Taylor felt mixed emotions of joy and sorrow when she saw the positive response to his new promotional video.
There was a saying: Others only care about how high you fly, but people who care about you care about whether you are tired from flying.
On the one hand, Taylor was happy for Lin Yuan. His career was becoming more and more stable, and he was not far from taking off again.
But on the other hand, it was also the first time she saw the price Lin Yuan paid for his career.
She first became a fan of Lin Yuan because of the sword dance in the promotional video of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." In the video, Lin Yuan was dressed in flowing white clothes, like a fairyland.
This was a very otherworldly image that only made people feel pure beauty.
But this kind of beauty was built on illusion, and its essence was floating and not grounded.
But Lin Yuan's next two films showed his truest side:
The young man in white clothes who lived a peaceful life was not him. The one who risked his life and endured injuries during the filming of the movie was the real him.
If you want to be respected in front of others, you will suffer behind their backs.
How can anyone succeed easily?
Every time Taylor saw Lin Yuan fall heavily to the ground with bloodshot eyes in the video, her nose would feel sore and she had to force herself not to cry.
She would not be hypocritical and try to persuade Lin Yuan not to do this. That was the path he chose, and she chose to support him silently.
What she could do was to work harder in practice every day and make her debut as soon as possible to help Lin Yuan.
Taylor looked at the moon outside the window and couldn't help wondering: What is Lin Yuan doing now?
…(I am a dividing line)
Lin Yuan was looking out the window at the bustling New York night scene.
Tomorrow at midnight, "The Fast and the Furious" and "Jurassic Park III" would premiere.
Under the marketing of the joint publicity and promotion plan, the two films received initial screening rates of 15% and 25% respectively.
Although it seemed very low compared to the initial screening rate of 40% for "The Mummy Returns," Lin Yuan was very satisfied with the results of these two films with low publicity and promotion costs.
After all, this screening rate was just not top-notch, but it was definitely not low.
And this was just the initial screening rate, which would be gradually adjusted based on word of mouth and attendance rate.
Lin Yuan had made various contingency plans and was confident that the box office and screening schedules would continue to rise.
He believed that with the success of these two films, his next acting career would be broadened and he would officially embark on the road to becoming a superstar.
In fact, since his rebirth, Lin Yuan had seriously thought many times about what kind of life he wanted to live.
Rebirth was a gift from God. If he still went through it in a daze, it would be the greatest disrespect to life.
It was actually not that easy to understand what he really wanted.
What did he want most?
Many people's first reaction to this question was: money!
Then a hateful sentence immediately popped up in his mind:
"I'm not interested in money."
This sentence was quite Versailles and gave people a sense of hypocrisy.
For the majority of people who were struggling to make a living, the first reaction to hearing this was to get furious:
You are not interested, but I am!
Why are you not interested in making so much money?
If you are not interested, why don't you give it to me?
You've made all the money, and you still want to pretend to be nice?
Therefore, saying this in public would definitely be unpleasant and would only lead to ridicule.
But if he looked at this matter from another angle, he could prove that he was not completely lying:
He was already the richest man. Was there anything more important to him than money, or more worth pursuing?
Obviously there was.
When people had no money, they would make money their first pursuit.
But once they became truly rich, most people would begin to pursue higher levels.
When he stood at the forefront of the tide of the times as a reborn person, money, fame, women... these things that ordinary people longed for became readily available to him.
Too many choices would lead to confusion and bewilderment.
It's not that money was not attractive, nor that beautiful women were not alluring, but that once he fell into it and lost himself, he would regret wasting this precious rebirth when he was about to grow old.
He had also read many rebirth novels, and many of the ways in which the protagonists focused on making money were not suitable for Lin Yuan.
For example, if some protagonists were reborn, they would buy Bitcoin and then hold it for a few years to make tens of billions of dollars. Was it really that easy?
The world was not that simple. The reason why Bitcoin was able to rise to that price later was not only because of its essential function of confidential payment, but more because there were countless people behind the scenes pushing it forward.
Because if the price of Bitcoin was driven up, everyone would make a profit, so everyone was working together.
He had too few chips and didn't care about the little profit.
But if he had taken most of the chips, would these people behind the scenes still try? They would just start another game and create another Litecoin, Ethereum, or something like that.
Did he have the ability to set up this game himself?
Even if he had this ability, as a reborn person, would he spend his energy and advanced cognition just to do this?
For example, some protagonists were reborn, invested in real estate, and reaped the dividends of the times.
Lin Yuan did not choose to go down this path either. Not to mention that the real estate bonus was inherently unjust and blood-sucking, he also really disliked the idea of working on government resources all day long.
He didn't want to chat with a group of fat, middle-aged men, talking hypocritically, and engaging in dirty exchanges of interests. He rejected these things from the bottom of his heart.
Start an Internet company? Get involved in the high-tech industry?
If he wanted to control a company and get the biggest piece of the pie, he had to do it himself. Expecting an early investment and then just sitting back and waiting for it to take off?
Which founding emperor did not conquer his own empire with his own hands?
If he didn't have enough confidence to take a piece of the cake, being a hands-off boss would only lead to being sidelined, having his equity diluted, and then being kicked out.
Moreover, for Lin Yuan, even if he was willing to work hard to build a company, there was still a ceiling.
In some cases, his Chinese identity allowed him to play both sides between the two major countries and reap many benefits.
However, if one wanted to get involved in areas that were related to the lifeline of the national economy and wanted to control the ownership of the means of production, it would immediately become embarrassing.
It's hard for either side to truly consider him one of their own. And why did a Chinese person hold a sacred weapon?
What other options were left?
A career in politics? This was America. Did he, a Chinese American, want to ascend to heaven?
Fortunately, Lin Yuan was not blinded by various desires.
He knew very well what he wanted. Compared to money and power, he wanted fame more.
A hundred years later, his name was still a legend, and later generations were still passing on his name.
His achievements had become an immortal monument, admired by countless people.
This was the life Lin Yuan wanted.
To achieve this, one must not only reach the extreme but also break through the extreme and reach a level that ordinary people could not imagine.
Fortunately, he had the support of a system, which made this path to becoming a super action star feasible.
He would surpass Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, and any other superstar in history to become the unique and incomparable superstar.
Among the five levels of needs proposed by Maslow, the highest one was self-actualization, which Lin Yuan deeply agreed with.