Chapter 57

Su Ning had previously reminded Jian Feng that it would be best not to invest money in this movie, and he almost said it to his face because Liao Yuansi was too risky.

The other party didn't listen, and now things have turned out like this, no one can be blamed.

For a big-budget movie that needs to be put on the big screen with every moment meticulously crafted, it is extremely difficult to change the face of the protagonist. Moreover, if it is involved in such negative public opinion, the audience who already knows everything will boycott it. How can they contribute to the box office?

Jianfeng didn't give up and wanted to save him at first.

First, amid public condemnation, Liao Yuansi's official account quietly deleted the blog post he had previously posted, and then issued a statement.

The statement only admitted that he had committed misconduct in his marriage, but there was no coercion in any form, and he had already obtained his wife's forgiveness and apologized to the public.

His wife, a senior executive at Pinnacle, also came out to support him, crying and saying it was just an emotional matter. She hoped everyone would think of the young children at home and not put too much pressure on the family.

After all, some things happened too long ago, and many people, like Ji Xue, can only leave ambiguous evidence. Some even leave no evidence at all, which can be easily distorted.

Although cheating that is forgiven by the wife will be condemned, it is not enough to be banned in the entertainment industry.

The movie probably won't be released in the near future, so it can be put on hold for the time being. When the limelight is not so great, an excuse can be found to whitewash Liao Yuansi, and he can still get by then.

Jian Feng is a master at manipulating public opinion and has been trying to minimize the losses. In addition to hiring Internet trolls to brainwash people not to interfere in other people's private family affairs, he also released a collection of Liao Yuansi's classic roles, trying to use role filters to cause the public to waver.

They also know how to deliberately release some overly bizarre false information and then clarify it to muddy the waters. By the time some time has passed, people have forgotten what happened and the history books begin to make minor events disappear.

After all, it was just "cheating". There are too many negative scandals like this in the circle, and many stars just continue to live like this after the limelight has passed.

But how could the people who had been planning this for so long let it go so easily?

She even watched her prey struggling in her hands like a cat catching a mouse. When the other party thought he could get away with it, she began to add new information.

It is simply a step-by-step strategy. First, they used Glory fans to amplify the attention. Now that the attention is in place, they also gave information to some influential KOLs, including some short video bloggers involved in the entertainment industry.

Su Ning saw the latest video that was released.

It must have been some girl at the party who had the courage to record this video. Under the dim light, there seemed to be someone else sitting opposite Liao Yuansi, but his face was not very clear, as only half of the video was captured. He had two girls in his arms, and he pushed one of them towards that guy, with a very respectful tone.

“…These people are just playing around.”

"It's not a big deal, don't worry, as long as you are happy, I still have my resources, and I will trouble you to take care of me in the future."

That flattering and malicious expression cannot be washed away even with a hundred character filters. Looking at this scene, how can this be explained by cheating?

He was clearly using this to make a deal.

Jianfeng thought they had covered up the incident, but it was soon hit back. They were frantically deleting the video from all over the Internet, even if they were scolded. They were obviously in a panic.

Su Ning didn't understand at first, but Shen Mingzheng came over and took a look, then told him the reason.

"The one opposite him looks like someone from the Shen family."

When Shen Mingzheng said this, his eyes flashed with obvious disgust. Liao Yuansi was not that simple. He was a flatterer to the powerful. On the outside, he was a movie star who could make money. On the inside, he was someone who could help him handle relationships in the Shen family and was his right-hand man.

Even though the posts were deleted crazily, many people still saw them. After a few days of fermentation, the incident ended with the movie being hastily withdrawn from the shelves and Liao Yuansi voluntarily turning himself in. As a result, Jian Feng was thrust into the center of public opinion and was severely criticized by the public.

A few days later, when the situation had calmed down a little, Su Ning met Ji Xue.

This was Su Ning who was contacted by the other party. He only came alone and chose a quiet cafe.

Ji Xue arrived early and sat in a small private room. She didn't put on much makeup and wore only the simplest comfortable clothes. When Su Ning looked at her, the warm winter sun shone on her, as if giving her a layer of golden warm light.

The weather in December has been cold and gloomy for a long time, but today the sun suddenly came out.

Seeing Su Ning coming over, Ji Xue smiled at him in a good mood.

"Boss Su," she said, "Do you like the gift I gave you recently?"

Su Ning walked over, sat across from her, and said, "In the beginning, it was the endorsement of Cha Yue, the opportunity to sponsor a variety show... and to incite fans to quarrel and give them evidence. Oh, by the way, before this happened, Lu Fei also talked to me about the sponsorship of the tour."

"If you consider this a gift, what else?"

Ji Xue nodded: "Well, that's about it."

"I'm quite curious," Su Ning said, "When did you start preparing for all this?"

Ji Xue put down the coffee cup, thought for a moment, and said, "Not long ago. Mr. Su, this is what I learned from you."

Su Ning: "Me?"

"Yes, it's you," Ji Xue took a sip of coffee slowly, "The teacher is an insider, she has taught many students and knows many people, she knows everything about Haicheng, how you got promoted in the company and saved Guangying Entertainment, she knows everything, she even talked about it with relish and told me about it. Including the part where you and Mr. Shen brought down Jiang Chenfeng, I really heard it many times."

"To be honest, when Lu Fei and I were together, we didn't know exactly what to do. At that time, the most I could do was to get rid of Liao Yuansi's endorsement, so that he would earn less money, but what would that mean to him? I couldn't just let him go like this."

Su Ning: “…”

He didn't even know that he and Ji Xue had such a connection.

I have to say that Ji Xue's learning ability is really strong. After knowing about Su Ning's situation, she thought about it and was able to draw inferences from it.

She first began to collect evidence, make a plan, and gradually her mind became clearer.

Compared with Shen Huai and Jiang Chenfeng, Liao Yuansi's situation is even more difficult.

Although Jiang Chenfeng is arrogant, looking back, the Jiang family has no big backing and is a typical new money family that relies on the Internet.

Once something like the last time happens, this ability to influence or even control public opinion is of little use. The Jiang family's trump card is to delete posts, and they delete posts crazily. Their ability to control public opinion is not as sophisticated as that of Sharp Peak Brokerage. Jiang Chenfeng is still arrogant, while Liao Yuansi is much more cautious and deletes many things very cleanly.

Not to mention, Liao Yuansi has a backer.

To put it simply, it is Jian Feng; to put it more broadly, it is the Shen family, the real old money Shen family.

Shen Huai was obviously not defeated in the entertainment industry. A little scandal could not destroy him. He was defeated by Shen Mingzheng and lost on the road to power. It is not easy to replicate this. The Shen family is not so easy to fall, and Liao Yuansi is not so ambitious to seize the power above.

Moreover, if Liao Yuansi's case was exposed on any marketing account, not to mention that many marketing companies have cooperated with Jianfeng, they might leak the news. Moreover, this is not just an ordinary scandal, so many accounts may not dare to expose it. Even if they really dare to, the rhythm of releasing all the information at once can easily be disrupted by Jianfeng.

She couldn't completely trust those marketing accounts, nor did she completely rely on anyone. The whole thing had to proceed according to the predetermined plan, without any deviation.

So when choosing the initial entry point for this matter, Ji Xue thought about it and chose something that is easier to provoke than the rich second generation smashing cars - fans who are speaking up for their idol.

Fans are different from passers-by. Passers-by have no motivation to pursue more truth, but fans definitely have motivation. Moreover, the huge fan base of idols can ensure that attention is always online.

If we ask who is the most popular person in the entire entertainment industry right now, I’m sure everyone, young or old, male or female, will say it is Glory.

Therefore, the endorsement that Lu Fei picked out from the card draw was not luck, but something she had expected and chosen in her mind.

What's more, she knew that Su Ning would have been in conflict with Jian Feng anyway, and the endorsements and variety show resources were just catalysts.

So, she first gave some lighter information to the angry fans, and a lot of the things that were revealed later were because the fans found out about it themselves when the attention increased.

Then, they lured the snake out of its hole and deceived Jianfeng, which was a marketing tactic. When they thought that the matter was over, they released the most important evidence. They could not take back their previous excuses to make a big deal out of it, and they all became a weapon to slap themselves in the face.

Especially the last video.

Liao Yuansi tried to make excuses at first, but after the video came out and he tried to delete it but failed, he turned himself in the next day.

The video didn't capture the face clearly, so Shen Mingzheng could recognize it, but how could the general public recognize that it was a senior member of the Shen family next to the old man? The other party rarely showed up.

"Look, isn't this interesting?"

Ji Xue still had a faint smile on her face when she said this: "Liao Yuansi has always been arrogant. He thinks he is the golden signboard of Jianfeng and the right-hand man of Jianfeng's big investors. So if he gets into trouble, the other party will abandon him and he will be saved."

"But this time, he will have to experience the feeling of being pushed out by someone higher up, and he has to do it willingly, otherwise what will happen to his surviving parents, wife, and children?"

Compared with this, the fact that a movie with an investment of more than 500 million yuan can never be released is a small matter. Liao Yuansi has indeed been exposed to many things, and he needs to pay the price for it, otherwise the Shen family will not let him go.

She learned to kill people with borrowed knives, from Lu Fei to Glory, and then to Su Ning and the Shen family. It was even the Shen family that was the sharpest knife Ji Xue borrowed, and she was hiding behind the scenes from beginning to end.

If this time doesn't work, she still has a chance to get away with it. Planning for the next time can be said to be a perfect plan.

Su Ning looked at her, sighed, and asked, "So, you have already gotten everything you wanted, why are you looking for me again?"

"I'm here to thank you, Mr. Su, for teaching me this," Ji Xue said, "In fact, you had already guessed what I was going to do, but you didn't expose me, and you even helped me. The teacher was right, you are indeed one of the few good people in this circle."

Su Ning reminded Allen not to act in this movie, not because he sympathized with Liao Yuansi and the Shen family.

In addition to the leading actors, a movie also has a lot of dedicated behind-the-scenes staff. At least the special effects outsourcing company did a really good job, but they couldn't change the ending.

However, it is not entirely true to say that he did nothing at all.

The streaming media that Su Ning and Shen Mingzheng invested in before were useful. They did not use these resources to divert the public's anger, but to cover up the victims and guide the public to focus on the perpetrator Liao Yuansi. This is not only a protection for Ji Xue, but also for other victims.

Liao Yuansi is doomed, but many people who were harmed by him will have to continue living. However, Su Ning only feels that Ji Xue may have anticipated his actions.

She did all this, but she was always hiding behind the scenes. Many people didn't know her name. Ji Xue also won comprehensively.

"Everyone has to pay the price for what they have done," Su Ning sighed, "Do you... Lu Fei know about this?"

Ji Xue's expression remained unchanged: "He didn't know before, but he should know now. The Lu family is not stupid."

From a certain perspective, Lu Fei was just a knife for her to take revenge.

Some of Ji Xue's materials were collected bit by bit by people she hired at her expense. The most shocking video was purchased by her for seven figures, in which the girl did not capture her own face. After making this deal, she went abroad with the money. She did not want to take care of the rest and left everything to Ji Xue.

Where did she get this money?

Obviously, it was taken from Lu Fei.

For the Lu family, who can decide on endorsements worth tens of millions by drawing cards, spending hundreds of millions on their fiancée is already considered stingy.

"No matter how much Lu Fei likes you, if he reacts, your engagement will be affected," Su Ning said, "You were originally a part of their family's immense wealth..."

"I don't care."

"While doing all this, I can bear all the consequences."

Ji Xue looked up at him and said, "So what if we cancel the engagement? So what if Lu Fei wants to break up with me? Does he really love me? Does he love me, or does he love a perfect girlfriend that I created? When he looks at me, does he know that every moment of my life is painful after what I have gone through?"

"He doesn't understand, because Lu Fei has never had to go through this."

She was dressed simply today, but still beautiful, a dazzling and eye-catching beauty.

"I want justice for myself."

She looked at Su Ning and said, "Lü Fei and I just get what we need."

Ji Xue said this with full of confidence.

The fact that "Cha Yue" replaced the risky spokesperson Liao Yuansi in advance was enough to recover a lot of losses.

You know, it is customary for "Cha Yue" to have the spokesperson's name printed on the bottle. Liao Yuansi's big-investment movie is about to be released. If it weren't for Ji Xue's influence, the advertising department would most likely not replace him, but would choose to continue signing a contract with him.

Such sudden incidents involving artists would result in many products having to be temporarily removed, but now all "Cha Yue" products have been replaced with Glory packaging, and those products whose endorsement by Liao Yuansi expired have long been cleared out.

Compared with other brands that were in a mess, "Cha Yue" perfectly escaped this crisis and was not affected at all. It was even on the hot search because of this luck and earned an advertising space for free.

In this matter, it really doesn't make sense to say that Lu Fei lost money. Even Glory, which was involved, indirectly got endorsements and resources from Ji Xue.

She did take advantage of many people, but she also made amends to the innocent people in this chain in her own way.

In addition to the Lu family who escaped loss, the group received endorsements and a series of resources, the fans got the credit for directly sniping the main character in the quarrel, which can be said to have made them famous overnight, and the marketing accounts also received KPIs, so everyone benefited.

Having said this, Ji Xue looked at him and finally asked a question: "Mr. Su, what is your partner like? Do you really understand him?

"Don't forget, Shen Mingzheng is also a member of the Shen family."

With Liao Yuansi's fate, Ji Xue's revenge was avenged, but she knew in her heart that the biggest backer of the whole thing was the Shen family behind it.

It was the Shen family who condoned and protected her, otherwise how could she have suffered for so many years because of this matter, and how could so many people have been suffering like this.

Liao Yuansi did take the blame and admitted everything. Many people from Jianfeng were inevitably involved, but the most direct evidence Ji Xue got was the video, which only captured a blurry side profile.

Shen Mingzheng recognized him because he had seen him before, but with enough people taking the blame and keeping silent, it would be difficult to find the one from the Shen family, and it was very likely that he had escaped.

"That's the limit of my ability," Ji Xue said, "but Mr. Su, sooner or later you will have to face the entire Shen family, including your Shen Mingzheng."

"Can you tell whether he is a human or a ghost?"