I'm really good at this.

The fat woman was even angrier.

She took a deep breath and said calmly, "If the investment is withdrawn, then the female lead and the second male lead will no longer act in the show."

Actually, she never intended to cause trouble; she was just used to being arrogant.

After all, Sun Zheng is a veteran director in the industry, and he has many friends because of his good interpersonal skills. She was also afraid that the young director Zhang Hong would deliberately suppress Wang Chen in order to win over the other members of the crew.

That's why she deliberately wanted to dampen the young director's spirits in order to give Wang Chen more say.

After all, Wang Chen is just a newly promoted celebrity in the company, and a lot of resources have been invested in him. Now is the time to start recouping the costs.

You have to imagine how many people are watching and waiting for Wang Chen to suffer.

Therefore, she definitely has to suppress this matter.

If Zhang Hong apologizes sincerely, she will accept the situation gracefully.

Even if Zhang Hong, young and impetuous, chose to confront them head-on, she had an excuse to explain to the company—that it was their production team that had acted arrogantly first.

Then everyone discussed it and decided that Sun Zheng, who was in the hospital, shouldn't say too much to the media. The production team then issued a gag order and dealt with the matter by clarifying the rumors and letting it cool down. That was how the matter ended.

But to her utter surprise, the young man did not back down.

He actually stood there, shamelessly making sarcastic remarks!

Now she's starting to panic, so she's bringing out her second male lead and first female lead to continue threatening Zhang Hong.

Who would have thought...

Zhang Hong's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed in surprise, "Three happy events at once? Is there really such a good thing? But this is the contract you tore up. Remember to transfer the money and penalty to you later."

These are mostly pretty boys with no acting skills. If the second male lead and the female lead under the same agent are not as good as him, how can they have any acting skills?

Anger is a frown, happiness is a slight upturn of the lips and a blank expression, and sadness is also a frown.

They couldn't memorize their lines, their speech was devoid of emotion, and even the content they delivered didn't match the script.

Get the hell out of here! It'll save you the money you'd spend on voice actors!

The fat woman, whose name Zhang Hong didn't deserve to remember, blushed with anger.

She snorted coldly, turned and got into the van, and then the van drove away.

As for the second male lead and the first female lead... they don't have any scenes to film today, so naturally they won't be here.

Of course, I probably won't come again.

Wang Ye, the cigarette lighter standing next to Zhang Hong, felt a surge of satisfaction, but he quickly began to worry: "Director Zhang, what will we do if they really withdraw their investment?"

"Don't worry, five million is enough for a TV series like this." Zhang Hong patted his shoulder to reassure him, then took the little bee from his collar and handed it to him. "Also, organize the audio and the video we just filmed, then make a copy and send it to Jimei Culture. After that, just wait for them to contact you."

Actually, the matter is quite clear.

Director Sun Zheng is considered a veteran in the television industry.

If Wang Chen is a popular celebrity heavily promoted by Jimei Culture, then with such a huge stain on his reputation, the other party will definitely come to negotiate.

At that point, everyone should take a step back and pretend nothing happened.

As the saying goes, "Leave a way out for others, so you can meet again in the future."

If Wang Chen is just one of the countless celebrities promoted by Jimei Culture, then it's fine if he fades into obscurity, and the other party won't care about such a trivial matter.

Zhang Hong handed over the materials; this was called "courtesy before force."

We're all people in this circle, we see each other all the time, so we won't really fall out.

I'm telling you now that I have dirt on your artist, but instead of exposing it, I'm sending it to you. In order to have future opportunities to work together, the other party will naturally choose to keep quiet.

After all, there are many fools in this world, but capital only cares about interests, not just relationships.

This is how the average office worker handles things!

However, there is still a lot of follow-up work to be done.

We really need to think about how to spend five million.

"Brother Wang," Zhang Hong turned around and asked, "Our TV series was originally supposed to have sixty episodes, right?"

Calling someone "Xiao Wang" in front of others is a way of establishing one's status.

Calling him "Brother Wang" in private is a way to get closer to him.

Wang Ye nodded in affirmation: "Yes, Brother Zhang. Our TV series was originally planned to have sixty episodes."

He was now completely convinced by Zhang Hong, so even though Zhang Hong was two years younger than him, he called him "brother" smoothly.

In society, capable people are like older brothers and sisters, mentors and teachers, while ordinary people are just "little X".

Zhang Hong nodded; he was just confirming it again.

He had just glanced through the script, and to be honest, it should only have about twenty episodes, but it had been padded out and stretched to sixty.

This is also the standard practice for most TV dramas nowadays.

After all, it's sold by the episodes, and the more episodes, the higher the price.

This is already standard procedure.

But using five million to film sixty episodes right now is clearly unrealistic.

Unless it's made into a super shoddy TV series.

But this was not Zhang Hong's choice.

He has always disliked the current entertainment industry and detests fan culture even more.

If we let him continue doing this kind of garbage, how is he any different from the kind of person we used to despise?

During his work, he had already transformed from a young man full of ideals into a seasoned veteran beaten down by reality.

Anyway, after filming this TV series, he'll give everyone an explanation and then disappear. Why not go crazy one last time?

In the future, when he gets into online keyboard battles and criticizes the entertainment industry, if any fandom members criticize him with "If you're so good, then you do it," he can just say, "I actually did it!"

However, since this five million was invested by Director Sun, we still need to ask for his opinion on this matter.

But Director Sun has just been taken to the hospital, so it's not good to bother him yet. I'll mention it when I visit him at the hospital tomorrow.

"Brother Wang, please arrange for everyone to rest today. I'll go back and think about the script, and then we'll go to the hospital to see Director Sun together tomorrow."

Wang Ye's face flushed with excitement: "Okay! I'll keep an eye on the crew! Don't worry, Brother Zhang!"

He's finally risen to power!

Although he had previously held the title of assistant director, he was completely different from Sun Zheng, who was the second-in-command of the crew.

To be honest, he was just in charge of odd jobs.

Whenever any department has a problem, they'll call him over to coordinate and help.

Now that Director Sun is temporarily hospitalized, wouldn't Wang Ye be given an important position?

Ignoring Wang Ye, who had moved himself with his self-motivation, Zhang Hong rode his electric scooter home as soon as he left the film set.

He wants to go back and learn more about this world, and also take a closer look at the script.

This is a newly opened film and television city in Los Angeles, about ten kilometers away from the city center.

Fortunately, Los Angeles has good infrastructure, and this road has been completed. Zhang Hong arrived at the community in about forty minutes.

He lives in a place called Longxing Garden, which is an old-style seven-story building without an elevator.

Why seven floors? Because the original regulations only mandated the installation of elevators in buildings with seven or more floors.

His family lives on the sixth floor.

Before going upstairs, Zhang Hong scrolled through his parents' WeChat Moments on his phone.

My mom still looks as young as ever, even her permed wavy hair is the same.

Needless to say, his father's Mediterranean hairstyle, which filled Zhang Hong with pessimism about his future, was proof enough that this was his father.

With a sigh, Zhang Hong put away his phone and walked into the building.

If the personalities of the people in this world are really the same as his in his previous life... then he will probably see the girl who is a year younger than him when he goes upstairs.

The girl who lives across the hall from him.

He slowly made his way to the fifth floor, turned around at the top of the stairs, and before he even reached the sixth floor, he saw the girl lying on the ground.

Her waist-length black hair was loose, and beneath her knee-length skirt were a pair of long legs encased in pantyhose.

She lay there on the ground, pointing her left index finger at the words written in red paint in front of her head.

The murderer is Zhang Shui.

Zhang Hongyi covered his forehead—sure enough, this guy was faking death again.

PS: (づ￣3￣)づ╭❤～