387: Chapter 381: A Genius That Comes Once in a Hundred Years 387: Chapter 381: A Genius That Comes Once in a Hundred Years His face flushed with embarrassment, Zhou Xingxing remained silent.
He silently sorted out the few documents on the coffee table in front of him, which were somewhat messy, and tucked them into his backpack.
When he looked up again at Chen Hai, a faint smile had returned to his face.
Although he appeared to be smiling, his entire presence seemed somewhat humble.
From his smile, Chen Hai could distinctly sense an indescribable melancholy.
“Young Master Chen, I’ll leave these videotapes here!”
“If you wish to watch them, please do, but if you don’t want to, feel free to throw them into the trash can.”
“After watching my movies, if you still think that I and Starlight Company have no investment value, then I have nothing to say, and I can only consider this visit a waste of time!”
“You’re busy with important matters, so I won’t disturb you any longer!”
Biting his lip, Zhou Xingxing stood up.
After giving Chen Hai a nod of acknowledgment, he turned and walked towards the door.
His retreating figure was somewhat desolate and miserable, almost giving off the sense of a hero at the end of his journey.
Quietly watching him leave the room and gently closing the door behind him, Chen Hai hesitated for a moment but ultimately said nothing more!
Standing up, he walked to the window and drew the curtains open.
The night view of Xiangjiang was a visual feast.
Standing in the room on the nineteenth floor of the Regent Hotel, Chen Hai looked through the window glass towards the distance.
The dazzling neon lights that were visible everywhere made him feel refreshed and greatly improved his mood.
Since he had already met with Zhou Xingxing, it was unnecessary to go to Langui Fang anymore.
After all, for places with too much of a mixture of glitz and secular air, Chen Hai himself wasn’t too fond of them.
Settling back into the sofa, he picked up the box of videotapes left by Zhou Xingxing and began to browse through them out of boredom.
“That guy seems to have quite some confidence in his movies,” he thought to himself.
“Since I have nothing else to do right now, I might as well randomly watch one of his films!”
“I want to see for myself what his movies are like and why he could be so confident in front of me!”
After some contemplation, Chen Hai mumbled to himself.
The VCR was ready to use in the room.
Of course, it wasn’t part of the basic amenities of the Regent Hotel rooms, but one of Chen Hai’s personal belongings.
He had bought it from a nearby electronics store a few days ago especially to watch Li Qingxia’s Dongfang Bubai!
From the Wang Dehui incident, he had earned a hundred million Xiangjiang dollars, of which he had received eighty million.
As someone who was now reasonably wealthy, the small amount of money spent on a VCR was naturally not a concern for him.
“Pick one at random?
This one will do…” Chen Hai selected a tape from the pile, opened the VCR, and inserted the tape.
At first, he started watching the movie with a casual mindset.
But as he watched, he found himself unable to stop.
With his willpower, he could almost maintain his composure even if Mount Tai were to collapse before him.
Yet, when it came to watching Zhou Xingxing’s films and reaching the height of amusement, he still couldn’t help but laugh hysterically.
After finishing Pick one at random, he was still not satisfied.
Without any hesitation, he picked up another film titled King of Beggars from the pile of videotapes and began watching.
One film, two films, three films…
Immersed in the world of cinema, it was only the ringing of a phone that brought him back to reality.
“Who…” Picking up the receiver, the impatient Chen Hai asked while he was enjoying watching The Deer and the Cauldron by Zhou Xingxing.
“Boss, it’s me, Tian Mingjian.”
“Xiaohang and I are about to head back to the Regent Hotel.
Do you want us to bring you breakfast?” Tian Mingjian’s voice came through the phone.
“Breakfast?
Didn’t you guys go to Langui Fang?”
“Even if you did come back, shouldn’t you be asking if I want supper instead?” Chen Hai replied without thinking.
“Boss, it’s already past eight in the morning.”
“You got the time wrong?
That doesn’t really fit with the brilliant image we have of you in our minds, does it?” Tian Mingjian chuckled.
Realizing his mistake upon hearing this, Chen Hai slapped his forehead.
He looked at his wristwatch.
The time displayed was just a few minutes short of eight thirty in the morning.
“I know it’s morning now.
It was just a slip of the tongue a moment ago!”
“Did you guys party all night outside?
Be careful not to catch anything dirty.”
“When you come back, just bring me whatever for food; your boss here is never fussy about eating!”
A boss does not make mistakes in front of his subordinates, and even if he did, he couldn’t easily admit it.
After a light response, Chen Hai hung up the phone.
“The movies made by Zhou Xingxing have some kind of magic to them!”
“Watching his films, even someone as disciplined as I am ended up pulling an all-nighter without realizing it.”
“That guy is an absolute genius when it comes to moviemaking, a once-in-a-century talent!”
Chen Hai sat back down on the sofa and, looking at the screen where The Deer and the Cauldron was still playing, couldn’t help but sigh.
The bit of dissatisfaction he had with Zhou Xingxing had long since been thrown out of his mind.
Thinking about the lonely and desolate figure of Zhou Xingxing when he left, Chen Hai frowned.
In his opinion, such talent should not be buried.
He couldn’t figure out what kind of predicament Zhou Xingxing was facing.
That he should have to lower his proud head and humbly ask for help, wanting Chen Hai to invest in him, to buy into his Starlight Company!
Chen Hai truly felt a sense of respect for his talent.
Such a man should just focus on making films; his place was on the set, undisturbed by worldly affairs.
After rummaging through the pile of videotapes, Chen Hai found the business card that Zhou Xingxing had left behind among the tapes before he left.
After he found the card and looked at it, with Zhou Xingxing’s contact information, he didn’t call it right away.
With a flip of his hand, a few Copper Coins used for divination were already in Chen Hai’s palm.
Grasping the Copper Coins, he began to perform the divination.
Although he was not going all out, he didn’t just cast one divination; he cast several in a row.
From Zhou Xingxing’s current troubles to the outlook of the Xiangjiang film market, he divined them all.
If he wasn’t really optimistic about the man, he wouldn’t have bothered to expend so much effort divining these things.
“Turns out, Zhou Xingxing is in this predicament because he had a falling out with Yongsheng, who then suppressed him!”
“It turns out that the Xiangjiang film market is experiencing its last glory days.
In a few years, the film industry here will completely decline!”
“True gold always shines.
With Zhou Xingxing’s talent, what does it matter if the Xiangjiang film market is sluggish?”
“In the domestic market with over a billion people, that huge market will eventually rise slowly…”
With a complicated expression, Chen Hai sighed lightly.
Even though his divination was not his best effort, he could still discern quite a lot from it.
Holding the business card that Zhou Xingxing had left behind, he walked over to the phone and started dialing.
PS: Happy Children’s Day, finally hit a million words, time to celebrate…