After Qiu Zhenlong gave Xiao He such an inhumane order, the other actors around him subtly cast pitying glances at the young man in the middle.

Tsk tsk, I wonder what Xiao He did to offend Director Qiu. It seems like Director Qiu's attitude towards Xiao He has always been terrible...

In fact, this was not the first time that Director Qiu had said such harsh words to Xiao He.

As early as a few days ago at the reading session, Qiu Zhenlong had already warned Xiao He very seriously that the reading session was very important. Their "Imperial Ambition" crew would be recording live, and they would absolutely not find any other voice actors for Xiao He in post-production. Therefore, he had to memorize the lines he was supposed to. If there were any problems, it would only waste everyone's time.

If even the protagonist Xiao He is not allowed to use a voice actor, then naturally everyone else will be treated the same way.

It is indeed a bit strange to single out Xiao He.

Therefore, almost everyone on the set knew that Director Qiu had a problem with Xiao He.

However, what is puzzling is that if Director Qiu was not satisfied with Xiao He, why did he still choose Xiao He as the male lead?

With so many final candidates, if Director Qiu wasn't satisfied with Xiao He, he could have easily replaced him...

While others were puzzled, Xiao He, the person involved, did not show much reaction. Instead, he nodded very seriously, looking calm and composed: "Okay, Director Qiu."

Immediately, everyone else was filled with awe and respect.

Xiao He has such a good temper! He doesn't even seem angry at all...

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"Director Qiu has quite a problem with your artists."

In an empty seat nearby, He Wenming crossed his arms and said, half-jokingly and half-reminder, "Didn't you ask around to find out what's going on?"

"What's the point of asking?"

Liu Rulan also crossed her arms, bent one leg to shift her weight, and looked completely unconcerned. "Since they've let us act, what happens on set is none of our business."

Moreover, Qiu Zhenlong's current actions have not had a substantial impact on Xiao He. On the contrary, they seem to be helping Xiao He gain momentum. If Xiao He cannot accept those demands, it will naturally be embarrassing for him. But if Xiao He accepts them all and completes the task smoothly, then Xiao He's prestige in the crew will be established immediately.

After all, there are many actors in this production crew who consider themselves veteran actors and senior members. It is no easy task for Xiao He to play a young emperor who surpasses them in every aspect.

Instead, Director Qiu took advantage of the start of filming to include a "coronation ceremony" scene, directly having Xiao He "ascend the throne" as the emperor, immediately suppressing everyone's arrogance and forcing them to "kneel and submit"...

In a sense, it was Director Qiu who gave Xiao He a push, allowing him to establish a good reputation within the crew from the very beginning.

Therefore, Liu Rulan was not worried at all about Xiao He's current situation. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

There was even a hint of schadenfreude in it.

He Wenming understood Liu Rulan's calm logic and leaned to the side, saying with a smile, "You're not worried at all that Xiao He won't be able to handle Director Qiu's 'favoritism'."

"After all these years, I still have some skills."

Liu Rulan waved her hand casually, shifting her gaze from Xiao He in the center of the set, then passing through the crowd to look directly at a corner on the other side of the set.

Another agent, besides them, was also standing in the shadows, watching the actors on set without saying a word.

"It's not surprising that Yun Ziqi poached her to be his agent."

Liu Rulan wasn't worried about her artist at all; instead, she shifted the topic to the agent.

She looked at the woman and couldn't help but let out a disdainful sneer. "What do you think he's thinking? He can't possibly be planning to call in a dirty agent and then keep trying to snatch the lead role, can he?"

He Wenming's gaze naturally followed hers, and then he sighed, "She really came. I had only heard about her before; this is the first time I've seen her in person."

The person they are looking at right now is Yun Ziqi's new agent, An Laijia.

As agents, they know a little more than the artists themselves.

An Laijia's current state is a result of an incident from her time in the Korean entertainment industry, but it's something she brought upon herself—

If the Chinese entertainment industry was a fertile market that had not yet been fully developed, then the Korean entertainment industry, both then and now, is a ruthless hunting ground. In particular, the competition within girl groups is like a small society outside the law, with terrifyingly vicious competition.

The water there is very deep; you could say there's nothing they can't do, only things you can't imagine.

As for the origin of all that, it all started when Anlaijia itself started harming others: the actual situation wasn't complicated, it was just using hormone drugs to harm its competitors.

She probably never imagined that she would offend someone she shouldn't have, and end up in an even worse situation, forced to leave in a sorry state, and even had to come to China to find another way out... In the past, if we had to say, no one was a good person. An Laijia was both a victim and a perpetrator.

So instead of settling scores with the people from back then, she took the hush money and became a manager. Taking advantage of the rise of idol culture in China at the time, she came to the country to cooperate with a management company and established a brand new girl group. Then, she successfully became a highly sought-after top manager in the industry by leveraging the development of this new girl group.

Her approach is entirely based on idol marketing. The girl group she manages has an internal competition that is almost a one-to-one replica of the Korean groups of yesteryear. Even though she was one of the victims of those mechanisms and rules back then, she now seems to enjoy it and is eager for her girl group members and their respective fans to fight it out, to unleash everyone's wildness, and to make fans spend money like crazy to boost their rankings.

Within their fan circle, there are major arguments every three days, minor arguments every two days, and internal arguments every other day... It's a truly terrifying and chaotic situation.

The end result was that the girl group fell apart in less than three years. However, An Laijia had already taken her promising talents and gone solo, established a new studio, and then squeezed the last bit of value from the former girl group, allowing her promising talents to climb up by stepping on others and greedily profiting from others' misfortunes.

It's no exaggeration to say that this woman's methods were both dirty and ruthless; even Liu Rulan was ashamed of herself after hearing about some of her actions.

Fortunately, because the artists they managed were in different fields—Liu Rulan mainly managed actors, while An Laijia managed idol singers—there was usually no conflict of interest, so the two sides were always in a delicate state of not wanting to meet.

Other agents in the industry have also heard about Anlaijia's affairs and are quite wary of her.

After all, who in this industry doesn't want a good reputation?

If this woman bites you, the wound is like a mixture of excrement and yellow, red and yellow. {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} It hurts when you cut it, it's filthy when you wash it, it leaves a scar, and it's disgusting.

So when people see this crazy woman, they usually just walk around her.