Marry a female star at a bargain price

Chapter 230 229. Typhoon Landing
seven in the morning.

Lin Xiao woke up in his house in Ninghai. It was drizzling outside.

Although it has been raining intermittently since the beginning of summer as if the sky was leaking urine, and several times the rain has been heavier and more violent than it is now, it can be better described as a "rainstorm".

But Lin Xiao always felt that this rain was more unusual than in the previous two months.

However, when I picked up my phone, everything was quiet.

The county emergency management bureau’s official account did not release any response to the flood emergency.

The county meteorological bureau did not issue any color of heavy rain warning, but only forwarded a forecast issued by Guangdong Province that a typhoon was about to land.

The attitude of the Meteorological Bureau revealed a nonchalant attitude, as if it felt that although the typhoon landing sounded scary, it actually had nothing to do with Anyang County, which was thousands of kilometers away from the coast.

What Lin Xiao was thinking was: I hope so.

Since there was no response from the county, the flood prevention leadership group in Chaobai Town naturally did not make any moves. Only the mayor Qin Zhenggang forwarded the news of a typhoon landing, but did not give any instructions.

The other leaders were happy to pretend not to see it and enjoy this rare weekend.

Lin Xiao put down his phone and yawned loudly.

When he turned around, he saw his wife sleeping soundly next to him.

Lin Xiao originally wanted to get up and make breakfast, but he was afraid that he would wake her up, so he simply lay there and continued to browse his phone.

There is no new development in flood prevention work.

He felt relieved for a moment, and then suddenly remembered that during the final live broadcast of "The Voice of China" last night, Zhou Hui and Zhong Jiawen of Dadi Media did something so cool that they might not only succeed in becoming popular themselves, but also push Han Xixi onto the hot searches as well - in a negative way, of course.

Yes, things are far from as simple as what Lin Xiao revealed when he confronted Zhou Hui last night.

At that time, in order to anger Zhou Hui, Lin Xiao said lightly that their plan would not bring any negative impact except giving money to Han Xixi.

But this is obviously impossible.

The resources in the entertainment industry are actually limited. Artists are in competition with each other. Even the male and female protagonists of a drama often suffer losses because of fighting for the role. There is rarely a win-win situation.

In particular, Han Xixi and Zhong Jiawen are similar in appearance, temperament and age.

The two of them have a competitive relationship that is as fierce as fire and water.

Even though Han Xixi didn't take the other party seriously and was too lazy to fight, this kind of life-and-death fight is often not decided by whether you are willing or not, but exists naturally.

What's more, if Han Xixi really has only benefits and no harm.

Then there was no need for Zhong Jiawen and the capital behind her to bypass Han Xixi, reach an agreement with Mango TV, and then secretly bribe Zhou Hui, thus embarking on a magnificent road of "besieging Wei to save Zhao".

If both parties can really benefit, they can just sit down and discuss cooperation. Why go through so much trouble?

Of course, Zhong Jiawen's people are not stupid. They know that Han Xixi will never agree.

Facts have also proved that the copyright fee is not enough to pay for Han Xixi's mental damages.

Lin Xiao opened Weibo.

It was found that on the hot search list, the topic of "Typhoon Longyan" about to land ranked third, and the first two were "Zhong Jiawen and Dong Li's "The Magic of Love"" and "Han Xixi is so lucky."

Lin Xiao was stunned.

He could understand the other two topics, but what did “Han Xixi is so lucky” mean?
His intuition was not a good thing.

After clicking in to take a look, I found that it was true.

This hot topic can be completely seen as a sequelae of Zhong Jiawen's successful popularity, but it just affects his wife.

In this topic, the netizens' mouths seemed to be filled with poison.

"To be honest, if Han Xixi hadn't gotten lucky and married Ma Yao, why would she be so popular?"

"Other artists: There are no meal replacements in the domestic entertainment industry. Han Xixi: The domestic entertainment industry is all meal replacements!"

"This version of 'The Magic of Love' sung by Zhong Jiawen is more playful and lively, much better than the original version!"

"Is there anyone who still thinks Han Xixi is capable?"

"I don't know what Ma Yao likes about her. I always feel that this big boss must be a fat otaku in private, and he is being taken advantage of by Han Xixi, a scheming woman!"

"Living in a poor town in Nanzhou, what kind of person can you be?!"

"Let me post this. This Ma Yao is either disabled or extremely ugly. Otherwise, why wouldn't he show up when he's so famous? If he really wanted to be independent from the world, he wouldn't have married a female singer. So he definitely has a hidden illness. I bet ten dollars on it!"

"No! In the live broadcast last night, so many big-name singers sang together. Why was Han Xixi the only one singing solo? Is she that big of a star?"

"..."

Lin Xiao simply flipped through it and was scolded so much that his pillow was wet.

Good guy.

The times have developed and society has progressed. People are calling on the Internet every day not to be keyboard warriors, but in the end it’s all just the self-satisfaction of some people.

The haters started typing away on their keyboards, cursing loudly, and their attacks were no less powerful than before.

Lin Xiao originally thought that everyone was attacking his wife under this topic, but he didn't expect that this time he would be implicated as well.

It turns out that a family should be neat and tidy.

In fact, Han Xixi has been popular for nearly a year, and the attacks on her on the Internet have never stopped.

Not to mention the several times they were hacked, almost everyone participated in it, even the vegetable sellers who passed by would come up and spit at them.

But even after she got out of the wave of cyberbullying and regained her popularity as a popular female singer, the doubts, criticisms and ridicules about her on the Internet have never stopped. There is even a group of special trolls who roam the entire Internet every day and do nothing but troll Han Xixi. Their professionalism is quite commendable.

Lin Xiao didn't think that these trolls were maliciously organized by competitors, but believed that they were real people.

The so-called popular right and wrong.

Han Xixi became famous so quickly, has so many representative works, and is on such a strong momentum.

While gaining the love of a large number of people, she will naturally also attract the disgust of many people - this disgust is not necessarily because they don't like her songs or her as a person, but a completely physiological hatred.

In short, many people have difficulty surviving on their own, so they will uncontrollably develop hostility and disgust towards this phenomenon of quickly gaining fame and fortune.

To put it bluntly, it's jealousy.

There is no reason for this jealousy. After all, Han Xixi didn't know them before she became famous, and they have no grudges against each other.

But this jealousy is real.

The most reasonable explanation is - your light hurts me, so I hate you!
What's worse, there are quite a few people with this distorted mentality, spread across all walks of life, regardless of whether they are rich or poor, male or female, young or old.

Of course, although these black fans are psychologically abnormal, they all pretend to be extremely gentle and docile in the crowd.

When Han Xixi's career was going smoothly and he was getting positive reviews online, they would not go against the trend and post insults to make themselves unhappy.

They hide themselves well, or take out their frustrations on other artists who are having trouble.

Whenever any negative voices appeared about Han Xixi, this group of people would immediately come out with their keyboards, and criticize her harshly in all kinds of "prophetic" tones and manners, denying her from all aspects including her appearance, singing skills, and mentality, in order to achieve the logical consistency of "her fame is by no means the right way, and I am the conscience of society."

Just like now.

In theory, Zhong Jiawen's popularity has nothing to do with Han Xixi, so there is no need to praise one and criticize the other.

But the fact is, netizens are completely unreasonable.

Zhong Jiawen only sang a relatively successful cover of "The Magic of Love", but netizens took advantage of the Internet and began to suppress Han Xixi, the original singer.

All I can say is that her road to fame was too smooth and unimpeded, which is totally inconsistent with the Chinese people’s value impression that “only those who endure hardships can become superior people.” If you haven’t endured hardships, how can you become superior people?
So even if it's a passerby who doesn't have any feelings for her, they always want to come up and step on her.

That’s why the current situation has occurred - with just the slightest disturbance, negative topics about Han Xixi will immediately spread like wildfire and cannot be suppressed.

After reading the trending searches, Lin Xiao smiled helplessly.

He had to admit that he had indeed miscalculated.

Before, every time I saw my wife in trouble, I would think about writing songs to help her, but I didn’t expect to write too quickly and too frequently. She lived up to everyone’s expectations and performed every song perfectly, which led to her becoming famous too quickly. Not only did her peers but even netizens were jealous.

The result is that, someone who was supposed to be a candidate for the title of Queen of Pop has now become a glaring target of negative attention.

It’s also weird!

The current situation makes Lin Xiao even more determined to persuade his wife to quit the entertainment industry.

To be honest, she is really too popular now, and she really needs to stop and digest this incredible popularity.

However, Lin Xiao didn't take this negative topic to heart.

Anyway, according to the experience of the previous times, when you encounter negative information, the best way is to deal with it coldly and let it pass naturally after the heat has passed.

Han Xixi is no longer one of those little stars who became famous by relying on scandals.

She has works to her name and hasn't made any principled mistakes, so she's not afraid of being criticized.

So cold treatment is the best way.

This is why Lin Xiao actually anticipated today's turmoil, but did not mention it at all during the confrontation with Zhou Hui last night.

It’s because netizens’ complaints can’t hurt Han Xixi at all.

This is just a meaningless national carnival.

……

Lin Xiao spent both days of the weekend in Ninghai with his wife.

It has been raining for the past two days.

On Sunday morning, he and his mother-in-law accompanied Han Xixi to the hospital for a prenatal check-up. The result showed that everything was normal except that the pregnant woman was a little anemic.

At noon that day, Liu Liyun prepared red dates and black chicken soup.

Han Xixi felt that she had been too busy with work recently and was unworthy of her identity as an expectant mother, so even though her mother was not very good at making soup, she still obediently drank up the fishy chicken soup and ate a whole bowl of rice, as if she was determined to be irreconcilable with her identity as a female star.

Liu Liyun was quite satisfied with her daughter's performance and gave up the scolding she had prepared.

After lunch, Han Xixi watched a variety show with her cousin Liang Tian.

Lin Xiaoze stood alone on the balcony, staring blankly at the increasingly heavy rain outside.

Last night, Typhoon Longyan officially landed on the southeast coast.

This typhoon, which is said to be the most powerful and highest-level in the past five years, has been observed since a month ago. Various trajectory predictions show that it will pass by our country's waters and head straight for the island country and South Korea.

Unexpectedly, late Friday night, the meteorological department discovered that the typhoon's track suddenly changed and headed straight for Guangdong and Fujian provinces.

In the past two days, the entire Internet has been discussing the typhoon landing.

Many netizens even started to take action online, urging "Longyan" to stop being rebellious, and to follow the original route to spend time with Xiaorizi and Xiaobangzi, and not to come and make trouble with the real dragon mother!
As a result, the little "Longyan" plays the role of a young and energetic person. Even if you don't let me come, I will come anyway.

The typhoon made landfall and heavy rain hit.

Overnight, the entire Internet was filled with horrific scenes of the southeastern coastal areas being ravaged by the typhoon. People in the inland areas could only feel the harm of the typhoon firsthand, but from the reports and videos on the Internet, it could be seen that they all prayed and hoped that their compatriots would be safe.

Because the typhoon landed, all kinds of colorful topics in the entertainment industry disappeared overnight.

The sarcastic comments about "Han Xixi is so lucky" were quickly removed from the shelves and forgotten by netizens across the country.

I don’t know if this is good news.

On the Feihong Entertainment side, Han Xixi was used to gain popularity, and her agent Zhou Hui suddenly turned against her and resigned. The company's top management was aware of everything that happened on the final night of "The Voice of China" two days ago.

The top brass was furious.

However, because the big capital of Mango TV is involved, it would be inappropriate for them to directly confront Dadi Media, and it would be even more inappropriate for them to openly deal with Zhou Hui at this critical juncture when Han Xixi is being blackened by the entire network again. Doing so would only make Han Xixi's current situation worse.

After all, the agreement for "The Magic of Love" was signed by Zhou Hui as the representative and Mango TV.

Although it is strictly illegal, it makes sense that she is Han Xixi's agent and represents Feihong Entertainment, so both Mango TV and Dadi Media can assume that this cooperation is valid.

This is why Zhou Hui had to be dragged into this situation.

With Zhou Hui as their gun, Mango TV and Dadi Media can clear themselves of all blame without taking any risk at all.

Feihong Entertainment didn't dare to make a big deal out of the matter and could only take the copyright fee and swallow its anger. After allowing Zhou Hui to leave, they felt that they had treated the leading star in the music field unfairly, so when Han Xixi asked for a break, the company's top management agreed without hesitation - after all, the agent had turned against them, and the company also had an unshirkable responsibility in this matter. They didn't dare to anger Han Xixi, this cash cow, let alone the big Buddha behind her, Teacher Ma Yao.

So Han Xixi happily decided to stay at home and wait for the birth of her baby with peace of mind, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Lin Xiao also breathed a sigh of relief. It was not in vain that netizens speculated about him being "disabled", "extremely ugly", "psychopathic" and so on on the hot searches yesterday.

Fortunately, I was used to being scolded in the entertainment industry in my previous life, so now I have a very good attitude and don’t take it to heart at all.

He looked at the raging wind and heavy rain outside, and his mind was completely focused on flood prevention.

Han Xixi and her cousin were watching the variety show, but her eyes were always on her husband. She could tell what he was thinking from his worried face.

Despite the worries.

But after hesitating for a long time, she still came to the balcony and said to Lin Xiao: "Brother, if you are really worried, just go to the office..."

Lin Xiao was stunned. He didn't expect his wife to say this suddenly.

Xixi continued to smile and said, "You don't have to worry about me. I have my mother to take care of me at home, and Liang Tian is with me. You don't have to worry about anything. Just go and do your thing!"

Lin Xiao nodded and said somewhat embarrassedly: "The county did issue a Level 4 flood control emergency response early in the morning, but I am neither in charge of flood control nor the top leader, so it doesn't matter whether I go or not..."

Before he could finish his words, the phone suddenly rang. The rapid ringing startled both the young couple.

Lin Xiao picked up the phone and saw that it was a call from the propaganda officer Zhou Baoping.

He quickly answered: "Baoping, what's wrong?"

Heavy rain and screams were heard from the other side: "Lin Town, there have been two consecutive days of heavy rain. The water level of Zengjiaqiao Reservoir has risen sharply. Half an hour ago, a pipe burst was suddenly detected. People from the County Water Conservancy Bureau have arrived. Qin Town and Qiao Town have also gone to the scene..."

Lin Xiao's face turned serious when he heard this.

The danger of pipe bursts can be big or small. In short, it is when holes appear at the bottom of a river or reservoir and the water flow continuously impacts the holes, making them bigger and deeper, while carrying away a large amount of silt until the dam loses its support and bursts, causing a flood.

Generally, pipe bursts occur during heavy rainfall.

As the water level continues to rise and the water pressure increases, the pipe burst phenomenon will be aggravated and small holes will expand rapidly.

Because pipe bursts occur deep in the water and are difficult to detect, by the time they are discovered, the pores at the bottom are often already very large, making it very difficult to remedy the situation.

The most effective measure at this time is to evacuate the people downstream and make every effort to ensure the safety of people's lives.

Anyway, no matter what, pipe burst is a very dangerous matter and is definitely not a joke.

So when Lin Xiao heard what Zhou Baoping said, his heart immediately tightened.

He glanced at his wife Han Xixi, then at the stormy and gloomy sky outside, and made a quick decision:
"I'll rush back now!"

(End of this chapter)