The movie's first screening was done across the theaters of The Golden City and in that the entire cast was called. Lu Dao had hosted dinner for all of them after the movie but Feng Xinying did not attend it. She just went back to Xie Yuansheng to celebrate her success with him.
While he was lying on bed, slipped into a coma, she took a small cake outside, lit a candle over it and said, "To our success darling." She cut the cake and put a very tiny piece in his mouth. She licked it away from his mouth a second later. When she turned her face away, Xie Yuansheng's tongue moved a little.
The Golden Flower movie catapulted her popularity while for Wu Bosun, it was yet another hit and his overnight charges for the movie skyrocketed. Wu Bosun had contacted Zhou Ah Ming and had asked him to join him as his secretary again. When Wu Bosun had come to know about Ru Shishi's treachery and how manipulative she was, he was disgusted and questioned his own judgement on his previous
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