Reborn in 1970, I thrived in Hong Kong.

After Zhao Yazhi and her mother came to their senses, Wu Guofang had already left; she had gone back to help with the cash register.

She gave birth to her second daughter in June. When she returned from maternity leave, the boss was looking to transfer veteran employees from various companies to Phoenix Supermarket, with all of them getting a promotion and a raise. So she volunteered.

With her strong communication skills, elegant appearance, and meticulous work ethic, she was assigned to Phoenix Plaza in Central as the deputy manager of Phoenix Supermarket.

Wu Guofang cherishes this job that supports her and her two daughters, especially after her husband disappeared and she didn't know where he went. She needs this relatively decent job even more now.

On one hand, Zhao Yazhi couldn't go back and pay again, since Wu Guofang had made it very clear that the free procedures had already been completed; on the other hand, she couldn't just accept a whole bunch of free things and leave without paying. If she accepted these things, what kind of person would she become in Li Huai Ren's eyes?

She hated Li Huai-ren with a passion that burned like a ton of bricks.

"Damn Li, if you give me a big house just like you gave Brigitte Lin a big house, humph, see if I accept it or not."

You think you can test me with a free shopping card? Hmph, you underestimate me.

"Slap!" Her mother patted her on the shoulder.

"Ah-Zhi, let's go. What are you still standing there for?"

Zhao Yazhi glanced at her mother, didn't move, and said:

"Mom, my boss must have given me the wrong card."

Zhao's mother rolled her eyes at her:

"I know, your boss must have given me the wrong card. But so what? Are you going to return all of these things right now?"

Silly girl, don't you know what time it is? Today is the opening day of Phoenix Supermarket. All the employees are extremely busy. Let's not go and cause trouble, okay?

Why don't you just return the card and the money from today's shopping to your boss later?

"You have to be flexible, you silly girl!"

Zhao Yazhi thought about it and agreed, so she didn't return the things and went home with her mother first.

The next day, Zhao Yazhi returned to Phoenix TV early. Today was the day the cast of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was to be finalized, and she was notified by the station to audition for the role of Diao Chan.

At 8:00 a.m., the conference room on the sixth floor of the Phoenix Building was packed. Li Huai-ren sat in the center of the stage, with Wang Tian-lin and Li Han-xiang sitting on his left and right sides, respectively.

Li Huai-ren glanced at the audience and saw that Hong Jingbao, Chen Long, Yuen Woo-ping, Ching Siu-tung, and other big names from his previous life's Hong Kong entertainment industry were all there. He immediately felt a surge of pride, thinking, "All the heroes of the world are now under my control." He smiled and said into the microphone:

"Everyone, I'm sorry to bother you, but it's almost Chinese New Year and I've had to call you all back for this meeting."

Today is the final preparatory meeting for the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" production team. All members of the team must be finalized today, and filming will begin after the New Year.

Director Li Hanxiang will explain these things to you in detail later, so I won't go into details.

I'm attending this meeting mainly to announce a few things while everyone is here.

The first thing is that after the Cheng family team and the Yuan family team have devoted themselves to the filming of the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", they will not participate in the filming of TV series again unless there are special circumstances, and will focus on making movies!

The second thing was the opening of 24 Phoenix Cinemas theaters and 36 cinemas in Southeast Asia.

The 68 cinemas acquired in Japan are also undergoing renovations;

The second batch of 48 Phoenix Plaza locations in Southeast Asia will begin construction after the Lunar New Year.

Australia, Europe, the United States, and Canada are also acquiring land to build Phoenix Plaza, with the first batch of 100 stores!

The purpose of telling you all this is to let you know that the promise I made when I sincerely invited you to join Phoenix TV and Phoenix Movies is about to be fulfilled!

By September of this year at the latest, we will have 276 cinemas worldwide, spanning countries and regions in Asia and Europe, with over 30 seats!

As soon as he finished speaking, Hong Jingbao and others in the audience jumped up excitedly and shouted happily.

After everyone finally quieted down, Li Huai-ren was about to announce the third thing when the observant Zhang Che noticed a big problem. It seemed that Li Huai-ren was building Phoenix Plaza and opening cinemas all over the world, but he had overlooked the largest market for Hong Kong films at present - Taiwan!

He immediately asked:

"Boss, I don't think I heard you mention Taiwan. Did you accidentally forget it, or are there no plans for Taiwan?"

Li Huai-ren smiled and said:

"You are very observant; you noticed this problem."

Yes, I do not have any plans to build Phoenix Square or a movie theater in Taiwan.

Since everyone here is on our side, I might as well be frank with you: the Taiwanese market is actually a double-edged sword for us.

Everyone should think about this: before filming even begins, a script review fee has to be paid to Taiwan; during filming, there are restrictions on what can and cannot be filmed, and certain people need to be fed before filming can proceed; when the film is released, more people need to be fed; and when settling box office revenue, yet another group needs to be fed before the money can be received.

When you do the math, everyone works so hard making this movie, but the money they earn in Taiwan isn't even as much as what they give away, and they still have to put up with those parasites' awful attitude. I won't tolerate their behavior!

Looking around at the stunned crowd, Li Huai-ren smiled and quoted Guo Tai-ming:

"To be honest, I think Taiwan has it backwards. It's not that they're giving us food, it's that we're giving them food!"

This is a classic case of the eater controlling the pooper. My personality and temper won't tolerate them, and my attitude is very firm:

We will resolutely refuse to argue with them. From now on, all our films will be sold out to Taiwanese film distributors. It will be a cash-on-delivery transaction. We will not be shortchanged a single penny of what is rightfully ours!

From now on, Phoenix Film Company will not get involved in any of Taiwan's messy affairs when making movies. We will review the scripts ourselves, and once they are approved, you can film them however you want without worrying about being blacklisted by Taiwan.

Don't forget the confidence I gave you: by the end of September this year, we will have more than 300,000 movie seats worldwide!

I'll be frank with you, 300,000 seats is just the beginning. My goal is to reach 1 million seats within three years! And double that within five years, ultimately having the world's number one cinema chain with the most seats!

Before he finished speaking, everyone in the room was thrilled and clapped enthusiastically, the applause was thunderous.

After finally calming down again, Li Huai-ren looked at everyone and said earnestly:

"Let's broaden our horizons. We want to earn dollars, pounds, and francs."

The focus should be on developing the European and North American markets. Don't just fixate on Taiwan, a tiny place like Hong Kong, where policies change constantly and any Tom, Dick, or Harry can easily cripple everyone.

This brings us to the third thing I'm about to announce.

Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby solemnly announce:

From this day forward, Phoenix Film Company will only produce high-quality films and will refuse to produce shoddy works!

My goal is simple: if we want to expand into the European and American film market, then we must release good movies.

In this way, we can cultivate a large number of Hong Kong film fans in Europe and America, and also get more people to go to the cinemas under my control.

At the very least, I need to make sure the cinemas don't lose money, otherwise I'll have more motivation to build more cinemas, right?

Of course, if you make a good movie, the benefits you will receive will be enormous. General Manager Wang Tianlin has already formulated a series of incentive measures, whether it's box office revenue sharing or the number of screens where the film will be shown..."