Chapter 500: Shit! Is the Real Female Lead Showing Up?

After "Dear Love" ended, some other dramas still airing or about to air actually felt like a sigh of relief.

Fuck, it's finally over!

Bai Liang's two sweet romance dramas dominated screens for over a month.

For the past month, everyone has been passively enduring this damn, nonstop display of affection both on and off-screen.

They say showing off love leads to quick death, yet Bai Liang's intense displays somehow haven't caused him any trouble.

This bastard has practically written "stepping on two boats" across his face. Why isn't he being hammered?!

Colleagues don't understand this, and some male "colleagues" who are scumbags are filled with envy and resentment.

No one has ever seen someone turn gossip and "romance" into this kind of mess—those who've collapsed due to similar conduct are especially furious and feel it's unfair!

Of course, all this rests on one crucial condition.

To this day, no one has managed to capture a single photo of Bai Liang in private intimacy with any girl.

Not one single photo!

No wonder his dream-girl fans dare confidently claim things like "Too extreme to be real," "Our Great Immortal just acts well," and "Just because female stars like him, does he have to like them back?"

These seemingly absurd fan-circle statements could be easily crushed by even a tiny bit of private evidence.

But even to this day, no one has obtained even that tiny bit of evidence.

This has made insiders unable to stop muttering—could what everyone sees really be acting?

After all, Bai Liang has been under constant paparazzi surveillance for years, and nothing has ever been caught—is it that the paparazzi are incompetent, or is he truly this pure? Is this really so unnatural?

"Impossible, I tell you! Absolutely impossible!" Guan Xiaotong's expression was as firm as a boy band captain, "I've seen him with girls acting ambiguously on set before."

"I've seen it too, but it wasn't especially out of line," Hearing Hearing Lu Han hesitated to say.

Although discussing another male celebrity while on a date with your girlfriend is a bit weird.

But he's slowly gotten used to it.

Every time he's with his girlfriend, if they don't chat a bit about the Great Immortal, it feels like something's missing.

Bai Liang: Huh? Am I even involved in this?

These two act like they're using him for entertainment.

Today they were debating and cross-checking: which of Bai Liang's rumors are real.

After comparing notes, they realized: fuck, almost all of them are probably real—this is genuinely terrifying!

Of course, the most important one couldn't be left out.

"You absolutely cannot copy him! Your relationship seems pretty close."

Hearing Hearing Lu Han: "How easy is it to copy? In the entertainment circle, keeping a harem isn't hard—it's hard to get so many girls to defend him without a single whisper leaking out."

He was once a top-tier, dominant idol, a super-hot commodity—though he's still pretty hot now.

Seeing the suspicion in his girlfriend's eyes, he quickly declared, "I really have nothing with Song Song Yanfei."

"She seems pretty forward to me."

"Her being forward is her business, and she has a boyfriend—Zhang Yishan."

Well said!

Just as Hearing Hearing Lu Han felt he'd warmed up enough and explained everything, Guan Xiaotong suddenly shoved her long leg against him.

Hearing Hearing Lu Han:???

Fuck, just two inches away!

If this can be tolerated, what cannot? Today he'd show the spirit of a Beijing young master and give this little bitch a lesson.

But before he could open his mouth, Guan Xiaotong suddenly shoved her phone right into his face.

Her tone was strange and complex: "Just now, Song Song Yanfei and Zhang Yishan announced their breakup—trending second."

Hearing Hearing Lu Han: "Huh???"

His first thought: never let her check her phone during sex again!

Last time Guan Xiaotong was already too much—she was scrolling through Bai Liang's Weibo during sex; anyone watching would think she was into substitute literature, getting off looking at Bai Liang's handsome photos?

But this time, Hearing Hearing Lu Han knew he had to get through this first.

Otherwise, he might not even get to have sex today!

Fuck! Why the hell did they announce the breakup now? Song Song Yanfei is so disloyal!

They're colleagues—announcing this now really puts Hearing Hearing Lu Han on the fire.

Everyone will assume they broke up because of him. "Crossfire" is about to air!

Then, right after their breakup, Hearing Hearing Lu Han's kissing Song Song Yanfei on-screen—pulling saliva!

He'd never wash it off even if he jumped into Beidaihe.

But he suddenly asked, out of nowhere, "If breakup's only trending second, what's trending first?"

"Bai Liang and Chen Duling blew up the dog bowl."

"What the hell?!"

Bai Liang: No friend fee is ever free—I saved your ass!

But he still advised his buddy: next time something like this happens, do the deed first, then explain—twice the result with half the effort.

What actually suppressed the heat of Song Song Yanfei and Zhang Yishan's breakup was the teaser and behind-the-scenes footage released by the "Youth" cast.

But the behind-the-scenes footage was so wildly popular it successfully overshadowed even Bai Liang's own movie's teaser.

Because the teaser itself was short and fairly normal.

But the "blew up the dog bowl" elements in this behind-the-scenes clip were absolutely packed.

This clip was filmed last year, during a relaxed afternoon on the "Youth" set, when Bai Liang chatted with Duling about her college major.

Aeronautical Manufacturing Engineering.

Dou Xiao Bai was still lamenting that since entering the entertainment industry, all the professional knowledge he'd learned had become useless.

Bai Liang: Not necessarily~

Then he fired up his super brain and declared, "Even 'Cuan Tian Hou' can fly—it's a flying device! Big brother will take you on a nostalgia trip."

So they went out and bought a bunch of different kinds of 'Cuan Tian Hou' and firecrackers.

Honestly, modern firecrackers really pack a punch! That huge dog bowl? One blast sent it soaring over ten meters high.

Oh right, that "dog bowl" was just said in the bloopers—it actually came from Zhou Ye's contribution, which was also a dog bowl, no problem!

At first it was just messing around, blowing up dog bowls for fun.

But the tone of the blooper suddenly shifted. These two inexplicably began pondering how to make the 'Cuan Tian Hou' fly even higher.

When three people are together, one's bound to be the idea guy~

Although Zhou Ye only contributed a bowl and spent the whole time just hanging around, saying nothing but "Wah wah wah," he still served the purpose of filling the numbers.

The purchased 'Cuan Tian Hou' had limited power and couldn't fly that high; to make one that flew higher, they'd have to DIY it themselves.

After a series of "Do Not Imitate" operations, they actually built a 'Cuan Tian Hou' that could fly extremely high.

At this point, with time still left, the idea guy couldn't stop.

So one took charge of hands-on work, the other provided relatively professional knowledge, and together they researched materials.

Then they produced a pile of weird and wonderful things:

Three-stage boosted 'Cuan Tian Hou', blast-type 'Cuan Tian Hou', multi-stage guided 'Cuan Tian Hou'.

Plus strange features like hover and 90-degree turns.

With these handcrafted "black tech" enhancements, the 'Cuan Tian Hou' could actually shoot up hundreds of meters into the sky and fly that far.

Is this even a 'Cuan Tian Hou'?!

Of course, this wasn't built in a single day—the blooper just edited everything together. These things took Bai Liang and the two girls nearly half a month to make, a major pastime during filming.

During that time, Bai Liang and Chen Duling barely played any games—they were obsessed with 'Cuan Tian Hou', almost making the anxious director worry whether they'd still be able to film properly.

Originally, the crew filmed these bloopers just for fun.

But later they thought it was pretty interesting, so they edited it and released it for everyone to enjoy.

After all, it was wildly different from the usual celebrity filming bloopers.

The effect was fantastic! The online spectators were left stunned: "Is this really a jump this big?"

They understood the dog bowl explosions at first, but what the hell were those later things?! Was this even reasonable?

But some reacted quickly.

"Yu Tu—is that you, Yu Tu?!"

"Oh no, after Yu Tu met Qiao Jingjing, he's now hanging out with other female stars."

"Wow! You never played this with Jingjing."

"Jingjing can't do this—she's a drama academy grad; she can only play with Chen Duling, perfect match."

"True—whether it's Qiao Jingjing in the drama or Di Li Re Ba in real life, neither fits this vibe~"

"Didn't Dou Dou bump into Da Xian's arms when she lit the fuse and ran off? Tsk tsk~ This pairing feels totally different! Who understands intellectual romance?"

"Ten-year Dou Dou fan here—she's finally found an artist in the industry who shares so much common ground with her! Lock it down, lock it down!"

"Cough cough, don't stir up hate for Dou Dou—we can't handle those two new Jiangnan beauties."

"Now I finally get why Da Xian has such great luck with women—he truly 'specializes in his field'; if you know enough, you'll always find something that hits the right spot, right?"

"These two are insane—are those things even still 'Cuan Tian Hou'?"

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This blooper actually tied into the drama 'Glory', because Bai Liang's male lead, Yu Tu, is an aerospace engineer. Although playing the role didn't require real aerospace knowledge, Bai Liang was so dedicated that he learned some of it from Chen Duling this way.

Learning by doing is still learning~

And under this blooper, a flood of people tagged Di Li Re Ba; soon enough, she actually showed up.

"Sis~ what did Xiao Bai do now?" her assistant asked curiously.

"Blew up dog bowls. Built rockets."

After watching the blooper, Di Li Re Ba summed it up with a smile.

"Huh? Is he really going to space?"

"Nope, but it's pretty fun," Di Li Re Ba said, her cheeks puffing up as she thought about the netizens' hype.

Hmph! They made something this fun and didn't even invite me!

Bai Liang: Unfair! Shanghai doesn't allow fireworks!

And more importantly, 'Glory' was filmed first, 'Youth of You' was filmed later.

With this timeline in place, he couldn't play 'Cuan Tian Hou' with Di Li Re Ba.

Otherwise, this scene would've been inserted into the New Year's arc of 'Glory'.

Yu Tu using a DIY 'Cuan Tian Hou' to show Qiao Jingjing what aerospace romance looks like—what a delightful scene!

Just too bad.

To be fair, although overshadowed by 'Intimacy', 'Glory' was still an undeniable hit with real influence.

Bai Liang's stunt actually drew plenty of online criticism.

And Di Li Re Ba herself went to his Weibo and posted "Hmph," pushing the hype to its peak and completely crushing the breakup rumors.

After all, the two had different levels of fame in that area; many people didn't even know they were dating before the breakup.

Bai Liang briefly explained the timeline on Weibo, adding that he'd been inspired only after filming 'Glory'.

That satisfied the netizens? Ha!

The spectators didn't want explanations—they wanted drama. Fight! Fight!

Qiao Jingjing, look at your husband—he's playing little rockets with other female stars! Go deal with him! Deal with her too!

But before Qiao Jingjing could even move to deal with them, someone noticed a strange blind spot.

"Hey~ I think Chen Duling might actually be something. She can build rockets and fire skyrockets with Da Xian, she's a gaming expert who can slaughter enemies with Da Xian in-game—could this be the real female lead?!"

This remark was clearly meant to provoke.

But surprisingly, it worked.

Both Qiao Jingjing and Tong Nian turned their gaze toward her—her fans seemed to be awakened too~

Shit! Is a third party trying to steal the home?

It felt as if, even before her movie with Bai Liang had even been released, the two top female flow stars were about to jointly "attend" to her.

Chen Duling: I'm not afraid!

She pulled out her "Death Notebook," hugged it for courage, then bravely reposted the clip's content and tagged Bai Liang with a comment:

"Senior, time to log in~"

As always: the brave get to enjoy the world first.

With Duding's courage this big, Bai Liang couldn't possibly ignore her.

He simply left a "1" under her Weibo post.

Soon, according to the forward "scouts," the two had already queued up together in Summoner's Rift.

Na Zha's fans cried out: Shit! Is this little girl trying to steal our e-sports goddess title?

Provocation! Clearly provocation!

Now Chen Duling had genuinely offended the fans of both Reba and Na Zha.

For this courage alone, her sisters went wild cheering for her.

"Sis Duding, charge! Go go go~" Zhou Ye jumped around in the group chat, just like he did at the skyrocket scene—pure spectator, only there to wave the flag and cheer.

Meng Jie couldn't help but say: "Wow~ Duding has guts."

Wang Churan also liked it. How to put it? Compared to Meng Jie, this girl's courage and style were truly impressive!

It felt like Don Quixote challenging windmills.

There was no way she could win—the combined fanbases of those two were so massive they even surpassed top male idols; right now, the only person in the entire entertainment circle who could withstand the combined force of both camps was Bai Liang.

Even the Qinyuannian sisters' group was talking about this—Jin Da Xi was attacking everyone in the group indiscriminately.

"Look at them, look at yourselves! Are you even capable, little girls?"

"Snap out of it! Xin Xin, Yi Tong, you two sassy sisters, stand up!"

"No wonder she's got high education, high IQ, and high courage—let's just call her the Three-High Warrior from now on~"

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What a damn high-standards catch—if Chen Duling saw Jin Da Xi calling her that, she'd definitely scribble a few vicious lines in her "Death Notebook."

As for now, Jin Da Xi wasn't even worthy of having her name written in Chen Duling's "Death Notebook."

Li Xin couldn't hold back and jumped out to say this wasn't wise, that they should think long-term, blah blah blah.

But today, Jin Da Xi's combat power was surprisingly high—he fired back with "Eastern River Rat," instantly shutting her down.

Eastern River Rat??

Li Xin was so roasted she went completely silent.

As for Li Yitong—she was quietly making big money.

She said how could something like this possibly be made public?

Of course, no shooting, just sneak in and do the job quietly~

When the time came, she'd team up with Dou Xiao Tian and slaughter mercilessly, staging a righteous two-on-one.

As for who this "one" would be—that would depend on which of the two new Jiangnan beauties happened to walk into the trap.

After insulting everyone around, Jin Da Xi found they'd all retreated, grew bored, and went to tease Chen Yao: "Yao Mei, you were in Qin Re too—how come you've got zero presence? You're the #2 female lead of the drama king!"

Everyone else at least made a comment, but Chen Yao remained completely silent.

What was she doing?

To find out what Chen Yao was doing right now, you just needed to locate Bai Liang's position.

If you'd installed GPS trackers on these two, you'd see:

Hey~ those two dots had merged!

Actually, three dots had merged—because Bai Liang was also playing a game with Chen Duling.

But today, Chen Duling noticed: why had Senior's gaming skill dropped so badly?

He could even miss his Q!

But it didn't matter—her手感 was hot, and today she was playing ADC.

Remember: courage is the seventh item for ADC!

Her courage today was maxed out~ slaughter!

Meanwhile, the scene the girls imagined—where the two Jiangnan beauties launched a joint assault and shattered Chen Duling—never happened.

In fact, both sides were restraining their fans, preventing them from attacking Chen Duling.

At most, a few unruly "lone wolves" went to stir trouble—but Chen Duling's fans could easily handle this pressure.

The reason? Not out of any respect for the genius—purely because they didn't want to drag Bai Liang down.

How could they possibly pick a fight with Chen Duling now? It was movie promotion season. One Chen Duling wasn't worth a damn; they absolutely wouldn't risk damaging Bai Liang's box office.

Due to the pandemic, the film industry had been severely depressed this year.

In a way, the release risk of "You Are My Youth" was still very high.

Even industry insiders weren't that optimistic—even though this movie starred the number one box office draw in the current era.

But, from a certain angle, the release of this film probably won't face too much sabotage from peers either.

Because the film market desperately needs a box-office hit to reignite the audience's enthusiasm for going to the movies.

The cinemas have been shut down for far too long this year! The market needs confidence! Those theater chains that have been howling and waiting to reopen have held out this long, and they're waiting for rice to put in the pot too.

Of course, in reality, the film's stakeholders actually don't really want "Better Days" to release at this moment.

But sometimes, how to put it—Bai Liang, as the number-one box-office draw, has enjoyed the greatest attention and the best resources, so at a time like this he ought to shoulder a certain share of industry responsibility.

In any case, Sister Yanzi got the call from above—to fire the first shot of the industry's recovery!

Of course, being the "bird that sticks its neck out" has its perks too.

So the reopened theater chains will all give their fullest support!

If conditions allow, some chains might even give it a hundred percent of their screening slots!

That's the reward for being the trailblazer!

The eyes of the entire industry will be focused on him.

As long as the film succeeds, not just the box office—in a certain sense, it can also elevate his standing in the game.

(End of Chapter)