Chapter 389 Take Other People's Money and Do Your Own Business?

"Is the threshold for becoming a director so low now? It's really weird..."

"It's quite arrogant."

"These fans laughed me to death, saying, 'Director Guo will dominate the film and television industry,' haha..."

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What Zhu Yawen and Luo Jin were discussing was the news from "Tiny Times".

Guo Jingming publicly announced to the film and television industry on Weibo that he has found 300 million in investment and will adapt his "Tiny Times" into a movie script and make it into a series in three to five years.

And just like the previous rhetoric, the director and screenwriter of the movie will be Guo Jingming himself.

Lin Nan was very curious about who this guy's fans were, and they were all mindlessly praising Guo Jingming.

It seems that as soon as Guo Jingming entered the film industry, he could surpass the fifth generation directors, suppress the sixth generation directors, and rank with several major domestic directors!

Lin Nan sat next to Liu Yifei and watched the makeup artist apply makeup on her.

Zhu Yawen laughed non-stop and walked over:

"Director Lin, come and see, you are the one that 'Director Guo' wants to learn to catch up with, hahaha..."

Lin Nan's face suddenly turned dark. Isn't this a curse?

Liu Yifei really wanted to read the newspaper, but she was putting on makeup at the moment and couldn't move, so she could only glance to the side with her peripheral vision, which felt very uncomfortable.

"...As a post-80s generation, I regard Director Lin Nan as the target of my study and pursuit in my directing career, whether it is in terms of international awards or movie box office. I like his and Liu Yifei's "The Fault in Our Stars" the most. …”

Before Lin Nan reached for the newspaper, Zhu Yawen had already started to read at the top of her voice Guo Xiaosi's speech when he was interviewed by the media.

After hearing this, Miss Liu was very happy and couldn't help but smile. Then she was scolded by the makeup artist and couldn't make facial expressions.

Lin Nan felt strange inexplicably. He always felt that something was cold on his body, something was wrong, and he was a little scared!

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"Prepare, act!"

Zhu Yawen's role has begun.

According to the plot setting, he and Liu Yifei are the only scholarship winners, top academics, single-parent families, and even worse family circumstances.

The two represented the school in a competition together, and the heroine discovered that this was a classmate who was harder working, thrifty, and rigid than her father.

As expected, the two won the championship.

Zhou Xun rushed over from the promotional activities of the "Magician" crew to make a guest appearance again.

"Congratulations, there are two study abroad places with full scholarships next year. After you pass, you can study for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees together. The school thinks you two are the most suitable..."

When Liu Yifei and Zhu Yawen smiled, the principal's next words made them look ashen in an instant.

"But it's a pity that our school only got one spot. Not long ago, we were teammates, and now we are opponents. It is indeed... a bit exciting, isn't it?"

Zhou Xun used a joke to calm the awkward atmosphere at the scene.

After one shot, Zhou Xun said hello and left directly.

It seemed that "The Great Magician" was really busy, and she didn't even think about joking and complaining with Lin Nan.

After the transition, it was the scene of Zhu Yawen going home to help with work. The house chosen this time was even shabbier than the heroine’s house before.

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The guest actor took his place and pulled Zhu Yawen, hoping that the latter would let him copy it during the grade unified examination.

"I also took that piano lesson, but I couldn't remember their complicated code..."

"What's the secret code?"

"Ah, it's nothing. I can give you money, how about one thousand?"

Zhu Yawen walked away without looking back and refused.

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"The next climax is the cheating scene in the grade unified examination. Let everyone prepare in advance."

Lin Nan shouted to the logistics team and then started to rest.

"We have two days off on New Year's Day. You guys have a lot of fun on Hong Kong Island and go see "Pacific Rim". Director Jiang will bring you the tickets."

Hearing Lin Nan's words, several people were happy at first, and then were stunned for a moment.

"Are we having fun? What about you?"

Liu Yifei was the first to question, frowning. Several other people were also waiting for Lin Nan's answer.

"This year's New Year's Eve, we may have to spend it on the set, and I plan to go back to my hometown on New Year's Day."

As he spoke, Lin Nan looked at Liu Yifei and said softly: "Sissi, do you want to come with me?"

"Huh? Well, I'm with you."

Miss Liu's face immediately broke out into a smile, her eyebrows curved, she nodded lightly and said.

"Eh... so sour."

Shu Chang and others booed together, with expressions of disdain.

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The cameras were in place again, footage of hundreds of students taking exams.

Zhu Yawen did it the fastest when he was doing it, and found that one question actually said that the type of test paper he was doing was Paper A, not an exam question?

"Teacher, what is the situation in question 40?"

"This year's unified examination, students in the same class cannot sit together. There are two sets of test papers. In order to prevent cheating, we only let you mark the test paper type in the middle of the test questions..."

As soon as the words fell, the heroine played by Liu Yifei quickly turned the page and saw the question. She was in the A paper.

All the students in the "piano tutoring class" were suddenly panicked, but fortunately they hadn't started to pass out the answers yet.

Next, there are various gestures between the "accomplices", talking about their own test paper types.

The photographer gave Zhu Yawen a close shot, and he saw the classmate who had asked him to help him cheat before, looking towards Liu Yifei.

Ten minutes later.

Zhu Yawen walked to the podium with the test paper, answer sheet, etc., and deliberately let go of Liu Yifei, squatting down to pick up the test paper.

"The one next to you is peeking at your answers."

After muttering to make sure Liu Yifei heard it, Zhu Yawen stepped forward to hand in the paper and couldn't help but report it.

"The flat-headed guy in the third row is peeking at the answers of the girl next to him."

"Well, I'll pay attention to it later. If you're fine, just leave the examination room first."

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The filming continued.

Zhu Yawen sat next to Lin Nan.

"The character I played is really stupid. Others colluded to copy the answers, and I kindly reminded them!"

"There is still half an hour before the end of the exam..." the invigilator shouted.

At this moment, Liu Yifei's fingers moved on the table, and the meaning was very clear: Paper A comes first.

When there were only 20 minutes left in the exam, all the students in the "tutoring class" who took Paper B had pale faces and nervous expressions.

At a certain moment, a group of candidates who took Paper A stood up and handed in their papers together, blocking the invigilator's sight.

Liu Yifei instantly exchanged the test paper with the boy next to her. In the close-up shot, the name column of the test paper Liu Yifei handed out had the boy's name written on it.

She needed to fill in the card again for Paper B, because most of the questions had been done once, and only a few questions were different and needed to be recalculated. This time, she finished and filled in the card in only ten minutes, and then passed the answers to Paper B.

At the last moment, all the people in the "tutoring class" successfully completed the cheating.

"Click! Thank you for your hard work."

Liu Yifei moved her wrist and walked to Lin Nan:

"I really filled in the card the whole time, and my fingers tapped the table in rhythm. Don't cut it too hard in the later stage."

"That's hard to say. It must be edited compactly, with a more exciting rhythm, and with the soundtrack, the tense atmosphere of racing against time like a battlefield must be reflected."

Lin Nan pulled Liu Yifei's wrist, "Shall I pinch it for you?"

"Yeah, okay."

"Tsk tsk tsk, Xixi, my wrist is also sore."

"You didn't shoot it well, how about a close-up again?"

"Haha, just kidding, I'm not sore, not sore." Shu Chang begged for mercy.

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New Year's Day is just around the corner.

All the movies that will be released in January are ready to go.

Among them, Pacific Rim is the most dazzling, followed by The Great Magician, Against the War, and Those Years, We Chased the Same Girl, which has been taken off the screen in Hong Kong and Taiwan and is regarded as a dark horse.

However, Lin Nan is very concerned about another short film.

Chopstick Brothers' Father is a very heartfelt micro-film, especially the song Father.

He also promoted it on Weibo, "The micro-film is very good, the song is very nice", and tagged the main creators.

The two main creators specially replied to thank him, and a large number of audiences' comments and messages were the same, very sincere: the movie was touching, and the song made me cry...

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"Director Lin, someone wants to see you."

As soon as they returned to the hotel in the afternoon, Jiang Xingrou ran to Lin Nan and said.

Zhu Yawen and others pretended not to hear and returned to the room.

Liu Yifei looked at Lin Nan with curiosity.

"Who?"

"Someone from the bank."

Hearing this, Lin Nan seemed to have guessed something.

"You are busy with business, remember to have dinner together later." Liu Yifei reminded him and turned back to the room.

Lin Nan nodded and responded. Then he said to Jiang Xingrou: "Please ask him to come to my room."

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How can I say it, the bank's people reacted really quickly, and they came directly to Hong Kong Island without even saying hello.

"Director Lin, long time no see."

"I didn't expect you to come all the way from the capital. Logically, there should be a branch of your bank in Hong Kong Island."

"Then the business will not be mine, hehe..."

Hearing this, Lin Nan couldn't help laughing.

The other party spoke.

"You have received a lot of overseas funds in the past two days."

"Illegal?"

"Of course it's legal, but you want to transfer it out, this..."

"Illegal?"

"Legal, of course business transactions are legal."

"Then I'm surprised, the money came in legally, and you didn't ask. I went out legally, and you asked?"

Lin Nan really admired the man in front of him. If this happened, he would have to cooperate with another bank.

"Director Lin misunderstood. With such a large amount of funds, why don't you consider taking out a loan and using other people's money to do your own business?"

"Don't worry, the interest rate is absolutely the lowest. I have also cooperated with you for so many years. Isn't the project funding of your film always from our bank..."

Now Lin Nan understood. It seems that they are looking for me to guarantee performance by collecting deposits and lending. I just made an appointment yesterday, and the person came today. It's really fast.

"This is my personal investment, which has nothing to do with Lin Nan Pictures. I need it urgently recently. Are you sure the loan process will not delay time?"

Lin Nan is more conservative and doesn't like the days of debt. These funds are used to repurchase Tudou shares and support Tudou's development.

But if the interest rate is very low and the efficiency is high enough, he is of course willing to take other people's money and do his own business!

"Haha, Director Lin, don't worry, as long as you nod, all procedures will be completed within a week, and the subsequent funds will also be at least this time. What do you think?"

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