Chinese entertainment started with male models

Chapter 410 The Online Immortal is Extremely Irritable

The phenomenal success of "Ne Zha" has actually caused considerable distress for many people in the film industry.

Because seeing others make money is more painful for them than seeing themselves lose money.

Especially this kind of serious, years-long effort that takes years to hone.
If it were purely based on Bai Liang's star power, it would be more acceptable, and it would also bring down Bai Liang, this super outspoken and somewhat unconventional celebrity.

Making money while being criticized—isn't that how most people in this industry operate?

Occasionally, they might even make a sarcastic remark about the audience.

But now, we have no choice but to grit our teeth and praise it, all while watching the box office of "Ne Zha" grow increasingly alarming.
There's no way around it, we have to brag! The industry is short on cash!

Last year, because of the Fan Bingbing incident, a lot of hot money chose to leave the market. Of course, not all of them left, but those who remained were more selective and cautious.

Why are there more and more scripts coming from Yanzi's side?

The main reason is that investors are not trusting! Their money doesn't grow on trees. Although finding a shrewd businessman is costly and involves giving away a lot of profits, the prerequisite for profit sharing is that it can actually make money!
This man's undefeated record of success in film, television, and variety shows is the best reassurance for major investors.

With Bai Liang around, investors really dare to throw money around with peace of mind!

The real winner takes all.

So no matter what industry unspoken rules you have, or what circles you're talking about like the Beijing circle, the Hong Kong circle, or any other circle, if someone is paying you, they want you to be honest and fair. What can you do about it?

Of course, I'd have to offer my brightest smile!
Of course, the statement that "all the male lead scripts that Bai Liang can play have Yanzi's fingerprints" is not entirely true.

There's one type of script that he rarely gets given: adaptations of BL (Boys' Love) dramas.

Just like how many investors chased after Bai Liang, after the success of BL dramas like "Guardian" in 18 and "The Untamed" in 19, people saw another way of doing things.

With the surge of idol talent shows in the variety show field, the term "BL adaptation 101" has emerged.

Dozens of works, including "The Order of Mountains and Rivers", "The Legend of Hao Yi", "You on My Left Shoulder", and "The Case of Zhang Gong", have entered the production stage.

There's no need for good actors in BL dramas. In fact, many BL dramas would rather use newcomers than male artists signed to other companies.

The money earned from selling film and television copyrights for BL (Boys' Love) adaptation projects is far less than the commercial benefits brought by promoting artists.

This thing is basically used to promote people; the people promoted are the most valuable.

If you can produce two top male stars, why only produce one?

Therefore, very few BL adaptation projects would pursue Bai Liang, and of course, he wouldn't accept such projects.

However, very few were found, but it wasn't nonexistent. One notebook owner was very eager to find him.

That's right, it's the one Arthur answered.

This kid didn't suddenly change his ways; he just still wanted to latch onto a big shot and thought that "being gay" with Bai Liang was better than "being gay" with other losers.
Bai Liang almost spilled the beans about his relationship with an older female fan to her parents.

This tactic worked quite well. With just a slight threat, Arthur immediately became obedient and dared not mention wanting Bai Liang to act in a BL drama with him anymore.
As the filming of "Better Days" draws closer to its wrap-up date, the crew's filming schedule is gradually becoming easier.

Meanwhile, Zhou Ye had already finished filming.

Pushed down the stairs by Chen Duling, he tumbled and rolled down the stairs, and died!
"Did you mess up your first acting role?" Bai Liang said to Zhou Ye with an expression of someone who had been through it all.

"Uh, yeah."

"The crew will give you a red envelope later, remember to spend it today!"

“Brother, you seem to have a lot of experience,” Zhou Ye said curiously.

Bai Liang began to reminisce about the glorious past, thinking back to those days.
"Really, you've been acting all along?" Zhou Ye's eyes widened in surprise.

"Yes, I was so happy when I finally got a role where I could survive."

Which character?

"Xiao Nai".

Ah, hearing this, I always feel that Bai Liang is a bit like Versailles.

The first character to survive became an overnight sensation, right?
Zhou Ye scratched his head, thinking to himself that this was the first role he had ever played that he had failed to get, and he wondered if he could become famous.

However, she had already gained a lot of attention from Bai Liang by instantly becoming popular, and everyone said that she had a "prone-to-popularity constitution".

The company has used this topic a lot to help her with marketing.
From the initial battle for the female lead to now, Zhou Ye has come to understand just how great it is to get close to Bai Liang.

She didn't have any works to her name, but she managed to gain fame just by talking about these topics.

Many people got to know her because of this, and quite a few new fans even left encouraging comments on her Weibo: "This girl is going to be famous for acting with Da Xian!"
Bai Liang: No need for thanks, the crew's red envelopes are here, let's go spend them together!
After all that rambling, it seemed like all he wanted was to scam a young girl out of a red envelope.

But spending a girl's money is so much fun! Bai Liang has always enjoyed this feeling, and it has nothing to do with how much or how little.

He feels more accomplished than if he earned 200 million himself.

However, Zhou Ye was not one to be taken advantage of for nothing. At the wrap party that evening, she sipped some red wine and, emboldened by the alcohol, made inappropriate demands of Bai Liang.

He muttered something like, "The script is illogical! Why didn't Wei Lai fall in love with Xiao Bei at first sight?!"
According to her, "Better Days" should have been filmed as a love triangle, with an additional conflict between Chen Nian and Wei Lai as rivals.

That's a pretty nice idea.
However, it's definitely too late to add it now. Zhou Ye quietly suggested: "Experiencing it offline would be fine too."

So how do you experience it?
After the wrap party, the little girl wiped her mouth and happily slipped away.

Bai Liang touched the hickey on his neck, then looked at Chen Duling, who was speechless, and thought to himself that little girls these days have too many tricks up their sleeves.

But since they've already finished filming, fulfilling such a small wish isn't a big deal.

It's not like I'm asking him to French kiss her in public.
What was unexpected was that Zhou Ye came back the very next day after filming wrapped.

Zhou Ye blinked innocently and said, "My home is in Chongqing, so it's perfectly reasonable for me to be here. I'll visit my grandparents and stay with them for a few days."

That's reasonable; it shows concern for elders.

But her concern always seemed a little impure.

Zhou Ye, who had completely finished filming but didn't leave the crew, made Bai Liang feel like he had a little puppy by his side. He truly followed him everywhere he went.

Even on the last day of filming, this little girl stumbled upon Chen Duling's handiwork.

The red-warm puppy is no longer red-warm, it has become a curious puppy, but the little rabbit has started to turn red-warm!

She picked up her skirt and chased after the other person to "kill" him.

The curious puppy was forced to look like Sister Thirteen of Hung Hing by the studious little rabbit, and with that short haircut, it really did look a bit like her.

Bai Liang had no idea what the two talked about after their "chase," but Zhou Ye ran off to play with his yo-yo that very day.

But perhaps because he was provoked, he didn't forget to give Bai Liang a quick kiss before running away.

She didn't say anything, because Chen Duling was still chasing after her, holding up her skirt.

A few days later, filming for "Better Days" was completely wrapped up.

At the wrap party, Chen Duling didn't seem very sad; she was even a little happy.

Finally, I can "disappear" from Bai Liang's sight.

Touching her buzz cut, Chen Duling breathed a sigh of relief. "Senior, my hair will have grown back by the time the movie is released next year."

This sounds just like that strange promise, "When my hair grows long enough to reach my waist."

It has that campus romance vibe~
“Actually, you don’t need to keep worrying about this.” Bai Liang winked at her. “I can automatically add that filter for you.” Hmm. Of course, she was happy to hear that, but Chen Duling couldn’t get past her own hurdle.

It's not that she has a serious appearance anxiety.

It's mainly because of the current atmosphere in the entertainment industry.
Throughout August, apart from "Ne Zha" continuing to dominate the film industry, all other hot topics were divorces.

It seems like celebrities were busy getting married and having children in the first half of the year, and then they started rushing to meet their divorce targets in the second half, like Wen Zhang and Ma Yili.

Even neighboring South Korea got involved.

However, things seem much more abnormal over there. When Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo got divorced, a bunch of people started reminiscing about Hye-kyo's past with that Korean "backdoor god".

What caused rectal prolapse?
Bai Liang used to be skeptical of such private gossip, wondering if it was something someone had overheard under the bed or secretly installed surveillance cameras in someone's house.

There were still experts out there!

Both are South Korean celebrities, Goo Hye-sun and Ahn Jae-hyun, who are now divorced.

These two names are a bit unfamiliar; I wouldn't recognize them without checking their information.

But the reason for her divorce, as revealed by this South Korean female celebrity, is truly shocking!

It has to be a Korean, is that something to say?
In short, regardless of whether it's true or not, this story teaches us a lesson: even glamorous female celebrities can be very insecure.
Dudu's situation seems to have been indirectly corroborated and explained.

Bai Liang sincerely wished that her hair would grow faster.

Then, I casually forwarded all these trending divorce news items to my mom.

After all, if he didn't share it, his mom would have to share those tips about early marriage and childbirth with him.

Get started first!
As a result, Mrs. Bai said: I support your divorce!

This tactic is extremely powerful, since getting a divorce requires getting married first.
Defeated in one move, Bai Liang could only shrink back and pretend he was busy.
Coincidentally, just when I was about to pretend I had something to do, I actually got involved in something.

However, this time it wasn't because of the girl, but because Peng Yu sang this song.

He has a movie that's about to be released, I think it's called either "The Great Wish" or "The Little Wish".

However, just before the film's release, the lead actor was dropped.

Unlike other disputes over billing order in the entertainment industry, Peng Yuchang directly took matters into his own hands and started fighting!
This guy, who always seemed a bit goofy on the show "Back to Field," is actually quite tough in this regard.

He even posted the contract online, indicating that he wasn't trying to fight for top billing, but rather that the other party had violated the contract because it stated that he was the lead actor.

The reason this matter involves Bai Liang is mainly because the actor who suddenly replaced Peng Yuchang as the male lead in "A Little Wish" is Taiwanese artist Wang Dalu.

The fact that Hong Kong and Taiwanese artists have been taking the lead roles over mainland artists in various films and television dramas is nothing new.

Even more extreme, a certain well-known director didn't even act, seemingly saying something like, "We just want to use mainland artists to elevate the status of their own artists."

In recent years, the three from the Heavenly Banquet have achieved remarkable results in this regard.

Ruan Jingtian managed to get Wen Zhang, who was once a sensation, to play a supporting role, and even Huang Xiaoming to play the villainous boss for him.

Zhao Youting can act opposite Zhao Yanzi and even have Huang Bo as a supporting actor.

Peng Yuyan dared to change her seat at the Weibo Movie Night.
Bai Liang got dragged into this mess because he and Li Bingbing had a "double" performance at a movie night last year, which was considered a joint effort to take down Eddie Peng.

This is probably the biggest case recently of directly confronting these guys who like to pull off shady tactics.

It's hard for netizens not to dig up this and voice their support for Peng Peng.

Moreover, in the eyes of netizens, who is Wang Dalu? Does he even deserve to try and extort money from Peng Peng?
Do you know who he was "on equal footing" with at the movie night?

The list will scare you to death!
Many people even went to Bai Liang's Weibo to "complain," saying things like Peng Peng was bullied by Taiwanese people.

Actually, some people in the industry have already voiced their support for Pengpeng. After all, it's outrageous that they can't even acknowledge the contract written in black and white. This has nothing to do with fighting for top billing; this is called protecting one's rights!
Of course, everyone was quite restrained in their speech, and used polite language, mainly to encourage and support Pengpeng.

Until Bai Liang showed up.

He had just lost a battle with his mother and wanted to play a couple of games to put pressure on his teammates and opponents and vent his frustration.

Seeing that there was something to laugh about, I immediately went to fan the flames.

Bai Liang: What the hell?! Let's beat that dog to a pulp!
Offline, Bai Liang is gentle and refined, while online, the Great Immortal is extremely irritable.

It felt like we were back in the days when Lin and Xin were "duo-queuing" online, furiously cursing the haters.

It really amused netizens, who exclaimed "Holy crap!" and said, "Master Bai is awesome!"
Of course, the comments under Pengpeng's Weibo post were deleted by Yanzi a few minutes after it was posted.

After all, he was just too impulsive. As the top influencer right now, Bai Liang receives a lot of attention, so he should be a little more careful.

Then I helped him get a more refined look.
Do you need legal aid?

The handsome guy who passed the bar exam is making a limited-time comeback.

Of course, these days, celebrities deleting posts in a flash is pretty useless, especially for someone like Bai Liang who has such a high level of public attention.

However, this is not a big deal. Even if it gets out, people just watch it for fun and no one jumps out to say that Bai Liang is of low quality.

Even their rivals are too lazy to use this kind of thing to stir up trouble for Black & White.

And would you dare to criticize it?
Bai Liang's use of overly harsh language is indeed a problem, but his words may have struck a chord with some people.

Pengpeng replied quickly, sending a cheeky emoji and saying, "I've already entrusted Liang-ge, your cousin's law firm, to handle it."

Ah, my cousin's business is booming.

Bai Liang was thinking that he would have to get some money from his cousin during the Chinese New Year; it seemed that she had taken on quite a few cases in the entertainment industry.

This incident was originally just an actor's rights protection case, with netizens joining in the fun and others getting involved.

However, many of the signals mentioned were quite interesting to many people.

Essentially, the younger generation of actors today don't really care about capital from Taiwan anymore.

First, Peng Peng personally took to the field, and then Bai Liang, the leading figure of the new generation, clearly took sides. For some people, this is a rather dangerous signal.

Sure enough, the reaction was quick; someone on Yanzi's side immediately helped to connect the wires and relay the message.

Yanzi was initially surprised. Oh, could it be that they've come to put pressure on us?
Alright, alright! She wants to see who's brave enough to do that!
In the end, they came to apologize, saying things like there was a misunderstanding or something similar.

Even Yanzi was amused. Instead of apologizing to Pengpeng, he came to apologize to our little Bai Ge? What a shameless face!
After a few lukewarm exchanges, she burst out laughing:
"You're crazy! Who would want to attend your Golden Horse Awards, a Golden Horse Best Actor award?"

To be honest, if it were the Golden Horse Awards of the past, it would have been a great boost for actors, and its overall prestige was very high in the Chinese entertainment industry.

But after that incident last year, the Golden Horse Awards have completely degenerated into an award for the Taiwanese entertainment industry to amuse itself.

Even Hong Kong artists are unlikely to go there to support the event, as long as they still want to make a living in the mainland.

This year's Golden Rooster Awards announced that it will be held on the same day as the Golden Horse Awards, in Xiamen, which is not far from each other.

The targeting is quite obvious.

So how much prestige does the Golden Horse Awards still hold?
In just one year, everything has changed dramatically.

Yanzi: Not as good as the Weibo movie star.
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