Chapter 494: Throwing Money

"Lao Bai, the production team is quite attentive. This animation is much more conscientious than those animations made just to cheat subsidies." After finishing the animation, Liu Zhuren smacked his lips and commented.

"Impressive," Bai Chuzhang praised.

"I'd only say it's alright."

"Alright?" Bai Chuzhang said with disdain, "You don't know a damn thing!"

"And you do?"

"Let me ask you," Bai Chuzhang pointed at the TV screen and asked, "Do you know how much money it costs to produce an animation like this?"

"It has to be at least eighty or a hundred thousand," Liu Zhuren said. "This show has high ratings; didn't you see the product placement for purified water already? I estimate that in the next episode, even the clothes Ji Xiang wears will be product placements."

"Eighty or a hundred thousand?" Bai Chuzhang said with disdain. "Last year, I wanted to make a promotional video to popularize Clinical knowledge so that patients and Family Members who are capable of communicating and talking reasonably could understand a bit more. But as soon as I asked about the price, I was stunned. It's damn expensive."

"Expensive?!" Liu Zhuren was surprised.

In his impression, the production cost of an animation lasting several dozen seconds being eighty or a hundred thousand was already an overestimation; it was just an animation, how expensive could it be?

"Movie-level animation, just like the one we just saw, is one hundred thousand per second."

"!!!" Liu Zhuren's eyeballs almost fell to the ground and broke his foot. "Is it made of gold? One hundred thousand per second."

"Movie-level!" Bai Chuzhang emphasized. "It's very obvious that the foundation is movie-level; it's just because the time is short that it's not that refined. Anyway, I feel the production team spent the money; otherwise, it would be impossible to produce something of this quality in such a short time."

"Hiss~~~" Liu Zhuren drew a cold breath.

He trusted Bai Chuzhang; no matter how absurd or incomprehensible a matter was, it would always be proven later that Bai Chuzhang was right.

Let alone one hundred thousand per second, even if Bai Chuzhang said one million per second, Liu Zhuren would believe it.

"It just used nearly several dozen seconds, that's several million right there. Lao Bai, is the production team that rich?" Liu Zhuren asked in surprise.

"Mm, they spent a large sum of money just to demonstrate the surgical process. The production team is smart, quite smart."

"They can just ask the sponsors for this bit of money." Liu Zhuren restrained his smile. "Let's not talk about the first two episodes, nor the ones after, just this variety show episode..."

"What about it?" A playful smile hung on Bai Chuzhang's face.

"Hahaha."

Liu Zhuren laughed out loud.

He never watched variety shows, so even if he wanted to praise it a few times, he didn't know where to start; if he couldn't praise the key points, he would easily be looked down upon by his old friend.

"That's not what surprises me the most. Exquisitely produced movie-level animation usually takes months," Bai Chuzhang continued. "It's only been a few days, and they've produced nearly a minute of animation. It's impossible to do without the production team paying extra."

One hundred thousand per second, and having to pay extra on top of that—this had already broken through Liu Zhuren's perception.

"Extraordinary," Bai Chuzhang said softly while looking at the TV.

"They are professionals."

"No, I'm talking about Ji Xiang," Bai Chuzhang said.

Liu Zhuren was stunned for a moment. "What does this have to do with Ji Xiang?"

"At the time when Dean Sun told Ji Xiang to participate in the variety show, Ji Xiang refused at first," Bai Chuzhang said. "Later, you know what happened."

"Right, Xiao Ji said he wanted to promote Interventional Surgery so that more patients would know they still had a path they could choose."

"And it happened," Liu Zhuren and Bai Chuzhang said in unison.

The two looked at each other and fell silent at the same time.

At the time, Ji Xiang's wish was like making a wish, just something said in passing.

But the TV show that just aired: the Grade A Tertiary Hospital director rushing to a consultation; the patient lying on the bed, pale and dying; the Family Member with red-rimmed eyes, holding back tears.

One illness crushed a family.

With these as the background, they recorded the Doctor's rescue process from beginning to end and created exquisite animations to explain it.

Ji Xiang really is a lucky mascot who gets what he wishes for.

……

……

"Sister Yuqing, this is done too well," Tang Yan said, praising as she watched the animation demonstrate the surgical process.

"Just throwing money at it," Feng Yuqing said very easily. "Several animation companies worked on it together. Although time was tight and the result is just barely watchable, it's still not bad."

"Barely watchable..." Tang Yan truly didn't understand what Feng Yuqing meant by "barely."

"I saw the sample, and as an ordinary person, I can say I can understand it," Feng Yuqing smiled. "That's enough."

"Impressive!" Tang Yan praised again.

Money can make the devil push the mill, and money can even make the mill push the devil; including herself, wasn't she also being spun around by money?

Speaking of which, the time Ji Xiang is away is really quite relaxing, Tang Yan thought, her eyelashes blinking.

"Yan'er, what do you think?" Feng Yuqing asked.

"Especially good!" Tang Yan gave a positive answer. "I only count as being between a surgeon and an ordinary person; I understand a little, but not that much."

"Don't talk nonsense," Feng Yuqing laughed. "I heard people say that your understanding of surgery is very strong. You've followed a few surgeries, and when you encounter young doctors performing surgery, you can guide them on the table."

"They are so clumsy they can't even tell their hands from their feet," Tang Yan complained. "I just get anxious watching, so I say a few more words to tell them how the surgery should be done. But I can't do it, I really can't. Coming back to the point, this animation is really well done; it shows the entire surgical process and also avoids the risks of censorship."

"You think animations don't get censored?" Feng Yuqing's face was full of playfulness.

Tang Yan was startled. She immediately understood that it must have been this young lady and the people behind her who did a massive amount of work to allow this kind of animation to appear in an online variety show.

"This episode was done well," Feng Yuqing said. "The previous episode was already very exciting, and this one is even a step further. Not bad, not bad."

"Sister Yuqing, what about the next episode?" Tang Yan asked.

"Who knows? That's something for Fan Dao to worry about. Me, I'm only responsible for spending money."

Only responsible for spending money—hearing this, Tang Yan felt a bit envious.

If only it were like that in the hospital, where the administrative departments didn't point fingers, how good that would be.

"Sister Yuqing, how much did it cost to produce the animation?"

"There were three versions in total, and this is the one that remained after being reviewed by several directors. In total, it seems to be over twelve million."

"..."

Tang Yan was completely dazed by this number.

Although she had never seen so much money, she had heard of it. Many stars participated in variety shows, and their salary for a single season was more than this.

But that was a living, breathing big star full of Traffic.

The thing in front of her, which cost 12 million to produce, was just an animation of about one minute explaining a surgery!

It was completely different.

Having money really allows one to do whatever they want; Tang Yan looked at Feng Yuqing, feeling even more envious.

(End of this chapter)