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After the publicity, Link rested at home for two days and came to Hengdian to film the "Golden Curse" crew.

The palace where the crew filmed was magnificent, with golden decorations everywhere, gauze curtains, clothes, and golden flowers on the red carpet. The palace had no walls, and the partitions were all carved with colorful glass, which kept flashing golden light under the light.

"The son greets the mother!"

In the queen's bedroom, Link wore a golden crown and a black brocade robe with gold on it. He walked quickly to Gong Li and knelt down to pay his respects.

"Yuan Ke!"

Gong Li, who played the queen, was originally sitting on a soft chair embroidering chrysanthemums. When she saw the second prince coming in, she was so excited that she dropped her needle and thread, gently helped him up, looked at him, and reached out to touch his cheek.

A hint of gentleness appeared on Link's originally cold face. He bent slightly and his body became relaxed. This was a completely different emotion and state from when he met the king.

The contrast is very sharp, which can also explain the difference between the second prince's treatment of the king and the queen, and also pave the way for the second prince to agree to the queen's rebellion.

"Mother, I haven't seen you for three years. How are you?"

Lin Ke looked up at Gong Li and asked.

"I'm fine, how about you?"

"I miss you all the time."

Lin Ke said emotionally.

"Yuan Ke, you've worked hard."

Gong Li touched Link's stubble on his cheek and said.

"I'm not suffering!"

Lin Ke regained his cold expression and looked mature and steady.

In the director's area, Director Zhang sat in front of the monitor, looked at the camera, and nodded with satisfaction.

Although this scene was only more than 50 seconds, before the actual shooting, Lin Ke and Gong Li rehearsed eight times, from the pace of walking, the position of kneeling, the way the queen stood up, how to call the second prince, whether it was A Ke, Yuan Ke, etc.

In terms of details, the crew changed more than ten times.

This time, Lin Ke and Gong Li performed very well.

"Cut! This one passed."

"Prepare for the next scene!"

Director Zhang stood up with a megaphone and asked the crew to set up the set and continue filming the next scene where the queen and the second prince conspired to rebel.

"Lin Ke, Director Zhang and producer Zhang Weiping praised you before, saying that your acting skills are amazing. I thought they were joking. In the previous scene, your performance was really amazing. I almost didn't catch it."

In the rest area of ​​the set, Gong Li said while removing her makeup.

"Teacher Gong, I am a newcomer and I still need to learn from you."

Lin Ke said politely.

"You are quite modest, which is rare. I heard that you are only 20 years old. If someone of your age is half as good as you, he would have been arrogant a long time ago. You are too steady, and you don't look like a 20-year-old boy at all."

Gong Li, wearing a wig, looked back at him and smiled.

Lin Ke smiled and said nothing more. Seeing Gong Li was about to change clothes, he said hello and came to the set to see how Director Zhang arranged the theater.

Director Zhang saw him coming out, took the script and told him how to shoot and what kind of feeling he wanted, which was equivalent to drawing a frame for him and letting him play freely within that range.

For other actors, Director Zhang would go over every action and every line until he was satisfied.

Director Zhang had done this with Lin Ke before, but found that the planning was too detailed, which did not allow Lin Ke to perform freely and more smoothly, so Director Zhang became like this when directing Lin Ke.

Lin Ke and Director Zhang talked about the play for a while, and Gong Li finished changing her clothes. The golden phoenix robe was replaced with a golden red-bottomed open-front phoenix robe, revealing her plump whiteness.

Lin Ke and Gong Li rehearsed the scenes several times on the set, and after the crew finished the arrangement, the two entered the set for filming.

"The second prince has arrived!"

The eunuch outside the palace shouted.

"Everyone retreat!"

Gong Li said as she spread out the wide sleeves of her phoenix robe.

Lin Ke gathered his sleeves and walked slowly into the compartment of the queen's bedroom.

"Mother!"

"I have been taking your father's medicine for more than ten years. Ten days ago, he suddenly changed the prescription and added this to the new prescription."

Gong Li pushed the pharmacopoeia on the table to Link. There was a piece of Aconitum on the booklet.

Link hesitated, shook his hand and picked up the pharmacopoeia on the table. He found that the page with the instructions for the use of Aconitum was the same as the Aconitum in the booklet.

Link frowned slightly, "My mother fell ill yesterday because of it? Why did my father do this?"

"Yuan Ke, I will tell you everything after Chongyang."

Gong Li said.

Link held the piece of Aconitum tightly.

"Every day in front of your father, I have to pretend to be ignorant. Every hour, I have to drink these poisons calmly. No one will know the truth. I will die the way your father wants, but I don't want to die like this. On Chongyang night, I want to end it all."

Gong Li looked at Link and said calmly.

"Does Yuan Xiang and Yuan Cheng know all this?"

Link asked thoughtfully.

"I don't know."

"Cut!"

Director Zhang touched his chin and looked through the previously shot footage, and asked Link and Gong Li to do it again.

He said that the previous performance was a bit bland, and the emotions were not outward enough, so it would be better to be more passionate, and it would be better to use this scene to show the contradictory and mixed relationship between the queen and the second prince.

Link and Gong Li discussed for a few minutes, and continued to perform after Director Zhang shouted "start".

He and Gong Li had more lines in this scene, and it involved a lot of things. If the performance was not good, it would seem bland, but if it was performed well, it would undoubtedly add many highlights to the whole play.

This scene was filmed from morning to night. Link and Gong Li each received four "NG" awards. It was not because they did not perform well, but because Director Zhang was too ambitious and wanted to squeeze their acting skills in this way. Improve the quality of the entire drama.

After filming this scene, because Link was quite busy, the crew continued filming his scene the next day.

After the second prince agreed to help the queen rebel, he went out of the palace to gather an army. On the Double Ninth Festival, he led 10,000 soldiers in golden armor to attack the palace. Finally, he was ambushed by the king's army in the palace. In the end, the entire army was wiped out, leaving only Next, he was caught alone on the chrysanthemum stage of the Double Ninth Festival.

The scene was grand, and Link was the protagonist. He was filmed in the palace in Hengdian for eight days, killing enemies with his sword and breaking more than sixty simple sword props.

By mid-September, when he finished filming the last suicide scene, all the scenes were finalized.

At the closing banquet prepared for him by the crew, Director Zhang said that he wrote and sang songs well and wanted to ask him to write a theme song for the movie.

"Link, how are you?"

Director Zhang asked, patting his shoulder.

Link thought for a moment, and the ending song of "The Golden Armor" seemed to be Jay Chou's famous "Chrysanthemum Terrace". I heard that Jay Chou also found inspiration while making this movie and collaborated with Fang Wenshan to write it.

Now that he plays the second prince, the situation becomes different.

"Okay, I'll give it a try. Don't be offended if I don't write well."

Link said.

"Haha, Link, you are a very good person. Not only is it a good actor, but I also like your temperament. Working with you is like working with old partners like Gong Li and Zhang Weiping. It is very compatible and comfortable. I hope you can do it again in the future." Opportunities for collaboration.”

Director Zhang enthusiastically pulled him to drink.

Link smiled and clinked a beer with Director Zhang.

As for acting, forget it.

On the one hand, he has no time, and on the other hand, he has too much filming. He has extremely high requirements for scripts and roles. It is usually difficult to find suitable roles. Unsuitable roles are very awkward to play, so it is better not to play them.

So "Golden Armor" may be his last play.

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After the filming was completed, Link left Hengdian and went back to his hometown in Huaxi for a few days before returning to Kyoto for training in late September.

Shortly after returning to Kyoto, he recorded a demo of the song "Chrysanthemum Terrace" in the recording studio and sent it to Director Zhang. After listening to it, Director Zhang expressed his satisfaction and gave him a big red envelope after the movie was released.

Link smiled and said yes.

"Link, your song "Chrysanthemum Terrace" sounds very good. It is in the Chinese classical style. Do you want to write a few more songs based on this style?"

In the recording studio, Zhang Yadong took off his headphones and said.

Link pondered for a moment and shook his head. It would be more appropriate to leave this kind of song to Jay Chou. He didn't want to become Charlotte.

For his third album, he plans to release pure English songs. The songs will be copied from his first album "The fighter" released in 2009. The songs include "Unstoppable", "Chasing the sun", "Fire", "Fight Song" and other 12 songs. Song.

He had sung these songs many times and they were relatively easy to record.

In addition, releasing an English album can also open up overseas markets and increase your popularity. Not only can you make money through the album, but you can also increase your income from boxing matches.

There are more benefits.

In China, his fame is already big enough, and even if he releases a few more best-selling albums, it won't have much improvement.

And the channels for releasing English albums are actually not difficult.

Taihe Wheatfield was formerly known as Warner Wheatfield. In 2000, Song Ke cooperated with Warner Records to establish the ‘Warner Wheatfield’ music label.

Last year, Wheatfield Music and Taihe Media cooperated to establish Kyoto Taihe Wheatfield Music Culture Development Co., Ltd., but the records of Link, Pu Shu, Lao Lang and others are still under Warner Wheatfield.

The last album, relying on the promotion of Warner Records, sold nearly three million copies in overseas markets.

Songs such as "All of me" and "Dream it possible" successively appeared on the US Billboard singles chart and the singles charts of the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and other countries, allowing Link to earn more than 3 million US dollars.

As long as the quality of this album is good enough, Warner Records will be happy to cooperate.

Zhang Yadong heard that he was planning to enter the European and American music scene, and he had no objection, but he didn't know much about the current style of the European and American music scene and could not continue to be the producer of his third album.

Warner Records heard that he was preparing to release an English album. Considering the quality of his previous three songs, a production team was brought in from the United States to help him create this album.

The leader of the team is William Obote, who has served as the producer of two Madonna albums.

At the beginning of the recording, William Obote was more aggressive and wanted Link to sing the way he said.

However, Link had been the CEO of a music company, had been working in a recording studio for several years, and had brought out several little kings and queens, so he also knew a lot about arrangement and production.

After he discussed his arrangement with William Obote several times, Obote gradually accepted his opinions and agreed with many of his statements.

Link has also become one of the producers of this album, and will receive an additional share after the album is released in the future.

Link registered the copyright for the 12 English songs on the third album and handed them over to William and others for production.

After the arrangement is completed, the recording of the songs will begin, and the recording is expected to be completed before December.

During this period, Link represented Handong Province in the 10th National Games held in Jinling from October 12 to October 23.

Because there was not much prize money in domestic competitions, he only participated in three events, 100 meters, 200 meters, and 4X400 meters relay, and was selected as the chief referee of the men's boxing competition.

He ran 10.12 seconds on the 100-meter track, breaking the domestic sprint record and winning a gold medal.

He ran a good result of 20.37 seconds on the 200-meter track, breaking the domestic and Asian 200-meter record again and winning the second gold medal.

In the 4X400-meter race, he and three other teammates from Handong Province ran 3 minutes 07 seconds 42, ranking behind the Jiangsu team and winning a silver medal.

In the end, the Handong Provincial Team ranked sixth in the country with 29 gold, 20 silver, 12 bronze, and a total of 61 medals.

Handong Province was also quite generous, awarding him an apartment in the provincial capital Jingzhou. When the local leaders met him, they shook his hand cordially and hoped that he would come home often.

Lin Ke said he would definitely do so, and he also returned the favor by donating 20 million yuan to the Hope Project of Handong Province through the newly established 1+1 Charity Foundation to help students.

After finishing these chores, Lin Ke returned to Beijing to record the album and train, and by the way helped Liu Yifei polish her first album, asking her to check it herself.

In early November, Liu Yifei's debut album "Liu Yifei" was publicly available for sale. Because Liu Yifei has been practicing hard in the past few months, and the quality of the songs in this album is also good.

In the first week of its release, "Liu Yifei" sold 670,000 copies in China, which was 80,000 copies higher than Jay Chou's sixth album "Chopin in November" in the same period.

The 12 songs in this album, such as "In My Song", "Marshmallow", "Hello Tomorrow", "Wish to Get One's Heart", "Love's Offering", "Little Luck", etc., have also become popular songs resounding in the streets and alleys of China at the end of the year, and Liu Yifei's sweet voice can be heard everywhere.

And the lyricist and composer of this album, 'Lingling', also became popular.

Many people in the circle are asking who 'Lingling' is, and how she can write songs that make singers of Liu Yifei's level popular. Many female singers want to find 'Lingling' to tailor songs for them.

Unfortunately, all the people involved in the production of this album signed a confidentiality agreement, and no one revealed the identity of 'Lingling'.

The reason why Link did not use his real name was, first, to avoid trouble and being asked to sing by many people, and second, he did not want to spread rumors and affect Liu Yifei's reputation.

He likes to make a fortune quietly.

Liu Yifei's new album is a big hit, and he, the lyricist and composer, can get 10% of the share from each album.

Liu Yifei also made a lot of money. In the first half of the year, she became the most popular actress among the new generation of actresses with the role of Ling'er in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".

This album became a hit and Liu Yifei became a talented singer. Her fame is close to that of the four old actresses Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun, Zhang Ziyi and Xu Jinglei.

However, fame brings troubles. There are also some negative news about her in the media, such as male body, big boss backing, and unmarried birth.

Lin Ke and Liu Xiaoli had to spend more money to settle these bad news. (End of this chapter)