Fu Ruoyan had a very happy New Year's Eve, he always felt like he was in a dream when he and Jiang Xiao were together.
On the night of New Year's Eve, he had had enough tossing around, and woke up late the next morning. He lowered his head and kissed Jiang Xiao's forehead, but he hadn't woken up yet.
Jiang Xiao was really tired last night, and he deeply realized that it was really necessary to specially emphasize the problem of sound insulation during the decoration.
When Fu Ruoyan got up in the morning, he put on his home coat, and subconsciously went to look for his phone to see if anyone was looking for him because of work.
But when he took out his pocket, he didn't take out the phone, but took out a small box.
The small red velvet box is the kind commonly used in gold and jewelry stores, and it is heavy. There is a note on it, which can be seen in Jiang Xiao's handwriting.
—New Year's money.
There are also brackets below, for Fu Ruoyan, and then a little bear logo is drawn.
He opened it and saw that there was a whole shiny gold bar in the box, engraved on it with all the best, and turning it over on the back, it was a sign of fortune and treasure.
The New Year's money was indeed too heavy, and I don't know when Jiang Xiao stuffed it into his pocket.
Fu Ruoyan wanted to laugh when he saw it, but he thought it was something Jiang Xiao could think of in his little head. He turned around and wanted to ask, but Jiang Xiao was sleeping soundly, and he didn't want to disturb him.
He went downstairs with the little gold nugget and smiled, just in time to meet Xia Wanwan.
"Is Niannian still asleep?"
Xia Wanwan is already eating breakfast, she made too much yesterday, so she can eat it after reheating it.
"By the way, Xiao Fu, here's this for you. Auntie wishes you a happy New Year." She handed Fu Ruoyan a red envelope, "I'm used to it at home, and I don't have much money, but for the New Year, there is a good sign, and I haven't paid it every year." ?”
"Well, I haven't gotten up yet. It's okay. Let him sleep more during the Chinese New Year."
Fu Ruoyan didn't refuse. With a warm heart, he lowered his head and said thank you, auntie, and then accepted it.
When Jiang Xiao woke up, he told Jiang Xiao about it, and asked again: "Is it because the red envelope is too big for you to put it in your pocket?"
The red envelope Xia Wanwan gave was too thick, it was full.
"There is also a reason," Jiang Xiao lazily grabbed his shoulders, "Although people say that gold is vulgar, but I think it's good, hard currency, how suitable it is for new year's money, but I'm lucky. I picked it up and gave it to you, if you don’t like it, you still like it, there’s no way.”
To be honest, Jiang Xiao also found it difficult to choose presents, he couldn't tell what Fu Ruoyan lacked, as if he didn't lack anything. So he bought food, clothing, housing and transportation in a mess, and when he thought of the lucky money, he simply bought the most real thing.
There is nothing Fu Ruoyan doesn't like, everything Jiang Xiao sent is good.
He also prepared some gifts for Jiang Xiao during the Chinese New Year, there were so many, and he was waiting to give them to him on the first day of the New Year. But before he had time to show him one by one, the call from work came.
After answering this call, his and Jiang Xiao's dreamlike life seemed to be pulled back into the complicated reality.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the first day that the movie that Fu Zonglin cast was released.
This movie grabbed close to 40% of the film schedule during the Spring Festival, which is a time of fierce competition. There are a lot of praise comments, so the pre-sale of the movie is very good, and the record is good.
Fu Zonglin was so proud. Yesterday on New Year's Eve, he didn't pretend to contact him like before. Let alone yesterday, he looked like he had a chance to win. He didn't like Fu Ruoyan at all. He felt that his turnaround was over It's a done deal.
But it was already noon on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the first batch of moviegoers had already walked out of the movie theater. In 2011, the Internet was already very developed, and the speed of information transmission was already very fast, and movie reviews came out soon.
"It's bad, it's the worst this year."
"I don't know what to play, hodgepodge."
"Whoever thinks it's an idiot, I think I'm an idiot. It's a waste of movie ticket money."
The so-called greater expectations, greater disappointment, the audience's feedback clearly illustrates this point.
In the entertainment industry, in an industry at the forefront, a project with too much investment can determine life or death.
Although it was Fu's movie, Fu Ruoyan really liked it, so he just waited to watch it. Because of the good pre-sales on the first day of the new year, the box office is still looking good for the time being. The navy can go up and wash it, and it can temporarily deceive people.
The next day, the box office plunged and was cut in half. The shareholders were also scared, and started calling Fu Ruoyan one by one, begging him for help.
Jiang Xiao was by the side, and he could often be heard replying on the phone.
"I said at the beginning that this project is not good. You said I was young and didn't listen to me. Now that the money has been spent, what else can I do?"
"Do you think I'm really good at seeing the sky, and the public opinion is so strong that I can still suppress it? Are you kidding me?"
"I can't control it, you can go to my father."
He declined left and right, as if he was really helpless, but his subordinates never stopped.
Although the filming of this movie is bad, but the popularity is high, the popularity sent in vain is not in vain.
Fu Ruoyan's studio has a web drama ready to be launched. It is a light comedy. The number of episodes is not many and the time is short. The main reason is that the main creative team is relatively new, and there is not much enthusiasm when it is about to be launched.
Fu Ruoyan did it on purpose. The theme of the script of the first episode is similar to that of Fu Zonglin's movie selection. The studio cut the trailer of the first episode and put it on the Internet to compare the two. .
Sure enough, many people became interested immediately, and the discussion level also increased.
Web dramas are still a new thing to watch now, and after a good start, it will be more than that.
Fu Ruoyan has no psychological burden to do this. Anyway, Breaking the Sky is his Fu's project, so he can do whatever he likes. As long as Fu Zonglin is uncomfortable, he is comfortable.
Even Jiang Xiao heard a lot of scolding about that movie. He was almost nailed to the stigma of bad movies, and the box office also took a dive.
Although the total box office seems to be okay, by the time the show is released, it has cheated more than 300 million yuan, but after splitting the bill with the theater, it can recover a little more than 100 million yuan. Compared with the original investment of 300 million yuan, it is hard Lost two hundred million.
As the main investor, Fu's has almost lost more than 80 million yuan. This is not counting the losses in the stock market. It's just like this at the beginning of the new year. Who can bear it? If it weren't for the fact that Fu Ruoyan could still earn back from the few projects that Fu Ruoyan invested in before, Fu's family would really be dragged to the end.
Before Fu Ruoyan could speak, those shareholders had already scolded Fu Zonglin bloody. Naturally, he remembered clearly when he stumbled, and it was better to remember that Fu Ruoyan had never made any mistakes in recent years.
Fu Ruoyan didn't care about these scumbag shareholders. He knew what they looked like since he was a child, and there was no surprise.
This time, in addition to stabilizing his position, he was more for revenge.
He wanted Fu Zonglin and Chen Lingyue to also understand what it was like to be betrayed by others, and what it was like to have nothing.
For the 200 million yuan that the movie lost, the Fu family only paid 80 million yuan, and the remaining 200 million to 30 million yuan was paid by some small investors, and the remaining 100 million yuan was paid for by the Chen family in bits and pieces.
Director Chen has a company, and Chen Lingyue also has a company. These two companies are related to Fu Zonglin, just like Fu Ruoyan's own studio. All these cards were forced out.
Now it's easy to lose. Although the business for so many years will not be empty, there is not much money left.
After the movie was released, Fu Zonglin was hospitalized.
I heard that it was a bad heart, and I fainted in the conference room. I was sent to the hospital soon, but my life was not in danger. I stayed there for two or three days, and I still have no plans to leave the hospital.
Fu Ruoyan carried a basket of fruit and went to see Jiang Xiao alone without telling Jiang Xiao.
After pushing open the door of the ward, he almost thought that he had gone by the wrong way. He hadn't seen Fu Zonglin for a long time. This person aged so much at once, and he was less than fifty years old, but half of his hair was white.
It's just that Fu Ruoyan's heart is very hard, and he doesn't have any pitiful emotions anymore.
There were other people in the ward. When Fu Ruoyan came, the rest of them took a look at the atmosphere and left one by one, leaving behind the father and son who were like enemies.
No matter what happened to Fu Zonglin, he was still arrogant in front of Fu Ruoyan. Even if he was lying on the hospital bed, he had to straighten his back.
"You're finally here," Fu Zonglin looked at him, holding the corner of his mouth and showing a smile, "Why, don't you bring Jiang Xiao with you?"
As expected of him, he gave Fu Ruoyan a blow when he came.
He has been in the circle for so many years, and he still has some contacts. When the money is gone, it is not difficult to inquire about the news. Moreover, Fu Ruoyan didn't hide anything from the people around him. It's not a big secret. Some time ago, it was because he was busy with the movie business. Now that he was free, some news came in quickly.
Only then did Fu Zonglin know that there was such a person.
To be honest, homosexual love is not a big news in the entertainment industry. With Fu Ruoyan's temperament, it is not very surprising that he chose such a person, but now it seems that it is probably very different from the ordinary love he imagined.
"Why bring him here? It's hard to see you. I can do it myself. Why make him sick?" Fu Ruoyan smiled, sat down in front of the hospital bed, reached for an orange, and slowly peeled it, "Don't If you want to threaten me with him, you will have to count on me in the future, right?"
It’s not just financial pressure. It’s not easy to spend that 100 million yuan. Every company’s cash flow is difficult to spend so much money. Fu Zonglin has gone downhill in recent years, and many projects he invested in have lost money. up. More of it was Fu Zonglin and old director Chen's face-saving investment. To put it bluntly, part of it was other people's money, but everyone is not a fool, and they need to be replaced by resources when they spend money.
Whether it is the characters in the play or some commercial resources, many of them have not been cashed in, and they are empty checks. In the past, when Fu Zonglin was the master of the Fu family, these were nothing. He could easily arrange them. If the movie exploded, it would be easy to talk about, but now it is not possible. Many contacts are scattered without interest support.
Many times, things in the business field are a big gamble, and if you lose, you have nothing.
"...I know all of this, so don't do unnecessary things, especially about Jiang Xiao," Fu Ruoyan smiled at him, "What if I get angry, what can you do?"
He had finished peeling the orange, Fu Zonglin subconsciously stretched out his hand, but Fu Ruoyan didn't hand it to him, and ate it by himself.