Episode 336: The National Focus Maker
Zheng Xiyi and the three of them sat in a remote corner and communicated all kinds of information, Lin Xiyin finally stopped being irritable, but the worry was still the same.
"Since you're not completely good, don't take "The Chaser", it's better to play a light-hearted film, right?"
Zheng Xiyi shrugged his shoulders and said: "It's only appropriate to act at this time, just take this opportunity to play a perverted murderer, otherwise you will have to re-cultivate this feeling if you want to act in the future." β
Lin Xiyin thought for a while and said, "You just came to discuss the script with Luo Hongzhen's director NIM today, and you haven't signed a contract yet, right?"
Zheng Xiyi nodded, and Lin Xiyin said to Li Chengman again: "Don't sign the contract yet, I want to find a doctor who understands Xiyi's condition to confirm his situation first." β
Li Chengman nodded hurriedly, Zheng Xiyi just wanted to speak, Lin Xiyin glared at him and said, "What do you want to say?"
Zheng Xiyi immediately knelt down.
That night, Lin Xiyin escorted Zheng Xiyi and his parents on the other side of the ocean to call to report the situation, Zheng Chengxuan and Lin Tingqiu naturally scolded Zheng Xiyi, and immediately made an appointment with a doctor.
At noon the next day, the doctor who examined Zheng Xiyi came from the United States, and on the morning of the third day, he borrowed the equipment of the S.M contracted hospital to do a psychological test and analysis for Zheng Xiyi.
Zheng Xiyi rubbed Lin Xiyin's shoulders flatteringly, and said to her: "Sister, look, I said it, it's no problem." Although I didn't get a degree in psychology, I was a doctor after a long illness!"
As soon as he put the confirmed diagnosis report on the table, Lin Xiyin shook his shoulders and shook off Zheng Xiyi's hand, stood up and turned around and pointed at his nose and said, "I'm not joking with you, Zheng Xiyi, this is the last time, my mother has already given the highest instructions, and next time I will directly announce that you will permanently quit the entertainment industry, and then pack you up and send you home!"
Zheng Xiyi asked curiously: "Permanently quit the showbiz? Then what am I going to do when I go home? Do we have any throne or any family property to inherit for me? Dad's professorship is not allowed to be replaced." β
Lin Xiyin sneered twice and said, "After returning to the United States, you have two choices, one is to get married and have children after Stella graduates from college, and the other is to take over from your brother-in-law as your domineering president! β
Zheng Xiyi covered his face and sighed, these two choices are indeed no better for others, but each one is an option that Zheng Xiyi can't escape.
He had no choice but to nod resignedly and said, "Inside, I will definitely keep you updated on the situation in the future, whether it is physical or psychological, okay?"
Lin Xiyin didn't know where to take out a few pieces of paper, handed them to Zheng Xiyi and said, "There is no evidence for what you say, sign it." β
Zheng Xiyi looked at the three words "guarantee" printed in Chinese, English and Korean, opened his mouth, took it with trembling hands, flipped it over, and asked with a smile: "Sister, are you really not joking? Where is the most basic trust between people? Besides, do you think that if I sign this, I can really help me announce my permanent retirement from the entertainment industry? I still have a contract with S.M to repeat." β
Lin Xiyin didn't know where to take out the signature pen and handed it over, and said coldly: "S.M's liquidated damages are just a week's turnover of RELOAD, and the old lady can afford to pay it! If you don't feel sorry for my embezzlement of public funds, you can choose RELOAD back as the domineering president!"
"Poof...... YOU. WINοΌβ
Zheng Xiyi stretched out his thumbs and gestured at Lin Xiyin, then took the signature pen and signed his name at the bottom of the guarantee, and signed all three languages in Chinese, English and Korean in one go......
The guarantee is naturally a teasing behavior of the sister and brother, and it has no real legal effect, but Zheng Xiyi also knew that he really scared Lin Xiyin, so he could only silently say sorry to Lin Xiyin in his heart.
In the past three days that Lin Xiyin was made by Zheng Xiyi, the scandal between Zheng Xiyi and Lee Yunxi continued to ferment, and at the same time, the news that Li Yunxi confirmed to officially star in the romantic comedy movie "My Love" directed by director Li Han also appeared in the top five on the hot search list, but an ANTI forum for Li Yunxi also appeared on the Internet.
On May 12, 2007, S.M.CC issued an official statement that Zheng Hee-yi and Lee Yong-hee were just in a normal relationship with the company's seniors, and that they met at the coffee shop because their agent was also the same person. After Lee Yun-hee auditioned for the movie "My Love", because his agent wanted to discuss the choice of script with Jung Hee-yi, Lee Yun-hee also wanted to meet the seniors he met at the end of the two years, so he appeared in the coffee shop together. There was always a third-party agent, Li Chengman, XI at the scene, and the photos reported by some media were taken after the agent was covered from a special angle, and S.M.CC will retain the right to file accusations against the media that made false reports.
The statement is righteous and solemn, and a number of screenshots of the scene of the security video in the coffee shop at different times are attached, and Li Chengman has indeed been sitting behind a pillar all the time.
As soon as the statement came out, no one cared about whether Zheng Xiyi and Lee Yun-hee were dating anymore, and everyone noticed the key phrase "the agent discussed the script selection with Zheng Xiyi" in the CC announcement, and everyone was concerned about only one question: Which drama is Zheng Xiyi going to play?
But S.M.CC was once again as silent as when the scandal between Jung Hee-yi and Lee Yeon-hee first appeared.
Two days later, some media broke the news that Zheng Xiyi may star in MBC's upcoming new drama "Coffee Prince No. 1 Shop", however, the male lead of this TV series has long announced that it will be played by SidusHQ's actor Kong Liu, which means that Zheng Xiyi is likely to snatch this role from Kong Liu, and for a while, Zheng Xiyi and Kong Liu, S.M.CC and SidusHQ, and "Coffee Prince No. 1 Shop" all appeared in the top five of the hot search list.
The reason why the media only discovered "Coffee Prince No. 1 Shop" but not "The Chaser" is very simple, the script of "The Chaser" was not handed to Zheng Xiyi through the formal process of the S.M.CC at all. Except for a few insiders such as Kim Young-min, Lin Xiyin, Lee Sung-man, and Lee Yun-hee, no one in CC knew that Zheng Xiyi had received this invitation, and MBC's invitation was faxed to S.M.CC by Zhengda Guangming, so naturally more people knew about it, and it was normal for it to be leaked to the media.
Although there was a lot of disturbance outside, in fact, MBC, SidusHQ, and CC were very happy, and this result was acceptable to everyone.
MBC is happy that "Coffee Prince No. 1" became popular before filming, and it has already gained so much attention before filming has even started, and no matter which one of the main actors is played, a large number of viewers will watch it to compare the differences between the two actors.
SidusHQ is happy that the public's attention to Kong Liu has increased significantly, and to put it shamelessly, the actors who can win the role of Zheng Xiyi, except for the "ALL. In addition to Li Bingxian, there is only Kong Liu, which can be regarded as forcibly creating a wave of momentum, although it is black or powder, it is not certain.
CC is also very happy, although he refused MBC's invitation, but helped MBC's new drama to promote, so not only did it not cause conflicts because of the refusal of the invitation, but it made the relationship between the two parties better, and at the same time alleviated the contradiction between CC and SidusHQ, after all, Zheng Xiyi did not steal the role of Kong Liu in the case of victory, which can be regarded as a release of goodwill to SidusHQ. Zheng Xiyi of the two Baeksang Awards and the Blue Dragon Award has not had a decent harvest, and even the Korean people can see that someone is playing tricks behind their backs, and now Zheng Xiyi is the first to give in, if SidusHQ doesn't want people in the industry to feel too domineering, he can only stop targeting Zheng Xiyi in the future.
On May 15th, MBC silently released the news clip of the script reading meeting of "Coffee Prince No. 1 Shop", naturally Kong Liu was sitting in the male number one position, and there was a big uproar on the Internet, could it be that Kong Liu is more powerful than Zheng Xiyi, MBC actually chose Kong Liu instead of Zheng Xiyi?
Throughout April and May, the Korean media and the Internet seem to have fallen into the Zheng Xiyi boom, and almost every one of the top ten on the hot search list is directly or indirectly related to Zheng Xiyi, which can't help but make countless people feel that Zheng Xiyi's topicality is too strong, and some people even laughed that Zheng Xiyi is simply a "national focus maker".
Although this new national title is a bit funny, it also surprised everyone, recalling that when Zheng Xiyi returned to South Korea for the first time in 2002, because of the scandal with Cheng Youli and Lee Hyo-ri, the interview with "ELLE" and the signing of the contract S.M.CC which led to half a year in Korean society discussing Zheng Xiyi, five years later, Zheng Xiyi returned to South Korea for the second time, but once again it attracted the attention of the whole South Korea for a whole month, and people couldn't help but murmur in their hearts, could it be that this time he had to toss for half a year?
Although all the artists and agencies are secretly jealous of Zheng Xiyi's topicality, no one believes that Zheng Xiyi can really toss for another half a year. In 2002, Zheng Xiyi could toss for so long, naturally there is its accident and inevitability, but now in 2007, with the rapid development of network media, the speed and scope of information update are stronger than in 2002, I don't know how many times, and it is almost impossible to occupy the attention of the whole people for half a year.
But no one expected that Zheng Xiyi was like he wanted to certify his new national title, and at the end of May, when all the focus of Zheng Xiyi gradually subsided, S.M.CC issued an announcement again, announcing that its artist Zheng Xiyi and the famous Korean actor Kim Yun-seok co-starred in the famous director Luo Hongzhen's first commercial feature film, the thriller crime movie "Chaser", and will play the role of serial killer Ji Yingmin.
As soon as the announcement came out, it became a sensation in South Korea again, and it is not new for Zheng Xiyi to star in a movie, but he is actually a serial killer, which is a novelty.
Although Zheng Xiyi played an FBI agent in the American drama "Criminal Minds", and finally turned into a serial killer in the second season that just ended, it was a TV series after all, and it was only in the last two episodes that Zheng Xiyi's role turned into a serial killer, and the plot also focused more on the brothers' rebellion and final farewell, which diluted the plot of the serial killer.
"Chaser" is a movie, and most of the more than 100-minute shots will focus on Jung Hee-yi and Kim Yoon-seok. Kim Yoon-seok, as a veteran drama actor, is well-known for his acting skills, although Jung Hee-yi has long proven his acting skills, he has never played a big villain, let alone a villain as big as a perverted serial killer, even Jung Hee-yi's fans can't help but have a trace of worry this time.