Tag: Superstar Aspiration

Much profanity in this chapter

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On the trending list, #DengYiwen Suppression# already reached third place.

More and more passers-by netizens found out about the situation. Initially, they were utterly surprised, not quite believing that celebrities were allowed to just randomly submit announcements to tout themselves. Later, once they understood the situation, they suddenly realized: [Right, our company also often cooperates with the media to directly publish news announcements. Then, celebrities could also do this! This Deng Yiwen is too shameless, stepping on others to hype himself. His actions are too low! ]

Throughout the night, Deng Yiwen’s public relations teams unceasingly contacted people, hoping to delete the Weibo posts and withdraw from the trending list. However, what was inconceivable to them was that only one Publicity Account accepted their money and agreed to delete their Weibo post. None of the other Publicity Account Companies even answered their phone calls. They didn’t even take a glance at the emails sent to them.

The duration of one day and night was enough time for the situation to ferment and spread. The most ironic thing was that just the day before yesterday, Deng Yiwen’s team had issued three to four articles on major portals, touting themselves. Now, those articles had turned into hard evidence against them, being used by Netizens to smack them in the face with ridicule and condemnation.

Deng Yiwen stayed in the company all night, thinking up countermeasures with his agent. Later, he even called some of his close friends within the circle in hopes that the other party would help speak up for him. However, when these friends who displayed a good relationship with him on usual days answered the phone, they all smiled and said: “Deng Yiwen, it wasn’t I who hurt you this time. Don’t look for me.” 

Deng Yiwen was suddenly thrown off.

He looked for another few close friends until, in the end, there was one friend who directly hung up on him, only replying in a text message: [You are quite an interesting person. So, when you had also previously stepped on me, I just pretended I didn’t know of it. But, now that you’re in trouble, Deng Yiwen, where did you find the face to come ask me for help? Last year, didn’t you publish four articles consecutively saying that my acting skills were not on par with yours? That my crying scenes were the same as howling, whereas yours were true flowing tears? Do you still want face!]

After this text message was sent, Deng Yiwen called them again, but the other party had already blocked him.

Deng Yiwen kicked the sofa irritably and scolded: “This idiot. He’s also previously published articles that undermined me in order to gain hype. Now, he dares draw a clear line in our relationship. Fuck, who does he think he is. He’s already washed up but still gives me attitude?!”

In reality, Deng Yiwen’s anger was through the roof, wishing he could tear apart all those small people who borrowed his wind to gain popularity. But, on the Internet, the netizens’ comments have already spread through the entire web, and they discussed crazily under Deng Yiwen’s Weibo.

[Even you have this day, Deng ‘Suppression’! People have their karmas. Two months ago, you suppressed my family’s bias, now you have received retribution. Peh]^[1]

[Roll out of the entertainment circle. Deng ‘Suppression’, you malicious tumor, roll roll roll roll!!!]

[Truly, whatever the celebrity is like is whatever the fans are like. Your mental fans actually can look straight at those articles and insist that you didn’t post them. They really take the media as charities that help you build hype for free?]

Very soon, there were Deng Yiwen’s fans who came out to retort——

[Fuck, are you blind? These articles/announcements are clearly published by the websites themselves, are you stupid, on what basis are you saying this was submitted by Ah Wen.]

[All of you bi*ches, daring to criticize Ah Wen, all of you ugly B—-$#$#%$#……]

[Dong Zheng just doesn’t have acting skills, Dong Zheng is just not as popular as Ah Wen. What is Ye Qiao worth, even a little, transparent second-tier dares to compete with Ah Wen. Then there’s Rong Xu. When Ah Wen became popular, he wasn’t even a fart. What did these news say wrong, they are all telling the truth! Roll out of the entertainment industry? You brainless fans are the ones who need to roll out of the entertainment industry!]

This scolding battle continued for a full day and night, and even Deng Yiwen didn’t expect his fans would act so desperately for himself.

His fans, for him, had declared war on all other netizens. They hardly slept and instead argued for 24 hours a day, making Deng Yiwen feel both moved and heartache.

“Ah Wen, your fans are all busybodies. What we need right now is to calm the circumstances down and handle things passively so that the situation can pass. But if they continue on like this, it will be very troublesome and things will never pass.”

It’s not like Deng Yiwen didn’t understand his agent’s words. He also felt that his fans had problems with their IQ’s. In this type of situation, why are you still engaging in fights with others? Shouldn’t they be playing dead and pretending that they didn’t know anything? Shouldn’t they be waiting for the spotlight to pass and then feign ignorance?

What kind of intellectually impaired fans are these? Truly is 1 fan to 10 sunspots.

Deng Yiwen was so angry and anxious. His head was so big^[2] and he couldn’t find a solution.

On the Internet, his reputation was growing worse. Originally, many passer-bys were already very dissatisfied with his press releases and announcements, but now his fans were so messy that they even ended up irritating these passer-bys, such that they also came to take hits at Deng Yiwen, asking him to roll out of the entertainment industry.

It wasn’t until the third day that Deng Yiwen and his team finally succumbed to desperation and released an official announcement/press release. 

The press release stated that letters from lawyers would be sent to those Publicity Accounts who slandered Deng Yiwen, asking them to delete their blogs and apologize. At the same time, it asked netizens to leave Deng Yiwen a fair path. He always filmed diligently. An honest person has nothing to hide. Future facts will prove everything, prove that he never released statements to suppress others.

The tone of the announcement seemed hard, but when it was released, netizens all reacted in the same way——

[Idiot.]

Deng Yiwen: “……”

Mother!!! What else do you want? Exactly who is the one hurting him this time, who is it!!!

Anyone would know that this kind of ‘lacking in principles’ issue would only damage Deng Yiwen’s reputation and diminish his popularity. But, it would be impossible to really drive him out of the entertainment industry.

However, it revealed the true face of this small person and allowed more investors and advertisers to see his true self to understand the reality that “Deng Yiwen has already been boycotted by the public”. Thus, netizens were satisfied. Moreover, it is assured that Deng Yiwen will not dare to publish another suppression announcement in the future.

[Relieved! Really relieved! I have been holding back for three years and can finally breathe a sigh of relief for my Da Qiao. Ye Qiao, you are the best!]

[[Hahahahaha, let you suppress, let you step on! You are more famous than Dong Zheng? You actually have the face to say that out loud!]

[Wuli Rong Rong’s acting skills aren’t as good as your? Popularity isn’t as high as yours? Isn’t as good looking at you? Why don’t you piss off and take a photo of yourself to see what you look like!]

The Suppression incident went on for a whole three days. During this period, whenever the interest in this situation was dying down, Deng Yiwen’s brainless fans would mysteriously jump out and wreak havoc inexplicably, once again igniting the netizens’ enthusiasm towards scolding Deng Yiwen. Now, with this announcement, things could be considered to be finally coming to an end.

#DengYiWen# this tag, was once again pushed into the number spot on the trending list. When you click into it, it’d show endless criticisms. 

From one perspective, at least this would also be considered a headline that allowed Deng Yiwen to accumulate some heat. However, this ‘number one in the trending list’ only lasted around an hour before it was bumped down by another tag.

[Zhao Chuyun: #LostWings1.02MIllion# Eight-day total sales of “Lost Wings” has exceeded 1 million! All proceeds generated from this single will be donated to RongYun Foundation. Thank You Rong Xu, Thank You Zhao Kun, Thank You Black Clouds crew. Without you, Ling Xiao’s dream would not have come true.] 

At four o’clock in the afternoon, #LostWings1.02MIllion# surpassed #DengYiWen# to become number one on the trending list.

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The author has something to say: 

Orange Qin: Rong Rong is not better looking than you? Dream on ︵ (> ^ < ) ︵! 

Sis Fu (author): Can you please care about something other than the face!

Orange Qin: Then when will you let Rong Rong and I meet again? Baby wants Rong Rong to kiss kiss, hug hug, lift high, lift high!

Rong Rong: …… I want to change gongs…

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A small note! “Tea Accounts” are online accounts that fuel online gossip discussions. The name stems from the saying “spill the tea”, which refers to “Tell the gossip” (^u^)/. I will use “Tea Account” and “Publicity” account interchangeably (depending on the tone of the context). 

Also, LiuGuang Entertainment is being changed to “Flowing Lights Entertainment” for easier recall.

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When this Tea Account posted the phrase “Suppression”, it instantly attracted the attention of many fans.

Carrying the spirit of gossip, Netizens each left comments in the discussion area, guessing who this d little fresh meat was.

In Huaxia’s current entertainment industry, there were countless numbers of little fresh meats. As long as a newcomer was youthful and handsome, they could all be called little fresh meats. Moreover, this Tea Account that was part of the entertainment circle did not indicate whether this d little fresh meat was first-tier or second-tier. Then, according to this statement, even the eighteenth-tier transparent actor who just debuted could barely be counted as a little fresh meat.

Thus, the comments in the discussion area boiled over.

It was needless to say that the discussions on Weibo reached 5000 comments within an hour. In many major forums and Tieba, countless netizens continuously added to the discussion posts.

There were three categories of newcomer celebrity’s fans (in the discussion forum). The first was the ones who sat to the side to spectate and listen to gossip. However, these fans’ idols were not surnamed d; thus they could naturally perch on the wall and watch the spectacle with a smile. The second was the ones who endlessly searched for evidence to prove that their male gods were definitely not the kind of person who enjoyed publishing suppression news. 

But in fact, most fans belonged to the third category. They didn’t even have to guess and came to an answer immediately.

[What ‘Surnamed d Little Fresh Meat’, isn’t this just Deng ‘Suppression’ ^[1]? Hahahaha, Didn’t expect that the BaPo^[2] would start nosying Deng ‘Suppression’. What is going on, does BaPo really want to peel off Deng ‘Suppression’s’ skin?] 

“BaPo” was this Tea Account’s nickname. Towards this sort of Tea Account, the fans didn’t hold any favorability, but neither did they hold any negative feelings.

With time, the name “Deng Yiwen” was pushed into the top ten in the trending list under the comments section of Bapo’s Weibo! That’s right, among the top ten discussions, The three words “Deng Yi Wen” were seen clearly, and some netizens even directly mockingly used his nickname: [Deng ‘Suppression’]

By now, regardless if they were ordinary fans of celebrities within the circle, or ordinary netizens, they all immediately understood.

[Ah, so it turns out everyone was talking about Deng Yiwen? Does he like to suppress?]

[Wait, Can someone tell me what ‘suppression’ means, I don’t understand yet.]

[No way, Deng Yiwen likes to publish suppression news? As part of the European circle, I haven’t paid much attention to the circle within the country (Huaxia). He’s actually so low? I had watched one of his TV dramas before and had liked him quite a bit.]

As a result, many netizens began discussing Deng Yiwen. They didn’t even continue to verify whether this little fresh meat with the surname d was really Deng Yiwen. Because this Tea Account had spoken out, many who had long found Deng Yiwen unpleasant directly came out to post screenshots. On the screenshots were numerous announcement titles and their contents. Without exception, these announcements all praised Deng Yiwen and even trampled on some other newcomers.

However, this matter did not end up widespread.

In the building of Flowing Lights Entertainment, a sunny and handsome young man angrily swiped all the documents on top of the desk onto the floor and said furiously to his own agent: “What is the meaning of this? Sis Lin, that Tea Account dares to talk about me? How dare they criticize me! Now, many netizens are saying that I only post suppression news all day, berating me online!”

The female agent dressed in professional attire pushed at the glasses on the bridge of her nose.  Though her face showed calmness, her forehead was sweating from anxiety: “This sort of thing usually wouldn’t involve Publicity accounts and common accounts. Publishing suppression news is already an unspoken rule in the entertainment circle. Ah Wen^[3], have you offended anyone?”

Deng Yiwen furrowed his eyebrows: “Who have I offended…… is this related to the most recent announcement? Oh, Right! That Rong Xu! It seems to be the first time we’ve published announcements related to him. Could it be he was offended by me and now wants to blacken me in return?”

The agent shook her head: “That Rong Xu’s recent momentum of development is very strong, but he is still only a second-tier actor in Huaxia Entertainment. His agent is also only a second-tier. They shouldn’t be able to buy a Publicity (Tea) Account and break the standards to place the blame on you on Weibo.”

Deng Yiwen slammed the table fiercely, shaking it. Right now, nowhere on his countenance showed his usual display of a carefree and joking attitude. With a cold look, he said word by word: “What do we do now?”

The agent said: “Like this, then. Ah Wen, you don’t need to be too worried. We’ve already started handling the public relations, and it’s fine if I have the publicity (tea) account delete the post later. Rest assured that no matter how the fans discuss, it’s impossible for this to land in the trending list. I’ve already contacted the people at Weibo. As soon as it makes the trending list, it will be taken down. There is even less need to worry about the media. This issue of purchasing announcements isn’t interesting, they won’t care about it.”

Following everything just as the agent predicted, Deng Yiwen’s team dealt with the public relations swiftly. In the forum’s discussion area, they spent money to shut down the account. On Weibo, they also continuously deleted netizen comments and accounts.

Having money allowed one to accomplish many things, including using capital to control public opinion to a certain extent.

Deng Yiwen had also received retaliation from other stars in the past. No matter how sweet his mouth was, or how well he could socialize, as the sort of person who enjoyed publishing suppression news, he would still attract some individual’s ire. But it didn’t matter since, as long as he spent money to control public opinion, he could submit announcements however he wanted. He relied on fans to eat. So, as long as he had fans, he would never fall.

Deng Yiwen quickly calmed down. Though he carried a stomach full of anger, he wore a facade of casualness on the surface. In the evening, he left Flowing Lights Co. and hummed as he went home.

After parking his car and heading upstairs, he nonchalantly opened up his Weibo. Looking at the Publicity Account which refused to delete their Weibo, he sneered coldly: “They’re sick in the head. This sort of thing wouldn’t affect me at all. Just wait and see what laozi ^[4]will do to you in the future.”

After returning home, Deng Yiwen changed clothes and put on a hat, planning to go out to experience the nightlife. But, just as he was about to walk out the door, he suddenly received a phone call from his agent. 

Deng Yiwen answered the phone impatiently and had only said “What is it, I’m busy right now” before hearing the other side anxiously say: “Not good, Ah Wen! Weibo refused to let us interfere with public relations this time, and there’s even several more Tea Accounts that have emerged^[5].”

Deng Yiwen’s cell phone suddenly slipped and fell to the ground with a “clack”. His eyes widened as he reached to pick up his phone in a fluster, and he opened up Weibo ——

Only to see that on Weibo’s trending topics list, #DengYiwen Suppression# tag landed in ninth place!

However, it didn’t end there!

Without a doubt, they had already reached a consensus with Weibo, Teiba and other major discussion platforms to selectively delete and remove certain comments in order to prevent matters from becoming widespread. But slowly, the other parties actually stopped deleting.

There were also several Publicity Accounts with millions of fans that started to post criticisms on their Weibos. There were two publicity accounts that directly called out Deng Yiwen’s name, even posting a lengthy analysis.

[Old Gossip King: Deng Yiwen’s record of suppressing has already been long ingrained into history. Ever since his debut these past few years, he’d been suppressing his peers day in and day out. Among them, Dong Zheng from the same company had it the worst, being trampled on every single time. [image][image][image][image][image][image]]

The images in this Weibo post were all of suppression news announcements.

In the news, there were both Deng Yiwen’s and Dong Zheng’s names. Any discerning person could see at a glance that these announcements were all boasting Deng Yiwen. Although they sometimes also praised Dong Zheng, the between-the-lines implication was: Dong Zheng is indeed quite strong and impressive, but he could only be ranked second. Deng Yiwen is the first.

Looking at these Weibo posts and Tieba posts, Deng Yiwen clenched his phone in fury as it made cracking sounds.

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Although they were furious, Rong Xu’s fans were no longer greenhorns. They had long known of the nickname Deng ‘Suppression’. They also knew that, towards these announcements, the fans could only scold and ridicule, or at most pick a fight with Deng Yiwen’s fans. But, they couldn’t do anything substantial.

Since he dared to publish such announcements, then Deng Yiwen had definitely prepared a water army and public relations management. As long as someone began scolding, he would immediately withdraw from the hot searches and retract the topic to prevent the scolding situation from spreading. As long as the situation was contained to only within the fan circle, the majority of passerby netizens would not know about him publishing suppression articles.

[Angers me to death. People who like these mental types are all fans who only care about how the face looks!] 

The fans made various complaints and sarcastic jabs. 

In real life, Rong Xu had just arrived at Huaxia Entertainment and heard Luo Zhentao speak about this matter.

Luo Zhentao was also very angry, but still relatively calm: “I knew it. That Deng Yiwen would not let you go. Xiao Xu, his whole team is the same style, hyping up his value on the internet and boosting him up in one push. If you are concerned, we can also send some news to suppress him. But the other newcomers are all used to it already. He’s just borrowing a breeze of popularity and his actual benefits are not considered big. It also doesn’t affect us much…… just makes the heart feel uncomfortable.”

In his last life, Rong Xu had also seen many “internet famous” celebrities where most of their fame was concentrated solely within the web. They had no good works, no good results, and no awards, but had many fans. They relied on these fans to feed themselves. They used their face to set their image and enjoy the benefits of being youthful. 

Some internet celebrities could also hone their acting skills after much practice and change up their image later on. However, there were also some who, after one mess up couldn’t afford to bet on anything else. Either they had offended someone and were completely suppressed, or they had a failed facelift and were completely destroyed. 

“Deng Yiwen developed quite well (in the industry).” Slender fingers gently rubbed his chin while Rong Xu thought for a moment and chuckled: “Indeed. His mouth is quite sweet. I estimate it would be difficult for normal individuals to fall out with him.”

Seeing Rong Xu’s smile, Luo Zhentao asked: “You aren’t angry?”

Rong Xu shrugged and asked back: “Since he had to publish announcements to step on me, it is evidence that I am better than him. He is jealous of me, so just let him be. I won’t lose anything anyway. I’m not going to hold it in and torture myself over it. If we publish announcements, we’d have to spend money and effort. There is no need.”

Hearing this, Luo Qian^[1] who was having a discussion with a leader of the fan group couldn’t help but say: “Xiao Xu, your temper is so good.”

Rong Xu turned back with the corner of his lips hooked up: “If I got angry at these kinds of small people for every little thing, I would’ve died from anger long ago.” Saying this, the youth even innocently tilted his head and blinked pitifully, putting on an obedient and understanding appearance.

This adorable appearance caused Luo Qian, who was originally a Rong Powder, to blush excitedly, nodding again and again. 

Seeing this, Luo Zhentao said helplessly: “Luo Qian still needs some more practice.You are Rong Xu’s assistant, not just his fan, you know?”

Luo Qian replied with more nods.

This incident passed by just like that. Rong Xu didn’t need to dirty his own hands and publish news to fight against the other party. However, though he was very patient and ignored the small people, there were some people…… who absolutely couldn’t stand it!

America.

Qin Cheng: “……”

Xu Jin, who was currently organizing scripts, unexpectedly shivered and whispered: “How did suddenly become so cold……”

The cold and aristocratic looking man had his eyes angled downwards, looking at his phone screen with a black expression. Sitting with his legs crossed under him, a thin script book was spread out over Qin Cheng’s legs. He held a marker in his right hand and seemed to be studying the script while making note of the main points. But in his left hand, he was holding a cell phone.

On his phone screen was actually Rong Xu’s private forum page.

On the front of the forum page, countless fans were scolding Deng Yiwen for the announcements he published today. They really were disgusted to death. However, they couldn’t do anything except go and take jabs at Den Yiwen’s fans.

Originally, some fans decided to spend their own money to buy bulletin announcements for Rong Xu in order to scold Deng Yiwen. But very quickly, there was a seasoned long-term fan who sighed: [Don’t, doing it like that, wouldn’t that dirty our Rong Rong’s reputation?]

[What if we don’t mention Rong Rong and just directly suppress Deng Yiwen?]

[That is actually a good idea. However, for people like Deng Yiwen, whenever he chooses to ‘suppress’ in the future, he will definitely pull in Rong Rong. Even if we raise funds to purchase news bulletins, we can’t necessarily out buy him. We also don’t have connections within the circle, making it even more impossible to compete against him.]

And so, nothing happened.

This kind of thing, although ordinary fans couldn’t bear it, they couldn’t do anything about it. But, in the eyes of Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing……

“SMACK——”

The script book was crushed and wrinkled. Xu Jin immediately turned around only to see the man’s sullen face, his eyes deep and bottomless.

Xu Jin: “……” Secretly sits by the side, careful not to startle the pond fish. 

However, in the next instance, Qin Cheng slowly turned his head and looked at him calmly, saying lightly: “Dealing with Suppression Publications, how many methods do you have?”

Xu Jin froze but then subconsciously said: “Someone published articles to suppress you? No way? Amongst the male celebrities…… Piker? Sieves? Let me see it.”

Qin Cheng’s eyes dropped down: “It’s not me.”

Xu Jin instantly understood: “Rong Xu?”

Qin Cheng: “En.”

“You want me to deal with it? Based on his current standing, it’s unavoidable that he will experience this sort of suppression article situation. Even without Deng Yiwen, there would still be a Zhang Yiwen or Li Yiwen^[2] sooner or later. This type of first and second-tier popularity newcomers all love to publish these kinds of news the most. Some even touch porcelain often. I remember that last month there was a first-tier little flower who published news to suppress Xia Muyan. See, Xia Muyan also didn’t do anything about it…… Oh, no that’s wrong. At a certain award ceremony, I think Xia Muyan’s team made that first-tier little flower unable to receive media exposure and she walked the red carpet in vain.”

Qin Cheng raised an eyebrow: “And, so?”

Xu Jin: “……really need to care?”

Qin Cheng nodded slightly.

Putting aside the pile of scripts in his hand, Xu Jin revealed his teeth in a grin, his eyes narrowing slowly: “This type thing, if you really need to do it…… then it must be dealt with in a manner that makes him terrified, never daring to do it again in the future.” 

Qin Cheng closed his script book, folded his hands, and let the screen of his phone fall with a smack onto the cover of the script book.

“You are lacking in morals.”

Xu Jin asked in reply with surprise: “You already know what I want to do?”

Qin Cheng glanced at him. Although he didn’t say anything, his gaze demonstrated that he was sure.

Xu Jin snickered, hehe, as he stood up to leave and made a phone call to contact the public relations team. Along the way, his mouth was still muttering: “These days, I don’t even know if I’m your agent or Rong Xu’s agent.”

Three hours later, Huaxia just became 8 o’clock in the morning and welcomed a busy Monday.

Unexpected to all, it was at the start of this busy work day that a big-spender fan with more than 8,000,000 followers suddenly posted a Weibo: [Recently, Little fresh meat d has once again started to suppress the masses. Hahahaha. Which family is best at suppression news, Huaxia fresh meat d is truly busy~]

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The Author has something to say: 

Qin Orange: Baby is angered (╯°Д°）╯︵┻━┻ !!!

Rong Rong: Actually, this is something that all celebrities will experience……

Qin Orange: Don’t care, Don’t care. Baby is not happy, Baby is going to throw a tantrum, a tantrum!

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Chapter 62 part 1: Luo Qian’s Character Introduction

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*Note that ‘Suppress’ in this chapter is mainly in single quotation marks. The ‘…’ is to emphasize that the act of ‘Suppressing’ in this chapter is not actually effective. The character is attempting to ‘suppress’ others but is not successful. It’s more like the character’s hobby.

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News that’s generally published on the Internet, newspapers, and magazines are usually divided into two types.

The first type is from the media actively tracking and interviewing, digging out and compiling news information; the second type is from the related party directly compiling content and sending it to the media through connections on their own initiative. After the information is reviewed by the media, it is then published in paper media or an online platform.

These direct parties are separated into many kinds, the most common being individuals in the entertainment industry.

With the exception of some big, first tier names, it is impossible for all the celebrities in the entertainment industry to have news everyday. Some less popular second- and third-tier celebrities could only stay at home for several months without announcements or new works. However, if they were really allowed to honestly stay at home, posting and playing games every day, then sooner or later they would lose all of their popularity. Therefore, they would choose to publish their own news to increase their popularity. 

They could have their team write whatever news content they want and send it to several media platforms to have it published. Although it wasn’t always headline news, it could still temporarily save their popularity and create a false sense of high popularity by themselves.

But, in the entertainment industry there was also another kind of news that was used to not only restore popularity but also to obtain benefits.

That evening, several consecutive articles with different titles and contents swept through all the major media platforms. Sina, NetEase, Tencent…turning on the computer, a pop up a news bulletin would appear on the screen; turning on the phone, the phone app would once again send out a news message.

Most netizens just take the news as a pastime, like having tea after a meal. They looked at it casually and jokingly said: “ten most popular male newcomers, who is number one? Ha Ha, Let me see….. Oh, it’s Deng Yiwen, ah. He is also indeed quite handsome. I recall that he seems to be one of Luck Potato Chips’ spokespersons?”

Yes, in the news that appeared in today’s bulletins included the names of many beautiful ladies and handsome guys. However, there was no doubt that the one who left the greatest impression was Deng Yiwen

Looking at these handsome guys, the first place was Deng Yiwen; the King of Popularity was also Deng Yiwen; Best Actor and Best Image was still Deng Yiwen!

Although these articles also praised the other stars, the most praised and most exaggeratedly described was Deng Yiwen.

Passers-by netizens wouldn’t think too much about it. It would just leave an impression in their hearts and make them feel that “since the media has said so, then I guess this Deng Yiwen really is incredible”. At the same time, they will also retain a previous impression: Among these handsome newcomers Dong Zheng, Rong Xu, Ye Qiao… the strongest would perhaps be Deng Yiwen.

Although such previous impressions wouldn’t be too deep, the person who spread the news would have already achieved their intentions.

As for those fans, they could immediately see the true face of these bulletins at a glance.

[Just now, NetEase promoted a newsfeed to me, Check out the top ten hot newcomers, who is number one…… guess who number one is? Hahahaha, I’m going to laugh to death.]

[Deng Yiwen? He sends suppression news all day, isn’t he annoying.]

[I also saw that newsfeed. Dong Zheng, Ye Qiao, Rong Xu, Liu Zhengyan…Why didn’t he just pull down all the newcomers in the entertainment industry and step on them a few times]

[A certain family really is so shameless, posting suppression news every so often. It is indeed ‘Deng Suppressing’] ^[1]

The fans of celebrities who had not been impacted by Deng Yiwen’s announcements all carried a sense of disdain. Although their gods and goddesses were not affected, this type of behavior still made others feel annoyed. And the fans of those who had been impacted by this suppression announcement were even more disgusted such that they even wanted to throw up yesterday’s dinner.

They each posted their distaste in various media communities such as Weibo and Tieba. However, they only showed their disgust for a bit and did not take any measures against it. After all, this kind of suppression news was quite commonly seen in the entertainment circle. Since Deng Yiwen could carry the nickname “Deng Suppression”, it was obvious what his team enjoyed doing the most. It was very well known.

That’s right, in the years since Deng Yiwen’s debut, his favorite thing to do was spread suppression news.

He began spreading suppression news since he first debuted in a TV Drama, suppressing the male lead and male No.2 at the time. Later, when he acted in a movie remake, he ‘suppressed’ the original actors. Afterwards, his road of ‘suppression’ became even  more unrestrained and rampant. From beginning to end, it was ‘suppress’, ‘suppress’, ‘suppress’…… maintaining a consistent record of ‘suppressing’ at least once a month.

It wasn’t like other newcomers had never published this kind of attention farming news, but Deng Yiwen was definitely one of the most outstanding among them. His suppression skills were seasoned and even if all the other newcomers were added together, they wouldn’t be able to match up

Initially, the fans of the celebrities who were pressured by him were so angry that they scolded him, going onto this Weibo to admonish and accuse him. But, the other party had thick skin! He completely pretended to have not seen any of it, still taking and posting selfies. His fans also followed him and completely refused to admit to the situation.

Who knew how Deng Yiwen behaved in the circle. Even after publishing all these articles like this, he actually still fared quite well within the circle. Supposedly, it’s because he was good at the art of rhetorics. Although others seemed to disdain him on the surface, in reality, it was not easy to sour their relations with him.

Moreover, being ‘suppressed’ and ’suppressed’…… En, they got used to it.

The one who was always ’suppressed’ the worst was undoubtedly Dong Zheng.

Dong Zheng and Deng Yiwen debuted in the same year and were even from the same company. Last year, the two had been competing for the position of LiuGuang’s Number 1^[2]. But, using Vie for Supremacy, Dong Zheng directly climbed to the top and became Number 1. As for Deng Yiwen, he fell into a series of misfortunes. Not only did he not obtain number 1, but his TV series also rated poorly and its viewer ratings fell to rock bottom.

Did Deng Yiwen hate Dong Zheng? Anyone with a discerning eye could see that he must have hated Dong Zheng, and Dong Zheng also certainly did not like Deng Yiwen. However, the relationship between the two on the surface was not bad, always appearing like a relationship between brothers.

[Sure enough, this time he also desperately stepped on Dong Zheng. Dong Zheng really has been shot while lying down for thousands of years.]

[Eh? How come I think the one who has been stepped on the worst this time is Rong Xu? One moment saying Rong Xu was only a Newcomer king, while Deng ‘Suppression’ is the Popularity King; another moment saying Rong Xu has face value, while Deng ‘Suppression’ has acting skills…… Isn’t this clearly saying that Rong Xu has no acting skills?]

[Hahaha what “how come”. Recently Black Clouds has been on fire, and “Lost Wings” is also on fire. Concurrently, Luck Potato Chips’s spokespersons include both Rong Xu and him. Thus, Deng ‘Suppression’ came to borrow popularity~]

Since others’ fans could think of this, then Rong Xu’s fans could also naturally come to this conclusion.

At the time when he saw these newsfeeds, Rong Xu’s fans were celebrating “Lost Wings’” ascension to the top of Love Music’s Sales Rankings list. But, just as Rong Xu got Luck Potato Chips’s endorsement role, a pail of cold water suddenly came crashing down and was even more disgusting than eating sh*t. 

Looking at the content of the newsfeed, what ‘Rong Xu has face value, Deng Yiwen has acting skills’. What ‘Rong Xu was Newcomer King, Den Yiwen was Popularity King’. What was this baffling ranking list, based on what was Deng Yiwen Number 1?

This Deng Yiwen, did he have any (well-known) works, or awards, or achievements?

He didn’t have anything, yet you say number 1 so he is number 1. It seems firing random words didn’t cost anything this year.^[3]

[Disgusting]

[Damn, I’m so angry that I can’t even eat well.]

[Before my Rong was on fire, Deng ‘Suppression’s’ news never mentioned him. Now look, he’s pulling Rong Rong into a bit of everything. How is his face this big? Did he cultivate one hundred years of stone essence, such that his face has become thick enough to become a wall?!]

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“…… He seems to be, seems to chatting me up?”

Xu Jin: “…I didn’t hear wrong. Just then, you seemed to be having the most normal of conversations, ba^[1]. Unless, you talked about something unspeakable? How come I didn’t hear anything?

Qin Cheng raised an eyebrow: “Am I overthinking it?” 

Xu Jin showed his hands, a look of “isn’t that obvious” was written on his face.

Qin Cheng: “……”

With a soft hmm from his nose, Qin Cheng glanced at his agent and said quietly: “How’s your emotional intelligence?” He walked forward as he spoke.

It was clearly  a question, but inexplicably, Xu Jin heard a negative connotation.

His eyes widened immediately, and Xu Jin quickly chased after him: “Hey, hey. Speak clearly. How dare you, a single dog, say in front of me, a married man, that my emotional intelligence is not high? Do you understand, I have a wife! My wife is a jade flower. My wife is smart and capable. My wife makes more money than I do each month. My wife……”

“Your wife makes more money than you?”

Xu Jin: ”……What’s wrong with that?” 

Qin Cheng silently raised the corner of his lips, gently shaking his head and saying meaningfully: “More than you, ah…… En. Nothing.” 

Xu Jin: “…” Not like he was eating soft rice^[2]!!!

Clearly, when this man was on the phone just then, he had seemed clumsy. How come he got his poisonous tongue back after hanging up the phone

……

Xu Jin lowered his head and kept vomiting (vomiting blood) in his heart. When he was almost at the door of the airport, he seemed to suddenly think of something and mumbled with a great smile: “Yi, someone’s (RX) CD has sold quite well. Someone also has properties to inherit. Based on these words, I also don’t know who compared to someone (QC compared to RX) will earn more in the future……”

Qin Cheng: “……”

At this moment, in an American airport on the opposite side of the earth, smog contaminated the air (rush hour). Yet, in Huaxia, it was deep into the night.

The Weibo status reposted by Qin Cheng aroused the support and praise of many fans. For Rong Xu’s fans, this was just a situation of a Black Clouds crew member reposting to promote “Lost Wings”. It was just that this crew member’s identity was a little special. For Qin Cheng’s fans, since the male god has spoken, they must support, support, support!

But, for a certain type of fan——

[Ao Ao Ao Ao! What did I just see! Rong Rong said “I love you”, and Qin Shen answered him “I love you”! Ahhhhhh, I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care. They are straight up confessing, They are straight up confessing! Just like that!!!]

Was it a confession? This point, no one knows. After all, if the parties involved have not said anything, then no one can prove it.

However, at three o’clock in the morning in Huaxia, a Weibo account with only 3,000 fans left silently posted a new update——

[Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing: I love you, truly, I love you.]

This Weibo, after the storm from the photo incident, had not posted any more special news. Its number of fans dropped by more than 1,000, leaving only 3,000 people. After posting the update this time, it gained the support of more than 10 CP fans. But at the same time, because of this Weibo update, the number of fans who left also weren’t many.

Early morning the next day, for this “I love you” Weibo, the CP fans had already created many new works. They continued to be active within the individual fan forum, competing with other “LanYao” CP fans and “HuoLiang” CP fans.

Everything seemed to be proceeding smoothly, and the sales for “Lost Wings” were climbing higher and higher. On Friday, it finally surpassed “Daylight Forest” and became second place on Huaxia’s Love Music sales rankings. After another day, on Saturday, the four day sales for “Lost Wings” was at 690,000, surpassing “Road” and becoming first place!

Countless fans celebrated “Lost Wings’” climb to the summit and the topic #LostWings# was also pushed into fourth place on the trending list. 

Observing the right timing, Luck Potato Chips posted an update at 8:30 the next morning and also brought with it four pictures.

[Luck Potato Chips: With the emergence of the new superpowered messengers, inside an icy blue skeleton cave, will Rong Xu be able to seize the third key to the treasure! [Image][Image][Image][Image]]

Once this official announcement came out, it immediately attracted a crowd of fans, riding on the tailwind of “Lost Wings’” popularity and Rong Xu’s fame. Four exquisite and handsome photos were excitedly reposted by fans.

[Oh my goodness gracious!!! A Rong Rong with silver hair! A Rong Rong with silver hair! Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhh, how can he be so cool!]

[An expressionless Rong Rong is also beautiful, how can he be so beautiful AoAoAo! ]

[Baby fell down. Needs Rong Rong to hug hug, kiss kiss, and lift high to be willing to get back up~!!!!]

The fans were all immersed in the state of licking their screens, unable to extricate themselves. But no one noticed that a few announcements were quietly posted on the homepages of multiple major media websites. They were not posted in any particularly obvious places, but rather straightforwardly posted on entertainment pages. There was Rong Xu’s name, the names of other stars, and… the name of one same person.

《Check out the ranking for the top ten hot newcomers. Dong Zheng, Rong Xu, Yeqiao, Qiming… He turned out to be number one! 》

《These most handsome little trainees, who do you like most? Rong Xu was elected as the strongest newcomer king, He steadily stayed the King of Popularity》

《The new member of Luck Potato Chip’s Ultimate Adventure. Rong Xu has face value, Deng Yiwen has acting skills》

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The author has something to say: 

Orange Qin: He really did chat baby up, really!

Rong Rong: ……How come I don’t understand what LS baby is saying? [Spreads out hands while smiling]

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TL corner: Finally some clarification XD. In the chips commercial, the endorsers are competing to obtain keys that teleport them to the final battleground where they can then fight for the ultimate treasure – divine potato chips. Sounds like they’re fighting for the last bag of chips left in the world. That’s indeed something worth fighting for. LOL

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As a CD single, the unit price of “Lost Wings” was not expensive and cost far less than music albums. But, that the sales could reach 290,000 within 12 hours proved that “Lost Wings” had the potential to break millions!

By midnight, the first day’s sales statistics for “Lost Wings” was released: 320,000!

Once midnight struck, Huaxia Entertainment’s sales list was updated, and in the third place the two words “Lost Wings” were written in large font!

Love Music sales rankings was Huaxia’s most official album sales ranking list showing the weekly sales statistics of every music CD released in Huaxia. This list was updated every day at midnight and records the total number of sales for every CD per calendar week, ranking them according to specific sales figures.

Since this list is a weekly chart, assuming that an album was released on Sunday, even if its sales on that day far exceeded that of other albums on the same list, it still would not be ranked first since it only had one day’s worth of sales while other albums had seven days of cumulative sales. Only when all album sales are reset on Monday would it be ranked first.

This time, “Lost Wings” was officially released on Wednesday.

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The single-day sales of 320,000 allowed it to reach third place in one fell swoop, only below the first place, “Road”, and the second, “Daylight Forest”. However, “Road” was released three days ago and “Daylight Forest” had been released for six days already.

Such good results made the fans cheer for joy. All over the internet, there were people discussing “Lost Wings”. It was also rare that Rong Xu did not go to bed early. Once he got the accurate sales data, he put down his phone. After coming out of the bath, he received one message after another, and he opened them while replying at the same time.

[Zhao Kun: Congratulations! Based on this momentum, it is likely to break through 10 billion! ]

——[Thank you, Brother Zhao, sharing the joy]

[Luo Zhentao: Hahaha Xiao Xu ^[1] , want to invite several producers for a party tomorrow? Really is too wonderful!]

——[Sure, it’s up to you to plan it, Brother Luo.] 

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Many friends sent their congratulations to Rong Xu. Some of these blessings were sincere, but others would be mixed with traces of envy because 320,000 in sales also meant high profits. That Rong Xu’s first CD could attain such high profit was in large part due to Black Clouds and borrowing Ling Xiao’s fame. It could be said that luck was a major factor.

But, they did not know that Rong Xu would not get any income from this CD. It would all be donated. 

[Zhao Chuyun: 320,000 in sales is very good. I will continue to carry out simultaneous promotions. Rongyun Foundation’s specific account details will be sent to you within three days, and I will also make this matter public. Thank you, Rong Xu. ]

    ——[No need for thanks. Troubling you, Sis Zhao. ]

After replying to Zhao Chuyun, Rong Xu looked at the text sent by the other party for a long time.

The current him was just getting started. For him, this amount of profit was a huge number and would improve his status well. However, some money would be too hot to hold onto^[2].

This was Ling Xiao’s legacy work in which he put in an endless amount of effort and feelings. It is a good key for Rong Xu to enter the music industry. With this stepping stone, if he desires to walk on the path of music in the future, it will be much smoother.

From this song, he gained popularity and also certain things that couldn’t be seen with eyes alone.

As for the missed profits……

Forget it. Anyways, in the future, he will also organize a foundation just like he did in his previous life. No matter how much money a person earns in their life, they can only spend so much. However much power one holds is however much responsibility they carry. Only in this way would he be able to uphold his conscience.

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After completely putting aside the profit’s astronomical figure, Rong Xu was preparing to clean up and go rest but then his phone vibrated again. He glanced down. When he saw the Weibo notification, he became stunned.

[Qin Cheng: “Lost Wings”, 5·2·0, I love you. //Rong Xu: If. If you say there is a tomorrow, then tomorrow’s you…… will you still appear? “Lost Wings”, 5·2·0, I love you. //Huaxia Entertainment: ……]

His eyes widened slowly, and the young man’s eyes were strongly fixed on the phrase “I love you”. Only after a while later did he chuckle softly. At this exact moment, his phone received a text message. 

[Qin Cheng: Before, I was still on the plane. Just arrived in America. Congratulations, CD sold very well.]

The implication was: He reposted the Weibo so late because he had been on the plane and could not turn on his phone.

The youth smiled slightly and quickly replied: [Thank you, I saw your repost.]

A minute later, the phone suddenly began singing. Rong was surprised and picked up the phone.

“Not asleep yet? I remember it should be midnight back home^[3]?” A low and mellow male voice sounded and was transmitted steadily through the phone.

On that side, Qin Cheng seemed to be walking, and there was the faint sound of wind drifting into the microphone, making his voice seem a little wispy. Rong Xu held his phone and slowly laid down on the bed, wearing thin pajamas. He smiled and replied: “En, waited for the CD sales statistics for a bit. It’s currently 00:22 in the country.”

Qin Cheng paused a little and asked: “How was the sales.”

Rong Xu laughed softly: “Quite good.”

Qin Cheng: “…… En.”

At this moment, they had nothing else to say. Qin Cheng was silent for a long time, seemingly unable to find a conversation topic. There was only the soft sound of breathing. But even so, he didn’t hang up the phone, and the awkward atmosphere spread instantly.

Listening to the silence on the other end of the phone, a trace of cunningness flashed across the youth’s eyes. He felt both helpless and amused. He waited quietly for another few minutes, his lips raised slightly further. When the other party seemed to be unable to hold up any longer, he finally asked: “How has your filming been going? I thought you were still in New Zealand.”

“Not too smooth. Female No. 2 recently decided to participate in this quarter’s Fashion Week Show. The director is considering a replacement.”

Rong Xu continued to lead the conversation: “That is indeed quite troublesome.”

Qin Cheng continued to answer: “I am fine, but the director has a headache.”

After saying this, Qin Cheng continued being silent. Rong Xu silently raised the corner of his lips again. Only after waiting a whole minute did he once again ask: “In a while, it will be time for the Golden Phoenix Awards’ Award ceremony. Will you come back to the country?”

Qin Cheng continued answering.

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The two spent a long time in this state of you ask, I answer. Whenever Qin Cheng lacked a conversation topic, Rong Xu would wait again before stirring up the topic. 20 minutes later, this international call finally ended. The youth then got up as if nothing had happened and continued to clean up, turning off the lights to go sleep.

On the other side of the ocean, a handsome and tall man slowly stopped his footsteps and looked at his cell phone thoughtfully.

Xu Jin turned around and asked: ”Why aren’t you leaving? The Crew is still waiting for us.”

His gaze slowly moved away from the phone and the man frowned slightly, asking tentatively: “Is he chatting me up?”^[4]

Xu Jin’s mouth twitched: “Huh?!”

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Zhao Kun’s Weibo once again aroused heated discussions between fans and music enthusiasts.

Throughout the screening of Black Clouds, this movie occupied the netizens’ attention. Everyday, on all the major media platforms and movie review sites, you could see the praises and discussions of movie enthusiasts.

However, it wasn’t like there was no one criticizing this movie. After all, there was no single movie that could cater to everyone’s preferences. There were some fans who thought that the movie Black Clouds was too mainstream and overly commercialized. When you should be low-key, you should be low-key. When there should be a climax, then put in a climax. The artistry was weak and could not give the audience any aesthetic or value improvement.

However, Black Clouds was indeed a successful commercial film.

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On May 19, the film was finally taken off screen and only a few theaters still had occasional screenings. Due to the high box office value, the screening duration of Black Clouds had been extended by half a year. If movie enthusiasts still wanted to go watch it, they could go relive it in theaters. However, these purchases no longer had any major impact on the box office numbers.

As soon as Black Clouds was taken off screen, “Lost Wings” was officially released.

This gives movie enthusiasts the feeling that “Lot Wings” is the sequel of Black Clouds and would inspire purchasing.

So on May 20th, when Rong Xu opened his cell phone and looked at his private forum, he saw a pinned note.

“A butterfly that had lost its wings, let it fly once more!”

Upon opening the post to see, it turned out to be the Rosie United Fan Forum’s moderator urging fans to purchase the “Lost Wings” CD single. In this post, Rosie publicized a few of the main selling times and locations, and at the same time, released some news about the single: there are Rong Xu’s CD posters, photos, and promotional videos for the variety shows that Rong Xu had participated in before. 

They did not pressure every fan to go buy singles, but rather gave fans who wanted to buy singles a purchasing method and channel.

This post was done beautifully, a combination of various tags and pictures with the information being concise and clear. Scrolling down, Rong Xu froze slightly. After examining it for a while, the corner of his lips involuntarily hooked up and he shook his head helplessly. 

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If it could be said that Weibo was a highly public platform where anyone, regardless if you were a sunspot or a passer-by, could comment, then a celebrity’s personal fan forum was a fan’s haven. For example, stars under Huaxia Entertainment’s flag could all create private fan forums hosted by Huaxia Entertainment’s official website.

If you wanted to join the fan forum, in addition to paying a specific amount of membership fee each year, you also had to answer fifty questions about the celebrity. The allotted answering time was limited to one hour and the questions were decided by the moderator. Once the number of wrong answers reached a certain percentage then you could not enter the forum.

This method of auditing greatly improved the quality of the forum fans. Fans who were able to enter were all basically a celebrity’s die-hard fans. Although there were still sunspots who infiltrated the fan forums after spending a lot of hard work, they were ultimately a minority.

In this sort of fan forum, it was rare to see any trace of sunspots. Throughout the forum, there were resource posts and confession posts.

The post by Rosie also received enthusiastic responses from the fans. Not only were there a mountain of “Buy, Buy, Buy” shouts, but also many fans who went out in search of their own city’s selling locations.

The purchase locations divulged by Rosie were all very large stores. Huaxia was huge, and the CDs were all circulated from distributors to retailers around the world for sale. There was no way for her to list all of them. However, with the help of fans, the selling information of “Lost Wings” was better detailed, and fans who were unable to buy the CDs gained more sources to purchase from.

Throughout the entire morning, Rong Xu laid on the sofa and constantly read the fan messages.

After Rong Xu finished the commercial shooting for Luck Potato Chips last month, he also participated in several music related programs to promote “Lost Wings”. Then, he returned to B City to rest and prepare for this month’s filming of Maze City.

During this time, Rong Xu always stayed alone in B City, occasionally meeting up with Tang Menglan, Ye Qiao and others for a meal. But, most of the time, he still stayed at home to rest. In this empty apartment, he was the only person. Thus, he caught up on many movies in the theater room by himself; cooked by himself; cleaned the house by himself; and silently browsed through his phone for a month.

After reading the more than 5,000 comments on this post, it was already noon. Rong Xu cooked some noodles casually and ate while opening up his Weibo, reposting a post.

[Rong Xu: If. If you say there is a tomorrow, then tomorrow’s you…… will you still appear? “Lost Wings”, 5·2·0, I love you. [Smile][Smile][Smile]// Huaxia Entertainment Music Station: “Lost Wings” is coming to meet you, May 20 (05/20), The meeting is decided. Purchase locations: official website [link], Alimama [link], Music station [link]]

Before long, fans exploded this Weibo post, crazily brushing comments.

[Rong Rong! I love you! Look at the CD I just bought! [image]]

[Love Love Love Love Love, I also love you, Rong Rong! Come see my “Lost Wings” [image]]

[I can’t wait any longer Aaaahhhhh, I just placed an order on the official website but it won’t be delivered till the day after tomorrow. No, I’m going out right now to a physical store to buy, buy, buy! I like Ling Xiao the most, like Rong Rong the most, like “Lost Wing” the most! ]

Somehow, below Rong Xu’s Weibo, fans all started to share pictures of their own “Lost Wings” CD. Some pictures only had one CD, some pictures included a fan’s notes to Rong Xu, and some pictures had more than one CD, there were two, three …… even 10 CDs!

[Tang Menglan: Meeting, Meeting, Meeting, Sounds good~//Rong Xu: If. If you say there is a tomorrow……]

[Yeqiao: Haha, I also bought a CD~[image]//Rong Xu: If…]

[Zhang Tongtong: I just had my assistant go fight for one. It’s terrifying. It was a sea of people, so many people, ah ^[2] ~ [Image]//RongXu: If……]

[Director Liang Chao: I have employee benefits, don’t need to fight for it~[image]//Rong Xu: If…]

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After Rong Xu reposted this Weibo, many celebrities, including his friends, crew members of Black Clouds, and even some of Black Clouds’ big-name guest stars, also reposted his Weibo, lending free publicity for “Lost Wings”.

This was a matter of mutual benefit. For example, Tang Menglan helped Rong Xu repost his Weibo to promote “Lost Wings” now. Whereas, last week, Rong Xu also helped Tang Menglan repost her Weibo to promote her new drama.

With these people’s promotion, more and more netizens came to know about “Lost Wings”’s release news and purchasing information. Some netizens have long known that “Lost Wings” was going to be released. However, they didn’t know that it was going to be released today and could be purchased online. So after they saw the Weibo posts, they would click on the link and conveniently buy it.

By eight o’clock that night, the cumulative sale of “Lost Wings” had reached 290,000.

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“Action!”

The moment a voice sounded, a high-wattage stage light immediately illuminated from Rong Xu’s right-front side, flashing across his beautiful and delicate face.

In just a brief second, Rong Xu suddenly kicked the stone wall with his right foot, flipped over in a circular moon shape and then used his left foot to kick off another cliff, appearing as if he were flying along the walls and passing through this small cavernous space.

The set location prepared by the crew was on the inside of a cave. The rocks here were quite peculiar. The rocks hid a fluorescent glow underneath them, which emitted a faint blue light that lit up the cave like daytime.

Within this extraordinary scenery there was the charming figure of a youth donned in a black windbreaker rapidly flying between fluorescent stone walls.The asymmetrical costume design and the silver crystals dotted on the collar gave this outfit a distinctive style. Black, close-fitting pants clung to those straight and slender legs. The moment he landed on the ground, he kneeled on his left knee and supported himself with his right hand. He looked up sharply, his eyes cold, and gave off a dangerous aura..

“Cut!”

This scene ended here.

Though it seemed only a few tens of seconds passed, the various action-packed scenes in it were more difficult than shooting a ten-minute cultural film.

Stephen watched the monitor screen carefully. Only after examining it back and forth three times did he look up at Rong Xu, who was at the center of the set, and say: “Again. The third action wasn’t smooth enough, I want it to be crisp and clean! Rong, you know what it is I want; I want the coolest actions, the most handsome Huaxia Kungfu!”

Rong Xu nodded slightly, and the makeup artist fixed his makeup again. Then, they began shooting the scene for the second time.

Action films were different from cultural films. Solely having acting skills was not enough, it also required proper coordination. First, the actor must be well versed on the director’s filming process. Second, one must be familiar with the stunt wires. Then, they have to coordinate with the light technicians and cameraperson, etc. Only this way would a perfect composition be created. 

Only when this scene was on its third take did big-belly Stephen excitedly yell: “Perfect!”

Thus, it was considered to have passed.

The make-up artist stepped forward to help Rong Xu wipe his sweat and touch up his makeup. At this moment, Deng Yiwen also finished his makeup and came out. When he walked out, he saw Rong Xu who was surrounded by a group of staff members.

Rong Xu’s 185 (cm) height allowed him to stand out amongst this many people, his posture upright. His hair was slightly long with the left side clipped up with an invisible black clip. Most of his black hair was fixed to the right side with hairspray, revealing a good half of his fair and beautiful face. 

Within the soft silky black hair, there were broken strands of silver dyed in. The shining rays of silver interspersed in the middle of the black hair made it extraordinarily dazzling; the youth’s skin appeared even fairer but also added a cold and ruthless sci-fi ambience. 

Rong Xu’s face had a very high level of malleability and there was no doubt that this type of futuristic appearance suited him quite well. In a crowd, you could see him at a glance, unable to look away.

Deng Yiwen dejectedly glanced at Rong Xu a few times before turning to look towards his own little assistant, saying with a smile: “He is actually not bad, isn’t he?”

The assistant gave Rong Xu a few glances and said: “His type isn’t commonly seen in the entertainment circle, he only looks good. That’s it.”

Deng Yiwen raised his eyebrows: “Dong Zheng had said that his acting skills were also good.”

The assistant spread out their hands and didn’t say anymore.

Later, they once again started on Rong Xu’s scenes.

The context of Rong Xu’s commercial was that he arrived at this cave and fought against the invisible dark storm that was inside. At last, he was finally going to obtain the treasure, but then, Deng Yiwen appears. For the sake of the ultimate treasure, the two began another spectacular round of battle. In the end, Rong Xu wins the treasure and is transported to the ultimate battlefield. Deng Yiwen can only resume his search for the fourth treasure. 

Among these four spokespersons, Rong Xu’s image belonged to a ruthless and rational type, so his hair was highlighted with silver. On the other hand, Deng Yiwen was comic relief. He was responsible for playing around and creating comedic aspects. Thus, he always wore white clothing with blonde-dyed hair.

This character design was part of the Hollywood template. Although it was lousy, the audience would always eagerly eat up this setting.

Rong Xu filmed some of the action scenes on set. Among these, he had to imagine the existence of a dark storm and fight against it. This was the first time he filmed action scenes and he needed three takes before it satisfied Stephen. When they reached the fourth action scene, as soon as he finished, Stephen, with his big belly, applauded happily and directly went up to hug the youth making Rong Xu unable to decide if he should laugh or cry.

“Spectacular! Rong, just maintain this feeling and let’s continue!”

With Stephen’s words, all the members of the crew dived into their work with increased excitement.

Deng Yiwen sat in a chair, smiling, and chatted with one of the working girls on the set. Hearing Stephen’s words, he quietly glanced back at Rong Xu before smiling and moving his sight away.

Next, Rong Xu was considered to have eradicated the dark storm and was close to getting the treasure. At this moment, it was time for Deng Yiwen’s appearance.

Deng Yiwen and the girl joked around some more before he entered the set.

Rong Xu was about to finish up and handed Luo Zhentao the towel he used to wipe his sweat. He looked up and saw Deng Yiwen grinning and beckoning toward him, exposing a set of neat, white teeth. Rong Xu raised his eyebrows but still waved at the other party with a smile.

Big-bellied Stephen looked over the stage and then raised his hand: “Action!”

The filming site of Luck Potato Chips was busy, and in the outside word, music and movie enthusiasts have already collectively exploded. 

To date, the cumulative box office for Black Clouds has already broken 4 billion and was steadily closing in on 5 billion. Simultaneously^[1] , Zhao Chuyun had been following up on the promotional plans for “Lost Wings”. That afternoon, she had Zhao Kun post nine photos on his private Weibo account.

Of the nine photos, eight photos showed only the blurry silhouettes of two people, obviously done through PS (photoshop) blurring. However, in the centermost photo there was a youth in a red jacket. His left hand was stretched out to cover his left cheek, resulting in the right side of his face being even more prominent.

From the corner of his upturned eyes, red cinnabar hooked upwards and outlined a captivating arch. Those light-colored pupils were like a lake immersed in moonlight, peaceful and quiet, capturing your spirit and soul inside.

The photo was coupled with Zhao Kun’s Weibo text——

[5, 2, 0^[2] “Lost Wings”, Coming to meet you!]

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Don’t worry if you have no idea what is going on in the commercial. Even our MC RongRong is bewildered XD.

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Luck Potato Chips was the largest potato chip brand in the world. Thus, the spokespersons they choose would naturally not be ordinary stars.

There were a total of four spokespersons for this particular potato chip commercial. Excluding the young woman^[1] whose contract had expired, there were three other popular stars. One of them was Qi Rong, a first-tier actress who made a one-hit success with a youthful chick flick. Another was Bao Jiahong, a well-known singer known as the Little King of Hip-Hop. There was also the one preparing to shoot the advertisement scenes with Rong Xu, Deng Yiwen.

Deng Yiwen is a popular student under the Streaming Lights Entertainment Company. Seven years ago, he debuted with a youthful idol drama, and in recent years, he has performed in many modern and ancient-style idol dramas. It wasn’t until last year when he starred as Male No.2 in a power-struggle drama^[2] that he achieved a one-hit success, reached first-tier, and gained countless fans.

Although after the beginning of this year, Deng Yiwen’s recent modern romance movie had extremely low viewings, poor ratings and popularity, in general, he was still a first-tier trainee and would not fall into second-tier within this year.

To be able to get to such a position, Deng Yiwen definitely wouldn’t be stupid like Han Yanghao. At nine o’clock in the morning, he appeared at the crew on time. His assistant and the director were also in discussion to determine today’s shooting process.

Inside the dressing room, an experienced makeup artist was helping Rong Xu dye his hair when they saw a clean and handsome boy walk in. The other party greeted everyone enthusiastically with a “Good morning”. Afterwards, he happily sat down and said to the makeup artist at the side: “I am late today, Should I do my hair and makeup at the same time? At least, this way we can save some time.”

A makeup artist immediately stepped forward and smiled: “Not late, it’s only nine o’clock, just right.”

Deng Yiwen smiled and saw Rong Xu, who was dyeing his hair, through the mirror.

It was already May, and the weather in Hengdian was about 20 degrees Celsius today. Rong Xu had already donned his costume, but Deng Yiwen was still wearing his short-sleeved t-shirt. In this weather, wearing short-sleeve clothing would still make one slightly chilled, but Deng Yiwen actually kept fanning himself non-stop. While fanning, he turned towards Rong Xu, saying with a smile: “So, you are Rong Xu? I am Deng Yiwen. I am happy to be able to work with you today, haha.”

In his past life, Rong Xu had met many people like Deng Yiwen, this type of star who assumed familiarity with everyone. He nodded with a smile and said: “Hello, I am Rong Xu. Happy cooperation.”

Deng Yiwen’s handsome and sunny face showed a bright smile towards Rong Xu, and then he turned back to continue to tease the makeup artist. The female makeup artist, who was in her early thirties, was teased into laughter. When Rong Xu’s hair was finished dyeing, the two of them were still laughing happily.

Rong Xu turned to look at Deng Yiwen, saying politely: “Then, I’m going to go film first.”

Deng Yiwen smiled happily and waved at him: “Okay, I’ll come right away.”

Rong Xu’s eyes glanced casually at the back of Deng Yiwen’s head before he got up and left. Today, he (RX) had the most scenes, while Deng Yiwen only had four or five scenes. Even if Deng Yiwen came to the crew in the afternoon, it would not be an issue. However, the other party still arrived on time and gave Rong Xu a good impression.

Although, this person seemed to be a bit frivolous.

    —— Rong Xu added secretly in his heart.

Leaving the rambunctious and laughter-filled dressing room, Rong Xu went directly to the set and prepared to film his part. 

The moment he left the door of the dressing room, his steps paused, and he looked back subconsciously. However, he found that the people inside were still laughing and messing around with Deng Yiwen.

Not thinking too much about it, Rong Xu went to shoot his hard-copy posters first.

But, just as he left the dressing room, Deng Yiwen’s gaze flicked lightly towards him, the corner of his mouth curving upwards, and then he looked away.

During the entire morning, Rong Xu finished taking all of his hard-copy pictures.

This time, Luck Potato Chips’s commercial background was set in outer space in the future, and there were four super-powered individuals fighting for treasure. Based on sequential order, Bao Jiahong will be the first super-powered individual to get the treasure. Qi Rong will be second, Deng Yiwen will be fourth, and Rong Xu will be third.

After everyone acquires a treasure, they will be teleported to the ultimate battlefield where they will be sealed in ice, waiting for the four treasures to come together before they can break open the ice and truly start the final battle for the ultimate treasure.

As for what the ultimate treasure hidden in the glowing light is… it is naturally Luck potato chips.

A super blockbuster; popular, handsome stars; coupled with stunning, eye-catching visual effects, the final pursuit of this blockbuster advertisement was actually potato chips! Although he didn’t know who thought up such a unique advertising idea, Rong Xu knew that this advertisement must be extremely expensive.

The scenes of all four spokespersons added together was already 30 minutes long. And within this 30 minutes, it was packed with action scenes and mostly special effects. Every single frame was simply robbing money (Expensive).

Though, the director who came to direct today’s advertisement is a famous Hollywood director, Stephen Griffin. This top director’s movies all had one common feature: High costs and enormous spending.

Once Rong Xu finished taking his costume photo stills and officially prepared to start filming, Stephen immediately turned his eyes away from the script to stare at Rong Xu. His eyes lit up as he walked over excitedly, holding a big belly, and said with excitement: “Uh-maz-ing^[3]! Rong, this appearance truly is good-looking. I already can’t wait to film you.”

Stephen’s Chinese couldn’t be regarded as perfect, but it could still be understood. He could even use idioms proficiently.

Over these past years, for the sake of going beyond the country’s borders, all of Huaxia’s directors could speak English fluently; and Hollywood directors, who wanted to compete in the Huaxia market and win Huaxia’s awards, would also study and work hard. There was even a Hollywood common saying: The more famous the director, the better their Chinese was.

Humans have always been moved by capital and interests. No matter how hard Chinese was to learn, in order to access the Huaxia market and compete with Huaxia movies, these top Hollywood directors would study day and night to conquer this grand mountain called Chinese.

In the span of his two lifetimes, Rong Xu discovered that these big foreign directors usually had one unique characteristic: either they were super eccentric, arrogant and narcissistic, and difficult to communicate with; or they were passionate and fiery and couldn’t help but extol you with all the best praises in the world, without repeats. 

Obviously, Stephen belonged to the latter.

The handsome young man smiled and said sincerely: “Being able to work together with you is my honor.”

Stephen immediately praised again: “No, no, no. I really do like this appearance. It’s really cool.”

The curve of Rong Xu’s lips rose a bit more as he calmly replied: “I also cannot wait to work with you.”

The two praised each other a few more times. At the side, a Huaxia assistant director glanced at Rong Xu a few more times in surprise. Unexpectedly, this young child was actually able to talk to Stephen for long without a change in expression. 

When Stephen went to go coordinate with the other units to prepare for the day’s first shots, that assistant director secretly gave Rong Xu a thumbs-up and whispered: “This foreign director is too enthusiastic. I’d already made several films with him before. Rong Xu, you are the one who has dealt with him the best. You didn’t see, but even Qi Rong was flattered by this old man until he was red-faced and heart thumping, almost unable to hold back (from escaping).”

After hearing this, Rong Xu blinked innocently, but the corners of his mouth tilted up: “I’m only speaking the truth.”

This assistant director’s admiration for him deepened a little more. 

His words were such, but when Rong Xu finished discussing with the action director and was preparing to head onto the filming site, he slowly became serious and the smile on his face vanished. The sturdy film wires gradually lifted the youth. On the ground, the rotund director who was previously praising the young man also gradually composed his expressions, watching Rong Xu seriously.

Rong Xu’s eyes stayed on Stephen’s serious countenance for a bit, and then shook his head helplessly.

Sure enough, this was a Hollywood director in the most traditional sense —— when praising you to the sky, he would make you feel as if you were his most beloved protagonist. But once you truly started filming, he would become so strict that it would make any actor doubt whether they should’ve entered the entertainment circle.

  “！”

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TL Corner: Why did I end it on an exclamation mark? Don’t worry, it’s not a cliffhanger. ヽ(゜∇゜)ノ*:･ﾟ✧
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The two chatted for another while, and then the discussion came to Rong Xu’s next announcement. The commercial had been decided. Luo Zhentao helped Rong Xu receive a potato chip advertisement. This potato chip had a total of four spokespersons, both men and women, all of whom were popular male leads and pretty young women. This time, the contract for one of the previous young women had expired and they decided on Rong Xu.

As a result, this potato chip now had 3 male leads and 1 pretty young woman for endorsements.

Although this endorsement was not a solo endorsement, which seemed to treat Rong Xu poorly,  in actuality, Luo Zhentao explained: “Luck (The brand) is very popular, and is a large global chain company. Their endorsements never have only one person. The other three endorsers all have first tier popularity. This time, Luck believes that after Black Clouds, your popularity will soar; thus, you were given this notification.”

Rong Xu nodded slightly. He naturally understood the reason why such a big endorsement could not be enjoyed by one person alone. However, what he was more concerned about was: “When we are shooting the ad in two days, will it still be all four people together?”

Luo Zhentao smiled softly: “Basically, it will be you alone. The endorsement for the three of them had already been filmed long ago. Only need to shoot your posters and advertisements. However, I am also not too certain. For their commercial, they invited a Hollywood director to come shoot, and it will be a story made of a combination of multiple action scenes where you four will come together to capture potato chips^[1] .

It may take some time before the final gathering segment is filmed because they need to schedule it for when all four spokespersons have time. Though, for your solo action scenes, there may also be other spokespersons who will appear. It depends on the script that the advertising agency gives us tomorrow.”

Rong Xu nodded thoughtfully and did not express much opinion on this. 

He came today, not only to find an assistant and confirm the endorsement, but also to discuss his next movie.

Under the bright and dazzling lights, the youth’s eyes looked up at Luo Zhentao, his lips slightly curled up, revealing a calm and steady smile: “Brother Luo, for the next film I want to accept Maze City.”^[2]

The next day, Rong Xu received the script from Luo Zhentao via email. He carefully read the advertising script of “Luck Potato Chips”. The entire script was not long; after shooting and editing, the entire episode should only be five minutes long. But, during the last minute, there really were scenes that included co-starring with the other spokespersons.

Rong Xu carefully read through the section with the other spokespersons several times. In the afternoon, he received a text message from Luo Zhentao: [Maze City has been confirmed on their side. You will join the crew next month and participate in the press conferences and introduction ceremonies. This movie has double male leads. When they release the film in the end, you and the other male lead will receive the same level of treatment. PS: Xiao Luo has already started to take over fan management today. If you need anything, you can contact her. Her phone number is ……]

Rong Xu saved Xiao Luo’s number in his phone. When he raised his head, he saw Qin Cheng walk out of the bedroom.

The two looked at each other, and Rong Xu waved his hand, saying with a smile: “I remember you will be going to New Zealand to film next week, right, Qin Cheng?”

Qin Cheng was a bit confused, not really understanding why the youth would ask him about that at this time. He nodded in tacit agreement, but he hadn’t inquired further when he saw Rong Xu get up from the sofa and walk in front of him, saying: “Let’s go downstairs for a stroll? You were busy the day before yesterday and left halfway.”

Hearing this, Qin Cheng’s heart slightly shook. The corner of his lips raised quietly, but his face still showed an unfazed appearance, and his tone was very calm: “Okay.” He said it seemingly indifferently, but he still went back to the house to get his coat.

Rong Xu watched in surprise as he walked back to the room. When Qin Cheng came out, he was wearing a slim, black trench coat, whereas Rong Xu was still wearing a simple pullover and jeans. A simple comparison between the two; one was youthful, clean and casual, and the other was strikingly handsome enough to be able to directly hop on a T stage and walk a (fashion) show.

Rong Xu: “Actually I just wanted to go downstairs and do some shopping.”

Qin Cheng: “… En.”

In this way, the two went downstairs together and walked a few laps around the garden. When they reached the final lap, Rong Xu turned his head to look at the man next to him. He said softly: “The day after tomorrow, I’m going to the HengDian^[3] to shoot an advertisement. Could be considered an advertising blockbuster.”

Qin Cheng froze for a moment: “You’re leaving the day after tomorrow?” 

He wasn’t leaving for New Zealand to film until next week, but this youth was already leaving the day after tomorrow!

Rong Xu nodded: “En.”

After a pause, Rong Xu narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Qin Cheng. His narrow and long phoenix eyes reflected Qin Cheng’s slightly shocked expression. Rong Xu’s eyes held a gleam. Those pupils were clear and clean, yet no one could guess what was going through his mind. After a while, Qin Cheng only heard Rong Xu say mildly: “If Aunt Qin is worried about me and wants you to look after me … you can call me.” ^[4]

Qing Cheng was stunned stiff, looking carefully at Rong Xu. It took him a long time before he nodded and said: “Okay.”

The two strolled for a while longer without speaking and then went upstairs.

Two days later, Rong Xu and Luo Zhentao left City B together and arrived at the spring-filled Hengdian. When he last came here to film Vie for Supremacy, it was still summer. It has been almost one whole year now.

The place was the same, but the people were no longer the same. This time, the crew member sent to pick up Rong Xu was an assistant director, not an ordinary staff member. After Rong Xu entered the crew, he quickly got acquainted with the director and other staff while waiting for the arrival of the last spokesperson.

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TL Corner: Surreal: “You used to call me on my cell phone, Late night when you need my love, Call me on my cell phone” థ ౪థ 

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