Xiao Xiao was a little bewildered. What gives?
Weren’t you the one whose agent came to me two days ago, asking me to interact more with you?
Don’t tell me you’re trying to go down the devoted simp route. Dream on.
My company originally wanted me to pair up with Zhang Xinyao, but I figured having one more CP wouldn’t hurt.
Actually, my dream partner is Sister Liu Mian, but the company won’t allow it.
The age gap is a bit too big. They’re afraid the fans won’t like it.
“Yaoyao, let me help you with your hat.”
Xiao Jun quickly adjusted his mindset and went to interact with the next female guest.
Heartbeat Cabin instantly came alive, with the girls excitedly showing off what they had collected that morning.
They had split into several groups and gone to the market to help sell fish.
When they came back, they were carrying lots of bags of spoils, all gifts from the fishermen.
Li Lu hid far away from the camera frame, waiting for the director to tell him when he could go out.
Yang Shu had just followed Liu Mian up to the second floor, wanting to help her pick out an outfit, but he was mercilessly kicked out.
He came downstairs to find the other men and women messing around in the kitchen while Li Lu sat there alone, which made him quite conspicuous.
“What is wrong with you, kid? Don’t make people get the wrong idea. It’s not like we’re excluding you.”
He chuckled, sat down beside him, and cracked a joke.
After yesterday’s show went live, it blew up several trending searches.
This kid alone landed on several of them.
『Clear class divisions. Past his prime top star ignored at a dating variety show, eating alone.』
『Past his prime top star doing odd jobs for the production team, humbly begging for camera shots.』
…
Look at these tags. What are they even?
If it were only this, I wouldn’t have taken the initiative to talk to him.
But last night, this kid’s hit song was too amazing. He was already showing signs of a comeback.
Right now, the hottest thing on short video platforms was the clip of him singing last night.
“Someone Like Me”… even I was deeply moved listening to it.
If the hundreds of millions of ordinary people across the country heard it, wouldn’t they relate to it even more?
With just this song, after this season’s show, he could firmly return to the B-list.
If the agency is willing to spend money and has capital backing him, getting back to the A-list wouldn’t be hard.
“No, no, it’s mainly that we’re not familiar.”
Li Lu smiled and replied, pretending to be socially awkward.
“How come I feel like you’re playing dumb to catch people off guard? Not familiar?”
Yang Shu was a seasoned veteran. After this kid got buzz last night, netizens had immediately dug him up completely.
Not to mention his dirty laundry going back up on the trending searches. When he was popular, he was definitely a scandal machine.
After piecing everything together, netizens were horrified to discover that this kid had actually been involved with all five female guests from Heartbeat, and they loudly praised the production team for knowing how to pick people.
Now he was saying he was not familiar with them? Too fake.
“Let’s not even talk about you and Lin Lin. You’ve worked with Zhang Xinyao and Li Shihan before too, right?
Who would believe this act of not being familiar?”
“Brother Yang, you’re also an actor. Don’t you know how it is?
You shoot so many dramas every year. Once the crew wraps, everyone basically loses all contact.
With them, it was all promotion.”
Li Lu thought of the text Zhang Xinyao had sent him when they broke up. They were all actors.
Back then, he had really been unprofessional.
Yang Shu knew what he said was true, but he still felt a little uneasy.
This kid definitely was not as simple as he looked. Who in this circle isn’t sharp as a tack?
Calling him a wolf in sheep’s clothing was not a false accusation. He clearly had a good song, yet last night he acted like he could not do it.
Zhang Wenbo got screwed over badly.
Netizens were mocking him wildly under his Weibo, completely overshadowing the new song he had prepared.
It looked like even the new album he had planned would be postponed. In one word: miserable.
When he said he wasn’t familiar with the other female guests, was he pretending too?
“What about you and Liu Mian? There are plenty of private gathering photos of you two online.”
Yang Shu could ignore everything else, but this season of the show he was planning to talk with Old Liu more.
There were also plenty of scandals online about him and Liu Mian. He did not believe them.
Now that it had come to this, asking one more question would not hurt.
“Of course it’s fake. Those photos weren’t just the two of us.
I remember there were always quite a few friends there every time.”
Li Lu lied without the slightest guilt. Once you break up, do not keep using your ex.
A harmless lie, isn’t it?
Still, he had to admit Sister Liu Mian was shrewd. Every date had employees there to cover for her.
“Tsk. Then don’t just squat here alone pretending you don’t know anyone.
What, are you expecting some young girl to come over and greet you first?”
Yang Shu wasn’t sure whether this was really his personality, since they had not been familiar before.
But now, as the big brother, it wouldn’t hurt to pull a promising junior into the circle.
“Okay, thank you, Brother Yang.”
Li Lu humbly accepted it. This was exactly why he had not wanted to come. There were ex-girlfriends everywhere; he could not avoid them fast enough.
The main camera had somehow already switched over here. Li Lu had very high buzz yesterday, and the director team deliberately wanted to film more of him.
Unfortunately, from morning until now, he had been coasting and had not interacted with anyone.
The bullet comments immediately focused on their conversation:
『Old Six clearly did not want to be accused of leeching off buzz, so he did not go over.』
『This past his prime top star is really heartbreaking. He still has to do chores even after the broadcast ends.』
『After listening to his new song, I know he is a sensitive, gentle, and strong boy.』
『I was pretty afraid he would go cozy up to my sister, but now I think this guy is pretty okay.』
『Paragon of male decency. He is not casting a wide net; he is waiting for Lin Lin.』
『Do not be fooled by his appearance. He is faking it, faking it.
He is clearly a playboy. Now that he is not popular anymore, he has started acting innocent.』
『Classic Old Six. Yang Shu, do not believe it. He and Liu Mian really had something going on.』
『Li Lu and Li Shihan had a falling out before, so he definitely would not go up there on his own. He got slapped in the face when Xiao Nuan quickly debunked the rumor. He has not seen Zhang Xinyao in many years. Now that he is this cold, he is probably too embarrassed to go up to her. As for Liu Mian, she hangs with whoever is hot. You know how it is. After Li Lu completely fell off, the two of them never appeared together again. Want to know more explosive content? Follow me directly: Entertainment Ninth Concubine.』
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“Li Lu.”
Lin Lin came down from the second floor and called out.
“Ooh, Sister Linlin is so pretty.”
“Don’t come back tonight.”
“Old Six, it’s up to you.”
Everyone else in the house also looked over. A few men joined in and egged them on.
Of course, they were all joking.
This was a proper dating variety show, a celebrity dating variety show.
There definitely would not be any camera shots of them sleeping together. It was not one of those dramatic overseas shows that cannot be aired.
Even Zhang Wenbo loudly helped build the atmosphere for the two of them, smiling on the outside and seething on the inside.
After last night, he had given up on his original target. This adulterous couple was simply causing him trouble.
Especially that old schemer, who had once again outshone him.
And it was in the very thing he was most proud of: singing. He had lost face badly.
Lin Lin was dressed in a white shirt and jeans, looking youthful and lively, like a fresh college graduate.
Actually, she was only in her twenties, but she had not dressed like this in a long time.
This was what she wore when she first fell in love at eighteen.
“Let’s go.”
Even though she knew everyone was just playing around, and this was also a dating variety show, a show, her face still turned red in an instant. She quickly walked out of the living room. She could not stay there anymore.
Li Lu was a little dumbfounded. Lin Lin’s state was off.
We are just going through the motions for now, aren’t we? Acting like this will make people misunderstand.