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University of Arlington.

Martin's expression was ugly to the extreme.

The entire auditorium was filled with noise.

If it was just a commotion, Martin would have been able to accept it. However, it was not just a simple uproar, Martin could clearly see that in the audience stands, there were people playing cards, some of them drinking, and even someone cooking a hotpot!

The person who cooked the hotpot used a portable hotpot. He was sitting in the front row of seats. The hotpot was boiling and water was rising into the air.

Aren't you going too far? Boiling the hotpot? Do you think this is a hotpot restaurant?

There were quite a number of students at the entrance of the auditorium. They wanted to come in and see the promotions, but unfortunately, the auditorium was already filled to the brim with people. These people simply could not enter.

"Students, please be quiet. Today is our movie's propaganda. Please be quiet!" The student who cooked the hotpot, please do not affect the students around you. " The host kept shouting, trying to make the scene quieter, but to no avail.

"Who is it that I've affected by boiling the hotpot? Does it affect you guys? " While washing the meat in the pot, he looked around at the people around him and asked.

"It doesn't affect, it doesn't affect!" The people around Lu Dahun shook their heads.

Martin was so angry that he turned pale. He excitedly rushed in front of Lu Daming and said, "Student, we are promoting our movies right now. Please respect our movies!"

"I respect it, but I'm hungry. Can't I eat something? Don't tell me you don't even let me eat? " Lu Deming said with a wronged expression.

"If you want to eat something, you can go out and eat. You can come in after you're done!" Martin said.

"I just want to eat in here. The air here is especially fragrant, and there's a lot of space. There's also an air conditioner, so it feels really good to eat here!" As he spoke, he put the meat into his mouth and began to eat. It looked like it really was delicious.

Martin was furious, but there was nothing he could do.

The surrounding media had all captured this happy scene into their cameras. They would probably create some sort of comical special repertoire and broadcast it on television.

Just like that, a movie advertising event was turned into a farce. The people onstage were talking, and the people off stage were also talking. They were even eating hot pot. The entire auditorium was extremely noisy.

At this moment, a few police officers suddenly walked into the auditorium.

When these policemen came in, all the cameras at the scene swiveled to aim at them.

Several policemen walked in front of Martin. One of them shouted, "Mr. Martin, we received a call from the police saying that you were involved in the planning of a violent attack against other film advertising teams. Now we need you to come with us and cooperate with our investigation!"

"Violent attacks? "How is this possible? I've been here the entire time, how did I participate?" Martin asked.

"We only asked you to come back with us to the police station to help us investigate. Whether it's you or not, we'll know after a bit of investigation." The leader of the police said in a serious tone.

"Impossible, I'm not. How could I be involved in some violent attack?" Martin shook his head.

"This is too scary, Director Martin is actually from the underworld!" Great Min Lu, who was not far away from Martin, shouted in shock.

"The underworld is too scary!"

"My god, from the underworld!" Everyone present let out cries of alarm.

Martin became anxious the moment he heard the scream.

"I didn't, I definitely didn't!" Martin shouted excitedly.

"Please come with us!" The policeman in the lead said, reaching out to grab Martin's hand.

At this moment, Martin was extremely anxious. He saw the policeman raise his hand and knock out the man's hand.

"I told you, I didn't!" Martin shouted.

Attacking a police officer in foreign countries was a serious crime. The moment Martin made a move, the police officer's face darkened and he immediately flew forward, twisting Martin's hands behind his back. He then pinned Martin to the ground and cuffed Martin's hands behind his back.

The surrounding reporters were all excitedly aiming their cameras at Martin. Martin was caught assaulting a police officer, this was big news!

"Let me go, you guys, let me go!" Martin shouted.

The policemen did not care what Martin was shouting about, they just picked him up and walked out of the hall.

Not long after, Martin was brought out of the hall.

The people from Martin's film crew were all stunned. What kind of scene was this? Why was the film director suddenly taken away?

Soon enough, the news of Martin's involvement in organizing the violent attack was spread out to the media, and Jennifer's colleagues also reported on the attack on Xu Taiping's team.

The two pieces of news appeared at almost the same time, so it was natural for people to connect the two pieces of news together.

Martin's organization had planned a violent attack on the film crew of The Heavenly Path!

News like this quickly spread throughout the city.

Meanwhile, on the vast land of China.

News about the film crew of 'Heavenly Path' being subjected to various unfair treatment and violent assaults during the promotion had suddenly appeared in all the major media outlets.

This news quickly occupied the top few spots on Weibo's search results. At the same time, it also quickly occupied the headlines of the major media.

After watching the news, people found out that the domestic film advertising team in the country was not only dominated by people for no reason, they were discriminated against. Then they were beaten. This ignited the anger of the countrymen.

The University of Anlington became the first victim under the fury of the citizens, because in the news, it was discovered that despite the contract spirit, the University of Anlington forcibly broke its contract with the "Heavenly Path" team and gave Martin the auditorium where the "Heavenly Path" film team was used to promote the movie. This kind of naked discrimination made countless people angry, and the University of Anlington's website was immediately blacklisted. After that, under the lead of some people, many people spontaneously boycotted the University of Anlington, and those who were originally planning to study at the University of Anlington spoke out and stopped considering the University of Anlington.

In just a split-second, An Ling Dun University had become a street rat in China. Who knew how many cooperative projects had been called to a halt just like that?

Angry citizens who had boycotted the University of Anlington could not quell their anger, and after the news that Martin's organization had plotted an attack on the film crew of The Way of Heaven spread like wildfire, a second wave of boycotts began online, this time against Martin and his new film.

Martin was an international director and was well-known in China. Many of his previous movies had already made a lot of money in China, so the Chinese were very familiar with Martin and even had many fans in China. When the news of Martin's attack on the team of 'Heavenly Path' got out, countless Chinese people spontaneously formed a group to boycott Martin and his new movie. After that, Martin's distributor in China quickly announced that they would stop working with Martin and after that, all the movie theaters in China made a statement.

In other words, for Christmas, Martin's new movie will be banned in the mainland!

It has to be said, China is currently the world's largest box office market, with a large global box office. Generally, China will account for around 40% of the box office, and once China loses its market, that would be a devastating blow to the box office!

In this kind of situation, someone launched a call on the internet to support the movie 'Heavenly Path'. This person said that 'Heavenly Path' was a movie that had recently gone out of the country, and it was said that Heavenly Path wanted to participate in the Oscars, but in the end, it was treated unfairly on the very first day of the country's propaganda. The Chinese should support 'Heavenly Path' more, letting everyone know that any Chinese who was bullied abroad would receive support from their motherland.

Such a call, under the push of some media outlets, quickly received a huge response. Many netizens expressed that they would contribute a movie ticket when the "Heavenly Path" movie was released, making the Chinese movies strong and making those who looked down on Chinese movies shut their mouths!

Under the hype between the Chinese and Chinese media, Xu Taiping's Heavenly Path had already garnered a huge amount of attention. This kind of focus spanned across two countries and no movie had received such high attention before it was released. With such attention, as long as the film was of good quality, the box office would definitely be able to get a good amount of attention!

Two o'clock in the afternoon.

At this time, the Chinese and the Chinese media were all talking about what had happened at the University of Anlington. For example, the University of Anlington had torn up their contracts, Martin had stolen Xu Taiping's promotional spots, or Xu Taiping's film crew had been attacked.

These things occupied almost all of the news programs in this time period. Everyone was discussing these things, and under these circumstances, Xu Taiping came to the University of Anlington alone.

At this moment, the auditorium where Xu Taiping and the others had previously promoted the movie had long since been emptied of people.

Since Martin had been taken away, his team naturally left as well. Seeing that Martin's men had left, Lu Danmin and the others naturally left as well.

Xu Taiping stood at the entrance of the auditorium watching for a while, then called Lu Daming.

Not long after, Grand Min Lu brought a few people in front of Xu Taiping.

"Tomorrow, I want my team to come here and continue the promotions." Xu Taiping pointed at the auditorium.

"You're still coming back tomorrow?" Lu Daming asked in surprise, "Why?"

"While the iron is hot." Xu Taiping smiled and said, "Now that we've attracted enough attention, what we need to do next is to turn these concerns into practical benefits. Our biggest goal in coming to the country is to advertise our movies, and now we have enough attention.

"So that's how it is!" Lu Daming was suddenly enlightened.

[1] TL note: This is the same phrase used to describe the meaning of the idiom in Chinese.