Entertainment: The Path to Best Actor for Talented Actors

"Sohu is holding a TV drama awards ceremony in three days, and they've sent you an invitation. They hope you'll attend."

"Is this another newcomer nomination? Last year, the show was a huge hit, and they gave me a newcomer nomination, which made me happy for nothing, but in the end, I was just a runner-up!" Zhang Ze complained.

She doesn't hold back with her agent, Zhang Ze, and speaks her mind freely.

"Stop pretending. Your first drama was a huge hit, and you even got a nomination for Best Supporting Newcomer. You're the only one like that in the whole country."

So many actors are jealous of you!

Zhang Ze chuckled. He knew perfectly well what was going on, but he was just pretending to be innocent after getting the benefit!

Huang Yu continued, "Last year, you won five awards for just one drama, so it's impossible to give you another supporting actor award. Otherwise, other production teams would definitely have objections. But this year is different. You have two hit dramas, 'My Chief and My Regiment' and 'Beijing Love Story,' which have been released and gained popularity. Your chances of winning an award are very high and it's more convincing to the public."

"Isn't it said that you know in advance whether you'll win an award at these kinds of award ceremonies? How come I didn't know? Is it just a rumor?" he asked Huang Yu.

Having never won an award before, Zhang Ze really didn't know the ins and outs of it!

"You won't know when you walk the red carpet. Celebrities have such tight schedules, and the organizers need even more people to attend to make it look good. If the news leaks out and you don't win, who would want to go?"

"However, usually the winners are informed in advance whether they have won or not. It's kind of an unspoken rule!"

Zhang Ze nodded, and after resting for a while, he left Huang Yu's place.

She's very busy, dealing with a lot of resources every day. I heard she's been busy negotiating endorsements for herself these past few days! I wonder how much she'll get for those endorsements?

In fact, Zhang Ze's trip to the company to give Huang Yu a gift was just a pretext.

Their real purpose was to collect the debt!

The drama "The Next Miracle" has been finished filming for over a week now, so it's time for the final payment!

Honestly, a celebrity like myself has to chase after wages like a migrant worker.

Don't you know that it's almost the end of the year and you're proactively paying salaries?

There was no way around it. After traveling around the United States, doing all sorts of fun and shopping, plus the first-class plane ticket on the way back, Mr. Zhang spent nearly 300,000 yuan. With savings of less than 2 million yuan, he felt extremely insecure!

The squeaky wheel gets the grease! After his urging, the company's finance department transferred Zhang Ze's payment to his account that very day.

After splitting the profits with the company, the total was 900,000. After deducting the expenses incurred during my time in the United States, my assets increased by 600,000.

He thought to himself, "It took me two months to film the fourth male lead role, and I only earned 600,000 yuan. I guess that's barely enough!"

Why does he say it's 600,000 when it's clearly 900,000?

He included the $300,000 he spent in the US in his budget; if the film crew hadn't gone to the US to shoot on location, he wouldn't have gone.

He won't go to the United States, and neither will his girlfriend;

He wouldn't spend money if his girlfriend didn't go to America.

Yes, that logic is correct!

With the 900,000 yuan deposited, Zhang Ze's bank account balance reached 2.5 million yuan.

Although the number wasn't very appealing, Zhang Ze still felt it was better than 1.6 million!

Around 8 p.m., Zhang Ze sneaked over to Zeng Lai's house again.

Out of politeness, he always slept separately from Zeng Lai at Carl's house.

Now Zhang Ze misses Zeng Lai's soft, delicate body terribly; holding her in his arms was so comforting!

"Why did you come over at this time? Didn't we just part ways?" Zeng Lai asked Zhang Ze in surprise in a low voice.

"Open the door and let me in!" Zhang Ze urged.

But Zeng Lai blocked the doorway, preventing Zhang Ze from entering, and whispered in his ear, "It's not convenient today, my relatives are visiting!"

Zhang Ze said nonchalantly, "It's okay, I'll just hold you and not do anything!"

Zeng Lai rolled her eyes at him, both angry and amused, and said, "What are you thinking? It's a real relative, my mom's here!"

Zhang Ze stood there dumbfounded, his foot, which had been about to step inside, involuntarily retracting.

"Why don't you come in and say hello to my mom, and meet her?" Zeng Lai said with a teasing look.

"Um... well, I came suddenly today and didn't buy Auntie a gift. I'll come another day!"

Seeing Zhang Ze flee in disarray, Zeng Lai's lips curled into a smile.

She was certain that Zhang Ze wouldn't dare to meet his mother directly!

At this moment, Zeng Lai's mother called out from inside the room. Zeng Lai closed the door and sighed.

Preparing to face my mother's pressure to get married is going to be a nightmare!

December 26, Sohu Building, Beijing.

As a leading video website on the internet, Sohu owns its own building in Beijing. The Mengzi Wuchang site, covering nearly 26000 square meters, is now packed with people.

In the plaza in front of the building's main entrance, a straight red carpet was laid out, and a large signature wall stood in the center of the plaza. It read "2012 Sohu TV Drama Awards".

The scene was bustling with noise, with hundreds of reporters pointing their cameras at the red carpet, while more than a hundred security guards and a dozen police officers were maintaining order around it.

Thousands of fans were chanting the names of their favorite stars; if security hadn't stopped them, they would have rushed forward.

Zhang Ze, dressed in a black suit, arrived at the entrance of the venue, which was already packed with people.

Dozens of celebrities were waiting to enter. The male actors were doing alright, but the female actors were all wearing very gorgeous dresses, with exquisite makeup and amazing figures!

The towering, snow-white hemisphere swayed gently with the laughter.

Zhang Ze's eyes were unfocused, and he dared not look directly at her.

They were afraid of being caught on camera, their gaze falling on someone's sensitive spot, and thus gaining a reputation for bad character.

Zhang Ze walked past the area where female celebrities were gathered, his head down and glancing left and right, until he reached the area where male actors were concentrated, at which point he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

I feel more comfortable with the male actors; everyone's wearing suits.

Unless someone is extremely ugly, anyone can look very smart in a well-fitting suit.

"Hey Ze, you look quite the part today in your suit!" Zhang Guoqiang waved Zhang Ze over and pulled him close to him, teasing him.

Zhang Ze's suit was a gift Zeng Lai bought for him in the United States; it was quite valuable and made him look very elegant.

It's much more comfortable being with familiar people. Many actors from "My Chief and My Regiment" came, and we all gathered together and chatted.

These male celebrities were all dressed in suits and ties, just like when they went back to their village at the end of the year and chatted with their friends on the street.

There were piles of them, some smoking, some eating sunflower seeds; it was quite interesting.

On the other side, there was a large group of male celebrities, but they were sitting on stools touching up their makeup with the help of their assistants.

Those actors are all young, handsome men who follow the path of attracting online traffic.

They were not like those actors with great acting skills. Although there were many people on set, everyone consciously divided into several groups and did not disturb each other.

Zhang Ze has two dramas nominated this time: "My Chief and My Regiment" and "Beijing Love Story".

At this time, Chen Shicheng and Tong Liya had become a couple, and Zhang Ze went over to offer his blessings to the two.

When I saw Tong Liya again, she seemed to have gained a little weight, and her complexion was rosier; she was indeed much prettier.

Yang Mi was standing to the side.

Today, Yang Mi wore a black haute couture gown, her snow-white shoulders exposed, and she held up the long skirt in her hands, revealing a pair of long, straight, white legs.

"Hmph, just seeing you makes me angry!" Yang Mi snorted at Zhang Ze as soon as she saw him.

Yang Mi's voice is rather high-pitched and sounds a bit sticky.

"What's wrong, Honey? What did I do to offend you?" Zhang Ze asked with a smile.

"Why is it that when you play a rich second-generation scumbag, no one criticizes you, but when I play a gold digger, so many people criticize me! I'm not convinced!" Yang Mi felt wronged. Since the broadcast of "Beijing Love Story," she has gained popularity, but controversy has also followed.

"You really can't blame me for this; how was I supposed to know what the audience was thinking!"

"You need to settle accounts with him. He's gotten all the benefits—fame, money, and even a wife." Zhang Ze shifted the blame, dragging Chen Shicheng into the mess.

Chen Shicheng, who was watching the spectacle from the sidelines, was a little confused. Why was he being blamed again?

Yang Mi began to shift her gun focus and fire at Chen Shicheng.

"What's it to me? I'm just watching the show!" he retorted.

Zhang Ze wasn't about to let him off the hook either. "You still say it's none of your business? Then tell me why you cut my and Yang Mi's bed scene! If it wasn't needed, why film it in the first place? It made us spend an entire afternoon filming it!"

"Yeah! Tell me, if there's nothing to do, why film it?" Yang Mi chimed in with her question.

"It's not that I don't want to use it, it's that it won't pass the review!" Chen Shicheng said, feeling wronged.

"Then why did your sex scene with Tong Liya pass censorship?" Zhang Ze pressed.

"Don't you guys know your own standards? What are our standards, and what are yours?!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ze and Yang Mi exchanged a glance, their faces slightly flushed.

After that, Zhang Ze became active at the event, chatting with some familiar actors.

The event began with the actors and directors walking the red carpet in order of arrival.

The actors are assigned to specific production teams, with each production forming a team, and the order is determined by the director through a lottery.

Zhang Ze wasn't with my troupe leader's group of actors because there were just too many people.

The cannon fodder regiment consisted of more than a dozen people. Even after Zhang Yi, Li Chen, and Zhang Ze left, there were still nearly ten people left.

Zhang Yi and Li Chen are among the lead actors in "Beijing Love Story," and without them, the crew would be too small.

To maintain balance, the organizers arranged for Zhang Ze to appear alongside the cast and crew of the TV series "Beijing Love Story"!

When it came to deciding the order of appearance, everyone was in a dilemma again!

This drama originally had three male leads and three female leads, which is exactly one man and one woman, but Mo Xiaoqi, who plays Wu Mei, is also considered one of the female leads.

Chen Shicheng and Tong Liya are a couple both on and off screen, and there is no objection to them being together.

Zhang Yi and Zhang Qinyi are a couple.

The difficulty lies in Li Chen's group.

Although Li Chen eventually ends up with Yang Zixi, played by Yang Mi, he also has many romantic scenes with Wu Mei.

If he's with Yang Mi, then Mo Xiaoqi will be left alone and can only be with Zhang Ze. But being with Zhang Ze would be awkward because the characters don't interact.

Moreover, Mo Xiaoqi is Huang Haibo's girlfriend in real life, and Huang Haibo is currently very popular, so they can't afford to offend him.

In the end, it was decided that Li Chen and Mo Xiaoqi would go together, and Yang Mi and Zhang Ze would go together.

"Don't be surprised, a scumbag and a gold digger are a perfect match!"

"Don't just stand there, put it on!" Zhang Ze said to Yang Mi with a teasing smile, bending his arm.

Yang Mi rolled her eyes at him and hooked her arm around Zhang Ze's...

To be honest, Zhang Ze felt a lot of pressure walking the red carpet with Yang Mi.

The main problem is that Yang Mi's clothing is too daring.

The black strapless dress was held up by only two thin, transparent straps. The upper edge of the skirt passed under the armpits, covering only the northern hemisphere, while the towering southern hemisphere was directly exposed.

There are quite a few actresses dressed like this; you can see several at a glance. Among them, Liu Yan and Jiang Shuying are the most eye-catching.

With Yang Mi holding his arm, Zhang Ze kept his eyes fixed straight ahead and behind him.

Ahead, a group was being interviewed and photographed by the host, while Zhang Ze and Yang Mi waited in a secluded corner.

Yang Mi seemed to have ADHD, constantly flipping her long hair. At first, she only flipped a small section in the front, but then she started flipping the hair on the back of her head.

Suddenly, Yang Mi groaned.

"Oh no, my hair got caught in the zipper!" Zhang Ze heard a complaint in his ear.

Yang Mi was there, raising her arm and fiddling with her hair, but she couldn't get it right even after more than ten seconds.

"How about I take a look for you?" After a dozen seconds of internal struggle, Zhang Ze decided to help her.

"Okay! Please help me take a look, it hurts so much!" Yang Mi pleaded for help.

Zhang Ze walked up behind Yang Mi, lifted her long hair, and found that a small tuft of hair was stuck in the zipper clip, probably because she hadn't noticed while putting on her clothes. However, Yang Mi's fussing had made it a mess.

"There's no way to pull it out, we'll just have to break the hair!" Zhang Ze suggested.

"No, the lower part of my hair is an extension, and I'm starting filming tomorrow! Breaking even a small lock would look terrible."

"Try again to see if you can pull it out!"

"No, if you don't break it, you'll have to open the zipper at the back a little! Call your assistant right away and have her come over and fix it for you!" Zhang Ze suggested calmly.

"At this point, calling the assistant would be too late; the people ahead of us are almost done with their interviews!"

Yang Mi bit her lip. "Could you help me pull the zipper down a little? I don't mind!"

"I've risked my career! If people see this and it gets out, my reputation will be ruined!"

She quickly promised that she would remember Zhang Ze's great kindness.

Yang Mi held the umbrella back to block the view behind her.

Zhang Ze tried slowly pulling the zipper down ten centimeters, revealing Yang Mi's snow-white back and letting out a strand of hair.

Just as Zhang Ze was about to zip up the zipper, Yang Mi let out a cry, bent over, and crossed her arms in front of her chest.

Zhang Ze was startled and quickly took a step back.

"What's wrong with you? You looked so startled!"

Yang Mi was on the verge of tears. She frowned, looking at Zhang Ze with a utterly dejected expression, and said, "Something terrible has happened! My nipple covers fell off!"

"Just put it back on if you drop it! I thought it was something serious!" Zhang Ze said dismissively.

"No! It fell down there!" Yang Mi stamped her feet in panic.