Chapter 1243: Chapter 1234: Wind Fills the Building (6)
He came, and his female partner, the singer, also came. Zhou Weiwei and Hu Juyue came too, as did Chen Fan and another male guest. Is this considered a bedtime chat?
It seems the male guest hasn’t been talking to his partner lately, so isn’t that why he came to chat with her? They were talking about her mom: "I remember when I was only eleven or twelve, I watched a movie she starred in. In our time, she was simply a goddess! Later she retired from the industry, and for many years, there was no news about her. I wonder how she is doing now."
Among those present, except for Xia Siyu, Qin Baizhou, and Zhou Weiwei, almost everyone was unfamiliar with Wen Qunxiao. After all, she had withdrawn from the limelight when this group was born, and later the Xia Family suppressed the news. Such a scandal was quite sensational back then, but as time passed, if the involved parties did not pursue it, it became just old dust-covered news.
The male guest was older and had a substantial generational gap with the others. When he mentioned Wen Qunxiao, most hadn’t even heard of her, except for that singer, who, perhaps due to professional reasons, added, "She seemed like some kind of dancer, right? A choreographer once told me that she created a famous dance style."
Host Hu Juyue, a graduate of a formal media college, with a wealth of knowledge, nodded and said, "I think I’ve heard of her. She was a film queen, very skilled in acting, just retired very early."
The male guest nodded: "When she retired... in hindsight, it wasn’t a big deal, what a pity."
In those days, a "photo" scandal was shameful, but now it’s different. With a more open atmosphere, looking back, it seems that Wen Qunxiao was merely a victim. Some C-list celebrities even debut via "photo scandals" and end up thriving.
But Wen Qunxiao was too old-fashioned and her films weren’t frequently broadcast. Among these people, even Hu Juyue and the male elder knew little about her, so they casually chatted for a bit and moved on.
Later, when the show aired, even the production team felt that such an unpopular and traffic-less actress wasn’t worth editing into the main segment.
However, in the later VIP extended version, because Xia Siyu was the most popular, to draw attention to her, the production team edited this small segment in. But even then, this dating show wasn’t as popular as the one with Shang Feifei and Han Yifan, the genuine celebrity couple, so few people watched the main episode, let alone the extended version.
The editing by the crew was sparse, with only a few words, and though it was said she looked like Xia Siyu, there wasn’t even an accompanying picture of Wen Qunxiao. After all, the Xia Family had bought all the movie copyrights, and even if fans had tapes, finding a player for them nowadays might be impossible, so no waves were stirred.
The only one who mentioned it was Shang Feifei.
She stumbled upon the extended version by accident. Her dating variety show had finished filming, and as she watched her earlier TV dramas being aired on the app, she unintentionally clicked on a program fragment recommended within an ad, which happened to be this.
Shang Feifei repeatedly listened to how the others evaluated Wen Qunxiao and observed Xia Siyu’s attitude. She hesitated for a moment before posting a Weibo: