Zhong Xinghe was really worried about Shen Mingyou.
He knew how much his boss Geng Feng wanted to revive Xingchen Entertainment, which was on the verge of closing down, and Shen Mingyou might be the last straw Geng Feng could grasp.
When Zhong Xinghe returned to the company two days ago, he saw the handwriting left by Geng Feng on the small whiteboard in the office. Those were the ideas that Geng Feng had thought of all night on "how to make Shen Mingyou famous". The point of "establishing a character" was clearly written on it, and the characters included "a foodie, a second-generation rich man, a wealthy lady, a straightforward and venomous beauty" and so on.
Zhong Xinghe knew that Geng Feng was eager to make Shen Mingyou famous, and it was possible that he lost his mind and made mistakes.
"Even though you are my boss, I still want to say that it is too easy to fail if you create a persona of a rich lady. When it is exposed by netizens, the person who will be most affected is Mingyou herself. That would be too unfair to her."
Geng Feng wondered, "Who said I created a character for her?"
"Of course not. You just wrote down the character of a rich lady on the whiteboard the day before yesterday, and Sister Mingyou moved into the Jiaxi Road Mansion yesterday. As expected, Sister Mingyou became famous on the show today because of her character of a rich lady."
Geng Feng felt a little embarrassed. He didn't expect that what he scribbled on the whiteboard the day before yesterday was seen by Zhong Xinghe.
Although he did have that idea, he later realized that it was not very realistic to put it into practice, so he just thought about it in his mind.
"I didn't create any personality for her. As for the Jiaxi Road Mansion, I don't know what it is." Geng Feng shrugged and said, "Maybe, your sister Mingyou is really a wealthy lady."
When Geng Feng met Shen Mingyou, she was only eighteen years old, and he was only twenty-one years old.
At that time, he had just established Xingchen Entertainment, and Shen Mingyou was the first artist he signed. The agent Yu Zhen was more experienced and had more connections than the two of them, so when Yu Zhen was looking for resources everywhere, Geng Feng acted as Shen Mingyou's assistant, driving Shen Mingyou to the set to film every day.
He remembered how happy Shen Mingyou was when she received her first salary for the leading female role. She used all her salary to buy her first house in an old and run-down neighborhood. Although it was less than 60 square meters, he still remembered the happy smile on Shen Mingyou's face when she received the property certificate.
When Shen Mingyou wanted to quit the entertainment industry, Geng Feng was actually very disappointed, but Shen Mingyou was not in good condition at the time, so he did not dare to force it. He just felt that Shen Mingyou, who was so brilliant when he first debuted, had gradually dimmed in just two years.
It's not that they didn't feel sorry and heartbroken for her, so when Shen Mingyou retired from the entertainment industry and got married, Geng Feng and Yu Zhen tacitly didn't ask too many questions. To this day, they don't know who Shen Mingyou married.
Geng Feng still remembers vividly the time when they worked together.
But who could have thought that five years later, Shen Mingyou would be able to live in Jiaxi Road Mansion when he returned.
Also, Yu Zhen told him last night that Shen Mingyou and her husband were in the process of getting a divorce, so that he could be mentally prepared. Geng Feng shook his head helplessly, not knowing how much Shen Mingyou had hidden from them.
I always feel that she has become a completely different person after she came back this time.
But Geng Feng knew that this change was a good one. He could feel that the light that had originally dimmed in Shen Mingyou seemed to be shining again.
**
After lunch, it is time for the children to take a nap.
When Shen Mingyou took Nian Nian to take a nap, Nian Nian's eyes were still glued to the pile of camera parts that she had disassembled into pieces.
"It's time for Nian Nian to take a rest. We'll fight again when we have time."
[Shen Mingyou said he would put it back together when he has time. What would he put together? Could it be that he wanted to put the camera back together after it was torn into pieces?]
[Nian Nian’s eyes are so cute. Although she didn’t say anything, her eyes are lively.]
Seeing her mother's determined eyes, Nian Nian had to reluctantly withdraw her gaze and followed her mother into the room.
Just as the number of people in the live broadcast room was slowly decreasing, and many viewers were preparing to exit the room and relax for a nap, they found that a little girl had opened the bedroom door. After she walked out of the bedroom, she tiptoed to the living room.
[Hey, what does Nian Nian want to do?]
[Haha, the little dumpling is so cute when he sneaks out while his mother is taking a nap.]
The audience who were about to leave the live broadcast room suddenly decided not to leave and wanted to see what Nian Nian was going to do.
Jiang Niannian walked to the living room and came to her exclusive seat, on the Persian carpet that looked very expensive and had very delicate patterns. She sat in front of the camera that she had disassembled into pieces and looked completely scrapped. She picked up a piece of part and started playing with it attentively.
[We have been playing for the whole morning. Why is little Tuanzi playing with this thing again? Is it really that fun?]
[I always feel that Shen Mingyou's daughter seems a little abnormal. She rarely speaks during the live broadcast. She does nothing except sitting there playing with the camera. Normal children are not like her. They can sit still and play by themselves for a whole day.]
[It is indeed a little unusual. Shen Mingyou seems to be accustomed to her daughter's behavior, which shows that this is how the child behaves at home.]
[I noticed a long time ago that this child seems a little silly and not like a normal child.]
[Is there an intellectual disability? Or is it developmental delay?]
[It would be such a shame if such a cute little dumpling had a problem with her brain.]
While the audience in the live broadcast room were making various guesses about Nian Nian's intelligence, the next second, the little girl sitting on the ground started to move faster. She accurately picked up the required parts, and then put the parts together precisely one by one. In a short while, the upper part of the camera used for shooting was assembled by her.
[Wait, it looks like she's putting the parts of her disassembled camera back together!]
[No way, it's all torn apart like this, how can it be put back together?!]
[When Shen Mingyou said “we’ll put it back together when we have time”, did he mean to put the camera back together? But how is that possible? Little Tuanzi is only three or four years old!]
[It’s impossible for her to spell it out. Not to mention that she’s only three or four years old, even a professional would find it difficult to do it.]
[Oh my god, she is really working on it. She has already put together a rough model out of the pile of garbage.]
The audience in the live broadcast room all held their breath, looking at the little girl in the camera, wanting to see if a miracle would really happen in the end, if she would really restore the camera that she had dismantled in the morning to its original condition.
The program staff who had originally taken the opportunity to take a break during the lunch break of Shen Mingyou and her daughter, after seeing Jiang Niannian's situation, all popped their heads out, lined up in a row behind the live camera, squatted on the ground, not daring to make a sound, all staring in amazement at the movements of Niannian's hands.
The filming director Wu Li acted as the host. He asked in a slightly unsteady voice: "Niannian, are you trying to assemble a camera?"
[Shut up and don't disturb her!]
[Shut up, program crew!]
[Nonsense! Are the directors blind? Why are you asking this?]
[I’ll beat you up if you keep talking!]
[So exciting, so exciting, it’s almost time to witness a miracle!]
Disliked by millions of viewers, Wu Li had no choice but to hold back his excitement and stop talking. He followed the audience in the live broadcast room and prepared to witness a miracle created by a four-year-old child.
Nian Nian was completely immersed in her own world and didn't hear the director talking to her at all.
Not until the last small part was put together did Nian Nian shake her sore little arms.
[Ahhh, it’s done. It’s really done. It’s exactly the same as before I took it apart.]
[This is incredible. Is she a genius?]
[Director's team, come over here and see if the camera is still usable?]
[It was so broken apart before, if it can still be used normally after being put back together, it will be really amazing! ]
Wu Li seemed to have heard the audience's calls. After Nian Nian had put the pieces together, he took the camera, turned it on, filmed, checked, and played back the video... After a series of operations, the camera was the same as before and could be used normally.
[I see, I see, the camera can be used!]
[I apologize for what I said before. Nian Nian is not stupid at all. She is obviously a genius!]
[I really envy Shen Mingyou. Not only is she a rich lady, but her daughter is also a genius baby. She is simply a winner in life.]
[Sisters, don’t be jealous too early. Who knows if Shen Mingyou’s husband will be a bald, middle-aged, greasy old man with a beer belly!]
[A greasy middle-aged man shouldn't be able to give birth to a child as beautiful as Nian Nian, right?]
[Who knows? Shen Mingyou's daughter looks exactly like Shen Mingyou except for her eyes. Maybe Nian Nian grew up too fast and didn't inherit any of her greasy middle-aged father's traits.]
[The comments section is so sour, maybe Shen Mingyou’s husband is the 1.9-meter-tall, extremely handsome and overbearing president in the romance novel!]
Because it was nap time, although the live broadcast room was not closed, there was nothing strange about watching the guests sleeping, so many viewers quietly left the room, thinking of waiting for the guests to wake up before entering the room to watch.
The number of viewers for the other three old independent group guests is gradually decreasing, except for Shen Mingyou's live broadcast room.
Just when Shen Mingyou fell asleep in the bedroom, what she didn't know was that her daughter Nian Nian unexpectedly attracted a large number of viewers into their live broadcast room during her short nap.
Even when Shen Mingyou woke up from his nap, the number of viewers in the live broadcast room did not decrease.
By this time, the number of viewers of Shen Mingyou's live broadcast room exceeded the three million mark, directly surpassing the second-ranked Fang Tang's live broadcast room, and its popularity was second only to the five million viewers of the traffic star Gu Aife.
After a nap, mothers will take their babies out.
The program production team has stipulated that on the first day of the broadcast, the guests need to stay at home in the morning to show the audience one side of their daily home life. In the afternoon, in order to increase the appeal of the program, the mothers will take the babies to participate in outdoor activities to show the audience another side of raising children outside.
Gu Aifei chose the aquarium. Zhou Ziyu and Zhou Ziai usually like to watch cartoons about the ocean world. Taking this opportunity, Gu Aifei took the children to the aquarium they wanted to visit the most.
There are all kinds of underwater creatures in the aquarium. Zhou Ziyu and Zhou Ziai, two three-and-a-half-year-old children, can actually recognize most of the underwater creatures. They can even name the various strange fish that many adults cannot recognize.
[Thanks to Zhou Ziyu and Zhou Ziai for giving us a free lecture on marine life identification.]
[Hey, where's Effie?]
[Wow! Look, there's a mermaid behind the twins.]
[Oh my god, Gu Effie actually dressed up as a mermaid for the children. She swam so beautifully, just like a real mermaid princess.]
[The twins are so happy. Gu Effie is willing to do anything to make them happy. So touching!]
…
In the other two live broadcast rooms, Fang Tang took Jiang Xu to the zoo, and Zhong Yao took Zhao Yiyang to the amusement park. The children had a lot of fun, jumping around on the screen, which melted a lot of their aunt fans.
And what about Shen Mingyou?
Shen Mingyou brought Nian Nian and sat in the car prepared by the program crew and arrived in front of a shopping mall.
Shen Mingyou did not tell anyone except Jiang Chen that she had returned to China. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, she stayed in a hotel for a few days after returning to China, and only moved into the Jiaxi Road Mansion yesterday.
I didn't have time to buy many of the things I wanted to buy, so I took Nian Nian to the mall to go shopping while I was out in the afternoon.
Nian Nian is not very interested in going out. She prefers to stay at home and unpack things rather than go out. However, her mother has been with her for the whole morning, and now it is her turn to accompany her mother shopping.
[Is this a buy, buy, buy?]
[It is indeed Shen Mingyou. Other mothers took their children to the amusement park and the aquarium, but she took her children shopping.]
[Quick, let's see how the rich ladies go shopping. Is it the same as in the TV dramas? Buying a bag is as easy as buying cabbage.]
As expected, Shen Mingyou did not disappoint everyone's expectations. She first went to the floor selling children's products and arranged all the clothes, shoes, toys... that Nian Nian needed.
Because she bought so much that she couldn't carry it all, all the things would be delivered to her home by the store. Shen Mingyou would take Nian Nian with her and just go to each store one by one, and then swipe the card again and again.
After shopping for more than an hour, Shen Mingyou finally came to a store selling bags.
The shop assistants received her warmly. Nian Nian sat on a special children's chair and watched her mother scan the bags one by one, and then picked out two from them.
Nian Nian has a good memory. She remembers that the two bags her mother picked out have never appeared in her mother's house which is specially used to store bags. It seems that her father forgot to buy them for her mother.
The two bags that Shen Mingyou picked out were indeed the ones she didn't have. They were classic bags from H's brand, not special enough, but classic enough. Jiang Chen always bought the most expensive and unique bags for her, and sometimes, these classic models would be overlooked.
[Shen Mingyou is such a cool woman.]
[I paid for two classic H-brand bags without blinking an eye. I am tired of being envied.]
[Although I don’t know how much Shen Mingyou spent, but those two bags from H brand cost almost one million, plus the things he bought earlier, a conservative estimate is that it should be more than two million.]
[Oh my god, she is indeed a rich lady, she spends millions easily.]
[Am I the only one who thinks Shen Mingyou goes too far in showing off his wealth?]
After Shen Mingyou swiped her card, the salesperson handed her two beautifully wrapped bags containing her bags. The bags were relatively light, so Shen Mingyou did not plan to let the salesperson deliver them and decided to take them home herself.
The moment Shen Mingyou took over, he noticed that the salesperson looked a little flustered and his hands were shaking slightly.
"Don't worry, the live camera won't capture you." Shen Mingyou thought the salesperson was afraid of the camera.
"No, no, it's because you are so beautiful that I..."
"Really?" Shen Mingyou was a little surprised. The panic in the salesperson's eyes was not as she said. She seemed a little afraid of her. But Shen Mingyou didn't think much about it. She held the bag in one hand and held Nian Nian in the other, and prepared to go home.
As soon as he walked out of the store, Shen Mingyou found it was in chaos outside. When he took the elevator downstairs, he discovered that the stage in the center of the mall was already surrounded by people in three circles inside and outside.
"What's going on here?"
"It's Huo Xingze. Don't you know? Huo Xingze will be attending a brand event for a new luxury watch he is endorsing at 5pm this afternoon. The event will be held in this mall."
[Ahhh, it's Huo Xingze. So Huo Xingze's event this afternoon is in the same mall that Shen Mingyou came to?]
[Huo Xingze Huo Xingze!]
[It’s my idol Huo Xingze. Unfortunately, my home is too far from City A, so I can’t go to see my brother. I’m crying!]
The name "Huo Xingze" instantly flooded the screen in Shen Mingyou's live broadcast room.
Shen Mingyou certainly knew Huo Xingze. If Gu Aife's husband Zhou Jingxing was the top-tier, then Huo Xingze was the top-tier among the top-tier.
A first-tier idol like Zhou Jingxing has a large amount of traffic and high popularity, but he is not irreplaceable. There are at least three or four top-tier young idols in the circle who have a similar status to him, if not seven or eight.
However, Huo Xingze is different. Huo Xingze is irreplaceable.
Huo Xingze debuted as a trainee in Country H at the age of fifteen. The boy band he was in at the time became the top boy band in Country H. Although Huo Xingze was a foreigner, he was the most popular member of the boy band at the time. The entire boy band became internationally famous, and Huo Xingze's fans were all over the world.
It was not until he was 18 years old that Huo Xingze terminated his contract and returned to China, where he set up his own studio, released albums, held concerts, and his popularity was at its peak.
When he was 20 years old, Huo Xingze made his first movie in his life. With this debut film, he won the Golden Tripod Award for Best Newcomer and Best Actor that year, becoming the youngest "Best Actor" in the history of the Golden Tripod Award. In three years, he made five movies, each one was more popular than the last, with higher box office than the last. At the age of 23, he became a grand winner of domestic film awards and was hailed as a "genius actor" rarely seen in a century. Such a person can basically walk sideways in the entertainment industry.
But Huo Xingze is a very low-key person. He does not appear on variety shows, does not participate in interviews, and rarely attends events. Among the program staff who followed Shen Mingyou, there were several fans of Huo Xingze. They looked over there frequently. Obviously, if they were not busy with work, they would have flown over there impatiently.
Director Wu Li was also eager to make a move. In all these years in the industry, there were not many people he could truly admire, but Huo Xingze was one of them. He thought that even if he couldn't take a picture of him, it would be nice to just go over and take a sneak peek.
Wu Li suggested, "Do you want to go and take a look?"
The audience in the live broadcast room also understood what happened. Many of them were fans of Huo Xingze. When they knew that Shen Mingyou was about to go to Huo Xingze's place, the barrage of comments immediately started to quarrel -
[Shen Mingyou will definitely go. She is now exposing her wealthy life. Isn’t it because she wants to be famous?]
[If she could get some of Huo Xingze's traffic today, the number of people in her live broadcast room would probably surpass Gu Aife's. Shen Mingyou couldn't miss such a good opportunity.]
[I now seriously suspect that Shen Mingyou deliberately came here to shop because she knew Huo Xingze would be doing an event at the mall this afternoon. She has done everything she can to become famous.]
[I am a fan of Huo Xingze. I have been watching Shen Mingyou’s live broadcast for a whole day and I have a good impression of her. But if Shen Mingyou insists on taking advantage of my idol’s traffic, that would be really low.]
[Everyone knows that Huo Xingze is a very low-key person, and he himself is very disgusted with this kind of behavior, but in the past two years, there have always been various people trying to take advantage of my brother's traffic. Huo Xingze is really miserable, please let him go, Shen Mingyou.]
[Huo Xingze has been filming movies all year round and has never participated in variety shows. Now he finally comes out to do an event. Shen Mingyou must not force herself on him. If Huo Xingze gets upset and leaves early, it will be a terrible scene.]
[Shen Mingyou can go if she wants to. Huo Xingze is not someone you can easily mess with. He won’t even look at you when the time comes. Just don’t be embarrassed!]
…
The barrage of comments moved very quickly, and almost everyone in the live broadcast room believed that Shen Mingyou would go up and greet Huo Xingze. If she was a little thicker-skinned, she might be able to take a photo with Huo Xingze. Even if the two of them didn't communicate, as long as the camera in the live broadcast room led Huo Xingze, the popularity of Shen Mingyou's live broadcast room would explode.
However, Shen Mingyou's reaction was beyond everyone's expectations. She held Nian Nian's hand and replied to Wu Li: "No, I'm not a fan."
Then, without even looking at the one-eyed man over there, Huo Xingze, he turned around and left with his daughter.
Netizens: Damn it, it turns out we were just being too sentimental!