Chapter 111 Reversal

Hong Kong at that time was in a period of transition from the old to the new, with Chinese medicine, Western medicine, folk remedies and other methods all circulating in the market. Western medicine also had a hidden advantage because of people's admiration for foreign things. As an old American company, Johnson & Johnson's products were also well-known in Hong Kong.

Therefore, the turmoil caused by Tylenol was also heard in Hong Kong, and the relevant departments were ordered to rectify and inspect it, and a large number of medicines were temporarily removed from the shelves.

The tabloids took advantage of the fact that people were unable to buy their usual medications and were paying attention to the Tylenol controversy, and picked on the May family, the "victim's family," to make a topic of conversation.

The mother and son of the Mei family are shameless and good at pretending. They are also afraid of getting into debt, so they do their best to pretend to be ignorant in front of reporters, so that the reports that are printed are all about the "pitiable deeds" of the Mei family, how they not only did not receive compensation but were also persecuted abroad, which aroused the sympathy of people who did not know the truth.

In these reports, there is also some accusation against Su Yun as the "main culprit": If it weren't for Su Yun, a troublemaker, who took Mei Yanshuang abroad, how could such a family with a loving mother and a filial daughter have gone to the point of severing their relationship by publishing an announcement in the newspaper?

Moreover, the two young girls, Mei Aishuang and Mei Yanshuang, have incurred a large amount of foreign debt because of this. Now they can only helplessly ask their mother and elder brother to publish an announcement in the newspaper to sever ties with them in order to avoid being implicated in the debt!

Regarding this debate, some people think that Su Yun should stand up and pay off the debt for the Mei sisters, while others think that the Mei family is weak and Su Yun should support the Mei family in defending their rights with money and effort. Of course, some people also see some truth in the point of breaking off the relationship, and bluntly accuse the mother and son of the Mei family of taking such an action of running away when faced with a disaster. The truth of the matter may not be as they say, that it was the Mei sisters' intention...

This last view is most popular in places where the Mei sisters once performed.

Don't underestimate the human ability to spread information. Although the speed may not be as wide and fast as that of Internet communication, the power of what people hear is definitely not small.

Moreover, Su Yun, who had been well prepared, had informed Zou Yunhua before and asked him to find someone to spread the stories of the Mei sisters over the years through various restaurants, bars and other entertainment venues.

Soon, the news that Mother Mei and her elder and second brothers, three adults with hands and feet, had to rely on their two underage daughters to sell their skills to support their family spread in the market, causing an uproar.

Following the popularity, the TV news program of Liying Channel immediately interviewed citizens who knew the Mei family. That night, as soon as the news of those interviews came out, they immediately triggered a wave of criticism against the Mei family mother and son again.

As a sworn enemy, TBB would naturally not just sit there and do nothing. However, it has a large business and many connections, so on the second night it directly invited many artists who had come into contact with the Mei sisters to its long-standing "Happy Tonight" - because of the length of the program, "Happy Tonight" requires a lot of preparation. With its all-encompassing concept, it has everything from interviews to singing and dancing to short plays to games, so no matter what the hot topic is, "Happy Tonight" can quickly prepare relevant content.

When those artists who used to perform in restaurants and bars and other places expressed their dissatisfaction with the treatment that the Mei sisters had suffered on "Happy Tonight", the audience, who had eaten a big melon, realized that it was the Mei mother and son who were lying to the world!

Word of mouth spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. The poor suffering compatriots of the past became despicable people who lied and sold their pitifulness to gain sympathy. Later on, sometimes when Mei's mother went to the street to buy vegetables, she would be chased and scolded by the angry neighbors.

After those gossip tabloids were reversed by the serious media, they started another attack: Although Su Yun can now be regarded as the pride of Hong Kong, there are still people who think she is an obstacle and therefore dislike her; what's more, Su Yun has not had any scandals since her debut, so if she catches or creates one, it will definitely be a huge explosion point.

So these people tried their best to push the incident in the direction of Su Yun being irresponsible, saying bluntly that it was Su Yun who caused the current situation of the Mei family, and if she had a conscience, she should pay off the debt for the Mei sisters.

This appeal, which most normal people would consider to be insane, actually attracted the approval of many people who think I am poor and I am right.

As the public controversy in Hong Kong intensified, Su Yun began to close the net and signaled Zou Yunhua to start promoting that Su Yun would let Grandma Su adopt the Mei sisters as her goddaughters. Then, as goddaughters, Su Yun would have a reason to repay the debts of the Mei sisters.

People who didn't know the inside story applauded this, saying that Su Yun was worthy of being Lu Shaolong's direct disciple and was a very loyal person; while some people who considered themselves smart chuckled in their hearts: If he was really loyal, he would have just returned the money in the name of his boss.

The reason why he had to sign a contract to repay their debts was because the Mei sisters were two small money-making trees who could make money by selling their skills for a long time, and Su Yun had resources. After Su Yun established a godparent relationship with them, he could use it to control the Mei sisters to work for him.

But this is also a common sense approach: Su Yun paid off their $100,000 debt, it is impossible for her to just throw the money down the drain, right? To build closer relationships, squeeze the labor of the Mei sisters in installments, and slowly recoup the investment, this is the thinking of a serious businessman.

Ignoring the controversy in Hong Kong, after Mei Aishuang brought Mei Yanshuang out of the hospital, Su Yun also brought Grandma Su, who was sent by her Filipino maid Jennifer, to the hotel.

Grandma Su was also very distressed when she knew about the Mei sisters. After receiving the notice from Su Yun, she quickly packed her things and came here with photos of Mother Su and Sister Su. Her plan was to seize the time to adopt the poor little sisters as her goddaughters so that they could escape from the Mei family's hell.

As for the reason for bringing the photos of Mother Su and Sister Su, it was that according to the ceremony, Grandma Su was the elder who adopted Mother Su as her adopted daughter, so she had to bring their photos to "recognize her as a relative."

Seeing that although Grandma Su was still strong, she was also tired from traveling, the Mei sisters couldn't help but shed tears when they thought of their "family members" who fled when disaster struck.

"Silly girl, why are you crying? Forget about those heartless people in the future. Grandma and Susu will be your family." Grandma Su comforted her.

"Is this really okay?" the Mei sisters asked cautiously.

"Don't worry, grandma and I will take care of everything. The most important thing for you now is to take good care of your health. When the filming is finished, you can go back to Hong Kong with grandma. I have asked someone to clean up the rooms on the second floor for you, and the two sisters will live on the second floor of our house." Su Yun also spoke to comfort them: her series of schemes were not only to help the Mei sisters out of trouble, but also to recruit them as her arms and keep them in Hong Kong to occupy a place.

Now that the Wang family has moved to the house next door and the entire second floor is vacant, even if there are Filipino maids at home, there are still things they cannot take care of. Letting the Mei sisters live in the Su family can not only help them get rid of their blood-sucking family members, but also allow them and Grandma Su to take care of each other and relieve their boredom. It is a win-win situation.

As for the vampires in the Mei family, it is actually very difficult to deal with them as long as they are alive. The reason why Su Yun set up a trap to let them voluntarily publish an announcement in the newspaper to sever their ties with the family was actually to gain the upper hand in public opinion.

Judging from the memories of later generations, the Mei sisters actually woke up and wanted to get rid of their vampire family members.

However, Mei Aishuang, who retired from the entertainment industry and settled overseas, no longer had to care about the mother and son of the Mei family. Mei Yanshuang, who stayed in Hong Kong to develop and became one of the symbols of the 1980s, had to worry about her reputation, which is why she was repeatedly sucked dry by her shameless family members.

In the eyes of most Hong Kong people with traditional ideas, the word "filial piety" overrides everything else. Therefore, unless the elders take the initiative to sever their ties with the family, the younger generations will be scolded and criticized.

After gaining the upper hand in public opinion, even if the Mei family shamelessly comes to cause trouble in the future, people will basically not stand by them. Even if Mei's mother takes the case to court, she can only get the average amount of alimony stipulated by the law, and can no longer bring her two sons to suck the blood of her daughter.

And even if they make more noises in the future, everything will be easy to handle as long as public opinion is on their side.

After resolving the issue of the Mei sisters, Su Yun resumed her busy and intense filming work when the Taino crisis gradually subsided.

Mei Yanshuang still needs some time to recuperate and go back to the hospital for regular checkups, so it is not convenient for her to fly back to Hong Kong immediately. Therefore, Su Yun asked Tom's parents to find a small house for her to rent nearby, where Grandma Su and the Mei sisters would live.

Perhaps it is true that concern brings strength. Grandma Su, who was used to doing hard work, asked Jennifer to return to Hong Kong first, and she took Mei Aishuang and several staff members to take charge of preparing meals for the crew.

In order to prevent the unintended consequences from entering the mouth, Su Yun and Ovitz have now established a rule that all food delivered must be inspected before being distributed to the staff.

As for Su Yun and Tom, who can eat Chinese food, they have absolutely safe meals made by Grandma Su every day.

Having said that, after the Mei sisters' big problems were solved, Tom's small problems became more and more prominent.

Previously, when he was invited to guest star, the roles were basically marginal passers-by with few lines or even no lines, so his dyslexia did not need to be paid too much attention; but now that Tom has taken the role of the male lead, the two of them have returned to the same approach as when they first collaborated on "Artificial Intelligence". Before each filming, Su Yun has to hold the script and explain the play to Tom.

Occasionally, Lucas, the director, would come over to give some guidance, but most of the time, it was just these two little heads, one black and one gold, working side by side to interpret the script.

After hastily filming most of the lead actor and actress' individual and rival scenes, the new members who had been agreed upon also began to join the crew one after another with the summer breeze.

After Brooke Shields and Robert Downey Jr. joined the cast, the crew began planning a key point in the plot: the restaurant incident.

The background of this incident is that at the school's annual charity lunch fundraising event "Basket Boy Auction", the heroine Julie, who had awakened from her previous state of chasing after the hero, was afraid that she would still be attracted to the hero Bryce. Then she saw the tech geek Eddie, number 8, standing on the stage awkwardly because no one bid, so she paid $8 and took the bid for Eddie, number one, in front of the hero, to have lunch together.

So in the next restaurant scene, the heroine Julie sat with the little tech geek Eddie to have lunch; and the hero Bryce had no choice but to carry his lunch basket and sit face to face at the table behind the heroine with the school beauty Shirley, who had spent $50 to take a picture of him.

Then the male protagonist will unprofessional ignore the campus beauty played by Brooke, and just stare at the female protagonist with a sour look, while constantly wailing in his heart, "My Julie"...

I have to say, Downey, who still has a bit of baby fat, does look like a tech geek after putting on black-framed glasses and a small suit.

"I heard that you can make robot models?" Su Yun asked according to the plot.

The little tech geek played by Downey was excited when he heard this, and instantly changed from being taciturn to talking freely: "Yes, have you read the comics of "Iron Man"? My father and I just assembled a steel-gray MODEL01 first-generation armor. Next, I plan to learn how to paint and make a new MODEL02 armor with a gold and red color..."

There is no doubt that Su Yun is playing with the future actor's joke.

This hilarious plot twist also provided countless hahahahaha materials for the stupid netizens who saw this scene in later generations——

"So you two are already hooking up at this time 233333"

"Oh wow, the future Iron Man producer and Iron Man star are discussing armor and laughing at the same table, while the abandoned Mission: Impossible star is eating lemons crazily beside them. Hahahaha!"

Of course, these young boys and girls still don’t know what their future career will be like.

After shooting the required materials, when it was time to take a break, everyone waited in this restaurant for lunch.

"Respect the rich woman's 50 dollars and go back there to eat!" Seeing Tom getting up and walking towards here from Brooke's place, Su Yun slammed the table and yelled at him to go back.

"Oh, brother, go back and eat the 50 yuan basket. I'm only worth 8 yuan, so I can only eat it here." Donny, who was always looking for trouble, also frowned at Tom who was retreating aggrievedly for a while, and then he imitated someone and pretended to be nonchalant, and looked at Su Yun again, "Don't worry, sweetheart, although I'm only worth 8 yuan now, you have to believe that I will be worth 80 million yuan in the future."

"Don't think so. In my eyes, you are worth at least 100 million." Without the attention of the camera, Su Yun said lazily while slumped in the chair while waiting for lunch.

Donny was immediately happy, and he turned around and shouted to Tom who was sitting at the table in the back: "Hey, Tom, did you hear what Mary said? She said that in her eyes I'm worth 100 million!"

"Then I'll be worth 200 million." Tom, who had a very low sense of humor, forced a look at his complacent look, and then was amused by Downey's arrogance and his own pretense of seriousness and laughed to death.

Brooke sitting opposite: a look of care for the mentally retarded.