Chapter 505: Vanguard and Outdated

Jin Li opened the comment area.

Found that Black Bear's double-shoulder backpack hadn't been put on the shelves yet, and a bunch of netizens came to shout bad reviews.

Here it is, it's here, is she

Casting aside the completely nonsensical negative reviews, Jin Li identified the crux of the matter from some of the comments.

【666, Li Li Xunfang announced her collaboration with Modern Women 10 minutes in advance, launching a tote bag, and the sales link also opens at 12 noon. How did Jin Li sink so low as to try to ride on Li Li Xunfang's coattails?】

【Li Li Xunfang is ultimately too popular; even Jin Li has to ride on the coattails of her collaboration!】

【Can you not have such a strong sense of crisis? What we want to see is mutual love, not female competition!】

Jin Li:?

Not only was Jin Li confused, but the fans who arrived later were also confused.

【How much for one, take me with you!】

【It's all small accounts pulling one down to boost another, amazing. Li Li Xunfang can't promote without these tactics, right?】

【Why say Jin Li is riding on Li Li Xunfang's coattails? Can't it be Li Li Xunfang riding on Jin Li's? Li Li Xunfang has been attending events every day lately, riding on the coattails of other stars every day.】

【Jin Li's collaboration with Black Bear was earlier than the one Li Li Xunfang negotiated, OK?】

【My Pear Baby revealed a wave of it in September last year, saying she might collaborate with some companies on joint products. Fans dug out that many companies were competing, and someone leaked that four were finally confirmed.】

【To those saying Jin Li is riding on Li Li Xunfang's coattails, Li Li Xunfang only negotiated the collaboration this month; where does the riding on coattails come from? It's clearly Li Li Xunfang riding on Jin Li's popularity, alright!】

Regardless of whether the collaboration is good or not, the war of words between the stars' fans started first, stirring up the popularity~

#Jin Li announces Black Bear collaboration#

#Li Li Xunfang announces Modern Women collaboration#

These two tags air-dropped to the first and second spots on the hot search.

Fans were arguing endlessly, and netizens were happy to be bystanders eating melons.

Xu Xu Wenwen had no scenes to shoot in the morning, so she ran over to find Jin Li after seeing the hot search.

She found her calmly drilling questions.

Sweat, is this the cultivation power of a first-tier star?

Truly amazing, leaving her far behind.

Even with her head lowered drilling questions, Jin Li could notice Xu Xu Wenwen's excited gaze.

However, she still followed her own pace, finished a set of math papers first, and then raised her head to ask, "What's the matter, coming to find me?"

Xu Xu Wenwen had been very excited when she first came over.

But after an hour of buffering, her thoughts had gradually calmed down.

"Nothing, just wanted to ask you why the date for announcing the collaboration clashed with Li Li Xunfang's, and you're being bitten by Li Li Xunfang's fans."

Jin Li raised her eyebrows and shook her head, "It didn't clash; she came for me on purpose."

Xu Xu Wenwen was puzzled, "You say Li Li Xunfang did it on purpose? She doesn't have any grudge against you, right?"

Jin Li: "Every time she appears on the internet hot search, it's accompanied by hype topics."

"On the topic of how to maintain hot search topics, her team is very experienced. There is nothing that makes netizens more willing to step in and discuss than comparing her with another star."

Xu Xu Wenwen said speechlessly, "Always resorting to crooked ways."

Jin Li said, "Because she has no other path to take. Her reputation on the path of an actor is already ruined; there are no roles."

"And if she wants to create explosive memes on variety shows, she has to say some bizarre remarks and do bizarre things. Li Li Xunfang still wants some face, after all."

"Competing on the same stage with another star is one of the few explosive topics with a relatively positive reputation, although the two stars being compared are mostly either you die or I live."

Xu Xu Wenwen frowned and asked, "Then what are you going to do? Just endure it like this?"

Before Jin Li could answer, she said, "If it were another star, letting it go would be fine. Anyway, you definitely don't have any sales KPIs, so there's no need to compete with others. But if you let Li Li Xunfang have it, it feels disgusting."

A flash of thought crossed Jin Li's eyes.

After a good while, she smiled lightly, picked up the "Five-Three" in her hand, and replied:

"Let the bullets fly for a while first. I won't be humble about the popularity and products that belong to me."

Li Li Xunfang soon knew that not long after she posted the promotional copy, Jin Li also posted one on her side.

The gap was no more than 10 minutes; this extremely close time difference made her heart lift slightly.

Just those 10 minutes!

If she hadn't been urged by Sister Zhao to post quickly, but had forgotten to post, it would have become Jin Li posting first.

Posting first and posting later are very different; posting first occupies the timing.

Just like now, netizens think Jin Li is riding on her coattails.

She scrolled through the comments, the more she scrolled, the happier she became. Zhao Rui came over to remind her several times, but she didn't hear.

"Li Xunfang!"

Zhao Rui had to tug on her sleeve.

Li Li Xunfang then came back to her senses.

"What's wrong? Is there anything you need me to do? Just say it!"

Zhao Rui found Li Li Xunfang's attitude toward her a bit strange, but didn't think much of it. Instead, she looked down at the time on her phone and said:

"There are 5 minutes left. You have to go to the collaboration press conference to give a speech and accept interviews from reporters. We will control the whole process within an hour. Is there anything you don't understand?"

Li Li Xunfang nodded casually, "I'm very familiar with interviews, no problem."

Zhao Rui: "Do you need to modify the questions the media handed to you?"

Li Li Xunfang was about to continue nodding when a flash of inspiration suddenly struck her mind. She picked up the interview draft again, stared at some of the questions, and said pointedly:

"Sister Zhao, I think the explosive points of these questions are too low. Why don't we come up with some more interesting questions?"

"More interesting?" Zhao Rui was puzzled and also looked at the interview draft.

"How do you want to modify it?"

Li Li Xunfang raised her head forward, "Isn't the ready-made hot search topic right there? Let the media mention Jin Li and me in the same breath."

Zhao Rui hesitated for a moment, "That's not very good, right? Won't you offend Jin Li too much?"

Li Li Xunfang stared at her with deep eyes: "In the entertainment industry, not being popular is the crime."

Zhao Rui felt her body tighten from being looked at by such eyes; she clutched the interview draft and left immediately.

"I'll go notify them right now!"

Li Li Xunfang was very responsible at this press conference, demonstrating this collaborative tote bag product in all aspects with the Modern Women brand, showing how convenient, fashionable, and free it is for women.

She said with a smile, "I am a loyal fan of tote bags myself. I think it's very convenient; it can be used on one shoulder or carried on both shoulders."

"Collaborating with Modern Women this time is also because I took a fancy to the brand's connotation of symbolizing freedom and a unique soul."

"It interprets a more avant-garde pioneer concept, connecting the bag with a person's personality. Carrying this bag is a symbol of independence and freedom."

Before the press conference was over, a reporter couldn't wait to ask:

"Jin Li also released a collaborative product today, which is a backpack. How do you view this product?"

Li Li Xunfang shrugged and said unceremoniously, "I think backpacks are already outdated. Her team shouldn't have accepted this kind of collaborative product for her."

This reporter wanted to ask something else, but the microphone was snatched away by the staff on site.

The press conference ended.

The president of Modern Women left the venue with a smile on his face. After walking into the lounge, he sank his face, no longer having the good look from the stage, and scolded the public relations director who walked over anxiously:

"How are you doing things!"

"Didn't I tell you to only arrange for our media to ask questions? How did a new media suddenly pop up? Didn't I tell you to replace the interview draft Zhao Rui handed over with the original one? How could there still be media asking such questions!"

The public relations director also felt aggrieved in his heart, and even more aggrieved on the surface.

"President, we only arranged for the media we had greeted to ask questions, and we didn't send that interview draft to the media. I'm wronged!"

"The media that suddenly asked questions at the press conference just now wasn't invited by us. I don't even know how they got in. Our security guards wanted to catch them, but they took advantage of the chaos and slipped away!"

"I don't want to offend Jin Li either. We all know that if the brand wants to grow bigger in the future, we must find some relatively positive stars to increase the brand's connotation depth."

"There is no one more suitable for our brand connotation than Jin Li. She's almost thirty and is still working hard to study for the college entrance examination. This is the symbol of an independent, autonomous, and excellent woman!"

The president frowned tightly, almost enough to crush a fly.

"You mean, this media was arranged by Li Li Xunfang's side?"

The public relations director stammered.

Isn't this an obvious thing?

But he couldn't confirm this kind of offensive talk.

Who knows if the president still wants to further deepen the cooperation with Li Li Xunfang?

The president said, "Li Li Xunfang... forget it, contact Jin Li's company, Chenxi Entertainment, immediately and say that our brand has no intention of targeting Jin Li, and this question was not one we came up with."

The public relations director agreed first, then asked, "President, is it useful to do this?"

The president said with a dark face, "Even if it's useless, it must be done. Whether they believe it or not, it's not a matter we caused, so we won't take the blame."

Some agents from Chenxi Entertainment were also watching Li Li Xunfang's collaborative press conference.

Someone clicked their tongue: "Li Li Xunfang is determined to ride on Jin Li's coattails. If Jin Li doesn't respond, it means she's afraid of her; but if Jin Li responds, it will only add to her popularity."

Another agent added: "Not only that, Li Li Xunfang might even take advantage of this popularity to publicly apologize to Jin Li on the whole internet, or invite her to join Modern Women together."

Other agents nodded: "As long as a person has no shame, any thick-skinned thing can be done!"

"Then what should we do now?"

Sui Sui Lingfang walked in and threw down a document: "Cold-mixed scrambled eggs."

"You guys look at this document first. Above are the launch times for Jin Li's other three collaborative products. We need to come up with a copy with the brand side. You guys make a few versions for me first."

"If you don't want to ponder the copy, then take the artists to run field work for me, squat at the street corner, see if there are any passersby with outstanding looks who haven't signed yet, and pull them in to be trainees."

Taking artists to run field work is definitely hard work.

Because one has to help the artist build relationships with the people around, and sending gifts to the program team is indispensable.

Even if you don't need to send gifts, you have to work hard to expand your network during recording occasions.

Every month, you will be graded by the artists in return and have to submit the list of phone numbers you pulled. After all, Chenxi Entertainment doesn't keep idlers.

Squatting at the street corner to pull trainees seems very easy, but it is actually the most boring.

The company requires full-process video recording, and AI will be used afterwards to detect whether the photographer is staying in one place without moving, being lazy.

How can a person compare to the diligence of AI?

So many times, the agents who stay in the company have no motivation.

But this is not a problem either, because these agents are all new to the industry, so they stay with Sui Sui Lingfang for half a year to hone themselves.

When Sui Sui Lingfang feels that this person can bring artists, she will send them out. By then, the base salary will be linked to the artist's commission, and these agents won't be allowed to be lazy.

Even during the training period, agents can only receive a base salary of two thousand yuan.

Unusually low.

If an agent wants to get rid of the penniless situation as soon as possible, they can only force themselves to fight.

A newcomer boldly asked curiously, "Sister Fang, Jin Li won't respond to Li Li Xunfang?"

Sui Sui Lingfang sneered, "What kind of thing is she, worth Jin Li responding to specifically? It's really giving her face!"

She walked into the office in a rush.

Other agents looked at each other, feeling that Sister Fang seemed very angry because of this matter, not as calm as imagined.

On the other side, at Jin Li's place.

She finished a set of physics papers and subconsciously looked at the comment section, finding that many new netizens had left messages.

【Jin Li is calm enough, a scene of quiet years, everything is worry-free.】

【Suddenly feel that Li Li Xunfang is like a clown, the main person doesn't care at all~】

【It's hard to imagine how small the brain capacity of someone who can call a backpack outdated is.】

Jin Li's eyes flashed slightly, she set the live broadcast room to mute, and then walked out of the room.

Xu Xu Wenwen was still lingering in the living room and hadn't returned to her room.

Her room was different from Jin Li's suite, only a single room; it was more comfortable at Jin Li's place.

Not to mention, whenever she thought of Jin Li studying quietly in the room during the live broadcast, she felt that her own decadent soul had also been nurtured, and she couldn't help but take out the script to ponder it carefully.

Of course, she didn't stop her pace of eating melons.

Seeing Jin Li come out, Xu Xu Wenwen put down the script in her hand and pointed to the fruit plate on the table.

"Just washed some blueberries to eat, eat more, it protects your eyes."

Jin Li sat down beside her and opened the blog to look at the hot search.

#Li Li Xunfang says Jin Li is outdated#

This tag air-dropped to the first place on the hot search, and the collaborative products announced in the past two days followed closely behind.

Jin Li opened this hot search and found that it originated from a sentence Li Li Xunfang said when accepting a media interview.

Xu Xu Wenwen sat beside her, caught a glimpse of the content on her phone, and said:

"I watched the live broadcast of her press conference. She was very annoying when she said these words. It felt like she wasn't saying the backpack was outdated, but that you were outdated. Netizens' eyes are sharp; they extracted the point at once."

"Outdated?"

Jin Li asked back and said slowly, "Actually, she wanted to say I'm past my prime, right."

Xu Xu Wenwen: "She's too arrogant lately, with a feeling of being self-important and crazy."

A flash of doubt crossed Jin Li's eyes: "I always feel that things are not that simple. The several stars she rode on the coattails of before only met on the schedule, and she didn't make deliberately targeted remarks."

"I feel that she seems to want to get something from me."

Hearing her say this, Xu Xu Wenwen also felt something was wrong.

"Yeah, she is deliberately targeting you. You two released collaborative products on the same day, and she specifically answered this question to the media. Could it be that she specifically chose the same day as you to release products? And specifically chose a bag with strong similarity to yours?"

"She has such strong malice toward you, what for?"

Xu Xu Wenwen sized Jin Li up and suddenly asked, "Do you have any famous endorsements competing recently?"

Jin Li frowned slightly, "No, I didn't receive any news, and Sister Fang doesn't know either."

If Sister Fang knew, she would definitely tell her.

Xu Xu Wenwen thought of Chenxi Entertainment's operation mode. This company never spends money on connections, let alone obtaining some kind of news channel by maintaining connections.

Usually, one doesn't feel how convenient it is to maintain connections.

But when something really happens, it's better not to be a blind person.

Xu Xu Wenwen said, "Let Chenxi Entertainment help you inquire about it. Maybe you have competition in terms of announcements, and Li Li Xunfang has already received the news, but you don't know yet."

"If your company can't ask, you can go ask Sanyuetian."

Jin Li sent a message to Sister Fang first, then edited the blog, planning to send a response.

Originally, she wanted to send it out immediately, but she felt that a response that was too fast might not achieve a very good effect.

So she stabilized her hand first and put it into the draft box.