The Martial Artist Turned Movie Mogul
Chapter 422 - 421. Haven’t I been good lately? (Part 8)

Chapter 422: 421. Haven’t I been good lately? (Part 8)

The next second, she decisively opened the Weibo app and was greeted by a lively trending list.

["Let’s Detective Together" Full of Energy]

[Unserious Village Girl]

[Zhang Yilin - Landlord’s Foolish Son]

[History of a Usurper]

["Detective" Ratings Through the Roof]

[Tang Shu The Big Bluffer]

Hm?

The first few seemed normal, but what was up with the last one?

How had she become a big bluffer?

Tang Shu was a bit displeased. She clicked on the last trending topic, only to find that the link led to — her own Weibo comments???

One head, two big [problems].

After staring at it for a long while, she finally discovered that these four words were from her own fans.

Under her most recent Weibo post, starting from last night at ten, people had been commenting, which at first had been pretty normal, with many fans saying they would support their idol’s variety show.

Polite and courteous, all with an attitude of ’I must support my idol’s variety show’ like good little babies.

Until gradually, the comments began to spiral out of control, with administrators from several Support Clubs bouncing around particularly jubilantly:

[I just knew it, how could Uncle not stir up some trouble?]

[At first I thought I’d finally get to see a handsome Uncle, but who would’ve thought that his handsomeness was just a facade!]

[Isn’t it good to just be a pretty vase? You look truly beautiful when you’re silent.]

[As expected, you never disappoint us. Man, you single-handedly derailed everyone’s train of thought.]

[Talking nonsense with a straight face, and somehow making it sound plausible, who could stand against that?]

[I knew it, nobody’s going to get an advantage from her. There, now everyone gets played by her, right?]

[When Uncle gets tough, she plays everyone, with everyone but herself as the enemy!]

[Seizing power without feeling the slightest guilt. Just look at her expression, so indifferent from beginning to end, you’d think she was the legitimate one if you didn’t know any better!]

[You really can do it, knocking out everyone, hhhhhh~~~]

[Uncle is truly Uncle, just another day of wanting to see Uncle fail but instead being shown up.]

[No doubt about it, the big bluffer.]

[Big bluffer +1]

[Big bluffer + ID number]

...

Tang Shu: "???"

They’re all a bunch of fake fans!

What she didn’t know was that these fans not only left comments on her Weibo but also sincerely (strike that) left their marks under the posts of the other nine guests.

[Don’t cry, don’t cry. Uncle is not human; as her fan, I apologize.]

[Exactly, Uncle is just a big bluffer. Let’s just forgive her~~]

[Uncle’s not human, not only tricking us long-time fans but also not sparing you guys when she gets ruthless, absolutely heartless!]

[Followed you, Brother Zhan, fellow sufferers unite!]

[Comrade Lu Shen, welcome to the ’Determined to Bring Down Tang Shu’ organization.]

[As victims, we must unite. Followed, followed!]

[If we all pull together, we’ll definitely trip Uncle up!]

[Don’t panic; I’ll be your undercover.]

Unknowingly, several guests noticed the same phenomenon:

Their Weibo followers were growing rapidly!

***

As a new day dawned, office workers gradually arrived at their desks.

Whether on the road or in office buildings, there was only one topic of conversation today...

"Hey, did you watch ’Detective’ last night?"

"Saw it, saw it; damn exciting! The more I watched, the more thrilled I got, didn’t fall asleep ’til 1 AM!"

"I feel the same way, I feel unsatisfied after watching it too! I kept sending barrage comments for half an hour straight and ended up discussing with a few netizens in the comment section!"

"I always felt like I missed some clues earlier on, I must do a second viewing after work today!"

"Agree, the plot points were too dense, it was thrilling throughout. Off to do a second viewing."

"Never would have imagined such an ending, it caught me totally off guard."

"Wang Zhan and Ke Jiazhao really had it rough, they got screwed over by a bunch of newbies so bad, hhhhhh~~~"

"Don’t you guys think Zhang Yilin is such a dummy? Yelling ’I’m the most dashing fella tonight’, I burst out laughing at that moment!"

"He’s like the dumb son of the landlord family all over again, totally out of his element every time he meets Tang Shu and goes all neurotic."

"This time he got utterly bamboozled by Tang Shu. That pitiful look at the end just killed me, so hilarious."

"He laughs like an emoji!"

Loads of Photoshop wizards quickly fired up their editing software, and new creative memes sprouted like bamboo after rain.

Thus, a new set of emojis was born, and with Zhang Yilin being the most pitiful one trapped by Tang Shu from start to finish, most of the memes were about him.

There was the one where he naively tells the stylist ’I want a buzz cut’.

Caption: Fools are blessed.

There was the one where he jumps for joy, three feet off the ground.

Caption: I’m the most dashing fella tonight/Let’s get earthy!

There was the one where he looks at Ke Jiazhao like he’s looking at an idiot.

Caption: Are you stupid or something?

There was the one where he looks utterly baffled when the truth is revealed.

Caption: What’s going on, lil bro?

Once the emojis were made, they swept through the internet at the speed of light, slowly climbing their way up from the bottom of the trending searches.

Right now, Zhang Yilin had just finished shooting a scene and was sitting in the lounge playing video games.

"Go on, I’ll cover you, I’ll cover—Woah! Can you even handle it, bro?"

"Dead again, let’s play another round!"

"Ding—ding—"

WeChat notifications kept on vibrating one after the other, message alerts popping up on the screen. Zhang Yilin ended the current game round and opened WeChat.

Consequently, he saw a string of emojis about himself, being tagged in various WeChat groups.

Zhang Yilin: "???"

Is this how you show respect?

"This emoji actually looks pretty cool, huh? The buzz cut really suits me!"

Now, more than two weeks had passed since the "Let’s Detective Together" shooting, and Yilin’s buzz cut had grown out a bit, slowly reverting to its previous style.

However, Yilin expressed that he dearly missed the buzz cut.

"Save, must save—this one is too cool!"

He was smitten with himself!

Zhang Yilin paid no mind to the various teases in the WeChat groups and started saving the emojis of himself one by one, thoroughly enjoying himself.

As for the game earlier?

Forget it, what could be cuter than his own handsome emojis!

At that moment, the door to the lounge burst open, and his manager strode in.

"Zhang Yilin!"

This roar was thunderous, startling the man so badly he almost threw his phone away.

"Bro, what now?"

Haven’t I been behaving lately?

"You’re asking what? What about your face? Take a look at what you’ve done—three spots in the top ten trending searches, three!"

The manager tossed over a phone, and Zhang Yilin glanced at it only to see it was the Weibo trending searches page, indeed with three related to him.

[Dumb son of the landlord family]

[Zhang Yilin’s earthy dance revival]

[Zhang Yilin emojis]

"Whoa, my emojis are trending too? That’s just great!"