I just want to sell products, but you're forcing me to perform talents.

Chapter 568 Lady Shexiang

On December 15th, filming for "A Chinese Ghost Story" officially wrapped up, and the project entered the post-production stage. Meanwhile, Chen Xu officially began preparing to film "A Bite of Tang Dynasty."

If this production crew relied on only one film crew, it would take an unknown amount of time to film. Therefore, the entire production crew will consist of as many as eight film crews, with Chen Xu coordinating and leading a main film crew. They will use brand-new filming equipment, including drones, underwater cameras, high-speed cameras, infrared cameras, microscopes, and endoscopes, to present Tang Dynasty cuisine from multiple angles.

Even though the filming of this series wasn't particularly difficult, the requirements for Chen Xu were extremely high.

The enormous challenge ignited the little girl's passion.

During breaks from filming "A Chinese Ghost Story", she led the main creative team to conduct research on the local culture and customs of various places over the past few months. With the script outline written by Ye Xian, she confidently plunged into the ocean of Tang Dynasty cuisine.

……

The past few months have been relatively calm, with the only disruption being the December awards season.

The music scene has basically cut off Ye Xian. Li Ming and others have even stopped bothering with formalities, and no major awards have sent Ye Xian any invitations.

The film industry welcomed Ye Xian warmly. Many organizing committees not only sent him invitations, but some committee chairmen or judges even paid him a personal visit, just to prevent him from being as willful as he was in the music industry.

After all, Ye Xian's total box office reached 241 billion, ranking 15th on the actor box office list.

With just three movies, he has such terrifying box office appeal that bigwigs in the film industry would love to grovel before Ye Xian.

If it weren't for the fact that he had already signed investment agreements for several films last year, these bigwigs would have loved to shower Ye Xian with money.

Ye Xian's return on investment is simply too high.

The three films, "Hello Mr. Billionaire," "Missing Her," and "Painted Skin," each had an investment of 1 million yuan, and their average box office reached 80 billion yuan.

Two animated feature films are set to be released during the Spring Festival, and "A Chinese Ghost Story" is scheduled for release during the Qingming Festival after the holiday. Although many people are not optimistic about the animated feature films, they dare not underestimate the box office potential of "A Chinese Ghost Story". Many films originally scheduled to be released during this period have also changed their release dates.

There's no way around it; with three consecutive films grossing over 78 billion yuan, no one dares to bet that Ye Xian's fourth film will have a low box office.

Even so, many investors came to him, inquiring about what projects Ye Xian had not yet started or what works he had not yet adapted.

Everyone was really envious.

Ye Xian is highly sought after in the film industry, and this year's awards season naturally saw a surge in invitations extended to the casts of "The Vanished" and "Painted Skin".

Neither of these two big-budget films are popcorn movies; the plots and characters are both above average, so they are considered strong contenders for awards.

Some haters keep criticizing Ye Xian for being disdainful of the music industry and fawning over the film industry.

Ye Xian completely ignored such arguments.

Respect is mutual; he wouldn't even bother to glance at the murky world of the music industry.

While there are shady dealings in the film and television industry, it is relatively fair. In addition, since the two films are not his own projects, he cannot let the efforts of Ding Ding, Jiang Tian, ​​Liu Xiaoxiao, the two directors, the numerous main creative team members, and the thousands of filming and acting teams go to waste, nor can he stop these people from pursuing fame and fortune.

To put it bluntly, you can be a saint yourself, but you can't expect others to follow you in practicing vegetarianism and chanting Buddhist scriptures; otherwise, you'll have no friends.

This is society.

……

On December 25th, at the Golden Bamboo Awards ceremony, the stars shone brightly, and Ye Xian became the brightest star on the red carpet that night.

He first walked the red carpet hand in hand with goddess Ding Ding and the cast of "The Vanished She".

After giving a media interview, she joined hands with the cast and crew of "Painted Skin" and was the last to walk the red carpet.

The opening and closing remarks perfectly heightened the atmosphere of the entire live stream.

[How many prizes do you think Brother Xian will bring home today?]

Both films are strong contenders for awards, practically sweeping up all the nominations. If they don't win a single award, do you believe I'll never associate with film critics again?

[Haha, I feel like Brother Xian is absolutely capable of doing something like that. Unless the organizing committee has lost their minds, they wouldn't do something as despicable as Li Ming, only giving out nomination awards.]

To be honest, I'm really looking forward to the organizing committee doing something like this. If they do, next year's Golden Bamboo Awards will definitely become a laughing stock, just like the Golden Melody Awards of the past two years!

……

Li Ming's Golden Melody Awards have become a joke for two consecutive years, with its credibility and popularity declining year after year. However, there is nothing that can be done because Ye Xian's creativity is too strong, suppressing the entire music scene for two consecutive years.

However, the film and television industry is different from the music industry. There are many talented people and even more outstanding individuals. Every season, dark horses emerge, and Ye Xian cannot run rampant like he does in the music industry.

This is also the main reason why the film industry is relatively fair.

This year's Golden Bamboo Awards opened with a song that surprised everyone: the Grassland Bandits.

Ever since Ye Xian unlocked their square dance hit song skill tree, the two of them seemed to have been given a cheat code, and began to dominate the square dance world.

Invited as the opening guest, the grassland bandit presented a new song, "Lady Shexiang".

Ye Xian hadn't originally planned to write "Lady Shexiang" for the two of them because he wasn't sure if Lady Shexiang was a historical figure on Earth. However, after carefully researching the history of the Tang Dynasty, he discovered that Lady Shexiang did exist, and her life trajectory was basically similar to that of Lady Shexiang in another world. That's why he brought out "Lady Shexiang" when he was writing a new song for the grassland bandits this year.

"...

Crossing the endless mountains

Crossing the endless ocean

……

The fragrance wafted outside the study.

Playing beautiful heavenly music

... "

Ling Hua's clear voice resonated throughout the Golden Bamboo Awards ceremony hall. Zeng Yi softly harmonized with her. At that moment, a melodious flute tune rang out. Many film and television industry bigwigs and stars looked over and saw Ye Xian dressed in a white Hanfu, standing in the corner of the stage, playing a transverse flute.

"Whoosh—"

The audience erupted in enthusiastic applause, and the live stream chat room became lively at that moment.

[Ahhh, it's "Lady Shexiang," and a dream collaboration with Xian Ge! This song is super popular lately; my mom has completely abandoned "The Most Dazzling Ethnic Trend" and "Gangnam Style." I just want to ask, is Xian Ge just here to collect his appearance fee?]

[Me: Have you heard of Lady Shexiang? Friend: What the heck? Me: The Wumeng Mountains connect to mountains beyond mountains. Friend: Moonlight spills over the Xiangshui Beach.]

[Recently, everyone has felt sorry for Zeng Yi. He's had a tough time too. He can't not sing, but he can't even make a sound! The harmonies can't overpower the lead vocals, but without harmonies, the lead vocals might sound monotonous. This is a challenge that not everyone can handle!]

Many people say Zeng Yi only knows how to sing "yo yo yo," but in fact, I checked the lyrics. In "Above the Moon," Zeng Yi's lyrics have 339 characters, more than Ling Hua's 252. In "Free Flying," Zeng Yi has 312 characters, more than Ling Hua's 214. In "The Most Dazzling Ethnic Style," Zeng Yi's 625 characters completely surpass Ling Hua's 569. Of all the songs, the only one where Ling Hua has more characters than Zeng Yi is "Lotus Pond Moonlight." Therefore, everyone has misunderstood Zeng Yi.

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Ps1: Today's Recap

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Ps2:

"Lady Shexiang", by Phoenix Legend.

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