Your Rival in Love Gets Prettier Every Day

Chapter 52: Husband Powder is Coming

The original script of <Welcome Rain on a Spring Night> was very well written. It was warm, restrained and touching. However, Shen Jintai also understood why after Qiu Hong wrote this script, he had not been able to find investors for it. The plot was too plain and dull. There were very few ups and downs. Although the story was moving, it wasn't a good film for the box office.

If this movie was made, it probably wouldn't attract much attention and will result in poor box office numbers. Shen Jintai felt that if he starred in the movie, the result might be different. With his own heat and topicality, he could push the movie to become more visible and garner more attention to it.

After he told Li Meilan, Li Meilan was surprised and asked: "Didn't you say you were going to reject it?"

Shen Jintai: "The script is not the original one. It's a completely new story. I'll send it to you."

After reading it, Li Meilan cried and said: "It's so touching."

Shen Jintai: "This script is very good, right?"

Using her professional vision, Li Meilan said: "It's more suitable to be a novel than a movie. Regardless, if you decide to pick it up, I will agree. My mother died of , and it was portrayed very realistically. Qiu Hong should be someone who had experienced it."

Shen Jintai: "Sort out the schedule required for <The East Palace is Coming> and let me take a look at it. I'll be able to give Director Qiu a more specific time."

Li Meilan nodded: "Jintai, I think you will definitely become a good actor in the future."

Shen Jintai smiled and said: "You can tell?"

Li Meilan chuckled: "At first, I thought you only participated in The East Palace to make money. You had never liked acting. I sometimes think we had too little contact in the past two years that we almost lost touched. I wasn't sure if something traumatic happened to you. Thinking about it, I couldn't help but pity you. I know my abilities are average compared with other agents. When you signed with Monsoon, you could have picked a better agent, but you still stay with me and Xiao Tang. I really thank you." Her smile and eyes were sincere after she finished speaking.

"I am a nostalgic person." Shen Jintai said: "I will be a big star and a good actor in the future. We'll go on this path together. We're all facing a new and unfamiliar stage. Let's learn and make progress together."

Shen Jintai had a very rational side. Despite not liking hyping and marketing, he would still wholeheartedly cooperate in them because he knows it was required in this kind of industry. A white lotus can't survive here. Despite that rationale, he was still sentimental. Knowing he could change to a more capable agent, he still chose to go with Li Meilan.

Sometimes he would lose his bottom line, but he still had kept some of his humanity. He would never cross the line and blacken his heart like in Vanity Fair*.

*Vanity Fair (名利场) = I believe this is referring to the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. The book depicts a picture of arrogance and intrigue of the upper class. It ruthlessly exposes the nature of the feudal aristocracy's shamelessness, depravity, hypocrisies and the bourgeoisie's pursuit of fame, wealth, and intrigues.

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Fang Yun had been in the company for several years. She started as an entry level assistant serving tea, and step by step climbed the ladder to achieve the position of senior assistant today. Now that Gao Qiao was sent away for business, she had become the executive assistant.

Recently, the company's workload had been particularly heavy, and it kept increasing for two consecutive days. The first few days were fine but today was when the new episodes of The East Palace would broadcast.