Chapter 36: Damn It!

The curtains blocked the sunlight from outside the window.

The napkins were neatly arranged beside the bed.

The DVD player kept making a series of click-click-click sounds.

Inside the dim room.

Liu Jun's excited emotions gradually turned somewhat blank...

The thrilling scenes he imagined seemed not to appear.

Instead, after a moment of darkness, a string of advertisements suddenly popped up!

"【Ah Liang Fast Food】 Eat with confidence, use with peace of mind, second half price!"

"This story is sponsored by China's best auto repair group, 【Siling Auto Repair Shop】!"

Looking at this string of advertisements, Liu Jun was left stunned, burnt on the outside and tender on the inside!

Over these years, he had watched countless films, yet he had never seen a thrilling blockbuster with product placement...

This operation left him dumbfounded!

Could this be a new format?

He let out a slight sigh, and after watching the ads, silently stared at the movie!

This film titled "Superman 2 vs. Wild Beasts!" finally began to play...

Just as Liu Jun renewed his interest, his eyes excitedly fixed on the screen, planning for a hearty, satisfying battle!

On the screen, however, a Chinese male face of a Superman suddenly appeared, ran onto the battlefield, and then fought fiercely with Sun Sun Wukong wearing a mask on the battlefield...

Wrong!

Does this kind of movie even have a plot? COSPLAY? That is indeed quite thrilling...

Could the Sun Sun Wukong under the mask be a beauty?

That doesn't make sense!

With that build, that appearance, how could it possibly be a beauty?

Liu Jun took a deep breath!

He continued watching...

But, the more he watched, the more wrong it felt!

Once Sun Sun Wukong and this Chinese Superman Yan Yan Shuangying started fighting, they began fighting endlessly!

And, damn it, this is a new movie, how are all the actions fucking repetitive?

Seeing the Superman's punch action repeating constantly and Sun Sun Wukong's scenes of falling down repeatedly, Liu Jun even suspected the CD had a problem for a while; he patted the DVD player...

Then, he discovered it wasn't the CD having a problem, nor was the DVD player broken or stuck, but fucking hell!

This movie was just repeating the same actions and the same plot over and over; the level of madness had broken through the sky!

He stared fixedly at the screen!

Until this very moment, he still held a bit of expectation, hoping that as these two fought, a girl suspected to be from the Island Nation would appear in the scene, followed by a series of indescribable action scenes...

But...

After watching for ten minutes, seeing this battlefield fight was truly endless, he began to realize something was wrong!

Damn it!

The movie not only repeated actions, but damn it, some parts were even fucking replayed in slow motion constantly!

Could he have been scammed?

Not giving up, he pressed the fast-forward button on the DVD remote!

Then, his eyes widened!

What did he see?

He saw that after speeding up those slow-motion scenes, they actually started playing normally, but the chaotic plot left him dumbfounded!

Disbelieving, he watched until the very end...

Discovering that the whole fucking movie, don't even mention that girl from the Island Nation, didn't have a single female animal appearing at all!

The plot was even worse, fucking who knows what kind of crap it was!

"Fucking hell!"

At this moment!

He angrily smashed the table!

He took the "Superman 2 vs. Wild Beasts!" out of the DVD and stepped on it hard, crushing it!

A moment later, he lit a cigarette, his whole body returned to calm, and his gaze glanced at another thrilling movie, "Wild Beasts and Female Superman 2: Passionate Bed Battle."

He took a deep breath, opened this disc he bought for 40 yuan, and inserted it into the DVD...

Damn it!

Such an expensive disc, it has to give some surprise, right?

But...

"【Ah Liang Fast Food】 Eat with confidence, use with peace of mind, second half price!"

"This story is sponsored by China's best auto repair group, 【Siling Auto Repair Shop】!"

"【Ah Dong Convenience Store】, the number one convenience store under heaven!"

"..."

Holy shit!

When he stared at the familiar scene, the familiar slogan...

The last shred of expectation in his heart, the last shred of fantasy, had vanished completely!

Damn it!

He panted heavily, his face flushed red!

His emotions had reached the brink of collapse...

After a long while, he stared at the next one, the ten-yuan "Superman 2" high-spec version!

He closed his eyes to steady his emotions for a long time, and finally opened them again.

Could it be that this "Superman 2"...

Impossible!

If this is really the case, then this boss is absolutely insane!

Finally, he took out one of the discs and inserted it into the DVD player...

He stared tightly at the movie.

"【Ah Liang Fast Food】 Eat with confidence, use with peace of mind, the second half-price!"

"This story is sponsored by China's best auto repair group, 【Si Ling Auto Repair Shop】!"

"..."

The familiar voice...

The familiar scene...

The familiar plot...

That's not right!

The damn high-spec version!

The same advertisements, like a virus, were forcibly played twice!

At the same time, those ghostly repetitive actions were also forcibly doubled!

The second disc was inserted into the DVD player!

And then...

What did Liu Jun see?

He saw the same advertisements, the same plot...

Damn it!

Except that the high-spec version had a longer runtime, a more exquisite cover, and occasionally featured some messy plots completely unrelated to the main storyline...

The rest!

Were all damn identical!

"Go to hell!"

In that instant.

A roar erupted from the room.

His mindset completely collapsed!

He, who was just about to destroy everything...

Fell silent for a moment!

Finally, he gritted his teeth!

Damn it!

I can't be the only one scammed!

…………………………

"Holy crap! What kind of movie is this!"

"Damn it, I'm going crazy, what's going on..."

"Did the source for 'Superman 2' leak?"

"No, this isn't a leak of the 'Superman 2' source; this is simply madness!"

"..."

July 15, 2003.

Three days remained before the Hollywood blockbuster, "Superman 2," was released.

The promotion was in full swing...

It started with some small vendors in Zhongguancun, Beijing, and then spread to the surrounding pirated disc markets, secondary and tertiary markets...

"Superman 2: Heroic Spirit!"

"Superman 2: Global Mission!"

"Superman 2: Journey to the West World!"

Various DVD discs bearing extended movie names of "Superman 2" began appearing in major audio-visual markets across the country like a plague...

These thunderous names that left people dumbfounded...

Were one thing!

But more crucially!

Some pirated discs shamelessly and brazenly bore the words "Superman 2"!

But when everyone excitedly clicked on these movies, they were stunned!

Damn it!

They're all terrible films that hang up a sheep's head to sell dog meat!

………………………………

The day before the nationwide premiere of "Superman 2"!

【Tianyu Entertainment】.

Deng Deng Hairong received a phone call in his office.

After hanging up, his face changed drastically!

"What did you say!"

"You say that rotten film is now riding our coattails in the nationwide pirated market and selling like crazy?"

"Wait!"

"Say that again!"

"What did you say!"

"You say that a bastard named Zhou Yang, leading a bunch of good-for-nothings, is actually contacting second and third-tier cinemas across the country, threatening to grant free licenses, and demanding an eighty-twenty revenue split with the theater chains?"

"They've plastered posters for 'Authorized Zhengban Tiao Ren 2' everywhere... even on the telephone poles at our premiere venue for 'Superman 2' in Yanjing, they've damn well stuck up their 'Authorized Zhengban Tiao Ren 2' movie posters?"

"Damn it, what are the security guards eating for!"

"..."

Deng Deng Hairong listened to the voice on the phone.

He suddenly jumped up from his chair...