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Chapter 371 It begins
"You're here too?" Mr. Wang's tone was two parts cold, two parts disdain, and the remaining ninety-six parts were evenly divided into hostility, surprise, and worry.

"What? Only you can come, but I can't?"

The middle-aged man with a buzz cut standing opposite the two Wangs stood ramrod straight. As if he had sensed the hostility in the younger Wang's words, his response was full of hostility, as if he was preparing for a real-life showdown with the two Wangs in the elevator.

The eldest brother gently patted his younger brother's arm, signaling him to be mindful of his image and not to stare at people like that. He said that everyone here was a respectable person and shouldn't be acting like a hothead and fighting each other.

"Mr. Li, you've misunderstood. My brother was just surprised. Our cooperation with Yayue has always been pleasant. As you should know, all three major shareholders of Yayue have shares in Huayi, so we often come here to discuss business. He was just a little surprised to see you at Yayue before."

With a subtle smile, the boss reached out and shook hands with the middle-aged man with the buzz cut. The man nodded, and then the three of them stopped talking.

The elevator doors opened, and the three people were about to get out when they saw the scene outside. They were all stunned, then silently reached out to each other to make way, and got out of the elevator one after the other.

Not far from the elevator, Liu Ying was talking to Wang Jinghua. When the elevator doors opened and the two Wangs and the man with the buzz cut came out, Wang Jinghua raised an eyebrow, said something to Liu Ying casually, and then turned and walked towards the office area.

Liu Ying knew that she didn't want to argue with the two Mr. and Mrs. Wang, so she smiled and walked over and greeted them with a smile: "Oh! Mr. and Mrs. Wang, I didn't expect you to arrive so early. Come, come, let's go to the reception room."

"We're not exactly early, are we? There are people who arrived much earlier than us." Young Master Wang glanced at Yonghui Qiming's office area and replied meaningfully.

At this moment, the bosses of most of the top film distribution companies in China have come to Yonghui Qiming's office area. They are all happily touring around and watching the employees of Yayue do the post-production special effects.

"To be honest, we didn't expect them to arrive so early. They said they would start talking at 10:30, but you arrived at 9:30, which is considered late. They arrived at 8:00," Liu Ying said, somewhat speechless.

"Haha, it seems we all have similar thoughts. Mr. Liu, I heard you're doing your own special effects now? There's still some time before 10:30, so I won't wait in the reception room. I'll just wander around your company a bit," the middle-aged man with the buzz cut interjected.

"Please make yourself at home, Mr. Li."

Liu Ying nodded with a polite smile. The middle-aged man with the buzz cut was named Li Ming, and he was the person in charge of Xiao Ma Benteng, a film and television company that had risen rapidly in the past two years.

He Daqi is planning something big this time, so he sent invitations to all the well-known film distribution companies.

Knowing that the discussion was about the distribution of the film "When My Flowers Bloom, All Others Wither," the film companies, as if they had made a prior arrangement, all arrived at Yonghui Qiming early on.

When they arrived, everyone was stunned. Good heavens! How many companies did they contact?
Their little schemes and plans were ruined; all they could do now was greet each other and visit Yonghui Qiming and Yayue companies together.

……

In fact, Ho Tai-kai originally planned to do the same as before: sleep until around 9:50, get up and wash up, and then come to the company with Chow Wai-man. They would arrive around 10:20, which would be just the right time.

Unexpectedly, he was woken up at 8:30. He was told that many publishing companies had arrived early, which made him sleep in a daze. He lay in bed half-asleep for a long time, glancing at the clock several times, and finally managed to get through to around 9:30.

It was really uncomfortable lying down, so he lazily woke up Zhou Huimin. The two washed up and went out, having breakfast on the way. They arrived at the company just after 10 a.m.

It was quite a coincidence that the two Wangs ran into Li Ming in the elevator, and He Daqi and Zhou Huimin ran into Han Shanping leading people from China Film Group in the elevator.

"Daqi, didn't you say last time we went fishing that you were planning to have China Film Group distribute 'After My Flowers Bloom, All Other Flowers Wither' separately?" Han Shanping said with a smile, criticizing He Daqi as soon as he opened his mouth.

He Daqi shrugged, adopting a tough-guy attitude: "Chairman Han, you guys gave up your share and brought in others. I was thinking that whether it's one company or ten, it's all the same. Why not just invite more people in one big way? That way, we can boost the box office. Besides, 'After My Flowers Bloom, a Hundred Flowers Kill' is a film you, China Film Group, invested in. If you really don't want to agree to my suggestion, you can just reject it directly."

"You..." Han Shanping looked at He Daqi and shook his head with a smile, showing no intention of holding a grudge.

Why did China Film Group (CFG) give up some of its profits to allow others to enter the market? He Daqi just made a very insightful point: this would boost the box office even further. In addition, CFG was afraid of being accused of monopolizing profits, so it didn't make a fuss about it.

Han Shanping didn't want to argue about it anymore, so he changed the subject and asked, "Let's just leave it at that this time. I see Ning Hao has submitted the script for Crazy Stone 2 for review. Let's not renege on our promise this time. In short, how about China Film Group exclusively distributes Crazy Stone 2?"

“Sure, why not? We can also give you exclusive distribution rights for Painted Skin.”

"You said it yourself, and I took it seriously. Now that the distribution deal is settled, we can discuss the investment for these two films later..."

Before Han Shanping could finish speaking, the elevator opened with a ding, and he saw the CEOs of the distribution companies strolling around the Yonghui Qiming and Yayue office areas.

He swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue. He knew that He Daqi had found a lot of people this time, but he didn't expect so many.

"Chairman Han, it's been a long time!"

"Chairman Han is here too?"

Good morning, Chairman Han.

What a load of rubbish! Why weren't you all here at the seminar?

Han Shanping greeted the group with a half-smile, then turned to look at He Daqi and said softly, "Since everyone is here so early, why don't we go straight to the conference room and start talking?"

"You decide, anyway, China Film Group is the main investor," He Daqi replied indifferently.

The little rascal suddenly remembered that China Film Group is the main investor?
Han Shanping chuckled, then, as if this were his own company, loudly announced, "Alright, stop browsing, since we're already here, let's start watching the finished product."

Soon, the conference room was full of people.

Han Shanping took the lead and gave a speech: "This film is mainly invested by China Film Group. Based on the principles of respecting the market and supporting private enterprises, we have specially opened up film distribution channels for investment. This is also the purpose of bringing everyone together today. But speaking of which, there weren't this many people at the last meeting, were there?"

Everyone below laughed heartily in response.

Just kidding. Meetings are nothing compared to making money. Especially if we can make connections this time, maybe we can even get some investment in the movies that Asia and Vietnam are making later.

……

...The marketing tactics He Daqi used online last year have been largely adopted by various film and television companies this year. Of course, this is limited to issuing press releases and buying homepages on video websites. As for Yabo.com and Tencent's special events, they can't learn from them.

Feng Kuzi did want to give it a try, but unfortunately Tencent ignored him, so when The Banquet was released, he could only enthusiastically promote it on Yabo.com.

After New Media announced its participation in the Lunar New Year film season this year, and Asia-Pacific Film & Television announced its participation in "After My Flowers Bloom, All Flowers Kill," other companies immediately dropped out, either changing their plans forward or backward, simply not wanting to clash with these two.

This situation makes one wonder: how could it be such a coincidence that Crazy Stone and A Thousand Miles Away were released at the same time last year? Two movies in two years have the same release date.

It's been half a day already, and those who are observant have long seen that Ya Yue and Xin Hua Mian are clearly going to clash, mainly Ya Yue is the one who wants to clash, while Xin Hua Mian is just passively responding.

The biggest source of amusement in the industry right now is Zhang Weiping, the cricket. His mouth is already annoying, but before, Zhang Yimou kept him in check, so no one was willing to argue with him. Now, he's met someone who doesn't care about Zhang Yimou, and that person is openly preparing to take him down.

Why did you have to mess with He Daqi?

Originally, "Curse of the Golden Flower" was promoted beforehand, but this time Zhang Weiping went all out, using almost every possible promotional method, including TV commercials, video website homepages, print media press releases, and portal website promotions. The grand scale of the promotion was as if he wanted to announce it to the entire universe.

Unfortunately, the smugness only lasted a day...

The next day, "After My Flower Blooms, All Other Flowers Wither" took off. The current online promotion channels are like He Daqi's private plot, instantly suppressing "Curse of the Golden Flower".

As for the remaining channels, we didn't approach so many distribution companies just to let them do nothing.

The Golden Armor was beaten so badly that it could not fight back. The press releases it bought could only be placed in some small corners. No matter whether it was print media or online, the main pages were occupied by "After My Flower Blooms, All Other Flowers Wither".

Under this offensive, Zhang Weiping was so worried that he wished Zhou Jielun could date Gong Li, otherwise he really couldn't think of any other tricks to attract public attention.

"What do you mean! What do you mean you can only give us 20% of the screenings? This is Zhang Yimou's movie, don't you want to make money?"

Zhang Weiping's tone was so aggressive it sounded like he wanted to devour someone alive. If the theater manager he was talking to on the phone were in front of him, Zhang Weiping would probably tear him apart.

"Mr. Zhang, there's nothing we can do. After all, we have to treat everyone fairly." The theater manager's voice was very calm, as if he couldn't tell that Zhang Weiping was already furious.

"So you want to treat everyone equally? Fine! Just wait, you won't get away with anything with Zhang Yimou's next movie! We'll settle the revenue share then!" Zhang Weiping threatened angrily.

The theater manager on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment, then suddenly chuckled, his tone full of sarcasm, and replied indifferently, "Mr. Zhang, you caused quite a bit of trouble when 'Hero' was released. You don't know the pain until you've been whipped yourself. Please do as you please. There are other directors in the world who can make money, like Zhang Yimou."

"You want to settle scores with me later, huh...?"

Before Zhang Weiping could finish speaking, the phone went dead; the other end had hung up.

"Shit!!!"

Bang! The phone was smashed to pieces.

Fortunately, it's a Nokia. It's broken, but it's broken into very small pieces, so I can piece it back together and still use it.

Zhang Weiping was panting heavily, a fierce glint in his eyes, and he muttered in a low voice, "He Daqi..."

That's how people are; they never admit their mistakes. At this moment, Zhang Weiping hated He Daqi intensely. He was just like those netizens who love to express their opinions and show off their views. He was strict with others but lenient with himself, and he got stuck on a rut: Why should you fight back when I hit you? Shouldn't you just take it? I hit you because I think you're doing me a favor!

"Stop talking about He Daqi. If you could control your loose tongue, would He Daqi be targeting us?" Zhang Yimou sat on the office sofa, muttering a remark in a low voice. After saying that, he ignored Zhang Weiping's response and continued to smoke with a worried expression.

“Isn’t what I’m doing also for our box office?” Zhang Weiping retorted emphatically.

Zhang Yimou ignored him, watching the smoke he exhaled from his mouth and then drift out the window. He began to study gravity, wondering why the smoke he exhaled didn't drift downwards.

Silence fell over the office. Zhang Weiping, sitting in his executive chair, and Zhang Yimou, sitting on the sofa, were each lost in their own thoughts.

Boom boom!
The secretary knocked on the door, then pushed it open and gracefully placed the documents on Zhang Weiping's desk.

Although Zhang Yimou was old, his nose was still quite sharp. As his secretary walked past him, he could vaguely smell the scent of photinia in the fragrance she carried.

Zhang Yimou looked at his secretary, who had an innocent face but a lewd figure, with a strange expression. After observing her for a while, he couldn't see anything wrong with her and began to have doubts.

The secretary, of course, had no idea what Zhang Yimou was thinking. She didn't even care what Zhang Weiping was thinking. Seeing that Zhang Weiping was in a bad mood, she put down the documents and prepared to leave. Turning her head, she noticed Zhang Yimou looking at her. She responded with a sweet smile and then swayed out of the office.

You two old men, do you even deserve to oppose He Daqi?

Thinking of He Daqi's ridiculously handsome face, the secretary, who had just left the office, squeezed her legs together and quickened her pace.

In the office, after Zhang Yimou and his secretary left, he hesitated for a long time before deciding to remind Zhang Weiping.

Zhang Yimou knew a bit about Zhang Weiping's messy affairs, so he was currently thinking about how to bring it up.

"Be careful..."

Zhang Yimou only managed to utter four words before Zhang Weiping interrupted him, roaring like a mad dog: "Be careful? You want me to be careful again? Do you think I'm living such a humble life? All you ever do is shift the blame onto me. Fine, let's see how useful your name as Director Zhang is when the publicity isn't going well. I'm telling you this: if 'Curse of the Golden Flower' loses money, you'll have to share the losses with me. Don't expect me to shoulder the burden alone!"

Well, Zhang Yimou has really shut down his emotions.

Zhang Yimou muttered under his breath, "Idiot!" Then he got up, opened the door, and left.

(End of this chapter)