I just want to sell products, but you're forcing me to perform talents.

Chapter 518 Is he really just an ordinary person?

From the initial hashtag #HowToSpend1BillionInAMonth# which generated traffic, to the subsequent hashtags #IsYeXianActingGoodEnough#, #YeXianGainingWeight#, #SponsoringMidAutumnFireworksGala#, #YeXianInterview#, and the live casting and filming sessions, "Hello Mr. Billionaire" has maintained a high level of exposure.

Moreover, these high exposures cost almost nothing.

Then, in December, Ye Xian led his team to participate in several popular variety shows in the Tang Dynasty, once again raising expectations for "Hello Mr. Billionaire".

From the start of the preview screenings, Ye Xian instructed the production team to contact all the professional film and television commentary accounts on Kuaiyin (a Chinese video-sharing platform), send them the best-edited clips and scripts, and then have them process them further before launching the promotional campaign.

This is the most important part of the promotion, because only the bloggers of these accounts know how to edit the content to what the audience wants to see.

In addition, all of Qiuye Yanxuan's live streaming rooms are operating at full capacity to pre-sell movie tickets for "Hello Mr. Billionaire".

Just as Ye Xian was fully preparing for the Spring Festival film season, other films released at the same time and some industry peers began to predict the downfall of "Hello Mr. Billionaire".

Ye Xian himself admitted that he made "Hello Mr. Billionaire" to exploit investors for real estate development, so why should we support such a terrible movie? I urge everyone to boycott it!

[He's clearly just a celebrity with massive online following, yet he insists on making movies to cash in on his fans. This is extremely detrimental to the film industry! Don't think you're so great just because your book was adapted into a TV series and won an award. The success of the series is thanks to Director Jia, and to Chen Xu, Liu Xiaoxiao, and Jiang Tian for their excellent performances. The ratings were entirely driven by them!]

[This trashy commercial film managed to secure a 30% screening rate on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Isn't that going too far? Does it think it can do whatever it wants just because it has Datang Entertainment as its backer?]

Please support Li Fenghua's new film, "The Legend of Tang Dynasty." Such a great film, starring an award-winning actor, only gets 15% of screenings. A drama can't even compete with a popcorn blockbuster—that's the current state of the entertainment industry!

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Some people don't think Ye Xian's movies will be good, some people don't want Ye Xian's movies to be good, and some industry peers want a piece of the pie. The Spring Festival film season has always been the most blatant commercial battle, and there is never any so-called positive outlook.

Some people criticized Ye Xian's acting skills, after all, he had never acted on the big screen before, and he only received a consolation nomination for the Golden Lotus Award.

Some people criticized Ye Xian for exploiting ordinary people, especially since he himself said that he was raising money to develop real estate. This directly hit the nail on the head for his critics, making them excited. After all, real estate is the most hated industry by the public, bar none.

Ye Xian's claim of self-destruction seems sincere, but it has also alienated many casual viewers.

Some people are playing the victim, using the high screening rate of popcorn movies like "Hello Mr. Billionaire" to criticize the unhealthy state of the film and television industry, arguing that these trashy films are affecting the public's aesthetic sense.

Surprisingly, quite a few people like this viewpoint. After all, many people like to label themselves as niche, artistic, and discerning, and disdain watching commercial films, especially popcorn commercial films, believing it is beneath their status.

Many people are pessimistic about the box office performance of "Hello Mr. Billionaire". Some predict that it will only gross 5 million yuan at most before it is pulled from theaters, barely breaking even.

Even though the pre-sale box office for "Hello Mr. Billionaire" on the first day of the Lunar New Year was close to 1 million yuan, many people thought that this was just Ye Xian and Li Xin's fans supporting the film, and that the box office would definitely plummet once word-of-mouth spread.

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Faced with this atmosphere, Ye Xian didn't have any good tricks to deal with it. He could only follow the usual procedures for promotion and increase the seeding activities on his short video account.

Even Stephen Chow's "Another World" film was criticized and flopped during the Spring Festival, which shows that capital will do anything for profit.

The only thing they can really boast about is their powerful backer, Datang Entertainment, and the haters aren't wrong.

When the TV series was released, Datang Entertainment still had a lot of influence, but the rules are different in the film industry.

Here, it's a fight to the death!

If I push you out of the top, my screening rate will increase by a few percentage points, and the final box office will be several hundred million more!

Don't underestimate a few hundred million; it represents the most direct benefits. Even if you, the Sixth Princess, are royalty, you still have to play by the rules of the film industry.

The only thing Princess Six can do is to constantly crack down on platforms that breed online trolls, but there are some KOLs that you just can't suppress.

One KOL is worth thousands of online trolls.

Many of these opinion leaders are deeply hidden public intellectuals. Relying on their years of accumulated fans, they read news and say ambiguous and repetitive things. They don't say anything bad about you, but they let their fans fill in the blanks and are very good at stirring up the emotions of passersby.

At this moment, a KOL named Zhuge Bei emerged and published an editorial, which immediately caused an uproar online.

"Hello everyone, I am Zhuge Bei, a citizen of the capital of the Tang Dynasty."

As we all know, Ye Xian was the most dazzling new star in the entertainment industry last year, and he has achieved success in many fields, including live-streaming e-commerce, literary creation, TV series creation, film creation, and physical enterprises.

It must be admitted that Ye Xian's talent over the past year far surpasses that of ordinary people.

As an ordinary person, I have a few questions: How can an ordinary person achieve the following results like Ye Xian?

In just one year, starting from scratch, Kuaiyin's fan base has exceeded 90 million!

Live-streaming sales reached 27 billion RMB, ranking among the top 20 on Kuaishou!

Completed over 80 hit songs, all of which topped the charts!

In addition, he published three books, and adapted one of them into a TV series, in which he starred and won five major awards!

He wrote a poem that even the elderly Hua Yan praised – “May We All Live Long and Prosper”, and a piece called “Moon Reflected in the Second Spring” that was included in the tenth-level examination repertoire.

He produced two super popular animated series for children: "Boonie Bears" and "Pokémon".

Filming for a movie has been completed, and the movie is set to be released during the Spring Festival!

Within six months, 1000 Bingxuemicheng physical stores were opened, creating jobs for thousands of people.

The above does not include his investment in the "Datang Magical Park" project, as well as several entities such as Haizhou Winery and Haima Food Factory, nor does it include the several movies and TV series he is currently preparing to film.

In just one year, his net worth exceeded 1 billion.

Such an unparalleled genius is truly admirable.

Sometimes, I can't help but wonder if we live in the same world? Perhaps I'm just too mediocre in this life, so mediocre that I can't even come close to such a genius!

It is said that Ye Xian is frequently praised by the Royal Observer and has an inseparable relationship with the royal family, with many of his investments being made in collaboration with the royal family.

Is he really just an ordinary person?

Of course, Zhuge Bei is just stating some facts from the perspective of an ordinary Tang Dynasty person, and expressing a few personal questions.

I'm Zhuge Bei, see you next time.

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