Chapter 84

At 9:30 AM, Huo Ge and Liu Yifei arrived at Yanjing Film Studio ahead of schedule. Although Huo Ge had an appointment with Li Dani for 10:30 AM, he had come early to revisit some old haunts. He was intimately familiar with Yanjing Film Studio, the cradle of Huaxia cinema. Back in the heyday of Yanjing Film Studio, hundreds of people would squat outside its gates every morning, waiting to be picked by crowd bosses—a practice known as "squatting for gigs." Years ago, an extra named Ouyang Qiang was chosen to play Jia Baoyu in *Dream of the Red Chamber* and became an overnight sensation. This inspired generations of extras to march toward Yanjing Film Studio in a continuous stream, and Huo Ge had once been one of that massive army of extras.