Entertainment: Starting with a complete collapse

When Huang Min returned to the second floor, Jin Zhimei and Huang Yun had already taken Xiao Bao to take a bath.

He went back to his study and busied himself for a while.

Seeing that it was almost time, Huang Min closed his laptop, picked up the clothes Kim Ji-mi had placed on the sofa, and went into the bathroom. Back in the bedroom, Kim Ji-mi leaned against the headboard, and as Huang Min walked in, her eyes, hidden beneath her single eyelids, kept looking at him.

The sound of Huang Yun teasing Xiao Bao could be heard coming from the second bedroom.

Huang Min frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Isn't Zhao Liyuan's son your son?"

Kim Ji-mi suddenly spoke up.

"..."

Huang Min stared at his little woman with a look of astonishment.

Not long ago, when she introduced Zhao Liyuan's son to Xiaobao as "little brother," Huang Min felt that Kim Ji-mi seemed to have noticed something. It turned out that his little woman had actually figured it out. After Huang Min closed the bedroom door and lay down on the bed, he realized what had happened. He neither admitted nor denied it, but instead asked with a smile, "Why do you say that?"

"I saw your reflection in Tongtong's face last time."

Kim Ji-mi replied, "The more I look at it tonight, the more it seems like it." "Is it that exaggerated?"

Huang Min asked with a smile.

Not to mention Huang Min himself, even his sister Huang Yun couldn't see any resemblance between Zhao Liyuan's son and him. If it weren't for the fact that Huang Min had arranged for the paternity test to be done by someone else, he really wouldn't have believed it.

But Kim Ji-mi could see it.

"Not very obvious"

Kim Ji-mi replied, "But I can still vaguely tell, and there's also Xu Ying... The way she looks at you is different. Besides that, there's also hostility in her eyes when she looks at me. And she's carrying your child, right!?"

Huang Min was completely speechless.

He had always thought of her as not very bright, but he never expected that this not-so-bright woman would be able to guess the truth so easily.

After speaking, Kim Ji-mi's gaze remained fixed on Hwang Min, as if waiting for his answer. Hwang Min thought for a moment and reached out to turn off the bedroom light. Once the room was completely dark, he pulled her close and whispered in her ear, "Are you feeling very sad?"

"Um"

Kim Ji-mi nodded slightly.

"Now that you know, get along well with them from now on. Remember, you're the eldest sister, so don't be afraid of them. Besides, I've already told Xu Ying that if she dares to disrespect you, you can just hit her. I'll stand up for you," Huang Min said. "Xu Ying doesn't know about Zhao Liyuan's relationship with me yet, so just don't tell her. You're different from them..."

The conversation suddenly stopped. Huang Min instinctively turned Kim Ji-mi's head around. In the darkness streaming in through the window, Huang Min saw that Kim Ji-mi's cheeks were covered in tear stains. She was sobbing softly. Huang Min reached out and pulled a tissue from the bedside table to wipe away her tears.

"sorry……"

Kim Ji-mi's choked voice came through.

Before she could finish speaking, Huang Min interrupted her: "I'm sorry, I know you're upset, and if you want to cry, just cry, but don't cry after tonight... Actually, it's not what you think."

"what?"

Kim Ji-mi asked.

"They insulted me."

Huang Min began, "The constant humiliation..."

As he spoke, Huang Min briefly recounted his story with Zhao Liyuan and Xu Ying to Jin Zhimei. Jin Zhimei listened attentively, and by the time she was halfway through, she had stopped crying. Huang Min then said, "Do you think I can tolerate this?! This is so insulting. The reason I'm telling you all this is to tell you one thing: they are not important. Even if Zhao Liyuan gave birth to a son for me, and Xu Ying is carrying two children who are also mine, it still doesn't matter. You are different. You are very important to me. We are going to spend our lives together. Do you remember what you said to my sister a couple of years ago when I was in the study? You said that as long as I knew to come home at night, I would be fine. I have always remembered those words."

He reached out and threw the paper that Kim Ji-mi was holding into the trash can by the bedside. Hwang Min lowered his head and kissed her on the lips. Kim Ji-mi did not struggle.

Please visit...to see the latest chapter! Address: dEqixs.oRg Only after Huang Min removed her pajamas did she whisper a reminder. Huang Min quickly opened the bedside table drawer before continuing to busy himself with Kim Ji-mi.

......

As the new day dawned, the box office for "Letters to Grandma" dropped from 250 million to 180 million, a much smaller drop than many had anticipated.

With the film's explosive popularity and its spread through short video platforms, many middle-aged people who had never been to a movie theater before were brought to see the film by their children.

The audience was mainly from Chaozhou, with some even being elderly people in their sixties and seventies who went to the cinema to support the film. Representatives from cinemas in several neighboring countries with similar cultures to Chaozhou also came to Dongsheng Film Studio to discuss the film's release.

Because of the large populations in these countries, Su Qing did not choose to earn revenue through box office sharing. Instead, she opted for a one-time buyout. This means that no matter how high the box office of "Love Letter to Grandma" is in these countries, it has nothing to do with Dong Sheng Pictures. The film crew will not even go there to help with promotion. The box office results will depend entirely on their own promotional abilities.

The main reason is that those countries are too far away. If it were really based on box office revenue sharing, the exact amount of box office revenue would be entirely up to them, and it would be difficult for us to obtain accurate data.

In particular, this way the company's publicity efforts don't need to be distracted, and can still focus on the domestic market. The combined buyout fees from several countries brought Dongsheng Pictures 15 million.

This may not seem like much, but it's pure profit without any additional costs.

After ten days of release, "Love Letter to Grandma" has accumulated a total box office of over 1.5 billion yuan, ranking first in this summer's box office. Originally, Feng Xiaogang's "Customized 2" ranked second with a box office of 330 million yuan before the 7th, but with the rise of a low-budget film called "Encounter", it directly became the third.

On the 11th, after ten days of release, "Jiaolong" could no longer hold on and chose to withdraw from the theater. This was expected, as a movie with a production cost of several hundred million yuan had a total box office of less than 200 million yuan after ten days of release, especially since the box office on the previous day was less than 3 million yuan.

With such box office results, there's no point in struggling to keep it going. Yu Cheng, chairman of Boying Films, who had previously stated that "Jiaolong" wouldn't be pulled from theaters, worried that he would be ridiculed by the media if he came forward, so he simply issued a public statement explaining the situation and didn't appear in public himself.

"Hanging hair"

Upon learning of the withdrawal of "Jiaolong" from its release schedule, Director Feng couldn't help but laugh, saying, "They were still being stubborn a while ago, but now they don't even dare to show their faces. What does it mean to be shameful? This is it."

"Boying Pictures is going to suffer a major blow this time."

Zhang Shuo sighed.

This is the harm caused by big-budget productions. Even if they are profitable, they won't make much money. But if they lose money, they can drag a company down. Take Boying Pictures' film, for example. In addition to the losses of the project itself, the stock price plummeted. In just ten days, it dropped from nearly nine yuan to more than four yuan. Half of the company's market value evaporated because of the failure of this film.

Ten days ago, this was a mid-sized entertainment company with a market value of over 10 billion.

Now they've all become small entertainment companies.