Chapter 217: Billion-Level Project

Luo Mo looked straight at Jiang Ningxi, who was always stealing glances at him, raised an eyebrow slightly, and gave her a questioning look.

Jiang Ningxi met his gaze, immediately shifted her eyes away, and began staring at the mirror in the dance studio, no longer looking at him.

This made Luo Mo nod in satisfaction and let out a sigh of relief.

"Phew! I thought I'd been caught staring at her legs."

With no one watching him, he could openly look at legs.

"For this dance, the Leg Fairy as the C-Position is only right," Luo Mo thought to himself.

An afternoon of dance practice passed by quickly.

"Let's stop here for today," Luo Mo said while clapping his hands.

As the team leader, Han Ziyi immediately said, "Thank you for your hard work, Director Luo."

After she finished speaking, He Jingjing and the others immediately followed, "Thank you for your hard work, Director Luo."

Luo Mo nodded with a smile, then shifted his gaze to Shen Yinuo and Jiang Ningxi. Since these two hadn't said such polite words, he smiled and said, "Aren't you being a bit impolite?"

He brushed off his backside and stood up, saying, "Then I'll be going now."

Han Ziyi and the others walked him all the way to the door.

After Instructor Luo left, the six exhausted girls finally dared to sit on the floor one by one, looking completely drained.

They rubbed their shapely, fair calves, pressing on their leg muscles to soothe the soreness and numbness, a sight that would make anyone want to step forward and help.

"Dancing in high heels for an entire afternoon is just torture," He Jingjing felt like her legs were about to be ruined.

"I feel like a useless person right now; no matter what you do to me, I don't want to move an inch," Shu Xue, with her snow-white skin, leaned against the mirror on the wall, just slumped there.

All six were drenched in sweat, their hair slightly damp.

"But there's a lot to look forward to, isn't there?" Jiang Ningxi interrupted everyone's grumbling and spoke up.

As soon as she spoke, the girls immediately fell silent.

Indeed, the Aurora Girls had always been very hardworking, much stronger than those girl groups who couldn't perform and just relied on their faces and figures to get by.

They had indeed become popular faster than other groups, but they had quickly hit a bottleneck.

No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't become a so-called national girl group.

Idol groups were already at the bottom of the contempt chain; if they couldn't reach a national level, they were really no better than ordinary second or third-tier Singers.

The two songs Luo Mo gave them allowed them to see hope.

Intuition told them that every bit of effort they put in these days would receive its due reward!

"Rest for ten minutes, we'll practice it three more times in full, and then we'll finish for today," Jiang Ningxi proposed.

Shen Yinuo cheered herself on, saying, "Five times!"

She felt she needed to change her underwear tomorrow; she had been dancing all day and kept bumping into herself, which hurt.

Ten minutes later, everyone stood up and began practicing the dance in front of the mirror.

Jiang Ningxi called out the beat, while Shen Yinuo chimed in from time to time, "Keep it up! Keep it up! I'll treat everyone to a spa tonight!"

Luo Mo, having discussed some matters with Shen Shaoqiu, specifically and intentionally circled back to the dance studio before leaving the company.

But he didn't push the door open to enter; he just listened to the movement inside from outside the door.

"Still doing extra practice," a smile appeared on his face.

In his view, the golden cycle of a girl group was actually even shorter than that of a boy group.

If they didn't work hard now, when would they?

"Keep working hard."

"Right now you are practicing until your legs tremble, but in the future, the entire girl group world will tremble beneath your long legs!"

…….

…….

The Aurora Girls were doing extra practice, and Luo Mo was actually working overtime too.

He didn't go home, but instead headed to He Yuanguang's animation studio.

The second season of *That Rabbit* was proceeding in an orderly fashion, though in reality, what Luo Mo had provided was the script for the fourth season from Earth.

Therefore, the second season of this world was actually the fourth season from Earth.

Because this year was a special year, the 100th anniversary, the Review Department had communicated with the studio, wondering if the second season could appropriately fit this theme.

The other party was just holding a "let's give it a try" attitude, and when He Yuanguang asked for Luo Mo's opinion, Luo Mo agreed directly.

Judging from the later reputation, on Earth, the second and third seasons of *That Rabbit* weren't actually that tear-jerking; they mostly relied on memes.

But the fourth season was packed with tear-jerkers, rivaling the first season.

And from a timeline perspective, the fourth season could actually serve as a prequel to the first.

Luo Mo felt that making appropriate adjustments was quite good; there were no major issues.

Before this, he had been a bit like a hands-off manager.

He only told He Yuanguang what to do, provided the script, and then performed the final review and revisions.

But for this season, his level of participation was very high.

The reason was simple: before production, He Yuanguang had asked, "Luo Mo, are you interested in co-directing the second season with me?"

In other words, for the second season of *That Rabbit*, Luo Mo was not only the screenwriter but also one of the directors.

"Being an animation director?" Luo Mo thought it was quite interesting.

To be precise, he really wanted to learn something.

The difficulty of getting started as an animation director was relatively lower than that of a television director or a film director.

But that didn't mean someone who knew nothing could just do it.

Luo Mo was a soul fused from two worlds, a transmigrator.

But he was not the type of person who, upon transmigrating, could suddenly do anything.

Because of the transmigration perks, his memories of everything on Earth were very clear.

But if you don't know how to produce animation, you just don't; even if you know what the finished product looks like in your head, you still can't tinker it out on your own.

Just because you remember what the Mona Lisa looks like, does that mean you can paint it perfectly?

He understood music, and he understood acting, because those were jobs he had done before.

But animation production, he was almost completely clueless about.

So he needed to cooperate with others, and he also needed to constantly learn and fill in the gaps.

During the time he worked with He Yuanguang, the two could be said to have been "stealing techniques" from each other.

Luo Mo learned a lot from He Yuanguang, and He Yuanguang was also inspired by Luo Mo in many aspects.

The two of them cooperated quite happily.

The second season of "That Rabbit" had actually begun preparations as soon as the first season passed censorship, but it was only announced to the public during the National Day holiday.

It is already November now, and the vast majority of this short and punchy animation season has already been completed.

What was done today was mainly the editing work for the first few episodes, as well as the work on the soundtrack.

For the former, He Yuanguang would still offer some suggestions, while the latter was entirely left to Luo Mo to handle alone; he was only responsible for cheering from the sidelines.

Seriously, the person sitting next to him was the one who had defeated a Heavenly King this autumn and was crowned the "King of Love Songs."

With a music industry big shot like this coming to do the soundtrack for an animation with a low production budget, what more could you want?

During a work break, Luo Mo said to He Yuanguang, "Guang Shu, have you ever thought about making a big animation movie?"

He Yuanguang thought he was just chatting casually, but Luo Mo was not.

He looked at Luo Mo, smiled, and said, "Actually, I have made animation movies."

"Ah? My apologies, my apologies." Luo Mo gave an awkward smile and cupped his hands.

The other party had made a movie, yet you had never heard of it and still asked such a question; it was indeed a bit awkward.

He Yuanguang shrugged nonchalantly and said, "It's normal that you don't know; the box office didn't even reach ten million, and it didn't make much of a splash."

Luo Mo nodded, having a rough idea.

In this world, if an animation movie's box office can reach the ten-million level, it is considered quite Ox.

To have a box office of several tens of millions is considered a huge success!

If the box office breaks one hundred million, that is being canonized as a god in the industry!

The momentum of the animation industry in this world is actually quite good, and it is visibly getting better and better.

But just like back on Earth, it is in urgent need of a phenomenal work, a work with an explosive box office, to prop up the entire industry.

Once a phenomenal work appears, it will set off a frenzy!

It is precisely because of this that Luo Mo felt Shen Shaoqiu had a unique eye for investment; taking advantage of the fact that the wave had not yet risen to acquire Tongguang Studio, which had great reputation and fame in the industry, was a good move.

By the time the market is big and you want to enter, the difficulty and the cost will be different!

He Yuanguang walked to the water dispenser to pour a cup of hot water for Luo Mo and said, "How do you think I went bankrupt? Wasn't it from making big animation movies and some animations suitable for all ages?"

Luo Mo took the water cup and looked at He Yuanguang, who had stubble on his face and heavy dark circles under his eyes, and asked only one question.

"Then do you still dare to do it?"

This was a question that struck the soul.

"I dare!" He Yuanguang took a sip of hot water himself and answered very decisively and firmly.

After finishing, he also smiled and said, "I dared to do it when I was using my own money before; now that I'm mainly using your money and President Shen's money, what do I have to be afraid of?"

Luo Mo raised an eyebrow and almost applauded him.

But he knew very well that this was a joke; it was just that He Yuanguang's ambition was still there, and he hadn't been worn down by falling a few times.

Although He Yuanguang's share of the investment amount was not large, that was all the money he had; he was still throwing in most of his net worth.

Most importantly, he was old; he was no longer young.

Young people have the cost of trial and error, and can even make mistakes again and again.

He was different; he was already in his forties.

"This is a person with dreams," Luo Mo said in his heart.

Perhaps that is precisely why Tongguang Studio is called the "conscience of domestic animation."

He Yuanguang looked at Luo Mo and asked, "What? Do you have the idea of making a movie?"

Luo Mo nodded generously and admitted it directly.

He Yuanguang asked, "Are you going to make a movie version of 'That Rabbit'?"

He was quite moved and felt that it was still very worth doing.

Luo Mo shook his head and said, "No."

This animation is already so short, and you want a movie version?

How much total runtime does one season even have?

"Then..." He Yuanguang couldn't quite figure it out.

Luo Mo waved his hand and said, "I haven't thought it through yet; I still need to plan it out."

He Yuanguang looked at him and said, "You should think about it carefully; the movie industry is deep. Luo Mo, give me the bottom line: if you do it, how big of a project will it be?"

"One hundred million, just a small project," Luo Mo said.

"What!?" He Yuanguang choked on his own saliva.

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(End of this chapter)