Chapter 571: Not enough! It

After consulting Xu Chujing's opinion, Luo Mo decisively liked the Weibo post of his future brother-in-law.

It wasn't to cause him social death; I'm not that bad.

It was simply because his short review was well-written.

Hmm, I am expressing appreciation for your literary talent.

What kind of bad intentions could a brother-in-law have?

Don't you think?

After Luo Mo switched from his private secondary account to his celebrity account on his phone, he tapped his finger, and the like was sent out.

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Beijing, the Phoenix Floor of a certain high-end residential complex.

Xu Jinzhu was lying on his bed, holding his phone and scrolling through Weibo.

He was reading film reviews written by others.

"Tch, none of them are written as well as mine." This prospective university student even started to feel smug.

Soon, he discovered that a small red dot had appeared in the 【Messages】 section, displaying a red number 【1】.

This meant his Weibo had received a like or comment, or perhaps it had been reposted, or he had received a private message.

Xu Jinzhu didn't rush to check it, instinctively assuming it was someone who followed him and had casually liked one of his posts.

However, a few seconds later, a bizarre thing happened.

The red number displayed in 【Messages】 was surging at a terrifying speed.

It had originally displayed the red number 【1】, but it broke one hundred before long, and it was still increasing at an extremely rapid pace.

"Damn it, is someone bombing my account!?" He couldn't help but sit up from the bed.

Xu Jinzhu tapped on 【Messages】, and the number was still Dancing wildly.

In such a short time, he had already received 500 likes.

This was only because his Weibo settings were set to 【Only followers can comment】; otherwise, there would likely have been a massive number of comments generated.

"What is going on!?" Xu Jinzhu was stunned.

He just wrote a short review, and it suddenly went viral?

"Are Luo Mo's fans this terrifying?" Xu Jinzhu was bewildered.

He had heard before that the fans of some Top Traffic stars were very keen on generating data for the stars.

For example, if a certain Top Traffic young actor filmed a new drama, they would search frantically on Weibo; as long as someone praised the drama, they would like, comment, or even repost.

Then, if they encountered some well-written ones that praised it to the skies, the fans would even organize to boost that Weibo post, and even push it onto the Hot Search list to increase exposure!

"So I've been 'picked' by the 【Mo Sheng Ren】?" Xu Jinzhu thought to himself.

And picked by hundreds or thousands of people all at once?

Oh wait, that's not right, the number was far more than that, because after another moment, the likes had already broken one thousand.

Well, he was a young man, so his strange and peculiar vanity soon began to overflow.

At a time like this, what is the first thing we should do?

Of course, it's to turn off 【Only followers can comment】!

Xu Jinzhu immediately turned off this function in the settings.

Then, the 【Comments】 indeed began to skyrocket as well.

"【Likes】 aren't worth looking at, and I don't care which accounts liked my post. The comments, on the other hand, are worth a look," he thought.

As a result, the moment he tapped in, one comment caught his eye and stung his eyes.

"【This Mo Sheng Ren, you are so lucky, you've been picked by Luo Mo!】"

Xu Jinzhu: "???"

What Mo Sheng Ren?

Don't talk nonsense, I'm not, I absolutely am not!

After resisting in his heart for a while, he finally began to realize the root cause.

"Holy crap! Luo Mo liked this short review of mine!"

No wonder, no wonder the traffic surged!

You have to know, Luo Mo is Top Traffic, the truly strongest Top Traffic.

And he rarely picks fans, rarely likes fans' posts.

If he liked it, the influx of traffic would be incredibly fierce! It might even make it to the Hot Search!

After his brain stopped spinning, the first thing Xu Jinzhu did was delete some of his previous messy Weibo posts and likes.

Among them were cringey remarks, likes for pretty girls, late-night emo music posts, and pretentious, sentimental text……..

"Ahhh!" He felt the urgency of time.

After finishing everything, he let out a long sigh of relief.

Then he continued to look through the comment section, and another comment pierced his eyes.

"Stop deleting, we've all seen it, I even saved it and sent it to the group chat."

Xu Jinzhu was filled with Anger: "Are these silly netizens really that bored all day long!"

Immediately following this, Xu Jinzhu frowned.

"Could it be this much of a coincidence?" he thought.

"Out of so many film reviews, he only chose mine?"

"Could it be that Luo Mo knew I was the one who wrote it?" The teenager began to analyze.

But soon, his thoughts once again aligned with Boss Cao's classic line: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"This Weibo of mine, not even my sister, not even my parents know about it!"

"Then, there is only one truth!"

"I, damn it, wrote this too well!" Xu Jinzhu began to get carried away.

Among the vast sea of comments, mine is the most eye-catching!

I don't have many merits, and my handwriting looks like chicken scratches, but my writing is truly brilliant!

"Hehe!"

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On Xu Jinzhu's end, he had already inflated like a hot air balloon.

But in reality, after his short review was liked by Luo Mo, it did indeed explode, and it brought about no small impact.

Many people who had seen the movie felt it struck a chord.

Especially that line, "This is clearly a martial arts film."

As for those who hadn't seen the movie, they felt it seemed quite interesting.

It felt like this movie had quite a lot of attributes, so it might just be very good.

This made quite a few people feel rather tempted.

At the same time, those who had already seen the movie, although not many when looking at the whole country, could still serve as a decent promotional effect.

This caused many people with free time to start buying tickets for the next day's preview screenings.

Compared to July 28th, there were more preview screenings on the 29th.

The total number of screenings nationwide was just over 5,000, a little bit more.

In fact, the staff at Luo Mo Studio had been keeping in touch with major cinema chains and were still actively striving to increase the number of preview screenings.

Back on Earth, when "Dying to Survive" was having its Large-scale Preview, it started at 14,000 screenings, then went to 23,000, and at its peak, it even broke 30,000!

Most importantly, once word-of-mouth improved, the attendance rate would increase.

Once a Cinema is packed, the box office is also quite terrifying.

Luo Mo was not in a hurry at all.

His goal was very simple: 【Screening Count】.

He wanted the major cinema chains to increase his premiere screening count based on the word-of-mouth and attendance rates during the previews!

You have to know, for this kind of realism-based film that reflects social issues, initial screening counts are never very high, because everyone instinctively feels that this type of subject matter won't sell.

This is about the same logic as when "Monkey King: Hero is Back" was first released.

On Earth, the publicity team for "Dying to Survive" also took a risky path, relying on extreme confidence in the film's quality to pull off such a crazy operation.

Therefore, the Large-scale Preview was actually a game of chess between Luo Mo and the major cinema chains!

Cinemas also want to make more money; who would turn their back on money?

So then…….

——Listen, be good!

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The next day, some sensitive media outlets soon began reporting on the news following the Large-scale Preview of "Dying to Survive".

This caused some ripples, but they weren't very big.

After all, there were too few screenings and too few viewers.

But that doesn't matter; we'll just take it slow.

Luo Mo didn't care about today's preview box office at all; he only cared about tomorrow's screening count.

After communicating with the major cinema chains, Xindi Cinema Chain remained the same as always, expressing their willingness to stand behind Luo Mo and provide the greatest level of support!

Xindi Cinema Chain had already scheduled many screenings for "Dying to Survive" and worked hard to add a few more.

At the same time, they set aside more prime-time evening slots; although these were mostly in small and medium-sized Cinema halls, there were some large ones too.

As for some cinema chains that were previously hesitant and waiting to see, now that they saw the attendance rate for "Dying to Survive" wasn't low and the word-of-mouth seemed pretty good, they also didn't want to turn their backs on money and began actively scheduling screenings.

In the end, the screening count for July 30th increased to 16,000, an increase of over 10,000!

Regarding this, Luo Mo was already satisfied.

His goal was to break 15,000.

"After all, this is the first Large-scale Preview on Blue Star."

"People always have a process of adaptation when it comes to new things and a brand-new model."

"Pioneering is always like this," Luo Mo thought to himself.

It wasn't until late at night that Luo Mo began to care about the box office results of "Dying to Survive" on the 29th.

"14 million!" Luo Mo looked at the number with a smile on his face.

The screening count only increased by a quarter, but the box office increased by more than half!

No choice, the attendance rate surged!

Even for afternoon screenings, they couldn't withstand the audience's enthusiasm for watching the film.

"This is now completely stable," Luo Mo felt relieved.

He was very clear now that the film would officially be released on August 2nd, and the premiere screening count would not be low. At the same time, the number of screenings for the next few days of previews could likely be increased further!

This gave rise to a new ambition in the depths of Luo Mo's heart.

9 million plus 14 million, that's already 23 million.

Not quite.

"The opening day box office breaking one hundred million, everyone must be tired of hearing that by now."

"Then, how about the total box office breaking one hundred million during the preview screenings?"

A film, before it has even officially premiered, has already reaped 100 million in box office; what kind of concept is that?

However, is this enough?

Naturally, it is far from enough.

The ambition of Luo Mo goes far beyond this.

These are merely the means he is using to maximize the screen allocation for *Medicine*, and also to maximize its box office.

Thinking of this, Luo Mo took out his phone and started searching for something.

Having just finished her shower, Xu Chujing changed into a nightgown and walked out of the bathroom.

"What are you calculating?" She walked to Luo Mo's side, looking at him with a puzzled expression.

Because, at this moment, Luo Mo had his phone lying flat, had opened the calculator, and was persistently doing addition.

"I am calculating the 【Hundred Billion Box Office Plan】 and how much total box office we have secured so far." Luo Mo looked up at her, then continued doing his addition.

Upon hearing this, Xu Chujing looked at him in astonishment: "What are you trying to do?"

(PS: First update, requesting monthly tickets.

Thanks to teacher "Tong Tang" for the alliance leader reward; at the same time, I'm promoting her book *Jin Tang*. It's a book by a female teacher, are you sure you don't want to read it?)

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