Chapter 426: Secret alliance

With Guo Zhihao's greedy and aggressive personality, sooner or later he would drag the company's two most popular artists into the water to create momentum for Zhou Shishi.

Under Guo Zhihao's packaging, Zhou Shishi had become a goddess of ten thousand people, and coupled with her deliberately disguised innocent and pitiful white flower personality, it was easy to get the pity of passersby netizens.

And Guo Zhihao released news to make the public feel that she was being squeezed and bullied by the company's two popular singers, Nie Jingjing and Murong Xue, because she became famous too fast.

Coupled with Guo Zhihao's deliberate guidance of the relationship between Nie Jingjing and Zhou Shishi as rivals, she earned enough traffic and sympathy from melon-eating netizens during Xu Tian's business trip.

However, what actually surprised Xu Tian was not Guo Zhihao's unscrupulous hype method, but that Nie Jingjing, who had always liked to personally go down to roast unscrupulous media, was surprisingly quiet this time, not posting a single Weibo.

With Nie Jingjing's explosive temper, the fact that she could actually endure letting Zhou Shishi ride her popularity without blowing up—the sun must be rising from the west.

Xu Tian browsed through all the news on the hot search, and then opened his bank account to check the balance.

There was one week left before the fund he bought previously expired. The money earned from the fund during this period was enough to pay off the remaining loan for Jiangshui Dynasty.

Once all the loans were paid off, he wouldn't need to worry about Guo Qishan anymore.

During Xu Tian's business trip, Guo Qishan was not idle either.

He was jumping up and down in the company all day, dividing the resources and contacts in Xu Tian's hands.

As long as it was a high-end luxury brand or a program from a gold-medal production team, he gave all the work that Xu Tian had negotiated with other partners to Zhou Shishi, regardless of the company's most profitable Nie Jingjing and Murong Xue.

Even the two popular artists were sitting on the cold bench, let alone other small artists.

Although Guo Zhihao also got some resources from the head office, such as album projects planned by professional producers, invitations to satellite TV galas, and live streaming for well-known brands...

Of course, these opportunities were not casually available. If an agent at Qingguo Music wanted the artists under them to get resources from Guo Zhihao, they had to pay him that "huge" kickback.

Originally, the announcement fees for small artists couldn't compare to traffic artists. After deducting taxes and the company's share, plus having to let Guo Zhihao exploit a portion, this made many people basically in a state of working for nothing without making money.

Qingguo Music was in a state of panic, knowing that the era of rising by ability had passed. The active ones planned to find another way out, and the passive ones directly defaulted to being frozen, waiting for the contract to expire and terminate.

When Xu Tian was the supervisor of the Economic Department, as long as one was willing to work hard, everyone had resources. But now it's different. Only by pleasing Guo Zhihao can one get resources.

For those minor artists who wouldn't flatter or submit to unspoken rules, Guo Zhihao wouldn't even give them a straight look, while those artists who liked taking shortcuts divided up the announcements that should have belonged to everyone.

Those employees who were down-to-earth also felt a bit cold-hearted.

They all knew that Xu Tian being kicked out of the company was only a matter of time. No matter how capable he was, he couldn't possibly have the qualifications to compete with Guo Zhihao, the nephew of the group president.

In the end, Qingguo Music could only be Guo Zhihao's world.

Recording studio for the national variety show "Only Love Lyrics."

Led by four bodyguards, Guo Zhihao walked out from the outside in a grand manner, bringing Zhou Shishi, who was dressed in famous brands and colorful, with high spirits.

Zhou Shishi's popularity was high now, directly changing from a transparent person who couldn't be found to a newly promoted goddess occupying the hot search list. When rushing to announcements, she naturally put on enough airs.

When coming and going, she not only brought assistants, drivers, bodyguards, and an entire styling team, but even a lighting engineer specifically for her, totaling more than twenty people, with a lineup comparable to a concubine traveling in ancient times.

Also arriving with them was Yan Qingxue. Although she was the manager of the planning department, she also worked part-time as an image planner for artists. In fact, most of the time she only provided reference opinions and wouldn't come to the scene in person. Zhou Shishi had to change four styles for participating in a music variety show, and there were two boxes of accessories alone. Yan Qingxue was worried that the stylist would make mistakes in the rush, so she had to follow the main force to the recording site.

Guo Zhihao issued orders to Yan Qingxue as if she were a follower.

"Manager Annie, this is the first time our Shishi is recording a satellite TV variety show. Her costume and makeup must not have any problems!"

He looked down on Yan Qingxue in his heart, but she was just a handyman. Even if her title was high, didn't she still have to tie shoes for the artists under him?

Because Yan Qingxue was recommended by Xu Tian to enter Qingguo Music, during the time Xu Tian was away, Guo Zhihao tried every means to make things difficult for her, and even treated her as Zhou Shishi's exclusive styling consultant, and stopped her work in the planning department.

According to Yan Qingxue's usual temper, she would have long ago flipped the table and argued with Guo Zhihao, but this time, facing the other party's difficulties, she suppressed all her anger.

Xu Tian had his plans, and she couldn't destroy his plans because of a moment of tongue-lashing.

Anyway, it was almost time for a conclusion, and she could still endure this little grievance.

Zhou Shishi had a little heat, and she hadn't become a big star yet, but her lineup was comparable to a first-line superstar. She occupied the entire lounge alone, and was picky when applying makeup. The original half-hour makeup time for each person was spent for nearly two hours by her alone.

By the time it was the turn of Murong Xue and Nie Jingjing, the recording was about to start, and there was no time for them to apply makeup.

Fortunately, Murong Xue and Nie Jingjing had foresight and had already changed their clothes and applied makeup while waiting, otherwise, they would have had to appear without makeup for today's filming.

After all the stars participating in the recording arrived at the studio, the show's producer came out to explain the variety show filming process to everyone.

Don't look at "Only Love Lyrics" as a competitive music variety show, but in fact, every recording link has a script, and even answering correctly or incorrectly has requirements and cannot be played freely.

"This time, Murong Xue, Nie Jingjing, and Zhou Shishi, you three will fight on your own to compete for the champion of this episode of 'Only Love Lyrics'."

"In order to make the show have highlights, the plot set this time is that Zhou Shishi achieves victory with outstanding performance in the first round of lyric memorization, while Murong Xue and Nie Jingjing are unconvinced and secretly form an alliance, trying to sabotage her next challenge."

"However, even so, Zhou Shishi still wins the second game one-on-two. Nie Jingjing is even more unconvinced and takes out the battery in Zhou Shishi's microphone when no one is paying attention in the third game, attempting to make her unable to grab the answer..." ===== CHAPTER 427 =====