I'm really good at this.

"You don't need to do anything." Zhang Hong flashed a sunny and handsome smile. "You just need to watch quietly from a distance, accompany the old man on his final journey, and appreciate his last dream. That's all."

Liang Luo didn't speak; he just stood there quietly.

It looks like a stone statue.

After an unknown amount of time, his hoarse voice rang out: "I understand. I will keep an eye on things and won't disturb them."

He suddenly turned around, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Zhang Hong's eyes, "I'm entrusting everything to you. You must fulfill my father's dream. Please."

The owner of Huaxia Group, a company worth hundreds of billions, who treats even national dignitaries as equals, and the owner of one of the world's top three industrial and technology groups, bowed deeply to a young man in his twenties.

Zhang Hong gave a thumbs-up, flashing a set of pearly white teeth that could make toothpaste give up: "Definitely!"

"Phew—" Liang Luo breathed a sigh of relief, her cold aura softening. "You go ahead and get busy, I'll stay here and watch over them for a while. Don't worry, I won't go in and disturb them."

Zhang Hong didn't stand on ceremony: "Alright, feel free to contact me anytime if you need anything. I'll get back to work now."

After Zhang Hong turned and left, Liang Luo continued to quietly watch the happy grandfather and grandson inside the shed.

He stood there, motionless, like a statue.

............

"How's it going?"

Zhang Hong rushed into the director's office and started asking questions without even drinking any water.

Wang Ye gave a thumbs up: "Brother Hong! You're amazing! By the way, how did you convince President Liang to take on the role himself?"

In front of him was a row of monitors.

The person in the picture is Liang Luo, and Liang Luo is shown from various angles.

Front, side, back; long shot, full shot, medium shot, close-up—it has everything.

"Of course, it's about appealing to their emotions and reasoning with them," Zhang Hong shrugged. "Okay, it's basically just a bit of hype, but that's what makes it more genuine. Plus, the president of China Heavy Industries personally participating makes for quite a spectacle."

This is just like the little horse he acted in in his previous life, which was in a TV series.

How could the wind blowing outwards not arouse the curiosity of onlookers?

Well, actually Zhang Hong doesn't care about this at all. After all, he doesn't earn money from selling these shows, so reputation and ratings are irrelevant to him.

Actually, this was Liang Ya's idea, that genius little brat.

He said he wanted to see a side of his father that no one else knew, so he begged Zhang Hong to take a picture of his father.

This kid even gritted his teeth, abandoned his pride, and called Zhang Hong "Brother Hong".

This feeling is so exhilarating, just like when the children of those top-tier tycoons you knew every day in your past life call you brother or sister. It's so satisfying, it feels like you're going from the top of your head to your tailbone.

Zhang Hong, pleased with the offer, readily complied.

They even added some scenes to the script.

It's about the process of building Gundam.

This Gundam witnessed the growth and inheritance of three generations, and ultimately, by a twist of fate, it fell into the hands of the protagonist played by Wang Chen.

Yes, in the script, Wang Chen is Liang Ya's older brother.

"By the way, where's A-Chuan?"

Zhang Hong looked around but couldn't find the grandson anywhere.

Wang Ye casually remarked, "Oh, those foreign actors were new here, so he and his sister went to work as translators."

This was also Zhang Hong's malicious act.

The "community of shared future for mankind" represents the side of justice, so the main characters are naturally played by Chinese actors, while the incompetent "community of shared future" officials in the drama are naturally played by people from other Asian countries.

The villains, the "World Freedom Alliance," must be played by blond-haired, blue-eyed foreigners. Is there a problem with that?

Anyway, the entire crew agreed that there were no problems.

but......

"Aren't those foreigners all fluent in Chinese? I heard there's one who said he was going to eat all the food in China, but he's still in China after eight years. Do they need a translator too?"

............

The Lin siblings naturally did not become translators.

In a corner, Lin Chuan stood ramrod straight, while Lin Muqing played with a butterfly knife in her hand with a blank expression.

"What did Dad tell you? And what are you planning to do this time?"

Facing the "Lin Family's Long-Haired Devil," Lin Chuan didn't dare to breathe loudly: "No, I did everything according to your instructions. I told Dad that this was a film invested in by China Heavy Industry, and there wasn't much room for manipulation."

Then I said that Brother Hong's crew was full of weirdos from all sorts of strange industries, and that the lead actors he found were all pretty boys with no acting skills, and that was about it.

"Well done." Lin Muqing was very satisfied. She then closed the fancy butterfly knife she was twirling in her hand, and in the blink of an eye, it disappeared somewhere.

"Sis, I really don't understand." Lin Chuan was confused. "Shouldn't you be on my brother Hong's side? Why are you doing this to him?"

Although he spent every day with that group of monsters and freaks during this period, he still couldn't see what made them so powerful.

There are also young, handsome actors.

In his opinion, Luo Yun was just incredibly lucky to be chosen by Brother Hong to play a role that perfectly suited his personality and appearance.

I won't even mention Wang Chen; he's just a terrible actor with no acting skills.

I didn't lie to my father.

Why did my sister make me do this?

"You don't know them well enough, and of course, you know even less about Zhang Hong." Lin Muqing raised her hand to tuck a strand of hair behind her ear and smiled. "No one knows Zhang Hong better than me."

Zhang Hong is an artistic young man.

Even though he has become more down-to-earth recently, his essence will not change.

Lin Muqing had already realized that Zhang Hong only wanted a good reputation for this film and to help the old man fulfill his dream; he had no intention of making money at all.

She could even bet that in the end, not much of that billion would be left, as it would all be poured into this film.

It's more accurate to say that just building the film studio and the full green screen studio, as well as preparing equipment, building a 1:1 scale Gundam model, and the cockpit for filming, has already cost 500 million.

This was before the film was even shot.

Zhang Hong's reason for wanting to save money was simple: he wanted to invest the remaining funds in post-production editing and special effects.

Was the casting wrong?

of course not.

The villain played by Law Kwan is a masked man who wears a mask every day, so he doesn't really need to have any expressions.

Wang Chen plays a character with a perpetually furrowed brow and a delusional personality, so he doesn't really need any acting skills—he just needs to furrow his brow and purse his lips to pretend to be conflicted.

The supporting characters are what truly create the atmosphere.

Zhang Hong didn't skimp on supporting roles; almost all the important supporting roles in the film were played by veteran actors.

No, even the less important supporting roles are played by relatively senior actors.

For example, Captain Jegan in the script.

Doesn't that prove anything?

Zhang Hong won't care about the income from this drama.

What he wants is to create a masterpiece that is unprecedented and unlikely to be repeated in the near future!

He wanted this film to still be considered a classic of its genre, even twenty, thirty, or forty years from now!

Or perhaps what Zhang Hong wanted was to create the giant mecha genre!

He wants to be remembered in film history!

The astute Lin Muqing had already seen through everything!

That's why she cooperated with Zhang Hong, and that's why she couldn't let her older brother cause trouble.

Gradually, Zhang Hong finally began to live the life she envisioned.

She was in a very good mood.

So, I won't scare my useless older brother today.

Seeing Lin Muqing about to leave, Lin Chuan's face lit up with joy: "Sis, where are you going?"

"Get ready to film, I want to witness all of this." Lin Muqing suddenly turned around, smiling brightly, "And as a reward for making me so happy, I'm going to cook a meal for Zhang Hong myself tonight."

My sister made this meal!

That's a family heirloom of the Lin family!

She hasn't done it since she did it once a few years ago!

That meal was so memorable that the entire Lin family, from top to bottom, kept talking about it and praising it endlessly!

He shouted, "What about me? Can I come and freeload?"

Lin Muqing tilted her head slightly, her black hair fluttering in the wind: "No, that's a reward for Zhang Hong."

Lin Chuan: "..."

A few minutes later, he received a powerful blow to the shoulder from the Great Heavenly Dragon Palm.

"What are you doing, A-Chuan? Contemplating life?"

Lin Chuan turned around and looked at Zhang Hong with a resentful expression: "Brother Hong, I'm so envious of you."

"What nonsense! I envy your rich kid race." Zhang Hong grabbed him and pulled him away. "Go and find those three statues that you had someone carve for me right now."

"You mean the Shaolin Temple's Wudang Mountain office's Grand Priest Lama Wang, the 'Righteous Goddess,' and the octopus-headed foreign bodhisattva?" Lin Chuan stumbled as he was pulled along. "Why would we need to find those things?"

Zhang Hong didn't even turn his head: "Nonsense! Of course it's a pre-filming ritual! Everything's ready, let's start filming today!"

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Both of these chapters are scheduled. I'm off to help my buddy blow up balloons and put up the "double happiness" character. Goodbye!

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