Chapter Thirty-Four New Book Released

  Yang Mi met Hu Ge while filming "The Legend of Qin" and played Ning Caichen, while he played Nie Xiaoqian.

  Yang Mi is a very typical Beijing hutong girl, straightforward and talkative, with her personality, she likes whoever she likes to death, and dislikes whoever she dislikes to death. Hu Ge is undoubtedly the former, and the two have been in contact since they finished filming that drama. Recently, "New Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" is about to be broadcast, and he went to Guangzhou with Yang Mi for promotion, where Yang Mi seemed to mention He Mu intentionally yet unintentionally.

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  Although He Mu told Yang Wei that he and Hu Ge really didn't have much, just not as close as before, "I'm mainly afraid of his female fans being dissatisfied with me. In the drama 'The Legend of Qin', we were already intimate enough, if outside of the drama we are still so close to each other, Hu Ge's female fan army will be jealous of me."

  "Come on," Yang Fan curled his lips, "I still understand the two of you to some extent. Since you haven't become good buddies, your relationship must not be great. Now that I know about this, and both of you are my friends, I have no choice but to intervene. Who made me a loyal sister?"

  He Mu almost heard the sound of patting his chest from the phone: "This matter is on me, I'll come to mediate for you."

  What a passionate good girl, He Mu smiled wryly and shook his head. Two days later, Hu Ge rushed back to Hengdian from outside, and at dinner time, he saw He Mu eating alone in the Xiaobai Building restaurant, and unexpectedly squeezed a table with He Mu, "No one?"

  Seeing Hu Ge's thin and frail figure, He Mu was so shocked that he almost dropped the pig trotters in his hand. At this moment, his inner monologue is: Yang Xiao Bai, I'm convinced!

  "No one's here, sit down." Since Hu Ge started showing kindness, He Mu didn't hold back either and continued to gnaw on the pig trotter.

  "You're eating so greasy and you're not afraid of getting fat?" Hu Ge said with a hint of intention.

  "The actor is afraid of this and that when eating, what happiness can be said?" He Mu spoke his mind.

  "That makes sense." Hu Que said with a mouthful of radish shreds.

  He Mu raised his head and said, "By the way, can I have a signed photo of yours?"

  "Huh?" Hu Ge was startled, wondering what that was for. He thought: This kid doesn't look like a chili powder either.

  "It's like this, I have a niece who really likes you. As her uncle, since I know you, of course I want to help her get an autographed photo." He Miao said seriously, and this time he wasn't lying.

  After hearing He Mu's words, Hu Ge suddenly felt good about himself: "I didn't expect that I would also be popular in the Lolita circle, haha."

  He Mu let out a loud "hahaha" and said: "You're thinking too much, my niece has been out of the loli circle for many years, now her daughter is the real loli."

  Hu Ge's face turned bright red, he never thought that He Muyu was so young and many of his nephews and nieces in the clan were already married.

  "Alright, give me the photo and I'll sign it for your niece." Hu Ge tried his best to cover up the awkwardness.

  "Please, how can a big man like me have your photo on him? Just find one yourself, sign it and send it to me, in the style of The Legend of Sword and Fairy." He Mu added another request.

  Hu Ge was hit by He Mu one after another, and he felt that becoming famous was not as embarrassing as this. However, the relationship between the two also began to evolve from a nodding acquaintance to one where they could joke around with each other. After dinner, the two even played a game of doubles basketball together.

  It's been about another half month of filming, the plot has come to Qi Lang mistakenly killing Pan Bao, and then escaping from prison. After that, there is no more scenes for He Mu for a while, so he can rest again, and this time it will probably be for over two weeks. When he comes back, he'll film for another month or so, and his scenes will almost be wrapped up.

  Fortunately, the two-week break coincided with the Spring Festival, which means he didn't have to spend the New Year's Eve away from home. Having lived for 20 years, He Mu spent every Chinese New Year with his family. Although people's evaluation of the Spring Festival Gala has been getting lower and lower, it is indeed a kind of happiness for a family to sit together on New Year's Eve to watch the gala, which is a rare happiness for actors. After all, being an actor makes them have many things that are beyond their control, and spending New Year's Eve in the crew is also a common occurrence.

  He Mu's hometown of Hengshui is not far from the capital, and it only takes four or five hours to drive there, so he didn't rush back home, but instead made a detour back to Beijing first.

  In the office of Tian Di Xuan Huang, He Mu saw the physical book "Co-habiting with Sister Kong" and the bookmark set "Co-habiting with Sister Kong".

  The bookmark is undoubtedly very exquisite, rectangular, hard paper material, with a layer of plastic film attached, looking high-end and atmospheric. Wang Mingfei's shooting angle is great, He Mu Liu Shishi can also be considered as a beautiful couple, after Li Wen's partial blur processing of the photo, the pair on the bookmark looks like a divine couple, very romantic, plus the text part on the bookmark, this is clearly a complete love story.

  The book itself is not bad, Li Wen Hua combined his over 10 years of experience, putting in a lot of effort to make sure every reader can enjoy the fun, the cover of the book is fresh and appealing, able to stir up people's desires. According to Li Wen Hua, the cover was designed by one of his university classmates, who is a die-hard fan of "Air Stewardess", coincidentally he has talent in design, so Li Wen Hua handed over this task to him, the payment was 5 chicken legs from the school cafeteria.

  He Mu flipped through the new book that still had a hint of ink fragrance and praised, "Huang Zi, not bad at all, even better than your dad's printed books."

  As soon as he finished speaking, He Mu realized that he had misspoken. "Sorry, Fatty, how is Uncle now?"

  "It may be soon," Li Wenhua said with a low head and a sigh, "it's just these two days."

  "Why don't you go back for a visit?"

  "No," Li Wen Hua shook his head, "in another week this book will be on the shelves for sale. These days I've been busy negotiating with Dad's former distributors, and the school's publishing house has also introduced me to some Beijing sales channels and online bookstores. So I can't let myself stop, can't leave Beijing. This time we only printed 200,000 copies, that one million hasn't all been spent, but I know if these first 200,000 copies don't sell out, the funds won't be able to be quickly recovered, and we'll be completely defeated."

  He Mu knew that Li Wen Hua was now shouldering too much pressure, but he had no way to help him share the burden. All he could do now was not to say or ask anything, completely trust him and let him play in his own familiar field, regardless of success or failure, he would become mature from then on. No, it should be said that he is already mature now.

  When leaving the Tian Di Xuan Huang, He Mu took away three sets of books and bookmarks. One set belonged to Liu Shi's, he would return it to her when she came back from Heng Dian. Another set was previously promised to Xiao Fang.

  The next day, He Mu went to Hu Lang, Xiao Fang was having a meeting with the production department, presumably discussing the matter of "Soldier Assault", it seems that it has already entered the preparation stage.

  After the meeting, He Mu slipped into Xiao Fang's office with a book.

  "Here you go, thanks for last time."

  Xiao Fang took the book and bookmark, browsed through it roughly, then put it on the bookshelf behind him. "I'll take a look when I have time, I've been busy with 'Soldier Assault' lately, after all, this is the company's first TV series as the main lead, I must be careful."

  As a low-cost military drama with a small budget, Xiao Fang's goal is to ensure that he doesn't lose money, and previously, he has been following behind Hua Yi Brothers, Hai Run, and Zhang Ji Zhong, thinking that their dramas are good, so he follows suit, and when the time comes, they make a big profit, while he makes a small one, and the company develops slowly.

  "When is this play going to be filmed?" He Mu asked.

  "Probably around early March, the August First Film Studio will provide equipment, venues and extras, and we will send those actors to receive military training a month before filming starts." Xiao Fang specially emphasized the military training.

  "That means I won't have a chance to participate in this film anymore?" He Mu asked with a hint of regret. If it were only starting production in March, he would still have had a chance. "The Young Yang Family Generals" is expected to wrap up filming by mid-March, and his scenes could be finished by early March, but he didn't have time to attend Xiao Fang's so-called month-long military training.

  "Are you eager to participate in this play?" Xiao Fang asked with a smile.

  He Mu nodded: "I think this is the story of my brother and those people, it looks very familiar, I hope to perform their story."

  Xiao Fang took out the script of "Soldier Assault". "The director of this play is Kang Honglei, who became famous with 'Years of Burning Passion'. Wang Baoqiang will play Xu Sanduo, and the second male lead Cheng Cai was recommended by Director Kang, who had collaborated with Chen Sicheng on 'Migrant Workers'. I wanted to fight for this role for you, but because two other companies disagreed to delay filming for one person, this role ultimately didn't go to you."

  "Is there no other way?" He Mu asked again.

  "Alright, otherwise you can play Xu Sanduo's second brother, this one doesn't need to participate in military training."

  "You're kidding."

  "It's all obvious, isn't it?" Xiao Fang said with a sly smile. "Take a look at this character, Wu Zhe, he doesn't officially appear until episode 21, and his screen time is a bit short, if ranked, he'd be around eighth among the male characters."

  "Oh." He Mu took the script from Xiao Fang's hand and flipped to the part where Wu Zhe appeared in episode 21.

  "Colonel", "high education", "perfect man", this is He Mu's view of the character "Wu Zhe" after quickly finishing the script for ten episodes, "If this character is successfully portrayed, he may become the most popular role in this play!"

  Xiao Fang smiled with satisfaction: "Otherwise, I would have kept it for you. Wang Zhongjun still wanted to let Li Chen from his company play the role, but I flatly refused."

  "Brother Fang, you're really particular!" He Mu praised, "Let me take a look at the script for a few days, I need to study this role."

  He Muoyi finished speaking and ran away in a puff of smoke...

  (ps: How come no one has claimed the bounty for the chapters? It's all been taken by Lao Fo, it's really embarrassing~~)

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