Chapter 185: Boys Need to Protect Themselves When They Are Outside

Other dramas might only be popular in specific years, and once the trend passed, it would be gone, but *Meteor Garden* would absolutely not; it would be popular every time it was filmed!

Don't you see that after *Meteor Garden* was born, China, Japan, South Korea, and Thailand would produce a remake every few years, and each time it could be popular in their own country, even popular abroad!

For example, the Thai version of 2021 *Meteor Garden*, didn't it still make a bunch of Chinese drama fans chase it?

Even *Let's Go Watch Meteor Shower*, which was the most lagging in plagiarism, dominated the same period and brought out Tang Zhu Zhang Han and Shuang Zi Jie.

This was also why Wu Yu stuffed Huang Huang Xiao Ming in; *Meteor Garden* was really good at making people popular. If he wanted to be popular, this was the fastest shortcut.

The biggest difficulty of this drama was actually in casting. As long as the casting was handsome and the temperament matched, then this drama had already succeeded halfway. For F4, as long as they acted cool and handsome, it was basically done.

Huang Huang Xiao Ming, other things aside, his face was still very capable. At that time, the admissions teacher looked at his interview and didn't want him, saying he was too wooden and lacked the spirituality of an actor. But Cui Xinqin said that even if it was wood, it was beautiful wood, and she decided to recruit him.

Moreover, *Meteor Garden* was also not difficult to shoot. To put it bluntly, it was an urban drama. Although the clothing, props, and makeup of *Meteor Garden* this time were far beyond the original version of the previous life, and luxury cars and mansions were rented, the whole shooting was only a few million. After all, they were all newcomers, and the actors' pay was cheap!

On Monday night, many people in Taiwan sat in front of the TV and tuned the channel to CTS.

"CTS is going to broadcast a new drama today, called *Meteor Garden*. I don't know if it's good to watch?"

"Don't know, mostly can't beat *My Fair Princess*. However, I've been watching Little Xiao Yanzi for two months, just in time to change my taste~"

This time *Meteor Garden* was placed in prime time by CTS, and promotional resources were invested in advance, attracting many people.

"Hard to forget the first time I saw you, a pair of charming eyes..."

"Hey, this song is quite good!"

Many people were immediately caught by the relaxed and pleasant lyrical tune of the opening, thinking about asking for the name of the song later, while couldn't help but have more anticipation for the upcoming TV series.

The opening theme song was *Qing Fei De Yi*. In the previous life, with the popularity of *Meteor Garden* across the two shores and three places, it could be called a song that was everywhere. One song also became Yu Chengqing's representative work, which he sang for decades.

Such a popular song, of course, couldn't find Yu Chengqing this time. It was left for F4 to sing themselves, plus a song *Meteor Rain*, just two songs were enough for an album's lead songs. In fact, the *Meteor Rain* album had already been recorded, just waiting for *Meteor Garden* to be popular to push it to the market at any time.

Wu Wenxuan was wearing headphones in the room listening to songs while doing homework. Suddenly hearing the chattering sound outside, Wu Wenxuan frowned, took the headphones off her head, and then stepped on slippers and rushed out angrily. Sure enough, she saw her younger sister, who was 10 years younger than her, watching *My Fair Princess* in the living room.

Wu Wenxuan put her hands on her hips and shouted at her sister: "Wu Wenjing, have I told you! Turn the TV down when I do homework!"

Then she pointed to the TV again: "This *My Fair Princess*, how many times have you watched it! Aren't you annoyed?!"

Wu Wenjing stuck her tongue out at her sister: "You're the one who's annoyed! Lueluelue, I just love watching Little Xiao Yanzi! I'll watch... ah!"

Before she finished speaking, she had already screamed. It turned out that she had been grabbed by the hair by her sister and pressed onto the sofa, while being hit on her butt.

"Waaa, wait for Mom and Dad to come back, I'll tell them you're bullying me again!" Wu Wenjing, who was pressed on the sofa, struggled and shouted.

"Hmm? You dare to complain! Dare you again! Dare you again!" Wu Wenxuan directly pinched her sister's butt hard several times.

"Woooooo, I don't dare anymore, I don't dare!" The younger sister, who was being ridden, soon surrendered under her sister's lewd power.

Just between the two sisters fighting, the remote control they touched changed the channel to CTS. Only hearing a roaring motor sound from the TV, the two sisters on the sofa turned their heads to look.

I saw a red Ferrari and a blue Lamborghini driving on the screen, stopping at the school gate from far to near.

In the TV, accompanied by the weakening roaring motor sound, a red Ferrari and a blue Lamborghini stopped at the school gate. The red body made it dazzling and gorgeous. The body lines were very smooth. The red and black appearance gave a particularly stunning visual impact, plus the gorgeous gold-plated ride, making countless people want to become its owner!

The car door opened, and a long leg stepped out. I saw a man wearing a leather jacket on his upper body, casual pants on his lower body, and high-top leather boots on his feet. The sunglasses on his face added a sense of coldness. As he took off his glasses, his nose was high, his eyes were deep, his sword eyebrows and star eyes were handsome and extraordinary. It was Huang Huang Xiao Ming!

Afterward, three other beautiful men with different outfits and styles got out of the car. At a glance, their clothing and styling were quite stylish. The four stood in front of the car, some leaning on the car, some with hands in pockets, some smiling. This was of course specially posed for the audience, but this kind of natural action wouldn't make the audience feel abrupt. Luxury cars and handsome men, combined with the domineering BGM, immediately impacted the hearts of many audiences!

At this moment, the younger sister who was being pressed had completely forgotten her sister, and Wu Wenxuan, who was riding her sister, also let go of her hand unconsciously. The two sisters stared blankly at the four beautiful men beside the luxury car on TV, saying in unison: "So handsome!"

Wu Wenjing jumped out from under her sister and sat upright, staring excitedly at the TV. Wu Wenxuan didn't go back to do homework either.

When F4 walked into the school gate, all the students hurriedly gave way, walking domineeringly, full of arrogance, combined with the BGM, a wild and cool atmosphere came directly to the face. Younger sister Wu Wenjing couldn't stand it anymore, holding her hands and screaming excitedly: "Sister, I'm dying! How can they be so handsome! So cool!"

Wu Wenxuan didn't pay attention to her sister, and was also made heart-fluttering by these 4 wealthy beautiful men. After she finished watching the scene where F4 was bumped into by the teacher, and then the teacher hurriedly knelt down to wipe their shoes and apologize, like the female lead Shan Cai in the play, she was completely stunned.

She only had the sentence "If an apology is useful, what do we need the police for?" that Dao Mingsi said to the teacher circling in her mind.

Is this the style of aristocratic schools? Are aristocratic children so arrogant?! This broke her imagination, and her heart was impacted! She shouted "Kaobei" in her heart, do you have to be so exaggerated!

But Dao Mingsi is really cool, handsome, and domineering!

Whatever homework was thrown behind her head at this moment, she just wanted to see what would happen between the civilian female lead Shan Cai and these handsome aristocratic children F4.

The wind of Taiwan's *My Fair Princess 2* hadn't passed yet, and it was directly replaced by another trend named *Meteor Garden* and F4. Previous Taiwan dramas were all costume, bitter, and local dramas. They had never seen such an arrogant idol drama, which immediately shocked the whole market. Not only teenagers loved to watch it, but middle-aged women also loved to watch it. Just looking at the appearance of these 4 people was pleasing to the eye!

And *Meteor Garden* wasn't dragging at all. In just the first two episodes, there were quite a few plot points.

The male and female leads appeared, Shan Cai was excluded and pranked by the whole school because she provoked Dao Mingsi, Hua Zelei helped Shan Cai in a crisis, Shan Cai developed a good impression, Shan Cai bravely declared war on Dao Mingsi, Dao Mingsi looked at her differently. Because Hua Zelei missed the goddess Teng Tang Jing, he mistakenly kissed Shan Cai, Dao Mingsi and Hua Zelei turned against each other, brothers turned against each other!

This series of plot rhythms was light and fast, always solving contradictions and promoting relationships, grabbing people to watch. If summarized in one word, that was "addictive"!

A week later, when Wu Yu was doing editing work for *Love*, he received Cai Yinong's call again, only hearing her smile and say: "Director Wu, *Meteor Garden* is popular in Taiwan!"

"Oh? How are the ratings now?"

"Halfway through, the ratings have reached 8%!"

Don't think 8% is not good. Many TV series in Taiwan have a good result at 2%, and above 4% is popular. Many classic martial arts dramas are only around 6%-7%. 8% must already be a hit.

In the previous life, *Meteor Garden* was broadcast at a cold time because it wasn't valued at all. It was promoted after it became popular halfway through, and finally the ratings were nearly 7%. And this time *Meteor Garden* was on prime time from the beginning, and now it reached 8% halfway through, which was naturally not surprising.

Wu Yu smiled and said: "Good, President Cai, work harder, strive to rush to more than 10% in the end! How is F4?"

Shooting *Meteor Garden* was to bring out F4 to make money, and by the way, fight against the upcoming Korean wave. Whatever Hot and TVXQ, with F4, just stand aside!

Hearing Wu Yu ask about F4, Cai Yinong was also energetic: "I can only describe it with one word, crazy! Now I don't dare to let them go to the street at all. I have already hired accompanying security personnel for them, otherwise I can't stop those fans at all!"

Wu Yu nodded upon hearing this: "Put their safety in the first place, everyone has at least one security personnel, and let the bodyguards watch closely when contacting fans, so as not to have excessive things."

It wasn't that he was worried, this was a necessary measure. 20 years later, many people said brain-dead fans, saying the fans of little fresh meat were fanatical. But in fact, it was because the mainland entertainment industry wasn't developed at that time. In the Hong Kong and Taiwan regions at this time, the degree of fan fanaticism was completely no less than that.

Later fans at most scolded each other online. Current fans were making appointments to PK offline. Fighting conflicts, bloody incidents, burning posters, tapes, postcards, these were all the same. Sometimes they were forced to come forward to adjust before they could temporarily give up.

Idol groups like F4 who relied on appearance and idol dramas to become popular were more likely to become the objects of fantasy for these female fans, so security work must be in place.

"Ah, F4! I love you!"

"Dao Mingsi! Dao Mingsi!"

"Hua Zelei!"

"F4, we are your guard team!"

"Where is Dao Mingsi? Where is Dao Mingsi?"

At the hotel entrance, a large group of girls kept shouting. After seeing a team of suit-wearing big men come out to block the road, and then Huang Huang Xiao Ming, Zhong Hanliang, Qiao Zhenyu, Wu Kequn and other four people came out, a group of girls immediately made sky-shaking screams. Under the escort of security guards, the four also slowly moved to the car while maintaining smiles.

After finally getting into the car, Qiao Zhenyu breathed a sigh of relief: "Too exaggerated, I thought I was Tang Seng who met a large group of female monsters!"

Zhong Hanliang patted him on the shoulder and said: "Be content, many people want to be Tang Seng but don't have the qualifications!"

Zhong Hanliang, who had 6 years of debut experience, sighed in his heart. He had developed smoothly in the past six years, and he was considered a star more or less before, and was nicknamed "Little Sun" by fans, but when had he ever received this kind of pursuit?!

6 years of effort couldn't compare to the TV series *Meteor Garden* he acted in casually. Now no one called him Little Sun, they were all "Hua Zelei", "Hua Zelei". I have to say, sometimes choice is really greater than effort. If he didn't join F4, no matter how hard he tried, he wouldn't have today's popularity!

At this time, Wu Kequn's face was very excited: "I feel like I'm dreaming! No, I couldn't dream that *Meteor Garden* would be so popular. Obviously, I felt it was so childish... ordinary when I acted, but it was so handsome when it was released on TV!"

He didn't feel *Meteor Garden* was childish at all now, the more he looked, the more handsome he felt!

Then Wu Kequn pulled Huang Huang Xiao Ming's shoulder and said: "Hey, Brother Huang Xiao Ming, you are super popular now, not worse than Little Xiao Yanzi at all!"

Hearing Wu Kequn mention Zhao Wei, Huang Huang Xiao Ming immediately revealed a silly smile. Zhao Wei, who never took the initiative to call him before, had called him one after another in the past few days to congratulate him. Even her impatient attitude had become very affectionate, and she chatted with him for a long time every time. If the company didn't arrange for them to run to Hong Kong for publicity immediately, Zhao Wei would have taken the initiative to make an appointment with him for dinner!

At this time, Qiao Zhenyu asked Zhong Hanliang: "A Liang, how is the response of *Meteor Garden* in Hong Kong?"

Zhong Hanliang smiled upon hearing this: "My friend said it was super popular. ATV used our *Meteor Garden* to follow *My Fair Princess*, firmly suppressing TVB. You know TVB has been suppressing ATV for more than ten years!"

Qiao Zhenyu breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this: "That's good, I thought Hong Kong didn't watch Mandarin films!"

"Hong Kong people can basically understand Mandarin, but they won't speak it."

"I don't know how many albums I have to sign tomorrow. I felt my hands weren't my own two days ago."

"Hehe, this is your happy trouble, and Huang Xiao Ming didn't complain after signing so many~"

Afterward, Zhong Hanliang asked: "Huang Xiao Ming, how many do you plan to sign tomorrow?"

I saw Huang Huang Xiao Ming stretch out one hand and open it: "I want to sign 500!"

F4's autograph session had an advantage over ordinary singers. After all, 4 people signed at the same time. At this time, there were four long queues, and Huang Huang Xiao Ming's team was the longest. After all, Dao Mingsi was the most popular!

Huang Huang Xiao Ming just took a sip of water and moved his wrist. He looked up and saw the next fan coming up. It looked like a 12 or 13-year-old girl, sausage mouth, doll face. When she smiled at him, her mouth looked very big.

"Ming Zai! I love you!" the girl shouted excitedly.

Huang Huang Xiao Ming smiled back at her while signing on the *Meteor Rain* record.

At this time, the other party took out a notebook and suddenly said in Mandarin: "Brother Huang Xiao Ming, I like you super much! Can you write me a blessing? I'm also from the mainland!"

Huang Huang Xiao Ming heard her Mandarin. It turned out to be a fellow from the mainland, so he smiled and took the notebook from her hand: "Little sister, what's your name?"

"My name is Yang Ying, my English name is Angela! I just arrived in Hong Kong for 1 year, 13 years old this year, used to be in Magic City. Brother Huang Xiao Ming, you are my dream lover! I listen to your *Qing Fei De Yi* and *Meteor Rain* every day until I fall asleep!" Yang Ying poured out to Huang Huang Xiao Ming excitedly.

"Thank you, but your task now is to study hard~"

Huang Huang Xiao Ming said while writing: "Hope the beautiful Yang Ying (Angela) sister studies hard and makes progress every day!"

After Huang Huang Xiao Ming finished writing, he handed the notebook back to the little sister in front of him.

"Thank you, Brother Huang Xiao Ming!"

Yang Ying said and bent down, looking like she was bowing to thank him, but didn't expect her to rush forward suddenly, hug Huang Huang Xiao Ming's face and kiss him.

Huang Huang Xiao Ming was caught off guard by her sudden attack, stunned on the spot, and was instantly snapped by the Hong Kong paparazzi who were waiting.

Fortunately, the bodyguards around Huang Huang Xiao Ming reacted quickly, and with a swish, they pulled Yang Ying away, holding her with both hands and walking out constantly.

At this time, Yang Ying struggled in the bodyguard's arms and shouted: "Brother Huang Xiao Ming, I love you! I love you! I want to give birth to monkeys for you!"

And her move almost caused a riot in the long queue behind. A group of girls immediately scolded: "Tiao! Stinky bitch! You dare to kiss Dao Mingsi!"

"Dead bitch, bastard, fuck your mother!"

"Damn it, your whole family will die!"

"Idiot girl, you give birth to a son without skin eyes, dad sells skin eyes, you rot skin eyes yourself!"

"Salty wet girl, so hungry, roll to be a building wind to hook men!"

Suddenly, many people ran out of the organizer to maintain order, and the autograph session could only be temporarily interrupted.

Huang Huang Xiao Ming touched his face and sighed. This is only twelve or thirteen years old, are Hong Kong girls so open? Afterward, he seemed to smell a cigarette smell. This little sister started smoking at such a young age, is she a little sister?

Huang Huang Xiao Ming couldn't help shaking his head, his Zhao Wei was still good!

This episode didn't affect the popularity of the Hong Kong autograph session, and it was on the news afterward, adding a fire to F4's popularity.

I saw many newspapers printed a photo, student girl Yang Ying sneakily kissing Huang Huang Xiao Ming's side face, while Huang Huang Xiao Ming had a stunned expression.

"Dao Mingsi was kissed by sausage girl!"

"Huang Huang Xiao Ming was crazily shown love by student girl!"

"F4 exploded in Hong Kong, becoming the dream lover of schoolgirls!"

That night, Wu Yu, who happened to call, heard about this and couldn't help but earnestly exhort Huang Huang Xiao Ming: "Huang Xiao Ming, boys need to learn to protect themselves when they are outside!" ===== CHAPTER 186 =====