Becoming a Movie Star, System Only Finished Loading After Ten Years
Chapter 144 - 141: Improving Education? (Request for Double Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 144: Chapter 141: Improving Education? (Request for Double Monthly Tickets)

Stocks, stocks again!

Unfortunately, this time the task difficulty is a bit off the charts.

Improve education?

This seems not too hard, after all, given my potential in education, with just a middle school degree, I could easily achieve a significant upgrade.

Plus, there’s the cheat-level tool of Sven Glasses.

However, having great potential also has its downside.

Without a high school or equivalent degree, you can’t take the regular college entrance exam.

Even for the adult college entrance exam, you need to provide proof of a high school or equivalent degree to participate.

Of course, faking a high school diploma is quite easy.

Especially considering Qi Hao’s parents are both teachers, it’s ridiculously easy to forge a high school diploma.

However, Qi Hao is a public figure.

Everyone knows he’s a middle schooler. If he dares to take the college entrance exam, regardless of the type, he’d be exposed down to his shorts.

But there must be a way.

Qi Hao isn’t in a hurry; he decides to have Zhang Nan look into it.

Zhang Nan has always hoped his boss would be ambitious, believing he needs to learn some cultural knowledge. If he wants to continue improving his education, Zhang Nan will definitely support him.

In fact, after learning of Qi Hao’s intention to improve his education, Zhang Nan sent appropriate routes over the next day.

He really can’t take the regular college entrance exams.

Adult college entrance exams are also out of the question.

All require a high school or equivalent degree, which is isn’t advisable to shortcut or avoid.

Zhang Nan proposed two routes.

One is simply to attend a secondary school. Given Qi Hao’s keen interest in martial arts, he suggested Qi Hao could apply to the Shichahai Martial Arts School, which is a secondary school qualification.

Virtually no need to take an entrance exam to get in.

However, after getting in, Shichahai might require attending classes, which needs confirmation during the day.

Then there’s the self-study exam, which is very straightforward.

Self-study exams are organized by universities and are part of adult education available everywhere, offering degrees at associate and bachelor’s levels which are recognized by the state.

Of course, its diploma is different from full-time college and university bachelor’s diplomas.

The good thing is you don’t have to attend classes.

These are basically test-free admissions, equivalent to buying a diploma — just visit the school a few times a year and complete exams to get the diploma.

However, even self-study for a bachelor’s seems to require proof of high school or higher level qualification.

For Qi Hao, he could only receive an associate degree.

Self-study associate degrees typically require 12 to 16 courses, with a maximum of eight courses per year. If each exam is passed smoothly, all courses can be completed in 1.5 years at the fastest.

If pursuing higher education through self-study, Zhang Nan suggested Qi Hao select Beijing Film Academy.

Because among the three major schools, only Beijing Film Academy allows self-study at the associate level.

The best choice for major is Film Acting Art (associate degree).

As for why film acting art, well, because damn it, this year it only offers these two majors to choose from, the other is Film Art Design (associate degree).

Self-study registration is from February 25 to February 29 this year, still in time to take the formal exams on April 13 and 14. The second half self-study schedule is registration from September 1 to 5, with formal exams on October 26 and 27.

Qi Hao thought about it and decided to choose this.

He asked Zhang Nan to quickly sign him up, hoping he could catch the April exams.

As for whether he can pass the exam...

My god, underestimating Qi Hao’s current knowledge reserve way too much.

Even without studying, Qi Hao estimates he could directly pass the exam.

After all, self-study exams require only a 60 points pass — anything more is a waste.

The deadline for completing the task is a year’s time.

Qi Hao wouldn’t be anxious.

The last task clearly showed that completing the system doesn’t require finishing everything, just achieving a certain extent.

Registration likely won’t make it, but participating in the first round of exams will definitely meet the requirements.

Meaning the task can be completed in April or May.

The system gave a year limit, considering the host’s first exam time.

Otherwise, if Qi Hao were to go for an associate-to-bachelor transfer exam, it wouldn’t be possible to complete the task in less than four or five years.

With this task settled, Qi Hao officially begins work.

Work, to persecute righteous people.

How on earth is one supposed to get into this role, it’s barely conceivable.

Once brought into the mindset that he’s a leader to persecute righteous people for family honor, Qi Hao would want to grab a katana and slash himself.

Those Neon people, especially the descendants of war criminals, where do they get the courage to live!

An Feng and Qi Hao don’t have scenes together; she finished shooting her parts and left.

Because she took on ’First Love, This Little Thing’, she couldn’t commit to anything else.

She even rejected Wang Lihong’s invite to collaborate.

It wasn’t doable—time-wise conflicts arose, even though they promised to wait for her schedule, she still declined.

These youthful films, acting in one is enough — acting in two in a year is too many.

Just right, she could use this time for traveling.

After experiencing so many things, especially the online backlash a few years ago, An Feng already started to love traveling.

Letting go of all mundane worries, enjoying a joyful life.

Unfortunately, Qi Hao still has to keep hustling.

Qi Hao’s first scene is shot with Wang Zhiwen.

Wang Zhiwen plays the special services director of puppet forces in this film, he’s Takeda’s henchman and executioner of torture.

Although in the film, he is Qi Hao’s henchman, acting opposite such a veteran actor actually best showcases the strength of an idol actor; one wrong step from Qi Hao, and he could become a mere foil.

Fortunately...

Qi Hao has long been accustomed to acting opposite Wang Zhiwen.

He’s "favored" Wang Zhiwen for at least five or six "eight hours," mainly learning lines from him, and incidentally learning some acting.

Gao Qunshu quietly sought out Wang Zhiwen before filming.

He asked him to show mercy.

Not to overshadow Qi Hao during the filming process.

For a star like Qi Hao, who already has capital backing, overshadowing him would only bring temporary satisfaction but would be unwise in the long run.

Wang Zhiwen, of course, agreed readily.

But the result was...

When filming began, Wang Zhiwen realized he couldn’t overshadow him at all.

Qi Hao was not a bit inferior when acting opposite him.

Because he deliberately lowered his expectations for performance, he nearly got played by Qi Hao.

"Have you two collaborated before?"

Gao Qunshu couldn’t figure out whether he had underestimated Qi Hao or overestimated Wang Zhiwen.

In his impression, Qi Hao should be far inferior to Wang Zhiwen.

Qi Hao is the Golden Rooster Best Actor, but Wang Zhiwen is no less.

He’s the Best Supporting Actor for the Hundred Flowers Awards, Golden Rooster Best Supporting Actor, Feitian Best Actor, Magnolia Best Actor...

Moreover, awards belong to niche categories and cannot truly be a standard for judging acting skills. Ask anyone, even Qi Hao’s fans, and none would say Qi Hao’s acting is better than Wang Zhiwen’s.

"Not really..." Wang Zhiwen too was a bit stunned.

"Hey, hey, hey, that’s not fair. ’Jing Ke Stabs the King of Qin,’ why wouldn’t that count as collaboration?"

Upon hearing this, Qi Hao was displeased.

I even served as your best man, if it weren’t for me drinking the toast, you likely wouldn’t have made it to the bride lying there.

"We didn’t have much scene together then," Wang Zhiwen was referring to acting opposite each other.

He wanted to ask Qi Hao why the chemistry felt so seamless, like they frequently acted together before.

Could it be that we are the best partners?

"Wen, I’ve watched almost all your works and often studied them privately, that might be why."

Qi Hao cooked up an explanation.

These days, the first pairing, second, even third, is possible.

But like him and Wang Zhiwen, spending forty or fifty hours together is indeed rare, feeling seamless is natural, just like an old married couple.

"Enough, you both better perform well, let’s finish filming quickly."

Gao Qunshu was uninterested in their private dealings; with such chemistry, better to finish their scenes promptly.

Progress for the upcoming shoots should advance accordingly.

It’s just uncertain if Qi Hao and Li Xue’xue have any chemistry.

Haven’t they been rumored together?

They share a brotherhood bond, surely they’re even more in sync.

The segment involving corporal punishment seems to be worry-free.

"Commander, please!" Wang Zhiwen bowed, face full of flattery.

"Huang Jun won’t forget your contributions." Qi Hao patted his shoulder, and the two walked into the frame.

The soldier moved behind the table to sit down, letting the traitorous thug put a blood-stained codebook on the table.

The soldier showed a face full of disdain.

Gao Qunshu was tough to watch, his fists hardened, wanting to directly hammer the actor playing Takeda.

Qi Hao actually couldn’t get into character either.

However, acting doesn’t necessarily require full immersion.

Empathy, imagination, analysis...

Coupled with increasingly powerful training systems, Qi Hao easily grasped Takeda’s character.

The only pity was that he didn’t know Japanese.

Languages aren’t learned instantly through visuals alone.

However, this also didn’t matter, as it became a trend to let Neon People play Neon characters recently, before it was Huaxia People, none learned Japanese.

Unfortunately, Qi Hao and Wang Zhiwen have many scenes together, which can’t be finished in just a day or two.

Qi Hao filmed in Jinmen but occasionally went home for lunch since the old filming house was very close to his home.

As February approached, Qi Hao’s new album was released.

Qi Hao brought some to distribute to the actors and staff in the crew.

Judging by the look, the packaging was delicately crafted, nothing like a garbage product made just for cash grabs.

More importantly, the songs within the album.

"This Life Will Not Change," "Where Has the Time Gone," "Why Bother Being Together," "Excessive Explanation," "Old Street," "Model."

A mini-album with six songs.

Full of sincerity!

Not all are masterpieces, but none lack those that could make everyone keen-eyed.

Especially "This Life Will Not Change," "Where Has the Time Gone," "Model."

As soon as they debuted, they generated widespread heat.

Praised by music lovers as the most surprising few songs at the start of 2009.

Concurrently, after 2007’s "A Cow’s World of Imagination," Liu Dehua launched his 2009 new album "Hope and Love."

To put it bluntly, "Hope and Love" was thoroughly overshadowed by Qi Hao’s mini-album "This Life Will Not Change."