Becoming a Movie Star, System Only Finished Loading After Ten Years
Chapter 60 - 59: Boss Pretending to Be a Pig to Eat the Tiger? (Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 60: Chapter 59: Boss Pretending to Be a Pig to Eat the Tiger? (Requesting Monthly Tickets)

The media aspect was actually okay. In the various reports about "King of Kung Fu," they merely mentioned Su Mang not being as good as a middle schooler.

After all, Su Mang is considered their colleague.

However, Su Mang’s reputation wasn’t big enough for her colleagues to collectively cover up for her.

Plus, with the involvement of Qi Hao, a popular idol, this matter still became headline news, drawing intense discussion among netizens and fans.

Light Rain on the Orchid Boat: For a moment, I didn’t know who to criticize more, "King of Kung Fu" or Su Mang; anyway, both are awful.

East East Never Stops Destroying the Old Waist: "King of Kung Fu" is truly terrible, the plot is almost nonexistent, purely relying on the martial arts and the stunning beauty of the two female leads, wasting the collaboration of Fang Long and Li Lianjie.

Iron McLaos: When Qi Hao, An Feng, Li Xue’xue, and Huang Xiaoming stand together, I can visualize a 72-episode large-scale melodramatic series.

Call Me Overlord Xiao: Hey, you guys, how tall do you think Huang Xiaoming really is? Those heels are so exaggerated, yet he’s still shorter than Qi Hao.

Retoucher Garnissa Xiya: It’s ridiculous, a magazine editor, a professional in the textual domain, actually worse than a middle schooler.

Qi Ang Wu: Actually, I don’t even know what Liu Tingshi does.

Galaxy Painting Sun and Moon: Is Qi Hao really a middle schooler? I don’t think so; this guy is amusing, I kind of like him.

Decadence in Zhejiang: How many times have I said it, education level and knowledge are not the same thing. Qi Hao is always holding a book on set, do you really think he’s just putting on a show?

Wan Tingliu: Some people don’t even bother pretending.

Back Then: Su Mang, this old woman, just knows how to be pretentious all day long, really don’t think she has any skills.

Autistic Emperor of Eternal Night: Didn’t Su Mang publish poetry collections and essays in "Reader"?

Hope for Perfection: The value of "Reader’s Digest" just keeps dropping.

Sleepy Winter Months: Reader Yi Lin is full of crap, these things are just stupid!

The public opinion was much more severe than Su Mang imagined.

She originally thought her charity work, contributing to society, should earn everyone’s respect and even admiration.

But unexpectedly, while female stars within the circle praised her, netizens showed no such courtesy.

Curse her to the point of questioning life.

At the root of it, she was just too pretentious, too high-profile, liked to flatter the strong while stepping on the weak, unintentionally offending many people.

Moreover, she turned charity into a business, with charity banquets becoming eye-catching messy stew.

Using others’ goodwill as her pretentious material.

Plus, she was indeed not competent.

What’s left to say? Lacking strength, she can only be trampled by others.

Don’t assume because she doesn’t need to act, sing, or follow a commercial path, she can forgo public relations, with her unique public personality, PR must be diligent.

Otherwise, Basha Group has many who want to take her fruits.

Her PR direction is divided into two paths.

On one hand, emphasize even literary folks cannot necessarily understand who Liu Tingshi is.

This character is indeed niche.

On the other hand, stir up doubts about why Qi Hao is putting on a cultured persona, as a middle schooler, what rights does he have to become an idol?

By the way, discuss how Qi Hao, rumored to have dozens of girlfriends, dares to impersonate Liu Tingshi.

Su Mang had thought, once someone ignites a fire, many of Qi Hao’s competitors would eagerly join in to add insult to injury.

The entertainment circle is inherently a life-or-death game.

However, she was doomed to be disappointed.

Saying a middle schooler shouldn’t be an idol, immediately someone sneered that she couldn’t even surpass a middle schooler.

How can you, incomparable to a middle schooler, become an editor-in-chief?

Why can’t he be an idol?

Moreover, knowledge and education level really aren’t the same thing; even educators don’t equate knowledge with education level.

As for the rumored girlfriends...

Come on, if you say Qi Hao has dozens of girlfriends, then he indeed can’t impersonate Liu Tingshi.

It’s just rumored girlfriends, not a single confirmed one.

The material isn’t shocking enough; don’t mention causing real damage, you might not even scratch the surface, others naturally don’t want to get involved.

Besides, media recently staged a drama of six major sects besieging Bright Summit.

Bright Summit was fine, the six sects ended up in chaos.

Still haven’t tidied up their mess.

Ge You is actually suing.

Even if the media retracted the articles, backed down, the lawsuits continue, each one confirmed.

Coming one by one, no one can escape.

Of course, the absence of siege doesn’t mean Bright Summit has no reaction.

Zhanqi Laiden is full of confusion:

"Is our boss pretending to be a fool who eats tigers?"

"Uh... he’s not pretending!" Old Tian paused his work, seriously considered before answering.

"Then why did he mention Liu Tingshi?"

Zhanqi Laiden felt a headache coming on. He was very satisfied with the persona Old Tian created for Qi Hao: if you’ve got nothing in your head, just act aloof.

Su Mang asks about your view on love...

You can say you’re someone who believes in love and are always waiting for fate to come along.

Or you can say you’ve seen your parents’ love since you were young and also want to find someone to spend a lifetime with.

You can even say you believe in destiny and that things will naturally come together when the time is right.

This question is too easy to brush off.

But you insist on mentioning Liu Tingshi, it’s like you’re exposing your own monkey butt for others to see.

Too easy to mess up!

"I don’t even know who Liu Tingshi is, that’s so obscure," lamented Fan Qingxi.

"Maybe he saw it and felt moved, so he remembered it. It seems the boss has a pretty good memory..."

Gao Fei was a model student type of character, but she was just lazy with no goals in life.

"Su Mang’s side is actually indifferent. Mainly, I’m afraid that the fans might get too carried away and be suddenly dazzled by the boss, always urging him to show off."

Zhanqi Laiden needed to find a way to dampen the fans’ expectations.

"Later I’ll talk to Zhang Nan, making sure when he connects for projects, he clearly communicates with the event organizers to avoid giving Qi Hao any cultural conundrums during the activities."

Everyone in the studio was brainstorming, checking for gaps and filling them.

Ensuring Qi Hao wouldn’t slip up.

Qi Hao actually wasn’t afraid of anyone trying to make things difficult for him.

Even if he couldn’t understand everything he memorized or discuss in depth, his photographic memory was enough to handle most situations.

Moreover, aren’t you afraid Qi Hao might suddenly throw you a curveball like Liu Tingshi when you quiz him?

Qi Hao genuinely anticipated someone testing him.

Otherwise, it felt quite unsatisfying to have all this cultural knowledge in his head with no opportunity to use it, like wearing fine clothes at night with no one to admire them.

Next time, he needed to catch a well-informed training NPC.

Then let it quiz him for eight hours straight.

After handling matters in the capital, Qi Hao returned to the set to continue filming.

Since the priority was filming Yang Mi, a lot of her scenes in Hengdian and the surrounding areas were almost completed.

Now the focus was on filming the parts with Qi Hao and Tang Yan.

Qi Hao planned to just focus on filming for now, and wasn’t in a rush to do charity tasks.

Su Mang had invited him at a reception to participate in this year’s Bazaar Charity Night.

If he could offer items for auction or bid on something there, it should meet the requirements of the system task.

However, the Bazaar Charity Night wouldn’t be until August.

Now it was late April 2008, and Qi Hao, with only three months to complete the task, couldn’t wait until August to do this.

Moreover, he had unintentionally offended Su Mang, so he wasn’t sure if he’d still be invited.

Qi Hao had discussed this matter with Zhang Nan.

The two of them came up with several plans to participate in charity activities.

Like attending events to raise funds for charity.

These activities take place almost every month; the difference lies in whether they’re reliable, genuinely doing charity, or just using charity as a guise to make money.

He could also donate to build Hope Primary Schools, or donate uniforms and books to impoverished areas.

If nothing else worked, directly donating to a charity fund was also an option.

Zhang Nan’s job was now to help screen and ensure that within Qi Hao’s required timeframe, he could participate in one or two charity activities.

If one didn’t work out, they’d try another, as long as it was completed within the timeframe, it counted as completing the task.

After filming for about ten days, Qi Hao discovered a secret.

Yang Mi, Tang Yan, and Liu Shishi, those three women, were bonding again like close sisters.

Weren’t they tearing each other apart over me, this Tang Monk’s flesh?

Have they so quickly buried the hatchet?

In reality, the online world is too deep, and people’s hearts are unpredictable; Qi Hao had indeed underestimated these women who wanted fame.

In this circle, there’s no overnight feud.

Isn’t it just fighting over a scandal partner?

Did Yang Mi lose anything?

She indeed stirred up a scandal; since she’s already in, a short duration is acceptable.

After all, what she wants is metaphysical results.

As long as she stirs up a scandal with Qi Hao, her luck turns, and she becomes famous.

Tang Yan even benefits more; not only has she stirred up a scandal now, but she can continue to stir it for a long time.

Every morning, she wakes up from dreams with laughter.

As for Liu Shishi... she thinks the marketing strategy Cai Yinong set up for her is also pretty good.

Stay calm, don’t worry. If you can’t find a handsome guy, find an old man.