Author: Ashinyrock

After reading this fan’s Weibo post, Rong Xu directly got out of bed. He himself didn’t remember that a long time ago, he had, in fact seen this fan’s meng-selling Weibo before.

After all, he read many fans’ Weibos; forgetting one was a matter of fact. 

But from now onward, Rong Xu will never forget the name “Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing”. Not only because the other party may be an insider who had collaborated with him prior, but also because of the new Weibo post showing the 100 Black Clouds movie tickets.

This sort of luxury wasn’t like that of a normal crew member. Even if they weren’t a celebrity or an agent, they would at least be higher than an assistant director.

When Rong Xu exited through the door, he found that Qin Cheng had already prepared breakfast.

Qin Cheng’s cooking skills were similar to Rong Xu’s: it could only be used to fill the stomach. It couldn’t be considered a delicacy, but neither was it bad.

Suddenly recalling something, Rong Xu looked at the other person after scooping up the last spoonful of porridge, and he asked with a smile: “I remember when I first moved here … there was a day where you made a lot for breakfast?”

Qin Cheng’s hand that was holding his chopsticks shook. A moment later he calmly said: “That was instructed by my mother.”

Rong Xu was slightly stunned, saying with a smile: “It turns out it was Aunt Qin.”

The man once again leaned down to pick up vegetables, his thin lips pursing in dissatisfaction. 

…… It was not her!

After eating breakfast, Rong Xu continued to sit in the living room to read his scripts. Qin Cheng was on the phone endlessly. Rong Xu listened in and found that the other party seemed to be entering a crew next week for filming. Though, he felt it was a little inconceivable: hadn’t Luo Zhentao said that Qin Cheng, at most, only filmed one movie a year? How come, Disciple hadn’t been over a year yet, but he was already going to film another?

When noon came around, Rong Xu cooked a simple 4 dishes and 1 soup set. At the dining table, he only heard Qin Cheng say in a low voice: “Next week, I am going to film in New Zealand and might not be home for a couple of months. If there is an award ceremony in the middle, then I might return. If there’s anything, you can call my cell phone directly.”

Putting the chopsticks down softly, Rong Xu smiled and said: “It is fine if you just film well, I will take care of myself well. I will talk to Aunt Qin, you don’t have to worry.”

Qin Cheng: “… you can call me, it’s okay.”

Rong Xu smiled helplessly: “You can rest assured, I will talk to Aunt Qin.” 

Qin Cheng: “……”

That afternoon, the two casually watched another movie. This time, the movie Rong Xu chose was a Chinese film starring Wen Xuan. When he heard that the youth wanted to watch a Chinese film, Qin Cheng said seemingly unintentionally: “Want to watch one of my films?”

Rong Xu already had a target in mind early on and directly reached out to remove a specific DVD from the cabinet: “Let’s watch Golden Empire, then.”

Qin Cheng: “……” One day, he must change all the films in here to his! 

After watching for an entire afternoon, the two went to the garden downstairs for a stroll. This community’s security was very good, and they didn’t have to worry about bumping into paparazzi here. But, the unfortunate thing was that they had only taken a few steps before Qin Cheng received a call from Xu Jin. There appeared to be an urgent matter that required him to head to the company to deal with.

Qin Cheng stared at the youth with deep eyes, with a trace of loss hidden in his glance. Rong Xu smiled imperceptibly and waved at him: “Come back early.”

After Qin Cheng really left, the handsome youth walked on the garden path alone. The brilliant moonlight passed through the thin cloud layer and sprinkled onto the ground, casting a cold light onto the brisk stone path.

Rong Xu looked down for a long time at the beautiful pebbles spotting the two sides of the path, before turning around to head upstairs.

In his past life, whenever he didn’t have to film, he had never been as leisurely as Qin Cheng was now. He would often make appointments with friends to play ball at the clubs, or sometimes he would travel the world with friends. In this life, because the time he had arrived in this world was still short, not having many friends was quite normal.

But why did it seem like Qin Cheng had nothing to do all day, always staying at home? Did he perhaps have no friends? Before, when they were filming Black Clouds, his relationship with Wen Xuan appeared to be quite good. Recently, Wen Xuan also seemed to be on vacation, why did they never meet up?

In the end, his heavy doubts didn’t receive an answer. 

Without knowing why, before going to bed at night, Rong Xu opened Qin Cheng’s Weibo page and scrolled down to last year’s finalization post for Disciple. Then, he opened up this man’s private fan forum page. His fans were highly enthusiastic; every two seconds, a new page of fan comments would be posted.

Countless fans were discussing Black Clouds, discussing Gu Mingxiu.

Today was the fourth day since the release of Black Clouds, and the box office every day was 1.8 million. The momentum was still going fierce!

At nine o’clock in the morning on the fifth day, Huaxia Entertainment’s famous music producer, Zhao Kun, posted a strange Weibo on his personal account: [At 9 O’clock tonight, there will be a surprise for you all. Be there, or be square ~ Black Clouds Crew]

Fans were all wondering, a surprise is a surprise, why do you still need to tag (@) Black Clouds Crew?

Who would have known that after five minutes, the crew of Black Clouds actually reposted it!

[Black Clouds crew: [Snicker][Snicker][Snicker] Be there, or be square ~ //Zhao Kun: At 9 O’clock……]

Zhao Kun was a well-known music producer in the Chinese music industry, and he was also the music director of the film Black Clouds. He had produced many albums that surpassed 1 million in sales, so he still had a significant amount of Weibo fans. Even more so, the Black Clouds crew had become increasingly popular recently. Thus, such a mysterious interaction between the two immediately attracted the attention of fans.

In the past few days, the topic of “Lost Wings” had been brought up endlessly by netizens. Each individual who watched Black Clouds couldn’t wait to go buy another set of Ling Xiao’s albums. At the same time, they also wanted to get the DVD of this movie and the closing song, “Lost Wings”.

Therefore, with Zhao Kun and the crew’s interaction, the first reaction of the netizens was: [Could it be related to “Lost Wings”? ! 】

The netizens waited anxiously until nine o’clock in the evening. This full 12 hours of anticipation pushed the #LostWings# tag into the top ten of the day. Then, when Zhao Kun posted the Weibo exactly on time, the fans instantly exploded! (Original: boiled up)

[Zhao Kun: There is a song called Yearning, there is a song worth waiting for forever! Rong Xu, Black Clouds Crew, a butterfly that had lost its wings, let us return it to the blue sky together! [Video Link]]

^v^ / PA reminder: Please do not post this onto Wattpad or other sharing platforms unless it is for your own, personal enjoyment. Thank You! Have a nice read!

The author has something to say: 

Rong Rong: I feel like, of all the people I know, there is definitely no one who would say Kiss Kiss!

Qing Cheng Cheng: QAQ Rong Rong, do you not recognize Baby anymore Wu Wu Wu ……

TL Corner: Orange Qin just really wants Rong Rong to call him _(:3」∠)_ …. Also, I was too lazy to code a whole HTML section just for one small footnote oTL.
Beta reader/editor: Izo.Ren

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The words Bolded in this chapter are words that were originally in English.

Quick Reference: Cp: “couple”, po: “post”, Wuli: “my”

Immediately, Qin Cheng deleted this post and uploaded a new Weibo with the correct picture.

However, it was too late. If it was just an ordinary small account that posted this Weibo in the fan’s Comment Area, perhaps it would not have garnered this much attention. Definitely, there would be fans who discovered this picture from tag searching, but the spread of the post wouldn’t have been this wide. 

However, the poster’s Water Army shop owner was a very responsible person…… helping to place this post in first place in the Fan’s Area.

In just two short hours, including the 2000 high quality Water Army fans gifted by Alimama, the Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing Weibo account had more than 4000 followers!

[Holy Crap! Why is Wuli ^[1] Rong Rong’s picture gone, gone! Ao Ao Ao I wanted to lick it again!! Fortunately, I right-clicked saved it [doge]】

[Begging for picture! I came one step too late, I heard that this po owner had my boyfriend’s beautiful picture, how come it’s already gone!] 

[Looking at Rong Rong’s clothing, it seems to be a Black Clouds stage costume. The hairstyle is also Ling Xiao’s style of hair at the time! So, that is to say, po owner is actually a staff member of Black Clouds? 23333 I didn’t expect someone in the crew also likes Wuli ChengRong! And they are even in the ChengRong party, Hahaha, the flag will not fall!]^[2]

That’s right, this photo was taken by Qin Cheng during the filming of Black Clouds, taken sneakily during his down time.

The lengthy, high-intensity shooting made everyone in the crew exhausted. At that time, they were supposed to be shooting a night scene. The scenes were all Qin Cheng and Yu Siyu’s scenes, and there weren’t any of Rong Xu’s scenes. Thus, when Qin Cheng finished his part and returned to the resting area, he saw the tired and thin youth on the chair, sleeping silently.

The dark coloration underneath the boy’s eyes were well covered by foundation, but when he fell asleep unguarded, a trace of fatigue and fragility was unable to be concealed. Clearly, when he was filming, he was fully energized but when he rested, he finally couldn’t hide his exhaustion. 

Qin Cheng took the coat hanging on the side and used it to gently cover Rong Xu before going to pour another glass of water. When he returned, Rong Xu was still asleep. All around him, crew and staff members were walking to and fro. Qin Cheng thought for a while before secretly standing three to four meters away, hiding his phone under his sleeve and quietly taking a photo. 

The effect of this photo was very good, and a certain man took it out everyday to peek at a few times.

But now … it was actually also ogled by these fans! ! !

His lips pursed slightly, Qin Cheng observed as fans begged for the picture at the bottom of his Weibo page. He was originally a little depressed, but after seeing that many fans kept replying “ChengRong is the way”^[3], and “ChengRong Forever”, He quietly raised the corner of his lips and temporarily dismissed the idea of deleting this small account.

The photo spurred a storm that spread throughout the fan circle; even Luo Zhentao had heard about it. He searched around for a bit before finding the Sleeping Beauty picture that was deleted by the original po, immediately sending it to Rong Xu.

The next morning, Rong Xu saw Luo Zhentao’s message and his handsome brows slowly furrowed.

This photo must have been taken secretly during Black Clouds. But, Rong Xu himself couldn’t remember when he had fallen asleep during the filming. Moreover, looking at the clarity of the picture, it should have been taken secretly from a distance.

The crew had so many staff members walking around every day. There were also guest stars and their agents and assistants who would come to the crew. Finding out who took that picture was more difficult than ascending.

Unless he directly went to ask the owner. 

Luo Zhentao replied quickly: [I private-messaged the po owner, but the other party did not reply. Little Xu, I think you really need an assistant who can manage the fan circles for you.  I am not too savvy with this aspect. Leaking this kind of photo is not necessarily a bad thing. At this time, it could also play a major role in promoting the movie. However, if someone leaked a bad photo next time, then it would be disastrous.]

Rong Xu also replied immediately: [Alright, Brother Luo, then I’ll trouble you with deciding on an assistant over the next few days.]

After chatting with Luo Zhentao for a while, Rong Xu opened up Weibo and entered five words.

“Lotus Seed Paste …. Orange Stuffing?”

Rong Xu opened this fan’s Weibo to take a closer look. The first thing he noticed was the other party’s new Weibo post.

“Rong Rong”, “Kiss Kiss” this way of selling meng wasn’t Rong Xu’s main concern. What he really cared about was the tag posted by the other party: #ChengRong#

The youth furrowed his brows and thought for a bit before finally gently shaking his head, feeling both helpless and amused.

Unexpectedly, he and Qin Cheng would also form a cp one day?

He remembered that when he had cp last time, the other cp party seemed to be Ye Qiao. At the time, Vie for Supremacy was very hot, and “Dong Lilan x Wan Qiyao” this cp had garnered the attention of numerous viewers. The “LanYao” cp blazed for a full three months. It was only in the recent days that the popularity dropped a little. But, listening to Luo Zhentao, it seems even till now they still had many cp fans, still appearing in major online platforms to quietly support them.

There were actually people who like his and Qin Cheng’s cp?

“Is it because of Ling Xiao and Gu Mingxiu …… En, their eyes are indeed sharp. It could also be considered an accurate guess.”

Rong Xu read the fan’s Weibo post expressionlessly. But, when he saw that this fan practically confessed to him for three meals a day, although there were no fluctuations on the surface, the corner of his lips still could not resist twitching. 

When he continued scrolling down and saw that this fan actually hated the “LanYao” cp, he was slightly surprised but didn’t give it too much thought.

En, in general, this should be a fan who liked to sell meng and was more chuunibyou.^[4]

After carefully recalling the staff members he had met while filming Black Clouds, stars and their assistants, Rong Xu couldn’t recall anyone who was similar to this fan.

Among the female staff, female celebrities and female assistants, there were indeed some who were his fans, but all of them appeared normal. No matter how he looked at it…… none of them seemed like the type of person to say “Kiss Kiss, Kiss Kiss, Kiss Kiss”.

TL corner: Rong Xu, ah, you’re searching in the wrong team >v<

Also, this post was supposed to be up earlier…. but I accidentally saved it as a draft. Whoops

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Thank you for your patience, everyone! Here’s chapter 60, and it’s one hilarious ride. Thank you, Izo.Ren for beta edits. Enjoy!

A warm yellow light illuminated the kitchen. The sound of sharp kitchen knives on a chopping board continued to strike, making “dada” sounds.

Rong Xu didn’t really know how to cook much, so he didn’t cut the vegetables quickly. His skills could only be said to be ordinary, and he was careful not to hurt his hands. He used a hair tie to tie his lengthy hair back, but on his forehead there were some strands of hair that couldn’t be tied back, swaying back and forth with his motions and blocking half his face.

However, at this moment, the vegetables were all washed and cut, and two eggs were also beaten. Crispy, fresh vegetable leaves were thrown into an oiled pan. 

First, stir-fry for a brief moment. When the vegetable leaves were slightly soft and the aroma steamed out, pour water into the pot and then drop in the noodles.

Rong Xu bowed his head and worked seriously. What was obviously an extremely simple task, he still undertook very seriously.

Qin Cheng then stood to the side and looked up at the young man carefully dropping in the noodles. His eyes flicked across those slender and beautiful phoenix eyes, his tall nose bridge and soft lips before finally landing on his white and fragile collarbones.

At this time, Rong Xu suddenly raised his hand and brushed back the scattered hairs on his forehead. Turning to Qin Cheng, he smiled and said: “Do you eat vinegar?”^[1]

Unable to suddenly react to the situation, Qin Cheng quickly looked away and subconsciously asked: “Eat vinegar?”

The smile on the youth’s face grew even brighter: “If you enjoy eating vinegar, I can help you add more vinegar and less soy sauce.”

Qin Cheng: “… En, I like eating vinegar.” 

Not long after, two bowls of steaming vegetable egg noodles were presented on the table. The green vegetables and yellow-orange eggs really stimulated one’s appetite. Rong Xu originally didn’t feel much, but as he was cooking and cooking, he actually became a little hungry and added some more noodles for himself.

Because he had discovered early on that Qin Cheng seemed to have the habit of “not speaking while eating,” Rong Xu concentrated on eating his noodles the entire time. Thus, he naturally didn’t realize that the man sitting opposite him had picked up his chopsticks and only taken one bite of noodles before slowly staring at the bowl in front of him, hesitating for a long time before taking a second bite, and then a third bite extremely slowly.

…… He couldn’t bear it, it had been many months since he’d eaten food personally prepared by the youth. How could he bear to eat it!

So, after Rong Xu finished his meal, he looked up and found that Qin Cheng had only eaten half of his. There was a trace of surprise in his eyes, and Rong Xu scrunched up his forehead slightly and asked: “Why don’t you eat? Didn’t you not eat dinner? Is there something about the noodle’s flavor that I didn’t control well?”

After a pause, Rong Xu asked: “Are you picky about cleanliness?”

Qin Cheng was currently picking up a treasured vegetable to admire. Hearing this so suddenly, he reflexively answered: “No.”

Then at the next moment, he saw a pair of chopsticks reaching into his bowl and gently picking up a broken noodle strand!

Qin Cheng: “! ! !”

With eyes wide open, Qin Cheng immediately looked up at the youth in shock. Unexpectedly, the latter did not notice his shook expression at all, but instead chewed the noodle carefully, and after a while, he smiled and said: “It does seem to be slightly more sour than mine, but I remember that you said you enjoy eating vinegar.”^[2]

Qing Cheng acknowledged in a low voice: “En, I…… enjoy eating vinegar.”

Rong Xu turned his head slightly, and the strands of hair that had not been tied up slipped to the side of his cheek. He said smilingly: “I will pay more attention tomorrow. I coincidentally saw that there were still some vegetables in the fridge. Right, I remember that you don’t have anything scheduled for tomorrow, do you want to go watch a movie together?”

Qin Cheng nodded: You will still cook tomorrow?!

“Then I will go choose a film first.”

Rong Xu carried the bowl and got up to walk into the kitchen. Behind him, a certain man picked up the chopsticks once again and stared at the noodles in front of him, no longer hesitating like before. They say that when eating noodles, it is difficult to ensure looking good while eating. Especially after eating fast, it was even easier to appear sloppy.

However, when Rong Xu came out of the kitchen, he just happened to see Qin Cheng finishing his last bite of noodles. His posture was elegant and peaceful, as if sitting in a fine dining restaurant. Just fifteen minutes ago, this man only ate less than half the bowl, but now only three minutes passed but he finished all of it.

At a glance, Rong Xu was slightly surprised. He looked around, and subconsciously glanced into the trash can beside the dining table: Yi, no noodles. Could it be that he really ate it all? Didn’t you feel it was a bit too sour before and was not to your tastes?

Bearing this confused mood, Rong Xu asked: “Ready?” 

Qin Cheng looked at him deeply and nodded meaningfully: “En.”

The two put the bowls into the dishwasher, and after waiting for it to wash a while, Qin Cheng entered the movie room. As soon as he walked through the door, he saw the beautiful and handsome youth standing on tiptoes and extending his arms out, seemingly trying to get a DVD from the top shelf.

Although his height was 185 cm, the highest cabinet shelf with the DVD was more than two meters high. Rong Xu could only see a name, but it was difficult to grab the disc. It was only the day before yesterday that he had seen the introduction of this movie, which was a bit similar to the script that Luo Zhentao had sent him. Thus, he really wanted to take a look at it.

This was the first time he felt his height was not enough. Rong Xu tiptoed a little higher, and his fingertips were about to touch the DVD. But, suddenly, a tall shadow was reflected on the cabinet in front of him. 

The light was completely blocked by the other party. Rong Xu turned to look slightly in surprise, but he saw that Qin Cheng had already picked up the DVD on tiptoes and was looking down at him: “Did you want to watch this?”

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Hi, all! Part 2 is late, my apologies. Recently, I’ve been volunteering time to helping companies and organizations with packaging and shipping face masks for use in communities, hospitals and schools. Just today, I and two others packaged and labeled around 2,000 boxes of masks. (μ_μ)/ So exhausted. Some friends have been staying at the company/organizations till 3 in the morning to ensure delivery (I’m not that crazy LOL but kudos to them).

This will likely go on for the next 2 weeks so posts may be a bit slow. I will still upload a minimum of 2 posts per week. For today’s post, I haven’t had time to proofread it yet, but I didn’t want to delay it till Saturday. I will edit this tomorrow night for errors. Thank you! Stay healthy!

At the same time, in B City at the top floor of a high-end apartment.

The cold and handsome man sat on the sofa with his head down looking down at his cell phone, gently swiping through the pages. The more he read, the slower his reading became, and when he saw a certain post, he directly picked up his phone to start typing.

[Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing: Of course, Rong Xu should go to the celebration party. He is the male lead and he acted very well. The 1.2 billion box office in three days is a result! 】

Not long after ——

[Replying to Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing: HaHaHa, laughs to death. Even if you let a piece of roasted meat to act, Black Clouds, this film, still wouldn’t fail! Can’t fail, understood? None of Liang Chao’s films has had a box office lower than one billion yuan, Yu Siyu’s worst artistic film also got more than 600 million at the box office! There’s so many big-name guest stars and also Qin Cheng. Qin Cheng’s worst artistic film also got a box office of three billion yuan. Let alone having Rong Xu play the male lead, perhaps even if I performed, the box office for three days would still be 1.5 billion. 23333] ^[1] 

Soon, some sunspots swarmed over to support this lz’s ^[2] point of view: [Exactly, three days and only 1.2 billion, does this do right by Ling Xiao’s more than 200 million fans? Does it do right for the tens of big-name guest stars? Even having Qin Cheng Co-star with him, the fans still have the shame to say you family’s bias ^[3] has a high box office. This year, I will live off of this joke.]

The more this was said, the more intense the sunspots became.

[I feel it was not worthwhile for Qin Cheng, If he took on a commercial film himself, within minutes and seconds, it would match the three day box office of 2 billion! Ai, Rong Xu was too rushed. If any other star played Ling Xiao, don’t know how hot this move would become.]

Qin Cheng: “…” He thought it was very worth it! Very worthwhile! Super worth it! ! !

These sunspots didn’t necessarily dislike Rong Xu. There was a high probability that they were part of the water army bought by competing films. They attacked Black Clouds indiscriminately. Some mocked that the film only had a good lineup, too overrated; some mocked Director Liang for not making any progress, the film was boring; some mocked Rong Xu as being too young, his acting skills are poor; and others scolded Yu Siyu for failing to change styles, her performance was embarrassing. 

When one movie was extremely hot, it would naturally infringe on the breathing space of other films of the same time frame.

For example, when Black Clouds first premiered, it started with 5000 theaters. Then, the results of the premiere were so good that many major broadcasting companies quickly increased the number of playing theaters. By the third day, the number had increased to more than 6000 theaters.

Huaxia only had so many movie theaters. If you wanted to increase playing theaters, other movies would definitely have to decrease their playing theaters. Also, movie enthusiasts also had a limited amount of free time over the weekends. After watching Black Clouds, they would have no time to watch other movies.

There was a commercial film that was released the day before Black Clouds. Originally, its first day’s box office was also more than 90 million, which was considered pretty good. But on the second day, its box office dropped to around 20 million! That it had dropped by three-fifths of the box office on only the second day after it was released was because the release of Black Clouds had a strong impact on it.

Rong Xu ’s fans, upon meeting these sunspots, would all argue for their family’s Rong Rong. At the same time, Ling Xiao’s music fans, Black Clouds movie fans, Yu Siyu’s fans, and Qin Cheng’s fans all sneered at these sunspots who always found something to pick at. 

But even if the sunspots were beaten badly, some worrisome discussions could still be seen. Luo Zhentao was worried about Rong Xu seeing these comments, but he did not know that Rong Xu had already expected this situation early on and did not take it seriously.

Although he knew that out of 10 people, eight or nine were water army, he still gladly took on a commercial film to prove his worth.

Everything spoke through facts. Later, the moment when he could use the box office numbers under his belt to slap the faces of these sunspots, he didn’t know what kind of expression they would make.

Thus, Rong Xu didn’t take it to heart, only as a joke. But, a certain man became angrier as he read. When he discovered that these water army actually used “Qin Cheng” as an excuse to poke at the relationship between Qin Cheng’s fans and Rong Xu’s fans, he frowned and quickly refuted.

[Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing: Qin Cheng is not suitable for the role of Ling Xiao, so he could not possibly play the role. And, Qin Cheng and Rong Xu have a very good relationship, super good, don’t even think about provoking an altercation.]

[XiXiHaHaLa replying to Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing: Hahahaha, If you say can’t act, then can’t act. If you say their relationship is good, then it’s good? Have you opened your Heaven’s eye?]

[Small Flowers in Full Bloom replying to Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing: Do you Rong powder all like YY that much. Last time, YY said his relationship with Tan Menglan was good. Now, they’ve even YY’d to Qin Cheng? This touching porcelain is really touching too much, right? ^[4] An 18-tier little star even dares to touch porcelain with Qin Cheng. Why are your faces so thick, why don’t you just directly say that Qin Cheng willingly went to Co-star with Rong Xu?] 

Qin Cheng: “……”

You’re the one with a Heaven’s Eye! You’re the one with a thick face! Your whole family has Heaven’s Eyes, your whole family has a thick face!!!^[5]

There are really too many sunspots, even if Qin Cheng had been in the circle for many years, he still couldn’t navigate the twists and turns between fans. These sunspots didn’t care about facts nor listen to reason at all. Perhaps there was only one way to deal with these people.

Five minutes later, thousands of water army arrived immediately, live broadcasting ripping sunspots apart. The hundreds of sunspots were scolding happily, but was suddenly refuted by a group of sharp-tongued fans until they couldn’t differentiate north, south, east, west. They wanted to refute, but the out-numbered them could only gape and finally leave in disgrace.

This group of water army that could have created truths from false^[6] didn’t stop, but rather continued to fight the other sunspots with Rong Xu’s fans.

After waiting for half an hour, finally , beneath the #BlackClouds# tag it was finally clear, there were no more dirty pollutants ^[7]

The man raised his eyebrows, thin lips slightly hooked, and posted a Weibo–

[Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing: #BlackClouds##QinCheng##RongXu##ChengRong# really looks nice thatI looked at it again, RongRong Kiss Kiss Kiss =3= [picture]]

Just after posting this Weibo, a rustling sound came from the entrance way. Qin Cheng’s eyes flashed and he immediately turned off his phone and put it into his pocket, not knowing the potential impact of his Weibo post. At the same time, he took out another phone and began to read the latest news calmly. 

Rong Xu changed his shoes when he entered the house. When he looked up, he saw Qin Cheng dressed in home clothes and looking down at his phone. He froze for a moment and smiled: “I thought you were out too, didn’t you have dinner gathering tonight? Have you eaten yet?”

As he was speaking, Rong Xu took off his coat, but before he walked into his room, he heard the man’s low-voice say: “No.”

His next step faltered a second. Rong Xu slowly turned around and asked in surprise: “You haven’t eaten yet?”

Qin Cheng nodded slightly.

Rong Xu thought for a moment, and the corner of his lips hooked up as he smilingly said: “Coincidentally, I also haven’t eaten. How about… I make some noodles for you?”

The author has something to say:

Orange Qin: They are saying nonsense! Rong Rong, baby thinks it is especially worth, baby and your relationship is especially good! 

Rong Rong: …… Speak, you not eating, is it because you are waiting for me to cook for you? 

TL corner: Secret Agent QC

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The timeline in the story has somehow caught up to us, and it’s almost May. In part 2, we will finally get to see QC’s perspective again!

The third day’s box office broke 1.2 billion!

On the third day after the release of Black Clouds, the crew held a grand celebration. Rong Xu and Yu Siyu were both present. Together with Director Liang, they held the small hammer and smashed the huge ice sculpture that was carved into the shape of “1200000000”.

At the celebration party, Director Liang did not skimp on his praises. He first thanked each member of the crew, and then said with a smile: “Those songs? Of course, they were all sung by Rong Xu himself. When he auditioned, he already sang very well. This was one of the important reasons why I chose him.”

Although this statement did not exactly state all the facts, it was also not a lie.

Soon, media reporters began paying more attention to Rong Xu, and some reporters stood up to ask aloud: “Excuse me, Rong Xu, do you have any intention of releasing “Lost Wings” as a CD single? Will this song be first introduced in the movie^[1], or did you only want to sing it for the movie?”

With the release of Black Clouds in the past two days, the audience had become more and more concerned about “Lost Wings”.

Songs like “Black Clouds”, “Heaven’s Marquee”, and “Norwegian Canyon”, Ling Xiao had sung them all before and had released albums for them. But “Lost Wings” was a novel song. 

Huaxia has done a great job of protecting copyrights and combating piracy. At present, any fan who wanted to hear the song “Lost Wings” had to go to a movie theater and watch the movie. No sources could be found on the Internet.

Additionally, Zhao Chuyun had also started the “Lost Wings” promotion. She didn’t tell fans at first that “Lost Wings” would be released as a CD single. Clearly, even the MV had been made and the CD was already in the process of being finalized. But, Zhao Chuyun still patiently waited, provoking the audience’s strong interest in this song.

This was a method of controlling promotional supply and demand. If it was said at the beginning that this song would be available as a CD, then no one would take it as a big deal. But now that there was no news about this song’s release, people would be nervous and seek it out.

Desiring but unable to obtain, it was that kind of mentality. The more you are unable to obtain it, the more you would desire it. Zhao Chuyun had a good grasp of the music enthusiasts’ psychology.

  Rong Xu naturally had private communications with Zhao Chuyun since long ago, and now that three days have passed, it seemed that it was also time to add fire to this wave of promotions. 

Thus, everyone saw the youth raise the microphone and say with a smile: “Recently, someone really did discuss with me about this song’s release, but the specific details of the situation cannot be announced yet.”

The reporters were immediately excited and asked one after another about Rong Xu’s news on “Lost Wings”.

The celebration party ended successfully, and Director Liang invited everyone out for a meal. At 8:30 in the evening, Luo Zhentao drove Rong Xu home.

The bustling neon lights rendered most of the sky a charming rose-red. Now that it was almost May, Rong Xu opened the car window, and the oncoming night breeze scattered the hair on his forehead to reveal a delicate and beautiful face. He squinted slightly, quietly watching the obscure lights outside the window while at the same time sobering himself up.

He was already an adult and naturally couldn’t use the excuse of being underage to deny drinks anymore.

Rong Xu’s birthday was spent with the crew of Ambush. At the time, it happened that the movie was in its final stages of completion and everyone was extremely busy, so they didn’t have time to celebrate his birthday. Rong Xu also didn’t care too much. After eating cake together with everyone, it could be counted that he had completed his coming of age ceremony. 

He also received several text messages sending blessings from Tang Menglan, Ye Qiao, and Dong Zheng, as well as from Madame Qin and Qin Cheng. Uncle Rong naturally did not send him a message, but the Steward Duan had called to wish Rong Xu a happy coming-of-age.

However, tonight, Rong Xu only drank half a glass of red wine. Director Liang knew that he had finished recording “Lost Wings” and was about to release it, so of course, he would not let him drink more. Drinking hurts the throat, it is better for a singer to drink less.

“Recently, my head and hands have been very busy and I won’t have much time to spend with you and the crew. How about hiring an assistant for you? It just so happens that your fan club and Weibo both do not have anyone managing them. You can let the assistant help you manage them.”

Rong Xu withdrew his sight and said: “Okay, Brother Luo.”

“Sure, then I will go to the company tomorrow to find you a good seedling.” 

After a pause, Luo Zhentao hesitated before saying: “Recently, many teams have sent me notices, including TV dramas and movies. There are also lots of advertisements. At present, I think you can take on an advertisement endorsement and then a drama. Do you want to take a TV drama series or a movie? “

Rong Xu replied without hesitation: “Then, a movie.”

Luo Zhentao nodded: “Okay. There are several movie notices that were very good, I will send them tomorrow for you to look at.”

“You don’t need to send me artistic films.”

Hearing this, Luo Zhentao was stunned. Coincidentally, it was a red light, and he stepped on the brakes before looking back at Rong Xu in surprise. The visual in the back seat was a little dim, so he could not see the youth’s expression, only a pair of calm and gentle eyes.

“Why do you not want artistic films?”

Looking at the world of film, there has always been the saying: artistic films are for professional judges, commercial films are for common audiences.

Certainly, it’s true that every year there would be some high box-office artistic films that could receive both awards and win the box office. But, those were ultimately few in number. For example, during the previous year, Huaxia’s artistic film market bombed. The highest box office artistic film then was Hope, directed by Pang Huang. It’s total box office was only 900 million, which wasn’t even as good as the three-day box office for Black Clouds.

However, it is difficult for commercial films to win awards because most award committees enjoyed good content and depth. For some difficult judges, they even felt that the more the audience disliked a movie, the more they should be awarded because a real movie was only appreciated by a small number of people.

Regardless of how much scolding this sort of viewpoint received, the overall situation was still like this. Basically, good-selling movies rarely won awards, and most award-winning movies didn’t sell well. Huaxia only had Qin Cheng, Wen Xuan, etc who could obtain both awards and win the box office, but they only accounted for a small percentage of people.

Listening to Luo Zhentao’s words, Rong Xu smiled slightly and calmly said: “I’m still young, it’s too early to win awards, I need the box office more.” 

Glancing at a neon sign outside the window, Rong Xu’s sight dropped as he said lightly: “I need the box office in order to prove myself. There is nothing bad about making commercial films, I enjoy it very much.”

Luo Zhentao was dumbfounded for a moment.

He could not say the words “the box office for Black Clouds is already so terrifying, is that not enough to prove yourself” because everyone knew that though the box office number for Black Clouds may have been related to Rong Xu, but even without Rong Xu, the box office would definitely still not be bad.

Rong Xu performed well and could push the box office of this film higher, but even if Rong Xu had performed poorly, the box office of this film would still definitely land in the top five of this year.

Thinking of this, Luo Zhentao laughed aloud: “Then, I will send you the scripts of the three commercial films. But Xiao Xu^[2], don’t mind those sunspots. You definitely have credit in allowing this movie to obtain such a high box office number. Your performance was spectacular, and many film critics have given you a high score. I think you can get a few award nominations for this role.”

The corner of his mouth slightly lifted, and Rong Xu raised his eyebrows: “Best Newcomer?”

  Luo Zhentao joked: “How is best newcomer enough, only the Golden Phoenix Award Best Male Lead is proper!”

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Thank you IzoRen for beta reading part 2! Words that are originally in English are Bolded.

Once this lengthy review came out, countless views were stunned, immediately recalling.

[Yes! At the time, I was crying so hard that the tears in my eyes prevented me from seeing the screen at all. But, when that song came out I couldn’t stop crying. He sang while I cried, Wu wu wu, really very nice to listen to!]

[Throughout the whole movie, there were three parts where I cried the worst. The first time was when Ling Xiao went to identify Gu Mingxiu ’s body. The second time was when Ling Xiao suddenly saw Gu Mingxiu’s phantom at the concert, and then collapsed because of the brain tumor. The third time was during the mourning at the funeral procession. The dark clouds dispersed and the sunlight sprinkled down, I saw that everyone was serene. Then, as soon as that song came out, I couldn’t help but cry.]

[Exactly what song is this? It can’t be the Music God’s song, I’ve never heard it before! Unless this is the movie’s original song? Really too good, does anyone know what song this is! Begging for help from great gods!]

At the end of each movie, there will always be teeny tiny, dense words that scrolled out on the big screen and detailed each person’s contributions to the film. Regarding Black Clouds’s crew, they even wrote down, at the end of the movie,  the name of the little brother who sent the lunch every day, thanking him once again. As long as one was attentive, they would definitely be able to spot the song’s title, singer, and writer. 

However, for many viewers, when they see the subtitles, they would directly leave the cinema without looking at the words.

However, with many people came greater strength. When the #BlackCloudsClosingSong# tag was bumped up to sixth place in the day’s hot searches, there was finally a netizen who posted a Weibo attached with some pictures, saying: [Is it this?! At the end, I was crying a little miserably and I continued to sit in my seat until the movie ended before leaving. I accidentally took a few photos. Asking great gods to help restore some of these slightly blurred pictures. Perhaps there will be information about the song in there. [Picture][Picture][Picture][Picture][Picture][Picture]]

In total, there were six pictures and this netizen didn’t care too much. But, there really were some PS (photoshop) great gods who came out to restore them to high definition pictures.

The first and second pictures were thanking all the guest stars, it wasn’t until the third picture that it started to acknowledge each crew member. The fourth and fifth pictures still thanked the crew, and then the sixth picture…..

[Ahhhhhhhhhh, I have restored it! This song is called “Lost Wings” and was actually sung by Rong Rong! It really was sung by him! The songwriter is…… eh? Ling Xiao?!]

This fact was a rock that stirred up a thousand waves.

Today was, after all, the first day of the movie’s release and many netizens had no way of purchasing a movie ticket, unable to watch the movie. And some of the netizens who had movie tickets were all gathered together to discuss the film’s plot, passing over the music aspect.

This couldn’t be blamed on them because the pictures and characters of this movie were all spectacular. Just those tens of guest stars allowed them to discuss for a whole day, where could they think about the music? 

Within the film industry, music is a part that is overlooked by many audience members. When the audience sees intense and exciting scenes, they will only think “what will happen next”, and not “this background music is really complementary”; when they see the protagonists expressing their heartfelt emotions to one another, they would only care about “Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!”, not about “this song is inserted just right”.

Usually, the background music is like a small gear; without it, the audience watching it would find it difficult to be moved by the story. But with it, the audience would again be immersed in their own emotions, forgetting its (the music’s) existence.

Just like this time, many cried miserably with snot and tears when they saw the ending, but they didn’t think about how this song influenced their mood, making them unable to bear their emotions.

And now, someone pointed out this song.

Only at this time did people notice ——

[“Lost Wings” was sung by Rong Rong?! Could it be, could it be …… that all those songs were sung by Rong Rong?!]

[The singing is really good. I noticed from the start that the music played in the movie definitely isn’t the Music God’s original singing, but it was actually sung by Rong Xu? Slightly changing powder. Towards this kind of good looking and gentle singing boy, I have the least resistance.]

[Aaaahhhhhh, I actually didn’t pick up Rong Xu’s singing voice! I actually didn’t pick it up QAQ I am unworthy of Rong Rong, unworthy of being a Rong Powder! I’m going to buy a movie ticket right now. This time I’ll concentrate on listening to the song. I want to listen to Rong Rong sing a hundred times! 】

Of course, more people paid attention to the song “Lost Wings”.

[“Lost Wings” should be Ling Xiao’s work during his life, Rong Xu sang it really well.]

[You all, don’t rouse my appetite! The Black Clouds ticket I bought is for tomorrow. I really want to hear Rong Rong sing “Lost Wings”. Is this song really that good! You all, stop talking about it!!!]

At 12 o’clock that night, when the bell of the new day rang on time, Director Liang sat in the hotel room and finally received that call.

After hearing the other party’s words, Director Liang breathed a sigh of relief and couldn’t help laughing: “sharing the joy, sharing the joy, borrowing your well wishes.”

On the day of Black Clouds premiere, the box office hit 560 million!

In Huaxia, there are more than 5,000 theaters that released this movie simultaneously, and the film’s terrifying publicity storm created a box office miracle for this movie!

Black Clouds was the highest-grossing film at the box office in the last three years, close to none. The second place was a commercial film from the previous year, starring Qin Cheng, called The Inside Job ^[1] Ranked third is Wen Xuan’s commercial film last year called The Storm of Ge Cheng.

Of course, this did not mean that Black Clouds was definitely higher in commercial value than the other two films. As the critics said, this film was coincidental. If this movie was not about Ling Xiao’s life, then there would not have been so many big-name stars willing to make guest appearances; if there was no Ling Xiao, this movie would not have received so many music enthusiasts’ attention.

But in any case, Black Clouds really did explode, and it was an enormous explosion!

All of this was observed by Director Liang, and he immediately sent thank-you messages to all the actors and guests who participated in the movie. At the same time, he arranged for the publicity personnel to continue the promotion of Black Clouds.

[Black Clouds crew: On the first day, I turned around and met you. [picture]] 

Inside the building of Huaxia Entertainment, the 47th floor was still brightly lit. Zhao Chuyun looked at the Weibo post by the crew, her eyes paused for a moment on the flier photo that read “560 million” before nodding in satisfaction and making a call: “En, It’s fine now, the time is here. The promotion of “Lost Wings” can begin.”

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