Chapter 308: Little Liu's Obedience Test

"So... Twitter is your company?"

Until this moment, Boss Lu was still somewhat incredulous.

Little Liu watched him massage his left chest, as if she could see the blue-purple color there through his clothes, and felt a little regret in her heart.

But it couldn't all be blamed on her; it was mainly because she couldn't suppress her anger when she saw this dog thing!

"Yes, registered in my mother's name. She holds a green card, and there are various conveniences for registering a company."

Boss Lu quickly adjusted his state and bluffed: "Little Liu, you are an actor. It's fine to go to business school to relax, but how can you throw yourself into the chores of this kind of company?"

"I think this is very unfavorable to your acting career."

Liu Yifei smiled gently, but her tone was very tough: "First of all, we are now in an equal business negotiation relationship. Don't call me Little Liu, call me Ms. Liu."

"Secondly, I have spent almost no extra effort. There are dedicated people responsible for technology and operations."

"Finally, if you want to talk to me, I want to hear the words you didn't finish on the set yesterday first."

"How is this face of mine, and how is it suitable to be filmed?"

Little Liu smiled charmingly, pressing her hands on the table: "I'll state first, this is not threatening you."

"I just want to ask you, this great director, for advice, just like the little girl who spent 15 million to buy your painting!"

Boss Lu laughed dumbly. Women truly hold grudges; what year and month was that!

Actually, Liu Yifei regretted saying this as soon as it came out of her mouth.

It seemed like she had exposed that she was still paying attention to something.

She had originally made up her mind not to pay attention to him.

So, except for her, the entire crew went to the premiere of "Tangshan" in Los Angeles to show their support.

They all say indifference is the best weapon to treat enemies, but from the first time she saw him yesterday, she kept breaking her composure.

It seemed like she had thrown all those hateful things she had picked out in her daily life to the back of her mind, and she couldn't maintain an indifferent mood for long.

It was mainly because the expression on his face was truly hateful, and his harsh words came out of his mouth, making her hate him so much that her teeth itched.

Liu Yifei comforted herself this way, and deceived herself this way.

Boss Lu sighed: "Actually, I wanted to tell you yesterday, but unfortunately you wouldn't even grace me with a meal."

"This face of yours..."

Liu Yifei reached out to interrupt: "Wait!"

She took out the newly bought Nokia N93 from her small handbag, which was also a god-machine of the first-generation pioneer concept.

The little girl opened her phone, aimed the rear 3.2-megapixel Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar optical lens at Lu Kuan, leaving the latter speechless.

Are you filming a micro-movie here?

"Why are you filming me?"

"Nothing, haven't seen your flattering look, keep it as a souvenir."

"I've started recording, why don't you hurry up and speak?"

Boss Lu spread his hands: "If you record, I won't speak."

The little girl looked at him with a smile and covered her phone: "Not speaking, right? Then fine, I'm leaving."

Saying that, she was about to get up.

Boss Lu reached out and grabbed her forearm, the first physical contact between the two since that hug at the birthday banquet.

"Little Liu, you don't think your broken company is really worth much, do you?"

"There is no threshold for technology and product logic at all. I can copy it at will."

Liu Yifei shook him off easily: "I know."

"I know how worthless all this I have spent so much effort to do is to you."

"I know you are very rich. You flip your hands for clouds and cover them for rain in the entertainment industry, and you can come up with a bunch of conditions to threaten me."

The little girl's accumulated resentment, which no one could tell, poured out: "But you came today, didn't you?"

"If Twitter really had no value at all, would you come?"

"Even if you, Boss Lu, just came to see this unknown small company in your busy schedule, in your spare time, with a playful attitude."

"After seeing it, you can wave a big stick of money to smash it dizzy, you can step on it flat, or you can sneer and leave, sighing that you wasted a few minutes of your time."

"But you, you came, didn't you?"

"Since you came, I have the confidence to make demands."

"I just want to record it, so what? Do you want to talk?"

It seemed that standing up was taller than him sitting down, which could give her a few more points of confidence. Liu Yifei supported her hands on the desktop and looked at him steadily.

Boss Lu laughed dumbly. The momentum was quite sufficient, and he saw through her bluffing.

It's an exaggeration to say how much value Twitter has to him now.

But even if it were copied and operated, it would take some effort. If it could be bought directly, it would naturally be the most cost-effective.

A more critical point is that he is now attracting much attention from North American internet companies.

Especially since the transaction with Google is about to be completed soon, the entire industry will cast their attention on this Chinese director who created a 2.3 billion US dollar golden pig in a short time.

The value of this track has not yet been fully revealed. Once his interest is exposed, he is worried that big crocodiles will enter the market in advance, such as Wendi Deng, who has been paying attention to him, and the News Corporation behind her.

In fact, Twitter in later generations took many detours and didn't become popular until almost two years after its establishment because of the South by Southwest conference.

Boss Lu looked at the little girl up and down carefully again. She has indeed made a lot of progress! She even knows how to do an obedience test on herself!

This is a conventional means in business negotiations, such as suddenly making harsh demands and changing established rules, with the purpose of testing the other party's negotiation bottom line and willingness to cooperate.

Using the topic from the set yesterday as an excuse to ask him to perform some affairs unrelated to the negotiation is a kind of obedience test.

It's just that this kind of request seems to have brought a lot of Little Liu's private goods.

"You sit down first, let's talk slowly."

With one drum, the spirit is exhausted, and with the second, it is depleted. Liu Yifei was glanced at up and down by him as if nothing had happened, and her negotiation momentum was somewhat frustrated.

Was it seen through by this dog thing?

She predicted that this confrontation today would not be so easy, and since one plan failed, she sat down leisurely. Anyway, the initiative was in her own hands.

Boss Lu looked at her eagerly: "First time seeing you wear such beautiful makeup. Was it to come see me?"

"Pfft, this is business etiquette. What does it have to do with you."

Liu Yifei naturally didn't admit it, but the cunning young director's teasing sentence had already made her feel a bit guilty.

This emotional state is somewhat similar to appearing in front of an ex-boyfriend after a breakup, must be heavily made up, full of aura, and must not show weakness.

It's just that by utilizing her emotional dependence on him, Lu Kuan almost grasped the initiative with one sentence.

He suddenly got up, pulled the chair, sat down beside Liu Yifei, and leaned close to the little girl.

Little Liu looked at the face that had once made her toss and turn, suddenly approaching, and seemed to be able to smell the faint tobacco smell on the man.

She only felt her heartbeat accelerating, and unconsciously wrapped her arms around her chest: "What are you doing? Stay away!"

"Didn't you ask me to see how to film you to look good? Don't I have to look carefully?"

The little girl raised her fist: "I warn you, don't mess around. I won't spoil you."

Boss Lu's expression suddenly became serious: "Don't speak!"

"Little Liu, look at this face of yours."

"The forehead is moderately wide and narrow, balanced and even with the lower half, the cheekbones are widest in the middle, and the chin is arc-shaped."

"The lines are smooth, the contours are soft, extremely beautiful, and the soft tissue of the face is full and tight, making the face shape more rounded."

"Especially the perfect head shape and high cranial top, this is a typical head-wrapped face, making your face look more delicate and exquisite. This is very advantageous in film camera lenses."

Liu Yifei pursed her lips tightly, watching his eyes wandering on her face, his gaze carrying gentleness and appreciation, and unconsciously put down her arms that were wrapped around her chest.

The relaxation of body language represents the generation of a sense of security.

Of course, it was also because she was disarmed by the young director's serious-looking rhetoric, and no longer maintained an antagonistic attitude like when she first entered the door.

Boss Lu's expression remained as serious as ever, as if he wasn't doing all this at the request of the negotiation opponent, but praise from the bottom of his heart.

"Little Liu, your double eyelids are small fan-shaped double eyelids that are not very obvious, and the inner corners of your eyes have some epicanthic folds."

"The overall trend of the eyes is upward, giving people a subtle and elegant feeling, as if containing endless stories and emotions."

"Look at this makeup you drew today, it's not good, too alluring. Your eyeball exposure is not high, and you look cold. You should go on the route of a cold and beautiful woman."

"Is that so?"

Liu Yifei was so told by him that she wanted to take out a mirror from her bag to look carefully.

She didn't wear makeup often, maybe there were some places that weren't done well.

As netizens said, you can doubt the washing machine's private life, but you can't doubt his eyes for discovering beauty.

Such an artist's experience and critique of aesthetics are professional level.

Little Liu listened in a trance, the tall man's figure in front of her blocking her sight like a small mountain.

To say she was deeply intoxicated by this sweet talk wouldn't be the case.

But compared to the previous "slightly inferior," "thick legs," "gummy smile," and "steamed bun face," it was definitely much more pleasant to hear.

Boss Lu suddenly changed the subject: "Little Liu, the water in Twitter is too deep, you can't grasp it. Sell it to me!"

"Ah?"

Liu Yifei froze for a few seconds. You just finished praising my eyes!

What about the nose? What about the mouth? What about the figure? What about the whole?

"Wh... what?"

Boss Lu said in a deep voice: "This kind of microblog like Twitter relies more on the development of mobile internet, and the subsequent money burning is extremely high. Your funds are almost exhausted, right?"

Liu Yifei quickly recovered from the sweet talk, calm and composed: "You can wait, wait to see when my funds are exhausted."

"Oh, you should be waiting for the remaining pay for 'Exotic 2'?"

Boss Lu leaned close to her, tapped the table with his knuckles, and spoke coldly: "Don't forget, you borrowed 30 million from me to acquire the equity of Haidilao. When will this money be returned?"

"You! Shameless! You didn't mention it early or late, but you mention it now!"

Liu Yifei naturally didn't forget about the 30 million, but she didn't expect a rich man like Lu Kuan to be so impatient to urge the debt.

Boss Lu wasn't after this small amount of funds that were a drop in the bucket for him. After all, the Ferrari Enzo he prepared to give her at the birthday banquet was almost worth this price.

Bringing it up now is just a means to strike at competitors at the negotiation table.

You still owe me money! What demands are you making to me, what conditions are you talking about?

Liu Yifei's momentum was naturally weakened by a notch.

Lu Kuan continued to disintegrate her psychological defense line: "Your aura is very strong today, you dressed yourself so beautifully, and as soon as you entered the door, you wanted to give me an obedience test and grasp the initiative of the negotiation."

"Is this all you learned at the University of Chicago? It seems you still need to continue your studies?"

Liu Yifei looked at him expressionlessly. Even though she knew these were words deliberately meant to anger her and disturb her mind, she was still teased until her temples jumped.

As mother Liu Xiaoli said, this trip is either to charm him to death or beat him to death.

It's just that Boss Lu watched Little Liu grow up from a young age and was already immune to her beauty.

Perhaps Liu Yifei beating him up to vent her anger while A Fei was away could be considered the biggest battle result of this trip.

The girl's face remained calm: "Don't bluff with me. If you think it has no value, then let's end it here today."

Lu Kuan had already sat on the opposite side of the negotiation table, shaking the layered company materials in his hand.

"300,000 registered users, but there are basically no head accounts, and your own influence in North America is limited."

"As for your only topic marketing handle 'Twilight,' Inquiry Realm bought the author's film rights and can completely supplement her with an exclusivity agreement, not allowing her to continue cooperating with you."

The young director, who didn't talk about human feelings at all when discussing matters, paused, looked up at her, and smiled: "What do you say? Little Liu, sell it to me, you choose cash or shares yourself."

"Of course, the specific valuation must be based on the assessment of professional institutions. Neither you nor I have the final say."

In the same year of 2006 in later generations, the domestic Sina blog had only just flourished for a year.

But even for assessment institutions with strategic vision, it is very difficult to see the huge value of Twitter now.

This is a treacherous businessman clearly bullying people.

Liu Yifei listened to his threatening tone, her heart in a mess for a while. It is very difficult for a negotiation party in a completely weak position to have any strength to resist.

But she still wanted to try.

The little girl expressionlessly stuffed her phone back into her small handbag, stood up, and was about to leave.

"I don't like your kind of aggressive arrogance. Can I find other buyers?"

"I'll just say this is a project that Mytube boss Lu Kuan is also interested in. I want to see if it's really ignored by everyone!"

Boss Lu saw that she didn't take the move at all, and suddenly slapped the table: "Liu Yifei! You have to think clearly? I can still give you a friendship price here."

"If you really break the jar, the Mytube team can pull up a new project within a week. Whether it's funds or star resources, they can squeeze your Twitter to death."

"By then, you won't even be able to maintain the heat of your current 300,000 users, and the millions of dollars you invested in the early stage will go down the drain?"

"How much money do you earn after filming for a year with such hard work? Recognize reality."

Liu Yifei was angered by his naked threats until she trembled like a flower.

The big heroine who was full of momentum when she entered the door turned into a little white flower that fell into the mud.

It was a negotiation with unequal strength, and she didn't hold much hope, but being defeated like this made her feel very uncomfortable.

No matter how much of a twist of fate led to Twitter being born early in her hands.

For the past four years, Little Liu always felt that she was living under his wings. This was the first time she talked to him from a relatively equal perspective.

She was also very looking forward to it when she received the call, even if she could bring a trace of difficulty to this dog thing, she would be satisfied.

Actually, her careful preparation still had an effect.

Don't look at Boss Lu's calm expression now, looking indifferent, Little Liu's move of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat really touched his lifeline.

The biggest reliance of a reborn person is a forward-looking perspective. If Liu Yifei really took Twitter to promote it everywhere, there is indeed a risk of being favored by giants.

If you say women are difficult to handle, normal negotiators might have already entered the bargaining procedure, but Little Liu is not!

She is bringing private goods and personal feelings to fight with the washing machine!

To put it more bluntly, as long as she is facing Lu Kuan, as long as she hasn't truly completely cut off her feelings for him in her heart, it is impossible to treat all this objectively.

If they continue to talk like this, she will have no strength to parry. Liu Yifei wisely decided to leave the negotiation table temporarily.

"I want to consider it, goodbye."

Lu Kuan grabbed her arm again: "The tomahawk steak at the Rose Garden is quite good. I specially asked someone to prepare it."

"How about it? Haven't seen each other for so long, grace me with your presence for dinner?"

Little Liu turned her head and looked at his sincere invitation, his gaze clear, as if he had instantly detached from the swords drawn just now.

Truly a split personality.

Dinner together...

Sugar-coated bullet or sincere invitation?

The little girl scanned his face with her beautiful eyes, found no flaws, but still hardened her heart and refused: "No need, thank you."

Then she turned and left with a proud face, clicking her high heels.

Compared to spraining her ankle while wearing Jimmy Choo shoes at the Oscars last year, she is obviously already proficient in this skill now.

Lu Kuan went out to greet Liu Xiaoli who was waiting, and watched them walk away with a smile.

No rush, take it slow. When you part for three days, you should look at each other with new eyes. Little Liu's progress is indeed not small.

In the past, she would never have escaped Boss Lu's clutches for this dinner. Maybe if he worked on it a bit more, this Twitter would have been taken down.

It's just that no matter how she changes, the cute and naive background in her personality hasn't changed. Outsiders might not see it clearly, but it will naturally reveal itself to those close to her.

Judging from her performance just now, the young director felt that she hadn't sealed her heart with cement yet, and he should still be considered... a close person, right?

In the elevator, Liu Xiaoli looked at her daughter's cold face and cautiously probed the battle situation: "Xixi, with Little Lu..."

"Don't call him Little Lu, call him thick-skinned! Big pervert! Control freak! Dead treacherous businessman!"

Little Liu looked at her mother angrily. Her vocabulary for scolding people was limited, and she could only think of so many for the time being.

The elevator door opened, and Liu Xiaoli couldn't laugh or cry: "You can talk about cooperation with Little... Lu Kuan calmly."

"After all, you are a professional actor, you tinkering with that Twitter..."

In front of the elevator door, a black bodyguard protected a Chinese woman into the elevator: "Ma'am, please make way."

Little Liu looked up and saw a Chinese female face with sharp lines, then passed by.

Wendi Deng recognized this Chinese actress, the Blue Moon of "Exotic," the head Chinese blogger of Mytube, who has a certain popularity in North America.

In the investigation of Lu Kuan, this is a girl who is closely related to him, and there are many rumors.

Especially a photo she collected recently.

In the conference room, Lu Kuan watched the tenacious Wendi Deng enter the door, thinking to himself that the steak specially prepared was wasted.

Can't go to a candlelight dinner with this female hunter, right?

"Lu Kuan, I know Google's final offer. 2.3 billion, right?"

"That's right. You make an offer. We've talked for so many rounds, Ms. Deng doesn't look like a dawdling person, why tangle?"

Wendi Deng looked at him silently for a few seconds: "I'll give you the same price, but the cash will not exceed 500 million, and the rest will be paid in Myspace shares."

"You only have one Inquiry Realm Video in China. You can bring Myspace into China. With the support of News Corporation, the prospects will be very good."

Boss Lu shook his head: "Google gives me no more than 1.2 billion in cash. Besides, to be honest, I don't favor the future of Myspace. I'm very sorry."

"The friendship of Fox is also very indifferent to you, right?"

The young director heard her repetitive words and felt a bit tired, spreading his hands helplessly.

Wendi Deng sighed silently: "To be honest, I really don't want to be an enemy with a genius like you."

"But you have refused my kindness again and again. This is truly too rude."

Industry giants are used to eating people, beautifying unreasonable robbery as released kindness, which is truly speechless to hear.

Wendi Deng has investigated him in all aspects during this period, down to the smallest detail, so she was able to recognize Liu Yifei at a glance just now.

"Lu Kuan, some words are not pleasant to hear, but some people in the mainland contacted me, hoping to create some small trouble for you in the North American media controlled by News Corporation."

"I know you are still participating in the Olympic director bidding. This is a huge temptation for you to improve your international prestige and domestic status. You shouldn't want to miss it, right?"

Boss Lu pondered for a few seconds, thinking about the hints between her lines.

The one Boss Han notified him of, the so-called collusion of Chen Kaige and others, was just a minor ailment and could be easily wiped out. To him, it didn't even count as scratching an itch.

But if they colluded with Wendi Deng and the News Corporation behind her to play some tricks of "blooming outside the wall and fragrant inside," creating obstacles for his international reputation, it would be a bit serious.

"Alright, I'll give you a few days to consider. I hope Boss Lu won't make too hasty a decision."

"The friendship of News Corporation is open to you at any time."

After many confrontations, Wendi Deng only felt that this time was extremely refreshing. This final trump card, presumably, would be able to bring him some pressure, right?

Boss Lu's face was naturally calm, standing up to shake hands and say goodbye to her, but his heart couldn't stop sinking.

He seemed to need to prepare more backhands.

——

Beijing time, January 9, 2006, Inquiry Realm official blog announced the short-term box office data of "Tangshan Great Earthquake," which had been released for half a month.

Relying entirely on the setting off of peers, "Zhang Wuji" had a bad reputation and the return event broke out, so "Tangshan" ate up the traffic.

The domestic total box office officially broke the 200 million mark, exceeding the main competitor of the previous New Year's schedule, "Zhang Wuji," and firmly occupied the dominant position in scheduling.

In RMB, the total box office in other parts of Asia was 150 million, the European box office was 60 million, and the North American first-week box office was nearly 100 million, all meeting expectations.

Just as domestic movie fans were hotly discussing this good news and continuing to mock the stinky dung "Zhang Wuji," they all suddenly discovered that Director Chen's blog had updated again.

【Joint Letter】

I, Chen Kaige, am an ordinary Chinese filmmaker.

Aimed at a certain director who recently used low-level means and untrue remarks, with simple box office and profit as the value orientation, slandering and satirizing peers to obtain great success in his own film career.

This kind of success is very shameful, and this kind of behavior is infinitely poisonous.

Like Pandora's box, once opened, it is difficult to close, and the entire industry will suffer from this evil disease of attacking each other.

Here, we, the conscientious colleagues in the Chinese film and television industry, unanimously appeal:

We have the responsibility to maintain the normal order of the Chinese film industry, and we have the obligation to bear social responsibilities beyond seizing huge profits!

The long river of Chinese film history continues to the past and opens up the future. What we can remember are industry titans like Zheng Zhengqiu, Li Minwei, Sun Yu, and Cai Chusheng, who are highly respected for their virtue and art.

Not some film vermin who only know how to open their bloody mouths and use bottomless commercial rules to suppress peers!

I hereby state that I will no longer participate in any form of cooperation projects with a certain director, and refuse to discuss, promote, or popularize any related works!

At the same time, about sixty or seventy people in the mainland film and television industry updated a joint letter on their blogs together. Those without blogs had them posted by friends.

The crazy entertainment reporters and netizens who eat melons counted the names one by one and found that they were all incredible opinion leaders and industry public intellectuals.

Palme d'Or director Chen Kaige and his wife Chen Hong;

Lu Tianmin, member of the Writers Association Presidium, and his son Taro;

He Ping, Secretary-General of the China Film Directors Association;

Xiao Ying, professor of the Philosophy Department of Tsinghua University;

And other Film Directors Association members, directors Zhang Yibai, Gao Qunshu, Zhao Baogang, Zheng Xiaolong, Teng Huatao;

Famous writers and screenwriters Hai Yan, Wang Shuo, and actors Yuan Li, Xu Jinglei, etc.

The joint letter was like a nuclear bomb detonating the domestic entertainment industry. Although no names were mentioned between the lines and the word "ban" was not mentioned, the naked hostility was already visible.

It is clear that the first batch of people who spoke out were all core personnel of the Beijing circle.

Just as Zhang Yimou said when comforting Lu Kuan before, the most powerful thing about this circle is that they not only mastered the film and television resources of the domestic entertainment industry's starting era, but also had paper media resources like the "Beijing News."

Before the arrival of the internet era, if the Beijing circle said snow was black, no one in the literary and artistic circle could wash it white.

They have vast opinion leaders in the cultural field. Whoever touches their cake and whoever touches their core interests will immediately unite to face the outside world.

Old Mouzi is the best example, but unlike his junior brother Lu Kuan, Old Mouzi is just a director after all, sometimes he can only bite the bullet and mock himself, letting them bark like dogs.

But the industry status of Inquiry Realm is there after all. Busybodies sorted out the list of all personnel who spoke out, and found that there were still some "fish that slipped through the net" in the Beijing circle!

What about your Yanda Huayi?

You fought fiercely before, why are you acting like a tortoise this time?

What about your Zhang Jian?

The Mengzhou Club you opened is the base camp for Beijing circle bigwigs to engage in sports activities. You don't participate in this kind of taking the lead?

What about your Feng Xiaogang?

Even if you are Yanda Huayi's head director, your basic market and survival soil originated from Zheng Xiaolong's TV drama production center, right?

The remaining group of so-called Film Directors Association directors are mostly TV drama directors and have nothing to do with Boss Lu's film industry chain.

As long as I don't go on your Travel Channel, not to mention that the Travel Channel has always only broadcast self-produced dramas and has no chance for them to intervene at all.

There are also Dong Shuangqiang and Han Shanping, who actually originally had a strong Beijing circle background.

It's just that these two were tied to the interest warship early on. Not to mention backstabbing Lu Kuan, they are now spontaneously busy putting out fires for him!

But there are still many netizens and movie fans who were led by the rhythm.

After all, TV dramas produced by the Beijing circle have huge influence and audience groups before the millennium, and even now.

These directors and actors they used to worship spoke out on their blogs, and there were industry leaders with semi-official backgrounds like Lu Tianmin and He Ping, so the credibility is naturally relatively high.

For a time, rumors and black materials about Boss Lu began to fly all over the internet.

Of course, most of them only existed for a moment. Batches of organized water armies were killed one after another by the blog network and Sina, and ultimately did not stir up much waves.

Correspondingly, there were more voices of support from industry insiders like Anita Mui, Jay Chou, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Feng Yuanzheng, Li Xuejian, Zhang Huijun, Zhou Xun, etc., without hesitation.

Shortly after the joint letter was issued, the Zhuo Wei account of the Fengxing Studio on the blog network released a third-perspective passerby post, analyzing the deep-seated reasons for this farce for the melon-eating masses.

【If we jump out of this petty personal grudge and look at the development of the entire industry and the comparison of new and old public opinion forces.

We will find that the contradiction between Director Lu and Director Chen and the Beijing circle behind them is an inevitable historical event.

In 2001, Director Lu appeared out of nowhere, with five movies in four years.

Except for "Tangshan Great Earthquake," which has not yet been released, "Drummer," "Thief," "Exotic," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" are all top-notch films that are both critically and commercially successful.

Whether it is the three major European film festivals or the Oscars, which are regarded as the standard by the Chinese, he has gained a lot.

At the same time, looking at the expansion and mergers of Inquiry Realm Holdings in the film industry chain, we can clearly see the birth of a small-scale film empire.

In addition to the gradual expansion of Inquiry Realm Golden Harvest in the domestic cinema field, it firmly ranks at the forefront of the industry in special effects, director training, and media publicity resources.

Furthermore, he ranked sixth on this year's October Hu Run Rich List (I am deeply skeptical).

Therefore, the farce that movie fans and netizens see today, in my opinion, stems from the following three aspects:

The competition for public opinion discourse power between the traditional paper media dominated by the Beijing circle and the online media discourse power of TV stations and friendly blog networks influenced by Director Lu;

The ideological conflict between the art film commentary system dominated by Zhu Dake, Li Jie, and others, and Director Lu's distinct commercial film and film industrialization route;

And the huge gap between the withered status of the domestic film industry over the years and the huge profits of every film of Director Lu.

In other words, some people are jealous! They started to form cliques and put labels on people!

Looking back at the long river of our country and nation's history, examples of such new forces challenging traditional order are common.

Although this metaphor is not very appropriate, will Director Lu become the Shang Yang and Chao Cuo of the film industry? Let's wait and see!】

Boss Lu's overwhelming advantage in internet media made many mindless black materials self-defeating.

And the neutrality of core figures like Dong and Han, as well as the fear of Yanda Huayi and others who had their guts broken in the past two years, made the Beijing circle forces like Chen Kaige look somewhat lonely.

Except for the great momentum when they first appeared, it seems they didn't stir up any bigger waves.

But the timing chosen by Gexi Xiong, Lu Tianmin, and the poet who was used, who planned in secret, was truly just right.

This day was the day the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee held a meeting at the Qinglan Building to communicate the final candidates for the Olympic creative group.

In the conference room, in addition to the relevant staff of the Organizing Committee, there were also various people's organizations, the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Disabled Persons' Federation, the Writers Association, and industry associations related to the Olympics participating.

Of course, the final decision was naturally made by the core personnel of the Organizing Committee, and then they submitted the list to those leaders for approval.

Other people from all walks of life only participated in discussions and expressed opinions.

The bad thing is that this group of people are all old industry hands and have intricate connections with Lu Tianmin, Chen Kaige, and the Beijing circle.

Chen Daying, Secretary-General of the Writers Association: "Leader Liu! I think Comrade Lu Kuan's entry into the final creative group deserves cautious treatment."

"With such controversy and industry reputation, not only can he not be a director, but even whether he is competent for the position of consultant is in doubt."

"I agree!"

"That's right! This is also too ignorant of uniting comrades."

Zhang Heping couldn't watch it anymore, and also responding to Boss Han's entrustment, he said in a deep voice: "Everyone, listen to me!"

"Now is not the era of posting big-character posters. There are many opinions on the internet, true and false. What we need to see is the truth!"

"The investigation results of the Hu Zi incident recently did not have sufficient evidence to prove it was related to Lu Kuan, and 'Zhang Wuji' being returned is also a fact. This doesn't seem to constitute a reason for him to harm peers, right?"

Vice Chairman Tian of the Olympic Committee, having received the heavy entrustment of Lu Tianmin, went all out today:

"A young director has only debuted for four years and has caused so much controversy inside and outside the industry. They all say there is no smoke without fire. I think this comrade still has places to reflect on, hehe."

"I suggest, in view of the fact that Comrade Lu Kuan is still abroad, before the facts are investigated clearly, exclude him from our discussion list today first."

"Leader Liu, do you think this is appropriate?"

The lackeys who had been public-related swarmed up to support.

"Appropriate!", "Just do it!", "It should be so!".

Zhang Heping's heart sank. This is the "delay tactic" commonly used by officials.

The Organizing Committee will submit the list to several leaders in a few days. If Lu Kuan is excluded at this time, what hope does he have?

What's more, in the internal discussions of the Organizing Committee, the final result of the second round of bidding will be born between Lu Kuan's Inquiry Realm team and Zhang Yimou's Jack Morton team.

A temporary suspension decision now might directly kill him.

Zhang Heping tilted his head slightly to look at Leader Liu. He knew that Old Liu appreciated this young director very much, so it depended on whether he could withstand the pressure.

The debate and attacks on the internet were still fermenting. If something went wrong with Lu Kuan, whom Leader Liu recommended, he would also have to suffer a not-so-small consequence.

The Olympic Games are the top event in the country in these few years and cannot tolerate any mistakes.

In an official's political career, such decisions must always be cautious.

"Alright, let's shelve the controversy. Let's talk about the consultants of the Organizing Committee first..."

Leader Liu made the final decision, and naturally, there was silence below. According to his request to shelve certain controversies, they began to communicate the composition of the creative group from low to high.

After the meeting, Leader Liu, with an unkind expression, returned to his office and instructed his secretary: "Call Lu Kuan, use your phone."

"Yes!"

The secretary dialed the phone and exited the office, closing the door and standing nearby.

"Hello? Lu Kuan, it's me."

"Hmm, doing very well recently. I won't waste time, two things."

"First, the schemes for the second round of bidding between Inquiry Realm and Jack Morton are very excellent, and the leaders present also gave high evaluations afterwards. In view of organizational principles, I cannot tell you the winning result in advance."

"Second, the recent events that are making a lot of noise, although they are not earth-shattering events, still need to maintain concern and be handled in a timely manner."

"Doing things doesn't necessarily mean you have to catch up head-on. Sometimes, retreating one step to advance two is also a reasonable decision."

"In addition, like the Pan-Asian Film Academy you announced to establish at the film festival in France last time, you should do more things that are beneficial to regional unity and industry development, understand?"

"Oh? Is that so! Good, good, good, must do more, must do well!"

"Good, then let's stop here."

I don't know what was communicated with the young director on the phone, but in short, when the secretary came in, the leader's face was smiling.

Leader Liu is telling the truth to a smart person. There is no explicit hint, but every word does not leave the core problem.

Your Inquiry Realm's scheme is excellent, talent is hard to come by, and I and the Organizing Committee are very optimistic about you, but the final candidate still needs to be deliberated and submitted to the leaders for review.

The aftermath of recent events must be handled urgently, seize the opportunity to continue to increase the right to speak on the world stage, increase bargaining chips for yourself at a critical period, and improve your personal image.

North America, Los Angeles, Mountain View.

Boss Lu, who had just hung up the phone, tidied his attire in front of the mirror again, confirmed there was no problem, and then strode out of the room.

11:00 AM, the morning after Leader Liu finished the meeting, is exactly 6:00 PM on the US East Coast. Today is the signing ceremony of Google's acquisition of Mytube.

Boss Lu didn't intend to hide the news that he was the boss behind Mytube, otherwise, he wouldn't have used his own name when registering the company.

It's just that this time, it coincides with the joint letter incident in the country, and he needs to have a greater volume on the international stage, so he decided to personally participate in this signing ceremony that is at least attracting attention in the North American internet industry.

At the current time node, the first is to build his personal IP and continue to inject a stimulant into "Tangshan Great Earthquake," which has not yet been released in North America;

Secondly, it is to continue to improve his influence in the North American market, knowing that this is the well-known boss of Mytube, which can attract a group of YouTube users to pay attention to his movies.

Finally, and also to use this press conference and the subsequent numerous media interviews to, as Leader Liu said, establish his reputation and defeat the conspiracy.

At 6:30 PM, the press conference began on time.

The three founders of Mytube—Lu Kuan, Chen Shijun, and Mike Suoluomen—appeared at the venue alongside Google CEO Schmidt, drawing immense attention from the media on-site.

However, when the blonde, buxom host introduced the Mytube President as "Lu," the domestic and foreign media present were all stunned!

"Lu Kuan!?"

"Washing Machine?"

"He is the boss behind the scenes at Mytube?"

In the domestic video livestream, the comments section exploded, with the most frequent message being congratulations to Boss Lu for ascending to the position of China's richest man!

Even though they didn't yet know how much he would ultimately profit from the Mytube deal, it didn't stop netizens from proudly declaring the news in advance.

At the same time, netizens on Sina, Blogcn, Tianya, and Mop collectively reached a fever pitch, frantically posting and commenting to witness this historic moment.

(End of chapter)