[ Xiao Lin'an is forty-four this year? Looking at him, I'd believe you if you said he was thirty. He's way better than some of today's tired-looking young male celebrities, okay? He's truly an ageless male god in the entertainment industry, no joke.]
Veteran artists like Xiao Lin'an, who have been in the industry for many years and have excellent professional ethics, should come out more often to set an example for younger artists.
[But why did the production team invite Chu Xiyue? Isn't she an idol? Can she sing and dance? I admit Chu Xiyue has been quite popular lately, so is the production team just trying to ride her popularity by randomly inviting mentors?]
To be honest, Chu Xiyue is really not suitable for this show. I don't know what her manager was thinking, giving her this gig.
[Is it possible that Chu Xiyue accepted this gig herself? If I remember correctly, Chu Xiyue's former agency has been shut down, and it was Chu Xiyue herself who reported it.]
It's not that people dislike Chu Xiyue, it's just that they feel Chu Xiyue isn't a good fit for a talent show.
She's neither a member of a girl group, nor a singer or dancer, and netizens haven't heard of her having any outstanding talents, so it's no wonder they're skeptical.
Chu Xiyue greeted Xiao Lin'an and then sat obediently to the side. She took out a handful of melon seeds from somewhere and began to crack them open with relish.
Chu Xiyue and Xiao Lin'an were twenty years apart, practically from two different eras. Sitting together, they had almost nothing to talk about.
The others hadn't arrived yet, and Chu Xiyue was a little bored.
[Host, wanna join the fun?] The system seemed to know Chu Xiyue was bored, and asked in a tempting tone.
How could Chu Xiyue resist such temptation? Remembering what the system had said before—that everyone on this variety show was involved in scandals—she secretly glanced at Xiao Lin'an, her eyes lighting up. "What scandals? Are they about Xiao Lin'an?"
[That's right!] the system said, [This Xiao Lin'an promotes himself as a veteran artist, but in reality, he has nothing to do with being an artist. Didn't he disappear from the public eye for several years? Everyone thought he was indifferent to fame and fortune and preparing to retire from the entertainment industry, but actually, it was because he was serving time in a foreign prison for those years!]
Chu Xiyue's eyes widened slightly. "Serving time in prison?! What did he do? Tax evasion? Or group sex?"
Many celebrities in the Chinese entertainment industry have either fallen victim to tax evasion or to promiscuity. Not long ago, a male celebrity was even sentenced for engaging in group sex. Therefore, these were the two reasons that Chu Xiyue immediately thought of.
However, Chu Xiyue was wrong; Xiao Lin'an's reasoning wasn't either of those two.
The system told Chu Xiyue: "[ Xiao Lin'an is a gambling addict, addicted to gambling. When he first started out, he frequently went to casinos in Australia and Singapore to gamble all night, betting millions at a time. He lost all the money he earned from filming and commercials, and even borrowed money from loan sharks. His wife divorced him because of this, but he publicly claimed it was an amicable divorce.]"
Five years ago, Xiao Lin'an lost all his savings at a casino abroad, leaving him without even enough money for a return ticket. Everyone around him knew he was a gambling addict and wouldn't lend him money. Unable to borrow any to return home, he started a zero-dollar shopping business abroad. However, he didn't expect that the person he targeted was a martial arts expert. He was caught on the spot, sent to prison, and sentenced to five years in prison!
[He kept his imprisonment abroad a secret; only his family and management company knew. Everyone else thought he was on vacation abroad!]
Chu Xiyue took a deep breath, "Wow! Is it that explosive?"
Xiao Lin'an is probably the first person in the Chinese entertainment industry to be sentenced for robbery, right?
Chapter 63 #First Generation Top Star's Series of House Collapses#
[After Xiao Lin'an was released from prison, he was deported back to China, which fulfilled his wish to be able to fly back home even without money, with a private jet providing pick-up and drop-off service.]
After returning to China, Xiao Lin'an behaved himself for a while, keeping the matter a secret from his management company, and he became active in the entertainment industry again. However, not long ago, he couldn't resist going to the casinos in Australia and lost all the money he had earned, accumulating a debt of three million. Recently, he has taken on many gigs, hoping to quickly earn some money to pay off his debts.
The system flipped through the original text: [ Xiao Lin'an's past imprisonment abroad will be revealed during the third performance. At that time, he borrowed money from a rich second-generation trainee and didn't repay it, so that rich second-generation directly had his past exposed, causing his career to collapse and resulting in him being blacklisted by official media.]
Chu Xiyue looked at Xiao Lin'an Xiao Lin'an noticed Chu Xiyue gaze and Chu Xiyue.
Bored netizens noticed the change in Chu Xiyue's expression.
[I feel like there's a story behind Chu Xiyue's gaze when she looks at Xiao Lin'an!]
[Isn't it inappropriate to say something like that? Xiao Lin'an is twenty-one years older than Chu Xiyue, and his child is already ten years old.]
[Is it possible that he meant that Chu Xiyue might know some gossip about Xiao Lin'an that others don't?]
[Where did all this gossip come from? Do you really think your idol is an undercover agent in the entertainment industry? You've been playing these jokes so much you've even started to believe them yourself? Xiao Lin'an hasn't had a single scandal exposed by paparazzi in all these years. Last time, the paparazzi followed him for a month and didn't get a single bad shot. He's either on set or at the company every day. Since his divorce, he hasn't even had a female mosquito around. Xiao Lin'an is a universally acknowledged, clean-living senior in the industry, okay?]
Although Xiao Lin'an disappeared from the entertainment industry for five years, he was still one of the original top stars, and his fans were very loyal. They didn't forget him just because he disappeared for five years.
Although Xiao Lin'an doesn't have as many active fans as before, those who remain are die-hard fans, whose fighting power is unmatched by Chu Xiyue's gossip fans—of course, this is also related to the fact that Chu Xiyue's fans are more laid-back.