The broadcast of Episode Eleven of Love Cottage and its Game BTS Version completely freed Bai Baozhu, who had been mired in controversy, from all her black marks.
Including the “Green Tea” and “Fish Farming” attributes that everyone had criticized her for during the early broadcasts of Love Cottage, they were now completely gone.
Not only had all the black marks on her disappeared, but what was even more terrifying was that Bai Baozhu had become an overnight sensation.
She, who had already been the female guest with the highest topic popularity in Love Cottage, after the broadcast of the Love Cottage game behind-the-scenes footage, her popularity had thoroughly broken out of the circle!
The topic was no longer confined to just the variety show Love Cottage! More topics emerged about Bai Baozhu playing games, Bai Baozhu being a good girl striving to become a Green Tea, and other strange topics.
And Bai Baozhu’s original fans, combining current trends, changed their fan group name to—Green Tea Flower and Yingying Monster.
There was no helping it; fans take after their idol! Who made their goddess like Green Tea Flowers and Yingying Monsters~╮(╯▽╰)╭
However, in the single night after the Game BTS Version was exposed, the number of Green Tea Flowers and Yingying Monsters among Bai Baozhu’s Weibo followers broke through from six digits to seven digits!
And the social groups and fan clubs spontaneously organized by Bai Baozhu’s fans were even more numerous.
For a time, Bai Baozhu’s limelight actually overshadowed the other main character in this hot search event—the top-tier superstar Song Zhi!
This also allowed the big shots and ‘businessmen’ in the entertainment circle to keenly sniff out the commercial value and potential for explosive popularity on Bai Baozhu.
Countless olive branches were tentatively extended towards Bai Baozhu…
“Wow! Brother Zhi! Have you seen Bai Baozhu’s game behind-the-scenes video? Her reactions are so fast! Not only is her brain quick, but her hand speed is incredibly fast too! So fast it made my eyes blur! No wonder she’s so good at gaming!”
“Hahaha, bro, I think this Little Fairy Bai Baozhu is just too adorable! I originally thought she was just teasing and mocking me, this Green Tea Yingying Monster. But I really never expected it! She genuinely thinks Green Tea is cute and was seriously learning how to be a Green Tea in the show, even though she couldn’t maintain the persona for more than a few episodes before it collapsed. How can she be so funny! It’s just hilarious!”
Watching his two younger brothers’ utterly shocked expressions after seeing the game behind-the-scenes video the Love Cottage production team posted online, a slight smile tugged at the corner of Song Zhi’s mouth.
He had watched Bai Baozhu’s Game BTS Version video as soon as it was available. Her expression while playing games was exactly the same as when she was cooking.
Both were equally focused and serious, and both were equally beautiful.
“Oh right, I just remembered, does Bai Baozhu know now that the three people she played games with are us?”
Hearing his brothers’ question, Song Zhi gently shook his head and said somewhat helplessly.
“The production team didn’t say.”
“Ah, that’s a bit of a pity. I really would like to get to know this Little Fairy.”
“But since Bai Baozhu is also a signed artist, we’re in the same circle. We’ll get to know her sooner or later.”
“True. I saw in the danmaku that the agency Bai Baozhu signed with is a very small company. This time, their boss is going to make a killing!”
“I said it before, with Bai Baozhu’s looks, she’s absolutely cut out for the entertainment circle! Now, I bet Bai Baozhu’s agency is about to go crazy with joy!”
“Let’s just hope Bai Baozhu’s sudden rise to fame doesn’t bring any trouble.”
In contrast to his two brothers’ excitement, Song Zhi’s brows furrowed slightly. The worry in his heart outweighed the happiness.
And just as Luo Xiao and Wei Haoyang had said, Bai Baozhu’s agency, upon discovering her sudden rise to fame, was indeed about to—go crazy with joy~!
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“Wow! President Xu! That Bai Baozhu our company signed is on fire!”
At five in the morning, Xu Xu, the boss of Sunrise Entertainment, hadn’t even woken up yet when his phone’s ringtone startled him awake.
Answering the call, he heard the extremely excited voice of one of his employees.
Still groggy from sleep, Xu Xu’s brain wasn’t fully awake as he yawned.
“Who? Who’s on fire?”
“Bai Baozhu! The Bai Baozhu we sent to participate in Love Cottage!”
Hearing this explanation, Xu Xu became a bit more clear-headed.
“Ah, Bai Baozhu. She’s on fire? How did she get popular? Wasn’t she being slammed really hard?”
During the time she was blacklisted by the whole internet, the company had decided to stop investing in her, to give up on this originally highly-regarded signed artist.
So, as the company boss, Xu Xu immediately perked up upon hearing that this artist they had already given up on had suddenly become popular.
“Boss, you don’t follow entertainment news, so you don’t know. Bai Baozhu got lucky! The big star Song Zhi gave her a push, and now she’s basking in his glow, completely whitewashed! Her Weibo followers have already broken a million! Just now, we received a bunch of invitations for Bai Baozhu to appear on shows and act in dramas!”
Listening to the excited words on the phone, Xu Xu was also affected by the mood and words. His original drowsiness was instantly swept away.
He had originally started this entertainment company just as a hobby, not really intending to make money. He was a pretty lackadaisical boss. Rather than wanting to cultivate female celebrities, it was more that he, as a rich second generation, found it more convenient for finding girlfriends.
So, company matters were all handed over to knowledgeable professionals to handle.
The company had always been lukewarm, in a state of not making money but not losing much either.
He had been thinking about shutting down this unprofitable entertainment company. Who would have thought that now, his entertainment company actually had a popular artist?
And, judging by his employee’s tone, Bai Baozhu wasn’t just ordinarily popular? She was in a state of explosive popularity?
“Good, good, good! Accept them all! Accept them all!”
Xu Xu happily sat up in bed, laughing heartily.
However, his happiness didn’t last long before the male voice on the phone told him another unfortunate piece of news.
“But boss, it seems Bai Baozhu, because she discovered she has quite a talent for cooking, doesn’t plan to be a star anymore. She plans to become a chef and open a food shop.”
“Huh? What? Not be a star but be a chef?? Has she lost her mind?”
When Xu Xu heard this, his whole being felt off. The smile on his face instantly froze.
The cash cow the company worked so hard to cultivate was just going to fly away like this?
But then, remembering that this cash cow Bai Baozhu had a contract with the company, he regained some confidence.
“She says she won’t be a star and that’s it? There’s still a signed contract! By the way, how much is Bai Baozhu’s breach of contract penalty?”
“Since Bai Baozhu signed a rookie contract, the penalty is five hundred thousand.”
“Five hundred thousand… isn’t that a bit low…”
…
Just as Bai Baozhu’s agency was calculating how to stabilize this cash cow Bai Baozhu and definitely dissuade her from that incorrect notion of not being a star but wanting to be a cook…
At this time, Bai Baozhu’s relatives, as ordinary people who didn’t really pay attention to entertainment news, only belatedly discovered that the prettiest kid in their family had become famous!
If it weren’t for the pandemic, they probably would have all rushed to Bai Baozhu’s home to have a good chat with her parents!
So, early this morning, the phone at Bai Baozhu’s house was ringing off the hook.
Relatives who had previously avoided Bai Baozhu’s family because something happened at her house and they didn’t want to lend money to these poor relatives, now all called to offer their condolences.
They didn’t feel the least bit embarrassed.
Instead, they excitedly asked all sorts of questions: whether Bai Baozhu was going to be a big star now, whether she would earn a lot of money, whether becoming a star would raise her status so she could marry a rich man, and so on…
Not only was the phone at Bai Baozhu’s house ringing non-stop, but even the phone at Chen Xinyi’s house, as she was relatively close to Bai Baozhu, was also ringing off the hook.
This group of relatives first finished calling Bai Baozhu’s house, then called Bai Baozhu’s aunt to gossip for a while about Bai Baozhu becoming a big star.
Thus, Chen Xinyi was subjected to endless nagging once again.
“Look at your aunt. She’s inferior to me in every way. She wasn’t as pretty as me growing up, her job isn’t as good as mine, and she married a pauper. But now, she’s about to have a crow turning into a golden phoenix all because of her star daughter! And you’re still talking about continuing your studies, studying what? This time when your cousin comes back, you better be sweet-talking. Get her to pull you up, and ideally get you into being a star too.”
I’ve heard that being a celebrity is super lucrative now. Even a small-time celebrity can easily get tens of thousands in salary! And, being a celebrity lets you meet a lot of rich people. Then you can just casually get to know a rich person and marry him. Your whole life will be completely different…”
Listening to her mother’s endless nagging, Chen Xinyi felt extremely irritable.
She had originally thought that the revelation that Bai Baozhu was a signed artist would make her pretty cousin take a good fall, continue to be blacklisted by the whole internet, not only fail to debut but also become an ordinary person everyone scorned, even inferior to her.
But she never expected that the black material she was sure would make Bai Baozhu stumble was completely reversed in less than two days!
Not only did it fail to make Bai Baozhu get blacklisted across the internet and become an ordinary person everyone scorned, as she wished. On the contrary, Bai Baozhu gained a huge wave of fans! Everyone was indifferent to her status as a signed artist, and instead eagerly anticipated Bai Baozhu’s debut and more screen appearances.
This really left her dumbfounded. She completely didn’t understand why netizens were so tolerant towards Bai Baozhu!
“Chen Xinyi! Are you listening to me? I said you have the best relationship with your cousin. She dotes on you the most. If you tell her you also want to be a star, she’ll definitely help you…”
Slapped by her mother, Chen Xinyi snapped back to reality. Looking at her mother’s mouth opening and closing non-stop, she finally snapped.
“My relationship with her is not good at all! When she was discovered by the talent scout, I was there too! That scout also took a liking to me! Said my looks were very suitable for acting, but Bai Baozhu refused on my behalf! If she really had a good relationship with me, why would she refuse for me? She’s hypocritical! Just pretending to be good to me!”
Chen’s mother, who had been endlessly nagging her daughter, was stunned upon hearing her daughter’s words.
After processing it, she said.
“Your cousin really refused the scout for you?”
“Yes, she refused for me. Said something about me being young and needing to focus my mind on studying. But there’s only a one-year age difference between us! Why did she agree to the scout to become a star, but refused for me?”
Chen Xinyi said, her eyes red and crying. In her view, it was precisely because Bai Baozhu couldn’t stand to see her do well that she refused the scout for her. Otherwise, she might have also become a star, and perhaps could have participated in a show like Love Cottage and gotten to know her idol.
However, she never considered that if the scout had really been that optimistic about her, why would he have stopped pursuing her just because Bai Baozhu refused on her behalf?
Hearing her daughter’s words, Chen’s mother instantly became furious and started cursing.
Well! Your cousin actually treated you like this! She gets to be a star, so why shouldn’t you be one too? I’m calling your aunt right now to have her give us a proper explanation!
…
At this moment, Bai Baozhu, who was recording the Love Cottage program, had no idea that outside, because of her apology statement and game behind-the-scenes footage, she had become explosively popular.
Without even officially debuting yet, she had already become an overnight sensation, a ‘prospective star’ with countless fans.
And precisely because of her overnight fame, it had stirred up some petty, trivial matters.
Right now, she was wearing a mournful expression, accepting something she really didn’t want to accept, which was—
“Zhu Zhu, you don’t need to think about quitting the show anymore! For the sake of fairness, we opened a voting right to the netizens, letting them decide whether you stay or go. The final vote count was very clear. The audience unanimously decided that you should stay and continue in Love Cottage.”
“…T_T” Bai Baozhu: Wahh, I want to cry.
Just as Bai Baozhu was being informed of this piece of devastating news by the production team, Su Han, who was on the same show, was also notified that a very important phone call had come through for her…