I am a historical film director in the entertainment industry.

Zeng Li raised her head, gazing intently at Cheng Sheng, her love for him reaching its peak, and slowly offered her red lips.

Upon seeing this, Cheng Sheng immediately responded, then bent down, scooped her up in his arms, and strode towards the large bed in the room…

When the two woke up again, it was already noon.

"You should get some rest. I have things to do today, so I won't be able to keep you company."

After getting dressed, Cheng Sheng kissed Zeng Li on the forehead and said.

"Well, go and do your work!"

Zeng Li also knew what Cheng Sheng was going to do today; he was going to submit the film to an exhibition and had many other things to take care of.

After leaving Zeng Li's room, Cheng Sheng looked around and, finding no outsiders, breathed a sigh of relief.

It's best not to reveal the relationship between Zeng Li and Zeng Li until she's ready to make it public.

Cheng Sheng first had the hotel staff send Zeng Li Chinese food, and then he also ate Chinese food at the hotel. After that, he took the film to the film festival organizers, handed the film over to them, and registered it.

The film festival organizers had long admired Cheng Sheng.

After all, Cheng Sheng won an award at the Venice Film Festival for his first film, and then the following year, even though he didn't attend, he still won the Best Screenplay award.

This year, the film "Three Kingdoms" brought them great success at Cannes.

The organizers warmly welcomed such a renowned director to the Venice Film Festival.

This is also a great publicity opportunity for the Venice Film Festival.

The organizers also thoughtfully arranged the follow-up matters for Cheng Sheng regarding the film.

Cheng Sheng didn't need to worry about anything, such as choosing a cinema, film promotion, or the film premiere; everything was arranged for him.

The news that Cheng Sheng was bringing his new film to the Venice Film Festival quickly spread throughout Venice.

As soon as the film companies got the news, they immediately came knocking on their door.

Cheng Sheng's movies are just too popular.

Although Cheng Sheng directed historical films set in the East, each film he made was a huge success after being bought and released by distributors.

One week after its domestic premiere, the film "Three Kingdoms" was released globally.

In North America, it broke the record for the highest single-day box office of "The Great Tang Dynasty 1", and raked in a staggering $1 million in a week.

By the time the movie "Three Kingdoms" was taken off the screens, its total box office had exceeded 230 million.

Columbia Pictures, which bought the film, made a fortune, much to the envy of the rest of Hollywood.

Southeast Asia alone raked in a staggering $300 million.

Generally speaking, North America is definitely the world's largest voting bloc.

Southeast Asia's voter base can never compare to North America's.

But Southeast Asia is China's home turf, and it's important to know that Southeast Asia has always been influenced by ancient China.

The Three Kingdoms period is one of the most familiar historical periods in Southeast Asia.

Therefore, there is no pressure or suspense that Southeast Asian box office will surpass North American box office.

Although the European box office was the lowest, it still generated $100 million in revenue.

Based on this calculation, the global box office has already reached $800 million.

While it's a bit of a shame that it didn't reach the $10 billion target, the box office success has already amazed everyone.

It's hard to believe that "Three Kingdoms" is a Chinese historical film, and that such a niche film could rake in over 800 million US dollars.

Also due to the movie "Three Kingdoms", books on Chinese history sold out again.

This shows how interested people around the world are in Chinese history.

For this reason, the Chinese government specifically praised Cheng Sheng, after all, Cheng Sheng made a great contribution to the export of Chinese culture.

This has rendered the Western governments' smear campaign against China completely ineffective, and many Westerners have become more interested in China, with many even traveling to China.

The "Three Kingdoms" movie series has only released its first installment; there are still sequels yet to be released. If the first film was this profitable, even if the sequel doesn't make as much money as the first, a box office return of half that would still satisfy the producers.

Therefore, after learning that Cheng Sheng was bringing a new film to Venice, all the film distributors sprang into action.

They were all determined to acquire the distribution rights to Cheng Shengxin's new film, no matter what it took.

Unfortunately, Cheng Sheng has no intention of selling the distribution rights now.

Catherine promised that the process would win and the Best Picture would be "Ten Red Army Soldiers Sending Off the Red Army".

While one can sell a film for a high price now thanks to their fame, winning Best Picture would increase that price several times over.

When film producers approach him, Cheng Sheng always gives them a perfunctory response and then makes excuses; he never agrees immediately.

Two days passed quickly.

Since the movie had already been sent, and Cheng Sheng had nothing else to do, he spent the last two days shopping with Zeng Li.

Today, finally, good news arrived: both "Ten Red Army Soldiers Sent Off" and "Crazy Stone" have been selected for the main competition.

The crew of "Ten Red Army Soldiers Sent Off" was overjoyed to receive this good news.

Zeng Li and Liu Ye, in particular, were nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress awards.

If they were crowned emperor or empress in Venice, their status would definitely rise significantly upon returning home.

Ning Hao was also very excited. After disappearing for two days, he finally showed up in front of Cheng Sheng.

If you do something wrong, you should hide. Ning Hao clearly knew that Cheng Sheng was very angry, so she kept avoiding Cheng Sheng and refused to meet him.

But now he has no choice but to show his face, since both "Ten Red Army Soldiers" and "Crazy Stone" were invested in by Cheng Sheng's company.

Both production crews are celebrating right now, and it would be a bit inappropriate if he weren't there.

"boss……"

Ning Hao looked embarrassed when she saw Cheng Sheng.

"Look what you've done. I'll deal with you when we get back," Cheng Sheng said in a low, menacing voice.

Both film crews are present now, and Cheng Sheng doesn't want to expose what happened that day, so now is not a good opportunity to deal with Ning Hao.

When the film was nominated for the main competition, Cheng Sheng treated both film crews to a good meal as a way of celebrating their success in advance.

With the film festival organizers helping to promote the film, Cheng Sheng and his team had a much easier time.

The day after being shortlisted for the main competition.

That is, the day when "Ten Red Army Soldiers" and "Crazy Stone" premiered in Venice.

Great, the organizers were very thoughtful to schedule the premieres of the two films on the same day.

Cheng Sheng did not enter the cinema, but stood at the entrance, wanting to see how many people were interested in "Ten Red Army Soldiers Sent Off".

"Hello, are you from Xiaorizi country?"

A blond, blue-eyed foreigner saw Cheng Sheng and Zeng Li standing at the cinema entrance and asked them a question.

“No, we are Chinese,” Cheng Sheng said with a strong voice.

"Sorry."

Upon hearing this, the blond, blue-eyed foreigner instantly recalled a certain period of history between China and Japan. He apologized first, then, as if remembering something, asked, "Is there a film from a mysterious Eastern country showing here today?"

“Yes, I am the director of this film. I hope you will like it,” Cheng Sheng said.

"My God, you're a director? You're too young."

The blond, blue-eyed foreigner exclaimed in surprise.

It seems this foreigner doesn't know Cheng Sheng.

Cheng Sheng exchanged a few pleasantries with the foreigner, then politely escorted him into the cinema. (End of Chapter)