CHAPTER 869: CHAPTER 871: THE UNDERDOG’S COMEBACK

During the day, Mrs. He hesitantly shared this idea with Jinxia, leaving Jinxia momentarily at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

"Mom, you’re overthinking it. It’s not that serious. I can still continue my career!"

He Jinxia held her hand and explained, "The current situation is due to my news being a bit sudden, and there was no prior hint of this incident, so it’s a shock to everyone at once.

Plus, since my ’Special Action’ is very popular, some industry folks are taking this opportunity to attack me. A lot of the bad comments online are actually written by the Water Army, they’re stirring things up.

Regular people can’t tell who wrote what, so when they see a bunch of people talking about me, they just follow suit. But I believe this wave won’t last long."

Mrs. He asked hesitantly, "What about your movie then?"

He Jinxia said firmly, "It will get through this and become even more popular. It has the strength!"

And so it happened!

The turnaround for ’Special Action’ happened on the third day after He Jinxia’s scandal broke, when many silent netizens on rating platforms started speaking up on Weibo for the movie.

This included many renowned film directors and famous actors!

V Luo Xiang: [Huge shoutout to ’Special Action’! It’s an outstanding movie. I can’t believe this is the work of a rookie director.

I strongly recommend the crew to participate in Berlin’s Crystal Bear Award. It’s amazing that a new director could manage so well on their first shot. New talents will continue to emerge!]

V He Zhou: [I’d like to recommend a movie to everyone called ’Special Action.’ At first, I noticed it because its premiere had impressive results, then I heard they had a novel theme, so I immediately went to see it, and indeed, it was great!

This movie opens a new category for Huaxia’s film genres. Previously, there have been films of this type, but they fell flat in the market due to unsatisfactory effects and scenes.

’Special Action’ marks a significant advancement in our military film genre, a major milestone! I strongly suggest everyone to check it out; it’s a good film that deserves support rather than being buried!]

V Zhang Xingxing: [’Special Action’ is quite a good watch, some techniques used in certain scenes are very innovative, and everyone can learn something from it. The story is also well narrated.]

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Three well-known directors in Huaxia stood up to speak for ’Special Action,’ and other directors followed suit, beginning to speak for ’Special Action’ on Weibo as well.

The renowned directors have a high status; they don’t care about the online disputes, their eyes are always on the bigger picture.

The success of ’Special Action’ brings a very different meaning to the Huaxia film industry.

Now that the movie is in trouble, they all step in to support it, even if their voices are minor, the passion in their hearts can’t be extinguished.

With the whole movie industry’s directors backing it up, ’Special Action’ saw a small recovery in the box office that day, at least halting the continuous decline.

The box office saw another surge on the fourth day of He Jinxia’s scandal, which was also the day after directors started endorsing it across the board.

A reporter personally interviewed a superstar, who was a foreigner, coincidentally in Huaxia for an event.

Upon hearing about the huge success of ’Special Action,’ he said he watched it and transformed into a fangirl of Director Qian, expressing a desire to take a photo with him and praising him as an awesome director, noting that the other actors performed well too.

A reporter asked, "Do you know that the leading actress in ’Special Action,’ He Jinxia, was involved in a scandal?"

The superstar replied, "I know, I’ve seen it in the recent news."

The reporter’s eyes lit up and quickly asked, "What’s your view on this?"

The superstar paused for a moment, hesitantly saying, "Wish her a long and happy marriage and lots of kids soon?"

Reporter: ???

Others who heard it were also dumbfounded.

The superstar chuckled and said, "Dating is very normal, everyone is an independent individual, with their own personality traits.

Interacting with others can help you recognize your own shortcomings and perfect your personality, it’s a mutual help and self-awareness process, so everyone should not reject it, I think it’s pretty good, besides she didn’t date early!"

This superstar’s remarks were immediately screenshot and synchronized on Weibo, and before long, even the full interview video was compiled, quickly attracting many people’s attention.

Very swiftly, the hashtag #SheDidn’tDateEarly# skyrocketed to the number one spot on Weibo’s trending list!

[HHH, am I the only one puzzled by the focus on "she didn’t date early"?]

[Behold, the composure of a big star is different. Other stars don’t dare to respond, fearing trouble, but he dares!]

[From his attitude, I see: It’s not a big deal, it’s a very normal thing, so why can a scandal stir so much gossip for so many days, you really must have nothing to do!

Have you bought a house? Bought a car? Got a wife? Found a girlfriend? [Roar][Roar] If you haven’t achieved any of these, then what are you gossiping for, go earn money!!]

[Yes, indeed, she didn’t date early, she takes relationships seriously, and she didn’t tell fans because the relationship wasn’t stable enough yet.]

[What are you defending, there’s nothing to defend, He Jinxia did deceive her fans, disgusting!]

[Brother, did she deceive your money or your cannon [scorn], do you need to get so excited in your self-congratulatory high? Oh, do you immediately tell your parents when you start a relationship? Moreover, fans aren’t parents...)]

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Anyway, at least with the directors’ recommendations and the superstar’s response, ’Special Action’ saw its box office return to its peak, setting the highest daily sales record among all the movies released this year—

Surpassing 2 billion!!

The king has returned, unstoppable!

After a few days of settling down, ’Special Action’ saw a wave of crazy resurgence.

Records are made to be broken.

On the third day, the highest daily sales record was refreshed, increased by a billion!

On the fourth day, the highest daily sales record was refreshed again, increased by 5 billion!!

Steadily, the total box office record of ’Special Action’ has crossed the 10 billion mark, moving past the booming line and heading towards the classic level.

And the one yielding such achievement was ’Special Action,’ which had only been in theaters for half a month.

In Dongting Lake Garden, He Jinxia was chatting with Luo You over the phone, as she didn’t have a phone herself and thus wasn’t very informed about the outside situation.

Luo You excitedly shared the news of ’Special Action’ making a comeback with He Jinxia, and upon hearing a superstar had endorsed it, the first person He Jinxia thought of was Sheng Yan.

Her heart stirred with a wave of complex emotions, and she immediately hung up the phone and ran to the study.

These days, to prevent Jinxia from being bored in the house, Sheng Yan had also come over, bringing his office setup here.