Chapter 291: What Matters Is Being a Person of Genuine Feeling!

"The cast of 'Evil Cannot Overcome Right' is coming too?"

After hearing this news, Sister Xiao Zhao frowned, seemingly annoyed.

There's only one stage—everyone's rushing here to promote? This is way too crowded.

And it just feels like they don't take us seriously at all.

Sister Xiao Zhao is super sensitive now; after 'The Daughter Kingdom' flopped, she always feels others look down on her.

This situation perfectly triggered that feeling.

Next to her, Zhu Yilong sat silent as a chicken; his thoughts were simple—he wasn't "worthy" to comment on the big director, the movie king, or the hardworking contenders.

Plus, he wasn't brave enough to provoke Zhao Liying~

Luckily, Bai Liang always responded enthusiastically to Sister Xiao Zhao: "Yeah, yeah! No respect for first-come-first-served at all! Sister, should we just clash with them?"

Sister Xiao Zhao and Zhu Yilong:???

What the hell are you talking about? What do you mean 'clash with them'?!

Bai Liang: I picked it up from Na Zha—this phrase's practically his new catchphrase now.

He just keeps saying: 'Clash with her!'

But so far, besides that one time he 'threatened' Miss Jing Tian, she's only clashed with Di Li Reba once.

"Don't go causing trouble, kid~"

Sister Xiao Zhao forgot her anger and quickly soothed this guy.

The scene made Zhu Yilong feel strangely odd; he sipped his milk tea and suddenly understood: Ah, so this is reverse soothing.

Learned it!

Zhao Liying was annoyed by this, but Bai Liang didn't soothe her at all—he acted like he wanted to escalate everything.

Ironically, this made Zhao Liying calm down, and now she had to turn around and comfort Bai Liang.

Notebook down—this tactic's worth noting.

Sure enough, this kid's a natural talent—he's way too good at handling people.

"I'm just upset for you two—a newly crowned top streamer and the strongest 85s queen—how could the production team do this? So disrespectful!"

Bai Liang spoke as if indignant.

Zhu Yilong: Huh? What about me?

But thinking about it, he really was a top streamer now—just exploded in fame—and for the production team to let someone cut in like this? It did feel off.

A little pissed!

Sister Xiao Zhao chewed over Bai Liang's words, then five seconds later, slapped his thigh: "Are you stoking the fire?!"

Bai Liang looked innocent: "I wasn't!"

"You say you weren't? Then why didn't you include yourself?"

"Huh? You noticed? Hehe."

"Hehe your head! Stop being so morbid!"

"I'll go ask the production team what's going on," Zhu Yilong couldn't take it anymore—he decided to just find out the truth.

Otherwise, Bai Liang's free-form antics were stirring his emotions beyond endurance.

He quickly returned with the information, his expression utterly strange.

"What did they say?" Zhao Liying asked.

Zhu Yilong scratched his head, giving Bai Liang a speechless look: "The production team said we're the ones cutting in—they booked 'Evil Cannot Overcome Right' first."

Oh no!

Sister Xiao Zhao instantly felt embarrassed—so all that silent fuming, and it turned out to be a total misunderstanding?

At this moment, Bai Liang rubbed his chin and offered a "rational" analysis:

"Makes sense—after all, you're a newly crowned male top streamer and the strongest 85s queen; they definitely have to give you face. What big director, what movie king? In front of you? —Stop pinching, stop pinching, it hurts."

Dammit, you've got both the serious and sarcastic lines all figured out, kid?!

Sister Xiao Zhao released her grip and raised her tiny fist at Bai Liang, clearly ready to beat him senseless if he opened his mouth again.

Zhu Yilong's face broke into a smile: Finally felt good!

That's right—you should've dealt with him sooner!

Meanwhile, the main cast of 'Evil Cannot Overcome Right'—still on their way—were also discussing this.

"Another TV drama's coming to promote with us? That's not great~" Peng Yuyan seemed to complain casually.

Liao Fan, sitting beside him, glanced at him but didn't respond.

Jiang Wen, however, adjusted his glasses, holding a magazine, and upon hearing this, looked up and said casually: "That kid's popular—the show's team really wants him there."

"Big name—Billion-Dollar Box Office Mr. —only three films, but the next generation is formidable," Liao Fan finally chimed in with an evaluation.

"Do you know him?" Jiang Wen asked curiously.

Liao Fan shook his head: "Don't know him personally, but I've heard—he's an excellent actor."

"Interesting. Heroes emerge from the young," Jiang Wen now shook the magazine in his hand—it was one he'd grabbed randomly at the airport, and coincidentally, it was exactly the fashion magazine Bai Liang had once shot for, with him on the cover.

The cover of this issue was quite bold—Bai Liang showed off his upper-body muscles, and the female photographer had even taken a few liberties during the shoot~

Jiang Wen had been staring at the cover for a long time, and suddenly remembered his earlier comment about Peng Yuyan's muscles: "More beautiful than ancient Greek statues."

Damn, the movie's already finished and about to release, and now I see someone even more beautiful…

Of course, a few days ago Jiang Wen had also gotten to know Bai Liang from another angle—that incident was the real reason he formed such a good impression of him.

He didn't mind the "cutting in" incident at all.

But Peng Yuyan clearly still had a slight grudge against Bai Liang—even though they'd never met, they were sort of rivals.

Originally, he was set to play Han Han's role in 'Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves,' but because Shuangzi caused chaos on the 'Wukong Legend' set, he was forced to drop 'Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves.'

The result, as everyone knows, was that "Wukong's Tale" grossed just over 600 million at the box office, while "Ride the Wind and Break the Waves" raked in a full 1.7 billion.

Damn, a ten-billion box-office Mr.? Without that one film, could Bai Liang hammer his way to ten billion?

Peng Yuyan: It was supposed to be mine.

Originally this matter had "nothing to do" with Bai Liang either — after all, it was Shuangzi stirring up trouble over there.

But then Shuangzi, as luck would have it, went and wrote another book, and in it he had another bout of "going crazy" at Bai Liang.

Damn, the double standard!

With Peng Yuyan it's genuine "going crazy," but with Bai Liang it has more of a "going into heat" vibe.

It's hard not to make Peng Yuyan feel like these two are secretly coordinating behind the scenes.

The more he thought about it, the more it seemed to fit — after all, the timing of Shuangzi's outbursts was just too clever.

After the team did an analysis. Holy crap, domestic entertainment plays this dirty?!

Never seen such underhanded moves before, way too outrageous.

So it's perfectly normal for Peng Yuyan to be annoyed at Bai Liang, and natural for him to take against him.

This time counts as an early bout of "enemies on a narrow road."

Peng Yuyan had originally thought he wouldn't run into Bai Liang until the Weibo Movie Night not long from now.

His team had a neat little "plan" ready, and when the time came they could ride the momentum to put Bai Liang in his place, push some press releases for marketing, and call it revenge.

But now they were going to meet ahead of schedule at the "Produce 101" finale, which caught him completely off guard.

What made it even harder to swallow was that director Jiang Wen — that big-name director in the industry — didn't show any displeasure when talking about Bai Liang. He cut in line!

Where's your temper as a big-name director? You can swallow this too?

Jiang Wen: His muscles are prettier than yours~

Peng Yuyan: Face — he isn't giving you face!

Jiang Wen: His muscles are prettier than yours~

Peng Yuyan: This kind of behavior — promoting himself and cutting in line — is basically looking down on you.

Jiang Wen: His muscles are prettier than yours~

Peng Yuyan:??? Really? I don't believe it! Lemme see.

This cross-dimensional exchange obviously never happened, but after getting out of the car at the destination, Peng Yuyan really did, as if possessed, pick up the magazine Jiang Wen had just been looking at.

The instant he saw the cover, he nearly flung the thing away.

What the hell kind of filthy stuff is this?!

Summoning his courage, he looked at the magazine cover once more.

Hiss.

A lot of Peng Yuyan's marketing press releases compared him with the younger generation of popular stars in domestic entertainment, to highlight his dedication and hard work.

Including that beautiful set of muscles — it had always been his trump card.

But today, he seemed to vaguely glimpse the end of his marketing road.

!

Bai Liang: "Achoo!"

Huh? Why was he suddenly sneezing? Could it be that when he was showing off his muscles for the magazine cover earlier, that pretty female photographer's hands were too cold and gave him a chill?

"What's wrong? Caught a cold?" Sister Xiao Zhao asked with concern.

Bai Liang felt his own head. "I don't think so~"

"What are you going to figure out by feeling yourself?" Sister Xiao Zhao pushed his hand away and pressed her own little hand to Bai Liang's forehead.

Bai Liang didn't raise any objection to this, just gazed at her eagerly: "Did you feel anything?"

"... Didn't feel anything. Don't rush — I've got one more trick."

Generally, if you can't tell the temperature of someone's forehead with your hand, pressing your own forehead against theirs is also a pretty good way to take a temperature, and a bit more accurate.

Zhu Yilong, watching this scene from the side, felt like ants were crawling all over him.

These two aren't about to suddenly kiss, are they?

Of course, kissing isn't anything special — these two had kissed while filming — but if they started kissing in the backstage rest room, Zhu Yilong felt he should probably give them some space.

However, before he could slip away, Sister Xiao Zhao's forehead separated from Bai Liang's. "You're not even sick."

"Sister, your forehead's a little warm — are you the one catching a cold?"

At this, Sister Xiao Zhao's words got a bit muddled, stammering without ever really saying anything clear.

But "Captain Dragonfly" Zhu Yilong, standing to the side, saw it all crystal clear.

Cold, my ass — she's blushing.

Running into the crew of "Erta Paves the Way" was a bit of a surprise.

Bai Liang had just stepped out to use the restroom and never came back.

Sister Xiao Zhao, who had waited half the day in the rest room, felt something was off and sent Zhu Yilong out to look for him.

He then brought back the news: bad news, Bai Liang had been "kidnapped" by the "Erta Paves the Way" crew.

Zhao Liying: Damn, there's such a thing too?!

But when she rushed over to "rescue" him, she saw Bai Liang and Jiang Wen chatting and laughing as they said goodbye in the hallway.

Zhao Liying:???

She shot a sideways glance at Zhu Yilong, suspecting this kid had learned bad habits from Bai Liang — now he even dared to pass along fake intel.

But she was actually also very curious how Bai Liang had gone out for a bit and come back chatting and laughing with Jiang Wen.

"I don't know, he's actually a pretty nice guy, says some pretty pleasant things." Bai Liang said with an innocent face.

Sister Xiao Zhao's brain was really spinning at top speed right now.

She suddenly thought of a rather unusual angle.

Earlier, when Xiaoshui interviewed Bai Liang, besides asking him about the yin-yang contract, she also brought up Fan Fan Bingbing.

Then Bai Liang casually mentioned that he had just met Fan Fan Bingbing once, which nearly made Xiaoshui stiffen to the point of developing livor mortis.

Zhao Liying, who was sitting nearby listening for fun, also nearly sprayed out a mouthful of water.

This kid really has some nerve!

And he even dares to say it out loud.

In the current situation, many people in the industry are busy covering their own backs, and even more are steering clear of this matter and everyone involved.

And Fan Fan Bingbing, as the focal figure, is naturally the one people are most sensitive about.

Who would dare get tangled up with her at a time like this!

Well, Bai Liang dares, and he's not afraid of others knowing.

The key point is, he even said the two of them were at most ordinary friends.

Ordinary friends? Her boyfriend doesn't even dare interact with her at a time like this, wishing he could stay as far away as possible.

Little Zhao didn't scold Bai Liang at the time; instead, her feelings were quite complicated, and she looked at him with much more tenderness than before.

Making a living in this circle, the ups and downs are perfectly normal—when you're on top, everyone you meet is a good person, and the whole world gives you kindness and smiles.

But what about when you're on a downhill slide?

Human warmth, sometimes it's not worth mentioning, but sometimes it's really quite heartwarming, even capable of delivering coal in the snow.

People, when they're at their coldest, just a sliver of warmth can fill them up completely.

Little Zhao was even worried that Fan Fan Bingbing might fall for this kid because of this—women are quite sentimental much of the time.

As for how Shuangzi wrote Bai Liang into her book, she told everyone herself in the book.

She saw the sun~

And for Fan Fan Bingbing? The odds of certain things happening aren't low at all.

Likewise, to put it bluntly and rather harshly, from this incident Little Zhao could tell that if she herself suddenly fell from grace one day, Bai Liang would still cheerfully call her "sis" just the same.

No different from now.

What a coincidence—Director Jiang Wen also did something just as heartfelt.

Back when that Qing Nai was arrested and thrown into a labor camp, it was Jiang Wen who ran around, helping her find a lawyer and arranging bail.

Of course, at the time the relationship between the two seemed to be a married woman and her male "other man"?

That doesn't matter—what matters is being a man of feeling!

Bai Liang: Little Zhao sis is damn sharp—she even guessed all this.

Spot on!

However, Jiang Wen clearly misunderstood one thing. Bai Liang is not Fan Fan Bingbing's "other man"—he still has some morals in that regard, not so low as to go cuckold her Black Bull bro.

But Bai Liang does quite enjoy chatting with Jiang Wen, after all he usually uses plenty of memes from the other's films.

Apply for heritage status! Apply for heritage status!

Little Zhao figured out what was going on, but Peng Yuyan couldn't make heads or tails of it no matter how hard she tried.

Director, who's the actual lead of your film?!

Why are you being so warm and friendly to that kid?

Jiang Wen: The principles of being a real man—explaining them to you wouldn't get you to understand~

(End of chapter)