Chapter 769: The Brother-in-Law's Spring?

At the end of the film *Peerless*, Li Wen died.

He died on the road while fleeing.

And he was blown up by Xiu Qing with a bomb.

The reason is simple: the things this man said after going to bed were incredibly hurtful, making Xiu Qing realize that she was ultimately not the one he held dearest in his heart; Ruan Wen would always be his "white moonlight," and she was merely a body double.

To a certain extent, this also served as a thematic point for the title *Peerless*.

Even with an identical face, she was ultimately just a body double; she was one of a kind, she was peerless.

On the sea, the yacht was blown up.

Many male audience members at the scene just felt their scalps tingle.

"Is this the consequence of offending a woman?"

"Damn it, can't you just sweet-talk her afterward, you bastard?"

"You kept saying 'sorry' and 'Love You' beforehand just to act cool! Why are you still saying such arrogant things afterward!"

"Are inner thoughts things that can be spoken aloud? If you speak them, are they still inner thoughts?"

After the matter came to an end, the policewoman specifically went to find the 【Real Ruan Wen】.

She told Ruan Wen that the Painter's business was over.

At the same time, she showed her a photo of Li Wen and asked if she recognized this person.

Ruan Wen told her she did, saying he used to live next door to her.

For a moment, many audience members felt even more numb.

Truth and lies, lies and truth; in this film, how much of the preceding content was actually real?

Or was the whole story fake?

And on Earth, many film fans had even deeper speculation and interpretations, because when Ruan Wen first appeared, she was painting, and some even suspected the ink she used was color-shifting ink, and that she was actually the 【Painter】!

This interpretation had its supporters and its detractors.

Others said that the final Ruan Wen was actually Xiu Qing, who had replaced her and lived on using Ruan Wen's identity.

The yacht explosion was just an illusion...

There was no helping it; this was a film filled with truth and lies, which destined that a large number of audience members would have all sorts of different interpretations after watching it.

So, the interesting part comes now.

At this moment, what were the identities of the young man and young woman sitting in the cinema?

The former was Luo Mo's brother-in-law, a fanatical admirer.

He would rack his brains to crazily interpret and exhaust his mental energy to understand Luo Mo's scripts, striving to grasp them thoroughly!

The latter was an old fan of Luo Mo, a die-hard fan since the *Creating Idols* period, and because of Luo Mo, she had become a drama critic and film critic.

Therefore, after watching this film shrouded in mist, the two of them were deep in thought.

The lights in the cinema had already come on.

Xu Jinzhu glanced at Xiao Cai from the corner of his eye.

With the cinema lights dim before, he thought Xiao Cai was quite pretty.

Now that the lights were on, he felt she was even more youthful and radiant.

As for Xiao Cai, she also felt this person wasn't bad: "I underestimated him before, thinking he was a 【Six-point Luo Mo】, but looking at him now, he's at least a six-point-five!"

Therefore, whether intentional or unintentional, Xu Jinzhu appeared to be talking to himself, but was actually opening a conversation.

"It's truly strange. Since Li Wen wanted to make up a story, why didn't he create a fictional person instead of choosing to use the face of a police officer from the station to construct Wu Fusheng?"

This was also an important reason for the polarized word-of-mouth after the film's release.

Li Wen's goal was to escape and to interfere with the police.

Then, why commit such a low-level mistake as to draw someone from the police station?

Hearing this, Xiao Cai also sat still and replied softly: "Do you remember the art dealer's evaluation of Li Wen's work at the beginning of the film? He said that Li Wen was someone who could only imitate, not create."

"Huh, now that you mention it, that does make some sense." Xu Jinzhu turned his head naturally this time, no longer pretending to talk to himself, but looking straight at the girl in the JK Uniform.

There is a very important technique to picking someone up.

That is, when you reply, your words cannot be a closing sentence.

The first half is a reply, and the second half must open a new topic; only then can two people quickly become familiar without the conversation going cold.

Therefore, Xu Jinzhu quickly added: "That's brilliant. What do you do? Are you also a student in the University Town?"

Xiao Cai smiled and said: "I've already graduated. Now I'm barely... a film critic?"

Oh my, how humble! She is clearly the up-and-coming film critic, Sister Cai!

Hearing this, there was only one voice in Xu Jinzhu's heart.

"Older than me, a big sister! It's a big sister!"

This young man, who had already been deeply influenced by Luo Mo, only felt: Good! Big sisters are good!

As the audience in the cinema stood up one after another and the cleaning lady came in to tidy up, the two couldn't just keep sitting there.

On the way out, the two chatted as they walked.

Xiao Cai took the opportunity to secretly size up Xu Jinzhu's height.

Not bad, he's exactly half a head taller than me, he's 1.8 meters tall!

Xu Jinzhu was thinking: "These legs! Damn! These legs!"

In their brief exchange, they actually managed to chat their way to a different ending for *Peerless*.

That is—the content we saw later might also be fake!

Li Wen using a police officer for his drawing was also intentional.

He wanted to be discovered, and then have the police track him.

What he wanted was to escape first, then be discovered, make the police think he was on that yacht, and then blow the yacht up!

As for Xiu Qing, she was merely continuing to cooperate with him, continuing to act alongside him.

She deliberately put on an appearance of having suffered a heartbreak and even left clues for the policewoman, all for the sake of the final explosion of the yacht!

And earlier, after they "bought cola" at the hotel, Li Wen was still shirtless, shaving while saying: "This face of mine can no longer be used either; when the time comes, whatever you want me to turn into, I will turn into, okay?"

Doesn't the logic hold up now!

Whether the two's interpretation is correct or not is actually no longer important.

What is important is that when they were colliding in thought, both of them were very excited!

It was as if they had common interests, common topics, and both felt they could really talk to each other!

——"What Fate!"

But in reality?

It was precisely because they were both fans of Luo Mo that they felt so compatible, could talk so well, and felt so excited when talking.

Luo Mo: You two had no fate, it was all supported by me.

Supporting what?

Supporting a sky of fate!

At the same time, as a Film Critic, Xiao Cai also knew very clearly how a film review should be written to have high readership and to go viral.

This kind of divergent thinking film review would indeed have a larger audience.

"Hmm, he actually deserves some credit too." On the way home, Xiao Cai thought to herself.

As for Xu Jinzhu, on the way home, he sent a WeChat message to his son, who he estimated was already suffering from muscle weakness in a hotel suite.

"I added her on WeChat!"

He directly sent this seemingly headless and tailless sentence.

His college friend was indeed stunned for a moment: "What? Did you send it to the wrong person? What WeChat? Who is she?"

But soon he seemed to remember something again.

"Did my son tell me at that time that there was an '8-point Ding Xiaoyu' JK beauty sitting next to him?"

He immediately typed: "Holy crap, you added '8-point Ding Xiaoyu'?"

"NO, NO, NO." Xu Jinzhu replied with this first, deliberately messing with his emotions, making him ride a roller coaster.

"It's 8.5 points." He added.

"Peerless" has gone viral!

This slightly brain-burning movie had its heat rise on the First Day of release!

The subject of counterfeit money was already very novel in Blue Star Huaxia, let alone the "Peerless" gang being able to produce authentic-looking US dollars.

Is this a movie?

This is clearly a tutorial!

What? You say printing US dollars is wrong?

Laugh to death, don't they print indiscriminately themselves?

As for the Reversal in "Peerless", because it came very suddenly and didn't give the audience any chance to react, it made many viewers feel amazed.

Of course, this kind of trope can only amaze once.

If another similar movie appears, there won't be this sense of amazement.

Its amazement is supported by the story that passes for real, after all, the audience also watched it as a true story.

In this true story, there is Romance, and there is the Live Broadcast of making counterfeit money that people are very interested in, so the sense of immersion is very strong.

And the stronger the immersion, the greater the emotional fluctuation when the Reversal appears!

At the same time, honestly, the character Painter Wu Fusheng is lucky that it was Xu Gangsheng who played him.

Many traits of this character are actually untenable; one always feels he is a bit impulsive.

Only Xu Gangsheng could support this character in terms of aura and audience appeal.

Because the many bugs in Wu Fusheng are actually there to serve the subsequent big Reversal.

The fear is that the audience would be confused by these loopholes early on during the viewing process, leading to a serious loss of immersion.

On April 29, Hua Jiaqun, as both director and lead actor, received a satisfactory box office report card.

"Peerless" first-day box office was 191 million!

For a Luo Mo movie, this box office result is not surprising.

But for Hong Kong films that have been declining for a long time, this is a box office miracle!

"Peerless" itself was positioned in Luo Mo's heart as: the first shot fired.

It was to pave the way for another series that also has the "Peerless" character in the name.

Therefore, Luo Mo was also quite satisfied with this result.

Of course, the main thing is that he wanted Hua Jiaqun to understand: "Qunzai, with just those few people in your gang, printing money isn't as fast as making movies with me!"

Quit while you're ahead, Qunzai, outside is full of scripts laid out by Luo Mo!

This also led Xu Chujing to feel that Luo Mo had been a bit superstitious these past two days, suddenly Singing while Walking, singing a song she had never heard before.

"【The light of the righteous path, shines upon the earth!】"

As for the media, they were also frantically reporting on the movie "Peerless" at this moment.

Even though its box office didn't reach a terrifying height, the media and netizens were just very excited.

The reason is very simple.

Because Hong Kong films were once too glorious.

For many people, that was their youth, that was an era!

Yet in these past few years, Hong Kong films have been too decadent, too withered.

It is precisely because of this that the sudden rise of Peerless gives people a sense of turning the tide, a sense of the revival of Hong Kong films!

Can Luo Mo really, by his own strength, stimulate the macro-environment of Hong Kong films?

Can he really, at such a critical juncture, give Hong Kong films a helping hand?

Once the numerous media reports came out and the numerous Hot Searches were generated, the enthusiasm for watching Peerless in the Cantonese-speaking regions reached an unprecedented high!

Especially over in Hong Kong, it has set off a craze for watching the film!

And as the great hero behind the scenes, what is Luo Mo doing right now?

He is browsing Weibo with Xu Chujing with great interest.

It is only because Xu Chujing mentioned to him: "Jinzhu said he went to see Peerless."

"Is that so? Then let's go check his Weibo!" Luo Mo immediately got excited.

Every time Xu Jinzhu finishes watching one of Luo Mo's movies, he posts something on his secret Weibo account.

He has always firmly believed that this Weibo account of his is very mysterious, and his family knows nothing about it.

Little did he know that every film review he posts is read by both Xu Chujing and Luo Mo.

This has even developed into a fixed activity for the two of them.

Luo Mo even joked: "It's just for this mouthful of vinegar that I made the dumplings!"

Making movies is just to "peep" at his brother-in-law's flowery praise!

He secretly praises, and I secretly watch.

You are excited, I am stimulated.

But a bizarre scene happened just like that.

"Huh, he actually didn't write it himself this time?" Luo Mo was stunned.

He turned his head to look at Xu Chujing and said: "Could it be that now that I have officially become his brother-in-law, he doesn't worship me anymore?"

Damn it, I just successfully proposed, and you brat have already lost your sense of awe for me, right?

Could it really be that distance makes the heart grow fonder?

He was anxious! Luo Mo was truly anxious!

Even Xu Chujing was a bit speechless: "Do you really care that much about those few sentences he writes?"

"Yeah!" Luo Mo's facial features were all twisted together.

——He! Is! Very! Abnormal!

Yes, this time, Xu Jinzhu did not write a dedicated Weibo post for Peerless.

He just... reposted the film review written by Xiao Cai on Weibo.

He did not post a single word praising Peerless.

After reposting it, he only wrote a long-winded praise for the film review, which could be described as full of praise, and he even conducted an in-depth analysis.

"What if the person's film review is indeed well-written?" Xu Chujing said.

She feels that Jinzhu, this child, has not been particularly smart since he was little.

Asking him to write about Peerless is a bit difficult for him.

Maybe what this Film Critic wrote made him suddenly enlightened!

Yes, in the hearts of many older sisters, they all feel that their younger brother is silly and stupid, beyond saving.

"I do know who this Film Critic is," Luo Mo said.

For celebrities, they are familiar with some of their big fans, station managers, and the like.

Xiao Cai's current popularity is quite good, no worse than some internet celebrities, and Luo Mo is aware of this.

The two opened the film review and began to read it with curiosity.

Not to mention, it was written quite interestingly.

It interprets the film from another Perspective.

Just like Li Wen making up stories for the Police, she also stood from another angle and made up another story.

Not to mention, the readers really could get into it, and it was super addictive!

To the extent that this doesn't even look like a film review, it's a bit like fan fiction? Or perhaps it's a bit like a new script.

Seeing it halfway through, Xu Chujing clicked her tongue in wonder: "I think she is quite talented and suitable for writing books or scripts."

"Yeah, it's not bad," Luo Mo also agreed.

Until... they saw the last few paragraphs of the film review.

"【In summary, in my opinion, Li Wen is an extremely complex person, which is a very good point, reflecting the contradictions of human nature.】"

"【That's all for today regarding Peerless!】"

At the very end, she even mentioned a person.

This sentence was like a secret code that only two people in the whole world could understand.

And the person who understood it might, upon suddenly seeing this sentence, be hugging their phone in bed, laughing and rolling all over the bed.

"【Last but not least, thanks to 'Cinema Guy' for providing some of the ideas! Hehe!】"

(End of this chapter)