I really didn't want to be popular [entertainment circle]

The door opened, revealing a spacious and bright bedroom.Off-white bedding, a soft wool-like carpet, a black gold-edged coffee table, and a creamy purple vase on top.

"It would be nice to have some flowers here." Chen Jue leaned over curiously, and smiled, "I'll bring you some later."

"No need, I died after going out for a few days." Su Zibo said.

He turned around and carefully sat down on the bed.

"Do you like it? Here?" Chen Jue asked.

"...Mmm." Su Zibo's eyes looked sparkling with the light from the ceiling lamp.

"It seems that you really like it." Chen Jue was relieved to see him happy, "That's good."

Taking advantage of this time, the two began to take out their luggage and put them away.Su Zibo doesn't have many personal servers, and he only wears a black down jacket in winter. Other idols at the airport wear various fashions and sunglasses, and he can't wait to be photographed on the catwalk in a hundred cameras. He will always only wrap himself in a black Michelin tires.

He didn't have much clothes, so he put the rest of them in the closet and put them away. Su Zibo took the toothbrush and towel and ran to the bathroom. Just as he went out, he found a cat squatting at the end of the corridor.

"..." Su Zibo stopped immediately.

The cat was squatting in the deepest part of the corridor. With its tall figure, shiny leopard fur, and its fearless eyes looking directly at him, Su Zibo actually felt that it was going to speak in the next second, as if it wanted to tell him It's the master here.

"Hi." Su Zibo raised his hand carefully to say hello, remembering its name, "Gwen? Hello, I'm a new resident here."

The cat looked at it for a while, pouted its buttocks, and walked slowly towards him.Su Zibo watched him slip to his feet, then ignored him and walked forward.

Su Zibo: "..."

He hurried to the bathroom and put his things away.He has a separate bathroom on this floor. Although the design of not being in the room makes him feel unreasonable, he has to go through the corridor every time, but the bathroom is empty, with only a bathtub.There wasn't even a bath gel next to it, and there was a box of light blue bath salts.

There was even a bathtub in the guest room, Su Zibo suddenly wondered how luxurious the bathroom in the master bedroom was.

The toilet is automatic sensing, it will open by itself and heat the cushion when people come, Su Zibo sat on it sighed and rubbed his eyes.

Sleepy.

Why don't you explore your new home tomorrow.

Back in the room, Chen Jue was also about to leave, Su Zibo looked at the time and called him: "Why don't you stay here for one night, we will leave together tomorrow."

"No need." Chen Jue said, "Your things are all in the company, I have to go back and get them."

Su Zibo immediately felt a little sorry: "You've worked too hard..."

"You know I've worked hard, so do it well." Chen Jue looked at him.

Su Zibo held his breath, and then it was time for Chen Jue to preach.

"Now you have a bit of fame, but it's not enough. There is a combination of Xingge on the top, and the new generations below are watching. Although Mr. Xu's studio is attached to Xingge, he still hopes that you and the entire group can Treat them as your biggest competitors."

"Hmm..." Su Zibo said.

"You are still young, Zhou Zhitan and the others are already preparing for transformation this year. The image of domestic entertainment idols has been pale and flat in recent years, and the audience will also be fatigued."

"Yes..." Su Zibo tried his best to perfunctory.

Seeing that he was not interested in listening, Chen Jue shook his head: "Don't talk about it, you should work hard for the college entrance examination first, hey!..."

He lowered his voice: "What are you doing..."

Su Zibo hugged Chen Jue, then patted him on the shoulder, making him shut up completely.

Chen Jue: "..."

"Thank you brother." Su Zibo let go of him, "Thanks for your hard work."

"Take a good rest." Chen Jue said, "I'm leaving."

After Chen Jue left, Su Zibo planned to take a simple bath, but he accidentally washed himself sober.

At that time, it was past two o'clock, which was the time for him to sleep and rest.

When he walked back from the bathroom, he had to pass through the corridor, and he could see the large living room with a high ceiling downstairs.On the marble coffee table top, there are several colorful and conspicuous magazines on it.

The cat was lying on the gray sofa, licking its paws.

It seemed to sense movement, and it glanced up.

Su Zibo thought for a while, then walked downstairs.

There is a faint aroma in the space, probably from the smokeless aromatherapy on the table, and the basic magazine is next to it.

He sat on the sofa on the other side, and the cat stood up alertly and stared at him.Su Zibo immediately said: "Don't get excited... I'm just a little thirsty, come down and have a look."

The cat couldn't understand what he said and just stared at him.

Su Zibo took a few glances at the beautiful cat, and inexplicably felt a trace of familiarity in the eyes.

He turned his head to look at the magazines on the desktop, and the top one was actually "Cherry".

The January issue of this year, the cover of "Cherry" is an international supermodel wearing a TM dress, with the words 1 painted on the collarbone.

In order to match the orange color of "Cherry", the heavy orange eye shadow and lip makeup are emphasized, making the makeup look eye-catching and avant-garde.

He opened the following books, namely "Mori", "Front·Clothing" and "Just", which are the four major publications together with "Cherry".

These magazines are also published in January, and the cover characters are Ping Ling, who debuted as No. 1 with his limited group at the time, the current hot girl group members, and his senior brother Zhou Zhitan.

Zhou Zhitan's photo is a festive picture in bright red.

This one said they were seniors, and they came from the same company, Xingge Entertainment, which is the most mature star-making factory in China today.Xu Yiqing came from Xingge Entertainment, and Zhou Zhitan also came to Xinge Entertainment, they are real brothers.And Xu Yiqing's company is affiliated with Xingge and shares resources, so he still has a lot of connections with Zhou Zhitan.

He has been in contact with Zhou Zhitan several times, at events, annual meetings, and variety shows on the same stage, but he has never collaborated in any movies or songs, so it can only be regarded as an acquaintance, and he has not spoken a few words. In his impression, the other party is a person Gentle and gentle person, no pretensions.

And this time in the magazine, an entire page is devoted to introducing the trendy brands he manages.After Tide Brand was established last year, Su Zibo remembers reposting the opening Weibo for him.

He spread the four magazines on the table, and the cat also jumped over from the sofa, squatting among the four magazines without any fear of strangers.

Su Zibo propped his head on his hands, opened a magazine and took a look, and found that the magazine was densely covered with various post-it notes, with many notes in English and numbers that he could not understand.

"..." Su Zibo blinked, suddenly realizing that this might not be for display or decoration.

It seemed that there was a kind of peeping into the other party's work scope. Su Zibo was surprised that it was not good, and was afraid of losing the note on him, so he quickly closed the magazine.

There is nothing on the covers of the four books, but when put together, the visual power is quite strong.

"One thing to say, I still think the cover of this book attracts me the most." Su Zibo pointed to "Cherry" and said to himself.

……

"The cover that attracts you the most, there are ABCD, choose."

The pictures printed out on four A4 papers were placed on the whiteboard and sucked up with a magnet.

Then Shen Youlan sat down on the chair, crossed her legs, and folded her hands in front of her.

"A."

"C."

"A."

From the head to the end of the long table in the conference room, one by one raised their hands.After saying one, Shen Youlan raised her hand to draw a stroke below.

After a dozen or so individuals expressed their views, Group A's photo won with three votes.

"Group A is really good." Penny clapped her hands, "Choose it?"

"It's not bad, but it's not overwhelming." Shen Youlan rubbed her chin with her hand, pulled off four more, and said, "Choose again."

As soon as the voice fell, there was a whisper immediately below.

"No... this is already the fourth version of the proposal!" Penny said, "Aren't you satisfied with any of these four versions, deputy editor?"

When Shen Youlan heard the words, she raised her head and glanced at her.

Unlike the outside world, the office usually calls each other by English names or nicknames, and there is no rank restriction. Therefore, calling each other "deputy editor" is a taboo, and it has probably reached the point where it is impatient and bearable.

Penny pursed her red lips and stared at him: "ABCD is the four options. We made our own choices. Since there are high votes...then, what else do we need to choose?"

"Do you think our New Year's cover is wonderful in other publications?" Shen Youlan said.

"Of course, we lost in popularity." Penny said, "Now that we have Su Zibo and their combination, with Su Zibo, it means that we have also participated in the traffic war, and traffic is password."

Shen Youlan frowned slightly, nodded and said, "Since you know everything, why don't you choose?"

"?..." Penny let out a muffled breath after expressing disbelief.

"Before three o'clock in the afternoon, three proposals, don't make me wait." Shen Youlan stood up, "The meeting ends."

—"Lance! Lance!"

Shen Youlan left the conference room with her front foot, and Penny chased her out, walking behind Shen Youlan.

Shen Youlan was tall and slender, with long legs walking towards the office without any hesitation, Penny chased after her: "Lance, I don't understand what you mean by doing this, we have six hours to hand in the finaldraft, why do we have to choose again? "

"I want a cover with an absolute advantage. If everything is only a little bit short, it's useless. We might repeat the mistakes of opening the year." Shen Youlan said, "Isn't there still two hours? Instead of being here Chat with me, why don't you go back and think about it."

"Hey, I can't stand you." Penny pointed at him, then suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Shall we have dinner together after get off work?"

"...Let's talk about it after work." Shen Youlan said.

"That's right, then I can go after get off work?" Penny said, "Then it's done, I'll wait for you after get off work."

"Hey..." Shen Youlan said, "I didn't say..."

"Let's go! See you after get off work!" Penny said.

Shen Youlan: "..."

After he walked back to the office, he quickly forgot about this little episode and continued to review the various special reports that followed.

Three o'clock was gathered in the conference room again. After everyone sat down according to their positions, they put the remaining few selected photos on the screen. Penny said: "Okay, everything is here, don't waste time, start voting now..."

"No." Shen Youlan shook her hand, picked out a few of them, and said, "You don't need to choose now, let's find someone to choose again."

"... Huh?" Penny said, "Who are you looking for? Is it leaked when it is posted on the public platform?"

"Look for colleagues who did not vote in other departments." Shen Youlan said, "You are no longer objective enough."

What Shen Youlan said is not unreasonable, everyone has begun to form inherent thinking in the long-term selection, lacking this kind of visual impact.The magazine also has more than one editorial department, and there are still people in the public relations department, human resources and other logistics departments and sales departments. If you can make up, you can get [-] people to vote.

"Okay, I'll send them." Penny said.

"Don't be anonymous, put everyone's age and gender." Shen Youlan said, "10 minutes."

Penny immediately organized the schedule on Teams, and when the email was sent to everyone, people from other departments also entered the meeting one after another.The entire online voting system was turned on, and within 5 minutes, the votes of other colleagues in the entire office were collected.

Shen Yulan looked satisfied and began to check the voting results.

Surprisingly, a photo of several people facing the camera with very strange body proportions actually won the first place with a high number of votes.

"Huh?" Penny and several other editors looked at the voting results and asked, "Why is this..."

"Not in this previous poll," said an editor.

"But the previous group A photo was also included, so it was actually inferior?" Penny said.

"This one seems to have a good effect." Penny said, "This kind of fisheye-like anamorphic lens is like an interaction with the lens."

"I actually started to think that this one is pretty..."

"Would the other people in this picture be too much upstaged by Su Zibo..."

"I finally understand why this picture is a little uncomfortable. Su Zibo is a little too handsome and delicate. When he stands there, many people can't look away."

Penny rested her head on her hands, and compared the two manuscripts: "I'm having a hard time making a choice now... I still think this one is better, and it's pretty good."

Others chattered.

"Lance, what do you think?"

"Yeah yeah Lance hasn't voted yet."

You and I continued the heated discussion, and Shen Youlan's pen was spinning in his hand until their discussion was completed, waiting for Shen Youlan to say the result.Shen Youlan was looking at Su Zibo's face, and finally threw the manuscript on the table.

"Use this." He pointed to the photo that was voted out later.

"But this Su Zibo is a bit prominent." Someone said, "Will it affect the balance of the entire cover?"

"And for this one, there will be such a scolding battle between fans, fans are really sensitive..."

Shen Youlan flicked the pen slowly with her hand: "Have you seen the sales curve of the magazines at the beginning of the year? Most of the sales contribution of other magazines comes from the fan group, and the mainstream subscription group of the magazine. It will be a complete loss."

"Fans like to quarrel, and it's best to quarrel." Shen Youlan stood up, holding the table with her hands, "My goal is only sales and reputation in the industry. I don't care who will be wronged or who will quarrel."

Shen Youlan picked up the paper and fixed it on the whiteboard. After the "click" sound between the magnet and the magnetic board, he said: "Finish the draft and prepare for the evening meeting with the editor-in-chief."

……

At eight o'clock in the evening, the cover was finally decided.

From the shooting of the magazine to finalizing the final version, it took almost only a few days due to force majeure, which became the fastest time in the history of "Cherry".

Fortunately, the choice of speed this time made Cao Hong very satisfied with the result, so he drew a perfect...comma for them years ago.There are more things to do in the next year, but the most difficult part is over, and finally there is something to look forward to.

"Off work, off work..."

"It's been a hard few days."

"I'm on vacation tomorrow, so I won't see you this year. Happy New Year!"

Many people work overtime for the sprint at the end of the year. Seeing that the most important thing has been completed, the stone in their hearts has fallen to the ground, and they start to take their annual leave one after another.

After Shen Youlan approved several leave slips before leaving get off work, she also prepared to pack up and leave work.

Walking to the door, the neatly dressed Penny said to him, "Lance~"

"No time." Shen Youlan immediately said, "I have an appointment."

"Fart, you told my mother that you're free this afternoon." Penny followed him, and immediately took his arm, "Hurry up, hurry up, let's go, my little sister is finally free..."

Shen Youlan's mind was full of "here again", while trying to find an excuse.

"I don't go on blind dates, and I'm not good at social." Shen Youlan was pulled forward by her, "Let me go."

"Look at you, you're already thirty, and you usually work or work, so you don't have time for social at all. My little sister is in very good condition..." Penny walked out while pulling him, "This is my treat." Okay, let’s go, let’s go… come on~”

Shen Youlan was pulled into the car.

There is a feeling of being pulled on a thief ship.

"Tomorrow is the New Year's Eve. If we have a good talk in a few days, we can play together for the New Year's Eve tomorrow." Penny got in the car and asked Shen Youlan to sit in the co-pilot.

Shen Youlan sighed, propped her head on her hands and looked out the window.

"What, do you dislike blind dates?" Penny said.

"No." Shen Youlan said, "You said it too, I am not too young. Sometimes I really want to see if there is a suitable one..."

"That's right, then I don't want to introduce you." Penny immediately held up the phone to show Shen Yulan, and put together a few photos of their beautification, "Do you think my sister is beautiful? Is it your type? She is two years younger than you, has stayed abroad, and works as HR in a foreign company, so cute and easy to cut."

Shen Youlan shook her head: "But I just want to go home and sleep now."

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