The King of Soft Rice in Chinese Entertainment

Chapter 427 The goal is...

"Look at you, I was just giving you a meaningful look," Angela said irritably.

"He'll find out sooner or later," Fan Bingbing said, spreading her hands as if to say, "It's none of my business."

"And then?" Angela asked again.

"I don't think he would run away over such a small thing, would he?" Fan Bingbing said, looking at someone.

"Is it really okay for you to point fingers at me like this in front of me?" Xu Jiuyang crossed his arms.

"To be honest, Xu," Fan Bingbing said, spreading her hands.

Xu Jiuyang glared at her irritably, then changed the subject and asked the second question: "What are your plans to do about Deng Jie's matter?"

Fan Bingbing and Angela exchanged a glance, both somewhat surprised.

"Is it... obvious?" the latter asked curiously.

"At least, based on my understanding, these methods don't seem like something she or Zhang Guoli would do," Xu Jiuyang said with absolute certainty.

At the end of last year, he paid special attention to the news related to the Central Academy of Drama and found that there was no news of Zhang Mo hitting someone. He even thought that a real butterfly effect had occurred, causing Zhang Mo to miss out on a certain woman.

To everyone's surprise, after the Chinese New Year, I heard online that Zhang Mo had dropped out of the Central Academy of Drama.

Xu Jiuyang immediately became curious and paid closer attention, thus watching as various media outlets began to besiege the Central Academy of Drama.

Today someone says there's corruption at the Central Academy of Drama, tomorrow someone else says it's poorly managed, the day after tomorrow someone else says the students aren't professionally competent, and the day after that someone else says the management is outrageous.

These attacks are both normal and abnormal.

It's considered normal because these opinions were initially neither too strong nor too weak, and they were supported by evidence, albeit trivial. For the party being attacked, ignoring them seems inappropriate, but taking them seriously also seems somewhat inappropriate.

What's abnormal is that these attacks are all too rhythmic, like a series of straight punches. A single punch doesn't hurt much, but a barrage of blows can be deadly.

Therefore, Xu Jiuyang, who had been observing the situation, concluded that someone was definitely manipulating things behind the scenes.

Later, at a gathering with the older women, Deng Jie accidentally let slip a simple statement expressing her disdain for the current situation at the Central Academy of Drama. However, Xu Jiuyang, who possessed crucial information, immediately understood what was going on.

Of course, he couldn't go into too much detail in front of Angela and Fan Bingbing, so after explaining briefly and shifting the blame to Deng Jie, he quickly changed the subject: "It's obvious that you're constantly cutting off the periphery of the Central Academy of Drama. I'm curious, do you have a main target, how are you doing it, and what are you planning to do in the end?"

He paused for a moment and then said, "If it's inconvenient to say something, you don't have to."

So Fan Bingbing and Angela both "cut" out.

“It’s very simple, Ge Lili helped out in a tiny, insignificant way,” Fan Bingbing said.

Xu Jiuyang immediately understood: "So, you're planning to make the Central Academy of Drama a vassal of the Beijing Film Academy?"

Gai Lili is from Shanghai and has many connections there. Upon closer examination, most of the media outlets that launched the attack were closely linked to the Southern Media Group and Shanghai Media Group, which explains the large scale of the attack.

It's important to understand that Beijing has been intentionally or unintentionally suppressing Shanghai's cultural system all along, both before and now.

In my previous life, it wasn't until "Blossoms" was produced that Shanghai's cultural system finally turned the tide, but film production was still dominated by Beijing, since they held the power of censorship.

Besides, the three major academies have always been fiercely competitive, but due to the reasons mentioned above, the Shanghai Theatre Academy's presence is relatively weak, and it has produced fewer stars. Therefore, now that there is an opportunity to undermine the Central Academy of Drama, or even severely damage it, even if it means joining forces with the Beijing Film Academy, that's certainly possible.

"Even a fool would know that's impossible," Fan Bingbing rolled her eyes at him. "At most, they'll try to weaken the Central Academy of Drama as much as possible to highlight the Beijing Film Academy, after all..."

She didn't continue, clearly having a plan for the Beijing Film Academy. Xu Jiuyang didn't press her for details, as he himself didn't intend to reveal the relationship between Beijing and Shanghai, as well as the three major universities. There were many details he couldn't possibly know right now.

So, he continued on this topic, saying, "Never mind all that, it has nothing to do with me, but since you guys are so capable, I have a plan that I need help with."

"What are the specifics?" Angela asked curiously.

Xu Jiuyang shook his head: "It's not convenient to talk about this here. Everyone's still celebrating. Let's talk about it when we get back."

Indeed, in addition to Best Actor, Fall also won the Jury Prize, while Park Chan-wook's Oldboy ultimately lost out to money.

Although it's just a consolation prize, it's still more prestigious than the Camera d'Or. For Zhang Jing to win this award for her first feature film as director is already a very good start.

At this point, we should let them have some fun. Although Xu Jiuyang and the others don't care about these awards, we can't be too disappointing, right?

However, the party ended quite late, and Zhang Jing had brought Hao Lei and Zhao Yan over to celebrate with Xu Jiuyang, so they had to give up and reschedule for tomorrow.

"It's actually very simple. I want to deal with someone. Don't ask how he offended me or when. I just want to deal with him and the people behind him." Xu Jiuyang said bluntly when he arrived at Angela's room the next day.

Angela and Fan Bingbing exchanged a glance, and the former spoke up: "Alright, who is it?"

“Lu Chuan and his father,” Xu Jiuyang replied.

This is another reason why he hesitated, wanting to ask them for help but not knowing how to ask them for help.

It's hard to find an excuse, since my actions are traceable and it's difficult to explain why I clashed with Rikutaro.

Moreover, it's not just Rikutaro who needs to be dealt with; that guy's father and those who fawn over him are also responsible for causing such trouble.

However, through Sun, Xia, and Huang... well, Huang doesn't count, they were targeting the entire Central Academy of Drama, Huang was just one of them, and was used as a bargaining chip to manipulate Zhang Guoli.

In short, the alliance of Gao Yuanyuan, Fan Bingbing, Li Yunxin, and Angela has proven to be a large network with the ability to collude behind the scenes and to take ruthless actions. Therefore, there is no need to find an excuse for conflict. Could they possibly guess that they have been reborn?

"Kekexili is a plagiarized work, and he plans to take this plagiarized work to the Tokyo International Film Festival this year. Guess why he wants to participate in the Tokyo International Film Festival instead of the three major European film festivals," Xu Jiuyang said.

“Because there are people over there.” Angela shrugged.

“Yes, that’s why we need to condemn him for plagiarism,” Xu Jiuyang nodded.

Winning an award at the Tokyo International Film Festival was Rikutaro's first big win. After all, it was an A-list film festival, and before Japan's scandal broke in 11, it had a lot of fans, so the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was quite willing to spend money.

Xu Jiuyang remembered that around this time in his previous life, he bought a political novel from a roadside stall. It described how the Japanese, taking advantage of the opportunity to play the Asian Cup final in Beijing, secretly smuggled a batch of materials in through various means. They then assembled a high-tech light armored vehicle and rampaged through Beijing to carry out a decapitation operation.

Even now, thinking about it makes me cringe so badly I want to pick my toes.

Of course, even so, this thing is still stronger than some things, such as Dragon Curse, Dragon Curse, and Dragon Curse.

I still remember the author of Dragon Curse. Back in 11, when Japan's underwear was exposed, he was still arguing with others on some forums.

(End of this chapter)