HuaYu14: Female celebrities are going too fast.

The press conference ended around four or five o'clock.

Guo Jianyong told the actors to go and rest. Before leaving, Zhou Xun received a call sheet that specified the filming schedule for tomorrow.

She doesn't have many scenes, but her role is scheduled relatively early in the filming.

Meanwhile, reporters from various media outlets were rushing to their studios to organize the materials gathered from today's interviews, write articles, and post them on Weibo.

For them, time is money.

Inside the paging room.

General Manager Li Tianzheng threw a stack of documents on the floor in the editing room:

"Did I send you guys there just to make up the numbers?"

"You brought me back this kind of picture? The people are barely visible, and I didn't get the interview."

"What do you mean there aren't good seats? Are you a reporter for the first time? Don't you know to fight for them?"

"Is the company just keeping you around to eat? You bunch of good-for-nothings, useless things. The two companies next door have already released their big images."

"What the hell are you going to use to top my headlines tonight? Your heads?"

Four or five people stood in a row, heads bowed, enduring Li Tian's rage.

"He's bowing his head again. What the hell is bowing his head doing? Tell me what the hell I should do!"

"Um...that manager." A young girl named Xie Tian timidly raised her hand among the five people, "I took some photos, maybe they can make the headlines."

"Here, bring it up. None of you are as useful as a single intern girl."

Li Tian calmed down, took the photo from her hand, glanced at it, and instantly laughed in anger.

"Tell me who he is?"

"Zhou Xun, the one who played Zhou Yu," Xie Tian replied.

"Don't think I won't criticize you just because you're good-looking. What's the point of letting me know? Do your fans even know?"

Is he a big star? Can he really make this headline? Is now the time for you to swoon?

"No, manager," Xie Tian explained weakly. "We could write an article on the topic 'Why are top students from Tsinghua and Peking Universities acting?'"

"Although we don't know if it's true or not, it has generated some buzz for a while, and it won't be a big deal if it's debunked later."

After hearing this, Li Tian felt as if his head had exploded:

"Holy crap, we actually have someone like you in our company! You're a natural at spreading rumors."

I've taught you this; write it down quickly!

While these news studios were busy writing their copy, the celebrity studios were also busy.

They're all spending money to hire online trolls and buy trending topics.

Meanwhile, in Fan Xiaopang's hotel.

Fan Xiaopang lay leisurely on the bed, wearing purple pajamas with obvious bulges.

She casually swiped her phone screen, looking at the trending topic about Zhou Xun.

"Sister, I did find a person named Zhou Xun on the official websites of Tsinghua and Peking Universities. He was an outstanding graduate in 11."

"Okay, I got it. Go hire some online trolls to suppress this trending topic, and also tell Lin Tian not to let him tell anyone about it."

Fan Xiaopang gave the instructions.

"Okay, sis."

The assistant agreed and left, doing as Fan Xiaopang instructed, never asking questions she shouldn't.

During the few days they were apart, Fan Xiaopang didn't forget Zhou Xun at all.

The firepower was so intense that it was hard for Fan Xiaopang to forget it, but she was too busy to get away during this time.

"Your younger brother just entered the entertainment industry and he's already trending? How are you going to thank your older sister this time?"

"He got into Tsinghua or Peking University at sixteen." Fan Xiaopang chuckled, his legs wrapped around a blanket, and zoomed in on Zhou Xun's photo:

"Tsk tsk, my little brother's muscles have gotten even bigger."

While other places were bustling with activity, Zhou Xun, the person in charge of this matter, was leisurely lying on his hotel bed playing "Temple Run".

Before the game was even over, several messages popped up on WeChat. Zhou Xun casually swiped to delete the messages, but unexpectedly, he was taken directly to the WeChat chat page.

When Zhou Xun switched back, the little figure he was controlling had already crashed into the wall and died.

"All right."

Zhou Xun exited the game and returned to WeChat to check his messages.

Nazar: "Zhou Xun, have you seen Weibo? You're trending. They're saying you graduated from Tsinghua and Peking University and are now an actor. There's a lot of discussion about it online. Go check it out."

Meng Ziyi: "Did you kill someone at school? Did the school expel you?"

Zhou Xun was completely bewildered. How did my degree get revoked?

Then I downloaded Weibo from the app store and named it using the pinyin of my name: Xiou Zhiwen.

Opening the trending topics section, the top few were all about Lin Gengxing and Naza. Zhou Xun saw it in the tenth post:

#A top student who graduated from Tsinghua and Peking University actually became an actor?#

Clicking on this trending topic, the first thing you see is a photo of him reading a book at a press conference.

I have to say, he looks pretty handsome in the photos.

The post reads: "Are even Tsinghua and Peking University diplomas 'fighting' in Hengdian World Studios? Top university graduates flock to be extras; has the era of devalued academic qualifications arrived?"

The comments section was also buzzing with discussion:

"It's not that the acting profession is bad, it just shows that good positions are really hard to come by now, and graduates from prestigious universities can only accept lower-level jobs."

"Congratulations to Wudaokou Vocational and Technical College on officially establishing a school-enterprise cooperation with Hengdian World Studios."

"Before: If you don't study hard, you'll go into acting. Now: If you don't act hard, you'll go to Tsinghua University."

The most heated arguments here are between the "mocking faction" and the "devaluation faction".

Of course, there are also those who only care about Zhou Xun as a person: "Zhou Xun looks so handsome when he's serious, Mom, I'm in love. (=･ω･=)"

"What's the Weibo account I'm looking for this week? I can't find it. I'm important, I'm trying to find him. (〃∀〃)"

Zhou Xun simply watched quietly without saying a word, because he only had two hands and couldn't argue back.

Another issue is the hype from these marketing accounts; after a while, the hype will dissipate with the passing of time.

The content of the hype wasn't anything negative about him, so it wouldn't have much impact on him.

To his surprise, the gust of wind came so quickly:

"Can we stop calling it devaluation based on isolated cases? Tsinghua and Peking Universities also have students with artistic talents and film and television directing majors every year; it's perfectly normal for them to choose this path."

"What's being devalued? With the learning ability of someone from Tsinghua or Peking University, their acting skills might even surpass those of someone with high popularity. This is called a dimensional reduction attack."

Such comments sprang up like mushrooms after rain, dominating the entire comment section in just a few minutes.

Naza also sent a message asking, "Zhou Xun, did you hire an online troll army?"

"I don't have the money to hire them."

In the few days since entering the entertainment industry, Naza has told him many of the rules of the industry, including hiring online trolls to boost comments.

"That's strange," Naza said, somewhat puzzled. "But it would be better to just keep this under wraps."

"Um."

Meng Ziyi: "Zhou Xun, didn't you register a Weibo account? I can't find you."

"I've registered. My name is Western Europe Zhiwen. I feel comfortable following you now."

Meng Ziyi: (⇀‸↼‶)

She was a little speechless. Was this the focus? Didn't they know to use this buzz to gain some followers?

Meng Ziyi opened Zhou Xun's Weibo homepage and found that he only followed two people.

One is her, and the other is Nazar.

Meng Ziyi's smiling face froze. "Did he follow me first, or Nezha?"

After replying to their messages, Zhou Xun quickly realized who was helping him.

—Fan Xiaopang.

In the entertainment industry, besides Nezha, the only other person with such influence who knows him is Fan Bingbing.

But what he didn't understand was why Fan Xiaopang would help him?

Unable to figure it out, Zhou Xun simply stopped thinking about it, turned off the lights, and went to sleep.

The topic of the devaluation of academic qualifications came and went quickly, and by the next day, such comments had completely disappeared from Weibo.

Zhou Xun got up with renewed energy, washed up, and went to the lobby on the first floor.

Naza was sitting on the sofa, looking rather unwell.

Zhou Xun went over and asked, "What's wrong? Didn't you sleep well last night?"

"It seems something happened to the film crew."