Chapter 1023: Invitation to Guanxun? Who Didn’t Receive an Invitation?
After screenwriter Qin became a sensation, even at the subsequent meet-and-greets for "The Imperial Empire," many people approached her to chat or ask her questions.
This suggests that the lead actor, Xiao He, didn't gain much from the publicity during this promotional event.
That's normal, though. Xiao He was already quite famous. Even though the premiere of "The Emperor's Conquest" brought a lot of traffic, such a huge boost was just icing on the cake for him, not a meteoric rise—after all, he's already at his peak and there's not much room for him to climb any higher.
Therefore, Xiao He himself was quite pleased with this situation.
On the contrary, Qiu Zhenlong, the director of "The Imperial Empire", had some reservations about this.
He glanced at screenwriter Qin, whose smile hadn't faded since he stepped off the stage, snorted coldly, and muttered to himself, arms crossed, clearly unhappy.
However, if you listen carefully, you will find that what Director Qiu cares about is actually: as a fellow fan of Emperor Chen, although he is not like the person next door who is a fanatical and brainless fan of Emperor Chen, he has also put in a lot of sweat and effort, and he was the one who finally decided on Xiao He. So why is no one praising him this time?
The screenwriter became famous, the actors became famous, the drama became famous, but he didn't become famous—what's the logic behind that!
Is it because he hasn't been back in the industry for so many years that no one remembers him?
When Xiao He understood what Qiu Zhenlong was unhappy about:...Uh, Director Qiu, maybe there's no need to dwell on this?
However, screenwriter Qin was completely unaware that she had attracted Director Qiu's attention. She simply pulled out her ticket, grinning foolishly as she remarked, "Hey, hey, you know what, these young people these days are quite interesting to talk to. I love chatting with them."
The ticket was casually displayed in front of everyone, immediately attracting everyone's attention.
"Huh? This is a ticket for the Guanxun Museum?"
Director Qiu Zhenlong immediately recognized the text above.
Other crew members also gathered around, but Xiao He's expression became somewhat strange.
"Wow, screenwriter Qin, you actually managed to snag tickets to this museum? They're super popular right now!"
"I was saying I'd go check it out too, but the tickets sold out in a second right before the deadline, there was no way I could get one!"
"Yes, yes, especially after our drama 'The Imperial Empire' aired, many netizens joined in the fun. It's said that the museum tickets were sold out for the rest of the month."
The reason why tickets for next month weren't sold out is because tickets for next month haven't been released yet.
If it weren't for the museum's official ticketing website having a very robust anti-scalper system, a bunch of scalpers would probably have already sniffed out the market.
Now, it seems that scalpers, unable to secure tickets, have simply switched to helping others queue.
Well, you can only say that where there is demand, there is development.
"Hehe, yes."
Screenwriter Qin carefully put the ticket back into his pocket: "I don't know if it's because the museum also likes my script, so they specially sent me the ticket and invitation. It shows that I can go anytime. I'll go when I have time after this period is over."
"Wow, screenwriter Qin, you really lived up to my expectations!"
The others immediately started to jeer, also somewhat surprised that the museum would proactively give screenwriter Qin a ticket, while Qiu Zhenlong was even more annoyed: "I was the one who directed 'The Imperial Empire'! Why didn't the museum give me a ticket?"
Xiao He scratched his head, glanced away slightly, and then said with feigned surprise, "Hey, speaking of which, I think I received tickets today too. Could it be that the museum gave tickets to the entire crew? You just didn't see them?"
"Oh? Is that so?"
Others were talking about it.
"If that's the case, I was indeed busy all day and didn't even ask my assistant if they had received any similar tickets..."
"I'll ask about it later."
"I'll ask my agent about it too."
Just then, a crew member came running over, holding up a ticket.
"Director Qiu, we just received the tickets from Guanxun Museum! We heard there were also tickets for other crew members..."
Immediately, everyone's attention turned to that direction.
"Haha, I knew it! The museum wouldn't be so uncooperative. I, the director, haven't even received the tickets yet!"
Qiu Zhenlong laughed heartily, instantly comforted. He immediately put on his usual airs again, swiftly snatching the ticket from the stagehand and stuffing it into his pocket: "Ahem, I'll go take a look when I have time. I've been really busy lately."
𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
Others:...Director Qiu, you weren't like this just now!
Xiao He breathed a sigh of relief without making it obvious.
Great, he said that everyone should have received a ticket.
—But I really didn't expect the Guanxun Museum to be so popular!
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That same evening, the latest episode of "Happy Everyday" featuring the cast of "The Imperial Empire" was also released online. Xiao He's performance in the episode finally brought back the feeling of his peak popularity, and multiple related terms trended on social media.
The most popular one is undoubtedly the "【Xiao He 1:1 replica machine】".
Netizen:?
What's this trending topic?
So when they clicked in, they were once again amazed.
...
This time, "Happy Everyday" has introduced a new game – "Handwriting Expert".
To be precise, this game is old wine in new bottles. The prototype was inspired by the show's earliest segment, "Who's Real?", where one team pretends to do something, but only one person in the team is actually doing it. The observing team members have to figure out who is actually doing it based on the other team's performance and various details.
This type of game is considered quite classic, with various adaptations, but almost every version released can be called a classic. Every time the guests play this game, they always manage to create various memorable scenes unintentionally.
This time, when "The Empire" participated in the game, the program team specially adapted the game based on the main creative team of "The Empire".
The rules of the game for "handwriting analysis experts" are also very simple—
The performance team will provide the observers with a piece of calligraphy, and the person who wrote these words is one {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} of the members of the performance team.
Next, the observers can ask each member of the performers to take turns writing characters with a brush, and deduce who the true owner of the characters is by observing the direction of each person's handwriting.
In this segment, the performers can deliberately imitate the original handwriting to confuse the audience, while the original handwriting's owner can pretend to be stupid and write completely unrelated, crooked characters.
As for who the real owner of the handwriting is?
It all depends on the observer's careful analysis and observation.
The highlights of this game are actually the verbal probing and acting skills of both sides, as well as the calligraphy skills displayed by each guest.
It's possible that someone who looks beautiful might have terrible calligraphy skills, while others might be unassuming but demonstrate true expertise, stunning everyone they meet.
However, what the production team never expected was that a cheater would appear in the game by sheer coincidence.