Chapter 52: I Think I'm Actually Famous

"This lesson..."

"... was painful for me, and it was also a warning..."

"Before this, my awareness of the law was weak; I simply did not know that I had been lingering on the edge of crime..."

"After the criticism and education from the Public Security Department, I came to understand that some things can be done, while others cannot..."

"..."

On July 24.

The official 【Beijing Public Security Department】 produced a special program.

In the program, they specifically listed a series of real fraud cases, along with fraud education...

Whenever real people appeared in scenes, their faces were pixelated, except for one young man wearing glasses, weeping bitterly.

Although in 2003 the internet was not very developed, and the traffic on the 【Beijing City Public Security Department】 official website was not high, initially it did not create much influence.

However, this time the Public Security Department's effort in this anti-fraud publicity was exceptionally high.

Not only did the earliest 【1819】 program broadcast Zhou Yang's scene of weeping bitterly in regret, but subsequent television media, including the 【Zhejiang Provincial Satellite TV】 program 【888 Golden Eye】, Shandong Satellite TV's 【Health and Livelihood Program】, and even CCTV's rule of law column, began to broadcast Zhou Yang's scene of weeping bitterly in regret, one after another, at different time slots...

As more and more viewers began to watch this rule of law program, Zhou Yang's information started to be gradually revealed by "people" on the internet...

Along with the revelation came that work, Zhou Yang's debut film, the utterly insane "Sun Wukong Battles Superman 2"!

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"This person seems somewhat familiar; I feel like I've seen him somewhere..."

"Me too; I also feel this person seems somewhat familiar..."

"Wait, it seems this person is a filmmaker; he appeared in entertainment news; it seems he made something called 'Sun Wukong Battles Superman 2'..."

"Wait? Holy crap, that movie was made by this person? I bought nearly three or four discs in a row, and everything I saw was eye-bleeding; you say that movie was made by him?"

"Yes!"

"Oh my god! Buddy, you really should stop filming; you can't scam me with fraud, but you tricked people with this kind of movie; oh my, please, stop harming society..."

"Is this movie really that bad?"

"This movie is beyond being described as bad; it's simply a pile of dog shit!"

"How is it dog shit?"

"There is absolutely no plot; not only is there no plot, the characters are like idiots, the dialogue is awkward, there is absolutely no acting; the protagonist suddenly gets fired up, then suddenly becomes impotent... It is an epic-level disaster!"

"Holy crap, is it really that bad?"

"What do you think? It wasted five yuan of mine back then!"

"..."

Beijing City.

Ma Wei, watching TV in his hometown, stared blankly at the figure weeping bitterly on the screen.

When he saw the movie title "Sun Wukong Battles Superman 2", he trembled slightly!

Holy crap, is this name that fierce?

Immediately, he logged onto his computer, opened "Movie Home", and intended to see what the rating for this movie actually was!

Then, he froze; he never expected that "Movie Home", which originally had few users, had now exploded, especially under the 2.2 rating for "Sun Wukong Battles Superman 2", where there were already nearly thousands of comments...

Almost everyone was saying this movie was rotten to the point of insanity.

Many victims, in the comment section, began to use phrases like "the worst I've ever seen in my life", "never seen such a bad movie in my life", and "rotten to the point of insanity" to describe this film.

Immediately after, he saw a hot post on Tieba that had just been posted not long ago.

The title of the hot post was...

【The Shame of Chinese Cinema, an Epic-Level Terrible Film】

He clicked the title and read the content of this post.

【A destitute hooligan, mooching food and drink everywhere, scamming money everywhere, suddenly had a broken brain and decided to make a movie...】

【The movie he produced was simply rotten to the point of hair-raising, yet he made money by relying on deceptive and fraudulent DVDs...】

【Now, he actually wants to continue relying on deception and fraud to make a second movie?】

【People like this should be locked up in prison!】

【...】

The entire content was full of curses; not only did they scold Zhou Yang to the point of blood, but they even rated his "Sun Wukong Battles Superman 2" as the worst movie in the world...

After finishing reading, Ma Wei saw the title of another post: 【"Sun Wukong Battles Superman 2"? Those who haven't eaten shit can go try it; it's simply a pile of...】

Post after post, all were cursing how rotten "Sun Wukong Battles Superman 2" was, how insanely rotten it was...

Originally, it was an epic-level terrible film...

Originally, there wasn't much point in watching it.

But for some reason, seeing so many people say it was bad, Ma Wei, who had never eaten shit, strangely developed a feeling of wanting to go to the cinema to see just how rotten this movie actually was.

Human nature is really strange!

Some people, like Ma Wei, for some reason, developed a bit of a "curiosity" psychology!

Originally prepared to dismiss this thought, but the more he tried not to think about it, the more he intended to click X and not watch this terrible film...

But the curiosity in his heart grew stronger and stronger!

He glanced at the movie ticket for the cinema.

When he discovered the ticket was only five yuan each, finally, Ma Wei could no longer restrain his curiosity, turned off his computer, and walked towards the cinema.

Half an hour later, when he arrived at the nearby cinema, he discovered that the entrance to 【Feihe Cinema】 was actually very lively.

Through some conversations with audience members, he simply understood that many people had the same idea as him; they actually wanted to see just how rotten this movie, rated as the lowest score in "Movie Home" as an epic-level disaster, actually was!

Just at this moment...

He saw a group of people walking out the door.

"It's absolutely terrible!"

"Really, I still don't recommend going to see it!"

"It's so rotten it's insane. You ask me why I'm watching it inside?"

"I just want to see how rotten this movie can get before it ends..."

"..."

Someone walked out, expression complex, looking as uncomfortable as if they'd just eaten a huge lump of something.

But others were extremely excited, excitedly joining everyone in saying this movie was rotten to the point of insanity, even worse than what the internet said...

July 25.

Zhang Muxue, the boss of Feihe Cinema, watched the moviegoers walking in one after another at the entrance.

She found it hard to believe, at one point thinking she was dreaming.

Such a scene for "Sun Wukong vs. Superman 2" had only appeared on the very first day of its premiere.

But after the first day, because so many people were cursing it, the number of people in the cinema actually kept decreasing.

Even several screening halls had hardly anyone...

However, no one expected that over ten days later, the crowd suddenly surged, and everyone specifically came to buy tickets for "Sun Wukong vs. Superman 2"!

Although they were all cursing, for some reason, these people didn't have the hostility of those who had been cheated during the premiere; instead, they seemed to be here to see a new continent.

Moreover, the number of people coming to see this new continent kept growing, and even a few advance tickets for tomorrow were already sold.

Such a scene was simply unheard of!

What made her even more dazed was that today, the entire day...

With just this terrible movie, three halls, and over four hundred seats, she actually earned nearly 5,000 RMB.

By nine o'clock in the evening.

"Where is President Zhang?"

"The pirated market for 'Sun Wukong vs. Superman 2' is selling out like crazy today!"

"We plan to print another thousand copies..."

"..."

A DVD supplier specializing in piracy, extremely excited at this very moment, ran over and, upon entering, immediately looked for Zhou Yang.

However...

Zhang Muxue shook her head.

She didn't know where Zhou Yang was.

"President Zhou!"

"Ah, hello, hello!"

"My name is Li Dachun. I'm in the coal mining business. Here's the thing: my daughter saw you on the TV news, oh yes, the one about the scam where you were crying. She suddenly started throwing a tantrum wanting to come here... I only have this one daughter, so I brought her..."

"Ah?"

"As for investment, I have it. Don't say 200,000; even one million is no problem... However, I have one request..."

"What request?"

"My daughter wants to act; she wants to be the female lead..."

"OK, no problem!"

"And also..."

"What else?"

"My daughter has one request over the phone: she wants you to be the male lead in your new movie!"

"???"

Xuan Shi Entertainment.

In a shabby office.

Zhou Yang received a phone call.

Shortly after...

Knocking sounds came from the door.

Immediately, a middle-aged man with a large belly stood at the door with an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl...

"Is that him?"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's him, it's him... On the internet, that photo next to the Audi A6! That's him... I've been looking for a long time. If I hadn't seen it on the news, I would have thought that photo wasn't real... Ah, ah, he's so handsome; he's even more handsome in person than in the photo..."

"..."

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