After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 753 Turning Back to All Beings! Turning Back: Demon? Or Buddha?
One million reservations... two million reservations... three million reservations...

Five hours!

The number of pre-registrations for the new One-Punch Man is skyrocketing at an astonishing rate!

With nearly 12 million paying users, a quarter of the total number of reservations were made within five hours.

The explosive growth rate is driving BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) crazy!

I can't get any more blood flow, I can't even sleep!

Especially Jack Ma.

Tencent is the core of social interaction and possesses the largest traffic pool on the internet, while Alibaba is online shopping and needs traffic the most.

Weibo is the most important part, so once Cao Huiji had complete control of Sina, Alibaba immediately invested, purchasing Sina Weibo's issued preferred and common shares, accounting for about 18% of Weibo's total shares after full dilution. In addition, Alibaba also obtained permission to increase its stake in Sina Weibo to 30%.

The battle between Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo is actually a major battle between Alibaba and Tencent!
Alibaba and Tencent have essentially gone to war!

In the field of electronic payments, Alipay and WeChat Pay are locked in a fierce battle!
Why is Jack Ma so active and making such a huge bet on the Chinese entertainment industry? In the end, it all boils down to two words—traffic.

Alibaba is severely lacking in channels for acquiring traffic.

The reason JD.com is partnering with Tencent is for traffic.

Alibaba has a significant advantage in the fields of Weibo and electronic payments, both of which are massive traffic pools.

And right now, what Jackma values ​​most is streaming media!
Streaming media is also a super traffic pool!

Alibaba is in the most urgent situation.

Next is Baidu, and last is Tencent.

All three companies have secured the online streaming rights for New One-Punch Man in mainland China, as well as the rights for the next year.

However, the release dates will be five days later: FBTV will be on September 25th, and iQiyi, Youku, and Tencent Video will be on September 30th.

The promotional team for the new One-Punch Man is not iQiyi, Youku, or Tencent Video.

It was Zhang Wei, recommended by Li Mingyang.

Lao Gu had a lot of opinions about this, after all, Zhang Wei used to work for Youku.

But his opinion is utterly worthless!
Youku is currently using Alibaba's money to fight a three-way battle for supremacy, but it has no say in the matter.

Zhang Wei has a background in finance and is very financially savvy. The co-CEOs all like her very much. At the fourth joint meeting, someone even suggested that Zhang Wei represent Li Mingyang at the meeting.

Zhang Wei wasn't completely clueless about publicity and promotion, but she only knew the basics.

But don't worry, Li Mingyang has already devised a publicity strategy for her.

A beautiful female CEO with a bouquet of flowers paired with the new One-Punch Man!
This is not only a publicity campaign for the new One-Punch Man, but also a way to promote Zhang Wei as she moves from behind the scenes to the forefront.

Just like Liu Dong, the "Baidu Goddess" at Baidu's annual meeting.

In January 2012, at Baidu's annual meeting catwalk show, Liu Dong became the most dazzling sight on the stage with a cool outfit that was out of season.

Countless cameras were drawn to her flowing, light-colored gauze dress, which swayed subtly under the lights, making her look incredibly alluring!
At first glance, she bears a striking resemblance to Lin Chih-ling, Taiwan's number one beauty.

When the photo was uploaded to the internet, it quickly attracted a lot of attention and was dubbed "Baidu Goddess" by netizens.

Baidu itself didn't expect it to become so popular, which inadvertently served as free advertising for Baidu and resulted in a successful marketing campaign.

Seeing how powerful Baidu's mascot was, internet giants followed suit, and in no time, NetEase's mascot, Penguin's mascot, and 360's mascot emerged one after another, opening up a beauty pageant track in addition to technological competition.

The following year, Baidu created the joyful Seventh Degree Goddess.

Seven beautiful women made a stunning appearance in sexy short skirts, making it arguably the most sensual annual meeting in Baidu's history.

A beautiful woman paired with a CEO creates a natural attraction and generates publicity, making them the best source of traffic.

Li Mingyang came up with the idea, and Zhang Wei was responsible for carrying it out.

The execution's effect... gave Li Mingyang the feeling of Dong Yuhui...

That was done exceptionally well!
The Abbess Miejue will smile at the press conference!

Outstanding looks, incredibly composed stage presence, and a smile as warm as a spring breeze.

It perfectly showcases the woman's approachability and elite qualities.

He turned the One-Punch Man press conference into a personal showcase, with flashbulbs constantly going off.

Afterwards, she even briefly topped the trending searches due to her image as a beautiful CEO...

It stole the spotlight from the new One-Punch Man.

Although it was temporary, it was quickly surpassed by the new One-Punch Man...

She's got the looks, the skills, and the charisma—she's even better than Monica, the beautiful product manager at OPPO who steps on her phone in high heels!

The scene was incredibly impactful, making her an instant star and a unique figure in the tech world.

They were forced to leave!
Because she was so closely tied to OPPO, the company wanted to promote her as a "personal hero" and move her from the spotlight to behind the scenes.

She disagrees.

Old Yu is a good person... After all, he really went through a life-or-death experience. Seven people were injected with a large animal anesthetic, and he was the only one who survived.

He sees things from a different perspective.

If it were any other boss, including Li Mingyang himself...

Dong Yuhui's career is over.

Live-streaming e-commerce hosts... Viya, Little Lamb, Starbucks, and that Li Jiaqi who cried while blowing feathers—they all fell down faster than the stock market crashing.

Lao Yu is still too kind.

When a company develops to a certain stage, it inevitably has to move away from the hero-like image. Xiao Dong is very smart and understands how to generate traffic, so he uses this to his advantage.

Of course, no matter how you look at it, it's because Lao Yu is too kind.

If this happened to Luo Yonghao, it would be a completely different story.

The press conference for the new One-Punch Man series concluded successfully with great results.

After the hour-and-a-half-long press conference, iQiyi, Youku, and Tencent Video all opened up pre-orders.

Within twelve hours, the total number of reservations across the three platforms exceeded one million!
It may not seem like much, but it was epoch-making.

The new One-Punch Man introduces a paid membership reservation system for the first time; one million reservations equal one million paid members.

This number is incomparable to the future 100 million paid members of iQiyi, Youku, and Tencent Video!
But everything is difficult at the beginning!

With free content being prevalent in China, cultivating viewers' awareness of copyright and their willingness to pay for content remains a long and arduous task.

Compared to the dismal paid memberships of iQiyi, Youku, and Tencent Video.

Kuaibo next door has over 300 million users! It's the undisputed leader in video players!
All video players on the market combined, including those that started with piracy like PPS, PPTV, and Storm Player, have fewer users than Kuaibo alone; the gap is as vast as an insurmountable chasm.

BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) are all eyeing Kuaibo! Whoever acquires this behemoth will become the next streaming media giant!

This thing has an incredibly high installation rate; it's practically a must-have for men!
With Kuaibo, Xunlei has become garbage.

As far as Li Mingyang knew, Kuaibo had veteran figures from Tencent, as well as technical and financial support.

Logically speaking, this thing should ultimately belong to the penguins, no problem.

But in the end, it exploded! Little Ma (Ma Huateng, a famous Taiwanese businessman) filed a formal complaint!

Baidu and Alibaba were fiercely competing for Kuaibo, promising various benefits.

Wang Xin is so arrogant that he doesn't want to go to Tencent, and he probably doesn't even respect Baidu and Alibaba. He wants to establish himself as the king!
People! Don't try to grasp what you can't hold onto!
Wang Xin never dreamed that Kuaibo would ultimately explode! The BAT giants (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) were no longer interested!
Not long after, the "Sword Net Action" began to eradicate the remaining piracy, with various cross-provincial arrests and nationwide coordination, and the case-handling funds flew by!

The scale of this crackdown is even more terrifying than Tencent's crackdown on illegal profiteering and cheat software studios!
The new One-Punch Man has spread rapidly online, with celebrities from all walks of life reposting it on Weibo, expressing their anticipation and praising it with unwavering sincerity, as if it were some kind of masterpiece—a truly exaggerated statement.

This is a publicity campaign with no enemies...

With the three major figures in the Chinese entertainment industry joining forces, anyone who dares to disagree is truly asking for trouble.

With meticulous publicity and collaboration with celebrities.

Li Mingyang has arrived with the new One-Punch Man!
Like a torrent, it is bound to bring about a massive surge in traffic.

To prepare for this massive online spectacle, Chinese entertainment capital has been actively involved in various preparations surrounding One-Punch Man.

September 23, 12:00.

The trailer for the new One-Punch Man has been released on iQiyi, Youku, and Tencent Video!

The 30-second trailer was quickly shared by mainstream media.

CCTV News and CCTV-6 not only reposted it, but also added comments highly praising the special effects of Pangu!

This is also the first time that mainstream media has publicly promoted the special effects of Pangu.

Li Mingyang also shared the behind-the-scenes footage of One-Punch Man's special effects on iQiyi, Youku, and Tencent Video without holding back.

Normal publicity and marketing require preparation, fermentation, launch, output, guidance, reversal, and finally explosion... This is the conventional approach.

Li Mingyang started off explosively, and as a topic of discussion, he can maintain a sustained output!
She has too many selling points.

This is why capital likes him!
Over 3000 million views in three hours!
Breaking 100 million in six hours!

At 6 PM, the 30-second trailer for the new One-Punch Man surpassed 100 million views across multiple platforms!

Now, in order to make their financial statements look better, the three companies have started to fabricate online viewership numbers again.

Ever since Youku introduced the concept of effective playback.

If an IP address watches for more than three minutes, it is considered a valid playback.

This approach is more convincing to investors than the traditional model where each click counts as one playback.

But iQiyi, Youku, and Tencent Video have the capital to boast in order to make their numbers look good.

Without changing the 'valid playback' rules of each company, they created a whole bunch of 'technical loopholes'!
For example, there are technical vulnerabilities such as instant counting upon opening, discrepancies in playback duration, and automatic jumps that repeat counting.

They then produced trailers, carefully placing 10 previews of the next episode after each episode, which significantly increased viewership, even achieving a 10-fold increase.

The billions of views, if not half, at least a large part of it is due to the trailers... and then the technical flaws.

Li Mingyang didn't know exactly how much of the trailer was actually shown, but anyway, it was noon the next day...

The trailer for the new One-Punch Man has already surpassed one billion views!

Official endorsements, public intellectuals' advocacy, capital investment, celebrity endorsements, beauty marketing, and fan group bombardment.

In addition, the trailer's action, camera work, and special effects in the battle between Li Mingyang and the underground people have a cool and awesome style that is not typical of domestic films, attracting a lot of attention!
"My goodness, Li Mingyang is finally making an action movie! I knew he would!"

"Why does my brother look so funny? Can't he be a little more handsome?!"

"Actors like to talk about sacrifice and hard work. Look at how international directors act. They could rely on their looks, but they bald themselves to play the clown."

"The filter of 'Your Name' and 'Weathering With You' evokes a strange sense of emotion!"

"Wasn't it supposed to be a trilogy? When will the third one be filmed?!" "There's a shortage of action actors these days. Some are too old, some are disabled, and some are too fat. I'm hoping Director Li can make a name for himself."

"The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. The current trailers are a scam; the most exciting parts are all in the trailers."

"After a couple of exchanges, they'll probably start trash-talking!"

"That final boss with its six-armed lightsaber is so cool! The modeling is amazing, and the imagination is incredible!"

"The trailer is very impactful, and with Li Mingyang directing and starring, the quality is absolutely guaranteed!"

"Your Name is Forever God, Weathering With You, two 30-year-olds playing high school students is disgusting! It's so damn unprofessional!"

"Li Mingyang likes to scheme and plot. I wonder if there's any political maneuvering involved!"

"Give me a break, upstairs! Director Lee likes to dabble in romance dramas. 'New World' and 'Seoul Spring' were just accidents; 'Miss' and 'Goodbye' are the real champions!"

"Oh my, my brother's bald head is so cute!"

"By the way, Director Li is getting on in years, does he have a girlfriend?"

"My brother is only 24, the prime of his career, why would he need a girlfriend!"

"Famous throughout the world, invincible in battle!"

"Famous throughout the world, invincible in battle!"

"Famous throughout the world, invincible in battle!"

……

Although Li Mingyang didn't want to pay attention to his fans, he had just too many die-hard fans, career-oriented fans, troublemaking fans, and fans who admired his looks.

It is extremely resilient, having been bombarded by official groups, trending topics on Weibo, and various negative trending topics.

They always manage to recover quickly, rise from the ashes, and wreak havoc like a pack of wolves.

Behind this is a highly organized group of fan leaders, also known as commanders within the wolf pack.

The commander is the overall commander of the battle group. The battle group is divided into groups, including logistics, copywriting, keyboard warriors, and second-generation... When it comes to causing trouble, the commanders will act in unison and work around the clock.

Li Mingyang knew all of this.

Because every battle group has Cao Manman's alternate account.

These groups not only connect online, but also frequently meet in private.

Similar to a World of Warcraft guild!

Li Mingyang doesn't like his fans... a bunch of troublemakers who stir up trouble in his name.

There was a feeling that he didn't want to die soon enough... If Cao Manman hadn't been observing him closely, he would have even thought that these fans were sent by his enemies to harm him.

He has fans among the newcomers at Bouquet Entertainment!
There are quite a few of them; they are among the most courageous and hardworking of all the newlyweds, and one of them is a commander who is extremely talented!

Fu Xiaolin is seventeen years old and is a senior in high school this year.

I got in because of a loophole in the team's open selection process.

I know Warhammer 40k very well!

Board games are already a niche genre, and Warhammer 40K is an even more niche genre within board games. In China, those who have access to Warhammer 40K are almost exclusively from very well-off families.

Even before Li Mingyang transmigrated, many people had heard of him, but few understood him, and very few were proficient in him.

Li Mingyang also came into contact with Warhammer 40K by chance and was attracted by its vast and complex world view.

At first, he didn't understand what was going on with the twenty Primarchs, but later he understood what was going on with the 19 Primarchs.

What are the loyalists and what are the rebels?

Warhammer 40 may be niche, but its vast, complete, and complex world-building is absolutely unparalleled in the world. It's a super Frankenstein's monster set against a backdrop of despair!
Li Mingyang once thought World of Warcraft was the most awesome, but he never expected Warhammer 40K to be even more awesome!
Blizzard's products are always of high quality, and this is actually based on Warhammer 40k.

Whether it's Diablo, StarCraft, or Warcraft, they all heavily borrowed from the Warhammer 40 setting.

Warcraft created its own unique system.

StarCraft was basically a copy of Warhammer 40, but it didn't copy it well.

The three races in StarCraft are so cool.

Li Mingyang had a knot in his heart: he had a wealth of resources at his disposal and also owned FBTV.

If you don't care about the cost, you can make anyone famous!

But he didn't want to be betrayed!
Betrayal, betrayal, going back on one's word, prioritizing personal gain...

This is a very normal thing in the entertainment industry.

This circle is full of deceit and treachery; the very air is thick with it.

The thought of the people he had promoted turning against him made Li Mingyang feel disgusted.

His fans, in particular, are warmongers who thrive on chaos. No matter how loyal they are now, they are destined to oppose him in the future!
The rebels were once loyalists!

Some of them are even more loyal than the loyalists.

How ironic was Guilliman's Second Reich!
On the one hand, if Bouquet wants to develop, it needs a group of geniuses; on the other hand, once these geniuses grow up, the possibility of betrayal is too great.

Especially the directors and producers!
He wanted to find a balance, but the result was that any constraint would hinder the growth of genius!

Only in the freest state can the most dazzling sunlight burst forth!
But the sunlight is too bright; it will burn me.

The dragon-slaying hero ultimately becomes the dragon himself... that seems to be the final answer!

Li Mingyang was conflicted!

Should we adopt the production supervision system developed by Dong Ping, Ning Hao, Chen Sicheng, and their group?

They're crossing the river and then dismantling the bridge they came from, destroying the very path they used, and monopolizing resources...

Without monopolizing resources and raising barriers to entry, anyone could betray you!

Mingyang Entertainment, 9th floor.

Li Mingyang stood by the window, smoking a cigarette, gazing at the bouquet of flowers across the street.

I was overwhelmed with mixed feelings.

dong dong.

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Li Mingyang withdrew his gaze and sat down in the boss's chair.

"Boss, the first batch of T-shirts has arrived. What do you think of the quality?" Li Ming said, waving a pile of white T-shirts in his hand.

"Why isn't there even a plastic transparent bag?" Li Mingyang frowned.

"Forehead……"

This question stumped Li Ming.

Li Mingyang pointed to the coffee table and told Li Ming to spread out the T-shirt so he could check its quality.

Three white T-shirts of different sizes were spread out on the coffee table.

The two T-shirts have "FBTV" printed on the front, and one has "FBTV" printed on the back.

The Monkey King, depicted in ink-wash style, stands with his back to all living beings, facing a sky full of heavenly soldiers and generals.

Li Mingyang stared at it for a long time, then opened his arms, pinched the sides of the T-shirt, raised it up, and looked up at this Cannes 'battle robe'!
I've gained some insight!
Turning their backs on the people!

Looking back, is it demonic or Buddhist?

There are a thousand different versions of Sun Wukong in a thousand people's hearts.

Having a clear conscience and being true to yourself is the most important thing.

Downhill.

This wasn't his first time coming down the mountain.

In his previous life, he came down from Tencent, one of the three giants of the Chinese entertainment industry.

The scene down the mountain was desolate...

The entertainment industry in China is much more realistic than society at large. When you're doing well, everyone fawns over you.

When you're down on your luck, everyone wants to kick you while you're down.

Everything he had done in the entertainment industry collapsed instantly, and he slunk back to his own company, Mingyang Entertainment.

In this life, he has descended the mountain again.

But! He is still the god who descended the mountain.

These days, he has been searching for his own path.

Where does the road lead?

He envisioned countless paths, as intricate as the roots of a tree.

But every road has an end!

You can't go on like this once you reach a certain point!
just now!

Looking at his Cannes 'battle uniform'.

At this moment, he finally understood why he loved the Great Sage turning his back on all living beings!

Where there was no road, he made one.

Let's use the bouquet of flowers to entertain this golden cudgel, and with the power of the collective, carve out a path!

As for betrayal... it doesn't matter...

He can create, and he can destroy.

He is both a god and a demon.

Li Mingyang took off his expensive Gucci coat and Dior T-shirt, and put on his own Great Sage battle robe!

"Boss, your bald head looks so handsome with the Monkey King on you!" Li Ming complimented.

"A bald man with the Monkey King? What do you mean by that? It's ridiculous. Where did he fall?"

Li Ming's attempt to flatter backfired, and he gave an awkward laugh.

Li Mingyang put on sunglasses and a Terry baseball cap, and laughed, "This is the coolest way to look at me!"

"..."

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(End of this chapter)