New Year's Eve Gala, this year's four satellite TV stations that can host concerts all sent invitations to Lin Yanran.

New Year's Eve Gala is a type of program that has been highly anticipated by young people and widely discussed online in recent years. Every satellite TV station that has obtained a license attaches great importance to it.

Therefore, when they invite guests, in addition to some singers with strong strength and popularity, they will also invite the most popular artists of the year.

This group of people either have hit dramas or super-hot variety shows.

Lin Yanran has appeared in several variety shows in the past few months, and she also has high-end works such as "Shui Long Yin" which has both high reputation and popularity.

All the satellite TV stations have noticed his popularity in traditional Chinese style performances and want to invite him to perform again to attract more traffic and attention.

Obviously, the assessment of Lin Yanran by several satellite TV stations is no longer just an 18th-tier unknown star.

Instead, he is the popular artist who has become a hot topic this year.

Hong Huixue told Lin Yanran the news.

"Most people in this circle are very superstitious. They will scramble to get the show of whichever one is more popular. The shows you participated in recently have all become popular, especially "History and Chinese Style", which has skyrocketed in ratings and popularity."

Hearing Hong Huixue's words, Lin Yanran, who was practicing calligraphy, stopped writing and shook her head gently. "'History of Chinese Style' is something their program team has carefully prepared for a long time. If there is no substantial content to attract the audience, even if 'Water Dragon Song' becomes popular, it will only be a flash in the pan."

Regarding the "History of Chinese Style" program, he had indeed heard many people say that he was the one who brought the program to success, and even the program's creative team called him to thank them.

But Lin Yanran did not dare to be so arrogant as to think that all these were her own achievements.

Both the guests and the program team are indispensable and complement each other.

"You are right."

Hong Huixue admired Lin Yanran's sobriety. After all, as an artist, one must not become arrogant as soon as he becomes famous.

If you don't have an accurate understanding of yourself and don't know how much you are worth, you won't get far in this circle.

But despite this, Hong Huixue still pointed out Lin Yanran's contribution.

“The quality of the program is important, but the opportunity for the program to become popular and the audience’s appeal are equally important.”

Obviously, Lin Yanran is the reason why the show became popular.

After Hong Huixue said this, she glanced at the calligraphy that Lin Yanran was practicing, and a little surprise flashed in her eyes, but she suppressed her surprise and continued the previous topic, "Do you know what name the circle has given you now?"

Lin Yanran put the brush away and looked up at Hong Huixue, who was puzzled. "Name?"

Hong Huixue smiled, "A ratings lucky star."

"The four satellite TV stations all compete for ratings for their New Year's Eve shows. They all want to get some metaphysical influence and snatch you to participate." Hong Huixue laughed, "To be honest, I've only encountered them snatching people like this once in all these years."

Lin Yanran actually had a vague guess of the answer, but still couldn't help but ask, "Who?"

"Boss."

Gu Siye debuted out of nowhere that year, and he reached the peak right after his debut and became extremely popular.

That year, all the satellite TV stations that were hosting New Year's Eve parties sent him invitations, each offering a sky-high appearance fee, wanting him to exclusively participate in their satellite TV station's first New Year's Eve show.

However, several satellite TV stations fought fiercely, and in the end Gu Siye did not participate in any of them.

"But he was very arrogant and refused to go."

Not only did he not go that year, but until now, no satellite TV station has been able to invite him to their New Year’s Eve party.

After listening to Hong Huixue's description, Lin Yanran curled up the corners of her mouth into a slight smile.

Is Gu Siye very arrogant?

As Hong Huixue was talking, she realized that the topic had strayed a bit, so she brought it back.

"The New Year's Eve concert has a lot of attention. This is a good opportunity to show off your reputation. These four satellite TV platforms are all pretty good. Which one do you want to be on?"

After Hong Huixue finished speaking, she was about to analyze the pros and cons of the four satellite TV stations to Lin Yanran, but she saw Lin Yanran looking at her hesitantly.

She could tell there was something wrong and asked the other party, "What's wrong?"

Lin Yanran thought for a moment and asked, "Is this notice necessary?"

“It’s not necessary.”

After Hong Huixue finished speaking, she suddenly remembered that everyone on the Internet said that Lin Yanran was not a good singer. Thinking that he was worried about this, she immediately comforted him, "Are you worried about the singing? Those actors who lip-sync without a microphone are not afraid, so don't be afraid. And you can choose not to sing. They want to invite you, so the initiative is all yours."

Hong Huixue is an ace agent from a big company and speaks with confidence.

But she didn't expect that she guessed the wrong direction.

"It's not because of this." Lin Yanran lowered her eyes and slowly explained to Hong Huixue, "I didn't really want to participate in any programs that day. I wanted to rest at home for a day."

The New Year's Eve concert will be held on December 31st.

And this day is his mother's birthday.

In the past twenty-two years, on every birthday of my mother, the whole family would tacitly rush home before six o'clock in the evening to celebrate her birthday.

No matter how busy my father and brother are, they will put everything aside and go home.

Grandma and grandpa will give a gift to their daughter-in-law together. Grandma will draw a picture and grandpa will write blessings on the picture.

As for his grandparents, one will give his daughter his favorite collection of the year, while the other will write a loving poem for his baby daughter and then compose a song to sing to her.

Lin Yanran recalled that on her mother’s birthday last year, she complained to her.

They say that he is not cute anymore when he grows up and is too independent. Unlike when he was a child, he would always like to hug his mother's legs and act coquettishly as soon as he got home.

The past events were still vivid in his mind, and his mother's half-joking words seemed as if they were spoken in his ear yesterday.

But the reality is that my mother and I have been separated into two different worlds.

This day is of great significance to him.

Lin Yanran, who began to miss home unconsciously, still wanted to spend this day celebrating her mother's birthday as she did in the past.

Even if he is the only one in this world who still remembers this.

But at least, he and his family did the same thing in different time and space.

In a sense, it is a reunion.

After Lin Yanran finished speaking, she fell silent.

Hong Huixue stood beside him and saw such a lonely expression on his face for the first time.

The boy's long eyelashes drooped slightly, hiding the emotions in his eyes.

But the whole person still has a strong sense of loneliness.

Seeing that Lin Yanran seemed to be worried, Hong Huixue stopped forcing her.

"It's okay. There will be many opportunities to show your face in the future. This one won't make a difference. You must be very tired from moving these days. Have a good rest. I'll take care of the TV station."

"Thank you, Sister Hong. Thanks for your help."

Hong Huixue smiled and lowered her head to point at the calligraphy that Lin Yanran had placed on the table.

The lines of words above were well-arranged and flowing. Although she had never practiced, it was obvious that she wrote very well.

Hong Huixue envied those who were good at calligraphy, so she couldn't help but pick up the copybook with the ink still wet.

She glanced at the two lines of poetry above and recited them silently in her heart.

If there were no north-south roads outside the door, people in the world would be free from the sorrow of separation.

The handwriting is beautiful, but the poem is a bit sad.

"What kind of handwriting do you have? It's very pretty."

“Cursive script.”

After learning about fonts, Hong Huixue couldn't help but praise him, "I didn't expect you could do this."

"I learned it from my grandfather."

Lin Yanran didn't want to attend the New Year's Eve concert, but many artists were eager to attend.

For example, Song Zhu had previously stood up the "National Treasures of History" program, and the program crew had no choice but to urgently look for Lin Yanran to save the day.

Before Lin Yanran emerged as a guzheng player, he had always been the top Chinese style singer in the circle.

Chinese traditional style is a relatively niche genre in the entertainment industry, and there are very few artists who follow this route.

Although Song Zhu was not as popular as other stars before, he is also a leader in this niche genre.

Therefore, almost all the resources such as variety shows, programs or concerts related to Chinese traditional style in the country were tilted towards him as the number one in Chinese traditional style.

In the past, he was the only one who could pick and choose among these resources, and only those he didn’t want were given to other artists.

However, ever since Lin Yanran became famous, all these resources have been tilted towards Lin Yanran.

Song Zhu simply became the second best choice chosen by others.

For example, this year’s New Year’s Eve concert suddenly changed.

He thought it was going to fail at first, but it was only confirmed a few days before the deadline.

Later, when he inquired, he found out that these satellite TV stations all gave priority to contacting Lin Yanran.

As a result, because the other party was not feeling well and could not attend the party, this resource fell into his hands...

No one wants to be someone else's second best.

Since becoming famous, Song Zhu, who had never received such treatment in terms of national style resources, felt threatened for the first time.

"If you had taken on 'National Treasures of History' that day, Yan Ran wouldn't have had to deal with it."

Seeing that Yan Ran had been chosen as the best candidate for several programs, the agent couldn't help but complain about Song Zhu's short-sightedness.

If "Shui Long Yin" was played, the person who would become popular among the public would be Song Zhu.

Song Zhu was also furious when he heard what his agent said.

"Don't mention this crap show to me."

Because of this show, he is not only outshined by Lin Yanran, but also because he performed a similar show on the rival show of "Historical National Treasures" "The Strongest National Style" on the same day, he was compared to her by his black fans in various ways.

From the music, skills, shape, appearance...

Because the two have similar styles, they were compared from beginning to end.

Although many people compared him to others in the past, those who were more handsome than him could not play the piano as well as him, so the audience has always praised and praised him as Teacher Song.

As a result, after that episode was broadcast, he was ruthlessly stepped down by the audience in every aspect, especially his appearance...

Just because the other person is good-looking, not only the audience but even his fans have switched sides and all become fans of Lin Yanran.

Ever since "Shui Long Yin" became popular, Song Zhu hasn't recovered for two whole days.

"Forget it, it's all fate. You should prepare well for the New Year's Eve party. It has a lot of traffic and can still go viral if the effect is good."

Things have come to this point, and Song Zhu can only do this.

"Oh, this is the list of singers for Guess Who I Am. Take a look first."

Song Zhu was invited by "Guess Who I Am" to be a guest commentator for two episodes.

But when I took the list from the agent, I saw the words "Yanran" at a glance.

"Isn't he a terrible singer? How dare he accept this program?"

The agent looked at the name Song Zhu pointed out and was also a little surprised.

"Guess Who I Am" was an announcement that Lin Yanran accepted a few weeks ago.

However, the program crew had to make some temporary adjustments at the satellite TV station, so the recording was postponed for two episodes. Later, because of a schedule conflict with Lin Yanran, the time was adjusted again.

Song Zhu didn't know what was going on, but he felt secretly happy.

He had been keeping an eye on Lin Yanran these past few days and knew that his singing was particularly poor.

As if he had suddenly found a huge black spot on a perfect person, Song Zhu laughed and said, "I wonder if those new fans he just attracted will be scared away when they hear him sing."

After saying that, he asked his agent to ask Lin Yanran which episode of the show he would be a guest commentator on.

The announcements that Si Yu arranged for Lin Yanran were relatively easy, and were almost all based on his personal wishes.

There have been fewer program recordings recently, so he went to the company to take some basic artist training and performance classes, and then there was nothing to do.

After class, Lin Yanran returned home.

Lin Yanran was preparing to finish cooking for himself when he saw Zhang Shanfeng sent him a WeChat message.

The other party threw him a link.

Zhang Shanfeng: Link: Shocking melon, the unknown things in the entertainment industry, come and eat the melons!

Seeing the content of this link, Lin Yanran was stunned for several seconds.

Why would Zhang Shanfeng send him this kind of content?

Could it be that the account was stolen? ?

Lin Yanran didn't dare click on the link. She endured it for a while before she replied to the other party with restraint.

Lin Yanran: Director Zhang?

As soon as he sent out these two words, the WeChat page showed that a few words were being typed.

About a minute later, another message popped up.

Zhang Shanfeng: Yanran, believe me, everything written here is true. Aren’t you curious about these secrets?

Zhang Shanfeng: If you don’t believe it, click and see

Lin Yanran glanced up at the words on the link. Those unknown things in the entertainment industry...

Although the topic did seem explosive, he had no interest in these entertainment gossips.

Moreover, Zhang Shanfeng's subsequent words were strange. He seriously suspected that the other party was a liar and was trying to trick him.

Lin Yanran thought that these middle-aged and elderly people tend to click on such shared links, and their accounts will be hacked if they are not careful.

So for fear of alerting the enemy, I held back and did not send the message "Director Zhang, your phone may be infected with a virus."

He exited the WeChat page and didn’t bother with the scammer any further.

I opened the address book and prepared to call Zhang Shanfeng to remind him to pay attention to his WeChat security and not to click on strange links.

It is best to download a national anti-fraud app.

As a result, at this moment, the other party sent him a voice message.

Zhang Shanfeng: Come and have a look, I guarantee it’s genuine

Lin Yanran turned on the voice chat and found that it was indeed Zhang Shanfeng's voice.

Lin Yanran: Not being scammed?

Zhang Shanfeng sent another voice message, "What kind of scam is this? I sent this to you specially to show you the secrets of the entertainment industry! Absolutely shocking!!"

Zhang Shanfeng said this again and again.

This strange behavior aroused Lin Yanran's curiosity, so he clicked on the link suspiciously.

The page jumped for three seconds, and then an exceptionally fresh page jumped out.

Above is a complete promotional poster for "Incredible Journey".

The page also includes the theme song of the show.

The content of the theme song was replaced by an animation, in which several Q-version figures with real-life portraits photoshopped onto them were running, and the surrounding scenery was filled with quaint ancient buildings.

Lin Yanran took a closer look and found that one of the Q-version characters was the same as the one he wore in his first appearance on the show.

But this little man seemed to be not very good at running and fell right at the end.

The four people including Gao Zita who were running in the front, after running for a while to the finish line, stopped, turned around and waved to him.

At this time, the barrage designed by the program team flew by quickly.

【Yan Ran come quickly】

[I won’t watch this show without you! ]

[The tenth day without Yanran, I miss him! ]

After the video finished playing, Lin Yanran scrolled down a few times and found the following few words at the end:

The third episode of "Incredible Journey" is about to be recorded!!

New journey, new challenge!!

Action is better than thought, come and join us!!

He also attached a registration form in a fake manner, and the other party even filled in the two words "Yanran" in the name space for him.

This link is a fake revelation, a real trick...

After reading it, Lin Yanran was deeply impressed.

Lin Yanran:.

Zhang Shanfeng, who was eating noodles, learned that Lin Yanran had read it, and immediately sent two messages with a smile.

Zhang Shanfeng: How is it? The registration form for the third phase has been filled out!

Zhang Shanfeng: I’m just waiting for you!

Lin Yanran replied with a word "OK" in a helpless tone.

The longest road he has walked in his life was indeed Director Zhang's routine.