Chapter 243: A Male Harem Story
The meal was a great pleasure for both the host and the guests.

Both sides were very satisfied.

The people from Xinli came prepared to face difficulties, but after arriving, they found that it was not as difficult as rumored.

The difficult thing here, of course, does not mean that Bai Liang is a big shot, but that he is picky.

Although the drama “Joy of Life” has attracted a lot of attention, it is still hard to say whether it can be a success.

There has never been a hit drama starring a male lead. The industry generally lacks confidence.

With so many major male-oriented IP resources in its hands, New Classics can’t wait to develop the maximum value of this area.

Spending money to find Bai Liang to join is also like buying an important insurance.

To put it bluntly, if even Bai Liang doesn’t work, then it’s not the actor’s problem, we have to find ways to improve other areas.

Swallow: We only care about money, not people. Since you have come to our brother Xiaobai, you must pay us whether you are useful or not. We will not let you go even if you give us a penny less!
In fact, swallows are now much braver than before.

After all, Bai Liang first starred in “Wolf Warrior 2” and then in “The Wandering Earth”. In the latter, Yan Zi has even become a nominal producer.

After knowing that her brother Xiaobai had been “cheated” of so much money by Guo Fan, she had no choice but to inexplicably expand the studio’s business scope.

Although I am not deeply involved in film and television production, I still have to set up the necessary framework.

Moreover, there are already rumors about a salary cap in the circle. Although it is just a rumor at present, Yan Zi thinks there is nothing wrong with having an extra backup plan.

If the salary cap order really comes, if you want your income not to be affected too much, you may have to participate in more film and television productions in the future.

Of course, there are risks in participating in film and television production. No one can guarantee that the drama they star in will be a big hit or have a huge viewership rating.

But there’s nothing we can do, Bai Liang is so willful!

He can lend tens of millions of dollars just by asking for it. Those big sisters and little sisters really dare to give him money.
Yan Zi: I’m really worried about Xiao Bai~
Bai Liang: Yan Zi, what should I do without you!

However, he actually has a small problem.

“Who do you want those two roles for?”

“Who should I give it to? It’s just a matter of a word from you, Brother Xiaobai,” Yan Zi said with a smile.

Bai Liang understood instantly.

Ah~ I gave it to him as a favor.

Indeed, the salary offered to him by Joy of Life is already very high! More than 2 million per episode, which is basically the ceiling of the salary in the field of TV dramas.

So the question is, who should we give these two female supporting roles to?

Bai Liang remembered that both Si Lili and Fan Ruoruo played outstanding roles, but no matter how outstanding they were, they were only supporting actresses.

He definitely wouldn’t like those successful girls he knew.

Even Na Zha, who is a love-brained person, couldn’t do that. She could have followed Bai Liang and plunged into “Wolf Warrior 2” without caring whether the movie could take off or not, as long as she was the leading actress in the movie.

What if she were to play the second female lead?

Na Zha would probably rather not take part in the performance, and just make a cameo appearance as a nobody, and then be a temporary assistant to Bai Liang instead of playing the second female lead.

Even if she really lost her mind and wanted to act, Cai Yinong could crush her to death with his own hands.

This is absolutely not allowed.

So, I can only find Huka~
When talking about the obscure coffee, Bai Liang naturally thought of——
BJ YUEKAI FILM AND PHOTOS LIMITED.

Sister Meng, who had just finished a notice and was called back temporarily, looked confused. What was going on?

What is my boss up to again?

“Xiao Meng is here, come and sit down.”

Jia Shikai came in with a warm look on his face. He was about to close the door of the conference room, but he couldn’t help but recall the feeling of meeting Bai Liang face to face in the car last time, so he just left the door half-closed.

I dare not close it.

Female celebrities are prone to being smeared, especially when it comes to company bosses.
“Boss, what’s the matter? You called me back again. Our company has too many meetings~”

Meng Jie originally thought that she would go back to her home in Shanghai after finishing the notice, and she was craving chocolate~
She has a lot of holidays, so she can take a rest whenever she has nothing to do.

This is the daily life of Xiao Hu Ka.

“The heroine’s role that I promised you is here.” Jia Shikai did not keep the audience in suspense and revealed the answer directly.

“real or fake?!”

“Not only that, there is also a supporting actress drama. Both projects are big IPs, but you have to make some trade-offs because the shooting schedules of these two dramas will conflict.”

Happiness came too suddenly, and Sister Meng’s eyes suddenly widened.

“Really?!”

“How can I lie to you? The female lead role is adapted from a novel called “The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation” on the female channel, and the supporting role is “Joy of Life” on the male channel. Both are well-known IPs in the industry.”

Jia Shikai helped Meng Ziyi analyze the situation, while quietly observing her expression.

Hey, she really doesn’t know?
It turns out that they didn’t say hello in advance.
“My suggestion is to choose ‘The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation’. Although this drama is a gay drama, if it is really a drama with a female lead, it will definitely not be your turn, don’t you think?”

Sister Meng nodded and waited for the other party to continue fooling her.

“But the good thing is that because the original novel has two male protagonists, if it wants to pass the review, it has to weaken this aspect, so the female protagonist will definitely have more scenes.”

The ending of “Addicted” was taken off the shelves. It is impossible to serve a BL drama directly to the audience. At most, you can make it a BL adaptation.

Similarly, gay-themed dramas are also recognized by the industry as popular stars!

Huang Jingyu and Xu Weizhou were able to become so popular all of a sudden thanks to a drama that was taken off the shelves. This shows how powerful they are.

It can be said that this thing is one of the fastest ways for young male artists to become top stars.

Sounds great!
Meng Ziyi blinked her eyes and felt that her boss really wanted her to act in this drama.

The female lead under the two male protagonists.
If it were any other time, she would probably have jumped for joy!

For a small-time celebrity like her, this is already a pretty good resource.

Even though the two male protagonists may not be big names, relying on the influence of the IP and the popularity of gay-themed dramas, she might really become famous.

However, I don’t know what happened today, but Meng Ziyi was exceptionally calm.

She was so calm that even she herself found it a little unbelievable~
After calming down, he said, “Boss, what about the drama in which the female supporting role is called “Celebrating Yu Nian”, right?”

“Yeah, in terms of the role, she’s probably not even the second female lead, more like the third or fourth female lead.”

That’s not right~ Meng Ziyi cleverly discovered the blind spot.

If that were really the case, I don’t think my boss would have mentioned this drama specifically.

Just kill her directly and tell her to just act in “The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation”.

So, she looked at her boss with suspicion in her big eyes: You must have something else to say!
Jia Shikai paused and thought, forget it, if he kept it a secret, he might become estranged from his own artists.

He simply spread his hands and said, “The male lead is Bai Liang.”

“I want this!”

Without any hesitation, Sister Meng made a choice completely based on instinct.

Damn, it’s true!

Looking at Meng Ziyi’s high spirits, Jia Shikai was speechless.

Now I don’t even pretend anymore
Fortunately, Jia Shikai didn’t think “Joy of Life” was that bad.

He had already inquired about it, and the cast of that drama was a bit scary. Even if she went there to play a supporting female role, it would be a big deal for Sister Meng.

At most, it was just because of the choice of “The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation” that made him feel conflicted for a while.

The reason why Jia Shikai hopes Sister Meng can choose “The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation” is that he actually wants to eat both pieces of meat.

Because another female artist in the company, Song Qian, is also somewhat interested in the “Joy of Life” project.

After hearing about this, he came to ask Jia Shikai if he could participate in the performance as a special guest.

Although he didn’t understand why Song Qian wanted to play a supporting female role, Jia Shikai was not so blind.

This role was obviously given to Meng Ziyi~
How can you replace people without permission?

Unless Meng Ziyi is sure that she doesn’t want to, she should speak up.

Sister Meng: No way! Mine!

After hearing Bai Liang’s name, she completely deleted the term “The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation” from her mind.

Female lead? Whoever wants to play the role can play it!
Can’t wait to jump to next year!

“That character’s name is Si Lili~ What a nice name. What does she do?”

Sister Meng was eager to learn everything about the role. “The courtesan of a brothel.”

Ah this~
The Oiran. However, Meng Ziyi suddenly thought of the drama “The Legend of the Condor Heroes” in which she acted with Bai Liang.

After the show was aired, many people criticized her character Mu Nianci for having too sexy a mouth and her eyes were always flirting with Yang Kang, which made her look a bit unserious.

Humph! This time I’m going to be completely “unruly”!
“I’m so sexy, of course I have to play the role of an oiran~ I was born to be an oiran!” Meng Ziyi said proudly while touching her face.

Jia Shikai: Sometimes I always feel that I am too old and can’t keep up with the thinking patterns of young girls.

What kind of talk about tigers and wolves?
Why don’t you say that your ancestors did this?
Outrageous!

Afterwards, Jia Shikai went to ask Song Qian again, wanting to know if she was interested in “The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation”, since she was the female lead after all.

Song Qian: What level are those two male protagonists? I will be their supporting role? No~
Double standards are fully demonstrated at this moment.

As for the other character Fan Ruoruo that Yan Zi brought in, Li Yitong took it over on her own initiative.

Because Meng Ziyi couldn’t keep secrets, she took the initiative to share the good news with her. Of course, happy things should be shared with good sisters, so that the happiness can be doubled!

Li Yitong: Sister, I feel your happiness ~ it’s so nice!
Then the “evil kitten” came online.

Li Yitong was very straightforward, saying that she also had time, and stretched out her hand towards Bai Liang: I want one too! Is that okay?
She was quite direct and didn’t test Bai Liang. This decisiveness helped her.

Because Bai Liang was about to call another young lady.

She succeeded in intercepting it.

In fact, no one thought of her at first, because Li Yitong is a well-known contestant who is willing to pay for the role of the female lead and doesn’t care about the pay at all.

Bai Liang thought she wouldn’t be willing to play a supporting role~
Li Yitong: I’m not stupid, but I still have to understand the situation!

She quickly asked someone to inquire about and learn about the project of “Joy of Life” and felt that she had made great money.

The most interesting thing is that the character of Fan Ruoruo that she snatched over is actually the younger sister of the male protagonist Fan Xian.

Tsk tsk, my sister looks alike with my sister-in-law. This alone is enough for her and Li Xin to create a good topic.

The two of them had “teamed up” once before to gain traffic and create topics, and the effect was quite good.

Although she was indeed scolded afterwards, she still can’t forget the explosive description of “slutty sisters”.

It brought a great shock to her heart.

But it doesn’t matter, what can happen if it happens again?

There is no future in just acting blindly. If you want to do well in the entertainment industry nowadays, you need traffic and topics.

Otherwise, unless the drama becomes a hit, he will still be a little punk.

In addition, she can still rely on Bai Liang’s support, so she thinks it doesn’t matter if she is not the heroine.

However, Li Yitong also made a mistake, just like Meng Ziyi.

I couldn’t help showing off a bit.

Jin Cheng: Eh? Is there such a thing?

Sister, thanks for reminding me. I am free too.
Even though the main female role had basically been decided by the time she went to inquire about the drama, she said she didn’t mind making a special appearance, playing a role with not many lines, and joining the “Joy of Life” crew to watch the fun.

Jin Cheng still has some fame after all, so he is not completely forgotten now.

She was willing to take the initiative to come over and be a pendant, so there was no reason for the crew to refuse her.

However, the human-to-human transmission phenomenon did not end with Jincheng.

How bad she is!

Although she and Tang Ren are now at odds, she has not fallen out with Tang Ren’s artists~
The friendship is still there!
“Yaoyao, I found a role that is very suitable for you!”

“what?”

“Didn’t you appear in the movie ‘Wu Xin: The Monster Killer 2’ this year? You looked so handsome in the movie dressed as a man.”

Chen Yao felt a little dizzy after being praised by Jin Cheng. Then he was forced to introduce a character called “Zhan Doudou”.

There’s actually nothing special about this role, and she doesn’t have many scenes, but it does feel a bit interesting that a woman dresses up as a man to play the emperor.

But after learning more about it, Chen Yao also became interested. Her interest was obviously not in the role itself.

Cai Yinong: ???

She looked Chen Yao up and down, which made her feel a little uncomfortable.

“Mr. Cai.”

“Yaoyao, why are you suddenly interested in such a small role? It’s no problem for me to help you contact him, but…”

What Cai Yinong said was actually very subtle.

The role is not important. Even if Chen Yao likes this role and wants to satisfy his desire, it is not a big problem.

But the question is, was she going for the role?
To put it bluntly, are you crazy? Are you still thinking about your boyfriend?
Cai Yinong really didn’t expect that the impact of the evil that Bai Liang had done to her, Tang Ren, had not yet dissipated.

“Well, I just want to try it. Anyway, I happen to have some free time.” Chen Yao said in a low voice.

“Okay, if you want to try it, just give it a try. I’ll just remind you.”

Cai Yinong is quite easy to talk to nowadays. There’s nothing you can do about it, people are in high spirits when they are happy.

Naza is doing so well now that it’s hard for her not to be in a good mood as well.

It’s just a small request, okay okay, as long as Chen Yao is happy.

However, after Cai Yinong inquired about the situation of the “Joy of Life” crew and got a list of some actresses, he almost vomited blood.

Those names are so familiar.

Each of them has some relationship with Bai Liang, oh yes, except Xin Zhilei and Li Xiaoran.

After checking again, wow! This IP turned out to be a male harem novel.

A good male harem novel
What does this little bastard Bai Liang want to do? !
Cai Yinong knew this guy quite well and knew that he was actually very courageous. After all, he was a rookie contestant who dared not to give her “face”. He was simply too bold.

Even after becoming famous, Bai Liang did not become more cautious, but became even bolder.

The crew of “Joy of Life” is a bit confused.

What’s going on?
As soon as they reached an agreement with Bai Liang, female artists immediately jumped out one after another, expressing their desire to be a supporting role in the show. It didn’t matter whether they were paid or not.

wonderful!
It would be fine if they were all those 18th-tier unknown artists, but to be honest, these people are not that unknown.

Except for Sister Meng, everyone has played the female lead and their names are not too small. They are at least third-tier artists.

Even Sister Meng wasn’t really that obscure.

Meng Jie and Li Yitong were roles Yan Zi helped to get, Jin Cheng and Chen Yao got there on their own.
There are actually experts!

Bai Liang’s name is too famous, and he has always been very generous. In the words of a certain elder sister: there are many female fairies in the circle who are willing to take advantage of him.
However, those who had this idea were obviously one step too late.

In “Joy of Life”, the young female characters who have some roles and interact with the male protagonist Fan Xian have all been divided up almost equally.

To a certain extent, the young ladies silently “protected” Bai Liang, preventing him from being approached by bad women.

“Ah!”

Bai Liang, who was filming for “The Wandering Earth”, suddenly sneezed.

He himself was fine, but the little girl next to him, Zhao Jinmai, was quite concerned: “Brother, do you have a cold? I have medicine here~”

Bai Liang smiled and shook his head, “No, maybe there’s a beautiful girl who misses me~”

“How beautiful is she?” Zhao Jinmai asked curiously, but at the same time a little unconvinced.

Little things~
Is this already the age where you need to love beauty?

Bai Liang was just about to teach her a lesson, saying that youth is the best cosmetic, and she should not secretly put on lipstick to pretend to be mature at her age.

However, the next second, I found that the crew, which was a little noisy just now, suddenly became much quieter.

At the same time, little sister Zhao Jinmai, who had been pouting in dissatisfaction, suddenly widened her eyes and opened her mouth into an O shape.

The sound of high heels tapping the ground was crisp, and the person seemed to be walking faster and faster.

When Bai Liang wanted to turn his head, a familiar fragrance entered his nostrils first.

Zhao Jinmai: How could this be possible! She just asked how beautiful she was, and he immediately rushed in front of her to let her see it?
This was very frustrating for a little girl.

It’s like a newbie who just left the Novice Village and ran into a level 99 boss wearing all orange clothes.

It’s not fair. Let’s compare again when she grows up!

“Where is my little crocodile?” the man asked, tilting his head.

(End of this chapter)