After going to Lee Yuen on Sai Yee Street in Mong Kok for morning tea, Chen Ping'an drove Zhou Xingchi to the downstairs of the company and handed him a cigarette.

Zhou Xingchi was very eye-catching, lit a cigarette for Chen Ping'an, and then lit it for himself, and then suppressed the excitement in his heart and quietly waited for Chen Ping'an to speak.

"What are you waiting for me downstairs for?"

This beginning caught Zhou Xingchi off guard, but he quickly adjusted and took the initiative to say, "I want Mr. Chen to give me a chance." ”

"Giving you a chance? There are so many people in Hong Kong, why should I give you a chance? ”

Zhou Xingchi had already prepared for this question, and he said a lot of things. He has been interested in filming since he was a child, he is a kung fu fan, and when he was in the second year of middle school, he and Liang Chaowei and Li Jianren (classic like a flower) also ran to the mountains with a video recorder to shoot kung fu movies and made an eight-centimeter movie.

After applying for the TVB artist training class, he has been working hard to improve his acting skills, hosting "430 Shuttle", filming "Black and White Zombie", and has a deep experience of acting skills, etc., in short, it is a complete set of systematic self-introduction.

However, with Chen Ping'an's rhetorical question, his voice stopped abruptly after saying a lot of wah-wow-wow.

"What are you telling me all this for? What's in it for me? ”

Zhou Xingchi was silent. Many people have said this sentence to him, last year he went to Xinyicheng to submit his resume and wanted to star in the movie of Xinyicheng, he also said a lot at that time, but the interviewer finally asked such a question, and then his resume sank into the sea, and Xinyicheng never looked for him.

"I'm sorry to bother Mr. Chen."

"You wait." Chen Ping'an stopped Zhou Xingchi, who was about to get out of the car, "You said so much, I haven't spoken yet." ”

"I'm sorry Mr. Chen." Zhou Xingchi closed the car door and hung his head, in his opinion, what Chen Ping'an was going to say next must be a long preaching, let him be down-to-earth or something. However, to his surprise, Chen Ping'an did not preach to him, but dialed the phone: "Hey, Ah Yang is not there...... O Jan, you come down with a contract at once...... It's not about buying a house, it's about signing an artist...... It's not Maggie, it's another person, you don't have to ask so much, get down right away and I'll be waiting for you in the car. ”

Sign an artist? Is it me? Zhou Xingchi couldn't think of a second person, and he was inexplicably ecstatic in his heart: "Mr. Chen, are you planning to sign me?" ”

Chen Ping'an ignored him, turned on the music and lit a cigarette, waited until he took the contract from Zhang Ziyang, sent Zhang Ziyang to go up first, and then turned to Zhou Xingchi: "This is the artist contract of Dark Horse International, you take a look first." ”

Zhou Xingchi's hands trembled excitedly, and he quickly read the contract, except for a few important places, he took a second look, and the others were all taken at a glance. As for the overbearing clause of ten years in the contract, he didn't think much about it at all. His current status, if a film company is willing to sign him for ten years, he will secretly laugh.

"Mr. Chen, I'm willing to sign!"

"Don't worry!" Chen Ping'an took the contract out of Zhou Xingchi's hand, "You listen to me first." ”

Chen Ping'an is willing to provide Zhou Xingchi with a ten-year film contract, but this contract will not see the light of day, and outsiders cannot know that Zhou Xingchi's film contract has been signed at Dark Horse International. And he will not provide Zhou Xingchi with filming opportunities in the past two years, if there is a director looking for Zhou Xingchi to film, Zhou Xingchi must refuse. That is to say, even if Zhou Xingchi signed a contract with Dark Horse International, he still stayed at Wireless to host his children's program, the only difference is that he can receive a salary of 1,500 yuan per month from Dark Horse International.

Such conditions make Zhou Xingchi crazy, if he is optimistic about him, he should let him film, if he is not optimistic about him, then why sign him, and pay a salary of 15,000 a month?

"Mr. Chen, can you tell me the reason?"

"Three reasons! The first is that the time has not come; The second is that your acting skills are not up to my standard, and you need to continue to hone if you can't play the leading role, and wireless is a good place; The third is that Dark Horse International has just started, and every play must be a high-quality product, so the selection of actors is very strict, and there is no time to train newcomers. ”

"It doesn't matter if you're not the protagonist, in fact, it's okay to play a supporting role, I just want to follow you, Mr. Chen."

Do you follow? Chen Ping'an smiled noncommittally, and immediately put on a stern expression: "Ah Xing, do you think you are suitable for playing a supporting role?" You are a natural protagonist, a big star who will be popular in the future, and you can only be the protagonist of my movie! ”

Protagonist! Zhou Xingchi was moved by the atmosphere created by Chen Ping'an, and leaned forward to pull the backrest: "Mr. Chen, can I really be as popular as you said in the future?" ”

"I have a message for you, believe in peace and eternal life, and the employees of Dark Horse International know this sentence. You are now a hidden dragon in the abyss, and I can provide you with the opportunity to soar into the sky, only I can provide it. I just want to ask you now, if you have already made a name for yourself in wireless in the future, when I need you, are you willing to give up the one that wireless has given you and go to me without hesitation? ”

"I ......" Zhou Xingchi hesitated for a moment, nodded violently, and signed his name on the contract, "I am willing!" ”

"Well, remember what you said, if one day you go against what you say today, I will make you pay an unimaginable price."

Thinking of the black and white turmoil caused by Chen Ping'an's disappearance last Christmas, and thinking of the speculation about Chen Ping'an's life in the newspaper, Zhou Xingchi suddenly felt a chill down his spine, but he soon returned to normal.

He now hosts a children's show on TVB, has no future to speak of, and lives on a meagre monthly salary. Before meeting Chen Ping'an, no one was optimistic about him, thinking that he would become a star in the future. Since wireless can't give him any hope, why can't he follow Chen Ping'an, who has high expectations for him?

He didn't doubt Chen Ping'an's expectations of him, in addition to self-confidence, Chen Ping'an paid him a salary of 1,005 a month, and he didn't have to do anything. This is definitely appreciation, is optimistic, very appreciative very optimistic!

It seems that Mr. Chen thinks that I will be better than Wei Tsai and the other five tigers in the future, otherwise why not look for them and find me instead? And such generous conditions......

After getting out of the car, Zhou Xingchi's heart began to swell, and his feet were a little fluttering, when he walked to the door of TVB, he looked at the large LOGO in front of the door, and suddenly shuddered: How do I feel like an undercover agent?

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After signing Zhou Xingchi, Chen Ping'an put this matter behind him for the time being, anyway, he didn't plan to use Zhou Xingchi in two or three years, and he still had a lot to do today.

first took Zhang Ziyang and Short Niu to Shaw Brothers Pictures to discuss the painting of "Good Boy" with Fang Yihua. This time the conversation was very smooth, the box office was divided into four by Chen Ping'an, and the one percent that was given up was his compensation. The Taiwan copyright of "Police Story" was originally in the hands of Shaw Brothers, in order to open up the situation in Taiwan, Chen Ping'an specially asked Fang Yihua to come back from Fang Yihua before going to Taiwan, which made Fang Yihua unhappy, so Chen Ping'an, the Hong Kong box office of "Good Boy", gave up one percent, which was agreed in advance.

In fact, you don't need to watch the sample film, "Good Boy" is a big hit in Taiwan, and it has long been spread to Hong Kong by South Korea, Japan and the South Seas region, and many Hong Kong citizens are looking forward to what kind of surprises the second film produced by Dark Horse International will bring them.

After watching the sample film in the screening room, Fang Yihua made a decision on the spot, and the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line screened all the lines during the Easter schedule, and then competed with Golden Harvest and New Art City.

This year's Chinese New Year file, because Chen Ping'an is in Taiwan, Dark Horse Company has no new films to launch, and the Shaw Brothers painting is directed by Zhang Jianting, starring Er Dongsheng and Wang Guxian, "Goodbye Seven Days of Love", which is a sequel to "Seven Days of Wrong Love".

Shaw originally thought that with the good box office of "Seven Days of Wrong Love" and "Police Story" to revive the momentum of Shaw Brothers, the drama "Goodbye Seven Days of Love" could achieve a good box office, and there will be another three-country war with Jiahe's "Lucky Star Gaozhao" and Xinyi City's "Wishing you prosperity". Who knew that the box office of "Goodbye Seven Days of Love" was dismal, and it only received more than 6 million box office and was hastily painted, which was sarcastically ridiculed by the media.

The two leading actors Er Dongsheng and Wang Zuxian were criticized for being useless, what kind of eyes wandered, stiff expressions, and acting as contrived characters were too fake, the angry Fang Yihua doubted whether Chen Ping'an was really hormonal when he fell in love with Wang Guxian.

The big winner of the Lunar New Year file is Golden Harvest, the second part of the "Lucky Star Series" "Lucky Star High Shine" box office hit, with a box office score of 30.7 million hit a new high in Hong Kong, and also refreshed the box office record of "Police Story" for one month, and the box office is more solid, unlike "Police Story".

New Arts City has recently been plagued by internal and external troubles. Zhang Yijia, director of the Taiwan branch, has passed Lianhai Pictures and Seven Monsters to disband, and now even the Big Three have contradictions. This year's New Year film, Huang Baiming Tiyì continued to shoot the sequel to the "Best Partner" series, but Shi Tian insisted on filming "Wishing you prosperity", the two sides fought for a long time and finally won with the support of Mecca, and as a result, the box office of "Wishing you prosperity" was only more than 18 million, and it was trampled under the feet of Jiahe's "Lucky Star Gaozhao", and the champion of the Lunar New Year file that had dominated for several years was so handed over, and he was so defeated.

From the Christmas file Shaw Brothers' "Police Story" to the Chinese New Year file Golden Harvest's "Lucky Star Gaozhao", the new art city has lost twice, making the media question whether the once glorious new art city has come to an end? If so, then Chen Ping'an is the gravedigger of the Xinyicheng Dynasty, and it was his "Police Story" that defeated Xinyicheng first, and Jiahe was ashamed and then brave because of him, and the news from his Taiwanese counterparts that Zhang Yijia also left Xinyicheng to join Lianhai Pictures because of Chen Ping'an.

These things have nothing to do with Fang Yihua, and they have nothing to do with Shaw Brothers. Don't look at the box office of "Wishing you prosperity" is only more than 18 million, but the box office of Shaw's "Goodbye Seven Days of Love" is less than a fraction of the people's more than 6 million, and many people question the death of Shaw's "ZTE".

Some media have pointed out that if the Shaw Brothers New Year film is Chen Ping'an's "Good Boy", then this year's New Year file may be as competitive as last year's Christmas file.

So after getting the distribution rights of "Good Boy", Fang Yihua immediately decided to release it on the Easter schedule and continue the Shaw Brothers' "ZTE" road.

However, Chen Ping'an has a different opinion......