Translator: Vian
Editor: celes
Early in the morning, S-City that had just entered spring was still a bit chilly.
When Rong Xu opened the door, he thought it would be Luo Zhentao but didn't expect it to be this man instead. And Qin Cheng also didn't think that this youth would only be wearing a thin beige sweater when he came to open the door for him.
The cold air outside the room was a bit biting so Rong Xu couldn't help but shrink back slightly. Qin Chen immediately stepped into the room, closing the door behind him, and all of a sudden, he entered the room. Both of them appeared to be somewhat surprised, but Rong Xu quickly smiled and asked: "It's a bit cold outside, did you want to find me for something, Qin Cheng?"
The dark gray coat outlined the man's tall and upright body. Qin Chen lowered his gaze to look at the youth in front of him, and Rong Xu also looked up at him with a smile. The man's eyes grew deeper and deeper, his profound inky black eyes densely accumulating into an intense color. After a long time, Qin Cheng said in a low voice: "The matter I spoke to you about last night, I found out who did it."
His phoenix eyes slightly widened, and after a few seconds, Rong Xu smiled: "You found out already? My apologies for bothering you with this."
Saying this, Rong Xu turned around to retrieve his coat from the coat rack. When he lifted his hand to take the coat, the loose sweater lightly folded and revealed an opening on the chest, casting a thought-provoking shadow. Seeing this from Qin Cheng's perspective, it was in profile, and the slender and defined clavicle drew a beautiful curve which was slowly hidden by the neckline of the sweater.
The lighting was too dim so people couldn't make out what it looked like inside.
The exquisite white skin was like a smooth and flawless jade, warm and soft.
It was said that it's difficult to wear white clothes because it often makes people's skin look dull and yellow, but this beige sweater didn't appear to be as white as the youth. It wasn't pure enough, it wasn't an extremely pure white so it could only make the youth wearing it appear a bit whiter, white to the point that it seemed he could shine, making people unable to help but want to reach out and gently caress it.
Suddenly, Rong Xu turned his head around and smiled: "It was probably difficult to investigate? I heard from Director Liang that the crew went to that marketing account's studio. The other party said that they needed to abide by the rules and ensure the safety of their informants. They were even okay with the crew directly bringing them to court."
Qin Cheng immediately hid his right hand that had reached out behind him. There was no fluctuation on his handsome face; he calmly nodded and said in a cool tone: "En, still alright. There will always be a way."
Rong Xu put on his coat.
Qin Cheng slightly narrowed his eyes. His lips moved, but in the end, he still didn't open his mouth. Soon, that coat covered the beige sweater, covered the beautiful and fragile clavicle, and even covered more than half the neck! All that could be seen was a beautiful and exquisite face.
Qin Cheng: "..." After being silent for a moment, he said: "You know the other person, it's someone you should be very familiar with too."
Rong Xu was currently arranging his scarf. Hearing this, he turned to look at Qin Cheng: "Is it Han Yanghao?"
A hint of surprise quickly flashed past his eyes, but Qin Cheng nodded: "It's him."
Although he had thought that it was Han Yanghao since the very beginning, when he got a confirmation, Rong Xu still couldn't help but frown. He didn't ask Qin Cheng where he got this information. He merely shook his head and said in an unconcerned tone: "Him doing this is a bit too much. What happened has already happened, was this necessary?"
Under the brightly shining sun, the youth slightly shook his head, revealing a look of pity.
Coming to this point, neither Rong Xu nor Qin Cheng continued to mention this matter. Discovering the perpetrator was the most crucial step, and it had already been completed. As for who actually disclosed information to Han Yanghao, this was something that Qin Cheng could not find out even if he possessed remarkable means.
In this world, only Han Yanghao would know who revealed that information to him.
However, it was also impossible for Rong Xu to go personally ask Han Yanghao.
Since they had already met up, Rong Xu went along with Qin Cheng to go eat breakfast. Rong Xu clearly remembered that when he had breakfast at the other's home last time, Qin Cheng didn't say a single word, appearing to have a habit of 'no speaking while eating'. So this time, Rong Xu quietly drank his soy milk and ate the plain congee with some side dishes, not saying a word either.
So naturally, he didn't know that the seemingly calm man in front of him was frowning as his gaze sunk deeper and deeper.
Xu Jin had already returned to B-City last night, and it was also him who provided Han Yanghao's name for Qin Cheng this morning. He just finished handling "Entertainment Circle's Gossip King", this well-known marketing account, and didn't even have the time to rest when he received a text message from a certain man:[Deal with Han Yanghao.]
Xu Jin blankly stared:[Why all of a sudden?]
After a while, the other side replied:[That person went too far.]
Xu Jin was confused, he thought for a long time before he replied:[… Aren't you taking care of Rong Xu too much?]
This time, Qin Cheng didn't reply to him.
After breakfast, Rong Xu and Qin Cheng temporarily separated. Today, they were filming Qin Cheng's death scene. He needed to go to the crew in advance for his special effects makeup, and Rong Xu went upstairs to find Luo Zhentao.
Rong Xu smiled and said goodbye to Qin Cheng, but when Qin Cheng reached the entrance of the hotel, he turned around and stared at the youth's thin, straight back. He waited till the youth entered the elevator, and when he really couldn't see him anymore, he pursed his lips, turned around, and left.
… He seems to be really upset. He didn't even say a single word when eating and kept his head down the whole time.
En, that person surnamed Han crossed the line.
How could Rong Xu, who had just arrived at Luo Zhentao's room, think that his fine traditional habit of "not speaking when eating", when seen in the eyes of a certain man, actually became him being depressed? After seeing Luo Zhentao, Rong Xu immediately confirmed the truth of "Han Yanghao buying the water army", and Luo Zhentao's expression stiffened.
After a while, Luo Zhentao opened his mouth with difficulty: "How much does this person hate you? Xiao Xu, what did you owe him in your last life?"
It's been almost half a year since "Ambush" finished filming and two or three months since it finished airing. How much hate did one have to have, to still think about harming the other after all this time? Deliberately finding a marketing account to spread inflammatory rumors and also buying a large number of water army accounts to pull hatred and splash dirty water everywhere.
Not even including the energy spent on this, the amount of money poured into this must have been at least six digits!
Luo Zhentao hesitated on how to go about dealing with this. Rong Xu looked through the netizens' praises of the "Black Clouds" trailer and softly spoke: "Last week, Zhang Tongtong contacted me once, telling me that Han Yanghao made her lose a role. Han Yanghao seems to hate everyone in the "Ambush" crew. At that time, he was very covert about it, but he didn't know that Zhang Tongtong knew that crew's Assistant Director and learned from him that, 'Han Yanghao asked the investors to not consider Zhang Tongtong.'"
Luo Zhentao was shocked.
"Xiao Xu, this… why didn't you tell me about this?"
Rong Xu slowly stopped scrolling through the comments. After a while, he looked up at Luo Zhentao and smiled helplessly: "Luo ge, even if I told you, what can you do? Zhang Tongtong also knows that we can't do anything for her, so she was just complaining. She also shared this with Yi Lan." Not to mention, his relationship with Zhang Tongtong wasn't close enough that he would plead for the other.
At this, Luo Zhantao's heart suddenly stopped. He started to realize that the youth in front of him was not just a naive child. But when he thought about it again: he lost his father and mother when he was young and the last relative who loved him also died early. Then he was forced to live with his narrow-minded uncle for so many years… Who knows how much mistreatment and discrimination Rong Xu suffered!
With such a childhood, it was natural that he wouldn't be as naive as an ordinary eighteen-year-old child.
But this wasn't bad, very good actually. At least he wasn't like Han Yanghao, stupid to the extent it infuriated people.
Quickly, Luo Zhentao sorted out his thoughts clearly and in an orderly way, said to Rong Xu: "Since this is the case, then we can do this…"
At nine in the morning, many office workers had just arrived at their companies and started a whole day of hard work when they suddenly saw a piece of news when they were slacking off and surfing on the internet.
"Young Star H acted as a big poser in the crew, scolding and dismissing the crew members and even asking to change actors using the investor's name… haa? Who is this ah? …Hey hey, do you know, I saw a piece of news NetEase forwarded, saying that there's a formerly popular young star that acted as a big poser and even used the investor to enter the crew and dismiss an actor from that crew. Which Young Star H is this ah?"
"Which drama ah, there's so many small fresh meats right now, how would I know which one it is? Which H? Huang? Han? Hu?"
"… Eh, it says here that this young star had just acted as the male lead of a very popular weekly drama…"
It wasn't just the news feeds from web portals!
At ten in the morning, an entertainment circle marketing V account with over four million fans suddenly sent out a post——
[Captain of Your Circle: Today, many fans messaged me, asking if I know who that Young Star H is. Haha this matter has been well-known in the circle since a long time ago okay. Young Star H relied on a small supporting role in a classic movie to debut. After becoming famous, he even started eyeing the Heavens. What did acting as a big poser count as? Some time ago, some people even used their relationship with the investor to try to have the second male lead from the same crew replaced! The crew had already filmed half the episodes, what do you say they should do? That drama series was almost scrapped, but fortunately, that Young Star H didn't succeed, or it's estimated that that second male lead wouldn't be as popular as he is now.]
This post had just been out for half an hour, and several of the "Captain of Your Circle" team's marketing accounts all forwarded and even added a few extra words!
[Entertainment Circle's Little Public Offerings: I know that Young Star H was always the last one to arrive at the studio as long as he was filming. //Captain of Your Circle:…]
[Old King Gossip: Some people would never come unless it was at the last second of the opening ceremony. //Captain of Your Circle:… ]
More and more marketing accounts started forwarding this news. With this, why would you still need to buy the water army? The forwards from so many marketing accounts was enough for thousands of netizens to see this news. With the addition of news feeds from major web portals, Young Star H's big poser act became known to everyone.
Almost at once, the netizens all guessed the identity of Young Star H.
Filmed a very popular weekly drama some time ago?
The second male lead of that weekly drama was very popular right now?
Debuted with a small supporting role in a classic movie…
[That's definitely Han Yanghao! Young Star H must be Han Yanghao! The weekly drama is "Ambush", the second male lead is Rong Xu, the classic movie that was Han Yanghao's debut work is "Musheng". He played a bartender at a bar and only had a couple seconds of screen time, but he relied on that to become popular!]
When the matter came out, Han Yanghao's fans naturally refuted. However, more and more marketing accounts stood up confirming it, and by one in the afternoon, even a field service staff member from the "Ambush" crew had made a sound on their private Weibo!
[Qianqian is also her: I'm that field service member who was dismissed by Han Yanghao. Right now, I've opened up a little shop on Alimama and don't do anything related to the circle anymore. Back then, Han Yanghao said that if I didn't leave, he wouldn't film. If he didn't film, the investors wouldn't give money, so I could only leave. I wasn't the only one who was yelled at and dismissed from the "Ambush" crew. The following images are a picture I took on the day of the starting ceremony and my work permit. [image][image]]
When this party's post came out, it immediately caused an uproar!
This was authentic proof. Even people from the "Ambush" crew stood up to reproach Han Yanghao, how could it still be fake?
But Han Yanghao's fans still refused to recognize the facts.
[These kinds of photos of the opening ceremony are everywhere online, blackening people doesn't cost anything nowadays ah. You dare to frame our family's Ah Hao with just a picture?]
[Hahahaha My family's Ah Hao is the biggest coffee seat in "Ambush". You actually said that he relied on an investor to join the crew? Too funny, all of these 18-tier little ghosts dare to stick themselves to my family's Ah Hao, so shameless.]
Han Yanghao's fans were the best at making trouble as evident by the "Ambush" voting poll four months ago.
However, this time, they didn't expect that Rong Xu's fans, who had been silent the whole time ever since this matter came out finally got angry!
[I didn't dare to speak up before as I was afraid it was fake news and ended up harming Rongrong and made people yell at him. Now you tell me that Han Yanghao actually wanted to kick my family's Rongrong out of the crew? Because of what! He acted as Huo Xi so well, a few days ago there was a poll for "Your Favorite TV Character of 2043". My family's Marshal Huo took fourth place! On what basis did Han Yanghao want to make our Rongrong leave!]
[Excuse me? Acting like a poser, scolding and dismissing the staff, was the last one to arrive at the opening ceremony, and often being late when it was time to film. He even wanted to use his connections to drive away an actor from the same crew! The hell?! There's actually someone who wants to wash white this kind of star who walked through the back door?]
[QAQ My family's Rongrong was almost driven away by someone? Poor Rongrong, and we didn't even know about it! "Ambush" was Rongrong's first drama that aired, he still wasn't that well-known at that time, I also had never heard of him. He must have been very helpless when he encountered this kind of situation, my Rongrong! QAQ wu wu wu wu…]
[These kinds of wonders appear every year, but there's especially a lot this year. I remember the water army voting incident, how can there still be such arrogant stars in the entertainment circle? Enough, we can start counting the cases related to Han Yanghao now. Who wants to come help me record it?]
Han Yanghao's fans naturally refused the words of these news media and major marketing accounts, but gradually, several insiders of the entertainment circle also exposed more news. They not only acknowledged what the news media and major marketing accounts said, they even brought out a lot of other black materials on Han Yanghao!
By four in the afternoon, Rong Xu's fans had made a "Records of Young Star H's Cases". The name sounded quite normal, but when one opened the file, one would find that it was full of black materials on Han Yanghao's scandals!
All the black material came from online. There were news announcements, there were posts from big Vs, and there was also news revealed by insiders!
After an hour, #HanYanghaothePoser had already reached the top of that day's trending searches, and it was even followed by an "EXPLOSIVE"!
In general, there's usually nothing behind Weibo's trending search's topics or it would either be followed by a "HOT" or "NEW". Both of these were well understood. It was to explain that this topic was very popular right now or that it was new.
And this "EXPLOSIVE" was currently saying: This topic suddenly became explosive news!
Many passerby netizens saw these black materials. They couldn't believe it, could this kind of oppressing and bullying actually happen in the entertainment circle? Originally, many netizens were holding an "unconcerned and wait for it to die down" attitude and stood at the side to watch the liveliness. However, when an insider came up and revealed that "Zhang Tongtong had lost an important role because of Han Yanghao's connections", those passersby couldn't continue to stand still.
Zhang Tongtong's fans were naturally gnashing their teeth in anger and hated that they couldn't tear Han Yanghao apart.
And other passersby started worrying: [No way, aside from Rong Xu, even Zhang Tongtong was? My family's Master also worked with/participated in the same program as Han Yanghao. Will my family's Master be bullied by him too?!]
For some time, the majority of the fans from the entertainment circle joined in on the chaos; however, there was still no response from Han Yanghao's side at the moment.
***
At the same time, in S-City's Film City, "Black Clouds"'s filming was still steadily progressing.
Director Liang learned from the crew's PR team about the matter of "Han Yanghao's poser act" that was making a lot of noise online. However, he didn't know that Han Yanghao was the one who bought the marketing account and water army to cause trouble for the crew and Rong Xu. Thus, he just ruefully shook his head and went to look for Rong Xu to comfort him: "I didn't expect that you had encountered this kind of person before. Rong Xu, although there aren't many of these petty people in the circle, there will definitely be some. You shouldn't be too sad, it's all passed now."
The youth gave a small smile and said: "Thank you Director Liang, it's all in the past now." His tone was neither servile nor overbearing, there was no hint of indignation whatsoever, and there definitely wasn't any feeling of schadenfreude.
Waiting till Rong Xu left, Director Liang quietly said to his assistant: "Rong Xu's not bad, he can keep his calm. He needs to be like this to mix in this circle. Compared to him, that Han Yanghao really is far worse. It���s no wonder that Han Yanghao ended up like this while Rong Xu who played a supporting role to him is now much more popular than him."
The little assistant heard this and also nodded in agreement.
The outside world's ups and downs did not affect the "Black Clouds" crew's filming progress. Online, "Han Yanghao's poser act" was still brewing, but here, the "Black Clouds" crew began filming that last scene of the day: Qin Cheng's final scene.
Translator's Corner:
Vian: Did Qin Cheng even do anything during this whole thing pfft-
celes: Well, I'm betting he's the one that got all the news media and people to attack Han Yanghao... actually, Xu Jin probably did most of the work. Qin Cheng probably just sat and watched as this all went down.
Vian: Ohh I kinda thought this was Luo Zhentao's work but thinking about it again now, he probably doesn't have all these media connections. Luo Zhentao probably revealed it and Xu Jin grabbed that chance to blow it up lol
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I have never heard of this before :u