You Don’t Understand The Pain Of Being Popular

◎The person who posted this post was one of the students who went to the movies with Quan Suyou back then. She published no ◎

The person who posted this post was one of the students who went to the movies with Quan Suyou back then.

She published a lot of her own interpretation of this movie, from the alienation of the plot, to the shooting technique, to the deep meaning of the story, and emphasized her admiration and love for it.

Not long after the post was posted, it received a lot of views.

[1L: I haven't heard of it, but it looks a bit like a post-modern movie style. 】

[2L: The introduction to the copywriting is quite interesting, and the special effects are done just like the real thing, but why is there no reputation for a movie of this quality? 】

[3L: After checking, the director of the film is Quan Suyou, a professor of our school. Could the person who posted the post be a student of this tutor? 】

[4L: Hahaha, this is an anonymous forum, so I really can't tell. 】

[5L: My cousin has watched this movie. According to her, the whole process of watching the movie was extremely painful. After watching half of it, I couldn’t hold it anymore, so I just left. 】

The comments on the first few floors were all good, but at the back, some students could no longer sit still.

Because the poster mentioned that director Archibald was also watching the movie with them at the time.

Director Archibald appreciated the film very much, and said that he would watch it again and study it carefully.

【11L: Bragging too much, right? Don't bully Director Archibald because he can't understand Chinese, so just post freely. 】

[18L: This movie has a box office of 25 million and a rating of 4.9 points. From the performance alone, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a bad movie. 】

[20L: I suddenly became a little curious, what movie can get such a high rating? 】

[25L: Personally, I think that even if Director Archibald really praised him, he probably just said a few words on the scene. 】

Because of the controversy, the post quickly became popular.

…

In the dormitory.

Yu Cheng is a sophomore majoring in directing. After class, he returns to his dormitory and turns on his mobile phone to watch movies as usual.

As a student of the directing department, watching movies is as common as eating and drinking.

Whether it is completing group assignments or writing related papers, watching movies is essential.

"Brothers, have you seen that hot post on the forum?" said the brown-haired boy on the upper bunk, "The poster actually claimed that Director Archibald praised the film "The Invisible Entertainer" .”

""The Invisible Artist"?" Yu Cheng was taken aback, "What kind of movie is this?"

He searched in his mind, but the name didn't seem to exist among the classic movies in his memory.

The brown-haired boy shook his finger: "A movie with a certain score of 4.9 and a box office smash. It was released less than two weeks after its release. It's normal if you haven't heard of it."

Yu Cheng: "..."

The corner of Yu Cheng's mouth twitched, a bit unbelievable: "Is it true?"

"Who knows?" The brown-haired boy shrugged, "Maybe it's just the poster's bragging. After all, it's an anonymous forum, so there aren't too many restrictions on speech."

Yu Cheng couldn't hold back, so he searched the forum.

The story background of "The Invisible Artist" takes place in the future society. In the trailer, the sci-fi background style is full, coupled with the gorgeous special effects, subconsciously made him want to watch it.

Especially in these scenes, there are scenes of female star Xu Jia's appearance interspersed.

Xu Jia may stand or stand, with a clear smile, sometimes like an elf who has strayed into the mortal world, and sometimes like a dark-bellied and cute monster.

Her appearance is not particularly outstanding in the entertainment circle full of beauties. However, coupled with her gorgeous clothing and temperament, no one will doubt that she is the most dazzling star.

As long as she stands here, it seems that she gathers all the shining points and is the center of everyone's attention.

"This is too beautiful..." Yu Cheng couldn't help muttering.

However, for some reason, he inexplicably felt that this female star was a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

But after searching in memory, it seems that no familiar actor looks like this.

As a student of the Academy of Film and Television, Yu Cheng was a little more perceptive than others.

He couldn't help but doubt: "Could it be a problem with makeup?"

Makeup can really make an actor change his face and become another look completely.

However, Yu Cheng was not sure.

Out of curiosity, Yu Cheng finally clicked on "The Invisible Artist" and began to watch it.

Both left and right are watching movies, it doesn't matter which one you watch.

At the beginning of the movie, there is an interstellar sci-fi futuristic scene, with gorgeous neon lights, roads floating in the air, and various three-dimensional virtual screens, where artist advertisements are being played.

In the police station, the atmosphere in the interrogation room was somewhat stagnant.

The police officer handed a photo to the girl: "You really don't know her?"

In the photo, the female star Xu Jia is standing on the floating island where catkins are flying, smiling sweetly and looking forward to her beautiful eyes. She blinked slightly towards the camera, with a little playfulness and cuteness.

The girl looked at the photo, but she cried and shook her head: "I really don't know... How could a big star like Xu Jia be known by a student like me?"

The police officer glanced at the unresponsive polygraph, and frowned: "But, you are the one who mentioned Xu Jia first."

The movie screen switches, and the time goes back to the past.

A month ago, the police took over a case. The cause was that an underage fan of female star Xu Jia was unable to repay the debt due to excessive star chasing, and finally chose to commit suicide by jumping off a building.

According to interstellar laws, actress Xu Jia's studio should pay compensation.

In the picture, the fans are standing on the height of the floating island, shouting frantically and almost distortedly, telling how much they love Xu Jia.

The citizens surrounded the floating island, pointing and pointing while eating snacks. Someone took out an optical computer to shoot, and asked her to jump off quickly, so as not to waste everyone's time.

Since then, the suicide video was posted on the Internet, some people scolded, some regretted, some ridiculed. The major media are scrambling to report, and every public is frantically exporting their opinions.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Jia recorded a video to express her regret for the incident, and said that she would give humanitarian compensation.

She is very beautiful in the video, and no one will feel distressed when such a beauty sits in front of the video and weeps. Some people scolded Xu Jia's confidante as a disaster, while others began to comfort Xu Jia, and some even pointed their finger at the fan who committed suicide and cursed viciously.

Not long after, Xu Jia's studio voiced, Xu Jia's girlfriends voiced, Xu Jia's ex-boyfriend voiced...

In just a few minutes, what unfolded in front of the audience was an era of entertainment to death.

Of course, if the matter is just like this, then this is just entertainment news, and it is not up to the police to investigate.

However, things developed in an unexpected direction.

When the fan's family found the address of Xu Jia's studio, they discovered that the studio was fake!

They claimed to be the studio of female star Xu Jia, and used this as a reason to make money. But from the beginning to the end, they didn't have a business license, and they didn't know the female star Xu Jia herself.

In this way, this is a case of fraud involving huge sums of money.

More importantly, after the news was announced, it caused an uproar, and everyone was eating melons and discussing it.

Xu Jia's fans even pulled up banners and came to the gate of the police station, hoping that the police would give justice to their idol.

The police had to investigate this.

On the cusp of this crisis, Xu Jia chose to promote her new movie.

"This is a movie that took me three years to finish," Xu Jia said with a smile in her eyes, "I hope you like it."

With the release of the new movie promotional trailer, everything about her has once again been pushed to the center of heated discussions.

At the same time, the police also found a fat man pretending to be Xu Jia's manager. The fat man recalled and told everything about Xu Jia, and the movie began to play back his past acquaintance with Xu Jia and the details of their relationship.

Xu Jia and the fat man were classmates. When he was bullied, she had helped him and comforted him gently.

From that time on, the fat man could never forget Xu Jia, he always followed her secretly and observed her, just like a pervert, silently admiring her.

After Xu Jia became popular, he had evil thoughts in his heart, and took advantage of his understanding of Xu Jia to start pretending to be her manager.

Things seem to be clearing up.

The fat man was released on bail. Following the clues provided by the fat man, the police found out the middle school he had attended.

However, after checking the archives, they discovered an amazing fact—

There is no such person as Xu Jia in this school!

The fat man is often bullied by his classmates, but there is no girl named Xu Jia who lends a helping hand to him.

"In order to be released on bail, he can actually make up such a lie..." The police officer's face was ugly, "He doesn't know Xu Jia at all! These are all his imagination..."

But if this is the case, then why can the fat man successfully pretend to be a manager? Why didn't Xu Jia herself come forward to clarify?

Xu Jia has appeared in so many movies and TV series, participated in so many activities, and even held live concerts.

None of the friends she knew in real life came out to help her clarify!

Soon, Xu Jia started the live broadcast again.

In the live video, Xu Jia expressed her sadness and said that she would choose to withdraw from the Internet for a period of time.

The movie screen began to switch continuously, and every few minutes, it would switch to the next scene.

People related to Xu Jia are constantly popping up on the Internet.

There are her ex-boyfriend, her best friend, and a woman who claims to be her mother, including directors and actors who have worked with her.

They all spoke up.

And these behaviors will set off crazy discussions among the people every time.

Some people claim to die for Xu Jia; others say that as long as Xu Jia's incident is resolved, he will go out naked...

For a while, someone claimed that Xu Jia and her were classmates in order to gain traffic, and they were temporarily staying at her home; a while later, some enthusiastic netizens posted a post, saying that they saw Xu Jia herself in a certain dungeon.

Not long after, Xu Jia herself clarified in the live broadcast room that those words were just rumors.

There are new posts, videos, and articles popping up all the time, all about Xu Jia.

The timeline becomes chaotic, and the truth becomes more and more blurred. The police are struggling with true and false news.

One late night, the police officer in charge of the case walked home tiredly, only to discover unexpectedly that his optical brain had been hacked.

A virtual screen appeared above the optical brain, and the police officer was shocked to find that the person who hacked his optical brain was actually Xu Jia.

Xu Jia looked at him, but she didn't show her beautiful side on the screen. Her eyes were cold and full of mockery.

"Is this the efficiency of your police?" She sneered, "It's been so long that you can't even investigate such a simple case, it's ridiculous."

The police officer looked at the darkened screen with an extremely ugly expression on his face.

This is provocation, this is Chi Guoguo's provocation!

This Xu Jia turned upside down the public opinion of the entire interstellar world, and even provoked the police...

What is she trying to do?

No one knows what Xu Jia wants to do.

After the trailer for the new movie aired, its release was delayed for no reason. Xu Jia herself no longer appears on the screen.

With her disappearance, there was another wave of heated discussions on the Internet.

Some people speculated that she was troubled, so she was going to quit the circle; some speculated that she had encountered an accident; some even suspected that someone was assassinating her.

Some fans were in despair and pain, feeling that Xu Jia didn't care about their fans' contributions at all, and refused to speak out for so long; some fans shouted wildly, expressing their support for all of Xu Jia's decisions.

Everyone is almost enthusiastic and crazy.

"She must have done it on purpose..." The police officer's expression turned ugly, "Just disappearing on the cusp of this storm. What is she going to do?"

Could it be that the person in charge of "pretending" to be the agent's studio was not actually pretending, but was instructed by Xu Jia herself? In this way, huge amounts of money can be defrauded under the guise of the studio's name.

However, as a popular actress, Xu Jia has a legal way to obtain this money—she has no reason to do so.

The thread is interrupted again.

In the end, the police traced back to the source and found the entire star network, the original post about Xu Jia——

【Star Calendar 78, July 21st】

[Postmaster: This sister is so pretty! Is she a star? Image] [image】

The first highly praised comment below is popular science content.

[5L: Doesn't the poster know? The female star is named Xu Jia, and she has appeared in many works such as "Prosperity and Allure". 】

What's amazing is that this netizen who was popularizing science made a speech on September 30, 1978.

Before this date, there was no content related to Xu Jia on Xingwang.

…

The police tracked down the netizen who reported Kepu Xujia's news, and went to his address to ask about the situation.

Knowing the police's purpose, the man shook his head in confusion: "I really don't know! I just made up the name at the time. Who would have thought that I would actually guess it right?"

The thread is interrupted again.

…

In the interrogation room.

The police officer looked at the girl in front of him with a serious expression: "All incidents must have a source. Judging from the clues, the source is you."

"It was you who first mentioned Xu Jia on the Internet."

This is their only breakthrough.

"But, I don't know..." The girl was already frightened, and stammered, "I saw that photo on my roommate's desk. I took a photo because I thought it looked good. posted online."

She paused, almost crying: "As for the others... I really don't know..."

The police officer paused, and finally could only ask: "What's the name of that roommate of yours, and where is it now?"

…

University of Science and Technology, Building 10, Student Dormitory.

The police officer led the team to seal off the entire floor before carefully going upstairs.

No one underestimated the action—

Who dares to underestimate a person who wanders among the powerful, fans, and entertainment companies, playing tricks on everyone, but never shows up in the end.

The actress' methods may be far more terrifying than they imagined.

The dormitory looked extremely chaotic, with various instruments placed crookedly, covering the beds, floors, and tables.

A girl wearing glasses sits at the table, concentrating on tinkering with the robot she made. She hasn't washed her hair for a long time, and she hasn't even changed her clothes.

When she heard the police push the door open, she turned around in confusion.

"You are Ke Qing?" The police officer put Xu Jia's photo on the table with a cold face, "Do you know the person in the photo?"

The girl with glasses has been obsessed with studying artificial intelligence for a long time, and she is a little confused when faced with the intrusive visit.

She squinted at the photo for a while before recalling: "Oh, this... I remember this face."

After getting an affirmative answer, everyone's eyes lit up.

"You know this star? Where is she!"

"Celebrity?" The girl with glasses froze in place, and then looked at the people in front of her in bewilderment.

She pushed her glasses, squinted her eyes and carefully looked at the photo for a long time, then pointed at it and said slowly: "You say...she is a star?"

The policeman frowned deeper, and said in a more serious tone: "Of course, don't tell me that you don't know the popular actress Xu Jia. All these things started because of her. I hope you can cooperate with our police investigation and find her."

The girl in glasses blinked in confusion, then turned around slowly, her eyes swept around, and finally stopped on the locker against the wall.

She opened the cabinet door and found a thick stack of photos.

Several other police officers looked at each other, wary of the girl's next move, and at the same time took two steps forward cautiously.

The girl searched quickly, and finally found one of them: "This is it."

She put the photos on the table.

Everyone looked intently, and in the photo, Xu Jia had bright eyes and white teeth, a smile on her impeccably perfect face, her fair and slender fingers stroking her long hair, with an indescribable charm.

This is exactly the same photo that the police got.

The police officer was even more puzzled, and looked up and down the girl with suspicious eyes.

He said: "Where did you get this photo? What is the relationship between you and Xu Jia?"

The girl with glasses shook her head, slightly confused: "Sorry, I really don't know who Xu Jia you are talking about."

"All I know is that this photo...is just a face I randomly generated with AI."

The expression on the officer's face froze suddenly.

The timeline went back, and the screen began to switch continuously.

From a celebrity manager pretending to be, to a man claiming to be Xu Jia's ex-boyfriend, to a fan who jumped off a building because of Xu Jia...

In the end, the picture freezes on Xu Jia standing in the wind, smiling with downcast eyes.

Her eyes are bright, sometimes people feel that she is a holy angel descended to the world, and sometimes feel that she is actually the most vicious devil in hell.

The police officer's eyes were full of turmoil, he moved his lips, and finally spit out a few words hoarsely: "You...what did you say?"

The camera zoomed out, covering the entire messy and dark bedroom, and then slowly lifted into the sky.

There is no background music, and the whole space seems to be quiet. The breeze blowing through the cyberpunk streets seems to be silently telling this absurd world.

The film ends here.

Until the screen went dark and the movie's ending song sounded, Yu Cheng still couldn't recover for a long time.

Finally, he finally slapped his thigh: "Fuck!"