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 report. Of course, he is not qualified to see it."
"His father died. After he found out, how many projects did that group of 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 Guangying Entertainment are just their last layer of skin, a flash in the pan. When the show is over, the investment income you get will not be enough to cover the money you lost to pave the way for Su Ning."
"Just wait, the collapse of Guangying Entertainment will only take a few months. No matter how hard you struggle, it will be useless."
Shen Huai's original plan was to bring the show "Ou Si" to a hasty end, but he didn't expect that Shen Mingzheng would appear 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, so he can only make some adjustments as a second choice.
He was not shy about telling these secrets to Li Chu. He had already reminded him of these when he recruited this man to join the gang. 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 of money 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 game, as if the billions of inheritance would be decided by 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 the time comes, if you sign two endorsement deals, you will be able to pay off the debt, and you and your sister can live a good life, right?"
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 like they were in a reception room somewhere. There were two cups of coffee on the table. Shen Huai showed one hand. The person opposite him was Jiang Chenfeng. The two seemed to be having a good conversation. They had already finished 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.
As soon as he thought of Su Ning, Li Chu's emotions stabilized. He held the phone without replying, frowning and wanting to reach out to delete Shen Huai, but his fingers stopped there and retracted.
Li Chu sat on the small bed for a while, pinching the corner of his clothes and unconsciously crumpling them into a ball, then made a phone call.
Last time, he wanted to directly expose the incident of Diao Chunjiang, and he even specially found paparazzi in advance, but it came to nothing. However, he still has the contact information.
The other party answered the phone quickly, and Li Chu went straight to the point.
"Let's go to Haicheng Central Hospital, Sang Le's ward now. You should all know who it is," Li Chu said. "Let's shoot 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 some unusual ambiguity.
Shen Huai probably didn't expect that Li Chu was not only not scared by him, but also had the idea of fighting back at this time.
The other party seemed to be skeptical, but after all, they were both popular figures, and it was better to believe such revelations than not. After being urged, they set off immediately. Li Chu held the phone and whispered, "Go quickly, if it's any later 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 clicked into Langbo to search for a while. He quickly found the post that had just been posted in the afternoon analyzing 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 all this directly now, after all, he was also 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 mobile phone and was surprised to find that Li Chu had actually sent him a message tonight. This was the first time this kid had taken the initiative to talk to him since he added his contact information a few days ago.
He is more introverted and not as lively as Zhou Chunqing, but the content he forwarded happened to be the same as the one she sent half an hour ago - the 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 used her second account to jump around in the comment section and reposted many messages. She also showed him screenshots of people who had suddenly realized something, as if she was the one who had been avenged.
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, and Su Ning also learned some information about the entertainment industry in this world 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 carefully and indeed pointed out many doubtful points. Their words were also very sharp.
"You took advantage of the public's sympathy to play misery, 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 four students in Ou Tu. He can only be compared with Su Ning, a fool with uncoordinated hands and feet. Many people are much stronger than him."
"+1, it's shameless to brag about falling down and become a top figure who has been buried all the time. Ji Mowei, the top figure of the fourth person in the idol group, didn't say anything."
"If this hadn't happened, haha, Sang Le wouldn't even 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 several hundred each time he refreshed the page, becoming more and more popular.
But before Su Ning finished reading it, when he clicked on a long picture, it suddenly failed to load. He refreshed the page again, and the repost and comment sections that were about to break 30,000 were suddenly gone.
——This blog post was quickly blocked, and it was the official work of Langbo.
Zhou Chunqing soon discovered it 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 laughing. He flipped through the pages 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 a part of Shen Huai's plan. It was a trap set by the other party since he 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 was definitely not done by the program crew. Now he can be sure that there is someone behind him.
However, Shen Huai could hire some water army at ordinary times, but if there were no official people from Langbo, he alone would not be able to do such a quick blocking.
Jianghai Media, the company to which the Langbo platform belongs, is a new media + Internet enterprise, not a pure entertainment enterprise. Its main business is still mainly operating social networks. The person in charge of and connecting with the entertainment business in this company is Jiang Chenfeng, the president’s youngest son who has studied abroad. That’s why the original owner would go to him 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 fail.
Su Ning sighed.
But there was no point in panicking now, because apart from Director Yao and Li Chu, few people in the company 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 now. For me right now, tomorrow's replacement match is more important."
He also relayed these words to Li Chu, and added: "You should go to bed early."
He was very calm and composed, but Li Chu was stunned for a long time after receiving the message, and he lay there with his eyes open 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 the photo. Thank you, brother. I will definitely not 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 they immediately change their expressions as soon as they get the goods.
Li Chu replied, "I understand."
Then he closed his 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 person in charge of the project and can use the company's car properly. However, he has no assistant now and has to be his own driver. The first person he picked up today was not Li Chu. When he picked up Zhou Chunqing, who was dressed up, on the curb, Su Ning almost didn't recognize him.
"What are you wearing?"
Zhou Chunqing changed her outfit today. It was a very formal professional suit. She wore a short, slightly curly wig. I don’t know how she put on her makeup, but she made herself look ten years older. With the mask on, she really looked like an ordinary assistant.
Li Chu is playing today, it's such an important event, Zhou Chunqing wants to go and watch it in person. It's not easy for siblings to depend on each other, and Su Ning certainly won't refuse, so she takes her over.
"I put on this makeup myself. It's easier to deal with it if I change my look." Zhou Chunqing took off his mask after getting in the car, and then spoke to Su Ning in a sneaky manner, "Young 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 harm 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. The production crew is watching us all. Director Chen and I have confirmed the process. There's nothing they can do. It'll be fine."
There were indeed media seats set up for today's replacement match, which is a routine procedure. Jiang Chenfeng came here on behalf of Jianghai Media, and the program team could not stop him.
However, when Su Ning was discussing the process with the program team, he required that it be very detailed. The media had no voting rights and no say during the formal recording. They were only invited to observe to prevent any unexpected situations.
Zhou Chunqing looked at him, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated. However, Su Ning was driving, so she finally stopped talking and remained silent.
The car then quickly arrived at the company dormitory to pick up Li Chu. The other party's eyes lit up when he saw Zhou Chunqing, but even though he tried his best to hide it, it was still obvious that he did not 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 on the car for a while. It might be because Su Ning drove very steadily, or maybe it was because he felt more at ease seeing this person.
After Su Ning drove all the way to the recording site, he first sent Li Chu to the dressing room. Because they wanted to improve the program effect and prevent the contestants from meeting each other in the replacement match, 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 seemed like he was holding his breath. Today he personally brought two trainees here, and even came earlier than Su Ning, as if he came here specifically to wait for them.
Su Ning saw him as soon as he arrived. No one could fail to notice such a big guy at the intersection. He also waved at him, so he stuffed 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. "Li Chu's matter has been settled. You are such a big shot, you won't still hold a grudge, right?"
Liang Xiaoliang waved his hand: "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, about Sang Le? I have already clarified that at the press conference. There is nothing to say."
"I'm talking about more than just 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, hugging and kissing each other, and the Internet went viral. You know, right?"
Su Ning: "...what is it?"
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 hugging him? And it was 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 Langbo 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 considered big news. It is normal for a gentle and kind mentor to visit an injured student. But first, this was Shen Huai's undisclosed schedule. His fans thought he was on the set tonight and Shen Huai came here secretly. Second, 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 and 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 videos, they were fearless for the sake of popularity. After taking the photos on the spot, they 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 hurtful.
"@Chen Huai@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 very accurate. It happened to be after Sang Le's self-directed and self-acted analysis post about his fall was deleted, and countless fans of the show were ready to hold him accountable, so he suddenly posted this.
Su Ning, who had fallen asleep last night, had no idea that once this revelation came out, it brought everything out at once, and the entire Internet went through a cyber-crime overnight.
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