When Lin Qi and the two girls left the Imperial Palace Cinema that evening, they also received a few souvenirs.
A copy of Lin Qi's Adventures 2, a drifting bottle containing a miniature ship—a handicraft—one voucher, and one... thing that probably counted as a work of art.
The voucher was a Movie Ticket Voucher. Its holder could bring three people and watch any Fox Film movie for free at any cinema within a year. Its value might not have been the highest, but its sincerity was unquestionable, and it was extremely practical.
Over the past two years, Fox Film had released around ten to twenty movies each year. Assuming each ticket cost one dollar and ninety-nine cents, and calculating based on fifteen movies, that came to thirty dollars. Add three viewers, and that became ninety dollars.
In fact, it was worth more than ninety dollars. It could be used repeatedly, which meant those ninety dollars could also be used repeatedly.
As long as one had thick enough skin, it was worth nine hundred dollars! Still, most of the people who could enter this place probably wouldn't take advantage of that. What they wanted was the privilege the Movie Ticket Voucher brought! When others needed to buy tickets, they only had to present such a voucher to enter and watch a movie. That kind of treatment was enough to make every critic willing to write a few good words about Fox Film.
Wasn't that precisely the "respect" they were pursuing?
As for the thing that was somewhat difficult to identify, it was actually a Western Cowboy Riding a Steed woven out of one-dollar bills. At least, that was what it looked like.
It was made entirely from one-dollar bills—around one hundred and ninety-nine of them. If one said it was a