Your Rival in Love Gets Prettier Every Day

Chapter 60: Black Powder on the Face

"As a passerby fan, I really don't want him to take on this kind of meat-selling drama. Are his follow up resources so abusive? There's no other cake besides this movie?"

"Looking at it now, Touhua's sexual orientation greatly affected his career. He was so crazy for love at the beginning, but the man didn't want it and it had impacted his career. I wonder if he regrets it now."

"Lost east, reaped mulberry*. If he hadn't like men in reality, how could Li Xu's character become so popular? The audience is divided. The character filters that Li Xu brought him were terrifying, which directly contributed to his comeback against the winds."

*Lost east, reaped mulberry (失之东隅收之桑榆) = metaphor meaning initially lost or temporarily lost in one aspect but was compensated in the end.

Xiao Qi was an extremely determined black fan. Her aversion to Shen Jintai was not diluted at all from Li Xu's role. On the contrary, seeing Shen Jintai getting more popular, it made it more unbearable for her that she couldn't even eat. She would blacken him on Weibo, TikTok, and forums whenever she caught an opportunity.

"It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that his comeback is against the wind," she replied: "Who doesn't know how much Monsoon Entertainment loves to hype and how much he himself loves hype. If he was really popular, his follow-up resources wouldn't be so abused. He would be able to secure reliable film and television resources. It's just there was nothing better for him. <Welcome Rain on a Spring Night> is most suitable for him. Sell it, show it, charm it, that baby knows best*."

Unfortunately, the Shen Jintai of today was no longer the easily blacken Shen Jintai of the past. He had countless gold powders with fierce combat power. Xiao Qi was immediately scolded so badly that she cried while holding her phone.

Those group of mean maidservants, those group of idiots! Why are they so angry with her!

She retaliated by posting a lot of moving pictures of ghosts and animals doing the "head flower dance" in a row, but no one was surprised by the meme anymore. A while ago, moonlight powders and plum powders were dissatisfied that Shen Jintai had absorbed all the heat of The East Palace alone, so they jointly besiege gold powder and issue waves of the meme. After surviving that wave, it became old news.

The GIF of The East Palace where Shen Jintai's clothes were torn off was more attractive than a lot of head flower dances. What's more, Shen Jintai's transformation was so thorough that everyone could truly see his changes. It didn't make sense then to catch someone in the dark.

Xiao Qi opened a summary post of Shen Jintai's black history in the Rabbit Area and the eight groups and posted it every other day hoping it would stink Shen Jintai. She didn't understand. Shen Jintai's black history was all real. Such a disgusting person was so popular. What was the reason? Such a person's popularity in the entertainment industry is simply a poison to this circle.

It must be because too many passersby didn't know his black history. She wanted to popularize it to them so they could all join her in scolding Shen Jintai like the bitch that he was. She realized that she couldn't do it alone.

Fortunately, as long as a star is hot enough, there were no shortage of black powder. Even if Shen Jintai was now sought after by a majority of people, there were more than a billion people in the country. As such there would always be a group of haters.

Xiao Qi soon encountered these people and together they established an official black fan group: "No matter where you're from, as long as you hate Touhua, you are our sister. You're welcome to share black spots*, stone hammers*, and ugly pictures of Touhua. Note: Don't mention other artists in this group. Just focus on the blackspots of Touhua."