CH 64

"Infatuated" actor (18)

Translated by Jev Kaez

Edited by Jev Kaez

Maybe it was because what Lu Yi said before gave Kong Si a sense of crisis, his career aspirations soared, and he made up his mind not to be the man behind the boss, but to be the company’s cash cow.

He was so enterprising; Lu Yi was naturally willing to vigorously invest resources in Kong Si. In the more than a year since the company was established, Xingchen Entertainment had also signed a lot of artists, including rookies, and first- and second-tier actresses who have terminated their contracts with other companies, but no one could match Kong Si’s status.

There was a company to support him, the key was that Kong Si also strived for himself, his acting skills were excellent, and his appearance was good. Several dramas had been hit in a row. The company was willing to spend money to hype him, and his fame skyrocketed.

On He Xiao’s side, after confirming the truth, Kong Si asked the agent to stop talking, and directly blocked He Xiao.

Of course, it wasn’t like that. He asked his agent to open a trumpet account and pretend to be a He Xiao fan to sneak into the other party’s official fan group, where he could easily observe the movements of the other party’s fans at any time.

So that when the opponent moved, they could make a powerful counterattack in time.

As Lu Yi said, Kong Si and He Xiao were very similar, of course, it was not their appearance, but their temperament and positioning. Actors of the same type were often compared with various rankings, TV series performance, and movie box office.

At the beginning, Kong Si was not well-known. When his fans increased, the major rankings began to play with this newcomer.

In the circle, even if there was no obvious friction between similar actors, the actual competition was very large, and usually one rises up, and the other will be suppressed invisibly, such as the chick movie, the director of a good film, when considering candidates, when the two have similar appearance and acting skills, they would definitely consider the one that was hotter and could bring more traffic.

Kong Si and He Xiao both said that they would go for a high-caliber acting school. In terms of script selection, they would try their best to choose characters that were more difficult but attractive.

He Xiao was born in youth films, but after acting for a few years, he gradually shifted from TV dramas to the big screen. In order to show his style, he chose literary films, as well as criminal investigation films with high IQ.

But after a few films, they all fluttered.

And Kong Si, in addition to God´s reward food1, he had enough resources. After acting in a few TV dramas, he started to make movies, and several small-budget niche films were huge hits. Whether it was box office, styling, or word of mouth, all similar films starred by Kong Si were slammed.

After Kong Si came up, the resources He Xiao was able to win were virtually suppressed.

When he found out that he had been blocked by Kong Si, He Xiao felt a little uneasy for some reason. He tried to find the contact information of Kong Si. As a result, he dialed the phone and just said the first sentence, the other party simply said hung up the phone neatly and blocked him.

He Xiao was not someone who gave up so easily, but he was a big star who had been a star for a few years, and he was used to the feeling of being sought after by others.

Originally, it was just to make up a friend’s regret, so it was okay if he didn’t make it, He Xiao thought about it, but found that actor Kong Si began to invade his life forcefully in a different way.

They hit genres. There were several big productions that he valued. On the audition set, he could always see Kong Si’s figure, and almost every time, the role he wanted was taken by Kong Si.

In the TV series or movies that he and the other party broadcast on the same schedule, Kong Si’s performance was always higher than him, and his popularity was also better than him.

In fact, Kong Si didn’t bump into him on purpose at all. Originally, the release of TV dramas and movies took a long time from filming review to distribution.

But who made Kong Si work diligently, with several big productions in succession, he was screened every day. There were only so many in prime time. He Xiao’s dramas always had to collide for a long time, but if they collided too many times, it gave people the illusion that the other party was deliberately suppressing him.

With his strength and capital, the other party could easily catch up with his predecessor in the entertainment industry, as if riding a rocket.

In the entertainment industry, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and the front waves die on the beach. At the beginning, due to the special affection in his heart, he didn’t want to have a bad relationship with Kong Si, but because of this special affection, he could not control himself to pay attention to Kong Si.

Watching Kong Si’s fans increase rapidly day by day, from being nearly 10 million less than him, to being on par with himself, and now surpassing him, He Xiao’s mentality was also a little out of balance.

You must know that in the circle, in addition to boasting appearance, the most important thing was acting. Fans of idol stars may like this person because of various circumstances, character, appearance, and role. But in the circle, who in the entertainment industry did not want to be praised for their good acting skills?

Self-steaming acting could still get by, fans could blow up to the sky. Especially like Kong Si, with God rewarded food, and the key words brought up by searching his name were mostly good acting skills, good looks, and the name of Kong Si’s role in several dramas.

All of them had good acting skills, and the old actors were not good enough to compare, so they were compared with those of the same age. He Xiao was not a male artist who with genius acting skills in the circle.

There was no need for Kong Si to hint at fans, there were good gossip entertainment bloggers in the entertainment section of major forums to ask #to all talented actors, how about the acting skills of actors Yu Si and He Xiao? #

When someone asked #how to evaluate the actor Yu Si#, some people deliberately put his name on it, and then compared the two people, one step on the other.

In the entertainment industry, if you want your mentality not to collapse, you have to maintain a normal mind of a Buddhist, but He Xiao was obviously not this kind of Buddhist-minded youth. He climbed up quickly at the beginning, and he did send out manuscripts that tied the family and trampled on others, which was the usual method in the circle.

But now, he was looking at the topics that the fans were brushing, and the answers on the forum. Although he didn’t know whether the person who answered was a fan of the other party or a water army, even if the other party was telling the truth, he still felt that he was being stepped on by Kong Si.

Yes, he, Kong Si, was a luminous person, and he was born to eat this bowl of rice, but he obviously had a good time outside the circle, so what was the matter with him coming to the entertainment circle to grab this bowl of rice with him.

He looked at Kong Si every day, and the more he looked, the more he felt that this face couldn’t match his memory, and the sunny and handsome face of the other party became even more disgusting in his heart.

When Zhao Qian came in, he saw He Xiao watching the recently released TV series, he saw He Xiao’s gloomy face and said to him: “Why are you watching that Yu Si again, he doesn’t want to get along with us? there were rumors in the circle before that the two of you were at odds.”

He actually didn’t understand why his artist paid so much attention to a male artist, but he and He Xiao were tied to the same boat. Only when He Xiao was doing good could he have a good life. He Xiao paid attention to Yu Si, and he also paid attention to Yu Si’s agent, but the other party was very cold and had no intention of hyping with them, so he almost teared his face with them.

He Xiao asked him: “Then what do I do?”

Zhao Qian asked: “What should I do?”

“It’s Kong… It’s Yu Si, Brother Qian, you’re right. I compete with him so fiercely that I can live only if I trample him to death.” He felt that he was really too soft-hearted before, so he shouldn’t let the other party climb up with such old feelings.

Zhao Qian sighed: “I told you a long time ago, you didn’t work hard enough when he was growing up. Now that people have climbed up, how can it be so easy to step on.”

He Xiao frowned, he really regretted it now, he shouldn’t have been so kind to Kong Si for the sake of such a little love for one of his friends: “Then what should I do?”

Zhao Qian said: “Actually, there is a way, I just don’t know if you will agree.”

“What can I do?” The more he looked at Kong Si’s face now, the more uncomfortable he felt. And his popularity has declined now. For the sake of his career, he must take absolute measures.

Zhao Qian hesitated for a while, then said, “Fry cp.2”

“What do you mean? Do you want me to stir up scandals with female artists?” It’s sad to think about it. In the past, all female entertainers were picking up on him, but now they want him to pick up on other people’s scandals, relying on this kind of manuscript to attract public attention.

It was all because of Kong Si.

Zhao Qian shook his head.

After the legalization of gay marriage, many male entertainers in the circle were known as Wheat Bran3. He Xiao was a straight man just to show that he was different. Now that Now that Zhao Qian was going to fry with a man, He Xiao thought that his manager was confused.

“Not with female stars, with male stars, have you forgotten what the company set up for me?”

Zhao Qian said: “That was before, when you were hot, of course you had to stick to the character setting and not waver. Now you are about to lose your mind. If you don’t want to continue to lose it, you can only go sideways.”

He glanced at the actor on the LCD TV: “He is in the rising period of his career, unless there is a big scandal such as marital derailment or drug abuse, otherwise, if you want to crush him to death it would be difficult.”

He Xiao frowned: “He doesn’t even stir up scandals with others, what kind of cheating in marriage.”

In recent years, the country’s moral requirements for celebrities had become much stricter than before. If the scandal of derailment was big, then basically you would have to be a low-key person in the entertainment industry.

But this was for cheating in marriage. If you are unmarried, the negative impact of scandals such as male cheating was not serious.

As for scandals such as drug use, unless there were real news, it meant that the other party had been arrested and someone was in the game, then it was possible, otherwise, the other party could sue for slander. These rumors would not affect Kong Si at all.

Zhao Qian followed his words: “Yeah, since we won’t be able to get along for a while, then you can use his traffic to fry CP with him.”

“Then what if he embarrasses me?” He Xiao had no doubt that the other party could do such a thing.

Zhao Qian said with certainty: “As long as we don’t publicize it in the open, and you don’t express your position clearly, he can’t embarrass you.”

This time, He Xiao didn’t hesitate: “Then do as you said, and I will fully cooperate here.”

Although He Xiao had done too much before, he didn’t make any fuss afterward. Kong Si thought in his heart, it was better to do less than to do more, the other party didn’t cause any harm, and it always seemed immoral for him to take the initiative to suppress others.

But because of the lessons learned, he never gave up asking the agent to pay attention to the other side. Almost a year had passed since the last deceitful incident, and the wind about him and He Xiao suddenly changed a lot.

Suddenly, a wave of cults appeared in the circle, specializing in frying him and He Xiao’s CP, they were called XiaoYu CP. In the circle of online articles and comics, there had been a wave of fan articles about He Xiao and him, as well as video clips of the TV series they had filmed.

Because it was only popular in the niche circle at the beginning, Kong Si’s manager didn’t find out at first, but when the circle grew and CP fans began to pull people from pure fans, they realized that something was wrong.

Those cult fanfictions were basically the abuse kind. They portrayed He Xiao very well, and portrayed Kong Si in a particularly sloppy manner. Combined with Kong Si playing a big name a few years ago, He Xiao coming out to speak for Kong Si, the fact that Kong Si did not respond made the fact that Kong Si was a big scumbag even more.

Kong Si was quietly sitting at home, and the pot came from the sky, because he had publicly stated that his sexual orientation was male, he had somehow become a big scumbag who deceived the feelings of straight men.

This evil wind seemed to be started by an entertainment gossip V, and it had nothing to do with He Xiao, but Kong Si was not stupid. Thinking about who could profit from it, he could know who was the initiator.

He originally wanted to sue with Lu Yi, but then he thought about it, when he asked Lu Yi to hand over this matter to him, he was thinking of morality and did not take the initiative to take action against the other party, but just went ahead and crushed it, which led to the present situation.

He didn’t have the face to ask Lu Yi to help him again and again, and he discussed it with his agent. The other party developed from the two-dimensional circle, and he defeated the other party in the same place.

In his busy schedule, he specially opened a few trumpets to let himself go, and wrote his own fanfiction. He was the president of the literature club back in high school. He had written dozens of articles in magazines, and he was very good when it came to writing bullshit articles.

Didn’t He Xiao want to write that he was a big scumbag, he just wrote short and medium newspaper articles. The front was very sweet, the two of them were sweet and sweet, and then when the end was about to end, there was a shocking reversal. It turned out that everything was a scam set up by He Xiao.

After writing a few similar dog-blood articles in one go, he borrowed the company’s channel to push it.

He also opened a small account, dedicated to writing sweet articles, specifically writing overbearing president X x him, or he x X overbearing president. The name of the president was also very simple and crude, all surnamed Lu. With the super high-quality sweet articles, his account also once became a big hand in the circle.

His own strength was too weak, in addition to writing to relieve his anger, he also mobilized his fans to write.

Of course, he didn’t say it himself, but through the administrator of the official fan group to show what he meant.

Fans didn’t know about him and the president, so what should they write about? Under the advocacy of the administrator, they wrote Yu Si’s role AX, Yu Si B, Yu Si himself x Yu Si’s role C, they were a self-attack cult

The advantage of his sharp increase in fans and popularity was that, about his self-attack fanfiction, the fanfiction transferred by the official support club had quickly become popular, and it was increasing at a terrifying speed. The heat was quickly suppressed by the craze he brought up.

Besides, apart from the script he wrote about He Xiao’s scumbag at the beginning, he was determined not to give the other party a little bit of enthusiasm in the back, black and red was also red, so he didn’t want to hype with He Xiao.

After all this was done and the results of his labor were made, he went to Lu Yi with the data analysis report before and after. This time, it was not a complaint, but a credit.

Kong Si pointed to the data on the report and said, “At the beginning, he took away a lot of fans from me. Of course, it’s the kind of unsettled one.”

He went on to say: “But I quickly discovered the anomaly in this circle. I let people produce food. Not only did I successfully bring those fans back, but I even took away some of the fans who belonged to He Xiao.”

Among the huge fan groups, true fans and brainless fans would always be in the minority. Most of them were passers-by fans, and they would fall when the wind blows, so once something happens to the artist, it was easy for this group of fans to turn around. Even the fans turn black.

People are born to be affectionate animals. Fans’ “husbands” change every day, and it was rare to have a long-term relationship. But the wall powder was also powder, and it was better than nothing.

Lu Yi looked at the report, and then at the face of Kong Si who was expecting praise. He coughed lightly, and then said, “You did a good job, so just keep going.”

When Lu Yi did things, he was used to strangling danger in the bud, and Kong Si’s principle was that people don’t offend me, and I don’t offend others.

But since he had promised to hand over He Xiao’s affairs to Kong Si, he would not interfere too much, and would only silently grow his capital behind his back, so that he would have enough right to speak, and if He Xiao came up to jump wildly, he could easily trample people to death.

Kong Si looked at him with a bit of disappointment: “Don’t you have anything else to say?”

Verbal praise was definitely not enough, kiss him and hold him high, he didn’t ask for the last three words, at least the first four words should be done.

Lu Yi said: “The one who wrote ‘the overbearing president XX’ is you, and ‘the painter is a salted fish’, it is also you.”

Kong Si was taken aback, and subconsciously denied: “It’s not me, really not, I don’t.”

After the denial, he remembered that he had promised not to lie, and immediately changed his mind and said, “Well, that’s all me, how did you find out?”

Lu Yi said, “In the middle of the night, you sneaked up to write this, and then forgot to delete the document.”

Thinking that it was written by his own man, even if the writing was too ugly, he had to hold it to prevent the other party from losing confidence.

But after reading it, he had to say that Kong Si’s writing was quite good, but the writing of Xiao X was too unrealistic.

Well, anyway, two people live together, the vest couldn’t be kept forever.

As always, Kong Si’s heart quickly became balanced. He thought about it, and then said, “Actually, when I wrote this, I have been suppressing it all the time, there are still hidden dangers. If the other party hires a large number of gunmen to produce food, it is not impossible to suppress me in the opposite direction.”

As soon as Lu Yi heard Kong Si’s tone, he didn’t need to think about it, he knew that there was something in his lover’s words, and he asked Kong Si cooperatively: “Yes, what you said makes sense, and then what?”

Kong Si said, “On our side, we can also hire more water army. Anyway, I have made a lot of money for the company over the years, right.”

Lu Yi nodded: “You’re right.”

Media companies and artists were actually a relationship that influences each other. The company makes the artist popular, and the popularity of the artist will bring a steady stream of revenue to the company. The current Kong Si was already a real brother of Xingchen Media. His rapidly growing popularity had brought very high benefits to the company. Last year, Kong Si received endorsements and remunerations as high as 160 million.

Coupled with the company’s stock dividends, Kong Si was now a real rich man.

Kong Si went on to say, “But, it’s a waste to spend this kind of money on someone like him. Although we have money, we should save it, right?”

Lu Yi hesitated for a while, but nodded, saving was a traditional virtue.

Kong Si swallowed his saliva, obviously they were old husband and wife, but he was still inexplicably nervous at this time, almost like a marriage proposal: “So I have a good way to solve him and save money, do you want to listen to me?”

Lu Yi looked at him with a smile: “Tell me, if it’s as appropriate as you said, I’ll consider it.”

After shaking the burden for so long, Kong Si finally revealed his true purpose: “I think the time is almost there, let’s make it public.”

He didn’t want his name to be put together with He Xiao or others, all he wanted was Lu Yi, and he wanted to tell the world that this was his man, a legally recognized and justifiable husband.

Lu Yi said, “Okay.”

His voice was short and powerful.

“If you…” Before Lu Yi answered, Kong Si was prepared that the other party would not agree. As the company’s first brother, if he made it public, the company’s stock price and the like may suffer a lot of fluctuations.

Xingchen Media was founded by Lu Yi, and he clearly saw how much effort the other party had put into the company over such a long period of time.

If it was him, he might think twice. After all, no one had to tolerate the other party.

But Lu Yi didn’t hesitate at all and said yes.

He was still worried about the three-year itch and the seven-year itch, but now those worries have been thrown away.

“Lu Yi!”

“Huh?” Lu Yi replied softly, indicating that he was listening carefully.

“Let’s make it public now, immediately!”

He Xiao’s first wave of hype was not a complete success, but it wasn’t a complete failure. At least at the beginning, he tasted the sweetness. Just as he was about to habitually swipe the rankings, and when he was about to buy a hot search, he swiped such a hot search.

#Yu Si is married#

Jev Kaez's notes:

1 An adjective to describe someone who is super talented in a certain way.

2 Fry CP, hyping a couple to attract the attention of the audience.

3 Let´s remember, Wheat Bran is selling rot in the public and deliberately being ambiguous and intimate or implied unusual feelings between themselves and another person of the same sex to please and attract lovers of corruption (homosexuality).