Chapter 221: Go Conquer the Audience

The reporters snapped away like madmen, while the onlookers among the fans felt as if they had happened to witness something.

"Could it be Romance?" they thought to themselves.

The media's thoughts were quite simple—Laozi is going to make a huge headline!

What is a "Top Traffic"?

Top Traffic refers to those few people in the industry today with the highest traffic.

Every move they make receives great attention, and whatever they do triggers heated discussions online.

For this type of person, even a fart-sized matter can make it to the Hot Search!

As for Luo Mo, this Top Traffic, he is quite special because he has a good reputation.

When others make it to the Hot Search, it is always one group of people reveling and another group hurling abuse.

Fans think: "Brother is Ox! Brother is glory!"

Anti-fans and passersby probably feel like that classic line from Brother Monkey—"So annoying!"

Damn it, the moment you open any platform, you see this kind of stuff; it really ruins a good mood.

Moreover, for a portion of Top Traffic, their fan composition is not right; it is very twisted.

The fan base is diametrically opposed to mainstream, positive guidance.

But Luo Mo is a freak; he has a good reputation, good favor with passersby, and—he has an insane number of male fans!

Generally speaking, people of the same sex are more critical, and men are also more critical of male stars.

Therefore, male stars with many male fans are universally acclaimed.

Everyone doesn't mind seeing his news, and might even smile knowingly.

As for Xu Chujing, that is even more exaggerated.

Ever since she debuted, her persona has been the type that focuses on her career; she has always only thought about work, has had almost no private life, and even now, she has zero scandals.

The media has never seen her be this intimate with any male star.

Originally, they are partners in the same movie. For some Actors, let alone walking the red carpet with arms linked like this, even holding hands would be absolutely nothing.

Because she is Xu Chujing, everything becomes particularly rare!

After all, let alone off-screen, even on-screen, the few TV dramas she has acted in, including the workplace drama that earned her the title of "Best Actress", were all about focusing on her career, with no Romance plots, and in the shows, she would disdain the tricks of those scumbags and repeatedly tear them apart for her best friend.

It is not like mainstream dramas, where it seems the whole world has to make way for us to fall in love!

Even in Xianxia dramas, the common people are not the point; the main theme is: even immortals have to fall in love!

They might even trigger a few cosmic catastrophes at the drop of a hat for the sake of Romance.

Since this woman doesn't even have men in her shows, isn't it even more explosive for her to be linking arms with someone off-screen?

These two will definitely have a scandal!

Even if they are very clean, CP Fans will grow wildly tonight.

What's more, Luo Mo appearing at this critical juncture, it seems... it really is damn intoxicating to ship them.

This is a head-on confrontation regarding the matter of Song Ge on the internet.

It is a bit like the principal party demonstrating against the trashy person trying to stir up trouble.

"Behind this Weibo Hot Search entry, the label by then probably won't be the 'Boiling' level, but the 'Explosive' top level," the media thought.

At this moment, Luo Mo and Xu Chujing just stood in front of the cameras like this, not striking any poses, just simply smiling at the lenses.

Today is the premiere, the media came to build hype for you, and taking photos is a mandatory process.

After the photos were taken, the two of them were supposed to head inside.

Xu Chujing hesitated for a moment about whether to put down the hand resting on Luo Mo's arm, only to see this man actually bend his arm again, palm pressed against his own abdomen—'Waiting for you to link arms. jpg'.

I have already set the pose, so you better hold on tight and be sensible.

After Xu Chujing froze for a second, although she was very unaccustomed to it, she still placed her right hand into the crook of Luo Mo's left arm.

This caused their bodies to press together, and they walked in all the way like this.

"Not a wasted trip, not a wasted trip at all!" the media reporters thought.

But they soon reacted; everyone had forgotten one thing.

"We were too busy being shocked and snapping away just now, we forgot to ask questions!"

Luo Mo and Xu Chujing looked like they were about to walk into the main entrance and had already walked far away.

But how thick-skinned the media is; a group of people started shouting from behind.

"Jing! Regarding this matter with Song Ge, do you have anything to say?"

"Jing, what are your expectations for the first-day box office of 'Cat Demon'?"

"Luo Mo, can you share your thoughts on 'Late Marriage'?"

"Can you share why the two of you came together in the same car?"

One question after another was shouted out, and Xu Chujing and Luo Mo were already standing before the door.

Xu Chujing held his arm, signaling him to ignore them and just go in.

Luo Mo, however, stopped in his tracks, turned around and said: "I haven't watched 'Late Marriage', I won't comment."

"I've heard of Song Ge; the person is just average."

After saying this, he raised his right hand and gently patted the palm of the hand Xu Chujing had linked to his arm, and they walked into the door together.

Leaving a crowd of media and fans standing outside the door, all of them dumbfounded.

"This, this, this... can we get a bonus for this when we go back, damn it?"

What kind of personality Luo Mo has, in just half a year, everyone actually already has an idea.

He is a sword that is rarely unsheathed, but his edge is very heavy.

Walking along this path, it has always been this way.

Facing the joint "Anti-Explosion" from major companies, it is so. Facing the aggressive suppression from Pineapple, it is also so.

He will not take the initiative to scratch others, but since he is a sharp sword, if someone slaps him, he will not dodge; he will directly slash your palm, or even sever your arm.

And to be honest, Song Ge is really not quite up to par in front of Luo Mo.

He is a newly promoted Top Traffic, a genius of lyrics and composition, the album released this year is very likely the first divine album of the music scene this year, and he just defeated a Heavenly King in a variety show in all aspects, being crowned the "King of Love Songs".

The Best Actor that you, Song Ge, won is from a very watery foreign film festival, which was only second-rate to begin with.

Moreover, you relied on many plot points to lick foreign judges, deliberately filming some Huaxia scenes that they hoped to see in movies, and thus obtained the Best Actor; the gold content is extremely low, and only those who worship foreign things and are unconfident in their bones would think that this kind of title is recognition from the outside world and an honor.

To put it simply: "What are you?"

Today is the premiere of "Cat Demon", and you have the face to try to touch porcelain with my White-Clad Swordsman's Cat?

After walking into the door, Xu Chujing gave him a deep look.

She originally wanted to say something, but stopped herself.

In the end, she just felt that there was one thing she must inform Luo Mo about, so she said: "Luo Mo, this Song Ge's father is the Vice President of the China Film Association."

"Is that so? But I remember there are several vice presidents; it seems Director Qian Qingyun is also a vice president?" Luo Mo asked.

"Yes, Director Qian is too," Xu Chujing said.

Luo Mo had no intention of continuing this topic, only saying: "Time is almost up, let's go in. I haven't seen the final cut of 'Cat Demon' yet."

After arriving in the waiting room, the director, screenwriter, and a group of lead actors of "Cat Demon" had already arrived.

Ding Xiaoyu had also arrived early and was standing quietly to the side.

She is very good at acting, but she is taciturn outside of acting and is not very good at socializing and chatting.

Seeing Luo Mo and Xu Chujing walk in arm-in-arm, everyone's eyes immediately converged, and each pair of eyes revealed infinite shock.

"My God! What did I see!?" This thought popped up in everyone's minds.

Ding Xiaoyu was even standing there foolishly.

Seeing his female apprentice actually standing there, Luo Mo immediately beckoned and said: "Aren't you coming to your master's side yet?"

Xu Chujing unnoticeably loosened the arm hooked in his, and began to stop everyone from going to the hall, suggesting they take a group photo backstage first.

After the photo was finished, everyone walked into the premiere hall and began the normal process.

It was nothing more than everyone saying a few words, and then watching the premiere of the movie with the guests invited to watch it.

Among the guests were Actors, directors, screenwriters, Film Critics, media, etc.

Many people should have seen review videos of various movies by directors and actors on platforms like Douyin or Weibo, right?

At this time, before the movie officially started, everyone from the "Cat Demon" crew would stand on stage and have a simple interaction with everyone first.

Xu Chujing and the director were definitely standing in the middle, and Luo Mo was also pulled to stand in a relatively central position.

His screen time was too little, and he had thought about standing on the side, but the entertainment industry is like this; everyone is counting on your popularity to attract some box office, so they will give you enough respect and status.

It is hard to imagine that a man whose shots add up to only a few dozen seconds would become the box office guarantee second only to the first lead Xu Chujing in this movie with an investment of over 100 million.

In this situation, the crew definitely treated him like a grandfather for the time being.

Fortunately, Luo Mo was also humble; he knew very well that this movie was mainly their hard work, so when he spoke, he was basically praising people, engaging in commercial flattery, but the main object of the praise was just Xu Chujing.

After the interaction ended, the premiere of the movie officially began.

The director, screenwriter, producer, and Xu Chujing, the investor and lead actor, had all seen the final cut.

Luo Mo had not, so he watched it with a sense of novelty.

He appeared quite early in this movie; after all, he saved the young Cat Demon who was being hunted at the very beginning, and the story was still in its opening state.

This plot mainly expressed the two major camps of good and evil intuitively to the audience, and also let the audience know what the villain forces in the movie were.

Luo Mo's temporary post-viewing impression was: "I was amazed by myself."

Because his bone structure is very good, he belongs to the type of face that can withstand movie-level shots.

Coupled with the blessing of special effects, filters, and sets, the scene of him landing gracefully in white clothes was filmed with quite a lot of artistic conception.

And his fight scenes attracted the attention of the few film directors who were invited.

"Hmm? This Luo Mo's fight scenes are very smooth; he has the standard of someone who has practiced!" a director who became famous for filming action movies said in his heart.

"He is worthy of being Tong Qinglin's disciple; his sword dancing is practiced very well, and he has Basic Skills," another director said in his heart.

"I have seen his information before; he has studied Classical Dance. Actually, people who know Classical Dance have a great advantage when on wires; this kind of light-body technique will appear more elegant than others."

These days, many Actors are unwilling to specifically practice some skills for a certain play.

In fact, in costume dramas, if the standard of fight scenes is high enough, it is an extreme bonus.

Just like the show "Lotus Lantern" on Earth; so many years have passed, and what is most talked about now is actually the Erlang Shen played by Jiao Enjun, with those dashing, clean, and aesthetically pleasing action scenes.

Erlang Shen was extremely dashing when using a fan as a weapon, and when using the three-pointed double-edged spear, he danced such a long weapon extremely naturally.

The market has always been short of Actors who can perform action scenes well.

Just like after Hu Jun played Xiao Feng in "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", the impression he gave people was that he could fight the whole world invincible just by carrying two speakers.

As long as the sound effect rings, my Xiao Feng's Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms will hit your face.

But in reality, Hu Jun has no foundation at all; he has complained many times in front of the media, saying that he is really not a professional, and he doesn't even understand martial arts at all, but the invitations for action scenes have never stopped.

In the hearts of the audience, those who are matched to perform action scenes and have Box Office Appeal in action movies are just those few people, over and over again.

This young man who should have been a "star" in the Opera industry, relying on these few dozen seconds of shots, is afraid he will be able to kill his way into the hearts of countless directors.

Starting from today, Luo Mo Studio is afraid it will start receiving invitations for all kinds of action movies.

……..

……..

The movie has actually been going on for ten minutes until now.

Currently, the things that have left a deep impression on everyone are Ding Xiaoyu's vivid performance, with eye acting that is moving, and Luo Mo's handsomeness and action scenes.

Many Film Critics who come to the premiere receive red envelopes, and after watching, they will go back and praise it well.

However, this is work, not their true inner thoughts.

Many people still came with a critical eye to watch Luo Mo act for the first time.

This sword dance was already stunning enough, yet his acting was not awkward in the slightest.

The core selling point of this segment of his is actually—showing off his handsomeness.

But there is no sense of greasiness, none of that constant aura of "look at me, am I not handsome?"

Every move he makes, even a single look in his eyes, is full of drama.

"When someone launched a sneak attack just now, the look he gave when he turned his head really had a lot of killing intent!"

"As expected, eye acting is no challenge for a real performer."

"Why do I feel like he seems very experienced? It's not stiff at all, it's extremely natural."

"Good grief, the one acting with him in this scene is the little acting prodigy Ding Xiaoyu, but I don't get the feeling that he can't keep up with the performance."

"Actually, just making the audience feel comfortable watching is already a very difficult thing."

—The world has suffered from ugly men in period dramas for too long!

—Period dramas are saved!

The female audience members looked up at the movie; at this moment, it was playing the very last scene of Luo Mo in the opening part of this film.

He was seen raising his hand to rub the head of the bewildered Ding Xiaoyu, using a spell to hide her very obvious Cat Demon ears.

Then, he leaned down, a slight smile in his eyes, and said with a laugh in the ear of the young Cat Demon:

"Little Cat, you must hide them well from now on."

In an instant, they felt their hearts melting.

"Ah! I've been conquered by him!"

(PS: First update, 4200 words, starting to increase the volume, asking for double monthly tickets!

Also, thanks to "I Like Reading Little Erii" for the alliance leader reward; it seems my female alliance leaders account for more than half.)

(End of this chapter)