Male God is Chasing My Brother[Entertainment] (男神都在追我哥[娱乐圈])

Chapter 28.1 - He is worried about Jinchen's Illness

Note: This is a plot transition chapter, there is no main CP.

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Translated by: mochimúwù

Unedited. So there will be some typos and grammatical errors. Bear with me QAQ

Another long chapter ahead which will be divided into two parts. Apologies for the late update. We've been busy for the past weeks that we didn't even have the time to rest much (ಥ﹏ಥ)

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On the night that Zhou Jinchen won the Wutong Awards for Best Actor, his related data on various platforms directly exploded.

Zhou Jinchen has always been an actor before, but because of his age and his outstanding appearance, he naturally attracted a large number of fans. Not to mention the other fans community word* from over a decade ago, at least among all male artists whose age difference is no more than ten years, Zhou Jinchen's win-win achievement in terms of both actual performance and commercial value could indeed be considered unique.

[*RAW: 不提十几年前的其他天降紫薇星 not sure if this was correct.]

For the entire entertainment industry, the audience that focuses on acting and the fans who are attracted to faces are not of the same groups. The former contributes to the ratings, while the latter is responsible for carrying the data. Therefore, works of veteran artists with strong acting skills are household names, while the Weibo data is not comparable to the one-ten thousandth of the popular young fresh meat.

However, this situation is understandable. After all, the strength of an actor and the traffic* of idols are in different fields. Their respective footholds also have distinct differences. For example, in Japan and South Korea, where idols have developed for a long time, there is a clear line between idols and actors. These are completely two different professions.

[*I looked it up online and found this: Website traffic refers to web users who visit a website. Web traffic is measured in visits, sometimes called "sessions," and is a common way to measure online business effectiveness at attracting an audience.]

It's only in recent years that the country's entertainment industry has poured into a large number of capital forces. When considering their own interests, investors turned their attention to idols with a huge amount of traffic. Even a recognized director who has accumulated countless box office will publicly make a statement that he has chosen a leading role of "not an actor, but a star" at the award ceremony of Liuye Awards, one of the three golden awards for domestic films.

At a time when the flow of traffic is a matter of success or failure, using these idols is tantamount to giving the work a natural buzz in advance. That's why the figure of each idol will appear on the screen in turn.

Prior to the filming of 《The Scarecrow》, although Zhou Jinchen had a huge fanbase, his comments in the industry have never been upstream. The evaluation "subject matter is more important than his business ability" was always expressed in various verbal and written comments.