Chapter 44: Xie Xie Ruolin Full of Flirty Talk (Asking for Collections and Recommendations)

Imperial Capital

Jing Tian held a plate of pickled pepper chicken feet, sat on the sofa, and turned on the TV.

After a full day of classes, it was time to have some late-night snacks and binge-watch a series.

This wasn't slacking off; it was hard work. As an actress, she needed to frequently watch dramas to learn.

Besides studying the acting skills of the performers on screen, she could also understand market trends to better develop her career in the future... Yes, that's it!

While convincing herself, Jing Tian happily gnawed on the chicken feet.

She had studied dance and needed to manage her figure; the most important aspect of figure management was simply controlling her mouth to not eat and moving her legs to exercise.

Pickled pepper chicken feet, which had no fat or carbohydrates and were especially delicious, were perfect for her.

Last time she had a meal of Hulutou Paomo with her senior brother; although it was delicious and joyful, as a price, she needed to exercise even harder.

"I... I think... we probably can't cooperate..." Qi Hui's voice rang out from the television.

The drama playing was "The Disguiser," and it happened to be the episode where Xie Xie Ruolin and Li Ya plotted in the bathhouse on how to set a trap for Yu Zecheng.

Click~

Looking at Qi Hui's six-pack abs on the screen, Jing Tian momentarily froze, and the chicken feet in her hand slipped and fell.

She picked up her water cup and silently drank some water, feeling saliva uncontrollably gathering under her tongue.

It was all because the pickled pepper chicken feet were too tempting!

Magic City, Hotel.

Lei Lei Jiayin was also watching "The Disguiser"; in these days, copyright awareness wasn't strong, and resources for "The Disguiser" could be found everywhere online.

Although he had to film during the day and couldn't watch TV normally, Lei Lei Jiayin still watched "The Disguiser" from start to finish on his computer.

The only annoyance was the bad internet; it would constantly say 【Buffering...】

Of course, it wasn't his internet that was bad; it was the website's internet; the website's bandwidth was insufficient.

Only the Youku website was a bit smooth; the other websites weren't great.

Not just the TV drama, Lei Lei Jiayin also went to the forums and Tieba to see netizens' reviews of the drama "The Disguiser."

Of course, there were also reviews of Qi Hui.

"This drama is good; although there are no grand scenes, the plot is interlocking, thrilling, and fun to watch!"

"A great drama; finally not those boring queue dramas."

"Indeed, since 'My Fair Princess' became a huge hit, queue dramas can be seen everywhere; I heard 'My Fair Princess' is being remade, and I'm almost sick of watching them."

"This drama is good; it wasn't in vain that it was promoted so much before."

"Speaking of which, it's quite dramatic; 'The Disguiser' was actually disguised."

"By the way, which role did that fugitive play? And which role did the person who caught him play?"

"The one upstairs, the fugitive played Sheng Xiang, that fat man beaten to death by Li Ya; the one who caught him played Xie Xie Ruolin. Damn, six-pack abs, I'm so envious!"

"Oh, Mu Mu Wanqiu is indeed beautiful, but unfortunately, she's blind!"

"Exactly; Xie Xie Ruolin is handsome, earns money, and loves her so much, yet Mu Mu Wanqiu actually fell for a little squinty-eyed guy and even wants to be his concubine?"

"That's right; Liu Liu Huaqiang's appearance is nowhere near as good as Xie Xie Ruolin's."

"Mu Mu Wanqiu is a blind beauty; heaven gave her looks and talent, so it must have given her some flaws too; just like me, I'm clearly a genius, but heaven envies talented people."

"The one upstairs, you are so shameless!"

"If only the protagonist were Xie Xie Ruolin."

"The one upstairs, you're overthinking it; spies and secret agents need to be inconspicuous; someone like Xie Xie Ruolin is completely unqualified and can't be a spy."

"What about 007?"

"So that's just a movie!"

"What are you? Do you even deserve to criticize that elegant British gentleman?"

"Yo yo yo? Where did this Corgi come from? Barking so happily?"

"What's wrong? Did saying 'British gentleman' hurt you? Or do you love that British gentleman's shit-stirring stick?"

"Didn't animals becoming spirits get banned after the founding of the nation? How did dogs suddenly start surfing the internet?"

"Hahaha, this is the first foreign spirit; it doesn't speak English, it speaks Chinese."

"Damn it, say that again?"

"Good doggy, woof woof woof... go, fetch that shit-stirring stick back~~"

As Lei Lei Jiayin browsed these comments, his mouth corner twitched involuntarily; he had always heard that netizens' attack power was very strong.

He originally thought it was a rumor, but now he finally witnessed it... Ahem, no, he was here to look at Qi Hui!

Lei Lei Jiayin scrolled the wheel and continued reading comments about Qi Hui, finding they were all praising Qi Hui: handsome, earns money, has strategy, almost made Yu Zecheng fail miserably.

Looking at these comments, Lei Lei Jiayin was speechless; the character Xie Xie Ruolin was clearly greedy for money as if it were life, had no bottom line, beat his wife, and used women.

Not only that, he smoked and drank, and brought women from brothels home; such a man was clearly a scumbag, okay?

Why were all the comments online good? Did no one see his scumbag side?

Not only a scumbag, but also a special agent of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, an enemy faction member, an enemy faction member with no bottom line.

"Sigh, when the future is peaceful, there are no more ideologies..." Lei Lei Jiayin sighed with emotion; he suddenly understood what this line of Xie Xie Ruolin's meant.

No one cared about his ideology; they only cared about his face.

Now Lei Lei Jiayin truly understood what "looks are justice" meant; of course, he was talking about Xie Xie Ruolin, not Qi Hui.

Qi Hui himself had no problems; Qi Hui was someone who could win a red banner.

"I hope this trend won't spread in the future..." Lei Lei Jiayin muttered; although Qi Hui had a nice face, his acting and professional ability were excellent, somewhat similar to Tang Guoqiang's situation back then.

If it turned into a situation where acting wasn't needed at all and only a face was required to be the protagonist, that would be truly troublesome, truly terrifying!

……

Time passed quietly; in the blink of an eye, over a month had gone by.

Under Director Lin's strict demands, the production of "Temptation to Go Home" operated in an orderly fashion.

Clearly a cast of young men and women, handsome guys and beautiful girls, yet they stubbornly failed to generate any tabloid scandals.

Of course, no big incidents didn't mean no small ones.

For instance, Chi Shuai often circled around Qiu Qiu Chixuan, constantly crowding close to Qiu Qiu Chixuan.

For instance, Li Cihua frequently quarreled with Lei Lei Jiayin.

And then there were Xinzi and Zheng Zheng Yitong, giggling on the sidelines, occasionally fanning the flames on both sides.

Looking as if they enjoyed the spectacle and didn't mind if things got worse.

Human joys and sorrows are not shared; Qi Hui only found them noisy.

Beep-beep-beep~~

The notification sound of mobile QQ rang out. Qi Hui lay in the chair, picked up his phone to check, and saw a message from Jing Tian.

"Senior brother, what do you need?" Jing Tian asked, "I was in class just now, Old Yellow the Villain's class."

Old Yellow the Villain was Huang Lei.

At school, Huang Lei's classes were extremely strict, making students fear him immensely, so they gave him the nickname Old Yellow the Villain.

To the extent that Jing Tian didn't even dare to play on her phone during class.

If college students don't play on their phones or sleep during class, are they even college students?

"Are you free recently?" Qi Hui asked, "I want you to help me upload a video to a video website."

"I'm filming here, website uploads are slow, I have no time."

He had edited a video stitching together Xie Xie Ruolin's cheeky remarks... cough, lines, planning to boost his own popularity.

But the video websites were still in their infancy; infancy meant no money.

With no money, naturally, there was no way to upgrade bandwidth; watching videos naturally meant constant buffering, and not just watching, uploading videos was the same.

In these days, only Youku was slightly smoother, and the reason for the smoothness was that Youku's Vice President, Zhu Huilong, had a telecommunications background and was quite familiar with the national operator infrastructure; relying on his professional ability, Youku could deploy its servers at the backbone nodes of the telecom network.

This brought about a viewing experience that surpassed competitors in smoothness.

And Youku was also the one with the longest founding time among the three video giants, iQiyi, Youku, and Tencent Video, that came later.

These past few days, Qi Hui had tried every video website: Tudou, Youku, Sohu, 56 Video, Ku6 Video... and the result was that, damn it, Kuaibo had the fastest upload speed.

Moreover, only Kuaibo succeeded in uploading.

Simply outrageous!

"Oh, I see, no problem." Jing Tian readily agreed.

"That's great." Qi Hui gave a thumbs up: "When I get back, I'll treat you to a big meal."

"Hehe~~"

Ding-ling-ling~

Suddenly, the phone rang. Qi Hui looked closely and found it was a call from Jiang Wei.

"Junior sister, let me take this call."

"Oh, goodbye, Senior brother."

Qi Hui pressed the answer key: "Director Jiang?"

"Little Qi, how about coming to the Magnolia Awards in a few days? I've nominated you."

"Huh?" Qi Hui looked completely confused; I'm just the fifth male lead, can this even be nominated for an award?