Chapter 547

February 16, 1991, the first day of the Lunar New Year. Qi Tongwei and his wife set off by car to return to Jingzhou. His father and their three children would remain in Qijia Village until after the Lantern Festival before heading back. Golden Harvest Films moved quickly; by that morning, someone had already contacted Qi Tongwei to discuss the relevant details. Licensing the adaptation of one’s personal story was both a simple and a tedious process. It was simple because it only required signing an authorization agreement; it was tedious because it required real-time oversight to ensure the facts remained undistorted. For this authorization, Golden Harvest Films paid a fee of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars. Qi Tongwei did not intend to keep the money; he planned to donate it immediately, both to prove that he was not looking to profit from his personal history and to signal his attitude to those in higher positions. He was complying with their arrangements; it had nothing to do with anything else.