Chapter 340: Chapter 340 - 340: Not a Bad Candidate

Translator: Zayn_

As Song Qingyou expected, the topic of her plan to invest in An Sui’s movie appeared on the trending searches the next day.

Shen Xiyan also learned a lesson and kept the topic’s popularity in the second half of the trending list, determined not to increase Song Qingyou’s exposure.

Moreover, the ‘planned investment’ in the topic directly changed to ‘ready to start filming.’

As soon as the trending searches appeared, there were many gossip media outlets who used the banner of “rumors” to publicize that Song Qingyou and An Sui had a long talk at a big shot’s birthday party and were suspected to be very close.

Soon after, the rumor that Song Qingyou was willing to spend money on a movie for her lover began to spread.

The media didn’t mention a single word about An Sui’s family background. With their vague descriptions, the public who didn’t know about the relationship between An Sui and the An family checked on the series of unfortunate events that An Sui had encountered since he became a director, as well as the completely blank filming results. They all came to the conclusion that An Sui was a gigolo kept by Song Qingyou.

Most of the fans would wait for the movie to be filmed first.

Looking at all the TV series that Song Qingyou had filmed so far, which one hadn’t exploded?

Therefore, they were willing to believe in Song Qingyou’s foresight and believe that she could create a “miracle.”

After the banquet ended, the person that the fans were looking forward to had sent a portion of the script and character design to An Sui. Now, she was discussing with the other party to choose the male and female leads.

Once the leads were confirmed, they would enter the “test shoot” stage, which was also An Sui’s final “interview” stage.

The two of them had already discussed it beforehand. No matter what rumors the outside world said, as long as the actors didn’t pass the interview, Song Qingyou wouldn’t invest in him.

After returning from the banquet, Song Qingyou watched ail the videos An Sui sent the next morning.

Those videos were all An Sui’s works.

Xu Mingrui had received professional education, but An Sui was different.

In Song Qingyou’s eyes, Director An Sui’s short videos were very lively.

As long as he could extend this spirit to movies, he would definitely have a bright future.

Song Qingyou couldn’t make a loss.

If it weren’t for the fact that she had some expectations for An Sui, she wouldn’t have held Chen Lan back and told her not to rush to clarify the fact that the two of them hadn’t confirmed their cooperation yet.

Chen Lan wanted to say something but stopped herself several times. In the end, she even pulled Xu Mingrui out.

“It’s not a good idea to let Director Xu continue filming television dramas. Why don’t we let him try filming movies?”

“He said he wanted to film TV series for a few years.”

Chen Lan: “He’s already signed a contract with the company. He’ll definitely listen to the company’s arrangements. As long as you say no, Director Xiao Xu will definitely listen…”

Song Qingyou pulled out a script from her desk and pushed it in front of Chen Lan.

“The TV series that we’re co-producing with Yinghua Entertainment will start filming in a few days. Xu Mingrui is the director of this drama.”

Chen Lan: “I was the one who negotiated the collaboration this time. It’s not like I don’t know. Actually, the director can also be changed. Yinghua Entertainment doesn’t lack directors.”

“The female lead of the drama is Zhong Jiayin.” Song Qingyou raised an eyebrow. “Do you think she’ll be angry if the director suddenly changes?”

The answer was yes.

Chen Lan was speechless and could not help but complain, “Ms. Zhong said that she hated you before, but she agreed to work with our company. She didn’t want to go against her words, did she?”

“You can ask Sister Guiwan about this,” Song Qingyou suggested after a few seconds of silence.

“Don’t change the topic.” Chen Lan rolled her eyes. “Do you really have to cooperate with An Sui this time?”

“From the looks of it, he’s a good candidate.”

“He’s not bad? If there’s a major accident during the filming…”

“Then we’ll talk about it when the time comes.”

Song Qingyou didn’t want to listen to Chen Lan’s nagging anymore, so she said in a bewitching tone, “If the movie can be successfully shot, even if the quality is poor, many people will be willing to support it.”

“Sister Lan, just think: what if 1 can suppress the bad luck of An Sui like a jinx. Also, this would be the first work of the unlucky An Sui. How about these two gimmicks?”

“Very good,” Chen Lan thought for a moment and quickly spat out two words.

Song Qingyou clapped her hands. “That’s right. If Sister Lan has nothing else to do, you can go do something else…”

Before she could finish her sentence, several messages popped up on the phone on the table.

Chen Lan glanced at the name on it and pouted in dissatisfaction. “A message from An Sui?”

“What’s there to talk about with him? Why did he send so many messages?”

“He’s praising the script.”

“That movie script?”

“Yes.”

“He has good taste.” Chen Lan snorted. “The fact that it’s Teacher Qing Meng’s masterpiece will shock everyone!”

Song Qingyou was speechless. “That shocking?”

“That’s right! Wasn’t Teacher Qing Meng amazing in every script? Everyone in the company and I think so.”

Chen Lan said matter-of-factly.

Song Qingyou looked down at the exaggerated praise on the screen, then looked at the fanatical manager in front of her and felt a little uncomfortable.

Let Shen Xiyan be happy for a few more days.

Falling from heaven to hell like this would be even worse.

Song Qingyou and An Sui didn’t expose themselves in advance. The new script was written by Qing Meng.

Therefore, only the three of them had read the script.

To be honest, Song Qingyou wasn’t as confident in the new script as before.

After all, the scripts of the previous TV series were either the types that she had come into contact with when she was a screenwriter or some of the experiences that she had heard and seen when she transmigrated to another world.

The main content was also a proper plot.

The new script was a romance film.

Romance films were, of course, about relationships.

Song Qingyou had been single for 20 years, so she had very little confidence in writing love scenes.

Moreover, the plot of the new script was a “routine” in her eyes.

This was also one of the reasons why she was willing to let An Sui film this movie and let him test the waters.

She didn’t expect that the new script would be praised as well as the previous one…

“Is there really no problem? With the new script.”

Song Qingyou asked uncertainly, “Sister Lan, are you sure you don’t think the new script is good because of the fan filter?”

“Why do you ask? You don’t… Do you think that Teacher Qing Meng’s writing is not good enough?”

Chen Lan’s face was full of doubt: if someone had an objection to it, she would just nag here all day long.

“Cough… She said she’s not good at writing romance scripts.”

For the new year, other than a family comedy, which Song Qingyou didn’t think she could write, only a romantic film was suitable.

“I see.” Chen Lan said with certainty, “Don’t worry, 1 definitely didn’t say that because of the fan filter.”

After a pause, she continued, “But there are some lines in the script that do look very stiff.”

“Which ones?”

Song Qingyou quickly took out the script and a pen, looking like she was going to revise it on the spot.

“What are you doing?” Don’t tell me you want to modify Teacher Qing Meng’s script without permission?”

“Don’t worry, she won’t mind.”

Song Qingyou wanted to hear other people’s opinions, so she quickly urged Chen Lan to say what she felt was stiff..