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Chapter 462 This is an innate love for fireworks

[As expected, they're just a pair of fake besties!]

【Ahhh, am I the only one feeling envious and jealous? Those were shrimp that Brother Xian personally peeled and fed to me! One in a million!】

The proprietress sat to the side, a doting smile on her face the whole time. "That's a real wife!" she thought. "So magnanimous! Her husband flirting with another woman right in front of her, and she didn't even flinch!"

I'm impressed! Brother Xian has these women all under his thumb; he's truly a role model for us all!

……

The two girls were fooling around when Ye Xian peeled another mantis shrimp and put it near Duan Fei's mouth. Li Xin reacted quickly and shoved it into Duan Fei's mouth.

Duan Fei's face instantly turned red.

The two of them immediately became quiet.

The viewers in the live stream got excited again; damn, that's a win-win situation!

As expected, Brother Xian is the real playboy and scumbag.

If you dare to do this in front of more than a million fans in the live broadcast room, you can imagine what you would do in private.

The fans of the Heartstrings CP and the Consort Xian CP went wild. Although they knew that these two had little chance of winning each other, seeing Ye Xian interacting so sweetly with Li Xin and Duan Fei made them feel like they were having a blast.

Then, fans of the Bao-Dai CP, Yun-Ye CP, and Tian-Xian CP emerged one after another and began to loudly criticize the fans of the Xin-Xian CP and Xian-Fei CP, saying that they were so excited over just a piece of shrimp meat and that they had never seen anything like it.

The Qiuye CP fans were much more magnanimous: "Hey, our Empress hasn't even spoken yet, what are you wild CP fans so excited about? Didn't you see that Brother Xian's move was to protect our Qiuqing?"

Li Xin just said they've been eating dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection) all day. Who did this? Can't you even see that? And you're still arguing about it. No wonder you can't find the right person to be the main character in your shipping.

The moment Qiuye CP fans made their sweeping generalization, they were immediately met with condemnation from other CP fans, and the argument raged on in the live stream.

Aunt Qiu couldn't bear to watch any longer. She coughed and served everyone a bowl of soup: "Come on, try my Tom Yum soup."

Seeing that everyone had quieted down, Ye Xian leisurely looked at the live stream: "How was it? Did you enjoy it? If you did, buy a few items from the yellow cart. I won't be focusing on selling anything today; there should be a fireworks display later, which I'll stream live for you all!"

Upon hearing that there would be a fireworks display, the viewers in the live stream immediately became excited.

Although fireworks were allowed to be set off freely in the Tang Dynasty, people usually set them off during the Spring Festival. In the blink of an eye, eight and a half months of the year had passed, and everyone suddenly realized that the New Year was just around the corner.

The meal didn't last long, only half an hour, but the fans in the live stream exclaimed that they couldn't stand it. Even though they had just had a reunion dinner with their families, when they saw Ye Xian eating so deliciously, many foodies couldn't help but get up and go looking for food.

After dinner, everyone went to the terrace on the third floor of Ye Xian's new house, where Qiu's mother had already laid out various fruits, candied fruits, and mooncakes.

Li Xin burst out laughing when she saw the mooncakes on the table: "Auntie, I'm reminded of the sweet and savory rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival! Hahaha, are these mooncakes filled with mixed nuts or salted egg yolks?"

The fans in the live stream also started making noise.

[I knew it! The sweet vs. savory debate was bound to happen sooner or later, it might be late, but it definitely wouldn't be absent! The live stream this morning had no competition, making my lotus seed paste mooncakes feel lonely. Savory mooncake lovers, come out and face your doom!]

[Five-nut mooncakes suppress all dissent; no arguments accepted!]

[Get out of here, you guys have the least say, where do you expect us to put our fresh meat mooncakes?]

When I was little, I ate a bite of a mooncake with fresh meat on it and threw up! My mom was going to beat me, but she tried a bite and threw up too.

……

The debate over sweet versus savory mooncakes was sparked by Li Xin's words, to which Ye Xian replied with a smile, picking up a mooncake from the table: "Eat the savory one first, then the sweet one, or you'll get a beating!"

Qiu Qing snorted, "Without any principles, how could we, as people from Haizhou, possibly eat savory mooncakes?"

Ye Xian raised an eyebrow but didn't reply. Instead, he looked at the live stream and saw that the Five-Nut Mooncake faction was taking on the attacks from both the sweet and savory factions. He couldn't help but tease them, "Go Five-Nut faction! The sweet and savory faction will definitely be no match for you! I'll open the voting channel for you. Let's see if the sweet and savory faction is stronger in the live stream, or if your Five-Nut faction can suppress everything."

The viewers in the live stream burst into laughter.

With the holiday approaching and everyone having nothing else to do, many people joined in the voting.

Amidst the hustle and bustle, a loud "bang" suddenly echoed from the distant sea.

A dazzling firework bursts into bloom in the night sky.

"Wow--"

Qiu Qing, Li Xin, and Duan Fei, the three girls, were overwhelmed with girlish excitement and exclaimed in unison.

Ye Xian quickly turned the camera towards the sea.

Huge fireworks burst one after another in the clear, cloudless night sky, their light and shadow flickering constantly.

Brilliant, magnificent.

The viewers in the live stream gradually quieted down at this moment, and everyone enjoyed this beautiful scene.

The number of online users, which was originally just over 100 million, surged to 500 million the moment the fireworks went off, and then continued to climb.

When people from the Tang Dynasty see fireworks, they can't help but stop scrolling.

This is a deep-seated love for fireworks.

……

Unbeknownst to everyone, Director Li was actually filming this scene with great difficulty at that moment.

There is a scene like this in the movie "Hello Mr. Billionaire".

Although using a green screen and post-production compositing would have been a good option and wouldn't have been too expensive, Director Li, who strives for perfection, still chose to use this fireworks display as a real-life subject.

In the original work, the special effects team did a bit of a sloppy job; the fireworks didn't capture either their beauty or their extravagance.

Ye Xian couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this scene in another world. The fireworks made with those cheap special effects were basically all the same, even if it was a commercial film.

Therefore, after Ye Xian discussed his ideas with Director Li, Director Li decisively took out a sum of money to cooperate with Haizhou Jinwuwei and sponsor a fireworks display.

Brilliant fireworks lit up every corner of Haizhou, but the most concentrated area was naturally near the filming location. Director Li arranged multiple camera positions, as well as drones in the air, to capture the scene from various angles, striving to capture the best footage of Wang Duoyu burning money to set off fireworks.

Although the money spent wasn't enough to achieve the ultimate effect, with these materials and post-production compositing, the scene became much richer.

It would definitely have a greater visual impact on the big screen than the original work.

In a good movie, details determine success or failure.

……

Ye Xian pointed to the fireworks in the sky and introduced them to all the viewers in the live broadcast room: "This fireworks show is sponsored by the crew of 'Hello Mr. Billionaire'. We hope you enjoy it."

Wow! Is the crew of "Hello Mr. Billionaire" this extravagant? They sponsored a fireworks display? That must have cost a fortune!

[The estimated cost is at least 200 million, and if it takes longer, it might exceed 500 million. This is the minimum cost; I don't know the maximum.]

[This is going to cause trouble! Needless to say, this will be trending on social media soon. There were absolutely no signs beforehand. If Brother Xian hadn't pointed it out, I wouldn't have known about it at all.]

[I feel like the pre-release hype for "Hello Mr. Billionaire" is a bit too intense. A while ago it was all about how to spend the 1 billion yuan, and today, for the holiday, they've pulled off a fireworks display. It seems like a sponsorship deal, but it's actually a marketing ploy. How many birds with one stone? Their marketing skills are amazing!]

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P.S.: Today's Recap

Haizhou aged liquor inventory: 4434 bottles

(End of this chapter)