After Xiao He completed the one-click triple action, the video automatically jumped to another roast video from this content creator.
This particular video was purely a roast session. Xiao He focused his gaze and realized it featured two familiar faces—Xu Youyou and Ran Yunrui's "Clear Light Like Dawn."
As a contemporary work of "Starry Radiance," "Clear Light Like Dawn" had also premiered recently. However, unlike the universally praised "Starry Radiance," this drama's reputation was shockingly terrible, attracting every single marketing account specializing in roasting content overnight.
This content creator charged at the forefront without holding back, immediately summarizing the drama:
"Trust me, fam, this is a timeless masterpiece of crap that offends everyone from every angle—men, women, young, and old."
"All I can say is listen to advice and you'll sleep well. Never open this work, or you're done for. You'll waste the most precious time of your life purchasing something that'll choke you until you can't swallow. I'm not joking at all."
"The male lead—I suspect he has intermittent rage syndrome plus facial paralysis. As for the female lead, don't even get me started. I feel like her existence is to torture everyone—not just the male lead, but all viewers watching 'Clear Light Like Dawn.' She can't even be described as human anymore; she's practically the Grim Reaper coming to claim lives..."
You could tell how deeply resentful this content creator was. The first two to three minutes were pure roasting without any overlapping points, truly maximizing every possible flaw.
Just listening to it gave Xiao He a headache. He scrolled further and found more roasting—but this time with well-reasoned arguments.
The male lead had a violent personality who would beat people up at the slightest disagreement, picking fights with anyone he disliked, confronting heaven, earth, and everyone. If he wasn't watching a roast video, Xiao He might have thought the content creator had exposed Ran Yunrui's true nature. To be honest, the male lead character Ran Yunrui played was practically identical to his real self. If profanity wasn't censored in the drama, Xiao He would boldly comment: "Authentic portrayal!"
As for the female lead played by Xu Youyou, she usually just acted brainlessly troublesome or burst into hysterical crying and screaming, creating a bizarre aesthetic of "if I don't go crazy, I'll definitely drive you crazy." The content creator didn't even need to edit—just playing the raw footage already caused discomfort among numerous viewers.
Just hearing the female lead's identical screams at different times, different locations, and for different reasons in the background audio made Xiao He quietly exit the video.
Afterward, he rubbed his ears with lingering fear.
It was hard to believe that in those brief few minutes, Xiao He had already gotten a headache from Xu Youyou's screams.
He felt this content creator deserved some work injury compensation.
Of course, the post-production team for this drama had it worst, having to endure these screams repeatedly—truly a hell-level disaster.
"Are you watching Xu Youyou's drama?"
Liu Rulan had obviously heard Xu Youyou's piercing screams too.
Xiao He handed the tablet to Xiao Chen to put away while answering her question: "It just auto-played, so I watched a bit more."
"But is their drama's quality really this bad?"
Xiao He found it hard to believe this was a major IP adaptation with an existing book fanbase.
Theoretically, with the original plot as foundation, the story logic and quality should be guaranteed. How did it get adapted into this mess?
Liu Rulan shrugged: "You know about their filming period—Xu Youyou and Su Shengxi's relationship had just been exposed, causing massive fan loss. During this time, Ran Yunrui's fans weren't quiet either. They felt Xu Youyou's relationship scandal was delaying their idol's filming and affecting his mood, so they demanded the production replace her."
Ultimately, although the replacement didn't happen, Ran Yunrui's fans started demanding billing positions, insisting Ran Yunrui get first billing and Xu Youyou second billing, otherwise they'd boycott watching!
Basically, they caused trouble back and forth for a long time, almost from start to wrap, without a single peaceful day.
To be honest, it's quite ironic. Xu Youyou is an award-winning actress—taking on this worthless idol drama was already lowering her status. Moreover, she originally joined this idol drama to mentor Ran Yunrui, this junior, helping him level up.
But now that she's in trouble, Ran Yunrui's fans backstabbed her first, fighting her for billing position—it's actually kind of ridiculous.
But she didn't help herself either. She should have had no pressure carrying Ran Yunrui, yet her performance in the drama was terrible, completely worthy of being called a disaster.
To the point where even Ran Yunrui beside her didn't seem as jarring—though this doesn't mean Ran Yunrui acted well either.
Thinking about it this way, Xu Youyou is truly a great hero—generating all the heat before premiere, then absorbing all the criticism after broadcast.
Xiao He felt the "Clear Light Like Dawn" production team should bow to Xu Youyou—she's their true benefactor!
Liu Rulan sighed: "Their agents have been working themselves to death recently. Their social media feeds are full of complaints—truly pitiful."
Even Liu Rulan, who never got along with Cheng Hongwen, quietly liked his latest post after learning the situation, as encouragement.
Though of course, for Cheng Hongwen, Liu Rulan's like probably felt more like mockery.
Xiao He suddenly realized: "...Right, they have the same agent."
Haha, this makes it even more interesting—two artists under the same agent fighting each other. What should the agent do in this situation? Choose sides?
My advice: sit back and watch, never try to mediate. Those fans' obsession with billing positions far exceeds their concern for the celebrities themselves. Otherwise, forget just being an agent—even the actual celebrities trying to mediate would probably get slapped.
It's that absurd.
While chatting and laughing, their flight got delayed.
Xiao He checked the time and helplessly spread his hands: "Seems we shouldn't talk behind people's backs. The moment we gossip, karma strikes."
Liu Rulan rolled her eyes: "Now you believe in metaphysics."
Fortunately, the delay wasn't long. Soon the plane arrived at the airport, and they could start boarding.
Liu Rulan had booked business class this time, which offered relatively better privacy. After boarding, Xiao He immediately removed his hat and mask, planning to comfortably catch up on sleep.
Right at that moment, someone appeared beside him.
Xiao He paused while taking out his eye mask and looked at the elderly man staring at him.
The old man appeared around eighty years old with white hair, face full of wrinkles, slightly hunched back, but his eyes remained sharp and bright, quietly fixed on Xiao He, though it was unclear what he was thinking.
Xiao He: ? Who's this?
"Hello, is there something I can help you with?"
Xiao He examined the old man but detected no unusual aura, so he curiously took the initiative to inquire.
However, the old man didn't speak, just continued staring straight at Xiao He, making him feel uneasy.
"Dad, why did you come over here!"
A middle-aged man came from behind to pull the old man away, then apologetically said to Xiao He: "Sorry, sorry for disturbing you."
"No problem, no problem."
The old man was then led away by the middle-aged man.
Xiao He glanced over but didn't think much of it, directly putting on his eye mask to rest.