Chapter 397: Firm Support

The sky was very dark, but the lights were still bright; in the distance, paparazzi were taking photos of Liu Tianxian, who was chatting on her phone and laughing.

The bodyguards noticed and went over to stop them, gesturing for them not to shoot.

They didn't confiscate the reporters' cameras or ask to delete the photos—just signaled them to stop; the photos already taken were ignored, since Liu Tianxian hadn't done anything wrong, and it wasn't important.

"You don't just give me hypnosis—you warm my heart. Oh no, what'll I do without you? I won't be able to sleep, and my heart will feel cold and hollow."

"Your mouth is just good at sweet-talking me," Liu Tianxian said with a smile as she stepped into the elevator, her heart feeling sweet.

The Assistant pressed the floor button for her, said nothing, and followed silently like a wooden statue, carrying her luggage bags—though she was indeed thinking inside.

These two really can talk—chatting nonstop from Vogue Nocturne all the way here, talking while resting, talking while eating, talking while riding in the car—where do they even get so many topics?

After exiting the elevator, Liu Tianxian returned to the suite and asked seriously: "Hey, I'm asking you seriously—how's that thing going? Any difficulties?"

She meant the conflict between Chang'e and Youku.

"There are definitely difficulties, but we'll find a way to overcome them," Fang Hong replied seriously.

"Can you find a way to overcome them?" Liu Tianxian asked.

"Not yet—we're still thinking, trying to figure out how to make the other side back down. We can't afford to keep wasting time," Fang Hong didn't hide anything.

He pretended confidence and strength in front of others, but never pretended with Liu Tianxian—whether anxious or happy, he showed her his truest self.

"Are you short on money?" Liu Tianxian asked.

"Of course I am. If I had money, I wouldn't fear Alibaba or Youku at all—I'd just hold out. Right now, what we lack most is time," Fang Hong said.

Chang'e Technology lacked time to grow; given enough time, it wouldn't fear Alibaba or Youku at all.

"I've saved two or three hundred million—take it and use it first. If it's not enough, I'll think of other ways to help," Liu Tianxian didn't know how else to help, so she could only give him money.

"Oh Xiao Feifei, you make me so moved," Fang Hong said.

Those two or three hundred million were probably Liu Tianxian's entire savings—she gave him her entire fortune without hesitation to support his career; this affection truly moved him.

In truth, Liu Tianxian hadn't been earning money long—technically, she only started after Fang Hong's rebirth; before that, the dresses she wore to events were all high-quality fakes.

Only during Yutu's rise did Liu Tianxian gradually benefit and start making big money.

Because her works brought her many resources and endorsements, restoring her value to its rightful realm.

"Don't say useless stuff—be serious," Liu Tianxian thought he was joking.

"I'm serious—I'm truly moved. But these funds of yours won't help. Alibaba gave Youku over a billion dollars—we'd have to sell everything we own and still wouldn't match them," Fang Hong said.

"Oh…" Liu Tianxian fell silent.

She understood—the opponent was crushing them with absolute power, not playing any tricks or schemes.

They were too low-level to help.

"Don't worry about this—I already have a rough idea how to solve it, and it's actually good for us," Fang Hong said.

"What idea?" Liu Tianxian asked naturally.

"I'll tell you when you get back."

Fang Hong changed the subject and asked: "Have you gotten back to your room?"

"Yes, I'm about to wash up and sleep—I've been busy all day," Liu Tianxian checked the clock—it was nearly eleven.

"Then get some rest early," Fang Hong said.

"You too—don't stay up late, sleep early," Liu Tianxian worried.

"Okay, goodnight," Fang Hong said, then kissed the phone with a "muah."

"Muah! Goodnight."

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Fang Hong hung up, lay back, stared at the ceiling as if thinking, then pulled out a contract from under his pillow and looked at it.

This contract was for 50% equity in Chang'e Technology—it was his guarantee to retain absolute control over Chang'e Technology if anything went wrong.

He read the text, then placed the document back under his pillow.

On the other end, Liu Tianxian finished her bath, wore a white robe, rubbed oil on her hands, stared at her phone on the bed, thought for a moment, then got in and sat cross-legged, checking her assets and bank balance.

She realized her assets were a drop in the bucket—useless against giants like Alibaba and Youku.

"Ah!"

She sighed and murmured: "I wonder if Uncle will still lend us money?"

Besides Chang'e and Youku's mutual sabotage, and Alibaba stepping in to help Youku fight Chang'e,

the broadcast date of Let's Get Married was approaching—it would air exclusively on CCTV-1 and Mang Guo Jin Ying Ju Chang.

Mango TV had bought the exclusive broadcast rights long before the Dad Where Are We Going incident—they had money.

They paid 275 million, 5.5 million per episode; since it was exclusive, CCTV didn't count, and this drama was directed by a top director, produced by Yutu and CCTV together, a premium production.

Before filming even began, they'd already recouped tens of millions through ads—49 ad inserts, roughly 200 million.

So they'd made over 220 million; but that 200+ million still had to be split with the director and CCTV—roughly one hundred million profit.

But this wasn't the final profit—second and third-round online broadcasts hadn't been counted yet.

The drama used a network-TV joint broadcast model, granting Chang'e Video exclusive first-run rights, with 70% ad revenue shared with the producers.

Buying the rights outright for hundreds of millions was too expensive—sharing revenue stretched out the timeline. The male lead of Let's Get Married went to Guo Jinfei, the female lead to Shuchang; on this day, both appeared on Happy Camp to promote the drama.

On stage, the hosts of the Happy Family surrounded Shuchang and Guo Jingfei; below, the audience watched.

He Laoshi asked: "Let's Get Married is about to air—can you share your experience filming this drama?"

"Filming was tough—it was summer, we had to endure blazing sun, and there were many outdoor scenes. None of us on the crew complained or slacked off; everyone was professional, and Jinfei is a very dedicated actor," Shuchang recited her lines.

"Thank you! Actually, this isn't my first time working with Shuchang," Guo Jingfei picked up the mic to help.

"Huh?! You two worked together before?" Xie Na's expression was exaggerated, as if she didn't know.

"A few years ago, we worked together on Lost in Love 33 Days—just no real scenes together," Guo Jingfei said.

"You're still disappointed, aren't you?" He Laoshi joked.

"No, no." Guo Jingfei looked quite shy.

This made the audience below the stage start heckling with "oh oh oh," but the two of them were really nothing.

"Just kidding." He Laoshi pulled the topic back and asked Shuchang: "Changchang, I heard you and Tianxian are good sisters?"

"Yes, best besties." Shuchang said.

"Then can you tell us about Liu Tianxian and the Principal? Are they really dating, tell us secretly." He Laoshi looked mysterious, in a joking manner.

The other hosts and the audience below the stage also looked expectant — this was juicy gossip.

"About that, you'd better ask them, I won't talk about it." Shuchang smiled and didn't answer.

This was rather disappointing; everyone had thought there'd be big gossip, but no one would say anything.

"Hey hey, then how did you land the female lead in this drama? Was it because Liu Tianxian introduced you?" Xie Na suddenly popped up, speaking without thinking.

The implication was that Shuchang had gotten in through the back door.

This made Shuchang a bit embarrassed, because she really had gotten in through the back door — Liu Xiaoli had helped.

With Shuchang's current status, she could no longer land the big female lead in a drama, but she had landed one anyway.

"Let me explain this — she got it through audition, I was there at the time, the director thought highly of her." Guo Jingfei came to her rescue.

"What about you, then?" Xie Na turned her spearhead on Guo Jingfei again.

"I was directly assigned by the company." Guo Jingfei said it with full justification — he was originally a Jade Rabbit artist, so using Jade Rabbit resources was perfectly fine, nothing wrong with it.

This show was just like that, noisy and chaotic, with Xie Na blurting out brainless things every now and then.

As long as you thought things through before answering questions, you'd be fine.

On Wednesday evening, November 6th, at eight o'clock, Let's Get Married officially premiered, with episodes 1-2 getting a viewership rating of 1.705%. It could be called a flying start.

This was comparable to the viewership of Legend of Lu Zhen back then; how popular this drama was went without saying.

Then the next day, episodes 3-4 held steady at 1.568%, seemingly lower, but the buzz was very high, with heated discussions online.

And most were watching online — Let's Get Married on Chang'e Video quickly broke ten million clicks, terrifyingly so!

It was another hit, which made video platforms like Youku Video stare wide-eyed — how could hits keep coming one after another?

This time they couldn't pirate it easily — this was a CCTV production, bearing CCTV's brand.

Anyone who dared to pirate it could try facing CCTV's iron fist.

Pirating the full version wasn't allowed, but clips and snippets were fine, so Youku had many clip videos of this drama.

If you put your mind to it and strung them together, you could also watch a complete episode — this was exploiting a loophole in the Copyright Law.

Even later on, it was hard to define whether clips infringed copyright.

Taking advantage of the huge popularity of Let's Get Married, Jade Rabbit's General Manager Chen Zhixi stepped forward: "Jade Rabbit will resolutely safeguard our company's content copyright. Any platform that pirates our content without authorization — if it isn't deleted within the time limit, we will resort to legal action."

This was aimed at striking at those video platforms that had copied Chang'e Video's content.

Copying Chang'e Video's content was equivalent to copying Jade Rabbit's content — uncle could endure, but auntie could not.

Simply put, Jade Rabbit was giving Chang'e its backing!

"That's it?" Gu Yongjiang posted these two words on his own Weibo, dripping with mockery.

Of course he didn't name Jade Rabbit directly — he just posted these two words. The meaning was obvious: what kind of thing is Jade Rabbit? This small-time nobody dares to get involved in their competition with Chang'e — truly laughable.

This person had quite a lot of fans, numbering in the hundreds of thousands. After posting these two words, the comments section below was lively too.

"Hahaha, Chang'e and Jade Rabbit vs. Ali's Youku!"

"Smells a bit like a clown."

"Alright, I got it, dismissed!"

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Even major self-media accounts felt Jade Rabbit was overestimating itself — the best approach was not to get involved and preserve itself.

Although they were all the Principal's companies, what should be hidden still needed to be hidden.

However, just when netizens and the media felt that posting this article was just a joke, useless, just playing to the crowd—

Beijing Film Academy Vice Principal Sun Lijun stepped forward and said: "We resolutely support Jade Rabbit's determination to safeguard copyright. Healthy copyright is the foundation for the healthy and upward development of our country's film and television industry."

What this person said wasn't important — what mattered was his background: hosted by the Copyright Protection Center.

(End of this chapter)