Becoming a Movie Star, System Only Finished Loading After Ten Years
Chapter 52 - 0052 Just Consider It Robbing the Rich to Help the Poor (Request for Monthly Votes)

Chapter 52: Chapter 0052 Just Consider It Robbing the Rich to Help the Poor (Request for Monthly Votes)

"Playing in ’Oath of Allegiance’, Li Lianjie won Best Actor, and Liu Dehua won Best Supporting Actor. Do you feel unbalanced?"

The media saw the interview time running out and hurriedly asked a few more questions.

"Maybe a little bit. They promised to buy me something delicious if they won, but they haven’t fulfilled that yet."

Qi Hao cooperated well with the media, cracking a joke with humor.

He used a humble approach to show off, also demonstrating a good relationship with Li Lianjie and Liu Dehua, indicating no jealousy towards them.

If Li Lianjie and Liu Dehua saw this interview, even if there was no such promise, they would definitely invite Qi Hao for a meal.

"During the Golden Image Award, An Feng spoke up for you. Is there anything you’d like to say to her?"

"Doesn’t seem like there’s much to say, we’re friends, it’s normal to help each other."

There’s really nothing much to thank for.

Qi Hao thought if An Feng faced the same situation as he did, no, he should say if any of his rumored girlfriends faced similar circumstances, he would also try his best to speak well for them.

After all, such negative rumors are truly outrageous.

They must be fake.

In this line of work, loyalty is important; if you support your brothers, they’ll speak up for you.

"Li Xue’xue said she doesn’t want to talk about topics related to you. What happened between you two?"

In the past, people were only speculating, saying Qi Hao and Li Xue’xue turned from love to hate.

Unfortunately, there was no evidence.

This time, Li Xue’xue’s performance at the Golden Image Award revealed too much.

So the media can’t be blamed for being persistent.

"Mainly because there are just too many of these topics. I can understand her quite well. Xue’xue is a good girl who pours her heart into her work."

Qi Hao said earnestly.

Since ancient times, tricks can’t be relied on; only sincerity can win hearts.

Just because I don’t like Li Xue’xue doesn’t mean she’s not good.

The media was speechless.

Suddenly feeling a little touched, what should they do?

Regardless of how Qi Hao and his rumored girlfriends started or ended, these rumored girlfriends basically defend him unconditionally, and Qi Hao never speaks ill of them.

Even though he knows these people are riding his popularity.

After the interview, the crew couldn’t continue filming, so everyone went home early.

Qi Hao’s mind was filled with knowledge, making his head ache a bit, so he simply ate something and lay on the bed.

Nowadays, instead of choosing the system’s training NPC, you can also go random.

Thus, Qi Hao didn’t wait until after attending the Beijing College Student Film Festival to complete this task.

At worst, just go random.

[Task Eleven completed, reward received: Script +10, song ’It’s Not a Sin for a Man to Cry’, initial career funding of 100,000 RMB]

[Task completed, training opportunity gained]

[Training NPC choice of three: Hu Ge / Liu Shishi / Huang Zhiwei]

[Initiating new task now]

[Task Twelve: As a celebrity, maintaining your glamorous screen image requires painstaking effort, and engaging in charity work is undoubtedly the best choice. The host might as well participate in a real charity event. Task difficulty: 4 stars, deadline: 90 days]

[Task completion rewards: Stamina +10, script ’Pleasant Goat and Big Gray Wolf’, Mrs. Hua Brothers’ shares 4.6% (about 271,000 shares, worth 750,000)]

What is this?

Mrs. Hua Brothers’ shares, valued at 750,000.

You are really generous.

Back in 2000, where would I get such a huge sum of 750,000...

Hmm, maybe not impossible, the system has given start-up funds several times, I also have wages from acting, plus there are songs and scripts, whether to sell or film, there’s a fair bit of scriptwriting and creation fees.

But the issue arises.

Why Mrs. Hua?

Darn it, Qi Hao dislikes Mrs. Hua the most, how can he become their shareholder!

Can it be changed to Penguin?

If not Penguin, Nokia will do. Qi Hao’s whole family uses Nokia.

Qi Hao has no specific grudges with Mrs. Hua.

He just finds her unpleasant to look at.

He debuted in 1997 and watched Mrs. Hua rise from her founding to prominence.

At her peak, Mrs. Hua’s agency business controlled more than half of the mainland’s stars, with big-name entertainment stars almost all at her fingertips.

In the entertainment industry, she was a force to be reckoned with.

From media to celebrities, to film business and political connections, Mrs. Hua built a heavy wall, oppressing other film companies hard to breathe.

Wild stars like Qi Hao could only survive in the cracks.

Some even say, the movie world from a clear stream to a polluted mess is greatly related to Mrs. Hua.

Before the year 2000 in the film industry, there were no mistresses or sugar daddies, or all sorts of outrageous scandals.

Back then, most celebrities came from art troupes, valuing the actor’s image.

Qi Hao doesn’t think Mrs. Hua should bear such a heavy responsibility.

In any industry, as long as resource concentration occurs, there will be various unspoken rules.

Even saying art troupe background, it may not be without such things inside.

But Mrs. Hua’s domineering and unscrupulous ways were well-known to Qi Hao. He had witnessed them too many times, and when he received simultaneous invitations, he preferred to join Ziwen rather than Mrs. Hua.

After terminating the contract with Ziwen, Mrs. Hua repeatedly sent people to get in touch with Old Tian.

According to Old Tian, both Wang Chonglei and Wang Chongjun had invited him for tea.

After all, Mrs. Hua was planning an IPO, and bringing in a young film emperor would be beneficial for the public offering.

However, Qi Hao never considered joining Mrs. Hua.

He felt disgusted!

Making movies is unavoidable; the industry is so small, having overlaps is normal, but asking him to spend money to buy shares in Mrs. Hua’s business, he definitely wouldn’t do it.

Not in this lifetime!

Qi Hao turned over and opened his laptop.

4.6%, 2.71 million shares, valued at 750,000...

This price definitely wasn’t from a recent purchase, it must have been around the year 2000.

Qi Hao checked, and indeed there had been several financings by Mrs. Hua.

What was clear was that Qi Hao’s former... rumored girlfriend Li Xue’xue had bought shares in Mrs. Hua’s company.

In 2007, she invested 189,300 yuan to acquire 360,000 shares of Mrs. Hua Brothers, accounting for 0.2857%, at a cost of only 0.53 yuan per share.

Although Li Xue’xue was a signed artist with Mrs. Hua’s company, purchasing shares wouldn’t come with much of a discount, since Mrs. Hua wasn’t solely owned by the Wang brothers; they had to account for other shareholders as well.

This price might just be the market price then.

According to this unit price calculation, Qi Hao’s 2.71 million shares were roughly valued at 1.42 million yuan.

But the price the system helped Qi Hao purchase at wasn’t from 2007.

That’s why he could buy them for just 750,000.

Another issue was that according to Li Xue’xue’s purchase price and proportion, the 2.71 million shares should account for 2.15%, not the 4.6% the system mentioned.

This isn’t hard to understand either.

Share proportion can slowly get diluted, but the number of shares generally doesn’t change, unless there’s a stock split.

The proportion Qi Hao holds in Penguin now isn’t 0.1% either; it’s been diluted a lot over time.

But the figure of 6.3 million shares is something that won’t change in a short time.

Receiving a reward of 1.42 million yuan, in a way, shows how generous the system is.

Qi Hao didn’t dwell too long.

Isn’t it just doing charity?

Simply put, volunteering in the community counts as charity.

But since the system mentioned doing "real" charity and emphasized the issue of celebrity image, it meant it had to be done properly, and the money must be spent rightly.

At least it can’t be done perfunctorily.

If it were one or two years after debuting, as an extra, it was indeed hard to get charity invitations, but at his current status, he gets countless invitations every year.

If worse comes to worst, he could just donate the money received from Mrs. Hua.

Using the ill-gotten wealth of Mrs. Hua to help those in need.

Consider it robbing the rich to aid the poor.

Moreover, if one day Qi Hao offends Mrs. Hua...

Given Mrs. Hua’s nature, she would certainly deal with Qi Hao.

Yet a sudden realization struck him: Qi Hao was actually a shareholder in our family.

How could they target him then?

If other shareholders saw the founder going after a shareholder, everyone would be on edge, not likely standing idly by.

It would affect the IPO, would affect the stock price.

The initial feeling of having swallowed a dead fly slowly melted away, replaced by the sensation of grasping Mrs. Hua’s Achilles’ heel.

Of course, Qi Hao wasn’t arrogant enough to think that with a mere 2.15% of shares, he could sway the Wang brothers.

Next was selecting the NPC for training.

Hu Ge/Liu Shishi/Huang Zhiwei, Huang Zhiwei was the guy who played Chonglou, his acting was decent, but not exceptional.

Qi Hao decisively chose to give up.

Then the system quickly refreshed, stopping at He Jiaju/Cheng Kui’an/Shen Wei.

These three...

Qi Hao quickly understood the system’s purpose behind randomly selecting these actors.

All three were professional villains in the Xiangjiang film scene.

He Jiaju’s villainous roles were so renowned in Xiangjiang that he was dubbed the chief among the "Four Great Villains" of the entertainment circle, also known for his "三級猛男" reputation, with his most notorious character from "Massacre".

Cheng Kui’an was blunt, a simpleton villain, not quite on par with He Jiaju.

The third, Shen Wei, wasn’t as famous as He Jiaju, Cheng Kui’an, Li Zhaoji, or Huang Guangliang, and wasn’t as well known as Shi Jian, Zhang Yaoyang, Long Fang, Wang Xiao, or Wu Yijiang, but his acting still shouldn’t be overlooked.

He once won the 4th Golden Image Award for Best Supporting Actor, beating nominees like Chu Yuan, Tai Bao, Chen You, and Zhang Guozhu.

Qi Hao selected Shen Wei from among them.

He Jiaju was indeed the most famous, but his performance was somewhat over the top, many of his villain roles succeeded due to his own intense persona.

There wasn’t much Qi Hao could learn from him, he simply couldn’t muster the courage to try.

Meanwhile, Shen Wei was hailed as a generation’s scoundrel; although not very famous, his acting was quite solid. As a "green leaf" beside superstars, he played many memorable roles, with his unique looks leaving a lasting impression, especially adept at portraying treacherous, unscrupulous characters vividly.

It is worth mentioning that Shen Wei transitioned to behind-the-scenes work in the 1990s. His self-written, directed, and acted film "Jianghu’s Last Mobster" at TVB was one of Zhou Xingxing’s early underrated works.

This movie was also quite good.

In any case, Qi Hao didn’t choose Shen Wei to tattoo Wang Zuoxian.