Chapter 19 What a pity, it's too late

There are zeros and integers, and it’s very clear.

This is all the cash Bai Youlou has left.

Lao Zhou's face suddenly turned pale. They couldn't even afford a plane ticket to Cannes with that little money.

Long Ziqiang felt very uncomfortable when he heard this. He seemed to see a passionate and talented young man who was helpless in the face of money.

Just like myself ten years ago.
A excitement~
"I saved two hundred and fifty thousand!"

Bai Youlou: "Okay, we have the money to go to Cannes!"

Long Ziqiang, who was a little bit excited, asked another question: "What about our publicity expenses?"

As he spoke, he looked at Lao Zhou.

The meaning is very clear: you better pay some too!

Lao Zhou had a helpless look on his face. This buddy had been PUA'd up to this point by Bai Youlou. Did he still remember the 10,000 yuan pay he received for the film?

I explained helplessly: "Do you think I don't have to spend money to work outside these days? Not to mention the 50,000 yuan salary that my husband gave me in advance, I still have to pay the rent and deposit with my own savings. We are not a shell company."

This is the truth. Although Lao Zhou laughed at Long Ziqiang for being fooled, he also spent his own money.

At this moment, Zhang Xiaorong looked at the three men who were almost penniless, and was silent for half a second. She seemed to be infected by the atmosphere of everyone adding fuel to the fire, and said, "I still have some."

Impressed!

If Lao Zhou and Long Ziqiang were skeptical before, they now truly believe it!

How long has this bastard been working for since he got the girl? And what does this movie have to do with her? He was so stupid that he paid for it.

Is this love?

"Cough cough."

Seeing that the atmosphere was almost set, Bai Youlou spoke again before Zhang Xiaorong reached into her bag to take the card.

"In fact, it doesn't take much money to promote the film. Promotion, as the name suggests, is to let more people know about our film. I have other ways."

When he said this, Zhang Xiaorong looked at him for a few seconds, as if worried that Bai Youlou was just trying to be brave, so he asked again, "Really?"

"real."

However, Bai Youlou couldn't resist his curiosity and asked Zhang Xiaorong, "How much money do you have?"

"Not much, just a few tens of thousands of dollars." Zhang Xiaorong felt a little embarrassed when she said this. After all, her savings were not as much as Long Ziqiang's.

Call ~
For some reason, Bai Youlou actually breathed a sigh of relief.

He was really worried that he would pretend to be cool and accidentally miss out on a rich woman.

If he had seized the opportunity before, he might have been able to trick An Luning during that meeting.

But the chance only comes once. After that, even if you meet them at school, they will always be accompanied by an agent or assistant.

Being on guard against him is like being on guard against a thief.

As for Zhang Xiaorong, she didn't seem to have a single brand name bag, and the clothes she wore didn't look very expensive.
Apart from her outstanding looks and temperament, she actually looks quite simple overall.

But don’t forget that most families that can raise a girl like this are probably not simple, and she studies art, so her family must not be poor!
It can be said that Zhang Xiaorong has the appearance of a rich woman.

Fortunately, it seems now that she is not, and she doesn’t have any side job to make money.

Having said that, if you meet a beautiful girl, she doesn’t have a particularly high-paying job, and her family conditions are not particularly good, but she can easily spend a lot of money or is covered in luxury goods, it is obvious that she has exceeded her ability to make money.

Then you have to be careful.

This is the experience that Bai Youlou summed up from his frequent visits to Jiming Temple and Jingjue Ancient City in his previous life.
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Not having money to promote a movie is a dilemma that many small companies face.

There are actually many TV series and movie projects produced in the film and television industry every year, but the proportion of them that can be seen by the audience is not the majority.

Onlookers always focus their attention on the top film and television projects, but in fact, in the red ocean of film and television production, there are many more projects that fail to make waves and die directly than imagined.

Just by getting the movie released, it has surpassed many of its peers.

Of course, the release of some movies is just a joke. After a few days of release, if the theaters don’t see much box office revenue, they will ruthlessly kick you out.

Money laundering is another matter.

So the question is, how to let more people know about such a movie without any publicity funds? You can choose to kneel down together with the main creative team.

Unfortunately, I arrived too late!

This trick has been used in the entertainment industry of Blue Star a long time ago. After all, kneeling down is not a very technical operation.

A man has gold under his knees, and now is the time to cash it in.

The first person who knelt down to beg for screening and attention can be said to have artistic sentiment, but the ones who came after him were probably just "imitating others without success" and "sensationalism".

Seeing Bai Youlou analyzing to them with a look of regret that they couldn't use the "kneeling" trick, Long Ziqiang's expression was as if he had been rejected.

Really, bro? You want to use this kind of trick?
I really don't understand. If Bai Youlou was a businessman who looked very mercenary, it would be fine if he wanted to use such a cheap trick.

But in his eyes, Bai Youlou is a genius!
Whether it's movies or music, it's all pure genius.

How come this kind of person doesn't have any pride of being a genius?
I couldn't help but look at Zhang Xiaorong with an expression that said, "You should control your boyfriend."

But Zhang Xiaorong didn't react at all. Instead, she continued to look at Bai Youlou, as if waiting for his next words.

Sure enough, there is a follow-up.

"Fortunately, I have already thought of a better way. Aqiang, do you have any shame?"

"I want face!" Long Ziqiang said immediately.

His reaction was so fast that it was like he had some disease, and his face twitched twice.

Bai Youlou looked regretful and said, "Forget it, I'll go sing by myself. I won't force you."

唱？
Long Ziqiang noticed the key words and felt something was wrong. "Where are we going to sing?"

Bai Youlou looked at Lao Zhou, and the other party immediately gave an answer.

"I checked. There are quite a few variety shows that are currently being recorded and meet your requirements. Some are very popular and some are not so popular. I calculated the time, location, distance, and commuting factors. If you are efficient, you can be on nine shows at most."

"Be on the show?" Long Ziqiang was a little confused but couldn't help but said, "Director, someone is asking you to be on the show now?"

"As an idol, of course no one will invite me, but I can go by myself. Some programs encourage amateurs to sign up, right?"

I totally understand!
Long Ziqiang is not a fool, how could he not know what Bai Youlou’s publicity plan is?

It was by relying on the songs he wrote that he found shots on various related variety shows, using this method to achieve the effect of promoting the movie.

Of course, this is not an easy task.

Even though the incident happened several months ago, a few months cannot quickly dilute Bai Youlou's "seducing second sister-in-law" expression.

Can he be on those variety shows? Aren't you afraid of being scolded?
At this moment, Long Ziqiang suddenly thought of Bai Youlou's previous question: "Do you want shame or not?"

Suddenly his whole body trembled and he looked at Bai Youlou with complicated eyes.

This is going to be a "clown".

How can an idol who has fallen into disgrace re-enter the audience's field of vision?
Even Bai Youlou’s previous company considered it too difficult to clear his name, so they gave up.

How could those variety shows be willing to support such a "bad artist" like him?

There is one and only one way: to be a clown.

You know what, the double-edged sword theory is here again.

Although Bai Youlou is still a "stinking piece of shit", most people don't want to get involved with him.

But even a piece of toilet paper has its uses.

Notoriety is also fame!

For some amateur talent shows, Bai Youlou's "bad reputation" can be of use.

Just give him a script that is worth sacrificing to the heavens and do some devilish editing.

They could have simply not whitewashed him, but instead used him to highlight others, making the crowd hate him even more.

Looking at it this way, Bai Youlou's move seems pretty tragic.

Anyway, Long Ziqiang felt it was very tragic.

But... Looking at the indifferent smile on Bai Youlou's face, and the calm and composed Lao Zhou beside him, he began to wonder if he was overthinking.
　Thanks to Mechanical Curse for the 1500 reward. I wish the boss will never die.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)