Losing Money to Be a Chapter 746 - Sloth Apartments’ New Building

Chapter 746: Sloth Apartnts’ New Building

Director Zhu Xiaoce’s latest script had ended there. Lu Zhiyao was not sure how far into the movie was the script, but based on the estimated ti taken to film, they had probably not even covered half of the movie.

The current plot was not enough to infer the entire story even if there were many big scenes with special effects in the later stages.

However, this was exactly the effect that Director Zhu Xiaoce wanted.

Obviously, many stages in the movie had been twisted in the plot. The protagonist Qin Yi’s ntality was also changing subtly or drastically.

If Lu Zhiyao knew the final ending from the beginning, he would definitely be affected when he acted in the previous plot.

Thus, the scripts were given one after another. The main purpose was to allow Lu Zhiyao to completely imrse himself in the role and escape the influence of the spoiler.

However, there was still a problem with ‘substitution’.

Lu Zhiyao had taken quite a number of scenes up until now. So of the shots were satisfactory, while others were not.

However, he still felt a little lost whether he was satisfied or not.

He did not have a very clear direction for the performance and did not know the entire story’s plot. He did not know if he had an accurate grasp of Qin Yi’s character, so Lu Zhiyao would feel confused and not confident enough.

Now, looking at the scripts, Qin Yi’s emotions had actually undergone changes several tis.

At the beginning, Qin Yi felt lucky to be alive and angry that he had been deceived.

After witnessing the defeat of the Zergs and learning that the previous commander sacrificed himself, Qin Yi had mixed feelings. While he understood in his heart that there was no other choice, he did not completely let it go;

In the subsequent commanding process, with the addition of the ‘realistic elents’, Qin Yi’s thinking and ntality constantly changed to the forr commander. When he was personally commanding the review of the battle, Qin Yi had already completely understood the forr commander’s ntality after sending the ‘reinforcents are on their way’ command to the AS-371-45 team.

When he unexpectedly discovered that part of the battle he was commanding was a real battle, Qin Yi’s ntality fluctuated again.

To Lu Zhiyao, it was very difficult to show these emotional changes.

That was because Qin Yi’s character design was that he was a very rational and calm soldier. A soldier’s duty was to obey orders. He knew very well in his heart that the little grievance he had suffered, and even his own life, was insignificant compared to humanity’s victory in the war against the Zergs and the survival of the race.

Therefore, on the one hand, Qin Yi kept suppressing his emotions as a human, making himself colder and more rational. He tried his best to win every battle and minimize casualties. On the other hand, he had doubts about the future of himself and mankind.

These intricate and complicated feelings would have subtle differences in every stage of the plot. For Lu Zhiyao, the most difficult part was how to act out these differences while ensuring that the character of Qin Yi would not collapse.

Lu Zhiyao stood up and took a small mirror from the side. Then, he made various expressions in front of the mirror.

Suddenly, he thought of sothing and got up to find Zhu Xiaoce.

“Director Zhu, from now on, apart from filming, I have been staying in the hotel room and not gone anywhere. Let

use the laptop that contained Starcraft the last ti. I want to use it to continue figuring out my character.”

“Also, please give

a set of DV. I want to record my expressions when I play gas and watch it afterwards.”

“Also, can you help

find a similar smart speaker for AEEIS? It would be best if you could input all of AEEIS’ lines into it so that it can act for . I suddenly realized that Qin Yi’s act is not a one-man show but acting against AEEIS. I have always been taking it as a one-man show so I feel that there is sothing lacking.”

“It might be more effective if I could have a system voice chat with .”

Zhu Xiaoce was slightly surprised, but he quickly nodded happily. “Sure, no problem.”

“I’ll send the DV and computer to you tonight. As for AEEIS... I heard that the sample from Otto Technologies is about to be released. I will get you an OTTO cell phone to make do with it. There’s an AEEIS intelligent voice on it. Once the sample of AEEIS’ sound system is out, I’ll get one to send to your hotel room imdiately.”

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November 17th, Thursday...

Jingzhou City’s Guangming District’s Golden Residence, Huating District.

This was a brand new building. Liang Qingfan had selected one of the buildings to make Sloth Apartnts 2.0.

Since Pei Qian had nothing else to do so he decided to co over and see how things were going.

Liang Qingfan was already waiting downstairs. After receiving Boss Pei, the two of them went to the model room on the third floor.

“Boss Pei, this building has two floors with three units with an area of 120 square ters, 130 square ters, and 150 square ters. It has a large area of south-facing windows and balconies. The apartnt layout is not bad. Considering the location of the building, it can basically satisfy most people’s mainstream needs.”

“However, because the house itself is exquisitely renovated, the developer priced it at a higher price, which is two to three thousand yuan higher than the surrounding buildings. Thus, it is not selling very well for now.”

“I thought about it. In a few months, we might be able to sell it at a lower price. However, if that happens, it would be more troubleso for us to buy an entire building. Thus, we decided to buy it at the current price.”

Liang Qingfan explained the basic situation of the building to Pei Qian.

Pei Qian nodded in satisfaction. “Yes, you did the right thing!”

Pei Qian had said before that he would give Liang Qingfan fifty million yuan to buy a place with little potential for appreciation.

This was mainly because Pei Qian had been cheated by the Sloth Apartnts’ version 1.0 model. He had deliberately chosen a remote location that no one wanted to buy. In the end, the price he had bought was too low. After the renovation, the property prices had skyrocketed.

If not for the special mission, he would have failed the previous settlent cycle.

However, this place did not seem to have much potential for appreciation in the short term.

The location of the Golden Residence’s Huating District was not bad. The developer of this house, the style of the house, and so on were all quite satisfactory. However, it was precisely because there was nothing to nitpick on in all aspects that the developer grew complacent. He set a price that was two to three thousand yuan higher than the surrounding houses because of the high-end location, high-end renovation.

A house that was about 150 square ters was imdiately more expensive by three to four hundred thousand yuan. It was a painful price to pay in this day and age.

Obviously, the developer’s pricing strategy had its own tricks. The prices of houses could only be higher, not lower.

If the price was high enough, it could highlight the ‘noble attribute’ of their own building. First, they would cheat a group of rich people. When they could not sell it, they would secretly reduce the price. For example, they would give custors a discount so that they custors would feel like they were taking advantage of the situation and use the thod of discrimination to the extre.

However, if they set the price low and raised the price in the future, they would be scolded to death.

Thus, the developer’s price was a little too high. Buyers felt that this house was ridiculously expensive and many people were watching. Liang Qingfan took the opportunity to buy the entire building.

If the price was lowered in the future, even 200 yuan per square ter difference would cost Tengda a loss of 600,000 to 700,000 yuan. The more they reduced, the more losses they would incur.

However, that was exactly what Pei Qian wanted. It was a good thing that he could spend more money. He had to praise him!

Liang Qingfan brought Pei Qian to look at the apartnts on the third and fourth floors.

“Boss Pei, these three apartnts on the third floor were originally the developer’s model rooms. Since they were all set up, it would be a pity to tear them down and redo them. That’s why we kept them. That way, we can also show custors the difference in taste between our Sloth Apartnts and the developer’s renovations.”

“The three apartnts on the fourth floor are the model rooms of Sloth Apartnts 2.0. They are completely renovated according to our usual minimalistic style.”

“As for the other floors, the renovations are still ongoing. Considering the entrance of furniture, appliances, and other supporting facilities, it might only be completed by the end of December. However, they would be ready for people to move in by the beginning of January, which is consistent with our previous estimates.”

Pei Qian first went to the third floor to look at the developer’s demo room, and then went to the fourth floor to look at Sloth Apartnts 2.0’s demo room.

The difference was obvious.

The developer’s demo room could not be said to be ugly. Wallpapers, carpet, huge murals on the television walls, dark mahogany furniture, and so on were basically the current mainstream style.

It was still the sa problem that he had ntioned before. At the mont, the main group of buyers were still middle-aged people. The model rooms were mainly ant to satisfy their needs. Sotis, even the designers’ aesthetic standards had to compromise for their custors’ needs.

However, the entire space of the Sloth Apartnts 2.0 model room on the fourth floor felt different!

The Sloth Apartnts 2.0 model was the sa as 1.0. The only difference was that there was more storage space in the room, which made it more practical.

Pei Qian observed for a while and realized that Liang Qingfan was still very restrained despite the restrictions of the storage space being released in Version 2.0. The cabinets were not filled up everywhere, especially in the living room area. This maximized the empty style.

However, the study, the bedroom, next to the door, and the living room near the balcony were still filled with cabinets that matched the renovation style so that they would not stand out.

Compared to the developer’s demo room, the Sloth Apartnts’ style was obviously more suited to the taste of young people. Whether it was the utilization of space, practicality, lifestyle habits, cultural atmosphere, and so on, there were obvious improvents.

Liang Qingfan asked, “Boss Pei, how do you feel?”

Pei Qian nodded. “Hm, not bad.”

Such Sloth Apartnts 2.0 units should be snatched up imdiately after its launch?

In fact, Pei Qian had decided to make Sloth Apartnts 2.0 in order to help those young people who were troubled by renting apartnts. At first, the only flaw of Sloth Apartnts was that there was too little storage space. Now, this flaw had been made up for. It had beco a rental space that completely suited the needs of young people.

That way, it would be difficult to rent Sloth Apartnts 1.0 out if he were to make more of them.

However, Pei Qian did not care about that. In any case, he would open as many as he could. He would lose money no matter which one he opened.

Pei Qian walked around the room and felt that the furniture, including the sofa, coffee table, television cabinet, and the like were slightly different from before.

Pei Qian did not notice it when he first entered because the apartnt was different.

“These furniture look different from before?” Pei Qian asked.

Liang Qingfan nodded. “That’s right. At the mont, most of the furniture in the room has been changed. The reason why it looks not much different from before is because a large part of it was specially custom-made by the furniture factory that we worked with.”