Chapter Eighty-Eight: A Chance Encounter at the Awards Ceremony
On the afternoon of November 29, 2004, one of the three most influential film awards in South Korea, the Blue Dragon Film Awards, or Blue Dragon Film Festival, was held at the National Theater in Seoul.
At this film festival, Jang Sung-won's good sister Moon Geun-young was nominated for the Popular Star Award for "My Little Bride" released this spring, and before that, she had already won the Best New Actress and Popular Actress awards at another film festival, the Daejong Film Festival. In Zhang Chengyuan's opinion, with her current popularity as the "national sister", it is absolutely impossible that she will not be able to win the award of the Blue Dragon Film Festival Popularity Award.
This time, Jang Sung-won received an invitation from Moon Gen-young, and she hoped that Jang Sung-won could see her most beautiful side with her own eyes at the scene and share her joy with her. In fact, at the Dazhong Film Festival held in June this year, she wanted to do this, but unfortunately, Zhang Chengyuan was filming "The Crown Prince's First Love" overseas at that time, and she had no time to doppelganger, which also made her deeply regretful. Therefore, this time she gave thousands of instructions, begging Zhang Chengyuan to accompany her to participate in this grand event.
In fact, this Blue Dragon Film Award and even all the Korean film awards, Jang Sung-won didn't pay attention to it at all at this time, and he didn't think about winning the grand prize at any film festival in the future. Second, the prize money is not as much as the remuneration he received for filming an episode of the TV series. Third, he didn't think about getting the approval of those film association people, in his eyes, what qualifications do these sanctimonious guys have to evaluate him, what he values more is the recognition of the audience, after all, ordinary people are the real parents of entertainers. In any case, he is not interested in participating in the Blue Dragon Film Festival at the moment.
It's just Wen Genying's kind invitation, how can he be embarrassed to refuse? He had to ask the crew for a day off, and on the morning of November 29, he returned to Seoul from Namwon City, and at nearly noon, he met with Moon Geunying and her grandmother at a restaurant in Seoul and had a warm lunch.
During the meal, Zhang Chengyuan asked about the progress of the Latin dance that Wen Genying specially practiced for the new movie "Innocent Dancing Girl", and when he heard Wen Genying say that she had been able to dance a very standard Latin dance very smoothly, he felt extremely relieved, and felt that it was very worthwhile to use his true qi to improve Wen Genying's physique and teach the method of luck pranayama, and it was not in vain that his efforts were not wasted.
In this month, Wen Genying has already started the filming of "Innocent Dancer". Because she has always worked extremely hard in her work, Zhang Chengyuan was afraid that she would be injured, so he told her: "You are still young, don't work too hard during filming, if you are injured, your family and friends will worry about you." Although Zhang Chengyuan also knew that his words were basically ineffective, but looking at the delicate, cute and well-behaved Wen Genying, he still couldn't help but say this.
Wen Genying raised her eyebrows, and suddenly asked, "Brother, if I am injured, will you worry about me?" ”
Wen Genying's grandmother, who heard this, also stared at Zhang Chengyuan with interest, wanting to see what kind of mentality Zhang Chengyuan has towards her granddaughter, maybe in her mind, Wen Genying is 18 years old, and it is time to talk about love, and Zhang Chengyuan's character, appearance, and ability are very good, and the age difference is four years old, it is quite suitable to be her future grandson-in-law. The old man's mentality is sometimes quite open, if he were Wen Genying's father, he would definitely like all men who were suspected of trying against his daughter not to come close to Wen Genying.
Zhang Chengyuan said lightly: "I'm your brother, of course I'll worry about you." ”
Wen Genying seemed to be very satisfied with this reply, and said with a smile: "Brother, don't worry, I'll be fine." Besides, if you're injured, I can look for you. I'm sure you'll have a way to cure me quickly. After trying the magic of True Qi, Wen Genying already has blind confidence in Zhang Chengyuan's ability.
Zhang Chengyuan didn't want to say this in front of Wen Genying's grandmother, so he quickly changed the topic and chatted with them about the interesting things around him.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Wen Genying said goodbye to Zhang Chengyuan with some reluctance under the urging of her agent's phone call, and turned back to the company to prepare for the film festival tonight. And Zhang Chengyuan also has to dress up a little, so as not to lose her face when he is with Wen Genying.
Zhang Chengyuan visited a nearby large shopping mall, bought a set of high-end black suits to change into, and felt a little distressed, as a popular star, you must pay great attention to your image, generally a formal set of clothes can not be worn out of the box after wearing it once, so today's suit that cost more than 5 million won will be shelved tonight. Five million wasn't too much, but it was the biggest expense he'd ever had to spend in years, and most of what he wore in public was sponsored by sponsors. And today he didn't plan to appear in the flash, and maybe even if he did, no reporter would pay attention to him, so he was embarrassed to let the sponsors pay a price for him that would not be rewarded.
By the time Mr. Jang arrived at the Seoul National Theater, it was already crowded with thousands of fans lining the nearby streets, and a large number of security personnel were maintaining order.
Because he was not a star invited by the organizers of the Blue Dragon Film Festival, Zhang Chengyuan did not walk the red carpet, but walked in through the side door with the invitation letter given to him by Moon Genying, and found a seat near the main aisle in the area designated by the invitation letter. There are always more than 1,000 stars, guests and a small number of fans who participate in the Blue Dragon Film Festival every year, and there are as many artists and celebrities as those who can get invitations, so Zhang Chengyuan's appearance has not attracted attention.
In Zhang Chengyuan's position, it is easy to see the scene of the stars coming in through the door of the theater, although Zhang Chengyuan did not look back to take a serious look, but his Yuan Shen has been paying attention and waiting, no matter what, he has to wait until Wen Genying appears, so that she knows that he has not broken his promise. This kind of waiting made him have an unexpected surprise, he actually saw Ha Ji Won from the seat not far away.
Ha Ji Won has two movies released this year, but unfortunately the box office is average, and the response is only acceptable, so he did not win the Best Actress and Popularity Awards at this Blue Dragon Film Festival. At this time, Ha Ji Won was wearing ordinary formal clothes and looked like a professional woman, although she was still radiant, but compared to the female stars who dressed up and walked the red carpet tonight, it was too low-key.
Seeing that Ha Ji Won didn't seem to want to attract attention tonight, Zhang Chengyuan quietly slipped over, sat down beside her, and said softly: "Sister Hailin, I haven't seen you for a long time." Ha Ji Yuan's real name is Tian Hailin, and when the relationship with Ha Ji Yuan became closer and closer, Zhang Chengyuan kept calling her "Sister Hailin".
Hearing the familiar voice, Ha Ji Won turned his head and found that it was Zhang Chengyuan, and immediately patted Zhang Chengyuan's thigh happily and said, "It's Cheng Yuan, aren't you filming a TV series?" How do you have time here, and don't you hate this kind of occasion? ”
Zhang Chengyuan said with a smile: "There was a very good sister who invited me to come, and I was embarrassed to refuse, so I came." ”
"Oh, very good sister? Which one is it? Ha Ji Won suddenly became interested.
"Wen Genying, you should have heard of this name, sister." Zhang Chengyuan said proudly.
"It's Wen Genying, our 'national sister'! How could I not have heard of her, you kid is really popular with girls, and even such a cute little sister has deceived you! Ha Ji Won deliberately made fun of Jang Sung-won.
"How can it be said to be a lie? I was born to be popular with girls. Sister, don't you like me too? Jang Sung-won said cheekily, and reached out and gently grabbed Ha Ji Won's beautiful fingers, and then let go immediately.
Seeing that Zhang Chengyuan was such a scoundrel, Ha Ji Yuan had to shake his head and smile: "You are still like this!" After changing the topic, he continued: "I like this little sister very much, wait for you to introduce me later." ”
Zhang Chengyuan nodded, and suddenly said, "Don't wait, she's already here." It turned out that he had already seen Wen Genying.
At this time, Wen Genying was walking towards the area where Zhang Chengyuan was, probably to see if Zhang Chengyuan was here. Zhang Chengyuan immediately stood up and beckoned to her, and Wen Genying immediately recognized him, after all, with his tall and eye-catching figure, it was relatively easy to recognize him in the crowd. Wen Genying lowered his head and walked briskly towards Zhang Chengyuan, smiled and nodded when he saw someone he knew, and after a while, he was in front of Zhang Chengyuan.
When he got closer, Zhang Chengyuan took a closer look, only to find that Wen Genying's current dress was a little different from usual, first he coiled his hair up, revealing a smooth forehead, and his face was also wearing light makeup, wearing an elegant necklace around his neck, wearing an off-the-shoulder flowered skirt, the bottom of the skirt was only slightly above the knee, and the entire slender and smooth calf was unobstructed, and the whole person seemed to be much more feminine than before, Zhang Chengyuan was stunned unconsciously.
Ha Ji Won gently touched Jang Sung Won with his shoulder, and Jang Sung Won woke up and said, "Gen Young, this is Ha Ji Won's sister and my good friend, you can get to know her well." ”
How could Wen Geunying not recognize the powerful actor Ha Ji Won, but he hadn't dealt with it, he immediately nodded obediently, and was about to salute, Ha Ji Won had already stepped forward to hug her, and said cordially: "Don't be too polite, we will be friends in the future, I will call you Sister Genying, you can call me Sister Hailin." ”
Zhang Chengyuan explained: "Sister Zhiyuan's real name is Tian Hailin, she is like a sister and brother to me, and you will treat her as a sister in the future." ”
Wen Genying really trusted Zhang Chengyuan too much, and as soon as he heard Zhang Chengyuan's instructions, he immediately shouted at Ha Zhiyuan sincerely: "Sister Hailin! ”
Ha Ji Won pulled Moon Geun Young to sit beside her and talked to her intimately, I don't know if the two of them trust Jang Sung Won too much, or they have already heard of each other's character, or out of intuition between women, anyway, just for a while, Ha Ji Won and Moon Geun Young seem to be really close as sisters.