Chapter 128

  In just a short morning time, "Pirate's Life" changed from "that movie mv that can't even be mentioned" to "the movie mv you didn't watch today".

  At 9:30, the masses of people whose gossip hearts were ignited once again proved with strength that our dynasty is not lacking in technical emperors. Some people successfully unlocked the code and downloaded videos from foreign websites to various domestic forums such as Caoliu, Haiquan, and Baidu Tieba, which are usually tightly controlled by the harmonious army.

  "But what I shot is not g/v."

  At 10 am, on various colored websites, the title "Yuan Jinyan's latest banned broadcast of a comrade-themed MV" quickly rose to the top and floated on the homepage, coexisting with titles such as "Caribbean Latest Uncoded", "July Store Owner Recommendation: Empty Sky Messenger Descends to Earth", "Wuto's Pre-Retirement Masterpiece: Captive Active High School Girl" and others, overpowering many world-class otaku goddesses, becoming a brilliant new star that ignited the forum.

  "I really didn't take a picture of G/V..."

  Because of the technical blockade benefiting humanity, people no longer need to climb over walls; group sharing, group emails, and QQ file transfers have become the best underground propaganda channels.

  At eleven in the morning, Jianran, who hadn't slept well the night before, went downstairs to a supermarket near the company to buy snacks and coffee. He planned to eat his fill and then return to the company to continue discussing countermeasures with the high-level executives. However, when he was checking out, he heard his own voice shouting "Our magnificent career, breaking waves in the symphony of storms" on the TV at the supermarket. He almost smashed a bag of tomato-flavored "Shu Shu" chips onto the cashier's head. It wasn't until then that Jianran realized that the outside world, whether it was on the streets, alleys, buses, subways, or even in taxi broadcasts, could hear the accompaniment music of "Pirate Career" at any time.

  Tuo Jiangluo Cheng's chaotic blessing, "Pirate Career" became popular.

  Although I never thought that the initial promotion of this MV would take such a bumpy and absurd route, the three sensitive points of "national idol world-class singer sensitive topic" have become the biggest selling point in the underground world... According to the Minister of Foreign Propaganda, after all the commotion, when the MV is officially unblocked and can be released in its entirety, "once banned" will also become one of the selling points. At that time, it will only be necessary to fight for a little more money to make the MV broadcast intact, and then add the words "Big Unblocking! Challenging the limits! Uncut Complete Version!" to the title.

  Look, I've even thought of the title.

  Due to this small unexpected event, the attention to the soon-to-be-released "Leviathan" can be said to have reached an unprecedented high.

  Now, even those who were not fans of Yuan or Xi De before went to watch the MV just for fun. The quality of the MV was good and the song was nice to listen to. With these two points alone, they could attract a large number of passersby fans who might not have been attracted otherwise. With this foundation, when the official promotion starts, even if the passersby are not interested in the movie "Leviathan", among a bunch of completely unfamiliar movie promotions, they will still click to watch the promotional video of "Leviathan" because they had seen a glimpse of the "Pirate's Life" MV.

  The head of the external publicity department of the IM company: "Actually, we were also thinking about the feasibility of this plan, but because no one had dared to try it before, and there was a possibility that it would be labeled as 'hype' and affect Yuan Da Shen's image, so at that time, it wasn't easy to bring it up directly——"

  Lu Cheng nodded: "I didn't expect him to dig this hole himself and then jump in with his eyes closed. Mobile phone mobile terminal first launch address:"

  At this moment, Jian Ran was deeply immersed in his own cleverness and couldn't extricate himself.

  From start to finish, Jiang Chuan only quietly deleted a paid notice SMS from his mobile phone - of course no one would tell Jian Ye that when he was still anxiously waiting, his wife had already used the simplest and most violent way of human communication "throwing money" to deal with all major media asking them to cooperate with IM company's next public relations move.

  Apart from "Yule Fengxiang Workshop" which has some interest relationship with Jiang Luocheng and refused his money, all other media platforms agreed without hesitation - after two years of dramatic storms and one successful work after another that swept the country and abroad, these media platforms that always have a keen sense of smell for information volume and direction know that any information related to Yuan Jinyan will be headline news now, so why not take the money and get a guaranteed attention-grabbing topic at the same time?

  So when Jian Ran decided to promote the topic of "MV being banned" directly, except for mentioning Tie Ban in the "Entertainment Wind Direction Studio", he was very smooth all the way and did not encounter any obstacles. Because he knew that this studio would still have to consider Jiang Luo Cheng's face when doing things, Jian Ran, who had not reported much hope, also did not lose much hope.

  In fact, it's already great to be able to send out the press release so smoothly at this point. At first, he thought those media platforms would reject him with reasons like "can't mention it, can't mention it, not even a borderline case". He naturally assumed that the media was being cooperative this time as a way of giving him face or making up for all the fake exposés they had previously made about him.

  "It seems these people still have some conscience."

  Jiang Chuan casually put his phone in his pocket, raised an eyebrow and swept a glance at the young man with black hair who was still excited as if he had taken the wrong medicine. Seeing him so happy, the man couldn't help but slightly raise the corner of his lips: "Excited?"

  "Great!"

  Jiang Chuan: "Want to go find Jiang Luocheng and have him kneel down and sing 'Conquest' for us, and also write a new wedding blessing message by hand for the two of us?"

  Jian Ran: "......"

  Jin Ran certainly wouldn't turn around and go to Jiang Luo Cheng's face, making him kneel down and sing "Conquest", because from start to finish he hadn't planned on taking him out of his phone's blacklist. The best way to despise someone is to ignore them - so Jin Ran confirmed that the MV of "Leviathan" was sweeping various topic charts and headlines again today, and finally ran into Luo Cheng's office with a yawn, applied a face mask and slept soundly.

  At night, Jin Yan immediately grabbed his phone and saw that his WeChat friends were gossiping about his new movie. Ronnie also posted a screenshot in the friend circle, where Jin Yan successfully defeated A-Tong Ge's "same-sex celebrity most wanted to be with" list on a certain website, stepping on a long string of foreign celebrity names, with "jinranyuan" looking particularly historic.

  He yawned and replied "thank you" to Ronnie below, then forwarded the screenshot to Jiang Chuan. Before long, the person who received the picture directly pushed open the door from the room, his tall figure lazily leaning against the door frame, almost blocking the entire doorway, and asked in a low voice: "What do you mean?"

  "Nothing, just letting you know, you've suddenly got a lot of rivals in love." The young black-haired man lying on the sofa said with a smile, "I've checked this website before, it's authoritative, both domestic and foreign can be accessed - this means I've become the most popular person in the gay circle, internationally... You can secretly enjoy it if you want to."

  Jiang Chuan made a noncommittal expression, walked to Yan Ran's side, and the latter slightly lifted his body, hugged Jiang Chuan's neck, and kissed him on the cheek, making room for him to sit down. After Jiang Chuan sat down, Yan Ran naturally rested his head on Jiang Chuan's thigh. He quit WeChat and logged onto other social media platforms, casually browsing through them. He found that, just like IM Foreign Minister had worried, some voices appeared on Weibo one after another. A group of people claiming to be "insiders" jumped out, telling everyone that the commotion that day was just Yan Ran hyping things up, and there was no truth to the rumor about being banned. Everything was just Yan Ran's self-directed performance.

  He sneered coldly: "I'm so full that I have nothing better to do than ban my own movie just for publicity?"

  Everyone's reaction was the same as his - if this were to happen to some small-time celebrity who needed attention, it might be understandable. But for Yuan Jin Yan, it didn't quite add up. He already had a large following, and although today's incident did have an unexpected benefit, even with normal promotional channels, the effect wouldn't be bad. He really didn't need to resort to such petty tricks.

  Some fans argued with him, and he immediately ridiculed them, saying "As expected, the more fans there are, the more just it is". While sympathizing with his own fans, he also couldn't help but feel that being a big star these days isn't easy either. Even when you're in the right, you become wrong, and as soon as you refute something, it becomes "the big star bullying the small transparent one". And then some more fans continued to argue, and someone said, "Oh, this must be Yuan Yanchen's water army arriving on the scene."

  Looking at it calmly is really infuriating, so I switched to a small account and sprayed a few sentences, after spraying I didn't look back at the replies, directly went offline and then back on Weibo.

  However, Weibo is a completely different story.

  His Weibo was filled with questions about the movie, MV and praise for Jianran's good singing. A large number of new CP fans appeared below, calling themselves "Plant People Group", which naturally refers to Xi De and Jianran who used to be plant people together - at this time, the "Plant People Group" is having a great time tearing apart with the "Chuanran" fans, Jianran's lips twitching as he thought to himself that things were going well. He opened up the hot comments and saw a bunch of people begging Jiang Chuan to quickly release some sugar or else the "Chuanran Party"'s position wouldn't be secure, and there were also people calling out to heaven and earth, their firm hearts wavering...

  One of them "Xi De and Ren Yan are really a good match" was liked 30,000 times, the next one "Ren's national fans are always suffering" followed closely behind with 20,000 likes.

  Jian Ran: ".........."

  He slapped his phone onto his stomach, lifted his head to look at Jiang Chuan, who was intently playing Super Mario on his own phone with his head down. At this moment, he seemed to feel the young man's uneasy gaze and said without lifting his head, "Yeah, I've seen it all."

  He slightly moved his lips, and Jiang Chuan said while controlling the game character to dodge the fire wheel: "Weibo is still okay, but it's pretty bad on Facebook - of course, thanks to you everyone has learned how to climb over the wall, so I'm not completely isolated. However, it's obviously not easy to argue with foreigners using Chinese pinyin, looks like your country's English education can't keep up."

  Jian Ran: "......"

  "Good news is that compared to Shido's weakling you look more like the one on top."

  "What's the good news?"

  "Stop pretending, your lips are curled up, it's disgusting."

  He carefully reached out to grab Jiang Chuan's phone, the latter let out a "tsk" sound and held up his own phone, immediately followed by the sound of "dang dang, dang dang dang" coming from the phone. Mario Uncle shrunk into a small bean and fell off the cliff. Jiang Chuan muttered "I finally got to this point" and put down his hand. Jin Ran climbed up from the sofa and snuggled up against him, sticking out his head to watch Jiang Chuan continue playing the game. As they played, the man suddenly said in a cold tone: "This month, the 'Leviathan' crew might go together for an interview."

  Jian Ran: "Uh-huh."

  Jiang Chuan thought for a moment and asked: "The scale abroad is quite large. If the host asks you about Xi De, what will you do?"

  "...... What's going on with him, I don't have anything to do with him."

  Jiang Chuan slightly furrowed his brow: "Now that things have become like this, in order to cooperate with the publicity, the crew might hope that you can give a more ambiguous answer..."

  "It's okay, just refuse and say I have a boyfriend already, it's not suitable to hype up this kind of news."

  Jiang Chuan didn't say anything, and it was unclear whether he was satisfied or dissatisfied with Jing Ran's decision. Jing Ran looked at the man's almost frozen profile and knew that he was annoyed by the online commotion, even if it was just a joke. So, he reached out to pinch his face, but the other person raised his hand to swat away his paw, saying in a tone devoid of emotion: "Now I feel it, being with a big star is really easy to make one feel powerless, afraid that if you don't keep an eye on them, they'll run away."

  "You can't escape."

  But unexpectedly, Jiang Chuan turned his head and stared at him with a strange expression for a long time.

  That expression is really very strange.

  A faint smile solidified on his face, and he always felt that for a moment, the person in front of him seemed somewhat strange, even... a little dangerous.

  To be more precise, it's like Genghis Khan... suddenly turned into Lelouch vi Britannia.

  "What's wrong?"

  Yuan Jinran.

  "What's wrong?"

  "Have you ever thought about when to leave the circle?"

  “……？”

  The surroundings suddenly fell silent, and the atmosphere seemed to become somewhat subtle. The smile at the corner of his lips was completely retracted, and the man who had been staring at him suddenly softened his eyes. He lowered his head, as if he was a bit disappointed, twisted his brain and sighed, muttering: "Forget it."

  "What's the point?" Jian Ran asked.

  "Be your superstar then," the man said weakly, picking up his phone again. "Gay circle male god."