Chapter 526 - Let’s Congratulate Boss Pei on Behalf of Fei Huang Workspace (1/2)

He opened the chat software and saw many congratulatory messages. Zhu Xiaoce and the others had even filmed a short video and sent it to Boss Pei. It was messily filmed. Pei Qian could only see a bunch of people shouting and cheering

Pei Qian remained silent for a moment and then decided to figure out what the fundamental problem was.

What kind of award was the Jury Prize? Pei Qian watched movies frequently, but he did not follow any professional award ceremonies. All he knew was the Oscars.

It was time to engage Qiandu for help.

Two minutes later, Pei Qian understood.

There were different types of awards given out at the Cannes Film Festival. The most important one among those was the Palme d’Or. It was equivalent to the Golden Bear and Golden Lion at the other two film festivals. All of those awards were the highest international awards attainable in the film industry.

The last time a local film won a Palme d’Or was in 1993. That was also the only time. The Jury Prize was widely considered the second-highest award. The last time a local film won that award was in 2000. That was why the news headline had been ‘Winning the Award Again after Eleven Years’.

After reading the Qiandu search page, Pei Qian did not know if he should feel upset or overjoyed.

Fortunately, it had not been a Palme d’Or. He had only gotten second place.

Pei Qian had been afraid that his own good luck would strike again. If he had won the Palme d’Or, he would have had a huge mess to clean up!

That was not completely impossible. After all, the more professional a film critic was, the richer his imagination would be. Who knew what kind of things westerners could infer from Tomorrow is Beautiful’s material?!

However, the current situation was enough to render Pei Qian speechless. He had only gotten the second prize, but it was still extremely rare!

Many local filmmakers had worked hard for the past eleven years. Every year, a few films would be sent to the Cannes Film Festival. Yet, most of them would fall short; the second place had practically been unattainable.

On the other hand, he had written a film with the sole aims of feeding poison to the audience and incurring losses. Yet, not only had his film become extremely popular in the local theaters, but it had even won an award at the film festival!

What exactly was wrong with this world…?

Pei Qian quietly got out of bed, washed up, and traveled to the office. All the employees on the 16th floor of Shenhua View were hard at work. The atmosphere was silent.

Pei Qian heaved a long sigh. He could not help but rejoice inwardly. It was a good thing that he had put Fei Huang Workspace into shock therapy. Otherwise, all the employees at Fei Huang Workspace would have come up to his office to congratulate him personally. Who would be able to tolerate that?

At the very least, he was safe in his own family.

However, just as Pei Qian stepped into his office, he heard a pop. A champagne cork flew up into the sky!

At the same time, there were explosions of fireworks and confetti. At once, the entire office was filled with noise.

“Surprise!”

“Boss Pei, congratulations!”

“Tomorrow is Beautiful has won an award, and Zhu Xiaoce especially thanked you! How do you feel now?”

Everyone got up from their seats one by one. Some held onto fireworks, and others held onto confetti; some clapped while others poured champagne for themselves.

Pei Qian turned to Assistant Xin, confused. “This…”

Assistant Xin smiled and explained, “Boss Pei, everyone knew that Fei Huang Workspace’s employees are on holiday, and the main production team of the film is still overseas. That’s why they organized this celebration on their behalf.

“After all, it’s worth celebrating. How could we let this opportunity slip by?”

Pei Qian: “…”

You are all very thoughtful. However, I don’t need this kind of celebration! Horrible!

Someone served champagne to everyone else until everyone held a glass. Pei Qian had no choice but to tilt his head back and down his glass.

Hao Yun, who was standing beside him, looked confused. “Er, Boss Pei… shouldn’t you give a short speech first?”

Pei Qian placed the empty glass down on the table beside him. “It’s all in the past. There’s nothing worth talking about. Alright, everyone. Go back to work, quickly!”

Do you still want to celebrate? If we celebrate once now, and Huang Sibo and the others celebrate again when they get back, wouldn’t I be enduring double the punishment?

Go to hell!

Once Boss Pei went into his office and closed the door, Assistant Xin smiled and addressed everyone. “Boss Pei has always been like that. Alright, get back to work, everyone. It won’t be too late to celebrate when Huang Sibo and the others get back.”

As Wu Bin stood by the side, he quickly jotted those events down in his notebook. “Indeed, even after so long, Boss Pei has not changed.

“I heard that Boss Pei was like that when Ocean Stronghold became successful as well. He symbolically took a sip of his champagne and then threw himself back into his work.

“When I heard this from Bao Xu, I thought the latter had been exaggerating. After all, even if a successful man doesn’t want to rely on his past successes, he would not go so far as to save on a mini-celebration, right?

“Yet, from the looks of it, it’s true. Bao Xu had not been exaggerating. That’s what Boss Pei is

like.