Lin Ran is a very charismatic person.
Xu Qichen knew this well. With his youthful liveliness, his allure was far beyond what Xu Qichen had written back then. He even began to suspect if any butterfly effect caused by his transmigration and subsequent changing of the plot could really create a brand new character like that.
Even if Lin Ran had not chased him of his own volition, as long as they interacted with each other over a period of time, he’s afraid he would have fallen in love anyway.
After a few back-to-back roadshows, the promotion goals were met, especially with the speech Lin Ran had given at the first roadshow at the highschool. The netizens frantically reposted the video of his answer and related tags had shown up on the hot search column on Weibo. Lin Ran’s reputation amongst passersby, which had already been very good, was further improved, bringing with it the entire film’s likability, especially amongst the actual LGBT group.
[Vera9801]: The ability to give such a speech is the best promotion this film can have.
[It’s guagua not gugu]: Master Lin is both gentle and strong. I really want to watch this film just because of that last sentence.
[The Black You]: My gosh, even though I’m not Lin Ran’s fan, I really want to boast about him! Rather than the ‘public persona’ stance many celebrities adopt (of course, that’s also a good stance), this reasoning of ‘because they’re the same as us that’s why I don’t have the right to speak for them’ is really too touching.
[that’s right I’m a boy]: I’ve already booked the tickets for the premiere, going with my boyfriend, holding hands.
……
After the last roadshow, it was finally time for the premiere conference. Since Nan Ke will be having a simultaneous release at home and abroad, the premieres would be held in Shanghai and Nice on December 24 and 25, respectively.
In order to coordinate with the film publicity and marketing, Xu Qichen and Lin Ran were outfitted according to the film timeline. At the premiere conference in Shanghai, Xu Qichen and Lin Ran were both dressed in the clothes of Nan Ke seven years later, and the styling was very close to the costume for that time period.
Lin Ran, dressed in a neat camel colored windbreaker, looked mature and gave off Nan Ke’s sense of professionalism as a reporter. Xu Qichen; finally without his eye patch, matched Yu Ning’s identity as a writer in a black coat and a pair of polite silver fine frame glasses.
When they appeared, the audience erupted in cheers.
There was not much difference between the processes of the press conference and the roadshow. Xu Qichen had begun to get used to the proceedings of this kind of activity. He did not speak much more than he did before. However, most of the hosts knew that Ji Mengze was a man of few words, so to maintain the interactive nature of the activity, they prefered to interview and ask questions to the others present.
At the end of the Shanghai conference, there was a rapid-fire segment in which Xu Qichen had to participate as well.
The MC read off his card: “Your favourite food is?”
Xu Qichen: “Ice cream.”
MC: “The first thing you do after waking up in the morning?”
Xu Qichen: “Roll over and lie in.”
The speed of asking became faster and faster, and Xu Qichen began to forget about Ji Mengze’s setting. Anyway, they weren’t too different, so he answered according to his own habits.
MC: “In between tasks you…?”
Xu Qichen: “Daydream.”
MC: “Favourite animal?”
Xu Qichen: “Dog.”
MC: “Thing you did for the longest time?”
Xu Qichen: “Had a crush.”
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“Ah, so it’s like that.” The MC immediately accepted the new answer. He laughed, “Mengze seems to have learnt some variety show sense recently, you even learnt to joke~”
“That’s right, my dream is actually to be a comedian o.”
The fans and guests all laughed out loud, except for Lin Ran, who continued to give Xu Qichen a strange look.
In his eyes, it seemed to be suspicion.
The success of the domestic premiere was as expected. After finishing the publicity on the mainland, the creators immediately flew to France. In order to match the plot, both of the main actors showed up with almost no makeup, extenuating an overall style that was full of juvenile spirit. Since it was winter, they could not wear the knee-length shorts as in the film. So the stylist designed two sets of matching couple ski suits.
It looked just like the Yu Ning and Nan Ke from the film were going skiing together.
As though the parallel world had extended into perfection.
Xu had not expected much of the promotion in France, but the enthusiasm on the scene was far beyond his expectations. After asking, he learned that the trailer gained recognition from a lot of foreign fans. Lin Ran’s speech on the roadshow had also been translated into many languages and reposted and watched many times.
Under the combined effect of Chen Anping’s prestige, Lin Ran’s reputation, and Ji Mengze’s popularity, Nan Ke’s premiere naturally attracted a lot of attention, especially since the film had never left the public’s attention.
Although the plot and emotional line of Nan Ke doomed it to not get the same broad audience as the foreign blockbusters and domestic comedies of the same period, the redefinition of the propaganda points of romantic films had also attracted the attention of many young people.
Nan Ke’s box office collection reached 19.8 million on the first day in China, which was a very good start for a literary romance film.
Xu Qichen was very happy when he heard the news during the break while filming an advertisement. Although he often acted like he did not care much about the result, this was the first movie of his life, which was also related to Ji Mengze’s future development and whether the assigned task can succeed. So everyday, as soon as he got some free time, he would search for the film on Weibo to see everyone’s reaction, and also carefully read the comments on the film rating website.
Although many were unable to look past their prejudice against Ji Mengze, the vast majority praised his performance in the film.
The tag [turning into Ji Mengze’s fan] even entered the hot search that night.
“Yun-jie, the company didn’t buy this hot search ba?”
Li Yun rolled her eyes, “Do you think the company has too much money to burn? Why would we buy this.”
Reading through the hot search, Xu Qichen found that it was not the water army, but real people who commented and promoted the film and praised Ji Mengze’s performance.
He felt very happy.
Xu Qichen, who was on a short break between recordings, opened his WeChat to send Lin Ran a message.
Since separating at the premiere conference, they had not had the chance for even a phone call.
[Have you seen the reviews?]
After typing these few words, he deleted them one by one.
He should probably greet him first ba.
[Are you busy?]
He deleted them again.
Too classic, not good.
[What are you doing?]
Xu Qichen frowned. As he was tapping the delete button, he suddenly received a message.
[Lin Ran: I miss you~ Will you still be working at 1am later? Can we catch a film together?]
He read Lin Ran’s message, stunned.
It’s like he could hear Lin Ran’s voice and see his smile.
Revealing his sharp tooth, a face full of liveliness and excitement as he asked him out.
Xu Qichen sighed.
When will he be able to be so direct as well?
He tapped on the chat box.
[Sure ah.]
He tapped on send, and placed the phone on the table.
It vibrated.
[Then I’ll pick you up!]
He glanced at it.
Another message came in.
[Are you at the company or hostel?]
And another.
[Are you busy now? Can I call you?]
Why are this person’s fingers so fast.
Xu Qichen picked up the phone and entered one word.
[Can.]
It seemed to be missing something…
So he added one more word.
[Can o.]
And tapped send.
Before he could put it down again, the call came through.
“Hello…”
The voice on the other end sounded very happy and warm, “Hello, little kid~”
Although Xu Qichen did not understand why Lin Ran always addressed him like this, he enjoyed it.
“Are you busy?”
“En, shooting an ad, but I’m waiting right now.”
“Is that so? What time will you be done?”
“Not sure. After this, I still have to record a promo VCR for a music show, but it should be done before 12.”
“I’ll pick you up?”
After some thought, Xu Qichen said softly, “Let’s meet at the theatre instead.”
“Okay, I’ll find one closer to where you are and send you the address.” Lin Ran seemed to be in a quiet place. He gave Xu Qichen a kiss through the call, “See you tonight~”
“En.”
After the call ended, Xu Qichen held onto the phone and giggled to himself in a studio full of noise and bustle.
Is he being a little too obvious?
They can’t be discovered.
Xu Qichen patted his cheeks and pretended like nothing had happened.
Although it was another night of continuous running around, Xu Qichen felt that as long as he had something to look forward to, no matter how hard he worked, he didn’t feel tired.
On the ride back to the company, the group members were joking around.
Bai Yi: “Mengze, it’s about time we asked Yun-jie for a break and book the whole theatre to watch your film ba!”
Ming Qi: “That’s a good idea!”
Shen Huan: “Can I go on another day? I don’t wanna go with Bai Yi, I’m afraid he’ll be too noisy and get caught.”
Jiang Ling: “Seconded, I’ll go with Ah Huan.”
Xu Qichen shook his head, “Forget it, it’s so embarrassing I don’t want you guys to see it.”
Bai Yi shook Xu Qichen’s shoulder, “Mengze, do you not love us anymore? I wanna watch, I wanna watch!”
Shen Huan mocked, “You just want to watch it for Lin Ran ba.”
Bai Yi: “You’re too talkative, blah blah blah all day, annoying!”
In the noisy car, Xu Qichen smiled quietly to himself. Watching everyone argue like this was interesting and warm.
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Thanm you very much for the chapter!
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Xu Qichen would really put “had a crush” as the thing he did longest, that’s… ah, I’m glad the rest of the chapter was so warm! It’s great to see the movie doing well and that his relationship with Lin Ran is progressing
Thank you so much for translating! <3
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Thank you for the chapter ꒰⑅ᵕ༚ᵕ꒱˖♡♡♡♡˖꒰ᵕ༚ᵕ⑅꒱.
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this is too cute and fluffy now Im so terrified its going to become angst again ah