Chapter 469: Monkey King

Liu Fei woke up with a start in the cinema, only then realizing that he was streaming tears in a crowded public place.

He and Bo Ge had entered the theater quite early and had long since taken their seats.

At this moment, a woman around thirty years old was holding her young daughter's hand, preparing to squeeze past in the aisle.

Liu Fei was too fat, and he had basically blocked the path in front of the chairs.

Yet he was crying so intensely that the woman was a bit at a loss, not knowing how to greet him.

During the New Year, what could have happened to make him cry so hard?

Waking up to reality, Liu Fei hurriedly squeezed back as hard as he could to make way for them.

As the little girl passed by him, she kept looking back, her face full of curiosity.

Bo Ge, sitting to the side, gloated, saying, "Yo, tell Daddy, why are you crying?"

Liu Fei poked him with his fat elbow and didn't say much.

At this time, the lights in the cinema began to dim; *Monkey King: Hero is Back* was about to be screened.

Right now, in the cinema, the advertisements before the official start of the movie were already for Romance films of the Valentine's Day season, or even films for popular seasons months away.

During the advertisements, Bo Ge opened his phone to check the popularity of the firefighter version of *Lone Warrior* he had posted before leaving.

After taking a close look, Bo Ge was completely shocked.

"The view count has already broken 500,000?" Bo Ge was greatly surprised.

Although his own popularity was high and his fan base was strong, wasn't this growth rate a bit too fast?

He looked at the comment section, where a group of people were saying they had cried while watching.

At the same time, many people were paying tribute.

Only then did Bo Ge realize he had forgotten one thing.

He hurriedly left a comment in the section, stating that the final line of the copy was provided personally by Luo Mo.

After finishing the comment, he put on his 3D Glasses and, in a tone of feigned indifference, said to Liu Fei, "Let me tell you, that last line of copy in my video was provided by Luo Mo when I was private messaging him on Weibo."

"Heh, trying to trick Daddy again." Liu Fei, his eyes red beneath his 3D Glasses, stared straight at the big screen.

"You... I..." Bo Ge was extremely depressed.

But the movie had officially started, so he couldn't be bothered to argue with his son.

Sons, after all, not understanding their father's greatness was understandable.

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On the other side, 【Xiuya】 Zhou Yiran, also wearing a Mask and bringing along her bratty middle-schooler younger brother who was trying to act mature, was getting her tickets checked at the cinema.

They had come to Xindi Cinema.

Xindi had the most screenings for *Monkey King: Hero is Back* among all the major cinema chains.

At the same time, one could see the promotional Poster for *Monkey King: Hero is Back* and standees of the movie characters in the cinema.

As soon as Zhou Yiran's brother entered the cinema, he stared at the movie Poster and the anime character standees.

"Still saying you're not interested?" Zhou Yiran lowered her head and glanced at him.

Her brother, who was already in his first year of middle school, said coldly, "It's just average."

There were many younger children among those getting their tickets checked to enter.

Some might have been only four or five years old.

This made the cinema a bit noisy.

Quite a few children pointed from afar at the cartoon character standees, thinking the little monk inside was very cute, and shouted at Sun Wukong: "Monkey Brother! Monkey Brother!"

Zhou Yiran's brother sneered, glanced at the cartoon standee, and said, "Horse-faced monkey, his face is so long, not handsome at all."

Then, the back of his head was smacked by his sister.

"I brought you out to have fun, don't be so picky." She glared at him.

But honestly, she also felt that the Sun Wukong on the cartoon standee didn't look very good; it was quite plain.

The face was drawn so long, sporting a horse face, looking rather strange.

On the contrary, the little monk on the side did look truly cute.

Only... this wouldn't be Tang Seng, would it?

After successfully getting his tickets checked and sitting down in their seats, Zhou Yiran started taking selfies.

She wanted to take a selfie, then take a picture of the ticket stub, and then post it online to voluntarily do a wave of promotion for Luo Mo.

Her bratty younger brother beside her was very unwilling to cooperate in front of the phone camera; he hated taking photos with his sister the most.

He would be very awkward in front of the lens, but at this age, he had already started to pay attention to his image, had a bit of an Idol burden, and was afraid of looking ugly in the photos.

"Don't worry, same old rule, I'll cover your face." Zhou Yiran didn't care what he looked like in the photo; as long as she looked beautiful and cute, that was all that mattered!

Before the movie officially started, she took one last look at the data for her cover of *Lone Warrior*.

"The view count is about to hit eight million." She felt wonderful inside.

This was Afraid to become the first cover video in her life on Little Rotten Station to break ten million views!

And in the bullet comments and the comment section, there was one sentence that she found both interesting and proud.

"Is this definitely a song that a carbon-based lifeform can sing!?"

Of course, many netizens would also compare her version with Luo Mo's version.

There were also quite a few people who said she didn't sing as well as Luo Mo.

Regarding this, 【Xiuya】 Zhou Yiran wouldn't be angry at all.

"Wow! They're comparing me to Luo Mo!"

"Me! Me and Luo Mo!"

"Hee hee, so happy!"

In her view, from a certain level, this was already a kind of success and also a great honor.

The lights in the Cinema began to dim, and Monkey King: Hero is Back officially began screening.

After the film's opening sequence ended, at the very beginning, one could hear the sound of wind and rain, accompanied by thunder.

A male voice rang out: "It is said that a long, long time ago, there was a Monkey King, Sun Wukong."

The image shifted at this moment, revealing a cliff rising straight into the clouds amidst a screen full of mist.

A Back Shadow sat atop it, that long red cape spanning the entire big screen, swaying elegantly in the wind.

"He possessed great magical powers and was omnipotent."

"Because he caused Havoc in Heaven, he provoked the Anger of the Jade Emperor."

The man's voice began to grow increasingly impassioned, and the background music appeared at this moment, rich in Opera style.

The scene began to move upward continuously, as if reaching straight to the nine heavens.

And behind layers of clouds were countless Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals.

The Monkey King just sat on the cliff like that, facing everything all alone; the Back Shadow appeared lonely and rebellious, while the red cape was so striking and eye-catching.

Zhou Yiran couldn't help but glance at the stinky little brother beside her, but unfortunately, wearing 3D Glasses, she couldn't see his eyes.

And this "cold" middle school student had eyes that were faintly glowing beneath his Glasses.

"So cool!"

All the visuals in this short segment of the Drama carried an extremely strong Opera style.

Even the character designs were the same.

The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King and the 【Heavenly Court's Number One Rebel】 Nezha appeared.

It was just that, in this version of Monkey King: Hero is Back produced by Luo Mo, Nezha's appearance was not quite the same as the original.

【Xiuya】 Zhou Yiran looked at this Nezha and couldn't help but want to laugh, thinking to herself: "His dark circles are so heavy!"

Li Jing, with his burly physique, was seen holding a pagoda and shouting loudly: "Audacious demon monkey, you have violated the heavenly laws, surrender at once!"

The scene cut to the Monkey King's face for the first time.

This horse-faced monkey's face also had rich Opera makeup, and it was gnawing on a peach, making crisp crunching sounds.

Listening to the words of the Heavenly King Li, the Monkey King snorted with contempt and then mocked: "Go to hell!"

The peach in his hand was thrown directly by the Monkey King; a single peach sent the burly Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King flying away.

"Quick, catch it!" Heavenly King Li roared.

The Giant Spirit God began to act; it was simply too huge, causing it to almost occupy the entire cinema screen.

"This art style is pretty good, so detailed?"

"And it feels like it has ink-wash elements." Zhou Yiran felt the production was too exquisite.

Meanwhile, the Monkey King on the cliff stood there motionless.

A very obvious hazy treatment was applied to the Monkey King here, making it a bit difficult to see clearly, with only that bright red cape remaining piercingly eye-catching.

This contrast not only made it impossible to ignore him, but instead made him feel... even cooler!

This left Zhou Yiran feeling a bit dazed.

In fact, many of the audience members sitting in the Cinema were a bit dazed.

How many years had it been since she had watched an Animation related to the Great Sage Equaling Heaven?

She vaguely remembered that the last time she watched one was when this stinky little brother was young, and she accompanied him to watch some of the Journey to the West Animation.

The reason Zhou Yiran felt surprised was very simple.

"After all these years, I actually still think this monkey is... incredibly cool!"

(PS: First update, seeking monthly tickets!

Also, recommending Wu Ma Xing, Lao Ma's new car... no, it's his new book, "It Was You Who Forced Me to Become a Superstar".)

(End of this chapter)