Chapter 425: Superstar treatment

When Chen Nuo arrived at Hongqiao at 9:10 AM.

At 9:23:32, the first post appeared on Weibo: "Explosive scene: Chen Nuo appears low-key at Hongqiao Airport."

By 9:26, at least five entertainment media or gossip bloggers had started reporting related news, and by 9:30, five had become twenty.

Weibo trending search landed at fifth: "Chen Nuo appears at Hongqiao Airport."

"Chen Nuo suspected to be departing for Japan to continue *Inception* promotional tour. #ChenNuoAppearsAtHongqiaoAirport"

"Chen Nuo airport live photos, white T-shirt and jeans handsome to the sky. #ChenNuoAppearsAtHongqiaoAirport"

"Chen Nuo appears at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport after Hengdian, walking like flying in excellent condition. #ChenNuoAppearsAtHongqiaoAirport"

"*Inception* box office sells well, Chen Nuo looks relaxed."

"Chen Nuo appears at the airport, carries his own suitcase, super down-to-earth."

Various news headlines flooded Weibo's public space within just 10 minutes, occupying the heat of "Deyunshe's 15th anniversary, Yu Qian gets drunk on stage" and "Hurricane Irene hits the US East Coast, turning New York into Venice." Truly heinous.

But what did Chen Nuo do?

He did nothing.

He just politely declined the send-offs from all sides, took a taxi with Guli Nazha and Linghu, arrived at the airport, got out of the car, waited for the driver to take his suitcase out of the trunk, took it, turned around, and walked into the terminal entrance.

Throughout the process, he wore sunglasses and a baseball cap, and his clothes were extremely ordinary—a plain white Li Ning T-shirt with nothing on it, a pair of ventilated and cool ripped jeans, plus a pair of pure white Li Ning sneakers.

Maybe he was happy staying in Shanghai for these few days, so he didn't have much guard up.

He walked and chatted with Liu Yifei by the Huangpu River a few days ago, and no one looked at him. He met with Wong Kar-wai and Wu Jing, and no paparazzi took photos.

He felt that compared to Beijing, Shanghai was really different. He discovered it last time, and he confirmed it even more this time. Including just now, he sat in the back seat of the taxi, and the driver didn't say anything.

So he didn't let Linghu notify the airport to arrange security in advance.

After all, he is a reborn person, and he has basic quality. After seeing those big shots and small celebrities traveling with an entourage of 20 security guards clearing the way and seven or eight bodyguards protecting them, feeling like preventing the people as if preventing a river, and acting arrogant with their butts to the sky, anyone with a little shame shouldn't feel that it's something glorious.

Chen Nuo is naturally the same.

So he got out of the car generously, pulled his suitcase, and walked toward the terminal, preparing to go to the first-class counter to check in.

As a result, damn, after walking just two steps, his disguise, which he felt was foolproof, was broken, and he immediately heard a loud, rough male voice shout in an uncertain and surprised tone.

"Chen Nuo!"

He looked up subconsciously and saw a man holding a DSLR camera, taking a photo of him with a "click."

That was the end of it.

That person was about 20 meters away from him.

In this 20-meter distance, there were probably 10-plus people, some walking, some standing and waiting for someone. After all, Hongqiao Airport is very busy, so there were quite a few people in that short distance.

That person shouted, and 3 or 4 of those ten people turned around sharply.

Inside were two women, who looked like normal people, dressed fashionably with short skirts and black silk long legs, but one of the women in sunglasses screamed "Wow" like a lunatic at the first moment.

Well, normal people would look when they hear a lunatic scream, right? Her scream immediately attracted more attention.

"What should we do? Chen Zong." Guli Nazha became nervous and asked Chen Nuo, following him by two steps.

It can only be said that although the Xinjiang girl has been to many countries, she was still too young and didn't use her brain when nervous. Her movement resulted in the photo of her walking side-by-side with Chen Nuo being uploaded to the internet by someone among those ten people in less than ten minutes. An hour later, it was reposted by many media outlets.

"Mysterious beauty walks with Chen Nuo, whispering closely."

"Not Liu Yifei! Chen Nuo travels with a beauty."

"Chen Nuo's new love exposed? The mysterious beauty walking with him has super high looks!"

Well, if the news of Chen Nuo appearing at the airport was still in the top five of the trending search, then Guli Nazha's act of courting death made the news "Chen Nuo appears at the airport, accompanied by a mysterious beauty" land directly at number one on the trending search.

Fortunately, she was also wearing sunglasses, otherwise, in minutes, her ancestors for eighteen generations and even her past and present lives would have been dug out.

However, according to the urine nature of Chinese netizens with sharp eyes, plus her "I am Nazha" Weibo account currently having 100,000 fans, she could be considered a small internet celebrity, so digging out her roots seemed to be just a matter of time.

Back to the present.

If you look at Hongqiao Airport from a god's-eye view, Chen Nuo's location was like a drop of water dripping into a still lake, ripples spreading out in circles, feeling a bit scary.

Guli Nazha was not a god, but watching more and more people stop their steps around them, casting suspicious glances at them, and the people following behind slowly forming a semicircle, and the thickness was constantly increasing.

At this moment, she recalled the terrifying scene of the sea of people she saw in the car when she went to Japan last time, and hurriedly asked again: "Chen Zong, do you want us to call someone to protect us?"

Chen Nuo also felt a bit panicked in his heart.

If you want to talk about fearing fans, who can compare to him, this former victim?

However, verbally, he was still prepared to be stubborn.

After all, the words "don't contact security, everyone wear sunglasses and keep a low profile, there will definitely be no problem" were said by him personally. To slap his own face just a few minutes after getting out of the car, he was also a bit unable to step down.

He said faintly: "Don't rush, there's no big problem, we are wearing sunglasses and hats; if you panic, you'll be giving yourself away, understand?"

Guli Nazha looked at him with admiration and said: "So that's it, then what should we do now, Chen Zong? Should we continue to check in?"

"Mm..."

Chen Nuo hesitated for a moment. Seeing the paparazzi who had been following him from the entrance, excitedly pressing the shutter three meters away from him, he felt that this didn't seem to be a way either.

Huang Hongwei was crazy with joy.

He felt that he could be considered to have turned his luck around. Last time in Beijing, he was just one step away from not capturing this person, and when he went back to T2 terminal, Big Brother Da had already left.

After that time of returning empty-handed, he was like bumping into some plague god, unlucky to death, and every time he squatted at the airport, he had little harvest. It had been almost half a year, and the biggest harvest was capturing Chun Chun once, which he exchanged for 3,000 yuan.

Recently, his money was spent, he was at the end of his rope, and he really couldn't hold on anymore. A friend introduced him to a magazine in Shanghai that was recruiting photographers, so he came for an interview, but he wasn't chosen, and he didn't even have the travel money back to Beijing, so he had to go to the airport to see if he could catch a dead mouse with a blind cat.

Who could have thought that on the first day he came, he hadn't been standing at the entrance for five minutes when he saw a person jump out of a car and appear in front of him.

At that time, looking at that familiar lower half of the face, he didn't dare believe it for a while.

He shouted subconsciously.

After this shout, he confirmed that the legend of pie falling from the sky was true, and sometimes there really would be such a tornado!

At this moment, he only felt that every time he pressed the shutter, he gained another month's rent, only hating that the second-hand Canon 5D2 camera in his hand was too trashy, and the continuous shooting speed was really too slow.

Chen Nuo was hesitating. At this time, Linghu, who had always been calm and steady, suddenly said: "Chen Zong, there are more and more people, we can't keep walking like this."

Chen Nuo was shocked and immediately looked around.

Really, he had been walking forward and hadn't noticed.

Seeing that at this time, from the coffee area, ticket collection area, to the pick-up passage outside the security check, people were gathering one after another.

Some were taking photos, some were recording videos, some were following. If it weren't for the airport security who had come uninvited at this time, consciously watching from the side, he estimated he would have been surrounded to death.

But he turned his head like this, like adding oil to the fire, immediately causing a huge reaction.

For the onlookers who were a bit hesitant and still identifying him from all directions, it was truly like the King of Hell appearing at noon—seeing a ghost in broad daylight.

Almost everyone recognized him.

The disguise that Chen Nuo originally felt was full of security seemed to be like paper in front of these people, blocking was the same as not blocking.

"Nuonuo!!!!" A sharp female voice pierced the sky over Hongqiao Airport.

This was like a starting gun, and then, numerous shouts rose one after another.

"It's really Chen Nuo!"

"Chen Nuo!!"

"Damn, damn! Nuonuo!!!"

"Chen Nuo Chen Nuo!"

In Chen Nuo's ears, the screams and shouts smashed over like waves, making him stunned. In front of his eyes, he didn't know how many mobile phones were raised at the same time, like sheets of King of Hell's orders, ready to take his life at any time.

Damn, stop pretending!

Run!

Only this thought remained in his mind. The next second, he dragged his suitcase and made a sharp turn, rushing toward the VIP passage.

But the structure of the airport was there, and the VIP passage wasn't within reach; they still had to go through a long corridor and bypass a row of automatic ticket machines.

And in this short gap of less than twenty seconds of running, at least three groups of people rushed over: one group was true fans, true sticky rice. "Nuonuo Nuonuo" kept calling, feeling tears streaming down. One group was airport onlookers, holding mobile phones and watching the fun without fear of trouble. The last group—was professional paparazzi like Huang Hongwei. Although there weren't as many in Shanghai as in Beijing, there were still some, swarming forward with long guns and short cannons.

The situation was so out of control that if it weren't for the effective assistance of the airport security and the Chinese people's basic awe of order, Chen Nuo really didn't know if he could still maintain his so-called superstar demeanor and walk into the door of that special passage.

Even so, after entering the door, he was still terrified.

Afterwards, an airport security manager pushed the door and entered, smiling bitterly: "Chen Laoshi, next time you want to come to our airport, please make a phone call in advance to let us arrange it, okay?"

Chen Nuo heard this, was silent for a while, then nodded and said: "Okay, I know. Sorry."

"No, no." The manager waved his hands repeatedly, "I didn't mean that. I'm just worried about Chen Laoshi's safety. For someone like you, we have corresponding superstar treatment internally; actually, it only takes one phone call, it's not troublesome at all."

"Got it. Thanks, brother." Chen Nuo patted his shoulder.

This encounter at Hongqiao Airport had a profound impact on Chen Nuo, but no one outside knew about it yet.

Three hours later,

Tokyo Narita Airport, Japan, Chen Nuo reunited with the familiar promotional team.

Among them were Allison, who had flown for more than ten hours from LA overnight and arrived two hours ago, Elizabeth, who had arranged to come from Singapore yesterday, and of course, Miyazawa Gongze Huili, who was working for Huanxin Film Co., Ltd. and was almost becoming one of their own.

This time it was the public terminal, and the Warner Japan car couldn't enter the airport. However, because his itinerary was rushed, the number of media and fans who got the news wasn't many, and a considerable part were Chinese who could understand Weibo and guessed he was coming to Japan. Chen Nuo simply showed his face, greeted them, and got in the car to the hotel.

It was past 3 PM Tokyo time. He ate something simple at the hotel and received a group of people from the *Human Observation* column team of TBS TV station.

Like last time, it was led by Sato Ken, the head of the Variety Department 1, with director Takizawa Naoki, chief screenwriter Oshima Yasushi, and a total of seven people.

After some unique Japanese red tape, both sides immediately entered the main topic.

"First, let me express my congratulations on the ratings miracle Chen-san created on our show last time. Our whole group feels very honored and shocked."

After speaking, at the long conference table in the Hilton conference room, Sato Ken and the Japanese on the side bowed deeply, lasting for three seconds, their movements neat and uniform, extremely solemn.

Chen Nuo also politely said in Japanese: "Where, where, actually I didn't do anything, at most I had some temporary improvisation, didn't expect such a big response, more of it was your program team doing a good job."

Director Takizawa Naoki raised his head and excitedly continued: "But precisely because it was temporary improvisation, it made people feel the kind of natural charm Chen-san you have! That kind of sense of reality is the ideal state our Japanese variety shows have been pursuing for a long time."

Chief screenwriter Oshima Yasushi also added: "After watching the show, our entire screenwriter group was impressed by you, Chen-san, your acting skills really shocked all of us."

Chen Nuo knew that these little Japanese flattering the superior and insulting the inferior was a cultural tradition. Not letting them flatter was probably more difficult than letting them commit seppuku, laughed, and didn't be humble, "So shocking, then have you gone to see my movie?"

"Yes! Of course, I went twice, once with my girlfriend, and once by myself. This is really a great movie, Chen-san, I like it very much!" Oshima Yasushi said hurriedly.

Chen Nuo said: "Then after this show is recorded, if the ratings are good, can you go twice more?"

Oshima Yasushi said: "I will definitely go ten times!"

Chen Nuo pointed at him with his hand and said: "I remember it, remember to post your ticket stubs online when the time comes."

He originally meant it as a joke, but these Japanese people had serious faces after hearing it, and Oshima Yasushi lowered his head immediately: "Hai! I will do it!"

Chen Nuo looked at Miyazawa Gongze Huili beside him, seeing that there was no smile on the girl's pretty face, instead, Allison and Elizabeth, who heard the translation, slightly curled the corners of their mouths.

Alright, it seems it's not his problem, it's that the Japanese have no sense of humor!

At this time, Sato Ken took out a document, stood up, and handed it over with both hands: "Chen-san, this is our proposal. This time we want to make a special episode, the theme is called—*Tokyo Wonder · Chen Nuo's One-Day Observation*. We plan to record for a whole day without a script, without presets, to present your real state in Tokyo, and edit it into a 2-hour special program to be sent out during our TBS prime time."

Chen Nuo took it, looked at it, and asked curiously: "My real state in Tokyo? Sleeping with the door closed in the hotel?"

This time, even if the Japanese didn't understand humor, everyone laughed together.

Sato Ken smiled and explained: "Of course not. Instead, we will invite a female star to spend a day of 'Tokyo Limited Life' with you. We will only design a few slightly set 'plots' in the middle, but the overall rhythm is completely natural, controlled by you yourselves. Our photography team will hide and film from a distance, truly achieving 'observation' rather than 'intervention'."

Chen Nuo looked through the proposal in his hand, only to see that it did indeed list several set links:

1. "Accidentally meet" a female artist at a certain cafe in Daikanyama.

2. Go shopping together at the Muji flagship store in Ginza.

3. Lunch is arranged at a hidden restaurant in Harajuku, performing hidden tasks.

4. Go to Shibuya streets in the afternoon to experience (such as cosplay photography).

5. Watch a movie together in the evening, entering a romantic link.

Chen Nuo felt something was wrong, raised his head and asked: "This feeling of yours, it doesn't look like a real state, are you planning to go with a loveline?"

Sato Ken nodded with a smile: "Yes, Chen-kun, it was really seen through by you, Chen-kun, you are really talented, making me feel infinitely admired."

"'*Tokyo Wonder · Chen Nuo's One-Day Observation*' is just a surface title, in fact—what we are preparing to film is a 2-hour romantic variety special in the form of a mockumentary."

He paused, took out another piece of information from his briefcase and handed it over, continuing: "This is the complete ratings statistics of your last show. The average rating reached 18.6%, and the instantaneous highest rating point broke through 22.3%. Among them, the proportion of female viewers reached as high as 72%, and the core age group of 20 to 35 years old reached an astonishing 85% or more."

"In short, when you played the husband of Mrs. Kameda, the gentleness you showed attracted the attention of all Japanese women. In my opinion, they all want to fall in love with you, Chen-san."

"Pfft."

Chen Nuo was a bit embarrassed, when suddenly he heard a light laugh from beside him.

He turned his head to look, only to see Miyazawa Gongze Huili with a flushed face, covering her mouth with her hand, looking like she couldn't help but laugh. Seeing him look over, the girl immediately lowered her head to apologize: "Sumimasen..."

Sato Ken saw it, smiled, and said: "Miyazawa-san, do you have any objections to my words?"

"No, no!" Miyazawa Gongze Huili shook her head hurriedly, her expression earnest, "I very much agree with the minister's statement."

Sato Ken nodded and said: "Our department also conducted an anonymous survey of female employees internally, and the result was almost one-sidedly supporting the direction of 'Chen-san's Love Record.' More than twenty female members all believed that this setting is extremely attractive."

"So this time, we decided to use 'scriptless one-day observation' as the shell, but actually build a 'love experience space' with light settings. We will invite a female artist with affinity in Japan to appear with you, and through the process of natural interaction in Tokyo for a day, present a situation of 'what if I fall in love with Chen Nuo.' We believe that all Japanese female viewers will involuntarily substitute themselves into it. In the end, it will definitely achieve great success!"

As an actor, being able to act in any play is a basic quality. If pretending to fall in love can increase ratings and sell movie tickets as Sato Ken said, he has no problem at all.

But the problem is...

"I have a girlfriend. Didn't you consider this point?" Chen Nuo asked puzzled.

Sato Ken laughed and said: "Of course. We all know that Liu Yifei-san is your girlfriend, and a few days ago you also celebrated her birthday... However, so what? The internal survey just mentioned that Chen-san you are not single, however..."

Takizawa Naoki took over the conversation, shouting fanatically: "However, precisely because Chen-san you are not single, this setting is even more attractive!"

Damn you, listen to what you are saying?

Chen Nuo stared at this abnormal director.

Takizawa Naoki continued loudly: "Those female viewers watching the show will feel that this is closer to reality, and will even stimulate their curiosity and yearning for a relationship with you. Everyone will not only substitute themselves into the situation of 'if I fall in love with Chen Nuo,' but will also be unable to help but think—'He is with Liu Yifei, then what would it be like between me and him?' Chen Nuo-san, this can bring them more emotional fluctuations and topicality! It can make us popular all over Japan!"

As the words fell, the conference room was quiet for a while,

Then, Sato Ken added with a smile: "Takizawa-kun is right, precisely because of this subtle 'sense of taboo,' the program will appear more real and more attractive."

Oh, it really makes sense. Damn.

Chen Nuo felt he was persuaded.

It can only be said that these devils are perverted regardless of gender, there is no mistake at all.

He turned his head, looked at Allison and Elizabeth. After the two women heard the translation's explanation, they whispered to each other, and then reached a consensus for the first time, nodding at him together.

Alright.

In this way, it seems only the last question remains.

"Then who is the female artist?" Chen Nuo asked.

Everyone looked at each other, Takizawa said: "We initially decided on Yui Aragaki-san. Because you and her originally formed a bond on our show, many viewers have left messages expressing hope to see you combine again—it can be said that this is the combination with the highest voice. Of course, if Chen-kun you have other female stars you have more feelings for, you can also tell us. We can go try to invite them immediately."

What do you mean by having more feelings? Looking down on people, right.

As a professional actor, not having feelings can also be acted out.

Yui Aragaki is Yui Aragaki, barely acceptable.

Chen Nuo said: "Just her, no need to trouble."

"Hai!"

A group of Japanese answered in unison, bowed again, "Then next, please take care of me, Chen-kun!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 426 =====