Entering the Chinese entertainment industry is like entering a deep sea

Chapter 797 Charitable Couple
The three teams are red, yellow, and blue, with the red team in the middle.

Just looking at the lineups, the Red Team almost completely overwhelms the Blue and Yellow Teams.

The members are represented by the Running Man cast in the second row, including the couple Deng Chao and Wang Zulan, Lu Han, Zhang Hanyun, and Jiang Shuying.

In addition, there are also Liu Yifei, the boss's wife of Rongchen Group, who joined temporarily, as well as other Rongchen Group artists such as Deng Ziqi, Tang Yan, Meng Ziyi, and Zhang Ruonan.

Li Chen glanced back and saw that Fan Bingbing and Li Chen were also on the red team.

Fan Bingbing saw Li Chen turn around and look back, and even waved to Li Chen.

On the left is Huang Xiaoming, the captain of the Yellow Team, whose members are also star-studded, including Li Bingbing, Wu Yifan, the King of Comedy family of three, Jing Boran, Yang Yang, TFBOYS, and others.

On the right is Huang Bo, the captain of the blue team. Behind him are handsome men and beautiful women, including Taiwanese supermodel Lin Chih-ling, Yu Zhi Shen Yong, He Run Dong, the actor who played the role of Qian Gu Wu Er, Korean dance king Rain, and Korean beauty Chae Rim and her husband, etc.

However, the two hosts tonight were unfamiliar faces; Li Chen didn't even recognize them.

One is named Yali, and the other is named Chen Huan; both are from Blueberry.

The first to appear was Deng Chao, the captain of the Red Team, and the big screen showcased many of the roles he had played.

The performance mainly featured crazy and comedic characters, and everyone in the audience had smiles on their faces.

Li Chen never worried about Deng Chao's gambling.

The second to appear was Huang Xiaoming, the captain of Team Yellow, whom the new host, Ya Li, described as having the best looks.

Li Chen, sitting in the audience, immediately burst out laughing.

Liu Yifei leaned close to Li Chen's ear and chuckled, "Does this girl mean that Brother Xiaoming is more handsome than Brother Chao?"

Li Chen nodded. A newcomer is a newcomer; he had unintentionally offended someone.

Who says Deng Chao is less handsome than Huang Xiaoming?

However, Huang Xiaoming is Huang Xiaoming after all; he has the capital now and speaks with great confidence.

This visual appeal was instantly relinquished to someone else.

The last to appear was Huang Bo, the captain of the blue team, whom Huang Xiaoming, the "face of the team," also mentioned.

"Hey, let me correct you, I'm really not the visual representative tonight. The visual representative tonight is Huang Bo!" Huang Xiaoming earnestly corrected the female host.

The female host seemed to realize what was happening and immediately burst into laughter, saying, "Please welcome Huang Bo, who is handsome but not willful!"

On stage, Huang Xiaoming and Deng Chao clapped and exclaimed in perfect unison, "Wow, wearing sunglasses and shorts!"

"You're the only one wearing stockings today!" the male host said with a laugh, pointing at Huang Bo's bare legs.

The camera immediately focused on Xiang Zuo, the king of comedy.

Li Chen couldn't help but laugh.

This director is incredibly prescient; did he foresee that this person would take a completely different path in the future?

Huang Xiaoming squatted down and looked at Huang Bo's calves seriously, saying, "Hey, I noticed you don't have any leg hair!"

Deng Chao readily chimed in, "No, the invitation says we can't wear shorts!"

After exchanging a few playful banter, the three team captains invited their team members to the stage.

The red team got priority, and Deng Chao, as the captain of Running Man, showed off his hosting skills that far surpassed the two new hosts.

He's very good at setting the mood; he immediately gets the atmosphere going as soon as he opens his mouth.

"Now, please welcome our first member of the Red Team, who is also the aunt of the Yellow Team captain and the classmate of the Blue Team captain! The stunningly beautiful Ms. Liu Yifei, the owner of Rongchen's shop!"

The audience burst into laughter, and Huang Xiaoming and Huang Bo on stage also laughed.

Both of them were considerably older than Liu Yifei; one was a generation younger, while the other became her classmate.

Huang Xiaoming wondered if Deng Chao was a tapeworm in his stomach.

When he introduces the members of the Yellow Team later, he plans to describe his fiancée as the manager of the Yellow Team.

Since Deng Chao spoke first, he naturally couldn't follow suit.

Before going on stage, Liu Yifei gave Li Chen a light glare, which Li Chen found amusing.

Although he acted in two films, no one on set treated him like a celebrity.

"Xiaoming, Yifei and I are classmates, and Yifei is your aunt, so what should you call me? Help me sort this out, I'm so confused!" Huang Bo joked.

The atmosphere at the scene was lively.

Huang Xiaoming wasn't one to be trifled with, and immediately sighed and said, "How old are you this year? If you really are classmates with Yifei, then you have to call me senior. Let's address each other separately. I'm from the class of '96."

Huang Xiaoming and Huang Bo were chatting.

Deng Chao then invited two more team members.

"Next, please welcome Ms. Fan Bingbing and her 'us'!"

One sentence made Fan Bingbing stumble.

The most awkward person should be Li Chen. Among the couples who came out in pairs today, he and Fan Bingbing were the only ones who did not walk the red carpet together.

Everyone knows that Fan Bingbing's status and commercial value are far higher than Li Chen's.

But as long as you are not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed.

Li Chen is like that, completely disregarding the opinions of everyone present.

Come to think of it, although this guy is average-looking and has mediocre acting skills, the looks and figures of the girlfriends he's had are definitely worthy of his status.

It seems that Fan Bingbing and Li Chen discussed this before going on stage, with Li Chen standing between Fan Bingbing and Liu Yifei.

Fan Bingbing still vividly remembers the Cartier dinner party years ago, where the three beauties appeared together and sparked a trending topic such as "Liu Yifei is so beautiful in Milan" and "Liu Yifei alone competes with two beauties, Bellucci and Fan Bingbing".

At that time, she secretly warned herself that unless she was absolutely certain of victory, she would never appear in the same frame as Liu Yifei.

What happened backstage on the red carpet was just a joke; she still had to consider her boyfriend's pride.

Tonight, her outfit looked a bit dated, and standing next to Liu Yifei, she didn't seem to have any advantage other than appearing a bit fierce.

So she and Li Chen agreed on how to stand before she went on stage.

Huang Bo's team also included Super Lu and her family of three.

The couple seems determined to prove their daughter isn't ugly! They take her everywhere they go.

At this moment, he deliberately pointed his daughter at the camera to remind Huang Bo that the blue team members also had this child.

As expected, there are oddballs everywhere in the entertainment industry.

Yang Siwei and Li Chen stood back to back, and Yang Siwei leaned close to Li Chen's ear and said with a smile, "Boss, that Li Yifeng just said in an interview that he and Wuyifan would be invincible if they joined forces."

Li Chen chuckled lightly: "Arrogance never brings good. Let's wait and see."

After the three teams introduced their members, Liu Yifei and the others left the stage.

The first item up for auction was Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry. The four members of the red team who remained on stage were Lu Han, Gao Yuanyuan, Fan Bingbing, and Li Chen.

Lu Han and Gao Yuanyuan stood together chatting and laughing, while Fan Bingbing acted as a jewelry display hostess.

The philanthropists in the audience made bids one after another, and the price was quickly pushed up to 100 million.

Seeing that 100 million was not moving, Deng Chao said, "Little Deer, why don't you show us your special skill?"

Lu Han performed a beatboxing act, which was awkward, and the reward increased by 100 on top of the original 5 million.

Deng Chao was not giving up, so he had Lu Han show off his ball-juggling skills while wearing leather shoes.

As expected, Chinese football still has no shortage of passionate fans, and philanthropist Chen Bin added another 15 yuan.

Zhang Hanyun, from the second table of the red team, leaned close to Li Chen and Liu Yifei and whispered, "Sisters, what items have you prepared for the auction? We've already agreed that tonight's top bid must be ours."

Liu Yifei smiled and said, "You'll find out soon enough."

When it was Team Yellow's turn, their item was a work by Wang Zhongjun, a white camellia.

To Li Chen's surprise, Huang Xiaoming was indeed thriving, as evidenced by his way of addressing Wang Zhongjun.

“I have one of Zhongjun’s works in my collection, which I donated to charity. He was also my former boss, and now he’s Baby’s boss. We’re all family.”

With a starting price of 50, Li Chen also wanted to see what kind of person Wang Zhongjun was.

Tonight's bidders are all outsiders, which really puts personal influence to the test.

There were many bidders, but none of them were big names.

Li Chen didn't recognize any of the bidders. The final selling price wasn't low; it was 400 million yuan, won by Xie Yichen, a female director of an art company.

But the key point is that Huayi's former glory is gone forever.

The scene of celebrities vying for Feng Xiaogang's painting back then is no longer seen.

It was Huang Bo's turn to take the stage from the blue team.

The items up for auction are a pair of green dog sculptures by Zhou Chunya, one male and one female.

The starting price was 50, and it stopped at 80.

Standing next to Huang Bo is Lin Zhiling.

“Next, I’ll add another heavyweight to this work! Then you can get Lin Chih-ling’s…” Huang Bo deliberately dragged out the last syllable, leaving much to the imagination.

The camera focused on many male viewers, with Lin Yilun being the funniest. He licked his lips, whether it was an instinctive reaction or an act, it's unclear.

The camera pans to Li Chen, who is simply watching the stage with great interest.

He knew Huang Bo's style; there would definitely be a major plot twist, and it wouldn't be some cliché like a kiss.

"You can get it, Lin Chih-ling's most iconic 'Go Go Go Go!' She'll cheer you on individually." Lin Chih-ling laughed so hard she bent over.

The room erupted in laughter, but what was even more surprising was that most of the bidders who followed were women.

The item was finally sold for 180 million to the fourth wife of a woman from Australia.

After the first round, the Red Team was at the bottom.

Li Chen wasn't in a hurry, and neither was Deng Chao, the captain of the red team.

The red team is full of talented people and has great financial resources. If just a few of them raise their hands, they could probably catch up later.

Deng Chao simply didn't know who would win the bid for the big boss's item.

It depends on luck when you draw the card.

The second round of bidding began, and the result seemed to be ordained by fate.

In the first round, Huang Xiaoming drew an item contributed by his former boss, Wang Zhongjun.

In this round, Deng Chao also drew an item put up by his former boss, Li Chen.

However, this time the item being auctioned was somewhat unusual, and it didn't belong to the big boss, but to the boss's wife.

The scene suddenly became somewhat noisy.

"TikTok's first pair of Blue Diamond accounts globally? What's going on?"

"The boss is the boss; this is going to redefine the auction dimension of the Bazaar Charity Night."

"I just don't know what the purpose of this blue diamond account is."

Huang Bo from the blue team was the first to appear, but he was unlucky and drew a work by an unknown contemporary artist.

The starting bid was 180 million, but after asking around for a long time, no one made a bid. Finally, an outsider bid 200 million and took it all.

Next up was Huang Xiaoming from the Yellow Team, but everyone's attention was completely drawn to the items being auctioned by the Red Team.

An oil painting of Tiananmen Square was hastily sold for 220 million yuan.

Finally, it was the red team's turn to bid.

The value of this unique item was displayed on the big screen.

As soon as Deng Chao, the captain of the Red Team, spoke, the scene erupted in excitement.

"As expected of items brought out by a celestial being, how could a mortal like me possibly guess? Let's see what's so special about Mr. Liu's Blue Diamond Douyin account."

"First, it has the permission to view the backend data of both accounts simultaneously."

"Secondly, one pop-up message can be sent to all users on the site each week."

"And it also has the Crystal Blue Label personally certified by General Manager Liu."

Wow! The starting price is 500 million!

The atmosphere at the scene was completely ignited by that shout of 500 million.

Zhang Ruonan and Meng Ziyi were both very excited. The starting price of 500 million was something they had never even dared to dream of.

But there were plenty of discerning customers at the scene; the magic of this account is something these jewelry and art pieces can't match.

All eyes were on the couple at the middle table.

Wang Changtian smiled wryly and said, "Brother, are you trying to break the tradition of Bazaar Night's pure luxury auction and show your position as the industry rule-maker?"

"800 million!" Wang Changtian raised his sign immediately to show his support before Li Chen could reply.

He knew he definitely couldn't get it for 800 million.

Sure enough, as soon as Wang Changtian finished shouting, four or five people raised their signs.

"Bingbing? One thousand? Ten million?" Deng Chao asked quickly when he saw Fan Bingbing holding up the sign.

Fan Bingbing smiled and nodded. If he could get this so-called blue diamond account for ten million, it would definitely be a good deal. He would not only do charity work, but also gain a publicity platform similar to that of a Weibo big V.

However, no one is stupid.

Li Bingbing: "1100 million!"

Mrs. Xiang: “1200 million!”

Wang Zhongjun: "1300 million!"

The item that Liu Yifei brought out for auction was a fatal temptation for the many business owners present.

So much so that Deng Chao didn't even have time to confirm who was who.

All I saw were people holding up signs!

"1400 million!"

"1500 million!"

"1800 million!"

"1900 million!"

The price of 1900 million was high, and there were still bidders at the scene, but the last person to speak was from Alibaba.

The internet industry has entered the market; Alibaba is not the first.

Immediately afterwards, someone from Xiaomi made a bid.

"2000 million!"

The celebrities were now speechless, and the battleground became the numerous tech and internet moguls present.

Su Mang, the fashion CEO, felt her blood pressure rise; she didn't know if her actions were right or wrong.

The auction tradition of Bazaar Night has been forcefully disrupted by capital tycoons, and the effect so far is undoubtedly unparalleled.

It's a foregone conclusion that the donations will break records.

Whether this will lower the overall quality of the Bazaar Night remains to be seen.

The price soared to 2000 million, and someone at the front middle table raised their hand again.

"2100 million!"

The scene fell silent instantly.

The item that Liu Yifei was auctioning was ultimately won by Li Chen.

"Mr. Li, Mr. Li offered 2100 million? Are you sure, Mr. Li?" Deng Chao asked, barely suppressing a laugh.

After everyone saw it clearly, they burst into good-natured laughter.

Li Chen shrugged and laughed, "There's nothing I can do, I've been eyeing President Liu's Blue Diamond privilege account for a long time too!"

Li Chen's words were half true and half false. Strictly speaking, Douyin and Li Chen had absolutely no connection.

Liu Yifei smiled broadly, and some people were already applauding, clearly recalling the amusing incident when Li Chen and his wife attended the charity gala that year.

(End of this chapter)