Rebirth: Spoiling the Obsessive Film Emperor Chapter 89 Part 2

The crowd parted, and Qin Linlin, Director Chen, and Assistant Director Liu walked up smiling.

Yin Chengjue glanced at Rong Yu, who was twisting his hands behind his back, then slowly turned his gaze to Qin Linlin, raising an eyebrow slightly.

"Hehehe, Brother Yin, it's like this, we're missing a photo," Qin Linlin said.

Yin Chengjue looked around: "What does that have to do with me? Am I not letting you take photos?"

Qin Linlin: "It's just, this photo, it needs to be made to look like an oil painting, framed in a square frame, and hung on the wall."

Yin Chengjue: "An oil painting in black and white, with yellow and white flowers placed around it, and an incense candle holder?"

[A funeral-style memorial portrait]

Qin Linlin: "...Uh, not really. It's in color, and there are no flowers or incense around it. It's just that the oil painting will be made very large and placed in the most prominent spot on the staircase corridor."

Qin Linlin said: "So I was discussing with Director Chen whether we should hire an artist to paint one for us. It doesn't necessarily have to be an oil painting, we just need a final image produced that can be photoshopped to look like an oil painting. That would also lower the cost."

Director Chen: "This wasn't a big deal to begin with. Just find any picture online and photoshop it. How simple!"

Qin Linlin glared: "Director Chen! That's not right! You know that's stealing images, right? The artist worked hard to paint that, and you just right-click to download and save, then casually edit it for a few minutes and call it done?"

Director Chen said helplessly: "My dear lady, isn't this very common? Look, who doesn't do this? Especially those filming period dramas—if they need a large number of ancient-style beauty paintings, are they supposed to find the original artists for each one and ask for permission? Fine, even if you find them, what if they don't allow you to use it, or try to make you pay a lot of money? What a loss that would be!"

Qin Linlin: !!!

Qin Linlin: "Shouldn't this be the right thing to do? If you want to use someone else's stuff, you must first ask for permission! Didn't they teach this in kindergarten? Go find a kindergarten kid now and ask if you can just take other people's things!"

Director Chen: "Alright, alright, you're right. I won't argue with you about this. Anyway, there's no need to argue now." After saying that, Director Chen looked at Yin Chengjue.

Qin Linlin: "Hmph! Arguing with you all is a waste of breath. Anyway, I absolutely will not allow any copyright disputes or image alteration/stealing disputes to appear in my work."

Assistant Director Liu: "Miss Qin, you don't understand. The more disputes there are, the more heat and traffic it generates. These can all be used as indirect publicity."

Qin Linlin: "!!! I don't need that kind of negative publicity! I came here personally because I didn't want to see you handling PR this way!"

"Okay, okay, let's each take a step back. Anyway, President Yin is here now, right?" Director Chen quickly tried to smooth things over.

Listening to their back-and-forth argument, Yin Chengjue vaguely guessed their intention. "You — don’t tell me you want me to paint it for you?" Have me, someone who can only draw stick figures, paint for them? Did they lose their minds during that argument?

Qin Linlin opened her almond eyes wide in surprise: "Brother Jue, you have this skill?"

Yin Chengjue said decisively: "No."

Qin Linlin: "Oh, it's okay. Anyway, we're not asking you to paint. After all, we have the clothes ready here. You just need to put these clothes on and let us take a photo."

Yin Chengjue's expression was cold: "Say that again."

Qin Linlin repeated it.

Yin Chengjue: "I refuse."

Yin Chengjue: "I can invest more money to hire an artist to paint the original image. All original images needed for filming 'Blood Mist' are fine. But asking me to act, I refuse."

"We're not asking you to act. You just need to put on the clothes prepared by our props team, sit on a chair, and let the photographer take a photo." Qin Linlin clasped her hands together: "Please!"

Yin Chengjue instinctively wanted to refuse, but he happened to catch sight of the sparkling look in Rong Yu's eyes.

Yin Chengjue: "..." The words of refusal reached his lips, but he couldn't utter them.

One hour later.

Yin Chengjue stood in front of a full-length mirror, emanating dark clouds.

The "Blood Mist" crew didn't invest much funds in costumes, so this outfit was actually a mix-and-match: a burgundy high-neck sweater, a mist-blue tailcoat, and a deep red bow tie.

Since only the upper body would be shot, what he wore below didn't matter.

What Qin Linlin wanted was an oil painting of a vampire noble because the owner of the villa in the fourth case was an avid vampire culture enthusiast. He was obsessed with decorating his residence in a dark style and often fantasized about being a descendant of the bloodline.

The description in the original novel was that the villa owner had an oil painting of a vampire noble framed and hung in the corridor of the villa for all visiting guests to see.

And this huge oil painting later became the most important object in the murder cases that occurred in the villa.