Chapter 127

  Jin Ran hung up the phone and got out of bed with a start, then went to wash up and change his clothes. Just as he was finishing up, the doorbell rang. He opened the door to find his agent, Fang Yu, standing outside with a steaming hot breakfast in hand, looking at him with a mixture of amusement and teasing: "You're looking quite spirited today! I thought you'd be off somewhere else, lamenting the injustices of the world again."

  He was just about to put on the same large pants as Jiang Chuan, but upon hearing this, he paused for a moment. Then, with a swift motion, he pulled down his T-shirt: "This time I won't be soft, I just communicated with Jiang Luocheng, and they want me to kneel down and sing 'Conquer'. Now I'm ready to fight back, let's see who ends up kneeling down and singing 'Conquer' in the end."

  Fang Yu heard this and didn't seem surprised at Jian Ran's words, only raising an eyebrow to ask: "What do you plan to do?"

  "Not yet," Jian Yan said, taking a bite of the bun handed over by Fang Yu, "First go to the company and let the external affairs department prepare the materials of those people who were blocked before. The nature is not completely different but can also be used as a reference."

  When he and Fang walked shoulder to shoulder downstairs and got in the car, his phone vibrated in his pocket. He took it out and looked at it, finding that Jiang Chuan had sent him a text message saying that everyone was already waiting for him at the company. Jianran casually replied with "Safe driving is everyone's responsibility, don't text while driving". At this time, the driver started the car, and Jianran thought for a moment before putting his phone away, instead logging back onto Weibo...

  Regarding his previous Weibo post being deleted in seconds, someone has already reacted. On Weibo, people are asking why the previous post was deleted in seconds. Passersby are wondering what's good about deleting it so quickly. Some people are saying that Jianyan is trying to hype himself up by deleting his Weibo posts early in the morning. The "twisted building party" is saying that they didn't even have time to take a screenshot, while most of the normal reactions are asking...

  ...but God, you're drunk too after being photographed like this.

  "What's going on with that movie and MV you mentioned earlier? Why didn't I see any pre-promotion for either of them?"

  Why was it deleted as soon as it was sent out?

  Damn it! My previous reply with the keyword of that MV was also deleted. Don't those Sina Weibo staff members sleep at all?! 23333333!

  Little elf, you've successfully piqued my curiosity - I'm going over the wall now, see you later.

  Among them, one comment was quickly liked and pushed to the top of the hot comments, and the person who posted it was still Chocolate Mochi Cookie Girl.

  That Weibo post was deleted in seconds, I felt something was off, so I casually crawled to FB to take a look - and it's right on the homepage! I saw it! It's incredibly shocking!!!! Right now, I'm still in the process of exploding!!!! If my mom hadn't come in and told me to go downstairs to buy breakfast, I would have suspected I was still dreaming!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhh, you're going to blow up, aren't you, God of Intelligence???? Comrades who don't know the truth yet, hurry up and climb over the wall to search for it! After searching, you'll come back and praise me!

  At this time, the Weibo has been liked 20,000 times. I took a look at the time, it was 6:30 on a weekday morning, and most students and working people were still asleep. Under normal circumstances, if it's not something big, comments and clicks on Weibo are usually very few at this hour. However, Chocolate Mochi Quqimiao's comment has been liked a full 20,000 times.

  This is enough to illustrate the weight of this comment.

  “……”

  He grasped his phone firmly and thought for a moment, feeling as if he had suddenly gotten something extraordinary.

  On his way to the company, he kept scrolling through Weibo. As time passed, the comments on Weibo also underwent a significant change. Around the 30th minute, those who had successfully piqued their curiosity and gone to climb over the wall came back, and everyone was frantically commenting "aaaaaa" under Jianran's Weibo post, unable to say anything else. Jianran casually glanced at the trending topics on Weibo's homepage and, unsurprisingly, found that the topic of his deleted Weibo post had already climbed to third place on the hot list.

  Here is the translation:

  "Below are various wall-climbing parties going crazy, saying that although they have saved the video by email, they cannot share it at all. As soon as it was uploaded, it was deleted in seconds. And there are even more mobile phone parties who just got up early and rushed to work, saying: Who am I? What happened here? Did I miss something?"

  He rushed to the company, jumped out of the car and ran all the way to the general manager's office. He pushed open the door and found that Luo Cheng and Xue Kai had already arrived. The two were sitting on the sofa, each holding a cup of coffee, looking at each other with serious faces. Behind the general manager's desk was another tall man, who was leaning back in the boss's chair, covering his face with a file folder, with his long legs resting on the table. From afar, one could sense a dangerous aura that seemed to warn people not to approach.

  Luò Chéng raised his head and saw Jǐn Rán wave at him. At the same time, a file folder fell to the ground behind the office desk with a "thud". Jǐn Rán looked up and exchanged glances with the man who had just sat up slightly. The latter rubbed his chin, where a blue stubble had just grown but hadn't been shaved yet, and raised his hands: "My fault."

  At this moment, he was just about to plop himself down on the sofa when he heard this and froze, his butt hovering above the couch. He turned his head to look at Jiang Chuan - who was looking back at him with an uncharacteristically anxious expression, like a guilty Alaskan Malamute caught by its owner. The mix of dignity and unease on his face was so adorable that Jin Yan's heart skipped a beat, and he almost lost his composure. After a pause, he finally sat down calmly and asked: "You didn't get to explain over the phone just now, so tell me briefly what you did wrong? - And by the way, take your legs off the table, is that the right attitude and posture for admitting one's mistakes?"

  Under Luo Cheng and Xue Kai's astonished gaze, Jiang Chuan really did put down his leg, sat steadily, thought for a moment, then replied: "Didn't you just yell at me on the phone to 'apologize'? I thought you had forgiven me."

  Yes. Jian Ran almost couldn't stop the urge to curve up the corners of his lips: "Then why did you admit your mistake so quickly?"

  "Nothing," Jiang Chuan tilted his head, propping up his chin with one hand, "I just want to hear you confirm it in person once again."

  “……”

  Jian Ran's lips quickly flattened and then twitched, thinking to himself how he had picked up such a treasure from somewhere - at this time, the atmosphere on the scene was somewhat subtle. Luo Cheng and Xue Kai turned their heads to look at Fang Yu standing behind Jian Ran, who raised his hand to make a zipping motion across his mouth, then shrugged his shoulders.

  He shifted his buttocks on the sofa, making a small space, and patted it. Jiang Chuan walked over and sat down beside him, lifting his eyelids to glance at Luo Cheng. The latter's eyes were darting back and forth between the man and the young black-haired person, as if trying to see a red thread between them. Being looked at by Jiang Chuan, he cleared his throat and finally realized that it was time to start discussing business. "Xiao Ran, our company has tried its best to arrange work," he said. "I think there's still hope for the MV to pass the audit, but now we just don't know when it will be approved... If, uh, because of personal grudges, it delays the movie's promotional progress globally, that would bring the storm from our domestic circle to overseas, and I'm worried about its impact on you..."

  It seems as if Xu Qianqian's incident last year is going to happen again.

  I don't know why, but every time his career is about to make a big breakthrough or progress, someone always jumps out and becomes a stumbling block for him, and the things they do are often those that can shake his image foundation.

  He turned his head to look at Jiang Chuan, meaning: You made the trouble, how are you going to deal with it?

  "In your country, I'm just a stinky rich person. These things can be solved with money, and the rest is up to you. If you want to get rid of Jiang Luocheng or his little girlfriend, I'd be happy to..."

  Luo Cheng had to clear his throat again to remind him, Jiang Chuan lazily glanced at him and pretended not to hear, continuing to say: "I can take action immediately, just like Xu Qianqian that time, clean and neat, nothing wrong with it."

  Xue Kai sneered as a bookworm: "Xu Qianqian? ... Knowing so much, won't she be killed to silence her?"

  Luo Cheng patted his thigh: "Do you still ask?"

  Xue Kai continued to laugh dryly, and Jin Yan was also speechless, feeling like he was dating an atomic bomb. He waved his hand and said slowly: "It's nothing, I have some ideas - think about those stars who were banned back then, how they were banned and how they made a comeback? This morning I posted a Weibo that got deleted in seconds, on my way to the company I found out that because of that deleted Weibo, related topics had already climbed to third place on the hot topic list..."

  "I see." Jiang Chuan, sitting beside Jin Yan, looked down at his phone in his hand, slid his fingers across the screen, thought for a moment and said, "I think I know what you're going to say."

  Jian Ran smiled: "Jiang Luo Cheng will regret being so despicable."

  Jiang Chuan locked his phone and casually tossed it onto the coffee table, furrowing his brow as he rolled over to smoke.

  ……

  An hour later, at 8:00 in the morning domestically, for most people this is just a good time when a new day has just begun.

  At this time, as Yuan Jinyan's number one fan in the country, Matcha Chocolate Chip Cookie Girl was hurrying home with several bags of tofu brain, taking three steps and two steps at a time. Just as she arrived at her front door without even having time to take off her shoes, she heard her mother say from afar in the living room: "Sigh, daughter, which star did you like that got banned?"

  Sister almost threw out the tofu brain in her hand when she heard the two words "kill", and quickly kicked off her shoes and rushed into the living room: "How did you know? Where did you hear it?"

  The middle-aged woman sitting on the sofa calmly said "oh" and pointed to the TV: "It's been said on TV, it should be online too, you're a young person, how come your information is so outdated?"

  Matcha chocolate cookie girl quickly stretched her neck to take a look, and as expected, on the TV screen at this time, big news headlines were flashing.

  National idol Yuan Jingyan starred in a Hollywood blockbuster, but the movie's original soundtrack MV was banned domestically due to its excessive gay content.

  “……”

  A whole line of news headlines, not a single word mentioning "Leviathan" or "Pirate's Life", to be precise, it was just an ordinary news headline. Matcha chocolate cookie girl took out her phone and logged onto other portal websites, and sure enough, similar news headlines had already occupied every corner, even when opening QQ and WeChat, such news popped up automatically.

  Weibo completely exploded over the words "involving excessive homosexual content".

  "How to scale the wall and get on FB" even became the number one trending search.

  Even ordinary passersby who are not die-hard fans but have the soul of a rotten girl activated all expressed their delight, and for a time the entire Weibo was in a frenzy, as if it had returned to the days of the "Yanxi Palace" incident. Everywhere were comments like "Seeking seeds", "I've been circled by Yan Yiren's fans, don't ask me why, just based on that moment when I saw him and Xide together, I felt my girly heart revive", "LZ is a good person, seeking seeds, email 24724533", "I saw the video, damn it, I'm shaken, how can Yan Yiren and Xide be so well-matched? I don't dare to take the wrong side, this team doesn't have tomorrow"...

  Among many related Weibo posts, one post "……my hair has turned green like cabbage" was liked 30,000 times and forwarded 10,000 times. People enthusiastically forwarded the post queuing up to ask Ertong Jiang to come out and beat his wife.

  In other words, within just one and a half hours from 6:30 this morning to now, anyone who slightly pays attention to media information, regardless of gender or age, knows that someone named Yuan Jinyan made an MV with large scale and was banned.

  Even the old lady who buys vegetables downstairs knows...

  "What? That Japanese devil? He's gone and played a gay role?"

  The ripple effect was that at this time, the entire European premiere MV entered the social platform in the early hours of the morning. The video, which had already slowed down its click growth rate, suddenly surged in clicks, instantly increasing from 150 million to over 1 billion. At a loss for what was happening, foreign friends were bewildered, thinking "Is this guy brushing up clicks in the middle of the night while the internet manager is sleeping?" Meanwhile, the comment section flooded with large amounts of unreadable English.

  “。”

  Later, through the introduction of informed people, foreign friends finally understood that this mysterious language was called Tianchao Pinyin. And our great China showed its population advantage and the universal gossip nature of its citizens at a critical moment, directly pushing the video to the top of the annual rankings, using only one hour's time, creating a new legend.

  The title of this legend is: Don't Let Me See Yet Want To See.