Chapter 610: Even Among Fishing Aficionados, There Are Gaps

"Yanzi, this movie seems kind of trashy~ Did you set up the schedule right?"

After watching the movie, Bai Liang secretly went to "report" to Sister Yanzi. It wasn't that he wanted to tattle, purely because Sister Yanzi had told him in advance to give her a heads-up after the film, to avoid any weird press releases.

And Sister Yanzi on the other end of the phone just giggled when she heard that:

"Brother Dou Xiao Bai, even a piece of toilet paper has its use. The movie isn't something we invested in or starred in, so whether it's trashy or good doesn't make much difference. Instead, it's the buzz from you and Sister Sister Tian Tian showing up—"

Halfway through, Sister Yanzi recalled that Big Sister Tian Tian had dragged her feet because of a noob and stood up her own Brother Dou Xiao Bai, and felt a bit helpless.

The movie *If Voice Could Remember* was something she had carefully picked out.

The thing loves to piggyback, right~ It piggybacked on *Better Days* and *How Long Will I Love U*, so let's let it piggyback on something big!

She simply had Bai Liang bring one of the female leads along.

Turns out Big Sister Tian Tian, that female lead, didn't actually go. If she'd known, she would've had Chen Duling as a substitute. Although the buzz from her continuing to interact with Bai Liang wouldn't have had much practical benefit either, but idle hands are idle hands, right~

Too bad there wasn't enough time to notify her again—Dudu classmate's schedule is very packed right now.

Sister Yanzi: Good thing our Brother Dou Xiao Bai was quick-witted and came up with some gimmick like "box office champion's competitor."

Bai Liang: It's not a gimmick, I was just casually cheering them on~

Sister Yanzi, who always prepared at least two plans, was actually quite satisfied after learning *If Voice Could Remember* was a bad movie.

Not afraid of it being trashy, not afraid of it being especially good, just afraid of it being too mediocre.

Those doing publicity actually worry most about having no buzz, unable to set the rhythm.

Some movies being so trashy that people get curious "just how trashy is it? I gotta see what the deal is"—there's a reason for that.

And after arranging the press releases, Sister Yanzi didn't forget about Big Sister Tian Tian, the queen of standing people up.

She called again to ask when exactly she could get out of the film crew.

"Sister Sister Tian Tian, how much longer for you?"

Big Sister Tian Tian on the other end hemmed and hawed, "I-I didn't want to either, you know—"

After a few rounds of strange, evasive words, Big Sister Tian Tian's attitude gradually became "arrogant"—she actually turned around and "questioned" Bai Liang's responsibility.

"Yanzi, you don't know this, but after acting with him so much, now acting with other people just feels off. It's all his fault."

Sister Yanzi:... Pretty speechless here. Blame our Brother Dou Xiao Bai for being too good at carrying the team?

Perhaps after enjoying the simple mode of acting with Bai Liang many times, Big Sister Tian Tian had started to find the original rhythm hard to adapt to.

When she acted with Bai Liang, it was basically like having a personal acting tutor.

He'd break the script and character down to pieces, chew them up and feed them to her, and during filming he'd carry the rhythm the whole way, lowering the difficulty of her acting.

As the female artist who'd acted with Bai Liang the most, Big Sister Tian Tian had truly enjoyed a lot of perks in this regard.

However, going from frugality to luxury is easy; going from luxury to frugality is hard.

Anyone can accelerate on a straight line; being fast on the curves is what really counts.

She was someone used to "driving" with Bai Liang—he'd hold the steering wheel, and she only had to floor the accelerator. Suddenly she had to grip the steering wheel herself, and besides the accelerator and brake, there was even a clutch underfoot, and she was facing a damn five-hairpin turn sequence—who could drive that well? Of course she'd be slow.

Believe it or not, Big Sister Tian Tian's strange theory actually didn't have much problem with it.

Even Sister Yanzi felt after hearing it that she really couldn't blame her entirely.

After all, she was expressing that Bai Liang was amazing, and Sister Yanzi loved hearing that too.

But facing Big Sister Tian Tian who wanted to "lie flat and play dead," Sister Yanzi felt she had to give her a little bit of motivation.

"Sister Sister Tian Tian, I can understand you, but on Brother Dou Xiao Bai's side..."

"What happened to him? Is he mad at me? I'll explain to him right now!" Big Sister Tian Tian's tone suddenly tensed up.

"When has Brother Dou Xiao Bai ever gotten that kind of mad~"

"True, so what is it then? Ahh, hurry up and tell me!"

After successfully whetting her appetite, Sister Yanzi stopped playing around. "Look at the trending searches."

"Trending searches? Let me see... Who is Zhang Ruonan?!"

"Who she is doesn't matter, but originally it should've been you, Sister Sister Tian Tian~ But just take a look at that trending search, don't take it to heart. Brother Dou Xiao Bai was actually having dinner with his friend Wang Yanlin at the time; the photographer deliberately only captured him and Zhang Ruonan."

After the explanation, Big Sister Tian Tian got even more anxious, because she knew that bastard Bai Liang's stance of not initiating but also not refusing!

Oh my god, someone's raiding the base!

How could that be allowed?!

Now Big Sister Tian Tian got fired up. Her original mindset of planning to slack off, feeling she might really not be able to handle it, ready to just go "coo coo coo" and bail if it didn't work out—instantly flipped.

"W-where did he go?"

"Another event, he already promised someone he'd show up. He can't exactly stand them up just because Sister Sister Tian Tian has a little issue, right~"

Sister Yanzi smiled sweetly and kept piling pressure on Big Sister Tian Tian. By the time she hung up the phone, the smile on her face was almost catching up to an evil little kitty's wicked grin.

To be fair, she was starting to get a taste of her own Brother Dou Xiao Bai's joy.

Is this how he usually teases people?

This is way too satisfying!

Li Xin: Hmm~ He doesn't usually tease like that...

"Xinxin, you have way too much confidence in our movie, but isn't this popping the champagne early?"

"I just heard, you prepared quite thoroughly!"

"We'll have to get the crew to reimburse you later, can't let our female lead spend her own money~"

"..."

The premiere of *Warm Hug* was held today in Yanjing, with the main creative team gathered together.

Everyone was originally just chatting there, but some strange noises from Li Xin's side attracted quite a bit of attention.

Mainly because some keywords were caught.

Things like "champagne," "whole case," and so on—combined with the current situation, wasn't this our female lead's pre-prepared little celebration touch~

Seeing the smiles on the others' faces and hearing their teasing, Li Xin was naturally a little embarrassed.

What "preparing a victory celebration in advance"—the champagne she prepared was for her own use~

She wanted someone to fill the bathtub in her room with champagne ahead of time, then keep some extra on hand, so naturally the amount she needed was huge.

But she obviously couldn't say that out loud, so Li Xin could only quietly send a text: get some more.

Fortunately, this was Yanjing.

Only in Yanjing or Shanghai could champagne be supplied in sufficient quantity.

The former was because her family had quite a bit in storage; the latter was because she could take it from Bai Liang's company warehouse—she had previously bought a huge pile from Bai Liang, nearly stuffing it to bursting, and even now the stock hadn't been used up.

This is a tragic story of treating the unit "case" as if it were "bottle."

And it happened to fall right in the gap when Bai Liang's champagne endorsement expires, wasting a lot of money.

Of course, none of that was very important—Li Xin now actually felt that having so much in storage gave her quite a sense of security.

The main reason she prepared so much was that on this trip Bai Liang was bringing Sister Tian Tian along—at least, that was the news Li Xin had received.

Naturally, she had to make ample preparations in advance.

"Alright, everyone head back to your rooms and rest for a bit. When it's time, we'll head to the premiere venue together."

The notice to disperse for now and the text message arrived at the same time.

Originally Li Xin hadn't thought much of it—she was just planning to go back, touch up her makeup, and check on things, to see if there was enough champagne and the like.

But the moment she saw the text, she froze.

She didn't even have time to say goodbye to anyone, and went running outside on her two slender legs.

A flawless series of moves—flash-stepping out the door, dashing into the elevator, pulling out her room card to locate the floor—flowing smoothly without the slightest hitch.