North of the Equator [Broken Mirror Rejoined]

Writer's note: I will post updates on my Weibo: @zzzleep

The producer vs. the top movie queen.

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One month before the new drama was set to start filming, the investor ...

Chapter 21 #Liang Kongxiang's sugar daddy# Hot

Chapter 21 #Liang Kongxiang's sugar daddy# Hot

[Hot] | Thoughts on gossiping

Today 8:00

That saying has been proven true again... Real big scandals never come without warning... [Xiangzi] is really confused... If I bought her stock, she could become an international superstar... How could she fall for an old man like Sun Hanwei? I think female celebrities in the Chinese entertainment industry really want to take shortcuts... Only the one with the winning looks like the best way out...

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Sun is alright. He's average-looking but talented. However, [the box] is really clueless.

2L

Did you guys see the trending topics? No wonder Sun Hanwei brought up [the box] when talking about relationships last time. I found it strange then. Asking such a private question is one thing, but only asking her...

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Don't jump to conclusions before everything is fully resolved. Be careful of lawyer's letters.

Reply: The video of him entering the hotel has been released. My friend works in the industry. I heard that Sun's divorce from his wife was indeed due to a mistress. And the timeline matches up.

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[The box] side has issued a statement. I just don't think she'd be that foolish. I have connections. I've heard quite a few second-generation rich kids want to marry her. I'm not trying to defend her. I just find it strange. What could she possibly get from Sun? Old Deng's preachy lecture package?

Reply: Maybe she has pica. You know... female celebrities in the Chinese entertainment industry all have terrible eating habits.

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This has caused quite a stir... and it has to be [the box]... Even casual observers on social media who never follow celebrities are devastated and in disbelief. It seems like genuinely casual observers are quite fond of her. I've learned something new... but she'll be in serious trouble this time, if not completely ruined. Sun hasn't posted anything yet... like the price hasn't been agreed upon.

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Brothers, hurry and check the trending topics... Sun has spoken up... But things are getting really weird... I really don't understand... Now not only Sun is being dragged into this... There's another one I dare not mention... Mentioning his name would probably get my account banned...

Reply: Holy crap, I'm going to check this out.

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"Still can't get through?" Chen Yun saw Liang Kongxiang put down her phone and knew Sun Hanwei hadn't answered. She clicked her tongue. "Maybe I should find someone to contact his ex-wife."

“I guess it won’t be of much use,” Liang Kongxiang thought of the leaked video. Although it was blurry, it was easy to tell from the figure that it was her, and the other person was indeed Sun Hanwei. But Cao Lengyu was also there, and this person didn’t include a third person, only vaguely framing her and Director Sun’s bodies.

Asking Director Cao to clarify things for her was not only useless, but it also made people think that Cao was favoring her, which would damage the reputation of her new movie and be a loss for her. So this was a deliberate frame-up. Keeping this video for two years really took a lot of effort.

The phone beeped twice. Liang Kongxiang turned it over, and several messages popped up on the screen. Chen Yun's eyes followed them. "Who sent these?"

Unlocking the app, Liang Kongxiang saw the name clearly: "Zhuo Qiyun".

Zhuo: "I saw you trending on social media."

Zhuo: "At first I thought it was Geng Jiali, but when I asked her, it didn't seem like her. You see."

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The image shows the chat history between Zhuo and Geng.

Zhuo: Was it you? (picking his nose)

Geng: What am I? Are you sick?

Zhuo: Trending topics, Liang Kongxiang's trending topics, you dare to say it wasn't your doing? You swear?

Geng: What does her trending topic have to do with me? You're hilarious. The person who bought this trending topic is hoping she would doubt me. Can't you use your brain before you doubt me? How many times have you wronged me and you still don't learn your lesson? You're always being used as a pawn without even realizing it. If I weren't reminding you, you would have died eight hundred times over.

Zhuo: If it's not you, then it's not you. What's the rush? I didn't scold you. Then why were you acting so strangely that day? You've known for a while that Jiang Jiaoming doesn't like you.

Geng: I know, okay? You don't need to emphasize it. Even if he came to pursue me now, I might not agree. You're funny. You should worry more about whether the male lead will steal your spotlight in your next drama. Stop worrying about me.

Geng: Also, whoever bought the trending search this time, may their whole family die.

Zhuo:......

Liang Kongxiang frowned, ignoring their bickering, and extracted useful information from it.

Just as Geng Jiali said, Chen Yun initially suspected her as well, since Geng's team had bought her a lot of negative articles. However, judging from Zhuo's chat logs, it's more likely that she was using someone else to do her dirty work or killing two birds with one stone. The other party probably wanted her to suspect that this was Geng's team's doing.

As I was pondering this, Zhuo Qiyun sent a voice message: "I have a good reason to suspect her, don't you think? She was acting really strange that day, eerily quiet... The person who loves to post disparaging announcements didn't post anything that day, acting like she never went to the event. And I saw the video online later, when Sun Hanwei asked you about your relationship, after you answered, she glanced at you, your fans dug it up. She was clearly thinking about something at that moment."

But that's not right either.

The video was filmed at least two years ago. Two years ago, she hadn't even stepped onto their stage yet. Who would have specifically filmed this video? Unless the person they wanted to film at the time wasn't her at all, and she was just a character they filmed incidentally during their struggle.

...Are you planning to film Cao Lengyu?

His feud with Director Cao is well-known. Back then, he stole Cao Lengyu's inspiration and launched the project before her, causing Cao to suffer in silence. Then he took the lead in isolating her.

She didn't tell Chen Yun this guess because Tian Lei and Liang Kongxiang didn't have any deep-seated hatred for each other, and there was no reason for him to do something so pointed. What benefit would he gain from taking revenge on her?

Liang Kongxiang stood in front of the French windows, her toes lightly rubbing against the floor, staring blankly at the tips of her shoes as they turned left and right. A drop of brown mud had been splashed on them sometime during the night. She was about to reach for a wet wipe from the table to clean it up.

“I’ve contacted his ex-wife,” Chen Yun said as she walked over after hanging up the phone. “She said she was also confused and had no idea how this could happen. She didn’t dare to do anything unless someone contacted her. She answered the phone as soon as I called and said she would cooperate with us to issue a clarification.”

Liang Kongxiang tore open the wet wipes packaging, took one out, and squatted down to wipe the tips of her shoes. "So it went so smoothly?"

"Never mind whether it goes smoothly or not, this whole thing is outrageous enough," Chen Yun said, one hand on her hip, looking for a lawyer in her phone book. "That guy probably just wants to make things difficult for us and annoy you. Sun Hanwei is really... well, he deserves his surname."

Liang Kongxiang chuckled, got up, threw away the wet wipe, and sat down to watch Chen Yun busy herself. "I think she's a colleague, and a colleague with whom I have a personal grudge."

Chen Yun paused in dialing, looked at her, and asked seriously, "What do you mean?"

"I guessed." Liang Kongxiang calmly turned on the tap and took a sip of water, half-jokingly. She said this without batting an eye, and occasionally, with a serious and aloof face, she would say something nonsensical, which was quite infuriating.

Chen Yun choked for a moment, a breath stuck in her throat, unable to go up or down. She didn't say anything, but asked the operations team to issue a joint statement with Sun Hanwei's ex-wife's clarification. After posting it, she logged on and checked the public opinion. Weibo was pushing the clarification topic to them, and it was climbing very quickly. Right now, half of the trending topics were about the Spring Festival Gala, and the rest were either about Spring Festival movies or Liang Kongxiang.

"Hasn't President Jiang contacted you?" Chen Yun clicked on the trending topic of the movie produced by Zaiying, scrolled a few times, and saw that the main character's fans were posting their ticket stubs and KOLs were posting patriotic articles everywhere, which was quite a lively scene. "Zhuang Yexue is actually a special guest star... and quite a lot of people are criticizing her."

She couldn't understand why Zhuang Yexue's agent would let her take this role. It was clearly an IP film, offering no benefit whatsoever and only creating buzz for others. Besides, Zhuang Yexue was an actress from the River River Group; how could she be associated with Zai Ying...?

After muttering to herself and not hearing a response from Liang Kongxiang, Chen Yun glanced at her briefly while scrolling through her phone.

Liang Kongxiang seemed not to hear, her brows slightly furrowed as she stared at her phone.

Just as Chen Yun was about to leave Weibo and say something, she heard Liang Kongxiang ask in a puzzled tone, "Who else besides Xiao Fang knows that I went to Zaiying to find Jiang Jiaoming alone that day?"

It refers to the time when they went to Zaiying Pictures to solicit investment before filming began.

“Only a few people, including Xiao Fang, Director Bi, and Director Cao, knew about your solo trip, but we have many more cases where we need to ask Jiang Jiaoming to resolve things,” Chen Yun realized something was wrong and asked her, “What’s wrong?”

Liang Kongxiang placed her phone on the table and pushed it across, saying, "Look at this trending topic."

Chen Yun leaned back on the table, looking down at the contents of the phone that Liang Kongxiang had pushed towards her.

#Liang Kongxiang's sugar daddy# Hot

Clicking through, I found that the poster was a small account without a profile picture.

The caption reads: Actually, I dare not say that I already knew the rumors about someone and a director were false, but why were they exposed today? I suspect it might be to give her a warning? Because the real scandal is actually about someone and her sugar daddy. The project refers to that film that caused such a stir online recently. I dare not say too much, so I've blurred it out. Just guess.

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The person on the alternate account: (Mosaic) This project is doomed. It was originally an art film, and now there's the (mosaic) money laundering investigation. Who wants to take on a mess like this...

The other party: That's not necessarily true. Liang (mosaic) probably has a way.

Alternate account: What method? I heard that (Mosaic) doesn't really like her?

The other party: Who knows? When (Mosaic) issued his statement before, I felt that they definitely knew each other, but they must have fallen out for some reason. But whether they have a future together or not just depends on whether (Mosaic) invests in the end, right?

Alternate account: Yes.

This post quickly garnered a large number of reposts, likes, and comments. The top comments section was filled with fan wars and comments, with Geng Jiali's fans and Liang Kongxiang's fans fighting fiercely in the comments, completely disregarding what the blogger said and exchanging dirt and ugly pictures of each other.

Scrolling down, there were quite a few passersby in the square, all asking if it was true or false, and some even asking what the mosaic meant.

"...How did this become about you and President Jiang?" Chen Yun frowned, scrolling through the topics and randomly clicking on some account profile pictures to check the content of their homepages. Many people had guessed the censored content; the project referred to "Brilliant Past," and the other mosaics basically referred to Jiang Jiaoming.

I don't know if Zaiying's PR team detected the public opinion immediately, but there are quite a few KOLs posting about movies produced by Zaiying, and the more I scroll, the more suspicious it seems...

Half of the posts were about Liang Kongxiang and Jiang Jiaoming, while the other half were all about the movie produced by Zaiying during the Spring Festival.

She said, "How could Jiang Jiaoming's affair have come to light?"

The topic gained more and more attention, and the trending topic about the mistress that had just subsided turned into a trending topic about the sugar daddy. Wave after wave of negative comments were thrown at them, but the second wave was clearly for ulterior motives.

These people see her as the most talked-about pawn in the box office battle.

And last night, Jiang Jiaoming confidently stated that nothing would go wrong.

At this moment, it seems more like a declaration of complete mastery of the game.

"The phone rang at this crucial moment, how timely." Chen Yun sneered, looking at the unfamiliar number on the phone screen that she had only seen once before, guessing that it was Jiang Jiaoming.

The phone moved slightly across the smooth tabletop due to continuous vibration. Liang Kongxiang pondered, tapping the tabletop lightly with her index finger.

A few seconds later, I picked up the phone to answer it, without putting it on speakerphone.

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Author's Note: The daily life of a female protagonist is just so turbulent... Every move she makes is under intense scrutiny. [Milk Tea emoji]