Chapter 613: Please Stop Your Magic

"I came to scout out the possible box office champion competitors in advance~ This is the final stretch, if we get overtaken it'd be pretty hard to swallow."

After Bai Liang scored twice, he then pulled off a hat trick, and noticed the faces of everyone listening to him say this had changed.

The two famously distinguished Best Actors, Liu Dehua and Andy Lau, pressed their lips together, helpless expressions on their faces, seeming to want to say something but swallowing the words back down.

Probably also because of their age, both of them had creased up their faces into a bunch of wrinkles.

"I'm getting a little scared, your words are a bit poisonous"

Heavenly King Liu finally revealed a wry smile, shook his head and quipped.

The "ordinary citizen" Andy Lau beside him also nodded along, clearly also following this kind of news

Recently Bai Liang has been showing up frequently at movie premieres, giving everyone this same "blessing."

Originally it wasn't a big deal, but his blessing is off!

Whoever accepts it has bad luck!

Look, whether it's that whatever "If Voice Not Remember," or "Warm Hug," their reputations have cracked open.

These two movies still had pretty high topic热度, the former had Guo Xiaosi, such a controversial contestant, on stage to support it, the latter had the Mahua FunAge team behind it, considered among the most watched batch of movies released this month.

Actually the box office performance was still okay, at least it didn't completely collapse, still a "good project" that made money overall.

This is the benefit of having fame and traffic, some movies even if their reputation and ratings aren't bad, it's hard to translate that into actual box office.

To put it bluntly, being famously bad might be easier for people to accept than an unknown good reputation.

But this also can't cover up Bai Liang's act of "poisonous milk"!

Before there were still many people online joking that he took money, now they all say "Great Immortal, please stop your magic."

His line about "box office champion competitors" is basically like a curse, the box office definitely can't catch up to his, but the reputation will definitely crack open.

Originally everyone didn't believe his so-called "just looking at competitors" talk, but now they really do.

They feel he's not just looking at possible competitors, he wants to "kill" them.

And people in the entertainment circle were already a bit superstitious, a lot of this stuff came from Xiangjiang, the tradition of worshipping gods at the start of filming began with them, later the mainland picked up this whole set too.

So the question is, how much do these people, who are already a Xiangjiang team, believe in this stuff?

One sentence: they're terrified!

Bai Liang now isn't just the top流量 of the mainland entertainment scene, box office top 1, that eerie vibe of his is the scariest part.

"Liang-ge, please stop your magic, our movie isn't going for the box office champion, it's not that serious"

"Already feeling the magic power, my scalp is starting to itch~"

"Xiangjiang movies don't come easy. Everyone's just trying to make a living."

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Bai Liang:???

No, he was just like before, habitually saying something auspicious when meeting people, giving some blessings, that's all.

Why are these people acting so miserable? And he remembered "Shock Wave 2" being quite a good movie, when he was chatting with Unlike Ni Ni before, he even congratulated her on getting good resources to turn things around, but the result is the main creative team has no confidence?

Movie main creative team: We actually have confidence in the movie, but we have even more confidence in you

Who isn't afraid of metaphysics?

Among these people, quite a few had gone to see the White Dragon King before~

Bai Liang's surname is also Bai, his jianghu nickname is Bai Bai Daxian. Feels like it's not much different, the only distinction is he doesn't tell fortunes for people, he purely just "gives blessings" here.

Actually just giving blessings would still be fine, but who let this guy have other priors!

This situation made Bai Liang a little awkward too, but he's still pretty easygoing, since they believe in this stuff so much and hope he can change his tune, he naturally wouldn't refuse.

He even considerately asked for their opinion first, tentatively saying:

"How about changing it to... I think your movie looks like it's going to flop at first glance, no threat to my box office champion at all, can only bravely win the Golden Broom?"

"Hey! That's right!"

"That sounds much more comfortable."

"Thanks Liang-ge!"

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The moment Bai Liang changed his tune, the main creative team in front of him immediately stopped making bitter faces, smiles appeared right away, and each one was more brilliant than the last.

Sister Tian Tian, who had been sticking close to Bai Liang since coming in, watched this magical scene unfold before her eyes and truly found it somewhat unbelievable.

She had just been "locked up" in the crew for a while, what happened to the movie circle?!

She couldn't help but reach out and poke Bai Liang, deliberately putting on a slightly serious face, "Ahem, while I was away, what bad thing did you do again?"

"Me?" Bai Liang pointed at his own nose, "How could I do bad things?"

"You love doing bad things the most!"

Sister Tian Tian spoke with conviction, clearly feeling she had a lot of say in this area.

But what she understood and what she was currently expressing were clearly not the same thing at all.

Forcibly fusing proper matters and lewd matters together, how could they be mentioned in the same breath.

But Bai Liang wouldn't give Sister Tian Tian any lecture on this aspect, instead cleverly switching to a different angle to answer.

"Actually you find it strange just because they're carrying more on their backs, more nervous."

"What do you mean?" Sister Tian Tian asked, face full of confusion.

"In recent years, Xiangjiang movies, back and forth it's always these same old faces... they've run out of people."

No fresh blood, this is actually the biggest problem for the Hong Kong circle.

While the mainland entertainment scene is so competitive that every year a bunch of newcomers pop up wanting to beat the predecessors to death on the beach, in the Hong Kong circle's annual output of film and TV, audiences find every face ridiculously familiar.

At the same time they're only familiar with those actors whose average age is at least 40+, they basically don't recognize a single young one.

Year after year they shout about the rise of Xiangjiang movies, about returning to that golden era, but the reality is the old-timers are over there stubbornly holding on, playing every possible permutation and combination.

At the same time, the Xiangjiang Film Awards, which once carried real weight and prestige, were still clinging to that old set of standards, which kept most mainland films from being able to participate — the result being that they attracted less and less attention year by year.

Everyone was too lazy to pay attention to the thing anymore; with that kind of approach, it'd be a miracle if it didn't die.

Sister Tian Tian was clearly drawn in by such a high-minded topic — discussing the life-and-death of Xiangjiang cinema!

And she actually started chiming in and bossing things around here~

Especially right in front of the person, of course! Bai Liang, being such a polite and gentle person, certainly couldn't really tear the scab off in front of them — the two of them discussed it on the sly.

But this still made Sister Tian Tian feel it was awfully thrilling!

This peculiar sense of pleasure from talking "smack" about someone behind their back really was quite the experience.

Kind of like a skirmish in the wild?

That metaphor wasn't quite apt — after all, she hadn't actually experienced the real thing; at most she'd just opened the windows on Bai Liang's RV and made a bit of a ruckus~

But she couldn't help letting her imagination run wild!

"Hey~ look at that little fatty over there, do you know him?"

When Bai Liang secretly pointed out a male artist to Sister Tian Tian, she did take a careful look for several seconds, then wore a thoroughly blank expression.

"Who is he? Don't know him."

"You don't even know a top-tier Xiangjiang star?"

"Huh?!"