Lu Xiao returned to the dormitory and took a cigarette from the dormitory leader's table. He sat on his chair and took a puff.

For the first time, he began to seriously think about his future.

He had wanted to live like this for a few years. After he had some money, he would take advantage of the times to achieve financial freedom.

However, this was a little slow now. Lu Xiao could not wait to become famous and earn money.

As expected, Lu Xun was right. A man's chest was his primary productivity.

If a man wasn't outstanding enough, it would be difficult for you to have the confidence to stand in front of another outstanding woman.

What to do after rebirth? The seniors had already concluded the action plan.

98 for the method, 02 for Han.

Looking for blessings by the West Lake, chatting online and asking about women's clothing.

Bitcoins, mainland houses, singing in the fields of hope.

skr~skr~

Lu Xiao had secretly invested all his assets into the French World Cup champion, totaling more than 2000 yuan. With the odds of one to five, he would become a millionaire in another month.

Twenty years ago, 10,000 yuan was a huge sum of money, and it was not a small amount now. However, with Lu Xiao's brain, he could not do anything big.

He really couldn't find any way to earn money at the moment.

If that was the case, his friends would have doubts. If he went to learn music now, wouldn't it be better to take advantage of Milk Tea?

The logic was correct, but the main author still wanted to focus on the film and television industry. If he were to engage in music, wouldn't he become a big shot?

In the end, he still didn't have any concrete clues, so he decided to ignore it for now. He turned off the lights, went to bed, and slept.

Something happened when she slept.

In the middle of the night, Lu Xiao woke up with a start. He looked at the dark ceiling, his eyes shining brightly, and he could not suppress his surprise.

Just now, he had a long dream. In the dream, he reread the movies and novels he had read in his previous life. Even now, he could still clearly remember every plot and scene in his mind.

The golden finger had arrived.

Reincarnators with a cheat were no longer trash. Generally speaking, they would become thieves.

Lu Xiao quickly got out of bed and opened his notebook. He wrote a line at the beginning with one hand and the other hand.

"Dou Zhi Li, 3 levels!"

Sorry, Potato!

Lu Xiao's first reaction was to write "Battle Break". Anyone who read online novels would not be able to ignore this book. It left a deep impression on them. The main reason was that he heard that Potato could earn hundreds of millions of yuan every year from this book…

Then, he realized that the time was not right. It was only 1998, and the Internet was still in its infancy. Most online novels could only be published on the BBSes for free. After they had a certain reputation, they would seek physical publication and finally earn royalties.

At this time, online literature was generally still a little more literary. The majority of the novice readers were restricted by the development of the Internet and could not go online."Battle Break" could not be as popular as in the future.

Moreover, the description of a handprint could make three or four chapters water. Lu Xiao was also afraid that he would be put in a gunnysack offline.

After thinking about it for a long time, Lu Xiao felt that he still had to write a novel, but there was no need to rush. He was a director, and making a movie was the way to go!

He reorganized his thoughts, turned to a new page, and wrote "Happy Death Day" on the title bar.

This movie was released in 2017 in his previous life. It cost 4.8 million USD, and the global box office was 115 million USD. The North American box office was over 50 million USD.

However, it did not cause much of a stir in the mainland. It had accumulated more than 60 million yuan. Movies under the banner of thrills had never been very popular in the domestic market.

The only horror movie that Lu Xiao had seen in the cinema was Big Honey's Far Cry…

It was indeed quite shocking…

However, Happy Death Day should not be classified as a horror movie. It was clearly a light comedy about a campus romance.

It was a story of a girl who was killed and fell into a time loop, repeating the day of her death.

It was full of jokes, twists, and a little color. The suspense and horror parts were almost negligible.

Lu Xiao felt that this movie still had some potential. The time-loop mode should not have been filmed by a director in the country yet, and the audience did not watch as many films as in the future. This concept was still very novel.

The remaining problem was the sinicization.

The original story took place in an American university, with luxurious dormitories, rave parties, campus festivals, and other elements. Let alone 1998, even in 2021, we wouldn't be interested in these things.

It wasn't even appropriate to place the background in the school. It involved teacher-student relationships, teachers cheating, and the image of the female lead being unrestrained. It was also easy to be accused of smearing the contemporary young college students.

To be safe, the background of the story had to be changed.

Lu Xiao found his train of thought, and he quickly wrote for half a night.

When he put down his pen, he realized that the sky was already slightly bright. It was already dawn.

Coincidentally, there was an early morning scene today, so they had to start early in the morning.

Lu Xiao decided not to sleep. He took a cigarette from the long table to refresh his mind and slumped on the chair to take a nap.

After resting for a while, he washed up and left the dormitory at half-dawn. He went to the canteen to buy two bags of soup dumplings and waited while eating on the way out of the school.

The breeze at dawn brought a hint of coolness, relieving the fatigue caused by staying up late.

"Phew!"

Lu Xiao let out a breath of turbid air. He had been in a tense state of excitement all this time, and now he finally relaxed a little.

When a familiar figure appeared at the school gate, his mood improved even more.

Hu Jing woke up a little late today. After a few casual calls, she rushed to the set.

As soon as he left the school, he saw a fool leaning against a tree by the roadside and looking around.

Lu Xiao saw Hu Jing and waved at her with a bright smile.

"What a coincidence, beautiful!"

"Coincidence?" Hu Jing pursed her lips. Why do I feel like someone is blocking me here?"

"This is an inevitable chance encounter. I walked out of the morning breeze and coincidentally, you passed by here. It's the so-called 500 times of looking back in my previous life that I got…"

"It's so early in the morning. Did you take the wrong medicine? You speak in a strange way."

"Alright, then let's talk about something vulgar. I still have a few buns here. Do you want them?"

"This will do."

The two of them walked side by side, and the distance between them was shortened to 40 centimeters, which was one-fifth of yesterday's improvement.

"The bun is cold. How long have you been standing there?" Hu Jing asked as she chewed on it.

"Not really. I went to the cafeteria as soon as it opened. I stayed up too late writing the script last night, so I didn't sleep."

"You're fast enough. You wrote it just like that. Tell me about it." Hu Jing still remembered Lu Xiao saying that he would write a script for her as the female lead.

Lu Xiao cleared his throat and said,"Comrade Hu Jing, this is the first work of the future China's great director, Lu Xiao. It's still confidential. You can't ask around."

Hu Jing rolled her eyes at him. Forget it if you don't want to talk about it. Who cares?"

"Don't, I'll tell you now."

"The movie is temporarily named 'Happy Death Day', because the female lead died on her birthday.

She was a young and beautiful urban white-collar worker. In the morning, she woke up in an unfamiliar bed. Last night, she drank too much at the bar and was carried home by her male colleagues.

She thought that her body was picked up by a male colleague, so she didn't care. She's very open-minded in this aspect."

"Wait, what do you mean by picking up the body?" Hu Jing interrupted.

"He's drunk and motionless like a corpse. A pervert must have taken advantage of him."

"Oh, you know so much."

Lu Xiao waved his hand."I heard it from my friends. I'm a creative writer, so I have to know more about it."

"When the girl returned home, she rented an apartment with a few female colleagues from the company. Her roommate gave her a homemade cake, and she threw it into the trash can, saying that she was on a diet.

In the evening, her colleagues in the company held a birthday party for her at the bar. Unexpectedly, on the way to the party, she met a masked man in black and was stabbed to death.

Strangely, when the girl woke up again, she found that she had returned to that morning.

She thought it was all a dream.

Then, the girl experienced the previous ten hours again. When she went to the bar at night, she deliberately changed her route. This time, they did not meet the assassin in black.

After arriving at the bar safely, the girl hooked up with a male colleague. While they were flirting, the masked assassin in black appeared again and stabbed them both to death.

Then, the girl returned to that morning.

She has been in an endless cycle throughout the day. Every time, she is killed by the men in black and restarted again and again."

Hu Jing touched her chin."The time loop is quite interesting. What happened to the girl?"

"To find the murderer and jump out of the time loop, of course. I'm planning to make this story into a youth comedy. It can't end in tragedy."

"This movie focuses on the part where the girl falls into a time loop. This is equivalent to a different kind of immortality. In the repeated failures, the girl's different ways of coping, as well as her own growth and change, are the most exciting."

"Then, we'll insert details that aren't easily noticed in the movie. Through these details, the girl will reveal the mystery at the end, thus conveying a sense of satisfaction to the audience. That's basically it."

Lu Xiao finished speaking in one breath, but he still looked like he was not done yet, like a peacock spreading its tail to seek a mate.

"When are you going to start shooting?" Hu Jing blinked.

This question was a killjoy.

"Wait until I find the money." Lu Xiao spread out his hands and replied.