Chapter 255 Teaser Trailer Effects (2/2)

[Stop being a baby. Suck it up and learn to deal with the girls. When you have to go to promote the film, it's just going to get worse, oh my dear, dear brother]

Kyle cringed.

Yes, he knew full well that he was being a baby about this. Still, knowing it and having your own 'baby' sister - that you had been taking care of since you had been in the womb, scold you ... well, it made him feel a bit miffed.

Fine, so even an old soul can be reprimanded like a kid.

And deserved it.

Didn't mean he liked it.

While Kyle was wallowing in self-pity and despair, he felt his back being patted. He turned his head, to see a highly amused Xing Han looking at him.

”You're enjoying this, aren't you?” Kyle accused him.

Xing Han tried to give an appropriate sympathetic look, his mouth going downwards in an upside-down smile but it just looked like he was making fun of Kyle instead. Which he was, really.

Failing miserably to maintain that look, Xing Han laughed and said, ”Of course. I live for these moments.”

Kyle groaned.

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Turns out that while Kyle was happily having fun at Xing Han's house, the teaser trailer had caused quite a huge commotion. Everyone was wondering, ”Who is this 'rival' of John Wick?”

There were a lot of theories and discussions.

It created a lot of hype that Chad, the producer and all the investors in the movie, was extremely happy about. The anticipation that a mere teaser trailer generated was gold for them.

There were discussions over the storyline, as a lot were scoffing over the fact that no one could beat John Wick. There were some that said 'John Wick is the past. The guy is the future'.

There were discussions on the mysterious new actor that was playing that young boy. Netizens did their best to dig out who this 'Kyle R. Smith' was but the name generated a lot of possible people. It wasn't a unique name like Keanu Reeves, you see.

Still, due to someone being extremely high profile lately, it was only to be expected that his name was the top of the search results. Thus, his IG received even more hits and fans, with it actually crashing when people were sending messages to ask if he as 'The One' in the trailer.

All of that, in a week.

Kyle had never thought, in his wildest dream, that the 'fan service' picture which he had done for Kay would have caused so many ... problems ... for him in the future.

As Kyle and Xing Han was still sitting peacefully at the airport lounge, the actions of two separate group of girls were soon going to make that peaceful state ... not so peaceful.

The first was actually made by the two girls that had approached Kyle at the airport. They took a picture of him secretly to post. It was his side profile,as he was looking at the phone, his face all serious.

They posted it, added the tags #Dreamboat #KyleSmith #JohnWick4? and location - Airport Dx

The second was by Rose and Jessica.

During Kyle's entire week there, they had taken a lot of pictures. For personal purposes, of course. So there they were, happily uploading his pictures (and unfortunately, there were some pictures that had Xing Han in it as well) onto their IG and Twitter accounts.

There were even two special comparison pictures that they had done of Kyle and the 'mysterious boy' in John Wick 4 teaser trailer. The picture on the left would be from the teaser trailer while the picture on the right would be of Kyle.

The first had the image of the 'mysterious guy' doing his training. The black and white picture of his back, lifting weights with one hand - next to a picture of Kyle's back, at the swimming pool, stretching.

The second was the infamous 'face' picture at the end of the teaser trailer - next to a close-up (but slightly blurry) picture of Kyle's face.

The similarities, though not perfect, was extremely convincing.

Tagging it #KyleSmith #JohnWick4? #hothothot didn't help either.

At the end of it, they put on a selfie of their sad faces with the caption, ”Dream week over. He's now at the airport.”

By itself, their post was damaging enough but along with the first group's post ... things were beginning to stir at Country Tz.

After all, Kyle was from Country Tz and they were beginning to feel rather proud of that. Proud, and excited.

While the rest of the world ... was beginning to take notice.

Yet, Kyle and Xing Han were two oblivious guys at the airport, waiting for their plane to be called.