Chapter 189

translator: henyee translations editor: henyee translations

xiaoxiao watched as lu rou and yu shuang took advantage of lu zhen’s popularity on the internet all day long. she was so angry that her chest heaved. “can’t the two of them rely on themselves? they take advantage of the popularity all day long and can’t speak without your name, right?”

lu zhen had already left lu he’s company, but lu he still did not stop using her. this behavior was really disgusting.

lu zhen smiled calmly. “it’s fine. let them market it. in the end, the audience will only look at the work. let’s see whose work can satisfy the audience more.”

“hmph, sister zhenzhen, your acting skills are better than theirs. i really don’t know where they got their confidence from. they actually dared to take the initiative to compete with you. didn’t they see that the great wall of war’s rating on douban net has already reached 8.7? they don’t even have a representative piece. i really don’t know where they got their confidence from!”

after “the great wall of war” was broadcasted, its rating was only slightly more than 7 points at the beginning. this rating was not considered low in domestic television dramas, but it was not that high either.

that was because the netizens of douban were very picky. they would spit on lousy movies without hesitation and give them a one-star negative review.

as for television dramas that were not bad, they would habitually compare them to the classic television dramas from ten years ago. if they were not as exciting as the television dramas they had filmed in the past, they would not give high marks. this resulted in very few television dramas with ratings exceeding 8 over the years.

when the rating of “the great wall of war” was more than 7 points, many people on douban complained about lu zhen’s acting skills.

some people said that her acting skills were too formal and did not surprise them.

there were also some people who said that lu zhen’s eyes were dull and she could not act as handsome and domineering as a female general.

in fact, lu zhen’s acting skills were not that bad. it was just that she was too famous, so the netizens were especially strict with her. if she could not surprise the audience or make greater improvements, the audience would not be satisfied.

the real change happened after the scene of “slaying the county magistrate”.

back when they were filming this scene, lu zhen had caused a heated discussion on the internet because of her appearance and makeup in this scene. in episode 24, this scene finally met the audience completely.

before the scene of “slaying the county magistrate” was played, the douban’s netizen, “panda ninja”, had been mocking lu zhen online. in his opinion, lu zhen was an actress whose fame and skills were seriously incompatible.

he hated such actresses the most. it was precisely because there were too many female celebrities who became popular through marketing that the quality of domestic television dramas became worse and worse. some actresses with no acting skills could be praised to the heavens, but real good actors did not even have the chance to act.

although lu zhen was not the worst actress, she was the most popular female celebrity recently. compared to her popularity, panda ninja felt that her acting skills were quite average.

“panda ninja” was an amateur film critic with 190,000 fans on douban. the number of movies he watched was terrifying. he had watched many low-budget television dramas made by small countries, and he had never missed television dramas that were slightly famous.

the panda ninja was like a senior expert who had read a lot of books. his taste was naturally more demanding than the ordinary audience, so when lu zhen’s acting skills reached his level, she failed.

in addition, “panda ninja” hated hype, so his impression of lu zhen was even worse. many times, he mocked a certain female celebrity for being in scandals all day long, being active in marketing her beauty, but she almost didn’t have any good works.

some of the fans below knew who he was talking about and echoed—

“that’s right. so what if she’s beautiful? she’s just a vase. she’s far inferior to guan yun. sigh, i miss the years when guan yun was filming in the country. i really can’t finish watching all the good works.”

“previous poster, don’t compare lu zhen to guan yun. this is a humiliation to

guan yun.”

“in any case, i won’t watch the television dramas lu zhen filmed. i’ll firmly boycott popular celebrities and guard the last bottom line of domestic dramas!”

seeing that his fans agreed with his evaluation, panda ninja smiled. then, he turned on his computer and logged into the video website.

even though he had been scolding this television drama and the female lead, lu zhen, on the internet, he would still continue to watch.

unlike others, even if panda ninjas did not like some television dramas, he would still finish watching them. this was because panda ninja was a very strict person. he felt that only when he had watched this television drama completely would he have the right to scold it..