Chapter 1425

"Good, hold that pose, I'll take a few more shots."

Wen Xia pressed the shutter rapidly, while Luo Quan placed her hands behind her head, looking like she had just woken up.

This state was extremely relaxed and stretched out, paired with Xia Weiyi's clear post-rain sky, giving off a lazy afternoon atmosphere.

Of course, no matter how beautiful the atmosphere, it couldn't compare to Luo Quan's ultimate figure.

She merely made a simple movement, and it was already charged with tension.

Ever since the previous photo shoot where Luo Quan painstakingly struck countless poses yet didn't seem to be taken very seriously, she had grown weary of putting effort into her poses.

Anyway, no one would really scrutinize those details that closely; every photo shoot is basically glanced at for a few seconds before swiping to the next.

Since that's the case, she might as well take a few more photo shoots; as for poses, plain and simple is the truth.

After Luo Quan finished shooting, she took the camera again and became the photographer, taking photo shoots for Wen Xia and the others one after another.

Compared to Luo Quan, they acted more excited, and were more willing to study movements.

After all, Luo Quan shot photo shoots mainly to complete fan tasks, while they shot them to keep as mementos, to please themselves.

With different mindsets, their attitudes during the shoot naturally differed; one by one they struck coquettish poses in front of Luo Quan, simply scorching hot.

"Alright alright, you're even sexier than I imagined."

After busy for over an hour, Luo Quan's fingers were sore from pressing, and the photo session finally ended.

Wen Xia smiled with unsatisfied delight: "Send me the photos when we get back, I'll pick the best-looking one to print out, and when I'm old I'll look at my youthful photos and reminisce about how beautiful I am now."

"Talking about this now is a bit too early; with your current cultivation, you have at least two hundred meters of lifespan left, estimated thirty to forty years before you start aging."

"Thirty to forty years! You'll start aging that fast?" Wen Xia was shocked pale hearing this number, "I thought I could maintain youth for at least fifty years."

Luo Quan chuckled: "If your cultivation improves fast enough, it's not impossible either, so cultivate harder."

The speaker meant nothing, but the listener took it to heart; Luo Quan's words made the other women all start pondering whether they should spend more time cultivating in the future.

After all, extending lifespan was simply too tempting.

Back in the room, the first thing Luo Quan did was select her own photos, culling the slightly less good-looking ones, keeping the best to compress and package, finally making a torrent and uploading it to the cloud drive.

Xunlei and Baidu Netdisk are the two most commonly used download tools; those other unconventional and dead-expensive ones Luo Quan generally wouldn't bother with.

Of course, if netizens say they can't get it via Xunlei or Netdisk, Luo Quan feels they should read more books and learn a bit.

It's the 2020s already; if there are still guys who can't figure out Xunlei and Netdisk, either they're lazy to an outrageous degree, or their IQ has issues.

If it's the latter, Luo Quan is still willing, in the spirit of humanitarian care, to make a video teaching them hand-in-hand.

If it's the former, then Luo Quan will repay them in kind; you're lazy, I'm lazy too, you can't be bothered to learn, I can't be bothered to teach.

Of course, the ones made into torrents are all ultra-high-resolution photo shoots; uploading large quantities of images on Bilibili is troublesome, so making a compressed package is more convenient.

But videos can be posted however she wants, and fans obviously prefer watching videos more, since they're moving.

After the compressed package was uploaded, the backend video was also successfully uploaded to Bilibili.

The boss account doesn't need review at all; upload and it passes.

"Day one's images and videos are all posted, everyone watch and download at will."

Luo Quan changed the livestream room's title, then opened the video she just uploaded in the livestream room.

It was a very simple, plain Xia Weiyi beach brain-supplement; she wore slippers, a not-so-revealing swimsuit, but because her figure was too full, it still appeared somewhat sultry.

But in foreign terms, this is called the beauty of the female body, both sexy and art.

Although this might just be an explanation or cover for borderline behavior.

But it doesn't matter, a little borderline doesn't count as borderline; which current female star hasn't shot a swimsuit photo shoot?

Since her debut, Luo Quan hasn't even filmed a genuine kissing scene, she's already very conservative.

"Right, I wonder if fans still remember a promise I made to everyone before?"

Luo Quan saw the barrage full of "I love Luo Bao", "Luo Bao is so beautiful", "Please take more photos" and such, and suddenly spoke to ask.

"You've made too many promises, can't remember clearly."

"Don't you remember you said before you'd cosplay when shooting swimsuits?"

"Huh? Did Luo Bao really say that?"

"Everyone's trying hard to create opportunities, you not helping is one thing, but how are you dragging things down here?"

"Got it, I'll testify, Luo Bao indeed said those words."

"Hahaha, a bit deliberate eh, want to see cosplay just say so, Luo Bao usually won't refuse."

"True, it's not like she hasn't done it before, making it seem like some special program."

"So what exactly is that promise Luo Bao mentioned?"

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Seeing many fans taking the opportunity to ask her to cosplay this or that.

Luo Quan blinked her eyes, pretending not to see, waiting until they pulled the topic back before continuing: "Back when The Wandering Earth 2 was hot, everyone's enthusiasm for Huaxia sci-fi film and TV works wasn't running very high? They often brushed in the livestream room wanting me to shoot a sci-fi movie too.

At the time I felt Huaxia had quite a lot of blanks in sci-fi movies, so I agreed.

But these years I've shot quite a few movies, including special effects blockbusters, but proper hard sci-fi really hasn't been shot.

Fortunately I never forgot this matter; although I have no time to shoot movies or TV dramas, I still have time to write novels.

The length isn't long either, just two hundred thousand words, counts as the first part of this sci-fi novel; taking this chance to release it first, wait a while then adapt it into a TV drama, see if everyone likes this kind of hard sci-fi work."

Luo Quan finished speaking, and directly published the novel titled "Three-Body" on Zhongdian.

First five chapters free, later content requires payment.

But it's not expensive either, two hundred thousand words is just half a pack of cigarettes' money; people who can afford phones nowadays shouldn't be unable to scrape together 10 yuan, right?

"Three-Body? What a weird name, if a sci-fi work has Interstellar, Star Sea or something, it'd feel more on point."

"Say it again, work content and work title don't have that big a connection; Teacher Mo Yan has a book called 'Big Breasts Fat Buttocks' but the content inside is absolutely serious."

"Correct, just like 'Jin Ping Mei', those who don't know would think it's some elegant romance novel."

"Hahaha, every single one of you has become a great literary master, huh?"

"It's a bit slow to warm up; just finished chapter one, can't really get interested."

"Fair point; in this era that chases a golden three chapters or even a golden first chapter, if the opening can't produce appeal, it's basically half-dead already — no matter how brilliant later on, it's hard to resurrect."

"If it weren't written by Luo Bao, I probably wouldn't even have the desire to click in seeing this title."

"Hey, why say so much nonsense? It's our own wifey's writing; how could we not give her face? Besides, when has Luo Bao ever let us down?"

"Hahaha, I love hearing that; after all, she's our own wifey — even if she wrote a monk chanting sutras I'd watch with relish."

"If it were like Japanese light novels with a few gravure pages every few pages, I'd definitely watch with even more relish."

"You're there for the book? I'm embarrassed to call you out."

"Alright, less off-topic talk; hurry up and read — Luo Bao just said in the livestream there'll be random questions tomorrow, anyone who can't answer gets banned for a day."

"Damn, that's way too tyrannical, isn't it?"

"Just like my Chinese teacher, forcing us to read — so hateful."

"Now I have to read; feels like being back in elementary school."

"Elementary school never had such a pretty teacher; if she got angry and whipped me with a pointer, I'd probably be very willing."

"A bit heaven-defying, but I like it too."

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A restless society makes people restless; the greater environment being so, Luo Quan didn't get angry seeing these bantering bullet comments.

People who like reading — place a good book before them, no need to speak, they'll willingly flip through it.

People who don't like reading — even if you force them to read it won't achieve any effect.

This counts as Luo Quan fully exerting her influence, making fans read *Three-Body* in the name of loving her.

As hard sci-fi, *Three-Body*'s only flaw is the early pacing is slightly slow, and some physics terminology — without a certain knowledge base and logical thinking ability — really isn't easy to grasp.

But once you read into it, you'll be captivated by this brilliant sci-fi novel.

And the most captivating part isn't those physical sciences, but the characters' heroic-epic feats done for humanity's life-and-death survival.

Just saying in the livestream how good the book is won't work; you have to spark the fans' own interest, then let them calm down and read.

Of course, Luo Quan doesn't expect *Three-Body* to break out of its circle relying on one book.

In her previous life *Three-Body* blew up because it won a major award abroad, was recommended by many celebrities, and gradually gained recognition among the general public.

At first only a niche group of sci-fi readers promoted how good this book was; its fame really wasn't high.

Of course, now *Three-Body* has a better path — making it into a TV series.

This should be the entertainment form most acceptable to the general public.

Low cost, freely control playback speed, watch when free, pause when busy — convenience is the main selling point.

Releasing the novel early counts as stirring up heat in advance.

Who knows, with its own fame foundation now, *Three-Body* might catch fire even faster.

But judging from the current bullet comments, fans seem to like the blue swimsuit she's wearing today more.

Of course, quite a few fans also recommend black — would look more regal.

Luo Quan is someone who takes good advice; decided to switch into it tonight to test the effect, if the effect is good she'll shoot the black swimsuit tomorrow.

Although the novel's release didn't stir any waves for the moment, Luo Quan saying she'll shoot a sci-fi movie still made fans very excited.

Truth is, before *The Wandering Earth* came out, Huaxia's sci-fi movies were really no different from a blank sheet.

Xiangjiang did shoot quite a few sci-fi movies early on, but the plots were all too rotten, and not hardcore enough; called sci-fi but actually not much different from xuanhuan.

Not until *The Wandering Earth* came out did people discover Huaxia could also shoot that kind of futuristic, technological feel.

Originally everyone thought *The Wandering Earth* would thereby open the door to Huaxia's sci-fi movies.

Who knew right after came a *Night Shanghai Fortress*, directly kicking the door back shut.

A six-hundred-million-investment sci-fi blockbuster ended with under two hundred million box office, directly making countless investors interested in sci-fi movies instantly lose interest.

Until many years later, *The Wandering Earth 2*'s release finally reopened this door.

Both films' box office exceeded four billion, proving Huaxia can afford such sci-fi blockbusters.

As long as it's excellent enough, there's no fear of no audience.

Thus *The Great Wall* came out; Old Master Mou took the lead announcing he'd enter the sci-fi industry, shoot a sci-fi movie with Huaxia characteristics.

Actually this movie was originally to be made into Huaxia fantasy, but the original plan was vetoed by Luo Quan, then replaced entirely with a new one — only then came the sci-fi version of *The Great Wall*.

So if not for Luo Quan, the market might still only have *The Wandering Earth 1 & 2* as the only two watchable sci-fi blockbusters.

Before, Xiangjiang also released a sci-fi film, but it was shot too badly; even with desperate promotion the box office was only a few hundred million — flopped to grandma's house.

A genre film can't rely on just one movie or one series; so whether audience or industry insiders, they desperately hope for a new work to ignite the market.

Movie or TV series both work; the key is to make the two words "sci-fi" catch fire.

Originally everyone thought Luo Quan's scripted *The Great Wall* would take up the banner, add bricks and tiles for sci-fi works.

Unexpectedly she now pulls out another *Three-Body*, and from her tone she seems to hold very high expectations for this *Three-Body*.

Although netizens feel nothing for this baffling name.

But considering the good reputation of "Luoquan production, must be premium," they still decided to take a look.

Slow warm-up doesn't matter; total is only two hundred thousand words — reading a few ten-thousands first won't take too much time.

If a few ten-thousands still can't attract them, that shows they aren't this book's audience; cheer and wait for the TV series.