You are a star, why do you have all the skills from the underworld?

Hearing Xu Yi's words, Chu Ningning stopped and turned around.

She showed her dimples and asked with a smile:

"you please?"

"Of course, of course." Xu Yi said hurriedly: "You have done me such a big favor. It is reasonable for me to treat you to a meal, right? You choose the place."

Unexpectedly, when Chu Ningning heard this, she seemed a little disappointed:
"Just to repay me for helping you, you invited me to dinner?"

Xu Yi was stunned for a moment: "Ah, what else?"

Chu Ningning said: "I have something else to do tonight, maybe next time."

After saying that, he walked straight away without waiting for Xu Yi's reply.

Xu Yi frowned and said thoughtfully: "That shouldn't be the case. I saw that she was quite happy just now. How can she change her face when she changes her face?" Women are too difficult to deal with, right?
I repay her for helping me by treating her to dinner. Isn't this reasonable?
No flaws, right?
Xu Yi never figured out what the problem was.

At this moment, a faint voice appeared next to Xu Yi's ear:

"Tsk tsk tsk, this girl is really good!"

Xu Yi was startled and turned around: "Old Li? Are you following me?"

"This is a huge injustice!" Li Xun vowed, "After you left, I had nothing to do, so I thought I might as well go to a movie, so I chose the cinema here at Raffles City, which is open at 3:20 "I didn't see you two in the movie theater, and I didn't see you until I came out."

This is the truth.

Li Xun was originally going to sleep again, but then he thought about it. Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. Although it is not recommended to travel far, he should go out for a walk anyway.

So I came here to watch a movie.

He really never thought that Xu Yi would actually buy this one.

Xu Yi looked at Li Xun doubtfully: "Really?"

Li Xun’s face was full of sincerity:

"I could have sworn it."

Xu Yi shook his head and said with a smile: "On New Year's Day, what are you swearing? Forget it, I'll believe you for now. Let's go and go back."

"Boss, aren't you going to treat me to dinner?" Li Xun asked.

Xu Yi rolled his eyes at Li Xun:
"No money."

"No!" Li Xun grabbed Xu Yi and said, "I'll treat you, I'll treat you. But you have to tell me, who is that girl?"

Xu Yi: "A friend."

Xu Yi answered, but seemed not to answer.

Li Xun chuckled and said:

"Boss, do you want to know why this girl rejected your dinner invitation?"

"You know?" Xu Yi was puzzled.

With Xu Yi's IQ, it was actually not difficult to guess this.

It's just that he didn't dare to think that way no matter what, so he was far away from the correct answer.

When Li Xun saw this, he immediately said:

"Come on, let's go eat and talk while eating."

This is a big city, but in my hometown county, from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the third day of the Lunar New Year, there are basically no shops open on the streets. If you want to eat, you can only go back and cook it yourself, or go to a relative's house to eat.

Xu Yi was tricked by Li Xun, and it happened to be dinner time again, so he followed Li Xun to find a restaurant.

As soon as he sat down, Li Xun winked at Xu Yi and said:
"Boss, now I know why you don't even care about Meng Xiling."

“The boss lady is really nice!”

"The boss lady is probably not from our circle, she looks unfamiliar."

Xu Yi frowned: "What the boss lady, don't talk nonsense."

"It's already been like this, and you're still like that, is it interesting?" Li Xun said confidently, with an air of seeing through everything: "Even if I'm not the boss's wife now, it will be a matter of time."

Xu Yi didn't want to talk about these things with Li Xun. If he passed the news back to Chu Ningning, it would be a shame.

He asked directly:
"Just tell me, why did she reject my dinner invitation?"

Li Xun apparently witnessed the entire conversation between the two outside the cinema, so he said: "It's very simple, the purpose is wrong."

"You want to treat people to dinner because you want to repay them for helping you."

"But judging from the look on the landlady's face, she wants to eat with you, just to be with you, and doesn't want anything to do with repayment. The former is more like a gathering of friends or a date for a couple; the latter is more like a social event. "

"I said this, boss, can you understand?"

Xu Yi was not stupid. He immediately woke up after Li Xun made such a point.

It's just that he still doesn't understand something:

"That's not right either."

"Judging from Director Chu's behavior, she must know that I invited her to dinner to repay her for helping me. How could she be unhappy?"

Li Xun sighed and said with some trepidation:

"Boss, you...oh, have you never been in love?"

This hurts your self-esteem!
Xu Yi was serious, deliberately counting on his fingers, and then said: "I'm just kidding, I can't count the number of relationships I've been in on one hand!"

"Okay, I can tell. You really haven't talked about it." Li Xun made the final decision, but he didn't know how he could tell.

Xu Yi: "..."

Okay, I guess you were right.

Immediately afterwards, Li Xun and Xu Yi began to analyze. When a woman says yes, she doesn't want it;

After Xu Yi listened, he felt that he had learned a lesson.

He looked at Li Xun and said puzzledly:
"Lao Li, where did you learn these things?"

"Study?" Li Xun chuckled, "These things are not taught in school. I also gain true knowledge through practice. The more I encounter them, the more I will gain experience."

Xu Yi tried to ask: "So you mean, she likes me?"

Li Xun shook his head.

After thinking about it for a while, he concluded based on his limited observations:
"Whether she likes you or not, I can't tell yet. But one thing is for sure, the boss lady is willing to develop with you. As for the final stage of development, it all depends on you."

Xu Yi felt calm and then said:

"Forget it. It's better to wait until I retire. The studio's career has just started to pick up. How can I have time to do this?"

Xu Yi did not change his plan.

At the age of thirty, earn enough money to spend, and then start enjoying life.

Look everywhere, play everywhere, eat everywhere.

Of course, it would be nice to have her by my side when that time comes.

After dinner, the two of them walked around Raffles City. However, the two grown men were not very fond of shopping, so when it was getting dark, the two of them returned directly to the courtyard.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the first-day box office of the Lunar New Year stalls has gradually emerged.

Although it has not yet reached 24 o'clock, judging from the current market trend, the ranking has basically been determined. The first-day box office champion was the director's family-friendly comedy.

With the blessing of two popular comedy celebrities, the box office foundation is here, it can't be any different.

However, the reviews of this movie are polarizing. Those who like it naturally support it without hesitation; those who don't like it say that the movie is insincere, the story is old-fashioned, the laughs are vulgar, and the performances of the actors are also bad. It's passable, otherwise there is really no need to spend this money to go to the cinema to watch this movie.

"Operation Red Sea" ranked fifth at the box office on its first day.

That is to say, among the seven New Year films, Red Sea ranks third from the bottom.

This result is relatively poor compared to the production cost of Red Sea.

The only good thing is:

The reviews of the movie seem to be pretty good, with the score rising from 9.0 in the screening to 9.3.

Many fans who have watched the movie have spoken highly of the movie.

"It seems that the market is not very willing to pay for movies with this theme!" Xu Yi was a little unsettled. If the box office was really unsatisfactory, it would be okay for him to lose 100 million, but Zhong Guoliang was also pulled by Xu Yi After investing 100 million, Xu Yi felt very sorry for Zhong Guoliang.

This is one of them.

The second is that Xu Yi has already planned to make a second movie with similar themes.

If the market doesn't pay for it, then should a movie that is destined to lose money still be made?

This was what made Xu Yi hesitate.

You can easily invest hundreds of millions in movies and you can't afford to lose money.

Even if he could lose one or two movies, Xu Yi couldn't keep losing money.

So if the subject matter doesn’t work, you have to change the track immediately.

What's more, he and Guo Fan also want to produce domestic science fiction, which is an extremely difficult problem. If it is done well, everyone will be happy; if it is not done well, it may be a loss-making business again.

Xu Yi is now the boss, so he naturally has to consider these issues.

Li Xun sat next to Xu Yi and said comfortingly: "Boss, don't be so pessimistic, this is only the first day. The Lunar New Year holiday has just begun, and there are still 29 days left. I watched our movie, and it's just one word :nice!"

The market has hysteresis, Xu Yi knows this.

He smiled and said to Li Xun:
"It's not pessimistic."

"It's just that I have to take precautions and prepare for the next work."

"Almost all my arrangements and plans at the moment are based on the fact that the Red Sea will explode. Therefore, if the box office results are different from what I expected, then my following work must be adjusted in time."

Li Xun nodded: "That's true."

After finishing speaking, Li Xun was also filled with emotion:

"It's all the fault of those who made military action movies into bad movies before, which has led to audiences being desensitized to this type of movie now."

"We can't blame others." Xu Yi had his own opinion on the matter, "Anyway, others took the wrong path for us, so we wouldn't have ended up filming like that."

Neither noticed the change in conversation on social media.

That night, a lot of people who had watched "Operation Red Sea" spontaneously went crazy on Amway's movie on their social accounts, and categorically said that they would watch it a second time, or even a third time.

"What a great start to the new year! I was dragged into the cinema by my friends. Unexpectedly, the movie was surprisingly good! I dare say that this is the best military action movie I have ever seen in my life, bar none!"

"A good movie with compact plot, realistic scenes, and flesh and blood!"

"Amway's movie, "Operation Red Sea". For those of you who haven't seen it, you can try it. I've tried the poison for you. It's jelly! And it's the best movie to watch during the Lunar New Year this year!"

"Let me see, there's still that little darling who hasn't seen Red Sea yet, it's really good! Generally, I don't recommend movies that are good, but this movie is definitely worth investing in!"

"..."

Word-of-mouth like this about tap water swept through everyone's circle of friends on the night of the first day of the new year.

Even on the hot searches on social media, "Operation Red Sea" has quietly occupied an entry:
#国产military action movies are about to rise

Inside is a film critic blogger's analysis of Red Sea from a professional perspective.

The movie "Operation Red Sea" was highly praised from aspects such as story plot, actors' performances, director's camerawork, costumes, action design, etc.

Of course, the film review blogger didn't mention the box office.

"Operation Red Sea" had a box office of 70 million on its first day. Judging by the input-output ratio and box office experience, this is a movie that will definitely hit the streets.

Because all movies basically hit their box office peak on the first day of release.

It will continue to weaken in the future.

But no one expected that such a mediocre movie, which did not bloom in the cinema, would actually shine on social media outside the cinema.

Public domain traffic is discussing this film.

My personal circle of friends is in this Amway movie.

The heat is quietly rising.

Many people were subtly affected by the topic, and unconsciously opened the show on the second day of the Lunar New Year and prepared to buy tickets to see it. Is this movie really so good?

Therefore, "Operation Red Sea" on the second day of the new year was almost full!

Most of these people are young people. When they see hot searches, they always come to join in the fun.

Even if you want to be new and refute that hot search, you have to watch the movie first before you can refute it, right?
But no one expected that this wave of overcrowding on the second day of the new year would bring even more tap water!

Word of mouth fermented and became a blockbuster!
The box office of "Operation Red Sea" on its second day of release reached over 100 million, ranking fourth!

Forcefully squeeze in to get one!
……

Xishan Villa.

Chu Zhengchen and Chu Ningning had just returned home after watching a movie.

"This guy is really good!" Chu Zhengchen couldn't help but comment on Xu Yilai, "He can really act in movies, and the movie was well made. He evacuated overseas Chinese, rescued compatriots, and showed our Long Kingdom soldiers quality!”

Chu Ningning responded calmly: "It's okay~"

Chu Zhengchen said very solemnly:

"How can this be okay?"

"I think this movie is much better than other movies that I don't know what to call. I will suggest that our company should all watch it."

In Chu Zhengchen's view, "Operation Red Sea" is not only a commercial piece, but also a patriotic educational film.

This is a good thing.

After a pause, Chu Zhengchen said again:
"Is this kid celebrating the New Year in the capital?"

"Why don't you come and wish me a happy new year?"

Chu Ningning was a little absent-minded: "Maybe he is also very busy!"

"What can you do when you are celebrating the New Year?" Chu Zhengchen was very angry at Chu Ningning's lack of attention, and he immediately said: "His parents are not here, and this kid is alone in the capital, so he probably won't be able to cook the New Year's Eve dinner. What else can I be busy with?”

Hearing these words, for some reason, a string in Chu Ningning's heart was plucked.

How could I have forgotten this incident?
What did Xu Yi eat on New Year's Eve?
Are you cooking for yourself or ordering takeout?

If I had known... If I had known earlier, I should have sent him some food, alas! (End of chapter)