Internet moguls are being held hostage by the entertainment system!

Chapter 314 A Three-Dimensional Surround Counterattack Against Wang Zhonglei
Jinyi Cinema, Joy City branch, Shanghai.

"Hello, I want to see 'Better Days,' why are you giving me a ticket for 'Youth'?"

"Oh, the system is malfunctioning. If you take this movie ticket to the theater, you'll still be watching 'Better Days'."

Upon hearing the staff's explanation, the movie fan who had raised the question instantly smiled knowingly.

When he entered the theater with his ticket, the movie he watched was indeed "Better Days".

Just a few minutes into the movie, he suddenly took out his phone and took a picture of the movie ticket and the content on the screen together, even marking the time.

The same thing happened in other different movie theaters.

However, there will always be one or two people who raise questions, and they will carefully keep evidence such as videos, recordings, and photos.

By the end of Sunday, these items, which could be considered evidence, had been compiled together.

At 2 a.m. on the 18th, yesterday's box office data was freshly released.

"Better Days," which led the market for two days, remains strong, taking in 1.4 million yuan at the box office on Sunday, bringing its total box office to 4.3 million yuan.

"Youth," which ranked second, saw a significant reversal in its performance compared to Saturday, with its box office successfully surpassing 100 million yuan on Sunday, bringing its cumulative box office to 320 million yuan.

This number prompted the "Youth" team, who were touring the country, to sing praises. Director Feng Xiaogang even posted a congratulatory message on Weibo overnight, expressing his desire to make money and show off his success.

However, just when everyone was happy...

In the early morning of the 18th, a carefully prepared Weibo post suddenly appeared at the top of the Weibo hot search list, forcefully overtaking the hashtag "Who is Chen Xiu's true love?"

The top trending topic is: "Youth is stealing box office revenue!"

The entry contains information about cinemas that steal box office revenue, a complete chain of evidence showing the entire process of box office theft, and the movies involved in the theft are clearly marked.

In addition to these, many so-called inside stories about movie casting also appeared on Weibo.

As I said before, when it comes to playing outside the rules, Huayi has the most flaws.

……

Wang Zhonglei, who had just arrived at the company early in the morning, hadn't even had time to check his Weibo posts when he received a call from the cinema chain.

"Hello? Mr. Li, why has the number of screenings for 'Youth' decreased this week? Our results were good yesterday!"

"Mr. Wang, you know the situation of 'Youth' better than I do, so let's not play these ghost stories here."

Hearing Li Xiaowen's teasing, Wang Zhonglei frowned, naturally unable to admit such a thing.

"I do not know what you're talking about."

"Hehe, it doesn't matter whether you know it or not. Anyway, Enlight Media called me and provided a lot of evidence that I couldn't refute. They don't intend to pursue it, but business is business. That movie is valuable, we can see that, and the screening schedule is based on that."

How does light know this?

"So you're admitting it? Humph, doesn't your office have internet?"

"I didn't admit it..."

"It doesn't matter! All the managers who were in contact with you have already gone on vacation. We'll make up for these losses by deducting them from the theatrical promotion fees for 'Youth'."

Wang Zhonglei's face darkened, and he gripped his phone even tighter.

After expressing his meaning, out of a certain wicked sense of humor, Li Xiaowen, the young owner of Jinyi Cinema, still "helpfully" informed Wang Zhonglei of the news.

"Mr. Wang, have you checked Weibo today?"

"Not yet, what's wrong?"

"I suggest you take a look. By the way, what time is it?"

"..."

Wang Zhonglei frowned suspiciously. He didn't believe that Li Xiaowen was simply asking him for the time, since he could tell by looking at his phone. But he still glanced at the clock on the wall.

"8:."

"Oh~, there's still an hour until 9:1. The timing of the Weibo post is perfect."

"What do you mean?"

"See for yourself! After all, you went to provoke them the night before last, so it's only reasonable for them to retaliate a couple of times."

After saying goodbye, Li Xiaowen hung up the phone.

Wang Zhonglei gripped his phone with a mixture of surprise and uncertainty, then quickly opened Weibo and began browsing its content.

When all sorts of gossip about "Youth" dominated the trending topics, with personal essays dedicated to him at the top, those gradually forgotten scandals were all dug up and pushed to the top of the trending topics list...

Upon seeing the details, Wang Zhonglei was struck dumb, his face turned deathly pale, his body trembled violently, and he sat there in a daze.

He understood what Li Xiaowen meant by his last two sentences.

As the CEO of a listed company and a major shareholder holding 6% of the shares, Wang Zhonglei's every move is closely related to the stock price.

There's still an hour until 9:30, enough time for the market to react.

The box office fraud surrounding "Youth" coupled with Wang Zhonglei's personal scandals—these two factors combined have a far greater impact than a single negative news item.

After barely processing the information and feeling helpless about the current situation, Wang Zhonglei watched the time tick by and finally picked up his phone to take some remedial action.

"Hey bro, something's happened. Can you come to the company?"

"What's going on?" Wang Zhongjun, who had been woken up from his sleep and rushed to the company, first asked his younger brother to confirm the details of the matter.

Although Wang Zhonglei had already told him most of the details on the way here, the shrewd Wang Zhongjun felt that his brother's words were not entirely true and seemed to be hiding a lot of important information.

Faced with his elder brother's question, Wang Zhonglei pursed his lips and stuck to his previous theory.

"It's just normal business practice. The premiere date of 'Youth' was set long ago. It's just that Chen Xiu deliberately made things difficult for us by scheduling 'Better Days' for the same day and suppressing us in every aspect of publicity."

"To help the movie regain some ground, I had someone write something to smear it, and then I used some of the box office revenue from 'Better Days' to help 'Youth'... Dude, this is always the same kind of operation!"

Wang Zhongjun frowned slightly, neither agreeing nor disagreeing, pondered for a moment, and then looked up at Wang Zhonglei.

"That's not right! None of what you've said seems to mention why Chen Xiu is targeting us. Did you offend him again?"

"No, really not!"

Wang Zhonglei stubbornly denied it to the end.

Wang Zhongjun's face remained suspicious, but his sudden upward gaze made him forget to ask his younger brother.

Wang Zhongjun reached for the mouse, opened the Tonghuashun software, typed Huayi's name into the search box, and opened the intraday candlestick chart.

Seeing his older brother's actions, Wang Zhonglei also hurriedly came over, watching the ticking time until 9:30.

The next moment, a vibrant, burgeoning color rushed toward the two brothers.

The usually crooked, wavy lines, today, resembled a diver, plummeting straight down at such a speed that both the King and Queen felt their breath catch in their throats, their faces turning pale under the green light.

"Brother, what should I do?"

"It's alright, it's just a technical adjustment, a technical adjustment!"

Having left the film and television industry, Wang Zhongjun, who has become obsessed with financial games in recent years, is clearly a fan of Ding Xie.

However, the so-called technical adjustment has been downward all the way. Although it did not reach today's floor, it has remained submerged by 10 centimeters after stabilizing, and has never shown any sign of rising.

The way they kept falling over made the two kings gasp in shock.

Looking at this kind of thing for too long makes me uneasy.

After closing the page, Wang Zhongjun, whose emotions had been on a rollercoaster, began to stare at Wang Zhonglei with a very strange look.

After being stared at like that for a while, Wang Zhonglei asked guiltily, "Brother, what's wrong?"

"How exactly did you offend Chen Xiu?"

"No!"

"Stop talking nonsense. He's so busy every day, why would he bother you for no reason? If it were just this one thing, he wouldn't be chasing after you so relentlessly. There must be something else going on. Tell me the truth!"

Wang Zhongjun asked the last four words in a stern voice.

Wang Zhonglei shuddered. Faced with his stern elder brother, he could only reluctantly look away and then recount the whole story of his feud with Chen Xiu.

From the initial conflict at the celebration party for "Detective Chinatown 1", to the competition for investment shares in "Wolf Warrior 2", and then discovering that Meng Ziyi's agency contract belonged to Yongle Pictures, they wanted to use this to their advantage, but unexpectedly, Chen Xiu directly asked Ma Yun to settle things...

When Wang Zhongjun heard that his silly younger brother had publicly humiliated Wei Feng at a dinner party organized by Ma Yun, and that Chen Xiu had stepped in to resolve the situation, his eyes widened to their limit.

When Wang Zhonglei finished telling the story yesterday, he secretly wrote a short essay to smear Chen Xiu and steal box office revenue.

Wang Zhongjun simply stammered, "Chen Xiu actually managed to tolerate you until now before making his move..."

"Now what?"

"Sigh~~"

Wang Zhongjun took a deep breath and sat down, thinking of a solution.

After a long silence, he slowly raised his head, stared at Wang Zhonglei, and said, "I'll ask Boss Ma to call Chen Xiu, and we can all sit down and have a meal. You can come and apologize to him, then pin all the blame for smearing him and stealing box office revenue on Zhang Zili, fire him, give him an explanation, and this matter will be over..."

"Dong Dong~"

The sudden knocking interrupted Wang Zhongjun's plans.

Already in a bad mood, Wang Zhonglei, who imagined his elder brother sitting in front of him and everyone in the company being his subordinates, naturally wouldn't speak kindly to the person who came to disturb him.

"Who is it? Didn't I tell you not to bother me unless it's important?"

Wang Zhonglei walked over and opened the door, cursing under his breath. But as soon as the door opened, his shouts were immediately silenced.

Standing outside the door was none other than Zhang Zili, the scapegoat they had chosen.

Seeing Wang Zhonglei's frozen expression, Zhang Zili, following the instructions he had just received, said, "Mr. Wang, something has happened."

"W-what's going on?"

"The whole internet is talking about 'Youth' stealing box office revenue, and it's even related to you."

"I already know all of that."

"And what about Douyin..."

What happened to Douyin?

These questions were asked by Wang Zhongjun, who was sitting in the office, and Zhang Zili was also called in by him.

In front of the two bosses, Zhang Zili composed himself and said, "President Chen of Douyin has released a short video..."

(End of this chapter)