Chapter 346: Overt and covert attacks
An hour later.
Xu Kun held the crystal cup of the 'Most Popular Male and Female Artist Award' and walked off the stage in a strange atmosphere.
Although he had known that the name of the trophy had been changed, this was like a bombshell to most people at the scene, so much so that many people forgot to applaud.
Amid the sparse applause, the atmosphere seemed very strange.
The eyes of countless people at the scene were wandering between Xu Kun and Li Youbin. Some media people's eyes were shining, and they wished that the award ceremony would end immediately so that they could block the parties involved and dig deeper into the matter.
On the side of the "Zhu Yuanzhang" crew, Ning Jing had already heard Xu Kun talk about the name change of the award. Curiously, he asked for the crystal cup and took a look at it. He asked with a smile: "Is your trophy a rare one?"
"It's hard to say. Even if the next Golden Eagle Awards restore the 'Most Popular Actor and Actress Award' while not canceling the 'Most Popular Actor and Actress Award', I wouldn't be surprised at all - isn't that how the 'Best Performing Arts Award' came about?"
"This Golden Eagle is becoming increasingly chaotic."
“It should be said that the three major awards are all quite chaotic, with the Feitian Award being slightly better, but it is too biased towards ZZ being correct.”
As he was talking, a middle-aged staff member came up to him, bent down and said to Xu Kun, "Director Xu, the higher-ups are worried that there might be some trouble, so they want you to leave early. What do you think..."
As he spoke, he raised his head and looked towards the back row nervously.
"Leaving early?"
When Xu Kun saw his actions, he subconsciously looked back and saw the media people in the back row rubbing their hands in preparation, like sharks that smelled blood.
If you get entangled with these people, it is not easy to get away. If you are not careful, you may miss your flight to Hangzhou.
But Xu Kun hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and refused: "Forget it. If I am not there when Mr. Li Youbin goes on stage to receive the award, I don't know how the media will report it later."
At this point, the entire award ceremony was only halfway through, and next there were awards for host, documentary, animation, etc. to be presented.
The finale was Li Youbin's 'Best Performing Arts Award'.
"This……"
The man looked embarrassed, hesitant to speak, and seemed to want to persuade him a little more.
Seeing this, Xu Kun took out his cell phone and said, "How about this, I won't make it difficult for you. Is it the intention of the organizing committee leader or Hunan TV? I'll call and explain it to you."
"no, I'm fine!"
The man waved his hand and said, "I'll go back and tell them to send as many security guards as possible to clear the way for you."
Having said that, he left in a hurry.
Xu Kun looked at his flustered back and always felt that something was wrong.
After hesitating for a while, he finally sent a text message to the leader of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Director Ouyang respectively. A few minutes later, both sides rejected the arrangement of letting him leave early.
It is true that when you are famous you are prone to gossip. If I had really agreed to leave early, I would have fallen into the trap of some people.
After hearing what Xu Kun had just said, Ning Jing and Bao Qiang beside him found it unbelievable.
No matter how chaotic it is, this is still the Golden Eagle Awards, an event jointly organized by the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Television Association and Hunan TV. Aren't you afraid of offending the abbot by doing such a trick at the award ceremony?
"That requires catching people."
Xu Kun shook his head slightly. In fact, he had some darker guesses in his mind - although the organizer claimed that there was no arrangement, did this really have nothing to do with the organizer?
The Golden Eagle Awards are now doing almost anything to increase their popularity, and if someone leaves the awards ceremony early on the day, it will undoubtedly cause a bigger sensation.
However, if this kind of speculation were to be made public, it would only offend people.
Perhaps she noticed something "unusual" from Xu Kun's text message. When Dong Qing went on stage to receive the "Best TV Host Award", Director Ouyang called her personally.
He stated that after the award ceremony, he would deploy sufficient security personnel to ensure that Xu Kun was escorted out smoothly, and then he repeatedly apologized to Xu Kun for the chaotic on-site management.
Faced with this attitude, what else can Xu Kun say?
Naturally, he could only lift it high and let it go. But what Xu Kun didn't expect was that he got a surprise right after that - he won the award for the 'TV Commercial' category, and the winning advertisement was 'E280 Kung Fu Edition'.
When the pair of long legs were frozen on the big screen, Tang Yan felt excited, proud and a little embarrassed. When he found that the camera was scanning towards him, he subconsciously shrank his neck, and when he reacted, he smiled and waved at the camera.
Xu Kun, who has already won two "Best Actor" awards, seemed to be at ease when he went on stage to receive the award again.
He simply thanked the organizing committee and the sponsor, as well as Liu Haibo for his efforts, and then returned to the stage with the gold medal.
Another half hour passed.
Finally, it was time for the finale of the 'Best Performing Arts Award'. When several nominees were announced on the stage, the camera was frequently focused on Xu Kun.
Even the most popular candidate 'Lee Yoo-bin' did not receive this treatment, as if it was hinting that he would win the triple Best Actor award.
Xu Kun, who was well prepared, also cooperated by pretending to be a little nervous.
When the award presenter called out "The winner is Li Youbin," they immediately applauded enthusiastically, and when Li Youbin passed by, they stretched out their hands across Ning Jing to express their congratulations to him.
During Li Youbin's five-minute acceptance speech, Xu Kun was not the most excited person in the audience, but he was definitely the one with the most appropriate smile.
In just five minutes, he felt the muscles on his face were a little sore. This award ceremony was more tiring than filming a movie.
Fortunately, Director Ouyang kept his word and arranged a dozen security guards to clear the way. Liu Yifei, who was at the front, attracted a lot of firepower. When the show ended, Xu Kun finally avoided suffering a second punishment.
Only after he and Baoqiang got on the car bound for the airport did Xu Kun finally relax.
Baoqiang is still brooding over the conspiracy at the award ceremony and feels that the entertainment industry is becoming more and more complicated.
"Look at what you said. When we were extras in the past, weren't we cheated less by the lighting master, props, and assistant director? Although no one dares to offend us in front of us now, there are even more people who are jealous behind our backs."
Xu Kun raised four fingers to Bao Qiang and said, "I can earn about this much this year. If you earn more, others will naturally earn less. If not you, who else should I target?"
Including the income from movie investments, he could make over 4000 million for the whole year, and that's without actively performing for other companies. If he were really focused on making money, it's possible that he could make over million for the whole year.
No wonder everyone is scrambling to become famous.
"Seriously."
Seeing Baoqiang's eyes almost popping out of his head in shock, Xu Kun asked sternly, "What are you going to do with your next film? Do you want to try to convert your salary into commissions?"
Baoqiang nodded without hesitation, and then asked: "I have saved more than two million this year, can I invest it as well?"
"You kid didn't make it? What if..."
"Then I admit it."
Bao Qiang said seriously: "If it were someone else, I would definitely not trust him, but following you, Brother Kun, even if it is... I don't care!"
"You kid..."
Xu Kun hooked his neck tightly and said with a smile: "Don't worry, even if we lose this little money this time... we can earn it back ten times or a hundred times in the future!"
It's no wonder that many big stars are fooled by Master Wang. Even people like Xu Kun and Bao Qiang who don't believe in superstitions will deliberately avoid using words like "losing money" and "movie flop" when talking about it, which shows the level of superstition in this industry.
As he was speaking, Xu Kun suddenly received a call from Chen Shu.
Ever since he left the set of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in anger, he never contacted Xu Kun again. This time he suddenly called him again, and Xu Kun always felt that it was not a good thing.
After answering the phone, I heard Chen Shu express his desire to visit the set of "Assembly" and said that he wanted to see with his own eyes what the performance of the heroine chosen by Director Feng to replace him would be like.
Tsk~
Isn't this just causing trouble?
But after all, he got more than a dozen poses for free, so Xu Kun couldn't refuse. He could only say that Qin Lan hadn't joined the group yet and just give him a perfunctory answer for the time being.
(End of this chapter)
