Chapter 23 Gossip "What is her relationship with your President Meng?"...
Gao Luo wore a sleeveless knitted suspender dress when she went out today. After returning to her adult state, the dress became a tight miniskirt.
At first, Xie Yanzhi's colleagues only noticed Xie Ran's face because it was so stunning. Later I noticed her clothes and stared at them for a long time, wondering if they were too short. I was also worried that I was old-fashioned and couldn't keep up with the trends of modern people.
Finally, she thought about it again and again, and said, "Ranran, you should keep warm and don't catch a cold." Then she took the lunch box and left.
As soon as she left, Gao Luo took the initiative to explain to Xie Yanzhi her ability to "transform" within a limited time and the extra mark on her ankle.
Because she didn't want to waste an hour, she quickly changed into Xie Yanzhi's clothes and spare shoes and left the hospital. When I got home, I pressed the mark on my ankle hard and switched back to being a child.
This is what I discovered when I came back this time - the mark is a switch. Press it hard to turn back into an adult, and press it again to turn back into a child.
Gao Luo felt that this function was very convenient. In the future, when she met some annoying people outside and didn't want to deal with them, she could switch states and leave.
The only inconvenience may be that after switching states, the clothes may not fit well.
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This time, it took a total of twenty minutes to transform into an adult and switch back to a child's body. These were twenty minutes that were very valuable because she heard the gossip about Wencheng!
She intuitively felt that the gossip must be true.
The pediatric department of the private hospital where Xie Yanzhi works is the most authoritative children's medical department in the entire Lincheng. The registration fee alone is over a thousand yuan and it is only available to people with a certain economic foundation.
Therefore, you can often see children of high-ranking officials, wealthy businessmen, and celebrity artists in hospitals.
If this gossip is true, Wen Cheng and Jun are father and son. Then he asked Jun to call him uncle on the show, he must not want everyone to know their relationship.
Does that mean that if he does anything bad to Gao Shule in the future, I can use this secret to threaten him?
Can we use the same method on other guests?
In the evening, Gao Luo told Gao Chengsheng her thoughts and asked him if he had any way to find out gossip about the entertainment industry. Gao Chengsheng thought for a while and said, "I will introduce you to a colleague tomorrow. You can follow him to work during the day."
The colleague introduced by Gao Chengsheng is the current head of Tingfeng, Meng Zhang.
When Meng Zhang was asked to help deal with the negative searches about Gao Shule, Meng Zhang guessed that this group of guests had something to do with Gao Chengsheng. After all, he never paid much attention to the company's film and television media sector, nor did he pay attention to entertainment stars. Suddenly, he asked me to help him solve a problem for a female artist. The female artist's surname was Gao, so I could guess that they were a relative.
Gao Chengsheng did not specify the relationship between Gao Luo and himself, and Meng Zhang did not ask much, but he took good care of Gao Luo and kept her by his side all the time.
He joked with Gao Luo: "Do you know that you are very popular now? If you walk beside me, people will probably look at you instead of listening to me."
Gao Luo did not watch the live broadcast, and after returning she did not pay attention to the market response to the program. She only knew that there were indeed a lot of people watching it, but she had no idea to what extent it was popular.
If she had known about it, she would have known that it was quite shocking data.
On the first day of the second season of "Wonderful Holiday", the platform's maximum number of concurrent online users exceeded 160 million, the total number of viewers throughout the day exceeded 1.7 billion, the all-media live broadcast audience share reached 66.21%, and the domestic social media topic reading volume reached 15.5 billion. The data set a record for variety shows on all platforms and on the entire network, and even more than doubled the highest record of the first season of "Wonderful Holiday", which was a phenomenal hit last year.
Most importantly, this is only the first day.
Tingfeng has the sole live broadcast rights for "Wonderful Holiday". After the first day of broadcasting, Tingfeng's investment promotion department's phone line was flooded with calls from advertisers seeking additional sponsorship. The department held an emergency meeting to re-determine the price of advertising space. The prime positions are priced by the second, ranging from one hundred thousand to one million per second.
Pre-roll, post-roll, and pause ads are sold based on CPM, or number of impressions; even placements on WeChat Moments have different price lists. According to their prices, even the cheap advertising space starts at one million.
But even though the advertising fees have been labeled as "sky-high" by the industry, businesses that are looking to place advertisements still need to queue up and wait for a spot.
Everyone thought the variety show would be a hit, but they didn't expect it to be this big. Apart from the Magpie Channel itself, Ting Feng became the biggest winner.
Meng Zhang could almost predict that he would be among the first to be recognized at the group's year-end work summary meeting.
As a project that brought huge profits to the company, Meng Zhang also watched the live broadcast of the variety show "Wonderful Holiday" for several days. He wanted to find out why the show was so popular, and if possible, follow up with another example and have the team turn the project into a series.
Then he realized that his idea was unlikely to be realized. Because the essential factor that makes this show so popular is neither the design of the variety show's segments nor the theme content, but the little girl next to him.
Basically, all the hot topics are related to her. The unexpected reversals in the task segments and other program effects, as well as the controversies among netizens, are also caused by her.
Maybe the show itself is interesting enough, but it is definitely Gao Luo who makes the final broadcast effect reach a higher level.
If the child was from an ordinary family, maybe she could persuade the other family to send the child to develop in the entertainment industry, but since she is a relative of Gao Chengsheng, that's out of the question. Very few wealthy families would send their children to work in the entertainment industry unless their children themselves yearn for it.
But Meng Zhang still asked Gao Luo: "Do you want to be a child star? Do you want to enter the entertainment industry in the future?"
Gao Luo replied without thinking: "No, there are a lot of bad people in the entertainment industry. If it weren't for Lele, I wouldn't want to come to such a place."
When she mentioned Lele, Meng Zhang didn't react at first. After a while, he realized that she was talking about Gao Shule. At the same time, he realized that she had followed him to work these days, probably for her.
“Am I really that hot?”
When Meng Zhang heard Gao Luo suddenly ask him this, he smiled and said, "Yes, you are super popular. You are a popular little star now!"
Gao Luo put on her hat and mask immediately after hearing this, "Then I have to be low-key. It would be bad if I attract the attention of passers-by."
Hearing this, Meng Zhang laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back.
Meng Zhang is usually very busy. There are too many projects in the company, and he has to follow up on the big projects personally. Every day he is either in a meeting or on the way to a meeting.
Gao Luo took advantage of the time on the road to chat with him and wanted to ask him about gossip about other artists on the variety show.
Meng Zhang asked her why she was asking about this. Gao Luo clenched her fist and said, "As the saying goes, if you know yourself and your enemy, you will never be defeated in a hundred battles!"
After spending a few days with Gao Luo, Meng Zhang has become familiar with her way of speaking. She is like a little adult and often says shocking things.
"Then I have a dinner party tomorrow, do you want to go? There might be someone you know there."
"What dinner?"
"A...movie celebration party."
"Okay, take me to see it."
The celebration banquet was held in the banquet hall of a five-star hotel in Lincheng. After getting off the car, someone took Meng Zhang up there.
Meng Zhang held A'Luo's hand all the way into the banquet hall, found a seat for her, and asked his secretary to look after her.
After arranging everything for her, Meng Zhang stepped forward and greeted some important leaders of the film production company.
There is a stage at the front of the banquet hall, with a large LED screen in the middle of the stage. There are many huge posters and banners around the hall.
The movie title "The Crow Hides a Crime" was marked on the screen, posters, and banners.
Gao Luo hadn't watched a movie for a long time. She took out her phone and searched it. She found that it was a movie that was released three months ago. It was a criminal investigation movie with elements of female crime. The box office exceeded 3 billion, which was a pretty good result.
Those who came to attend the celebration banquet today included actors, film production team, producers, distributors, etc. Gao Luo learned through encyclopedia information that Tingfeng was the co-producer of this film.
It is understandable that Meng Zhang, as the CEO of Tingfeng, came to the celebration banquet, but the reason he invited me was that there might be someone she knew here. Gao Luo scrolled down the screen of her phone. From behind the scenes to the front, she didn't recognize any of the people.
She had only heard of the heroine, Guan Liu, and knew that she was a first-line female artist with considerable influence in the circle, and also a senior figure admired by many new generation artists. But what does this have to do with her? She is not a fan of celebrities.
Gao Luo was very depressed. Assistant Meng Zhang thought she was bored, so he asked her for a glass of freshly squeezed juice and asked her what she wanted to eat.
Gao Luo shook her head and said, "I want to play with my phone for a while. If you have something to do, go ahead and do it. You don't have to keep looking at me. I'll sit here and tell you in advance if I leave."
Gao Luo's verbal communication and logical thinking were very clear. The secretary gave her a few instructions and then returned to the boss.
Although Gao Luo was depressed, she decided to take a look since she was already here.
Her position was a little far from the main stage. There was no natural light in the room, and the atmosphere was created purely by stage lights. Gao Luo couldn't see clearly, so she used the camera function on her mobile phone to enlarge the view.
The tables closest to the stage were occupied by the film's main actors and important leaders.
Gao Luo saw the heroine Guan Liu. She read from the encyclopedia that Guan Liu was 39 years old this year. But when she saw her in person, her face and figure were like those of a person in her twenties, young, beautiful, and with a smooth body.
She was dressed very casually today, in a white T-shirt and jeans, with straight hair, and without any overly flashy jewelry. She was holding a glass of wine and talking to a leader-like person, smiling and behaving calmly.
Gao Luo couldn't help but look at her for a while longer. Soon, a person suddenly appeared in the camera. It was someone Gao Luo knew - Wen Cheng.
Gao Luo went back to look at the cast list again and confirmed that he was not on the list of either the main actors or the guest actors. She didn't understand why he was here.
Gao Luo was wearing sunglasses at the moment. She was afraid that she might have mistaken someone, so she moved the sunglasses to the bridge of her nose and looked with her naked eyes. This time she confirmed that the person was Wen Cheng.
Wen Cheng had been standing beside Guan Liu, and Guan Liu seemed to be introducing him to the leaders present, because from his posture and position, Wen Cheng seemed to be the one being introduced. Then after the introduction, Wen Cheng shook hands with the other party very attentively, and bent his waist very low, which showed his humble attitude at first glance.
Judging from this video alone, Guan Liu was using this celebration banquet to introduce Wen Cheng to some connections, but why did Guan Liu want to help him? In the eyes of the public, they are not familiar with each other at all. Are they artists in the same company helping each other? Not really. The encyclopedia shows that they belong to different agencies.
We are friends, but seem to be a little closer than friends.
Could they be a couple? If they are a couple, then would Jun’s mother be Guan Liu? If this is true, then I have mastered another big secret of Wencheng!
But these are just her guesses and may not be accurate. She planned to ask Meng Zhang when she returned to see if he knew about it.
Gao Luo turned the phone sideways and planned to take a video first.
The video had only been recorded for half a minute when a person suddenly appeared in the camera.
The man's eyes were as sharp as torches, and his gaze shot straight through the crowd of people toasting each other and the dim lights. Gao Luo felt it even though she was so far away, as if a policeman saw a fugitive from a hundred meters away, and she was the fugitive.
She held the phone, zoomed in again and again, and finally saw the face of the person staring at her. It was Ning Heng.
Why is he here too? Today is the movie celebration party, what does it have to do with him? Could it be possible that he invested in this movie?
Gao Luo was confused when she saw the person on the screen getting closer and closer to her.
Gao Luo immediately stood up, picked up her schoolbag and ran, not forgetting to put her sunglasses back on her face.
She can't be discovered by Ning Heng. It’s no big deal if Ning Heng finds out, but Wen Cheng will also know she is here by then. Then it is very likely that he will know that his secret has been discovered by her, and he will make preparations in advance, so that it will be impossible for her to use this matter as a handle.
When Gao Luo started running, Ning Heng also sped up and approached her. But he failed to catch up with her because Gao Luo hid in the ladies' room.
Ning Heng was sure that he saw Gao Luo. He was as confused as Gao Luo and didn't know why she appeared here. He is neither the main creator nor a family member of the production team. He sits so far back that it seems like he is just there to watch the fun.
Also, he didn't understand why Gao Luo ran away, he just wanted to say hello to her. When she ran away, his curiosity was aroused, and he decided to wait until she came out.
There are two banquet halls on this floor. When there are activities in the banquet halls, the hotel will arrange waiters to guard outside the door to ensure that irrelevant people are not allowed in. The entrances and exits are in different directions so they don't interfere with each other, and even the bathroom is separate.
There were very few people coming to the bathroom at this time. Ning Heng waited outside for twenty minutes, and only two people came out. One was a staff member, and the other was a strange woman I had never seen before.
The woman was tall and slim, wearing an ordinary white cotton dress. The dress had no shape and was even a little wrinkled, but it made her look fresh and elegant. The face was in stark contrast to the clothes. She had no makeup on, but her facial features were bright, her eyebrows were thick and her eyes were upturned. When she passed by Ning Heng, she glanced at him casually, her gaze was as light as dust, so quick that Ning Heng didn't even meet her gaze.
Ning Heng waited outside for another ten minutes and began to wonder if he was seeing things in the banquet hall just now. Perhaps there were no children at all attending the celebration banquet.
At this moment, someone came out of the banquet hall and called him, so he went back.
Gao Luo now carries a schoolbag with her when she goes out, which contains a set of light, easy-to-put-on-and-off clothes and a pair of disposable slippers.
After she went down from the banquet hall, she used the lobby bathroom and changed back into her child's body, and also changed her clothes and shoes.
After leaving the hotel, she called Secretary Meng Zhang and said she wanted to go back first. The man got off quickly and told the driver to take her back first.
In addition to attending the movie celebration banquet today, Meng Zhang also has a meeting later. The party he is in contact with is the production team of the second season of "Wonderful Holiday".
But this is not the reason why Ning Heng appears here.
The only producer of the movie "The Crow Hides a Crime" is China Film Co., Ltd. It seems to have nothing to do with Xi Que Tai, but this company is a joint-stock limited company jointly established by China Film Group and six other companies.
Among those six companies is Lincheng Radio and Television Group, also known as Xi Que TV.
The top leaders of Xi Que Tai were invited to attend the celebration banquet, and Ning Heng was also invited to join them.
Ning Heng regretted coming here as soon as he saw Wen Cheng was there too. He really didn't want to meet him in such a non-public place.
Because he and Wen Cheng had a conflict on the show, the reason they met privately was not for any other reason, but they were afraid that someone would act as a peacemaker to mediate between them.
What you fear will come true. Ning Heng was called in just for this matter - the leader of Xi Que Tai met Wen Cheng, greeted him, brought up other random things, and then decided to let the two of them have a good talk.
Ning Heng is very annoyed by this kind of thing. He is a host on the show and realizes his life value through the show, not to make friends on the show. And why should he make friends with someone whose mind is as cruel as honeycomb coal?
Afterwards, the leader told Ning Heng to control his temper on the show and not to always be cold to the guests. Ning Heng replied indifferently: "Do I need you to teach me how to make a show?"
I almost fainted from anger from my boss.
After attending the celebration banquet, Meng Zhang and Ning Heng entered another smaller meeting room in the hotel.
Those attending the meeting included employees from the business and development departments of Tingfeng and Xiquetai. The purpose of the meeting was to strengthen in-depth cooperation with the "Wonderful Holiday" IP.
Tingfeng will open a professional page for "Wonderful Holiday", establish relevant topics and activities, and put some highly-rated videos and guest interviews in it to enhance the audience's sense of interaction. In addition, it will develop some program-related peripherals for sale.
It was already evening when the meeting ended, and Meng Zhang asked them to have dinner at the hotel before leaving.
Since we had already talked about work, the meal was quite relaxing.
But on the way back, Ning Heng encountered a trouble.
He drove here by himself, but he was drunk and couldn't drive. Thinking of calling a designated driver, Meng Zhang suggested, "Let my secretary take you there."
Meng Zhang brought a driver with him, so he could go back no matter what.
Ning Heng didn't bother to be polite with him. After thanking him, he called his secretary and left.
While in the car, Ning Heng finally asked about the topic that had been bothering him for a long time but had nothing to do with work. "Did you see a little girl at the movie celebration party today?"
"Little girl?"
"Yes, a..." Ning Heng wanted to say "cute", but this word was too boring and had no direction; he wanted to say what she was wearing, but his mind was empty. He realized it late and didn't pay attention to what she was wearing today.
Finally, after thinking for a long time, he said, "A little girl wearing sunglasses."
Hearing his bizarre description, the secretary couldn't help but laugh and said, "You are talking about A-Luo, right?"
He replied so straightforwardly that Ning Heng was a little surprised: "Is she really here today?"
"Yes, she came with Mr. Meng. Mr. Meng said that children are lively, so he brought her here to play. Later, she felt bored and went back first."
"What is her relationship with your President Meng?"
"I don't know. Mr. Meng hasn't told anyone."
Since Gao Luo is now very conscious of being a "popular female star" and wears a mask and a hat wherever she goes, no one else in the company recognized her as the little Luo on the variety show. Only Meng Zhang's secretary knew. However, the secretary only knew that she was A'Luo, and had no idea what her relationship with her boss was, so it was not easy to make a random guess.
Ning Heng originally suspected that A'Luo was the daughter of President Tingfeng, and today's unexpected discovery deepened his thoughts. After all, today's business banquet was attended by many bigwigs, and she said she wanted to come and play, so Meng Zhang brought her here. Isn't it like he is his own child and he can spoil her like this?
Unfortunately, Ning Heng's suspicion was false.
But Gao Luo's suspicion was real.
Gao Luo met Wen Cheng at the celebration banquet and suspected that he and Guan Liu were a couple. The next morning, she asked Meng Zhang and got the answer: "Yes, it's what you think."
Their relationship doesn't seem to be a secret in the industry, but their respective fans are unaware of it. However, the industry seems to only know that they are a couple, and the true relationship between Jun and Wen Cheng is still a secret.
"How about it? Is this gossip useful to you?" Meng Zhang asked her.
"It's useful! Super useful!" Gao Luo dragged out the tone and spoke in an exaggerated manner.
Meng Zhang smiled: "Then I have another piece of gossip, do you want to hear it?"
"think!"
"As far as I know, Shunwen Media has been in contact with Wencheng's team recently." Meng Zhang stopped talking halfway and asked Gao Luo to figure it out on her own. If she couldn't figure it out, then forget it.
There is no need to tell children too much about the entertainment industry. It is too complicated and takes a lot of brainpower and energy.
But Gao Luo understood what he meant.
Shunwen Media is the agency that Shen Siyan works for. The second half of Meng Zhang’s sentence means that the two of them may have to cooperate.
"I understand." Gao Luo said.
"You're so smart! I wish you good luck in the following filming sessions!"
"Well! Not only will we not be in danger, but we will also win every time!"
"Okay." Meng Zhang smiled and high-fived her.
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Two days before the second episode of "Wonderful Holiday" was to be aired, something unexpected happened.
Feng Daiyue couldn't hold back her desire to hype up the couple, so she asked a marketing account to post the photos she took in Xue Chen's car.
I wanted to hype up the CP, but ended up being torn into a hot search by the other party's fans——
The other party cut out all the cool things she did on the variety show. Including asking everyone to let her choose the house first on the first day of the show; "abandoning" Gao Shule and deliberately squeezing into Xue Chen's group during the group cooking session; ringing the doorbell even though the rules clearly stated that it was not allowed to disturb the elderly couple Cao Li; misleading the villagers on the last day to make things difficult for Gao Shule; questioning Gao Shule's income from the sales session, etc.
Feng Daiyue was very dissatisfied because many things were not done by her alone, so why was she the only one being scolded?
Lin Huiyu was extremely upset and regretted letting her participate in this variety show, which destroyed all the passers-by fans she had accumulated with great difficulty.
"Why don't you understand? Xue Chen's fans scolded you not because of what you did on the show, but because you tried to ride on Xue Chen's popularity! I've already warned you not to market first, but you asked people to buy hot searches." Lin Huiyu was exhausted: "Is this the result you wanted? Black and red, right?"
"I don't want to be criticized and criticized!" Feng Daiyue only likes to hear people praise her, how could she tolerate being criticized and criticized? She really didn't expect the situation to be like this. She confidently felt that as long as the marketing was in place, she would be able to attract a wave of CP fans.
"Then I want to clear my name now, is there any way?"
Hearing that she still wanted to restore her reputation, Lin Huiyu decided to save her again: "Apologize, and do your best to distance yourself from Xue Chen."
Lin Huiyu forgot that it was impossible to ask someone as proud as Feng Daiyue to apologize properly.
The next day, Feng Daiyue posted a blog post saying that she had nothing to do with Xue Chen and had no intention of riding on his popularity, and that she would avoid him when she saw him on the show in the future.
There was a hint of sarcasm in her words, implying that she disdained Xue Chen and was unwilling to take advantage of his popularity.
Finally, she said that she already has a boyfriend, who is a top student from an Ivy League school, a two-time gold medalist in the ICPC global competition, and currently the owner of a gaming company.
Finally, I attach a photo of myself and Song Rui.
When everyone saw her boyfriend, they found out that he had a handsome face that was so popular that it would frequently appear on the school's confession wall.
Feng Daiyue likes to act first and report later. She only notified Lin Huiyu after she posted this Weibo post, saying that she had already apologized.
Lin Huiyu logged into Weibo and saw the blog post. She wanted to terminate the contract with her on the spot.
But contrary to her expectations, the feedback from passers-by was positive.
Maybe it's because her boyfriend is so outstanding. The public will be more tolerant of outstanding talents, and will be even more tolerant when this outstanding talent has an incredibly handsome face.
With Song Rui standing by for comparison, everyone believed that Feng Daiyue really looked down on Xue Chen.
Because Song Rui's resume is so impressive. He is a highly educated top student, has won awards, can start his own business, and is as handsome as Xue Chen. You can’t find such an outstanding man among ten thousand people.
Feng Daiyue didn't attract fans of her and Xue Chen's CP, but instead attracted fans of her and Song Rui's CP.
Fans praised her below:
[My sister’s taste in finding men is amazing, hurry up and publish a book! 】
[Pack up and let your boyfriend make his debut. I think he is much better than Xue Chen. 】
[I have been illiterate in the domestic entertainment industry for a long time. I didn't expect that there are such handsome guys among the highly educated amateurs. 】
[Once your boyfriend makes his debut, Xue Chen will have no chance to appear.] 】
Feng Daiyue hit the jackpot by accident. She announced her boyfriend and cleared herself of the charges. And she was so happy that Song Rui's halo was transferred to herself.
But she was only happy for two days when a photo suddenly leaked online. There were two people in the photo. One was her boyfriend Song Rui, and the other was Gao Shule, the person she hated. The two people stood face to face, very close to each other.
As soon as this photo came out, netizens immediately started to speculate about who Feng Daiyue’s boyfriend was and what his relationship with Gao Shule was.
Before they could guess the result, another video was circulated on the Internet.
It can be seen that the video and the photo were taken one after the other, because the two parties were wearing the same clothes and the scene was the same.
In the video, the man can be clearly heard saying: "I have something to tell you. Feng Daiyue and I broke up."
I don’t know who first asked the question under that video, asking whether Gao Shule might be a mistress. The people behind all followed suit in their speculations, and the more they spoke, the more outrageous and certain they became.
In the end, everyone unanimously concluded that Gao Shule secretly interfered in the relationship between Feng Daiyue and Song Rui, and her story was very convincing.
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