Rebirth into an Interstellar Marriage Chapter 9 part1
Jan 04, 2020
~ Translated by Avis ~
(Currently unedited)
~ HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE ~
Chapter 9 Part 1: (Filming) Completed~
Li Zhetian's appearance when he departed resentfully was remembered in the minds of many of the "Blood Battle" crew members till this day.
Originally, when Zhou Hehui had been scolding him, Li Zhetian was still arrogant and domineering, with an expression of "you dare to provoke Me, you're dead". But as time passed, when Zhou Hehui said with absolute strength that Tiansheng would be investing another 80 million, Li Zhetian was stunned senseless.
("老子", an arrogant version of the first-person pronoun.)
"Blood Battle" had only two investors—one was the Li family corporation, the other was Tiansheng Entertainment Co. Ltd.
Originally, each of them accounted for 50 million of the investment, which could be said to be a balanced arrangement. But presently, Tiansheng had invested another 80 million, this meant: Tiansheng completely did not care about the Li family's part of the investment. At the same time, on the basis of the Li family's additional investment of 20 million, Tiansheng wanted to invest another 30 million, as well as chase Li Zhetian out of the production group.
Very rich and very powerful, but they really were very rich and powerful!
If Li Zhetian's earlier clamour could be said to be small rivulets and little streams, then Tiansheng's strong power would be the great rivers and vast seas!
The Li family was just the third-best interstellar carrier of the capital planet. It only started to rise slowly in the recent decade, and could be considered a very rich upstart. However, compared with the deep-rooted prosperity of Tiansheng, it was honestly a little lacking.
In the past, the reason why Zhou Hehui also advocated yielding a little, rather than going against Li Zhetian, was that the whole Li family loved and pampered this lawless young master very much. And Tiansheng could not completely support Chu Yan alone and be his backing. But presently, the recent phone call utterly changed Zhou Hehui's view.
He now understood, the company really wanted to expend great efforts to support Chu Yan, even to the extent of offending Li Zhetian.
Originally, after this incident, Li Zhetian also called to ask his parents to back him up. Who would have expected, his parents both said "alright, alright, we'll listen to you" in the virtual video, but after a few minutes, when they called again, they had agreed to let Li Zhetian leave the crew.
Of course, Li Zhetian left feeling furious and vexed, and the entire farce ended like this.
Li Zhetian kept cursing and ill-treating his assistant even while they were leaving. Meanwhile, behind him, there wasn't anyone in the production group that cared about his leaving. On the contrary, they were very happy to continue doing their own business, and even their work efficiency improved by more than 10%.
It was simply a disaster for a production group to have a male lead that was late all the time, always acting like a bigshot, and liked to fool around during working hours!
Thank God, this shameless young master was finally chased away!
Among these people, Director Wang was even happier, he almost pulled Chu Yan directly into a French hug.
80 million of investment! 80 million! Li Zhetian's side unexpectedly hadn't withdrawn their investment either, which meant that the total investment of "Blood Battle" was actually 180 million!
Speaking of this number, Director Wang was still a little worried. He secretly went to look for Chu Yan, then asked in a whisper, "That… Chu Yan, it's true that this incident was caused by Li Zhetian's wrongdoing. Now, he has already left, about the investment…"
Hearing this, Chu Yan immediately understood Director Wang's meaning. With a gentle and harmless smile on his handsome face, Chu Yan said softly, "Director Wang, I have no way of changing the company's decision either. 'Blood Battle' is a great TV drama. So, I think the company's decision is very much correct."
The moment he heard this, Director Wang immediately brightened up!
This is to say that the new 80 million investment could definitely be added to the accounting record!
Please read this translation at foxaholic.blog, thanks!
In today's flourishing entertainment world, the cost of shooting TV dramas could be large or small. If it's as small as a web drama, you could shoot one even with 30 to 40 thousand. If it's as large as a top-notch TV drama, you might need to spend hundreds of millions to shoot it. Some large-scale movies were even more terrible. Five years ago, there was a movie that actually had an investment of 4.5 billion Star Coins! Of course, the final box office of the film was 81.7 billion.
With the audience being very enthusiastic about the entertainment industry, they would naturally be more critical. Those in the entertainment industry would pay more attention to the production of every detail, the cost would also be higher, so of course, the returns would often be greater as well.
Director Wang had already figured out where and how to use this extra 80 million investment. The production group would use this fund to improve the production of special effects of "Blood Battle", so that the quality of the drama would not be inferior to that of ordinary films, so that the drama would at least be nominated for the Best Special Effects Award of this year's Golden Prosperity Award!
Do not think that Director Wang's goal is very low. In the present world, there were no less than ten million new TV dramas every year, and this was only the output from Huaxia. The Golden Prosperity Award was one of the top TV Drama Awards in China. Each award category could only have ten TV dramas nominated each year, so it was already extremely difficult to get shortlisted.
("难如登天", literally, ‘as difficult as ascending to heaven')
The most famous actor of "Blood War" was Li Zhetian, who had just left fuming. Compared with those TV series that had invited a couple of first-tier artists, or even a Film Emperor or Film Empress, it really had no advantages.
Thinking of this, Director Wang narrowed his eyes and asked the production group's Publicity Manager over to start discussing this matter.
The third day after Li Zhetian had left, the whole drama was completed. The last scene to be completed was the one where Chu Chen died in battle. Originally, Li Zhetian was supposed to appear in this scene, but this time, Director Wang asked a stuntman to stand in for Li Zhetian's back shot. Then he changed the script, completely turning Chu Yan into the main character of the drama.
In the vast and boundless universe, a warship was shot down by the enemy and landed on a small, desolate planet.
The characters and countries in "Blood Battle" were all created by the author. In that world, there was a great war five hundred years ago, which greatly changed the political structure of the whole galaxy. For example, the Hua Country that Nie Zheng and Chu Chen belonged to, suffered a great loss in vitality five hundred years ago. And now, it was being besieged from all sides by powerful enemies that wanted to plunder its resources.
Five hundred years, the war had not stopped in these five hundred years!
Even if the great war had stopped, small wars still continued. It was five hundred years ago that the Chu family rose from the horizon, and they had been fighting for the country from then on to the present day, until finally, five hundred years later, there was only one last bloodline left.
After Chu Song's death, Chu Chen officially became the head of the Chu family: a family head without family members.
He took over Chu Song's position and amidst the doubt of the public suspicion, became the youngest general of the country. He won the recognition of others with successive battles, before he finally became the new General Chu in the eyes of the army soldiers.
The name 'General Chu' was a kind of glory, but in Chu Chen ears, it was, instead, a kind of ridicule.
The Chu family had produced countless of generals, the youngest of which was him, and the oldest of which had only been twenty years older than him.
It was already a Chu's fate to be unable to live past 45 years old. The battlefield was merciless. Even if the general were braver and better at fighting and strategizing, soldiers could retire, but a general could never do so. Besides, this was one of the rules of the Chu family——
『Go deep into the battlefield; dye your hands with the blood of the enemy』
T/N: Look at these eight words, “深入战场，手染敌血” Such a short but powerful sentence, yet the best I could do was translate it into fourteen words. That's the beauty of Chinese that cannot be easily replicated in English.
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