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Ai Dou is actually willing to be a match for himself, something Qi Xingchen never dared to think of before or since.

Qi Xingchen asked in confusion, "Say that again?"

Bai Ye repeats, "I'll make you a match."

"It doesn't fit ......"

"What's so inappropriate," Bai Ye cries, "What rule says I can't play a supporting role?"

Indeed there is no such ridiculous rule, Qi Xingchen was confused for a while. Bai Ye couldn't stand it anymore, and flicked his head, "Contact the director, it's been months, it's not sure if the director has a schedule or not."

"...... Right." Qi Xingchen was shocked, finally came to her senses, and hurriedly found out the text message records with the director and dialed the number.

Fortunately, the director and screenwriter didn't give up on the project. After Qi Xingchen, they invested in a few more movie and TV companies. Unfortunately, under the influence of the movie and TV winter environment, all the companies preferred to choose a book with its own popularity and a theme that meets the public's aesthetics.

After all, the purpose of making a movie is to make money. And from whom does the money come? From the audience.

Acrobatics are long gone, and the only people who are willing to watch it, besides the older generation, are the boys who ask their girlfriends out on a casual date and forget to buy tickets ahead of time and have to buy a movie ticket for the current show.

Can the investors expect two or three hundred million boys across the country, making cheap mistakes?

And can't.

There aren't even 200 million boys with dates in the country to pick from.

But it's not the same with "Last Night's Star", which is the heat that the movie has carried since it was born. With it, the subject matter and tone can be completely ignored.

The director and screenwriter were not from H city, so after a brief chat, Qi Xingchen asked them to fly over before tomorrow to discuss the matter. After receiving a positive answer, Bai Ye and Qi Xingchen immediately drove to Noah.

It was their first time to make a movie and they didn't know anything about it. After talking with Chen Nuoya, they realized that a movie needs a project first, and that a project needs a plan.

Qi Xingchen looks to Bai Ye: "I'm a science student."

Bai Ye was helpless, "I'm a science student too."

Chen Nuoya : "...... Never mind I'll write one for you guys to try."

Half an hour later, the duo walked out of Noah's gates with a skeleton of a plan, just waiting for the director to arrive and fill in the details.

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After coming out, Qi Xingchen asked Bai Ye to accompany him to the hospital while it was still dark.

Qi Xingchen hadn't seen Tao Xuan for a long time since we parted years ago, and he missed the boy a bit, and he had something he wanted to say to Tao Xuan.

When we arrived at the hospital, Tao Xuan was standing in the middle of the hospital room pulling a yoga strap. Qi Xingchen said, "Wow, you're practicing on the equipment?"

"Xingchen!" Tao Xuan throws down his yoga strap and pounces, "I'm getting ready for my surgery next month!"

His pounce was quite Qi Jiaze-esque, and Qi Xingchen was a bit upset - why didn't he learn from the good stuff, but had to learn from Qi Jiaze's bad stuff.

The next thing you know, Bai Ye peeled him off Qi Xingchen. Qi Xingchen was lighter and looked up and down, "You look good, have you found the source of the kidney?"

"Well, Prof. Liang helped me find it!" Tao Xuan smiled coyly, "Brother, you haven't come to see me for a long time, is that Jiaze's brother-in-law behind you?"

Qi Xingchen : "...... Yes."

"Hello brother-in-law!" Tao Xuan shouted crisply.

Whether it's in his behavior or expression, you can tell that he's particularly happy, and Qi Xingchen can't help but follow suit with the corners of his lips rising.

The fact that Tao Xuan was able to find a kidney source is a rare blessing in a sea of bad news.

Qi Xingchen asked Tao Xuan to sit with him. After they sat down on the ward chairs, Qi Xingchen hesitated to open his mouth. Tao Xuan, who was much more delicate than the average adolescent boy, took the initiative and asked, "Xingchen, do you have something to say to me?"

Qi Xingchen did have something to say to him, but didn't know how to express it.

"It's okay, you think of me as Jiaze straight up."

Since this was the case, Qi Xingchen didn't want to keep dragging it down, and tried, "Xiao Xuan, if one day your sister and I come to the opposite side of the fence, will you be sad?"

"Opposite ......" Tao Xuan paused for a moment, "My sister she ...... done something bad?"

From the usual interactions, Tao Xuan could tell that Qi Xingchen's character was the kind of person who tried not to make enemies if he could.

If Qi Xingchen has come to a confrontation with someone, that person must have touched his bottom line and reached the point where he had to break up.

I didn't expect Tao Xuan to be so sensitive, Qi Xingchen's chest was a bit stuffy, but he didn't intend to tell Tao Xuan the truth. after all, Tao Xuan hadn't fully recovered yet, and it wouldn't be worthwhile to affect his mood and cause his condition to deteriorate.

And Tao Xuan had made an agreement with Qi Jiaze to take the college entrance exam together. Freshman exams should be the main focus of the exams and should not delay their grades.

He deliberated for a few seconds, "Some time ago, your sister designed to hurt some of the people in order to achieve her goal, and it also hurt me and the people around me. The Qi family suffered quite a lot of losses because of this incident, and this debt is something I have to get back."

Tao Xuan thought he had prepared his heart and could accept it more easily, but after listening to what Qi Xingchen said he still revealed a few sad expressions, "I won't be sad because you and my sister have come to an antagonistic side, I'm more sad that she even chose to use harming other people to achieve her own goals, which is already ...... not her anymore."

The child is too understanding, Qi Xingchen heart sour, touch his fluffy hair.

"Brother," Tao Xuan's voice trembled, "the harm you say ...... is killing people?"

Qi Xingchen didn't know how to answer, avoiding the question, "My family is still alive."

Tao Xuan gave a soft "hmm" and lost the courage to continue. At that moment Qi Jiaze came in, and Qi Xingchen asked him to tease Tao Xuan and ask him about his study before leaving with Bai Ye.

On the way back Qi Xingchen has been thinking, such a well-behaved child, if he knew that his sister burned to death and injured more than 50 people ......

How hard it has to be.

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The next day, the two sides continued to work separately. Qi Yuji went to the office, while Qi Xingchen and Bai Ye took the plan to An Ran's temporary home.

When they arrived, the director and screenwriter had already been talking to An Ran for a while. The first thing the director said when he saw Qi Xingchen was, "Thank you."

As he spoke, he actually cried, "If it weren't for you, I might have really given up ......"

An Ran was taken aback by how he cried.

Qi Xingchen hurriedly drew a tissue and stuffed it into his hand.

The screenwriters naturally understand their own script better than Qi Xingchen, and when the director calmed down, they discussed filling in a few details to the plan.

After confirming everything, Qi Xingchen solemnly signs "Qi Xingchen" in the position of "Producer".

So the first project of Night Star Media, the first movie Qi Xingchen was going to make, was quietly born in this unassuming house.

As a professional agent, An Ran naturally has more contacts than Qi Xingchen. After roughly formulating the plan, An Ran didn't delay for a minute and started to call all the major movie studios.

With the gimmick of "last night's star-studded debut co-star", no movie company was not interested in the project, and they didn't even bother to ask about the movie's idea and plot summary, but just asked for the price.

However, when An Ran said it needed 800 million, most companies hesitated, saying they needed to think about it.

After all, 800 million is not a small amount, looking at today's movie market, how many films each year can exceed one billion after dehydration at the box office?

A small literary film, asked for 800 million investment, they do not want to invest, but want to use the "consider" excuse to pressure the price.

But Qi Xingchen is determined to get the 800 million, signaling An Ran: "Keep fighting."

"Good, the next movie company owner is a friend of Mr. Qi, so he should be good to talk to."

Big Brother's friend? Qi Xingchen asked, "Which company?"

"Oriental Pictures."

"Oh ......" Qi Xingchen Come to think of it, My Time is hosted by East Orange TV, a subsidiary of Oriental Pictures.

Sure enough, as An Ran expected, Ji Yuedong, president of Oriental Pictures, didn't resort to roundabout tactics when she named the amount, but cut to the chase, "Unless I'm a fool to believe that a 2D literary film needs an investment of $800 million."

"We didn't mean it that way," An Ran smiles, "We mainly wanted to put some more fees into the promotion ......"

"No need to say," Ji Yuedong interrupted An Ran, "I can invest money, but I don't like to fight unsure battles. Let's do it this way, bet against each other, you guys directional issue 800 million equity to the East, and at the end of the year, if Nightstar's share price doesn't turn over to 1.5 times, you guys use 2 times the price, and then repurchase the shares back from my hand."

In other words, the East can now invest eight hundred million in Night Star. But the requirement is that at the end of the year this eight hundred million in stock must be doubled into twelve hundred million, otherwise Qi Xingchen will have to spend sixteen hundred million dollars in white silver to buy back this portion of stock from the East.

"Well?" Ji Yuedong said, "I'll give you a week to think about it."

An Ran looked at Qi Xingchen with difficulty.

"No, not for a week."

Qi Xingchen gritted her teeth, "I can sign whenever you're free."

There are still seven months left until the end of the year, so if the movie is scheduled from now on and uses some connections to get through the screening process, it could be released in December at the earliest.

It's a good thing that literary films are quick to shoot and easy to post-produce, so you don't need to spend your time doing special effects or anything like that, and the other party must have already done the math if they can make a request for the end of the year.

Qi Xingchen's words just fell, the other end of the phone suddenly laughed softly, ''Good, worthy of being Yunxiao's brother.

Ji Yuedong paused, "Since you're so dry, I'll be quick about it too. Send me the account number and I'll allocate the money to you now."

What, transferring money now?

Qi Xingchen froze, "What about the targeted increase?"

"The head of the securities department will approach you ...... Come on, I'm sure you'll be able to bring Yunxiao out."

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Until hanging up the phone, Qi Xingchen only figured out that the other side of the investment is false, want to help Qi's is true.

It also really proves what Liang Jing said - in this case, the willingness to lend a helping hand to the Qi family is not because of kindness or anything else, but because the Qi family usually does a good job of making good karma.

It was only when they were in trouble that someone was willing to help the Qisas.

Almost ten minutes later, Bai Ye's cell phone vibrated, eight hundred million in cash arrived. At this point, the hole of 5.2 billion dollars in fines was finally filled.

Qi Xingchen couldn't wait a moment, told An Ran to help the director find a team, and dragged Bai Ye directly to pay the fine.

After paying the fine, Mr. Qi, who had reached the end of his detention period, could be released directly. The registration process was lengthy, and Qi Xingchen kept walking in front of the detention center.

Finally, the moment he saw his father appear, he couldn't control himself and rushed up to him, hugging Elder Qi vigorously, "Dad--"

Elder Qi was hooped by him and coughed twice, patting him on the back, "All such a big kid, why are you still pampered. Don't cry, dad is not well."

"I... I ...... I was worried sick about you," Qi Xingchen choked, "Did you eat well? Did you sleep? Did the people inside bully you? Are there any hard, hard places on your body?"

"No, everything is fine," Qi's father's eyes reddened at his question, "The hard part to say is that I haven't seen you guys for a few days and I miss you."

"Oooh ...... Dad, I miss you too ......"

Since leaving the orphanage, Qi Xingchen had basically not cried much. Qi's father patted his back while observing the man behind him, "You're Bai Ye?"

"Yes, hello uncle."

"I'm very satisfied that I can make a special effort to accompany Xingchen. Come on, hold him up, let's go home first."

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Qi old man is the first to be taken away, on the things that happened after he did not know, after returning home Qi Xingchen first gave him a brief account of the times.

When he heard that his eldest son was also taken away, he was so angry that he threw away his walking stick; when he heard that Qi Yuji was managing the company by himself, he was pleased to sigh again and again, who said that a woman is not as good as a man.

After spending some time in the detention center, it is impossible to say that the body is not affected. Because of the coolness of the detention center, Qi's father fell into a coughing problem. Father and son did not talk for a long time, he coughed more and more.

It was not suitable to go to the hospital, so Qi Xingchen found some medicine to stop the cough, and after taking it, he went back to his room to rest.

When her father finally went to bed, Qi Xingchen rubbed her eyes and went downstairs, and when she saw Bai Ye on the sofa, her cheeks suddenly fluttered up in two shades of scarlet, "You didn't see the ugly way I cried, did you?"

Bai Ye shook his head, "No."

"That'll do."

Qi Xingchen took a long breath and settled down next to Bai Ye, wrapping her arms around him, "My dad says he likes you a lot."

Bai Ye joked as if he was snapping his fingers, "So now all that's missing is his great-uncle."

After a pause, Bai Ye said, "Xingchen, there's a question I've been meaning to ask you."

Qi Xingchen: "What?"

"Have you thought about ...... whether we'll continue to stay in the book from now on, or whether we'll go back to the real world."

Qi Xingchen's expression froze.

He knows why Bai Ye is asking this because Bai Ye was not clear about his feelings for the QI family before and now he should be clear and wants to ask for his opinion.

Whether to stay or go, he thought about it, of course he did.

"...... Night," Qi Xingchen whispered, "where do you want to be?"

"Me, I'm with you."

Qi Xingchen lowered his eyes, "Then let's wait until we're done with the family and the work at hand, and then we'll think long and hard about it, okay?"

"Well," Bai Ye smiled, "it's all up to you."

"Zip-zip-zip-zip-zip-zip-zip-zip-zip-zip-zip-zip-zip."

While the two of them were whispering, Qi Xingchen's phone suddenly rang. The caller showed Xu Changlin, and Qi Xingchen got up from Bai Ye's body and immediately picked up the phone, "Hello, Uncle Xu."

"Xiao Qi, I found evidence that Tao Tao bought the fire!"