This director loves making friends.

After parting ways with Qin Keqing in Cannes, Peng Jiesi returned to school. She had already planned to spend the next month handling her schoolwork and then go to Hong Kong to reunite with her parents in mid-July after the summer vacation started.

Of course, since I was going to Hong Kong, I would definitely "take the opportunity" to meet up with Qin Keqing and have him take me to eat some local Hong Kong snacks, as Qin Keqing had promised me.

However, just over a week after returning to school, she didn't know why, but when she woke up one morning, she suddenly felt that Qin Keqing was a really nice person!

It's utterly baffling.

As for what's so good about him, Peng Jiesi couldn't quite put her finger on it. After all, she hadn't had much contact with him and lacked sufficient understanding. She just felt that he was good, very good, a strange feeling.

Peng Jiesi is not an ignorant little girl.

Her father is the current chairman of the ruling party in the UK. Although he unexpectedly lost his seat as a member of parliament in the last election, which put him in an extremely awkward position, he was sent to Hong Kong as governor by the current party leader, who is also the prime minister.

However, her family background and the education she received from a young age were quite privileged.

Suddenly, Peng Jiesi felt a surge of interest and affection for a boy she didn't know. She knew without even thinking that he must have something that attracted her.

hansome?

Peng Jiesi felt that it wasn't entirely that. European and Asian aesthetics are different. Although she thought Qin Keqing was quite handsome, she knew that this was clearly not what attracted her.

Talent?

Perhaps so. After all, Qin Keqing is still so young, and his first film as a director won two major awards at Cannes, which certainly shows his outstanding talent and ability.

But that's not all that attracts Peng Jiesi. She's met many talented people and isn't a "Hipster," so she doesn't fall for every talented person she meets.

So, what is it?

She pondered this question over and over, but couldn't find a clue. She just felt incredibly close to Qin Keqing and had a good feeling about him, which she couldn't quite explain, just like an old friend she had known for many years!

Ultimately, Peng Jiesi attributed this to the fact that the two people had similar thoughts, or that their magnetic fields were compatible. In Eastern terms, this is fate!

So, Peng Jiesi's heart began to stir. She couldn't wait to go to Hong Kong, to get to know her "good friend" Qin Keqing, to catch up with Qin Keqing, and to see her parents and sister whom she hadn't seen for almost a year.

Peng Jiesi is a woman of action.

She planned to go to Hong Kong a month in advance, so she called her parents to tell them her idea and prepare to buy a plane ticket to Hong Kong.

Peng Jiesi bought a plane ticket from London to Hong Kong.

The flight was operated by Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airlines, and at that time there were only two types of seats: economy class for the general public and expensive first class. There was no concept of business class yet.

Peng Jiesi is not wealthy, and her parents don't give her much pocket money. Otherwise, she wouldn't have worked part-time during college. She bought an economy class ticket and told her parents about the flight.

What happened next left Peng Jiesi completely bewildered.

As soon as she boarded the plane, a passenger who had bought a first-class ticket insisted on switching seats with her, saying that the person next to her was this first-class passenger's companion and that the two of them wanted to sit together, and asked Peng Jiesi to do her a favor.

Peng Jiesi thought she had encountered a scammer and refused to exchange the item no matter what.

Then, the first-class passenger summoned the cabin manager.

Peng Jiesi still doesn't want to change.

Finally, Peng Jiesi wondered if it was just her imagination, but she felt that the cabin manager seemed even more anxious than the first-class passenger, and was almost in tears.

Having no other option, after confirming that switching cabins would not require additional payment, she had to switch seats with the first-class passenger.

During the flight, the cabin manager would come to Peng Jiesi every now and then to ask if she felt unwell, what she needed, and what she wanted to eat...

After a long flight, as soon as the plane landed in Hong Kong, the same cabin crew chief came over to guide her off the plane and led her to a vehicle inside the airport.

It's inside the airport, not in the airport parking lot.

Peng Jiesi was very vigilant, her heart pounding, thinking she was in trouble.

She only breathed a sigh of relief when her sister Alice Berton, also known as Peng Yasi, got out of the car.

"My dear Casey, everything here will surprise you; it's something you never imagined before."

This was the first thing Peng Jiesi's younger sister said to her mysteriously after she got on the bus.

At first, Peng Jiesi didn't understand what her sister meant until she said she wanted to go to the cinema to see the movie "A Bittersweet Life" in that super luxurious governor's mansion.

Not long after, a special person brought a film copy to the screening room of the Governor's Palace and showed her "La Dolce Vita," which was playing outside.

Peng Jiesi then began to understand a little of what her sister had said.

……

"A Bittersweet Life" has been released for a week. During this time, Qin Keqing, along with Lin Guobin and Zhu Yin, have been promoting the film, which is something most Hong Kong films do during this period.

Especially for popular movies, the theaters that screen them will require the film crew to go to the theaters for promotion. Neither the film crew nor the production company will refuse, for fear that the theaters will cut the number of screenings or reduce the number of showings.

"A Bittersweet Life" is very popular. This movie has the advantage of satisfying both the needs of viewers who want to watch art films and those who want to watch commercial action films.

Even the fighting style of "A Bittersweet Life" has been defined as "new violent aesthetics".

Correspondingly, "A Bittersweet Life" did quite well at the box office.

After a week of screenings, "A Bittersweet Life" has already achieved a respectable 9.8 million in box office revenue, while "Once Upon a Time in China IV" and the sequel to "A Moment of Romance" have only achieved about one-third of "A Bittersweet Life's" revenue.

Based on the popularity and box office trend of "A Bittersweet Life", it is unlikely that the total box office in Hong Kong will exceed 3000 million, but it is still possible to reach 2500 million.

This has far exceeded Yong Sheng's expectations.

Don't think 2500 million is a small amount. Last year, with Stephen Chow dominating the box office, 2500 million in box office revenue would still rank among the top fifteen in the annual box office charts.

With more than half of the year already gone, 2500 million would rank fifth on the current box office charts, behind "All's Well, Ends Well," "City Hunter," "Fong Sai-yuk," and "Once Upon a Time in China III."

Among them, "City Hunter" was directed by Wong Jing and starred Jackie Chan, while "Fong Sai-yuk" and "Once Upon a Time in China III" both starred Jet Li.

Lin Guobin seems to be another rising kung fu star after Cheng Long and Li Lianjie. Both the media and movie fans praise his fighting as realistic and exciting.

In addition, he was quite handsome and was Anita Mui's ex-boyfriend, so his fame rose very quickly.

He became famous overnight.

Of course, Qin Keqing is the one whose fame rose the fastest.

He was called a "genius" by the Hong Kong media—an art film director who pioneered a new fighting style, "elegant violent aesthetics." If he's not a genius, what is?

"I heard you've written a new movie and are looking for actors?"

Xiang Huasheng approached Qin Keqing and asked bluntly, "How much budget do you need? Yongsheng has already invested."

"Are the conditions the same as before?" Qin Keqing asked.

"What?"

Xiang Huasheng was taken aback. "What were the previous conditions?"

"Win's Entertainment should package the new film, giving them the rights to the films in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, South Korea, and 'Little Life,' while keeping the remaining rights for me," Qin Keqing reminded him.

Xiang Huasheng adjusted his glasses, looked at Qin Keqing, and couldn't help but laugh.

He held up one finger.

"Winsun can invest 1000 million in you and offer you a 100 million salary. All the copyrights belong to Winsun. You just need to make a good movie. Tell me which actor you like, and I'll take care of it for you."

In Xiang Huasheng's view, the conditions were already generous enough. Looking at the whole of Hong Kong, there were only a dozen or so film directors who could earn 100 million in remuneration.