Artists under the Rebirth of the Coal Boss

Chapter 220: The Off-Season Has Begun!

Beijing, Guomao business district, Fudi Capital No. 1 Apartment Building.

Aside from jogging along the Tonghui River in Qingfeng Park every morning, Lin Xingzhuo and Mao Xiaotong spend the rest of their time staying in their apartment building.

Swimming pool on the third floor in the morning, gym on the second floor in the afternoon.

Private instructor Lin Roujia will teach classical wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

In addition, there is the content of "Body Awakening and Limb Liberation: Lanju Workshop Experimental Drama Methodology" and "ZG Drama Academy (Martial Arts) Textbook".

Perform core training on specific body parts!

In the evenings, I would go to a private cinema to browse film lists, or look at some new scripts handed over by the talent agency department in the archive on the west side of the fifth floor.

The two discussed the script...

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Mao Xiaotong looked at the script for the urban spy drama that her agent had just brought over, and secretly watched Lin Xingzhuo, who had remained calm and extremely self-disciplined all these days.

If it were someone like Zhao Yihuan or Shi Bingyue, who cares about this or that?! They would have already come up and forcibly eaten you up!!
However, Mao Xiaotong is not this type of person...

Seeing Lin Xingzhuo like this, she felt that he was very serious about their relationship.

Thinking back to the gossip news I saw about Lin Xingzhuo and Li Nian last time.

I got carried away by my emotions.

She actually did something incredibly embarrassing: she filmed herself dancing topless late at night at the Taoli Cup Latin dance competition venue and sent the video to Lin Xingzhuo...

woo woo woo...

I'm so embarrassed!!!
A thin layer of red suddenly spread across Mao Xiaotong's fair earlobes, burning all the way down to her neck.

Her skin was naturally fair and white, and now her cheeks were flushed with a rosy blush, even the tip of her small nose was tinged with a faint pink.

Swish! !
Mao Xiaotong gripped the edge of the spy drama script with both hands, then suddenly jerked it up, making a whooshing sound, burying her burning face in the paper.

Sitting opposite Mao Xiaotong, Lin Xingzhuo looked completely bewildered as Lin Xilei handed him a bound volume of the "Pegasus Daily"...

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Actually, the real reason for avoiding battle during this period is...

Lin Xingzhuo has entered the off-season!!!
Lin Xingzhuo, Cao Dun, Feng Shaofeng, and Chen Guang shared their experiences in the ball game group, based on their own practical experience, anecdotes from the industry, ancient pharmacopoeias, academic papers, and other materials.

If you want to be like Coach Jin Shijie, winning trophies in top leagues even in your sixties or seventies, a scientific and reasonable off-season arrangement is essential.

Even Wilt Chamberlain, the "man-slayer," mentioned in his autobiography, "Look Down on All Men," that he gave his second son two weeks of vacation every year...

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Compared to the human-shaped Fiji Cup in urban entertainment novels.

True top league superstars actually place great importance on the off-season.

During the off-season, one can repair injuries accumulated during the season, avoid overexertion, refine skills, conduct targeted training, and learn new knowledge.

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The Houston Rockets in the NBA season, and the Chinese men's national basketball team's overloaded playstyle in the offseason.

Ultimately, this will lead to irreversible physical damage to the second brother, and will also limit technological upgrades, making it impossible to keep up with version iterations...

Especially top-tier leagues like those in the entertainment industry.

Every year, a steady stream of promising teenagers enters the league, bringing new playing styles, new technologies, and new items, resulting in an extremely rapid pace of innovation!
As the saying goes, "A young man doesn't know the value of gold, but an old man gazes at it in vain and sheds tears!"
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The two stayed in the apartment for two weeks.

The company received invitations from "Beijing Youth" and Sina Entertainment, and arranged for the two to attend the red carpet of the "Celebrity Ranking" awards ceremony at the Marriott Hotel.

This was essentially a small gathering among Beijing's elite to distribute pork...

Sun Honglei won the "Celebrity of the Year" award for his roles in "Lurking" and "A Simple Noodle Story".

Du Juan, who just won the "Most Stylish Fashion Model" award at the MTV Super Awards.

By performing a close dance with Chen Yufan, a "princeling" of Beijing's entertainment circle, at Tanghui, and even holding hands with him in the restroom, Du Juan was essentially considered one of their own. As a result, in a Sina Weibo poll, Du Juan surprisingly surpassed Xiao Shenyang in popularity in 09, winning the annual Most Popular Award!
The eldest disciple of the Northeast King looked extremely unwell and left the stage early...

Finally, Hai Qing, who was absent from the set of "A Beautiful Era of Daughter-in-Law" at the time, won the Best Breakthrough Award for her role in "Dwelling Narrowness" on the recommendation of her teacher Huang Lei.

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After attending the event, Mao Xiaotong received a message from the artist management department.

The next day, he set off with his assistant, taking the train to Shanghai Chedun Film and Television Base to officially join the crew of "Before Dawn".

Tiger Shadow Star went to great lengths to secure a role in this production!

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The production company behind "Before Dawn" is Hualu Baina Film & Television Co., Ltd., which has produced "Emperor Wu of Han" and "The Indelible Number".

The parent company of this company is ZG Hualu Group, a central state-owned enterprise directly managed by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Shanxi Province.

Ding Ye knew Lao Liu, who worked at the Shanghai Tax Bureau and had once served as the head of the logistics department of the division.

His military academy classmate, after leaving the military, became the deputy director of the organization and personnel department of ZG Hualu Group.

Ding Ye and this deputy minister of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) met last year at a comrades' gathering at the Yibin Guesthouse, introduced by Lao Liu...

This is how I was able to help Mao Xiaotong, who only had experience as an extra, get a role in "Before Dawn"!

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Your chips are your life, and I am your ticket to the game.

Before Dawn is the pinnacle of the golden age of Chinese entertainment spy dramas!!!

When the State Administration of Radio and Television held a special report meeting on spy dramas, the materials stated that this was the best spy drama, and its reputation was much higher than that of "Lurking" and "Kite".

This show is absolutely fantastic! There's not a single exaggeration! It's all solid content!!

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"Before Dawn" marked the beginning of a boom in Chinese-language spy dramas, with more than fifty similar spy dramas appearing in China that year.

This quickly led to audience fatigue, and the value of the subject matter was rapidly exhausted...

After the release of "Infiltration" in 2013, the three workaholic spies, Qi Gongzi, Li Bohan, and Li Ya, officially completed their formation.

This genre has also entered a period of decline.

Actually, to be precise, the entire TV drama industry entered a period of great decline after 2013!
Screenwriter Wang Hailin once mentioned the state of film and television artists during this period of great recession in her program "Qiang Qiang Sanxing".

"Many of our artists and creators today cannot understand the times, cannot integrate into the times, and cannot keep up with the pace of the great rejuvenation of the nation."

"In my view, it's inevitable; it's determined by the nature of the petty bourgeoisie!!"

"If you ask him to write about the Long March, all he'll write is about falling in love with a woman, following the troops, and then inexplicably completing the Long March."

"If you ask him to write a spy story, all he'll write is about falling in love with a woman and giving up his high-ranking position and salary in the Party and the State to become an underground member of our Party, stealing maps all sorts of things."

"If you ask him to write about war, he'll write about soldiers being afraid to die, because he himself is afraid to die!!"

"If you ask him to write about a great era, he doesn't know what greatness is, nor what an era is. All he knows is fear of death and falling in love!"

"Only when you're in love can you be fearless! That's his understanding of greatness!!"

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In the golden age of Chinese-language television dramas, it left its mark on the pinnacle of the spy drama genre...

This will definitely be of great benefit to Mao Xiaotong's career!
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Mao Xiaotong went to Shanghai to film a movie.

Lin Xingzhuo's life as a recluse didn't last long...

Zhao Yihuan, who was filming "Men's Diary" at Huaqing Liangzi Foot Massage Shop, sent a text message to Lin Xingzhuo, asking him to come to the set for a cameo appearance to save the day.

(End of this chapter)