Your Rival in Love Gets Prettier Every Day

Chapter 168: Beautiful Spring

Li Meilan and Xiao Tang looked at each other. It seems that every time filming has wrapped up, Shen Jintai's mood always becomes low. Li Meilan thought for a while and felt that the film and television dramas he stars in were too heavy.

In <The East Palace is Coming> he died. In <Pilot> he died. In <When You're Older> he died multiple times over. While no one died in <Welcome Rain on a Spring Night> the theme was heavy and realistic.

"Brother Jin, I have good news for you," Xiao Tang said: "<When You're Older> has grossed over 1.5 billion at the box office and it has successfully obtained an extension for its run."

After a month in theaters, it still made around 10 to 20 million a day. Many major entertainment outlet predicted that the box office will eventually reach 1.9 billion and everyone was paying attention to whether it can break 2 at the end of its run.

When <The East Palace is Coming> got popular, it led to the birth of many Korean and American dramas that tried to mimic its style. However, without the investment and scale, and without the amazing actors and their skills similar to that of the East Palace, they all failed to replicate its brilliance.

Now that <When You're Older> had become a dark horse at the box office and had made a lot of money for Xingyun, in just this month, multiple projects for same-sex movies were announced and the relatively high-quality danmei has been robbed*.

*Clarity: basically saying mass production of danmei turned to media has now decrease the quality of the genre in generally as all these companies wanted a piece of that same-sex profit that The East Palace and When You're Older got, so now its all about volume and not necessarily about quality.

It's just there were limited talents suitable for making movies. It's rare for something to have a storyline that have explosion points that could attract the market. Screenwriter Song Chenchen was currently working on a campus-themed youth comedy. While it wasn't even completed yet, many companies were already vying to buy the copyright for it.

Speaking of which, Song Chenchen was also smart. After his novel <When My Lover Gets Old, I Will Still Be as Beautiful as a Flower>, the second book he wrote took the route of a warm comedy. Li Meilan felt that Shen Jintai should also be like Song Chenchen and change course and take a comedy genre for his next project to lift his mood.

The main problem was that while comedies were easy to get high box office numbers, they were not easy to produce at high-quality. They will excel if they perform well but will be ridicule mercilessly if they suck. Shen Jintai wasn't an actor who can be funny through the use of crude jokes. If he picks up a comedy, it would be something that has to match his personal temperament.

Now that <Welcome Rain on a Spring Night> had finally wrapped up, Shen Jintai still hasn't picked out his next project yet.

"Don't worry at the moment," Li Meilan said: "take the opportunity to have a good rest. <Pilot> and <Welcome Rain and a Spring Night> haven't been released yet so you should give us a vacation."

Shen Jintai lay down, smiled, and said: "Ask Wang Nan and the others. Let's have a meeting and discuss. If you guys want to go abroad, which country do you want to visit? I'll pay for all of it, airfare, accommodations, food. Let's start a team building event."

Xiao Tang applauded as soon as he heard it: "Yes, yes!"

"If you have significant others, you can bring them as well," Shen Jintai said again.

Li Meilan said: "Xiao Tang, hurry up and find one."

Shen Jintai laughed and looked at Xiao Tang. His tone was soothing as he said: "Xiao Tang, when you find someone, be sure to show her to me. If you get married in the future, I'll be your best man."