[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-became-a-viral-sensation-in-the-entertainment-":3,"chapter-i-became-a-viral-sensation-in-the-entertainment--i-became-a-viral-sensation-in-the-entertainment--chapter-685":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Became Famous by Burning Incense",{"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},1941849,2650,"Chapter 685: Introducing friends","i-became-a-viral-sensation-in-the-entertainment--chapter-685",685,"\u003Cp>It would have been fine if Fang Jie hadn't said anything, but now that she had, Jin Li was actually a bit curious about his promotional methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, this is a movie, which is quite different from a TV series.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In movie promotion, roadshow promotion occupies a large part.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some powerful film and television crews will frequently have actors participate in various magazine shoots just to help promote the movie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li had done this too; as long as it could promote the movie, she basically cooperated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's just that she had been too busy in the past year, and her popularity and heat had created a large gap with other actors, so it wasn't appropriate for her to participate anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, she wouldn't have refused the director's request.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li guessed: \"Is this director better at online promotion than offline?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sui Lingfang nodded, full of smiles: \"Director Xu's luck can be said to be good, or it can be said to be bad.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He started shooting youth films as soon as he debuted and has already shot several. The actors he collaborated with were basically top-tier, which sounds like he had good luck.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's just that you also know that top-tier stars have very full schedules. Even if the movie is about to be released and needs promotion, they might not be able to spare the time to promote it together.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And some top-tier stars just treat filming as a test of the waters to see the audience's reaction; they aren't very willing to take the lead in box office, nor will they put special effort into promotion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unless it's a film that even the top-tier star is very optimistic about, but this situation is often rare. After all, they also know they are newcomers, and for the first film they shoot, their acting skills haven't reached that level.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li nodded. As a former top-tier star, she could understand the concerns of these top-tier stars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few years ago, the film industry borrowed the power of top-tier stars and tried to use idol stars to take the lead in box office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, because the idols' acting skills were too poor, only fans bought it, and several large investment projects actually lost money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And once the box office results were poor, the top-tier star's acting skills would be pushed out and repeatedly whipped by investors, directors, crews, and netizens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The public opinion was so fierce that it was once thought that it was the top-tier star who caused the movie's box office failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But is that really the case?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a movie, the actor is the carrier of expression. If their acting is poor, they indeed cannot express the movie's emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the movie's composition, lighting, plot connection, editing... this isn't something an actor can do well just by having god-like acting skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, a movie's box office failure is definitely not just a problem of the actor's acting skills, but of many aspects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since top-tier stars have more appeal, higher pay, and stronger influence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the box office fails, they will be pushed out by the crew to take the blame and bear all the infamy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Top-tier stars were bullied a lot in those few years, which led to the subsequent new top-tier stars having a cautious attitude toward entering the film industry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if someone wants to try to transform, they are just testing the waters a little bit and will never say things like \"highly recommended\" to avoid being pushed out to take the blame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sui Lingfang said: \"Because many top-tier stars are not active in promotion, Director Xu has specifically studied how to hype up online promotion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if the top-tier star doesn't show up, he can still borrow the top-tier star's momentum to hype up the movie's popularity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li asked: \"For example?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sui Lingfang smiled meaningfully and instead threw out a question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you know what kind of films this Director Xu shot before he officially entered the film industry to shoot movies?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li shook her head, \"I only know that he is an authority on youth inspirational films and is a director who has shot quite brilliantly in this subject in recent years, otherwise the investors wouldn't have chosen him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sui Lingfang announced the answer: \"This Director Xu actually shot documentaries before.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Precisely because the documentaries he shot, whether about animals or humanities, had a sense of beauty in the camera shots, netizens said there was a beauty in composition, so he was spotted by others and asked to shoot movies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The investment for Director Xu's first movie was even raised by his documentary fans.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li was a bit surprised, \"He actually shot documentaries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sui Lingfang was also strange: \"I see that your relationship with Director Xu in the crew is good. He often chats with me on WeChat, asking me how movies can enter overseas markets, and his words imply that he is very familiar with you. How come you don't know?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li smiled with her eyes curved: \"In the crew, he might only be thinking about how to torture me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sui Lingfang: ?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li said lightly: \"I communicated a lot with him in the crew, but it was all about how to use different ways to act in this scene.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You also know the few conditions I put forward to him. He has a sense of crisis and will discuss with me from time to time, afraid that I will replace him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Other than that, we didn't talk about anything unrelated to the script, so I didn't know he was from a documentary background.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sui Lingfang thought of the scene when she and Jin Li approached him, and the astonishment on the faces of the screenwriter and Director Xu after they heard the conditions they put forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, in that situation, for them, it might indeed have been a bit horrifying and hard to understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I guess they had never encountered such an actor who reverse-urged the director to be more serious and responsible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li didn't care about this kind of thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being in the crew is for filming. As long as the filming goes smoothly and everyone works together, it doesn't matter what the director did before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She thought along the information Fang Jie gave, and a flash of inspiration crossed her mind, saying:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is it because he is from a documentary background that, besides shooting movies, he also likes to shoot all kinds of records, so he accumulated a lot of material while we were filming?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is Director Xu planning to edit these materials together and release them one by one as promotional points?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sui Lingfang said admiringly: \"Sure enough, I can't hide it from you. That's right, that's it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I checked Director Xu's information and how the box office of the youth films he shot before was promoted. He used the method of releasing behind-the-scenes footage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Using behind-the-scenes footage for promotion is very common, but the footage he releases is particularly different.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In order not to let the audience lose their sense of freshness, he never releases behind-the-scenes footage related to the movie content, but releases the daily life between the actors.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He is very good at capturing beautiful scenery and composition, so the behind-the-scenes footage he shoots is very beautiful. Many audiences decided to walk into the cinema to watch the story of their performance after watching the behind-the-scenes footage and feeling a unique bond between the two actors.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li suddenly thought of something and asked hesitantly: \"His behind-the-scenes footage, could it be so beautiful that netizens think it's shooting an MV?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sui Lingfang snapped her fingers and said affirmatively: \"That's right, that's it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And because the behind-the-scenes footage he edited was too beautiful, even though the top-tier star knew he was hyping the movie's popularity, they let him be, because the footage was really beautiful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The behind-the-scenes footage becoming popular also has a promotional effect on the top-tier star.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li heard this and just held a melon-eating mentality, not thinking much about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who knew that in the next second, Fang Jie changed the subject and said with some worry:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The behind-the-scenes footage edited by this director is as beautiful as an MV. I'm not worried that he will lose his standard in this editing, I'm worried that he will edit you and Gu Cheng too beautifully, causing the CP fans to be too obsessed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your CP fans are already very strong. Even though it hasn't been made public, that group of CP fans has already defaulted to you being together.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even because you just live in the same apartment building, they have defaulted to you living together.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li couldn't help but cough a few times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This topic content was still a bit explosive for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She and Gu Cheng are so pure, at least they haven't lived together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sui Lingfang looked at Jin Li's reaction, her face was already a bit red, and she sighed in her heart again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe it's a mother-in-law looking at a son-in-law mentality, she now finds Gu Cheng more and more unpleasant to look at.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She said: \"Fortunately, this director only hypes up online promotion and doesn't really require stars to participate in offline activities.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You and Gu Cheng have great chemistry. Zhang Guang and I are trying our best to avoid you two attending events together, just for fear that your chemistry will be exposed and make netizens and reporters think too much.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li said in a low voice: \"There is a Yajun Watch event tomorrow, and Gu Cheng will attend as the national spokesperson.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sui Lingfang smiled slightly: \"I know, so I have already communicated with the director of 'Leisurely Slow Life' in advance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tomorrow, when you two attend the brand event, he will follow and film the whole process. With the camera there, it can also remind you to pay more attention to your image.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li nodded and said confidently: \"Don't worry, he should be very busy tomorrow, I guess he won't have time to find me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, Jin Li completely forgot that Gu Cheng had said before that he wanted her to stay by his side and introduce her to the Yajun Watch executives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Jin Li forgot, while Gu Cheng did not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day, as one of the most important spokespersons for the [Li] series of Yajun Watch, he arrived at the event venue very early.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today he has to stay at the brand event venue all day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Jin Li only needs to stay for two hours before she has to attend the next brand event.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the time they can meet is actually not much, and the schedule is very rushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sui Lingfang and Zhang Guang's ideas are actually quite good; normal people wouldn't think that doing this would go wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were afraid that Jin Li and Gu Cheng would be too familiar and have too much chemistry in public, to the point of exposing some things, so they specifically called the director of 'Slow Life' to film them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the camera there, it can remind them to some extent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what they didn't expect was that the director of 'Slow Life' actually took the lead in shipping the CP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most extreme betrayal comes from a teammate's backstab!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After filming the three members of March Days and Pink Girls, the director of 'Slow Life' keenly discovered that there were subtle chemical reactions between three pairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he hadn't filmed a dating variety show, people's capture of beauty is the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That subtle emotion between each other, the careful and thoughtful little actions, the cooperation and tacit understanding in behavior... are all a kind of beauty!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So after he arrived at the scene, he didn't even need Gu Cheng to take the initiative to find Jin Li.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, as soon as Jin Li arrived, the director discovered her first and immediately reminded Gu Cheng to hurry up and pick her up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After picking her up, the director even teased: \"How come the greeting feels so stiff? Didn't you meet at school before and attend a lecture together?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I get it, you are deliberately avoiding it in front of the camera, right? Don't do that. We are filming a slow variety show, we need to show the audience your tacit understanding and friendship like old friends. Come on, get closer!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li was still remembering Fang Jie's instructions, but after being interrupted by the director, she basically forgot everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The director also watched the fun and said: \"Why don't you hug each other to break the unfamiliar atmosphere between you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li\u002FGu Cheng: ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only if you really believe your evil will you hug!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Cheng turned to Jin Li and said, \"I'll take you around, I have a few friends to introduce to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li thought Gu Cheng was introducing Yajun executives, after all, he had mentioned it before, but when he really took her to another place, she found that he was introducing his friends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And among his friends, not a single one was a star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Cheng said it like this: \"The other members of March Days are enough as friends. Living with them every day is very noisy, and I have no desire to communicate with other stars.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And stars' work is too busy, and there are very few you can confide in. Occasionally, when you meet a few who want to confide in you, you will think that others have ulterior motives and are deliberately approaching you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li greeted Gu Cheng's real-life friends one by one, and then was taken by him to another place, intending to introduce her to Yajun executives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Cheng said it was to say hello, and he really just took her to say hello.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li didn't even chat with those people for a few sentences before being taken away by Gu Cheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The speed was so fast that Jin Li was a little dazed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then how did you make these real-life friends? They aren't stars. Looking at their temperament, they all look like corporate elites.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Cheng nodded: \"Some of them work in the fashion industry, some are accompanying their wives to attend brand events—their wives are loyal fans of Yajun Watch—and some have spent enough money at Yajun to be invited.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He paused, \"Actually, you have met them at the brand events you attended these past few days.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's just that they know you, but you don't know them. They wanted to say hello to you, so they urged me to take you to recognize them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Cheng chuckled: \"These people aren't friends I made after becoming a star. They are all my elementary, middle, and high school classmates. We have a pretty good relationship, and the relationship between our parents is also good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li suddenly realized and smiled: \"No wonder, I felt for a moment that your temperament was quite similar to theirs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Cheng asked curiously: \"How is it similar?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li: \"Both are quite noble, with a feeling of a young master from a noble family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people's temperament gives them this unique feeling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This can be felt in daily life, which is different from the feeling that stars perform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stars perform a kind of temperament, which will be added through makeup, scenes, and clothing, giving the audience a strong visual impact, and they will take for granted that kind of temperament, so the character image will become clearer and clearer as the plot progresses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this process, it is also a process of domesticating the audience's senses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gu Cheng's friends are not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their noble temperament emanates from their bones, permeated by years of fine food and clothing, conduct, and countless successes... the nobility and elegance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Cheng disagreed, \"They just have a high starting point given by their families, it's not as good as you say. In my eyes, your temperament is much more noble than theirs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Li smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the two left, Gu Cheng's friends were also discussing them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just said hello, introduced the name, and Gu Cheng took her away?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Was it three minutes?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tsk, Gu Cheng, this evil dragon, this miser!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I haven't even expressed to Jin Li that I'm her fan! This guy heard that I've liked Jin Li for many years, and he wouldn't even give me Jin Li's autograph. Damn it!\" \u003C\u002Fp>",2748,"2026-06-15T03:50:02.582Z","2026-06-18T03:46:55.665Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","a465ee23d5d67ca43018bce348703ae9f9f2e1f54e41e278f06fabc216650fe6","i-became-a-viral-sensation-in-the-entertainment--chapter-686","i-became-a-viral-sensation-in-the-entertainment--chapter-684",794,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-became-famous-by-burning-incense-cover.jpg"]