearsal, Dong Qing, who was chosen as the host of the Spring Festival Gala, came over to cooperate with Li Boda and act as his assistant, which made the atmosphere of the whole program even more effective.

Even though Dong Qing was there to act as Li Boda's shill, she was mostly confused during the rehearsals because she didn't even understand how she was being used as a shill.

Unless absolutely necessary, Li Boda never treated Dong Qing as his shill.

Unless it's an indispensable magic trick that can't be performed without Dong Qing, she's just there to create atmosphere for Li Boda.

Even after the rehearsal ended, Dong Qing looked at Li Boda with a particularly surprised expression.

"Teacher Li, how did you do that?" Dong Qing couldn't help but ask.

"Teacher Dong, please don't call me Teacher Li anymore, it's too formal. Just call me by my name," Li Boda said with a smile.

"You told me not to call you Teacher Li, but you're still calling me Teacher Dong. How about this, I'll call you Boda, and you can just call me Dong Qing." Dong Qing smiled generously.

"Alright, then I'll take the liberty of calling you Dong Qing."

“No problem, Boda! By the way, you still haven’t told me how you did the magic trick. I was supposed to be your shill, but I didn’t realize how I was doing it. Just now, your playing cards…” Dong Qing was full of curiosity.

"You mean that time? Actually, it's like this: although this deck of cards looks normal, it actually has patterns on the back. Feel it, can you see the raised areas?"

"Oh, it really is. But if you hadn't pointed it out, I wouldn't have noticed at all."

"That's normal. Who would normally think of that?"

"That's right, that's right, there's another magic trick..."

This magic trick actually brought Li Boda and Dong Qing much closer together.

In the days that followed, Li Boda juggled commercial performances with waiting for the next rehearsal.

Third rehearsal, fourth rehearsal...

Meanwhile, because Li Boda has been taking on more and more commercial performances lately, there are fewer and fewer jobs available near Shanghai, and the pay is also decreasing.

However, with the Spring Festival approaching, Li Boda simply stopped accepting any commercial performances.

This allows Li Boda to focus more on the Spring Festival Gala rehearsals, making his magic performance more exciting and perfect, and at least improving his chemistry with Dong Qing.

(End of this chapter)