Chapter 930: The First Text ssage
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Zhang Zian raised both his hands high, laughing foolishly. Unlike in his imagination, however, there was no exciting scene facing him.
Besides things concerning pets, his creditworthiness had dropped. Most of the custors, the movie fans, and the elfins all looked at him like they were looking at a silly a** person. No one believed what he said.
“Really! All of you must believe !” Zhang Zian explained, awkwardly lowering his hands.
There was a hardcore movie fan who ca to the shop practically every day, but they were still not yet aware of his dark past. They asked excitedly, “Really? When will it be shown? I’m going to take my whole class and book the whole venue!”
“At present, it is scheduled to have a dostic premier at the Capital Film Festival in late April. Imdiately after that, it will be screened at all major cinema chains in the country!” Zhang Zian generously shared the new information with everyone.
“Oh? Really? What is the frequency of showtis? How much do the movie tickets cost?” the movie fan continued to ask.
“This…” Zhang Zian did not know how to answer the question. He could only shake his head helplessly. “I haven’t had ti to ask about any of that yet. The frequency of showtis is hard to confirm right now, right?”
“Are you silly? Of course this kind of thing has to be arranged in advance. If you know the producers of the film, tell them to go to the managers of the major cinema chains with als, drinks, rebates, and red envelopes before it’s too late! The data from the first day the movie is aired is very important; it affects the number of tis the movie will be aired each day in the future. Let the filmmakers take their own money out to pay for the attendance numbers and the box office. Don’t feel embarrassed. Nowadays everyone is doing this. If anyone doesn’t do it, they will surely regret it! This is a good film, but even fragrant wine is afraid of deep valleys!”
The movie fan’s words were rough, but not unreasonable. He seed to have a great understanding of the inside workings of the movie industry. He painfully explained the gains and losses of the situation to Zhang Zian and talked until Zhang Zian’s heart was slightly moved. He hesitated as to whether he should give Feng Xuan a subtle reminder.
The movie was too important to Famous, and they could not afford to have anything go wrong. Half of their success had been achieved after getting to Berlin’s Film Emperor, but the dostic box office was as unpredictable as the dostic stock market.
He looked towards Famous to ask for its opinion.
Famous was both shocked and excited. After waiting for so long, the official airing of the movie was finally confird. Despite the excitent, however, it had still managed to maintain its calm and restrained attitude. After all, that level of excitent was not the first ti for it; it was a dog who had done big scenes.
It shook its head indifferently and explicitly rejected Zhang Zian’s inquiry. It had defeated countless rivals in the film industry, and it disdained the use of such low level ans. Absolute strength could crush all the evil doers.
Zhang Zian nodded his head to express that he understood, then turned back to the movie fan. “Thank you for your kind intentions, but it’s still better to let things unfold naturally. The people’s eyes are bright, and good films will not be buried. No matter what you do for roughly produced films, in the end, they are just a pile of chicken feathers.”
That movie fan wanted to continue to persuade him, but Zhang Zian signaled that their discussion was over. There was no need to say anything else.
It was only at that ti that the other people finally believed that Zhang Zian was not randomly fooling them again. One by one they expressed their well wishes towards him and Famous––they had managed to wait for the clouds to disperse to see the moonlight.
The other movie fans present shared the explosive news with their friend circles and their Weibo accounts. The information spread quickly, but whether others believed it was sothing else entirely.
Zhang Zian accepted the congratulations with ease and was laughing with the movie fans. Anyway, Feng Xuan did not tell him that he had to keep it a secret.
At that mont, his phone rang again.
He thought that Feng Xuan had forgotten to tell him so information he wanted to share, or that Feng Xuan’s assistant was contacting him, so he separated himself from the crowd and walked into a corner. He would let Famous accept the congratulations from the movie fans.
However, the ssage on the phone screen was not sent by Feng Xuan, nor was it by Wei Kang to remind him to quickly return the underwater sound device.
It was a ssage, and after the free online chatting applications started to beco widely used, practically no one was willing to spend the money to send a text ssage. What was normally received through text was advertisents or notifications, but this was not.
The sender was Sihwa.
The text ssage only had a few words: “I’m Sihwa. Help congratulate Famous! Also, I’ve finished learning the language.”
She did not know that the text ssage would show who sent it as long as their na was in the receiver’s call log; she had even especially emphasized that she was Sihwa. Furthermore, she had typed the wrong “Fei” in Famous, because she had heard other people call it Famous. She knew how to pronounce it, but she did not know which “Fei” word it was.
It was her first ti texting, and her first ti typing. It was also her first ti using Chinese letters to type.
Zhang Zian had taught her before how to use WeChat to send free ssages. She had learned it and sent so voice ssages, but after the novelty had passed, because she had no one else to send ssages to besides him, she had not sent any ssages again.
She did not use the free WeChat, but instead specifically used the text ssages that one had to pay for. There had to be so special aning behind it.
Zhang Zian was very surprised, but he did not have the ti to think deeper into it. He walked over to Famous and said, “Sihwa told to congratulate you.”
Famous was stunned but cried out with a Woof! It wanted Zhang Zian to thank her in response. He should have gone upstairs to thank her face to face, but he was surrounded and could not get away.
The rest of the people in the shop did not know who Sihwa was, but after they heard her na, they thought she seed like a fresh girl. There was another round of people making digs at Zhang Zian and ridiculing him.
Zhang Zian silently rembered everyone who ridiculed him, planning to have his revenge on them later on. He then took large steps and went upstairs.
Pi was in front of the computer, the keyboard tapping as he typed on it. When it heard footsteps, it turned to look at Zhang Zian.
“Pi, let tell you so good news. Dog Warrior is going to officially air soon!” he excitedly told Pi the good news.
“Zhi zhi!” Pi was equally excited. It pushed the keyboard aside, jumping down from the chair and dancing about.
“No matter what, we need to think of a way to celebrate a bit today… How about an unprecedented ga of ultimate hide-and-seek?” Zhang Zian suggested.
“ow! Hide-and-seek! Galaxy wants to play hide-and-seek!” Galaxy happened to be chasing the Arican Shorthair and ran past them through the hallway. It imdiately rejoiced upon hearing Zhang Zian’s words.
“Zhi zhi…” Pi had been traumatized from the hide-and-seek gas with Galaxy, and upon hearing that they would be playing ultimate hide-and-seek, it got even more scared and started to shrink into a corner. It scratched its ears and cheeks to think of an excuse to not participate. Presumably, Famous would do the sa thing.
“We can talk about this later. I have to go and find Sihwa first.”
Zhang Zian let Pi and Galaxy continue writing and playing. He knocked on the door of the bathroom. Sihwa was sitting in the bathtub, dazedly staring at the outside through the small window. Her face had a look of tiredness that was rarely seen.
Hearing him knock the door, she turned her head around and smiled lightly. “So many people like Famous!”
“That’s because Famous is very hardworking, and this is what it deserves. A lot of people only see the good tis––when Famous has succeeded. They do not know how much hard work and sweat it put in to stand on that stage,” Zhang Zian answered. “There is no success that cos purely due to luck.”
She nodded. “I’ve finished learning the language. Do you want to record the sounds now?”
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