NOVEL FROG Chapter 21
The plot progresses rapidly.
While investigating the items in the box, the expedition team found a painting of a woman wearing a diamond.
A white-haired old lady named Ruth recognized the painting on TV, contacted the expedition team, claimed to be the woman in the painting, and flew to the ship.
As she narrated, the story went back to 1912, before the dream ship Titanic set sail.
The dock was crowded with people.
A car painted with glittering gold paint drove over.
17-year-old noble lady Ruth, wearing a huge top hat, got out of the car elegantly, looked up at the Titanic, without a smile on her face.
Amid the cheers of thousands of people, she stepped onto the Titanic.
Old Ruth said:
"It is everyone's dream ship."
"For me, it was just a drug ship that sent me back to the United States in the shackles of marriage."
"On the surface, I am a spoiled rich girl, but my heart is bleeding."
The camera zooms out and enters the tavern from the dock.
The handsome young man and his companion are playing cards with two Czechs.
The latter's bet is two tickets for the Titanic.
The chairman nodded slightly,"The picture is beautiful, the earrings of these two ladies are new styles, right?"
"Yes." Zhang Jianhua replied
"The design is good. But the love story between a rich girl and a poor boy is a little cliché."The chairman frowned slightly,"But it's OK, not a big problem."
The picture is beautiful, the protagonist is pretty, and the story is interesting.
This is a pass for a diamond advertisement.
Zhang Jianhua smiled secretly.
Cliché? This is just the beginning.
Just read on.
Minister Sun in the last row was staring at the screen seriously.
She was a little surprised that 17-year-old Ruth was not a little obedient wife.
And the picture and the protagonist were so beautiful!
The picture full of historical sense made her feel as if she had really traveled back to more than a hundred years ago, which shocked her greatly.
She couldn't help but put down her work and watched the film seriously.
Similar to her, some leaders who worked with their heads down also devoted some energy and occasionally glanced at the screen.
As the cruise ship sailed, the plot gradually unfolded.
The sunny and straightforward Jack stood at the bow and shouted:"I am the king of the world!"
He lived a carefree life, enjoying the life God had given him.
But Rose was overwhelmed by the dinner parties of the upper class.
Until one night, they met at the bow of the ship. Jack saved Rose who wanted to commit suicide, and helped her to muster up the courage to escape from the suffocating upper class society step by step.
Most of the leaders present were fascinated.
The head of the logistics department frowned and sighed:"Uh, is this considered cheating by Rose?"
Minister Sun laughed and said quickly like a string of cannonballs:
"Sister Liu, you didn't look carefully, did you? She was only 17 years old and was forced to get engaged by her mother."
"Her mother did all kinds of PUA to her, saying things like 'Ruth likes purple wedding dresses. She knew I didn't like them, but she insisted on using purple to annoy me.’‘The purpose of going to college is to find a good husband.' If you don't marry him, do you want me to do laundry for him?’"
"In this situation, without the Internet and no one to help you, would you, at the age of 17, agree to get engaged?"
Minister Liu smiled awkwardly,"I was just processing documents and didn't read them carefully. You have a point."
But she muttered to herself in her heart. Minister Sun is a workaholic. He usually races against time. Why is he watching a movie and arguing with his colleagues about the content?
Is this movie so attractive?
She glanced at the screen suspiciously, thought for a moment, turned off the computer in front of her, and cast her eyes on the screen. The progress bar of the movie slowly moved forward.
Soon, an hour and a half passed.
Rose and Jack fell in love, met on the deck, and left together after getting off the ship.
The chairman, who was sitting in the middle of the fourth row, yawned, turned his head and whispered to Vice President Zhang:
"It was well filmed. It's a good love story. The hero and heroine are spiritually compatible. It's much better than the current industrial saccharine. The diamonds are well matched. I guess I can make money back."
"What follows is that the two of them will go through hardships, their love will be tested, and they will live happily together, right?"
"The story is good, but you don’t have to bring it up at the conference, right? Xiao Li even called over a dozen senior executives to come over for you."
"I know you paid for it and you have deep feelings for this movie, but I have to tell you that you can't openly drag everyone to watch a movie at night because of personal feelings."
Hearing this, Vice President Zhang's rival, Vice President Li, was secretly happy.
Diamond dealers think it's a waste of time, let alone ordinary people. Is
Lao Zhang going to fall this time? Haha.
However, what he didn't expect was that he immediately heard Zhang Jianhua's confident voice.
"Chairman, the best part of this movie is in the second half. You can watch it with confidence."
Vice President Li raised his eyebrows.
How can you make a love movie more exciting?
Isn't it just the hero and heroine going through hardships?
The chairman smiled and said,"Okay, I'm looking forward to it." But he was not as optimistic in his heart as he said.
He was in his sixties and it was sleepy to watch young people fall in love.
However, if he left, others would be even more restless. Anyway, they had watched half of it, so they should give Lao Zhang a favor and continue to watch it.
Just think of it as appreciating the company's diamonds.
Just as he was thinking this.
The sound from the speakers suddenly took a sharp turn, from soothing and romantic to tense and dangerous.
On the big screen, an iceberg appeared in front of people.
The crew members immediately became nervous and ran to notify them to turn the rudder to the full and slow down.
The workers in the boiler room on the bottom floor received the signal and tried their best to pull the switch.
In the training room, everyone's heart was hanging, they straightened their bodies, and stared at the screen nervously.
However, the Titanic still hit the iceberg.
The sea water rushed into the cabin on the bottom floor in an instant, engulfing two warehouse employees.
The crew members looked anxious and immediately closed the watertight compartment door.
At the same time, at the bottom of the ship,��
In the boiler room, seawater gushed in and the iron door fell rapidly.
The workers ran and shouted:
"They're closing the door!"
"Run! Quick!"
"Come on, guys!"
"They are going to seal the door!"
Seawater gushed from above, and the accumulated water surged up to the waist.
The workers rushed to the iron door desperately.
There were only 30 centimeters left, and the big iron door would be completely closed.
A worker rolled and crawled, risking being cut in two, and got in.
Finally, when there were only 5 centimeters left in the gap, he pulled his feet out.
In front of the screen, more than 20 leaders stared at the screen in a daze.
Three ministers had been working hard, and just raised their heads because of the tense and exciting sound.
The three stared at the workers who were running away in the picture, and their brains crashed directly.
Where am I? What am I doing?
Aren't I watching an advertisement?
An advertisement with a love story as the carrier?!
What is this?!
In order to save the cruise ship, the upper layer ignored the lower layer. The workers' lives and deaths were at stake, but closing the iron gate seemed to be a choice that had to be made.
This... You told me this was a romance film?
This was a diamond advertisement?
Huh?
The three of them closed their computers at the same time, straightened their bodies, and stared blankly at the screen.
They even felt a little regretful, wondering why they hadn't read what was said before!
In the middle of the fourth row, the chairman swallowed his saliva.
Is this really the effect of a 150 million RMB film?
A hunch suddenly came to his mind.
The number of viewers that this film could attract might be far beyond his imagination.
In other words, the diamond sales and box office might be far beyond previous estimates.
The company only paid 35% of the investment.
Maybe the money was not enough.