Chapter 19

Li Chu seemed to have instantly found a very reasonable reason for the contradictions that Su Ning had been experiencing during this period.

He accepted the setting almost immediately.

Shen Huai on the opposite side thought that he was frightened by him, so he took advantage of the situation and said more.

"Li Chu, I told you before that Guangying Entertainment is now just an empty shell. Su Ning has never seen the real internal financial statements. Of course, he is not qualified to see them."

"His father died. After he found out, how many projects did those messy shareholders invest in? How much money did they embezzle? Su Hongda is also a fool. He can't manage so many people at all."

"You are still young and don't know how to look at the long term. The so-called success of investing in Ou Tu Si and the artist management of Light and Shadow Entertainment are just their last layer of skin, a flash in the pan. When the show is over, the investment income will not be enough to cover the money lost for paving the road for Su Ning."

"Just wait, the collapse of Light and Shadow Entertainment will only take a few months. No matter how hard you struggle, it will be useless."

Shen Huai's original plan was to try to bring the show "Ou Si" to a hasty end, but he didn't expect Shen Mingzheng to show up halfway and invest in the show against all odds, giving the Su family some more breathing space.

At present, it seems that the original plan cannot be completed, and he can only settle for the next best thing and make some adjustments.

He was not shy about telling these secrets to Li Chu. When he tried to recruit this man into the partnership, he had already reminded him of these things. This was to tell the other party that there was no way out and he could only trust himself. It was like another form of threat.

"The Su family is just a coal boss who has fallen on hard times. They have already lost a lot and can't make up for the loss. They only have the old Mr. Su's inheritance, and that inheritance can only be obtained if Su Ning and I marry."

When Shen Huai said this, he seemed to have won the battle, as if the decision on the billions of inheritance was up to him.

"When I get Guangying Entertainment, I will help you debut as agreed. Li Chu, you don't need to compete with others for a spot at this time."

"When you sign two endorsement deals, you can pay off the debt. Then you and your sister can live a good life."

Shen Huai knew very well that Zhou Chunqing, Li Chu's only relative now, was his weak spot.

Zhou Chunqing signed a fifteen-year contract with Jiang Chenfeng's studio and there was no way he could escape.

After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for Li Chu to reply. The next second, Li Chu received a photo sent by the other party.

It seemed to be in a reception room somewhere, with two cups of coffee on the table. Shen Huai showed a hand, and the person opposite him was Jiang Chenfeng. The two seemed to be having a pleasant conversation, and they had already drunk half of the coffee. Jiang Chenfeng still had a bandage on his hand, which was caused by Su Ning beating him before.

Sure enough, these two like-minded people got in touch.

When Li Chu thought of Su Ning, his mood calmed down. He held the phone without replying, frowning and trying to reach out to delete Shen Huai, but his finger stopped there and retracted.

Li Chu sat on the small bed for a while, pinching the corner of his clothes with his hands, unconsciously crumpling them into a ball, and then made a phone call.

Last time he wanted to directly expose the matter of Diao Chunjiang, and he even specially found paparazzi in advance, but it came to nothing. However, he still kept the contact information.

The other party answered the call quickly and Li Chu got straight to the point.

"Let's go to Haicheng Central Hospital, Sang Le's ward now. You should all know which one it is," Li Chu said. "Let's go take a photo now. There's some big news about Sang Le and Shen Huai."

The relationship between these two people is not simple, and it sounds to him like there is something unusually ambiguous.

Shen Huai probably didn't expect that Li Chu was not only not scared by him, but also had the intention of fighting back at this time.

The other party seemed to be skeptical, but after all, they were both popular figures and would rather believe such revelations than not. After being urged, they immediately set off. Li Chu held the phone and whispered, "Go quickly, if you are late he will run away, make sure to take clear pictures."

Li Chu was not the kind of person who would sit and wait for death. After he finished the call, he put on a stern face and went into Langbo to search for a while. He quickly found the post that had just been posted in the afternoon that analyzed Sang Le's self-directed and self-acted fall. He first saved several long pictures and then forwarded them to Su Ning.

He couldn't tell the young master everything directly now, after all, he was involved in it, but he didn't want him to know nothing about it and be harmed by Shen Huai.

After all, he and Su Ning were more like people in the same boat.

Su Ning worked overtime as usual tonight. He took some time to check his phone and was surprised to find that Li Chu had actually sent him a message tonight. This was the first time the kid had taken the initiative to talk to him since he added his contact information a few days ago.

He was more reserved and not as lively as Zhou Chunqing, but the content he forwarded was exactly the same as what she had sent half an hour ago - a long blog post about Sang Le.

"Look, Master Su! The truth is revealed!"

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"I knew Sang Le was faking his fall. How could it be such a coincidence? I never realized he was that kind of person!"

Zhou Chunqing seemed even more indignant than Su Ning himself. She even used her second account to jump around in the comment section, reposting many messages and showing him screenshots of people suddenly realizing something, as if she was the one who had received revenge.

Because of Li Chu's matter, she has been messaging Su Ning frequently recently. She was nervous at first, but later she found that the other party was not arrogant. Su Ning also learned some information about the world's entertainment industry from her, so now the two of them get along very naturally, more like friends.

Su Ning clicked on what she sent and took a look. Those fans of the show were really meticulous. They went through each frame in detail and indeed pointed out many doubtful points. Their words were also very sharp.

"You took advantage of the public's sympathy to sell your products, but you never thought that there would be a day when you would be bitten back, right?"

"Sang Le's talent and performance are at best above average among the top four students in the Oupu. He can only be compared with Su Ning, the uncoordinated idiot. Many people are much stronger than him."

"+1, it's shameless to brag about falling down and become a top figure who has always been buried. Even Ji Mowei, the top figure of the idol group, didn't say anything."

"If this hadn't happened, haha, Sang Le wouldn't have made it to the debut spot. Now it's said that the total votes have once dropped to second place. Is that okay?"

When he looked at it, the number of reposts had exceeded 20,000, and the number of reposts increased by hundreds every time it was refreshed, becoming more and more popular.

But before Su Ning finished reading, when he clicked on the next long picture, it suddenly failed to load. He refreshed the page again, and the forwarding section and comment section, which were about to break 30,000, were suddenly gone.

——This blog post was quickly blocked, and it was written by Langbo officials.

Zhou Chunqing discovered it quickly and immediately sent him a message: "Fuck, there is something fishy going on!"

Li Chu was much calmer, and the message he sent was synchronized with Zhou Chunqing's: "It's okay, I saved it."

This brother and sister have a good understanding.

Su Ning, who was working overtime late at night, couldn't help but laugh. He turned the page again, knowing that someone had taken action.

This deleted blog post was not a bad thing for Su Ning at the moment. Instead, it was a confirmation of something in his heart.

He always felt that there was something very strange about Sang Le pretending to be pushed down by the original owner. It was very likely part of Shen Huai's plan. It was a trap set by the other party from the moment she participated in the show, but there was no evidence.

Sang Le is an individual trainee, he has no company and no family background, and this is definitely not the work of the program crew. Now he can be sure that there is someone behind him.

However, Shen Huai could buy some navy soldiers from time to time, but if there were no official people from Langbo, he alone would not be able to do such a direct blocking so quickly.

Jianghai Media, the company to which the Langbo platform belongs, is actually a new media + Internet enterprise, not a pure entertainment enterprise. Its main business is still to operate social networks. The person in charge of and docking with the entertainment business in this company is Jiang Chenfeng, the youngest son of the president who studied abroad. That’s why the original owner would go to him and ask for help at all costs.

Shen Huai wouldn't be in touch with him, right?

Judging from the current situation, it is very likely.

If the two of them cooperate, it will really be a situation where we are surrounded by internal and external troubles. It is not unfair for our company to suffer.

Su Ning sighed.

But it was useless for him to panic now, because apart from Director Yao and Li Chu, there were few people in the company who would listen to him.

Besides, it would be more useful to focus on Li Chu than to save them.

"It's okay, don't worry," Su Ning typed back, "I have publicly clarified the Sang Le incident. Whether the blog post is deleted or not, everyone can make their own judgments. For me right now, tomorrow's qualifying match is more important."

He also relayed these words to Li Chu, and added: "Go to bed early."

He was very calm and composed, but Li Chu was stunned for a long time after receiving the message, staring blankly in the dark, not knowing what he was thinking.

Su Ning always seemed so stable. No matter what happened, this stable mood also infected him, making Li Chu gradually calm down.

After a while, his cell phone rang. He looked down and saw that it was a message from the paparazzi.

"I got it. Thank you, brother. I won't let you down."

"If you have this kind of information in the future, feel free to contact me. Let's have a pleasant cooperation."

Paparazzi are like this. Last time they had a lot of complaints about him, but now that they have found something, their expressions have changed immediately.

Li Chu replied, "I understand."

Then I closed my eyes and prepared to sleep.

Su Ning said that we should go to bed early.

The next morning, Su Ning got up on time to pick someone up.

He is now the formal person in charge of the project and can use the company's car properly. However, he does not have an assistant now and has to drive himself. The first person he picked up today was not Li Chu. When Su Ning picked up Zhou Chunqing, who was dressed up, on the curb, he almost did not recognize him.

"What are you wearing?"

Zhou Chunqing changed her outfit today. It was a very formal professional suit and she wore a short slightly curly wig. I don’t know how she put on makeup, but she managed to make herself look ten years older. With the mask on, she really looked like an ordinary assistant.

Li Chu is having a match today, it's such an important thing, Zhou Chunqing wants to go and watch it in person. It's not easy for siblings to depend on each other, so Su Ning certainly won't refuse and takes her over.

"I put on my own makeup. It'll be easier to deal with it if I change my look," Zhou Chunqing pulled down his mask after getting in the car, and then spoke to Su Ning in a sneaky manner, "Master Su, I don't think what happened yesterday was that simple. The water in Figure 4 is deeper than I thought. And I also heard that Jiang Chenfeng will go there as a media representative today. I'm afraid he will do something bad to Li Chu."

"And you, I'm really worried about you," Zhou Chunqing said, looking at him with some worry, "Who are the people around you? I'm afraid they will hurt you again. You have to be careful."

Seeing her like that, Su Ning comforted her, "It's okay. Director Chen and I have confirmed the process in front of everyone in the program group. There's nothing they can do. It'll be fine."

There was indeed a media seat for today's qualifying match, which was a routine procedure. Jiang Chenfeng came here on behalf of Jianghai Media, and the program crew could not stop him.

However, Su Ning requested detailed instructions when discussing the process with the program team. The media had no voting rights and no right to speak during the formal recording. They were only invited to observe to prevent unexpected situations.

Zhou Chunqing looked at him, as if she wanted to say something, but Su Ning was driving, so she finally didn't say anything and remained silent.

The car then quickly arrived at the company dormitory to pick up Li Chu. His eyes lit up when he saw Zhou Chunqing, but even though he tried his best to hide it, it was still obvious that he didn't sleep well last night.

"What's wrong? Are you nervous?" Su Ning didn't think much about it and found an eye mask and earplugs in the car for him. "Eat something and take a nap in the car. We still have some time on the road. Don't be afraid."

Li Chu took the things, responded, and held the hand of her sister who was sitting next to her.

He originally thought he would not be able to sleep, but he fell asleep after leaning against the car for a while. It might be because Su Ning drove particularly steadily, or maybe it was because he felt more at ease when he saw this person.

After Su Ning drove all the way to the recording site, he first sent Li Chu to the dressing room. In order to achieve a good program effect, the contestants in the qualifying round would not meet each other, so the program team specially set up ten small dressing rooms to separate everyone.

He originally wanted to stay here with Li Chu, but someone didn't let him go - Mr. Liang Xiaoliang was defeated by Su Ning once, and it was as if he had held his breath. Today he personally brought two interns here, and even came earlier than Su Ning, as if he had come specifically to ambush them.

Su Ning saw him as soon as he arrived. No one would fail to notice such a big guy at the intersection. He even waved at him, so he pushed Li Chu into the dressing room first, and after saying a few words to him, he had to go out to talk to him.

"What do you want to do?" Su Ning looked at him. "The matter of Li Chu has been settled. You are such a big shot, you won't still bear a grudge, right?"

Liang Xiaoliang waved his hands: "What Li Chu? I don't care what he does. I want to ask you, what do you think about what happened last night?"

Su Ning was stunned, puzzled: "What happened last night?"

After he finished speaking, he reacted: "Oh, what about Sang Le? I have already clarified that at the press conference. There is nothing to say."

"I'm not just talking about this. Others can't see Sang Le's little thoughts, but I can see them at a glance." Liang Xiaoliang glanced at him up and down, his eyes were a little weird, and his voice was lowered. "I'm talking about your fiancé, Shen Huai, meeting Sang Le last night. They were hugging and being affectionate. The Internet went viral. You know, right?"

Su Ning: “…What?”

He was not surprised that Liang Xiaoliang knew about the engagement. In the small circle, the engagement was no secret. Many people even still believed that Su Ning was deeply in love with Shen Huai. After all, the original owner had been too flattering before.

But what about Shen Huai's night meeting with Sang Le and Bao Bao? Was it exposed?

Seeing that he really looked confused and didn't seem to be pretending, Liang Xiaoliang took out his phone and said, "You really don't know? Look at the trending searches on Weibo now. Oh, no, the trending searches were removed early in the morning. I'll forward something to you."

Su Ning opened his cell phone and flipped through it, only then did he know what had happened last night.

——Shen Huai went to the hospital to see Sang Le, and was photographed.

If it was just a visit, it would not be big news. It is normal for a gentle and kind mentor to visit an injured student. But firstly, this was Shen Huai's undisclosed schedule. His fans thought he was on the set tonight and Shen Huai came secretly. Secondly, judging from the photos taken by the paparazzi, these two people are not innocent.

Sang Le, who was sitting on the hospital bed, seemed to have cried. He held Shen Huai tightly. The two of them said something to each other. Then Shen Huai kissed his forehead. Sang Le cried for a while before letting go. Then Shen Huai touched his head and left in a hurry.

The paparazzi who released the photos and videos this time were a small team, and they were determined to make something big. Unlike the big paparazzi who had to discuss and communicate with the celebrity team before releasing the photos, they were fearless for the sake of popularity. They took the photos on the spot, adjusted the parameters and edited the photos, and even released a nine-grid animated picture, which was released not long after, with the accompanying text being particularly bad.

"@沈淮@Idol Star Map Season 4 - Sang Le. Good news, this time... it's different from the last live broadcast. I don't have to go through it frame by frame. The footage is very clear."

"What do you two mean by that?"

The paparazzi's timing was also extremely accurate. This post was suddenly released right after Sang Le's self-directed analysis post about his own fall was deleted and countless fans of the show were preparing to accuse him.

Su Ning, who had fallen asleep last night, had no idea that once this revelation came out, everything was brought out at once, and the entire Internet was in a cyber court overnight.