bookbashuk Chapter 352 You guys play by yourselves, I won’t accompany you anymore
Chapter 352 You guys play by yourselves, I won’t accompany you anymore
Jiang Baige's head was buzzing and she couldn't hear anything.
This crappy drama, it’s fine that they just randomly added a male lead, but now the female lead has to be so perfunctory?
It would be fine if she didn't know, but Old Ge wanted her to be a consultant.
No... Was this Old Ge sent by God to piss her off to death? Yao Jing 2.0, old, ugly but powerful?
Han Li seemed to sense her anger as well: "Honestly, as the original author, there's really no need to get too involved unless you get paid extra... Otherwise, you'll be the one who'll be sad."
"Do you think Lao Ge just wants to use this drama to promote Lu Tian?"
"Obviously." Han Li said firmly, "Lu Tian has been hidden for half a year, so he has to make some moves. If he makes too much move, the young lady might be unhappy. Short plays are the best choice. But most short plays fail quietly. If he wants to make a comeback, he has to cooperate well. As for what kind of deals or resource exchanges Lao Ge and the agent have made in private, only they know."
Jiang Baige's novels have become a key link in this.
"Although I haven't read the script, you have. Let me guess... Is it that the hero's personality is so good that he wants to take care of the heroine's revenge and doesn't want to dirty her hands? Without him, the heroine is like a lost lamb, either manic or desperate. But when he appears, the heroine has a backbone?"
"Now that you mention it..."
When Jiang Baige read the script, she only analyzed it based on the logic of the story itself and felt that the entire story line had been changed into a mess.
But if we apply Han Li’s logic of “it was originally meant to promote the male lead”, then the logic of the script becomes “clear” instead.
It's not just the script that's clear, it's also the context of the whole thing——
Why did you choose her script?
Because it is cheap, the cost of trial and error is low.
Jiang Baige remembered that Lao Ge once said that he had worked for others in the industry for a long time and only started working on his own in recent years.
What he wanted to make was a short, fast-paced drama: small investment, quick return and high profit. Short dramas met his expectations, and it was very cost-effective to test the waters with a cheap script.
For Lao Ge, this is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone: he can test the waters with a short drama, and he can also do a favor for Lu Tian's agent. Why not do it?
But if they had chosen this patricidal article as the victim from the beginning, the timeline would not match.
It is more likely that Lao Ge originally only intended to shoot one eagle: low cost and easy to trial and error.
Unexpectedly, something happened to Lu Tian, and his agent came to Lao Ge for help. The two of them didn't know what conditions they agreed on, but Lao Ge chose her book and did her a favor.
Because although Jiang Baige's book on patricide is cheap, it has a very high cost-effectiveness.
Jiang Baige wrote the novel to help Bai Yang resolve her emotional issues and save her own sister's life, so she poured a lot of emotion and effort into shaping the heroine and pondering the logic of the story.
This creates a three-dimensional image of a vengeful girl.
What Lao Ge needs to do is to directly extract the shining points of the heroine and graft them onto the hero.
The heroine has lost her soul and is as pale as a piece of white paper, but the hero shines brightly because of it.
Her efforts in writing a story were ignored and trampled upon by no one, and were nothing more than bargaining chips for those people to exchange interests.
"Then I'll tell you again." Han Li continued, "Because this drama is about the hero sucking the blood of the heroine, so Lao Ge will definitely find him a high-quality blood bag..."
"Blood bag? What does that mean?"
"You also know Lu Tian's acting skills... If he finds someone with similar acting skills, I'm afraid both the person and the show will be a total loss. However, there are many actresses with good acting skills but not popular! He will definitely find someone with good acting skills but a much smaller fan base than Lu Tian... In this way, after a show, all the profits will be eaten up by Lu Tian, and he will have done his favor. If the show becomes a hit, he will be the complete winner."
It turns out that in addition to her, the known original author, the undecided heroine also had her hard work trampled upon.
Jiang Baige stroked his chest and said sincerely: "Listening to your words is better than reading ten years of books! For the sake of living two more years, I think I'd better not wade into this muddy water..."
Since there is nothing we can do about it, it is better to turn a blind eye.
She knew very well that if it wasn't for persuading her, Han Li wouldn't have to say so much to her.
"Well, it's not just your drama. In most so-called 'female-led dramas', the ones who get the most benefits are the male actors... Mr. Zhao always complains to me that it's too hard to promote female actors! The ones who can make the most money are still the big and small stars who rose to fame a few years ago... It's more cost-effective to spend a little more money to hire them to act in the drama instead of trying to promote them."
Jiang Baige hummed vaguely.
"Speaking of this, President Zhao was also slandered by many people because she was willing to give actresses opportunities and liked to shoot dramas with strong female protagonists. They said that she had a mental illness caused by the dispute with her brothers over the family property and hated men... You say, how dirty is the human heart? Even someone like President Zhao is slandered. Who can hear the words of people like us who have no power and influence?
"You are lucky. At least you are still writing and can convey something. What about me? I am just a worker. But after working for a few years, I have also let things go... We ordinary people with no power and influence face many things that we are powerless to do. There is no other way but to let things go."
Han Li sighed, and the atmosphere became more solemn.
Jiang Baige was afraid that she was thinking about the sad things she experienced when facing her enemies, so she deliberately changed the subject: "You are doing well now. I heard that your online fitness course is very popular."
Talking about his work, Han Li suddenly became excited: "This is true! The film and television company can hardly start work now, but I am short of staff here, and I have to recruit talents to keep up... In addition to selling recorded courses, live courses have also been started. The mid-year assessment has just ended, and I guess performance evaluation is inevitable..."
At this point, Han Li also sighed: "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be where I am now..."
"Okay, why are you here again?" Jiang Baige couldn't help but laugh, "This is an old almanac from eight hundred years ago, and you're still looking it up! Why don't you tell me how much trouble I've caused you in the past few years? In comparison, I should be the one who feels embarrassed..."
Han Li laughed twice.
"Isn't that what friends are supposed to be like? If you said good morning and good night to me every day, I'd be afraid that you might have other feelings for me." Jiang Baige was about to explain, but Han Li added, "Although I wouldn't necessarily refuse."
"You're poor again."
Jiang Baige talked to her about something else before hanging up the phone.
After this phone call, Jiang Baige was completely relieved: whether it was Lu Tian or Ge Hongjian, the farther away from her the better.
Although she likes money and doesn't care much about dignity, she also knows that the real way to make money and maintain dignity is not to let others trample on your dignity in exchange for money.
——She not only knows, but also has the means to achieve it.