The Martial Artist Turned Movie Mogul
Chapter 780 - 779. Are you crazy?

Chapter 780: 779. Are you crazy?

"You don’t even need to look to know it’s a great spot. Xiao Shu arranged this for us."

After rolling her eyes at her own husband, Xie Wuxia headed towards the third row center with tickets in hand. "Little Yu, hurry up. Those long legs of yours aren’t just for show."

Following behind, Father Jing picked up his pace and even looked back, "Right, you don’t even think to guide your mother."

Jing Yu: "..."

Who was it that squeezed me to the back just now? Dad, can you make some sense?

He stood in place, pinching the bridge of his nose expressionlessly, while catching up to his irresponsible parents and sending a private message on his phone.

[I’ve arrived, do your best.]

Backstage at the theater, Tang Shu’s phone vibrated buzzingly on the makeup table. As she opened the private message to read it, two men in their thirties passed by her side.

"Brother Liu, is there anything else I can help with?"

"Zhicheng, you’ve been busy all morning. Take a break first; the actors will be going on stage in five minutes."

Brother Liu, the stagehand, pulled out two bottles of mineral water from the side and handed one to the other, keeping one for himself.

The man following a step behind, also wearing a work badge on his chest, took the bottle of mineral water from Brother Liu’s hand, twisted it open, and took a few big gulps.

"Alright, then I’ll sit next to you. I have to say, the work at this theater is quite complicated—"

"It’s alright, just that in the past two days, the show schedules have been especially packed. It wasn’t usually this busy."

"Brother Liu, I’m really interested in stage plays. Can I watch from the audience seats when it starts?"

"Yo, kid... are you here today to gather some material?"

Brother Liu gave him a surprised glance, thoughtful. "I remember you’ve been running those marketing accounts, with a fanbase of over a hundred thousand, right?"

"Heh heh~~~ That follower count doesn’t mean much in the industry. I just think that netizens outside of the circle are too unfamiliar with our plays, and I want to write a feature article about this."

"That’s a great idea. Our stage plays might not be as flashy as the big screen, but the quality is certainly not inferior; it’s just that people nowadays don’t appreciate it."

After expressing his sentiments, Brother Liu pondered for a moment and pointed towards a corner in the distance.

"That’s the spot for the theater staff; you can sit there once it starts. But you still have to follow the rules, no photography and no videotaping allowed."

"Got it! Don’t worry, Brother Liu, I guarantee not to take a single photo, I’ve only brought my eyes today!"

As the final three-minute countdown began, the staff gradually finished their work, and Chen Zhicheng said goodbye to Brother Liu, heading towards a corner of the stage.

"Tsk, this spot’s pretty good. It’s a bit off to the side, but at least I didn’t have to scramble for tickets, and the view’s pretty decent."

I wonder if Tang Shu’s lucky fans have arrived yet?

Forget it, even if they’re here it won’t mean much; the first batch of lucky fans kept things so tight that they managed to keep a surprise secret for nearly ten days. As an influencer known for breaking news, this is simply unbelievable!

"To keep a secret task so well executed is truly godly. People like this are not cut out for being entertainment reporters, absolutely not!"

Chen Zhicheng checked the time on his phone; there were two minutes left before it starts. He opened Tang Shu’s Weibo page, curious to see what the fans were chatting about.

Unsurprisingly, the main topic in the comments section was bustling at the moment.

The old fans today were almost divided into three groups. One group consisted of the Vanguard Team who had watched the play ten days ago and were engaging in the childish game of "I won’t tell you," provoking curses from the crowd of fans; another group was the remaining 200 lucky fans, all scratching their heads and guessing the mysterious surprise behind the curtain.

As for the last group... it was the vast majority who didn’t get tickets, and their wails were even longer and more sorrowful than the 200 lucky fans waiting for the surprise to be unveiled.

"Enough, you guys. Those of us who got nothing can only sit dryly in the comments waiting for news. Did we say anything?"

"I feel like you’re showing off, and I have evidence!"

"Just by looking, you can tell this bunch is all about showing off, emmmm~~~~"

Chen Zhicheng burst into laughter the moment he saw it, moving his hands to join the group chat.

"I didn’t win a prize either, but today I volunteered to help out at the theater, and now I’m sitting in the audience, hehe~~~~"

After the comment was sent...

The online celebrity with a penchant for stirring things up with words felt for the first time what it was to be bombarded with messages.

His private messages were increasing at a rate visible to the naked eye!

"Holy shit? Less than a minute and I’ve received 999+ private messages? Are you devils?"

A cult, the netizens weren’t wrong, this had to be a cult!

This was definitely the most shocking thing he’d seen today!

However, the next second, Chen Zhicheng was proven wrong.

As 9 o’clock struck, the deep red curtain was slowly pulled back, revealing the elaborately decorated stage, and the faces of a dozen or so stage actors came into the sight of the audience.

The previously silent auditorium started to buzz with a few soft gasps, as if in astonishment.

What’s going on, what happened?

Chen Zhicheng lifted his head to look up, his puzzled gaze sweeping from left to right, and before long, it settled on a set of delicate features that seemed familiar.

It was a girl dressed in a Republic-era student outfit, holding two books against her chest, her eyes filled with admiration as she watched a professor who was lecturing not far away.

"!!!"

Holy crap, is that, that, that Tang Shu?!

Chen Zhicheng’s brain froze for a few seconds, then was replaced with shock.

Confirmed, the girl on stage really was Tang Shu! The newcomer who had acted in movies directed by Xie and TV dramas directed by Li, the actress with forty million fans, who could absolutely take on leading roles in TV dramas, Tang Shu!

She was actually performing in a stage play?

That was just too much of a surprise... Wait, could this be the surprise that those hundred members of the Vanguard Team were talking about?

Shock seemed to trump joy, for crying out loud!

Chen Zhicheng was instantly thrown into disarray.

At this moment, the hundreds of audience members below were also thrown into disarray, with some in the corner already whipping out their phones, leaving a string of exclamation points in the previously lively discussion area.

"!!!"

"!!!!"

"!!!!!!"

...

This left the rest of the fans completely bewildered.

"Holy crap, beauties, what’s going on with you, lost your minds?"

"What kind of riddle is this? Are you competing for who can post more exclamation points or something?"

"It’s already 9 o’clock, the stage play has started, shouldn’t you lucky ones with tickets be focusing on the play instead of chatting here?"

"emmmmm~~~ Could you possibly be flaunting that you have what we don’t?"