I became famous in the entertainment industry by burning incense

Chapter 672 The Director in the Spotlight (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
The organizers were still worried about how to add some buzz to the Lantern Festival Gala. They couldn't just rely on the fans of the celebrities to generate data, since their performances were also very well arranged.

Just then, the appearance of Jinli opened up a new avenue for popularity.

#Jinli appeared at CCTV Lantern Festival Gala#
#The Lantern Festival Gala was so good that I went to see Jinli's performance after the show#
#On Jinli's Busy Multi-Program Life Today#
Netizens who saw the trending topic were all surprised and thought they had misread it.

Jinli was trending on social media yesterday—

#Program list for Tsinghua and Peking University Lantern Festival Gala leaked, Jin Li will perform#
Isn't Jinli going to perform today?

How did I suddenly end up in the audience of CCTV's Lantern Festival Gala?

[The case is solved. She, like Gu Cheng, participated in the Lantern Festival Gala of Tsinghua and Peking Universities, performing as the first and second performers. After her performance, she went to the CCTV Lantern Festival Gala.]
Gu Cheng has a program to attend, but Jin Li doesn't; she's just here for sightseeing.
This show must be really good, otherwise Jinli wouldn't have gone there.
[It's very beautiful, especially the actress who played the Flower Goddess, scattering flowers while suspended in the air by wires—it was stunning!]
The trending topics were a bit misleading, leading everyone to believe that "Jinli attended the show because she thought it was very good."

After discussing for almost half an hour, some CP fans finally showed up uninvited.

I have a guess, but I dare not say it.
[I also have a guess, and I know that Gu Cheng's company booked a promotional program for the Lantern Festival Gala for him a long time ago, and the schedule was confirmed and announced before the Chinese New Year.]
[So why did Gu Cheng still go to the Lantern Festival gala at Tsinghua and Peking Universities?]
[Ahem, of course I want to perform on stage with "her"!]
[I find it strange. I remember Jinli wasn't interested in parties; she never wanted to go even when she won awards before. Why did she go today?]
[It's probably also to see "him"...]
[I'm so excited! This is what they call a two-way street!]
A group of enthusiasts arrived and started finding all sorts of ways to engage in this kind of "pinky" stuff.

Jinli hasn't looked at the online comments; the company will handle this matter properly.

Because of her arrival, more netizens focused their attention on the gala itself, analyzing the program arrangements and finding them all excellent.

Many programs showcase long-standing cultural traditions and utilize intangible cultural heritage elements to present mythological stories.

Gu Cheng didn't leave the party until around 11:30 p.m.

Jinli sat in the car and left with him.

Their apartments were in the same direction, so since they came together, they naturally walked together as well.

Paparazzi captured images of the two leaving together and getting into the same car.

A paparazzi asked the boss, "Should we publish this?"

The eldest brother glanced at it and said with disdain, "I won't post it. The photo isn't clear, and the two weren't even that close. They live in the same apartment, so it's normal for them to go back together."

The paparazzi asked, "But a lot of people ship them as a couple, right? Posting about it would get you views, wouldn't it?"

The boss said, "Their agencies are suppressing this kind of news. They don't make money from it, it doesn't trend on social media, and it gets restricted."

Unless intimate photos of the two are taken, this will no longer be enough to make it to the trending topics.

Strangely, despite everyone knowing that Jinli and Gu Cheng are a couple, it's difficult to take any intimate photos of them together.

On the one hand, both celebrities are very restrained in public, and their interactions can be explained as friendly classmates.

On the other hand, whenever the paparazzi focus their lenses on Jinli, they often miss, taking blurry photos of her without knowing why.

A paparazzi had been staking out the two of them for a long time, hoping to take intimate photos of them.

Once, he thought he had captured a moment and was about to press the shutter when he noticed Jinli looking up at him.

The two locked eyes, and the paparazzi were somewhat taken aback by Jinli.

He thought he had been discovered and stood there stunned.

As a result, that rare intimate photo was never taken.

The paparazzi missed their chance; they forgot to press the shutter.

The paparazzi later claimed to have seen Jinli and Gu Cheng kissing each other on the cheek, but since there were no photos, no one believed him.

Let's return to the present.

The paparazzi who photographed the two riding in the same car thought his boss made sense, so he didn't publish the photos.

If he really releases the photos, the companies of both celebrities will have a good explanation, and it can also give "Leisurely Slow Life" some publicity.

Because the car Jinli was in also contained not only her, but also the director of "Leisurely Slow Life".

On Chinese New Year, the director had a flash of inspiration and felt that filming the daily interactions of celebrities would be more interesting.

So after the Spring Festival ended and he returned to work, he kept in touch with the celebrity's agent.

The director needs to determine which of the artists' schedules can be made public, which can be filmed, and which schedules overlap.

Just like many straight lines going in different directions, one day, due to some accident or arrangement, the straight lines will intersect and form a point of intersection.

The director's job is to determine the intersection point and then record the time period during which the intersection point meets.

Gu Cheng didn't know if the director had filmed footage of other people; in any case, this was the first time he had seen the director since the Spring Festival.

He politely greeted the director.

The director, sitting in the front row, said with a smile, "Gu Cheng, just pretend I don't exist. You and Jin Li can chat however you want."

Jinli laughed and said, "Director, it's a little difficult to ignore such a big living person sitting right in front of me."

The director said, "You've all acted before, so I believe you can handle this kind of disconnect from reality very well. Come on, show us your daily lives, and we'll edit these into the leisurely, slow-paced scenes."

Jinli turned her head and looked at Gu Cheng helplessly.

"I still have serious doubts about how the production team of Youman gets their material. Aren't they worried that viewers won't like watching this kind of mindless daily life?"

Gu Cheng shrugged helplessly, "I don't see what's so interesting about filming this either?"

He readily agreed to the director's request, since being a celebrity means constantly interacting with the camera.

Having been a celebrity for so many years, he has long been accustomed to the camera and has learned to ignore the people around him, focusing only on doing his own thing.

But today, Gu Cheng regretted agreeing too readily.

With the director around, he couldn't tell Jinli many of his innermost thoughts.

Although the director said to ignore him and just communicate normally, Gu Cheng had his own principles and there were some things he couldn't say that could be broadcast.

Otherwise, Brother Guang really wouldn't be able to sleep.

Gu Cheng was lost in thought when Jin Li's voice came from beside him: "I watched your performance tonight, and it was completely the opposite of 'Beacon Fire'."

The stage design for "Crescent Bay" is very gentle, taking a lyrical approach. Was this a deliberate attempt to differentiate it from "Beacon Fire"?

Gu Cheng came to his senses and shook his head: "No, the stage for 'Crescent Bay' was decided a long time ago."

Guang Ge said I always sing upbeat dance songs in boy bands, but my voice can also sing love songs beautifully and with depth, so he specially signed me up for a gentle song, "Crescent Bay."

He thought of something amusing and couldn't help but smile.

"When Guang Ge submitted the program, he didn't receive a reply for a month. He thought the song had been rejected, so he came over to apologize to me and said that he should have submitted a song by the band March to me to be on the safe side."

"The coincidence is that right after he apologized, and I accepted his apology and told him it was okay, his phone rang."

The call was from the production team, saying my segment had been selected. As soon as Guang Ge hung up, he immediately turned on me, demanding an apology. Jin Li's eyes widened slightly: "What do you mean, 'apologize'? Is that something you can compensate for?"

Gu Cheng said helplessly, "That's right, so he wants me to apologize to him once, then the two will cancel each other out."

Jinli couldn't help but ask, "So how did you do it?"

Gu Cheng smirked, a hint of arrogance in his eyes, and said, "You want me to apologize to him?"

He scoffed, "No way."

"Hahaha!" Jinli laughed out loud, and a smile also appeared on Gu Cheng's lips.

He asked, "And you, has anything funny happened between you and your agent lately?"

Gu Cheng didn't want to share his life with Jin Li in front of the camera.

After much deliberation, the only option left was to sacrifice the agent.

Guang Ge will understand him.

Jinli thought for a moment and said, "One interesting thing is that after the Spring Festival, I went to Hong Kong Island to promote Dawn, which was being shown for the first time there. Then I had to deal with the copyright contract issue for Pink Girl, so I informed Sister Fang."

"Sister Fang was very nervous. She immediately asked me if I needed to hire a bodyguard and said she was already looking for the phone number of a security agency, which made me laugh."

After she finished speaking, she realized something and turned to look at the director.

"Wait, is this something we can talk about? Should we cut this part out?"

The director was amused by her and quickly agreed, "Okay, okay, cut it out!"

But Jinli always felt that the director's smile was malicious.

It wasn't until later, when she saw this car chat scene from "Leisurely Slow Life," that she realized the director's smile was a "finally found some juicy material" smile.

He included the entire segment, including the voice-over narration where his face wasn't shown, "Okay, okay, cut it out."

Jinli turned on the live chat, and the comments were full of "hahaha".

[Pure and innocent Jinli!]
[Hong Kong Island is perfectly safe, why cut it out? Of course it should be shown, haha!]
[The bodyguards here are all foreigners with paranoia; they were hired specifically for show.]
Jinli felt like she had been hit with a critical strike, and she would never believe what the director said again!

Although there was one more person on the return trip, the director of the "Leisurely" program was very good at handling things. Seeing that Jinli and Gu Cheng had nothing to talk about, he took the initiative to bring up the interesting stories of him filming the daily affairs of celebrities.

The director focused on Chen Lin.

“When we filmed shows before, I knew he was very conscious of his image and always carried a small mirror and comb with him. But yesterday, when I followed him on set, I realized that he is really narcissistic, far beyond what is common.”

The gossip mentioned by the director wasn't included in the final cut.

He was quite lenient with himself, only deceiving Jinli.

The director continued to complain: "He had a schedule yesterday that overlapped with Qi Guanmingzhu's, so I consulted his agent and decided to film the scenes between the two of them, starting with Chen Lin."

I don't know what's wrong with Chen Lin. He was sitting in the car with the windows closed, so the wind couldn't reach him. He kept asking me if his hairstyle was messy, if his makeup was too heavy, and if there was anything he hadn't done well.

I tolerated him the whole way, and when he was trying to spray perfume again in a showy manner, I said that the perfume shouldn't be too strong, otherwise it would make him look too effeminate. Only then did Chen Lin stop. Then he started asking again and again how his hairstyle was and whether his makeup was messy.

I couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Stop asking the same questions repeatedly; it makes you seem too effeminate."

The director paused, then said with an extremely speechless expression, "Then, Chen Lin said to me in a naive and innocent tone: No, Sister Mingzhu won't dislike me."

Jinli and Gu Cheng couldn't help but burst out laughing.

It has to be said that this imitation is very much in Chen Lin's style; they can already imagine the tone and the scene.

The director did give Chen Lin some face, not saying that Chen Lin became even more exaggerated after meeting Qi Guan Mingzhu.

Wherever Qi Guanmingzhu couldn't see, he would almost always stop to fix his hair and ask him how it was.

The director had unspeakable grievances.

I just wanted to make a film, why are you torturing me like this?

What sins have I committed to deserve such torment from you?

After returning home, the director specifically reviewed the footage he had shot and sighed deeply.

There was a lot of material, enough for two hours, but not much of it was actually usable.

He can't possibly show the audience Chen Lin fixing his hair every few minutes and ask him if he's still okay.

The three of them chatted and laughed all the way back to the apartment.

Jinli thought it was over, but the director announced something else.

"I know you'll be having the same Morality class tomorrow, so I decided to show up. Remember to sit next to me tomorrow; I want to see how you study."

Jinli exclaimed in surprise, "Did you ask the school? How could the school actually approve it?"

Director: "I asked and it was approved because I said that many people outside regard you as role models, and making your daily classes public will help inspire more people."

Gu Cheng asked, "Have you discussed it with the teacher? Maybe they don't want to be photographed, and there are other students who probably don't want to be in the picture either."

The director smiled and said, "I'll only film the two of you, not anyone else. As for the teacher, I've already asked for his opinion, and he said it's okay."

He also said that if I could film his entire class, he would produce a public lecture. I was tempted, but I felt it was too much of a undertaking, and there was no guarantee that everything would be broadcast, so I declined.

Jinli and Gu Cheng exchanged a glance.

Well, it seems they can't escape now.

The director then made another request: "I've seen your class schedule. Apart from that large lecture, all your major courses are concentrated in the morning, and you don't have any classes in the afternoon."

"How about you free up your afternoon and we take you to shoot some campus footage?"

Jinli hesitated and said, "It's possible, but are you sure there are viewers who would actually like to watch it?"

Gu Cheng shared the same question.

The director smiled confidently: "Don't worry, they'll love watching it!"

That group of people are constantly clamoring for more content on his blog, hoping he'll film more campus scenes.

Because they felt that the March band members were youthful, sunny young men, which matched their imagination of handsome young men.

So the director decided that not only Gu Cheng and Jin Li, but everyone else should also be included!
He left a little surprise for Jinli and Gu Cheng.

(End of this chapter)