Chapter 1 After Exercise

After working out, Qiao Liang sat on the sofa for a while, drank some water to replenish his fluids, and ate two pieces of chocolate.

His stamina was depleted quickly, but he recovered quickly as well.

This was because he was playing the basic version of *Fitness Battle*, and the movements in it were all relatively simple exercises that could be done on a yoga mat, and the amount of exercise arranged in the game wasn't too strenuous.

If he were doing strength training to the point of exhaustion, he might not have the energy to do anything else all day, and he might even have sore muscles for the next three days.

But with just these basic exercises, his stamina recovered relatively quickly.

If Qiao Liang were acting according to his usual couch potato tendencies, he would definitely slack off after a short workout today. Regardless of whether he exercised properly or not, as long as he had exercised and the time was roughly right, he would basically give up, and he wouldn't even want to exercise again for the next few days.

In reality, this amount of exercise was completely insufficient and would not achieve the goal of losing weight or shaping his body.

But today, Qiao Liang had a feeling of wanting more.

Mainly, he was very curious about what kind of wonderful chemical reaction would occur when the game *Fitness Battle* was combined with a smart fitness clothes drying rack.

Just imagining it made him feel that the experience would definitely be several levels higher than this basic version.

This curious feeling made it feel like ants were crawling in Qiao Liang's heart, and he couldn't suppress the impulse at all.

So he made a move that surprised even himself.

He decided to go out immediately to a nearby shared gym to experience what it felt like to play *Fitness Battle* on a smart fitness clothes drying rack!

If it really worked, he wouldn't mind ordering one immediately and putting it at home for exercise whenever he wanted.

"I haven't streamed in a long time, it's been more than a week already."

"Why don't I stream for everyone today?"

As a veteran pro at delaying, Qiao Liang experienced a bout of shame, as regular as his period, unavoidable but not punctual, that occurred about once a month.

It just so happened that this was a good topic for a stream, so Qiao Liang packed his things, prepared to go out, and opened Tuwei Livestream, ready to livestream the whole process of experiencing the smart fitness clothes drying rack to his fans!

...

At the same time, Pei Qian had just arrived at the company, ready to start a day, or rather, half a day of work.

It was already 3 PM, and to be more precise, Pei Qian had just over two hours of work time left today.

There was nothing he could do about it, President Pei was just too busy.

There were so many things in life, any one of which was much more important than coming to the company to work.

The first thing he did when he got to work was to open the sales page of the smart fitness clothes drying rack to check the sales.

Well, although the numbers had changed a little, they were still quite dismal. He still didn't know when the stock piled up in the warehouse would be cleared.

The situation was excellent!

It seemed that he could rest assured about the smart fitness clothes drying rack in the short term.

After feeling a little relieved, Pei Qian made a cup of tea and pondered the situation of other industries while drinking it.

Now, Tengda Group was involved in a bit too many industries. In the eyes of outsiders, President Pei was in control and knew the situation of all the industries clearly, but only President Pei himself knew that he often missed some industries and had to look at the company's organizational chart to remember them clearly.

Suddenly, Pei Qian thought of something.

"The movie *Mission and Choice*... has it already been taken off the screens?"

The release date of the *Mission and Choice* movie was April 14th. Generally, the first run of a movie is one month, which means that by May 14th, the movie should have been taken off the screens.

But now, it was already May 16th.

Ever since May 1st, when *Raging Warship*, which President Pei had high hopes for, had suffered a box office Waterloo, Pei Qian had stopped paying attention to the *Mission and Choice* movie.

He directly blocked the push notifications from Gouyan App and various movie apps, as well as the entertainment and film sections of various news clients. In short, he tried everything he could to avoid receiving any news about the *Mission and Choice* movie.

Although the plan to lose money through *Mission and Choice* had completely failed, life had to go on.

Pei Qian was afraid that continuing to pay attention to this news would cause his mentality to collapse, so he could only bury his head in the sand like an ostrich, so that he could stabilize his mentality.

After all, there was still some time before the settlement, and if he struggled a little harder, there was still hope.

His approach did have a very good effect.

Modern society seems to be very developed in terms of information, but in reality, there is a strong "information cocoon" effect.

That is to say, although there is a lot of information on the Internet, it is precisely because there is too much information and there are too many channels to obtain information, people often tend to pay attention only to the parts that they are interested in. There are huge differences in the information obtained between different groups of people. Many people think that they are well-informed, but in fact, they have become isolated people who are isolated from the world.

In this environment, as long as you spend a little effort not to understand some information, these things are equivalent to not existing.

Now, Pei Qian felt that he could almost come out of the "information cocoon," walk around a little, and recognize the reality.

Since the box office of the *Mission and Choice* movie had already been settled, there was no use in escaping anymore. It was better to recognize the reality early and prepare for a tough battle.

Pei Qian opened the Gouyan App, intending to check the final box office of *Mission and Choice*.

However, as soon as he opened the App, he saw a notification message pop up on the homepage.

"*Mission and Choice* has its run extended by 2 months!"

This message directly stunned Pei Qian. He was completely unprepared, and three question marks slowly floated above his head.

"???"

What did I do wrong? I haven't logged into Gouyan App for more than half a month, and the first thing you do is push such a blinding message to me!

Pei Qian clicked to view it with a shocked face.

"According to the news from the film's distributor, the recent hit movie *Mission and Choice* has extended its run from the original May 14th to July 14th, extending the release by 2 months. At the same time, the film has also adjusted the ticket prices for all types of movies."

Below was a screenshot of an announcement.

The title of the announcement was "Notice on the Key Extension and Adjustment of the Minimum Ticket Price for the Digital Film *Mission and Choice*".

The content of the notice was very simple: the key of *Mission and Choice* was extended by 2 months, and the minimum ticket price of the film was adjusted. According to the different cities and the differences in the theaters, the ticket price was generally reduced by 5-10 yuan.

Behind it was an introduction to the basic situation of the movie.

"*Mission and Choice* is an original science fiction film from Feihuang Studio under Tengda Group, which tells the magnificent interstellar war between humans and Zerg in the future era. The film has caused a warm response as soon as it was released. Some industry insiders said that it 'opened the door to domestic science fiction films' and 'started the pioneer of heavy industrial films', which has milestone historical significance."

"As of 16:10 on May 14th, the *Mission and Choice* movie has been released for one month, and the box office has exceeded 1.5 billion, breaking the 1.1 billion box office record that had been held by domestic films for two years, and far exceeding all the films that have been released this year, even surpassing the box office of several Hollywood blockbusters in China."

"The extension of the key to *Mission and Choice* obviously meets the common expectations of the film party, the audience, the theaters, and the industry insiders. How much box office will this excellent domestic film eventually win? Welcome everyone to wait and see with Gouyan App!"

"Go to Gouyan App Professional Edition to view the movie box office in real time!"

At the end of this news push, they didn't forget to promote their own App.

But Pei Qian couldn't care about any of this.

Now his brain was blank, and only two numbers remained.

Extended by two months!

Box office of 1.5 billion!

When *Mission and Choice* was first released, Pei Qian would go to Gouyan App every day to look at the estimated box office. At the beginning, Gouyan App's estimates were very conservative, all numbers like 350 million and 400 million.

According to this estimate, the movie would definitely lose money, which made Pei Qian a little excited.

As a result, the development after that became more and more wrong.

The poor box office performance in the early stage of the movie was only because there was no publicity, but after a series of publicity strategies heated up the movie's popularity, the movie's box office began to rise against the trend, and Gouyan App also repeatedly adjusted its estimate of the box office, all the way up to 500 million and even 800 million!

Many film critics believed that a box office of 800 million was already the level of the annual domestic film box office champion. Even if a stronger dark horse came out, *Mission and Choice* would be a strong contender for the domestic film box office champion.

This was already enough to make Pei Qian terrified.

Because the current size of the domestic film market is so large, the previous box office champion of 1.1 billion was already a big hit with the right timing and location, and it occupied the hot search for a long time.

After that, domestic movies, even those that won the annual box office champion, were only about 600-800 million at most, and the box office that many Hollywood blockbusters could get in the mainland would not exceed 1 billion.

As a result, *Mission and Choice* directly won a box office of 1.5 billion in this month?!

Not only did it break the domestic film box office record, crush many Hollywood blockbusters, but it also had its key extended for two more months?

With a box office of 1.5 billion, calculated at a share of more than 30%, Feihuang Studio's income was at least more than 500 million.

And the game and movie of *Mission and Choice* together cost less than 600 million.

As early as the first week, the game sales of *Mission and Choice* had reached 800,000 sets, with a net income of more than 80 million...

Adding these two numbers together, the cost had already been recovered, and every penny after that was pure profit!

What was even more terrifying was that in the many analysis articles about *Mission and Choice* on the Gouyan App information channel, Pei Qian saw an analysis about the final revenue sharing.

The person who wrote this article was obviously an industry insider. He analyzed through various clues and finally came to a terrible conclusion.

The share of the final box office revenue that Feihuang Studio received was likely to be significantly higher than other film producers!

Because *Mission and Choice* was different from other movies, the publicity and distribution costs were basically negligible!