Chapter 289

Bai Zhizi heard a powerful sense of confidence from Sui Sui Lingfang.

Whether others believe it or not, she believed it.

Her mind settled, and she said solemnly: "Thank you for being willing to reveal your determination to me. I know what to do next. I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation in the future!"

Sui Sui Lingfang smiled, "Editor-in-chief Bai Zhizi, you are a smart person, and I like working with smart people the most."

After Bai Zhizi hung up the phone, she returned to the hall from before.

The editors looked over one after another.

"Editor-in-chief, did someone ask to cooperate with us?"

"Those advertisers are moving too fast, we only gained followers today!"

"If other films ask to cooperate with us, does that mean we don't have to worry too much about the opinions of those industry big shots?"

Bai Zhizi shook her head slowly: "No, no one asked to cooperate with us; rather, I took the initiative to seek a cooperation."

The editors were surprised.

Bai Zhizi smiled at them, "Do you have the confidence to play a big game with me?"

She didn't beat around the bush and stated her plan.

"We can predict the box office of *No One Survived* successfully once, so we can predict it successfully a second and third time."

"I want to predict that this film's daily box office will break 10 million for the next two days!"

The room wasn't lit, with only natural light coming in from outside the window.

Under the illumination of the natural light, Bai Zhizi's face appeared as handsome as jade, full of confidence, and her eyes were filled with excitement and anticipation for the future!

The news of yesterday's 10.5 million box office for *No One Survived* finally reached Jin Li's ears.

This news was told to her by Gu Cheng when they were chatting privately.

After she posted that message in the group, no one replied, but a few minutes later, Gu Cheng messaged her privately, asking if she was going to perform at the gala.

Jin Li: 【No ╮(╯▽╰)╭ If it were just going to the gala to sing, I wouldn't be this conflicted. These five songs were all chosen by the director as promotional songs for the film, and they want me to sing them. I'm hesitating.】

Gu Cheng raised his eyebrows.

It was actually a film promotional song.

Jin Li hadn't revealed news about *Dream Builder* in the group chat; it might be that the film had only passed censorship but wasn't necessarily going to be released soon.

Since nothing was set in stone, she wouldn't reveal it yet.

Gu Cheng didn't ask about *Dream Builder* either, but returned to the songs themselves, quickly giving his thoughts.

Gu Cheng: 【If they are promotional songs, I can only say they are all good songs, but they don't really fit your vocal range, and you might not be able to sing them well.】

Gu Cheng: 【Technology is advanced now. If you record in a recording studio, the sound engineer can easily fix the flaws in your voice.】

【But as a promoter, you will definitely have to sing in person when you go on tour. When it comes time to actually sing, it's very easy for various problems to arise.】

Jin Li's eyes narrowed slightly.

The problem Gu Cheng mentioned was also what she was worried about.

It seems she wasn't the only one who thought of this; if she really decided to sing the promotional songs, live performance was unavoidable.

Jin Li thought that if she made a mistake live, regardless of what others thought, she herself couldn't tolerate such a mistake.

But unfortunately, she didn't have enough confidence to sing them without making mistakes.

Jin Li: 【Forget it, I won't sing them. I'll let someone else sing.】

Jin Li: 【After thinking it over, my singing ability isn't at the level where I can sing these songs. Although I'm greedy for the fame of a film promotional song, I'll just forget it.】

Gu Cheng: 【Head pat. jpg】

Gu Cheng: 【Be more confident. You already have a daily box office of 10 million. Even if you don't sing, it won't affect netizens' evaluation of you.】

Gu Cheng: 【You are already very famous. Whether you sing or not won't affect your fame. It's best if you can sing, but if you can't, it doesn't matter.】

Jin Li was stunned, 【Daily box office of 10 million?】

Gu Cheng immediately shared a trending search—

#Box office divine prediction, *No One Survived* daily box office 15 million! #

Jin Li:!!!

After she returned to Dawn Entertainment, she immediately walked to Manager Fang's office.

The artists and staff coming and going greeted her enthusiastically, all smiles.

When Jin Li took the elevator, she could still hear excited, suppressed voices coming from behind her.

"Daily box office broke 10 million, this is following the rhythm of a hit film!"

"Is our company going to produce a Best Actress?"

"Sigh, it's a pity, *No One Survived* is an ensemble piece, there's no single male or female lead, so it can't be entered into film festivals!"

"It actually squeezed out one of the hit films!"

The elevator closed, and Jin Li was the only one inside. She couldn't help but shake her head, revealing a bit of expression.

She smiled; as expected of people in the entertainment industry, they get news fast.

Arriving at Sui Sui Lingfang's office, she was on the phone, and Jin Li knocked on the door outside.

Sui Sui Lingfang looked up, her eyes lighting up, and she quickly waved for her to come in and sit down first, waiting for her to finish the call.

"Yes, use the hanging as a promotional selling point. I haven't released the actual footage gimmick before, just to attract a wave of trending searches."

"Not just you, you can ask other actors if they dare to accept this challenge."

"Jin Li? Of course Jin Li won't do it again. If they want to see her hanging scene, just let the netizens watch the behind-the-scenes footage. They can watch it as many times as they want."

"You want her to come too? Then you should buy her a hundred-million insurance first... Speaking of this, I regret it. Why didn't I let you buy insurance first back then?"

Before long, Sui Sui Lingfang hung up the phone and walked towards her with a smile.

Jin Li also smiled and asked: "You're still working on the promotion for *No One Survived*? Didn't you say the promotional funds were already used up?"

Sui Sui Lingfang waved her hand and sat down next to Jin Li.

"They are used up. I was originally communicating with Director Deng today, wanting him to add some more."

"But I didn't expect our luck to be so good. He can bring a wave of heat from his side, and others also want to borrow *No One Survived* to hype up a wave of heat."

"I calculated it, and decided not to raise funds at all. Let everything take its natural course. Anyway, with *No One Survived*'s box office results yesterday, there will definitely be no lack of heat in the future."

She paused, her eyes burning as she said: "What we lack is how to accurately monetize the heat!"

Jin Li already knew the box office results and didn't need Manager Fang to explain.

She supported: "If there's anything I can do, just tell me. I also want to contribute to the film crew."

Sui Sui Lingfang nodded and said with a grin: "Mm, but now that the film has reached this point, it doesn't need you to contribute anymore."

She explained: "The film's early promotion was all hyped up using you as a gimmick. If we use you as a gimmick again now, I'm afraid it will provoke a rebellious psychology in the audience."

"It's not a good thing for stars to be exposed to netizens too frequently. Even the best stars can't stand being seen every day; it's easy to get annoyed at first sight."

Jin Li agreed completely: "I'm also very worried about this!"

Sui Sui Lingfang: "So next, the focus of the film's promotion should shift to other stars. An excellent film can not only make the male and female leads popular, but also various supporting roles."

"Not to mention *No One Survived* is an excellent ensemble piece. Every actor is worthy of respect; let netizens hear their stories."

She didn't know what she thought of, and said happily: "Even the director has put in a lot of effort, so being able to hype it up is also good."

Since the subsequent hype didn't require Jin Li's participation, Sui Sui Lingfang didn't go into detail about her arrangements.

Stars have limited energy, so she tries her best not to disturb her with trivial matters.

Of course, she would still tell Jin Li the rules of business operations that she should learn.

Sui Sui Lingfang: "Now let's talk about *Dream Builder*. The film has passed censorship. I've communicated with Director Zhong, and I see he is very determined to launch it in August."

"August?" Jin Li couldn't help but frown, "He wants to parachute in? Can it work?"

It was also thanks to *No One Survived* wanting to launch in the summer season that they had investigated the rules of the film circle during that time.

They knew that 1-2 months before the summer season, cinemas would invite bids and arrange the schedule for hit films in advance.

In this situation, wanting to cut in line halfway is very, very difficult.

Cutting in line is one thing, but if you still want to get support for screenings, that's even harder than ascending to heaven.

The interests involved here are all leveraging funds at the hundred-million level.

Sui Sui Lingfang said firmly: "If it were someone else, I wouldn't be sure, but if it's Director Zhong, he has this energy and can negotiate with the cinema."

She added: "Not to mention that his film is supported by the state. Cinemas also have quotas; they must bring in a batch of mainstream films every year and cannot only show commercial films."

Sui Sui Lingfang sighed: "It's also because of this that I have no objection to his choice of using a finished song as the film's promotional song."

From now on, it's already too late to develop an original song and get it to the film's release.

Jin Li wanted to say something, when her phone suddenly vibrated.

She asked Manager Fang to wait a moment while she checked the message.

It turned out that people in the Pink Girl group and the March Sky group were replying to her one after another. Some people had just tagged her, so it vibrated.

Lotus: 【I once sang one of the songs as a performance at the end of a gala, and it wasn't even sung by me alone, everyone sang together, but the difficulty was extremely high!】

Pearl: 【I have already finished listening to all five songs, and I feel that none of them are suitable for Carp.】

Sister Meng Meng: 【Dear @Carp, why are you so short-sighted and planning to sing these five? It's not a question of emotion, but the techniques inside are also very difficult for you to achieve.】

Jin Li looked at the March Sky group chat, and their views were about the same, feeling that it didn't fit her style at all.

She put down her phone, looked back at Manager Fang, and said regretfully: "I can't sing the film promotional songs. I asked several friends, and they don't think I can hold them."

Sui Sui Lingfang raised her eyebrows: "You asked your teammates?"

Jin Li nodded: "Besides that, I also asked March Sky, and they aren't optimistic either."

"Alright." Sui Sui Lingfang completely gave up on this idea.

"Your teammates and March Sky are all mature artists with accurate judgments of the market. If they think you aren't suitable, I'm afraid it's really not suitable."

Jin Li thought for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "Although I can't sing them, it doesn't mean I can't benefit our own people. Manager Fang, what do you think about Sister Meng Meng singing them?"

After returning from Dawn Entertainment, Jin Li had a rare moment of leisure.

Having determined that the focus of the next promotion should shift to other actors, Jin Li would hide online to avoid stealing the spotlight from other actors.

And the promotion for *Dream Builder* hadn't been determined yet, so at least for the week before *Dream Builder* went online, she was free.

So Jin Li wasn't disturbed by distracting thoughts and returned to her apartment to start doing test papers.

Speaking of which, ever since she said she wanted to find test papers from high schools to do, she didn't know how Manager Fang managed it, but she really found a set for her, covering everything from the first year to the third year of high school.

Jin Li opened it and found that they were still the test papers from key high schools last year.

Every high school will have some test questions, especially key high schools. Their test papers won't flow out, let alone be uploaded to the internet.

It was very thoughtful of Manager Fang to be able to get such a set.

Out of the principle of confidentiality, when Jin Li started a live stream to do the test papers, she pointed the camera at herself, not at the test papers.

Jin Li did it seriously, and the barrage in the live stream flowed like water.

【She's been very busy these past few days, and today she actually started streaming in the afternoon. Is the test paper king about to be resurrected?】

【The test paper king has never died _(: 3」∠)_】

【What kind of questions is Jin Li doing? So mysterious!】

【I know this. She said her manager got her a set of test papers from a key high school. Due to the principle of confidentiality, she can't show them to us. She's just doing them casually to see what level her skills are at.】

【Jin Li is still not confident in her own strength. Someone who drinks "Five-Three" like water is actually afraid of the difficulty of the test papers? To tell you the truth, the test papers my school produces are much simpler than the ones that come with "Five-Three"...】

【This depends on the region. Some provinces with strong college entrance exams will only be harder!】

【Jin Li is in Nancheng, which is in Guang Province. The difficulty of the test papers in Guang Province has never been high.】

When Jin Li started her live stream, Kong Lingxian's team also fell into a stalemate.

They had been studying for 20 years to solve the "cancer" in wheat—Fusarium head blight!

Wheat Fusarium head blight is caused by *Fusarium* fungi, mainly *Fusarium graminearum*.

*Fusarium* is widely distributed in nature and can infect various crops and economic crops, causing Fusarium head blight, stem rot in wheat, barley, and oats, and ear rot in corn.

The trichothecene toxins secreted by *Fusarium* after infecting crops are currently the main source of toxins in grain and processed products such as wheat and corn.

This fungal disease has been threatening the yield and quality of wheat globally (infected grains contain highly toxic vomitoxin) and is also an important factor restricting food security and food safety in China and the world.

After so many years of research, Kong Lingxian's team tried to discover resistance sources for Fusarium head blight from a wheat relative, *Thinopyrum elongatum*.

Based on the reference genome, they developed molecular markers and used the mapping population constructed by the wheat-*Thinopyrum elongatum* substitution line (7D/7E) to complete the fine mapping of Fhb7.

Fhb7 is the gene they found that resists Fusarium head blight!

Through years of phenotypic identification, it was found that Fhb7 significantly improves resistance to wheat Fusarium head blight and stem rot under various genetic backgrounds without significant impact on yield.

Seeing that the long-cherished wish of so many years was about to be completed, but they were having trouble with gene cloning, Kong Lingxian felt a massive headache.

"There is insufficient functional evidence for the horizontal transfer of nuclear genome DNA between eukaryotes. Where exactly is the problem? If this gene cannot be mass-copied and cloned, wouldn't that mean we've researched a niche product!"

"No, according to our research, Fhb7 can definitely be transferred from fungi to plants through horizontal gene transfer (HGT)! This is an extremely rare phenomenon of cross-boundary biological gene transfer, and it must be thoroughly researched."

Kong Lingxian cheered himself up, looked at the experimental data again, and tried to find where the problem was.

Just then, a live stream notification popped up on his phone.

【The streamer Jin Li you follow has started streaming! (Cat Claw Live Room)】

Kong Lingxian just wanted to close this notification, but suddenly thought of something and opened it.

Since this streamer could bring inspiration to Zou Weichun and Xue Hao, maybe he could try his luck too?