Chapter 121

While Xi Sister Meng Ze was anxious and Sui Lingfang was calculating.

Over at "I Am a Singer," they were met with bad news.

After deciding on the starting singers and challenger singers for the first round and sending the list to the singers' agents.

They received replies one after another.

But these replies were not to continue negotiations, but to refuse!

A staff member said hurriedly, "Li Lang's agent refused, saying Li Lang is going to hold a concert that overlaps with the schedule of "Singer." To fully commit to the concert, he can't come!"

Another staff member also ran over hurriedly, "Luo Yongda also refused here, saying he has already accepted another music variety show and cannot participate."

"Same here, Xue Ningning said the schedule doesn't match and she can't come!"

"Me too, Yuan Na can't come, her schedule is full!"

These singers had all come to the scene for an audition.

The talks were okay at the time, and their attitudes weren't that ambiguous.

So when Hong Xiao was selecting, he excluded those with ambiguous attitudes and picked those with clear ones.

But who would have thought that these singers would suddenly back out less than a month before the show started!

"Th-that, I have something else to say."

Hong Xiao looked over and rubbed his brow, "Which singer is refusing now?"

This staff member said, "No, she isn't refusing.

Xi Sister Meng Ze's agent contacted me. The original contract was for a challenger singer, but now that she's become a starting singer, shouldn't the contract change as well?"

Hong Xiao's eyes stirred, "Xi Sister Meng Ze? She didn't refuse?"

He still had a deep impression of this female singer. Although she only sang one song during the audition, she grasped the song very well.

He listened to that love song several times and also felt a sense of heartbreak.

Hong Xiao pondered, "Send someone to talk to her agent properly. Xi Sister Meng Ze is a first-tier female celebrity and has popularity, so treat her according to first-tier standards."

Actually, Xi Sister Meng Ze's popularity is far behind Seeing Jin Li's.

She hasn't been diligent in running engagements these past few years and had long since dropped to a second-tier celebrity.

But popularity is a matter of subjective judgment.

If he thinks she has first-tier popularity, then she has first-tier popularity.

Now that those singers are all kicking them while they're down, it's rare to have someone who agreed, so naturally, they must seize the opportunity.

Raising the price a bit is only right.

Some are happy, some are sad.

While Xi Sister Meng Ze was worrying, Qiu Qiwen was also facing some criticism.

Recently, "Wishful Husband" exploded from a small hit to a major hit because Jin Li's acting skills were exposed.

Consequently, the acting skills of the male and female leads in the cast were also observed by the public.

People are afraid of comparison.

You don't know until you compare; once you compare, you find that Seeing Jin Li's acting is good everywhere.

【It is said that Seeing Jin Li was personally invited by Xi Sister Meng Ze, and she invited her several times. Does this count as a backlash? Hhh, the supporting actress's acting skills are crushing the lead!】

【Qiu Qiwen's acting isn't good? It's not as good as Seeing Jin Li's, but how many Jin Lis are there in the industry? Compared to most rookie actors, it's already very good!】

【But when Seeing Jin Li and Qiu Qiwen are put together, Qiu Qiwen becomes completely invisible...】

【+1, when they were in the academy in the early stages, I felt Liu Ci was more like the female lead than Lin Zhiyi. I still hold that view now!】

Qiu Qiwen recently attended engagements and met some celebrities.

Some celebrities started discussing Seeing Jin Li.

These celebrities are second-tier and wanted to curry favor with Qiu Qiwen, so they deliberately mentioned Seeing Jin Li in front of her.

"Actually, I think Seeing Jin Li's acting is a bit exaggerated; Sister Qiwen's is more natural."

"I think so too. Her acting is average, but her character is more likable. After all, netizens like to watch things with clear love and hate."

"Sister Qiwen, your acting is very good. As long as you gain more experience in a few more roles, the Best Actress award is in sight!"

Qiu Qiwen sat lazily on the sofa, drinking champagne.

This group of celebrities was all here to attend a brand event.

Now that the brand event is over, everyone came to the backstage lounge to rest.

Because they were attending a top luxury brand event, the standards were higher, and the hospitality was good.

When this group of people gathered around Qiu Qiwen to discuss, Qiu Qiwen didn't speak.

After they finished talking and had nothing left to say, she finally spoke.

"Are you all done talking?"

The other celebrities looked at each other, a bit unsure of Qiu Qiwen's attitude.

On the internet.

Netizens all compared Qiu Qiwen with Seeing Jin Li, believing that Seeing Jin Li's acting crushed Qiu Qiwen's.

Anyone who looks at the evaluations on the internet would feel uncomfortable, right?

But they wanted to curry favor with Qiu Qiwen and also ignored one thing.

Qiu Qiwen said slowly, "The netizens are right. Seeing Jin Li was invited by me three or four times. I think she is very suitable to play Princess Liu Ci.

Now that netizens rate her so highly, doesn't that just show that I have good taste and picked Seeing Jin Li at a glance?"

Other celebrities followed with "hehe" laughs.

"Yes, Sister Qiwen has good taste."

"It had to be Sister Qiwen who gave Seeing Jin Li this opportunity!"

"Sister Qiwen is really nice!"

Qiu Qiwen said again, "Also, as for my and Seeing Jin Li's acting."

She paused and said calmly, "Stop forcing the compliments; I can't even listen to them anymore. How could it be so exaggerated? My acting is better than Seeing Jin Li's?"

Words like this are fine to say in front of me, but don't say them in front of others, otherwise I'd feel ashamed.

Who are you people? What qualifications do you have to evaluate my and Seeing Jin Li's acting? And what qualifications do you have to say my acting is better than hers?

It's not that I'm saying this, but if you have the energy to focus on me, you'd be better off thinking about how to curry favor with Seeing Jin Li. Within five years, she will definitely win Best Actress!"

"She really said that?"

At the same luxury brand event.

Li Xunfang was in her exclusive lounge, hearing the news her assistant had gathered, feeling somewhat suspicious and uncertain.

Among first-tier celebrities, there are also divisions in status.

Being first-tier, some are still on the fringes, while others are popular among the first-tier.

For example, Li Xunfang has relatively high fame and popularity among first-tier celebrities.

She has a good relationship with major luxury brands and usually likes to help luxury goods promote their products; she is a friend to many luxury brands.

So when she attended this event, she had an exclusive lounge within the brand.

Li Xunfang's agent was also there, looking somewhat serious.

"Qiu Qiwen relies on Ruiyi Entertainment. Apart from her, an artist who rose to fame through variety shows, other artists follow the acting route and have some resources in film and television.

Qiu Qiwen thinks highly of Seeing Jin Li; does this mean Ruiyi Entertainment also thinks highly of Seeing Jin Li?"

Li Xunfang pondered for a while and shook her head, "Not necessarily.

Qiu Qiwen isn't a shareholder of Ruiyi Entertainment; her thoughts don't represent the company's thoughts. It might just be that she personally thinks highly of her."

She paused and smiled, "On the contrary, I think Qiu Qiwen has resentment in her heart."

"Resentment?"

Li Xunfang asked back, "Qiu Qiwen said Seeing Jin Li will definitely win Best Actress within five years. Do you think it's possible?"

Without waiting for others to answer, she said first, "That's impossible!"

"You don't know, but resources in the film and television industry are divided into those that are easy to get and those that are not.

Seeing Jin Li exploded with one TV drama and might be able to get TV drama resources, appearing in a few more as the lead and winning a Best Actress award, which is somewhat possible, but movies?"

Li Xunfang couldn't help but sneer.

Even she finds it extremely difficult to squeeze into the film circle, let alone Seeing Jin Li!

Seeing Jin Li's company is completely a makeshift team; what kind of connections can they provide her?

She had a hard time squeezing into a famous director's movie back then, and as soon as she entered the film and television circle, she won "Best Supporting Actress" based on a supporting role. Her path into the industry could be described as smooth sailing.

But after that, it was very difficult for her to get movie roles.

Either the style didn't fit her, or the genre didn't fit.

With Seeing Jin Li's simple, innocent flower style, what kind of movies can she act in?

Li Xunfang blew on her newly done manicure nonchalantly, "Acting as a lead and a supporting role are different.

Now she's acting well as a supporting role, but when it comes to acting as a lead, it's not certain if she can still explode."

So many actors flopped on their second drama.

Whether Seeing Jin Li can maintain this momentum is really hard to say.

The assistant thought of something and came up with an idea.

"Seeing Jin Li's luck in the industry is quite good. Should we find someone privately to ask what TV dramas Seeing Jin Li's team is currently in contact with?"

The agent's eyes flashed as she looked at Li Xunfang, "I think this is a good idea. What about you?"

Li Xunfang said "Mm" faintly, "If there are a few dramas they think highly of, take them over for me to act in."

This scene.

Not only happened with Li Xunfang, but also with other celebrities.

The entertainment industry is a very competitive industry.

Celebrities need excellent works to rely on and cannot lack exposure, so they run between film sets and variety shows all year round.

When any celebrity rises.

Not to mention talent agencies, even fellow celebrities will pay attention.

Seeing Jin Li's comeback this year, not only is the internet spreading that she has good luck, but even the industry feels she has good luck.

The quality of the engagements she picks is good, and the scripts she accepts are also good.

This is it; the entertainment industry is also a place that believes in metaphysics.

Everyone wants to either be in the same frame as Seeing Jin Li and rub off on her luck.

Or take away the engagements Seeing Jin Li wants; maybe the quality of that engagement is very good?

It was only a few days later, when Seeing Jin Li returned to the company with Xi Sister Meng Ze for a meeting, that she heard Sister Fang mention this matter.

Sister Fang said irritably, "There were several scripts for female leads that the company thought highly of, and we originally wanted to communicate again to see if we could replace them with our company's celebrities to act in them.

Everything was going well, but suddenly in the past few days, they all changed their minds.

If it were just one or two changing their minds, that would be nothing, but all of them changing their minds together made me feel something was wrong.

So I had someone quietly investigate and discovered that our company's engagement resources were all being targeted by other entertainment companies."

Seeing Jin Li and Xi Sister Meng Ze looked at each other, both feeling a bit surprised.

Seeing Jin Li asked, "What does 'targeted' mean?"

Sui Lingfang said in a deep voice, "It means being sniped by other entertainment companies. They used other methods to snatch away the engagements the company was negotiating. This is malicious competition!"

If those engagement parties had firmer minds, they wouldn't have been snatched away so much.

But the problem is.

These engagement parties were all aiming for Seeing Jin Li.

After discovering that Seeing Jin Li couldn't make it, other entertainment companies were willing to make concessions and send first-tier celebrities to participate, so the engagement was naturally snatched away by others.

Of course, this approach is "harming others without benefiting oneself," and entertainment companies cannot keep making concessions in the long run.

So these companies specifically targeted high-quality engagements and followed the internal trends of Chenxi Entertainment.

Sui Lingfang said, "You don't need to come to the company for this week. The company is going to carry out a self-inspection operation to ferret out people from other entertainment companies."

Seeing Jin Li asked with a serious expression, "What about the engagements we had snatched away?"

Sui Lingfang pondered for a while, and not knowing what she thought of, she sneered:

"Heh, it's fine. If they love to fight, let them fight.

I know what they want; it's nothing more than wanting to rub off on your luck, snatch your engagements, and see if they can gamble on a big hit.

But they don't know that these engagements weren't negotiated by me for you, but for other celebrities in the company.

I don't know how they contacted the engagement parties, but I believe the engagement parties probably wouldn't tell the celebrities about this.

Let them snatch them. I want to see how many of the celebrities who snatched your engagements can actually become popular!"

Xi Sister Meng Ze laughed out loud, not knowing what fun thing she thought of.

"Seeing Jin Li's situation is relatively special. Her luck is basically something only she herself can enjoy.

If other people want to snatch her luck, I'm afraid they won't get any benefits, but will instead have terrible luck!"

Sui Lingfang's eyes stirred, "Listening to what you mean, have you experienced this before?"

Without needing Xi Sister Meng Ze to say it, Seeing Jin Li herself laughed first.

She had an impression.

"You aren't going to bring up the mahjong thing, are you?" Seeing Jin Li clarified first, "This really isn't my fault; it's just that your luck is relatively poor."

Sui Lingfang said hurriedly, "Tell me in detail!"

Xi Sister Meng Ze glared at Seeing Jin Li, "This isn't a matter of luck; this is whoever snatches from you gets bad luck!

With that luck of hers, back when we played mahjong during the New Year, out of ten rounds, she would definitely have a 'heavenly winning hand' start in one. There was no need to play at all; she could wash the tiles and wash them into a self-drawn win.

We would switch seats, ending up sitting in the position she was in before, and the result would be either a big or small 'xiang gong'!"

Xi Sister Meng Ze looked at Sui Lingfang, "Would you say that's bad luck or not?"

Sui Lingfang nodded fiercely, "Very bad luck!"

At this moment, Sui Lingfang finally had an understanding of Seeing Jin Li's luck.

Where is this luck that a person can possess?

This is clearly an ancestor!

A few more days passed.

The public welfare charity short film that the industry was looking forward to was finally prepared!

The moment the script was finalized, not long after, the list of celebrities invited to participate was also announced.

Eighty percent were first-tier celebrities, and twenty percent were second- and third-tier celebrities with good momentum.

Apart from Sanyue Tian, Tianding Entertainment had three other first-tier celebrities picked.

But Chenxi Entertainment was relatively ordinary.

Only Seeing Jin Li and Xi Sister Meng Ze were selected; other celebrities were not selected.

Gong Jiajia found out about this when she had a meeting with Sister Fang.

After the meeting, she specifically gathered with He Yixuan, who had also come for the meeting, to chat.

Gong Jiajia said enviously, "When will I be able to reach the level of Sister Seeing Jin Li, where I don't even need to put in much effort, and the organizers will pick her to go?"

He Yixuan's expression was faint, "Besides enduring, what else can we do? We don't have the fate to explode overnight."

She changed the subject, "What about you? Didn't you set a military order before that you must win the championship of a competition program? How is the preparation going?"

Gong Jiajia nodded cautiously, "It's going quite smoothly. The finals are coming next week. I want to invite Senior Seeing Jin Li to come and help sing. I don't know if she will come."

He Yixuan paused, "Sister Seeing Jin Li isn't busy recently. If you invite her, she should come. But if she doesn't come, don't complain; she has no obligation to help us."

No, ob, li, ga, tion.

He Yixuan often warned herself like this.

The more she reminded herself, the more she felt like a clown.

Sister Seeing Jin Li is so good, yet she is complaining about heaven and blaming others while using the resources she provides.

Complaining about her, and also hating herself.

Complaining about when she will stop and give up her spot.

And hating herself for having such humble and dirty thoughts.