Run, Best Actor!

In the original timeline, perhaps because the country's overall strength has increased and people's morale has risen, Chinese-style domineering CEOs have become popular in various idol dramas.

The most representative example is Meng Yanchen, the male supporting character in "My Human Fireworks".

This character appears in the drama as aloof and taciturn. He is described as the creator of the "new Chinese-style CEO" title. Unlike the traditional domineering CEO, his manners are ingrained in his bones. He is self-disciplined, courteous, and a gentleman. His gold-rimmed glasses and suits are just the surface; his true charm comes from his inner self. While he restrains and suppresses himself, he also yearns for freedom.

The extreme contrast made this character incredibly charming, making him the most captivating character in the series.

Starting with Meng Yanchen, Chinese aesthetics began to appear not only in period dramas but also in modern dramas.

It has even become a standard feature in some short dramas.

When Liu Taile was portraying Gu Yuan as he understood him, he was actually using the acting style of a modern Chinese CEO.

Therefore, even when Gu Yuan delivers outrageous lines, his portrayal of him doesn't leave the impression of being overly affected or pretentious like in previous idol dramas.

The first impression on others is that it's comfortable.

This is because, whether in mainland China or Taiwan, everyone learns Chinese from elementary school, speaks Mandarin, and receives traditional Chinese cultural education.

Therefore, seeing Gu Yuan, whose core is entirely based on Chinese thinking, feels very pleasing to the eye.

Even if the lines he said were indeed quite "Shakespearean"...

"What's going on? Xiao Le's acting is actually this good?!"

Yang Mi, who had just watched the whole thing, was full of questions.

Some even questioned the meaning of life.

Because, for some reason, she actually sensed some of her own style in Liu Taile's performance...

"Could it be that Xiao Le learned acting from watching my previous works?"

Yang Mi thought with some doubt, "That can't be, my previous works weren't that good either!"

It's easy to deceive others, but hard to deceive yourself.

Yang Mi also knows that her acting skills are not that great, and her previous film and television works are not considered classics.

Otherwise, she would have won an award much earlier, just like Sun Li.

The main problem is that Yang Mi has a natural flaw – her voice is too unique.

Her naturally sweet, childlike voice makes her stand out, but it also limits the potential of her delivery of lines.

Of the four basic skills of performance—voice, stage presence, and acting—he is not good enough in the first one.

It's also because many of her works use dubbing, and the lines are actually spoken in her own voice, which makes the performance feel very incongruous.

For example, the drama she starred in, "Wang Zhaojun," received a nomination for the Golden Eagle Award for Best Comedy, but had absolutely no chance of winning.

That's because the show was also dubbed; her own voice wasn't used for the dialogue.

How can a character who doesn't use their own voice win an award?

That's completely unconvincing!

In the past two years, however, several of her more famous works, such as "Palace", "The Love Story of Yanjing", "Love in the Buff", "Painted Skin II", "Under the Zhengyang Gate" which she filmed earlier, and the "Tiny Times" series which she is currently filming, have all used her own original voice lines.

Oh, just one more thing, Yang Mi's roles in "Chinese Paladin 3" and "Far Cry" were also voiced.

On the contrary, in "Palace: The Lock Heart Jade", the two characters Luo Qingchuan and Hua Ying had their own original voice lines.

This is also why it is quite convincing that she won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress for her role as Yang Zixi in "The Love Story of Yanjing".

That's right, Yang Mi herself is quite apprehensive.

Those who are familiar with her own situation know best. In particular, she had previously encountered many senior actors in the industry with outstanding acting skills, whose comments on her performance were that she had major flaws in her delivery of lines and that her acting had a clear ceiling.

Seeing that Liu Taile seemed to be subtly imitating her performance style, I felt both happy and somewhat worried.

"Xiao Le actually has such a talent for acting?!"

Yang Mi thought to herself, "She's so much better than me. But how can she learn from me?"

We should find him a good teacher and give him systematic training so he can go further in this field. Who knows, no, he'll definitely surpass my achievements in the future!

However, she was indeed worrying too much.

Is Liu Taile's acting style similar to hers?

Indeed, because his initial performance experience points were all drawn from the system's treasure chest.

Those were all derived from evaluating Yang Mi's past works, so those performance experience points do indeed include her performance style.

Especially in terms of facial expressions and eye contact, her strengths stand out—this is precisely Yang Mi's characteristic in acting.

However, the dialogue, physical performance, and pacing are all rather mediocre.

Of course, although the performance experience points are based on Yang Mi's own performance style, after system adjustments, there is absolutely no upper limit.

Furthermore, Liu Taile possesses his own talent, so his potential naturally far surpasses that of Yang Mi.

To date, Yang Mi has appeared in a total of 49 film and television works of various types.

Thus, Liu Taile has 49 works that can be used to draw treasure chests.

The first treasure chest in each game alone yields nearly 18 experience points.

Later, Liu Taile also separately opened several treasure chests for the work "Chinese Paladin 3" (which was a huge hit drama, so the system rated it as excellent and rewarded it with a golden treasure chest), which is why he accumulated more than 100,000 experience points for all five sub-skills of the performance.

However, Liu Taile will probably have to rely more on his own efforts going forward.

After all, there is a limit to how many golden treasure chests you can get; the maximum you can get is 10 experience points.

As for Yang Mi's acting talent, at best her works can only yield a golden treasure chest.

She definitely couldn't get the orange and red treasure chests above them on her own.

Although Liu Taile can use reputation points to repeatedly draw treasure chests, the system will not allow him to deliberately exploit loopholes.

In works like fantasy and magical novels, although most of the first treasure chests can yield performance experience points.

However, if you repeatedly open treasure chests, there is only a one in five chance of getting performance experience points.

The system won't let you feel cheated, because the other treasure chests can yield valuable items such as gold and silver jewelry, antiques, and paintings...

There's no way to find fault with it, because you're asking whether those works' story backgrounds contain these things or not, right?

Moreover, those items were quite valuable, making Liu Taile's hidden wealth increasingly substantial.

Unfortunately, it wasn't what he truly wanted.

After Liu Taile's careful explanation, Guo Xiaosi began to understand the starting point for his character creation.

Although his writing skills are rather weak, his literary talent is still superior.

He deeply understood Liu Taile's definition of the new Chinese-style CEO, and even the new Chinese-style idol drama.

This made Guo Xiaosi even more excited.

"Um, Taylor~~"

Guo Xiaosi rubbed his hands together, grinning broadly, and said, "Before, I was wrong. I thought you brought the screenwriter and assistant director to the set because you wanted to drastically change the plot!"

"Oh dear, Director Guo, you're thinking off-topic."

Liu Taile humbly replied, "My initial intention was to elevate our work to a higher level, which would also attract more viewers!"

The subtext is that the better "Tiny Times" is made, the greater the future profits will be.

These words clearly hit a nerve with Guo Jingming.

His gaze toward Liu Taile was much gentler—which made Liu Taile feel a little uneasy.

He knew Guo Jingming's quirks.

If he dares to attack him, Liu Taile will risk everything to make the short man suffer.

Fortunately, Guo Xiaosi was genuinely intimidated by Liu Taile's height and had no other intentions.

"Taylor, let's go to the conference room and have a good talk, see how we can make our work look even better."

Guo Xiaosi surprisingly took the lead in making the suggestion, and then called on other assistant directors, screenwriters, and others to go over together.

Clearly, Liu Taile's performance had completely won him over, and he now realized that their interests were aligned.

Only by working together can we create greater profits.

They no longer cared whether Liu Taile wanted to drastically change the plot.

Since the cast was changed midway through filming, the plot was going to have to be altered anyway.

Let's take this opportunity to let Liu Taile do his job well; who knows, it might actually produce better results.

It is clear that one must have strength to gain status.