Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman (1-200)

Chapter 175: International Pressure, Gold Prize

The reviews by the snobbish film critics set off another climax for them. Regular movie-goers who read these reviews all had the same question—just what kind of a movie was it that brought them down to their knees?

And so, these people all bought cinema tickets out of curiosity. Nearly every one of them came out of the theater with tears in their eyes. Hell, there were even some that re-joined the line to watch the movie one more time.

There were only a few screenings and it wasn’t until after the movie was released nationwide did they finally understand how powerful this work of art was. Tickets were sold out on the very first day of the film’s official release. From 10 in the morning till 12 midnight, the theater remained packed with enthusiastic viewers.

Some of the more fanatic ones were dissatisfied, even after re-watching the movie multiple times in a single day. For some reason, different emotions were stirred up in every sitting. The first time, they were blown away by the movie’s production quality, as well as how skilled every actor and actress in the movie was.

Then, people started feeling the essence of this film the second and successive times they re-watched it. They felt the intertwining of familial love, friendship and romantic love like flames and smoke in the story. With the empire literally under siege, complex emotions permeated through the film, filling the theater with a hard-to-describe sort of atmosphere.

The box office reported over a 100 million yuan’s worth of ticket sale on the first afternoon of the movie’s release. By how well-received the movie seemed, it was no surprise that they would break through to 200 million yuan in no time. Although most of the fans came to watch the two protagonists, it was interesting how much the side-characters had gained their attention, especially on Weibo.

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Jiang Shuxuan’s affairs in the ancient martial arts world had already been dealt with by now. It was midnight when he came out of the shower and prepared to hit the sack. However, he heard a notification sound from his phone. Whipping out his phone, he went onto Weibo. Gu Xiqiao was the only person whom he was following on the social media platform; every notification he received was about her and her only.

The number of comments and likes were all “99+”. Most of the posts were related to ‘Empire Under Siege’. Jiang Shuxuan straightened his back and swiftly, he navigated his way to the hot topic list. Smack on number one was the film, ‘Empire Under Siege’.

Within two days, there were already over 300 million posts and counting, all discussing the film.

Jiang Shuxuan read some of it before he got on his feet. Picking up his coat, he went downstairs.

“Young Master, where are you going?” The butler sounded suspicious of Jiang Shuxuan.

“I have one final thing to do at the trial tower. I won’t be coming back tonight.” Jiang Shuxuan’s voice from outside the door was loud and clear.

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Gu Xiqiao herself did not know how much praise this film was receiving. Her and Xiao Yun’s followers had been growing exponentially over the past couple of days. Their follower count had long breached ten million.

There was a large mob of followers urging her to post something on Weibo. Gu Xiqiao saw their requests and thought about it for a while. Then, she took a picture of Xixi and Haha.

For A Millenium: I’ve just given Haha a nice, long bath. Seems like it has learned how to act like a boss. Who was it that taught him this? [JPEG]

A new thread started with this very post.

“My goddess, you were too perfect playing as Qixia! I’ve been crying for two whole days now!”