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After three months, Cheng Shuo finally completed the project.

Without making any further stops, he boarded the flight heading north that night.

There was new news from Zhang Yadong, asking him to come to Yanjing for an interview, his tone full of urging.

Cheng Shuo, who was tired of traveling, didn't stop all the way. He got off the plane and got in the car. After traveling for several hours, he finally arrived at Zhang Yadong's recording studio.

He thought there was an issue with the copyright of the song, but when he saw Zhang Yadong's relaxed expression, his heart returned to his stomach again.

"Why are you calling me back in such a hurry?"

Cheng Shuo took off his coat. The autumn breeze was blowing in October in Yanjing, but the recording room was still sultry.

As soon as he hung up his clothes, Zhang Yadong motioned to him to calm down, and then handed him a cigarette.

"good news."

"What good news?"

Zhang Yadong smiled mysteriously, "Didn't you say that there is insufficient funds for this album? Someone wants to shoot a MV for you, and by the way, you can save on publicity fees."

"Is it pie in the sky?"

Cheng Shuo rubbed his forehead and couldn't recall anything good he had done recently.

"Your song "The Thief of Time" has attracted people's attention."

Zhang Yadong said slowly: "Director Luo Qirui is going to make a movie, and he is on set in Yanjing. He is bringing new actors to my place for an audition, and I happened to see the backup you left."

As he spoke, he patted Cheng Shuo on the shoulder, "What a coincidence, he just had a draft for his movie, but the title happens to be the same as your song."

"What a coincidence." Cheng Shuo said perfunctorily.

Zhang Yadong fanned the smoke in front of her, "Then he listened to it, felt good about it, and wanted to cooperate with you."

He talked for a long time and finally got down to business.

Cheng Shuo immediately became interested, "How to cooperate?"

"You can talk to him about this, I'll just build a bridge."

Zhang Yadong narrowed his eyes due to the smoke, and added in a low voice: "I asked around, and they don't have much funds."

...

"Thieves of Time" is a good movie. It is very harsh on domestic movies and gave it a high score of 8.7.

Generally speaking, a movie with this kind of rating won't get good box office results.

The same is true for "Thieves of Time", which took in a total box office of less than 16 million.

The budget of the entire film is only 10 million.

Like other poor film crews, they didn't want to spend more money elsewhere, and Cheng Shuo didn't think about how much money they could get. After all, this crew had to clearly write down even the number of times an actor had NG in its account.

With this in mind, he seemed very relaxed when he met Luo Qirui.

You can even take a peek at the other person's appearance.

The messy curly hair added an artistic atmosphere, but under the hair, his face was not very eye-catching. His clothes were loose, the cuffs were not tied, and there were many scratches on the spectacle lenses. It was unclear whether they were slovenly or untidy.

Life is simple.

However, the first impression made Cheng Shuo seem very comfortable.

Especially after the other party called him "handsome" when he opened his mouth, his expression became even more relaxed.

"Hello, Director Luo."

When Cheng Shuo looked at him, Luo Qirui also walked around Cheng Shuo twice, with a look of surprise on his face at first, and then turned into admiration.

With a smile on his face, he said, "I didn't expect the person who wrote this song to be so young and promising."

"you flatter me."

Luo Qirui's Mandarin is a bit awkward, which is a common problem among the older generation of Xiangjiang filmmakers. Having worked with many Xiangjiang film crews in her previous life, Cheng Shuo can also understand her well.

"You are more handsome than Li Zhiting. Are you an actor?"

"Yes, I just starred in a costume drama."

"There is posture and there is reality." Luo Qirui's words are already regarded as quite high praise in Cantonese.

After exchanging a few words and narrowing the distance, Luo Qirui got straight to the point.

"That song of yours is very nice. How did you come up with the idea to write it?"

He leaned forward slightly, as if listening.

To be honest, such an action is effortless, but the impression it gives the other party is extremely satisfying.

As a veteran of Hong Kong movies, he is not condescending, and his appearance of a humble gentleman earned him enough impression points.

Cheng Shuo rubbed his fingers and said, "I have thought clearly about the meaning of the word "Carve a boat and ask for a sword."

"What does it mean?"

"I originally thought the protagonist in the story was stupid, but lately I've been thinking about the past."

Cheng Shuo's words were naturally lies, but his true feelings were revealed.

He is indeed "remembering the past".

"I always fantasize about what regrets I have to make up for if I go back to the past."

As soon as he started speaking, Luo Qirui sighed heavily, and as the breath went out, his eyebrows drooped.

Cheng Shuo's words seemed to hit his heart.

We, the people, are all trying to find a sword in the boat. We know clearly that the boat has passed by, but we still think about trying to save something.

When he made this film "Thieves of Time", he was not thinking about the past.

The lights in the cafe were relatively dim, and the reflection from his lenses suddenly seemed crystal clear.

His voice has become deep, as if he is carrying a big mountain on his back, "When people get old, they just want to miss the past, but I still want to redeem something."

As he said that, he laughed again, "Look at me, I started to think again and again. You are still young. It is too early to think about the past now. The first thing is to seize the present."

Cheng Shuo also smiled, "I'm seizing the moment."

He swallowed half a sentence, also trying to redeem the past.

Luo Qirui smiled even wider, as if she saw the vitality in Cheng Shuo, and kept mumbling: "It's good if you have this idea."

"Then let's talk about cooperation."

Putting down the coffee, holding it in the palm of both hands, a warm feeling came from the slightly hot cup wall.

"Let me make a plan first. The producer of this film should have told you this, but he is already old. I want your song to be used as the mainland promotional song for our film."

Cheng Shuo nodded, he already knew this request from Zhang Yadong.

"I can help you shoot the MV." He smiled awkwardly, "But I really don't have much time, so I can only help edit out the scenes in the film."

This is enough, Cheng Shuo has no objection.

Seeing that he had no objection, Luo Qirui continued: "Our movie is expected to be released next year. If it is used as a pilot song..."

"It doesn't matter, I'm also planning to release an album next year."

Cheng Shuo broke his anxiety with words.

"We really don't have much funds, so we need to negotiate on the price. Do you have a contract company?"

"Yes, I signed the contract with Sugar Man, but I have the final say. Let's just draft it."

Regardless of whether his words count or not, Cheng Shuo must at least seize the initiative and explore the opponent's bottom line first.

"What price are you looking forward to? There is some conflict between the market prices in Xiangjiang and the mainland."

Luo Qirui raised her eyes and asked, but Cheng Shuo shook his head, "I don't need any money."

Old God Luo Qirui was there, waiting quietly for the next half of his sentence to be spoken.

"but..."