The sweetest in the entertainment industry

Chapter 427 Number One Troublemaker

In this era of highly developed social media and ubiquitous internet access, almost everyone owns a smartphone. Even an elderly farmer in the mountains, after finishing his farm work and returning home, can make a video call to his child who is far away under the dim light.

Thanks to technological advancements, viewers in the new era have better access to entertainment. They no longer need to sit in front of the TV to watch what programs they want, and they can easily find information without even turning on a computer.

With more and more ways for people to obtain information, and with increased competition, people naturally have more room to be selective.

If the audience used to be grandchildren, then the audience now is the grandpa.

What does "True feelings are hard to retain, only tricks win people's hearts" mean?
Wrong wrong wrong!
Having seen so many routines, genuine sincerity only makes it all the more precious.

People can hate scripts, hate clichés, and admire anything real. They can even leave a message on the show's official Weibo account to wish for a particular celebrity to appear on.

In this era, in order to please the audience, even making a movie requires shooting a lot of behind-the-scenes footage, and various live-streamed variety shows are emerging one after another.

The Spring Festival Gala backstage is filled with stars, and the audience is naturally curious about what a group of big names would do together for most of the day, so backstage live streaming came into being.

When the live stream first started, in order to avoid filming celebrities' indecent behavior in private, the live stream camera was fixed in one place.

Later, due to overwhelming audience demand, they switched to a moving camera, allowing the camera to freely move around backstage.

This tactic of unexpectedly seeing your idol at any time is very effective in retaining young fans.

Lu Nanting had deliberately switched to a secluded spot to rest. There was an open space nearby where artists sitting in the vicinity would rehearse repeatedly before going on stage.

Right now, there are a few actors rehearsing their scenes for a skit.

Because one of the comedians in the show is extremely popular, the staff who did the live stream naturally wanted to check it out.

As the camera panned over, he deliberately and casually brushed past Lu Nanting from the side.

There's no way around it; in this era of internet traffic, even CCTV has to resort to some unconventional tactics to keep up with the trend and fully satisfy everyone's needs.

He was just unlucky today; the audio was played out as soon as the staff approached...

After all, she was someone who wore formal attire and attended academic conferences with her mentor when she was a teenager, so Gu Lanxi always maintained a very serious public image.

Because she doesn't seem lively enough and hardly shows the impulsiveness of a teenager, she has been criticized by haters for being mature beyond her years.

Before recording "Walking with Love", many people said they couldn't imagine what it would be like for her to date a trendy guy like Lu Nanting.

When the variety show aired, this enchanting girl sweetly called him "brother," captivating Lu Nanting so much that he was completely mesmerized, as if he had been drinking alcohol. Fans who heard this were also completely smitten.

Many fans still use that "brother" as their alarm clock.

Because their performance was so drastically different from their previous personas, viewers even split into several factions after the couples' variety show aired.

One group believes that Gu Lanxi was acting, deliberately calling Lu Nanting that way, much like training a dog, and was simply a way of controlling her husband.

Most of Gu Lanxi's die-hard fans hold this view. After all, they know Gu Lanxi's strength best, and no matter how much the haters criticize her, no one has ever criticized her acting skills.

She could do something like that if she wanted to.

CP fans generally ship the couple with genuine feelings, believing that this is the magic of love, and that no matter what kind of woman she is, she will sweetly act coquettishly in front of her husband.

As for those "dragonfly sisters," they were going crazy back then, praising their idols as walking hormone generators, the king of the Chinese entertainment industry, and top-tier Alphas...

Even someone as strong as Gu Lanxi would have to bow down to him in his suit and trousers.

Late at night, a bunch of people were waiting for Lu Nanting to come on stage, but the production team was so inconsiderate, scheduling him for the middle of the night. If the live broadcast camera hadn't occasionally panned to him, the fans probably would have turned off the TV long ago.

As soon as this clip from the live stream came out, well, since the argument hadn't reached a conclusion before, and everyone was bored during the Chinese New Year, the argument started again in no time.

Especially the solo fans on both sides, as if they were afraid that their idols would be taken advantage of at home, gave all sorts of examples to illustrate their point, it was quite a lively scene!
That's why solo fans get hooked early and know a lot of inside information.
When praising their own idol, they will always find evidence to prove that the other person is "petite and dependent." The CP fans are in the middle, looking this way and that, their eyes bulging, pretending to be calm, but actually they are as happy as if it were New Year's.

Okay, today is truly Chinese New Year.

This couple, one with a cool and aloof persona, never pandering or wasting words, the other gentle, intellectual, stable, and good-tempered, turned out to be quite different the more you dug into their lives.

The aloof and cool guy will laugh in a cheap way, like a little bee buzzing around his wife, talking non-stop, and seizing every opportunity to hold her hand, cuddle, and hug her, being incredibly clingy.

He speaks sweet nothings with ease, each sentence sincere and moving, making listeners' hearts flutter and wishing it were their own husband.

The gentle and serene young lady seemed utterly harmless, but in reality, she was a domineering lioness who loved to be pampered. She was sweet and soft, yet incredibly bossy. As soon as she started walking, Lu Nanting followed her like a tether, without hesitation, without ever asking a single question.

Moreover, although she appears incredibly clear-headed and calm, she is secretly a hopeless romantic, and her personality is as awkward as Lin Daiyu's; she never even expresses her jealousy.

Fan circles tend to ship male-female couples and character-couples. Logically speaking, in the entertainment industry, regardless of gender, once someone gets married, they basically lose their chance to gain popularity. If they don't handle it well, it's only natural that their resources will quickly decline.

Otherwise, celebrities wouldn't occasionally joke that "being in a relationship is equivalent to losing your job."

But the Lanting couple were truly different.

The number of fans supporting the two has grown rapidly. In just six months, they have been able to withstand the pressure from both sides' individual fans, including the notoriously difficult "Little Dragonfly" fans in the Chinese entertainment industry.

The reason is that their love is just too sweet. Fans follow them like they're watching a real-life romance drama. They finish one episode, get a sweet moment, and before the sweetness even fades, a new episode is already here.

Although neither of them likes to show off, and sometimes there is no news for a long time, fans will find ways to get some sweet moments.

In this day and age, everyone is a paparazzi. As long as the two of them don't leave this society, even if they go abroad, countless passersby will record their stories.

If you're willing to take it all down, even your underwear can be pulled out.

This feeling is incredibly intoxicating and captivating.

In particular, they are young, unlike other artists who, in their thirties or forties, gradually lose leading roles and only then reluctantly get married and have children.

Fans have nurtured their idols, but not their spouses. When the novelty wears off, their attention naturally shifts to them.

I look forward to their married life, to them having and raising children, and to accompanying them all the way until their children grow up.

That kind of fan experience is definitely no worse than raising a nobody.

There are several fan groups for the Lanting couple, and once they start arguing, it won't stop anytime soon.

As fans went on a frenzy of posting, Gu Lanxi was alright; although the fans were very good at digging, what they dug up was mostly pure sweetness. Lu Nanting, on the other hand, was in a terrible situation, with all sorts of funny things constantly popping up, making even passersby unable to help but stop and dig up old stories.

For example, Lu Nanting danced around Gu Lanxi at the airport, and it was later discovered that he was perfectly timing his bird-of-paradise courtship dance.

For example, his phone number was previously leaked, and Lu Nanting's alternate Douyin account was exposed, releasing all sorts of laughable anecdotes...

A hashtag quietly appeared: #Just how much trouble can Lu Nanting get into?#
Fans racked their brains, constantly recalling and digging up one piece of information after another from the depths of the internet. In less than half an hour, they compiled a collection for him.

Among them, the story of secretly wearing his wife's ring, getting his finger stuck and having to call the fire department, and then being dragged into filming a promotional video, along with the courtship dance, were the two funniest. To compete for the top spot, a poll was even created, and in just two hours, over a million people voted.

It has to be said, a top star is a top star.

On the day of the Spring Festival Gala, any artist who is popular will try to stay on the trending topics list for a while longer, openly and legitimately seeking attention.

In order to increase his popularity, Lu Nanting would naturally not let go of this major platform that has attracted nationwide attention.

The studio had been discussing it for several days, and the original plan was for the highlight tonight to be the look and the song. Unexpectedly, before the person even got on stage, they became famous for this funny incident.

To ensure the best program effect, Zhang Mingyuan immediately made Lu Nanting hand over his phone as soon as he saw the trending search terms.

"It'll be your turn soon. Let's go to the corner and rehearse with Teacher Wang Yang a few more times."

Lu Nanting knew what was more important, so he sent a WeChat message to Gu Lanxi, locked his phone, and handed it to Zhang Mingyuan.

So when he finished his performance and learned about this, he was so speechless that he posted six dots on his Douyin (TikTok) side account.

There was no way around it; on such a special day, if he dared to log into his main account and post something so abstract, Zhang Mingyuan would definitely take him down with him.

Gu Lanxi arrived at the TV station at 11 o'clock. The TV station's parking lot had limited space and was crowded with paparazzi and stalkers, so she didn't go there. Instead, she parked her car in an open-air parking lot at a nearby shopping mall, planning to drive over when it was almost time.

It was still early, so she took a tablet, set it up on a stand, and watched the Spring Festival Gala live. When she saw someone in the comments section mentioning the jokes about Lu Nanting, she took out her phone.

She wasn't really bothered to see the audio being broadcast live. After all, protecting privacy is so difficult these days, and besides, they'd already recorded a reality show together. Everyone knows she dotes on Lu Nanting in private.

Lu Nanting is older than her, so calling him "brother" won't hurt her.

On the contrary, Lu Nanting's funny incidents, when she was there, she only felt speechless or heartbroken. She never expected that from an outsider's perspective, they would be so interesting!
She was laughing so hard she was slapping her thigh, unaware that paparazzi had secured a good spot at the intersection. Seeing the familiar license plate, they set up their cameras and, from 300 meters away, snapped a picture of her.

A pair that constantly creates laughs, haha.