Huayu: Starting with Hijacking from "The Story of a Noble Family"

Xu Heng's selection as one of the "Top Ten" actors naturally caused quite a stir both in real life and online.

Especially at the Beijing Film Academy, teachers and students have been discussing this matter privately these past few days.

As for Liu Yifei, she was the second female lead and a newcomer. Her performance in "The Story of a Noble Family" was far inferior to Xu Heng's, so it's normal that she wasn't selected.

Not to mention she's still so young. The "Top Ten" title is quite prestigious. If she gets selected and actually wins the award, what will the other actors, especially those who didn't win, think?

The next day, Friday, August 29th, the first submission of "Our Times" for review finally yielded results.

As expected, the submission failed to pass the review this time.

Fortunately, the General Administration provided detailed rectification requirements, and Xu Heng looked at them and found that the areas that needed rectification were not particularly important.

Another day passed, and on Saturday, August 30th, at 7:45 PM, a new episode of "Happy Camp" aired on Hunan TV.

The "Happy Camp" program has been airing for more than 6 years since 97, and its ratings have consistently ranked among the top three in the country for the same time slot.

Needless to say, in Shacheng and Hunan Province, it is absolutely the best of the best among the best programs.

Because Liu Yifei was in this episode, many students from the Beijing Film Academy paid close attention to it, and Xu Heng also watched the episode with his classmates in his dormitory.

After Liu Yifei finished singing "A Little Happiness" on the show, the way his classmates looked at him changed again.

He soon received a text message from Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei: How was my performance? Not bad, right?

Xu Heng: Indeed, very good, a great improvement, worthy of praise.

Liu Yifei: Pfft, who cares about your praise?

Xu Heng: After the movie becomes a box office hit, I'll give you a big red envelope.

Liu Yifei: Let's talk about it after the box office explodes, you stingy person!

Xu Heng: How am I stingy?

Liu Yifei: You're so rich, yet you only gave me 20,000 yuan in film fees. What else can you call but a stingy person? I was even thinking of saving you some money!

Xu Heng: My money is my money, and the movie budget is the movie budget. Besides, didn't you get a song for free?

Liu Yifei: What do you mean by making money for nothing? Didn't I promote the movie?

Xu Heng: This is what you should have done, right?

Then Liu Yifei ignored him, clearly her mood hadn't completely improved.

A little while later, Xu Heng sent her another text message: The song has been uploaded to music platforms, and some platforms have already approved it. It's also available for download online.

He doesn't plan to release "Confession Balloon" and "A Little Happiness" as an album, at least not for the time being. Instead, he will release them directly online.

The main purpose of these two songs is to increase the movie's popularity and box office revenue; he doesn't care about the money he makes from releasing albums.

Nowadays, singers earn money more easily than actors, but they rely more on making money through gigs rather than releasing albums.

He uploaded "A Little Happiness" to various music platforms this morning, but the review process will take time. However, those pirate music platforms obviously don't need to review it.

Liu Yifei quickly replied with a text message: Understood.

Then another message came: How's the movie? Is there anything wrong with it?

Xu Heng: Don't worry, they're just minor issues, we can fix them quickly.

Meanwhile, the Tianya Film and Television Review section once again became lively because of Liu Yifei and her song "A Little Happiness".

Did you watch this episode of Happy Camp?

"Of course I watched it. Liu Yifei is indeed beautiful, and her height, figure, and temperament are all outstanding. No wonder she became popular as a second female lead! Xu Heng's composition 'A Little Happiness' is also surprisingly good, but Liu Yifei's singing skills are still a bit lacking."

"It's not just good, Xu Heng's 'A Little Happiness' is absolutely amazing!"

"I never imagined Hsu Heng could actually write songs!"

"Liu Yifei sang quite well too. Although you can tell her singing skills are just average, it still had a lot of feeling to it!"

"This song isn't too difficult, and it's also very suitable for Liu Yifei to sing."

"A Little Happiness is now available to listen to online and also for download."

"Do you even need to tell me? I searched for this song after watching the show, and it's already on my MP3 player!"

"Liu Yifei also said on the show that Xu Heng wrote a song for himself, but she did not reveal what the song was."

"Xu Heng's song will probably be released before the movie's official release, but anyway, I'm actually starting to look forward to Xu Heng's movie now!"

"Me too. I didn't expect Xu Heng to be not only handsome and a good actor, but also so talented. I just wonder if that rumor about him and Shi Xue is true..."

"That rumor is obviously false. Xu Heng and Shi Xue have no connection whatsoever, at least there's no evidence to prove they've ever interacted. However, it's certainly suspicious that Xu Heng could come up with so much money to make a movie..."

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"Changchang, this is one of the school's cafeterias. Xu Heng and I usually eat here when we're at school."

August 31st is the day for new and returning students to register at the Beijing Film Academy.

Liu Yifei arrived at school to register in the morning and did not leave afterwards, because she knew that Shu Chang would come to school alone to register today.

Afterwards, she accompanied Shu Chang to register and find her dormitory. Seeing that it was almost noon, she took Shu Chang to the school cafeteria to get a meal card and have lunch.

"Do you and Xu Heng often eat together?"

Upon hearing her friend say this, Shu Chang couldn't help but ask.

"How could that be? We rarely see each other at school, we only bump into each other occasionally in the cafeteria."

Liu Yifei shook her head; she wasn't lying.

However, she didn't tell her friend that she and Xu Heng were now in frequent private contact, and the frequency of their contact was significantly higher than what they used to do together...

Shu Chang glanced at her friend but didn't say anything.

However, she could sense that her friend seemed much more casual when mentioning Xu Heng now than before.

Of course, she might just be being too sensitive.

Xu Heng arrived shortly afterward, but he was alone.

Upon seeing Liu Yifei and Shu Chang, he walked straight over.

"Singing, it's been a long time!"

Xu Heng said with a smile.

He had always had a good impression of Shu Chang and considered her a friend.

He nodded to Liu Yifei again and then sat down directly next to her.

Liu Yifei and Shu Chang sat facing each other. If he didn't sit next to Liu Yifei, he could only sit next to Shu Chang.

"Long time no see, Xu Heng!"

Shu Chang greeted him with a smile, equally pleased to see Xu Heng again.

Like Liu Yifei, she didn't have many friends, and she considered Xu Heng her good friend.

However, the way she looked at her two friends in front of her was clearly strange.

The three of them who used to "huddle together for warmth" have now become the outsider, haven't they?