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Chapter 1438 Become a household name
Yao Xingtong’s shortcoming is that she doesn’t speak Hong Kong-style Mandarin. Sometimes when Mr. Liang and his family talk alone, they definitely need to use Hong Kong Cantonese, so Yao Xingtong puts most of her energy into language learning.

However, with the careful teaching of Suning, a language genius, Yao Xingtong soon learned to speak Cantonese quite well. After all, Suning wanted to win an international award with "Parasite".

The subsequent filming progress was very smooth. Suning often discussed the mysteries of life with Yao Xingtong, so naturally he did not feel that the filming work was too boring.

However, Wang Ying encountered a trouble in Sijiu City, or it could be said that a hidden danger belonging to Suning appeared. Chen Baojia actually came to Sijiu City from afar.

Originally, Chen Baojia wanted to give Suning a surprise, but after arriving at Peking University and Tsinghua University, he found out that Suning had been expelled.

Helpless Chen Baojia could only ask Suning's classmates, "Do you really not know where Suning is?"

Instead, his classmates gave Chen Baojia a clue. "I'm not sure! But his girlfriend seems to be Wang Ying, who lives in Dormitory 213 of the girls' dormitory."

"What? He actually has a girlfriend in the old city?" However, this clue made Chen Baojia open his eyes wide in frustration.

Chen Baojia's shock naturally made the international students confused. "Huh? What's your relationship with Suning?"

"Huh! I'm his girlfriend in Canada."

"..."

Then Chen Baojia asked around and arrived at Dormitory 213, where he successfully found his love rival, Wang Ying. "Are you that Wang Ying?"

"Yes! Who are you? We don't seem to know each other." Wang Ying looked at the strange big-breasted girl in front of her with a puzzled look on her face.

Chen Baojia raised her head proudly and looked at Wang Ying, introducing herself, "I'm Chen Baojia, Suning's girlfriend in Canada."

Wang Ying couldn't help but look up and down at the busty girl with curiosity. "Oh? So you are Chen Baojia? But why did Su Ning tell me that you are not his girlfriend?"

"Hmph! Where is Suning? I want to confront him face to face." Chen Baojia now urgently wants to see her lover.

"He's not in Sijiu City right now. You can call him directly."

"Humph! I don't even have his contact information in China. He changed his number as soon as he returned to China."

"..." Wang Ying naturally felt helpless at this moment. This was all the mess left by Suning in Canada. "I'll call him now! As for whether he can make it back, I don't know."

"Thank you! Wang Ying, I didn't expect you to be such a nice person!" Chen Baojia suddenly said heartlessly after hearing Wang Ying's arrangements.

"..."

Seeing that her love rival was such a rookie, Wang Ying called Suning in a state of both laughter and tears. When Suning heard the news that Chen Baojia was coming, he couldn't help but feel a headache.

Then the crew's affairs were handed over to the assistant director, who was naturally Suning's AI robot, so he could definitely implement his ideas perfectly.

After arranging things in Shanghai, Suning took the earliest flight back to Beijing, but found that Wang Ying had appendicitis caused by Chen Baojia's anger and was receiving treatment in the hospital.

Su Ning approached Wang Ying with a guilty look on his face and asked, "Yingying, are you okay?"

"It's okay! It's just common appendicitis." Wang Ying smiled and explained to Suning with a relaxed look.

At this moment, Suning also regretted being so busy. "I'm sorry! I should come back to see you more often."

"Your work is more important."

At this moment, Yang Cheng, who always liked to act so powerful, came up, not even considering whether his expression was disgusting or not. "Suning, look at what you've done! You actually pissed Yingying off to the point of having to be hospitalized?"

"Yang Cheng, who the hell do you think you are? Or did someone not zip up your pants properly and let your thing show?" Sure enough, Suning turned around and cursed at the idiot in annoyance.

"You..." Yang Cheng was dumbfounded as it was the first time someone pointed at his nose and scolded him like this.

"Get lost! Do you believe I can chop you to death?"

"Humph! Come on! Let's see if I, Yang Cheng, am afraid of you."

Wang Ying, who was lying on the hospital bed at this time, also drove Yang Cheng away with disgust, "Yang Cheng, thank you for coming to see me, but my boyfriend is here now, so I hope you can stop harassing us."

"..." Then Yang Cheng left the hospital dejectedly.

Until this moment, Chen Baojia walked towards Su Ning and asked, "Su Ning, did I cause trouble for you?"

"Chen Baojia, why did you suddenly come to Sijiu City?" Su Ning looked at Chen Baojia in front of him with displeasure. After all, Chen Baojia's behavior broke the agreement.

However, Chen Baojia said coquettishly without any concern, "Suning, I miss you."

"Don't talk nonsense! My girlfriend is still here!"

"..."

"Chen Baojia, I have found my true love now, so I hope you can understand."

In the end, Suning pretended to be indifferent and persuaded Chen Baojia to leave. His attitude naturally made his girlfriend Wang Ying very satisfied. Then he temporarily arranged Chen Baojia to stay in the hotel.

He also personally bought a ticket for Chen Baojia to return to Canada the next day. To compensate her, he specially bought a first-class ticket. Then he stayed in the hospital to take care of his girlfriend Wang Ying again, which immediately made all the resentment in Wang Ying's heart disappear.

Wang Ying couldn't help but scoff when she saw Su Ning coming back so quickly, "Huh! Why don't you go spend time with your ex-girlfriend?"

"Yingying, this is really not my fault. I haven't contacted her since I returned to Sijiu City." At this time, Su Ning naturally looked at Wang Ying in front of him with a bitter look.

"But she's here to pursue me because she's still in love with me."

"Ah! It's all because of my damn charm."

"Bah! Shameless."

Then Su Ning immediately climbed onto Wang Ying's bed, hugged her and said, "Hey, I'll stay with you in the hospital today and sleep next to you. It's so beautiful! It smells so good!"

"What about the crew in Shanghai?" Wang Ying, who was enjoying Suning's love, couldn't help but ask worriedly.

"I've handed it over to the assistant director. He's from Hollywood, USA, so there's no problem taking charge of the filming for now."

"You're in such a hurry, aren't you thinking about the Spring Festival?"

"I can't make it in time! Let's see if it's possible around Valentine's Day."

"Suning, I remember there's another project going on at the same time, right?"

"Yes! The movie is called "The Accidental Murder". The story doesn't fit in China, so it's set in Thailand." "..."

That night, Suning really stayed in the hospital to accompany Wang Ying, and only went to the hotel to send Chen Baojia to the airport the next morning. Of course, he also had to take the time to feed Chen Baojia well.

After staying in the hotel room for more than an hour in a state of turmoil, Chen Baojia finally calmed down a lot. Seeing that the boarding time was approaching, he urged Chen Baojia to rush to the airport as soon as possible.

On the way to the airport, Chen Baojia, who was sitting in the passenger seat, asked depressedly, "Suning, do you really not want me anymore?"

"Chen Baojia, you have crossed the line. You shouldn't have come to Sijiu City this time." Suning, who was driving, reminded Chen Baojia while avoiding the subject.

"But I really missed you so much."

"Chen Baojia, our original promise remains unchanged, but you can't come to Sijiucheng anymore. I plan to marry Wang Ying as my wife."

"Okay! Then you must remember to come back to Canada to be with me often."

"okay, I get it."

After sending the annoying Chen Baojia away, Suning couldn't help but feel relieved, and then returned to the hospital to accompany Wang Ying until Wang Ying recovered and was discharged.

……

The pure production cost of "Parasite" was only 800 million yuan, and the shooting time was 77 times (about 3 months). Such a production scale can be said to have reduced the market risk to the lowest level.

The main reason is that Suning had already started to cut down on financial expenditure when it first started selecting actors. Of course, Suning's pursuit of excellence also caused financial expenditure to rise sharply.

During these three months, Wang Ying often came to Shanghai to visit the crew, and let everyone in the crew know that Suning had a real girlfriend.

Because Suning had informed Yao Xingtong in advance, he didn't care about Wang Ying's appearance. Instead, he took the initiative to avoid Wang Ying, his real girlfriend.

By the time the filming was completed, the schools were on winter vacation.

Xu Lin from dormitory 213 packed his things and went to the station. He was worried that he would miss the train, but he was reluctant to take a taxi. Instead, Wang Ying took the initiative to ask the family driver to take her there. Xu Lin was naturally more than happy to accept the offer and expressed his gratitude to Wang Ying.

Qin Qian and her brother and sister Qin Chuan made an appointment to go home together for the New Year. Qin Qian also brought her new husband Tan Hui. Qin Jianjun and his wife were naturally not very satisfied with this son-in-law, but since things had come to this point, they as parents could only accept it.

The Sichuan girl Xiao Qianxi did not go home during the holiday, so He Xiaozhou stayed to spend the New Year with her.

Wang Ying refused to go on vacation to Phuket with her family because she knew that Yang Cheng's family would also be there. In addition, "Parasite" produced by Firefly Company was also scheduled to be released soon, and as Suning's girlfriend, Wang Ying naturally had to stay and accompany them.

Seeing that "Parasite" was about to be released, Wang Ying became excited. "Suning, I'm so excited! Can our "Firefly" company become famous?"

"Of course! I've put out 10 million for publicity and promotion. Haven't you noticed that there are reports about "Parasite" everywhere recently?" However, Suning is very confident about his own "Parasite".

Wang Ying, who learned about this for the first time, was also shocked. After all, the filming of "Parasite" only cost 8 million yuan. "Amazing! 10 million yuan for publicity and promotion? Isn't that too much?"

"I'm aiming for a box office of over 100 million this time, so I'm going to put a lot of effort into promotion and marketing."

"..."

In fact, when the film was submitted for review, China Film Corporation had already seen the film and gave it extremely high praise, so there was no discrimination.

On February 14th, Valentine's Day, "Parasite" was released nationwide.

Suning and Wang Ying walked into the cinema like an ordinary couple, but seeing the spectacular crowds of people, Suning knew that the recent publicity had achieved very good results.

You have to know that a movie ticket costing 01 yuan in 20 was not cheap. After all, the monthly salary in that era was only more than yuan. It was remarkable that so many people could go to the cinema.

The first day's screening naturally caused a huge response. The gap between the rich and the poor once again became the focus of everyone's discussion, and the superb acting skills amazed all the audience.

Soon the entire Chinese entertainment and film and television industry was completely dumbfounded, because the first day box office of "Parasite" came out, causing an uproar in the entire film and television industry and public opinion.

1012.6 yuan.

The box office broke 10 million on the first day of its release, and it was a new director and a new company.

Seeing such a strong public opinion, Suning was so happy that it immediately increased its copying and distribution costs.

You should know that the entire Chinese entertainment film market now has a daily film production volume of at most 20 million.

"Parasite" was able to generate 10 million box office revenue in one day, firmly occupying half of the national film market.

And judging by the spread of word-of-mouth, the quality and reputation of "Parasite" can only get better and better.

After this result came out, Huayi Company, which considered itself the leader of Chinese entertainment, was dumbfounded.

Huayi's boss, Da Wang, looked at his brother with a depressed look on his face and asked, "Zhong Lei, how did you negotiate with Suning back then?"

Xiao Wang was naturally confused and stunned at this moment. "Huh? It's just a simple investment and providing a big-name director. You can also buy the script at a high price!"

"Alas! It's such a pity that Huayi missed out on a hit movie."

"Brother, I think this movie relies entirely on hype. Also, Firefly did a good job with marketing. I heard they put 10 million into publicity, so I think it can only sustain a good box office for a day or two at most."

"Yeah, that's true! The marketing for Parasite was indeed over the top, but the quality of the film is fine, and it even received recognition from some higher-ups."

At this moment, Xiao Wang was furious when he thought of Suning's arrogance. "Brother, you didn't see how arrogant Suning was. We at Huayi went there with sincerity, but he didn't even give us the slightest bit of face."

"People with talent naturally have bad tempers! I heard that Tony Leung and Fan Wei both admire him very much, and it's rare to find a director who can control an Oscar winner."

"This..." The arrogant Xiao Wang had never considered this problem.

In fact, the king had already guessed that the initial negotiations were not harmonious, but the little king in front of him was his younger brother. "Hey! Zhong Lei, remember to control your temper in the future. You must remember that even if the deal fails, the friendship remains."

"Huh? Brother, I understand."

However, the myth of "Parasite" continues. The current shock to public opinion is just the beginning. The box office has been rising steadily in the next few days. Even if it has fallen back, it has remained above 10 million. When it was released on March 14, the final box office of the movie directly shocked all Chinese people.

36085.8 million, not only has it exceeded 3.6 million, it is also a terrifying million.

You should know that the first movie to break the 100 million mark in the original time and space, "Hero", had not yet been released, so the first honor was won by "Parasite", and Suning's name became a household name in the first time.

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(End of this chapter)