Chapter 136 – The Great Director Took A Liking To Your Book
The next day, however, Mo Fei wasn’t able to practice her voice with Yang Yi, because she fell asleep very late last night and couldn’t get up early in the morning. Yang Yi didn’t also wake her up – she later complained about it.
Mo Fei nevertheless has something to do today. She wanted to go back to the company, bring back the songs Mu Li’ang wrote for her, and then practice with Yang Yi at Yang Yi’s home.
Although it kind of didn’t make sense to still practice singing while on a “holiday”, Mo Fei thought that instead of wasting her life doing nothing every day, it was better to practice singing with Yang Yi, which could speed up the progress of the new album and cultivate the relationship between them. Killing two birds with one stone!
Yang Yi, the coffee shop owner who was even more unprofessional, had no intention of opening the shop at all. He thought that there was nothing to do anyway, so he drove Mo Fei back to the company with his “Tyrant Wolf”.
Xixi was very happy, because she could go for a ride again!
But it wasn’t so exciting. Because her mother was sitting in the car, her father wouldn’t open the window. The little girl thought that there was something missing from the ride.
Tyrant Wolf’s engine was military standard. It was full of power. Yang Yi drove on Shang Huan Expressway, rushing all the way. As Xixi shouted with excitement, they arrived outside of Tianmei.
“Xixi will obediently wait here with Papa for Mama!” Mo Fei kissed Xixi on the cheek before getting out of the car.
“Mama, I want to go up there, too!” Xixi pouted and said.
“No, your Papa’s car can’t get into the parking lot. There are too many people outside. Mama can’t take Xixi up there!” Mo Fei explained, “Mama will be back soon!”
However, she wasn’t really sure if she could come back quickly, because although it wasn’t very troublesome to get a stack of printed paper down, Mo Xiaojuan mysteriously told her on the phone that there would be a surprise. She didn’t know if it would delay her time!
“Okay!” Xixi nodded her head obediently. “Then I want Papa to tell me a story!”
“Okay, but don’t talk about Journey to the West!” Mo Fei smiled. “Journey to the West can only be talked about when Mama is around. Mama wants to hear it, too!”
Mo Fei wasn’t very interested in Yang Yi’s other fairy tales. After all, those were still a little childish. However, Journey to the West was different. After listening a part of it with Xixi, Mo Fei fell in love with it. She not only pestered Yang Yi to tell her the previous story alone, but also “urged” him more anxiously than Xixi.
This wasn’t allowed and that wasn’t allowed… Xixi pouted her mouth aggrieved.
“It’s okay, Papa will tell you another story!” Yang Yi quickly turned back to comfort his daughter. He said with a smile, “Papa has still a lot of good stories”.
However, after Mo Fei went upstairs, Yang Yi told her daughter a story for a while, then was interrupted by a phone call from Mr. Lu.
Yang Yi smiled apologetically to his daughter, and then answered the phone: “Mr. Lu, is there any new progress in my fairy tale book?”
To be honest, Yang Yi was quite looking forward to the publication of the fairy tale book. After all, he basically transported two best-selling books. In the fairy tale book, 80% of the stories were created by himself based on the patterns of fairy tales in his previous lives.
Would it be popular? What kind of results could it achieve in terms of sales? Yang Yi had no idea!
However, such unpredictability made Yang Yi look forward to it.
However, Mr. Lu wasn’t going to talk to Yang Yi about this today. He said apologetically: “Sorry, Mr. Yang, your book is still in typesetting, and it is estimated that it will still take another half a month, but please rest assured that our publishing house attaches great importance to your book…”
Xixi was a little impatient on the side, moving his little butt in the back seat, moving here and touching that. But she was quite obedient and didn’t disturb her father’s work.
After rambling for a bit, Mr. Lu finally got to the point: “I called you today because a big director found our publishing house and wanted your contact information to discuss with you about the film and television copyright issues of “Soldier Assault “and “Drawing Sword”…”
Yang Yi was very interested in this news. After all, he knew that these two books have great potential for adaptation. In his previous life, “Drawing Sword”, needless to say, won the CCTV ratings championship! And “Soldier Assault” has caused a sensation, with the show not only being discussed nationally, but it also received generous returns in terms of ratings and awards!
Of course, a good script might also be turned into a bad one. (Such as the fresh meat1Fresh meat – this is a term which refers to young pretty boys, like those Korean superstars. So, the fresh meat version of “Drawing Sword” is where the actors are young pretty boys. This TV series was about a war. version of “Bright Sword” which was showered with complaint…) The selection of actors was very important, and so was the skill of the director!
Yang Yi didn’t want these two classics to be made into bad films!
“Who is this great director?” Yang Yi asked.
“Oh, look at me. I forgot to tell you. It’s Director Chen Fengchen!” Mr. Lu said excitedly, “He did CCTV major TV series like ‘Storm in Beijing, ‘Age of Warfare’ and ‘Flying Tiger in the Snowfield’.”
Yang Yi wasn’t as excited as Mr. Lu, because he had never heard of his name or watch these TV series. Who made his predecessor hardly watch TV series and only watch the news…
“You tell him my address and contact information and ask him to come to Jiangcheng to find me.” Yang Yi said calmly.
He decided to get to know Chen Fengchen first to see how good his directing ability was. Listening to Mr. Lu’s introduction, it seemed that he has also made a lot of war dramas, which might be in line with Yang Yi’s choice.
However, Mr. Lu was a little frightened by Yang Yi’s words: “You want to make Director Chen come to Jiangcheng to see you?”
“Yes, is there a problem?” Yang Yi was puzzled.
“That’s the great director Chen Fengxian!” Mr. Lu swallowed his saliva and said in a low voice, “He’s not some ordinary small director… “
Yes! Although Grandfather Chen was in his 60s, but with his qualification, no matter who in the entertainment industry, they had to respectfully shout “Old Senior” when they met him.
He has been in the industry for many years, the disciples and followers that he had taught have already been flourishing, and not to mention that the TV series he made have made so many stars popular, and yet Yang Yi has the nerve to make Grandfather Chen go to Jiangcheng to see him? If someone else knew about it, wouldn’t he be drowned by spit?
“How old did you say he was?” Yang Yi frowned and asked.
“Early 60s?” Mr. Lu didn’t remember very well.
In fact, Yang Yi didn’t like Mr. Lu’s previous words of persuasion. He really was not afraid of any authority. No matter how deep his background and how big his temper was, he would not be able to make him lower his head.
However, it would be a different matter if he was old.2I’m not sure if I get this right. Here’s the raw. 只不过,老人另说。
Yang Yi has always respected the virtuous and talented old people, just as he was respectful when he faced Grandfather Hu.
“Let’s do it like this. You tell him that I’m really stuck with something this month. In September, I’ll visit him in Beijing! Whether the business can be done or not depends on your courtesy. We young people should have a clear conscience.” Yang Yi said calmly.
As soon as he put down his phone, Yang Yi heard Xixi looking out of the car window, saying happily: “Mama is back!”
Mo Fei was back, and she was holding a big corrugated cardboard box in her arms. He didn’t know what was inside, but her normally cold face was full of smiles.
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