Brother Dao Took the Entertainment Industry by Storm, Fans Beg Me Not to Kill Anymore

Chapter 1085: "A work from China, ’Mang,’ starring Xiao He!"

The Un Certain Regard Awards rarely award a Best Actor prize because it was originally a team award, focusing on the entire production. As a result, not only has no Chinese actor ever won this award since its inception, but no other actor from the entire Asian region has received it either.

what does that mean?

This means that if Xiao He wins this award, he will be the first person in China to win the Best Actor award, directly breaking the history of the domestic entertainment industry. Their "Long" drama crew will also be honored. In the future, whenever someone mentions Xiao He winning this award, they will naturally mention their work "Long".

This can truly be described as "when one person attains enlightenment, even their chickens and dogs ascend to heaven."

Therefore, Zhuang Hongyi felt that since they were already here, they had to get a big one.

However, it depends on what the judging panel thinks.

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On stage, the host has begun today's official awards ceremony.

The grand prize, the main event, couldn't be revealed right away, so the first few awards were relatively ordinary, consisting of other awards outside the main competition, and even some unofficial awards given out using the venue.

As the awards were announced one by one, people came and went. Only the cast and crew of "Long" remained seated in the best seats at the front, with Xiao He and Director Zhuang occasionally leaning over to chat.

The shield on the other side, however, was not as composed as others had imagined.

Manager El kept looking back, but he didn't see Talila.

Where are the Talira people?

He lowered his voice and asked the person next to him.

Talira should be here today too.

But it's been a whole day, and Manager El hasn't seen her anywhere.

I have no idea what she went to do.

"Manager El, I don't know either."

The man shook his head blankly.

Manager El turned to ask the others, who also shook their heads.

They looked at each other, all with blank expressions.

"Since she hasn't arrived yet, we should quickly call her and let her know that she'll be receiving the award soon."

Manager El was furious when he saw everyone else looking like fools.

"We tried to contact her earlier, but we couldn't reach her."

"No, when did you stop contacting her? Why didn't you tell me?" Manager El was furious. "What if something happened to her? And you're all just sitting here like idiots?"

Others were also annoyed by being accused for no reason, especially since some of them didn't particularly like Talira to begin with, so they started complaining quietly below:

“She said we would all leave together today, but we’ve been waiting for her for so long and she still hasn’t come. We can’t even get in touch with her now. What can we do? We can’t just skip the event and leave to go find her, can we? That’s ridiculous. We’re not her assistant or manager.”

Some people could tell that Manager El had been holding back her temper lately, and this was just an excuse to vent. In order not to get into trouble, he could only shrink back and try to comfort Manager El: "She's a grown woman, she can't just disappear. Maybe she can't answer the phone for the time being—and maybe she's with that young master right now."

Since young master Will came to Cannes, Talila has been seen only sporadically and rarely participates in parties or events, and everyone has gotten used to it.

So right now, nobody is really nervous or worried about this.

Talira can come or not, it's no big deal. We can just send someone up to accept the award for her.

Seeing the indifference of the others, Manager El took a few deep breaths and ultimately said nothing more.

If it weren't for the fact that she received an award at today's ceremony, Manager El really wouldn't have wanted to deal with her at all.

But young master Will treated her differently, and Manager El gave her special treatment.

Manager El was truly at a loss for words.

Does this kind of care really need the young master to say it?

He's practically begging on his knees to serve them, hoping these people will shut up and let him leave Cannes smoothly so he can go home.

He's really had a terrible time! Instead of pursuing a perfectly good IP project, he had to go and look at distribution rights.

Now look what's happened! He didn't even buy the distribution rights to the hottest film in Cannes, and now he doesn't even know where Talira is. When he goes back to Shield Screen Company and the Mecariler family hold him accountable, his future is truly bleak!

Thinking this, Manager El felt like lying on the ground and going crazy.

You can't just target me! What did I do wrong?!

But some people just don't seem to notice.

"Manager El."

A person, forcing a smile, cautiously approached from the other end of the aisle.

Han Zaiyu had been observing for more than ten days without finding an opportunity to speak with Manager El.

Seeing the culprit who had caused him to become like this, Manager El seemed to have found an outlet for his anger. He waved his hand and shooed Han Zaiyu away with great displeasure: "Get out, get out, who are you? Do I know you? What are you trying to get close to? Get out, get out."

The smile on Han Zaiyu's face instantly froze and turned to stone.

There was nothing they could do. They observed for several days, and every time they tried to approach Manager El privately, they were turned away without exception.

With the Cannes Film Festival nearing its end, today being the second to last day before the closing ceremony tomorrow, Han Jae-woo and Ahn Won-sun finally grew anxious.

In that case, Manager El should be easier to talk to in public than in private, right?

At least on the surface, Manager El should agree, right?

Unfortunately, Han Zaiyu and his group chose the worst possible time to come.

Upon seeing Han Zaiyu, Manager El immediately lost his temper and showed no intention of giving him a friendly look.

"Elgin—"

"Can't you understand human language?"

Manager El jumped up from his seat in a flash.

There was a moment of stillness at the scene.

Fortunately, the stage remained lively, and the host demonstrated excellent stage presence. He merely glanced at the stage before continuing to read the cards with a smile and present the next awards. When the others realized it was Shield Screen, they immediately turned their heads away.

Only Han Zaiyu, who was facing Manager El directly, had his face flushed red and then dark, barely able to maintain his smile, and had no idea what was wrong with Manager El.

However, staying in the same place will only bring shame upon oneself.

Han Zaiyu took a deep breath, bowed to Manager El in apology, and quickly turned and left, taking An Yuanshan directly out of the event venue to return to the hotel.

After his outburst, Manager El realized that his emotions were not quite right, so he forced a smile, waved to the people around him, and sat down again.

The scene returned to silence.

Only the people around them exchanged glances subtly, and only they knew how much of it was mockery and how much was amusement.

-

Xiao He also turned his gaze away from that direction.

What's going on over there?

The other people around took a few more glances.

Zhuang Hongyi didn't turn around, but instead stopped the others from turning their heads: "Don't pay attention to other people's affairs, the official awards ceremony is about to begin—"

On stage, the beautiful foreign female host held up a card, looked at the information on it, then glanced at the audience around her, a polite and elegant smile on her face: "This year's Un Certain Regard Awards will include Best Actor, Best Actress, a Jury Prize, and the Un Certain Regard Grand Prize—"

On the large screen behind her, the English words for Best Actor slowly appeared, the shimmering blue like starlight, nurturing the best actor to be born on this stage.

"At this year's Cannes Film Festival, the winner of the Best Actor award in the Un Certain Regard section is—"

The female host looked down at the audience, her smile deepening.

"The work 'Mang' from China, starring Xiao He!"