Chapter 308: Mindless Willow Planting, Green Willows (Ch 308)

“Why are you kowtowed when all is well?”

“The atmosphere is already so lively, so why don’t we join in the fun?”

“Oh my god, why do I feel like this young couple is being a bit flattering? They were so moved that they knelt down just because a famous star sang a song for them?”

“Uh, actually I think so too. This guy is too spineless.”

“…”

After the people around were surprised, they began to chatter and talk about it.

The host and Yao Tingting, who were about to go on stage, just stood there at a loss as to what to do. It all happened so fast that they hadn’t reacted yet.

“I just sang a few lyrics. If you can’t take it, I’ll kowtow to you guys.”

Qi Jia didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. He didn’t want to kowtow, but due to time constraints, he could only deal with it this way.

Otherwise, if it is spread online and netizens who do not know the truth see it, as long as they are slightly misled by people with ulterior motives, they will be cyberbullied at the least.

So, he didn’t have time to think too much and just kowtowed to them back.

Zhang Lei and Xue Xiaonuan were also excited and couldn’t control themselves. After seeing Qi Jia kneel down in front of them, they finally reacted.

He hurriedly reached out to help, but Qi Jia was helped up by Zhang Ruonan first.

“I haven’t seen such a grand thank-you gift for a long time. It seems that our two newlyweds are very excited today.”

The host tried hard to control his expression, showing a professional and standard smile, and walked onto the stage to smooth things over.

But of course the audience would not believe his nonsense. The Qing Dynasty had fallen, so who would still perform such a grand ceremony?

So everyone looked on eagerly, waiting for the couple to explain their behavior.

“What’s going on? Why are you kowtowed suddenly?”

Yao Tingting walked to Qi Jia and asked in a worried voice. If it wasn’t too ridiculous, she would have suspected that the young couple were Qi Jia’s anti-fans and were deliberately trying to cause trouble.

Qi Jia shook his head awkwardly. He didn’t know what was going on.

Seeing that a good scene was ruined by the two of them, Xue Xiaonuan angrily hit Zhang Lei a few times and said to Qi Jia,

“I’m really sorry, Teacher Qi Jia. My boyfriend was so excited to see you because you saved him, but I didn’t expect that it would cause you trouble.”

When the host heard this, he immediately felt that there must be something big going on here, and that it would have a positive impact on the artist, so he immediately asked,

“My lady, you just said that Qi Jia saved your boyfriend. Can you tell us what happened?”

Qi Jia was also very curious about this. Seeing that she was a little nervous, he handed the microphone to her and whispered to her,

“Don’t be nervous, speak slowly”

Xue Xiaonuan took the microphone, nodded gratefully to Qi Jia, wiped her tears, and began to tell the story with red eyes and sobs.

“Two years ago, my boyfriend was diagnosed with leukemia when it was already in the middle stage. In order to treat him, my family scraped together money from all sources.

After the operation, he lost his job and had to take medicine worth tens of thousands of yuan every month, which emptied his savings and even his house…”

On the stage, the girl choked up and said,

Qi Jia and Zhang Ruonan looked at each other and saw a hint of surprise in each other’s eyes. When the girl mentioned leukemia, they had already guessed what was going on.

But it was really hard to believe that it was such a coincidence until the girl mentioned the Qi Jia Charity Foundation, which finally confirmed their guess.

In the audience, who had heard the whole story, no longer cared about being rude and started to discuss quietly.

On the one hand, everyone sympathized with the two men’s experiences, and on the other hand, they were moved by Qi Jia’s kindness in setting up a leukemia charity fund. Of course, there were also some conspiracy theorists who suspected that this was a script that had been designed long ago, but they were afraid of being beaten if they spoke out, so they only dared to secretly doubt it in their hearts.

“…So, my boyfriend and I knelt down and kowtowed as soon as we saw Teacher Qi Jia, just to thank him for giving us hope to live.”

Xue Xiaonuan finally finished her words. This time, she and Zhang Lei did not kneel down, but bowed deeply to Qi Jia.

Qi Jia was also very excited. He helped the two people up, looked at the happy smiles on their faces, turned around and said to the audience,

“Seeing that patients have regained hope of living because of my small act of kindness makes me happier than if I had earned billions at the box office. Let us all wish them happiness forever.”

After saying that, he took the lead in applauding. Clap, clap, clap. For a moment, the audience burst into thunderous applause.

At this time, Zhang Ruonan came over with two bags of wedding candy, handed them to Xue Xiaonuan and Zhang Lei, and said with a smile,

“It’s such a happy day, you guys should distribute the wedding candies to everyone.”

The two of them took it a little embarrassedly, nodded and thanked him repeatedly, then grabbed the wedding candy in the bag and scattered handfuls of it to the audience.

This caused the Chinese people, who always like to seek good luck all their lives, to scramble for it with smiles.

Not long after the wedding candies were distributed, a staff member came up with a middle-aged woman.

Qi Jia and the others had met this man before. He was the manager of the cinema. His surname was Wu. Manager Wu walked up to Xue Xiaonuan and Zhang Lei, shook their hands and smiled.

“Hello, I’m the manager of this cinema. I heard that your proposal was successful, so I came here specially to congratulate you. These two super VIP cards can enjoy the right to watch movies for free in our cinema for life, as well as unlimited snacks and drinks. Just consider it as a gift from our cinema to you.”

As she spoke, she took two black cards tied with pink bows from the staff and handed them to the two of them.

Xue Xiaonuan and Zhang Lei quickly waved their hands to decline. Qi Jia stepped forward and said with a smile,

“Take it. This is also a good intention of Manager Wu.”

After hearing what Qi Jia said, the two of them accepted it and expressed their gratitude again.

Manager Wu sent these two cards to congratulate us, but he also wanted to take this opportunity to promote the company.

Although this kind of publicity may not have much effect on the cinema, it will be of great benefit to her personal future promotion.

The roadshow lasted for more than an hour before it ended.

Before the show ended, Chen Yuwen learned about this unusual roadshow from her assistant.

She immediately realized that this was a great marketing opportunity for both the movie and Qi Jia personally.

So, after getting the live footage from her assistant, she immediately arranged for someone to start marketing the event online.

But what she didn’t know was that the hot searches about the movie had quietly increased online long before the movie ended.

The reason is that before the movie started, many audiences across the country who received premiere gifts spontaneously took photos and checked in, and posted the photos of their gifts online.

One stone stirs up a thousand waves.

Wedding candies, roses, and carefully designed invitations all stimulated the nerves of netizens.

“Ahh, I’m so envious. My boyfriend dragged me to watch The Best of Us. Not only was it ugly, but there were no gifts at all.”

“Wow~ I went to the movies too, why didn’t I get any gifts? @Qi Jia, keep working hard @Zhang Ruonan, keep working hard”

“I envy you, but I still want to ask you, sisters, is the movie good?”

“It was great! Although I didn’t receive any gifts, the movie was really great and everyone cried.”

“I’m not a hater. I watched The Best of Us first and then I watched I’ll Wait for You at the End of Time. I won’t comment on the former, but Qi Jia’s movie is really good, just a bit of a waste of paper.”

“Ahhh, I’ve already asked for leave. I’ll go check it out now. I hope good luck will help me get the gift.”

“…”

The online discussion about the premiere gift did not last long.

Soon a video of the roadshow in the morning was released and quickly became a hot search topic.

The publisher is obviously from the UC shock department. His title says,

[Shocking! Qi Jia knelt down on the spot at the road show of his new movie. Was it because the box office was too bad, or was there another hidden story? ]