Chapter 132: Gossip on Set
Topic: Melon Eating Discussion / Idol 101 nine-member boy group Endless-9 (Wu Jing Jiu) debut night, the heat is scary.
“Over 1.8 billion total votes, the highest number of concurrent online viewers reached 200 million. Such scary traffic! 101 took off straight from the ground.”
“Their debut blog post already has over 100,000 likes. The account was just opened. How many people are crying with envy?”
“Just opened Weibo, and Endless-9’s followers broke one million. It’s only the early morning of the debut night.”
“Yishang put on a fireworks show tonight. Endless-9’s recognition among passersby also expanded a lot at once.”
“Envy and jealousy, I’m really sour! My bias signed with a crappy domestic entertainment company (implied meaning: creates zombie/slave contracts like Myanmar scams), so envious ahhhhhh!”
“The program group rigged the votes, right? How could Fu Wan be stuck at tenth and not debut? His popularity and voting data were always in the debut positions. Yishang Entertainment go bankrupt!”
“Upstairs must be an elementary school chicken (noob). The 101 officials have already collated and published the vote counts from various voting channels. Go look at it quickly yourself.”
“101 is really tough; they actually didn’t let any rigged-vote trainees debut. Previous overseas seasons all had rigged trainees.”
“Who let Yishang Entertainment lack nothing and still have a conscience.”
“Off-topic, how much did Yishang invest in the grand finale tonight? It feels like they were preparing for tonight since they started recording 101. Not a fan of 101, but as someone who loves watching the excitement, I was shocked by Yishang’s generosity the whole time!”
“Class Representative: 1. Invited Li Daoyu to host; 2. Spent a huge price on stage design and construction; 3. Trainees wore Haute Couture and high luxury jewelry for solos; 4. New songs were all produced by Huanyin; 5. Debut seats were all money; 6. Specially made by Fireworks Master Cai Xiangchuan; 7. Booked square restaurants and cafes to treat fans.”
“It’s out, it’s out, Jing Xiu’s voting details are published! Mom, just tonight it was over six million. Money really doesn’t look like money.”
“The second place Zhou Zhijing’s family also came out.”
“Where did the elementary school chicken fan of Fu Wan go? Tonight, fourteen out of fifteen fan clubs published their details. Why didn’t your Fu Wan family publish?”
“Isn’t it obvious? Got a sea-view room (embezzled money) and ran away.”
“Damn damn damn damn! I calculated that the nine debut families voted a total of more than 23 million tonight!”
“What’s that? Go look at what Jing Xiu’s fan club published. During the talent show period, they raised a total of over ten million, almost twenty million.”
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, Jing Xiu posted on Weibo!!!!!!”
“He saw the support we did in the square!!!! Why did I get on the program group’s bus back to the hotel! If I had squatted outside longer, I could have seen my Xiu, wuwuwuwu.”
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The grand talent show event Idol 101 finally came to an end last night. After fierce competition and layers of screening, a nine-member boy group named Endless-9 was successfully formed.
After a short rest, the nine members rushed to a brand new stage non-stop, starting their entertainment journey.
At the same time, the heated discussion about Endless-9 on the Internet failed to subside for a long time, attracting the eyes and attention of countless people.
Whether on social media platforms or major entertainment forums, topics related to Endless-9 always occupied the hot spots, and their heat and traffic continued to rise without diminishing.
At this time, Gu Wanrong and the others, who had returned to campus, ushered in the final exams of the first semester of their freshman year of university. Because Gu Wanrong had already finished all the courses in the System, she entered the examination room with an extremely relaxed attitude and easily finished the exam papers for each subject.
As soon as the exam week ended, amidst the wailing of a group of people, Gu Wanrong flew to Shanghai (Shen City).
Bai Xiaosi had mentioned in a WeChat chat with Gu Wanrong a few days ago that Fashion Queen had started filming. If Gu Wanrong had time, she hoped she would come to visit the set.
In her previous life, whether in entertainment news or film and television novel works, Gu Wanrong had consumed countless big and small gossip melons about film crews. Now that she had become the “sugar daddy” investor, she decided to agree to Bai Xiaosi’s request to visit, satisfying her curiosity.
In addition, she could also inspect the crew’s work attitude as the biggest boss.
Since she was visiting, of course, she couldn’t come empty-handed. Under Butler Liu’s arrangement, milk tea, coffee, small desserts, heat packs… were all ordered and sent to the crew.
In a corner of the set, two employees were huddled together in boredom, whispering in lowered voices.
One of them whispered with a puzzled face, “Hey, tell me, where did Director Wu go? The heavy scene that was arranged for this morning was temporarily canceled and replaced with some unimportant scenes for the assistant director to shoot.”
The other person quickly agreed, “Isn’t that right! I saw Producer Guan come to the crew this morning, and she went out with Director Wu.”
The first person looked surprised and raised his voice to ask, “Ah? Why didn’t I see anything?”
The person who answered waved his hand and explained, “Sigh, I just happened to run into them when I went to deliver props.”
Just then, the two of them suddenly noticed Bai Xiaosi walking slowly down from the luxury RV parked aside, then walking straight out.
“Oh my, look at Bai Xiaosi. She just finished filming an all-nighter yesterday. She probably only slept for two or three hours on the RV. Why is she up?” One of them was curious. “She doesn’t have any scenes this morning at all! I really don’t know what she’s doing running out instead of sleeping.”
The person next to him suggested itchily, “How about we quietly follow behind her from a distance to see? Maybe we can discover some clues? Look, they are walking out one after another. Something must be happening.”
“Better… better not. I’m a little scared. What if we get caught?” The person who saw Bai Xiaosi first hesitated, stammering.
Just as they were hesitating, the things Gu Wanrong had pre-ordered happened to be delivered to the crew from outside.
The minions of the Fashion Queen crew were incredibly curious about the uncharacteristic behavior of the leads and director. This morning, they were all secretly gossiping in corners during their free time.
Not far away, Supervisor Wang Jianzhi swept her sharp gaze over the two slightly idle figures and shouted loudly, “Hey, I’m talking to you two! Come over quickly and unload the things from the car, then distribute them to everyone!”
“Oh! Okay!”
“Coming!”
The two looked at each other, immediately put down the props in their hands, and ran to the car with small steps as if wind was under their feet. Then they deftly opened the car door and carefully moved out boxes of packed milk tea, coffee, and so on.
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