Chapter 504: Everyone Is Stunned

507. Everyone was dumbfounded

After hanging up the phone, Director Xu, who was worried, called his good friend Director Ning Yu again. The director was also a straightforward person and directly gave him 10 million.

Although he had 20 million in his hand, he continued to call his friends one by one to borrow money to ensure that everything was safe.

But no one expected that this time of borrowing money would make everyone suffer a big loss.

"Old Xu, I heard from my neck why you are borrowing money everywhere? Is there a problem with the funds?" Director Xu borrowed money from a large number of people, and naturally he could not hide it from his wife.

"Well, it's nothing serious. There was a little problem with the capital chain. I borrowed some money from someone here just in case." Director Xu naturally refused to tell his wife the real reason.

"Really?" Taozi was not a stupid woman. Naturally, she knew that this matter was not as simple as Director Xu said. You know, this time Director Xu borrowed from almost all the friends who could borrow.

The total amount has reached more than 80 million, plus their own investment, this money can make two movies by themselves.

Director Xu was not willing to tell the truth at this time. Now he can only use this 80 million to save the plate. Not only that, he also plans to use his connections and invite some friends to "guest star".

There is no way, his current funds are really limited. Not to mention that the previous investment cost him all his savings. If it was before, he might not be so embarrassed.

Since the investment failed with Meng Cai, he had to continue to make movies to make money. But this time, Qin Feng was offended.

At the same time, after the paparazzi king Awei learned about Director Xu's downfall, he began to dig him up desperately.

After all, in his eyes, it would be best for a person who is already "out of money" to play a "residual heat".

The next day, when Director Xu deposited all the funds into the crew and settled a large amount of expenses, he used his connections to sign a group of "old friends".

At this time, when he was going to continue to talk with the sponsor, the "rumors" in the circle made all those who lent money to Director Xu feel cold in their hearts.

This has to be said about the paparazzi king A Wei, who inadvertently "leaked" that Director Xu had problems with his funds, and even hinted that Director Xu and Ning Yu might be on the "bad record" list.

All of a sudden, those who originally wanted to lend money to Director Xu to build a relationship became anxious. Director Xu's tight funds were not a problem, after all, his reputation was there.

But being on the list was different, basically announcing that his future career was over. How could he pay such a large sum of money without a career?

Not to mention those who had previously flattered him to "mix in investment", now their hearts were cold.

According to A Wei's explanation, this time Director Xu might be on the list with Ning Yu because of some style issues, which was a bit scary.

Because they were all in the same circle, Director Xu's "love to play" was well known to everyone, but compared with other people, Director Xu was really caught a lot of times.

Coupled with his wife Taozi's "unbelievable" remarks, everyone believed Ah Wei's statement a little. Even some of Director Xu's good friends called to ask about the "whole story".

After hearing such news from the sponsor, only a fool would continue to invest. Are you kidding? Investing money in him now is like throwing money into the water?

As for the financial companies that had signed a gambling agreement with Director Xu before, they were also dumbfounded. Their stocks went straight to the limit within a day.

And the market was full of selling orders. As for buying? Everyone is not stupid. Knowing that Director Xu is in danger this time, who would buy a pile of waste paper?

This pitted these financial companies. The current stock price has already hit the limit. Some small shareholders even ran to the company to ask for immediate withdrawal of shares at the market price.

Who can bear this thing if it keeps falling like this?

You have to know that these financial companies rely on gambling with artists, letting the artists set up a shell company and then buy the company's shares worth a certain amount at a high price.

But this is also conditional. If the box office fails to reach the expected target, the artist needs to compensate for their losses, which is not a small amount.

Most financial companies will use the artist's company to hype up the stock price and then reap the leeks. In this way, they can not only make money from the box office, but also make a lot of money in the stock market.

However, with the tightening of supervision now, they dare not reap too obviously. After all, the old saying is very good: there are too many fools, and there are not enough liars.

Moreover, Ning Yu's desert film is still being "edited" and the possibility of it being over is even less likely, which also caused Ning Yu's CATL to drop directly to the limit.

At the same time, Xiao Wang also took action. For the first time, he announced at the end as the vice president of Wanda: No film that violates national laws will be allowed to be released in Wanda.

Even several other domestic theaters have come out to "join in the fun" this time and said: "The theaters under its umbrella will not show any movies of bad artists."

This directly led to all capital looking down on Ning Yu and Director Xu.

Anyone with a normal brain would understand that the entire cinema chain is not optimistic about the two of them this time. If anyone were to stubbornly confront them at this time, he would be a fool.

Director Xu was really panicking at this time. All the money he borrowed had already been invested in the crew. The funniest thing is that Qu Xiaodong, his most trusted "assistant director" and whom he single-handedly promoted, ran away with the money.

It turns out that the assistant director whom he supported has always been obsessed with gambling. During this period, he borrowed a lot of loan sharks and was about to pay them back. Unexpectedly, Director Xu transferred the money to the crew's card with such confidence.

This made him very "tangled", so after "considering it again" he planned to run away with the money. Qu Xiaodong first used the 80 million to repay more than 6 million in loan sharks, and then flew directly to Southeast Asia early in the morning, and then disappeared directly from Southeast Asia.

Director Xu only learned that Qu Xiaodong had run away after receiving a reminder call from the equipment rental company. By the time he reacted, Qu Xiaodong had already "sinked into nothing" with the remaining more than 70 million.

Director Xu immediately called the police when he learned that something was wrong. Unfortunately, it was too late. When the police arrived at Qu Xiaodong's home, they discovered that he had already run away.

This is also the right time and place, because the movies Director Xu invested this time were all shot in Yunjun. So after Qu Xiaodong secretly transferred the money in the card, he ran directly from Yunjun to Southeast Asia.

In less than two hours, Qu Xiaodong had disappeared in Southeast Asia. Although the police had issued a wanted order, some coincidences led to Qu Xiaodong running away so smoothly.