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One stone, a thousand ripples.

Netizens didn't know whether to head to DOH's page first or freak out over Aurora Entertainment announcing an infinite flow film franchise.

Both were shocking —!

Nobody thought DOH would have a turnaround. Dissolution, bankruptcy, shutdown — all of it felt inevitable.

Then plot twist.

Some rich entertainment exec suddenly did the splits, swerved into esports, and threw money at a has-been club.

Just like how DOH saw Sang Yu, the industry's impression of her was three words: loaded, generous, wild.

Sometimes, loaded ≠ generous. After all, everyone's a businessman.

You weigh the profit margins.

Loaded people throwing cash around? Rare sight.

Industry insiders had thoughts.

The Favored One's current profit looked pretty, but for Sang, it barely broke even.

'Borrowing' didn't cost money upfront, but some things wear down with use — need more maintenance funds pumped in.

Especially costumes and props.

Anyone who's watched a drama knows this.

High-society dramas' 'originals' cost way too much. That's why Domestic Entertainment keeps using shiny-but-cheap costumes to fake it.

Everyone was sighing — Sang's been quiet for days, probably thinking about Aurora Entertainment's future direction, right?

Then she drops: didn't disappear to reflect, went to play games, and casually invested in an esports club?

Industry: '……'

Fine.

All that fuss and we're back to square one. Low profit doesn't matter much to her anyway. Loaded and wild (through gritted teeth).

While raging at their own uselessness, they also got a little jealous of DOH — that 'outsider.'

Loaded? Why not spend it on Domestic Entertainment?

Domestic Entertainment has good projects — Sang just doesn't like them?

Always wants to start from scratch.

That [3D + Infinite Flow + Franchise Film Series] new project — nobody's heard a whisper. How does she even have one?!

Domestic Entertainment HAS tried infinite flow before.

But the results sucked.

Censorship is brutal — that's one major gate.

Regular dramas talk about human nature, but infinite flow's genre is special — scripts are naturally more 'bloody.'

Regular dramas wrap up with a 'family reunion' ending, partly for censorship. Let alone infinite flow dancing in chains.

Another thing — proper infinite flow arcs run long.

One arc easily takes a hundred-plus chapters, sometimes you can't even finish it.

If a company buys the full copyright, they want to film everything — otherwise the license fee is wasted.

So only two options?

Compress it.

Or cut it.

If you follow Sang's usual 'faithful to the source' style, one film per arc actually works.

Infinite flow = constant world swaps, scene swaps, monster swaps, worldview swaps. Just organizing that into a list makes you dizzy.

Definitely burns cash.

Let alone the 3D part.

Sure, it can show bosses in full glory, but every film needs fresh models.

Different arcs, different vibes.

One film = one independent art system — sets rebuilt, models rebuilt, VFX redone.

The industry's seen this model before. Tried it. Closed the books and walked away.

Disney won't even commit to a full franchise upfront — they wait for feedback. First film does well, THEN they fund the second.

One 3D film takes three to four years to produce. Multiply that by however many arcs — that total is insanity.

This dangerous genre, this 'franchise' long-term commitment — how is it different from tossing money into the ocean?

If you're gonna toss it, toss it at Domestic Entertainment. Why give it to that DOH……

·

DOH base.

Shao Fei sneezed: 'Ah-choo —!'

Who's talking about me?

That's a good thing!

Shao Fei's face was glowing red.

Right now he was the perfect picture of 'no one talks smack about talentless hacks' — people muttering about him, cursing him — great!

That means people have DOH on their radar again.

Maybe a sign DOH's climbing back up.

Shao Fei hummed a tune heading out of the bathroom, thinking about when to personally visit that kid called 'Peng Lejia.'

Sang personally picked him out.

Originally Shao Fei was puzzling — kid's young. Sang's relative? Sang's relative's relative?

Some rich kid slumming it? Wouldn't know how to take care of himself.

Then he found out — Peng Lejia wasn't Sang's relative. He'd been in the news recently, one of the main characters.

Talented, sure, but his family situation was dragging him down hard, especially his dad. Someone who'd go all-in like that? Rare.

Why would Sang recommend him?

Shao Fei didn't get it at first, then suddenly had a moment of clarity —

For Sang, pulling this kid up might be her daily 'good deed' — like tapping a wooden fish.

Helping some kid chase his esports dream — as easy as splashing water.

Shao Fei got the hint.

Didn't just call without warning — carefully arranged everything for Peng Lejia, so he could focus on school with zero worries.

That way, the job was done 'right.'

If someday Sang asked, he'd have something to report.

·

Peng Lejia, meanwhile, had no idea this surprise was about to land.

·

Peng Lejia was currently fighting with his dad.

Thanks to his dad, he'd become a celebrity at school — people stared wherever he went.

So at lunch, he went to the cafeteria to swipe his card. The balance showed 2.4 yuan — not even enough for the cheapest flatbread at window one.

Someone saw the whole thing.

Peng Lejia pressed his lips into a smile, apologetically told the cafeteria auntie: 'Didn't top up my card, I'll skip it today, next time.'

Then went back to class.

The rich-kid classmate who'd been dragged into it had a brainwave — sent someone to the third floor, where the teachers and administrators' cafeteria was.

A student has no money for food — nobody cares?

Peng Lejia's old man embarrassed him, but this classmate hadn't cut ties with Peng Lejia — after all, Peng Lejia was genuinely skilled.

One move of playing the victim — nasty.

Before, Peng Lejia had explained the situation, but his voice got drowned out.

Nobody listened. The school called him in for a talk — focus on studying, esports is too uncertain.

What could he do?

Had to listen.

He was a student, after all.

But his dad, who wouldn't let Peng Lejia off easy, wasn't happy — so he pulled a dirty move. That was just step one.

Peng Lejia's first few days were rough, but it got better after.

Maybe his face got thick enough it stopped being worth money.

10:30 PM, school let out.

'Hey, are you Peng Lejia? I'm from DOH club — got a minute to chat?'

Peng Lejia: '……Who?'

'DOH…… oh right, we signed miaole and didi — you know those two, right?'

Peng Lejia's face flushed red instantly — guessing the other side might've misunderstood — he rushed to deny it.

'I-I know DOH, I thought I misheard —!'

Shao Fei, smooth as ever: 'Let's hit KFC, my treat.'

The approach was simple.

Find a loophole —

Don't sign Peng Lejia.

Help him as a friend. Housing, food, computer gear — don't worry about any of it.

Give Peng Lejia a safety net, save the kid the energy of outsmarting his dad.

If it were anyone else, Shao Fei would push them toward studying. But Peng Lejia didn't need that.

Wait until the college entrance exam's done, then enter the club.

Peng Lejia's academics were solid — if he could get into university, great. If not…… keeping his feel sharp gave him a fallback.

Sang picked him out — DOH definitely had to play this right. Think it through for Peng Lejia, do everything in their power to give him a boost.

'……Thanks. But — being this nice to me, what's the catch?'

Peng Lejia's Adam's apple bobbed as he asked.

Uneasy.

But unable to contain the joy.

Worth a scammer putting in this much effort?

Shao Fei laughed: 'Catching a person, nothing 'bout that, it's Sang. If you're gonna thank someone, thank her first.'

Peng Lejia froze.

Shao Fei: 'Sang noticed you from the news…… it's getting cold, let's go to KFC, I'll explain slowly.'

Sang……

·

If you had to describe it, Peng Lejia's feelings were the same as Wei Kemeng's back when she got picked by Sang because of a fanfic.

Shocked, ecstatic, lost for words.

The Favored One was about to wrap, and The Demolition Office's progress had entered post-production — wrap was near.

Wei Kemeng's feelings had also shifted, subtly.

On the latest Demolition Office script, the screenwriter credit line actually had her name on it — 'Wei Kemeng.'

Three characters, read countless times, every read still felt unreal.

Not long ago, she had no big writing dreams — one 'ma'am, you write so well' could make her day.

Now she'd joined a hundred-million-yuan production, watched the script get polished to perfection.

She had savings, had confidence, had time to visit another city, check in on set.

Watch the lines she wrote get spoken by actors, watch the scenes she wrote get filmed by the director……

Watch the parts she created take concrete shape on camera.

A reality more beautiful than dreams.

All because of Sang.

So Wei Kemeng made her decision — once The Demolition Office started promo, she'd do her part too.

Her understanding of the entertainment circle had taken a quantum leap compared to a few months ago.

Wei Kemeng saw more clearly now — understood how rare an investor like Sang was, demanding faithfulness to source, ignoring cost.

Last time, Shu Mucheng gave her a spark of inspiration — she'd prepared a long piece.

Just one thing.

Maybe this move wouldn't help The Demolition Office crew much. Maybe people would see it as drama queen behavior, fake moved.

But — post it.

Hope The Demolition Office blows up.

Let Sang make her money back.

·

Actually —

The mega-hit was about to wrap, but the only regret — The Favored One, which hadn't made Sang big money — wasn't done with its journey.

·

The Favored One's heat on streaming platforms hadn't dropped. Lengbei TV called Aurora Entertainment's side.

The head of acquisitions was surnamed Zhou — Director Zhou got straight to the point, wanted to buy The Favored One. Promised to slot it into the next prime-time slot.

But — inconvenient.

Couldn't sell it exclusively.

Because Lingjiang TV had also reached out.

If they didn't accept dual-channel broadcast, they'd have to bump the price — exclusivity costs more, after all.

Director Zhou from Lengbei TV personally came to Aurora Entertainment.

Director Tao from Lingjiang TV came too.

Both sides locked in.

Final result: Lingjiang won — paying double the standard S+ drama price, they bought The Favored One's exclusive first-run satellite rights.

A few years back, TV stations didn't spend this big on dramas — seven or eight million per episode, ten million uncapped.

After the salary-cap order came down, actor pay dropped, and TV stations' per-episode purchase prices dropped too — nearly halved.

With S+ ancient idol dramas underperforming for years straight, audiences lost their spell on S+, lost their spell on traffic IPs — ratings were a mess.

Prices kept sliding.

Reality check: a whole drama packaged as exclusive first-run + second-run satellite could sell for 20-30 million and that'd be solid.

Lingjiang TV gritted its teeth and opened 50 million.

Gave it the 7-9 PM prime slot AND the highest-traffic weekend slot — clearly going for broke.

That price set a new record for per-episode drama pricing in the past five years.

The previous record-holder: the universally mega-hit Yanyun Sword Part One.

Not done.

Because it wasn't just sellable domestically.

It was sellable overseas.

The ink on Lingjiang TV's contract hadn't even dried — the overseas rights agency contract was already signed.

Other countries wanting to buy dramas go through agencies.

Yuanshang TV was beating its chest in regret.

— Because The Favored One wasn't self-produced, all that money slipped away?!

Usually foreign platforms buying dramas go through agencies — there are fixed Chinese film-and-TV overseas distribution partners.

Agencies handle translation, subtitles, dubbing if needed.

Different agencies cover different regions — some specialize in Southeast Asia, some in Japan and Korea, some in Europe and America.

This time, though —

Roughly forty-plus foreign platforms sent out purchase intent.

When this news leaked through gossip accounts, people couldn't believe it.

One agency head was surnamed Lin, in his forties.

He heard the question, laughed, and said: 'Honestly, the answer's simple — Korean dramas paved the way.'

The idol drama genre goes global.

Modern love stories don't need much cultural context, historical knowledge, political stance.

Just good-looking leads, strong CP chemistry, a plot that works — open your eyes, you can watch.

That ecological niche had always belonged to Korean dramas.

Korean drama export success carved the equation [Asian idol drama = Korean drama] into global audiences' minds.

In recent years, Korean dramas started emphasizing concept, suspense, depth. A gap opened in the traditional idol drama market.

The Favored One happened to fill it.

'That Sang — really knows how to hit the 'pain point'…… impressive……'

·

So after going around in circles, some industry veterans exhaled, genuinely impressed: '……'

That Sang — stop being humble. Is this something to be humble about?

Playing a long game, definitely!

Keep being humble and it's straight-up Versailles.

You must be laughing your head off in that fancy office, right?

That many rights sold — should hit a small goal, right?

·

Meanwhile.

The Sang everyone's talking about was actually staring speechless at the trending topic #Sang DOH Sister-in-Law#.

Besides that one, there was #Sang I Know Meow#, #Sang Invests in DOH#……

But that one was the loudest!

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