This director lacks vision.

Chapter 360 Yuan Li's Assistance

Jiang Yifeng could immediately sense Li Yunxiao's clumsiness and inexperience as soon as he started playing.

It was immediately clear that the girl spoke very boldly, but had no experience whatsoever.

They were simply pursuing it with a surge of passion.

Jiang Yifeng immediately changed his strategy, slowing down the pace of encroachment and instead guiding the enemy slowly, stopping only when the opportunity was right, like savoring a cup of fragrant and delicious new tea.

Before long, Li Yunxiao was completely out of it, not even noticing that her lips were swollen and red, and she was still not satisfied.

Jiang Yifeng pinched Li Yunxiao's smooth little face and said with a smile, "Shall we go to my courtyard house first?"

Unexpectedly, Li Yunxiao shook her head, her eyes sparkling.

"After watching Lost in the Big Bang, I wanted to try out Avatar in a car. A few days ago, I even dreamed that I was riding in a car with you."

If it were my first time on that train, I would never forget it!

Hearing this, Jiang Yifeng felt deeply guilty. The "Lost in..." had indeed influenced the views of a group of young people and also raised higher requirements for the quality and space of many cars.

In order to atone for his sins, he had no choice but to grant Li Yunxiao's wish.

Li Yunxiao practices martial arts every day. Although he is a newcomer, his physical strength is really good.

The car drove back and forth on the road several times before finally returning to the courtyard house.

Li Yunxiao was too weak to go on, and Jiang Yifeng had to carry her back to her room.

But she took out her phone and insisted on taking several close-up photos with Jiang Yifeng.

After taking the photos, Li Yunxiao posted them in the "Red-Haired Three Sisters" group chat.

[@Li Qin, come and give me your feedback on my photography skills!]

Li Qin chuckled upon seeing the message, feeling that Li Yunxiao was like a child.

Instead, Chen Lijun joked: "It's over! My girl has been stolen!"

Chen Lijun is a young male actor who has acted opposite Li Yunxiao, a young female actor, quite a few times. The two women used to joke around a lot.

The scene where Junxiao and his partner spin around is a favorite among many viewers.

Chen Lijun started gossiping: "What's it like, Xiaoxiao? Is Director Jiang really as amazing as the rumors say?"

Li Yunxiao pondered for a moment, then said without elaborating, "I'm too tired, I'm going to rest now. I won't be doing morning exercise tomorrow."

After sending the message, Li Yunxiao put down her phone and fell asleep immediately.

As a teammate, Chen Lijun knew Li Yunxiao's physical limitations.

She turned to Li Qin beside her and asked, "Are you really that tired?"

Li Qin recalled holding her breath underwater and nodded, saying, "It was more tiring than you can imagine."

Upon hearing this, Chen Lijun's imagination ran wild.

……

On January 8th, CCTV News announced the list of hosts for the 2014 Spring Festival Gala.

When everyone saw Li Hong's name, they were all very surprised.

Previously, the media and the audience had made some predictions about the list of hosts for the Spring Festival Gala, but no one expected Li Hong.

This shows how "unpopular" Li Hong is.

Of course, everyone is curious about how Li Hong became a host of the Spring Festival Gala.

Jiang Yifeng, the chief director, strongly recommended the project, and it was quickly discovered.

While netizens were shouting "Jiang Yifeng is awesome" and "I still believe in Director Jiang's aesthetic sense," they also started gossiping.

Many people believe that Jiang Yifeng and Li Hong are having an affair, otherwise why would he suddenly think of having Li Hong host the Spring Festival Gala?

These people even fabricated and pieced together various clues, and edited them into videos to post online.

For example, when Jiang Yifeng was interviewed, he said he liked red clothes, so Li Hong wore red clothes and even had the color red in her name.

Jiang Yifeng once said he enjoys watching cross-strait films, and Li Hong also posted photos of movie ticket stubs for "Lost in Thailand" and "Back to 20".

By editing together various unrelated events, a love story was formed that "Jiang Yifeng and Li Hong had been together for a long time, but they didn't go public because of Li Hong's work."

This clandestine and twisted relationship immediately attracted a wave of fans who shipped them as a couple.

They call Li Hong and Jiang Yifeng the "Hongfeng CP" and are obsessed with shipping them.

Just as the rumors about Jiang Yifeng and Li Hong were getting more and more outrageous, a person who had been keeping a low profile for a long time emerged, and that person was Yuan Li.

On the evening of January 9th, Yuan Li posted many Weibo posts.

"I woke up to find the man I love most and the woman I love most together. God, is this my punishment?"

“I met Li Hong in 2005 and we broke up in 2013, but I don’t want to leave her, just as I want to get closer to director Jiang Yifeng.”

"Upon closer reflection, Li Hong and Director Jiang both came from rural areas. They had similar experiences, and two wounded souls came together to find warmth and comfort."

And what about me? Am I only fit to steal Director Jiang's underwear, only fit to see Li Hong's back?

"Some people say I'm trying to ride on someone else's coattails. Do I need to? I know everything about Li Hong's situation."

Her father was laid off, her mother was seriously ill, and her family was so poor that they couldn't afford to eat. She and her younger brother dropped out of school and worked as cashiers in a small town shopping mall and as dishwashers in restaurants.

Her background was indeed difficult; those are facts!

After seeing Yuan Li's Weibo post, netizens were delighted and flocked to follow the gossip.

Some people deliberately provoked Yuan Li, saying she was trying to gain attention by associating herself with the situation.

Yuan Li is an emotional and crazy woman. After seeing these comments, she immediately fell for them and started to reveal her own secrets.

After explaining Li Hong's impoverished background, Yuan Li saw that some netizens still had doubts, so she posted another Weibo post.

"A rural woman who dropped out of junior high school."

Why did I happen to become a host on the county TV station?

Why was he promoted by the city TV station?
Why was I able to get into Jilin TV?

Why were they able to defeat Xu Chunni and enter the cross-strait relations?

Seeing Yuan Li's four consecutive questions, everyone thought she was about to reveal some shocking information about Li Hong, and some even advised Yuan Li to be rational and not harm Li Hong.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Li's next Weibo post backfired on everyone.

"You don't know, Li Hong is actually not good at speaking in private. She is even clumsy and tongue-tied. She is very self-conscious."

She became a host entirely because of her face. She first went to the county TV station, which was really short of people at the time, and then to the city TV station, the provincial TV station, and then Yang TV. She squeezed out the opportunities of so many talented people just because of her face!
"Oh, this world is so unfair!"

In Yuan Li's view, her words were a mockery of Li Hong for lacking talent and relying solely on her looks, but netizens were thrilled.

Yuan Li is essentially giving Li Hong a boost in her looks.

Everyone was discussing how beautiful Li Hong was, how she managed to compete in the world of TV hosts with just her face, and how she made it all the way to CCTV.

Netizens shared Li Hong's beautiful photos and discussed her beauty.

Some people also shared a photo of Li Hong hosting a program in 2009, where her shirt button popped open because she was so powerful and emotional.

Only then did everyone realize that Li Hong was not only beautiful and elegant, but also had such a broad mind.

Jiang Yifeng, who was rumored to be having an affair with Li Hong, was once again cursed by many netizens as "Jiang the Dog".

Seeing that things weren't going well and this wasn't the outcome she wanted, Yuan Li continued to expose more information.

"Li Hong was married before. Her mother forced her to marry a rural man, but she threatened to kill herself and eventually ran away from the marriage. Later, a wealthy businessman wanted to marry Li Hong, but after hearing about her experience of breaking off her engagement, he no longer liked her."

"Li Hong is very unsophisticated. She has been working at CCTV for seven or eight years and still can't distinguish between designer handbags. Her younger brother is Xu Jinglei's photographer. For her brother's job, Li Hong drank with Xu Jinglei until she had a stomach hemorrhage, but she still had to go to work the next day."

“Li Hong’s family has a bad reputation in their hometown. Two years ago, when their hometown was flooded, Li Hong went to donate money, but was secretly ridiculed by her relatives. She was saddened by this for a long time.”

……

Yuan Li was already mentally unstable. After participating in two seasons of Sisters Who Make Waves, she gained a group of fans because of her abstract style, and now she has become even more erratic.

She stopped using forum alt accounts and stopped denying Yuan Li's literary works; she directly launched an attack on her main Weibo account.

Everyone loves gossip, and Yuan Li's revelations were very interesting, instantly making the topic the most talked-about online.

All those scandals—Lost in Thailand, Police Story, Spring Festival Gala hosts—were overshadowed by Yuan Li's revelations about Li Hong's gossip.

Seeing this situation, Li Hong had no choice but to personally post a clarification on Weibo.

"I met director Jiang Yifeng for the first time just the day before yesterday. As for Yuan Li, we are not familiar with each other."

This statement essentially declares that Yuan Li's revelations are untrue.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Li was not in a hurry; she simply posted another Weibo post.

"No one taught me what love is. After that day, I always thought I hated you. Later I realized that I just loved you so much that I was in pain."

Xiao Hong, have the maple leaves in Yanjing turned red? Has the Songhua River frozen over? Does your ideal still remain?

These words perfectly encapsulate the "bad ending" aesthetic in shipping couples.

In particular, the question "Does your ideal still endure?" struck a chord with many people.

Online, more and more people are shipping Yuan Li and Li Hong, and the Li Hong CP (couple pairing) group is growing rapidly, starting to surpass the Hong Feng CP (couple pairing).

Some weird people have even started shipping the "underwear couple," which refers to Yuan Li and Jiang Yifeng.

These people edited together clips of Jiang Yifeng and Yuan Li's interactions from the first two seasons of the show, portraying Yuan Li as a broken and drowning woman, while Jiang Yifeng was there to save her.

In the video, Jiang Yifeng and Yuan Li's interaction is very sweet, with a loving sense of taboo.

It's just like that saying: the more bizarre the pairing, the more enthusiastically everyone ships it.

Jiang Yifeng hadn't expected that simply announcing the lineup of Spring Festival Gala hosts would have such a huge impact.

He watched the videos edited by netizens, and all he could say was that they were talented; he couldn't offer any other comments.

Although it was a bit disgusting, Jiang Yifeng did not stop the gossip from spreading.

After all this gossip, the biggest winner is still the show "Sisters Who Make Waves".

Yuan Li's revelations and gossip reminded everyone of the wonderful times they had watching Sisters Who Make Waves.

Many netizens left messages on Fengxing Media and Jiang Yifeng's Weibo accounts, urging them to start recording the third season of Sisters Who Make Waves as soon as possible.

Fengxing Media also took the opportunity to announce its plan to start recording Sisters Who Make Waves in May this year.

This news has sparked new discussions.

While everyone online is enjoying the gossip, Li Hong is in a rather awkward situation in real life.

Especially as the Spring Festival Gala preparations enter their final sprint, Li Hong and Jiang Yifeng will see each other all the time.

Every time she saw Jiang Yifeng, she felt very awkward, and Yuan Li's Weibo posts would involuntarily pop into her mind, such as "two wounded souls huddling together for warmth."

Because of Yuan Li's words, Li Hong even went to check Jiang Yifeng's information.

She discovered that Jiang Yifeng, like her, came from a rural area and was an orphan, even more so than her.

Yuan Li's words seem to make no mistake.

Li Hong feels like she's been teased by her best friend about their relationship, and she's starting to relate to it.

Of course, this kind of immersion requires a lot of modeling skills.

Ultimately, it's because Jiang Yifeng is handsome enough that he could evoke such associations in the older woman.

On January 12th, the Spring Festival Gala began its first full dress rehearsal.

This was Li Hong's first time hosting such a large-scale gala, and she was not only very nervous but also somewhat unaccustomed to it, resulting in a less than natural performance.

After the rehearsal ended, Jiang Yifeng came over.

Li Hong thought Jiang Yifeng was going to criticize her, so she quickly got up.

But then Jiang Yifeng said, "I've adjusted my partners. From now on, you'll be working with Zhu Jun."

This way you can broadcast the program in your usual style without having to deliberately create special effects.

Except for the opening and closing segments where all six hosts appear together, the Spring Festival Gala hosts are paired up for most of the time, usually in male-female combinations.

Today, Li Hong's partner is Bi Fujian. She is not used to Bi's chatty hosting style and her responses are not very natural.

It would be even worse to replace him with Sa Beining, who loves to cause trouble.

Therefore, Jiang Yifeng replaced Li Hong with a host with Zhu Jun, who has a serious style.

In addition, Zhu Jun has hosted the Spring Festival Gala for more than a dozen years and has the most experience. With him leading the way, Li Hong will feel less pressure.

Hearing Jiang Yifeng's arrangement, Li Hong felt a warmth in her heart and thanked him, saying, "Thank you for taking care of me, Director Jiang."

Jiang Yifeng smiled and said, "It's nothing. You're a professional host, you can adapt even if I don't make any adjustments."

After saying this, Jiang Yifeng left, because Liu Yifei was already waiting outside the door.

Watching Jiang Yifeng leave hand in hand with Liu Yifei, Li Hong felt a little irritated for some reason.

Just then, Yuan Li sent a message.

Okay, I believe you and Director Jiang have nothing going on for now, but I think it's only a matter of time.

Director Jiang is like a giant microwave oven, and you are like leftovers that have been frozen for over a decade.

Director Jiang can heat up your dish and adjust it to its most delicious and flavorful state.

You can't resist the warmth of a microwave oven.

After Yuan Li made the revelation, Li Hong contacted her, not only demanding that Yuan Li delete the Weibo post, but also clearly stating that she and Jiang Yifeng were innocent and that nothing had happened between them.

Upon seeing Yuan Li's message, Li Hong nodded involuntarily.

Jiang Yifeng's words and actions were indeed very warm, unlike any of the men she had encountered before.

Yuan Li sent another message.

[Since you don't want to get married and are already quite old, Director Jiang is the most suitable partner for you. I guarantee you'll be very comfortable.]

Upon seeing this message, Li Hong sighed; she wouldn't reply with any text message.

If that crazy woman Yuan Li were to post the chat logs online, Li Hong couldn't afford the consequences.

So she found a secluded spot, called Yuan Li, and said, "Please be normal. My private life is none of your business."

Yuan Li said, "I've figured it out now. It's impossible for me and Director Jiang, but you can!"

Your success is equivalent to my success; I'll be your strategist!

Li Hong: "???"

Jiang Yifeng was unaware that Yuan Li, that crazy woman, was helping him out. He was taking Liu Yifei to the Classic of Mountains and Seas laboratory.

Chen Duling encountered a problem in her scientific research, and Jiang Yifeng went to help her solve it.

(End of this chapter)