Chapter 316: Did Bro Turn Into a Sweet Innocent?

"Huh~ the brand said I don't have to pay for it, yay, what a bargain!"

Before parting the next day, Na Zha, already in a great mood, felt that good things really did come in pairs.

She had even prepared herself to pay for it — it was a borrowed dress, after all~

After all, haute couture gowns like that — apart from Miss Jing Tian, that lunatic, hardly any female artist would actually spend money to buy one.

You can only wear the thing once, so the cost-performance ratio is basically terrible.

If yesterday at the film night she hadn't suddenly felt so inspired and couldn't hold it in any longer, then with Na Zha's current little-hamster ways, she absolutely would never have ruined that gown.

Shouting "I'll pay for it" sounded pretty cool at the time, but when it really came time to pay, it hurt quite a bit.

It was expensive!

With that money sitting in the bank card, wouldn't an extra million or so be nice~

Then the brand said that as long as she wore more of their own label's clothes, what was there to pay for — you must be joking.

Right, dear brand ambassador Miss Na Zha~

Na Zha: So not only do I not have to pay for the dress, I also picked up another high-end luxury endorsement?

This works too?

Of course, Na Zha's current mindset isn't actually chasing so-called high-end luxury brands all that hard.

Even though that's the mainstream in the industry — feeling like high-end luxury endorsements have class and all that.

But she figures, an endorsement that pays well is a good endorsement!

As long as the endorsement fee is enough, she could go endorse HLA — even wearing men's clothing wouldn't be a problem.

Anyway, she quite likes wearing some of Bai Liang's clothes.

When she's home with nothing to do, she likes to throw on one of his T-shirts or button-downs, doesn't even bother with pants, super comfy.

"What about your clothes? Do you need to pay for them?"

"Clothes? What clothes?" Bai Liang asked, sipping his tea.

"The one from yesterday. The one that got dirty." Na Zha said, a little embarrassed.

"That one~ I sent it to be cleaned. It wasn't borrowed by me."

Hearing this, Na Zha frowned. "You bought it?"

"No, the brand gave it to me."

"Wow! You've got serious face!"

Although he didn't know why this could get Na Zha all worked up again, Bai Liang had long gotten used to her jumping at every little thing.

After all, Na Zha was always the sensitive type — one touch and she reacts~

And after shaving her head, she's even more sensitive.

Unfortunately, because of her schedule, no matter how much she wanted to keep clinging to Bai Liang right now, she could only hug him tight and nuzzle him a few times before reluctantly leaving once more.

Making money is important!

Oh right, yesterday the gown got ruined, Bai Liang's clothes got dirty, but the name-brand item he pulled off from his seat — Na Zha had preserved that very well.

In all that rain, not a single drop had touched it.

The girl took it away like a precious treasure, and would probably bring it home and keep it safe.

She really likes collecting this kind of thing that has no real value but is relatively meaningful.

Little hamster, after all~

And after Na Zha left, Bai Liang got a call from Miss Jing Tian — she was furious!

It wasn't because Bai Liang and Na Zha had been whispering together at last night's film night — it was purely because she missed the hot fresh gossip again.

The big melons always pass right by her whole world.

"Aaaah! It's all your fault, all your fault! I could've gone to the film night, such an exciting melon and I didn't get to eat it on the spot—"

Miss Jing Tian on the other end of the line was in full "losing it" mode; Bai Liang could already picture her carefully rolling around and throwing a tantrum on the bed.

She had to be careful — she was still nursing an injury.

That said, some things just take talent; Na Zha has never gotten hurt over this kind of thing.

"Isn't eating melon online the same? What melon?"

"Don't play dumb with me, you were right there, how could you not know? And you're one of the parties involved too~" Miss Jing Tian said huffily.

"The seat-swap thing?"

"Exactly! Let me tell you, if I'd been there, I definitely wouldn't have let him bully you like that — would've thrown a punch on the spot. What's the use of Guli Na Zha? Just a little dummy~"

Oh my.

A big dummy making fun of a little dummy?

But regarding what Miss Jing Tian called him being "bullied," Bai Liang actually got a little curious.

When was he bullied? How come he didn't know about it?

Could she be talking about Xu Qing flirting with him?

That old... old sister really is quite the flirt — even Bai Liang had to tip his hat to her.

But she couldn't have told the media or posted it online, right?

He checked online — it was still the Peng Yuyan thing.

Only in the information exposed online, Bai Liang had somehow also become a "victim."

They were saying that the reason his seat had been specially switched was because the other party wanted to harm him — but this little fool had been chatting away with her arm around his shoulder, grinning ear to ear, completely clueless about the entertainment industry's scheming.

Bai Liang:???

Wait, did bro turn into a sweet innocent?

He couldn't help scratching his head, feeling like something was off, but the marketing account that broke the story said "pics or it didn't happen."

The posted image clearly showed Bai Liang and Peng Yuyan chatting with their arms around each other, he was smiling brightly, as warm as ever.

The comments below were also bizarre.

"Great Immortal, please wake up! That Taiwan white lotus wants to harm you, yet you're still buddy-buddy with him."

"Kindness invites bullying. Great Immortal is still too kind to people in the industry—you're giving them too much leeway! Do you even know what a top streamer is? What a billion-yuan movie star is?!"

"Good thing Li Bingbing is truly tough—she won't coddle people like this, she tore into him on the spot~"

"Sister is so cool! That scene where she stormed in from backstage? Pure leading lady energy—fierce and terrifying!"

"Only someone like this can handle those demons and monsters. Great Immortal's a little fool—he's useless."

"Bai Liang's supposed to be a top student, right? His IQ should be high—didn't he notice anything strange?"

"High IQ isn't meant for situations like this. Who could've imagined they'd pull something like this? So brain-dead."

"Bai Liang: I just didn't expect their IQ to be this low."

"I died laughing! Li Bingbing's acceptance speech was insane—she named names and cursed them outright!"

"After all these years in the industry, filming so many dramas in mainland China, and she still can't speak Mandarin well—yet she keeps marketing how hard she works."

"I wonder—doesn't Great Immortal know just as many skills? He's younger, handsomer, has a better physique—he's a true treasure of a man. Why have I never seen Great Immortal market his own hard work?"

"Bai Liang really doesn't work hard—he damn well claims he's a genius, says he just glances at something and learns it instantly. It's heartbreaking—he'd be better off marketing his effort."

"So you just casually become a billion-yuan movie star? Ridiculous!"

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After reading a pile of comments, Bai Liang smacked his thigh!

That's right!

He's clearly been promoted from Billion-Yuan Box Office Mister to Billion-Yuan Movie Star.

Netizens' nicknames for him have changed.

Who dares say 'Weibo Movie Star' isn't a real movie star?!

As for the rest, it's not that important—Li Bingbing has just started moving. Big Flower lives up to her name—her actions are lightning-fast, one move after another, leaving zero breathing room for the opponent.

Put bluntly, women who've fought their way to their current status in the entertainment industry can scratch your face even if they're in the wrong—how much more so when they're in the right?

Beating a drowning dog, standing on the moral high ground—it's not just pointing fingers anymore, it's hurling rocks down furiously.

They won't stop until they peel off a layer of skin.

Not only is Li Bingbing's speed astonishing—Sister Yanzi says: I'm not dead yet!

Eighteen armies of trolls—attack!

The thing Peng Yuyan's team most regrets isn't trying to drag down Li Bingbing—it's provoking Bai Liang.

Sister Yanzi suffers from 'insufficient firepower syndrome.' With Bai Liang's massive campaign budget backing her, she's amassed no small fortune of resources.

All those everyday marketing efforts and outsourced promotions? This is when they're used!

Li Bingbing wants to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys? Funny—Sister Yanzi has the same idea.

Without any prior communication, both teams tacitly coordinated their online attacks.

Dig up dirt. Unearth past scandals.

He loves marketing by dragging others down?

Sister Yanzi: Done!

Let our little brother Bai let you see a real comparison.

Bai Liang never really posted any smear pieces targeting other artists—he rose too fast, leaving his peers far behind.

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There was never any need to drag them down. Unless someone provoked him, Sister Yanzi thought even dragging them down gave them too much credit—they weren't worthy of appearing in Little White's frame.

But this time, Sister Yanzi, in her 'great mercy,' bestowed this precious 'first time' upon the Taiwan white lotus.

Bullying a senior? Of course you go all out—that's called respect!

Countless marketing accounts received orders—like using an anti-aircraft gun to shoot mosquitoes—activate!

"So fierce!"

"Huh? Who? Did the Taiwan capital side strike back?"

Hearing her sister Li Xue mutter, Li Bingbing frowned and asked.

"No no, it's Bai Liang's side—everyone said his young agent was extraordinary, heard he was terrifying, but I didn't expect one studio could exert this much force. Bai Liang's online power is stronger than ours."

"Really? One studio? How much money did they spend?"

"Ask Zhao Liying—she's close to Bai Liang."

After saying this, Li Xue, Li Bingbing's sister and now CEO of Song Media, clearly exhibited the same 'symptom' as Cai Yinong and others once did.

Bai Liang… Is there a possibility…

We should find a chance to communicate!

"Hey~ I heard 'Youth of Mine' is approaching Bai Liang? Our company's Xiao Ye got the role already—if it works out, we can use that as an excuse."

"Zhou Ye? She's nowhere near Bai Liang—a total nobody."

These days, Bai Liang doesn't even need to bother signing him—it's pure nonsense.

But being a partner? That's quite decent too!

Indeed, Zhao Liying, Song Media's new partner, has strong opinions on Bai Liang's side: That brat always loves wasting money.

But this money was spent wisely.

After learning how much Sister Yanzi spends on these matters, Sister Zhao wanted to outsource all her PR work to her.

To put it simply, before Sister Yanzi, the biggest name in marketing and PR in the industry was Yang Tianzhen.

He was Fan Bingbing's former head of publicity and the one who signed Lu Han.

Called the mastermind behind the Great Ming, with rumors in the trade that she controls eight hundred marketing accounts and can summon wind and rain.

The "power" Sister Yanzi now possesses is no less than that!

Even Bai Liang doesn't know how many marketing accounts she actually has, how many platforms she's laid out across, or what scale of water army she can deploy at once.

It's not just Sister Xiao Zhao who has the idea of "outsourcing"—as Sister Yanzi's reputation grows bigger and bigger, there really are quite a few who actively come knocking, wanting to collaborate.

But Sister Yanzi says she still has to focus on serving her own Brother Dou Xiao Bai, and at the same time handle publicity for some film and television projects, so for now she won't take on this outsourcing.

Translated: she only does business with people she knows.

Right now, the two biggest "clients" currently in talks with Sister Yanzi are one named Dilireba and one named Gulnazar.

Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, when these two are "slaying" each other online, it might just be Sister Yanzi behind the scenes, her left hand fighting her right.

And as the scope of business expands, the studio's name might even be changed later on.

An artist's studio?

Wrong—it's almost become a media company now.

But no matter how much the business grows, Sister Yanzi still keeps her original intention: at its core, it's still serving Brother Dou Xiao Bai alone.

Two days passed.

Peng Yuyan is still being framed up and "beaten" on the hot search, showing no sign of coming down.

Such methods, such force—some people in the industry got chills watching it.

Damn, that's way too ruthless!

This kid spent years building up his reputation, and it's basically ruined now.

The entertainment circle is like that—sometimes collapse happens in an instant.

As for after the collapse, you can still whip the corpse!

Sister Yanzi keeps up the pressure on one hand, and on the other draws valuable experience from it: to prevent her own Brother Dou Xiao Bai from suffering such a dirty trick in the future, she has to keep working hard!

And over at Hesong Media, Li Bingbing and Li Xue, the two sisters, were completely baffled.

Because they had already stopped. Someone passed along word that the other side had backed down.

Then naturally they'd take the win and quit.

But the intensity online didn't drop at all. The other side thought they were women saying one thing and meaning another, and privately backed down once more.

The two sisters were utterly innocent: we don't know~

The team over there:???

Hey, can you follow some rules of the trade? We get that you take your beating standing up, but you can't really beat someone to death, right?

Whatever you need, however you want to vent, just say it!

It's like grabbing a prisoner and then just standing there beating him, asking him "will you talk?" "will you talk?"

The prisoner says: I fucking want to talk too, but then ask me! Just standing there beating—

The Geneva Convention even requires that "prisoners" be treated humanely.

After making the rounds, they finally got word to Sister Yanzi.

Only then did they learn who the "real Buddha" was.

But Sister Yanzi said:

You started this. You think you get to say when it ends? Wouldn't that make my Brother Dou Xiao Bai lose face?

When it starts, you decide; when it ends, I decide!

First, beat for a full week!

So that in the future, no random cats or dogs will dare come touch porcelain on my Brother Dou Xiao Bai!

Firepower like this has to be let out to feel good—anyway, Sister Yanzi is really high right now.

She's even looking forward to another stubborn one showing up.

Hey~ the next episode of "This! Is Dunk" is about to air. Any thoughts from two of the four top-tier stars?

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Third update, muah! Begging for monthly tickets.

(End of chapter)