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Following James's original plan, Lu Heng was supposed to take full responsibility for promoting Atlanta in Greater Huaxia during its global release. However, Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan's engagement ceremony pushed Lu Heng's worldwide popularity to new heights once again—although some anti-gay people harshly and nastily voiced their disgust with Lu Heng online and turned against him, most people offered their blessings and understanding for their relationship. The fashion world in particular, which had always been friendly with Lu Heng and more tolerant of homosexuality, sent interview invitations one after another after news spread that Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan had publicly come out, inviting them to shoot covers for major magazines.

Moreover, Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan could practically be called childhood sweethearts—they had known each other since Lu Heng was fourteen, and had gotten along wonderfully for years. They were loyal and sincere to each other, handsome, talented, from wealthy families, and well liked. Their relationship had the blessing of all their friends and family. Such a situation was enviable not only in the entertainment industry, where breakups and reconciliations were commonplace, but even outside the industry. Especially after news of their engagement spread, that envy broke through the boundaries of gender and became humanity's yearning for all beautiful things. On top of that, after his engagement was revealed, Lu Heng had thrown himself straight into Gods and Demons Digital Special Effects Studio, greatly reducing his exposure before the media. And the polar-opposite reviews of Atlanta since its advance screenings—some viewers lavishly praised Huaxia Lu's stunningly handsome appearance and scream-worthy smooth fight scenes, while others fiercely criticized Lu Heng's utterly ordinary and boring acting—only whetted his fans' appetites. For a time, moviegoers around the world longed for Lu Heng, who had been "in hiding" for over a year,