Chapter 468: Conspiracy Becomes Overt Conspiracy
Lan Xiaoxi was so angry that she was incoherent, and the words she spoke were full of emotion with almost no content.
Yue Cheng had no choice but to take the phone over and start talking about the trending search "Qin Zhihua's sponsor". He gave Liu Wangxue an overview of what had happened on the Internet that morning. At the end, he said: "Xiaoxi and I think that you and Brother Qingsong are both innocent victims..."
Lan Xiaoxi corrected him: "It's not that you are being blamed for something, this is all done by Qin Zhihua and his company! They want to take someone down with them even if they want to die!"
Yue Cheng continued to talk to Liu Wangxue while comforting her, his tone unconsciously carrying a bit of anxiety: "We are just guessing. The main reason is that Qin Zhihua's hot searches are gone, and everyone on WB is discussing you and Brother Qingsong. Some of the things they say are particularly unpleasant. Sister Xuxu, we all know that they are spreading rumors. You and Brother Qingsong should think of a way to clarify it."
"Okay, I got it. I'll take a look later." Liu Wangxue held the mobile phone in her left hand. The bottle of drink she used to warm her hands lay on her legs. Her right hand was resting on it. Her thumb unconsciously pinched her four fingertips in turn. Her fingertips were all red and embedded with deep nail marks.
Yue Cheng didn't mention the online discussions about Liu Wangxue and Xu Qingsong in his summary, because he was very angry just by reading those words, and he couldn't say it out loud: "Sister Xuxu, you...you and Brother Qingsong must not be angry after reading this, you must stay calm. Xiaoxi and I will also help you collect evidence, and then we can sue them!"
Although Liu Wangxue didn't know the specific content, she didn't think it was a good thing. It was nothing more than the same bad words as in the previous life. She thought that leaving the place of trouble would prevent it from happening again. Is this the arrangement of fate, and she can't escape it? She tried to control her voice and made it sound like usual. After thanking Yue Cheng, she told him: "Take good care of Xiaoxi. Don't worry about this, and don't let her watch those things on the Internet. She is still pregnant. Getting angry is not good for your health, and getting angry over those rubbish is not worth it."
"Okay, I'll take care of her." Yue Cheng agreed, "Let's not talk about it for now. You should quickly discuss with Brother Qingsong how to deal with it. If you need help, feel free to call me."
After hanging up the phone, Liu Wangxue opened WB to check the trending searches. Her WB was not logged in now. Since she cancelled her account, she has not registered a new one. At first, she wanted to uninstall this APP, but after thinking about it, she decided to keep it. After all, she still wants to be a screenwriter, and she has to understand some things in the industry.
As soon as she hung up the phone, Du Yunkai's cell phone rang.
I slept too late last night, and even if I woke up late in the morning, I still felt like I didn't get enough sleep. After getting in the car, the air conditioner turned on the warm air, and the heat made me drowsy. Wenxi in the back seat simply closed her eyes and leaned on Du Yunkai's shoulder, holding the bottle of hot drink she just bought to warm her hands, as if she had fallen asleep. Du Yunkai hugged her, leaning back against the seat, and looked like he was about to fall asleep.
When his cell phone rang, Du Yunkai sobered up a little. He took it out and saw that it was Du Yunxiang calling. He swiped to answer the call: "Hello, sister."
Wenxi opened her eyes as soon as he moved, and immediately sat up and leaned against the window so as not to affect him answering the phone. Du Yunkai hugged her and didn't let her move.
Du Yunxiang asked him directly: "Are you still with Xuxu, Qingsong and the others?"
Du Yunkai had already told his family that he would not be going home for New Year's Day. When Du Yunxiang heard about it, she planned to bring Cha Cha to play with her, but she was too busy with work at the company and the plan did not come true. She was glad that she had thought of it as a surprise and did not tell Cha Cha in advance, otherwise the little girl would be very sad.
Du Yunkai took a lot of photos and short videos these two days and sent them to the family group, asking them to show them to Cha Cha. He also took photos of the gifts he bought for Cha Cha and sent them to her. Cha Cha liked them very much and made an appointment with Du Yunkai, saying that he would come over when he was on vacation and asked Du Yunkai to take him over to play.
Du Yunkai said, "Yes, I am here. What's the matter?"
Du Yunxiang did not answer immediately, as if she was considering the answer. Finally, she asked Du Yunkai, "Does Xuxu seem to be in good spirits?"
Wenxi was close to him, so she heard what Du Yunxiang said. She immediately sat up straight and leaned forward to Du Yunkai to look at Liu Wangxue in the passenger seat. She saw that she was browsing her phone, and she looked at her profile, but she didn't find anything wrong.
Wenxi mouthed the question to Du Yunkai: "What happened?"
Du Yunkai patted Wenxi twice, glanced at Liu Wangxue, and said hesitantly: "It doesn't look like..."
Before he finished speaking, Liu Wangxue put down her phone, turned to Xu Qingsong and said, "Pull over."
"What's wrong? Are you not feeling well?" Xu Qingsong quickly turned his head to look at her, and then seeing a parking space marked on the side not far ahead, he turned on the indicator light, changed lanes and drove over.
Du Yunxiang also heard their conversation: "Yes, stop the car first. You get off first and I'll tell you what happened. Do you have other friends around you? Let them watch over Xuxu and Qingsong first. Remember, don't be impulsive."
Du Yunxiang had just called Liu Wangxue two or three times, but the calls were all busy. She was very worried, so she called Du Yunkai instead. Fortunately, they were all together, so they could look after each other.
After the conversation was temporarily resolved, the public relations department of Yunxi was still keeping an eye on the online trends, just to worry whether Qin Zhihua's team would have any tricks up their sleeves so that they could respond in time. What they didn't expect was that a little internet celebrity suddenly appeared on the hot search.
The public relations department is composed of people with very keen senses of smell. They know there must be something wrong when something is out of the ordinary. Moreover, they knew at a glance that this trending search was bought, so they immediately started an investigation.
In terms of strength, background or connections, Liushi was no match for Yunxi. Although they used several layers of cover to do this, they were soon discovered by the public relations department of Yunxi. However, they did find out, and the public relations department was a little confused by the result, and couldn't figure out what Liushi's purpose was in taking this step.
Since you can't figure it out, report it. It's New Year's Day holiday now, their department director is also on vacation, so the supervisor is leading them to work overtime - this supervisor is the one who contacted her agent Yu Feng during the heart-to-heart talk.
The supervisor thought about it and still called the president's assistant Anding. After all, this was a follow-up to the heart-to-heart talk.
Anding has been with Du Yunxiang for several years and has learned most of her style. Moreover, he is in this position, so he naturally thinks a few steps ahead of others. When others see one thing, he will see two and three. After listening to the report from his supervisor, he immediately asked him to send the relevant information about chestnut cake to his mailbox.
The supervisor immediately asked his subordinates to compile the information, including the slice of chestnut cake live broadcast, and sent it to Anding.
While An Ding was sitting at his workstation waiting for an email, he received another call. It was from Jin Ke, the special assistant of Sheng Hai Entertainment's CEO Sheng Zongjiang. "Xiao An, since you helped me once before, I have some news to tell you."
When Special Assistant Jin used his accent, his voice sounded especially like the chief steward in the palace. When Anding heard it, he wanted to laugh: "Hey, Chief Steward Jin, you say."
Jin Ke continued: "Brother, I just went to the recording studio to visit him. Your Ruirui is really a very good guy."
An Ding was a little unsure of what he meant by this, so he asked tentatively: "And then?"
"Then someone wanted to harm him!" said Jin Ke.
Listening to his tone, Anding suspected that he was looking at people with his nose up and fingers raised, and asked, "Who?"
Jin Ke replied: "Six Stone Entertainment."
Legal holidays have basically nothing to do with busy artists. For example, Lou Rui has almost lived in the recording studio of Shenghai Entertainment these past two days.
After the previous "Tang Songhe incident" was exposed, Shenghai Entertainment's CEO Sheng Zongjiang ordered a thorough investigation of every drama that this person had been involved in, for fear that his company would be hit by another crisis.
The drama that Tang Songhe was invited to help with the script adaptation, "Nightmare", is the main promotion of Shenghai Entertainment's platform next year, so it naturally received attention from Sheng Zongjiang.
In late December, when the filming of "Moonrise over Spring Stream" had just finished and the filming of "Nightmare" was approaching the final stage, Sheng Zongjiang heard that the promotional song for the drama had not been completed. After asking, he found out that it was not that it was not completed, but that both the lyrics and the music were still in the process of being produced. After further questioning, it turned out that the songwriters in the company had created several versions, but either the original author Wu Hongji was not satisfied or the current screenwriter Wu Junxiao was not satisfied. After another version was released, several investors of the drama were also not satisfied, which made several creators want to quit.
It is Shenghai's tradition that their own company takes care of everything for their own dramas. Sheng Zongjiang feels that this tradition can be broken. The series of problems caused by Tang Songhe's incident made Sheng Zongjiang deeply aware of the omissions in the company's management. He wants to try again at this age. After filling the loopholes, some reforms can be put on the agenda, starting with breaking this tradition. There are always people who are better than you. What you can't do at home may not be possible outside.
It just so happened that Du Yunxiang had already agreed to cooperate on the project of "The 21st Case of Dazhao", so Sheng Zongjiang mentioned the promotion song to her, saying that he was asking her for help, but in fact it was a mutually beneficial deal. Because "The Nightmare" has a very large readership, Sheng Hai also spent a lot of money to create this drama. It took nearly a year to prepare before filming, including casting, actors experiencing life, waiting for the schedules of the two veteran actors, etc. The marketing department has already made a prediction that it will be a hit when it is broadcast, and even if it does not become a phenomenal hit, the popularity will not be low.
Du Yunxiang had no reason to refuse. Her company was full of talented people, and any two of them could produce a decent work. After she returned to the company, she still had someone send out an internal announcement, and the competition system was still adopted, with the best taking the top job.
Lou Rui was so excited when he heard this. He was also a fan of Wu Hongji's books. He liked this book very much and had read it many times. He had a separate folder on his computer, which contained demos written when inspiration came to him. One of the subfolders was named "Nightmare Traces". When he opened it, he found a lot of audio files, which were all the inspirations that came to him when he was reading the book.
After Lou Rui signed up, he stayed up all night and submitted his work the next morning. He waited for nearly a week before receiving a notice that Sheng Hai had selected his work and hoped that he could sing it himself. After the cooperation was reached, he went over and discussed and improved it with several teachers there. If everything went well, he would record it directly.
After two or three days, Sheng Zongjiang was concerned about the progress, so he asked his special assistant to represent him and check it out. This was also to show Shenghai Entertainment's importance to Lou Rui. At this time, Lou Rui represented Yunxi.
Jin Ke went to the recording studio, and Lou Rui and his team just started recording one of the versions. He asked for a pair of headphones and listened to it. He didn't understand music theory, and he only had one feeling after listening to it: it sounded good! He sighed in his heart, no wonder Yunxi Entertainment is always so arrogant, holding these young and talented people in their hands, how can it not be arrogant! When Lou Rui came out from the inner room, Jin Ke chatted with him for a few words, and after expressing Mr. Sheng's concern, he didn't bother him any more, because he still had to go back to report to Mr. Sheng.
When he went out, the sound engineer followed him out. After closing the door tightly, he ran to catch up with Jin Ke and called him in a low voice, "Assistant Jin."
Jin Ke stopped and turned around, and saw that the man looked sneaky. He pulled him away, to the empty rest area at the corner of the floor, and whispered, "Just before you came over, someone called me and asked about Lou Rui's dirty laundry."
Jin Ke's eyes suddenly became sharp, as if he wanted to penetrate the sound engineer's eyes and search his memory to see if he had said anything that he shouldn't have said.
"I didn't say anything! I didn't say anything!" The sound engineer waved his hands repeatedly. He was joking. He knew the other party had a purpose. He was not stupid. There were no secrets in the circle. If Lou Rui got into trouble at this critical moment, he would be finished. Besides, Lou Rui was such an outstanding young man. He had both ability and character. How could there be any black material?
The sound engineer went on to say, "The person who called me is an acquaintance. He was quite tactful in his words, but that was what he meant."
Jin Ke was very perceptive and asked directly: "Who asked him to ask you?"
The sound engineer's eyes flashed with surprise, and he said, "Someone in the public relations department of Six Stone Entertainment is familiar with him."
Jin Ke immediately took out his phone to check the trending searches and roughly understood. The sound engineer went back after he finished speaking, and Jin Ke stood there and called Anding.
After thanking him, Anding didn't think too deeply about it for the time being, thinking that Liushi was just angry and wanted to dig up dirt on their Yunxi artists, which would not only help Qin Zhihua divert attention but also give his company some relief. He just sneered in his heart, these people are really, it seems that killing a chicken to scare the monkey was too lenient, these clowns actually dare to jump around.
The email happened to have just been sent. Anding glanced at the content and opened the video in the attachment. Wow, there were four people he knew in the screen recording of this little internet celebrity's live broadcast.
One of them, needless to say, is the president's younger brother; another is the screenwriter who the president wanted to sign but failed to sign and with whom he will definitely have in-depth cooperation in the future; another is the screenwriter's boyfriend, who is also a good friend and partner of the president's younger brother; the last one is the screenwriter's best friend, the founder of the now popular Hanfu brand "Chunjian" and the sponsor of the drama "Moon Rising from Chunjian".
An Ding didn't know the other few people, but there was no doubt that they were closely related to the above four people.
Anding thought about it for a moment and came up with a guess. Liu Shi probably changed his tactics when he saw that he couldn't dig up any dirt on Lou Rui.
He then went over the names of these people in his mind again, and felt that Liu Shi's move might not be entirely for their company's artist Qin Zhihua, but most likely for the drama "Moon Rising over Spring Stream".
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was possible. That's right! That's it!
At this time, a secretary was carrying several folders towards the president's office. Anding immediately stood up to stop her and took the files from her: "I'll go deliver them. I just happen to have something to report to President Du."
The secretary smiled and said, "Okay, I'll trouble you, Assistant Ante."
"polite."
After Du Yunxiang signed these documents, Anding reported to her what happened on WB, from Qin Zhihua to the little internet celebrity, and also shared his own analysis and speculation.
Du Yunxiang also took the phone he handed over and looked at it: "Let's wait and see what they want to do. Let the public relations department prepare."
"Okay." Anding responded and went to do it.
Not long after, the news about Liu Wangxue being exposed appeared on WB, and then Xu Qingsong was implicated.
Du Yunxiang had a feeling that this might not be the end yet, so he asked the Public Relations Department to remain on hold and notified the Legal Department to keep an eye on the most active accounts online and preserve all evidence for possible prosecution.
She didn't know whether Liu Wangxue and Xu Qingsong had seen these things. She was worried about their conditions, so she called Liu Wangxue. Unexpectedly, the line was busy, so she called Du Yunkai instead.
Xu Qingsong parked the car by the roadside, and Du Yunkai reached out to open the door and got out. Seeing this, Wen Xi also opened the right door and got out.
When Xu Qingsong heard the sound, he looked back and saw that the two people had gone down. He thought something unpleasant had happened between them. Just as he was about to ask a question, he saw Liu Wangxue unbuckled his seat belt, leaned over and grabbed his hand.
Xu Qingsong felt that at this moment he seemed to see many kinds of emotions in Liu Wangxue's eyes, sadness, anxiety, irritability, pain, and seemingly fear, as well as forced calmness.
He didn't know what happened. Was it related to Lan Xiaoxi's phone call? The matter was not important. What was important was the person in front of him. He immediately unbuckled his seat belt, leaned over and hugged Liu Wangxue, put his hand on the back of her head, stroked her hair, and said softly, "Don't worry, I'm here, talk slowly."
It was impossible for Liu Wangxue not to be anxious, but the moment her forehead rested on Xu Qingsong's neck and she smelled the scent emanating from him, she suddenly calmed down a lot.
Liu Wangxue took a deep breath, raised her head and looked at Xu Qingsong, and said, "The incident of the internet celebrity secretly filming last night was posted on WB by someone with ulterior motives, and it even became a hot search."
Xu Qingsong did not respond, waiting for Liu Wangxue to continue. He felt that the strength of her grip on his hand had increased a little, and there was a slight tremor. He covered the back of her hand with his other hand, then pulled this one out and held her hands in his palms: "It's okay, don't be afraid."
Liu Wangxue closed her eyes. Thinking of those malicious speculations about Xu Qingsong, she felt very uncomfortable and suddenly wanted to cry. She held back and continued, "I'm sorry, it's me who implicated you. They dug up the affair between Mu Jingsheng and me, and then implicated you. There are a lot of bad comments on the Internet now. But it doesn't matter, we can clarify it. Let's go back to the resort first. I remember that there is a surveillance camera on the lakeside platform where we are standing. Let's go and check the surveillance, so that the internet celebrity's slander of you for beating someone will not stand."
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