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Chapter 335 The President Falls in Love with Me, the Cleaner at the White House
9 month 19 day.

The autumn sunlight streamed through the cinema windows and fell on Liu Jiasheng's shoulders.

He stood in front of the poster for "The Domineering CEO Falls in Love with Me," his brows furrowed.

The poster features a sharp-looking male lead in a suit leaning against a wall with one hand, trapping the petite female lead in his arms. The background is filled with exaggerated pink bubbles and sparkling special effects text—"The sweetest heart-wrenching romance of the autumn!"
"You really want to see this?" Liu Jiasheng's lips twitched, and he turned to look at his wife Zhang Ying, who was holding his arm, with a slightly complicated expression.

Yes!

On May 20th of this year, Liu Jiasheng and his wife Zhang Ying officially registered their marriage in the presence of relatives and friends, ending their long-term relationship.

After starting a family, his career took a turn when he officially established his own online media studio, focusing on film reviews and film and television content production.

"Oh my, this is a film that Zhou Yang co-wrote. He's now a screenwriter recognized by the Venice International Film Festival, what are you worried about?" His wife, Zhang Ying, was as excited as ever, chattering on and on about Zhou Yang…

The Venice International Film Festival has come to a close, and despite the controversy surrounding Zhou Yang's team's performance, they did win an award.

In a sense, this marks the first time since the turn of the millennium that Chinese films have won awards at the three major international film festivals.

This award has sent fans of Zhou Yang's Home into a frenzy, with many speculating that if Zhou Yang had attended in person, he might have even won a top honor like the Golden Lion Award.

But Zhou Yang dismissed this with disdain. In the past, such an attitude would have certainly sparked controversy over "blind fanaticism" and even drawn various forms of ridicule...

Damn it, it's really hard to give a proper evaluation right now!

Zhou Yang didn't participate in the awards, but he still won one, and the organizing committee even created a special award just for him...

You can't deny this honor, after all, who else in the Chinese film industry is this awesome?
“This movie looks like the kind of movie…” Liu Jiasheng stared at the movie poster of “The Domineering CEO Falls in Love with Me”, a strange sense of frustration welling up in his heart.

He glanced at the ticket gate not far away.

In the queue at the ticket gate, a dozen girls were excitedly taking selfies in the poses from the poster. When the cinema's announcement came over the loudspeaker, "The domineering CEO falls in love with me" was about to start, Liu Jiasheng was dragged forward by his wife, staggering forward like a prisoner being led to the execution ground.

This taste...

Hey!
He doesn't deny Zhou Yang's impressive screenwriting skills!
but……

This movie is clearly designed to target a certain demographic.

And his wife...

Without a doubt, it's that part of the group that gets exploited!

The lead actor in "The Domineering CEO Falls in Love with Me" is Zhang Mingsi, yes, the same actor who starred in "Kung Fu Basketball," who has a completely expressionless face throughout the entire series...

At this very moment, after finishing his basketball game, he inexplicably transformed back into a domineering CEO!
The male lead's hairstyle hasn't changed at all on the poster...

Looking at that head of long, black hair, Liu Jiasheng felt like he was about to be publicly executed...

Nima!

Whose CEO has this hairstyle?
He went into the movie theater, set his emotional threshold to the highest level, and then, suppressing his complex emotions, watched the movie!

The film tells the story of Lin Xiaxia (played by newcomer Li Tingting), a poor working girl, who meets Gu Beichen (played by Zhang Mingsi), a "domineering president" who is eating grilled cold noodles at a night market. The two become acquainted because of a bowl of roadside noodles with extra cilantro, and then embark on a romance full of melodramatic scenes such as "wall slam", "kissing after falling down", and "taking care of each other when she gets a fever in the rain".

What suffocated Liu Jiasheng even more was the outrageous product placement in the movie—Gu Beichen's luxury car steering wheel had the [Xuanshi Mall] logo on it, the milk tea shop where the female lead worked was called [Bingbing Yangcha Drink], and even the cup that the two broke during their argument had a close-up shot of a certain brand with the slogan "Anti-shatter glass cup, unbreakable love".

During the climax of the scene, when the CEO confesses his love, the background LED screen plays a loop of the [Xuanshi Mall] Qixi Festival promotional advertisement, with messages like "Diamonds are forever, limited time 50% off" floating by.

When the end credits rolled, Liu Jiasheng noticed that the young girls in the theater were crying their eyes out, while he just wanted to shove the popcorn onto the screen.

"Aren't you moved? This movie is so well made!" His wife looked at him with red eyes. "Could you write me a deeply moving film review?"

Upon seeing his wife's expression, he instantly trembled violently, his eyes fixed on Zhang Mingsi's perpetually expressionless face on the ending poster!

do not know why……

He felt like gagging!

Write a movie review?
Damn it!

"How about I write it and you sign it?"

"OK……"

"..."

I returned home at noon.

While his wife and her girlfriends were sobbing and talking about the movie plot...

Liu Jiasheng suppressed his nausea and wrote a 300-word free-flowing film review, which he handed to his wife, who was crying her eyes out, and they made a promise to go see "Childhood Sweethearts".

After writing...

I received a call from my parents.

"Could you buy me two tickets for 'The Golden Wedding'? I heard it's a really good movie..."

"Movie tickets? Wait, don't you guys usually not like watching movies?"

"Whether the movie is good or not doesn't matter, the main thing is that I heard you can exchange tickets for eggs and instant noodles at a shopping mall... There's a new shopping mall that just opened in our county, it just opened, I think it's called something like 'Xuan Shi' Plaza, and movie tickets there are really hard to get. Since you work in the film industry, could you help us get a couple of tickets...?"

"???"

On the other end of the phone, his parents, both over fifty, stammered and asked if he could buy two movie tickets for him at [Xuanshi Mall]. They said there was a promotion there; after buying the tickets, he could exchange them for discount coupons for instant noodles at a newly opened local shopping mall and even enter a lucky draw for eggs. Plus, they heard the movie was pretty good… When Liu Jiasheng heard this, he was instantly shocked!
Immediately afterwards, he saw the synopsis of the movie "Golden Wedding".

On the eve of their golden wedding anniversary, an elderly couple (Chen Jianguo and Wang Xiuying) who have been together for 50 years have a quarrel over a trivial matter. The stubborn old man, in a fit of pique, pulls out their yellowed wedding photo and diary, and takes his wife back to the old site of the Northeast Production and Construction Corps where they first met. From their youthful days as sent-down youth to the hardships of starting a business during the Reform and Opening Up period, from the joy of their children getting married to the grief of outliving their children… when the two stand before the birch forest they planted years ago, all their resentment melts into a knowing smile!

After watching this movie, I glanced at my wife, who had just finished a phone call and was now on the internet, chatting passionately with netizens at [Zhou Yang's Home].

Suddenly, I felt a buzzing sound in my head...

Are you listening?

"Listening..."

"Hurry up and buy it! I heard tickets are going to be sold out. Your neighbor, Uncle Wang, just said this movie is really good...very moving...he's going to [Xuanshi Mall] to buy the same outfit as in [Golden Wedding]...I heard it's only 30 yuan a piece, plus pants, super cheap!"

His eyes were glazed over, and his mind was blank!
The wife is one thing!

My parents live in a small county town and they never watch movies!

What the hell!

Can they also be harvested?

After Liu Jiasheng agreed, he hung up the phone not long after...

When his wife's phone rang, she answered it and then opened the door.

then……

I saw my sister-in-law, who is in high school, coming over for the weekend.

The sister-in-law smiled.

"Brother-in-law..."

"Tell me, what's wrong? Don't laugh like that..."

"Could you write a movie review for me, and praise one of the actors for me..."

"Who?"

"It's Shen Niannian, the female lead in 'My Dear Classmate,' and Zhang Weilong, the second male lead! I think Zhang Weilong is incredibly devoted and his acting is superb... Brother-in-law, can you write a movie review for me to praise him? I want my classmates to know that I have a great eye..."

"???"

Seeing my sister-in-law's excited and thrilled eyes, as if they were sparkling with stars...

Liu Jiasheng's mind went completely blank!
That damned Zhou Yang!
Damn you!

So you're going to take my whole family away, right?

Is that what you mean?

Damn it!

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Since the decline of the era of domestic blockbusters...

The Chinese film industry, led by [Xuanshi Entertainment], has entered a period of frenzied "brainless romantic movies".

[Xuan Shi Entertainment] Four romance films were released simultaneously on September 19, among which "The Domineering CEO Falls in Love with Me", "Dear Classmate" and "Childhood Sweethearts" caused an uproar across the internet.

Just like the previous "Kung Fu Basketball," the lead actor Zhang Mingsi and other popular stars put on a poker face and acted cool throughout the film. The plot was filled with melodramatic scenes such as "wall slam kiss" and "getting a fever in the rain." The product placement was so outrageous that even the broken cup had a close-up of the brand logo, leaving the audience momentarily speechless!

After watching these films, countless professional film critics almost angrily denounced them, saying, "The acting is dead; all that's left is industrial saccharin!"

But ironically, while these movies are terrible and have clichéd plots, some of their sentimental scenes are exceptionally well done. "Childhood Sweethearts" even borrows a series of scenes from Korean dramas, which appeals to a certain type of girl who finds it very appealing, leaving them deeply moved and wanting to watch it a second time…

However, there is one film that received high praise from film critics.

An Xiaoshi's "Golden Wedding" is a breath of fresh air. After a two-year hiatus, the director returned with a surprising transformation in her directing skills. Shedding the flamboyance of youth romance films, she uses delicate cinematography to tell the story of an elderly couple's love spanning half a century. The film is simple yet touching, earning high praise from many film critics.

however……

When some film critics rewatched these movies and re-examined the plot of Zhou Yang's works released in September, they were suddenly struck by a startling truth—

From teenage girls obsessed with idol dramas to middle-aged women who enjoy square dancing and watching family dramas, from students yearning for love to working women from the lower rungs of society longing for romance...

Zhou Yang's films are like a precisely operating harvester, indiscriminately covering audiences of all ages!
Even more outrageous, he even managed to steal all the money that the frugal elderly people had saved for eggs through a "movie ticket exchange promotion" scheme!

It's absolutely inhuman!
And just as everyone's expressions were complicated...

News has come from Hollywood...

They saw stills and trailers from the movie "The Domineering President Falls in Love with Me"...

The moment I saw the passionate scene in the White House Rose Garden!
Everyone trembled violently!

They suddenly realized!
Zhou Yang's scythe has not only reaped profits from Chinese movie fans, but has also ruthlessly begun to prey on American movie fans...

(End of this chapter)