“Cooperate and win-win?” It isn’t the first day for Xia Rong to have come into contact with this sort of routine, so he asked right away, “His intention is to hype up a CP?”
“That’s right.” Shu Yi replied, “Although on the subjective level I would like to refuse him, objectively speaking, what he said was reasonable. It is only too common to incite a wave of CP while taking advantage of a variety show’s popularity. However, Liang Ou is a top-star level variety show, so you should consider carefully whether you want to hype up a same-sex CP.”
Shu Yi’s consideration was undoubtedly quite comprehensive一 No matter the program, the audience’s love for heckling and their mentality of wanting to watch excitement would never change. Almost all of the popular variety shows would have one or several pairs of potential CP, either the guests themselves brought about the feeling of CP sense or forced through the editing. Whether or not the program intentionally planned to insinuate these CPs at the beginning, as long as the audience enjoyed it, in the later stages, the magic scissors would automatically and deliberately edit according to the trend, and guests would also intentionally move to cooperate. Such that from this, the surrounding audience who found it to their liking would shout ‘together!’ ‘together!’, all so as to achieve the double harvest of going trending and getting ratings at the same time.
In the case of Su Chi and Xia Rong, whose popularity status within the circle was similar, in their fan circles, they would also be able to avoid a lot of problems in the later period of the CP which might lead to the two groups tearing into each other. For example, if the fans of the two sides have too great a disparity, or if the fans of the two sides would often hate on each other: “Your family’s is rubbing off on my family’s resources” “Your family’s is rubbing off on my family’s heat” “Your xxx is just a blood-sucking insect” “When it gets boiled down, it’s just living off someone else” blabla…
However, though it could be said that they wouldn’t have these problems, their fan groups right now are already very much like water and fire – unable to tolerate each other at all…
Given that 《Liang Shanbo and Romeo》 have only broadcasted the two halves of the first ‘episode’ thus far, to have ranked in the hot searches both times without having even deliberately sold any rot and for the number of their fans to have grown so quickly, from the looks of it, it does seem that the prospect of hyping this CP is indeed bright… But the biggest problem would be, as Shu Yi had mentioned, the effect that it would cause given that it is a same-sex CP.
Although the public’s acceptance of homosexuality has become greater and greater, it was still a word that is required to be hidden or avoided in front of the National Radio and Television Administration. If too much time is spent on this particular point, there’s a high probability that they would get a warning, doing too much would then be just as bad as having not tried at all. Therefore, if they really were to try to hype it, they must have a good grasp of the finesse, in which case, it would also be easier to extract themselves after the fact.
Considering it up until this point, it became of utmost importance to understanding the cooperative partner’s team… According to Xia Rong’s understanding of Su Chi’s team, the other group’s style could be summarized with one word: low-key. It was probably due to the fact that Su Chi is rather assertive in his views, so his team was more or less under his own lead: no one would make any slips to the fans; they would not deliberately complicate things; when the time comes, they would announce the upcoming projects; and when there are no new works to be aired, it was possible for them to go a month or two without making any movement.
However, this time, who knows what sort of heavenly medicine they had taken, but they actually, for the first time, tore into a variety show resource, successfully joining 《Liang Shanbo and Romeo》. And now, they even came to discuss with Xia Rong’s team to cooperate and hype a CP…
…!!!
Inadvertently thinking up to here, Xia Rong flipped and sat up: It shouldn’t be what he’s thinking, right?!
He picked up the cell phone again, exited the conversation with Shu Yi, and started to type a message to Su Chi:
{The matter with hyping a CP, had your intentions been taken into account?}
It was already past midnight at this point, however, the speed in which Su Chi replied was rather quick:
{En, it could be said that I was the one who directed it.}
He admitted to it very outright. {I just felt that it is a matter between the two teams, so I just let the team go discuss it, having Han-ge contact Yi-jie. You’re unhappy? Wished I had told you directly?}
{…No, nothing of that sort.} Xia Rong tried to organize his words. {What I wanted to ask was…}
Su Chi, {En, ask ahead.}
This attitude of “go ahead and just ask me, I’ll tell you all and everything I know” from the other, on the contrary, made Xia Rong feel even more at a loss as to how to say it. After struggling for a good period, he finally decided to give up and not bother and just played a straight ball:
{…So you’ve been secretly in love with me?}
But as soon as these words were sent, Xia Rong started to feel as if they were too tragic to be looked at: Would Su Chi think that he is too narcissistic? The other had just fought for a resource, participating in a variety show, yet this caused the other to be suspected of deliberately approaching him… Wouldn’t this be too much of a showering affection on an uninterested party?
Before he had the time to withdraw the message, Su Chi obviously had already seen it and even sent a string of dots: {……}
Xia Rong typed half of “Should be that I had thought too much hahaha” into the message box but before he could even send it, Su Chi had already, immediately following the previous message, sent the next sentence- no, the next two sentences:
{Was what I said during the day not clear enough?}
{I’ve already been saying it the entire day, you still haven’t switched gears yet?}
This time, the one to send dot-dot-dots has changed to Xia Rong: {……}
He didn’t know why but he felt a bit depressed. {So you just have to be so circuitous? Even now, you’re still not being forthright and clear with me!}
At this, Su Chi hesitated, then said, {This is my fault.}
Xia Rong felt a bit more pleased. {It’s good that you know.}
Su Chi: {Then, can you open the door for me in a bit?}
Xia Rong: {…?}
Su Chi: {It isn’t sincere enough here on WeChat. I want to tell you in person.}
Xia Rong: {…!!!}
=====
Xia Rong consecutively sent over several messages {No, no, no, no need to come over.} {I’m not trying to test your sincerity.} {I don’t want to ask anymore! Serious!}, doing his best to reason with the other in every way possible before managing to put a stop to Classmate Su Chi’s plan to knock on his door in the middle of the night.
He felt that his understanding of Su Chi was becoming deeper and deeper一 he was simply the mensao1 plus super proactive type!
—However, when the other runs into his own type who would just want to shrink into their shell, it could also be considered as encountering a nemesis, right?
He sighed, then when he finally refocused, he found that Shu Yi had again sent over several questions back to back:
{Why are you thinking about it for so long? This isn’t like you.}
{Is this a very complicated question?}
{You there? You hadn’t run off to discuss with Su Chi, right? [hammers_your_head.gif]}
…
Xia Rong wanted to express: You guessed it. =_=
He gave a hard-to-come-by cold response, {I’m trying to make the decision.}
Shu Yi: {What’s there to choose between? The popularity benefits brought about by hyping the CP, or the impact on your image?}
Xia Rong: {No. But I’ve decided.}
Shu Yi: {?}
Xia Rong: {I won’t hype CP.}
What he had been hesitating about wasn’t the choice between the benefits brought by the hype and whether his image would be damaged, but whether he could continue to enjoy Su Chi’s tolerance and tenderness towards himself with peace of mind.
“When one isn’t sure whether one can reciprocate, it’s best not to so casually accept another’s giving or investment.” This was the method of treating others that he had been taught since he was a child. Although when his parents had said it at that time, it was to teach him how to treat gifts others had given him.
But, he believes, when it comes to feelings… it should also be the same.
=====
“Cooperate and win-win?” It isn’t the first day for Xia Rong to have come into contact with this sort of routine, so he asked right away, “His intention is to hype up a CP?”
“That’s right.” Shu Yi replied, “Although on the subjective level I would like to refuse him, objectively speaking, what he said was reasonable. It is only too common to incite a wave of CP while taking advantage of a variety show’s popularity. However, Liang Ou is a top-star level variety show, so you should consider carefully whether you want to hype up a same-sex CP.”
Shu Yi’s consideration was undoubtedly quite comprehensive一 No matter the program, the audience’s love for heckling and their mentality of wanting to watch excitement would never change. Almost all of the popular variety shows would have one or several pairs of potential CP, either the guests themselves brought about the feeling of CP sense or forced through the editing. Whether or not the program intentionally planned to insinuate these CPs at the beginning, as long as the audience enjoyed it, in the later stages, the magic scissors would automatically and deliberately edit according to the trend, and guests would also intentionally move to cooperate. Such that from this, the surrounding audience who found it to their liking would shout ‘together!’ ‘together!’, all so as to achieve the double harvest of going trending and getting ratings at the same time.
In the case of Su Chi and Xia Rong, whose popularity status within the circle was similar, in their fan circles, they would also be able to avoid a lot of problems in the later period of the CP which might lead to the two groups tearing into each other. For example, if the fans of the two sides have too great a disparity, or if the fans of the two sides would often hate on each other: “Your family’s is rubbing off on my family’s resources” “Your family’s is rubbing off on my family’s heat” “Your xxx is just a blood-sucking insect” “When it gets boiled down, it’s just living off someone else” blabla…
However, though it could be said that they wouldn’t have these problems, their fan groups right now are already very much like water and fire – unable to tolerate each other at all…
Given that 《Liang Shanbo and Romeo》 have only broadcasted the two halves of the first ‘episode’ thus far, to have ranked in the hot searches both times without having even deliberately sold any rot and for the number of their fans to have grown so quickly, from the looks of it, it does seem that the prospect of hyping this CP is indeed bright… But the biggest problem would be, as Shu Yi had mentioned, the effect that it would cause given that it is a same-sex CP.
Although the public’s acceptance of homosexuality has become greater and greater, it was still a word that is required to be hidden or avoided in front of the National Radio and Television Administration. If too much time is spent on this particular point, there’s a high probability that they would get a warning, doing too much would then be just as bad as having not tried at all. Therefore, if they really were to try to hype it, they must have a good grasp of the finesse, in which case, it would also be easier to extract themselves after the fact.
Considering it up until this point, it became of utmost importance to understanding the cooperative partner’s team… According to Xia Rong’s understanding of Su Chi’s team, the other group’s style could be summarized with one word: low-key. It was probably due to the fact that Su Chi is rather assertive in his views, so his team was more or less under his own lead: no one would make any slips to the fans; they would not deliberately complicate things; when the time comes, they would announce the upcoming projects; and when there are no new works to be aired, it was possible for them to go a month or two without making any movement.
However, this time, who knows what sort of heavenly medicine they had taken, but they actually, for the first time, tore into a variety show resource, successfully joining 《Liang Shanbo and Romeo》. And now, they even came to discuss with Xia Rong’s team to cooperate and hype a CP…
…!!!
Inadvertently thinking up to here, Xia Rong flipped and sat up: It shouldn’t be what he’s thinking, right?!
He picked up the cell phone again, exited the conversation with Shu Yi, and started to type a message to Su Chi:
{The matter with hyping a CP, had your intentions been taken into account?}
It was already past midnight at this point, however, the speed in which Su Chi replied was rather quick:
{En, it could be said that I was the one who directed it.}
He admitted to it very outright. {I just felt that it is a matter between the two teams, so I just let the team go discuss it, having Han-ge contact Yi-jie. You’re unhappy? Wished I had told you directly?}
{…No, nothing of that sort.} Xia Rong tried to organize his words. {What I wanted to ask was…}
Su Chi, {En, ask ahead.}
This attitude of “go ahead and just ask me, I’ll tell you all and everything I know” from the other, on the contrary, made Xia Rong feel even more at a loss as to how to say it. After struggling for a good period, he finally decided to give up and not bother and just played a straight ball:
{…So you’ve been secretly in love with me?}
But as soon as these words were sent, Xia Rong started to feel as if they were too tragic to be looked at: Would Su Chi think that he is too narcissistic? The other had just fought for a resource, participating in a variety show, yet this caused the other to be suspected of deliberately approaching him… Wouldn’t this be too much of a showering affection on an uninterested party?
Before he had the time to withdraw the message, Su Chi obviously had already seen it and even sent a string of dots: {……}
Xia Rong typed half of “Should be that I had thought too much hahaha” into the message box but before he could even send it, Su Chi had already, immediately following the previous message, sent the next sentence- no, the next two sentences:
{Was what I said during the day not clear enough?}
{I’ve already been saying it the entire day, you still haven’t switched gears yet?}
This time, the one to send dot-dot-dots has changed to Xia Rong: {……}
He didn’t know why but he felt a bit depressed. {So you just have to be so circuitous? Even now, you’re still not being forthright and clear with me!}
At this, Su Chi hesitated, then said, {This is my fault.}
Xia Rong felt a bit more pleased. {It’s good that you know.}
Su Chi: {Then, can you open the door for me in a bit?}
Xia Rong: {…?}
Su Chi: {It isn’t sincere enough here on WeChat. I want to tell you in person.}
Xia Rong: {…!!!}
=====
Xia Rong consecutively sent over several messages {No, no, no, no need to come over.} {I’m not trying to test your sincerity.} {I don’t want to ask anymore! Serious!}, doing his best to reason with the other in every way possible before managing to put a stop to Classmate Su Chi’s plan to knock on his door in the middle of the night.
He felt that his understanding of Su Chi was becoming deeper and deeper一 he was simply the mensao1 plus super proactive type!
—However, when the other runs into his own type who would just want to shrink into their shell, it could also be considered as encountering a nemesis, right?
He sighed, then when he finally refocused, he found that Shu Yi had again sent over several questions back to back:
{Why are you thinking about it for so long? This isn’t like you.}
{Is this a very complicated question?}
{You there? You hadn’t run off to discuss with Su Chi, right? [hammers_your_head.gif]}
…
Xia Rong wanted to express: You guessed it. =_=
He gave a hard-to-come-by cold response, {I’m trying to make the decision.}
Shu Yi: {What’s there to choose between? The popularity benefits brought about by hyping the CP, or the impact on your image?}
Xia Rong: {No. But I’ve decided.}
Shu Yi: {?}
Xia Rong: {I won’t hype CP.}
What he had been hesitating about wasn’t the choice between the benefits brought by the hype and whether his image would be damaged, but whether he could continue to enjoy Su Chi’s tolerance and tenderness towards himself with peace of mind.
“When one isn’t sure whether one can reciprocate, it’s best not to so casually accept another’s giving or investment.” This was the method of treating others that he had been taught since he was a child. Although when his parents had said it at that time, it was to teach him how to treat gifts others had given him.
But, he believes, when it comes to feelings… it should also be the same.
=====
