After offending capital, my songs became more and more popular.

Chapter 44 You're destined to only have three pecks of rice!

"#Hakim, a man whose skin is only tanned by the sun!#"

"#The positive ones are red, the red ones are evil, do you even understand the value of Thunder Yataraen?!#"

"#EmperorMingEn: I've got the beef offal hotpot covered, got it?#"

"#Teacher Huang brought her daughter on a TV show to eat 'history'!"

"#Have you ever seen someone who brags? Have you ever seen someone who eats beef?"

……

After the live broadcast of the latest episode of "Taste of Life" ended, before the full episode was even edited and uploaded to video platforms, major social media platforms such as Douyin, Weibo, Xiaohongshu, Zhihu, etc. were already filled with trending topics related to Shen Mingen.

The entire trending search list, apart from those related to Shen Ming'en's "A Young China's Manifesto," was filled with topics related to these "heavy-flavored foods," reaching unprecedented levels of popularity. Countless people were both enjoying the gossip and discussing it.
[Ming En, your Cow Bile Hot Pot is very powerful, but it's still too difficult to master. Do you have any simpler yet more effective recipe recommendations...?]

[Thunder Yatalia: Yes, bro! There are nine more of these amazing dishes!]

[Hilarious! Teacher Huang finally managed to get her daughter on a show, spending the whole day trying to get her on camera and find topics to talk about. Goodness, I never expected it would end with her eating something like that, hahaha...]

Poor Qi Jia! This was her first variety show after returning to China, and she's already been traumatized by it all, hahaha...

[Qi Jia: Isn't everyone saying that domestic variety shows aren't very creative? This is just as bad as the pranks on "Little Daily Life"!]

This reminds me of a famous quote from a male actor who was deeply troubled by the "flower theory" (a term referring to a particular type of academic pursuit): "I've participated in reality shows, it's quite tiring, let's just focus on acting..."

[Ming En is absolutely a breath of fresh air in the Chinese entertainment industry. I hereby declare him my electronic favorite—he's great, I love watching him! Ming En is the best!]

……

While the popularity was ridiculously high, Shen Mingen's personal social media account also saw a continuous increase in followers.

The Douyin account, which already had over 10 million followers, experienced another meteoric rise, gaining over 5 million followers overnight, reaching 15 million!

The same goes for other platforms. With this level of popularity right now, who would believe that Shen Ming'en isn't a top-tier celebrity?
It's funny, actually...

I don't know why, but probably everyone has this feeling that Shen Mingen sang popular songs for three or four episodes of "Chinese Music Center" but didn't get as much attention as he made a few "heavy-flavored dishes" on "Taste of Life".

It's somewhat ironic.

But this also shows that people's tastes are becoming more and more inclined towards lighter and simpler things.

Daily life is already exhausting enough; I live like a coward all day long. Scrolling through videos and watching shows is a way to relax. I'm not afraid of being crazy; I'm just afraid of not being crazy!

It's just...

The ease that everyone seems to be on the basis of the suffering of some people.

For example... Qi Jia?
Shanghai Stock Exchange, Ruixing Entertainment.

Inside the office of top agent Ma Ling.

"Waaaaah...waaaah...waaaah..."

Sobbing and choking back tears, Qi Jia arrived at the company office early this morning, before Ma Ling had even arrived, crying and making a scene, shouting all sorts of things:

"Shen Ming'en is bullying me... he's deliberately... deliberately messing with me!"

"Waaaaah...you...you have to avenge me!" "I don't care!"

"It was you who made me... made me go, sob sob..."

Qi Jia is actually a pretty girl. As a member of a girl group, she has a great figure, with a big bust, a slim waist, and long legs. But when she throws a tantrum, she's not so endearing.

"...Stop howling, do you know how embarrassing this is?" Ma Ling, the agent who had just come down from a meeting upstairs, was also annoyed by her. She was speechless and wanted to curse.

Damn it, I had originally agreed with Shen Ming'en to let this kid go on the show as a "stepping stone" for Teacher Huang, to let Qi Jia and the others ride on his coattails. What a great thing that would have been!

He honestly played his role as the clown, and everything went well, with everyone benefiting from it.

But he insisted on making "heavy-flavored food" instead of letting others gain popularity or become stepping stones. Instead, he turned everyone else into supporting characters!

The most disgusting thing is that he actually went and described all those "heavy-flavored dishes" he made as "promoting the local specialties of ethnic minorities"!
It’s so outrageous!
it's good now……

Not only did Qi Jia come to her crying and wailing early in the morning, but the "Taste of Life" program team, including director Ma Bi and Teacher Huang, also called their company's senior management and denounced Shen Ming'en in various ways!

Ultimately, whoever hired Shen Ming'en will definitely get a scolding...

At this morning's meeting, Ma Ling was publicly and severely scolded by the company's president, Lin Bei.

Qi Jia could still cry to her, but who could she turn to for help?!
“Look at what people are saying about me online!” With her fair hands adorned with pink nail polish, Qi Jia picked up her phone and showed Ma Ling the trending topics related to her.

The entry refers to Qi Jia's behavior on this episode of "Taste of Life," where she ran to the side and vomited because she couldn't stand the "heavy-flavored food" prepared by Shen Mingen, which drew various criticisms from everyone...

The following are all saying:
[Isn't this a bit too much for Qi Jia?]

She clearly didn't eat anything, but she's acting like she ate everything...

[Even Huang Yingying ate a few bites of bull penis; this is incredibly disrespectful to the chef.]

The most egregious comment came from a netizen with a Guizhou IP address: "[I can't comment on the others, but beef offal hotpot is, after all, a local specialty. Even if you dislike it, you don't have to spit it out just by looking at it, right? That's a bit over the top. They have no basic respect for ethnic customs. Typical of an entertainer who came back from abroad; they can't even get their sense of propriety right...]"

Because Shen Ming'en elevated the theme of the entire program by discussing "promoting ethnic cultural characteristics" in the post-show interview, many people continued to discuss this topic after the program ended.

Some people pointed out that Qi Jia's reaction on the show was a bit excessive...

You can understand vomiting after they take things out of the cow's stomach when making the cow dung hotpot, but to look at the already cooked hotpot bubbling on the table and then vomit is a bit disrespectful to their traditional cuisine...

On the one hand, it disrespects ethnic cuisine, and on the other hand, it disrespects Shen Ming'en, who cooks the dishes.

Someone prepared a feast for you that you could never normally afford, and you worked so hard all afternoon. You shouldn't be throwing up like this, right?
To be honest, Qi Jia was always the one who took the lead in "making a scene." If it weren't for her, Huang Yingying and Teacher Huang would probably have been able to keep it up.

This thing is like laughter; if everyone holds it in, it's fine, but if one person can't hold it in, everyone else can't either, and it can have a chain reaction.

As a female artist who returned from abroad, her identity is sensitive. How can netizens not criticize her for behaving like this on a TV show?
"...Whose fault is this?!"

Upon hearing this, Ma Ling was also furious, and immediately uttered a classic quote:

"You're destined to only have three pecks of rice!"

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(End of this chapter)