CTTT Chapter 139.1

As the saying goes, a grain of rice is a blessing, while a dou of rice is a grudge¹The original saying is ‘a liter of rice brings up kindness, while a dan of rice brings up hatred’. 

One dan is equal to 10 dou, and 1 dou is equal to 10 liters, so 1 dan of rice is 100 liters of rice. The general meaning is that if you lend a helping hand to someone in need, they will be grateful to you. But if you help them continuously for a long time, they will become dependent on your help. If you suddenly stop helping them, they will blame you for not helping them and will be resented for a long time. This is a Chinese proverb, which was originally intended to warn kind-hearted people not to make big mistakes because of momentary compassion and let the people being helped become dependent..

This time, Jiang Ting recorded a really disgusting show.

Especially when Zhang Qiu turned his face away from her, it made Jiang Ting want to vomit. Fortunately, Jiang Ting was not the kind of soft persimmon that could be bullied.

If the other party did something wrong on the first day of the month, don’t blame her for doing something wrong on the fifteenth day²你做初一我做十五, Nǐ zuò chū yī wǒ zuò shíwǔ: You do it on the first day and I do it on the fifteenth day.

It is said that during the reign of Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty, there was a couple who loved each other very much and vowed to be husband and wife for all their lives. Because the man doted on his wife in every way, he felt sorry for her having to do housework. So, he told his wife that the first day of the lunar month was yin, so it was up to her to do it, and the full moon day was yang, so it was up to him to do it. This meant that from now on, all household affairs would be handled by her on the first day of the lunar month, and from the full moon day on, all would be handled by him. 

In ancient times, the first and full moon days referred to the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. Later, it spread among the people, and the phrase “You do the first day and I do the fifteenth day” came into being. 

It means “I will do this because you do this.” It originally expressed a man’s abundant feelings for his wife. Later, this sentence was extended to mean “If you do this, then I will do this too.” .

She stabbed Zhang Qiu’s face with a sword on the spot and peeled off Zhang Qiu’s face.

“Well said.” Qi Xinya next to her agreed with Jiang Ting’s words.

The audience backstage didn’t have any special feelings for these directors who didn’t appear often, but they were very familiar with Qi Xinya, the goddess who often appeared on the big screen.

Seeing her expression of approval, they naturally agreed that the other party was right and followed her to agree with Jiang Ting.

“Is Zhang Qiu unable to stand losing? What’s his attitude? My goddess is not the only one who said his filming was bad. Now people on the Internet are saying that his filming was bad this time.”

“Not only bad, it’s like proxy shooting.”

“What is proxy shooting?”

“The movie he shot before, “Red Eagle”, won awards, but do you think this movie is similar to “Red Eagle”?”

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Zhang Qiu listened to the audience’s whispered discussions. His face turned blue and purple, very ugly.

Jiang Ting, who was standing by, took a look and sneered in her heart.

She talked to him nicely, but the other party didn’t like it, then let her say something he ‘liked to hear’.

She simply poked Zhang Qiu’s sore spot.

Seeing that Zhang Qiu stopped choking, the host quickly asked Director Lu Qian to say a few words to change the subject.

Lu Qian didn’t want to cause trouble either. After all, they were colleagues in the same industry, and he never liked to meddle in other people’s business.

For example, when he talked about the shortcomings of Jiang Ting’s movies before. He said a few words, and Jiang Ting would listen. It also didn’t matter to him if she didn’t listen, but Lu Qian wouldn’t say more.

Fortunately, although Jiang Ting didn’t like to swallow her anger, she could distinguish good words from bad words. She could see who was really doing good for her and who was stepping on her to get promoted.

At that time, she directly admitted that Lu Qian and Zhang Qiu had commented on the pros and cons of her movie.

When it was Qi Lanyue’s turn before, she wanted to listen to the other party’s comments. Who knew that the other party didn’t care about what movie Jiang Ting shot at all, but instead beat around the bush to pay attention to special effects technology?

Jiang Ting had nothing to say, and in one word, just do it.

Seeing the stalemate in the scene,  Lu Qian still spoke up, easing the atmosphere at the scene, and said.

“Then, let me say a few words. Zhang Qiu was good at military themes before, such as “Red Eagle” and “Armored Troops”, which are the best in this type of movie. But “The Future of Apostles” is a science fiction micro-movie. The two seem to have similar themes, but one is modern military and the other is future military. There is still a big difference between the two.”

“You can’t use modern military shooting techniques to shoot the future. What you shoot won’t be the future, but the present. The main theme has deviated. How can you shoot a good movie?”

Lu Qian spoke very artistically, meaning that Zhang Qiu just used the previous shooting methods, so the movie he shot didn’t look like the future.

The biggest problem of Zhang Qiu’s film was not mentioned throughout the whole process, which was the emotional drama between the male and female leads in the movie that disgusted countless audiences.

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