Chapter 619: China Has No Good Sci-Fi Works

Yang Jun: I'm finished!

Facing Ye Mei's public questioning on Weibo, Yang Jun was at a loss for what to do.

He felt he needed emergency PR!

But in reality, neither he nor the company team behind him had any illusions: the marketing account 【Shudu】 was likely going to be finished.

In the entire team, there wasn't a single legitimate Psychologist.

Moreover, the implication in her words was clearly stating: I have read your Weibo content, and you are not a Psychologist at all.

When a Great God-level figure in the industry makes such an evaluation, the influence is terrifying!

Plus, this type of marketing account is not liked by people in the medical profession to begin with.

With a Great God leading the way, there are plenty of people who will follow up with a kick.

Even if you take a step back and say, even if you really were a Psychologist and the 【Shudu】 account was truly run by a Psychologist, so what?

A top figure in the industry has come to question you, which means you are unprofessional!

How terrifying a quack doctor is, how could the world not know?

Besides, there is also competition between marketing accounts.

Who knows, someone might come to kick you while you're down, taking advantage of your illness to end your life!

Yang Jun now felt like his head was about to explode!

"The 【Shudu】 account only just started gaining popularity this year!"

"I invested quite a bit of money in the early stages, and I was counting on making a quick fortune in these two years."

"But this, this..."

At this moment, he no longer felt that the "huge sum" he received these past few days for writing hit pieces on Luo Mo was a windfall, and he no longer felt this job was sweet.

He thought he could have a feast, earn a pot full of gold, and eat until he was stuffed.

But who would have thought, it was a damn last meal!

No matter how Yang Jun reflected, he couldn't figure it out.

"How can there be a film crew in this world willing to spend so much money to hire a Psychologist of this caliber to sit in!"

In fact, it wasn't just Yang Jun who couldn't figure it out; the people who paid him to write the hit pieces couldn't figure it out even more.

Every time Luo Mo has a new work about to air, multiple forces will enter the fray to carry out 【Anti-Explosion】 measures.

He doesn't even need to consider who is playing these tricks behind the scenes; under normal circumstances... no one can escape!

You don't need to worry about which person among this group did it!

Perhaps it would be simpler to consider which person didn't come to mess with me.

Now it's great; these people have purely lifted a rock only to drop it on their own feet.

The *The Bad Kids* film crew, far from being morally criticized by netizens, has instead become even more popular!

This film crew, no matter how you look at it, is so conscientious!

A conscientious, good drama, why not watch it yet?

This made the people behind the scenes feel a splitting headache.

"So I spent money to hire a marketing account, and the money I spent became your promotional fee!?"

——This is truly too absurd!

Too rash!

………

………

By the time Luo Mo finished recording Run Jie's variety show and finished the promotion for *Sheep Without a Shepherd*, the storm on the internet had already ended, the public's attitude had become one-sided, and everyone was Shouting for *The Bad Kids*.

He took the phone from his assistant, understood the ins and outs of the matter, and just found it quite interesting.

"Speaking of which, this Dr. Ye's style of doing things is really crisp, neat, and direct," Luo Mo remarked.

He felt that when they interacted in daily life, she didn't seem to have such a personality.

"Did I misjudge her?"

"Or is there another reason?"

Luo Mo couldn't figure it out, so he first sent a WeChat to Xu Chujing to report his itinerary and inform her that the variety show recording had ended.

Xu Chujing didn't reply; she was probably still in a meeting at the studio, which hadn't finished yet.

After thinking for a moment, he sent a WeChat to Ye Mei to express his gratitude.

"Nothing to thank me for, it's not like I didn't take your money," Ye Mei said directly.

But what she didn't expect was that Luo Mo really didn't stand on ceremony and replied: "Makes sense!"

Expensive! This woman's service fee is deathly expensive!

On the way back to the hotel to rest, Luo Mo sat in the nanny van, took out his phone, and casually opened a ticketing APP to check today's real-time movie box office rankings.

"*Tengyun Jiawu*'s box office results are not bad," Luo Mo looked at it, and a smile appeared on his face.

For this Animation movie, the money invested by Tongguang Studio wasn't much, and the share wasn't the largest.

But Luo Mo was happy to see this scene of a hundred flowers blooming in the animation world.

"I estimate this movie won't be worse than *Painting the Dragon*," Luo Mo estimated in his heart.

Being able to achieve results in an off-season period is truly rare.

And these movies, in Luo Mo's view, were the best paving for the release of *Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child*.

………

………

The new weekend arrived very quickly just like that.

Over these past few days, the popularity of *The Bad Kids* has skyrocketed, and the popularity of the actors is also soaring.

Someone like Zhang Dongsheng has been turned into a massive amount of memes.

Many popular memes from Earth have also appeared quite naturally on Blue Star.

This actually has a lot to do with the Drama, the lines, and so on.

For example, "【Do you think I still have a chance?】", which is used repeatedly in the show; every time it is used, someone dies, so naturally, it makes people feel increasingly creepy.

Of course, the emergence of popular memes is also inseparable from the spoofs by silly netizens.

Many netizens started creating images using various scenic spots as backgrounds, especially those famous mountains, and then added the caption: "Zhang Dongsheng and pets are not allowed to enter."

Some even said: "Even the monkeys on Mount Emei would be scared if they saw him!"

Hmm, it is evident just how terrifying he is!

As night fell, the popular Drama Critic Xiao Cai began watching the update of *The Bad Kids* right on time.

Recently, when chatting with her best friend Xiao Fang, her favorite things to use were Zhang Dongsheng's memes.

For example: Shall we go hiking together?

For example: It's just quite "bald" (sudden).

For example: You must love me, otherwise I'll go wild swimming.

Of course, even a term commonly used in fan circles has changed its flavor under the effect of this show—【Meeting at the Peak】!

Meet you at the peak, my foot; are you going to the peak to listen to "Little White Boat"?

At this moment, Drama Critic Xiao Cai sat in front of her tablet, eating top-tier Shine Muscat grapes while watching the update.

At the beginning of the episode, Pupu was crying, and Yan Liang immediately went to comfort her.

Pupu told him that she had called her aunt, and her aunt said that her younger brother Xinxin was barely holding on and urgently needed surgery fees.

"Tsk, a death-hastening Warning!" Xiao Cai couldn't help but say.

These few children asked Zhang Dongsheng for 300,000, and Zhang Dongsheng didn't give it all at once, indicating he wanted to pay in installments.

With Pupu in such urgent need of money, that undoubtedly intensifies the conflict.

Most importantly, Xiao Cai kept wondering: "Is there really a person named Xinxin? Is he really alive? Does he really need money for medical treatment?"

"Pupu herself has asthma and also needs money for treatment."

Because in the second episode, when Pupu followed Zhu Jingjing into the Shaoniangong, she had a fantasy where she thought of her own father, mother, and younger brother; that scene looked unreal no matter how you looked at it, as if all three of them were no longer in this world.

Or rather, Xinxin sounds more like a little girl's name than Pupu; in fact—she is the one who is Xinxin!

But all of this is just Xiao Cai's personal opinion, and she cannot get an accurate answer for the time being.

Immediately after, the Drama shifted to Zhu Chaoyang going to find Zhang Dongsheng.

Coincidentally, Officer Ye brought his daughter, Ye Chimin, to find Zhang Dongsheng at this time as well.

Xiao Cai has always felt that this classmate of Zhu Chaoyang, Ye Chimin, is quite interesting.

"She always tests second and just can't beat Zhu Chaoyang no matter what."

"The father and daughter coming to find the math teacher Zhang Dongsheng is also for the sake of studying and improving grades."

"This girl is very self-disciplined during summer vacation; she really loves to learn!"

"But do you know how exciting the summer vacation of your opponent, the academic genius Zhu, is?"

What Xiao Cai found most hilarious was that Ye Chimin was even unhappy; she felt that Zhu Chaoyang had gotten there first.

You, Zhu Chaoyang, you came to get tutoring earlier than me!

Ahhh, I'm so mad!

During this process, Zhu Chaoyang heard Zhang Dongsheng explain to Officer Ye that his spouse had an accident and passed away.

Zhu Chaoyang felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar in an instant, with a chill rising all over his body.

His intuition told him: "He killed another one!"

This time, the one he killed was his wife!

Zhu Chaoyang was fully alert, but after Officer Ye and Ye Chimin left, Zhang Dongsheng said: "I will have the money ready in a few days, wait for my call."

All three children temporarily thought that they would be able to get the money this way.

Later in the Drama, Yan Liang called Zhu Chaoyang out and asked him if he could make another copy of the card in the camera.

Yan Liang planned to hand the copy of the card to the police after getting the money and then confess everything.

He also said with great Righteousness: "This was all my own idea, it has nothing to do with you and Pupu."

Hearing this, Zhu Chaoyang's expression changed instantly.

Xiao Cai was stunned: "Wow! Yan Liang, you silly blockhead!"

"How can one person take the blame for this? Do you think Zhang Dongsheng will cooperate with you fully and say it was all your own idea?"

"Strictly speaking, Zhu Chaoyang was dragged into this by you and Pupu in the first place. Now it's great, Zhu Chaoyang can't escape the matter of asking Zhang Dongsheng for 300,000 either."

"The young man doesn't keep his word; that's not what you said when you dragged people into this at the beginning, and now the other person is stuck in a dilemma."

She had thought that Zhu Chaoyang would argue with him, or even have a big fight.

But to her surprise, he quickly regained his composure, then took the camera card handed over by Yan Liang, and indicated he would help him make a copy.

After swimming with his father, Zhu Chaoyang went to a shop to help copy the camera card.

But after the copying was finished, he looked at the card and fell into deep thought.

After returning home, he took out a new Diary and started writing in it.

"Why take out a new one?" Xiao Cai was puzzled.

Most importantly, the title of this episode is 【Diary】.

It is very obvious that it is important!

Just then, amidst the ominous background music, Zhu Chaoyang began to record in his Diary.

He wrote down that Yan Liang asked him to copy a card, and Yan Liang told him that after the matter was over, he still had to report Zhang Dongsheng.

On the other side, Zhang Dongsheng used some methods to find the children's Secret Base, but unfortunately, he didn't find the camera there.

At the end of the seventh episode, Zhang Dongsheng also ran into Officer Lao Chen, who was looking for someone and asking everyone if they had seen Yan Liang.

Through their conversation, Zhang Dongsheng realized that there were others looking for Yan Liang, which would make everything very tricky; there wasn't much time left for him.

"Finished watching again." Xiao Cai only felt that the more she watched this Drama, the more uncomfortable she felt.

She really wished there was an Advanced On-Demand feature so she could spend money to finish it in one go!

"It's just spending money to buy it, who are you looking down on? It's not like I can't afford it!" Xiao Cai said bitterly.

Fortunately, it would continue to update tomorrow night.

The next day, she immediately started watching on time.

She didn't write a review yesterday because she didn't want to write it too hastily; she wanted to finish both episodes before writing.

Zhang Dongsheng was seen failing to find the camera, and in desperation, he went to borrow from a loan shark to raise money.

But he told the loan shark that he was only borrowing for 3 days, just wanting to turn the money around.

"Only borrowing for three days!" A chill rose in Xiao Cai's heart.

"What does he want to do?"

*Kill You Within Three Days*?

Then, she saw Zhang Dongsheng find a way to siphon the gasoline out of his car and store it in a barrel.

"Could it be that he wants to burn down the children's Secret Base and burn that abandoned wooden boat?"

——He is a ruthless person!

In fact, a new character really did appear in this episode, a new ruthless character—Wang Yao's younger brother, Wang Li.

This person had always been involved in the underworld and was not to be trifled with.

Upon learning that his niece Zhu Jingjing had died, and seeing his sister Wang Yao looking haggard, he planned to go and have a word with Zhu Chaoyang.

He found Zhu Chaoyang at the swimming pool and pushed his head directly into the water.

Fortunately, Zhu Yongping rushed over and punched his brother-in-law directly.

But it was clear that Wang Li did not intend to let Zhu Chaoyang off just like that.

Time passed, and it was time for the Promise made with Zhang Dongsheng to hand over the money.

The location for the money handover was set in a bookstore.

Zhang Dongsheng gave the money, and Yan Liang gave the card.

When he got the card, Zhang Dongsheng even asked: "Have you thought it through?"

——*Death Warning*.

It was just absurd; his words fell into Xiao Cai's ears and automatically turned into: "How do you want to die?"

I have to say, Teacher Zhang is worthy of being a teacher; he is truly Gentle to the point of tears!

Every time before killing someone, he would leave a final chance and ask about it.

During the transaction, a small interlude occurred.

That was Officer Ye bringing her studious daughter Ye Chimin to the bookstore to buy books.

The three children and Zhang Dongsheng cooperated and covered for each other; it was seamless.

"Speechless, it feels like they are actually a team!" Xiao Cai couldn't help but complain.

What surprised her the most was the ending of this episode.

The three children were seen deciding after a discussion to let Zhu Chaoyang keep the money, as it was safer that way.

Zhu Chaoyang carried the money and left the abandoned boat.

Before leaving, Pupu gave him a Farewell letter, but told him to open it only after she and Yan Liang had left.

Zhang Dongsheng, who had long since figured out the children's Secret Base, was wearing a hat and waiting outside.

As soon as Zhu Chaoyang came out, he followed him all the way, picking up a stone from the ground that felt comfortable to hold along the way.

Xiao Cai's heart tightened instantly: "Zhang Dongsheng, act like a human being!"

Zhu Chaoyang walked all the way into the dark underpass of a bridge.

The background music started at this moment.

Unexpectedly, Wang Li rushed out at this moment and pinned Zhu Chaoyang to the ground.

"Let me go!" Zhu Chaoyang struggled.

"Tell the truth and I'll let you go," Wang Li said.

"I'm not lying, I'm not lying. If you don't let me go, I'll tell my dad," said Zhu Chaoyang, who was being held by the throat and pressed to the ground.

He thought that by bringing up his dad, he could scare this brother of Wang Yao.

To his surprise, Wang Li said directly: "If you were the one who did what happened to Jingjing, I'll finish off your dad too."

At this moment, a funny scene appeared.

Zhang Dongsheng, who was following with a stone, walked into the bridge underpass, and upon seeing that there was someone else, he immediately turned around and retreated without looking back!

The whole set of movements was smooth and fluid, without any hesitation; he was a total coward.

This left our Gentle Teacher Zhang completely bewildered.

What the hell, someone else is stealing his kill!?

A major speechless event; he actually encountered someone stealing a kill!

The eighth episode ended abruptly just as Zhang Dongsheng hid behind a stone pillar.

"It cut off! It cut off at a key Drama point again!"

Her heart was itching, her whole body was itching.

This episode is called "Outsider."

Undoubtedly, Wang Li, returning from out of town, broke everything within the circle.

But in Xiao Cai's heart, this episode should be called: "Zhang Dongsheng: My Three Hundred Thousand."

The subsequent development of the Drama undoubtedly exceeded the expectations in Xiao Cai's mind.

"As expected, Luo Mo is still the same, not playing by the rules."

After finishing it, Xiao Cai began to set about writing a review.

She felt there was still a lot to write about these two episodes.

But before writing, she planned to first see what the netizens were saying.

However, when she opened Weibo, she discovered that the number one entry on the Hot Search list had nothing to do with "The Bad Kids."

The number one entry was: "Total Box Office."

This made Xiao Cai a little surprised.

"Hmm? I haven't heard of any movie's box office exploding recently."

"Recently is a slow season, only the box office for 'Tengyun Jiawu' is pretty good."

When she curiously clicked on this Hot Search, she immediately understood what was going on.

"Our Huaxia region's total box office has been overtaken!" Xiao Cai narrowed her eyes.

As mentioned before, the Review Department established the "Hundred Billion Box Office Plan" to provide key support to certain movies precisely because Huaxia's total box office had already begun to challenge the position of second in the world.

It can be said that becoming the world's second-largest movie market is everyone's recent goal!

Originally, when this year's "Hundred Billion Box Office Plan" was a complete success under Luo Mo's efforts to turn the tide, many media outlets reported that Huaxia's current total box office ranked second in the world and was expected to successfully challenge for it this year.

They even took the opportunity to heap praise on Luo Mo.

No choice, "Dying to Survive" is at the top of the movie box office list; if you don't praise the one with the highest box office, who do you praise?

However, the total box office of movies is not something where being in the lead for a moment is enough; there are a huge number of variables!

This year's domestic films with potential were all released during the Shuji Dang.

The rest are all holding out, wanting to wait until the Spring Festival period.

But foreign countries are different; not to mention anything else, just the holidays are different, like Thanksgiving and Christmas, which are all at the end of the year.

They still have many blockbusters waiting to exert their strength at the end of the year!

And there is another reason why this matter has attracted so many onlookers among the masses.

Originally, when foreign blockbusters are released, there are many movies that will also be imported domestically, which will also generate box office revenue.

Although foreign film companies will take a large share of this money, these imported films' box office is still counted toward Huaxia's total box office.

However, a recent Science Fiction blockbuster was not imported domestically.

This Science Fiction blockbuster is called "Doomsday Apostle," a typical disaster film about the end of the world.

The reason it wasn't imported is that many of its plot points are Afraid to incite public indignation among the people of Blue Star!

This goes beyond simple discrimination.

The many smears within it can even be called blatant.

Some foreign movies on Blue Star quietly harbor bad intentions, because as long as it isn't put out in the open, many people will spontaneously come to whitewash them, to clean up the movie's reputation, and argue endlessly on the internet.

Among these, the plot points that trigger controversy are sometimes intentional by the production team, and perhaps sometimes truly unintentional.

But "Doomsday Apostle" is different; there is no way to whitewash it.

Yet this movie has had good box office in many countries, firmly sitting on the throne of the weekly champion.

It was precisely during the release of this movie that Huaxia's original second-place global total box office was overtaken.

With all these factors added together, the entire event instantly took on a different flavor!

Luo Mo also paid attention to this event.

After all, he can now be considered a mature filmmaker, and he cannot ignore major events in the industry.

"This year, I'm Afraid the ranking won't be caught up," Luo Mo concluded in his heart after a rough look.

Originally, the slogan shouted this year was to challenge for the world's second-largest movie market.

Since it is a challenge, it only means giving it a try, not that it was a sure thing.

It's just that being overtaken during the release of the movie "Doomsday Apostle" makes the sense of humiliation multiply several times over.

Moreover, the creative team of this movie had a very poor attitude, was very arrogant and rude, and even mocked them in front of the media.

"Huaxia not importing 'Doomsday Apostle' is the loss of Huaxia's audience; we feel regret for them."

"You know, Huaxia doesn't have good Science Fiction works; this point is not just reflected in movies."

"'Doomsday Apostle' is performing very well at the global box office now; honestly, it doesn't need Huaxia's box office."

When Luo Mo saw these things, his eyes couldn't help but narrow slightly.

"I wonder what the Review Department is thinking right now," Luo Mo said in his heart.

The next day, Beijing, Review Department.

Zhong Lin had just arrived at work when she was called into the office by He Ping'an.

She knew very well how frustrated her great-uncle, who had served in the military when he was young, must be feeling right now.

"How do you plan to handle this matter?" He Ping'an looked at Zhong Lin and said in a deep voice.

Zhong Lin pondered for a moment and detailed several ways to handle it.

This wasn't the first time they had encountered this kind of thing.

As for movies, there are plenty that smuggle in private agendas.

He Ping'an nodded slightly after hearing this.

"For next year's Hundred Billion Box Office Plan, do a good job," He Ping'an said suddenly.

Zhong Lin nodded vigorously.

"By the way, do we have any good Science Fiction works being released next year? If there are, we can provide appropriate support," He Ping'an asked again.

This stumped Zhong Lin.

To be precise, no matter who the old man asked this question to, they would find it very difficult.

"Uh..." Zhong Lin said awkwardly, "There are big productions with very high investment amounts, but I've seen the finished films; setting aside the Drama for a moment, just looking at the special effects, well... they don't live up to the price."

"Then that means there's a problem, so investigate it for me!" He Ping'an slapped the table and said sternly.

"Understood," Zhong Lin said.

After walking out of He Ping'an's office, Zhong Lin let out a long breath of stale air, then heaved a long sigh.

Honestly, she felt stifled in her heart too, and she also wanted to slap these people in the face.

But regarding what He Ping'an asked, she really didn't know how to answer.

"Don't even mention next year; over so many years, there hasn't even appeared a single good Science Fiction film."

"Not even one."

What the other party said was indeed very infuriating.

Yet, a part of what they said happened to be the truth.

If there isn't one, there isn't one!

Zhong Lin returned to her office, sat down, took a sip of hot water, and a deep sense of powerlessness welled up in her heart.

(PS: Two-in-one, 6000+.)

(End of this chapter)