The battle for traffic in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 437 I order you to get rid of him!
"...I was filming until almost four o'clock yesterday, and I just got up." Xu Xing yawned, "Let me see what's going on first, don't be impulsive."

"Brother Xing is so busy filming, and I still caused such a thing. Brother Xing, I want to appear in front of you right now and let you slap me a few times!"

Hou Minghao spoke sincerely, and his tone was full of regret and guilt.

"Don't say that. Let me see what's going on first."

Xu Xing said it again and couldn't help yawning again.

"Well, then I won't bother you, Brother Xing."

Hou Minghao hung up the phone hesitantly and felt a little relieved.

When I looked up, my agent Hu Ying's expression was still very ugly.

"The sasaeng fan issue has nothing to do with you. You called to apologize, but he was so perfunctory. Does he really mean to blame you?"

"That's not what Xing meant. He didn't finish filming until four o'clock, and it would be five o'clock before he went back to bed. It's only noon now, and he's only slept for seven hours. It's normal for him to not have figured out the situation after just waking up."

Hou Minghao explained, but he couldn't help looking a little annoyed.

"Has he really not figured it out yet? What is unclear about this matter? What is he doubting?"

Hu Ying asked back.

"..."

Hou Minghao was speechless.

"What is he doing? Are those rumors on the Internet saying that Wang Churan is actually your girlfriend just made up?" Hu Ying sighed and patted Hou Minghao's shoulder, "Xiao Hou, you are too naive and tend to blindly trust others."

"......" Hou Minghao forced out an ugly smile, "Yeah, what's not clear?"

……

Xu Xing hung up the phone and went to the bathroom

When I came out of the shower, Sun Man was already there.

"He called me to apologize and said that if he didn't, he would have to admit that Wang Churan was his girlfriend."

Xu Xing told her the situation and then continued with his own wake-up exercises.

There was no fitness equipment in the hotel room where I stayed temporarily, so I did push-ups, squats, sit-ups, push-ups, etc.

A young body has endless energy. Doing some exercise will make you feel more energetic and refreshed.

"Isn't he trying to cover up his guilt? I haven't even asked him to help you admit it. Is he using your fans' words to challenge you?"

Sun Man was very dissatisfied.

"Although I didn't expect him to say that, I don't think he was deliberately trying to provoke me. Maybe he was testing my attitude?"

Xu Xing smiled.

"He also pays so much attention to the fan circle, so it's normal to think that we might have instigated the fans. What's your current situation, and how do you think we should deal with it?"

Sun Man has been dealing with this matter.

She released the news to the media yesterday, denying Xu Xing's new relationship, and also arranged for an anonymous revelation that Xu Xing did not even live there. It was indeed she who instigated Mantianxing to use Hou Minghao to take the blame.

Last night she explained to Xu Xing the reason why she did so: she has always been in Hou Minghao's core fan group, and there are some signs that he doesn't seem to be that innocent after all.

"I'm still waiting for the new response from the two illegitimate fans who took the photos. It's confirmed that they don't have more photos, but they haven't revealed how they followed Hou Minghao."

Sun Man felt helpless.

"...Are you really overthinking it? Is it just because the 'higher-ups in their group support the fight'?" Xu Xing tried to soften her tone, "He has no motive."

"Ever since the incident in June when a sasaeng fan cornered him and a woman in a room, he has been particularly careful to avoid sasaeng fans. Since then, I haven't heard of any sasaeng fans pestering him again. The only photos he got from the proxy photographers are of him at the airport and after events.

"He came to see you yesterday, and he was driving a rented car, so the chances of him being discovered by stalkers were lower. Why was he just discovered and followed by two people who were skilled enough to climb over a wall?"

Sun Man argued convincingly.

"If it was really an accident..."

Xu Xing scratched his head.

The phone rang.

It’s Mr. Qu calling.

connected.

"Since you don't want to publicly acknowledge your new girlfriend, just let Hou Minghao acknowledge her. This is just the right time to use someone."

What Mr. Qu said was a matter of course.

She didn't care whether Hou Minghao was interested or not.

"Whether I'm in a relationship or not isn't really important now, but it's different for him. If his relationship is exposed, his reputation will be ruined. Does everyone that Zheng Rong supports have their reputation ruined? You can't just rely on me to make money in the future."

Even from a boss's perspective, Xu Xing doesn't think it is necessary to do public relations in this way.

The key point is that Wang Churan is definitely not Hou Minghao’s man.

"Then you decide how to deal with it. If Mr. Zhao calls, you don't have to pay attention. Zheng Rong is ready to do without anyone except you. Besides, isn't it just a relationship? If you can't even handle the collapse of your relationship, how can you be praised? Didn't Sheng Ke come through like this? Besides, it was Hou Minghao who caused the trouble in the first place, so didn't he have a say in it? Oh, it's so boring. Let Manman worry about it. I've been busy as hell these past two days."

Mr. Qu quickly complained a lot and hung up the phone in a hurry.

For Mr. Qu, this is really not a big deal.

After hanging up the call with Mr. Qu, Xu Xing immediately received a call from Ma Fanshu.

"I'm going back to the place where we went last time?"

she asked on the phone.

"Well, Sun Man will contact you."

The last time she came over, Wang Churan was in the villa, so Xu Xing rented another house.

She didn't mention the scandal, and Xu Xing didn't talk about it on her own initiative.

After hanging up the phone with Ma Fanshu, Sun Man continued.

"Do you want to see the statistics of Hou Minghao's press releases that slander you?"

"Um...wasn't this normal bundling marketing before? I'm the most popular in a company, and I give milk to all the artists under it. All companies are like this, right? I won't be affected by this kind of marketing."

Xu Xing had already left the topic.

"You know you are feeding him, but does he know? It sounds good, but it sounds bad, like sucking blood. How many truths have you said in a way that...uses public power for personal gain?"

Sun Man became more and more angry as she spoke. For a moment, she didn't know how to tell the story and stumbled, which made her even funnier.

Xu Xing sighed tactically, trying hard not to laugh.

"Ugh……"

"Why did I quit other stars' core groups but not his? I was afraid that you would care too much about our old relationship and let him get away with it. Do you know how people in his core group allowed you to be scolded?
"Hu Ying's several connections have been stirring up trouble all day long. At first, she even greeted me, saying that 'tearing is healthier, and you can't beat the stars anyway' to solidify his fan base. Then what happened? It got worse and worse!

"I can understand that Lu Han's fans and Chris Wu's fans scolded you, but those Kiwis are such a heartless bunch! You gave me everything, but you scolded me in the most rude way! I wanted to show you several times, but I just..."

As she spoke, tears began to flow.

She didn't seem to notice it yet and was just trying hard to think about how to continue.

Feeling extremely distressed, Xu Xing stepped forward and held her in his arms.

"I know, I know. Manman, don't cry. You can do whatever you want."

But Sun Man's voice was choked with sobs, and she wanted to continue speaking.

"…I don't have to make you and him—"

"Well, you're doing this for my own good. If I saw someone scolding you, I'd feel bad too."

"It's not because of this. I, I..."

"Yes."

"no--"

"Yes."

"No, you're so annoying, could you please stop making jokes while you're working?!"

Secretary Sun finished a long sentence with tears in her eyes. "Yes, yes, it's really okay," Xu Xing patted her back gently, "I'll call Hou Minghao right now and ask him to save face."

When Xu Xing woke up in the SM dormitory, Hou Minghao had already returned to China for half a year.

Before Xu Xing woke up there, he had been with Secretary Sun for almost twenty years.

No matter what other conditions are added, it is a very simple problem.

"No, please don't add anything and don't mess around, okay?"

"Okay. Then you go and help him look decent."

"..."

"Secretary Sun."

Xu Xing pulled Sun Man out of his arms, held her shoulders with both hands, and looked into her wet, red eyes that she was trying desperately to avoid.

"What are you doing?"

Sun Man's face was so red that she wanted to kick Xu Xing, just to watch her cry and make a fool of herself.

"I now order you to get rid of Hou Minghao!"

Xu Xing gave the order seriously.

Sun Man, with tearful eyes, was stunned for a moment. She wanted to laugh for some reason, but she knew she was crying.

Xu Xing is such a dishonest person!!!

Sun Man bit her lower lip, kicked out anyway, then broke free from Xu Xing's hands, turned around and left.

"I'll call you if there's anything else."

"it is good."

Xu Xing resisted the urge to pull her back for another kiss.

In his two lifetimes combined, Xu Xing had never seen Secretary Sun cry many times. Now that her defenses were suddenly broken, Xu Xing could not take advantage of her.

Can--

Xu Xing finally caught up with Secretary Sun and kissed her against the wall at the door for almost ten minutes.

I have to say that Secretary Sun is indeed special.

If it were any other woman, the kiss that Teacher Fan said made her feel particularly loved would have made her legs weak and her body so limp that she would have fallen to the ground.

Secretary Sun kicked Xu Xing even harder than before the kiss.

Xu Xing had no choice but to let her go.

Secretary Sun quickly slipped away again.

Xu Xing could only go back to eat with endless sighs, then take a shower, change clothes, get in the car, and go to work on the set.

On the way, Xu Xing surfed the Internet again. This time, Kiwi was extremely excited. With the help of other allies in the fan circle who had an irreconcilable feud with Mantianxing, he once fought with Mantianxing to a 50-50 draw.

But Mantianxing’s dominance over the fan circle is no exaggeration.

Despite the debuff of Xu Xing's new girlfriend being revealed, he still started to beat Kiwi.

The idiotic-sounding whitewashing angle of "Wang Churan is actually Hou Minghao's girlfriend" was also made very convincing by Mantianxing.

They found a lot of "evidence" on the Internet that Hou Minghao already had a girlfriend:

A fan who quietly quit being a fan posted on his personal Weibo, without even mentioning her name, “Youth is over, I hope she will take good care of you”;
In the review section of the Taobao store where the endorsed product is, among tens of thousands of reviews, a few months later, a follow-up comment suddenly appeared: "How can I get a refund? Can you ask her to buy it for you?"

Among the hundreds of thousands of short reviews of "The Untamed" on Douban, one was suddenly changed to "It's a pity that you don't like men";
Less than ten people liked the video on TikTok, "Meeting you should be a happy thing, why is there her?"
……

Not only are there screenshots, but there is also proof that the other party is Tao Mei, which is a complete package for Hou Minghao.

There is also some evidence that Wang Churan happened to be in the same city. (In Hai City, Wang Churan went to school in Hai City)
Motorcycle Sister (a fan of Wang Yibo), who had been fighting with Tao Mei for a whole year, kept talking about the issue of changing age and having plastic surgery over and over again, but she didn't even notice that Hou Minghao had so many handles on her, and she became a laughing stock in the circle.

However, the motorcycle sisters also laughed so hard at their own jokes that their lips broke. They prostrated themselves in admiration and shouted: King Oyster Mushroom is invincible! You are the only true gods in the fan circle!
The onlookers were extremely shocked. One of the most popular stars was discovered to be in a relationship by so many fans, and was protected so well by Zheng Rong!

There is a person who has a great influence among Tao Mei. Everyone knows that she follows her offline big fan "Powerful Wall Breaker" almost 360 days a year. She jumped out to refute the evidence dug up by Mantianxing and strongly denied that Hou Minghao and Wang Churan were in a relationship.

[If Xiao Hou and Wang Churan are really in a relationship, my entire family's household registration books will immediately catch fire and the graves of all eighteen generations of my ancestors will explode together. They will all crawl out of their coffins and turn into zombies!!!]

But he was warned by the mysterious baby's breath that suddenly appeared——

[If you keep talking too hard, more than one person will be exposed! ]

The powerful wall-breaking machine immediately became silent.

As a result, people in Taomei are starting to feel uneasy.

When Xu Xing refreshed the square, he also saw a newly posted Weibo post about quitting following fans. The content was:

[Those of you who followed him offline before June this year probably know a little bit about it. After repeated reminders, he has restrained himself and has hidden it well. But now that it has been exposed, there is no need to continue to follow him. ]

But as soon as I clicked on it, the Weibo post was deleted.

Maybe I posted it on impulse and then suddenly regretted it, thinking I could still be a fan.

In the square, I also saw some marketing accounts taking the opportunity to "make up stories" -

[This is essentially an internal strife within Zhengrong. They are fighting among themselves. Zhengrong’s own faction has long been dissatisfied with the Lucky Star faction represented by Xu Xing occupying too many resources in the company. Everyone in the industry knows that Lucky Star gets the first pick of Zhengrong’s resources. It is better to sign Lucky Star than Zhengrong…]

...seems to be true?
Xu Xing was thinking, we have arrived at the set.

get off.

When I went to the dressing room, I saw Miss Tang Yan walking towards me from the dressing room next door.

"You're here pretty early."

She was full of energy and greeted with a smile.

"Not as early as Sister Yan."

Xu Xing also responded with a smile as before.

However, during the actual shooting, Miss Tang Yan's condition was much worse than yesterday.

Sunglasses criticized her several times for being absent-minded. Miss Tang apologized repeatedly, but she still did not perform well.

Xu Xing gave a few words of encouragement, but it didn't have the same effect as before.

I shot for two or three hours, but not a single one passed.

Maybe her previous pattern of getting into the state was broken.

During the break, Tang Yan looked anxious and ashamed, and was so sad that she was about to cry.

Xu Xing went to look for sunglasses.

"How about filming A-Bao and Miss Wang quarreling today?"

Sunglasses thought about it and nodded.

I have to change the drama, so I have to rest for a longer time.

However, Xu Xing did not chat with Tang Yan anymore. He just occasionally raised his head to meet her eyes, and then quickly separated.

Create an atmosphere for a quarrel.

Then, Sun Man finally came to the set, and she also wore sunglasses.

"After paying 10 yuan, the two fans admitted that they had indeed received a text message yesterday and followed Hou Minghao. The mobile phone number was a backup number of Hu Ying."

"…What does she want?"

Xu Xing really couldn't believe it.

Sun Man did not answer, but continued speaking.

"Also, when Hou Minghao left the event just now and got in the car, he was photographed in the car with the same couple's hat that Wang Churan had worn before."

"Did Hu Ying put it in?"

Xu Xing frowned.

"I don't know," Sun Man shook his head, "It's not me anyway."

(End of this chapter)