"Yes, yes."
Yuan Sitong winked at Xiao He: "Brother Xiao, how about we trade some of your gossip?"
Xiao He yawned, looking rather uninterested: "Oh, then forget it."
"Hey, no, no!"
Yuan Sitong felt a little annoyed, inwardly cursing Xiao He for being so clueless, even when it came to gossip, he had to be so secretive, it was utterly boring. But she still coughed lightly and said in a pretentious tone, "Fine, fine, considering we'll continue to work together, I'll tell you this gossip for free—"
"Taidong Entertainment, as you know, they have a lot of rules and they manage their artists very strictly."
"Yes, I know."
Xiao He nodded.
Much of his knowledge about Taidong Entertainment came from Liu Zehang.
At that time, Liu Zehang, as an artist under Taidong Entertainment, did not have much autonomy over the scripts he was given, and even had to mentor newcomers. So, when Liu Zehang had a falling out with his agent and wanted to terminate his contract, these were the reasons.
However, due to various considerations of interests, Liu Zehang still stayed at Taidong Entertainment.
However, Xiao He was well aware of Tai Dong Entertainment's "good reputation".
“Zhao Qinyuan’s performance has not been as good as before recently. Several scripts have cast him as a supporting actor to promote another popular actor in the company. So I guess he wants to take advantage of the popularity of ‘Chasing the Wind’ to switch companies.”
"Want to switch jobs? Not surprising."
If this happened to Xiao He, he would also try his best to switch jobs.
A TV series can take anywhere from a year to several years to finish. Who has that much time and youth to waste on someone else?
Taidong Entertainment's exploitative practices are not unique in the industry, and artists like Zhao Qinyuan who want to escape are certainly not the last.
Xiao He speculated, "So he wants to take a work and a script that's about to be filmed as leverage to switch to another company?"
An existing work, "The Wind Chaser," demonstrates his current value. Even if most of the profits from "The Wind Chaser" become a hit, the boost in popularity and traffic will be enormous. With fame, he can make a comeback even if he leaves with nothing.
A script awaiting filming demonstrates his future value. Although "Time Confrontation" is currently fraught with uncertainty, its overall value has recently increased, and its future is ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) promising. It also indirectly proves his good relationship with Linghui Entertainment and has great investment value.
Which company does he want to work for?
Xiao He asked casually.
"I don't know," Yuan Sitong said, spreading her hands. "It's his own secret. How could an outsider like me possibly know?"
Xiao He glanced at her sideways: "You already guessed he switched jobs, how could you not know where he's planning to go? It wouldn't be Yunheng, would it?"
"That's such a misunderstanding! I won't let him work in the same company as me, or I'll really make a scene with my agent."
Yuan Sitong looked disgusted.
Xiao He: "Thinking about it, that makes sense."
Judging from Yuan Sitong's current state of avoiding him like the plague, Xiao He knew he had guessed wrong.
But it didn't matter; he wasn't that interested anyway.
As long as Zhao Qinyuan doesn't affect the normal broadcast of "The Legend of Chasing the Wind".
...
Xiao He then stayed in the capital for a few more days, and flew to Hangzhou en route to participate in business activities.
On the evening of August 8, "Chasing the Wind" was broadcast simultaneously on the platform and channel.
Almost instantly after its launch, the various data for "The Legend of Chasing the Wind" skyrocketed. Even the usually stable ratings on CCTV-8 saw an incredible surge during prime time, with real-time viewership steadily increasing, forming a "premiere peak".
The platform's data speaks for itself. As the home base of Xiaohe fans, it had already launched a large-scale online event before the broadcast, with a large number of fans going online to support the broadcast, and even a countdown red envelope rain.
As his first male-centric drama, Xiao He also made sure to log on at the right time, and then took the opportunity to complain about the poor website maintenance of Banana Video.
Banana Video is not what it used to be. Although it was one of the early giants, it doesn't have a lot of traffic to rely on, and there are many things to criticize in its later operations. It is a controversial product in the eyes of the audience.
Of course, no video platform is immune to criticism.
As he watched the page start to lag as the number of comments surged, Xiao He's eye twitched.
If he could, he would also like to secretly give this business partner a bad review.
In order to prevent his drama from being overwhelmed by fans as soon as it aired, Xiao He reluctantly and secretly helped to reinforce it.
Once the video loading lag finally disappeared, Xiao He relaxed and watched his "Chasing the Wind Record" in sync with the netizens in the video comments.
In the first episode of "The Legend of Chasing the Wind," Xiao He's role is relatively small, appearing only briefly at the beginning. The rest of the episode focuses on the background of the plot and some of the male lead's fond childhood memories.
This part of the story is quite challenging for the director in terms of camera language and narrative pacing. After all, the male lead only appears briefly at the beginning and speaks in a somewhat enigmatic way, which might confuse many viewers. In the middle, there are scenes with children, which could easily feel boring. Therefore, there must be some highlights here to keep the audience engaged.
Fortunately, the young actor is a veteran among the many children in the industry. His acting is quite pleasing, and the story is explained clearly. There is almost no dragging on, and Xiao He's character, Song Chenye, successfully reappears.
The plot becomes quite straightforward here: Song Chenye's entire family was murdered, and he fled with his master, living in seclusion in the mountains to learn martial arts. Now that he has returned, there is only one thing he wants to do—take revenge!
Find your old enemies, force out their accomplices one by one, uncover the truth of what happened back then, and then kill them one by one.
One of the better aspects of "The Legend of Chasing the Wind" is that the plot is not drawn out. In other stories, the male protagonist would have to go through many twists and turns to investigate, painstakingly find his first enemy, and then relentlessly interrogate and even try to win him over before finally obtaining information about the mastermind behind the scenes.
But when it came to Song Chenye, it was all about chasing down and killing the first enemy, until the enemy could no longer tolerate it and called in reinforcements to shift the blame.
This simple and brutal tactic not only baffled the enemy himself, but also left the audience bewildered.
No, no, no, shouldn't you do this first, then that, then this again, and finally that?
What happened to enduring humiliation and plotting revenge?
Shouldn't it be a long-running story, with characters being pushed to the brink by their enemies, then fighting back and turning the tables?
Why are you just going around killing people like crazy right from the start?!
What was initially thought to be a deep and oppressive revenge drama turned out to be violently suppressed by the male lead's powerful force right from the start.
When the first enemy died a swift and satisfying death at the end of the first episode, the audience finally managed to type out a single sentence.
【Excuse my bluntness, but everyone here is trash.】
【Song Chenye, just got the evil out.】
【What are we waiting for? Kill them first. —Song Chenye】
