A writer has arrived in the Chinese entertainment industry.

"So, your movie is going to be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year?" Chen Duling finished lunch and arrived at the classroom early for her afternoon class.

"Yes," Su Liu leaned back in his chair, his tone tinged with helplessness, "It was really caught off guard."

After discussing it with Li Fei, we realized that the situation of forcing our way into the Spring Festival film season was more severe than we had anticipated.

This year's Spring Festival release, "The Monkey King," touted as a 3D fantasy blockbuster, boasted a star-studded cast including Donnie Yen, Kwok Fu-chen, and Chow Yun-fat. Furthermore, it was co-distributed by China Film Group and Wanda Group, making it a truly high-profile production.

Another film, "Where Are We Going, Dad? The Movie," capitalized on the popularity of the variety show, resulting in a very high box office performance. This film was also co-invested and distributed by Enlight Media.

"Knives Out" is also co-invested and co-distributed by Enlight Media, so it's a double whammy. Fortunately, these two films are each handled by a different vice president within Enlight Media, so it remains to be seen whether Liu Tong can out-seat the other in terms of screen time.

There are also "From Vegas to Macau" and "Ex-Files," one produced by Bona Film Group and the other by Huayi Brothers. For now, we can only suppress these two for the time being.

In fact, most movies that insist on being released during the Spring Festival season are doomed to fail.

Li Fei was powerless to do anything about it. This was a death order from the group. This year, "Knives Out" was Shanghai Film Group's only film for the Spring Festival season, and she had no choice but to take the blame.

In terms of regional distribution, Shanghai Film Group is the dominant force in East China, and Li Fei can guarantee screenings there. However, looking at the national picture, Shanghai Film Group's distribution network is quite weak, and the rest will depend on Liu Tong of Enlight Media.

After ending the call, Chen Duling felt a little down. She wanted to help, but didn't know how.

She silently took out her phone and downloaded the Renren app and Weibo. She had never liked the title of "school beauty" and disliked attracting too much attention.

But now, she thought to herself, at least she's an internet celebrity. Although she knew that whatever she did would be a drop in the ocean, it could still play a small, insignificant role.

On the other side, Su Liu also posted a Weibo post. His Weibo followers are far fewer than his Twitter followers, only a little over a million.

"Knives Out will be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Those who called me a pervert should go to the cinema to support me."

Below is the movie poster and a group photo of the main actors.

Su Liu had already announced it at the beginning of filming, and he would also update some behind-the-scenes footage from the set, so almost all of his readers knew that "Perverted Liu" was working on a movie.

Although Su Liu's number of followers is far less than those of the big influencers, their engagement is extremely high. As soon as this Weibo post was published, it immediately garnered many responses.

"The efficiency of this 'perverted' genre is so high? I remember filming only started a little over a month ago, and it's going to be released during the Spring Festival?"

"Why don't you just stick to writing books? Not everyone can handle making movies."

"Hey upstairs, what's the point of bringing this up now? Besides, even Guo Jingming is making movies now, our 'Perverted Style' is no worse than his, is it?"

Unexpectedly, some fans of "Tiny Times" appeared in the comments section of this post.

"Are you saying that just any Tom, Dick, or Harry can compare to our Xiao Si these days? Don't you even look at the number of fans on both sides? Are they even in the same league?"

As soon as this comment appeared, Su Liu's readers immediately retorted. "This is hilarious! There's even a fan of Guo Jingming showing up. Please, do a quick online search. Who does Guo Jingming think he is? Does he even know the value of being the top Chinese-language mystery novelist?"

"Our 'Tiny Times' series alone has sold 1500 million copies. How many copies did your 'Number One Chinese-Language Mystery Novel' sell? Tell us."

In terms of domestic book sales, Su Liu can't even come close to Guo Jingming's. But someone immediately found sales data for Guo Jingming's works overseas.

"Your 'Tiny Times' only had a print run of 10,000 copies in Japan and South Korea, with total sales of just 20,000 to 30,000. Your debut work in the 'perverted' genre sold a whopping 500,000 copies in Japan alone, not to mention your recent new work, which sold 1 million copies in Japan alone and has also received widespread acclaim in Europe and America. What does Guo Jingming have? Tell me and compare."

The two sides inexplicably started arguing in the comments section. Most of Guo Jingming's fans are women, incredibly powerful and numerous, constantly calling on their friends and acquaintances. They quickly flooded Su Liu's comment section.

Su Liu's readers are few and far between, yet they are as hard as rocks, possessing a kind of resilience that says, "Let him be strong, the breeze still caresses the mountain."

When the other party mentions domestic sales, this side mocks that he is unknown overseas; when the other party criticizes Su Liu for being unknown, this side retorts that Xiao Si only writes brainless books to fool little girls.

In the end, some genius said, "This kind of arguing isn't working. Let Xiao Si fight the perverted stream offline. It'll be obvious who's stronger."

These words hit a nerve, and Xiao Si's fans instantly broke down.

The comment section immediately exploded, with all sorts of vulgar language raining down on them. They began to viciously attack Su Liu's character, escalating from his work to his appearance—they originally wanted to criticize Su Liu's looks, but even the most vicious person, looking at Su Liu's face, couldn't bring themselves to say the word "ugly."

The war of words came to an abrupt halt.

That day, a hashtag suddenly appeared on Weibo's trending topics list: "Su Liu and Guo Xiaosi challenge each other to an offline duel".

Our great writer learned about this from Reba herself.

When he logged back onto Weibo, he was immediately taken aback by the sheer volume of comments.

The number of comments under his Weibo post has exceeded 100,000.

Just as he and Reba were staring at each other, Chen Si suddenly burst in like a gust of wind.

"President Su! You're trending!"

"Yeah, I'm trending." Su Liu said something obvious.

Chen Si was waiting for him to give some brilliant instructions, but the two just stared at each other for a long time without saying anything.

Chen Si panicked: "President Su, we should seize this opportunity to promote our movie!"

"That's right!" Su Liu slammed his hand on the table. "You're absolutely right!" Then he fell into deep thought, muttering to himself, "What should I post?"

Chen Si shook her head, unable to stand his slow pace any longer. She stepped forward and snatched Su Liu's phone, "I'll send it for you!"

She picked up the phone and her fingers flew across the keys.

"I just saw that the comments section is arguing fiercely. Thank you everyone for speaking up for me, but it really wasn't necessary."

"I'm just a novelist who made a movie on the side. I just want to share my work with everyone during the Spring Festival."

"Every creator deserves respect; my battlefield is only the big screen."

"The film was temporarily scheduled for release during the Spring Festival. All attitudes and thoughts are in the film."

"No fuss, see you at the cinema on the first day of the Lunar New Year."

Chen Si was clear-headed. With one Weibo post, she instantly helped Su Liu establish a good image of "focusing on creation and not engaging in fandom" and gave both sides' fans a way out. Most importantly, she took the opportunity to launch her own movie.

"Sister Sisi, you're so smart!" Dilraba watched with shining eyes.