Chapter 458: Is there any point in watering the flowers if they are dead?
With the release of "Who is the Ghost", it directly dominated the hot searches, and netizens once again had a new understanding of Shen Zhichu's acting skills.
I thought her acting was good enough in the last variety show, but I didn't expect it to be even more amazing on the big screen.
Shen Zhichu shined in "Who is the Ghost" with first-class acting skills, which no one could surpass. Not only did he make enough money, he also gained countless fans, gaining both fame and fortune.
When netizens look at the current Chen Zhichu, they almost forget that she was once blackened by the entire network. The current Chen Zhichu is truly reborn from the ashes.
Sometimes netizens can't help but wonder why they were so blackened when they saw women on screen. What was there about such a radiant person that was worth blackening?
Such a Chen Zhichu is so attractive, he is really like the sun.
Bai Qiujing, who acted with her, also fully unleashed his acting skills in this movie. The two cooperated perfectly, drawing a perfect end to the movie.
In the film, the two play a couple and at the beginning, just like the title of the film, "Who is the Ghost?"
It is hard to tell whether it is a human or a ghost, but in the end it doesn’t matter.
Some people are born in the world but feel like they are in hell, while some people pretend to be in the world while in hell. What is presented in the movie is redemption. At the end, the wife gradually becomes transparent and disappears in her husband's arms, which earns the audience's tears.
The husband also understood the meaning of life, and with his longing for his wife, he tried hard to love this world.
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After Shen Zhichu's movie was released, Li Jingshen secretly asked people to book cinemas in various cities and only schedule "Who is the Ghost"
It can be said that he alone contributed 300 million to the box office.
Shen Zhichu also knew that it was okay for Li Jingshen to do whatever he wanted, and he would rather not take the money that was offered to him.
Li Jingshen watches Shen Zhichu's movies every day when he has free time. He never gets tired of watching them even if he has watched them at least twenty times. In addition to discussing work, the employees in the company discuss this popular movie the most.
He didn't know when it started, but the name "Chen Zhichu" always lingered in his ears. More and more people mentioned her and talked about her enthusiastically, but Li Jingshen felt that Shen Zhichu was getting farther and farther away from him. His world suddenly became empty and he had nothing.
Li Jingshen got lung cancer and quit smoking. The doctor advised him to have chemotherapy, but he refused. Chemotherapy could prolong his life, but lying in bed was worse than death for him.
Lung cancer has a huge impact on the body. In addition to the pain, the hair also started to fall out. To prevent more and more hair loss, Li Jingshen went to get a haircut and cut his hair into a buzz cut. Handsome and good-looking people look good in any hairstyle.
His smooth forehead makes his facial features look more three-dimensional. His once sharp eyebrows and bright eyes are no longer as bright as before.
Li Jingshen opened the movie again and started watching it. Every time he saw the heroine's soul fade away and disappear at the end, he would cry.
Although it is a movie, these things actually happened. Wasn’t that how Shen Zhichu disappeared back then?
Shen Zhichu's acting is flawless, and the character she presents throughout the film is impeccable, bringing the entire script to its fullest potential. She is always able to quickly get into the role, giving the audience the feeling that she is not acting, but that the character in the movie itself is her.
Li Jingshen would also search the Internet for various news about Shen Zhichu and read netizens' praise for her.
This is how they described Shen Zhichu: her beauty was like a red rose blooming brightly in the sun, attracting everyone's attention.
This was not the first time Li Jingshen had seen Shen Zhichu like this. He had seen Shen Zhichu like this a long time ago and had engraved her appearance in his soul.
The red rose with rotten roots has now sprouted new buds and its petals are blooming again, even more dazzling than before.
Li Jingshen had never owned such a "red rose". He destroyed it when he got it, and now it no longer belongs to him when he lives again.
Zhao Qian received news that Xia Yanyue was dead.
He was tortured by Lu Tingchuan for a full eight months and experimented with various drugs. He was tortured to the point of being insane, with his limbs crippled, his eyes gouged out, his ears cut off, his scalp peeled off, and countless needle holes on his body. There was not a single piece of healthy flesh, and maggots were crawling in the rotten flesh. His death was extremely horrific.
After seeing the photos, Zhao Qian vomited up his leftover food and had nightmares for several nights in a row. Just looking at the injuries on her body, he knew that Xia Yanyue had been living a life worse than hell for the past eight months.
"Are you sure she's dead this time?"
Zhao Qian replied: "It's definitely her. I've asked someone to do a DNA test."
"How did Lu Tingchuan deal with her body?" Li Jingshen asked.
"The body parts were thrown into the factory's cesspool." Zhao Qian's face turned ugly again when he mentioned it.
"Keep the evidence."
"yes."
Zhao Qian didn't ask any more questions. He had followed Li Jingshen for so many years and knew his methods. Although Li Jingshen didn't say it explicitly, he could guess it.
After Lu Tingchuan learned that Shen Qing was dead, and his legs were broken, he took out all his anger and murderous intent on Xia Yanyue. It was already his limit that he could keep Xia Yanyue alive for eight months.
Xia Yanyue had gone mad when she died. For her, death was a relief.
Lu Tingchuan's methods became very cruel. He obviously enjoyed inflicting pain, but he didn't feel any happiness when torturing Xia Yanyue. He was like a walking corpse.
The old shareholders in the company have begun to be dissatisfied with him, but they can't say anything because of Lu Tingchuan's methods.
At this time, Li Jingshen intervened and began to operate secretly. Now he only needed one final blow to transfer the Li family in J City to his name, and Lu Tingchuan would be sentenced to prison for murder. The crime of intentional homicide was enough to sentence him to death.
Lu Tingchuan would always be a nuisance if he stayed. When Xia Yanyue was still alive, he could still vent his anger, but now that Xia Yanyue is dead, he is very likely to shift his attention to Shen Zhichu again.
Lu Tingchuan is a lunatic who is sometimes mentally ill. He might blame Shen Zhichu for Shen Qing's death.
Li Jingshen was coughing. He had been coughing recently and there was always blood in his throat. A year had passed in a flash. When he was diagnosed with lung cancer, the doctor said that if he did not stay in the hospital and give up chemotherapy, he would only have three years to live at most.
Now a year has passed, and he only has two years left, or maybe even less.
He could feel how bad his body was, and he could taste blood in his throat with a slight cough. He couldn't hold on for much longer in a body like this, but before he disappeared, he should at least settle everything that threatened Shen Zhichu, so that he could leave with peace of mind.
"Are you ready with the things I asked you to prepare?"
Zhao Qian was stunned, his face pale. "Boss Li, are you really going to quietly transfer your property to her?"
"The sooner I finish these things, the sooner I'll feel at ease. I don't know how much longer I can hold on, or if I can make it to the next morning."
"You are too pessimistic."
"This isn't pessimism, this is reality." Li Jingshen paused and called out, "Zhao Qian... People only know how difficult things are when they actually happen to them. Was Shen Zhichu like me, helpless and waiting to die? I can't blame anyone, I only blame myself. If I had believed Shen Zhichu back then, and given her even a little tenderness when she was sober, she and I wouldn't have reached this point."
Just like what Shen Zhichu asked: Have you ever heard summer cicadas chirping in winter?
Summer cicadas will not chirp in winter because the cicadas that break out of the ground only live for one summer. When they can no longer be heard chirping, their lives are exhausted.
The cicadas in summer cannot survive the winter. It is too late for him to do anything or say anything now. He only thinks about watering the flowers after they have died. Will it be useful?
This is undoubtedly a good ending for Shen Zhichu.
The final box office statistics of "Who is the Ghost" reached 6.5 billion, setting a record in the history of domestic box office, and it is a horror film.
When talking about horror movies, most people think of foreign ones, but I didn’t expect that China can also produce a horror movie now.
After the domestic release of "Who is the Ghost", it was decided to go abroad and be released in various countries.
80 million in exchange for 6.5 billion, even novels don't dare to write like this, and this is Shen Zhichu's first movie, and her performance has far surpassed all previous film queens.
[Yunqi] struggled for a while and then completely failed. All the marketing accounts bought by the water army were wasted.
In today's film market, the audience has sharp eyes and knows whether a movie is good or bad. A good movie will not be buried. Those online water armies, whether they are human or ghost, can't affect them at all. On the contrary, it will have a bad impact on the film "Yunqi", which will lose not only the quality but also the hearts of the people.
The losses of "Yunqi" are incalculable. Apart from the 300 million yuan investment, the marketing expenses for the hot searches and announcements bought and the water armies hired are immeasurable.
Conservatively speaking, the box office must be 1.5 billion to barely break even, but now it hasn't even reached 700 million.
The one who was most affected was undoubtedly Lin Qi. Before the release, she was full of confidence that she would be able to defeat Zhichu this time, but she didn't expect that she would be the one to be stepped on.
Her first movie received terrible negative reviews, and it was difficult for her to get movies afterwards. She could only continue to act in TV series quietly. However, the TV series were becoming more and more watered down, and it was difficult to come across good scripts and good directors. Lin Qi fell directly into a trough.
The box office suffered a huge loss and no one was willing to take the responsibility. Director Liu, who filmed "The Rise of the Clouds", had won many awards and the actors he invited were all well-known actors in the film industry. No one could afford to offend them, so they pushed the responsibility onto Lin Qi.
Lin Qi was given a title - "box office cancer", which ruined all the good impressions she had in the past.
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Shen Zhichu had something to celebrate. The film cost 80 million yuan, and the post-production operation and promotion cost at most 100 million yuan. In total, they spent no more than 400 million yuan. The box office was 6.5 billion yuan, and the net profit after paying the commission and tax was about 4 billion yuan.
[A. W Group] also rose to a higher level, and these Bai fathers saw it.
The fields are different. Bai's father didn't expect that money in the entertainment industry was so easy to make. A few months ago, he found Shen Zhichu and wanted to use five million to make her leave Bai Qiujing.
Later, Shen Zhichu turned the tables on him and used 995 million to buy the rest of her and Bai Qiujing's lives.
He also said at the time that if they spent so much money, the [AW Group] might not be able to survive.
At that time, Shen Zhichu was full of confidence and did not take the company's money into consideration at all. It had only been six months, and Shen Zhichu probably had about 700 to 800 million in his hands, right?
Did she anticipate this day at that time?
Lost... It wasn't him who lost, nor was it Bai Qiujing who lost. Father Bai really felt that Shen Zhichu lost.
Bai Qiujing actually got such a great bargain. Where did he find this wife?
After thinking about it carefully, Father Bai couldn't help but frown. He didn't know what Shen Zhichu liked about Bai Qiujing. Could it be that he was just impulsive?
No, he has to make sure Bai Qiujing holds on to her tightly. There aren't many daughters-in-law who are so good at making money.
The Bai family is not short of money, and their assets can buy several of Shen Zhichu's companies.
[A. W Group] Father Bai didn't see it in his eyes. What he saw was the potential to make money in Shen Zhichu.
Father Bai has long wanted to retire and take his wife to travel to various places, but the Bai family cannot be without someone to take charge.
Bai Qiujing was not interested. He had originally decided to train him as his successor, but Bai Qiujing refused to do it and went to the entertainment industry to be an actor without saying a word.
Bai Qiujing was brought back too late. It was too late to teach him again, and forcing him to work in his own company would cause him to be disgusted.
Fortunately, there is a daughter at home.
Bai Wanwan also has financial acumen, but it is limited to opening an online store. She is absolutely unwilling to manage the Bai family.
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