Chapter 734

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

The system loved watching the spectacle; with so many livestream spectacles right now, it was almost reluctant to return to Shu, especially since these people really loved stirring things up—the kind who didn't know if they could actually do it, but feared neither heaven nor earth, and were determined to do it anyway!

"Look at this one, claiming to be an International Best Actress, but actually just a water queen; who knows where she got that little award. She doesn't have much fame abroad, but domestically she's being hyped up like crazy, and look, she's still being marketed right now."

Marketed what? An International Best Actress descending to the mortal world—this truly made her true-love fans heartbroken enough to gnash their teeth, after all, their own Best Actress sister didn't partake of mortal fireworks, and now she even had to wash her hands to make soup, having to earn money herself just to solve three meals a day. Ai yo, will this livestream variety show actually do its job?

The system complained that the fans really loved worrying needlessly; after all, their own Best Actress sister usually played the down-to-earth persona of washing hands to make soup at home, and besides, she had long been out in society earning money to support herself, with one day's wages equaling several months of income for an ordinary person—which fan was saying it was so tragic?

"By the way, this person has some black history, not about feelings, but about acting," the system began muttering to the host about this International Best Actress's lack of dialogue skill; previously there had even been an issue where staff complained about her lip-sync not matching, and in the end it all relied on dubbing to fix.

"I remember that news; from time to time fans would jump out to explain, saying this actress had a cold and was in poor health, which was why there were scenes of lip-sync mismatch."

Shen Yao smiled and thought to herself that the fans' talent for spouting nonsense was truly eye-opening; anyway, to defend themselves they could say anything.

It was probably thanks to these true-love fans' spending that the International Best Actress hadn't needed to descend to the mortal world for so many years. Now that times had changed and she was getting older, there were always new waves pushing back the old; many young people didn't buy the International Best Actress title anymore, so she had no choice but to come out and establish a new persona for herself.

Why establish a new persona? Because the International Best Actress's assets had problems—the financial products she bought kept blowing up one after another, and she was even involved in some lawsuits.

She had no choice but to come out and earn money to support herself, and while at it see if she could attract some fans; right now there was a trend of veteran actors, and the International Best Actress also wanted to take the opportunity to become popular again, gather some benefits for herself, and secure her latter half of life.

"These things, carefully calculated, are just old matters from over a decade ago; fans are forgetful, but netizens are more the spectacle-loving type. However, things from over ten years ago are too long ago, and the internet wasn't developed back then." Unless someone deliberately caused trouble for this International Best Actress, who would want to stare at these black histories and make a fuss? It wasn't exactly explosive news.

The system felt the host was very right; even the production team knew the International Best Actress had black history but it wasn't fatal, otherwise how could they invite her over? Although they liked making money from traffic, they feared even more that the show would be directly suspended.

After finishing talking about this International Best Actress, the system brought up an Illiterate Best Actor.

There was no way; who made it so that the guests invited by the production team were all not young? After all, guests who could accept livestreaming and whose black history wasn't fatal were already few, and on top of that they had to accept the production team's terms and cooperate with recording and livestreaming. Carefully calculated, if it weren't for Blueberry TV being something of a salted fish turning over with money power, these guests might not even be inviteable.

"Why do they love international titles so much, and Best Actor and Best Actress too."

They truly weren't afraid of being slapped in the face; the marketing tone was bigger than the next.

And back then they dared to do it like that, relying on those paper media to propagandize extensively; tsk tsk tsk, the system thought to itself, don't look at how much these traffic stars spend on marketing online these days, or how great the wind they blow is; actually compared to these old predecessors, it's nothing at all.

"Back then the domestic film and television industry had just started, incomparable to those abroad; moreover, this thing was linked to national development." When the country couldn't step forward, or said the country didn't have absolute advantage, the big shots would all envy abroad, feeling the moon abroad was rounder.

This was the era's choice; one couldn't simply blame people. Nowadays there's no such situation—the country is soaring, and the domestic film and television industry has long left abroad far behind.

Do you know what's popular abroad right now? Their short dramas, which entered the game early and made money, are slowly taking root and sprouting in foreign soil.

After saying a few words to the system about these Best Actors and Best Actresses, Shen Yao then cut out a clip from a livestream interface on a laptop.

"Go check, who is this person?"

The system followed its host's reminder and checked, only to discover this person was a secret girlfriend.

Uh uh, that is, the girlfriend of a livestream star; the two were secretly together, not even the star's management team knew, let alone the production team's rough investigation.

Shen Yao:...

Shen Yao told the system to simply check more, to see when these two got together.

"Is that important?"

"Mm, he's currently the object the production team is pushing; haven't you seen his livestreams all showing off boyfriend power, deliberately attracting fans?"

Once this person's secret girlfriend was exposed, not only would this person be directly finished, but the painstaking effort the production team put in would also be wasted.

The system loved this kind of spectacle, because it was originally quite gossipy itself.

And so, it scurried out to investigate, then scurried back to tattle.

Shen Yao looked at the content the system had investigated, and couldn't help but be amused by this little middleman.

Hmm

Because this person wasn't exactly middle-aged, but his age wasn't exactly youthful and tender either; rather, because he liked various marketing hype, fans were willing to hold up their own brother, which gave him many spending girlfriend fans.

This time appearing on the show was an exchange of interests between his management company and Blueberry TV.

Because previously nothing untoward had happened, the management company was relatively reassured about him; Blueberry TV had also discreetly inquired and found no bad behavior. Shen Yao had the system feel out this person's background, but at that time he was indeed very honest and well-behaved; unexpectedly, this person went on the show and instead gave them a big problem.

A phone call to the production team, and Shen Yao told the director about this person's situation.

Director Zheng:...

His heart felt like it was skipping beats, up and down; Director Zheng could be said to be miserable beyond words.

Clearly the data was about to rise, how could he still dare to do such things.

Knowing it wasn't Shen Yao's fault, and even that if it weren't for Shen Yao's reminder, the production team's loss would be even greater, Director Zheng hung up and directly chose to call the other party's management company.

Some things needed to be said face to face; after all, this was a livestream!

"Covering up is something that needs covering up, but don't expect us to be able to delete the footage broadcast live," because it had already been put out, it was fundamentally not under the production team's control.

"Yes yes yes, this, you say how to handle it?" The management company really wanted to drag out that artist who was talking eloquently in the livestream and scold him thoroughly, but unfortunately they couldn't; once the livestream started, unless it ended, they couldn't interfere.

How to handle it? How else could it be handled? Director Zheng wanted to kick this person out.

But his mood was the same as the management company's; they couldn't do that. The livestream had started and hadn't ended yet; they couldn't rashly interfere.

Otherwise, originally there was no problem, but the result was exposing his own shortcomings—wasn't that a joke?

"Change the person; this one won't do. Even if we push him out, we'll lose money." After Director Zheng said this, the other party could understand without extra explanation.

"Fine, the cooperation will be postponed. Our company still has a few who perform well; it's a pity there wasn't much opportunity to get to know each other this time." The person from the management company was also very angry; they should have stuffed another one in earlier, just right to transfer the resources of pushing someone over.

Who knew at the beginning that this person hid it so well? The management company feared that if two people went in, they'd cause conflict; after all, every company has its own top brother and sister, and no one wanted their own people to fight internally, so they only stuffed in one person.

Director Zheng and the person from the management company politely exchanged pleasant-sounding nonsense; anyway, the words sounded nice, but whether they were taken to heart was unknown.

After all, no platform could guarantee that the variety shows they launched would definitely become popular. Right now this variety show completely relied on the gimmick of livestreaming; such a pity about all this traffic—it had nothing to do with them.

The momentum of the livestream began to slowly shift; after all, although it was a livestream, it was impossible to have no rules laid down by the production team.

The most obvious thing was that the daily work these people needed to complete was given by the production team.

Originally they should have taken care of that person, but who made this person so unpromising? He even dared to play tricks on them; then he could just honestly be a green leaf.

This green leaf isn't refusing to give this person screen time either — after all, the live broadcast is entirely about watching oneself — but the production team can assign the other party a few especially unlikable tasks to ruin their own reputation, or wait until post-production editing of the finished footage to chop this person's screen time into fragments, making other viewers ignore him as much as possible.

Of course, if they do it this way and the other party can still draw in traffic, that's their own ability, and it makes the production team and brokerage company even angrier.

After all, if you don't cause trouble you could be even more popular than this, yet you deliberately throw away your own advantages — who can you blame?

Shen Yao simply stayed in the hotel every day watching the live broadcast content above.

Because it's a variety show, the live broadcast can't possibly stream continuously until the variety show ends; they have a certain time limit, then rest for a period before coming back to live broadcast.

During this rest period, Blueberry TV still has edited content to broadcast, so there won't be a gap in programming problem.

Shen Yao stayed until these people's live broadcast ended, then left the hotel to find Zheng Dao.

Zheng Dao was busy thinking about the subsequent live broadcast content; although he had been constantly anxious and fearful that a mishap might cause a live broadcast accident leading to the show being suspended and other issues, fortunately everything had been normal so far — not only had viewership ratings and advertisements increased, but even the subtle hints from the station made it clear that this variety show of his was doing well.

Shen Yao: ……

Shen Yao had to pour cold water on Zheng Dao at this moment to calm him down, reminding him not to forget they still had a scheduled bomb to deal with — that person's matter would definitely explode, and if nothing unexpected happened, the probability of it being released during this rest period was very high.

Because once people rest, they can't help but cause trouble; that's exactly what the paparazzi are staking out for.

Shen Yao's words were a reminder to Zheng Dao, letting this person prepare early — after all, the other party's brokerage company would definitely protect their own, but what about the production team? You have to know the current show hasn't finished filming yet; when the time comes and it becomes known to everyone, can the live broadcast still continue?

Zheng Dao: ……

Just knew this matter would be hard to handle, but who made me the director.

Raising his hand to rub his face hard, Zheng Dao had the production team prepare plans in advance.

What plans? Arrangements for after the matter is exposed.

Including but not limited to directly kicking the person out — after all, both live broadcast and editing can be manipulated, that person's screen time isn't much, the fans attracted are within their tolerable range, worst case they just get scolded a bit, which is far better than sacrificing reputation.

Zheng Dao's side had already made preparations, while the other side didn't disappoint expectations and exposed this secret girlfriend, even arrogantly posting screenshots, not even sparing the live broadcast footage.

The internet could be described as a group of demons dancing wildly; everyone rushed over to watch the spectacle.

Mainly because this person's behavior was too unscrupulous — they actually staged a public-funded romance drama; where could the production team and brokerage company put their faces.

The other party's brokerage company was scolded for a day, and finally released a lawyer's letter, pursuing reputation rights.

Mm

Those who understand understand — entertainment industry reputation rights, as long as you sue you won't lose.

As for other things, they didn't deny it, but changed the topic and incidentally abused fans — after all, the brokerage company can't be like the production team, saying give up and giving up; they've still invested a lot of money, not earning it back would be a loss.

Shen Yao watched the liveliness on the internet, and incidentally complained to the system that the production team would most likely give up on this person and continue the live broadcast, because it's not worth the cost.

Sure enough, not long after, the production team — probably after the brokerage company finished releasing the lawyer's letter — publicly announced this person's withdrawal from the variety show.

The reason given was personal matters, too busy to participate in subsequent filming.

Considering there wasn't much subsequent content and the live broadcast focus wasn't on this person, the production team very amiably terminated this labor contract with the other party's brokerage company.

No one knows how they negotiated privately, but this matter has already been settled — the production team kicked out this unstable factor point, and subsequent filming became more stable.

"Not necessarily; I see other people's black histories all can't escape being exposed."

After all, there are too many jealous platforms, including many rivals of the show's guests; just buy a few black hot searches — although oneself may not necessarily gain any benefits, as long as these people don't get benefits either it's very satisfying.

Some people just like to play the trick of harming the enemy at cost to self.

Knowing doing this earns nothing, but compared to others gaining both fame and profit, they still like to drag the other party down together to sink together.

"Black history — how could people mixed up in this circle possibly not have this kind of thing."

If there really were a saint, clean and pure, others would be afraid instead.

Fame and profit in this circle have always been too much; between each other there are always some personal connections — Shen Yao counts as a relatively principled person, but she still chooses compromise for certain things.

Suddenly curving her mouth corner into a smile, Shen Yao no longer chatted idly with the system, but stood up and went to the table not far away, opened the laptop placed on top, and began seriously handling company affairs remotely.