novellhall Chapter 54 Did Mom give birth to me just so you could bully me?
Chapter 54 Did Mom give birth to me just so you could bully me?
Before long, an enticing aroma wafted from the kitchen.
Li Zhixing came out carrying two bowls of ramen, and Li Zhongxun immediately fawned over him.
Instead of starting to eat right away, the kid cheekily picked up his bowl and brought it to Lee Ji-eun's face.
He deliberately fanned the air above the bowl of noodles with his hand, forcefully blowing the hot air, which was mixed with the aroma of cheese and ramen, into Ji-eun's nose.
"Wow, it smells so good! It's a pity someone is afraid of gaining weight and can't have any." Lee Jong-hoon said smugly.
Lee Ji-eun gritted her teeth, her gaze turning unfriendly.
After Lee Jong-hoon finished showing off, he picked up his chopsticks and prepared to start eating.
Lee Ji-eun suddenly walked over, grabbed the back of his collar, pulled him to the side, and sat down herself, unceremoniously picking up a large mouthful of ramen and stuffing it into her mouth.
Lee Jong-hoon was dumbfounded.
He stared blankly at his sister, who was enjoying her food, and said, "Lee Ji-eun, didn't you say you weren't going to eat? Give it back to me."
Lee Ji-eun swallowed the noodles in her mouth, turned her head, and looked at him coldly: "What did you call me?"
Lee Jong-hoon jumped in fright, shrinking back, "No, noona..."
But then, he pleaded pitifully, "Noona, give it to me. My brother made it for me, and you said you weren't going to eat it."
Ji-eun raised an eyebrow confidently: "I suddenly want to eat it again, so what?"
Lee Jong-hoon panicked and lunged forward to grab the bowl.
Ji-eun raised her hand as if to hit him.
Forced by the fear of being suppressed by his bloodline, Li Zhongxun dared not forcibly take it, and could only run to Li Zhixing to complain.
"Brother, you need to do something about her, she stole my noodles."
Li Zhixing slurped his noodles with a grin, completely ignoring him, and even deliberately ate loudly.
Lee Jong-hoon then turned to look at the sofa: "Grandma, look at Lee Ji-eun."
Grandma's eyes were fixed on the variety show on TV, as if she hadn't heard anything.
A sense of despair, as if abandoned by the whole world, welled up inside me.
Lee Jong-hoon's nose tingled, his eyes instantly reddened, and he actually burst into tears, wiping them away as he shouted in grief and indignation:
"Lee Ji-eun, did your mother give birth to me just so you could bully me?"
While enjoying her meal, Lee Ji-eun took a moment to reply, "Isn't that right?"
"I'm not eating!"
Lee Jong-hoon was so angry that he was trembling all over, wiping away his tears as he tried to go back inside.
Seeing that the kid was about to become depressed, Li Zhixing, who had been watching the show, finally spoke up.
"You're so useless. Instead of crying, you should go check on the kitchen."
Lee Jong-hoon snapped out of his daze, grinned immediately, and turned to run to the kitchen.
A short while later, he came out carrying another bowl of noodles, grinning foolishly.
"Hehe, I knew you were the best, bro, unlike that violent idiot."
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After eating and drinking their fill, the three siblings collapsed on the sofa, clutching their stomachs to help them digest.
Grandma had already gone back to her room and gone to sleep.
Lee Jong-hoon was worried that his older brother would also tell him to go to sleep, so he rolled his eyes and suggested, "Brother, noona, let's watch a movie. My classmate just sent me a website where I can watch lots of blockbusters."
As he spoke, he excitedly ran over and brought Li Zhixing's computer.
As soon as Lee Jong-hoon opened the webpage, Lee Ji-eun leaned over for a glance, then immediately glared at him and scolded, "Hey, Lee Jong-hoon, you actually went to watch pirated content!"
Lee Jong-hoon shrank back and muttered a defense: "I'll definitely go to the cinema to support my brother's movies. They're all Hollywood movies, so why not watch them?"
Li Zhixing shook his head helplessly.
Lee Jong-hoon swiped the mouse to find the movie he wanted to watch and casually clicked refresh.
After the webpage reloaded, a new link suddenly popped up at the top of the homepage, causing him to exclaim in surprise.
"Brother, what's going on? Why is your 'Haeundae' on this website?"
Li Zhixing paused for a moment, then casually replied, "It's probably a pirated copy. What's so strange about that?"
"I see, the pirated movie is over 3GB..."
"How many?"
Li Zhixing's previously nonchalant expression vanished instantly.
He straightened up and pulled the computer onto his lap.
On the screen, the poster for "Haeundae" was prominently displayed on the homepage of the pirate website, and the file shown below it was in VOB format and was a whopping 3.6GB in size.
Li Zhixing's expression turned serious.
He clicked the link and used the player's download-while-playing function to buffer the video.
Lee Ji-eun leaned closer to the screen, somewhat puzzled: "How come the picture quality is so clear? Can a candid shot in a movie theater be this clear?"
"Of course not, this is a theatrical release, no, wait..."
Li Zhixing dragged the progress bar to the tsunami scene in the second half of the movie. When the tsunami was splashing water, the CG modeling at the edges had a very obvious roughness. These issues were fixed in the theatrical version.
Then, he pulled the progress bar back and stopped at a close-up of Park Joong-hoon.
When Park Joong-hoon spoke his lines in Japanese, there were no Korean subtitles at the bottom of the screen.
Li Zhixing took a deep breath: "This is not the final theatrical release; this is the internal rough cut, which hasn't even finished CG rendering yet."
Lee Ji-eun realized the seriousness of the situation: "Oppa, you mean...?"
"Someone leaked the high-definition original footage from within the production crew or distribution company."
Without further ado, Li Zhixing picked up his phone and dialed director Yin Jijun's number.
The phone rang for a long time before it was finally answered, and a tired female voice came through.
"Hey, is this Zhixing? Jijun drank too much last night and is already asleep."
"Sister-in-law, I'm sorry to bother you so late," Li Zhixing said urgently. "There's a big problem with the movie. Could you please call Brother Jijun?"
The person on the other end of the phone paused for a moment, clearly taken aback by Li Zhixing's tone.
Immediately afterwards, a flurry of frantic slapping sounds followed.
Half a minute later, Yin Jijun's muffled complaint came through the phone: "Ugh... Zhixing, it's the middle of the night, can't you talk about this tomorrow if the sky is falling...?"
"Brother Jijun, wake up." Li Zhixing interrupted him in a deep voice, "The original movie has been leaked. A clear version of more than 3 GB has already been uploaded to a P2P website."
"What?"
A muffled thud came from the other end of the phone.
"How the hell could this be! Which bastard did this?!" Yin Jijun's drunkenness vanished instantly, his voice distorted by terror and anger. "Damn it! It's all over, completely over!"
Hearing Yin Jijun's out-of-control rant on the phone, Li Zhixing raised his voice.
"Brother Jijun! Calm down!"
"What we need to do now is to mitigate the losses; you absolutely cannot panic!"
After a few rapid breaths on the other end of the phone, Yin Jijun forced himself to calm down: "Yes... I can't panic. I... I have to call CJ right away and have their legal department suppress the hype and take the torrents down!"
"Besides contacting CJ, it's best to report it to the police immediately," Li Zhixing added. "Since it was an internal version that was leaked, the police can definitely find out who did it by tracing the source of the website."
"That's right..." On the other end of the phone, Yin Jijun let out a long breath, his voice tinged with lingering fear: "Sigh... At my age, I'm not as rational as a little kid like you when something happens."
"You're just flustered," Li Zhixing said, not taking credit. "I'll send you the link to that website on your phone. Brother Jijun, go and contact them right away."
After hanging up the phone, Li Zhixing wearily rubbed his temples.
Lee Ji-eun leaned over and massaged his temples: "Oppa... is it really that serious? 'Haeundae' has already surpassed ten million views, so even if it's leaked now, it won't have too much of an impact, right?"
Li Zhixing sighed and patiently explained, "After ten million, there are new goals. Originally, we were hoping to surpass 'Taegukgi' and become the third highest-grossing film in history, but now that seems unlikely."
"And the most critical issue is the overseas market." Li Zhixing's eyes darkened. "The film has only just been released in China. Now that the resources have been leaked, the box office there will definitely suffer a severe blow. As for the countries that haven't sold the rights yet, even fewer people will be willing to be taken advantage of."
Lee Jong-hoon swallowed hard and asked tentatively, "Is it that serious? Well... didn't we discover it as soon as it was uploaded? The director should be able to stop it, right?"
Li Zhixing shook his head: "Once these high-definition resources are leaked, it's impossible to stop them. It's just a matter of how far they can spread. However, if we respond promptly and react before the weekend, the losses can definitely be minimized."
At this point, he grabbed Li Zhongxun's neck and ruffled his hair vigorously: "You little rascal, this time you've actually done a great job by sheer luck."
Lee Jong-hoon's eyes lit up: "Brother, is there a reward?"
Li Zhixing thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "I'll buy you a laptop tomorrow."
"Really?" Lee Jong-hoon instantly became excited, jumping up and down on the sofa. "Hyung, I love you!"
"Brother, I want to give you my first kiss!"
"Hey, get out of here!"
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