FV: Chapter 264 Part 1

The broadcast of ‘Bright Sunday’ not only helped Lin Luoqing consolidate his previous popularity, but also allowed him to gain a large number of CP fans by accident. This previous fan base once again ushered in a surge in fans.

Many netizens previously indifferent to Lin Luoqing had become CP fans due to being attracted to the interaction between him and Ji Yuxiao. Later, they learned more about him and slowly became his pure fan. By the end of the four episodes of the variety show, Lin Luoqing’s popularity seemed to have surpassed Su Tong’s to become the artist with the highest traffic.

However, this wasn’t the focus of Lin Luoqing’s concern. May was coming and the annual Golden Phoenix Film Festival was about to start. In the novel, Yu Jiayou won two Golden Phoenix trophies at the Golden Phoenix Film Festival, becoming famous in one fell swoop. Therefore, Lin Luoqing was more concerned about what Yu Jiayou was doing at this time.

Did he sign up for the Golden Phoenix Film Festival? Would ‘Return to Jade’ be successfully shortlisted and finally win an award?

He made a special phone call to Yu Jiayou for this purpose.

Yu Jiayou never thought that Lin Luoqing would specially call him to remind him to sign up for the Golden Phoenix Film Festival. This was too positive.

Was he really going to win a prize for this?

Yu Jiayou felt that he was under more pressure!

He liked his movies very much and was very optimistic about this cooperation between himself and Lin Luoqing. The question now was how could he, an unknown newcomer director, and Lin Luoqing, a newcomer actor who had just made two movies, win awards?!

Yu Jiayou thought so and persuaded himself again. If he could get it then he would earn a profit. So just sign up! In any case, there were so many people who couldn’t win awards. Adding himself didn’t matter.

He let go of his courage and simply applied for all the awards he could think of. He even applied for himself for Best Director. It might be shameless but who cared? No one paid attention to him.

However, after signing up, Yu Jiayou couldn’t help opening the official website nervously with anticipation when the shortlist was announced in June. Seeing this, Yu Jiayou jumped up in fright.

He was stunned and stared at the computer for a long time. Then he picked up his phone and called Lin Luoqing.

Lin Luoqing was about to check whether ‘Return to Jade’ was shortlisted when he received a call from Yu Jiayou.

“Luoqing, the shortlist for Golden Phoenix has come out,” Yu Jiayou’s voice trembled.

“How is it? Are we there?” Lin Luoqing asked with concern.

“Hmm… Yes.” Yu Jiayou nodded blankly.

“Which awards are they?” Lin Luoqing asked curiously. “Was it Best Director and Best Actor?”

“That…” Yu Jiayou hesitated.

Lin Luoqing urged him. “Which is it? You should say it quickly.”

“Just your Best Actor.”

Lin Luoqing sighed with relief. Fortunately, Best Actor was retained for the time being. “Is there anything else?”

“And my Best Director.”

Lin Luoqing felt even more at ease now. He leaned back against the chair and relaxed.

Great. Yu Jiayou’s Best Director Award wasn’t lost due to him.

“In addition, Shi Zheng’s Best Supporting Actor.”

Lin Luoqing thought, ‘??? Huh?’

How come there was one more?

Best Supporting Actor?

Then he thought about it again. Yes, Shi Zheng was a future Best Actor Winner. It was normal for him to be nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

“And Best Screenwriter for Xiao Ning and I.”

Lin Luoqing thought, ‘??? And this as well?’

Was there this in the novel?

“Finally, one for Best Cinematography.”

‘Oh my god, there are quite a few nominations!’

“Awesome, Director Yu,” Lin Luoqing praised.

At this time, Yu Jiayou finally eased up and returned to his previous appearance.

“Hahahahaha.” He finally couldn’t help laughing. “I am too awesome. I actually got so many nominations. The Golden Phoenix is worthy of being the Golden Phoenix. The judges have vision.”

Lin Luoqing laughed.

Yu Jiayou chatted, “Then in another month, we will set off together and go abroad to walk the red carpet. At this time, I must invite 200 reporters to write comprehensive articles for me. They will write about Yu Jiayou—the birth of a genius director.”

He even thought about his own epitaph at this moment—this is a great and genius director.

Lin Luoqing was amused by his happy appearance and cooperated. “Okay, once the time comes, I will let Wu Xinyuan prepare in advance. He will buy you 20 hot searches and praise you from different angles.”

“There is no need.” Yu Jiayou became humble again at this time. “It is too much. Two is enough or everyone else will be upset.”

“How can that be? Our Director Yu is so handsome and talented. Everyone will only think you are more perfect after seeing it. Who would feel upset?”

D*mn!

He really liked Lin Luoqing!

Among so many people, he was the best at talking!

“Don’t flatter me. I will become too proud.”

“How can telling the truth be flattery?” Lin Luoqing said with a smile.

Yu Jiayou instantly laughed again, completely happy.

He talked with Lin Luoqing for a while. Then he reluctantly hung up the phone and went to find Ning Yu and Shi Zheng to tell them about being shortlisted.

Shi Zheng never expected that a movie he casually filmed would be shortlisted for Best Supporting Actor again and it was actually at the Golden Phoenix.

He hung up the phone with pleasant surprise. He thought he was quite destined for Best Supporting Actor.

Not long after, someone on the forum paid attention to this year’s Golden Phoenix shortlist and was surprised to find Lin Luoqing and Shi Zheng among them.

[Lin Luoqing and Shi Zheng filmed together?]

[F*k, am I blind? On this shortlist, Lin Luoqing was shortlisted for Best Actor?]

[Best Actor? What movie? Shouldn’t Wen Ziming and Hou Wenyu be more appropriate for All the Way to the West?]

[It isn’t ‘All the Way to the West’. It is a movie called ‘Return to Jade’. I haven’t heard of it but Shi Zheng was also shortlisted for this. The two of them filmed together?]

[Hahahaha Shi Zheng is the Best Supporting Actor again this time [covers face]. He was also Best Supporting Actor for the Golden Laurel Awards.]

[When did Lin Luoqing film this movie? Why did he have no impression?]

[Looking at the words from his fans, it seemed that it was filmed from October to January last year. Filming was very low-key and not many people know about it.]

[Yes, ‘Return to Jade’ was filmed not long after filming ‘All the Way to the West.’ It is just that there isn’t much publicity about ‘Return to Jade.’ Not many people know about it apart from fans.]

[My god, this crew is quite awesome. The director has also been shortlisted and the movie has been shortlisted for several awards.]

[I’ve never heard of this director?]

[This director is really invisible. So at that time, fans were worried about this movie. Unexpectedly, he is such a powerful director.]

[A new director. Lin Luoqing is quite daring!]

[I guess the script is good. Otherwise, Lin Luoqing was so popular at the time and there would be no need to film an unknown director’s movie.]

[Yes, he had just cooperated with Director Li at that time.]

[The script must be very good or it wouldn’t be shortlisted for the Golden Phoenix. This is the Golden Phoenix!]

[I’m laughing to death. I remember the black fans picked up something and said he was obviously rejected by the movie industry for making this movie. The resources were downgraded. They made several analyses with reasonable evidence. It turns out that the director was aiming for the Golden Phoenix. Hahaha, it is too embarrassing.]

[There is a saying. At that time, I felt that Lin Luoqing was probably making a literary movie. Many literary movies are like this and directly go to the awards. So it seems that the box office might not be too high while the artistic achievements are relatively high.]

[This is obvious. First, submit it to the foreign film festival and then release it after winning the award. Even if he doesn’t win the award, he is now shortlisted. It will be good to publicize it after the time comes.]

[I’m envious. He is grabbing popular works with both hands. Who wouldn’t see that Lin Luoqing is awesome after this?]

[His fans should be very cool. What else do they want? Wu wu wu, so powerful.]

[No.]

At critical moments, there were always sunspots who jumped out and poured cold water.

[No no no, isn’t this too much bragging? Anyone who doesn’t know would think Lin Luoqing won the Best Actor award!]

[There are so many shortlisted people and only a few have won awards. Lin Luoqing’s fans don’t really think that Lin Luoqing can win awards, right?]

[Hahahaha, the fans’ hearts are higher than the sky. Do they think their brother is worthy?]

Lin Luoqing’s fans immediately counterattacked.

[Isn’t being shortlisted worthy of recognition? The Golden Phoenix has admitted his acting skills. If you don’t acknowledge it then you really don’t deserve it!]

[I don’t think Lin Luoqing can win the award but being shortlisted is also very good. Can’t we boast about it?]

[Hahahaha, they are anxious again, they are anxious again. The sour smell is soaring!]

[Forget it, don’t argue with black fans. Anyone who sees the person they have been blackening for so long is now popular, has good works and is shortlisted for an award, must be angry.]

[Hahahaha, the black fans are furious. You are telling the truth.]

Soon, Lin Luoqing’s fans pressed his black fans onto the ground.

The fans sincerely sent Lin Luoqing private messages. [Brother, you are already great. It doesn’t matter whether you win awards or not. Brother, you are the best!]

Ji Yuxiao also thought so. He jokingly told Lin Luoqing as early as when they got married that, “If Xingyi has a Best Actor winner, you must be Xingyi’s first Best Actor.” Now that Lin Luoqing was really only one step away from the Best Actor Award, he didn’t want Lin Luoqing to have too much pressure.

“I’ve seen them say before that it is very important to win awards. Sometimes, there are big gods fighting. Even if you are excellent, you can’t win the award. Then other times, famous directors and famous actors just happen to be resting. You can win awards if you are slightly better. It can be seen that luck plays a very important role in winning an award. It doesn’t all depend on strength.”

Lin Luoqing nodded.

This was indeed the case for winning awards in the movie and television industry. It was very important to have the right time, place and people. Even so, he wanted to win awards.

If this award was only related to him alone, he could look at this matter very rationally and feel that it was okay to win it or not. At his age, it was already a great honor and affirmation for his second starring movie to be shortlisted for the Golden Phoenix. Even if he didn’t win an award, it was enough for him to have a better development in the movie industry in the future.

However, it was related to Yu Jiayou. He didn’t want the other person’s star path to be damaged, so he was very persistent in this trophy.

It was just that he had worked as hard as he could. There was nothing to improve now. He could only quietly wait for the final result.

Lin Luoqing wasn’t in a calm mood as he waited and waited. It moved from the shortlist in June to the upcoming awards ceremony in July.

During this period, it was fine if he didn’t think about the Golden Phoenix, but he couldn’t help being nervous when he thought about it.

Finally, on the eve of the Golden Phoenix Awards Ceremony, Lin Luoqing packed up his things and went abroad with Yu Jiayou, Shi Zheng and Ning Yu.

Before leaving, Ji Yuxiao cheered him on. “Jiayou. I believe you will definitely be able to get the trophy this time. Even if you can’t win it, you are the eternal Best Actor in my heart.”

Lin Luoqing hugged him with a smile. He hummed and leaned into Ji Yuxiao’s arms, feeling the strength Ji Yuxiao gave him.

Ji Yuxiao sent him to the airport. He looked at Lin Luoqing’s back as he left and silently made a decision in his heart.

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