TPH Chapter 1.2

The Protagonist’s Halo [Arc 1] Chapter 1.2: Entertainment Circle Vase (2)

Su Man is not from a professional background. She was discovered by a scout accidentally after graduating from university. With her superior appearance, she successfully entered the entertainment industry. After two or three dramas, she became a third-tier star. Except for the lack of her own representative works, her luck along with her beauty is enough to make many people jealous.

Good looks are indeed a common hard requirement for entering the entertainment industry, and it can give you a high starting point, but if you want to stand out in the fiercely competitive entertainment industry, you can only rely on your own strength.

If Su Man’s ability as a pure newcomer who knows nothing about acting were to be brought out, it would obviously not be impressive enough.

As a result, gradually, rival companies or black fans began to attack and criticize Su Man’s acting skills, jokingly comparing Su Man to a vase.

This is actually nothing, it’s just the norm in the entertainment industry, where competition will attack weaknesses.

Over time, Su Man will either have to grit her teeth and work hard to hone her acting skills and prove herself, or she can calm down and just work as a beauty and make a living by relying on her looks for several years.

What really put Su Man’s star career into trouble was her relationship with the movie emperor Ji Yanhuai.

Xiao Han took out the original body’s mobile phone and flipped through it. The first contact she set was Ji Yanhuai. However, in the original body’s memory, she seldom called, and Ji Yanhuai answered the phone even less frequently.

Su Man seems to be in a very humble state in this relationship. She doesn’t even dare to call or video chat with her boyfriend on a daily basis, for fear of affecting Ji Yanhuai.

Xiao Han searched Ji Yanhuai’s Baidu Encyclopedia.

His debut work is his masterpiece, which has won him great box office reputation and popularity, and he has won many awards. He is also the youngest actor to win three Golden Globes in China. His acting career has been very successful, and he is considered to be the pinnacle that is difficult for male actors of the same generation to surpass. What is also enviable is that he has a strong family background, and he entered the entertainment industry to act purely because of his hobby. This kind of life winner setting makes him regarded as a male god by many fans.

When the news of the romantic relationship between actor Ji Yanhuai and Su Man was revealed, his tens of millions of fans were furious and overwhelmingly could not accept it. Although they calmed down after the public relations of Ji Yanhuai’s agency, they could not say that they did not love their idol. The fire was directed at Su Man, and they scolded her almost every day. Su Man was criticized by Ji Yanhuai’s fans on the entire network. 80% of the blame came from Ji Yanhuai’s fans.

Compared to the associated words that come out when you type in Ji Yanhuai’s name, all of them are films and TV dramas that have won various awards and been praised to the sky.

Su Man is associated with all kinds of abusive words, such as brainless vase, scheming bitch who wants to get ahead, bad acting skills, etc.

Xiao Han randomly clicked on a negative news site, where fans had made up a reasonable story about Su Man’s rise to fame that was supplemented by various evidences and speculations. In the story, Su Man was not a simple and kind person before she entered the circle. She was born in poverty but was greedy and vain. She used her beauty to enter the entertainment circle, and after getting promoted through various means, she set her sights on the male god and movie emperor Ji Yanhuai, and used means to become the movie emperor’s girlfriend.

After reading the whole article, Xiao Han thought, if you are so good at writing, why don’t you write a novel?

The people below also agreed and believed in all kinds of things, and listed various evidences, saying that Ji Yanhuai was very cold to Su Man on a certain occasion, and didn’t even look at her or have any communication with her, and didn’t help promote her new drama, and had no interaction at all on Valentine’s Day. He must be extremely disgusted with Su Man, this scheming bitch, and didn’t even bother to pay attention to her.

After reading the original body’s memories and knowing the truth, Xiao Han was speechless.

The beginning of this relationship was Su Man’s confession. After working with Ji Yanhuai twice, she fell in love with him. After one work session, Su Man took the initiative to find Ji Yanhuai and mustered up the courage to confess. At that time, Su Man was also prepared to be rejected. Under Ji Yanhuai’s many honors and status, she was not confident, but unexpectedly, Ji Yanhuai agreed.

Comparing it with the negative news made up by Ji Yanhuai’s fans, Xiao Han thought that they might be unwilling to accept that their idol was a lustful person, so they could only brainwash themselves. Su Man used despicable means to pester their idol, forcing and threatening him to be her boyfriend.

Anyway, the story that follows the beautiful beginning is not very beautiful.

Su Man’s fame has indeed risen with the title of the best actor’s girlfriend, but it has brought mostly negative word of mouth. From the first day, Ji Yanhuai’s fans have been very picky about her, complaining about all the ways she is not worthy of Ji Yanhuai, such as her poor background, ordinary education, and her mere vase acting skills.

Assistant Xiao Xia came in with lunch for her artist in her hand. When she put it on the coffee table, she noticed the negative news on Xiao Han’s phone screen and consoled her, “Sister Su Man, don’t look at these, they are all fake.”

Compared to those people who followed the trend to criticize her online, Xiao Xia has been with her for a while and knows that Su Man herself is not as bad as people say. She is really good-looking, and her temper is one of the better ones in the circle.

“Sister Su Man, don’t pay much attention to what they say.”

The assistant also knew that Su Man was under a lot of pressure and usually cared a lot about the outside world’s opinions. Especially after becoming the girlfriend of movie emperor Ji Yanhuai, she didn’t even dare to search her name directly on the Internet.

However, after being labeled as a vase, Su Man, who was one of the most beautiful women in the circle, became less and less confident.

This relationship has been under pressure from outside public opinion since the beginning, and the person under the greatest pressure is naturally the one with the lower status in the relationship.

Even the assistant felt nervous and worried for her.

Take this big-budget TV series for example, everyone knows that she became the leading actress because of Ji Yanhuai, and the leading actor is Ji Yanhuai again, so Su Man was determined to play this role well.

But sometimes the more nervous you are and the more you want to do something well, the more likely you are to make mistakes.

Su Man had only been on the crew for a few days and she had already done quite a few NGs. In terms of her status, she was not yet at the point where the director would give in, so naturally he scolded her severely and she couldn’t even say a line correctly.

Xiao Han could sense that the original body’s emotions were too tense, and once they reached the limit, the string would soon break.

And Su Man’s ending in this crew was indeed a mental breakdown.

The male protagonist of this entertainment world is Ji Yanhuai, but the female protagonist is not her, but the second female lead of the show, Pei Yiren.

Moreover, this heroine also has a golden finger, a star development system. By completing tasks to obtain star points, she can exchange them for various props, improve her appearance, acting skills, and even favorability, etc.

Pei Yiren entered the entertainment industry with the help of the star development system and successfully auditioned for a role in this drama. It was also during the filming that she won the favor of the actor Ji Yanhuai. The original self, Su Man, was more like a stumbling block for her. After all, she wanted both Su Man’s boyfriend and the heroine, which was also a task assigned to her by the star development system.