The advertising director had a good idea. The all-powerful media quickly discovered that the rumored couple who had been hyped up were actually working together to film an advertisement for Clear Shampoo, and they were playing a couple in the advertisement!

When they learned of this news, they were overjoyed—we've finally caught you red-handed! Hahaha!

Now the evidence is irrefutable! Let's see how you can argue your way out of this!

Playing tricks in front of us uncrowned kings? That's just humiliating yourselves!

After filming the advertisement, Sharapova planned to spend a few more days in St. Petersburg. She thought that after clarifying the misunderstanding with Chen Hero, there shouldn't be any more trouble. But when she walked out of the hotel door, she realized she had made a mistake—she forgot that the reporters and Chen Hero weren't on the same side!

The crazy reporters swarmed her, holding microphones, recorders, cameras, cell phones…

"We heard you and Hero collaborated on an advertisement?"

"Does this prove that you are in a relationship?"

"How does it feel to film an advertisement with your boyfriend?"

…

Sharapova fled in panic and retreated back into her hotel room.

But this time, she didn't bitterly blame Chen Hero for everything.

After calming down a bit, she called her agent, Eisenbud: "Max, do you have a way to get Hero's contact information? Uh, I mean, preferably his cell phone number…"

Max Eisenbud was a little surprised. He already knew from the set of the advertisement that Sharapova's rumored boyfriend, according to the media, was that tall Hero. He also knew that the two of them weren't really a "rumored couple," otherwise their initial relationship wouldn't have been so bad, completely like cat and dog.

That's why he was so surprised by Sharapova's call.

"What do you need his phone number for, Maria?"

"I left right after filming the advertisement that day, and I forgot to discuss something with him… Anyway, just get me his phone number first, Max! That's all." After speaking, Sharapova hung up the phone.

She stood by the window of her hotel room, able to see the main entrance downstairs, where many reporters were still gathered.

It looked like these people wouldn't be leaving any time soon…

She sighed, pouted, and frowned as she thought about how to deal with the situation next.

She really didn't expect the news of her filming an advertisement with Chen Hero to leak so quickly… And to make matters worse, she and he were filming a "couple" segment, playing a couple in the advertisement. The advertisement hadn't even come out yet. If it did, wouldn't the media have even more opportunities to make a fuss?

Although she and Chen Hero had cleared up the misunderstanding and no longer had any dissatisfaction or aversion to each other, she still didn't think she could be a couple with him…

Even though Chen Hero had a good physique and wasn't bad-looking… But these weren't reasons to convince herself.

What's more, this identity was forcibly imposed on her by the media.

Chen Hero had a very busy but dramatic week, which even made him feel like time was flying by—which is often the case when life is fulfilling. But he didn't think his life was very fulfilling.

After the match against the Vladivostok Luch-Energiya team last weekend, he went to a bar with his teammates, ran into Sharapova, and a spectacular week officially began.

In this week, he experienced several arguments with Sharapova, followed by inexplicably becoming Sharapova's "rumored boyfriend," experiencing wits and courage with the media, and successfully signing an endorsement advertisement, becoming Clear's spokesperson. Then he filmed the first advertisement of his life.

Finally, on the set, he shook hands and made peace with Sharapova, with whom he had been fighting for a week, which could be considered a "perfect ending"…

He also felt that the story should end here.

He and Sharapova would have no more contact except for this advertisement. After all, she was the world's number one female tennis star, and she had a lot of things to do.

Then there was the seventh round of the league away against Tomsk, and Chen Hero was extremely busy.

The frequent activities and arguments this week, as well as various rumors, made his condition unstable, and his consecutive scoring record finally ended in this round of the league cup…

He failed to score a goal, and St. Petersburg Zenit finally relied on Dominguez's goal to narrowly beat their opponents 1:0 away, continuing to lead the league standings.

Commentator Sergei Yershov regretted: "…He must have been affected by the rumors this week! It's a pity, he originally had a chance to go further…"

Chen Hero also felt it was a pity, didn't you see him desperately looking for goals in the game? But who made this week so hard and chaotic for him? His mind wasn't even on football, he was busy bickering with Sharapova, dealing with reporters, and filming advertisements…

Advocaat was very calm about Chen Hero's performance after the game. He didn't point at Chen Hero's nose and scold him for his poor performance in the locker room, but expressed his understanding of his performance. He defended Chen Hero at the press conference: "…When he scored consecutive goals, you exclaimed that he was a monster, hoping that someone could stop him. Now that he has stopped, you criticize him for his low state and wasting extra energy on women and commercial activities… To be honest, you are too demanding. In fact, I think the current Hero is very normal, I am not worried about him at all. I was a little worried about the Hero who scored consecutive goals… Now it's good, my heart is back in place."

Advocaat took great pains to prevent Chen Hero's career from going astray from the very beginning, and to make this unruly player obedient.

In the less than a year he had been in contact with Chen Hero, he was also working on how to discipline Chen Hero. Later, he found that Chen Hero's character was very tough. When facing setbacks, he had self-regulation ability. He only needed to worry that he would lose control in the case of too smooth sailing. What he should do was not a strict disciplinarian, but a friend—he must not hesitate to stand up when he needs support, let him feel his support, let him feel that he is interesting enough, so that he will be willing to listen to him. If he stood on the opposite side of Hero, it would be over…

There will inevitably be a wound in the fight between two tigers.

This is not good for himself or the team.

The current Zenit is basically formulated tactics around Chen Hero's characteristics. He is the bridgehead of the attack and the lighthouse of all offensives.

In Advocaat's opinion, not scoring a goal in a game is just a matter of luck. At least Chen Hero's attitude in the game was as serious as ever, which shows that he does not have an attitude problem of being negative and lazy.

Luck is easy to say, attitude is a principled issue.

So he strongly supports Chen Hero.

Chen Hero, who didn't score a goal in the game, was already very depressed and frustrated. As a result, when he passed through the mixed zone after the game, the reporters brought up the rumors again, making him feel even worse.

"Excuse me, Hero, is the failure to score related to the rumors this week?"

"Does your relationship with Sharapova put a lot of pressure on you? After all, you two…"

"There are rumors that you had a dispute on the set of the advertisement. Will this affect the relationship between you?"

These reporters rushed up, vying to throw their questions to Chen Hero, without any order.

Chen Hero didn't expect that he and Sharapova were fine, but he still had something to do with the media…

He didn't know how the media knew about his advertisement with Sharapova, and he didn't want to delve into the issue. He was just telling the truth now: "I have nothing to do with her. We're just filming an advertisement together. I didn't even know about it beforehand…"

Chen Hero told the truth in front of the media, but he didn't expect the media to not believe it. They insisted that Chen Hero was deceiving them.

"If you have nothing to do with her, then why were you together before filming the advertisement?"

"Yes, yes! How do you explain Sharapova walking out of your apartment building…"

"Stop quibbling, Hero! You're filming advertisements together, but you're still pretending not to know each other!"

"How can things be so coincidental? Sharapova came out of your apartment a few days ago, and you became Clear's spokesperson and filmed an advertisement with Sharapova right after?"

The reporters asked a series of questions.

These questions were all accusations, basically implying that Chen Hero was able to get the Clear endorsement contract because of Sharapova, and mocking Chen Hero for being a gigolo…

Chen Hero didn't like to hear these words. Although he wasn't that kind of chauvinistic man, he still couldn't accept living off women.

He glared at the Russian reporter who asked the question.

"The truth is that I have nothing to do with her! The Clear endorsement is just a coincidence. As for whether you believe it or not, I can't control it anyway. You can investigate. Aren't you all very awesome and capable? Then go investigate and see if I really have something going on with her!"

Chen Hero waved his arms, looking like "If you have the ability, show the evidence." Some reporters immediately responded loudly: "Sharapova came out of your apartment building and filmed an advertisement with you! Isn't this enough evidence to show the relationship between you two?"

Chen Hero turned his head and looked at the reporter who spoke. He was a fair-skinned man with gold-rimmed glasses, looking refined, but the smug look between his eyebrows made him lose his demeanor and was a little annoying.

Chen Hero pointed at him and another bald, middle-aged, fat man next to him and said, "You and him are interviewing me here together, and then walking out of this stadium together. If I take a picture, can I say you two are gay?"

The person who was asked was stunned and didn't react.

The other reporters were also stunned. This analogy was really… too in line with Chen Hero's style…

By the time they all reacted, Chen Hero had already left the mixed zone.

He didn't want to continue arguing with these people here. It wouldn't do him any good.

But his brows furrowed—for two consecutive games, it was like this. These people only cared about his relationship with Sharapova, but they didn't care about football itself at all. I'm a player! Not some rumored boyfriend!

It seemed that this matter was more troublesome than he thought…

Looking at Chen Hero's retreating figure, a group of reporters waved their arms and shouted, hoping that Chen Hero could hear their voices and stay, or better yet, turn around so they could continue to ask a few questions.

At this time, the group of reporters seemed to have completely forgotten how they had just ordered Chen Hero around and reprimanded him.

If they thought Chen Hero was just a pile of arrogant dogshit, then they were a group of flies buzzing around the dogshit. Without the dogshit, the existence of the flies would lose its meaning. Without the flies, the dogshit was still dogshit…