The next day, posts mocking Zhao Junnan appeared like mushrooms after rain on major forums. Some people implied that Zhao Junnan was out of date and invisible, and that he finally became famous once but he was so greedy. Some people also mocked Zhao Junnan for losing face in order to raise his own value.
"Aren't Zhao Junnan's fans boasting every day that their artist is about to win over several first-tier fashion brands? Unfortunately, the brands directly stated that they have no intention of cooperating with your artist."
"I'm just a passerby, feeling so embarrassed that I'm silently blushing for the Zhao fans."
"Haha, I had long guessed that Zhao Junnan would fall, but I didn't expect it to happen so quickly. Ever since his role in "Xia Jun" became popular, his team has been buying articles to criticize this and that. Fortunately, he is not a woman. If he were a woman, he would have outshone the entire entertainment industry."
"The above person is ignorant. I saw a report a few days ago that when male artists become more charming, female artists become less attractive. I clicked on it and was almost blinded by the sensation. Zhao's fans photoshopped the real person into a woman to compete with a group of female artists for beauty."
"No matter how sexy it is, Zhao Junnan's publicity team is awesome. I just want to know how the fans of the female artists who compare him to him feel."
"The victim said that her emotions were very unstable. My daughter is a fairy who has descended to earth. What kind of monster is Zhao Junnan? How dare he outshine my daughter?"
This was the first time that Zhao Junnan was ridiculed by the entire network after he became popular again. He was very angry and even got mad at the staff in charge of public relations, thinking that they were too incompetent.
"Brother Nan, judging from the situation today, there should be several people who will take the opportunity to discredit you." The publicity assistant calmed Zhao Junnan's emotions: "We should keep a low profile for a while and focus on filming. It will be fine after a while."
Having been stood up by three brands at the same time, and having been known by other people in the industry, there was no other option but to lie down and be ridiculed.
In this situation, keeping a low profile is more useful than any response. After all, actors let their works speak for themselves.
"After a while?!" Zhao Junnan was furious: "After a while, all the fans of "Xia Jun" will leave. How can I retain fans?"
"Brother Nan, your "Xia Jun" is a well-received drama. It is not like those web dramas played by Li Zhao, which can only attract some fans of March dramas at most. You have the status, strength and resources, so you don't have to worry about the subsequent development. What are you worried about?"
What is he worried about?
Zhao Junnan sat dejectedly on the chair, because no one understood better than him how terrible it was to fall from a high point to the bottom. The producers and directors who once treated him as their brothers and sisters changed their attitudes, and his fans left one after another. At first, some people mocked him for his decline, but later, even the people who mocked him disappeared.
Everyone seemed to have forgotten him. Even if he wasn't wearing glasses or a mask, no one would recognize him. In order to get a role, he drank until he vomited and had to endure the contemptuous looks of younger newcomers.
He became famous at the age of eighteen, was completely out of fashion at the age of twenty-five, and today he has finally become popular again, but he is already thirty-five years old. Fans praised him for his youth and good looks, but years of alcoholism and smoking had ruined his skin.
He has had injections and surgery on his face, and lives every day with fans praising his photoshopped photos. Seeing those young, fresh and handsome faces, he couldn't help but feel anxious and panicked. These people were all his competitors who wanted to beat him to death on the beach.
Whenever fans praised his fighting skills and his elegant and charming postures, his inner pride and guilt turned into hatred towards Li Zhao. The charm and elegance praised by fans were all Li Zhao's stand-in shots. What they loved was not him at all, but Li Zhao who had no chance to show his face in front of the camera.
When he found that Li Zhao suddenly became popular, he had nightmares almost every night. He dreamed that all the fans who admired him surrounded Li Zhao and confessed their love to him. He returned to his lowest point, with no movies to shoot and no one cared about him.
Li Zhao is the nightmare in his heart. As long as Li Zhao stays in the entertainment industry for one more day, he will have one more day of sleepless nights and restless nights.
"Can't let him get up."
"What?" The publicity assistant didn't hear what Zhao Junnan said clearly: "Brother Nan, what did you say?"
"I say, Li Zhao, we can't let his popularity continue to rise."
The publicity assistant frowned. He really couldn't understand why Brother Nan wanted to pick on an 18th-tier web drama actor. Even if Li Zhao has the support of Strawberry Entertainment, the resources that Brother Nan can access are beyond Li Zhao's dreams. So why bother?
However, Zhao Junnan was unwilling to listen to his assistant's dissuasion. He arranged some internet trolls to deliberately hype the situation online, saying that a male artist who became famous through an online drama will be working with a big brand and the official announcement will be made soon.
Let Li Zhao experience the same ridicule he suffered.
"Li Zhao, are you going to endorse a big brand?" Song Yu saw a news report in the lounge that a popular online drama actor was about to collaborate with a big brand. After reading the content, he knew that the popular online drama actor mentioned in the report was Li Zhao.
"What big brand?" Li Zhao, who was eating his lunch, heard Song Yu calling him. He raised his head from the huge lunch bowl and looked at Song Yu: "Me?"
"Well, the news that you're going to endorse a big brand has spread everywhere. I think your fans are very happy about your career." Song Yu felt that something was wrong. Strawberry Entertainment's public relations methods didn't seem to be of this noisy nature.
"But I haven't talked about endorsements recently." Li Zhao picked up the drink and took two big sips: "Did I make a mistake?"
"The most popular online drama in the past three months, the fresh look in white shirts, the warmest smile, the man that the domineering female CEO loves the most..." Song Yu recited these key adjectives: "Those marketing accounts that broke the news almost said it was you, Li Zhao."
Seeing Li Zhao's bewildered face, Song Yu sat up straight and asked, "Did someone trick you?"
It is not uncommon for opponents to deliberately release false information to make fans feel hopeful but disappointed, and finally stop following them and turn against them.
What’s even more disgusting is that these whistleblower accounts do not name names, so even if the parties involved want to clarify, they cannot be too clear, otherwise they will be ridiculed for being self-indulgent.
"Ah?" Li Zhao finished the rest of his meal in a few bites. "Who would be so bored as to spend so much money on online marketing to cheat an 18th-tier artist like me?"
"You've gained a lot of fans through 'The Boss Girl' and signed with Strawberry Entertainment, so you're at least... a tier 7 or 8 player." Seeing that Li Zhao was still preparing to eat the small cake delivered in the lunch box, Song Yu couldn't help but feel anxious for him: "You're still eating, you're still eating, someone has come to your house to hack you, and you're still in the mood to eat?!"
Li Zhao put the small cake back in place with shaking hands, and sat down to look at Song Yu obediently: "What should I do now?"
"Contact your team and ask them to come up with a solution." After Song Yu finished speaking, he couldn't help but curse, "I'm really out of my mind. Why am I worrying about all this for you..."
"Because you are handsome and kind." Li Zhaoxiao said.
Song Yu: "Get lost!"
As Li Zhao's executive agent, Luo Rong was the first to receive the news that the marketing account was preparing to discredit Li Zhao. He sent a message to the work group, asking them not to respond to this matter.
"Mr. Luo, if Mr. Li has no objection to the cooperation between the two parties, we hope to arrange a time to take promotional photos as soon as possible." The person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce shook hands with Luo Rong: "After all, it takes some preparation time from taking photos to laying the ground."
"Please rest assured that our artists will fully cooperate with your publicity." After shaking hands with the head of the business department of Canghuan Corporation, Luo Rong was still in a state that this world might be a little unreal.
As a world-renowned family business, Canghuan has always been a symbol of high-end in the hearts of the Chinese people. When an artist endorses their products, it is often a testament to their strength and popularity. When fans of different brands were quarreling and bashing each other's endorsements, Cang Huan's product endorsement was enough to outweigh ten of them.
Now a brand owner who is capable of beating ten others suddenly approached them and said that Li Zhao is very suitable for the product image and hoped that the two companies could cooperate.
This is not the brand father, this is the brand grandfather, or the master grandfather in martial arts novels who takes the initiative to give martial arts secrets. Not to mention that the conditions offered by the brand are so generous, even if they only offered one-tenth of the price, their team would sign the contract without hesitation.
For many artists, they would be willing to pay for the endorsement from Canghuan.
This is not an endorsement at all, it is clearly a gift that fell from the sky.
With this endorsement, those revelations on the Internet that were obviously trying to incite controversy and trap Li Zhao to death were simply helping them save on publicity costs.
Fry it, fry it hotter, they can bear it.
"Li Zhao!" Song Yu yelled at the crew, "I have a box of cake here, do you want to eat it?"
"Here I am." Li Zhao quickly put down the script in his hand and ran to Song Yu. Song Yu's assistant was holding a large bag of cakes.
Li Zhao ate very quickly and soon finished the cake.
"Were you hungry as a child?" Song Yu looked at Li Zhao's mouth in confusion. His mouth didn't look big, and he looked good eating. How could he eat so fast?
"Yes." Li Zhao nodded. "When I was a kid, my family wouldn't let me eat when they were in a bad mood, so I would stuff the food into my stomach first. It was safer that way."
"You're just bragging." Song Yu sneered, "What era is this? There are still children who don't have enough food to eat."
Li Zhao chuckled.
“Ahem.”
A familiar cough sounded from behind. Li Zhao turned around and smiled even brighter. "Tingting?! Why didn't you call me when you came here? How did the crew let you in?"
"Zhao Zhao, I just ran into Mr. Ting outside. I knew he was coming to visit, so I brought him here." Dake, who found himself without a sense of presence, quickly waved his hand: "You guys chat slowly, I'll go get some water."
"Tingting, you sit down first." Li Zhao pulled Yan Ting to sit on his lounge chair. Worried that his legs would catch cold, he covered Yan Ting with his own warm blanket.
Li Zhao wore a wig, a gold and red jade crown on his head, a bright red wedding dress, and had red lips and white teeth.
"You didn't come to the crew yesterday, and I thought you didn't have time to come." Li Zhao picked up a small stool and sat down in front of Yan Ting, instantly becoming much shorter than him.
"I just wanted to come over after finishing my work." Yan Ting's eyes fell on the red wedding dress under Li Zhao's winter clothes: "I didn't want to disturb your filming, so I didn't call."
"When I was filming, my phone was with Dake. Even if you called in, you couldn't disturb me." Seeing that Yan Ting was not wearing gloves, Li Zhao took off his own gloves and said, "It's windy here on the set. You put on my gloves first. Dake has a spare pair."
With the remaining warmth of the gloves wrapped around his cold fingers, Yan Ting looked at the handsome boy in front of him and asked, "Are you going to get married?"
"It's not me getting married, it's the character I play in the drama getting married." Li Zhao waved his hands repeatedly. This kind of thing cannot be confused.
"Tian Ge" is a historical drama, and the main developments of the characters in the play are also based on historical facts. Although the character he played died early, historical records show that he had a wife.
"We'll be filming my worship scene in a little while. If you have enough time today, you can stay and take a look." Li Zhao pointed at the golden crown on his head and said, "The director said that the golden crown and wedding dress I'm wearing are both made based on the originals. They are among the most expensive costumes in the crew. This is a rare opportunity. You can stay and take a closer look."
For a large crew like "Tian Ge", the requirements for costumes and props are very high, and many accessories are made of real gold. The costume that Li Zhao is wearing took nearly a month to make, but was only used for filming a few scenes.
The body temperature left by Li Zhao in the gloves gradually dissipated. Yan Ting looked at the dragon and phoenix embroidered on the bright red costume and nodded slightly: "Okay."
"I'll stay."
The author has something to say: Zhao Baobao: Look at the wedding dress I am wearing, it’s so beautiful and expensive.
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