After Charmaine Sheh’s (佘詩曼) management contract with TVB ended, she continued to be on a streak of good luck. Yesterday, Tsui Siu Ming (徐小明) verified to the newspaper that a mainland investor dumped an eight-figure sum to invite Charmaine to film in Inner Mongolia. For this film offer, Charmaine will be acting as an empress opposite best actor Hu Jun (胡軍) and will be portraying the Empress’ early years at 20-years-old all the way to her old age at more than 50-years-old. Being able to feed her filming addiction and at the same time “dig for gold,” it’s no wonder Charmaine was willing to run towards the desert area and roam the world.

Ever since Charmaine ended her management contract with her former employer, TVB, she became the “highly sought after goods” of mainland investors. It was known that after a round of “snatching,” Tsui Siu Ming finally successfully snatched the turf. Insiders revealed that Siu Ming Gor managed to persuade a mainland tycoon investor to dump nearly ten million Hong Kong dollars in order to sincerely invite Charmaine to Inner Mongolia as well as to accept the soon-to-be-film fifty episodes Mainland drama, The Legend of Yuan Empire Founder <建元風雲>.

In order to certify these rumors, the reporter called up the director of that drama, Siu Ming Gor, who graciously admitted and confirmed that he had used a heavenly price of eight figures which “touched” Charmaine. Suddenly jumping from her $100,000 HKD fee per episode back at TVB to $200,000 HKD fee per episode now, Charmaine’s asking price has indeed skyrocketed through the roof!

Tsui Siu Ming Highly Praised Charmaine Sheh

Siu Ming Gor pointed out that Charmaine will be appearing at the press conference for the drama next Monday, “As Charmaine is very busy, she will be leaving first after attending the costume fitting. She can only join the drama team during September and will only be starting work then. For the time being, I will skip her scenes and shoot other part of the series that does not involve her first.”

Siu Ming Gor also revealed that Charmaine will be acting as the virtuous empress to Kublai Khan and will be portraying the Empress during her early days at 20-years-old to her late years at more than 50-years-old. Siu Ming Gor professed his confidence that Charmaine will be able to handle this role well, “I have always appreciated Charmaine very much. She is able to unleash or keep her characters’ emotions easily at whelm, especially palace-themed dramas. She can emit the poise and elegance of royalty very well.” Siu Ming Gor also expressed that the outfit, props and accessories cost them up to a sum of nearly seven figures.

Hu Jun Heavenly King Price

Whereas for the main male lead, Siu Ming Gor expressed that it has been confirmed that it would be taken up by Best Actor Hu Jun, who was paid a “Heavenly King Price.” Yesterday, reporters tried contacting Charmaine before printing out this draft but to no avail.

Source: Orientaldaily.on.cc

This article was translated by Ah K, a Contributing Writer at JayneStars.com.

Ah K: Congratulations to Charmaine!

You know, the fable of the fox saying that the grapes are sour? (Those who are inaccessible to the grapes would say that they are sour) Haha after reading about Charmaine’s astro-numeric fees received, I can’t help but to feel that the grapes are kind of sour indeed lol!

Well but I guess it’s true that you reap what you sow, after slogging it out and being obedient at TVB for fourteen years, Charmaine is finally reaping fruits of her labor. But Inner Mongolia? That sounds like the outskirts of town but well at least Charmaine could roll in the huge sand with all that millions of dollars dropping down from the sky!

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