Becoming a Movie Star, System Only Finished Loading After Ten Years

Of course, anything is possible.

Qi Hao would never admit defeat until the very last moment.

Best New Actress on the Movie Channel!

Wan Qian!

Qi Hao looked at Wan Qian with utter envy in his eyes.

You know, Qianqian, your expression right now is the one I envy the most.

Oh please, I'm not talking about cross-dressing.

The Best New Actor on the Movie Channel has nothing to do with Qi Hao; he's not a newcomer, he's an award-winning actor.

This time, he won the Best Actor on the Movie Channel for "Wait and See."

Best Actress on the Movie Channel, Qin Hailu, this was expected.

"Wait and See" and "Steel Piano" took turns winning awards.

Zhang Meng won Best Screenplay.

Then there's the Best New Director Award.

Qi Hao's nervousness was almost impossible to hide, even though he was sitting in the second row, surrounded almost exclusively by foreigners, everyone could still see his nervousness on the big screen.

He looked like a lovesick puppy about to confess.

Previously, at the Golden Rooster Awards, he wasn't this nervous.

Although today the air conditioning in Shen City was indeed a bit high, sweating on your forehead was a bit hard to understand.

Actually, it wasn't the first time everyone saw Qi Hao like this.

It just felt like... he really had some sort of terminal illness.

"Let's see who this year's Best New Director at the Shen City International Film Festival is... Hmm, Li Dawei from 'Wait and See,' congratulations!"

Ning Hao!

Damn it!

I was giving you signals, couldn't you make a spontaneous change?

"Qi Hao, 'Steel Piano,' congratulations!"

Ning Hao added another line after the applause stopped.

Qi Hao was moved to tears.

In the past, when he saw double awards being given, he would scold the judges as idiots.

Giving double awards all day long, you all think you're so clever.

Why don't you make it sextuple awards then?

Everyone gets a trophy; let's just do a bulk deal.

Do any of you have any professional competence, can't even discern which of the two films is better, have to result in some double awards.

Don't make it hard for the broody hens, all right?

Yet at this very moment, Qi Hao and Li Dawei stood on the stage together receiving the award.

"Thank you to the jury, really, thank you, you're the most professional filmmakers, you've made a great contribution to our film industry, and to receive your affirmation, I am overjoyed…"

Qi Hao passionately praised the jury.

Li Dawei opened his mouth next to him, enough, enough already, Qi Hao, do we have to be this over the top?

Everyone here is talented, and speaks so nicely...

What you said, now how am I supposed to say anything?

Damn, can't you just stop?

"Thank you~" Qi Hao kissed the trophy in his hand, reluctantly stepping aside.

Don't blame him for being too ingratiating.

He had already received a notification from the system that he had overachieved his task.

Damn, this also means that the Maotai shares he earned this time will exceed 2 million shares.

The current price of Maotai shares is 148 bucks each, with an extra million shares, that's over a billion in funds.

With this money, Qi Hao decided to customize an annual package to have that group of PR experts smear Lu Yu all year round.

Don't say he holds grudges.

He clearly gave Lu Sang a chance; as long as Lu Sang came to the Shen City International Film Festival today and apologized to him, this matter would be over.

Unfortunately, Lu Sang didn't come.

However, Qi Hao didn't plan to settle the task now.

He planned to try and win some more new actor awards, and then finalize the main task by October.

Main tasks are issued once a year.

Even if completed early, they won't refresh.

Newcomer awards can only be won once, but also not just once.

For example, Qin Hailu won both the Golden Horse Award for Best Newcomer and the Golden Image Award for Best Newcomer.

The same goes for directors; "Love in the Internet Era" won the 19th China Film Golden Rooster Award for Best Directorial Debut and the 5th China Film Huabiao Award for Newcomer Award.

Others like Xu Jinglei's "Me and Dad," Ma Xiaoying's "The Person Who Loved Me Most in the World Passed Away," and Wan Ma Caidan's "Quiet Mani Stone" are the same.

This "once" refers to the work.

Only debut works can win newcomer awards, but there's no limit on how many newcomer awards a debut work can receive.

They all say Jay Chou didn't get any newcomer awards, but he actually won Singapore Golden Melody Award Silver for Best Newcomer, Top Ten Mandarin Golden Melody Awards Most Popular Male Newcomer Gold, TVB8 Golden Melody Awards Best Male Newcomer Gold, Global Chinese Songs Chart Best Newcomer Award, Music Wind and Cloud Best Newcomer of the Year Award.

Five music newcomer awards!

He just didn't get the "Best Newcomer at the 12th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards."

What's more, in terms of movies, he also won both the Golden Image and Golden Horse newcomer awards.

Qi Hao can also win quite a few newcomer awards.

As for how much more benefit winning a few more newcomer awards will add to the task reward, he really doesn't know.

Fortunately, his daily tasks are about to be completed.

After finishing the Shen City trip, Qi Hao returned to Jinmen and passed the third driving test.

He passed in one go.

Although Qi Hao hasn't upgraded his driving license yet, the system still indicated that he had completed the driver's license task.

This was the twenty-third task.

The timeline wasn't clear where it's landed.

Most likely, it's after 2003.

If it's gone from 1997 to 2003, that means it's caught up by six years.

Qi Hao was already satisfied with this result.

After all, he only actually spent less than two years.

With anticipation for the metaphysical hat and the next task, Qi Hao confirmed the task.

[Task 23 completed, reward: Director +10, screenplay "Full House (Yuan Xiuyan)", Low-key Hat]

[Complete the task, gain training opportunity]

[Training NPC choose one of three: Isabelle Huppert/Fan Xuexue/Guo Mansion]

[Now starting a new task]

[Task 24: The system has already awarded the host several good songs, and the host has earned some fame in the music industry. Participate in a superstar concert as a guest singer, and during the concert, sing a song provided by the system. Task difficulty: 3 stars, Time limit: 90 days]

[Task completion reward: Unlocking +10, Song "Over the Top", 500,000 shares of Penguin stock]

Whew~

The hat isn't available yet, Qi Hao needs to personally buy one back.

The first hat he bought after completing the task was the so-called low-key hat rewarded by the system.

Training NPC: Isabelle Huppert/Fan Xuexue/Guo Mansion.

All actors met at the Shen City International Film Festival this time, unfortunately, the director wasn't selected.

Even Huang Jianxin would do.

Huang Jianxin is classically trained, his "Black Cannon Incident" and "Back to Back, Face to Face" are rare masterpieces. Learning directing from him could expand Qi Hao's knowledge base.

Qi Hao urgently needs some director NPCs to help him achieve his great career.

However, the current three training NPCs aren't difficult to choose from, Qi Hao chose Isabelle Huppert without hesitation.

Twice Cannes Best Actress, twice Venice Best Actress, this year's bamboo seat at the Cannes International Film Festival, and a heap of various award titles.

Just in terms of winning awards, Isabelle Huppert can almost be ranked in the top three among global female stars.

This Shen City International Film Festival, the Best Newcomer Award and Isabelle Huppert are Qi Hao's greatest gains.

After meeting her, to ensure capturing her as a training NPC during the task settlement, Qi Hao chatted with her in broken English for quite a while.

Huang Jianxin introduced Qi Hao as a talented actor, an emerging director, a young man who became a miracle in Chinese cinema through self-study.

In addition, he is also a social elite with wealth over a hundred million US dollars.

Bamboozling Isabelle Huppert to the point of bewilderment.

Luckily she was captured.

Although Isabelle Huppert is a woman, acting skills don't differentiate between genders.

Even if they do.

Whether it's male acting or female acting, as long as it makes oneself improve, it's good acting.

The new task is quite unremarkable, asking Qi Hao to be a concert guest.

Qi Hao couldn't help but sneer, this dog of a system dares to post such ridiculous tasks.

"Faith," "Green Light," "Cold to the Bone," "It's not a sin for a man to cry," "First Time," "Fleeting Years," "Love's Main Song," "Ten Years," "Nocturne."

He admits these songs given by the system are all classics.

Receiving just one would allow an ordinary person to make a name in music, yet... the stocks can alter history, but scripts and songs cannot.

If they're expired, they're expired.

None of these songs are his own, and he needs to pay royalties to sing them.

Moreover, it asks Qi Hao to be a concert guest singer.

Bah, you're exposing my scars.

Using facts to remind me that those great songs should have originally been mine.

The task reward is not bad though, with Penguin's stock now close to 70 HKD, this one task rewards nearly 30 million RMB.

Enough to take down nine and a half Lu Yu.

Song "Over the Top", haha, you really look up to me, even with this I can't be over the top.

Eighteen that year/the school prom/standing like a lackey/then I swore with tears/you all must see me...

The song is quite apt.

In those first two plus years of his debut, Qi Hao was basically at a lackey level.

Rolling in the dirt wearing filthy costumes, bruised and battered.

The physical pain was nothing compared to the mental anguish.

Lead actors each had their tempers.

If you as an extra NG'd slightly, they'd turn around and leave.

Sometimes the director wouldn't dare scold the lead, so he'd vent on extras and bit players like them.

Almost a thousand days, Qi Hao couldn't see any hope.

If not for having the system and believing he was different from others, Qi Hao wonders if he could have persisted that long.

Fortunately, Qi Hao succeeded.

He can hum this "Over the Top," treating those past hardships as a badge of honor, an object of admiration and pursuit for newcomers in the entertainment circle.

The only somewhat absurd part is this "Unlocking +10."

Qi Hao couldn't help but remember his eighteenth task: attending an award ceremony and adding five strangers' contacts.

The reward for that was "Stealing +10."

He tried it casually, a slight movement of his fingers and he'd snatched a lighter from Wang Chonglei's pocket.

It scared him so much he never dared to use that skill again.

Unexpectedly, now it actually rewarded him with unlocking +10.

This dog system seems dissatisfied with the master only stealing, now it wants the master to unlock doors to steal?