[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-chinese-entertainment-starting-as-a-male-model":3,"chapter-chinese-entertainment-starting-as-a-male-model-showbiz-begins-as-a-male-model-chapter-125":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Chinese Showbiz: Starting as a Male Model",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2217233,3922,"Chapter 125: A Year Away, Still a Male Model Upon Return","showbiz-begins-as-a-male-model-chapter-125",125,"\u003Cp>Bai Liang found this commercial shoot incredibly satisfying; he got to make money and play with cars—where else could he find such a good gig?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had gone to play on his own, he would have had to pay for it himself~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that the director’s team was scared out of their wits, especially during that final drift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, this move wasn't that difficult, but many people’s understanding of racing comes primarily from *Initial D*, so they think anyone who can drift is incredibly cool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Liang was different; his earliest understanding of racing came from *Let's & Go!!*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, whenever he played with cars, he was always wondering if he could pull off moves like the \"Cyclone Magnum Tornado.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, most of the hardcore stunts from the 2D world can't be pulled off in the 3D world, except for the beautiful women.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After trying a few times with no results, Bai Liang gave up on tormenting those poor cars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Playing *Fast & Furious* was enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Teacher Bai, you really scared me just now. I didn't expect your driving skills to be this good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sorry for the trouble. I thought you just wanted me to drive it myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Liang took the initiative to apologize, though he truly hadn't realized that driving scenes usually involved stunt doubles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had never used a stunt double when filming, either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was horseback riding, archery, or kissing scenes with actresses, he did it all himself; his main selling point was his professionalism.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he could understand the other staff members' perspective; after all, if something had actually gone wrong, everyone would have been in trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Yanzi took the blame: \"It was my fault for not making it clear. Sorry, Director.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's fine, it's fine. This whole thing turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The captured footage looks even better. Now, about this... chewing gum commercial.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exchanging a glance, Bai Liang and the director couldn't hold it in anymore, strange smiles appearing on their faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A chewing gum commercial shot with this much intensity was truly peak entertainment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After getting to know Bai Liang's temperament and style a bit, the director spoke more freely: \"Teacher Bai, you should contact Red Bull and become their spokesperson. In the segment we just shot, pulling out a can of Red Bull when getting out of the car would be much more logical than chewing gum.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That makes sense, but they haven't approached me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem, Brother Bai, they have.\" Yanzi provided a timely reminder; Red Bull was indeed among the brands she had been in contact with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that, after seeing today's performance, Yanzi felt she could raise the price even higher on top of the planned increase six months later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, more important than raising prices was, of course, Bai Liang's safety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yanzi had been scared to death just now!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When that car shot forward, her heart almost stopped beating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only thanks to her blind faith in Bai Liang that she didn't scream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good, good, good; Brother Bai has pulled something else out of his skill library.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yanzi immediately thought that, in the future, she might be able to use this to approach some racing-related projects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once she had figured out how to make use of Bai Liang’s special talents, she discovered that her dear Brother Bai had already started chatting with someone and made a new friend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the race car driver who had originally come to be the stunt double.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other party was chatting happily with Bai Liang and even exchanged contact information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way back, Yanzi teased him, \"Brother Bai, our network has expanded again?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Right, he's from the Shanghai Volkswagen 333 Racing Team. We can go play there when there's an opportunity in the future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yanzi was completely unfamiliar with this stuff and hadn't even heard of it, so she didn't take it too seriously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She just thought it was a hobby her Brother Bai might frequently engage in, and wondered if she should buy an insurance policy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Old Zhou, who was driving, felt very familiar with the name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, isn't that the racing team Han Han is on?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's quite a coincidence,\" Bai Liang said casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Zhou didn't take it too seriously either; it was just a racing team with a famous person on it, nothing more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could Bai Liang actually get involved with Han Han because of this? That would be too absurd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at this moment, Yanzi looked a bit strange; she stared at Bai Liang for several seconds, a peculiar expression on her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can't get involved?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That might not be certain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she didn't know how they would get involved, she just felt that her Brother Bai had that ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh right, perhaps not with the race car driver Han Han, but with the director Han Han.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I heard he seems to be preparing a new movie~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The magazine Old Zhou found for Bai Liang should be considered second-tier: *Men's Uno*, a men's magazine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Yanzi's briefing, in the entertainment industry, many stars have competitions in this area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Things like the \"Five Greats and Three Smallers,\" who got on the New Year's issue, who got on the anniversary issue, who achieved the \"Grand Slam\" first, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this is generally the battlefield for traffic-driven artists, the so-called battle for top-tier status.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, that Lu Han, one of the four who returned from abroad, is an absolute top-tier player; shooting a magazine cover can trigger a huge sensation: he was the first to appear on the cover of *Harper's Bazaar* as a solo male star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm... sounds pretty impressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is traffic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Liang is certainly not associated with top-tier status right now, but Yanzi has a lot of confidence in him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What \"top-tier\" nonsense; in front of our Brother Bai, they are all just paper tigers, people selling their heads for a price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When bragging in private, of course, one dares to say anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Yanzi truly felt that Bai Liang could crush those current top-tier stars from every angle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What's lacking now is just time and opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sounded exactly like the thoughts of someone complaining about heaven and earth, sour grapes style, but Bai Liang always stuck to \"encouragement-based education\": \"Right, everything you say is correct, keep it up! Work hard!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this regard, Old Zhou was more pragmatic: \"Let's climb up slowly; in two years, we'll have everything we should have.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And compared to the shock and excitement of shooting the commercial, the process of shooting the magazine cover was a completely different style. A year away, still a male model upon return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under Yanzi's speechless expression, Bai Liang and Old Zhou were like they had returned home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was so familiar, so clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most ridiculous part was the models; the look in their eyes when they saw Bai Liang was as if they had seen a deity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yanzi had never been to a commercial KTV, but she felt it on-site today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Uniformly: \"Hello, Brother Bai~\", \"Hello, Brother Zhou~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Young men and women, tall and straight with long legs; looking around, it was all beautiful bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, it made Yanzi feel a bit embarrassed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainly because some of the male models were too enthusiastic and even flirted with her~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yanzi: I have felt the joy of Sister Yang Xing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, after the brief \"happiness,\" Yanzi was once again worried about the temptations Bai Liang was facing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was fine when shooting the commercial, but these models were just too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Please... collect 6... 9... books...!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Bai Liang was getting his makeup done, several female models lingered in the makeup room, giggling and finding every opportunity to talk to Bai Liang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This fashion circle is really...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Yanzi deliberately put on a stern face to play the bad guy and chased everyone away, she naturally fell into deep worry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She even started considering whether to find a clean, pretty young girl to be Bai Liang's personal assistant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could help out in an emergency when necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just in case he couldn't hold it in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this age, Brother Bai feels like he is easily impulsive and could be seduced by bad women.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yanzi couldn't keep watch forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, this dangerous idea was eventually dismissed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was because of a phone call.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, Guli Nazha had thought that after the Spring Festival, there would be a period of free time, so she planned to use that time to properly... spend time with Bai Liang~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had already thought of many things they could do together, and the most important one, of course, was turning the already renovated house into a home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about this process made her laugh out loud even in her sleep sometimes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But~ plans couldn't keep up with changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was free for a few days after the New Year, but Bai Liang was no longer free.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was about to join the cast of *Princess Agents* at that time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no other way; Nazha was so anxious she squeezed out free time, preparing to get things done before the New Year!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, she wouldn't have been this urgent, but the pressure from the little fellow countrywoman was really a bit high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Born from the same root, why be so impatient to fry each other!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like Meng Ziyi before, Nazha actually never took her too seriously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including Jin Cheng and Chen Yao from the company...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her view, there wasn't a single one who could fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until she saw Dilireba spinning around Bai Liang; in an instant, all the alarm bells rang wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if a large bell was vibrating right against her forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anxious, anxious!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she always pretended not to be anxious when chatting with Bai Liang on WeChat or talking on the phone, only she knew what she was really thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You're shooting a magazine? Send me the address.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nazha was very straightforward; after getting Bai Liang's address, she appeared at the magazine shoot location in less than half an hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yanzi, who went to greet her, had one first reaction: Wow!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was definitely done after careful dressing; if she wasn't wearing a gown, this posture didn't look like meeting a friend in private at all, it looked like she was about to walk the red carpet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the lipstick she chose was a dark shade, looking very imposing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yanzi~ long time no see.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nazha took off her sunglasses, smiled at Yanzi, and affectionately grabbed her arm to greet her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sister, you look so beautiful today!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmph~ am I not beautiful usually?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Today is different, oh; is there any good news?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nazha's little assistant added with a giggle from the side: \"Coming here is good news, Yanzi, can't you understand?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You two, reversing the heavens and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nazha didn't have time to blush before she noticed the movement around her and put her sunglasses back on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll go find him first. You guys pick the place for dinner tonight, my treat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yay~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yanzi led Nazha and her little assistant inside. Along the way, Nazha never lowered her head; this aura directly completed a high-efficiency \"clearing of the field.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Driving away the \"small fry\"!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, after arriving at the shooting site, the aura of \"I am the most beautiful in the world\" suddenly began to dissipate wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sunglasses had long been taken off, and she was pursing her lips, peeking around like a little girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yanzi and the little assistant exchanged a glance, suddenly thinking of a phrase: \"Brine points to tofu.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1945,"2026-06-17T12:14:10.516Z","2026-06-18T03:30:09.135Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","13fe5511c72bbd6e7d0611f89486fd0e0cfc67706834cc2be04a96ec67f760ed","showbiz-begins-as-a-male-model-chapter-126","showbiz-begins-as-a-male-model-chapter-124",668,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fshowbiz-starting-as-a-male-model-cover.jpg"]