Popular TV dramas can't compete with their rivals, classic old dramas can't beat their predecessors, and niche and unpopular dramas are doomed to fail. Xiao Zhao looks at those data every day, and his hair is falling out in clumps because he's so anxious, but the more anxious he is, the worse the data gets.
That day, as usual, she opened her private messages to check fan submissions and search for footage for her next edit. One fan submission caught her eye—
"The Burning Heart? A serial killer? What show is this? I've never heard of it..."
Xiao Zhao muttered to himself, then clicked on a screenshot of a video taken by a fan.
The young man, dressed in blood, stood upright and composed in the pool of blood. Even with a few drops of blood on his gold-rimmed glasses, he could not conceal the indifference and coldness in his eyes. He also carried a chainsaw in one hand, which contrasted sharply with his elegant and refined appearance.
Xiao Zhao swallowed hard.
Is this a role that can exist in the Chinese entertainment industry?
This face and this aura perfectly match her conception of a refined scoundrel.
Why is Hannibal Lecter so popular? Even though many people haven't even watched the original series, they can still immediately name the character.
This is partly due to the unique personality traits of the characters as portrayed in the original work, and partly due to the actors' own performance in shaping the characters.
Some people, with their looks and temperament, are naturally very suitable for the role.
Otherwise, people in the Chinese entertainment industry wouldn't often say things like "XX is the chosen young general," "XX is the chosen male lead of a certain book," or "XX is the chosen white moonlight"... Sometimes you really have to admit that some people just have that kind of face, and they don't even need to act to be a killer.
Xiao Zhao hadn't even looked into the character's detailed story yet, but her mind was already bursting with inspiration, automatically matching various popular music tracks to her next editing direction—
With excitement in his heart, Xiao Zhao quickly ran to Tencent Video to find the web series "The Burning Heart" and searched for the character in it.
This serial killer doesn't appear often, but almost every appearance is an exquisitely elegant yet bloody artistic spectacle.
—The chainsaw in his hand is his paintbrush, which he recklessly squanders innocent lives.
Due to the length limitations of the web series, the plot did not explain in detail the motives behind this serial killer. He was simply a pure evil who suddenly appeared, constantly creating desperate situations and bringing death to those in need. In the end, like a blood-stained ephemera, he lost his life to the male protagonist's gun, ending his insane life, but leaving the female protagonist with eternal psychological trauma.
Xiao Zhao stared intently at the man's increasingly empty yet still somewhat menacing eyes, and suddenly shivered.
—Now I understand why some people like villainous characters!
Xiao Zhao felt that this killer was indeed very evil, but she couldn't help but feel both fear and love for the character. She couldn't help but watch these clips repeatedly, and finally decided to edit the next video about this killer.
So at 9 p.m. that night, a video featuring Xiao He, playing a serial killer, standing in the woods with a chainsaw and the words "refined scoundrel" written in blood-red calligraphy behind him was posted on Bilibili by Xiao Zhao Liu Bu Liu. It quickly topped the charts overnight in an extremely exaggerated manner and became a nightmare that kept many people awake that night.
Xiao He, without his knowledge, became a sensation on Bilibili, becoming a representative actor of the "refined scoundrel" psychopathic killer.
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