As the saying goes, everyone is a mortal creature driven by appetite and desire.
Thus, everything that happened unfolded quite naturally.
Fiona Sit: "Director Su, how do you find this wine?"
Su Yu: "Hmm~ It certainly is a fine wine~"
Fiona Sit: "Oh? Then how does Director Su think this wine compares to me...?"
Su Yu: "I've tasted the wine, but you... well, it's hard for me to compare."
Fiona Sit: "Then..."
The next day.
Su Yu was awakened by Yang Mi's phone ringing.
Being the smart woman she was, Yang Mi certainly wouldn't ask where Su Yu had been last night.
After hanging up, Su Yu glanced around the empty room and let out a mental sigh.
"Turns out I was the prey last night!"
"I finally understand why some guys like older women; older women are truly..."
"Still, I have a System, so I can forcibly break even!"
[Ding~~]
[Detected 50% favorability towards the host from Fiona Sit, trait dropping.]
[Trait dropped: Instrument Master]
[Instrument Master: Once bound, the host's playing techniques for all instruments in this world will reach a master level.]
[Bind Yes/No]
Su Yu gave a mental nudge: bind.
As usual, a massive flood of knowledge was poured into his mind.
"Look, I told you, being a scumbag is not my fault—the System forced me."
At this point,
some clueless readers might ask: why couldn't you have a slow-burning relationship with sister Fiona Sit? Why not wait until max favorability before doing the deed?
Hearing that question, Su Yu would reply: my boy, you are too young.
Unlike Mimi and Aiai, Fiona Sit would never willingly do that sort of thing just for a single man.
Su Yu had this clearly figured out.
Fast food is fast food, and home-cooked meals are home-cooked meals; you have to keep them strictly separate.
Besides, it's not like he takes just anyone.
......
After getting up and tidying up a bit, Su Yu headed over to Jiaxing.
Jiaxing Media Co., Ltd., with a registered capital of 5 million.
Legal representative: Yang Mi.
Those 5 million were the funds Yang Mi had invested in Goodbye Mr. Loser, except that before making the investment, she first registered the company per Su Yu's request, and then used the company's name to invest the 5 million into the Goodbye Mr. Loser project.
Afterward, Su Yu used the script of Goodbye Mr. Loser as his stake to buy into Jiaxing.
He held 51%.
Yang Mi held 49%.
As for the 15 million from Zeng Jia and Shishi, that was an investment strictly for the film project and had nothing to do with the company itself.
Don't think this procedure was troublesome; it was done to avoid future headaches.
And nobody should say a mere script isn't worth a 51% stake—they were willing.
As for the movie's later profits, Su Yu would take half, and the remaining half would be split among the three women according to their investment proportions.
All of this had been agreed upon beforehand.
In short,
Su Yu had laid a very solid foundation for himself.
Thanks to the help of Yang Mi's manager Zeng Jia, the framework of Jiaxing Media was successfully set up.
Oh, right, Zeng Jia was also invited by Su Yu to join Jiaxing Media with a 10% stake.
Those 10% came out of Yang Mi's 49%.
Naturally, Yang Mi had no objections whatsoever; compared to Su Yu as a person, this was nothing.
She trusted her own judgment.
Throughout the morning,
Su Yu signed authorization contracts with Yingzi, Fei Yuqing, and Fiona Sit respectively.
Three million smoothly landed in his hands.
The money was placed by Su Yu into Yang Mi's private account because Su Yu's own account was currently frozen; the moment any funds went in, they would be forcibly seized for debt repayment.
When he was signing with Fiona Sit, Yang Mi's gaze kept darting back and forth between the two of them.
You have to hand it to women—their intuition is frighteningly accurate.
In the afternoon, Su Yu finalized the distribution company.
Over the next few days,
Su Yu set to work on video editing, dubbing, scoring, and all the other post-production tasks for the film.
Finally,
another week later,
the film editing was complete and successfully submitted for censorship.
Since it was a comedy and contained nothing objectionable, the review process went quickly. In just one week, the review concluded, and Goodbye Mr. Loser obtained its screening license.
To celebrate passing censorship,
Mimi specially changed her outfit and spent some private world-for-two time with Su Yu.
Only...
"I kind of miss Aiai!"
Men will be men~~
Aiai had gone on a promotional tour accompanied by Shen Teng, Ma Li, and the others.
The distribution company had also finished negotiations with the theater chains, locking the release date for October 1st.
Yet the screening allocation was rather meager, sitting at a pathetic 13%.
At this, Su Yu was completely unruffled.
On the sheer quality of Goodbye Mr. Loser alone, it was bound to break through.
In his past life, the initial screening allocation for Goodbye Mr. Loser was less than 13% as well, but by the very next day, driven by word-of-mouth and quality, theaters urgently increased showtimes, eventually soaring up to 35%.
In a word: as long as your movie can make money for the theaters, the theaters will treat you like royalty.
After all, nobody argues with money.
By this time, it was mid-September, roughly half a month away from the film's premiere.
When it reached around the 20th, Yang Mi also left to join the promotional tour.
Su Yu was left entirely to himself.
The only thing keeping him company at night was a cold, empty bed.
Wang Da was a scaffolding worker at a construction site.
His hobbies were few.
Aside from washing his feet, getting massages, listening to younger female colleagues talk about why they entered this line of work and when they planned to return to their hometowns to get married, singing at karaoke, and chatting online with female netizens about their dreams, his favorite pastime when he had free time was watching movies.
Well...
It seemed he actually had quite a few hobbies after all, but that wasn't important.
He was especially devoted to comedy films.
In his own words: life is already hard enough; if I go to a movie and still have to do soul-searching and get lectured, what's even the point of watching?
Today, Wang Da opened up his phone app just like any other day, wanting to see if any new movies had been released so he could ask a female colleague out to watch one.
"Huh? Goodbye Mr. Loser? What a weird name."
Wang Da initially wanted to scroll past it, but with a slip of his finger, he tapped open the three-to-four-minute trailer.
"Fine, fine, I'll take a peek. If it's no good, don't blame me for leaving a five-hundred-word scathing review."
And so:
"Qiu Ya, I wrote a song especially for you, listen to this!"
"Xia Luo, my dad said it doesn't matter if a man is ugly and old as long as he has talent, and besides, you are so talented~~"
"The fuck your name is Xia Luo?"
"Brother Chen Kai~~"
.........
A few minutes later, Wang Da, still wanting more, hit replay.
After watching it several times in a row, Wang Da's craving was fully triggered.
So he began scouring the entire internet for any and all news related to Goodbye Mr. Loser.
He searched and searched, until suddenly,
a music video titled Once Upon You caught his eye.
Judging by the visuals, it consisted of clips straight from the movie, identical in style to the trailer he had just watched.
Wang Da clicked play.
A sound arose, drawing closer from afar,
followed by the slide of guitar strings.
[Once I dreamed of roaming the ends of the earth with a sword in hand]
.......