Chapter 45
Jiang Chuan rubbed his face, and a string of German words that no one could understand burst out of his mouth - judging from the frequency of the trembling eyelashes that hung down like small fans, it was likely that he was cursing without any expression... You see, the importance of mastering a foreign language is reflected in this, even if you are swearing, the people around you will still think you are "so cute, so cute, how can you be so cute".
This group of foolish earthlings easily deceived by superficial phenomena.
To think about it, what on earth did this guy think of that made him blush, this is what's really making people curious.
Hamster hugged his short front paws, looking serious and thoughtful. On the other side, Jiang Chuan finished filming this shot, and Jiang Luocheng magnanimously waved his hand to indicate that he could remove his makeup today - at this time it was not yet three o'clock in the afternoon. Jiang Chuan looked like he wasn't used to wearing makeup on his face, and when he heard that he could finish work, he visibly let out a sigh of relief. He casually put on his jacket, said goodbye to Fang Yu, and quickly ran back to remove his makeup and change clothes.
It wanted to follow, but its current body was running around the film set, and it was likely to be trampled to death or taken away by a stray cat. So it could only gaze at the back of its master leaving, then mentally pieced together a "master's bathing scene" to comfort itself... Meanwhile, everyone on the other side had already started busily preparing for the next scene, which was another confrontation between Xu Qianqian and Wang Mo, supposedly about the mouse spirit causing laughter in the tea house due to its inexperience with the world.
Jin Ran had already read some scripts and wasn't particularly interested in Wang Mo or Xu Qianqian, so he slid down Fang Yu's sleeve and quietly crawled into his pocket to cover his head, wanting to continue sleeping. However, despite being sleepy earlier, he couldn't cultivate a sleep mood no matter how hard he tried, and his mind was filled with Jiang Chuan's thoughts of Weiwei's pretty face - even Jiang Luocheng, that shameless person, said she looked good... Jin Ran turned over and thought about it, realizing that he was actually very jealous of the person Jiang Chuan had been thinking of earlier.
As Jiang Luocheng was shouting outside, when the hamster did its fifth forward roll in front of Agent Mr., he heard someone outside call out "Fang Ge" - that voice carried a hint of uncertain panic and... a little bit of surprise and uncertainty.
He stopped rolling around, poked his fluffy head out, and looked outside from the edge of Fang Yu's pocket - just in time to see Assistant Xiao Ge hesitantly handing over his phone to Fang Yu. Fang Yu took a look, made a "tsk" sound, then another two "tsks"... Coincidentally, Jiang Chuan returned after finishing his bath and removing his makeup, the man sat down beside Fang Yu with a whiff of hotel shower gel, Fang Yu handed the phone that Assistant Xiao Ge had given him back: "Here, take a look, your photo was posted online just now."
Jiang Chuan heard this and swept a glance at Fang Yu, seemingly unable to discern his emotions. He didn't bother to respond, instead taking the phone from him and glancing at it. At this moment, the curious hamster also jumped out of Fang Yu's pocket, climbed onto Jiang Chuan's leg, and then crawled up the drawstring of the man's hoodie, quickly climbing onto his shoulder and occupying a prime spot for observing gossip. Once it was stably perched on Jiang Chuan's shoulder, it lowered its head and could see the content on the phone screen in Jiang Chuan's hand.
What caught my attention first was that the owner of this photo, who posted a picture of Jiang Chuan, turned out to be the leader of the Yuan Jianran fan club, who had previously sent me chocolate matcha cookies. The caption on Weibo read "Heart has fierce tigers, sniffing roses". In the photo, a handsome young man wearing a Taoist robe stared at the camera with a straight face, holding an open script in his hand, with long black hair falling over his shoulders and a pair of blue eyes that were so beautiful they seemed to have been edited using beauty software... And what's even more interesting is that on the shoulder of this serious-looking man who doesn't smile, there was also a chubby hamster turning its head, looking at the camera in sync with its owner.
The hamster's green bean eyes were almost squeezed into a slit on its face, and that person's azure pupils, which could be called the true windows of the soul... formed a stark contrast.
The picture was posted online, and it first started spreading from Yuan Yanyan's fans. Everyone was guessing who this was, some exclaimed that he was the male version of "Little Dragon Girl", while others ridiculed him saying "his eyes were Photoshopped to an excessive extent". Just then, someone forwarded a post saying——
It's him! The Taoist little brother from the opening of "Republic of China Mystery Record", ahhh I saw him in person, swearing to heaven that his eyes are really blue, blue, blue! He's even more handsome than on TV and in pictures! Just a quick snap!
Following this man's butt, a bunch of "Damn, it was him" "I just turned around and sold my shares in Anli" "Daoist little brother is my husband" swarmed over...
It was forwarded over 50,000 times in an instant.
Directly topped the hot search with keywords "Daoist Younger Brother of Republic of China Strange News Record".
After being on the hot search and popular Weibo, this accidentally exposed photo was forwarded explosively - it can only be described as explosive, with the number of forwards suddenly soaring from over 5,000 to 20,000. A bunch of passersby who didn't know what was going on followed suit, forwarding and sighing about Jiang Chuan's good looks and the cute hamster on his shoulder... In these crazy forwards, the most noteworthy one is that Li Dog High also chimed in with a small forward: 【Isn't this just Jiang Chuan from 818 last year? He's really handsome in person, and that hamster is so fat.】
Originally, there were no marketing Weibo posts about this, until Li Dog High came out and broke the rules.
"Ada" replied under Li Dog's Weibo: 2333333333333333333 The dog master can finally forward and make money.
Li Dog immediately replied to this classmate called "Ada": This time didn't take money, muah muah, looking handsome and not letting dog grandpa feel moved. Believe it or not, if you don't believe me, hit me.
@Pink Leopard replied under Li Dog's Weibo: "Dog Grandpa, may I ask?"
Li Dogui replied to this classmate called "Pink Leopard": Come on up and take action yourself.
"Powder Pink Leopard" is back: I've been seeing a lot of this guy's material lately, and it feels like he's going to follow up on "Republic of China Strange Record". The one who suddenly appeared in Yuan Jinran's hospital room was him too, right? This high-profile move doesn't feel accidental.
Li Dog replied to this classmate called "Pink Leopard": The last person who used Yuan Jinyan for hype is already dead, that person was named Xu Wenjie, the body is still there and you can go touch it yourself. But Jiang Chuan became popular, what does that prove? It means that in your heart, there's a little bit of brightness, not everything will be used for hype.
Li Dog's response was quite serious, but the fans below were laughing and joking, saying "Doggie must have taken money from IM company" "Treat us to a meal" "Reveal more secrets and we'll let you off"…
The number of forwards has reached 30,000 at this point.
Various marketing Weibo accounts about the entertainment industry have also joined the forwarding list.
Jiang Chuan calmly returned the phone to his assistant, while Fang Yu had already frowned and walked aside to make a call to the company - after making the call for a while, he came back and first asked his assistant with a gloomy face: "How much was transferred?"
The assistant glanced at it: "40,000... no, almost 50,000."
He glanced at his phone, then turned it off and put it in his pocket, sat down next to Jiang Chuan: "I just asked the company, they don't know anything about this matter, nor has anyone bought water army reposts for you - that is to say, these 50,000 reposts are purely natural... Do you know how difficult this is?"
"What's with the gloomy face?"
"Because I'm telling you to be a star!!!! Not an internet celebrity ahhhhhhh!!!!! You don't even have any works, and suddenly you're inexplicably popular online - do you know how chaotic the internet is? Just wait, in two days at most, a bunch of your haters will mysteriously appear, scolding you, whipping you, humiliating you, mocking you..."
Jiang Chuan took out his phone from Fang Yu's pocket and scrolled through it, suddenly letting out an "ah".
"What's going on?"
Jiang Chuan: "Someone privately messaged me asking if I wanted to take over the soap/net store's promotional advertising, saying that all they needed was for me to forward their ad and they'd be willing to give me 3,000..."
Jiang Chuan's words were cut off as Fang Yu's face turned iron-gray and snatched the phone back.
Jiang Chuan: "What's going on?"
Fang Yu: "This kind of inquiry is absolutely not allowed to be answered - remember, not even a punctuation mark is allowed."
Jiang Chuan couldn't understand why Fang Yu was so angry, even though he had only forwarded the post and earned 3,000 yuan. He also didn't get why Fang Yu wouldn't let him see it again, but since his phone was an old model with a blue and white screen, he couldn't access social media apps like Weibo. So, Jiang Chuan gave up trying to look at the photo again. In the afternoon, he sat on the side and soaked up some sun while watching Wang Mo and Xu Qianqian film their scenes. Before long, today's filming work came to an end.
On the first day, they successfully shot eight scenes, three more than the originally planned five, exceeding their task. Although everyone was very tired, when packing up, the atmosphere on set was great, with everyone chatting and laughing. Meanwhile, some idle crew members came over to ask Jiang Chuan about his Weibo, he knew what they were referring to, but just calmly nodded and said "I know".
Everyone says he's going to be popular soon.
Only Fang Yu called him "Little Soap Net Red" in a weird and mysterious tone.
At dinner time, through a makeup artist's sister's revelation, Jiang Chuan only knew that the photo had inexplicably been forwarded over 800,000 times. During the meal, all the staff members teased Jiang Chuan, saying "Brother Chuan, you're really popular now, I've never seen any celebrity have a photo forwarded 800,000 times before." Only the director seemed to be worried about this, like Fang Yu, and pulled Jiang Chuan aside to say something - the main content of which was "Young people should be humble and prudent, as an actor, acting well is what's truly good, other praise is empty. This is indeed a superficial era, but actors can't just rely on their looks to make a living."
The teacher's words were a bit confusing, and Jiang Chuan didn't quite understand - but roughly speaking, the teacher was trying to express something that was probably similar to Fang Yu's concerns.
After Jiang Chuan returned, he told Fang Yu what the director had said according to his own understanding. After hearing this, Fang Yu fell into deep thought and rarely spoke seriously, saying a few words...
"The director's concerns are valid. Because in the end, it's still those middle-aged and elderly women and men who sit in front of the TV to watch your show and contribute to the ratings. They don't care how popular you are online, whether you're aloof or approachable to fans, or whether you're a good person or not. The internet has become one of the mainstream media, but it's not the entertainment circle's. Think about how many celebrities have been scolded from head to toe online, and those people won't even spare an eight-year-old child... But what happened to them? Nothing, as long as you don't make mistakes..."
"What's wrong?"
"Violating the mainstream ideology, those who are on top would like to slap a death penalty on you for your mistake."
“……”
"So I hope you'll be down-to-earth, one step at a time... Jiang Chuan, it's not that I don't trust you, but your sudden rise to fame makes me uneasy. It's like watching you float up on clouds, with nothing solid underfoot. When the cloud disappears and you fall, it will hurt... They may be praising you today, but tomorrow they might suddenly turn against you, and no one will hold them accountable for their lack of integrity... I'm afraid you won't be able to take it."
Jiang Chuan thought for a moment and suddenly asked out of nowhere: "How did Yuan Zhenyan do it back then?"
Squatting openly on the dinner table, this mouse who was secretly eating fried peanuts at this moment stuffed the peanuts tightly into its mouth and then patted its paws with a "slap slap" sound. Turning around to look at the two people in conversation, it saw that at this time, Mr. Agent raised an eyebrow and looked at Jiang Chuan, asking: "How about you? Do you want to replicate his path to fame?"
"Just ask," said Jiang Chuan.
"It's also being scolded," Fang Yu said, "Some people don't even let a few-year-old child go, following behind someone's parents and scolding their little girl as a heartless/insidious/slut, think about it, how could someone so big not be inviting scolding——"
"Do they also scold him as 'heartless'?"
Fang Yu laughed: "This kind of thing is too much, sometimes there are hundreds of different ways to scold without repeating... When Yuan Jinran posts a food picture, they say 'wow, it looks like shit, only a pig like you would eat this'; when Yuan Jinran posts a selfie, they say 'your nose is higher than before, your skin condition has changed, you've gained weight recently, did you get plastic surgery and the swelling hasn't gone down yet? You're a fake beauty dog'; when Yuan Jinran casually posts a landscape photo, they'll say 'are you so ugly that you can't be seen in public? But it's good, we don't want to see you either, ugly/whore...'"
Jiang Chuan: “......”
Fang Yu: "When you're a star, it's tough. You need to have a diamond heart. When scolded, you can't talk back. If you do, you'll be dead meat. A bunch of black (fans) will swarm and say you stink, don't have the face, and bully the small and transparent."
Jiang Chuan: "Why can't I retort when being scolded?"
Fang Yu: "Because some people think you're a star, you deserve to be scolded because you eat this bowl of rice."
Jiang Chuan: "...... Am I not eating this bowl of rice for acting?"
Fang Yu: "Do you think there was a chicken first or an egg first?"
Jiang Chuan: “......”
"So this question can't be answered by anyone, everyone has different opinions."
Jiang Chuan: "Yuan Jingyan shouldn't be the kind of person who talks back, privately and in front of media fans are not the same."
The little green eyes of the hamster twinkled as it turned, the peanut in its mouth rolling from one cheek to the other.
"He's actually not that different, soft-spoken and gentle in front of outsiders, but at most just hard-mouthed and soft-hearted in private," Fang Yu said thoughtfully, propping up her chin. "Pretending to be a good person will eventually reveal its flaws, and that guy is actually very afraid of trouble, always looking impatient with everything in private - think about it, if he's really impatient, how could he have pretended to be Mr. Nice Guy in the entertainment industry for so many years?"
“……”
The hamster spat out the peanut from its cheek pouch, and the peanut wrapped in saliva fell into Fang Yu's plate... Jiang Chuan stretched out his hand, seemingly thoughtful, and poked the hamster's belly - then, under the hamster's big triangular white eyes, he nodded solemnly, feeling that Fang Yu seemed to have made some sense.
"Don't learn from that fool," Fang Yu raised his hand and patted Jiang Chuan's back with a "pa pa" sound, "he's not a good role model."
The hamster quietly dropped the peanuts covered in its own saliva into Mr. Broker's wine glass. The latter lowered his head, staring at the hamster with a pair of eyes filled with red blood vessels for a while, then suddenly smiled, raised the glass and drank it all in one gulp, pouring the peanuts that had been sucked by the hamster into his mouth "Crunch crunch" chewing very loudly.
Jian Ran: "......"
Fang Yu got drunk.
Finally was carried back into the room by the assistant little brother.
On the other hand, Jiang Chuan... after hearing Fang Yu's "drunken truths", Jiang Chuan was quiet for the entire night, probably thinking about the feasibility of retorting back after being scolded - after all, Jiang Chuan had thought of doing so before and even foolishly thought of using German to retort back, as if there wasn't something called Google Translate in this world... you speak a language, let alone translate it into Chinese, great netizens can translate it into 18 languages for you to choose from.
Jiang Chuan is like a blank sheet of paper, muddle-headed and naive, with a hint of the fearless spirit of a newborn calf.
Uh, this metaphor is limited to the entertainment industry.
But someone like that in the entertainment industry is very dangerous - every word and action, at the time of speaking may not have anything, but it's very likely to become evidence for others to use against him in the future.
Therefore, Jian Ran feels that Fang Yu's worries are not unreasonable, getting vaccinated early is better than having no mental preparation and suddenly facing the dark future.
……
The aftermath of the Weibo photo was that overnight, Jiang Chuan's Weibo followers surged to 5.5 million, a number roughly equivalent to that of a relatively large marketing Weibo or a third-tier celebrity - the number of forwards and comments skyrocketed, but Jiang Chuan wasn't very clear about this series of changes because he couldn't get his hands on his phone; all of this was seen by Jiang Chuan squatting on Fang Yu's shoulder while filming, watching him scroll through Weibo.
Since the photo incident, Fang Yu has been scrolling through Weibo more frequently recently.
It's as if waiting for something.
It was also vaguely guessed that after continuously occupying the hot topic for several days, things would not develop so smoothly and easily.
……
Along with Jiang Chuan's small online fame due to a photo, the number of people coming to observe him on set has been increasing - and these people are quite difficult to control. Unlike Xu Qianqian or Wang Mo's fans who would keep quiet to avoid trouble, when Jiang Chuan tells those calling his name to be quiet, they only call out louder.
It got Jiang Luocheng annoyed beyond measure.
Every time before filming starts, they need to clear the scene first and hire a few temporary workers to stand next to the set - no photography allowed, no screaming allowed.
Jiang Luocheng couldn't help but want Jiang Chuan to wear a mask while acting.
These days, everyone on the set including Wang Mo has been teasing Jiang Chuan - it's not clear if Fang Yu's loose mouth spread the news about the handmade soap, but anyway, everyone calls Jiang Chuan "the little internet celebrity who picks up soap", simulated dialogue as follows:
"Whose turn is it this afternoon?"
"Little internet celebrity who picks up soap."
But as it turned out, whether it was Jian Ran or Fang Yu or the director teacher, in short, one of them was a jinx.
Sure, here is the translation:
As expected, in this situation, things didn't turn out as everyone had imagined - on the fifth day of filming "Republic of China Strange Stories", a Weibo fan with 1.5 million followers, named "Entertainment Circle Explorer", suddenly posted several Weibo posts in a row...
About Jiang Chuan's overnight explosion, internal revelation 1: From the mysterious person in Yuan Jinyan's room to the newcomer who pressed Xu Wenjie under the IM company building and made a dazzling appearance... Looking back at that "Tiger sniffing rose" photo from previous screens... A newcomer who had just debuted, with no works on hand, directly took down Jiang Luocheng's new play as the male lead, and then suddenly exploded in popularity without warning when the new play was about to start filming... No matter how you think about it, this doesn't seem quite right. Today, an insider finally revealed the truth, let Entertainment Mystery take you into the entertainment circle...
This Weibo does not have a picture.
According to insiders from the crew of "Republic of China Mystery Records", Jiang Chuan, who recently became a sensation overnight, was brought into the group with investment - and his background... wow, daring to heavily promote Yuan Jinyan, isn't that approved by the company's higher-ups? Does Luo Cheng really care about his disciples?
This Weibo post is accompanied by three photos, which are clearly taken secretly. In the photos, Jiang Chuan's hair has not been dyed black yet, and his eyes are still blue. He is wearing a duck tongue cap on his head and walking shoulder to shoulder with Luo Cheng, the CEO of IM Company. The two are quite close together and seem very familiar. In one photo, Luo Cheng is smiling brightly and reaching out to touch Jiang Chuan's hat, while the latter appears to be making a gesture to dodge.
About Jiang Chuan's overnight explosion internal exposure 3: If it is said that Jiang Chuan's recent explosion was pushed by someone, then it must be his gold master behind him... However, as we all know, Jiang Luocheng's play is not something that can be solved just by "bringing capital into the group". This guy's role in buying a play is very expensive, let alone the male lead... But recently, there have been rumors that Jiang Chuan and the female second-in-command Ronnie are closely related, not ordinary... According to informed sources, Ronnie's father is the CEO of the main investment company of "Republic of China Strange Record"... The rest you understand.
This Weibo also comes with a picture, which shows Ronnie smiling and talking to Jiang Chuan at the dinner table (talking about face masks); Ronnie leaning in close to Jiang Chuan, holding a script and rehearsing lines with him, the little girl's eyes are clearly filled with adoration for the man; and the most exaggerated one is that someone took a sneak shot of Ronnie grabbing Jiang Chuan's sleeve before filming the first scene that day, from the photo, it looks like the little girl is being coquettish with her boyfriend...
Three microblogs.
I'm speechless.
Jiang Chuan fell silent: "He spoke reasonably and had pictures, I almost believed him."
"I knew it, I knew it, ahhhhhhhhh! Look, look, I told you so!"
Luò Chéng slammed his fist on the rooftop of IM company: "Who dares to make their own rules?! Has he gone crazy?! Who dares?! I still want to live a few more years! - Let the one who said this try it himself! He's been messing with Jiang Chuan, and I'll have him call me 'grandpa'!"
Here is the translation:
As a result, these three Weibo posts not only smeared Jiang Chuan as someone who relied on his backer Luo Cheng to squeeze into the entertainment circle, but also smeared him for being unfaithful to his wife and having an ambiguous relationship with Luoni. Coincidentally, recently the internet has been particularly sensitive about cheating scandals involving celebrities, so now Jiang Chuan has been labeled as a "complete scumbag".
At one time, a large wave of black bees swarmed in.
"——What, he's actually this kind of person? I'm going from fan to anti-fan."
"What a waste of such a good-looking face, you're shameless!"
"It doesn't matter anyway, having a good-looking face is justice, what's the point of you guys jumping around here, Jiang Luochen won't step down from his role."
"——Luo Cheng is quite handsome and rich too, how did he end up with someone so heartless?"
"——Hey, at that time I found out that his photo was not quite normal, the skin was smoothed to the point where his facial features were all blurry and yet people said he was handsome. I almost got into a fight with my BFF about it, but I quickly told her about it, she must have been so jealous haha, I guess I have good taste and can avoid lightning strikes!"
These people not only ridiculed and scolded under the "entertainment circle exploration" but also ran to Jiang Chuan's Weibo, copying and pasting the above remarks again for fear that the world would not be chaotic.
A few days ago, the Weibo topic that was all about "Male God Jiang Chuan" suddenly turned into a battleground between "Male God Jiang Chuan" and "Trash Man Jiang Chuan".
The two sides came and went, from politely advising each other to convert, to being unable to persuade the other and bursting into loud curses. For a time, saliva flew back and forth, what a lively scene.
After the negative news about Jiang Chuan broke out, Li Doggy posted on Weibo that night at his usual interactive Q&A time: Come and sit down, move yourself.
This time, his usual 200-300 comments on Weibo suddenly exploded to 3,000-4,000, with 80% asking about Jiang Chuan - exactly the same reaction as when Yuan Jinyan's mysterious man was exposed in the hospital room... As for this, Comrade Li Gouhai is still as calm as last time, and he directly replied to a question asking if he felt slapped in the face after strongly supporting Jiang Chuan earlier.
I didn't feel slapped in the face, I don't know if those who took money and came to speak are really "acquaintances". All I can say is that anyone who really knows someone in the crew should know that Jiang Chuan, a newcomer, used Weiya for the first time on camera, and it was a one-time thing under Director Jiang Luocheng's [doge]. If someone can act, they can act, if they're handsome and popular, so be it... don't like it? Get plastic surgery then...... As for Luo Ni, this girl has a background, that's true, and she quite likes Jiang Chuan, but does she have an ambiguous relationship with him? Don't joke around, it's not even related, just because they interacted a bit doesn't mean they're in a romantic relationship, if I glare at you will you get pregnant or what?
