After the performance, Xiao Yao's task at this award ceremony was completed. After the performance ended and stepped back from the stage, Xiao Yao returned backstage without even changing back into the formal clothes he wore on the red carpet before, just returned to his seat in a T-shirt and jeans. Of course, the shoes and socks were still on.

Xiao Yao's performance can be called very exciting, and the atmosphere of the on-site response is also quite warm, but this is an awards ceremony, and the performers are just for fun, and everyone is more concerned about the attribution of those awards. So after Xiao Yao's performance ended and returned to the audience, everyone at the scene quickly turned their attention to the awards that would be announced later.

On the list of performers originally announced by the organizers of the Billboard Music Awards, there was no Xiao Yao's name, Xiao Yao suddenly appeared as a guest performer this time, which was a bit unexpected, coupled with Xiao Yao's popularity and the effect of the stage performance, after the award ceremony, Xiao Yao's name not only appeared in many news reports covering the Billboard Music Awards, but also occupied a lot of content and space.

After these news reports about Xiao Yao appeared, they quickly spread to China.

Unlike the American media, who did not know in advance, Xiao Yao's studio posted a message on Huaxia's official social media, and more people in the media and the public in Huaxia knew that Xiao Yao would attend the Billboard Awards ceremony and serve as a guest performer.

Because the reporter named Wang Wen the day before for Xiao Yao's frequent visits to the casino, the news report of interviewing Xiao Yao through online video has been released, Xiao Yao said in the video that he went to the United States for a vacation, and the studio also specifically explained in the news that this is not a planned work trip, but a job that Xiao Yao temporarily accepted in the United States. Because of an accident at the Billboard Music Awards, the organizers met Xiao Yao, who was on vacation in Las Vegas, and asked him to temporarily replace him.

Although there have been Asian and even Chinese stars appearing at heavyweight award ceremonies in the United States, the number is still very small overall, especially the heavyweight award ceremonies in the music category, which are even rarer than film and television awards and award ceremonies. How many big-name singers can't think of the opportunity, Xiao Yao took a vacation in Las Vegas, and was actually invited by the organizer to save the scene, and had the opportunity to be a guest performer on stage?

Such a message is quite topical and attractive. In the eyes of the Chinese media, Xiao Yao and his personal studio have never used fake news to hype Xiao Yao to earn traffic, since it is the news released by the official social media account of Xiao Yao's studio, there should be nothing to doubt about the authenticity, so many Chinese media have reprinted and reported the news, and the news quickly spread on the Internet in Huaxia.

In terms of the international popularity of Chinese musicians, Xiao Yao is definitely the top existence in the Chinese pop music circle. But except for appearing on the Oscar stage as a member of an American band as a guest performer, Xiao Yao himself has not participated in the American awards ceremony. This time, he attended the award ceremony in the United States as a guest performer, which also made many Chinese netizens and fans look forward to his performance.

As a result, after the news about this year's Billboard Music Awards ceremony came out in the American media, many Chinese media reporters who were squatting on relevant news websites immediately reprinted those reports to China.

For Xiao Yao's performance at the awards ceremony, the vast majority of American media gave a relatively positive evaluation, and some media even used adjectives such as "surprise", which also made Xiao Yao's fans and most ordinary netizens feel very happy.

When reading the content of the report that Xiao Yao actually performed a new song that had not been released at the Billboard Music Awards ceremony, everyone was exclaiming "Xiao Yao actually played like this at the award ceremony abroad!" and "This is really Xiao Yao!", and they also wanted to know what Xiao Yao's new song performed at the foreign award ceremony looked like.

It is a little regrettable that there is no video of Xiao Yao's stage performance in the media reports in the United States, although Huaxia netizens found the audience's private video of Xiao Yao's performance when he walked the red carpet, but did not find the audience's private video of Xiao Yao's performance on the American Internet. Netizens and fans on the Huaxia side can't see what Xiao Yao's performance is like for the time being.

The good news is that the Billboard Music Awards will be broadcast on television in the United States, and the bad news is that the ceremony will not be broadcast live on ABC in the United States until about two weeks later. Therefore, Huaxia netizens and fans who want to see Xiao Yao's performance at the Billboard Music Awards ceremony will have to wait at least two weeks.

Although Xiao Yao's performance video cannot be seen for the time being, it does not affect the enthusiasm of Huaxia netizens to discuss this matter.

Some "Yaofu" netizens advocated on the Internet how good Xiao Yao was, and he had a long face for the Chinese star at foreign award ceremonies. There are also some sour netizens who said that Xiao Yao is just a guest performer who attended on behalf of others, and he may not know how to whisper the opportunity to "lick", but he is not an award, and he is not even nominated, and the long-faced statement of winning glory is exaggerated.

In response to such remarks, some fans and netizens put forward evidence, indicating that although Xiao Yao did not win the award, he had also been nominated for the Billboard Music Award before, and he received an invitation to attend, but he didn't go because he was busy filming during the summer vacation. It can be seen that Xiao Yao does not bother to post at foreign award ceremonies at all. This time, I happened to be invited to the rescue when I was free, and it was even more impossible for him to "lick"!

At this time, Xiao Yao's frequent visits to casinos and indulging in gambling have not completely passed. As soon as Xiao Yao attended the awards ceremony as a guest performer, the public opinion trend of gambling in and out of the casino was suppressed by a few points. As a result, some people who think they can see through the truth point out that this is the hype of Xiao Yao and the studio, the purpose is to divert the public's attention and make everyone pay attention from Xiao Yao's more negative "addicted to gambling" to the more positive "performers".

Of course, such an argument was immediately refuted by some netizens...

Regarding the things on the Huaxia Internet, Xiao Yao, who is far away in the United States, did not care too much after accepting that interview. Anyway, Huaxia's affairs are stared at by the people of the studio, and the people of the studio will naturally inform him and let him know about the things that he needs to know. After the Billboard Music Awards ceremony, Xiao Yao still returned to the previous trajectory of going to the casino every day to count cards.

Tim Haggis himself has little interest in gambling, and he accompanies Xiao Yao to the casino, in addition to nominally protecting Xiao Yao, but also to see how Xiao Yao counts cards. Xiao Yao how to count cards is something he can't understand and learn, and it's like that if he sees too much, and Tim Haggis came to Las Vegas on leave, and the vacation is not so long.

After following Xiao Yao for a few days, thinking that Xiao Yao would not be in any danger, Tim Haggis said hello to his local FBI colleagues in Vegas and asked them to help keep an eye on Xiao Yao, and returned to Los Angeles shortly after the Billboard Music Awards ceremony. Therefore, a few days after the award ceremony, Xiao Yao returned to the state of acting alone in Las Vegas.

After the Billboard Music Awards ceremony, Xiao Yao's actions in the United States were also affected to a certain extent.

There have been American media reports on Xiao Yao's frequent visits to casinos before, but that report was driven by Matt Dino behind the scenes, in order to spread the news to China, the scale of the report in the United States is not large, and the number and scale of the media covering the Billboard Music Awards are completely incomparable.

Due to his outstanding performance at the Billboard Music Awards ceremony, Xiao Yao's media coverage is not small. The award ceremony was held in Las Vegas, and people here paid more attention to it, and naturally more people knew Xiao Yao.

Later, when he went to the casino, Xiao Yao finally had the treatment of a star, and he was recognized by other gamblers in the casino several times. Fortunately, the casino is a place to play, not a place to chase stars, even if Xiao Yao was recognized, he was not surrounded by the excited crowd to watch, at most he smiled and said hello to people, and even the request for a group photo was rarely encountered, and it did not have much impact on his play.

Xiao Yao has been in Las Vegas for more than half a month, and the total number of casinos he targets is not much, and many casinos have been to more than once. It stands to reason that no matter how Xiao Yao doesn't look like a card counter, his "record" in various casinos is there, and after so many days, he should have aroused the suspicion of the casinos.

However, it is not known whether his "performance" when playing cards was too good, or because some news media reported the Billboard Music Awards ceremony, and the people in the casino recognized him as a superstar in Huaxia and lowered their suspicions about him. Anyway, almost a week has passed, Xiao Yao can still play at the 21 o'clock table in the casino, and he has not been denied service by the casino.

It's just that what should come is always coming. Almost a month after Xiao Yao came to Las Vegas, he was finally rejected by the casino.

One day, when entering a casino, Xiao Yao had just finished changing his chips, and was invited aside by the lobby manager of the casino and told him that the casino suspected him of counting cards and had blacklisted him. Considering his star status, the casino does not prohibit him from entering the casino, but in addition to playing slots, roulette, dice and other sports, all poker tables in the casino will refuse him to serve and will not serve him.

After the lobby manager finished speaking, Xiao Yao did not argue, nor did he play slot machines or roulette as he said. He immediately went to redeem the chips and left the casino, admitting that he was indeed a card counter.

After leaving this casino, Xiao Yao did not return to the hotel where he lived, but went to another casino. Although some casinos have blacklisted him, although he heard that casinos share information with each other, Xiao Yao felt that the confidence sharing between casinos would not be so fast and thorough, so he wanted to continue to try other casinos.

As a result, Xiao Yao found that there was really a bit of a hole to drill. Xiao Yao went to a total of three casinos this morning, in the first two, Xiao Yao was blacklisted by the casino, and he couldn't go to the 21 o'clock table, but in the third one, Xiao Yao actually sat at the table at 21 o'clock normally and played in this casino for a morning.

It is rare to find a casino that can still be played, Xiao Yao did not plan to change casinos in the afternoon as before, and even at noon he did not leave the casino to go out for lunch, and directly asked the waiter in the casino to bring him some food, and sat at the table like a gambler.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and at about two o'clock in the afternoon, a staff member in the casino with the manager's nameplate pinned to his chest appeared, told Xiao Yao that the casino suspected him of counting cards, had blacklisted him, and asked him to leave the table.

Xiao Yao packed up his chips and left the table very cooperatively, and then exchanged his chips and left the casino. After leaving the casino, Xiao Yao still did not go back to the hotel, but continued to go to other casinos. He also had to continue to test whether all the casinos he had visited had blacklisted him.

This time, after Xiao Yao ran to four casinos, he found a casino that did not refuse him to play at the 21 o'clock table. After playing for more than two hours, Xiao Yao was asked to leave the 21 o'clock table by the casino.

When I came out of the last casino where I could play at 21 o'clock, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon, I ran to four casinos in the afternoon, played for more than two hours in the fifth, and it was already evening when I left, so Xiao Yao didn't go to other casinos and went straight back to the hotel where he lived.

After returning to his hotel room, Xiao Yao dialed Nicky Thompson's phone.

"Hey, Jan!" the phone quickly came through, and Nicky Thompson's own voice came through the receiver, "Why did you remember to call me?"

"I'll make good on my promise!" Xiao Yao said straight to the point.

"Promise?" said Nicky Thompson, a little confused.

"I promised you that I would let you know the real reason why I went to the casino before most people. Xiao Yao reminded, "It's almost time now." ”

"Oh!huh?" Nicky Thompson snorted, then surprised, "You're still in Vegas, and you're still going to the casino every day for so many days?"

"Well," Xiao Yao said, "but I'll be leaving the United States soon, and I'll not go to the casino again, so I'm calling you." ”

"You're going to tell me why you're going to the casino?" said Nicky Thompson, who was interested, "what is it?"

"Do you remember when you promised me a condition?" Xiao Yao said, "I need to let the media reveal the reason why I went to the casino, and you will find a media reporter through Mr. Matt Dino to help me." Ordinary media reporters can't interview people in the casino, so I need that media reporter to come with me to the casino tomorrow, and he will hear from the people in the casino why I went to the casino. ”

Nicky Thompson was a little upset and said, "So you didn't call me to tell me why you went to the casino, but asked me to tell Matt to find you a reporter?"

"If he knows, he will definitely tell you, and then you will know before most people. Xiao Yao said, "What I promise you is to let you know earlier than most people, not the first to know." Actually, before I came to Vegas, there were other people who knew why I went to the casino, and you can't be the first to know. ”

"There's no problem finding you a reporter, but I have a request. Nicky Thompson said.

"We said okay!" Xiao Yao frowned.

"Listen to me!" Nicky Thompson interrupted without waiting for Xiao Yao to finish, "My request is that I will go to the casino with you tomorrow." I'm in Los Angeles right now, so it's very convenient to come here, and I happen to be free tomorrow, so I don't want to hear from others, I want to hear it myself. ”

"Yes!" Hearing this request, Xiao Yao agreed.