The straight man in the entertainment circle

The first week of the Spring Festival is over, and all parts of the country have begun to get back on track with the New Year atmosphere. Most businesses and stores have begun to open normally, and the population of big cities has suddenly returned to normal.

The winner of the Spring Festival movies can almost be determined. "The Grandmaster" became the biggest winner in the first week of the Spring Festival with a box office of 1.5 billion. The other two movies were one with over 1 billion and the other with more than 900 million.

Not surprisingly, "The Grandmaster" will definitely be the champion of this year's Spring Festival.

This is not only due to Zhang Dasong's advanced shooting techniques and the beautiful martial arts moves designed by Yuan Ping. More importantly, Lin Li and Chen Qingqing contributed wonderful performances in this movie, and Lin Li personally performed during the movie's release. After attending the Spring Festival Gala, it continued to create topics and brought continuous popularity to the movie.

For great directors, film is actually the director's art, and actors are just tools for the directors. Almost all films by great directors will have a strong personal label of the director.

The same is naturally true for Zhang Dasong's movies. In the past, no matter how famous actors participated in Zhang Dasong's movies and how brilliant his acting skills were, when everyone mentions the title of the movie, the first thing that comes to mind is "That's Zhang Dasong's movie." Such an impression.

But "The Grandmaster", Zhang Dasong's best-grossing film, has become an exception.

When almost everyone mentions the movie "The Grandmaster" that is currently being released, their first impression is "a movie starring Lin Li and Chen Qingqing."

Some people even thought that the movie was directed by Lin Li!

But Zhang Dasong doesn't care about this. The popularity of "The Grandmaster" this time was unexpected for him. He originally planned to make such a martial arts-themed movie. Many people did not support it and felt that the box office would not be very good, but Zhang Dasong Song persisted.

However, Zhang Dasong is also glad that he found Lin Li and Chen Qingqing to play the leading roles this time. He feels that he did the right thing this time.

The box office in the first week of the Spring Festival was a blowout. After the first week, everyone's life and work are almost back on track, and the box office will not be as high as in the first week.

However, compared to usual times, the box office is still much higher.

Lin Li and others traveled all over the country for several days to promote the event before it was over.

During this period, Lin Li and Chen Qingqing were promoting the movie together almost every day. When they returned to the hotel to rest, they practiced singing together to prepare for the upcoming Lantern Festival party.

Back in Kyoto, Lin Li and Chen Qingqing went to the recording studio together, and followed Wang Tuo and others to record the accompaniment of the songs to be sung at the Lantern Festival Party.

After the recording, several people had dinner together in the evening. Wang Tuo couldn't help but ask: "Are you two planning to sing this song at the CCTV Lantern Festival Gala?"

"Yeah." Lin Li said.

"This song...is it really okay for you two to sing...?" Wang Tuo said with some worry.

"What's wrong?" Lin Li asked.

Chen Qingqing smiled and said: "Uncle Wang means that after we finish singing, others will think wrongly."

Wang Tuo smiled, and that was indeed what he meant. The song they chose this time would be misunderstood even if it was sung by two people who had no ambiguous relationship, not to mention that their relationship was already suspicious.

Lin Li said: "After we finish singing, they won't think wrong."

Lin Li and Chen Qingqing looked at each other and smiled. Wang Tuo saw this and felt that their state today was different from before.

Lin Li saw Wang Tuo's confusion and smiled: "Uncle Wang, you are not an outsider. Let us tell you. In fact, we are together. We will announce it after singing the night after tomorrow, so we sang this song." , I chose it specially.”

After Lin Li finished speaking, Wang Tuo was stunned for a while, looked at the two of them and smiled sweetly, and asked: "Publicly?"

Lin Li nodded: "Yes, make it public. I have said before that if I fall in love, I will definitely make it public."

Wang Tuo was stunned for a moment, and then thought about it and realized that Lin Li had indeed said that before. He despised those self-proclaimed idol stars who did not disclose their relationships, but Wang Tuo did not expect that Lin Li would really do this.

"It is indeed your style, and this song is just right." Wang Tuo smiled and raised his glass, "Okay, then I wish you all the best!"

Lin Li and Chen Qingqing also offered tea instead of wine in return.

After eating, Wang Tuo said, "Shall I take you back?"

Lin Li was not polite and said, "Thank you then."

Chen Qingqing said: "Lin Li and I will go back together to meet my aunt."

Wang Tuo looked at Lin Li in shock, wondering if he would see his parents so soon?

Lin Li saw what he was thinking and said, "We want to tell my parents about getting together and preparing for an official announcement."

Only then did Wang Tuo realize that he was overthinking, so he nodded and drove them back in his car.

Back home, Song Wenjie was a little surprised to see Lin Li bringing Chen Qingqing, but she and Chen Qingqing were also very familiar with each other, so she smiled and said, "Qingqing is here, come in and sit down. Have you had dinner?"

"Have eaten, Auntie." Chen Qingqing took Song Wenjie's arm as soon as she entered the door, and she was very affectionate.

"I'll get you some fruit to eat."

"Don't bother, Auntie..."

Song Wenjie didn't care, she made a fruit plate and brought it over.

"You are too thin, you need to eat more."

"Oh, thank you, auntie." Chen Qingqing replied obediently.

Lin Li saw Chen Qingqing's rare well-behaved look and sat down with a smile.

"Is the movie promotion over?" Song Wenjie asked.

"Well, it's over. The effect of the publicity is already at its maximum. If it continues, it won't have much effect."

"Oh, and then we have to prepare for the Lantern Festival Party." Song Wenjie said, "Qingqing, are you attending too?"

Song Wenjie didn't follow them during the days of promoting the movie. She didn't know about Lin Li and Chen Qingqing attending the Lantern Festival party together.

"Well, I... I'm going to sing with Senior Brother Lin."

Song Wenjie said in surprise: "Are you two singing a duet?"

"Yes, Mom, I wrote a song, and it was approved over there. Just go to the rehearsal tomorrow."

Song Wenjie nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, okay, this is your first time singing together. Practice well. What song will you sing this time?"

"A new song, specially written by Master Lin. It's very different." Chen Qingqing looked at Lin Li and said.

Song Wenjie was not surprised that Lin Li wrote a song, but Chen Qingqing emphasized that it was very different, so she became a little curious and said, "What's different?"

Chen Qingqing looked at Lin Li without saying anything, apparently letting Lin Li speak.

Lin Li said: "Mom... after this song is sung, probably everyone will know... that we are together."

Song Wenjie was stunned for a moment, thought about it, and said, "What? Wait...are you two together?"

Lin Li held Chen Qingqing's hand, looked at Song Wenjie, and said, "Yes, Mom, we are together."

Song Wenjie looked at their hands holding each other, feeling a little dazed: "When did it happen?"

"Just a few days ago." Lin Li said.

Song Wenjie calmed down for a while and asked worriedly: "Are you going to make it public?"

"Yes, I want to go public and don't want to fall in love secretly." Lin Lida said.

After hearing this, Song Wenjie wanted to say something, but she held back. She turned her head and looked at Chen Qingqing beside her.

"I listen to Lin Li." Chen Qingqing whispered.