Chapter 231 It’s All Netizens’ Fault

Gu Wei went home for a few days. In addition to spending time with his parents, he also discussed something with them.

He plans to initially set up his own personal charitable fund with a total investment of 50 million yuan to donate to education in impoverished areas across the country.

To put it simply, it means donating money to build teaching buildings in the mountainous areas.

The model is completely modeled after Principal Gu. We will negotiate with the local government and have charitable foundations invest money to build teaching buildings where needed. The subsequent teaching staff will be supplemented by the local government.

The construction unit will find a third-party construction unit to carry out the work. In order to ensure the quality of the project, Gu Wei will ask a professional quality inspection agency to supervise the construction throughout the process to avoid cutting corners.

Otherwise, it would be terrible if good intentions ended up doing bad things.

The charity fund also makes donations to disaster-stricken areas across the country every year, all of which are in the form of material donations. Although this is a bit more troublesome, it ensures that all the money spent is used effectively.

In fact, if you want to do charity simply to avoid taxes, donating to some large charitable foundations is the easiest and simplest way.

But Gu Wei really wanted to do something, and he didn't want the money he spent on doing good deeds to end up in the pockets of some despicable people.

After all, the reputation of many foundations in the domestic charity sector is not very good now. Once the donated money reaches their accounts, it is hard to say how much of it will actually be used.

As the saying goes, if you are rich, you should help the world; if you are poor, you should take care of yourself.

When you give someone a rose, the fragrance lingers on your hand.

With Gu Wei's current wealth and development trend, his money will only increase, and he probably won't be able to spend it all in his lifetime.

Now he will set aside part of his annual income to increase his holdings of Moutai and Tencent stocks. As the share prices of the two companies rise, his book value is still expanding rapidly.

This does not include the shares he holds in ByteDance and miHoYo.

Let’s not talk about [miHoYo] for now. Since he acquired the shares, it has never been short of money. The 2D shooting game [Honkai Impact 3rd] launched last year has been generating good revenue since its launch.

Several founders are using the money raised from Gu Wei to speed up the development of the 3D action game [Honkai Impact 3].

From 2D to 3D, miHoYo's ambitions are growing little by little.

[ByteDance] started its Series C financing in the second half of last year, although its two apps have been controversial.

[Connotative Jokes] We have received repeated inquiries from relevant departments due to vulgar content and improper guidance.

[Toutiao] was boycotted by many media outlets because it scraped news from other platforms.

However, these problems do not prevent ByteDance from continuing to attract traffic and grow bigger and stronger.

Weibo and Sequoia Capital led the C round of funding with US$100 million. After the financing, ByteDance was valued at US$500 million.

After the C round, although Gu Wei's shares were diluted a little, the 10 million US dollars he invested at that time increased sixfold in just over a year, and there is still a lot of room for further growth.

Of course, the shares of these two companies are purely investments in the future, and for now they are still just paper wealth.

The only thing Gu Wei can rely on now and the only money he can actually get are the several companies under his own name.

In 2014, the film and television company under Gu Wei's name made a net profit of 400 million yuan for the whole year due to the huge sales of "Detective Chinatown", the popularity of "Go Princess Go" and "Yu Zui", and the shares of two TV series "Swords of Legends" and "Come on, My Love" directed by Gu Wei.

Gu Wei's personal income from endorsement fees and film remuneration in 2014 was more than 100 million yuan.

And at the beginning of 2015, "The Monkey King: Hero is Back" was in theaters and was expected to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars.

With so much money, it is normal for him to want to help those in need in addition to meeting his own needs.

Moreover, as a celebrity, charity is always the best protection. If he becomes a nationally renowned philanthropist, anyone who wants to use some underhanded means to deal with him will have to think twice before acting.

Gu Wei's personal charitable foundation does not accept external donations and is entirely funded by him personally. It is easy to find relevant staff. He can just pull some people from the company to form the skeleton and then recruit the rest from outside.

But he thought it would be better to have a real family member to look after this matter. After all, as he made more and more money in the future, the scale of this charity fund would also become larger and larger.

Gu Wei was also afraid that some of his own people would lose control and reach out, so he took precautions.

Mom and Dad are very supportive of Gu Wei's idea of ​​doing charity. They agreed that once the foundation is established this year, Mom Gu will come to help.

During the New Year holidays, Gu Wei has been in his hometown with his parents. He has not paid any attention to the Spring Festival Gala performances after that.

After the first broadcast on New Year's Eve and the rebroadcast on the morning of the first day of the new year, Gu Wei's song "Chi Ling" gradually became popular.

After the performance on the day of the Spring Festival Gala, the song "Chi Ling" was quickly put on the shelves of major music platforms. Gu Wei also posted the song on his Weibo and wrote the background story of the song.

When the Japanese invaded Anyuan County, China, the Japanese leader came to a theater and asked Pei Yan (the protagonist) to perform for him, or he would have his men burn down the entire county. She agreed, and continued to sing on stage while the Japanese below ate meat and drank wine. Just as the performance was about to end, Pei Yan uttered two words: "Fire!" The Japanese were stunned. By the time they realized what was happening, the fire had already spread, and the Japanese were in chaos, while the performance continued on stage. Then the building collapsed, but the performance had not yet ended...

In just three days, more than 20,000 people on Douban reviewed this song, with a score as high as 9.1.

[Brother's new song is so good, highly recommended! ! ! !]

A year later, Gu Wei released new songs, including "Wukong" and "Chi Ling," proving once again that he is a talented singer among actors!

[Put aside the filter of Gu Wei being a superstar, honestly, this is a really great song. The melody is beautiful, and the lyrics are full of patriotic sentiments. The opera voice astounded me. Gu Wei is truly a songwriting genius. It's a shame he's been an actor. If he'd focused on music, he wouldn't have been able to achieve what Zhou Jue has achieved!!]

[The opera and Kunqu opera are truly amazing! This is truly the ancient style! ! ]

[The first time I heard Zeng Li sing, and in an operatic voice, I just wanted to say, Sister is stunning!]

[Even though I am humble, I still worry about my country, even if no one knows me. The lyrics are so well written, and the opera singing part in the middle is also very nice. I hope to hear more ancient style songs like this in the future~]

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Some netizens who had nothing to do edited a clip of "Farewell My Concubine" and matched it with the music of "Red Ling" and posted it online. Not to mention that it doesn't look out of place at all, the visuals and the lyrics are very consistent.

Because Gu Wei wrote this song purely for the purpose of performing on the Spring Festival Gala and no MV was filmed beforehand, many uninformed netizens mistook this version for the official MV.

After watching the video forwarded by Zeng Li on WeChat, Gu Wei couldn't help but sigh that there are so many talented people among netizens!

"What do you think Director Chen Kai felt when he saw this video?

Will he think you are infringing on his rights?"

On WeChat, Zeng Li forwarded the video to Gu Wei and then asked.

"I think he should be thanking me because the appearance of our song has made people dig out his old movies again, which is equivalent to increasing his popularity.

As for the copyright infringement, it was all done by netizens. What does it have to do with me, Gu? "

(End of this chapter)