Under the Smile

Brother Kong Fang was born in a small town in the north. After graduating from university, he stayed in the provincial capital to work. He worked in advertising planning, event execution, and shopping mall promotions. He also experienced layoffs, wage arrears, and shared housing and moving. At the age of twenty-eight, he lost his regular job and took a temporary job as a clown in a shopping mall in order to pay the rent. In a performance accident, he did not continue the performance as arranged by the organizer. Instead, he took off his hood and promptly protected a child who almost fell from the edge of the stage. The live video unexpectedly became popular after it was uploaded to the Internet. He also went from being an extra who was made fun of to becoming a "grassroots clown" that traffic platforms are competing to package. Faced with overnight fame, business signings, public attacks and profit temptations, Brother Kong Fang gradually discovered that the real difficulty is not making the audience laugh, but still knowing why he is standing on the stage when everyone wants to arrange his life for him.