Chapter 218: You can cheat on feelings, but not on money
When men cooperate with each other, in many cases there is no need to discuss it in advance.

For example.

One day, he stayed out all night after a great time, and his wife or girlfriend couldn't find him and went crazy. She called her friends one by one to ask, "Was XXX with you last night?"

In this situation, it is very easy to suddenly learn the "Shadow Clone Technique".

Don't ask, the answer is that we were together. We were drinking at my house last night.

But the question is, why could he drink in several people's homes at the same time?
After Bai Youlou started talking nonsense, Long Ziqiang knew what was going on as soon as he heard it, and naturally followed his words and started talking nonsense as well.

"Brother Lou, this is my first marriage and I have no experience. It's also Chinese New Year. Why don't you come to my house for the New Year and give me some advice?"

"Go to your house for the New Year?!"

Bai Youlou's tone suddenly soared, and he pretended to be hesitant, "Teacher Zhang wanted me to spend the New Year with her."

"Yes~ When are you getting married?"

When Long Ziqiang heard Zhang Xiaorong's voice, he knew that Bai Youlou must have turned on the speakerphone, so naturally he spoke even more nonsense.

"The customs here are rather peculiar. We have to do it twice."

It turns out that getting married is a great way to distract attention.

Zhang Xiaorong, who had just been thinking about how to get Bai Youlou home for the New Year, soon became curious about Long Ziqiang's wedding.

Girls' enthusiasm for this thing is really scary. "Twice? Once for the guy and once for the girl?"

"Yes, yes, there's an engagement. Why don't you come with Brother Lou, Teacher Zhang? You can spend the New Year at my house this year."

Bai Youlou silently gave this guy a thumbs up in his heart.

Complete nonsense. They are engaged?
The last time we were drinking, Long Ziqiang said, "Marriage is too troublesome, just make do with it."

Zhang Xiaorong was in a bit of a dilemma. She really wanted to stay with Bai Youlou during the New Year, so she wanted to kidnap him and take him home.

But Long Ziqiang's wedding is a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
Bai Youlou: That’s not necessarily true!

The final result was quite gratifying. Zhang Xiaorong said that she might only be able to go and give her blessings on the wedding day, and while Long Ziqiang expressed regret, he also "fought" for Bai Youlou.

Happy to everyone!

You know what, this reason is quite useful. Bai Youlou has used it several times.
Whenever anyone asked him where he was going to celebrate the New Year, he would say that he was going to help with Long Ziqiang's wedding.

After all, they are beloved relatives, friends, brothers and sisters!
Even until now, Bai Youlou still doesn't know what the other person's wife's name is.

It's not an important thing.

He even thought that it would be great if Long Ziqiang got married every year so that he could use it as a shield every year.

cough~
I didn't dare say this out loud, as it sounded like I was cursing him to get a divorce.

Things like celebrities getting married usually become a hot topic.

Long Ziqiang is naturally no exception.

But it didn't make a big fuss. After all, he didn't have any "wedding of the century" and didn't want to create a big scene.

Even a little ordinary.

If the woman wasn't unwilling, Long Ziqiang would even want to organize a rural buffet.

We are very happy about this. After all, who doesn't want to have a big feast? The rural buffet is not much better than the hotel food~
So it just became a trending search and didn’t even get first place.

The popularity of the song is not as high as the adapted version of "Guest" sung by Bai Youlou at his wedding.

The song "Because of Love" sung by Bai Youlou and Zhang Xiaorong at his wedding was on the hot search list several times, and the Internet was full of videos from various angles taken by Long Ziqiang's relatives and friends with their mobile phones.

If you don’t know, you might think it was their wedding. Fortunately, Bai Youlou and Zhang Xiaorong were relatively low-key and wore casual clothes. If they had worn suits and dresses, they would have been overshadowed by Long Ziqiang and his wife.

I feel a bit sorry for the bride. At her wedding with Long Ziqiang, Bai Youlou and Zhang Xiaorong stole the show.

It is said that his wife had a quarrel with him because of this.
This is understandable. When it comes to weddings, it’s the bride who looks forward to and attaches great importance to them.

For the groom, this is torture, tiring and exhausting.

Moreover, she married a celebrity, so naturally her benchmark was the grand and lavish weddings organized by other celebrities.

A diamond ring can cost tens of millions.

Long Ziqiang complained about this to Bai Youlou and others many times.

We guys just laughed at him and had fun.

After all, except for Long Ziqiang, the brothers have basically no interest in getting married.

There is no need to say much about Bai Youlou. It would be better to kill him directly than to let him get married.

He wasn't even interested in entering into a romantic relationship with a girl, let alone getting married.

Zhen Dongjun has suffered too much in his marriage, and no one knows how big the psychological trauma is. It is estimated that it is impossible for him to get married again.

Xiao Wu said that he was a director and might have to follow Brother Lou's footsteps in the future.

There are so many beautiful girls in the entertainment industry, why do they want to get married?

As for Lao Zhou, he is a gay. Why would a gay get married?

Oh yes, Bai Youlou finally knew what Long Ziqiang’s wife’s name was.

Yes. My last name is Ma.

This surname doesn't seem very auspicious.
There is also a small interlude.

On the day of Long Ziqiang's wedding, Bai Youlou and Lao Zhou played the "bad guys".

He caught Long Ziqiang's agent and gave him a fierce scolding.

Because this guy was actually wearing a white suit.

Standing next to the bride, it felt like he was the groom.

Long Ziqiang himself didn't say anything. After all, it's a marriage, so it's not easy to get angry. At times like this, of course, the bad guys have to be the brothers.

It just so happened that Lao Zhou and Bai Youlou were his agent's direct superiors.

I almost took off this boy's clothes.

Qiuya is getting married and you are here singing and dancing, dressed like a feather duster.
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The new year starts with the launch of "Old Boy".

In fact, it is not just the micro-film "Old Boy" that has been launched online. Youku website has launched several micro-films at the same time.

It can be considered a micro-film project, and the buzz it has created is quite large.

If calculated based on shooting time and production costs, this thing is a typical "shoddy product".

Can you believe that the biggest expense is the film pay of Long Ziqiang and Zhen Dongjun?

The percentage is very high, almost more than 70%. If we look at it from the perspective of normal projects, almost 99% of the films with such a high percentage of actors' pay are bad.

All the money is spent on film salaries, so how much is left for production?
In fact, it is.

In order to save time and money, Xiao Wu used tape to cover Zhen Dongjun and Long Ziqiang's foreheads, open their eyes and smooth out their wrinkles in order to make them look younger during the filming of the campus scene.
It's really amazing that he could come up with such a weird trick.

The original shooting plan was only half a month, and Xiao Wu even planned to use a shot twice to maximize the value of saving money.

Later, Bai Youlou couldn't stand it anymore and said that this thing is for you to practice, not to be used as a pussy fingering.

Dude has plenty of money.

He really didn't know that Xiao Wu was so good at saving money before.

This finally extended Xiao Wujiang's shooting plan to more than a month, almost two months, so that he could polish many shots.

It's not to make the photos more detailed, but to let him practice more and get the feel for it.

This micro-film has brought the grassroots culture to its extreme. The story told is about the losers who are not doing well. Not only do they fail to counterattack and become upper-class people, they even fail miserably.

The natural rhythm of inciting tears everywhere makes the whole atmosphere exciting.

The audience felt really uncomfortable after watching it. The way of paying tribute to youth in "Old Boy" suddenly became quiet amidst the shouting and screaming.

It’s not the nostalgic memories of youth like flowing water, it’s not toasting the past with a glass of wine and never looking back no matter how much you love, it’s the tinnitus after electronic music, it’s the deception after waking up from a hangover.

The film is not simply a subjective feeling, but embeds the growth trajectories of two people in the historical process.

It marked the end of a generation’s youth, and ended with the original song “Old Boy” as a memorial.

As a result, this micro-film became unexpectedly popular.

At the beginning, it was because of the popularity of the song of the same name, plus the audience attracted by Bai Youlou's name.

After that it was just crazy tap water.

“Dreams, like classics, will never fade with time, but become more precious. Maybe our lives will be extremely ordinary, but we can never forget those dreams. Although it is a short film, it can be seen that it is very attentive and not sloppy at all. Three and a half stars for the story, five stars for the music.”

"As a short film, it is impeccable technically, nostalgic and sentimental in content, and accurate in performance. Director Wu Mugun is a talent. By the way, is this film definitely not shot by Bai Youlou?"

"It's a film that makes people sigh. The theme and music are invincible. The director's talent also comes from his grasp of absurdity, his use of elements, and his control of rhythm. If the guys from Beijing Film Academy all have this benchmark level, how could Chinese films fall into the situation where there are so many bad films? If it is measured by the standard of short films, 5 stars, but as a complete work, it is still a bit thin and hasty, and there is still room for improvement."

"When I saw Bai Youlou's name on the screenplay, I knew it would be a good watch. This micro-film made me cry like a grandson. He made a great use of the song 'Old Boy'."

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The number of clicks exceeded 10 million in three days, and continued to rise over time.

Clicking on this thing is quite fictitious and not as intuitive as movie box office.

At least Bai Youlou knew that the current number of clicks was definitely not the real number of clicks. Although he did not inflate the data, the video website must have done so.

Although there is a time limit, this micro-film has almost been bought out by the other party. Bai Youlou's company can only get a small share of the profits, and basically does not think highly of it.

It's a bit like selling a TV series to a website, but the short film "Old Boy" is only as long as one episode of a TV series.

Based on the unit price of time, a buyout of 30 million is considered a sky-high price!

Which TV series can earn 30 million per episode?
If it weren't for Bai Youlou's request, Wu Muqun could finish shooting this micro-film in ten days or so and complete the production in one month.

In terms of time and cost, this rate of return is already extremely high.

There is a high probability that video websites will lose money to gain publicity.

What they want is the traffic that will be brought by this thing becoming popular. In conclusion, no one will lose, it’s a win-win situation.

Therefore, Bai Youlou didn’t really care about how much money he could earn in the future. As for the results, he just glanced at them at the beginning.

After confirming the rating again and seeing it remained above 8.5, he stopped paying attention to this thing.

However, Wu Muqun did gain a lot of attention and fame because of this. This guy didn't mind a lot of people on the Internet saying nonsense like this thing might have been taken by Bai Youlou. He held his mobile phone every day to search for other people's comments about him.

Oh yes, not only does he not mind, he feels pretty damn proud of it.

In his own words, when others said that this micro-film seemed to be shot by Bai Youlou, he just put his name on it. Is this an insult?
This is clearly an affirmation of his ability!

Bai Youlou was surprised at this kind of train of thought, but soon he felt that those who could hang out with him were not normal in their brains.

Look, the newlywed Long Ziqiang took his wife out for a honeymoon after their wedding.

It is of course normal for a newlywed to be on a honeymoon, but he actually brought his agent along, which Bai Youlou and Lao Zhou couldn't understand.

No, man.

Do you have such a big heart?

I used to think that Long Ziqiang, a guy who hung out in bars all year round, was a very smart guy in many ways.

Now it seems that it is not.

Before, Lao Zhou secretly told Bai Youlou that one time Long Ziqiang got drunk and accidentally told the truth. He might be a bar hanger-on, but his previous bragging about picking up a lot of girls was pure nonsense.

He is just a braggart.

Long Ziqiang might be good at dealing with human relationships, but when it comes to love, he is still a greenhorn.

The main reason for getting married in such a hurry is that I am over 30 and my family is urging me to get married.
Anyway, from Bai Youlou's perspective, it feels like this guy is going to suffer~
But some things are really hard to say, so I can only remind him of one thing: keep the money you earn in your hands.

It's okay to suffer a little in love, even if you're cheated on like Zhen Dongjun, but you must never lose your money.

It's okay to cheat on feelings, but not on money.

Regarding this point, Bai Youlou said that he had implemented it very well!
Of course, the girls he knew seemed to be extremely wealthy.
The poorest one should be Zhang Xiaorong.

But even she has savings of tens of millions.

Although considering her current fame, the money she earns is actually quite little, after all, she doesn't receive many announcements.

But she spent less!

I originally planned to buy a house but I didn’t, I don’t have a car, and I don’t like to buy luxury goods.

What else can I consume?

Like a Pixiu, it only goes in but not out.

So far, the largest expenditure that Bai Youlou has seen Zhang Xiaorong make was the donation she made to the celebrity charity night.

She donated two hundred thousand.

Apart from this, there was no major spending at all.

Any expensive things around me are all sponsored or borrowed.

Bai Youlou didn't even dare to imagine how big a dowry she was planning to save for him!

(End of this chapter)