Which top celebrity doesn't support a few female stars?

Chapter 77: All Initial Goals for Film and Television Achieved

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Overnight, the news of "Zhao Yubai, the post-00s generation's rising star" spread to multiple social media platforms.

Because of Lai Chau's connections, the message reached a much larger group than one might have imagined.

Among them, many people paid special attention to Zhao Yubai's social media accounts.

This led to Zhao Yubai gaining millions of followers overnight, bringing his total number of followers across all platforms to over ten million.

So much so that last night, Zhao Yubai tossed and turned, half-asleep, and—even laughed in his dreams.

However, throughout the night, whether fully awake, half-asleep, or dreaming, Zhao Yubai's thoughts lingered most on—

"How exactly should I thank President Li?"

"I only regret that I was born the wrong gender — no, that's not right, President Li still has very high standards —"

"Hu Yatong has been so direct in pursuing him time and time again, but President Li has never paid any attention to her. Whenever they film a romantic scene, it's just endless reshoots."

Zhao Yubai sighed more and more as he thought about it.

Because Hu Yatong's character, Lin Yueru, has a lot of screen time, and because she had to prioritize filming all of Li Xiaoyao's scenes, she was basically on set every day.

On set, she never cared about her status as a super popular star; she was completely oblivious to everyone else and shamelessly fawned over Li Zhou.

Of course, in a sense, it can also be understood that Hu Yatong wanted to ride the coattails of the scandal.

Because once "Chinese Paladin" airs, they can immediately capitalize on the popularity of the CP (couple pairing), as "Li Xiaoyao" and "Lin Yueru" have a romantic storyline.

The opinions of Zhao Yubai and the other bystanders were not wrong; Li Zhou was indeed quite picky.

For example, he had absolutely no interest in Hu Yatong.

Li Zhou's longest interval without sleep was only a few dozen hours. Even if he was born with a repressed personality, he should have stopped repressing himself long ago.

Therefore, he now values ​​the feeling of first meeting more, that is, the initial attraction at first sight.

The next day, the 27th, at around 8 a.m., Li Zhou arrived at the set of "Chinese Paladin".

As an aside, the "Chinese Paladin" production team has changed filming locations quite a few times since filming began.

Some of the filming locations are already undergoing large-scale construction, with supporting infrastructure for cultural tourism projects based on the Legend of Sword and Fairy IP being implemented.

As Li Zhou sat down in the monitor area and picked up the script for today's scenes, Zhao Yubai suddenly appeared.

"President Li————"

Li Zhou looked up at the sound and waited for the rest of the story to continue.

Upon seeing this, Zhao Yubai immediately knelt down: "If you don't mind, I'd like to take care of you in your old age."

Li Zhou:

Damn it, who the hell is saying online every day that Gen Z is reshaping the workplace? They're pretty good at it, aren't they?

To be honest, almost as soon as Zhao Yu finished speaking, Li Zhou heard that classic line: "The bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish!"

After glancing at Zhao Yubai, who was kneeling on the ground with a sincere look in his eyes, Li Zhou looked around and found the huge film set so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Everyone's eyes widened in disbelief.

98% of the people were frozen in place, as if time had been stopped.

Looking away, Li Zhou gestured: "Get up first, what you're doing is damaging my image—"

"What era are we living in? Doing these things makes you look like you're trying to be arrogant or rebellious."

Zhao Yubai scrambled to his feet in a panic, stammering, "I'm so sorry, Mr. Li, I—"

"Don't worry too much about these details." Li Zhou pretended to interrupt. "If you want to thank me, then try your best to trample Shen Junyi under your feet."

"What bullshit about being the top potential breakout star of the post-00s generation? He'll never produce a hit drama in his entire life."

Zhao Yubai nodded vigorously, "Yes, yes, I understand, I will do my best!"

He thought about it all night, and what came to mind was to publicly declare his loyalty to Li Zhou.

Being in the thick of it all, Zhao Yubai saw only Li Zhou's ability to "turn the tide with a flick of his wrist."

Currently, Li Zhou has publicly expressed his expectations for Zhao Yubai.

This was clearly not a simple expectation, but more like an order. If he couldn't do it, Zhao Yubai would have to go somewhere cool and stay put.

Zhao Yubai had no doubt about Li Zhou's abilities. Since he could easily promote him now, he could also easily crush him.

"Shen Junyi—he was an essential stepping stone for me to reach the pinnacle!"

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Interestingly, Zhao Yubai's overnight fame elicited the strongest reaction from Shen Junyi, the instigator of the "extermination incident."

To put it simply, Shen Junyi, who is known as the top potential successor among the post-00s generation, is actually more aware than anyone else of the superficiality of this title.

That's how he got the title back then.

Basically, it's just a few marketing accounts hyping it up, and then fans hyping it up again, and that's considered a done deal.

It's no different from Zhao Yubai's current approach.

What's even more infuriating is that, due to the explosive popularity of an ordinary urban drama like "Xu", Zhao Yubai's title has gained even greater online recognition.

so----

Shen Junyi was absolutely furious: "No way—what the hell is going on here?!"

"Is Li Zhou fucking cheating? Why the hell is he targeting me again?"

"Given the previous situation, shouldn't their team have directly confronted Song Mingche?"

"He didn't actually become a boss, did he? They're both male celebrities, and he actually has the nerve to promote Zhao Yubai?"

Even the agent, Lao Huang, standing nearby, didn't know what to say; the situation was far too delicate.

In contrast, Song Mingche was unusually in a good mood.

I thought I would be the one to take the blame, but Li Zhou's team turned around and praised their colleague instead.

And he was a male colleague.

interesting.

Putting all that aside, Li Zhou certainly wouldn't favor one over the other.

From the very beginning of the project "Xu", Li Zhou has been suffering all sorts of hardships.

He'd had enough of the hardships of writing scripts and the struggles of his mother searching for people like a small business owner.

Now the harvest season has finally arrived, and the actual market performance has exceeded his initial expectations.

Therefore, Li Zhou naturally wanted to make a fortune in one go.

After giving Zhao Yubai a little praise, Li Zhou communicated with Zhang Qiming and also gave instructions to the company team.

So, while Zhao Yubai was busy paying respects to his godfather, Su Yuran was doing an event at the Douyin drama-watching group event.

Due to the overwhelming amount of marketing, the event was brought to a standstill by the sheer number of people who arrived when Su Yuran appeared.

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Entertainment media outlets rushed to report on it.

That evening, Su Yuran appeared in the Douyin live stream, which instantly attracted over a million viewers, with a peak of over 300 million concurrent viewers.

This number of concurrent online viewers is already among the top ten, or even the top five, of Douyin live streams.

In the category of celebrity live streaming, it is definitely in the top three and is aiming for second place.

So much so that as soon as the live stream ended, many entertainment media outlets had already begun to bestow various titles upon Su Yuran—

"From single-handedly carrying multiple low-budget web dramas to single-handedly creating S+ blockbuster dramas, Su Yuran—the undisputed queen of dramas among the post-00s generation!"

"From this moment on, the film and television market officially enters the era of 00-generation actresses."

"Su Yuran, the only post-00s actress to reach the top of the drama industry!"

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This led to the further surge in popularity of "Xu". For example, the popularity reached a new peak that night, reaching 34,000 views.

In addition, the average number of views per episode surprisingly exceeded 6000 million, making it the only drama this year to achieve an average of over 6000 million views per episode during its broadcast.

The investment attraction data is incredibly hot.

So far, there have been more than 50 brand GGs, with 12 GGs per episode, and the total number of GGs is estimated to exceed 300.

Without a doubt, judging from the multi-dimensional data such as popularity, average number of episodes, and investment, "Xu" has already secured the title of the year's top online drama.

As for whether it will be criticized by the public for being a poorly completed project, or whether it will have a long-tail effect—all of that is irrelevant.

The drama "Xu" has exceeded all the goals that Li Zhou had hoped for when he entered the film and television industry as a screenwriter and investor.

Screenwriter's vision, market recognition, commercial value, nurturing female stars—and so on.

On the morning of the 28th, Li Zhou finally got to see the final scene of his role as "Li Xiaoyao".

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Interestingly, according to the filming schedule, Li Xiaoyao's last scene was also from the movie "Chinese Paladin".

The ending of the story —