This top celebrity got drunk and acted crazy, and everyone in the Chinese entertainment industry bur

Is it a bit like throwing myself into the lion's den by going out to eat with her?

If Lu Ming had known IU would have this expression, he would have definitely carried the plane back overnight.

"No no!"

"Then I'll treat you to a big meal!"

IU quickly shook her head, refuting the statement firmly, but her disappointed expression was impossible to hide.

It was almost midnight when the live broadcast ended. Even in Xingcheng, there weren't many places to eat at that time, let alone for two big stars like them. It was difficult to find a place to eat anywhere else.

So, after thinking it over and asking around, IU took Lü Ming to a Korean restaurant, intending to let him try their Korean cuisine.

"No, this is your Korean feast?"

Seeing IU excitedly bring over a huge pile of kimchi, Lü Ming frowned and couldn't help but complain.

Although Lü Ming had anticipated the Korean food, he couldn't resist IU's praise and followed her to this Korean restaurant.

However, what ultimately happened gave Lü Ming a clear understanding of Korean food.

Looking around, apart from a few pieces of meat, almost everything else on the table was kimchi.

"Yup!"

IU picked up a piece of kimchi and stuffed it into her mouth, speaking very seriously to Lü Ming.

This would be considered a very lavish meal on the peninsula.

"Are you sure this isn't a side dish from the breakfast shop in my hometown?"

Lu Ming put down his chopsticks and looked at IU, who looked completely bewildered.

If Lü Ming hadn't been certain that IU didn't have the brains, he would have thought IU was humiliating him.

Who invites someone out for dinner to eat kimchi?

If this happened in China, and you served a table full of kimchi to someone at a dinner party, you'd probably get slapped across the face!
This is utterly humiliating!
"You should come with me!"

Looking at the bewildered IU, Lü Ming made a few comments before leading her to a restaurant with decent privacy to show her what a real gourmet meal was like.

"Delicious! This is delicious, and that is delicious too!"

“They’re all delicious!”

At first, IU didn't understand why Lü Ming didn't accept her invitation to the big meal, and instead looked disgusted.

It wasn't until she tasted the food served on the table that IU understood everything.

Compared to the delicious food before them, the kimchi on their peninsula was almost indistinguishable from pig swill.

"Don't worry!"

Seeing IU wolfing down her food, Lü Ming also felt a surge of appetite and picked up his chopsticks to try it.

After having a simple late-night snack with IU, Lü Ming rejected the look in IU's eyes that seemed to yearn for him to make a mistake, and turned to go back to his hotel to rest.

Even for Lü Ming, after a busy day, he was quite tired and went straight to sleep after returning to the hotel.

While Lü Ming was still sound asleep in bed, as the show progressed, online discussions about Lü Ming not only didn't stop, but instead seemed to be getting more and more heated.

Even hours after the live stream ended, millions of people were still chatting in the "Asian King" live stream rooms on Kiwi and Tencent Video with black screens. Gangzi and Hu Tao, who were originally planning to shut down the broadcast, insisted that their subordinates not turn off the live stream, determined to capitalize on the massive influx of viewers.

At the same time, as the largest music streaming platform in China, Penguin Music saw countless netizens flocking to these two players, wanting to download the song "Ode to Young China" that they had heard during the previous live stream.

You know, just hearing "Ode to Young China" during the live broadcast made them feel excited, and now they wish they could play the song on repeat a hundred or eighty times.

However, when they flooded into Penguin Music and searched through it, they quickly discovered that there was no such song at all on Penguin Music.

It's not available on Tencent Music, nor on NetEase Music, the second largest music platform.

Countless netizens angrily began to denounce Tencent Music and NetEase Music, stating that they would not renew their memberships if the song was not available.

Faced with this situation, the person in charge of Penguin Music was completely dumbfounded, having never expected such a thing to happen.

Unexpectedly, just because of a song, it seems to have aroused public outrage, with the entire internet filled with angry curses against them, and many members have even started to unsubscribe from their Penguin Music membership.

By the time they noticed this, their Penguin Music platform had already lost one or two million members in just a few hours, and the number was still decreasing.

It's not just Tencent Music that's experiencing this; NetEase Music next door isn't faring much better, with its membership numbers also decreasing significantly for the same reason.

"Find him! Find him! You must find Lü Ming!"

The head of Penguin Music was summoned to the company headquarters and, seeing the situation before him, angrily gave orders to his subordinates.

It's important to understand that although Tencent Music is backed by the giant Tencent Group and is currently the leading music platform in China, its position is not invincible. NetEase Music is still eyeing the market and poses a significant threat to Tencent Music.

Now, just because this song is not available, one to two million members have been lost in just a few hours. If this problem is not resolved, the number of members lost will likely be even greater.

Most importantly, if NetEase Music finds Lü Ming first and snatches the song "Ode to Young China," it might not be able to bring down Tencent Music, but it will definitely have a significant impact on them.

Thinking of this, the person in charge of Penguin Music had his subordinates contact Lü Ming's staff and agents, while also directly calling Hu Tao.

As the head of Tencent Video, Hu Tao was closer to Lü Ming than they were.

If Hu Tao could help put in a good word, we might be more confident.

Not only is Tencent Music involved, but NetEase Music has also seized this opportunity.

From NetEase Music's perspective, this might be their best chance to catch up with Tencent Music, and they don't want to let it go.

So after learning about this situation, the person in charge of NetEase Music used all available connections to contact Lü Ming, hoping to sign Lü Ming and the song "Ode to Young China" with better terms.

When Hu Tao received the call from his colleague, he had no idea that Lü Ming's influence was so great.

Its influence extends far beyond the film and television industry, where it has attracted fierce competition and even led to a partnership between two major online video platforms, Tencent Video and iQiyi. It has also sparked a frenzy in the music industry, becoming a crucial factor in determining the market's fate.

When some netizens who hadn't watched the show the previous night got up the next morning, they were completely bewildered by the overwhelming news and heated discussions online.

What is this ghost?

Wasn't it said that he was just a nobody who was just there to coast along and keep up appearances?

It's worth noting that while many netizens watched the live broadcast last night, many others didn't watch it because they lacked confidence in Lü Ming and didn't want to see all the Chinese singers eliminated, leaving only the top singers from the peninsula and island nations to swagger around.

However, when they woke up in the morning and couldn't resist their curiosity, they were about to open their phones to see the final result when they found that everything seemed to be different from what they had expected.

Wasn't he just there to make a brief appearance? How did he end up getting first place?!

What were those people who angrily beat up traitors and spineless cowards on that stage?
What's the story behind the best adaptation of "Ode to Young China"?
Seeing the online discussions, those who hadn't watched the live stream felt a sense of doubt and quickly went back to watch the replay of last night's live stream, or looked at various clips online.

Soon, after watching the live stream replay and clips, they finally understood why there was so much discussion online.

Not to mention those netizens, even they couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement after watching the replays. They felt a rush of emotion in their hearts and couldn't calm down at all.

Just then, a message suddenly went viral across the internet.

That is, Sanxing Group removed Quan Zhilong from their list of spokespeople.

According to some so-called employees of Sanxing Group online, Sanxing Group had already decided to remove Quan Zhilong from its spokesperson two or three hours after the program ended last night, and these employees spent the entire night dealing with related matters.

Not only did they gradually delete some of the promotional videos that Quan Zhilong had previously endorsed, but they also demanded that the brand's directly operated stores quickly change their promotional posters.

This is no small matter.

As a giant company, Sanxing Group already has a very extensive business in mainland China.

Previously, in order to expand its mainland market, Sanxing Group directly signed Quan Zhilong as their spokesperson, and various promotional videos and posters were everywhere.

In order to mitigate the impact of these promotional videos and posters, we can only delete them as much as possible.

Such a sudden change of spokesperson will have a significant impact on a giant company like Sanxing.

Upon seeing this news, many netizens' first reaction was disbelief.

In the eyes of netizens, although Quan Zhilong did have problems this time, his base of supporters is still there, so it's not to the point of losing his endorsement.

For any celebrity, having their endorsement deal terminated in this way would have a huge impact.

Especially given Sanxing's influence and trendsetting status on the peninsula, other companies will likely follow suit very quickly.

To put it bluntly, even with Jeon Ji-yong's status in the Korean entertainment industry, he might not be able to withstand such a blow.

While netizens were still skeptical, Sanxing may have seen the online comments, or perhaps they wanted to distance themselves from Quan Zhilong.

They stopped trying to hide it and issued a statement announcing the termination of their cooperation with Quan Zhilong and the cancellation of their status as Quan Zhilong's spokesperson.

Immediately, many companies from the Peninsula that were developing in mainland China followed suit and announced that they would cancel their spokesperson status.

This single act completely severed Quan Zhilong's future in mainland China, making it impossible for them to expand into the mainland market again, and they might not even be able to stabilize their base in the peninsula.

Good riddance!

He deserved it; he was actually a victim in this whole affair, yet he insisted on coming forward!

This is the kind of fate that idiots like this deserve!

I just want to know, how many times has this bumbling guy done this?

[Teacher Huang, Honglei. That's quite a lot!]

Holy crap, this washed-up celebrity is a total killer in the entertainment industry!

While netizens were still discussing the story between Lü Ming and Quan Zhilong, suddenly a lot of haters and comments about Lü Ming appeared online.

[It's just singing a song, why are you making such a big deal out of it!]

[So what if I'm a fan of celebrities? Why are you lecturing me? You're so nosy!]

Putting aside the facts, does that mean he can get away with hitting someone? Isn't this kind of violence going a bit too far for a celebrity?

[Exactly! No matter what wrong Fatty Du did, you can't livestream him beating someone up. Isn't that setting a bad example for kids?]

[They say they want children to be good fans, but they themselves set a bad example. Is that really right?]

[I could never like someone like that; he's a complete scoundrel!]

[His act of assaulting a foreign artist undermines friendship between nations; he is the one who sins against the country!]

Seeing the comments online, even some netizens who were originally very calm couldn't help but get angry.

In the mouths of these people, Du Pangzi's act of kneeling down seemed to be a trivial matter, while Lü Ming's behavior was considered a heinous crime.

This is utterly turning black into white!
[If you people weren't taken bribes, then you're simply evil!]

I never imagined that distorting the truth and being shameless could go to this extent. Don't you all have any shame?

[Probably just like Fatty Du, a bunch of spineless cowards, unable to stand up for themselves!]

[If anyone dares to insult my country like this, I won't let them get away with it, even if it means bloodshed. Don't just beat them up; in my opinion, that's too lenient! At least break both their legs!]

[Seriously, what kind of people are they?!]

Netizens jumped in to argue with these people, but compared to these organized and persistent individuals, ordinary netizens were quickly outmatched and couldn't win the argument.

Just as the online narrative was spiraling out of control and about to turn against Lü Ming, the official media outlet *Renren Daily* suddenly published an article titled "[A Young China Speaks: This is How Young People Should Speak!]", accompanied by a picture of Lü Ming on the stage of the *Asian King* program the previous night, with the background music being Lü Ming's rendition of "A Young China Speaks". (End of Chapter)