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What Chen Yuanguang said was true in a sense. Time travel could be seen as an overly clear dream, and Kuala Lumpur Affairs was indeed adapted based on the images in his mind.

However, none of the audience or the host present could know the true meaning behind it. They thought Chen Yuanguang was someone with an exceptionally wild imagination, and dreams were his source of inspiration.

"We noticed during the early promotion of the film that you were listed as a special consultant. We are all very curious about what specific work this title entailed during the film's production?" the host continued to ask.

Lin Jia had negotiated a co-director position for Chen Yuanguang, but Chen Yuanguang later declined, feeling he didn't have the energy for the work of a co-director. He only asked for the title of special consultant.

He felt the title of special consultant matched the work he actually did better: "The main work was to describe the world I dreamed of and accurately convey my understanding of the future world to the director."

There weren't many questions from the host before the film screening. The film screening officially began.

Chen Yuanguang sat in the first row below the stage, sitting with the Jiang University leaders, which included Dean Shu.

As a strong discipline at Jiang University, the School of Biology's Dean Shu was also one of the school's leadership team members.

As the film played, he remarked, "Yuanguang, I didn't expect you to have talent in this area as well.

I am very pleased that our School of Biology has produced such a talent as you."

In the night, Chen Yuanguang simply replied, "Thank you, Dean."

Chen Yuanguang had heard from his familiar classmates that this year, due to his sudden rise, the admission scores for Jiang University's School of Chemistry had slightly increased in many provinces.

A more direct statistic was that the number of freshmen applying to transfer out of the School of Chemistry this year had significantly decreased.

This was the power of a role model.

This was a direct benefit to the School of Chemistry. For Jiang University as a whole, Chen Yuanguang was too young, and his future was worth looking forward to. It was still unknown how far down the list of outstanding alumni Chen Yuanguang would be in the future.

"Senior, compared to the thrilling schemes in the movie, I'm more curious about how you designed the future world.

From the details, I have a general understanding of the future world. This world is a society that can be called a utopia, which is different from the mainstream science fiction works' predictions for the future.

Most science fiction works now believe that the future will be very tragic, and even derive the concept of cyberpunk, believing that the gap between the upper and lower classes will become increasingly large. How do you view the future?"

After the film screening ended, there was a Q&A session with the audience. Before the Q&A session, the students below the stage burst into applause to express their admiration for the film.

Some people even shouted that it was great.

Precisely because the film was so wonderful, during the interview session after the screening, many people raised their hands with questions they wanted to ask Chen Yuanguang.

Chen Yuanguang took the microphone from the host: "I believe the future world I depicted is only materially satisfying. Considering the productivity at the time, these satisfactions are actually very basic.

After the explosion of productivity, simply for the sake of social stability, the lower class would not be allowed to live in destitution.

Moreover, in the world I depicted, the gap between the lower and upper classes is growing, but this growing gap is not overly emphasized.

In the movie, the murdered person can live in a villa, while ordinary people can only live in subsidized housing with an average of 40 square meters per person.

AI controls everything, and opportunities for ordinary people become very few. The probability of them moving from 40 square meter subsidized housing to a villa in the rich area is much smaller than in modern society.

As for the upper class, they can extend their lifespan through hibernation technology, experience virtual reality technology, and use various technological means to enrich their life experiences.

However, the technological benefits enjoyed by the lower class are similar to ours. What I depicted is not a utopia, but despair hidden beneath the calm." Chen Yuanguang explained.

To increase the conflict in the novel and lay the groundwork for future developments, Chen Yuanguang adopted the world's operating logic as described by Samad.

Chen Yuanguang saw that the student who asked the question had sat down, and the student in charge of the event had taken the microphone away. He thought for a moment and added two more sentences:

"For humans before the Industrial Revolution, having food to eat and clothes to wear was a rare and grand occasion. For most people in modern society, would they be satisfied with this?

Obviously not, and people in the future won't be satisfied with these basic needs either. But because basic needs are met, they lack the motivation to change the status quo, which is why I say it's despair hidden beneath the calm."

"Yuanguang, the news I got back from Goose Factory is that the box office exceeded 100 million on the first day, reaching 120 million yuan."

"The box office rose against the trend on the second day, reaching 150 million yuan."

Goose Factory would synchronize the latest box office data with Lin Jia around 1 AM every day, and Lin Jia would tell Chen Yuanguang the next morning.

Chen Yuanguang was quite happy on the first day. The first day's box office alone proved that their investment wouldn't lose money, considering 6 million yuan out of the 8 million yuan was his investment.

After the numbers came out on the second day, Chen Yuanguang said while eating breakfast, "It seems the movie is a huge hit. This trend is heading towards 2 billion."

Lin Jia quickly replied, "More than that. Rising against the trend is a very good sign. You know yesterday was Sunday, and today is Monday.

This proves that the marketing was effective and the quality of the movie itself is solid enough. At least 2 billion in revenue.

We invested 8 million. The total investment for this movie is around 80 million. Calculating the box office at the lowest 2 billion, the total revenue is 600 to 700 million, and our revenue is between 60 and 70 million.

After deducting 20% for income tax, the final revenue will fall within the range of 50 to 55 million.

If you had listened to me back then and registered a film and television investment company in Horgos, personal income tax could have been completely exempted.

Even for a personal studio, the tax rate is only 0.5%. Why bother paying 20% personal income tax now?"

Lin Jia felt annoyed thinking about how Chen Yuanguang stubbornly refused to listen to her and didn't go to Horgos to register a personal studio.

She thought to herself, Why be so morally squeamish? So many celebrities and directors avoid taxes this way. You can see Horgos's name on the movie tickets of production companies every year.

Everyone does it, it's fine, no one will care.

Chen Yuanguang felt it wasn't necessary. This amount of money was nothing, and there was no need to give others something to criticize him for because of this matter.

Through future history, he realized that having no weaknesses is the most important thing in many cases. Only by having no weaknesses can you survive until the end.

"It feels a bit too easy to achieve the goal of financial freedom," Chen Yuanguang sighed.

Lin Jia retorted, "Ten million is already the goal of financial freedom for many people, and you just casually gave it up."