225: Chapter 225 True Rampage

Lin Chuyan was completely stunned by those two short words from his senior brother. He hadn't paid much attention to film and television dramas in his past life, and the only one he had heard of was "the knockout," so he knew just how popular it was.

And, it seemed like his senior brother was on the verge of becoming a huge hit...

My senior brother is Gao Qiqiang?

Time to hug his thigh!

The celebration banquet was mediocre; it was really just eating, drinking, bragging, and handing out red envelopes.

However, the movie made money, the investors were happy, so holding such an event was understandable; that's the only way to squeeze the money for the next film out of their pockets.

Su He was the last to arrive.

"Sorry everyone! I was delayed by something, I'll punish myself with three drinks first."

Lin Chuyan laughed cheekily: "Such a big star now! Incredible, incredible, Su Su has really become famous now."

Su He accepted the punishment. He had a good tolerance for alcohol, so he picked up the drink and downed it: "Drink, drink! Anyway, you aren't driving, so tonight we don't stop until we're drunk."

Then, he caught sight of the large water bottle Lin Chuyan had brought in: "Holy crap, what is this?"

"If you don't nurture your health in your youth, you'll just be sad in your old age!" Lin Chuyan laughed.

Ever since returning from Hong Kong, the smile on Lin Chuyan's face had basically never faded. He felt like his whole temperament had improved significantly, and he even trolled people online less.

He took a light sip and laughed: "You don't understand, or rather, it's not yet time for you to understand."

Life, oh life, it's so wonderful, yet I cannot speak of it to others. What a pity, what a pity.

Zhang Wentang leaned in toward the two of them: "By the way, are you two currently free? Do you have any upcoming film offers?"

Su He glanced at Lin Chuyan: "I don't, what about you?"

Lin Chuyan shrugged: "I might take on a film for the Spring Festival Movie Season? But we're still in talks, nothing is set in stone yet. So, I should be quite free recently."

Zhang Wentang had heard of this "Criminal CP" duo, things like "Harmony and Joy" or "Shake Hands and Make Peace"... but without exception, the words "criminal gang" always followed them...

It just so happened that "the knockout" was a crime drama, what a coincidence!

If these two could come to act in it, they would definitely add a lot of color to the show.

So he spoke up.

"If you two have the time, how about... coming to mess around in my new drama "the knockout"? Casting is still ongoing. If it's you two, I just need to tell the director, and he'll definitely be satisfied."

He didn't wait for them to answer and started talking about the drama: "It's a crime drama. I play a character who grows from a nobody into a mob-affiliated business tycoon. The script is very good, especially the underworld storyline—it's surprisingly good. If you two act in it, you'll definitely be playing villains, you can rest assured about that."

What did he mean by "definitely playing villains, you can rest assured about that"? His senior brother had clearly pinpointed their potential in this area...

"I have no problem with that. My manager actually wanted me to rest for two months."

Lin Chuyan's thinking was simple: his senior brother had asked, so he would act; he'd just treat it as helping out.

Su He also nodded: "I need to discuss it with my manager, but it shouldn't be a problem."

One had to know, the phrase Su He's manager said every day was: "Act with Lin Chuyan more often."

It would be strange if he refused now.

Zhang Wentang was always a man of action. Right then, he didn't care about the celebration banquet anymore, turned around, walked out, and called the director.

By the time he returned, he had already arranged the roles for both Yan and He.

"I chatted with the director for a while. If you two are willing, he'd naturally be delighted. The director has already thought of the roles: Xiao Yan will play my brother Gao Qisheng, and Su Su will play Li Hongwei from Mang Village. It's all set. I'll send you the script later to take a look."

"Alright."

After the celebration banquet ended, Lin Chuyan told Wu Yue about the matter on the way home.

"Since it's my own senior brother, and I'm going there to help out, the money doesn't really matter. I'll just chat with the director when I meet him." Wu Yue nodded, not stopping him, but he did analyze it properly for him, "Also, I will make sure to ask how much screen time this role has and how much of your schedule is required. Aren't we going to meet the director of "pegasus 2"? We just need to make sure the schedules don't clash, or discuss this with the director in advance so that it won't look like we're filming multiple projects at once."

Lin Chuyan nodded: "Then I won't meet the director of "the knockout", you handle that, Brother Yue."

"Alright. I don't know why, but I have a feeling it's going to be a small-budget drama that gets critical acclaim but poor box office."

...Well, you're feeling wrong about that.

Lin Chuyan thought silently in his heart, but didn't refute: "So, has a time been set to meet for "pegasus 2"?"

Wu Yue asked back: "You should be free recently, right?"

"If you don't arrange work, I'll go find my girlfriend. If you do arrange it, I'll keep working..."

Lin Chuyan's main strategy was honesty.

At that time, playing some musical instruments while Singing with his girlfriend—wouldn't that be wonderful?

And then soaking Codonopsis and Huangjing, carrying around that big water bottle. Ahem, replenishment is definitely necessary, but replenishing while depleting isn't impossible, right?

Wu Yue immediately shattered his beautiful dream.

"What I mean is, don't go running off anywhere. The director just contacted me again, saying he wants to meet you tomorrow. I feel like they are quite anxious."

How could they not be anxious? The film hasn't even started shooting yet, and they want to release it during this year's Spring Festival Movie Season.

"Alright, then let's meet." Lin Chuyan thought for a moment and added an instruction, "For "the knockout" and "pegasus 2", we'd better try to balance both and get the schedules arranged well."

"No problem, leave it to me. I'll make sure everything is clear. Then tomorrow afternoon, we'll go over to his company for a meeting."

The next afternoon, before he had even gone over, the script for "the knockout" had already arrived—the director was so afraid he might run away that he had sent it via local courier overnight.

Lin Chuyan thought that since he was free anyway, he might as well take a look. Who knew that once he started reading, he couldn't stop.

He knew how intense this show was, but he had forgotten most of the plot. Revisiting it now, he could only say that it was truly "knocking out" all the way. Isn't this just the rise of a mob boss?

If he had started as a mob boss, that would be one thing, but it starts from him being a nobody? And at the beginning, he was just a bullied commoner? The more he was bullied, the more the audience would sympathize with him, right?

Especially this fishmonger; at the beginning, he could truly be called a kind and good person. Damn, the audience would probably all be on his side, right?

Lin Chuyan nodded silently. No wonder his senior brother took the role in "the knockout"; after all, the character Gao Qiqiang had a clear character arc.

Also, the character Gao Qisheng was quite interesting. Although he was just a supporting role, just Gao Qiqiang's younger brother, this person was truly crazy—the kind of crazy where his personality itself was flawed.

Re-reading the script and re-familiarizing himself with the characters, the more Lin Chuyan read, the more his heart itched; he couldn't wait to take out pen and paper and write something down.

An ordinary college student who eventually walks down the path of drug trafficking—there were so many places in between for him to showcase his acting skills.

Thinking about it along the way, Lin Chuyan suddenly thought of something: Wait, this is supposed to be an anti-organized crime drama, right? What did his senior brother say to him at the time? He had forgotten a bit.

He simply flipped directly to the last page of the script and started reading the last few sentences.

"An Xin, who had been transferred to the traffic police unit, was standing guard on duty, and Gao Qiqiang passed by him in a car.

At this moment, the former was dejected and secretly sorrowful, while the latter was enjoying life, dressed in a sharp suit.

The two of them brushed past each other; the friendship from back then seemed to have long since vanished, and the gears of fate, who knew when they would turn again."

Lin Chuyan: ???

Wait, in his memory, it seemed like Gao Qiqiang was executed in the end, right?

His senior brother just ended up perfectly fine and lived to the end???

Awesome!

This is the real "the knockout"!

[Note: This version of "the knockout" only has 26 episodes.]