The sweetest in the entertainment industry

Chapter 139 A little trickster

"Any more?"

Mei Xue turned another page, looking at her expectantly.

"Well, I'm a pretty thrifty person. I like to calculate the best option when buying things, and I pay attention to various promotions. I feel like I've made a profit every time I save money, and that makes me very happy."

"One day, he took me to his family's shopping mall to get a limited edition super membership card. He told me that it was his shopping mall, and that getting the card was free. He said that I could get a 5% discount on regular purchases, an 82% discount during promotions, and coupons every month."

"Later he found out that the membership card required spending a certain amount and being invited by other members to apply for it. Getting two consecutive cards was even more difficult. For this reason, he got up early for two consecutive months to take his nephew to school at his older brother's house..."

Lu Nanting trended on social media because of his shopping trip to the supermarket, and he also talked about the Super Member Card on a TV show. I never expected that he got the card in this way!

Gu Lanxi is a rather reserved person and never likes to talk about matters of the heart.

But recently, I've been in a particularly intense phase, and since my husband and I are in a long-distance relationship, it's been very difficult. Now that I've come this far, I can't help but want to share this.

After saying that, he opened his bag, took out the black membership card from his wallet, and handed it to Mei Xue.

"Here it is. His last four digits are 521, and mine is 520."

Mei Xue appeared calm on the surface, but inside she was screaming wildly!
When I used to work for Xiao Han, he would produce industrial saccharin every day for the sake of popularity, which made me feel like a chef at a state banquet, always looking after a basket of cabbage and tofu. Now I know that there are people whose baskets are full of delicacies, but they choose to boil them!

[After all these years, with so many sweet memories in your mind, how did you manage to resist showing them off?!]

Just speechless.

So, at the age of seventeen or eighteen, to be able to win over a high-IQ academic goddess like Gu Lanxi, who is extremely averse to marriage and relationships, this kid surnamed Lu is really something!
Fearing she might stop talking, Mei Xue forcibly restrained herself, lowered her head, and turned another page: "And then?"

“For the first few months, Ting Ge used this account because I was using a keypad phone and couldn’t download Weibo. He gave me a phone, but I didn’t accept it. After he got into university and we officially got together, I changed my phone because he always wanted to video chat with me and bothered me every day. Only then did the account return to me.”

Mei Xue finally understood why Lu Nanting's following list had been hidden.

Because the first person he followed was Gu Lanxi's random alternate account.

"This account was commenting and liking very frequently at the beginning. I thought you were excited because you just registered on Weibo."

Gu Lanxi couldn't help but sigh.

She doesn't like these things, how could that be?

The one who truly appreciates these things is Lu Nanting.

Having said too much today, Gu Lanxi didn't want to say any more, and Mei Xue stopped pressing her for answers.

Only after noting down the last point did I continue to give her guidance:

"Look, apart from a few system-generated Weibo posts, you haven't posted a single Weibo post involving personal information."

"When fans see that it's an old account, they will naturally search for related information, comment, and like it immediately, which involves a time cost."

"Not to mention, ah, the candy you find yourself is always sweeter. When one person invests too much time, money, energy, etc. in another person, the sunk cost will inevitably increase."

"We all say that sunk costs should not influence current decisions, but how many people can actually do that? Ah, I'm not saying there are no rational people like that, but they are quite rare, you know?"
"Whether this number of followers is fake or real makes a big difference."

"If you want more fans who genuinely like you, who spontaneously discuss you and follow you, and who passively or actively boost your data, you have to find ways to get them to invest more sunk costs in you."

"Generally speaking, if a fan has genuinely liked you for many, many years, unless you have a scandal, they will continue to like you even after they have passed the age of being a fanatical fan."

"When there are more and more people like this, it means that your popularity among the people will also increase."

"Whether it's a flash in the pan or a long-lasting success depends on this kind of long-term planning."

Gu Lanxi seemed to be deep in thought.

Mei Xue didn't disturb her, but quietly rested her chin on her hand and watched her.

A moment later, Gu Lanxi suddenly said, "So that shrew of mine is always pestering me to do this and that, and she's quite shrewd." Such a smart person like her had unknowingly wasted a lot of her youth on Lu Nanting.

That's why it's so painful when you realize something's wrong and want to break up.

That's why I can't like anyone else after breaking up.

Mei Xue looked at her with a complicated expression, as if she wanted to say something but couldn't bring herself to say it. Gu Lanxi couldn't help but chuckle.
"Just say what you want to say, okay?"

"To be honest, don't be angry, when it comes to romance, Teacher Lu is at least ten times better than you. You were completely clueless back then. It's really not easy for him to have brought you to where you are now."

Gu Lanxi retorted, "All techniques are utterly ineffective against sincerity. Don't you think about it? Why is he only willing to put in so much effort for me, and not for anyone else?"

She may not have many subtle thoughts or fancy tricks, but she is good at playing straightforwardly.

Sincere emotions, a single, soul-stirring moment—the effect is obvious.

Mei Xue was completely stumped by her question.

He stared at her blankly for a long time, unable to utter a word, then simply closed his notebook and sprang to his feet:
"That's all for today. We've finally made it down the mountain. You should rest. I'm going next door. I still need to keep an eye on the news online."

Gu Lanxi nodded, got up to find clothes, and prepared to take a shower.

In September, the temperature dropped a bit in the mornings and evenings, and sometimes you had to wear long sleeves. Lu Nanting was in Beijing these days, so he sent her some clothes from home.

Now, not only her agent and two assistants, as well as Aunt Wang, are here, but also her own makeup artist, stylist, and cameraman.

Besides her work, she also takes time each day to record short vlogs and take some photos of her work, always preparing for business operations.

She was quite cooperative with these tasks that could be completed in a little spare time and were very profitable.

Now that she doesn't need the crew's shared makeup artist, she brings her own makeup artist to the set, and she also has her own costume designer to keep an eye on the costumes, which really solves a lot of problems.

In addition, they've now started filming scenes in the county town.

Gu Lanxi's life on the film set is becoming increasingly comfortable.

While she was taking a shower and going to bed, the internet became lively again because she opened a personal Weibo account.

Mei Xue, a seasoned hype queen, never expected that none of the countless sweet moments she had envisioned would be to go viral. In the end, the thing that stole the show and broke through to the top three on the trending list was the name Gu Lanxi had given to her CP fans, "Fairy Sister"!
[Good heavens! The person in question calls me a celestial being, and I'm going to fawn over them and become their slipper!!]

Countless slippers instantly broke through the defenses!
Even countless haters were instantly thrown into a frenzy!
I thought they were allies, but they turned out to be the enemy's big boss!

It was slapped right in the face of the person in question!

How funny is this?
Even the dogs passing by would laugh!
How was this discovered?
It all started with the Weibo Movie Night a while ago.

The couple was showering each other with affection, and their fans were having a blast. But when passersby saw them calling themselves slippers, they couldn't help but wonder, "Why would they call themselves slippers? That's a bit too indecent!"

As we all know, the internet has a long memory.

So, in order to educate passersby and newcomers to the slipper craze, some people went to find the original post where the name was created.

The post about slippers, which claims to be from a relatively recent blog, is still fresh in many people's minds and was easily found.

Then someone with sharp eyes suddenly noticed that there was a newly verified orange V in the comments, which turned out to be "actress Gu Lanxi"!
She replied to that post with this message:
[Tingxi is abbreviated as TX, why don't you just call her "Fairy Girl"?]

Everyone's on edge; they don't even have the energy to eat candy anymore.

Mei Xue was on high alert, even planning out trending search terms, but it was all for naught.

The next day, Gu Lanxi received a call from Lu Nanting. He kept talking on and on, laughing at least eight times in one sentence, and she couldn't help but laugh out loud too.

"I didn't think too much about it at the time, I just replied casually, I didn't expect them to react so strongly!"

(End of this chapter)