Hello, Would You Like to Buy Tea? [Entertainment Industry]

[Quirky tea fanatic breakout actress x sharp-tongued, secretly soft-hearted, traumatized top-tier star]

Question: How do you pursue a beautiful actress from a tea-growing hometown who became famous but only wants to sell tea and local farm products?

Answer: Buy her tea, sell tea with her, and help her promote local agriculture. And, while you're at it... play the poor, wronged guy in a reasonable way.

Advice from Chi Lianque.

"...Without Tieguanyin from Anxi, I wouldn't be where I am today."

Wei Yaofu became an overnight sensation after saying this onstage at the Best Newcomer Awards.

An interview video from after she was signed by Yang Jian, a well-known talent scout in the industry, soon surfaced. Asked by a reporter why she had entered show business, the still somewhat green young woman calmly answered the camera: "Because he bought tea from my hometown and introduced it to his family and friends. The tea from my hometown is really good. It's a one-of-a-kind intangible cultural heritage Tieguanyin. If you want tea with an orchid fragrance and the distinctive Guanyin charm, you can only buy it from us. Would you like to buy some? Would all of you like to buy some?"

Netizens' verdict: The light in her eyes had nothing to do with wanting to become famous across the country. It was entirely about wanting to sell tea.

Chi Lianque suddenly received a friend request on WeChat. It said the person had found him by searching his WeChat ID. He suspected every possible identity, but never imagined that after he accepted, the other person would send him a string of tea photos and ask:

[Hello, would you like to buy tea? I can give you the friends-and-family price.]

Without hesitation, he sent the scammer still using this outdated trick to his blacklist.

How ridiculous. Ten years ago, at least she knew to pretend she'd added him by accident before bringing up her tea-growing grandfather. Ten years later, not only had her scam improved not at all, she was brazenly offering him a friends-and-family price.

It wasn't until he arrived on set that he learned the person he'd blocked was the female lead acting opposite him.

What did Wei Yaofu think of hearing, right after joining the cast, that the male lead she had scenes with called her a "phone scammer"? She had something to say.

She defended herself: "I was just about to send a message telling you who I was. But guess what happened after I sent it? I got a red exclamation mark."

He was quick with a cutting reply: "Are you planning to act in a horror movie? I think you'd be perfect as a ghost. If you'd put the message telling me who you were first, I wouldn't have blocked you."

Wei Yaofu knew she'd made an enemy of him!

During an outdoor variety show, the cameraman lost track of Chi Lianque, and he went missing.

Wei Yaofu, known in Xiping as a wild monkey, finally got the chance to show what she could do. She made her way through the mountains at night and accidentally found a beauty who had fallen into a pit: the very beauty she'd made an enemy of.

She never imagined that Chi Lianque, who was usually as prickly as a hedgehog, had such a painful past. When she learned he had claustrophobia, she finally understood:

Back when they'd acted together, the sweat on Chi Lianque's brow in that enclosed space hadn't been caused by the heat, and the slight tremor in his hands wasn't an acting choice. It had been his PTSD flaring up.

He made her want to feel sorry for him, but Wei Yaofu didn't want to call him pitiful, and she wasn't good with words.

So she said:

"You're amazing."

"Let me walk beside you from here on."

She had only meant to help him take the first step toward overcoming his fear, but she never expected that one day they would truly walk side by side.

Theme: Keep looking for ways to promote traditional crafts. Find new paths to bring intangible cultural heritage crafts to a wider audience, use emerging livestream platforms to develop online commerce for farmers, and boost the rural economy.