[Brother Mo's eyes are practically drooling! Help!]
In the final episode of the show, the guests will inspect the vegetable gardens they have cultivated.
"...This is the only one I managed to grow."
Mo Jinnian squatted in the field, busy for a long time, and finally found Zi Xi with a wilted little cabbage in his hands.
Zi Xi glanced at him and teased, "The roots aren't even firmly planted, how can it possibly grow?"
This was the first time she had smiled at him in three months.
Mo Jinnian was stunned and blurted out, "Teacher Zhao, could we...?"
"cannot."
"You're always thinking about this and that. You should learn how to grow vegetables first."
Zi Xi interrupted him, but her eyes were no longer so cold.
"Can you teach me?"
Mo Jinnian's eyes lit up.
"You wish! And do you even think you can teach it?"
Zi Xi turned and walked into the field, her voice drifting back softly.
In the distance, the production team collectively clutched their chests. This wasn't a farming variety show; it was more like an idol drama set!
*
On the day Lu Xiaomi's new drama "Honey Trap" premiered, Zhang Mingzhe invested heavily in the studio team he created for her, and the top trending search list featured a series of trending topics such as #LuXiaomi'sActingStunning#.
Major film and television public accounts simultaneously released press releases: "Honey Trap," a dark horse in the sweet romance genre for the year.
Short video platforms are filled with highlights, and even elevator ads are playing clips of kissing scenes from "Honey Trap" on a loop.
However, at 8 p.m. that night, reality dealt her a heavy blow.
Zi Xi and Mo Jinnian's "Heroine" was launched at the same time, with a TV rating of 2.3%, more than 200 million views across the internet, a Douban score of 9.5, and it directly took the top spot on the hot search list. At least six of the top ten hot searches were about "Heroine".
Even state media praised it, calling it a "benchmark for women's themes in the new era."
Meanwhile, the real-time data for "Honey Trap" shows a viewership rating of 0.3% and nearly 10 million views across the internet, but the comments are mostly negative.
[Isn't this plot so cliché?]
Lu Xiaomi's acting is still so exaggerated...
The male lead is like an AI; there's absolutely no chemistry between him and his female co-star!
The most popular discussion post even said, "After watching Honey Trap, I decided to give Dream Chaser YYQ five stars."
Lu Xiaomi stared at the data, her fingers almost crushing her phone. Her manicured nails dug deep into her palms, and her distorted reflection was shown in the vanity mirror.
The tablet was playing a trailer for "Heroines," and Zi Xi's fluid and graceful grappling moves drew comments like "Sister, kill me!"
impossible!
In the previous life, even with a famous director at the helm and Mo Jinnian as the male lead, "Heroine" still suffered poor ratings due to its clichéd plot, and the female lead was criticized for her expressionless acting. How come everything changed in this life just because Zhao Zixi was replaced?!
She is the chosen one of this world!
She grabbed her bag and headed straight for Zhang Mingzhe's office.
"Mingzhe!"
"Didn't you tell me you would definitely be suppressing that drama this time?"
Lu Xiaomi's eyes reddened as soon as she entered the door, and her voice was trembling with sobs, like a little girl whose dreams had been shattered.
“I’ve looked at the data; this is definitely only temporary.”
Zhang Mingzhe put down the documents in his hand and immediately went over to her, tenderly leading her to sit down on the sofa.
"Temporary?"
"The show 'Heroine' has a 9.5 rating, while ours only has a 1.2! Netizens are saying my acting is extremely bad..."
Lu Xiaomi's tears fell in a steady stream. The more she talked, the more aggrieved she became, and she threw herself into Zhang Mingzhe's arms and sobbed.
"Don't worry, Xiaomi, I have plenty of ways to get her kicked out of the entertainment industry!!"
Zhang Mingzhe patted her on the back, his eyes dark and gloomy.
He's been busy with work lately and hasn't been paying attention to what's going on with the women's side. He didn't expect that filming had already finished.
Moreover, he only found out today that Mo Jinnian hadn't actually targeted Zhao Zixi at all; instead, he was following Zhao Zixi around like a sycophant.
Despite the rumors circulating in the entertainment industry that actor Mo Jinnian comes from a wealthy family, he has never heard of any family with the surname Mo in high society.
"But now she's paired up with Mo Jinnian, and her popularity is soaring..."
Lu Xiaomi looked up, her eyes blurry with tears.
"Her father is dead, but she still has a mother living abroad..."
Zhang Mingzhe sneered. He had already found out that Zhao Zixi's father had passed away early, and her mother had remarried and gone abroad with her next husband, losing all contact with him.
“But her mother… doesn’t care about her at all now.”
Lu Xiaomi was taken aback and hesitated. She had heard Zi Xi say the same thing in her previous life, but Zi Xi said that her mother didn't care about her at all.
"That's even better. Money makes the world go round, and without family ties, it's even easier to manipulate them."
Zhang Mingzhe smiled.
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