No stars should have meant no problem.
Yang Ruoqian trusted this logic because it was simple, beautiful, and supported by countless entertainment-industry invoices. Stars meant fans. Fans meant traffic. Traffic meant topics, merchandise, arguments, screenshots, and a system panel smiling with criminal brightness.
The old film week had none of that.
It did not even officially have the words old film week.
Therefore, Yang Ruoqian should have slept well.
At 7:40 the next morning, he woke to a message from Chang Zhiqing: "The no-star point is becoming the main discussion."
Yang Ruoqian sat up.
How could absence become a point?
He reached the office before breakfast and opened the summary. The comments were not huge in number. They were worse than huge. They were coherent.
"No celebrities interrupting memories."
"No red carpet in an old lobby. Thank you."
"It feels like watching films, not worshipping traffic."
