Abstract Art Award Winner

Zhou Le always felt that there was no need to be too humble when interacting with rich second-generation heirs.

After all, they lack nothing; they have money and status, and are surrounded by people who flatter and fawn over them.

Previously, if you needed something from someone, you would fawn over Wang Sicong because you wanted something from him. But now, they just play games together, talk business, and have fun together.

So just get along normally, because if you put yourself down too much, it will only make people look down on you more.

Sure enough, everyone laughed after he said that.

"You really dare to say that," Chen He added.

"My support skills are already this good. If anyone says 'support, don't feed,' I'll have to turn on my mic right now."

He didn't care at all.

Even someone as amateur as Wang Sicong wouldn't be spared if he dared to say "Support, don't feed."

“We should respect the strong, okay? Le’er’s support skills are already superb. I watched him when he went to the All-Star game. With all of us playing a game of tag, we probably wouldn’t be able to beat him even once in a whole night.”

Finally, Wang Sicong delivered the final verdict.

Last year, he participated in the World Championship with his team, but retired after one match. To this day, he still maintains a 100% win rate in the World Championship.

Although he himself is not very good at the game, he knows how skilled professional players are.

So after this game, Wang Sicong said directly, "Le'er, don't play support with me anymore. You can choose any other position. It's a waste for you to only play support."

Zhou Le laughed: "Play something else... Sigh, you guys pick first, I'll fill in."

In the end, Zhou Le became a jungler, replacing Lin Gengxin.

Wang Junkai, who has always played top lane, did so again this game, and chose the new champion Sett.

At first, things were fine. Everyone did their own thing, wandering around and helping each other out as needed.

But later, when the team battle started, Wang Junkai kept saying "Jingfu" over and over again.

After all, the heroes in this game all have corresponding nicknames, and it's easier to say them when playing the game.

Zhou Le was completely dumbfounded.

When we're playing privately, we can yell whatever we want, but this is a live stream!

"Sett, come help me!"

"Here it comes, here it comes, my 'Jingfu' is level 16, and it's developing very well," Wang Junkai said.

Zhou Le: "..."

"Sett, go around to the back."

"Don't worry, I played with 'Jingfu' as soon as it came out. I'm pretty good at it now. Those three are going to die in a minute... Deliberate Punch!"

Zhou Le watched the system announce a triple kill.

For a moment, I didn't know what to say.

Everyone else was laughing uncontrollably, since as public figures, some nicknames are not suitable to be used during live broadcasts or in public.

For example, there's the newly released champion "Sett" and the older champion "Leona".

Wang Sicong laughed so hard his hands were distorted; he hadn't expected Wang Junkai to be so straightforward.

Having no other choice, Zhou Le could only send a message to the other party via WeChat.

"That champion is called Sett. Don't talk nonsense, or you'll have to apologize later."

Zhou Le had just sent it.

Wang Junkai saw the WeChat message and immediately repeated what he had said in the live stream.

He only realized it after he finished speaking.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Several other live stream chat rooms were also filled with crazy comments.

"Haha, even after I corrected him several times, Wang Junkai still didn't get it. He must have been internally devastated."

Even someone as strong as Brother Le is afraid of this.

"To be honest, I think if Brother Kai retired from acting and started doing live streaming, he would probably be a good player. He's handsome and his gaming skills are pretty good too."

"Awesome! Kai has instantly become the number one TF player in my heart!"

"If Kai had been exposed earlier, who would have criticized him? Isn't he obviously one of our own? If I had known you were this kind of person, I would have let you go first when we were attacking TFBOYS."

"If you put it that way, I'll start paying attention to you."

"Isn't 'Jingfu' a satire on domestic violence? And what's wrong with 'Jingfu'? There are so many surnames in the Hundred Family Surnames. What if Brother Kai was referring to Li Jingfu or Zhang Jingfu?"

People in several live streams were very excited, after all, they rarely saw celebrities like this, especially idol celebrities.

Wang Junkai suddenly realized he had said the wrong thing, and never dared to play this game again. Even if the opposing team had a champion like Sett, he would try his best to avoid calling the opponent by his name.

After playing a few rounds, Zhou Le suggested that they call it a night.

Wang Sicong thought it was a good idea.

But he had such a great time tonight that he immediately started spending money to buy skins and heroes for Zhou Le after the event. Soon, he had bought everything he could get into Zhou Le's account.

"Principal, you're too kind. You even give away in-game skins!"

"Your original skin looks really awkward. I'll make you a few skins so that it will look better when you play with them."

"OK, I'll treat you to dinner later."

At this moment, Chen He spoke up: "What about me? I'm nearby right now."

"That would be even more convenient. We can invite them together then."

Chen He: "..."

"That's not right, is it? Didn't you invite us?"

Zhou Le didn't respond immediately, but instead joked, "Principal, did you hear that? My brother He doesn't want to treat you to dinner."

"I didn't, don't talk nonsense," Chen He quickly explained.

But Wang Junkai quickly interjected, "Brother He, Brother Le asked you to join the party, so why don't you invite him next time you treat us?"

"Hey, that makes sense. If you calculate it that way, it's an average of one treat per person."

Meanwhile, Lin Gengxin had already begun thanking the viewers in the live stream for the gifts they had sent.

After they had finished chatting, Zhou Le brought up Wang Junkai.

"Xiao Kai, apologize during the live stream."

Wang Junkai knew he was referring to the time he called Wanhao by his nickname.

The worst thing for an idol is to be in a situation that easily attracts criticism.

"I'm sorry, I misspoke just now. I'll definitely be more careful in the future."

After they finished speaking, they chatted for a while longer before ending the broadcast.

The next morning, Zhou Le got up early to continue filming.

After washing up and having breakfast, I checked yesterday's clips and trending topics. Sure enough, Wang Junkai was trending because of the random nicknames he was calling out. Some of the comments were genuinely from netizens who were curious after seeing the clips, but a significant portion were paid for by his rivals. After all, this kind of thing is so rare; it might happen once every few years.

This is an excellent opportunity that must be seized.

Among the fans, many expressed great disappointment, and of course, many of these people were also pretending to be haters.

It's all part of the fandom anyway.

The relationship between different circles is often adversarial, so you can often see all sorts of complicated situations.

Many people also mentioned Zhou Le.

"You can't persuade him at all; he's only thinking about throwing punches and doesn't care what he's saying."

Zhou Le watched and laughed. Although saying the wrong thing would have some impact on Wang Junkai, he could usually let it go with an apology.

Just as Zhou Le was about to reach the film set, he suddenly received a call from Wang Junkai.

"Brother Le, this is it. Now the internet is full of people cursing me. The company wants me to issue another apology statement. Should I issue it or not respond?"

Zhou Le: "..."

"Listen to the company. Although your company is just so-so, they've done a good job with public relations in this general direction. After all, you're a cash cow, so they certainly won't let you collapse like this. Apologize when you should. If you made a mistake, you made a mistake. Don't try to hold it in. If you're open and honest, you can still gain some goodwill. But if you stubbornly refuse to take a stand, the internet remembers. Unless you're going to start filtering your fans now and actively cutting off a portion of them."

"Then forget it, my positioning can't be segmented."

"So, you should just focus on doing your own job right now."

After persuading Wang Junkai, Zhou Le shook his head.

Even if you play casually, you still know what you can and cannot touch.

However, once on set, Zhou Le continued filming.

He is quite satisfied with his role in the play. Although he is not the main character, the character has a very rich personality, especially after he made some minor adjustments.

Until noon.

I originally planned to take a nap after lunch, since I played games for a while last night to increase exposure, which meant it was quite late when I finished the storyboard.

But during lunch, Guo Qiling, who was wearing a small hat, suddenly mentioned: "You know what? Actually, there are many online novels that feature you."

"Does that mean they included me in their list?"

"Yes, I've read a few more. Some are well-written, some are not so good, but those that feature female characters, some are following you, and some are making friends with you."

"Let them write whatever they want. They can portray me as a villain, I don't care. They can write whatever they want. On legitimate websites, they can only write whatever they want. On illegitimate websites, we can't do anything about it even if we want to. Let them do what they want."

In fact, Zhou Le knew that he would definitely encounter this kind of thing after becoming famous. There are many circles that he would never come into contact with normally, but they are still a kind of subculture.

Just like Sadako, Kayako, and Hanako in the Toilet, people have come up with all sorts of creative ideas for these themes during fan creation.

Needless to say, someone like myself is even worse off.

He can already imagine how terrible some people would portray him in their writings.

Earning so much money also means being prepared to face all sorts of situations.

"Back then, I saw them writing about your novel, so I searched on other websites. Actually, there weren't many outrageous topics about you, but after I went to those two websites, I found that it was too exaggerated. As long as there's a bit of CP feeling, people don't care whether you're male or female. And there's a book that's really popular right now, and it's about your old enemy."

Although many people dislike Zhou Le, there are also quite a few who admire him, but only a handful are truly considered his old enemies.

"Is that so?"

Zhou Le thought about it for a moment and didn't care too much. Anyway, creating male-male CP would definitely attract a lot of attention from female fans of BL. If people want to see it, people will create it.

"Let them be."

After chatting, Zhou Le went back to take a nap.

Most of the crew members didn't have the habit of taking afternoon naps, but after joining the crew, under Zhou Le's guidance, they all developed the good habit of taking afternoon naps.

If I don't take a nap at noon, I'll feel sleepy in the afternoon.

Despite Zhou Le's best efforts to prevent it, he ultimately failed to prevent it.

Someone in the film crew got infected, and as close contacts, everyone had to be quarantined.

Filming was forced to stop.

But there is nothing we can do about it.

It was later discovered that someone from the hotel had brought him in.

So for the next ten days, Zhou Le and everyone else had to be quarantined here, but there was nothing they could do about it.

During these past few days, everyone has been getting nucleic acid tests every day, and in the end only two or three actors tested positive, while the rest of the people were fine.

During his few days off, Zhou Le was bored staying in his room.

The factory I bought before the Lunar New Year is now continuously supplying goods, but at the same time, we also have a lot of inventory.

So he mentioned in the group that he planned to make a donation after the quarantine ended.

As for the location, he had already chosen it. He didn't need it in big cities, so he planned to send the masks from the factory in two batches, one batch to Wuhan and the other to his hometown in Shanxi.

At the same time, Zhou Le also purchased a lot of protective suits, which were also sent to both sides.

In addition, Guo Qiling, Meng Ziyi, Yu Shuxin, Zhou Ye, Tian Xiwei, Yin Zheng and others also bought a lot of things, including food, drinks and daily necessities, and set off together.

Guo Qiling and Yin Zheng led a team, taking Zhou Ye and Yu Shuxin to Wuhan.

Zhou Le then took Tian Xiwei and Meng Ziyi back to Shanxi.

They didn't make a fuss or hang any banners in the car; they just rode in the car all the way and met up with the designated personnel when they arrived at their destination.

They also inquired about which hospitals the supplies were intended for, and how the food and drinks would be distributed.

After everything was settled, they went straight back to Beijing to continue their quarantine.

The situation was similar on the other side, going to Wuhan.

During the quarantine period, a new trending topic suddenly emerged: a talent show contestant named Ren Hao was using face masks to commit fraud.

"That's just insane! Making money off a national disaster?"

Zhou Le couldn't help but post a Weibo message cursing. Although some of the other party's fans came to refute him, how could these people compare to the general public and numerous netizens?
These people were quickly subjected to scathing criticism.

It was at this critical juncture that Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo became trending topics.

The reason is that fanfiction about "Bo Jun Yi Xiao" was posted in their respective supertopics, and the content was very explicit.

Although Zhou Le doesn't usually watch these kinds of things, the popularity suddenly surged, so he went in to take a look.

I only read a few lines and found it offensive, so I quickly closed it.

But at the same time, he also sensed that someone might be trying to get rid of these two people.

"Although we have a grudge, I won't kick you while you're down at a time like this. Whether you can get through this depends on your own fate."

Zhou Le thought to himself.

This was a setup orchestrated for the two of them, but Zhou Le felt that the person who set it up was indeed very clever.

The main issue is that their public image isn't very good among casual observers and other circles. Coupled with preconceived notions, any irrational behavior from fans will inevitably be attributed to the idols themselves. (End of Chapter)