Film and Television Overview: Starting from the Same Window

An eerie silence fell over the air.

Seeing the tense atmosphere, Zhong Bai quickly stepped in to smooth things over. She said to Zhou Shengchen in an annoyed tone, "Isn't that obvious? Everyone leaves in the future. No matter how close you are, you can't stay together forever, right?"

"Perhaps!" Zhou Shengchen smiled and did not refute.

"Reporting to the president, I've found an error!" Anjie suddenly raised her hand and shouted.

Bi Shisan quickly snapped out of his daze: "Go on!"

Anjie held up the newspaper and pointed it out to Bi Shisan: "This is a comma. It's a half-width character, which is usually used in English. This is an oversight."

“Your observation is very insightful.” Bi Shisan nodded and turned on his computer: “Next, I’m going to write an email to the school magazine to point out their mistakes.”

Zhong Bai frowned: "Why are you so idle? The walking club shouldn't be taking walks, why are you doing this?"

Lu Qiaochuan thought to himself, "It feels like the skill of running is about to die out."

“We need to point out their mistakes and suggest they correct their punctuation and standardize their work,” Bi Shisan said seriously. “You know, a good newspaper starts with zero layout errors. This is a virtue. If they correct their mistakes and reprint a new edition, readers and a very few individuals will be happy to know. Therefore, I plan to write them an anonymous letter.”

"A very small number of individuals."

Upon hearing these four words, Zhou Shengchen's heart stirred. He stood up, went behind them, picked up the newspaper, and immediately noticed the three large characters "Gu Yixin" under the author's name of a certain article.

Intentionally causing trouble to attract the attention of someone you like—that's something only elementary school students would do, right?

Zhou Shengchen was utterly speechless at Bi Shisan's behavior.

Beside her, after hearing Bi Shisan's words, An Jie looked at her and Bi Shisan's names on the anonymous person's screen on the computer and reminded him, "Senior brother, anonymous letters don't require names."

“In order to make the school magazine better and attract their attention, what’s wrong with me making a sacrifice?” Bi Shisan said seriously, but as soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly changed his tone: “However, you are right, sacrificing one of me is enough.”

So he deleted Anjie's name again.

Seeing that there was no more excitement to be had, Ren Yifan picked up a chair and returned to the tea house.

Just then, Xiao Haiyang suddenly walked over with his schoolbag on his back.

"Minister Xiao is such a busy man. Why did he think of coming here instead of being busy with the May commemoration?" Zhou Shengchen teased Xiao Haiyang.

"I need to see Qiaochuan about something!" Xiao Haiyang smiled and said to Lu Qiaochuan, "Qiaochuan, come here for a moment, let's have a private chat."

“Okay!” Lu Qiaochuan replied and quickly followed Xiao Haiyang to the side.

"What's the matter?" Lu Qiaochuan asked.

Xiao Haiyang patted Lu Qiaochuan's arm and said very seriously, "Come join our club! I'm not kidding, I'm serious."

"Could it be that our tea ceremony club has attracted public attention and is being pitied by the masses?" Lu Qiaochuan asked with some doubt.

Chapter 178: Zhong Bai Shows Off His Intelligence

“Of course not!” Xiao Haiyang shook his head and said, “We really need you. If you can come, you’ll be in a group with Luo Xue, and I can entrust the entire external liaison department to you. Your status will be the same as that of a sophomore.”

After spending more than half a year together, Xiao Haiyang had gained a certain understanding of Lu Qiaochuan's abilities and highly recognized them.

Xiao Haiyang believes that Lu Qiaochuan's talents are very suitable for joining their publicity department.

When recruiting new members last semester, Xiao Haiyang intended to recruit Lu Qiaochuan because he felt that Lu Qiaochuan had a strong ability to persuade people, which would be suitable for their publicity department. Unfortunately, Lu Qiaochuan did not go at that time.

Of course, it's not that I didn't go.

It was because Ren Yifan, who was ahead of him in line, flirted with Wang Ying, a senior student, during his interview. He felt embarrassed and pulled Ren Yifan away, but Xiao Haiyang happened not to see him.

"Thank you for the invitation, Ocean, but I still can't go."

"Besides, I think you have enough people in your publicity department. There are over thirty people in the club, and Yixin, Luoxue, and Brother Hao are all very good."

Although Lu Qiaochuan was very happy because of Xiao Haiyang's approval, he still chose to decline Xiao Haiyang's invitation.

"Why don't you poach Zhou Shengchen or Bi Shisan? That way, the most capable people in our class will be with you."

"To me, the two most valuable people are you and Lin Luoxue," Xiao Haiyang said earnestly.

Lu Qiaochuan said helplessly, "Brother, Luo Xue has already broken up with me. No matter how much you try to bring us back together, it won't work."

Xiao Haiyang said, "The main thing is that we really need someone like you. Hao Ge's photography skills are excellent, on par with Zhong Bai, I admit that. But his style is too self-centered, which may be a niche market for students. Gu Yixin is indeed capable, but she wants too much, so she joined the newspaper and magazine, which makes her energy too scattered."

“Zhou Shengchen and Thirteen, they are both invincible,” Lu Qiaochuan said.

Hearing this, Xiao Haiyang glanced in their direction: "Don't you know Zhou Shengchen? Although he's awesome in every way, and completely crushes us mere mortals, he's just a lazy bum. Getting him to do anything for us is harder than climbing to heaven. As for San'er, that's even more impossible. You have to understand, our propaganda department deals with people..."

At this point, he pointed at Bi Shisan and exaggeratedly said that the other party had liked Gu Yixin for so long that the whole world could see it, except for Bi Shisan himself who hadn't figured it out yet.

Moreover, he felt that Bi Shisan was arrogant and would never work for other clubs.

After struggling for a while, Lu Qiaochuan still refused to agree.

Seeing that Lu Qiaochuan was unmoved by reason, Xiao Haiyang rolled his eyes and said he would take Lu Qiaochuan and the other members of the Walking Club to visit the Publicity Department's work environment, hoping that the other party would change his mind after the visit.

The two walked together toward the walking club.

When they arrived, Zhou Shengchen suddenly said sarcastically, "Minister Xiao is really capable now! He even dares to poach people from our tea house, and he's even poaching the vice president directly."

"Ah!" Xiao Haiyang was stunned for a moment, then opened his mouth wide and gave an awkward smile: "How did you know I was going to dig up Qiaochuan?"

"I heard it!" Zhou Shengchen glanced at him sideways, his expression inscrutable.

"It's my fault, it's my fault, it's all my fault." Xiao Haiyang clasped his hands together and quickly apologized.

"But Zhou Shengchen, isn't this a bit too incredible? You could hear what Qiaochuan and I were discussing from more than ten meters away!"

Zhou Shengchen chuckled.

Lu Qiaochuan touched his nose and said, "President Zhou, and everyone else, the Ocean representative from the Publicity Department invited us to visit their work environment."

“Great!” Zhong Bai was the first to respond. “I’m just bored anyway!”

"I have no objection, anywhere is fine with me," Ren Yifan said, shrugging indifferently.

Zhou Shengchen said indifferently, "It wouldn't hurt to go and take a look. It'll be a good opportunity to see how those scoundrels in your propaganda department usually embarrass themselves."

Xiao Haiyang clasped his hands together and said with a wry smile, "Brother, I was wrong, I was really wrong. I will never come here to poach people again. Please forgive me."

Zhou Shengchen ignored him, and simply stood up and silently walked to the walking club. "Thirteen, wanna go together?"

"I'm waiting for my email," Bi Shisan said in a low voice. "Besides, what's so interesting about the propaganda department?"

“There’s nothing much to see.” Zhou Shengchen nodded in agreement, then changed the subject, saying, “But I vaguely remember that Gu Yixin seems to be from the propaganda department.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Bi Shisan jumped up and exclaimed, "I'm going!"

……

Heading to the May commemorative venue, which is currently being set up.

On the way, Zhou Shengchen and his group encountered Li Shuci, who was handing out flyers.

Zhong Bai walked over with a smile: "Shu Ci, have you finished handing out the flyers? If you have, let's go to the auditorium together."

"Not yet! There's only a little left," Li Shuci replied sweetly, pointing to the few flyers in her hand.

“If there are only a few left, then don’t send any more. It won’t make a difference if we send a few more. Come with us to the auditorium,” Zhou Shengchen said.

"Ok!"

Li Shuci nodded, her smile growing even sweeter.

So, everyone went to the auditorium together.

"Minister Xiao, hello!" "Minister Xiao, have you eaten?" "Minister Xiao, you've arrived."

Along the way, people from the publicity department greeted Xiao Haiyang.

This surprised Zhong Bai, who then stepped forward and asked Xiao Haiyang, "Xiao Haiyang, these are all shills you hired, right?"

This question startled Xiao Haiyang, but he quickly understood what Zhong Bai meant.

So he jokingly replied, "Yes! They're all shills! Ten yuan for men! Twenty yuan for women!"

Just then, Huang Yanwu, the deputy director of the publicity department, walked over and said to Xiao Haiyang with a bitter look on his face, "This is troublesome. We've exceeded the quota for films this year. I just calculated it with Wang Ying, and there are nearly a hundred more than last year!"

"So many?" Xiao Haiyang asked in surprise.

Zhong Bai asked, puzzled, "(Ma Lihao) Isn't it good to have more movies?"

"Stop showing off your 0.5 IQ." Zhou Shengchen helplessly pulled Zhong Bai behind him and explained, "More films mean longer viewing time for the judges, which will make them feel bored, annoyed, and unhappy."

“Zhou Shengchen is right, those judges will have feelings about it.” Xiao Haiyang nodded, then turned to Huang Yanwu and asked, “Have you finished the screening?”

Huang Yanwu said irritably, "Who could possibly read them all? There are over four hundred in total!"

Xiao Haiyang thought about it carefully and said, "Then let's do this: during the meeting tonight, we'll assign each person a dozen or so movies to watch back in their dorms. Each person should select their five least favorite movies, and we'll compile them. Then we'll shuffle and redistribute these least favorite movies, watch them again, and evaluate them again. We'll try to eliminate one hundred movies internally within two days."

"How stupid! Why not just eliminate two people from each group?" Zhong Bai, the shameless scoundrel, popped out from behind Zhou Shengchen and said.

Chapter 179: Poaching People Again

"If we don't understand, let's not talk about it, okay?" Zhou Shengchen patted Zhong Bai's head helplessly. "It's impossible to please everyone when it comes to movies. Everyone will say that a good movie is good, but if you think it's not good, others may like it. Only through repeated evaluations can we be as fair as possible."

"Oh, I see!" Zhong Bai exclaimed in realization.

"Great!" Xiao Haiyang couldn't help but give Zhou Shengchen a thumbs up. "Why don't you just come work for our publicity department!"

"I only came here because I'm bored out of my mind," Zhou Shengchen said irritably. "I'm the president of my own tea house, with three underlings. I can do whatever I want. Why would I have to work here? Isn't that just asking for trouble?"

“But there are benefits to joining us!” Xiao Haiyang said, counting on his fingers, “Adding credits, developing personal skills, gaining an information advantage, improving work ability and quality… uh… you don’t seem to need any of those.”

Zhou Shengchen glanced at him and said indifferently, "Not too stupid after all, you finally realized that those things are useless to me."

Xiao Haiyang awkwardly scratched his head.

"By the way, Xiao Haiyang, is the event on that day a recitation or a puppet musical?" Huang Yanwu asked again.

Instead of answering, Xiao Haiyang asked, "How long is the gala currently scheduled to last?"

Huang Yanwu glanced at the folder in his hand. "It's been almost four hours."

Xiao Haiyang's eyes widened, and he raised his eyebrows. Huang Yanwu, who was his good brother, immediately understood: "Then let's recite it!"

Zhong Bai raised an eyebrow, puzzled, and asked, "Why a recitation? Recitation is so boring! Are you trying to save money?"

“No!” Xiao Haiyang shook his head and said, “Our budget is more than sufficient.”

At this point, Xiao Haiyang wanted to test Lu Qiaochuan, so he asked him, "Why do you think we chose recitation?"