Chapter 699: Forrest Gump

"To be honest, Miss Luo Quan has really figured out the current internet popularity; everything she said is the point."

"No wonder she can stay popular until now; it's precisely because she is so clear-headed that she is so popular."

"Just like she said, as long as there is strength, a large amount of word-of-mouth will help her market for free. At this time, there is actually no need for a public relations team, and spending money to hire internet water armies is even more likely to cause visual fatigue for passersby."

"Unfortunately, these celebrities don't understand the wisdom of knowing when to stop; they only know how to buy traffic and don't care about the passerby's favor at all."

"Little do they know, passerby favor is actually the most important, because your fans will definitely not be more than passersby."

"Yes, this is Miss Luo Quan's wisdom; genius ideas and practices are always different from ordinary people, but they can always achieve miraculous effects."

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Seeing these praises in the comment section, Miss Luo Quan herself was surprised.

Am I that amazing? I was just afraid that too much is as bad as too little, so I reduced the number of exposures for my sister. How can passersby imagine so many things?

However, this feeling of being praised for high intelligence by everyone is quite good, and Miss Luo Quan won't be stupid enough to jump out and correct it.

For now, let's just treat her as one of the few wise people in the entertainment industry...

Time gradually passed, and the highly anticipated *Forrest Gump* premiere finally arrived.

The reason why it is said to be highly anticipated is not because how many civilians are looking forward to this movie.

It is mainly stock investors, counting on it to become the savior of the stock market on the verge of crashing.

Although Miss Luo Quan said from the beginning not to treat the movie as God, it is impossible for it to make stock prices rise.

However, she couldn't withstand the rendering and blowing of those unscrupulous media.

And stock investors, after having nothing to count on, could only pin their hopes on these ethereal things.

Like the previous premieres, Miss Luo Quan still played tricks at the premiere.

Last time, she brought the creators to have a fan meeting cosplay.

And this time, she held a charity gala.

Before the premiere, she announced that she would auction some personal items at the premiere site.

Of course, it is definitely not the intimate clothes that the perverts think of; she is not that bottomless.

Mainly some tools, such as ballpoint pens, guitars, and quite a few signed albums or photo albums.

Because it is a charity auction, all proceeds from the auction will be donated to American charities to help the homeless.

Before the premiere started, Miss Luo Quan posted a tweet: "For those groups who have no fixed place to live and cannot guarantee food and clothing, having enough to eat and wear is the American Dream; everything else is just empty declarations."

After the tweet was sent, it received angry likes from American netizens. The comment with the most likes said she had more conscience than all politicians combined.

Then someone refuted: Politicians' consciences are all negative; no matter how you add them, they are negative numbers.

Then it became the comment with the second most likes.

Although these remarks slapped the government's face, they were not blocked, probably because they wanted the public to have a place to vent.

Venting online is much better than zero-dollar shopping and parades offline.

And the premiere was notified in advance that it was an auction of Miss Luo Quan's items. Originally, she didn't think there would be many rich people other than fans to participate.

But I didn't expect that after the news was sent, many rich people sent emails wanting to participate in the premiere.

"Are these people all fans? Not necessarily." Miss Luo Quan looked at these rich people who claimed to want to contribute to the charity cause, and she had no idea.

She randomly picked a part to send invitations, and the remaining quotas were randomly sent to fans.

Actually, this auction was just symbolic; she didn't intend to raise huge sums of money.

It was mainly to take this opportunity to call on all walks of life in the United States to see if it could set off any splashes.

If everyone is indifferent, then just treat it as her being a clown once.

Anyway, she estimates that she will only do this kind of good deed once in the United States.

After all, *Forrest Gump*'s marketing intensity is so great; eating other people's dividends, it is indeed unreasonable not to do something.

The premiere was held as scheduled. Film reporters and film critics sat in the front row, while tycoons and fans sat slightly behind.

Like before, Miss Luo Quan, as the director, first brought a group of creators to the stage to share with everyone what happened during the filming of the movie.

Although a lot of things happened during the filming period, Miss Luo Quan's personality is to report good news but not bad news.

Life is already very difficult; adding difficulties to a movie that escapes life is not adding trouble to the audience.

So unless necessary, Miss Luo Quan doesn't like to use this method to highlight how difficult filming is.

No matter how difficult it is, the movie has been filmed, and I guess most people won't care too much about this.

After the movie highlights part ended, the auction officially began.

For most of the fans at the scene, this is actually the highlight.

It is worth mentioning that all auction items are basically things Miss Luo Quan has used in the past year or two.

As for those from a longer time ago, they have more commemorative significance and carry quite a lot of memories, so Miss Luo Quan doesn't intend to sell them.

The first auction item is the ballpoint pen that Miss Luo Quan often used when writing at her desk.

It looks very new on the outside, but the middle part has been played very round by her fingers, and even the icon is gone.

Starting price is one dollar, and each increase does not exceed five thousand dollars.

Even for all the audience at the scene, this price is a cabbage price without discount.

A pricing of only one dollar, how much do you look down on the US economic level?

Thus, an outrageous scene that could not be seen in the auction venue in the past appeared.

As soon as the bidding started, all the audience raised their placards without exception.

No matter if they could eventually bid, at least everyone wanted to buy and could afford it.

But with round after round of price increases, the price of this ballpoint pen soon exceeded fifty thousand dollars.

Those who were still raising placards here were basically the few tycoons in the front row.

However, Miss Luo Quan stated in advance that no one could bid for more than one item, so it wouldn't let these rich people bid for all the collections.

In the end, Miss Luo Quan's ballpoint pen was bid for at a price of seventy thousand dollars.

Next, Miss Luo Quan's fountain pen, pencil, paintbrush, all kinds of pens, walked around one by one, basically all tens of thousands of dollars, far exceeding its own value.

Small items were sold, and then it was the big items like guitars and violins.

Because these instruments Miss Luo Quan bought were all well-known big brands, the pricing was also biased high, and the final transaction price was basically above one million dollars.

Because it is a premiere, it is broadcast live throughout.

The auction afterward can also be seen online, and everyone is paying attention to how much money these things Miss Luo Quan used can be bid for.

Although everyone knew the price was definitely expensive, it still surprised everyone a little.

Besides those tycoons, Miss Luo Quan's fans were also fanatical and hidden.

Many fans dressed plainly could actually compete with those tycoons until the last moment, and some could even win the final victory, which was something netizens didn't expect.

It is said that Miss Luo Quan has a large fan base and many invisible rich people. Now it seems it is really not a joke. No wonder she could raise a one-hundred-million-dollar swimsuit photo fund in such a short time.

When the tools were sold out, it was the turn of signed albums and signed photos.

These can be said to be specially prepared by Miss Luo Quan for fans.

Because those rich people, I guess they don't lack ways to get these things.

And after these rounds of auctions, they basically had gains, and at this time, they couldn't compete with others.

Compared with before, the competition for these relatively affordable items was much more intense. Most of the audience's financial resources were about the same, and each increase was not particularly large. The final transaction price was generally around ten thousand dollars.

The whole auction lasted for more than an hour. Miss Luo Quan timed it and ended the auction before twelve o'clock.

The harvest this time was quite good, selling a full thirty-three million dollars, which was much higher than she expected.

It can only be said that the rich in the United States are indeed rich.

The auction ended, and it was time for the movie to start.

Miss Luo Quan and a group of creators went on stage again to thank the audience for coming to the premiere. Then, the lights at the scene dimmed.

At the same time, cinemas across the United States also opened the screening halls for *Forrest Gump*. All the audience who pre-ordered movie tickets, holding popcorn and cola, sat down.

Some were alone, and some were dragging their families.

Tang Mu was originally going to call his good friend Jerry to watch the movie together, but Jerry said he had no interest in this kind of thing, so Tang Mu came alone.

It was supposed to be a relaxing thing to watch a movie, but after he entered the screening hall, he found that the people around him didn't look good.

But it was also normal, because their own faces didn't look good either.

The shitty reality made them all want to find comfort in the virtual world.

It seems that *Forrest Gump* seems to be a good choice.

Especially worth mentioning is that when he sat down, he found a golden-haired girl sitting beside him.

She was also alone to watch the movie, and she was so beautiful, looking very innocent.

Tang Mu, who had been a homebody for many years, immediately fell in love, but he was inherently inferior and didn't dare to take the initiative to talk to the girl, so after sitting down, he could only honestly watch the big screen and look at the girl with the corner of his eyes.

I don't know if this girl knew his behavior. Tang Mu guessed she shouldn't know. After all, she was like him, looking at the big screen, looking forward to the movie playing.

Soon, the whole venue fell into darkness, and the words "Miss Luo Quan Entertainment" appeared on the big screen, as well as the classic opening of Universal Pictures.

At the beginning of the picture, it focused on a feather.

It drifted in the sky, swept over the city, and finally landed on the edge of a pair of muddy sneakers.

The camera went up, and the movie's protagonist, Gump, appeared.

Leon's handsome face now revealed a dullness that was somewhat different from ordinary people. Although it was a middle-aged state, his eyes and movements looked like a child.

A black woman sitting beside him discovered his abnormality and asked him why he was dressed so decently, but his sneakers were so dirty.

Gump showed a simple and innocent smile, completely without the perfunctory that a middle-aged person should have; there was only sincerity here.

A magnetic voice sounded, and he began to tell, telling his childhood.

The camera switched to Gump's childhood.

It turned out that he was born with intellectual defects, and his legs were also disabled.

And like many American families, his father was nowhere to be found.

Although the conditions were difficult, Gump's mother still tried her best to find ways to treat her son, and even to let Gump walk, she went to the hospital to spend a high price to install auxiliary equipment for him.

Gump could walk on the ground, but because the equipment was too bulky, his movements were even more ridiculous.

Soon he reached school age, but because of intellectual disability, he couldn't even pass the simplest test.

But in the end, he passed the enrollment monitoring and successfully enrolled.

And the price was that his mother made a very big sacrifice, using her body to trade with the school teacher.

Gump, who successfully enrolled, did not change his fate because of this.

His intelligence was still low, and no one was even willing to give him a seat on the first school bus.

But it was also this day that he met the girl he loved for a lifetime—Jenny.

Only this girl asked Gump if he wanted to sit with her.

In the eyes of Gump at that time, this girl was like an angel, full of innocence and kindness.

Gump, who didn't understand what love was, could only look at the girl with all his eyes and sat beside her.

Everything was like fate.

However, the encounter with the goddess didn't make his life much better.

After enrollment, Gump was still often excluded by classmates because of his intelligence.

Once, on the way home from school with Jenny.

Gump met those little bullies again.

They pushed bicycles, picked up stones on the road and threw them at Gump, and even stepped forward to push him.

They were numerous and powerful, and Gump was not an opponent, so he could only turn and run away like an ugly duckling.

But because the auxiliary equipment on his legs was too bulky, his swaying body made the little bullies laugh, and then they rode their bicycles and chased after him.

Seeing that Gump was about to be caught, Jenny shouted loudly from behind: "Run, Gump, run!"

For Gump, nothing was more exciting than Jenny's encouragement.

And it was at this moment that a miracle happened.

His legs seemed to have suddenly returned to normal and began to move forward quickly.

The auxiliary equipment on his legs also cracked inch by inch because of the change in running posture.

The slow motion gave Gump's legs, and the parts that bound him fell apart and fell off during the run.

This scene was like a butterfly breaking out of a cocoon.

In the cinema, countless audiences didn't know why, and tears suddenly surged into their eyes.

That inexplicable emotion was so strong and so sudden.

Clearly, this was a miracle with no scientific basis, but why did it give people such a sense of reality?

No one could answer this question; probably only Gump himself knew. ===== CHAPTER 700 =====