Film and Television Variety Show: The Jade Girl's Love Affair

After Tang Yu finished complaining, her agent, Sister Zhao, asked a question in confusion.

"Who are Yin Lihua and Guo Shengtong? What do they have to do with Liu Xiu's movie? You're the female lead in the movie, aren't you?"

Tang Yu looked at her agent with a shocked expression.

"Sister, haven't you studied history? Liu Xiu's love life revolves around these two people. He married Yin Lihua first, and later he married Guo Shengtong, making her his empress."

Later, Liu Xiu deposed Guo and Yin Lihua became empress. They were in a love triangle, and Liu Xiu's love life was only related to these two.

So why did I take that role? Doesn't that seem crazy?

Sister Zhao smiled sheepishly. While searching for information about Liu Xiu's life on her phone, she answered Tang Yu's question.

"My grades weren't good when I was in school. I only studied Chinese seriously, and I failed all the other subjects. If I had good grades, would I have made it in the film and television industry?"

As you know, I started as a junior assistant, so I don't have any formal education!

All I know is that Liu Xiu of the Eastern Han Dynasty was the founding emperor, and the history after that was the Three Kingdoms period. I really don't know who the women in Liu Xiu's life were. Who would care about such things?

Should we focus on this kind of thing when studying history? Do you high-achieving students like to focus on emperors' lovers?

Tang Yu was shocked for a few seconds, then suddenly realized that what her agent said made a lot of sense.

Based on experience over the past few years, the educational level of people working in this industry is indeed very low, but the director certainly knows the history of Liu Xiu.

So, if he was going to make a film about Liu Xiu, why did he create such a character?

After Tang Yu voiced her question, Sister Zhao had already finished reading the introduction to Liu Xiu's life and love affairs.

“Yu Yu, I bet that Yu Chaoyang is just like me, he doesn’t know how many women Liu Xiu had in his life, and he definitely doesn’t know who Yin Lihua and Guo Shengtong are.”

He specifically asked you to be the female lead, but the director gave you this role instead, which means he clearly didn't want you to act in it.

"I bet after you acted in it, the director only kept a small part of your character, and then used you for publicity. We got ripped off!"

The entertainment industry is indeed full of tricks; Tang Yu found it all quite reasonable after hearing it.

"So do directors in the film and television industry often do this?"

Sister Zhao just smiled; she'd been in the entertainment industry for far too many years.

"There are plenty of them. Didn't coal mine owners often plant their mistresses as actors in the past?"

Back then, directors and screenwriters liked to do this: create an unlikable character, film a lot of scenes for him, and then cut him out in the end.

When investors ask why, just say the application failed; there are many different excuses.

"There are no coal bosses these days, but doesn't every company still have to promote its own new talent?"

They hire popular stars to act, then cut out a huge portion of their scenes, leaving half the plot focused on the second male and female leads. This kind of formula is quite common nowadays.

"Of course, there are also many popular stars who act like divas and change the script after joining the crew."

It's not uncommon for someone to demand a shining image of themselves while portraying everyone else as idiots.

Tang Yu laughed after hearing this. As a singer, all you need to do is create your own songs.

But when it comes to filming a TV series, investors, producers, editors, lighting, costumes, props, and sets can all be manipulated.

"Sis, you're really experienced. It seems the director isn't satisfied with me at all; he's just trying to appease the investors."

But what is Yu Chaoyang's background, and why are you so sure he doesn't know anything about Liu Xiu's life?

Sister Zhao subconsciously looked around and realized that they were actually in a hotel. In the end, she smiled embarrassedly.

"That Yu Chaoyang is just a background actor and a hoodlum. He has no education or culture and didn't even graduate from junior high school."

Later, for reasons unknown, he got in touch with someone and went to Macau to work as a junket operator. A few years later, he transformed into a big investor in the film and television industry.

This kind of person is less educated than me; they're just lucky to be doing shady things for those big shots.

Tang Yu suddenly realized that it was just a front man for the big boss to launder money. So the other party's investment in the film industry was a very complicated business.

Gu Yang had warned her before that big investments and productions are most likely to get involved in money laundering scandals, so it seems that something bad is going to happen in the film and television industry.

"Sister, it was the right thing for us not to take this role. I heard that this movie is a big production with an investment of 700 million. Do you think there's nothing fishy going on?"

What if they get arrested halfway through filming, and we get caught up in a money laundering scandal? Will we still be able to work in this industry? And if we're unlucky, we might even be blacklisted!

After listening, Sister Zhao nodded quickly. She had also suffered from her lack of education; when she first saw the script and the investment, she thought it was a big production.

You never expected someone to set a trap for you.

"This person hasn't fallen from power yet, so we can't afford to offend him too much. I'll have a few meals with the producer and have a proper talk with him so we don't escalate things."

"Sis, I'll give you a bonus."

Tang Yu felt it was best not to get too involved with people in such gray areas; just wait for them to come to an end.

Unexpectedly, due to incomplete information obtained by each individual...

After receiving the biography of Yin Lihua, another actress began to inquire about her competitors. She learned that the investors preferred Tang Yu as the female lead.

This female celebrity spent a large sum of money to buy negative trending topics and press releases about Tang Yu.

Plastic surgery, being kept by a sugar daddy, diva behavior, fake charity work—these are common terms used to smear celebrities.

The other party originally intended to use this kind of news to squeeze out their competitors, because the best way to squeeze out competitors is to cause problems in their public opinion.

However, halfway through the process, an even bigger surprise occurred.

Director Yang and investor Yu Chaoyang have started a public feud.

[Given the low level of education in the entertainment industry, very few people would actually know who Liu Xiu's woman was, hahaha]

Chapter 17 All Is Well

The incident actually started when someone claiming to be a staff member of a charity gala came forward to reveal the information.

He said that Tang Yu did not donate a single penny when he attended the banquet, but bought press releases from the media claiming that he had donated 500,000 yuan.

After this media account with tens of thousands of followers broke the news, other marketing accounts followed suit and reposted it, and the matter instantly became a trending topic on Toutiao.

Sometimes, you can pay to get a trending topic on Toutiao (a Chinese news and information platform). It may not generate a huge amount of discussion, but it will definitely increase your exposure.

A large-scale exposé by a matrix of marketing accounts can also make it to the top of the trending searches and generate a huge amount of discussion.

Therefore, Tang Yu instantly became a trending topic on Toutiao for allegedly committing fraudulent donations.

In this internet age, it doesn't take days to react; a few hours can generate widespread discussion across the internet.

At that time, Tang Yu was still shooting commercials.

Halfway through the shoot, the assistant rushed over and showed her the headline on her phone.

“Sister Yu, this situation means someone is targeting us. Sister Zhao just called and said she's trying to do some public relations work to release evidence of our other donations over the years.”

She's currently trying to contact the platform to reduce the trending topic and quell the controversy.

Tang Yu quickly picked up her phone and called Sister Zhao.

"Yu Yu, I don't know which bastard went to all this trouble to try and crush you, but don't worry, I'll take care of it."

"Sister Zhao, this is the Internet age, not the print media age of the past."

Back then, regardless of whether the news was true or false, as long as the news's popularity was reduced and the matter was no longer discussed, it was considered a successful public relations effort.

But you can't do that in the internet world. Don't spend money to remove trending topics, and don't try to reduce the heat of this matter.

First, you need to find out how to organize the evidence of our charity work over the years, then try to find out who's smearing me. I know how to deal with this kind of thing.

Tang Yu's tone was very calm, which put Sister Zhao at ease.

"Then you must come up with a solution quickly. If this continues for several days, advertisers will call to cancel their contracts, and we will have to pay breach of contract fees."

Tang Yu chuckled softly.

"That probably won't be over anytime soon. I'm pretty sure other people in the entertainment industry will come out and say that I'm acting like a big shot and that I insulted the staff on set."

During this period, some plastic surgeons will probably say that my face has been surgically altered, and then some marketing accounts will claim that I am being kept by a sugar daddy, and then they will say with certainty that they have seen me in some nightclub before.

Since someone is deliberately trying to smear me, they must have made a lot of plans, so the next few days are probably going to be very troublesome...

Sister Zhao was furious when she heard this.

"After I became your agent, everything went smoothly for the past few years, and I thought I was just lucky."

I never expected I'd still end up getting hacked. Luckily you have a good attitude, otherwise I'd be going crazy!

While calmly watching the discussions in the news, Tang Yu continued to comfort her agent using another phone.

“Some investors approached us with a performance-based agreement, but I refused, which offended a number of people.”

The other day, the video website sent me a script, didn't they? I didn't like it; I guess I offended some people again.

So there will be a lot of people kicking you when you're down, sis. I'll give you ten times your bonus this year.

Sister Zhao sighed as she listened on the phone.

"I'd rather not have the bonus than stay up all night every day for the next two weeks!"

I'm so angry! I'm going to find out right now which bastard did this!

After hanging up the phone, Tang Yu found that her phone had received a bunch of messages from friends asking if she needed any help.

Among these messages was one from Gu Yang.

"What are your public relations plans? Do you need me to speak up for you right now? Just reply to me and I'll speak up for you immediately."

Then came Zhou Yanqing's message: "Did you offend any powerful figures? After I rejected a script, there were a lot of negative articles and smear campaigns from the media. Do you need my help?"

Then came Xie Feng's message: "Our beautiful, dashing, and incredibly wealthy Tang Fuyu, who have you offended recently? Is there anything I can do to help you?"

Other friends in the entertainment industry also inquired about the situation, and Tang Yu replied to them with a message saying that the time for her to speak out should be postponed for now, as she had other public relations actions to take.

After finishing this task, Tang Yu completed today's advertisement shoot.

It was already dark when Tang Yu noticed that Li Yan still hadn't sent any messages or called her.

So she called Li Yan, but couldn't get through.

Finally, Tang Yu contacted Li Yan's agent.

“Sister Yu, you know Yan’s personality. His mother had some problems yesterday, and Yan flew home yesterday to resolve them. Now I can’t get in touch with him.”