Chapter 86: Living with a Superstar

  The day He Mu arrived at Hengdian, Shi Shi had already started filming. At the same time, "Huan Niang" in "Liao Zhai Qi Nu Zi" was in the final stage, while "Lian Cheng" and "Xia Nu" were already completed.

  Liu Xiaojie, who played a couple with He Mu in "The Young Yang Family Generals", played the role of Liang Gong, the second female lead in "Eunuch Girl". He Mu went to her place first and then went to the set of "Xin Shi Nian Niang" where he saw an old fox and more than a dozen fox spirits. Ci Ci was the one who dressed up as the least seductive and most ethereal among them. He Mu greeted them one by one and also met the executive director.

  He Mu is now a relatively well-known figure, and the executive director who has been assisting Director Li Guoli is very polite to him. He should be considered the biggest star in "Xin Shi Nian Niang". However, He Mu doesn't have any airs about being a big shot, and he only has one assistant, Mi Min, by his side, which makes for a much more low-key setup, but also makes the other actors in the group feel very comfortable.

  Today is the first day of filming for "Xin Shi Nian Niang", and there are no scenes scheduled for He Mu, so after the actors finished filming, He Mu and Shi Shi chatted and laughed together as they returned to the Xiao Bai Lou.

  Shishi had already arrived at the horizontal store, and He Mu's room was also selected by her, right next to her room. On the way, Shishi told He Mu that their cohabitation video was very popular on the internet.

  Shishi said the two words "cohabitation" in a very low voice, afraid that the actresses next to her would hear it. He Mu's heart skipped a few beats when she heard it, but soon realized what Shishi was saying.

  Those video clips should now be called "Living with a Star", which tells the daily life of actors He Mu and Liu Shishi living together while filming. These videos were shot by professional photographers, some were recorded in the living room, and some were taken by He Mu himself, at this time there is only one person, Liu Shishi, in the picture, and He Mu appears as a voiceover.

  These video materials have now been fully processed and edited into a 40-episode series of short videos, each lasting 5 minutes. The opening also promotes the TV drama "Air Stewardess", with actual content of just over four minutes. Starting from November, the company has sent people to establish accounts on major network video websites, uploading one episode per week, and nine episodes have been uploaded so far.

  Since the popularity of "Nu Xie" in 2005, "A Murder Caused by a Mantou" in 2006 continued to push the wave, triggering an evil trend. The online video industry is also getting hotter and hotter. Many people who like photography or have certain video editing skills start making their own videos and uploading them to the internet. Whether it's self-filmed or spoofing existing film and television works, their goal is only one - to get people's attention.

  However, because these works are mostly individual or small collective improvisations, the quality is generally uneven and few are outstanding. Now there is only one Hu Gua who has made a name for himself.

  "While "Living with the Stars" has a very fine production, although it can't reach the level of film production, but the TV drama production standard is still there, because the producers themselves are doing TV dramas. Plus, the actors in the short films are not ordinary people, but real stars, so the viewing point is naturally far beyond those self-entertaining works."

  He Miao's popularity is also an important factor in the success of the short film. In reality, his fame is limited, and he only gained some popularity through two TV dramas with limited broadcast range. However, online, his fame far exceeds that of reality. This is largely due to his two news events, especially the second one. Netizens initially followed the media's criticism of him, but gradually, some people began to stand up for him, and after Liu Yifei's statement, most turned to support He Miao, leaving only a small number of die-hards still insisting on the "He Miao is a hooligan" theory. The incident made newcomer He Miao's name resound online, with discussions about him during that time even surpassing those of some first-line stars.

  Of course, He Mu's online popularity is very high and another point is that he is young and handsome and starred in the most popular pure love "Living with Flight Attendants", these two points also captured many fans for him.

  So when netizens discovered this "Days of Living with a Star", it immediately sparked their interest, and some even called out to friends to watch together, giving the short film free advertising. The time when the short film was popular on the internet happened to be when He Mu Ren was in Hong Kong, where he rarely went online, only occasionally writing blog posts, so he didn't know about the situation with the short film. After hearing Shi Shi's description, He Mu Ren couldn't wait to go online and take a look.

  He Mu didn't bring his laptop this time, so he went into Shi Shi's room. Li Qian, the second female lead of "Xin Shisi Niang", who lived diagonally opposite Shi Shi, saw her new friend Shi Shi return and wanted to greet her, but when she saw her bringing a man into the house, she immediately closed her mouth with a smile.

  Shi Shi started the computer and waited for it to boot up. He casually lay down on her bed, something he had done many times before, and both he and Shi Shi were already used to it. At this moment, his head tilted to one side, and he suddenly saw a white lacy thing crumpled up under the pillow. He wanted to say to Shi Shi that wearing a bra like that shouldn't be very comfortable.

  However, for the sake of his own upright and gentlemanly image, He Mu remained silent, saying nothing, and only used his eyes to test the size of that lingerie, a technical move he had used many times on Zi Lin.

  "Okay!" Shi Shi opened her computer, got online and searched for the video, then called He Mu over to watch.

  "Oh, let me see." He Mu sat up straight, but the place he had been staring at just now was still discovered by Liu Shi. She sat on the bed and looked in the same direction, only to find that it was her own underwear that He Mu had seen. She carefully tucked her bra inside, then stood beside He Mu as if nothing had happened.

  Shishi's body was getting closer to himself, He Mu had already seen Shishi's small movements earlier and felt a bit embarrassed with his thick skin, "Shishi, you'd better sit down, I'll just stand."

  "Okay." Shi Shi sat down without hesitation and casually clicked on a website. Almost all the popular short videos from inland China were on this site.

  "No need to watch the full video, I've already seen it at Xiao's place. Let's just take a look at the comments." He Mu took a rough glance and saw that the first episode had already been clicked over 10 million times. This was quite impressive, considering this wasn't an exclusive release on their website, but rather data scattered across multiple websites. If it were the total clicks across the entire web, it would likely have exceeded 100 million clicks by now, and this was just one episode.

  The first comment Shi saw when she scrolled down was: "A single man and woman living together, they should inevitably go to the wrong room at night."

  The second one is even more excessive: actually I want to see the part that the photographer can't capture, definitely restricted level~

  Shi Shi looked a bit embarrassed: "How can there be so many scoundrels online!" She used to only care about watching videos and checking her own performance, never paying much attention to the comments section, and didn't expect to see such despicable opinions.

  He Mu saw these comments and thought they were too childish. Thinking back to when he was criticized online for the Liu Yifei scandal, the things people said were a hundred or thousand times more vicious than this. At first, he was furious and wanted to grab those who didn't know right from wrong off the internet and beat them up. But later on, he gradually became numb to it. If he felt like he couldn't take it anymore, he would simply cut himself off from the internet, read a book, listen to music, and immediately calm down.

  He Mu smiled and opened her poem: "That's because they don't understand me yet, if they knew how icy and pure I am, they definitely wouldn't say that."

  Liu Shi tried to vomit a few times, but couldn't bring anything up. However, her mood did improve somewhat. She learned a lesson from He Mu: the you in other people's eyes isn't necessarily the real you, so don't get angry for a you that even you find unfamiliar.

  Next, looking at the comments, there are also many positive remarks, such as: He Mu is so handsome, Brother Mu is the best, The man is handsome and the woman is beautiful, a perfect match from birth, etc.

  Because the first episode didn't show much, and there's nothing special in the comments, it's just people analyzing He Mu Shi and Shi Shi's relationship, or pretending that there's something ambiguous between them.

  Looking back, as the two people's performances increased, the comments became more interesting and the negative comments decreased.

  For example: Mu Ge can actually cook and stir-fry, and it looks pretty good, drooling ~~ --- Ah Q, this is a comment from the second episode, where He Mu first showed off his excellent culinary skills.

  Just watched "The Young Yang Family Generals", and found that Liu Shishi is even more lovely than on TV, Poemei is watching you——under the sky, this is a comment from episode 4. Poemei who has been learning dance since childhood, in this episode, she competes with He Mu in doing splits, but ends up getting cramps in her legs, it's really embarrassing.

  "Shi Mei is Mu Ge's exclusive nickname, don't call it randomly! —— Mu Shi San Lang, also in the fourth set, next to the previous one, obviously this netizen knows He Mu very well and should be his iron fan."

  Wow, the new beauty is so pretty and has such long legs. Will she stay here to live? — Whip can't reach, this is a comment from episode 9, Tang Yan came to grab food in this episode, so she was also photographed.

  Apart from a small number of negative comments and a large number of flattering words, there are also many comments asking "Why is it released once a week, too slow, can't it be faster?", and some ask "When will this TV series be broadcast, I'm already a bit impatient! Super looking forward to it!"

  Judging from these comments, the company's publicity is very successful, and He Mu has high hopes for the future of this drama.

  After reading the comments, He Mu asked: "Can the TV here receive 'The Young Yang Family Generals'?"

  He Mu had been watching it when he was in Shanghai, and even in the later short films, you can see He Mu and Shi Shi sitting in front of the TV discussing "The Young Yang Family Generals". However, He Mu hadn't finished watching it, especially not the part where his character dies. He hoped to find areas for improvement by watching his own performance.

  "Let me think for a moment," said Shi Shi, "Yes, I saw it yesterday. Let me find it for you."

  He Mu closed the browser and suddenly let out a gentle "hmm".

  "What's wrong?"

  "What's going on with all these icons on my computer desktop?"

  "Shishi went over and said, 'How did they all turn into pandas? How strange!'"

  He Mu added: "And he's still holding three incense sticks in his hand."

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