Chapter 233: Make A Few More Xing Ni
Suddenly, Chi Ye gestured a “three” towards Jin Xia’s direction again.
The Empress Dowager was stunned, her little face slightly red, she lowered her head pretending to fiddle with her hem, after a while feeling it was about right, she grandly gestured a “five”.
Chi Ye was surprised.
Jin Xia waved her hand smugly, indicating this was no big deal.
“OK.”
Chi Ye turned back satisfied, and Jin Xia nodded satisfied too.
Both were quite satisfied, but Chi Ye’s diehard fans were very unsatisfied… Zhu Yao Lin whose hot search popularity was overtaken, Si Zi, and many insiders were all unsatisfied.
“He’s number one on hot search now?”
In the second row, Zhu Yao Lin frowned: “Even when I won Movie Emperor, I didn’t overshadow him?”
“It’s his ‘scandal’ with Jin Xia… These two are too good at hyping, from variety show to real life, with Professor Chi and Qian Songyi’s halo, just a little noise can overshadow others.”
A producer friend next to him laughed: “Don’t worry, Si Zi got overshadowed too.”
“……Whether he got overshadowed or not doesn’t matter, I’m the Movie Emperor.”
Zhu Yao Lin felt a bit upset inside—anyone at their “ascension” moment encountering this would be very unhappy, originally protagonist treatment, but you snatched it away from me?
Of course, Zhu Yao Lin thought Chi Ye stole his popularity, and at the most critical node of his career, it was very unethical.
But Lin Yang Qianrui similarly felt Zhu Yao Lin stole his Movie Emperor, right at his career’s peak period—very unethical.
Meanwhile, Chi Ye didn’t need to mention it, one B《Xing Ni》 messed up to now still has damn popularity, he really couldn’t figure out what was so good about that crappy idol drama.
“Keep buying, positive topics not only need to surpass Zhu Yao Lin, but also Chi Ye, a crappy Best Supporting Actor singing and dancing, really fucking annoying.”
Si Zi seized the opportunity and sent a WeChat to his agent.
Soon, the agent replied: 【OK, plus, he’s not alone, they’re two people.】
【That Jin Xia is annoying too, so many people hate her, just washed white because of one crappy drama.】
【Aren’t you planning to collaborate with her on your next project?】
【Don’t mention it, got rejected.】
【Huh?】
The agent was confused: 【Who would reject you? For what reason?】
Mentioning this made Si Zi angry, because if there was a reason it would be fine, but Jin Xia rejected without any reason, if forced to say… probably just didn’t want to collaborate.
As for why she didn’t want to collaborate, Si Zi’s self-esteem was very sensitive, he didn’t want to inquire further.
No, why?
You, a little flower with some traffic from idol drama, still “dare” to proactively reject me, this hot Billionaire Young Actor in internal entertainment circle?
Don’t forget, just a year ago, you could only play Best Supporting Actress in my movie!
Si Zi was really frustrated, he thought anything related to Chi Ye was unlucky for him… he… he craved traffic, who said he didn’t like traffic, just because he grew ugly after adulthood, who doesn’t want more people to like them?
Ding dong.
The agent sent another WeChat, but this time not content, but a Weibo link.
Si Zi paused, clicked in and scanned it, finally showing a bit of smile on his face.
……
11 PM at night.
The 37th China Golden Rooster Awards Award Ceremony officially ended.
Of course, ending doesn’t mean closing, because it’s a rare annual big gathering in the circle, so after the ceremony, there’s an arranged dinner in the evening, and tomorrow there will be various official media interviews and reports.
As soon as the ceremony ended, Chi Ye was pulled by《Circulation》’s Director Zhang and several actor friends from《Xing Ni》 to chat, after chatting he was just about to go find the Empress Dowager, when he noticed Keke’s gesture towards him.
Someone from China Film came, agreed to have dinner together tonight.
Chi Ye could only scan the crowd, but didn’t see the Empress Dowager’s figure, so had to follow Keke to meet the China Film person in charge first.
……
The other side.
As soon as the ceremony ended for Jin Xia, she was “surrounded” by a group of people.
But those who can attend Golden Rooster Awards either have enough star power or enough background, definitely won’t act so overtly, the so-called “surrounding” is just enthusiastic attitude exchanges and networking.
Previously Jin Xia’s personality in the circle was very unlikable, not only external audience bystanders hated this drama queen, even insiders gossiped about her drama queen temper.
Not to mention, the film circle never treated her particularly well.
But today was different.
To be precise, Jin Xia’s current “assets” were different.
—Didn’t you hear what Chi Ye said today?
Jin Xia is a major shareholder of Chi Ye Studio!
Those so-called projects and hit products of Chi Ye are almost all Jin Xia’s “works”.
Outside those brainless teams issuing press releases and paid commenters to market flattering Chi Ye’s projects, but flattering Chi Ye, how is it as fast as flattering Jin Xia?
If Jin Xia is willing, they think acting in a Chi Ye work should be simpler.
“Xia Xia, that dress you wore at the last show, which series was it? I searched for half a day at home and couldn’t find it.”
“Congrats, Xia Xia.”
“Congrats?” Jin Xia looked at this 95s little flower in the circle in front of her with little interest, a bit confused: “Congrats on what for me?”
The little flower blinked: “Didn’t Chi Ye win an award…”
“Oh, right right right.”
The Empress Dowager reacted, instantly overjoyed: “Then congrats to me more.”
Everyone: “……”
Not far away.
Sheng Ning was holding her arms smoking, quietly watching this side.
“Sister Ning, Sister Ning.”
Suddenly, a strange yet familiar voice sounded, Sheng Ning was stunned, turned back, and saw Sister Shang sneaking over.
“You……why are you here?”
Sheng Ning was really shocked.
Among the Four Little Flowers, Sister Shang had the best relationships, but this didn’t include Sheng Ning… because Sheng Ning’s temper was bad, plus outsiders always compared the two, some said Sheng Ning was the head of Four Little, others said Sister Shang was.
So, with Sister Shang’s personality, she couldn’t even get along well with Sheng Ning.
Of course, this not getting along well was relative, compared to others, Sister Shang at least could “exchange” with Sheng Ning.
“I… I was bored, just wandering around.”
Sister Shang blinked, seemingly casually looking towards the “smug” Jin Xia: “Aiya, Xia Xia this shareholder is very busy now.”
Sheng Ning raised a brow, suspiciously looking at her.
Sister Shang calmly continued: “We haven’t gathered for a long time, want to have dinner together later?”
Sheng Ning stared at her: “What exactly do you want to say?”
“……Sorry, I was wrong, I’m leaving.”
Sister Shang met Sheng Ning’s aggressive phoenix eyes, felt a bit guilty and lowered her head, after a skilled kowtow triple combo, turned and slipped away.
“Is she sick?”
Sheng Ning was even more puzzled inside, feeling Shang Youshu this woman’s behavior was extremely weird… as abstract as ever.
……
Sister Shang hadn’t even started scheming and already chickened out and fled, her mood wasn’t particularly great, but soon her eyes lit up, seeing Shi Jinwei standing alone at the doorway, looking towards a certain direction.
“Weiwei, Weiwei.”
Sister Shang went over, same peeking around: “Are you looking at Chi Ye?”
Sister Qianzi: “?”
Sister Shang put on a serious face: “I found out the illness.”
Shi Jinwei was startled: “Ah? What illness?!”
“……Hard to speak of.”
Shi Jinwei frowned examining her: “From the last program? You… are you okay?”
“I’m fine, it’s hunger-induced.”
Shi Jinwei upon hearing panicked more inside, but seeing Sister Shang emphasize “hunger-induced” again, reacted, looking at her speechlessly: “Who did you learn from, sis, don’t joke about this kind of thing.”
“Aiya… I saw you were sad… Weiwei, let’s go eat something delicious together, I’m hungry.”
Sister Shang hugged Shi Jinwei, a pair of “salty pig hands” subtly patted Sister Qianzi’s butt, blinking: “Tonight accompany sis well.”
Shi Jinwei’s face slightly reddened, slapped away Sister Shang’s hand: “Don’t mess around, what are you doing!”
“Hehe, nudge nudge.”
Sister Shang piled onto Shi Jinwei, while calling her little assistant: “Later I’ll order Chi Ye to give you a collaboration confirmation!”
Shi Jinwei immediately shook her head, subconsciously said: “No, that’s not what I meant, I just came to get some air…”
“Don’t act tough Weiwei, act tougher and I’ll make you soft oh.”
Sister Shang treated same-sex like ordinary girls treat girlfriends, private chats as “violent” as can be.
Shi Jinwei was silent for a bit, then asked: “Are we going to eat Wallace?”
Sister Shang was surprised: “You want to eat Western food?”
Shi Jinwei: “……Sis, stop, too disgusting.”
“Haha, no problem no problem, we won’t eat Western food today, we’ll eat Chinese food.”
Sister Shang smiling, left with Shi Jinwei.
……
1 AM.
Chi Ye and Keke’s group walked out from the private room.
—The dinner party had ended, basically no nutritious topics discussed, just getting to know each other, only at the end mentioned a bit about China Film’s investment in《Mars Rescue》.
It was obvious, after experiencing《Magic City Fortress》, they had some trauma towards sci-fi films, especially projects led by actors like Chi Ye, if not for orders from above, they might not want to get involved.
“Chi Ge, feels like everyone at the table was quite reserved.”
Walking out of the venue, Keke remarked: “Because of《Magic City Fortress》?”
“Not entirely.”
Chi Ye thought and said: “Winning the award this time actually made many people quite unhappy, but they can’t do anything.”
“……Chi Ge, you sound like you’re showing off.”
“Not like, I am showing off.”
Keke: “……”
Chi Ye laughed, then let out a long breath: “This film circle is different from drama circle, many people have been around for ten or twenty years, the circle is already set, not like you can just blend in.”
“For example Beijing Circle and China Film, these people have their own relationships above, if you’re softer they might accept you, if you’re harder, they think you’re deliberately showing off.”
Chi Ye also had a bit of headache: “This B circle… really has a feeling like the old lady’s foot-binding cloth.”
“Huh?”
“Smelly and pretentious.”
“……”
“Alright, no more on this, let me check the time… this hour… Xia Xia is asleep… forget it, no call.”
Chi Ye took out his mobile phone, just about to dial Jin Xia’s number, noticed the time, and put down the phone.
“Chi Ge… trouble in the backyard, someone stirring things up again.”
At this time, Keke also opened WeChat, scanned a few glances, looking tired: “Those few Weibo you posted today, diehard fans and CP fans are fighting.”
Chi Ye: “……It’s fine, ignore it.”
After《Xing Ni》, Chi Ye’s personal traffic reached peak, attracting who knows how many fans, naturally mostly girlfriend fans.
And among this group of girlfriend fans, diehard fans were the largest portion, most were girlfriend fans, wife fans, one of the “dead enemies” of various CP fans.
Today Chi Ye interacting variously with Jin Xia on Weibo obviously stimulated this group of fans.
But Chi Ye Team’s fan management method was actually very advanced, in other words, usually Chi Ye’s diehard fans were crazy, but always controlled by the team to a degree, at most privately venting in super topics, not starting any trends.
The current situation could only mean rivals behind the scenes stirring up trouble, deliberately fanning the flames.
“My unrivaled top streamer status is blocking how many people’s paths, messing with me every day.”
Chi Ye muttered, opened Weibo, scanned, found not only Chi Pan Xia Yu’s CP fans fighting diehard fans, even Shi Jinwei, Sister Shang, Sheng Ning, Ran Qiao’s CP fans were fighting.
He paused, posted a Weibo from his account, only one sentence: 【Shh, good night.】
The CP fans and diehard fans who were originally led into rhythm, heads about to be beaten into dog heads, instantly all quieted down—at least no more jumping around in super topics.
Instead they all ran under his to brush data.
“Always doing this, Chi Ge your traffic will lose severely.”
Keke witnessed the whole process beside, a bit worried: “Recently several young actors exploded, they’re all sucking your blood.”
Chi Ye’s strong suppression method seemed to solve things, but actually every use definitely had many diehard fans who couldn’t take it choosing to leave.
Commonly known as washing fans.
This matter had pros and cons, but for Chi Ye, it didn’t matter.
“It’s fine, they’ll come back.”
Chi Ye looked up at the sky: “They’ll come back next time it snows.”
Keke stunned: “Huh? Why?”
“Because《Ghost》 will air on snowy days.”
Gaining and losing fans only applies to ordinary top streamers like Yu Yan.
For Chi Ye, once he reached this position, he wouldn’t go down again.
Can’t take it? Then bring more《Xing Ni》.
……
The other end of the dinner party.
China Film person in charge got in the car, holding mobile phone: “Yes… sigh, how to put it… no choice, above wants to support sci-fi films, have to invest even if not wanting to, at least show an attitude.”
“Yes, yes, I know《Magic City Fortress》 lost badly, but this time with the news down, the few capitals that can play such projects shouldn’t lack money… um,《Mars Rescue》 is Chi Ye’s own project, definitely lacks…《749 Bureau》 wants additional investment?”
“……Wait for me to consider, Beijing Circle these people don’t feel very reliable either.”
