Backstage at the Beijing Talk Show Club, Su Kuan was telling jokes in front of the mirror, and the wound on the corner of his mouth was still bleeding. This wound was scratched by a glow stick thrown by a fan when he hit a popular star a few hours ago. The 28-year-old is known as "bold" in the industry. She specializes in talking about social pain points. She always has an alley girl's slutty attitude in her jokes. However, she has always gone her own way, but she got stuck when she saw Lu Xingci in the first row of the audience.
He is a top-notch actor, 25 years old, who has just become a god with a drug drama. At this moment, he is wearing a hoodie and mingling with the audience. The tear mole at the end of his eye shines like a diamond under the spotlight. After the show, like an ardent fan, he gave her a drink and said to her, "I have the same model as the 'game console hidden by my mother' in your joke."
Their love is hidden in Guijie late at night. Su Gui took him to eat braised and simmered, and he helped her change the jokes with dirty words; when she talked about "age anxiety in sister-brother relationships" in the small theater, he deliberately said at the celebration banquet, "My sister knows how to love better than me." Until the paparazzi photographed Lu Xingci entering Su Zhen's house late at night, and the caption was unbearable: "A top-notch secret society vulgar comedian, suspected love affair exposed"
Lu Xingci's team forced him to cut off contact with Su Su, but Su Su didn't take it seriously and added a new joke to his special performance: "Someone asked me if I was afraid, and I said I was afraid - afraid that his fans wouldn't know that their brother was clingier than my cat when he cried and wanted to hug me." This performance was edited into a clip that "mocking the top performers".
When Su Su received the letter backstage, she just smiled, but not long after, she saw Lu Xingci's agent handing a wad of money to the club owner she often worked with: "Don't let her mention Lu Xingci on any occasion in the future." She did not explicitly agree, nor did she refuse. She just changed all the jokes about him in subsequent performances. She always said on stage, "Love is like the bean juice in old Beijing. It smells bad and gets worse when you eat it, but you won't be willing to give it a try. Even though people know it's disgusting, people still rush to get it."
Three years after the breakup, Su Gu became a resident cast member and screenwriter at talk show conventions, but love was never mentioned in his jokes. Until a certain episode of the program invited Lu Xingci, a flying guest, all the memories that had long been buried in her memory came pouring out. He was here to promote a new movie, but was asked to do an impromptu talk show. He said calmly to the scene, "I know a girl from Beijing. She taught me that the prerequisite for laughing at life is to dare to admit that you are a coward." His talk was not like it was the first time he had done this, and others were discussing it again. The scandal that he was in love with a talk show actress back then could not be true.
The audience was in an uproar, and Su Su's hand holding the microphone was shaking. During the backstage interview, Lu Xingci suddenly leaned into her ear and said, "I just saw in your joke that you owe me a drink to the man from Hutongkou. Why don't you pay me back the drink you owe me today? I've booked a table for tonight. Let's talk?"
After the show, Su Gu saw him squatting on the steps at the entrance of the alley, just like when he first blocked her. He held a yellowed piece of paper in his hand, which she wrote to him back then: "The true meaning of talk shows is sincerity, and the same goes for falling in love."
"I later played a firefighter," he looked up with red eyes. "In the scene of rescuing a little girl in a fire, I suddenly understood - instead of being afraid of being scolded by fans, I am more afraid of missing you." Su Su did not say anything and took out a new microphone from his bag: "I just saved a joke for you to stand up to. If it's not funny, you are not allowed to leave."
The neon lights in the distance reflected the shadows of the two of them, which was very similar to the way they looked in the small theater when she was telling jokes and he was secretly recording in the audience. Some misunderstandings are like jokes. No matter how deeply they are hidden, they will eventually be exposed.
Purpose: Taking the collision between the talk show stage and the top halo as the background, explore the weight of "sincerity" in complex relationships: whether it is the creation of talk shows or the management of love, the most touching thing is never the perfect disguise, but the courage to expose vulnerability. The sibling relationship between Su Su and Lu Xingci went from hot to broken, and the root cause was that they were "unafraid to be honest" under external pressure; and the opportunity for their reunion was that they finally understood that compared to the judgment of the world, sincerity towards each other is the "bottom line" that should be adhered to. The story also reveals the real contradictions in different circles through the pull of the two people: when love is entangled with fame and fortune, public opinion and class differences, only by peeling off the disguise and facing the heart can the relationship, like a good talk show joke, take root and grow in real soil.