"Oh my god! Who killed the company's money tree by overwatering it?!"
What?
Jiang Xinrou strode forward and looked at the company's front desk. The once vibrant money tree was now withered and lifeless, its leaves yellow and drooping.
"Damn it! Who did this?!"
People in the industry believe in this idea quite a bit. Almost every company has a money tree at the front desk, and the better the tree grows, the more prosperous the company will be.
"My God... this is too much of a coincidence. Tonight, the popularity of 'The First Shot' dropped, and the Jiang family's money tree died too."
"Does this mean that the Jiang family is on the decline from today onwards?"
"Was everything a premonition?"
"Could the Jiang family really be finished? Otherwise, why would their money tree suddenly die?"
Jiang Xinrou angrily confronted the receptionist, snarling, "What kind of work are you doing? Why did the money tree suddenly die?!"
"I...I don't know...President Jiang said everyone would have half a day off to attend the celebration banquet..."
Someone in the crowd scoffed, "They're having a celebration party for this? I've never seen a show whose popularity plummeted to 7,000 the very next day."
"This is so unlucky! In all my years in the industry, this is the first time I've encountered such an unlucky drama. What's going on? How could it drop to seven thousand?"
"Hey!" someone in the crowd asked, "Didn't someone just say that she carried the whole show and that all the credit for it was hers? Wait, who said that? Oh, my memory is so bad, I forgot."
Upon hearing this, Liu Mingyue sneered: "Of course it's our Jiang family's little princess, Miss Jiang Xinrou. Isn't she a definite drama-carrying star? Look how much she carries a drama. Her popularity is plummeting like a rocket. You could call that a different kind of 'drama-carrying'."
"You!" Jiang Xinrou's face flushed red upon hearing this, and she roared angrily, "You still have the nerve to gloat here! Why don't you go check the cast list? Your name is listed as the female lead!"
"Didn't you just say that the audience of this show is here to see you? Now that the hype has died down, you're saying that I'm the female lead. You really have a thicker skin than a city wall."
"Am I wrong? Your name is on the female lead list. Once the hype dies down, you'll be the one everyone laughs at. Instead of gloating here, you should be thinking of ways to salvage the situation. Do you want to be happy to see 'First Shot' being ridiculed by everyone?"
Liu Mingyue laughed without a care: "I'm going to make 'The First Shot' a laughing stock in the industry. I have so many representative works, do I need one more? Some people are probably dying of anxiety, aren't they? They have no representative works, no popularity, no reputation, and they're just counting on this one as their lifeline. Now their lifeline is gone and they can't get back up."
"You! You bitch, stop cursing me! I'll only get better!" Jiang Xinrou clenched her fist at her side, raising her right hand to strike Liu Mingyue—
Liu Mingyue had anticipated her next move, so she grabbed her wrist and slapped her hard across the face.
"Ah..." Jiang Xinrou stumbled from the slap and bumped into a waiter carrying wine. A large bottle of red wine spilled all over her, immediately staining her once gorgeous dress.
Seeing this, Liu Mingyue laughed unrestrainedly: "This is truly an eye for an eye!"
She spilled her own red wine earlier, and now she's been spilled red wine on herself. This is karma!
Suppressing her laughter, she still felt unsatisfied and picked up a glass of wine from another waiter's tray, pouring it directly over Jiang Xinrou's head—
"Such a terrible drama is a perfect match for a rotten person like you and a rotten company like the Jiang family!"
With those words spoken coldly, Liu Mingyue left the scene in her high heels, leaving everyone staring at each other in bewilderment.
Now that this has happened, how can this victory celebration banquet possibly continue?
Especially the other actors who came to participate. They were just minor supporting actors who were hoping to benefit from the show's popularity. They never expected the show to be so useless!
With such high viewership on its premiere, who knew it would plummet like this the very next day?
No one expected the film "The First Shot" to start strong but then decline. Everyone started packing up and going home, and everyone was filled with resentment.
Jiang Minghui is really something else. He threw a celebration banquet on the second day after the premiere, but before the banquet was even over, the show's popularity plummeted to an unwatchable level.
Now look what happened, he's become the clown.
Especially some of the child actors, who originally wanted to show their faces at this celebration banquet and spent a lot of money on makeup and styling, have now wasted their time.
Everyone was feeling frustrated. The sudden drop in popularity of "The First Shot" was already disheartening for them as actors, and now the celebration party had been cut short. They've truly become clowns in the industry, and who knows how much they'll be ridiculed.
After everyone had left, Jiang Xinrou learned that Jiang Minghui had been admitted to the hospital.
She couldn't help but complain in her heart, "Dad, why did you have to hold a celebration banquet so early? It made me a laughingstock."
When she arrived at the hospital, Jiang Minghui had already woken up and was sitting blankly in front of the window with a bump on his forehead.
"dad?"
Jiang Minghui seemed not to hear him at all, showing no reaction whatsoever.
"Dad?" Jiang Xinrou called out again.
Jiang Minghui came to his senses and looked extremely haggard under the light.
"how's it going?"
"What?"
"How is 'The First Shot' doing now?"
Upon hearing the title "The First Shot," Jiang Xinrou's face fell. She glanced at her phone, her expression darkening further: "The trending topic has dropped below 7,000..."
She still can't fully accept this reality; she just can't understand it.
Why is this happening?
The premiere episode was so popular, how come it dropped so much the next day?
Just then, she noticed a familiar name.
She rubbed her eyes in disbelief, and upon closer inspection, she discovered that the most popular TV series at the moment was "Thousand Silk Snow," with a popularity score exceeding 8,500.
"This is impossible!" she exclaimed in shock.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Minghui looked at her.
Jiang Xinrou handed him her phone: "The number one book right now is actually the one Jiang Ran mentioned, 'Thousands of Snowflakes'!"
Jiang Minghui stared wide-eyed in shock. How could this be!
What that brat said was actually true?
impossible!
How could that country bumpkin's vision possibly compare to mine?
He simply couldn't accept the fact that that brat had better taste than him!
He suffered a terrible blow today.
The failure of "The First Shot" represents not only the failure of a single television series, but also—
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