Chapter 367

Zhao Rui sighed silently in her heart.

The last time she saw Li Xunfang in this state was three years ago, which was also her most popular year.

She never expected that as the most popular female artist at the moment, holding dozens of endorsements, each endorsement fee starting at tens of millions, receiving invitations from many TV dramas and movies, and even falling in love with a domineering president of a certain company, at the peak of her success, why would she still get depression?

After analysis by the psychologist, it was said that the pressure was too great.

Every month, if she couldn't complete the money-making goal she set, she would feel that she had been abandoned and was no longer popular, leading to insomnia and excessive anxiety.

In Zhao Rui's view, this kind of reason was very absurd.

How could someone who makes money, makes a lot of money, still feel stressed?

Big sister, you make the money for a villa in a second-tier city every month, okay?

But depression is depression, and there is no reason to speak of. It belongs to both psychological illness and mental illness, and is a mood disorder.

To use a more popular term, it's called a mood disorder.

It's said to be easy to treat, and it's said to be difficult to treat. If it's serious, it needs medication.

Originally, after that intervention, Li Xunfang was much better. Unexpectedly, today, seeing that there were so few film and television announcements, and they were all supporting roles, she fell ill again.

The psychologist prescribed some medicine, and they helped Li Xunfang take it.

After she fell asleep, Zhao Rui discussed the treatment plan with the doctor. The doctor said a lot, simply put, it was to rest well, preferably through lifestyle adjustments.

Such as regular work and rest, exercise, social interaction, etc., staying away from all sources that make her feel contradictory and anxious.

Zhao Rui said melancholically, "I want to too, but she is an artist! If she doesn't show up for a day, netizens won't know; if she doesn't show up for a week, fans won't know; if she doesn't show up for a month, the company won't know."

The doctor didn't understand the meaning and said, "Since they don't know, then go recuperate. Isn't this just in time?"

Zhao Rui sighed again, "What I mean by not knowing isn't that they don't know she's slacking off, but that she will be directly forgotten by people!"

The doctor was a bit stunned, "Not necessarily, right? Isn't Li Xunfang quite famous? Just resting for a month, how could she be forgotten?"

Zhao Rui asked, "Then let me ask you, can a month completely solve her hidden dangers?"

The doctor shook his head and said cautiously, "No."

Zhao Rui: "I see you said to recuperate for three months first to see, but she is an artist. If a month can fix it, I would grit my teeth and let her rest, but a month can't do it either!"

Doctor: "... You have to let her recover some body."

Zhao Rui thought to herself: "Doctor, since her source of anxiety lies in less work and less money, how about I try my best to let her make more money? Wouldn't that alleviate the anxiety?"

Doctor: "You are treating the symptoms but not the root cause. Now you can stack up the announcement volume, but she always has time to rest. It's impossible to be so popular all the time. By that time, she might break out more seriously than now."

Zhao Rui clapped her hands, "Isn't this just right? When she is no longer popular and doesn't have so many announcements, she can naturally take a vacation of more than three months!"

The doctor was slightly choked and speechless.

Zhao Rui lowered her eyes and thought about a solution, suddenly thinking of something, her eyes brightened.

She took out her phone and made a call.

On the other side, the news "Jin Li goes to audition for Director Chu's new film" did not escape the paparazzi.

People in the circle all knew that Director Chu was preparing a new film recently, which was still his most proficient special effects film field. The heroine had already been decided as Yu Daiyu, and the male lead candidate had not yet been announced.

Everyone saw the heroine candidate and had no surprises; this was Director Chu's style.

Yu Daiyu had acted as a supporting actress in Director Chu's films before, and her character setting and plot were very outstanding, attracting a wave of fans and establishing her status in the film and television circle.

Director Chu had always liked to promote the second female lead in his films. Many of the heroines in his films were the second female lead in his previous film, or the one before that.

According to Director Chu's style, the male lead candidate was actually easy to guess. By pulling out the actors who had played the second male lead in Director Chu's films but had not yet played the first male lead, one could roughly know who the candidates were.

But who the heroine and male lead were didn't matter.

What mattered was who the second female lead and second male lead were!

Whenever Director Chu wanted to shoot a new film, paparazzi liked to squat on the supporting roles in his films. Director Chu didn't hide it either and was very willing to cooperate with the paparazzi for publicity.

So the auditions for supporting roles in every one of Director Chu's films were grand.

This time was no exception.

But this time was a bit special.

Because the only supporting actress audition the paparazzi had squatted on so far was one person, and that was Jin Li!

Several blurry photos made it to the major headlines. From the figure and face shape, it looked very much like Jin Li, but there were still some things that couldn't be explained clearly.

However, the photos didn't just take Jin Li, but also the manager and assistant next to Jin Li.

Through these two people, Jin Li's identity could be recognized.

【Explosive! Jin Li participates in the audition for Director Chu Chenliang's new play. Who will the latest generation of Chu Girls fall to?】

【Jin Li strongly competes for the audition for Chu Chenliang's new play, currently no competitors!】

【Will Jin Li become the heroine of Director Chu's next play? Let us wait and see!】

After the first piece of news came out, other large media outlets scrambled to forward it. Before long, the entire internet was flooded with news of Jin Li participating in the audition for Chu Chenliang's new play.

And while public opinion was fermenting on the internet, there was another batch of paparazzi silently squatting at the back door of the Fang Fei headquarters.

This batch of paparazzi only had thirty or so left. When other paparazzi gave up, only they still believed that Jin Li was here and persisted in squatting on the front line for scoops.

However, once this news came out on the internet, these thirty or so paparazzi collectively broke their defenses.

"Damn, which grandson said that Jin Li's team was setting up a smoke screen, that this was a delaying tactic, and also said that there were many lounges inside Fang Fei, and Jin Li was resting in the lounge and didn't come out!"

"Don't let me find out which turtle grandson it is; if I see him in reality, I must beat him up!"

"I know who it is. I even added him a few days ago, wanting to get information from him. I felt he knew quite a lot. He is the one who broke the news that the little flower refused to shoot because the style didn't fit, and then was comforted by the editor-in-chief to set the cover of a certain monthly magazine before he was willing to continue shooting!"

The paparazzi's fingers flew up and down, and soon he found a contact person and sent a voice message over.

【Sorry, he has enabled friend verification, please add him as a friend!】

That bright red exclamation mark seemed to be mocking his stupidity.

A paparazzi caught a glimpse of it and hurriedly looked for someone in the group, looked at it repeatedly several times, found that he was not in the group, and said angrily:

"This person definitely had a premeditated plan, otherwise how could he have deleted his friends, quit the group, and not allowed us to add him actively? There is no page to add people at all; he has to add us actively!"

"Yes, that's right, could he be a shill specially found by Fang Fei?"

"Damn, I should have thought of it earlier; it was the thought in my heart to take a picture of Jin Li that affected me!"

"Those paparazzi who left actively and cheered us on, none of them are innocent. They must have known something, just leaving us here to blow in the wind and watch our jokes!"

"Find someone, I'm looking for someone now." Other paparazzi said, busy making phone calls, the mood to kill someone was particularly strong.

However, no matter how they looked for it, they couldn't find who this person was.

After inquiring, they found out that this grandson even canceled his WeChat account. He must be a professional repeat offender, otherwise how could this set of techniques be so proficient?

After Jin Li returned to the apartment, she saw the revelations on the internet and flipped through them to see if any useful information was revealed.

Although it was all a bunch of nonsense, she noticed a piece of information revealed by the paparazzi—

Currently, in the second female lead audition, she was the only one.

Jin Li thought to herself: Did Director Chu want to arrange them one by one, or did he only call her alone for the audition?

Compared to the latter, she believed the former more. After all, Director Chu's style of doing things would start a wave of hype when casting supporting roles.

And she didn't have the confidence to let Director Chu only value her acting skills and not be interested in other actors.

Closing the blog, Jin Li took a deep breath and opened the live broadcast.

She quickly adjusted her state and brushed questions again without distraction.

In the process of learning mathematics, she also gradually fell in love with this subject. This was a very pure subject, without so many complex relationships, and didn't need to go around in circles.

There are many trade-offs in life, and many problems simply cannot find answers.

But mathematics won't.

One is one, two is two, the answer is always clear and clear, and there is only one.

At night, night fell.

Li Xunfang woke up in a daze, not knowing what day it was today.

Zhao Rui accompanied her, looked up when she heard the movement, found her opening her eyes, and asked nervously, "How are you? Do you feel a bit more comfortable?"

Li Xunfang shook her head, feeling her throat a bit dry.

"Can you get up? I'll help you up to drink some water." Zhao Rui helped her into a half-lying posture, letting her body lean on the pillow.

After Li Xunfang finished drinking a whole glass of water, she asked, "How is my situation? What did the doctor say?"

Zhao Rui didn't answer this question, but said, "This afternoon I got in touch with Duomi and implicitly told them that you want to come over as a spokesperson. The price is more affordable than Jin Li's. If a special product line can be developed, it will be done completely according to their requirements."

Li Xunfang's mind was immediately attracted by this topic and asked hurriedly, "What did Duomi say?"

Zhao Rui smiled, "They didn't refuse immediately, but said they would consider it. It seems that the news we received is true. On the special product line, Jin Li's team and the brand side have great differences. And this is the opportunity we can intervene in."

Li Xunfang nodded and said in a hoarse voice, "Well done."

Zhao Rui mentioned another thing, "When I was investigating Jin Li's endorsements, I found that a national skincare brand is also contacting Jin Li, wanting to invite her to be their spokesperson.

It's just that now Jin Li's team has strict standards for endorsements. Except for first-tier brands, other second- and third-tier brands must open a special product line exclusive to her before they will accept the endorsement.

The skincare brand discussed this matter for a long time, and they have been in contact for at least a month, but they haven't made up their minds yet.

Besides that, there are several other brands that also want Jin Li to be the spokesperson, but after hearing this condition, they all retreated and didn't continue to contact, but watched how this skincare brand would choose."

Li Xunfang was silent for a while and said, "The conditions set by Jin Li's team are so strict, and the control of the special product line is even stricter.

The skincare brand considered it for so long and didn't choose to give up. It seems they are also very fond of Jin Li. If there are no accidents, Jin Li's team will sooner or later grind down this endorsement."

Zhao Rui snapped her fingers, "Then we will be this accident."

Li Xunfang looked up at her, and Zhao Rui said confidently, "What Jin Li can do, we can also do. Although in terms of public popularity, you are not as good as Jin Li, you are also a first-tier star, and many people know you.

Your popularity is only a little bit different from Jin Li's, but you are more cooperative with the brand's requirements than Jin Li, which can maximize the brand's interests.

Jin Li is very good, but she has too many ideas. What the brand wants is a puppet controlled in their hands, not a party that is on an equal footing with them!"

Li Xunfang was a bit hesitant, "So, can it be negotiated?"

Zhao Rui: "When you were sleeping, I made several calls. After some twists and turns, I got the business card of the person in charge of that skincare brand and expressed your thoughts to him for the first time.

That person in charge also didn't refuse me for the first time, just said he wanted to hold a meeting to discuss it. I think the possibility of you winning it is very high. The only problem now is."

Her words paused, and she said in a very light voice, "Whether it's Duomi or the other skincare brand, they are both taking the affordable route, which is different from the high-end luxury endorsements you usually take. Will you agree to accept their endorsements?"

Li Xunfang said without thinking, "Accept! Jin Li can accept it, why can't I?

And if I remember correctly, I have always had many second- and third-tier endorsements, and the endorsement fees given to me are quite good."

Zhao Rui nodded, "So you rest well, strive to take good care of your body, and restore your best state."

Zhao Rui often feels that Li Xunfang's memory is only three seconds, otherwise why does she always slap herself in the face when she speaks.

Actually, during the summer break last year, she talked to Li Xunfang about the endorsement issue.

The second- and third-tier endorsements she took didn't involve the fashion field. They were either things used in daily life, or things to eat and drink.

She wanted Li Xunfang to take some endorsements in the fashion field, not just referring to clothes; cosmetics, skincare products, bags, and shoes were all related to fashion.

But Li Xunfang refused her righteously.

What did she say at that time... because she criticized her too hard, so she just recalled it slightly, and she remembered it all.

"Sister Zhao, can you have a long-term vision? Now that my fashion resources are so good, I should take endorsements for high-end products. How can I take affordable fashion products? This will drop my status!

I hope you won't say such unprofessional things next time, start from my own situation, maintain my relationship with luxury brands, and help me take more brand station publicity!"

Zhao Rui stood up and poured another glass of water for Li Xunfang.

So, when people are forced, what else can they pick?

As long as there is work and money to be made, then everything can be accepted.

People only have room to pick when they are needed. Once they are not needed, then there is nothing.