Gu Xiao's roar was truly deafening. Qin Shou heard it clearly from the other side. He was silent for a long time before he fearlessly asked again, "You're not really looking for a duck, are you? Who is that?"
Gu Xiao: “…”
Lan Shuang: “…”
A second of silence for Qin Shou.
Gu Xiao snatched Lan Shuang's phone away, then laughed in anger, gnashing his teeth and saying with a ferocious look, "I—am your father."
Qin Shou: "Hey—you!"
Lan Shuang rubbed her forehead with a headache and patted Gu Xiao: "Speak properly."
Gu Xiao suppressed his temper and said in a deep voice, "I'm not kidding you. I'm Gu Xiao, the Gu from Gu Group, and Xiao from Gu Ting's uncle."
Qin Shou was shocked: "Gu Gu Gu Gu—Boss Gu?"
Gu Xiao snorted and laughed, "Are you the reincarnation of a pigeon spirit? What are you cooing about? I will handle what happened last night. You don't need to get involved. Someone is trying to take advantage of the situation. What are your company's PR and legal departments doing? Every time something goes wrong, they only ask the artists. If they can't solve it, Lan Shuang, you can just leave it alone."
"Mr. Gu, what do you mean?" Qin Shou digested it for a while and finally thought of the key question: "Why are you at Lan Shuang's place?"
"What do you mean we don't need to care about Lan Shuang? Lan Shuang is our company's artist. No matter what happens—"
Gu Xiao stood up, his other hand lazily supporting the table. His eyes fell on Lan Shuang and he raised his eyebrows at her, "Soon it won't be."
"ah?"
"The boss of your small, shabby company is a complete idiot. It won't go far under his leadership. Gu Corporation has recently planned to develop entertainment projects. It's too troublesome to run your own company. Go back and tell your boss that I will contact him as soon as possible to discuss the acquisition. From now on, Lan Shuang will be one of the first artists that the company will vigorously cultivate. She will no longer be under your management."
Qin Shou was stunned by what he said, and subconsciously asked, "Who is responsible for it?"
Gu Xiao tugged at his collar and unbuttoned it with one hand, his attitude natural and arrogant: "It belongs to me."
Qin Shou: “…”
Without waiting for him to ask any more questions, Gu Xiao hung up the phone.
Lan Shuang looked at Gu Xiao in surprise: "Are you really going to buy my hapless company? That company isn't doing very well. If you want to buy it, it's better to choose a more reliable company. Otherwise, you'll have to help them clean up the mess, which is not worth it."
Gu Xiao picked up a steamed dumpling and put it in Lan Shuang's bowl. "No, although your company is far behind other entertainment companies in the industry, it is still much stronger than my newly started company. The resources and connections are pretty good. After the acquisition, it will not be difficult to reorganize the various departments and start a business."
He calmly analyzed the situation to Lan Shuang, "I had someone conduct a special assessment before making this decision. This wasn't some last-minute joke."
"That's good." Lan Shuang was really afraid that he would become too love-sick.
"Besides..." Gu Xiao took a sip of the juice, his brows softening. "I really want to poach you from that company. Acquisition isn't a bad idea for me, but staying in that small, crappy company will seriously affect your development. Your contract still has some time before it expires, and the compensation for termination is something you can't afford right now. Instead of that, why don't I just acquire you? Then you can sign a contract with me directly, saving the penalty. It's like killing two birds with one stone."
"It's almost due," Lan Shuang said, "I'm counting the days."
"I can't wait." Gu Xiao reached out and wiped the snack crumbs from her lips. "I want to take you under my wings as soon as possible and protect you from the wind and rain."
Lan Shuang's heart skipped a beat and she sighed helplessly, "Boss Gu, please publish a book."
"Hmm?" Gu Xiao was puzzled: "What book?"
Lan Shuang suppressed a smile and said, "One hundred and eight ways to be straight in love."
Gu Xiao: “…”
He looked at Lan Shuang, their eyes met, and they both couldn't help laughing.
…
After dinner, Gu Xiao called another assistant and asked him to deal with the rumors on the Internet.
Lan Shuang logged into her secondary Weibo account and looked at the so-called revelations, feeling both amused and helpless.
It's really like starting with a picture, and the rest is all made up.
A paparazzi took a photo of her and Gu Xiao following the police into the police car, but it was probably because they were too far away, the pixels were a bit poor, and it was dark, so the picture was very blurry. Only her profile and a little outline of Gu Xiao could be seen. It could be seen that it was a man, but it was impossible to tell who he was.
Then these marketing accounts began to take effect.
Gu Xiao asked someone to check and found out that it was a crew that was working at the same time as "Jie Chun" that had done this. Afraid that he would not be able to compete in the future, he started with the people from the "Jie Chun" crew and ruined the crew's reputation among the public.
However, the connections there were not strong enough, and they didn't know about Gu Han's situation, so they targeted Lan Shuang.
After Gu Xiao found out, he contacted the company's legal department to ask them to deal with the marketing account's rumor-mongering, and at the same time asked the person to remove the trending search.
Influenced by Gu Han, the female lead of "Jie Chun" was going to be replaced. Gu Xiao informed the director of this matter in advance and asked him to find a new candidate as soon as possible. After knowing this, the director greeted Gu Han's whole family.
Fortunately, the show hasn’t been aired yet, otherwise it would be even worse if it was banned halfway.
After Lan Shuang and Gu Xiao discussed it, they logged into their main account and posted a clarification on Weibo.
[No, I had an accident yesterday. You can wait for the police to announce the details later. As for the man I'm with, I want to clarify that he is my boyfriend. We are in a stable relationship and are now in love. Everything is fine. Thank you for your concern, but please give us some privacy and pay more attention to my work. When the time is right, I will make an official announcement.]
As soon as this Weibo post was released, it once again became a hot topic, immediately diverting everyone's attention and causing them to speculate about who this mysterious boyfriend was.
It wasn't until the next day when the police reported that Gu Han had attempted to injure someone with a knife that netizens were once again outraged.
Because of Gu Ting, everyone's impression of Gu Han had already plummeted, but because he had loyal fans protecting him, Gu Han's data was still pretty good. But after this incident, there was no way to wash it away, and a large number of Gu Han's fans left.
With Gu Xiao manipulating behind the scenes, the brother and sister Gu Ting and Gu Han were completely unable to get up. Gu Han was even sent directly to prison. After a series of turmoil, the Gu family finally stabilized and ushered in the era of Gu Xiao.
After the storm subsided, Lan Shuang signed with the company under Gu Xiao's name. Gu Xiao did not bring them into Gu's company. He wanted to go out on his own, so he signed them under his own company and merged them together. He reshuffled the original management team, leaving only capable ones, and hired people with good reputation in the industry at high salaries to reorganize a new team.
Lan Shuang was the company's key artist, so Gu Xiao hired a less famous but very capable agent for her, and Xiao Xu was also retained as her personal assistant.
The new agent was a decisive young woman who got along very well with Lan Shuang. After the two met, they had an in-depth discussion and frankly expressed their ambitions to each other. They hit it off and made plans for the future. Lan Shuang then threw herself into her busy work again.
This busy period lasted until the second year.
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