In the following days, Xiao He was completely immersed in the film crew.

The crew had a heavy filming schedule; the inn was just their first stop, and with very tight funding, the filming progress was rushed.

However, even when pressed for time, Lin Yipeng was very strict, insisting on making the filmed content the best it could be. Even though Xiao He's De-boning Knife Technique was already very skilled, he still developed tenosynovitis under Lin Yipeng's demanding requirements.

Pu Rong, on the other hand, had it even worse. He had the most and most complex fight scenes, basically always needing to be wire-harnessed, becoming an aerial acrobat on set every day.

Xiao He was speechless just watching him.

In the blink of an eye, it was the premiere day of burning heart. At noon, Xiao He, as Xiao Song had previously told him, sent out the crew's poster and promotional text, and as expected, received zero likes and zero comments.

Looking at his fan count, which could be counted on two hands, Xiao He shrugged indifferently.

He could only say that he had done his best; whether this drama flopped or became a hit, it had little to do with him anyway.

Xiao Song's thanks arrived on his phone, and Xiao He refreshed his account again, successfully receiving a like from the official burning heart account.

At least it wasn't too embarrassing.

At 8 PM that night, burning heart officially premiered on Penguin Video. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Xiao He opened it to watch and was surprised to find that the drama still had some viewers. From the comments, it seemed that the male lead of this drama, Zhao Shuyu, brought a bit of traffic, and his fans specifically came to support it.

However, after watching only the first episode, Xiao He lost much interest.

The plot could only be described as mediocre, fitting the current standard where every profession must involve romance; it was a very straightforward crime-solving romance drama. It featured a rookie Police Officer as the female lead and a veteran police captain as the male lead, who get to know each other, develop a mutual crush, and eventually get together while solving cases.

The suspense and logic were basically linear, with no real suspense, all predictable. The two actors looked good and their acting wasn't terrible, but it was only to the extent of being able to deliver lines with emotion, keeping viewers from being pulled out of the story.

Xiao He felt it was a pretty standard web drama, neither good nor bad, with no explosive points. If the subsequent plot didn't have anything special, it would only gain a small amount of popularity, with a predictable outcome.

However, this had little to do with him. Those who should be more concerned were the director, producers, and the two main leads. As a minor supporting actor, he basically had no need to worry.

Xiao He believed his guess was spot on. After closing the drama, he never paid attention to its subsequent developments, focusing all his attention on the filming of the thief catcher.

But he was completely unaware that in the middle of the drama's broadcast, an edited video quietly appeared on Bilibili and spread rapidly at an astonishing speed, becoming one of Bilibili's trending videos!

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Xiao Zhao Liu Bu Liu is a content creator in Bilibili's film and television editing section.

Recently, she had been having a headache. The industry was becoming increasingly competitive. Every day now, she woke up to find material and churn out videos, yet she still couldn't compete with those studios. The popularity of her videos had been steadily declining recently, making her so anxious she couldn't sleep.

She couldn't win against competitors for popular film and TV dramas, couldn't beat seniors for classic old dramas, and niche unpopular dramas simply died. Xiao Zhao Liu Bu Liu watched the data every day, her hair falling out in handfuls from stress, but the more anxious she got, the worse the data became.

That day, she opened her private messages as usual to check fan submissions and look for her next editing material. A fan's submission caught her eye—

"burning heart? Murderer? What kind of drama is this? I haven't heard of it..."

Xiao Zhao Liu Bu Liu murmured softly, then clicked on the video screenshot the fan had sent—

A young man in blood-stained clothes stood in a pool of blood, his posture erect and composed. Even with a few drops of blood on his gold-rimmed glasses, they couldn't conceal the indifference and cold ruthlessness in his eyes. At the same time, he held a chainsaw in one hand, creating a strong contrast with his elegant and refined attire.

Xiao Zhao Liu Bu Liu swallowed.

Can a character like this exist in the Inner Entertainment Circle?

This face and this demeanor perfectly matched her vision of a refined scoundrel.

Why did Hannibal become so popular? Even many people who haven't seen the original show can still instantly recall the character's name?

This is partly due to the unique charisma the original character design gives the role, and partly due to {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} the actor's own portrayal of the character.

—Some people, with their looks and demeanor, are inherently a perfect fit for a role.

Otherwise, the Inner Entertainment Circle wouldn't often have people saying, "XX is the chosen young general," "XX is the chosen male lead from a certain book," "XX is the chosen white moonlight"... Sometimes, one really has to admit that some people just have that kind of face, and they don't even need to act; they are already a decisive hit.

Xiao Zhao Liu Bu Liu hadn't even looked at the character's detailed story yet, but inspiration was already bursting in her mind, automatically adapting various popular editing music and the next editing direction—

With an excited heart, Xiao Zhao Liu Bu Liu quickly went to Penguin Video to find the web drama burning heart and locate this character within it.

This murderer did not appear frequently, but almost every appearance was an extremely elegant and bloody artistic feast.

—The chainsaw in his hand was his paintbrush, with which he wantonly squandered innocent lives.

Due to the length constraints of the web drama, the plot did not explain the murderer's true motives. He simply appeared as pure evil, constantly creating despair and delivering death, and finally, like a blood-stained Epiphyllum, he lost his life under the male lead's gun, ending his 瘋狂 life, but leaving the female lead with eternal psychological trauma.

Xiao Zhao Liu Bu Liu stared fixedly at the man's gradually hollow, yet still somewhat menacing, eyes, and suddenly shivered.

—She suddenly understood why some people liked villain characters!

Xiao Zhao Liu Bu Liu felt that this murderer was indeed very bad, but her heart couldn't help but feel both fear and love for the character. She couldn't help but repeatedly watch these segments, and finally decided that her next video would be an edit of this murderer.

So, at 9 PM that night, a video with a cover featuring Xiao He as the murderer carrying a chainsaw in a forest, with the blood-red brush-stroke characters "Refined Scoundrel" behind him, was posted by Xiao Zhao Liu Bu Liu on Bilibili. It then swept the charts overnight in an extremely exaggerated manner, becoming the nightmare that kept many people awake that night.

Xiao He, without his knowledge, became incredibly popular on Bilibili, becoming the representative actor for the "refined scoundrel" psychopath murderer.