CH 67

"Infatuated" actor (21)

Translated by Jev Kaez

Edited by Jev Kaez

He Xiao was very lucky, because when he entered the entertainment industry, he looked good, and the company was planning to train new people. When he joined the company, the signing gift for him was the male protagonist of a youth TV drama.

When the movie was a big hit, the seven or eight newcomers in the same period were all important, but only two or three were popular, and He Xiao was one of them.

The company thought that he was not bad and could support the traffic, so it allocated some resources to him. As a result, the two dramas He Xiao took over were able to support him, and the popularity continued to rise.

The company he signed was created by a once-popular gold agent. The company upheld his style of creating artists back then, and giving its artists momentum was a desperate hype.

The period when He Xiao’s fans rose most fiercely was when the company was desperately throwing resources at him. But he persevered in the first few films. When he was starring in a big ip script, he threw himself on the street, and he threw it badly. Instead, the newcomer who played opposite him became popular, and the degree of fire was even worse than before.

The main purpose of the boss of the company He Xiao signed was to make money. All the bosses in the world were for making money, but in the media industry, many people had a little bit of literary and artistic feelings, so they did this not only to make money, but also to make something that the world will remember.

For example, they were all actors. If they had some actors, they worked hard to hone their acting skills, while others only cared about hype. As screenwriters, some write their own original scripts in a down-to-earth manner, but some come quickly, copying packages one after another.

It didn’t mean that there was no talent. Anyone who could become popular and successful would definitely have their own shining points, but the emphasis was not quite the same.

The one He Xiao signed, although it was big, the industry’s reputation was not very good. The famous bad film production company basically had both traffic and infamy, and did not care about cherishing feathers1.

After joining this company, He Xiao had good luck at the beginning, but after he acted in that street drama, the latter one did not receive much attention.

Later, his popularity continued to decline, which made He Xiao very frightened. At that time, he asked his agent what was going on.

The other party was hesitant to tell him that it was because the resources were all given to his contemporaneous artist form the company.

The company’s rules were like this. The management of artists was very loose. It didn’t matter what the artists were messing with, no matter what means you use, as long as you could become popular, the company would support you, or you needed to pay a little price in exchange for these resources.

Although it was a big company, its atmosphere was not good, and its reputation in the industry was also very bad. It was just that this difference was aimed at those artists who had status and knew everything about most things. A young rookie like He Xiao could only see the company’s brilliance and strong capital.

Just like ordinary people working in a company, they look good from the outside, but only when they enter the company do they realize how pitiful the inside was.

If He Xiao worked very hard every day, he would have become popular after accumulating a lot of money, he might have endured this unspoken rule silently, but he was not. He suddenly changed from an unknown ordinary person to a big star with much attention, and then encountered a sudden decline in popularity, the company refrigerated, and resources were robbed.

His mentality collapsed all of a sudden. After tossing and turning for several days, he also allowed himself to recognize this value. He used a lot of unsightly means to carry out his same period. After tasting the sweetness, he made more than one or two.

Back then, Lu Yi was tricked into He Xiao’s bedroom because the person He Xiao had committed before wanted to take revenge on him and designed such a play.

He himself felt that what he had done was unlikely to be picked up, but as long as it was a person, it would leave traces, and He Xiao didn’t do it himself, so many people knew about it. Secrets won’t be revealed unless everyone was dead.

But now was a society governed by the rule of law, not the kind of rivers and lakes in martial arts novels that were happy and vindictive. Normal people couldn’t think about fighting and killing, and wanting to keep people´s mouths shut, in addition to doing both hard and soft, they could only use money.

But the people who were able to do those things for He Xiao at the beginning did not have much moral integrity. They kept their promises because He Xiao’s position in the circle was not bad, and the future development was also good, and if the matter was shaken out now, they were not easy to mix in the industry, so they took He Xiao’s money and shut up.

But when Kong Si followed the investigation, it gave a really huge profit, and the money and silk moved people’s hearts. Before, they kept secrets for He Xiao for the sake of money, but when the rewards were generous enough, they sold them without hesitation.

Kong Si’s main job was acting, he was not very familiar with marketing, he specialized in art, after spending money to get the other party’s black material, after knowing what the other party had done, he would take matters into his own hands. All of them were handed over to the assistant and observed silently. In short, He Xiao couldn’t be better off.

Kong Si spent money to find someone to investigate He Xiao’s black material. Lu Yi knew that for a long time after he founded Xingchen Entertainment, he was too busy all day long. He worked hard and diligently. After working for such a long time and working hard to develop Xingchen Entertainment, it was to be able to have enough strength to gain a firm foothold in the circle.

Not only for Kong Si, but for himself, and also for the original owner.

Before, there was no capital, just a little money and a little power, even if it could stumble those people, it would not hurt. It was ridiculous to talk about revenge.

But now that he had money and connections, and it could be said in the circle that stomping his feet could cause an earthquake, he began to plan the settlements one by one.

On the day he passed through, he was drugged by his agent Li He and sent to He Xiao’s room. At the beginning, he just threatened and intimidated, using both hard and soft, and asked Li He to help him terminate the contract with the previous company.

After that, he kept putting Li He aside and never cared about the other party.

It was rare that he was not so busy now. He remembered Li He, and bought the company where Li He worked.

Unlike He Xiao, the original owner Lu Xingchen signed with a small company, and the most successful one was the talent show that made Lu Xingchen debut.

After the company was acquired by him, a very normal personnel transfer was carried out. Many of the related households who were inserted by the company’s top management, who were not competent enough for the company’s work, were dismissed.

Of course, it also included Li He, Lu Xingchen’s manager back then.

He greeted several bigwigs in the circle, implying that he and this Li He had a lot of festivals in the past, and if anyone got along with Li He, it meant that he couldn’t get along with anyone.

In this circle, people were very concerned about connections. Li He was originally a little shrimp, and if he offended someone who shouldn’t have offended, his life was naturally not very good.

And I don’t know who stabbed his hot-tempered wife about the fact that he had a lover outside. After finding a bunch of people to beat his mistress violently, his wife’s maiden brother came and beat him again, almost not crippling him.

Lu Yi was not that kind of gangster. Knowing that Li He’s life was not good, he was relieved.

Li He was one of the culprits. The one who could not hesitate to join Li He to give him medicine in order to calculate He Xiao was not a good thing.

Since the other party liked traffic so much, Lu Yi spent money to get some large-scale photos of the other party and a greasy old man, and helped him make a headline.

For the melon eaters, these few months were probably the busiest months. First, Yu Si, a new actor, broke out that he was married, and the marriage partner was a company president who looked very much like him.

Yu Si’s fans hadn’t had time to explode, but the next day a big news about He Xiao came out, and it was like acting in a TV series, one after another.

The last piece of information about He Xiao was that He Xiao was arrested and temporarily detained for investigation on suspicion of some illegal activities.

It was said that black and red was also red, but this level of black would obviously have a greater negative impact on He Xiao.

Immediately after that, there was a super-hot story about a plastic surgery artist who was at odds with He Xiao. The melon-eating crowd was almost running out of melons, and they watched a few people making noise all day long.

During this period, Yu Si’s films won several awards at foreign film festivals, and he also won a very important Golden X Award in China. He also squeezed into the hot search with positive searches.

Almost a month had passed before the national melon-eating carnival stopped. Because he was brought on stage during the period, Yu Si’s popularity increased several times.

But just in the rising period of his career, the account of Yu Si’s studio released an announcement that Yu Si planned to quit filming. Yu Si’s fans rubbed their eyes, unable to believe their own eyes.

They looked at the calendar and it wasn’t April Fools’ Day.

This must be the hype that had not run away, and it was estimated that the rumor would soon come out. Fans could only try to be optimistic.

Until Kong Si logged into his account and relayed the news in person.

Jev Kaez's notes:

1 to cherish feathers means to cherish one's reputation and be cautious.