Chapter 168
When Chen Ze replied to Zeng Qing's agent, the other party said with some regret, "Are you really not going to consider it again? He is at the best age, has a handsome appearance, very good grades and superb basketball skills. He is simply the real-life version of the male protagonist in the novel. There is really no one more suitable than Jing Ling!" The other party specifically mentioned basketball. In fact, this was the real reason why they contacted Jing Ling. The video of the Yijiao University basketball game played a decisive role.
After all, it is a campus idol drama, so how can we miss the element of basketball? Basketball is very popular in China. Basketball courts are even included in the standard facilities of the national fitness policy. There are more than 300 million basketball enthusiasts in China alone. The profits generated by the related industrial chain around the world can reach tens of billions of universal coins each year.
We have now entered an era of universal entertainment. Outstanding people from all walks of life have countless fans, either because of their knowledge or because of their skills. Even if they have an ordinary and unremarkable appearance, they can still fascinate people. People say that this is a world where appearance matters, but that’s not entirely true.
After knowing the reason, Chen Ze came back to find the full video and watched it again. Although he already knew the general plot in advance, when he saw Jing Ling dunk the basketball into the basket at the last moment, coupled with the fanatical expressions of the audience watching the game in the background and the screams and cheers coming from the speakers, at that moment, he seemed to have returned to his youth, to a group of people sweating on the basketball court, hugging each other, and cheering for victory... those beautiful youth that have passed away.
Jing Ling has the capital to really make people scream, so there is no need to cheat.
If he were just a viewer, he would also like to see such works. Unfortunately, he is Jing Ling's agent. He does not have the passion and perseverance of a young man. Like most adults, he only considers the pros and cons. Taking on this drama will do more harm than good to them, so the final decision is to refuse.
"There will be opportunities for cooperation in the future!" Shen Ze said with a smile.
The other side no longer forced, but the voice inevitably had some regrets, "Okay, I look forward to the next cooperation!"
In theory, this should be the end of the matter. Because no matter it is a TV series or a movie, the producer will have one or several best candidates in mind. However, the best candidate for this drama at the beginning was not Jing Ling, but another online actor. Of course, he was not the one with the top traffic. Jing Ling's appearance was an accident, no one had expected it before.
After Zeng Qing Studio failed to make contact, they would naturally go back to look for the best candidate they had originally decided on. If they could reach an agreement, that would be the best. If not, they would either continue to fight hard or find someone else. In the entertainment industry, most film and television works follow this process. Except for those at the top of the pyramid who have the right to choose, most of the others are the result of mutual selection.
However, things often do not develop as people hope. The process of contacting the male lead of "Ten Thousand Stars" was not smooth. No matter how hard the crew tried to persuade him, the best online candidate refused to give in and was unwilling to cooperate. There is no other choice but to settle for the next best thing and contact other people. But things still didn't go smoothly. One, two, and three people were either unwilling to cooperate like the best candidate, or had schedules that couldn't be changed. It wasn't until the last one that the crew almost gave up that they finally decided on one.
Unfortunately, the male lead was Jing Ling's "old acquaintance" Yu Leyang. This guy is a bit of a troublemaker, and coupled with the "grudge" between the two, after the official announcement of the male and female lead candidates, a bunch of bystanders in the circle were waiting to see the show.
Sure enough, a week later, the show began. First, the marketing accounts on Weibo published a Weibo post, either openly or covertly criticizing Jing Ling. They tried their best to find ugly screenshots to use as the accompanying pictures. Maybe because it was too difficult, they later directly used Photoshop. While stepping on Jing Ling, they correspondingly praised Yu Leyang and pulled in a bunch of innocent stars to serve as foils in order to cover up their tracks.
And this is just the first step. The next step is to buy the manuscript and publish similar content again on major portals. Finally, there were forums related to the entertainment industry, where people hired internet trolls to post crazily and fabricate non-existent black material. The desire to trample Jing Ling into the center of the earth and keep him there forever could not be hidden.
An entertainment gossip forum.
Topic: When I just finished watching it, I thought Fu Lingbai was so handsome. Please recommend me a youth movie or novel of the same type to save my girlish heart!
Just as the title! Waiting online, urgent!
1L: I haven’t read the title, but I have seen a lot of youth movies, such as "Love Across Mountains and Seas", "Summer of Silver Star", "Light Gray Memory", etc. You can search online. I recommend the novel "Ten Thousand Stars" by Long Night. It is super good and it will be adapted into a movie and TV series soon. The movie and TV series will be shot together!
2L: I’m a big fan of the book and highly recommend it! By the way, I heard that the male lead of the drama version is Yu Leyang. The role of Chen Yu Shen he played before has always been the white moonlight in my heart. He is so handsome. I look forward to it!
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18L: I just watch and don’t say anything. This is the nth post today. Has anyone counted it? Let's not talk about those replies that look extremely familiar, and just talk about the time of the replies. The OP posted at 20:03:30, and the first poster replied at 20:04:05, with only 35 seconds in between. How deep must the love be to be able to see so many posts at once and use the speed of his hands after being single for 30 years to type such a long string of words? That doesn’t even include thinking time! I wonder if the navy of Dead Fish could be more careful? It would be fine if you just ate the cake that no one wanted, but you also shouted it loudly so that the whole world knew about it. Are you mentally ill? @鱼粉, I suggest you stop raising funds for magazines or something, and take your idol to see a brain doctor first!
19L: You are so mean. People spend money and effort to hype their presence just to prove that they got a good resource. Note that the key point is to get it, and get it from the "old rival". Fans are all in GC to avenge their previous shame. You are just poking people's lungs by telling the truth like this. Be careful of the water army and brainless fans chasing you and biting you. Hehe:)
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Yu Leyang really invested a lot of money, and his internet trolls were like free money, and several entertainment forums were almost like his backyard. However, this time Jing Ling and Shen Ze, who was keen on browsing the forum, were not able to do so in the first place because they were busy with other things.
It was all brought up by that basketball game.
After Jing Ling played as a substitute in the Computer Science College promotion match, Programming Class 2 successfully advanced to the inter-departmental competition. After that, they were extremely lucky and drew two byes in a row, directly advancing to the finals. This was a height that the students in Class 2 had never thought of. They would definitely not be able to win in a head-on confrontation. However, two of their opponents were the main players of the school basketball team, so they were thinking about whether they could bring out Jing Ling, the ultimate killer. Anyway, the person is indeed from their Class 2. However, since there was no contact information, they left messages on Weibo. The messages, which should have been drowned out by fans' daily check-ins, were unexpectedly pushed to the top because fans also wanted to watch the basketball game.
Shen Ze noticed it while managing his Weibo, and told Jing Ling about it. The latter had nothing to do anyway, so he decided to go back and join in the fun.
After the students from Programming Class 2 submitted the list to the school, the school seemed to want to make a big news and directly posted the competition information on the homepage of the official website. When other people in the school learned the news, the whole place was in an uproar. Word spread quickly from one person to ten, and then to a hundred, and soon it spread to other schools, and finally almost the entire university town knew about it.
The match was originally scheduled to be held in the school’s newly built indoor gymnasium, which was actually quite spacious based on the number of spectators in the past. But things are different now. The school has estimated the number of people and found that it would be impossible to accommodate them all, so they have to change the venue to outdoors. However, this is not enough, because in addition to people from this school, there are also people from other schools. There are so many colleges and universities in the entire university town, and if there are a few fans from one school, the total amount is a considerable number.
On the day of the competition, there were so many people at the scene that the police stationed in the university town area were dispatched to maintain order.
Shen Ze was sitting next to the stadium at the time, responsible for handing out water and towels. This was supposed to be a benefit for the fans, so he was tortured by the girls' eyes the whole time. But he didn't care about so many things. His attention was on the audience, whether they were real fans or just there to watch the fun. The fact that there were so many people in such a short time was enough to prove Jing Ling's popularity.
"You're so famous!" he exclaimed.
Jing Ling rolled his eyes at him and said, "Can you be more aware of being my manager?"
The game started quickly, and the cheers from the audience were so loud that it seemed to be drowning out the sound equipment.
“Perform well!” Before going on stage, Shen Ze patted Jing Ling on the shoulder and encouraged her.
"What a show! I'm just playing basketball to bring honor to my class and department!"
"Go away, thanks!"
At that time, neither of them noticed the special person in the stands.
Jing Ling went on the court with the other players in his class. Originally, this kind of team competition requires more cooperation, but the boys in the class seemed to want to see his performance. During the game, they cooperated with him throughout, with him as the center, and the ball was basically given to him. With the cooperation of his teammates, he easily broke through the siege of the enemy team, dribbled past the opponent, made three-pointers, and slam dunked. The game once again became his personal show, and everyone became a foil!
Among the vast sea of people, he is the brightest star!
Qincheng TV broadcast the game live. After the game, the audience in front of the TV saw a familiar face walking towards Jing Ling in the camera, and then someone from the school introduced the other person's identity.
He turned out to be the coach of Yizhou basketball team, and his purpose was to poach players!
This is the first time that the sports circle has poached people from the entertainment industry, and the audience's gossip spirit was instantly ignited!
Chen Ze was completely stunned at the time. He was actually poached in front of so many viewers at the scene and in front of the TV? !
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