FV: Chapter 246

Lin Luoqing went to the road shows and the two children were handed over to Ji Yuxiao.

Lin Fei and Ji Leyu waved to him obediently and watched him get into the car. “Goodbye, Dad.”

Lin Luoqing smiled and waved back at them. “Don’t worry, Dad will be back early.”

Once he finished speaking, he looked at Ji Yuxiao and gave him a slight wink.

Ji Yuxiao smiled and raised a hand to blow him a kiss. Lin Luoqing closed the window instantly. His ears were a bit red as he leaned back against the chair.

Ji Yuxiao gave a low laugh and walked back with the two children in his arms.

He went up to the second floor with Lin Fei and Ji Leyu. He looked at the two children and said, “I’m going to be busy. If you have something then find me in the study, understood?”

“I understand,” Ji Leyu replied.

Lin Fei nodded.

Ji Yuxiao rubbed their little heads and went to the study in peace.

He wasn’t in a rush to do work. Instead, he opened a drawer and took out a pile of drawing paper.

Ji Yuxiao looked at the ring he drew on the paper, always dissatisfied.

From the day he came back from the amusement park, he started to design the engagement ring for Lin Luoqing. However, this was his first time designing a ring and the first time he was preparing to propose.

Every time Ji Yuxiao finished drawing a picture, he thought of better-looking designs.

For this reason, Ji Yuxiao often looked at the appearance of rings on major websites. Unfortunately, until now, he still hadn’t decided on the appearance of the ring to give to Lin Luoqing.

Ji Yuxiao held his chin and looked at his design drawing. He thought that it didn’t matter. In any case, there was still a time before he proposed so he wasn’t in a hurry.

He had to think about it again in order to give Lin Luoqing a ring that he was satisfied with.

Of course, Lin Luoqing didn’t know that Ji Yuxiao had secretly designed a ring behind his back. In his mind, he and Ji Yuxiao had gotten married a long time ago. There was no proposal, no ring and no wedding, but they had been together for two years. Who cared about this now?

So he didn’t think there was anything wrong with not having anything on his ring finger.

Not to mention, he wouldn’t think that a busy person like Ji Yuxiao would do this type of thing.

He sat in the car, looked at Weibo with his phone and watched the comments of ‘All the Way to the West.’

This was the third day since the release of ‘All the Way to the West.’ The first three days of a movie were the most important three days. It was because the audience’s evaluation of the movie in these three days determined the direction of the movie’s word-of-mouth.

Movies with a good reputation attracted audience members. Movies with a poor reputation persuaded audience members who hadn’t bought tickets yet.

This was also why it was easy for a water army to gather when a movie was released.

‘All the Way to the West’ currently had no water army because the film currently had a good reputation.

Lin Luoqing’s huge number of fans was more flexible than the water army and knew how to highlight the advantages of the movie. They targeted different groups of people and did publicity.

Want to watch a high-quality movie?

Then they could watch ‘All the Way to the West.’ Fu Xi’s appearance was so high and he was invincible among all the movies during the Spring Festival. In addition, there were two cute children. They would definitely regret it if they didn’t watch it!

Want to watch a movie with a good plot?

Of course, they had to watch ‘All the Way to the West. It was intertwined, the jokes were tight and there was a reversal later. Director Li was trustworthy!

Want to watch a movie with good acting?

There was Wen Ziming, the Best Actor, and Hou Wenyu, the almost Best Actor. Who couldn’t be satisfied?

Why hesitate to watch All the Way to the West?

Want to watch something light, fun and healing?

Directly report the name of ‘All the Way to the West.’ If this wasn’t light, fun and healing then was there another light, fun and healing movie during the Spring Festival period?

Fans promoted it and Lin Luoqing’s black fans were so angry that they kept posting.

[Has All the Way to the West launched a water army? There are so many promotional messages!]

[Can Lin Luoqing’s fans be taken away for a while? They are bragging so hard that I’m afraid their tongues will flash.]

[Are Lin Luoqing’s fans so arrogant now? Dare to praise Lin Luoqing’s acting skills. Do you think Lin Luoqing’s acting skills are better than Wen Ziming’s?]

[Laughing. Are there really some fans who think that All the Way to the West relies on Lin Luoqing? Director Li’s reputation is there. He hasn’t missed anything!]

[Lin Luoqing’s role can be played by other people. As long as Wen Ziming and Hou Wenyu don’t change then what should be seen is seen.]

Lin Luoqing’s fans countered on the spot.

[Lin Luoqing’s acting is really good. How many people on Weibo are running after him? They like Fu Xi after watching it. This isn’t bragging, right?]

[I don’t think that his acting skills are better than Teacher Wen’s but Fu Xi does act well. It is normal for fans to praise him.]

[You are anxious, you are anxious, you are anxious. Aren’t you tired of staring at Teacher Lin every day? Can’t you look more at your own master? Did your master film? Oh, they probably didn’t.]

Seeing this, the netizens who watched the movie also rolled up their sleeves and replied to help Lin Luoqing.

[Indeed, his acting is very good. I thought Lin Luoqing would be beaten and couldn’t raise his head under the double attack of Wen Ziming and Hou Wenyu’s acting skills. I didn’t expect that he would manage to catch it, but he also fought back and forth with Wen Ziming.]

[Laughing. Before the movie, some people said that Lin Luoqing definitely couldn’t do this movie. Now that it is released, it is still this set of words.]

[In addition, when this drama was first filmed, some people laughed at Lin Luoqing for being brave enough to enter this type of crew. They said that Director Li was in trouble and that the movie must be muddled. As a result, it turns out that Lin Luoqing had solid acting skills and didn’t drop the ball with anyone he acted with.]

[Hahaha, muddled? If I remember correctly, ‘All the Way to the West’ has led the box office of the Spring Festival period since the pre-sales. Now it has the best box office and it is a dream.]

In this way, amidst the praise of netizens, the word-of-mouth of ‘All the Way to the West’ continued to soar at the box office. Lin Luoqing’s own number of fans continued to grow.

Even more movie directors finished watching this movie and sent scripts to Wu Xinyuan, hoping to cooperate.

Director Li was very satisfied with the current situation. As a mature commercial movie director, he had been able to calculate that he should be the box office champion of this Spring Festival period through the box office rise in the past few days. He just hadn’t expected the so-called God to help him. Lin Luoqing was on the hot search again and even the box office of ‘All the Way to the West’ was higher than previously expected.

It was all because—Shi Zheng won the award.

At the end of the year, the Golden Laurel Awards selected the best movies, actors, directors, etc. from the previous year.

In this year’s Golden Laurel Awards, Shi Zheng was nominated for Best Newcomer and Best Supporting Actor for two movies. Lin Luoqing had been paying attention to the news and wanted to see if Shi Zheng won the award.

In the original novel, Shi Zheng should still be acting as an extra in the crew. Now due to his butterfly effect, Shi Zheng ended the dormancy period in advance and started to show himself. Lin Luoqing wondered if his future could be the same as in the novel.

He had watched Shi Zheng’s two movies. There weren’t many scenes but he acted very well. In particular, there was one scene where he played a worker and acted opposite the protagonist in an extremely excellent manner. It was also because of this role that he was shortlisted for Best Supporting Actor.

It was just that in the end, he didn’t have as many scenes as other shortlisted characters. Therefore, Lin Luoqing wasn’t optimistic that he would win Best Supporting Actor. What he wanted to see was Shi Zheng taking Best Newcomer.

To this end, he also watched the live broadcast and wanted to send blessings and comfort to Shi Zheng as soon as possible.

Lin Luoqing sat nervously in front of the computer and listened to prize presenters. “The best newcomer this year is—”

He silently prayed: Shi Zheng, Shi Zheng, Shi Zheng.

As he was praying, he heard the breathless voice of the presenter, “Shi Zheng!”

Lin Luoqing excitedly exclaimed and looked at Shi Zheng on the screen in surprise.

Shi Zheng was wearing a brand-sponsored suit and looked bright and cheerful. He stood up with a clear smile in his eyes.

Lin Luoqing couldn’t remember if Shi Zheng won this award in the novel but Lin Luoqing thought he should have more opportunities in this way. His Best Actor trophy shouldn’t be lost.

He sent a WeChat message to Shi Zheng, congratulating him for winning Best Newcomer this time. Lin Luoqing praised him for his really good acting skills and good personality. He said that Shi Zheng must have a bright future and would definitely be able to win the Best Actor Award in the future!

The moment he finished sending it, he heard his name. Lin Luoqing looked up suspiciously and saw Shi Zheng standing at the podium, holding his own trophy calmly. “Before I met him, I was always an extra in the crew. If I’m needed here, I’ll go. If I’m not needed, I’ll leave. I have no name and no qualification to be removed. I moved from one crew to another, longing for someone to discover me, but they never did. Sometimes, I felt that I should give up but I wanted to try again. Fortunately, I worked hard or else I wouldn’t have met Lin Luoqing. I couldn’t have today and I wouldn’t be qualified to stand here.”

“The day I met him was winter but the sun was fine that day. He appeared in front of me. Later, I found out that he was warmer than the sun, so my winter ended early.”

“Thank you, Luoqing. Thank you to everyone who has helped me and thank you for ending my winter early.”

Lin Luoqing never expected that Shi Zheng would be the same as Qin Wu and thank him on the podium.

It was also the Golden Laurel Awards that received more attention. The Golden Laurel Awards was broadcast live throughout the whole process!

Sure enough, the moment his thank you speech came out, the topics ‘Golden Laurel Awards Best Newcomer Shi Zheng’, ‘Shi Zheng thanks Lin Luoqing’ and ‘Shi Zheng Lin Luoqing’ became popular searches one after another.

Netizens exclaimed: [This face is so familiar.]

[It is a perfect re-enactment of the music awards a month ago.]

[Qin Wu thanked Lin Luoqing and Shi Zheng thanked Lin Luoqing. Did Lin Luoqing really descend to save all sentient beings?]

[But he is really gentle. He really changed the fate of other people.]

[My winter ended early. F*k, Shi Zheng’s words are just right and I feel it.]

[One won an award in music and the other won an award in movie and television. Is this the true early end of winter?]

[Ahhh, Lin Luoqing, where are you? Look at my brother, my brother is still in winter!]

For a while, Lin Luoqing’s backend surged with private messages begging him to see their brothers and sisters and let them end their winter early.

In addition, someone forwarded his photo and said that if people forwarded this Lin Luoqing photo, they would be the next lucky ones.

Under such circumstances, Lin Luoqing quickly had his own hot search and fans actively shared ‘All the Way to the West.’ Many netizens had a good impression of him due to Qin Wu and Shi Zheng’s repeated thanks. Under the effect of the publicity, they directly bought tickets.

Lin Luoqing, “……”

Lin Luoqing was inexplicably a bit embarrassed for some reason.

There really was no need to thank him in such a formal and public manner!

It was enough to send it quietly on WeChat.

He was just thinking so when his phone rang. It was Shi Zheng’s WeChat message. [Thank you, Luoqing. There will definitely be a good future for you, including Best Newcomer, Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor. I believe in you.]

Lin Luoqing saw his serious words and replied: [Thank you. Let’s work hard together.]

After he replied, he saw a reminder on Weibo and found that Shi Zheng had posted an award-winning Weibo post.

Lin Luoqing logged into his own Weibo account, reposted Shi Zheng’s award-winning Weibo post and wrote: [Don’t thank me. It is your acting skills that are very good and you are summer itself.]

Shi Zheng forwarded it without hesitation and gave him publicity: [I wish ‘All the Way to the West’ to be a box office hit! You played Fu Xi really well!]

Seeing this, Shi Zheng’s fans said one after another: [Go and buy tickets now. I will watch it tomorrow.]

[Thank you, Brother Luoqing. Jiayou, Brother.]

[Fu Xi is super handsome. I’m looking forward to seeing you at next year’s Golden Laurel Awards.]

[Silently becoming a fan of this younger brother. This younger brother is really gentle.]

[Hahaha, I suddenly had a thought. There is one thank you for this month. Will another award-winning guest thank our brother in March?]

Lin Luoqing, “???”

Lin Luoqing quickly thought of something.

There wouldn’t be any in March but in the future…

He took precautions and directly sent a WeChat message to Yu Jiayou. [Director Yu, let’s discuss it. Assuming that you win an award in the future, can you not thank me? [Serious face]]

Yu Jiayou: [????]

Yu Jiayou: [Why not? Shi Zheng did it so why can’t I? Don’t you think this is too much of a double standard?]

Yu Jiayou: [If I want to thank you then I should thank you.]

Lin Luoqing: […Tsk.]

Yu Jiayou: [But they have put me under a lot of pressure.]

Lin Luoqing: [??? What do you mean by that?]

Yu Jiayou: [The two of them have won an award. If I don’t win it then won’t it seem like I’m too bad?]

One was his actor and one was responsible for his ending song. They were both helped by Lin Luoqing and as a result, they both won awards. It would be too embarrassing if he had nothing!

Yu Jiayou immediately sat up. Why was he sleeping? He should continue with the post-production!
Lin Luoqing thought, ‘…I have to say, you are really thinking too much, Director Yu!’

How could this be compared?

Director Li saw the growth of his box office in the past two days and thought of Lin Luoqing and Shi Zheng’s hot search in the past two days. This caused him to pat Lin Luoqing on the shoulder. “Thank you to your agent who insisted on recommending you to me at that time. Otherwise, I would’ve spent more money in vain. With you, I saved half my marketing expenses!”

Lin Luoqing thought, ‘…Ah, this. No, you’re welcome.’

“Where is your agent?” Director Li asked him. “Why didn’t I see him today?”

“I asked him to rest today. He has been very busy recently.” Lin Luoqing smiled. “In any case, today’s activities are relatively easy. It is fine for the assistant to follow me.”

However, as the agent of a new top actor, it wasn’t so easy to rest. Lin Luoqing had just finished speaking when the phone rang.

He saw it and found that it was his agent Wu Xinyuan, who was just mentioned by Director Li.

Lin Luoqing picked up and heard Wu Xinyuan ask him, “Luoqing, there is a very good variety show that invited you to record two episodes. It is next month. Do you want to go?”

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