Mu Ling New Life 9
Liang Jingnan ran a lot of connections, and even asked Mu Ling to invest some more to break through certain joints. However, on the first day of the movie’s release, the screening rate was still only 6.8%. It’s impossible for the line side to let those blockbusters that are still making money make way for such a small film. It’s okay if the filming rate is low, and the timing is not good! Faced with this situation, both Mu Ling and Liang Jingnan felt a little apprehensive. Fortunately, more and more people are willing to come to the cinema to watch the movies.They can still expect the movie to have a good box office in the end. The night before the movie was released, Liang Jingnan stayed up all night, waiting for the movie to be released in the early morning. She even bought a movie ticket and went to the cinema to watch the movie, wanting to see if her movie was popular enough. Liang Jingnan cared so much about the movies, so of course Mu Ling did too. At ten o’clock in the evening, after making sure that Mu Qiu had slept soundly, Mu Ling got up quietly and went outside to the same movie theater. Liang Jingnan was sitting in her Land Rover when Mu Ling opened the door and entered, only to find that she was smoking.
“Sorry, there is a smell of smoke in the car.” Liang Jingnan said, she opened the window, but there was still a bit of a smell in the car.
“You don’t have to worry too much, we have to have confidence.” Mu Ling said.
“I’m already working hard not to worry.” Liang Jingnan laughed.
The two of them have been paying attention to the situation in the direction of the cinema. At the same time, some people are buying tickets in the cinema and plan to watch a movie. Some of these people are those who have read the promotion and are very interested in Liang Jingnan or Mu Ling, so they have already booked the movie tickets for “Master Jia” to watch the movie, and some are bored this evening and just happened to watch the movie . Because of the fierce competition at the beginning of the year, many movies deliberately chose other time slots to be released. Therefore, apart from the blockbuster movies that have been popular since the Spring Festival, there is only one new movie “Master Jia” at the cinema…
The night on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month was a bit cold. A couple of college students wanted to go back to school after supper, but after seeing the lively entrance of the cinema not far away, the girl regained her spirits: “Let’s go to another movie.” Anyway, school doesn’t start tomorrow.”
Her boyfriend was eager to stay with his girlfriend for a while, agreed immediately: “Okay, let’s go to the movies.”
The two soon arrived at the movie theater, but they were a little worried about which movie to watch. Well, they have seen two of the previous blockbusters, but they haven’t seen a few of them, which one should they choose?
“Let’s go to see Director Li’s movie, they say it’s very good.” The boy suggested.
“No.” The girl immediately refused: “Although it is said to be very good-looking, my roommate said it was very sad, she cried. I don’t want to watch it now.”
She is feeling very sweet at the moment, she doesn’t want to see movies that make you cry.
“Then what are you looking at?” The boy was a little worried.
“I’m buying a movie ticket for “Master Jia”!”
“My verification code can’t be retrieved from the automatic ticket collection machine over there. Please help me to see, it’s for “Master Jia.”
“Two tickets for “Master Jia”!”
The young couple was worrying when they heard the movie “Master Jia” mentioned by several people around them, and they immediately became interested: “Master Jia?”
They looked around and saw it. A promotional poster for the film next to it. Nowadays, many movies are big productions and 3D, the posters look very fantasy, can even give people a shocking feeling, but the poster of “Master Jia” is the complete opposite, it looks refreshing and makes people laugh. On the poster, a girl dressed as a lady is smiling softly. Just looking at her upper body, you will definitely think she is a gentle girl, but if you look at her lower body… she lifts up half of her skirt, she was stepping on the back of a handsome man lying on the ground with her feet in high heels!
“It looks interesting!” The girl who took her boyfriend to watch the movie suddenly became interested when she saw this scene. It should be the movie of Sassy Girl, right? The boy was not very interested, but his girlfriend liked to watch it, so he agreed. The two bought tickets and soon entered the cinema. At the same time, there were more and more people around them, finally there were only a few seats left. Their seats are not very good, so the boy is a little unhappy – he has spent a lot of money to watch a movie that is not a blockbuster without 3D and he doesn’t have a good seat, which always makes him feel a little unworthy. Then, the movie started to be shown, and the first plot that started to play was actually in line with the boy’s current mood. At the request of his girlfriend, a senior boy took his girlfriend to eat sushi. He spent all the money in his wallet, ordered a few servings. But when they were served, a serving of sushi was only three small bites. Such a small plate of sixty-eight or eighty-eight dollars is only three small bites? Although Jia Qiong didn’t speak, his expression has completely expressed his current mood.
There were too few items, Jia Qiong didn’t dare to eat more. As a result, his girlfriend felt that she was not full, then ordered the shop’s sign, one hundred and sixty-eight servings of sushi! Then she ordered soup and drinks again!
Jia Qiong took out his wallet privately and looked at it, then suddenly showed bitterness-the money is not enough!
He could only turn to his roommate for help, but his roommate couldn’t find a place… He was texting so anxiously that he ignored his girlfriend, who actually wanted to give him a birthday present.
The film was very tense at the beginning, making people worry about Jia Qiong involuntarily. Later, Jia Qiong’s family had an accident and he was penniless, which made the audience laugh because of various emergencies, and at the same time couldn’t help worrying about him.
Then, Jia Qiong rescued He Shiyi and got a well-paid job—being He Shiyi’s fake boyfriend.
The life of He Shiyi and Jia Qiong began like this. Jia Qiong helped He Shiyi slap her ex-boyfriend who betrayed He Shiyi. Discovered a secret. It turns out that He Shiyi’s ex-boyfriend and his ex-boyfriend’s father wanted to annex He’s company. Whether the ex-boyfriend met He Shiyi at the beginning or dumped He Shiyi later, it was just a part of the plan. A hole was dug for He Shiyi to jump down… He Shiyi and Jia Qiong worked together to prevent the other party’s plot from succeeding then the movie ended. At the end of the movie, Zhu Lanyu, who was added to the scene by Liang Jingnan, suddenly jumped out: “Jia Qiong! Who is this woman?” The plot of the story is very compact and there are many jokes. When they realized that the movie ended so soon, the young lovers were in a daze.
“This movie is pretty good.” The girl said.
“Yeah.” The boy nodded. The movie may not have any profound meaning, but after watching it, he thought it was pretty good. He even planned to go back and mention it to his classmates and friends—if they want to bring a girlfriend on a date and take them to this movie.
Mu Ling and Liang Jingnan waited until the movie ended before leaving. After that, Liang Jingnan was a little anxious until the box office of the first day of the film’s release came out. On the first day of its release, “Master Jia” received a box office of 13.469 million with a 6.5% schedule. There are not a few films with a domestic box office of more than one billion, there are also two or three billion and some movies have a box office of over 100 million on the first day of release, which is actually not a good result. But Liang Jingnan is already very satisfied, after all, this is her first time of making a film, and her film investment is very low. Of course, even if you are satisfied, Liang Jingnan still hopes that her movie can perform better, and this movie did live up to her expectations. On the second day, the film’s screening rate increased and the box office of the day was 28.769 million. On the third day, the screening rate of the film reached 11%, and the box office of the day was 63.291 million. The fourth day was Valentine’s Day, and the film’s screening rate was only 14%, but the box office continued to rise, and finally the box office on that day exceeded 100 million! The movie “Master Jia” is on fire!
Mu Ling had seen a lot of money before, but she was still very excited at this time. After hearing the news, he immediately found Liang Jingnan, then called the rest of the crew one by one to organize a celebration banquet. All the crew members came, everyone was very excited. Even before the final results of the box office came out, Liang Jingnan sent everyone a thick red envelope, even to Mu Ling.
“Are there any red envelopes for investors?” Mu Ling asked with a smile.
“Who said this red envelope is for you? I gave it to Qiu’er!” Liang Jingnan laughed.
Mu Ling snatched the red envelope, and then went to distribute gifts to the crew. She didn’t give out a red envelope in a tacky way, but gave it even more tacky… Gold.! Mu Ling asked people to buy a bunch of gold pendants of about the same weight, then asked everyone in the crew to choose one—even if they don’t wear it themselves, it’s good to give it away. After the celebration banquet, the daily box office of “Master Jia” never exceeded 100 million, but it was tens of millions every day. After ten days of release, the total box office reached 500 million. Before Liang Jingnan made the film, she set a high goal for the film – 500 million box office, but in such a short time, the film actually reached it! Originally, the film was released for one month, but because the box office was so good, it was finally decided to postpone the release for another one month. At this time, both Mu Ling and Liang Jingnan had become very popular figures.
Probably because Mu Ling’s performance in the movie was a bit domineering, some people called her Her Majesty Queen on her Weibo. As time went by, more and more people called her by this title. At this time, more and more variety shows found Mu Ling, most of which Mu Ling rejected, but there were some who agreed, for example, a variety show with a very high ratings, she and Jia Qiong’s acting Jing Wenyi, Zhu Lanyu and Liang Jingnan went together. Liang Jingnan is the director, and she is not too young. The host is very polite to her and will not let her run and dance. Zhu Lanyu is mainly accompanying her. Therefore, in the show, Mu Ling and Jing Wen are the most concerned. Under the compere’s gag, Mu Ling and Jing Wenyi also had a rehearsed scene in which the president takes care of a troubled girl. It’s just that the president in it is Mu Ling, and the girl in trouble is Jing Wenyi, and the two of them are in reverse order…
“I studied the movie “Master Jia” carefully. Lover is a very common routine in romance novels! Now we invite our president and girl to appear!” The host said with a smile, then Mu Ling, who was wearing a suit, and Jing Wen, who was wearing a skirt and a wig came out from the backstage together…
Jing Wenyi: “Yi, you bastard, don’t think that I will fall in love with you like this!”
Mu Ling: “Even if I can’t win your heart, I still want to get your body!”
Jing Wenyi: “I hate you, I hate you forever!”
Mu Ling: “Even if you hate me, I will not let you go!”
Jing Wenyi: “No, how can you be so cruel! Hey…” …
Mu Ling: “Eldest sister, let me go, don’t you think I’m ruthless, unreasonable, and I’m cruel and indifferent? Can you stop hugging my legs and not let me go! Although You are good-looking, but you are really too tall. If I take you out, I will not look like a president, you know? Run, run quickly, I promise not to chase you! The me in front is just reading the script.”
“Hahahahaha!” Mrs. Xue was sitting in front of the TV, watching Mu Ling trying to pull her legs out of Jing Wenyi’s arms, and couldn’t help laughing. While laughing, she also went to exchange her thoughts on watching with her son beside her: “These two people are so funny and a good match. Why aren’t they together in “Master Jia”?”
“Where is the match?” Xue Yilou sneered.
“It’s really a good match, this boy is not only good-looking, but also very personable, have you noticed? He didn’t really hug the girl’s legs, they were all fake hugs.” Mrs Xue likes the young little girl and also likes the handsome guy: “If Mu Ling wasn’t married, I would definitely fall in love with her!”
Xue Yilou stood up suddenly, turned off the TV, then quickly went upstairs to her room. Mrs. Xue was a little confused about what happened to her son: “What’s the matter? Did I praise other men for being jealous?”
The variety show was just a small episode for Mu Ling, after this variety show, she received an interview invitation from a well-known director, hoping that she could play the heroine in the other’s movie. The director wanted to make a film about solving crimes. The heroine in this film was a policeman and the director felt that Mu Ling could play well. Most of the time, actors can only get a small part of the script before going to the audition, but this time Mu Ling got the whole script. She has always taken her work seriously, so she naturally read the script seriously, then… Mu Ling found that she liked another character in it more than the heroine. There are not many scenes for this role. At the beginning, she appeared as a victim. Her dodder-like personality made the male protagonist feel pity for her, but the female protagonist rejected her very much. The audience stood from the perspective of the hero and heroine, the impression of her should not be good. If you only look at the front, it will make people think that her role is the kind of female supporting role, arranged in the movie to test the relationship between the hero and heroine. It is not until the end that everyone knows that this is not the case at all. This woman turned out to be the mastermind behind the series of cases that the hero encountered!
More than ten years ago, a group of rich second generations formed a club. They raced cars, took drugs, and played with women… and lived a very corrupt life. They even violated and killed a pregnant woman because of their desire and “curiosity”. Because he was worried that the matter would be revealed, he killed the woman’s husband. Some of them were relatively kind, because they were very dissatisfied with this incident, eventually the whole group disbanded. After more than ten years, one of them met a woman who looked very similar to that woman back then. He had a crush on the woman who was his nanny, so he naturally fell in love with the female partner this time.
As a result, the female supporting role killed him, and then let the police know what happened back then, and through this, found out the people who belonged to that club one by one, killed them all. The pregnant woman who was murdered back then was her older sister. She was young and in poor health at the time. Her older sister was still working as a nanny while she was pregnant. Who knew that she ended up with two dead bodies. Later, her brother-in-law also disappeared. She vowed to find out the truth and kill all the perpetrators, so she found the only person she knew who hired her sister as a nanny…
“You want to play this woman?” the director looked surprised at Mu Ling, this role has always been very weak at the beginning, but Mu Ling gave him the impression of a very strong person, so he really didn’t expect Mu Ling to want to play this woman. You must know that the whole story is presented from the perspective of the police. In comparison, the image of the heroine is more positive and attractive.
“Director, can you let me try?” Mu Ling asked. She played a very tough woman in two films in succession. Now she wants to make a change, ….. this role is easy to win awards.
“Yes.” The director nodded. This role is actually very important in the whole movie. He hasn’t decided yet who will play it. Of course, he has several candidates. Is it difficult to play a weak woman?
Not difficult. At least it was not difficult for Mu Ling. Back then, in order to make the Wei family feel more guilty about her, she cried silently in front of her husband, trying her best to show her sad side, and those were the methods her nanny taught her. Later, if the death of her younger brother and parents hadn’t made her despair and made her full of hatred for the Wei family, maybe she would still use this method to get her husband’s…so-called love. In that era, many women who were successful in the backyard were all masters of acting. Mu Ling looked at the corner next to him, and her eyes suddenly softened… When she left the director with her assistant, Mu Ling had already got the role she wanted, but the filming of this movie had to wait four months later. During this period of time, Mu Ling was able to deal with his own affairs and re-plan his career.
“Master Jia” played in theaters for two full months, and when it was offline, the total box office reached 1.2 billion. Excluding taxes and some miscellaneous money, excluding the share of the theaters, the money in Mu Ling’s hands was more than 200 million yuan. Most of it was her investment share, and some of it was earned by her acting as the heroine. Of course, this is not all of her income from this movie. Next, this movie will bring her a steady stream of income in all aspects. In the original investment, Mu Ling said that Mu’s father and mother should invest. At that time, Mu’s father and mother did not want their daughter to write an IOU, so they agreed. He didn’t want to touch his hands again, and insisted that these were all Mu Ling’s. Mu Ling didn’t insist on not accepting it, because she really needed the money. She gave her parents 50 million yuan, and then used the remaining money to start a personal studio. If she still has two assistants and relies on herself in the future, it may be difficult for her to make much money, so a studio is a must. It took Mu Ling a month to set up the prototype of the studio, and the first artist signed by the studio was Zhu Lanyu. When Zhu Lanyu officially signed with Mu Ling’s studio, the TV series they co-starred in also began to be screened, and at this time, Xue Yilou got Mu Qiu’s photo. Mu Ling has always taken good care of her daughter, so the people sent by Xue Yilou have not been able to take pictures of Mu Qiu. This time, it was Mu’s mother who took Mu Qiu to the supermarket and he found him following her.
When Xue Yilou looked at the photos at first, he was a little disgusted, because he didn’t have any affection for Mu Ling’s daughter who was born to someone else, but looking at it, he felt something was wrong. “Where’s Mu Ling’s husband?” Xue Yilou asked.
“According to my observation, she doesn’t seem to have a husband.” The man said, although he was not able to enter the community where Mu Ling lived, nor did he have close contact with Mu Ling, but he has been with Mu Ling for several months, and it is also considered he understood regarding Mu Ling, he had never seen any young men around Mu Ling, and even the old men were only Mu’s father. Xue Yilou looked at the girl in the photo, and suddenly his hands trembled.
