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Chapter 191 Squid Game Bombing Asia [Subscribe]

December 1th arrived as scheduled.

After more than a week of advance promotion, (Squid Game) will be broadcast during prime time on Beijing TV.

Even if this is a mini-TV series with one episode per day.

As the time approaches, countless people from all over the country still sit in front of their TVs, watching commercials and other big dramas.

In a suburban villa in Beijing, Liu Xiaoli brought a plate of fruit and said to Liu Yifei, "Haven't you seen it once? Are you still looking forward to it?"

At the end of October, Xiao Liu used Huang Shengyi's connections to go to the Time Building to get a sneak peek.

She also witnessed Megan Fox auditioning for the female lead in Lao Li's new sitcom series.

I am definitely extremely envious.

However, she was not yet an adult at the time, so she naturally followed the arrangements of her parents and elders.

Liu Yifei nodded. "Of course I'm looking forward to it. Squid Games is very different from other TV projects produced by Time."

"You'll know when you see it."

"I guarantee you'll be hooked after just one episode. Many people stay up all night to finish a whole series before they feel satisfied."

Liu Xiaoli nodded and thought for a few minutes while she sat and waited, "Xixi, how is your acting now?"

"Can it hold up to the performance of the heroine in Squidward's game?"

It's very embarrassing at this point in time.

Lao Chen, who made his debut by supporting Xiao Liu Jin (The Story of a Noble Family), is still a wealthy man even though his assets have shrunk significantly and collapsed.

But during the 2002 beauty pageant, Lao Chen ranked more than 20th on the Forbes mainland rich list.

During that period, he was a celebrity and could be seen by almost anyone who visited him. He even took Liu Xiaoli and Liu Yifei to visit Shi Guang Lao Li on the set of You Who Came From the Stars.

Lao Li could give him a favor and have a face-to-face meeting.

With the extremely intensified competition in industries such as textile exports and the intensified competition in the real estate industry, investment failures are coupled with the lack of policy benefits.

Lao Chen had already fallen out of the top 2005 rich list in .

Ordinary people can only look up to Lao Chen. This big villa in the suburbs of Beijing is something that countless ordinary families cannot afford even if they work hard all their lives.

However, I am no longer able to use resources to promote Liu Yifei and find various big opportunities.

Liu Xiaoli said again, "Your godfather said (The Condor Heroes) that he can't find many projects and has to cooperate with other companies."

"For example, we have cooperated with Time, Huayi, and the Hong Kong circle, and also with Sony."

"By then, he can only sell a portion of it and take a percentage."

"Even if I'm blind, I can see that it would be best for you to join Shi Guang, and it would also be the cleanest environment for your development, but he helped you debut."

"He has always had absolute control over your agency affairs."

"It feels like the probability of you being able to join Time is very low."

Liu Xiaoli has been criticized by countless people for being blind and making poor choices at critical moments. The question is, what is the current state of the Chinese entertainment industry?
Zhang Ziyi and Li Bingbing were both willing to pay for the lawsuit out of their own pockets and change jobs. When signing a contract with Shi Guang, they also took the initiative to express that they were willing to get 20% to 30% and the company would take 70% to 80%.

Signed a ten-year contract to compete for the second female lead in How I Met Your Mother.

This is to go international and become popular in Europe and America!

The precedents set by Huang Xiaoming, Blake Lively and others are too explosive.

Old Chen, who got Xiao Liu the Golden Age, Tianlong, Xianjian, and now the Condor Heroes, which is still in the works.

It is impossible for Xiao Liu to offer outrageous conditions like International Zhang when competing for the Time Pie.

If that's the case, how much money will Lao Chen lose?

Lao Chen is in charge of Liu Yifei's agency operations and he also takes a big cut!

The problem is that even now, Lao Chen's assets have shrunk significantly, and Xiao Liu's salary has just increased to 8000 yuan per episode. How can he get or yuan after filming to episodes of a TV series?
What percentage does Lao Chen take?
For Lao Chen, who was once on the rich list, money is not his thing at all.

Liu Yifei originally signed a contract with Sony in 05, went to the island country to be a trainee for a year and released an album. Lao Chen's agency still cooperated with Sony, and both parties took commissions.

Later, Xiao Liu joined a movie produced in Hong Kong, and Lao Chen continued to take his commission.

I guess Shi Guang wouldn't look down on this approach.

Liu Yifei nodded. "Brother Li will definitely look down on me. I'm not as easy to control as free men like Jiang Yiyan and Zhu Yawen."

For several years, she was a role model for her classmates who were envied by capital and made their debut.

Now she envies her freedom.

Then she laughed awkwardly again, "My acting skills are really not as good as Tong Liya in Squid Game, there's a huge gap."

Liu Xiaoli, “…”

You can't even act well. She has lost the confidence to go all out and turn against Lao Chen to start an internal conflict.

Time passes.

The first episode of Squid Game was aired on TV. Liu Xiaoli stopped talking about the agency contract and focused on watching the TV series.

As for the squid opening, the film introduces the squid game that children in the Lower Peninsula like to play.

The drama shows a cowardly middle-aged man named Deng Xuan, with untidy hair and beard and a greasy look. He even put on makeup to look ten years older.

Today is the birthday of the protagonist's daughter. Deng Xu's mother, who is also his daughter's grandmother, gave him money to treat his granddaughter to a meal.

The money Lao Deng earns every month is not enough to pay the interest, and he has to ask his mother, who is over 60 years old, to work hard to make money to support him.

After his mother left, Deng Xun began to excitedly look through his mother's coffin book and went to bet on horses.

He lost at the horse racing bet, then won the lottery, and then excitedly called his daughter to treat him to a big meal.

When he saw the loan sharks and debt collectors coming to block him, he ran back to the Jockey Club to hide. His prize money was stolen by Tong Liya who came out, and he was beaten up by the loan sharks.

The opening prelude of 10 to 20 minutes deeply reveals how cowardly, useless, and heavily in debt the male protagonist Deng Xu is, and how he feels that life is meaningless.

The birthday party for my daughter was so shabby.

The character setting is becoming more and more three-dimensional and profound.

Liu Xiaoli, watching the film with gusto, couldn't help but comment, "In real life, there really are such depressed and hard-working middle-aged men."

"It's better to fight to the death and find a new way to survive."

Liu Yifei, “…”

Xiao Liu looked at his mother strangely for a few times and said nothing.

Afterwards, after Deng Xuan sent his daughter to his ex-wife's place, he went home and took the subway. While waiting for the train, he met a man in a suit played by a South Korean actor and started playing four-corner wrestling!

The man in the suit is played by Won Bin as a guest star.

Deng Xuan can get 10 won every time he wins.

Watching the two grown men smashing the corners of the TV screen, Liu Xiaoli almost burst out laughing. "This is too ridiculous! Do all rich people have so much free time?"

"How did Sissi develop afterwards?"

Liu Yifei had already watched the entire play.

But just like when people in the industry used their connections to go see "Dying to Survive", they will sign a confidentiality agreement before going in to watch it.

Time may not hold you accountable after you leak the secret, but it may also hold you accountable.

Xiao Liu smiled, his teeth showing. "Mom, don't you want me to be held accountable for leaking the secret? We signed a simple contract."

Liu Xiaoli, “…”

She glared at her daughter speechlessly and continued watching the show.

The plot of Squid Game has progressed to this point, and I can only say that it is okay. Not only her, but also the audiences in front of the TV across the country at this moment, basically think that it is okay.

Can chase.

There are also countless people born in the 80s who grew up with many difficulties and they all think that if they do it, they will definitely be able to do it.

You give me this chance? Even though countless viewers are far from being in the same predicament as the male protagonist played by Deng Xiaoping.

But who isn't an expert at wrestling with four corners? Win once and you'll get money!
Deng Xuan lost again and again, was slapped in the face by Yuan Bin again and again, and had to start over again.

After Deng Xu won a sum of money, Yuan Bin revealed his identity and background, saying that he was in debt of more than 10 billion won. He handed him his business card and asked Deng Xu to call him at the appropriate time.

It was not until this point that the long buildup made the audience vaguely excited.

Just as Liu Xiaoli said, a middle-aged person living like this and with so much debt really lacks an opportunity to risk his life to turn his situation around.

Later, Deng Xuan took the money he won from the four-corner game and went home to show off to the old neighborhood aunt, his mother, and so on.

The mother showed off to the climax and revealed that after her granddaughter's birthday, her stepfather would take her to immigrate to the United States.

Deng Xuan had no choice but to call the number on the business card to make an appointment with the man who had wrestled with him.

The person on the other end of the phone mechanically told him whether he would participate in the game, and gave his name, age, etc.

Squid Games is on!

The drivers who came to pick people up were all wearing one-piece gas mask uniforms, and Lao Deng was knocked unconscious by the smoke as soon as he got in the car.

Once the squid game dormitory with hundreds of people is revealed, the big game is about to begin.

Here, everyone, regardless of gender or age, wears the same uniform, which looks like a school uniform or a prison uniform, but with different numbers.

The big plot clearly explains the rules.

Countless viewers in front of the TV were amazed. This game brings together a group of people who are super failures and have no fun in life in real life?

Tong Liya appeared on the screen again, and was recognized and beaten up by the gangster boss played by Cui Peng.

The plot progresses to the point where hundreds of people walk out of a sci-fi gaming base and officially participate in their first game, One, Two, Three, Statue.

A dormitory at Beijing Film Academy.

Wang Xuanyu approached Wang Zixuan and Zhao Ji and asked, "Who designed this game? It seems quite bizarre. They went through all this trouble just to watch the fun?"

"Looking for fun?"

"This gaming group sifted through and selected hundreds of indebted losers to play a game of 'status'? It's absolutely insane."

Wang Zixuan looked at Wang Xuanyu a few times and said nothing.

This episode lasts for more than 40 minutes, and near the end, it is the real climax that begins.

When she watched the DVD for the first time in Tong Liya's office a few days ago, she couldn't believe that the wealthy people from the conglomerates and chaebols could be so wasteful just to watch the fun and play a game!

A giant doll robot stood outside the finish line of the playground, a wooden figure covered in comical heavy makeup, and only she turned her back to the game participants.

Only when the mechanical electronic voice says "one, two, three, wooden man" can the participants move forward.

The mechanical doll's face turns to face the playground, and the eyes composed of electronic cameras face the participants directly, and the participants cannot move.

Once you are detected moving, you will be eliminated.

Move forward within five minutes, don't get eliminated, and cross the finish line to win.

There were many shots showing countless actors participating in the game on the color TV screen, and the contestants laughing at this broken game.

There were also two yellow-haired dragon suits in front of the camera making a private bet to see who would pass first.

When the game officially started, the two yellow-haired men left the large group of hundreds of people behind and ran forward.

After the first electronic sound played, the robot doll face turned to face the group of participants.

The first yellow-haired man was still running when the sound fell, but he suddenly braked and his body swayed from side to side.

The surveillance camera detected his shaking movement!
Announced elimination!

The other yellow-haired man who made a bet with him was still mocking the other party for being useless. Then a gunshot was heard and the yellow-haired man who lost was shot in the head.

Not to mention that the actors participating in the game on the color TV screen were stunned and confused.

Audience members like Wang Xuanyu in the Beijing Film Academy dormitory were also stunned, unable to believe someone had actually been shot in the head. "I heard a gunshot? What happened to the first one?"

"Can this kill people? It's so illogical."

“Is the team behind this game crazy or stupid?”

The plot continues.

The big wooden robot continued to shout one, two, three, wooden man.

The second yellow-haired man hurried forward to see what was happening, and as he watched, he confirmed that the first yellow-haired man had really been shot dead.

He turned around and ran in a hurry.

The monitoring robot scans the moving people in its lens with a cold glance.

Headshot and heart explosion!
The second yellow-haired guy had his heart exploded, and blood sprayed all over the face of a participating aunt actress.

Hundreds of game participants were all terrified and started running backwards like a herd of pigs.

Long spears emerged from the high walls surrounding the game, killing and slaughtering one after another.

Finally, a group of people ran to the iron gate at the entrance of the playground and banged on it. They were so crowded that they were shot and killed.

The scene changed, and it showed Zhang Dongjian, the apparent person in charge of the game base, taking off his mask and pouring wine on the sofa, with a large screen in front of him monitoring the situation in real time.

It shows a scene of a group of people being shot and massacred.

Zhang Dongjian, whose back was only shown, celebrated by drinking.

All the game participants who are still alive and not moving continue to listen to the robot's electronic voice repeatedly broadcasting the rules of the game.

Truly re-understand the cruelty of this killing game.

Wang Xuanyu was also terrified, clutching her chest. "How inhumane! Isn't this just killing for fun? Are you tired of the good life? Looking for some new and exciting killing game to play?"

When she looked at Wang Zixuan in shock, Wang Zixuan shrugged, "This subject is like the ancient Roman Colosseum, where the upper class watched slaves fighting each other for fun."

"Or watch slaves fight wild beasts."

The first episode is coming to an end.

This type of escape survival game is like the end of the world where the human social order collapses and people enter the primitive jungle law.

This game is really exciting!

Then, the participants in the squid game fully realized the current situation and tried again and again to move within five minutes in order to cross the finish line to advance the plot.

If you don't cross the finish line by the deadline, you will die.

Move again and again, keeping your body shape and posture still.

Every now and then someone gets shot.

Extraordinary thriller, tension and excitement.

The screen also switched back to the office of the president of the gaming base several times, where Zhang Dongjian, who was only seen from behind, was drinking and watching the live broadcast of the murder game, and he seemed to be having a lot of fun.

Zhang Dongjian only spoke about the background.

But the office is accompanied by elegant and pleasant songs, the light-hearted fun of him grabbing a wine glass and looking at the surveillance screen, and the participants who were randomly killed on the screen, etc.

In an instant, the cyberpunk Korean Peninsula, the cruelty of class confrontation in the capitalist world, and the magical standards are revealed.

And how rich people can do whatever they want, which reveals the criticism to the core.

The more elegant and pleasant the background music became, and as more and more people were killed by headshots and chest explosions on the screen, Wang Xuanyu couldn't help but shiver.

"This world is too magical. Is this a game that humans can play?"

Zhao Ji also sighed, "Once the rich have evil thoughts, they seem to be invincible on the peninsula. Sister Tong's acting skills are also amazing."

"She's going to explode."

The nine episodes of the TV series have been broadcast one by one, and Tong Liya's guest appearance in "Perfect Strangers" is still being shown in theaters.

It blossomed on both the big and small screens.

South Korea also premiered today, January 1th!

(End of this chapter)