This was Liang Lu's first movie to hit the big screen, so it needed solid promotion. Tan Rou asked Tao Zheng to contact some entertainment journalists who were good at writing articles, and prepared some videos already shot for them to help promote Liang Lu online.
For a time, the buzz around Liang Lu's movie completely overshadowed other big-budget productions. One movie that claimed to have spent five hundred million had a box office return that did not surpass Liang Lu's film, which had cost only tens of millions to make. This infuriated the director of the other film, who arranged for people to dig up dirt on Liang Lu online with the intention of getting her movie pulled from theaters.
The most scandalous dirt about Liang Lu was her own family background, with a gambling biological father and a biological mother who had been a prostitute—secrets Liang Lu could never share with others.
