become famous with a kiss

Ning Ze couldn't remember how many times he stood downstairs in Guan Baiyan's apartment and looked up at the room on the top floor. Every time he felt that the person living in it was unattainable, as if he was in the clouds.

It is not difficult to love someone, the difficult thing is how to make him love you too.And when Ning Ze thought that he was about to break through this problem, he discovered that there were many accidents beyond this obstacle, which were enough to shake the premise of solving all these problems.

The living room of the apartment was brightly lit, and Xiong Pang's four or five assistants gathered together to make and receive phone calls, send and receive emails, and discuss in a low voice from time to time.

Guan Baiyan stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, holding a glass of red wine in his hand, but his eyes fell on the blurred lights of the city outside the window.

As soon as Ning Ze entered, Pang Pang and his assistants stopped what they were doing and looked at him together.

Those gazes are like steel needles, which can pierce people's skin even through clothes. No matter how dull Ning Ze is, he can still feel that something is wrong.

When he approached the crowd, he realized that there were many newspapers scattered on the table in front of them.One of the huge photos on the first page can be seen clearly even from a distance, and the person wearing sunglasses walking out of an apartment on it is Ning Ze himself.

The title is also printed very eye-catchingly - Ning Ze goes in and out of Guan Baiyan's residence at night, are the two already living together sweetly? !

Shocked, Ning Ze picked up a newspaper and quickly read it. The text of the report clearly stated that according to this entertainment reporter, it was neither the first time nor the first time Ning Ze stayed at Guan Baiyan's house. Not by chance, but for a long time.There are also many photos attached, all of which are photos of Guan Baiyan and Ning Ze when they entered and exited the same apartment. Each of them wore different clothes, ranging from winter clothes to summer clothes. Obviously, it was impossible for them to be taken in a short period of time. .

The date of the masthead is tomorrow, which is the fruit daily that will be released early tomorrow morning.

Then the purpose of Xiong Pang and others gathering here is also self-evident. They are probably negotiating with the newspaper office and preparing to buy this news with money.

Hearing the sound of him entering the door, Guan Baiyan turned around and said, "It's noisy here, let's go in and talk."

He brought Ning Ze into the study, poured him another glass of red wine, and then picked up his own glass and drank it on his own.

His complexion is fair, his fingers are slender and strong, and when he gently shakes the crystal cup, it looks as if the red plums are reflected in the ice and snow, and his beauty is almost ominous.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw such a report. Even if Ning Ze wanted to ask about Ning Chengxi, he couldn't speak for the time being.

"Did you disclose this news to the reporter?" Guan Baiyan asked suddenly.

Ning Ze was stunned for a moment, unable to realize what he was asking.

"And the fact that we acted in a movie together, was it also planned by you a long time ago?"

"You were selected as Chen Fan's candidate. Did you prepare to create momentum in advance?"

"I can understand the uneasiness of being an idol. It's not a mistake to want to be more popular, and it's not a big deal to even use my fame to climb up... But, can you tell me in advance what your next step is, That way I don’t get overwhelmed when things come to a head.”

Realizing the content of Guan Baiyan's accusation, Ning Ze's ears were buzzing, and a sense of dizziness that could not breathe enveloped him.He instinctively felt that he had heard it wrong, otherwise the person who was about to say that he liked him would suddenly say such a thing to him.

He was about to collapse on the sofa, but he could only try his best to maintain a calm posture, slowly waiting for the cramping feeling in his chest to pass.

"Why do you think I did everything?" Without saying a few words, Ning Ze felt that it took all his strength.

"Have you told anyone else about the existence of those pictures?"

"……No."

"Besides you, me and Xiong Pang, is there a fourth person who knows that we live together?"

"……No."

"Who gets the most out of the hype surrounding Lost Journey's pre-cast roles?"

Ning Ze thought for a long time, but in the end he could only admit, "It's me."

Guan Baiyan threw the photo he got from Ling Zhihua on the table.

His expression was very calm, but the words he said were like a knife, and even Ningze's bones were scratched, "I really want to believe you, but you have too many bad records. Started by threatening me with photos, Step by step painstaking calculation, sometimes even I have to admire and indulge your ambition. But this time, you really crossed the line."

"It turns out that in your mind, you've always seen me like this." Ning Ze looked at those photos one by one, and smiled bitterly, "Then what about my confession? Have you ever thought that since I really like you, how can I still love you?" How could you do this to you?"

Guan Boyan paused, and said, "I learned a long time ago, don't relax your vigilance against a person just because he said he loves you. Sometimes love is the most worthless thing in this world."

Ning Ze lowered his head deeply, adjusted his breathing, and when he raised his head, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, "Can I ask, what you said that day to consider, if it didn't happen, the last What will be the result?"

Guan Baiyan was silent for a long time before he said, "If it was illusory in the first place, it would be pointless to discuss these things now..."

"What are you going to do with me?"

"You'll find out soon."

"Then I have one more thing to ask." Ning Ze leaned forward slightly and lowered his voice, "Four years ago, before my brother committed suicide, did he come to you, but you introduced him to a rich businessman?"

Guan Baiyan answered clearly, "Yes."

Ning Ze couldn't bear it any longer, and said in a low voice, "Have you ever thought about it? I might start hating you from now on. As deep as my love was once, I will hate you more in the future."

Guan Baiyan drank the glass of red wine and put the empty glass between the two of them, "You can hate me, or you can take revenge on me, but that's all your business, we have nothing to do with it."

After leaving Guan Baiyan's apartment, it was already night, and Ning Ze caught the last bus home.

There were very few people on the bus, so Ning Ze chose a seat by the window and followed the bus around.

Through the glass, the faces of all the people and scenery waiting for the bus were blurred. It wasn't until the bus reached the terminal that he realized that he had missed the platform where he should get off.

Not far from the terminal was the sea, with the salty sea breeze blowing, Ning Ze suddenly became more awake.

People often wait until the pain comes before admitting that they are pursuing the wrong things.It's like riding a horse to chase the sun, and you have to wait until you fall to the ground and can't get up before you believe that the glare is fatal; just like you think that a warmth will never go away, and you always have to wait for someone to leave the tea, Only then did you realize that what the other party handed you was just the temperature of a cup of hot coffee.

Ning Ze grabbed a handful of sand grains, opened his palms, and let the sea breeze blow away them and his extravagant hopes one by one.

***

On July [-]th of this year, less than a month before the Midsummer Dream concert, Hualing International broke out the biggest scandal in history: two popular same-sex artists of the company lived together, and one of them was a professional Guan Baiyan, who is in full swing.

Hualing International's crisis public relations failed, failing to withdraw the page before the newspaper's release, which directly led to overwhelming media reports the next day.Coupled with the rumors that the two had co-starred in Li Weixin's new film, the scandal between Guan Baiyan and Ning Ze became the hottest topic in the entertainment industry.

In this hype, the happiest thing is Yu Ji. I don’t know how many reporters this peachy incident has supported; the most unacceptable thing is the fans, whether they are fans of Cheng Fan or Ning Ze, they hope to see the two play together There are many people who are ambiguous, but there are almost no people who sincerely wish their idols to be gay.

On July 25, Guan Baiyan, who has been missing for the past few days, reappeared in the public eye for the first time, and participated in the first press conference of "Lost Journey" as one of the leading actors.

After the film crew introduced several leading actors, all the reporters were surprised to find that the person who will have a big emotional scene with Guan Tianwang in this movie is not Ning Ze, but Xiaobin who is also from Hualing International.

The rumored sudden change of the starring candidate is really easy to trigger all kinds of strange reveries.

So in the reporter's question session, the media scrambled to send out one sharp question after another.

"Previously, there was an internal source from the film studio that the other lead actor should be Ning Ze, why is it now Xiaobin?"

"Is the inside story of the substitution related to the recent news about Guan Tianwang and Ning Ze?"

Even for the press conference on formal occasions, Li Weixin still dresses very swanky, but no one will question his right to speak about his works.

He scratched his head, as if he had a headache to answer these questions, "We never said that Ning Ze was going to act in this movie, where did you all get the news, why are you more informed than me?"

This kind of answer made Zhongyuji blow up all of a sudden, and the reporters became even more passionate.

"So you didn't consider Ning Ze at all for the lead role?"

"Is someone deliberately hyping it?"

"Since "The Lost Journey" has nothing to do with Ning Ze, why didn't the film studio come out to clarify when someone broke the news on the Internet?"

Li Weixin scratched his hair again, obviously distressed at having to deal with the manic media.

At this time, Lu Jia, who is Xiaobin's manager, interjected to help the director, "My friends from the press, in fact, you don't have to think too complicatedly. The sources of things on the Internet are not reliable, so why use such groundless news?" To make things difficult for Director Li. But as far as I know, the audition candidate recommended by Hualing International was Xiaobin from the very beginning."

This passage seemed ordinary, but the journalists with keen sense of smell immediately heard the implication: the film studio and the brokerage company have always preferred Xiaobin, never Ning Ze.

So to say that Ning Ze's selection is only a talk is purely a rumor.

The minds of the reporters present were spinning rapidly, and many of them had already turned on their laptops and quickly began to record and write articles.

Another entertainment reporter interviewed Xiaobin, "May I ask Xiaobin, it is obviously your role, but the outside world has been rumoring that Ning Ze will play it. What do you think about this? Does this mean that Ning Ze is more suitable for this role than you?" "

Xiaobin, who has always had a good image in the media, once again showed his excellent reaction and superb emotional intelligence, "Whether I am suitable for this role or not, I don't care what I say, what you say doesn't matter, and what other people say doesn't matter. This question should be asked to Director Li. He chose me to act in this movie and gave me this role. I also want to know why he chose me in the first place. As for me and Ning Ze... The relationship has been very good before debut, and the last time I worked with the crew of "Winter Sunshine" was also very pleasant, and it was the same brokerage company, so if the person attending the press conference today is not me, but him, I may be more happy. Happy. Sister reporter, don't provoke our relationship."

He stretched out his index finger and shook it, causing many young female reporters to laugh, and the tense atmosphere of the press conference that would be detonated at any time eased slightly.

Taking advantage of this moment of relaxation, many entertainment journalists secretly cast their eyes on Guan Baiyan.

He is the ultimate goal of the entertainment journalists at this press conference, but Guan Tianwang's appearance in black sunglasses, a black suit, and a black tie is too scary, and his pale face and tight lips are everywhere. Explaining his bad mood, no one was bold enough to step forward and twitch the tiger's whiskers.

But the professionalism of the reporters should not be underestimated. The first person to ask Guan Baiyan a question appeared at this time.

"Guan Tianwang, are the rumors about you and Ning Ze living together true?"

The press conference, which was as noisy as a vegetable market from the beginning, fell silent, and then all the cameras and video cameras were aimed at Guan Baiyan and flashed wildly.

"Ah, I'm sorry, this question has nothing to do with the theme of our movie today, so..." Li Weixin hurriedly spoke out to help the lead actor.

But Guan Baiyan interrupted him, "It's okay, I can answer this question."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone waited with bated breath.

Guan Baiyan's voice was clear and powerful, "Ning Ze and I are just ordinary colleagues in the company, and we only interact with each other because of the needs of work. The so-called cohabitation incident is purely non-existent, and it is completely deliberate hype. , but I also hope that some people will stop in moderation, if they blindly want to consume others, they will only destroy themselves in the end.”

Such a public response caused an uproar among the crowd.

Everyone thought that Guan Baiyan would probably deny the news, but they didn't expect his speech to suddenly turn around, pointing out that he was being used by others.

Such more and more violent revelations caused many reporters' adrenal hormones to surge, and they immediately drew up the title of tomorrow's front page. , Guan Baiyan didn't say a word.

But that's enough.

A storm quickly blew up in the entertainment industry.

The first place to be affected was the Internet. Orange Fan and Ning Fan, who were so close to each other, started a protracted and bloody and violent chokehold.But compared to Orange Fan, Ning Fan is generally younger and has limited loyalty. Coupled with the staggering ferocity of the enemy, Ning Ze's supporters were defeated soon after.

And from the day of the press conference, from entertainment newspapers to gossip magazines, they all began to point out with suspicion or certainty that this oolong hype was a poor plan for Ning Ze's eagerness to become famous.

What's more, the report analyzed several key events of Ning Ze's popularity one by one, from the "High Heat" push event, to the kiss at the Winter Concert, the drinking of Lan Daiyu, and the casting rumors of "Lost Journey". It was always by hype news to occupy people's field of vision, which just shows that although Ning Ze is young, he has deep scheming and sophistication, which is really scary.

Not long after, the paparazzi who took the "cohabitation photo" of Guan Baiyan and Ning Ze had to explain the truth because of his conscience: he took the electronic photo offered by a leading star in the incident, and made it into a photoshop on the computer. Multiple photos are posted.

Overwhelming accusations and insults followed one after another, and it was strange that the popular star was criticized and slandered to such an extent that Hualing International did not even hold a clarification reception. Instead, it was never seen on TV, radio and other media. Ning Ze's trace.

Although the "HighHeat" group has not officially announced its disbandment, the members of the group have also started their own individual activities. In this way, the disappearance of a certain member will be even more invisible.

He was like a gust of cool wind blowing through late autumn, with great momentum, and then hastily disappeared from people's sight.

Some people rumored that he had been hidden by Hualing International, and some people speculated that he reappeared in public because he had no face.

But soon, the talk was replaced by new headlines.

In August, Hualing International held the new Midsummer Dream Concert as scheduled, and successfully launched a new idol group. Guan Baiyan still made his finale appearance and sang a new single that was about to be released.

In September, an earthquake shaking the entertainment world struck.

Mr. Ling, the chairman and president of Hualing International, an entertainment tycoon who has been in the entertainment industry for more than [-] years, died in the operating room due to a stroke.

Although his will clearly stated that his only son, Ling Zhihua, would inherit all his property and rights, the shareholders of Hualing International were dissatisfied with Ling Zhihua's taking power, and held a shareholders' meeting to try to provoke him.Although the seizure of power did not succeed in the end, it directly affected the stock price of Hualing International, and also made the stars of the company panic.

At the beginning of December, after six months of closed shooting, "The Lost Journey" was successfully completed. Many industry insiders predicted that Guan Baiyan and Xiaobin would have a higher career because of their participation in this film.