Chapter 366: Driving the Tiger to Swallow the Wolf

"Good Families 'Cheating'! The City Gates Open Wide Tonight!"

"A Single Rider Leaves Dust, The Concubine Smiles; From Now On, The Emperor Skips Morning Court!"

"..."

Zhou Yi, having been picked up by Qian Jiang, looked with interest at the three newspapers and two weekly magazines his agent had laid out; some even mentioned Chen Guanxi and A Jiao.

"My evaluation is that the writing is average."

"Don't say average; you were caught red-handed this time. The photos are practically pasted on your forehead."

Qian Jiang spoke in a bad mood: "You are artificially increasing the difficulty for yourself. It's already hard to top the charts, and now you're going to thoroughly offend a portion of the Twins' fans."

Previously, without a stone-hard photo, they could have stubbornly claimed it was a publicity stunt; husband-fans were easily fooled, and a little coaxing would have made it pass. But with the stone-hard photo plastered right in their faces, Cai Zuoyan's husband-fans would be exploding mentally.

A significant portion of the male fans who like the Twins are young men; under Yinghuang's idol-style management, they treat A Sa or A Jiao as their wives and raise them in the cloud.

Usually, they could accept the publicity stunts, but once there's a stone-hard photo, it undoubtedly marks the beginning of a backlash against their popularity.

"No, no, no. You have to trust the fans; they are good at fooling themselves."

Zhou Yi clearly didn't take this seriously: "Later, I'll even have A Sa help me say something, acting even more intimate."

"...???"

Even Qian Jiang's brain, a CPU that had weathered storms, now experienced a slight crash.

"As long as they haven't personally seen Cai Zuoyan completely naked lying in bed with me, a sliver of hope will still exist in their hearts. These men are actually very easy to fool."

Zhou Yi interlaced his fingers, resting them loosely behind his head, crossed his legs, and leaned against the comfortable seat cushion of the van: "At that time, I can even draw them a pie, saying that A Sa and A Jiao actually invited me for special training."

"So Chen Guanxi appeared in the morning too; he was thinking of coming to sit in on it."

Regardless, Zhou Yi was now a living golden signboard in the Chinese music scene. Don't look at how loudly the fans of various camps are shouting now; the moment Zhou Yi states he can help with songs on an album, that group of so-called rival fans will switch sides, drop their armor, and surrender with courtesy within minutes.

The record companies behind the singers would have to kneel and call him dad.

After all, whether Zhou Yi writes songs or produces music for others depends entirely on his mood and his relationship with them. Unlike another person surnamed Zhou, who just needs money.

"You want to woo Yinghuang?"

Qian Jiang narrowed his eyes slightly: "That's why you let them photograph you so openly?"

"Yinghuang is currently the leader of the Hong Kong circle. The fact that Yang Shoucheng let Huo Wenxi not participate in the fight is a statement in itself; if we can win them over, isn't that even better?"

Zhou Yi grinned: "Don't forget, Chen Yixun is still with Yinghuang. Once Huo Wenxi enters the fray to help me, the resources Chen Yixun receives within Yinghuang will inevitably decrease."

Chen Yixun is currently in a period of friction with Yinghuang and is about to be semi-frozen out due to contract issues; Yang Shoucheng warning him is inevitable.

Wooing Huo Wenxi also means wooing the fans of several top-tier artists under her, thereby dividing and isolating the internal support for Chen Yixun.

Especially Xie Tingfeng's fans.

As everyone knows, Xie Tingfeng and Chen Yixun are good brothers with a close relationship.

As a former top-tier star, even though many fan support groups have disbanded, his fans remain a considerable force.

With Xie Tingfeng posing no threat to him from now on, Zhou Yi didn't mind releasing a bit of goodwill to let Xie Tingfeng's fans recall their idol's former glory—

"Xie Tingfeng is the one who was once the Twin Stars with Zhou Yi! Do you want to let Chen Yixun replace your idol's former status? Do you want your idol to be trampled under Chen Yixun's feet? Do you want to be trampled under Chen Yixun's fans' feet in the future?"

"Don't forget, Xie Tingfeng is the one who was once the Twin Stars; his status is irreplaceable, even though he committed crimes now..."

When useful, they are the Twin Stars; when useless, who is the Twin Star with you?

Before, it was the useless phase; now, it has become the useful phase.

"I, Xie Tingfeng, a fine man, how can I be listed alongside you, a lonely testicle man? You want to be Twin Stars? Are you worthy?"

"And the Four Heavenly Kings, weren't you knocked down by Xie Tingfeng long ago?"

"Now it works again?"

"If Zhou Yi is knocked down by you, wouldn't that highlight that Xie Tingfeng's past achievements had no substance?"

"..."

Looking at Zhou Yi's maneuvers of division and wooing, Qian Jiang opened his mouth, wanting to speak but stopping. After a long while, he ultimately couldn't say a word and could only give him a thumbs-up: "You really understand how to play this."

Driving the tiger to swallow the wolf, inciting civil war, and tying up the energy of those rival fans.

"Hey, wait, according to your arrangement, before Cai Zuoyan found you, didn't you already have this planned?" Qian Jiang smelled something wrong.

"No, I thought of it after she found me. Anyway, no use is wasted; it kills two birds with one stone."

Zhou Yi flatly denied it.

Although he originally had a plan to woo Yinghuang with benefits, the fact that Cai Zuoyan offered herself up was purely accidental for him.

"... Fine then. I'll make the arrangements; Huo Wenxi should agree."

Qian Jiang nodded: "But now that you've caused this kind of trouble, be careful not to say anything random during the promotional program 'SMS Ask and Answer' this afternoon."

The so-called 'SMS Ask and Answer' is an extremely ordinary celebrity-fan interaction program.

Fans edit relevant SMS messages to ask the program staff questions about the program guests they are interested in; of course, these SMS messages are charged—no more than 1.5 Hong Kong dollars per message in Hong Kong, and no more than 1.5 RMB per message on the mainland.

Yes, this program is one of the few variety shows in the Hong Kong region that mainland viewers can also participate in.

After the official announcement that Zhou Yi would participate in the recording of this program, the SMS messages received by the program staff were overwhelmingly ahead compared to those received by stars promoting in the past; the communication operators and the program staff taking a cut were grinning from ear to ear.

"Look! Look! This is Zhou Yi's influence! Even at 1.5 per message, the SMS messages are endless!"

On the mainland, inside the headquarters of the mobile company that had just completed its merger.

The ringtone department, conference room.

Zhao Jianzhong, who supported cooperation with Warner, slammed the table and brought out the data for 'SMS Ask and Answer': "What we need now is to open up our name recognition in the pilot program!"

"But his current results are being questioned by Americans, and he has never given a direct response." On the other side, a leader supporting Taihe Media looked gloomy.

"Is that American some kind of authority? Is Ao Dajin some kind of authority? To use the phrase that is gradually becoming popular on the internet, he is even a potential murderer."

In front of such a huge cake of interests, the two sides that had been tearing each other apart for several months have now completely torn off their masks.

The greatest foundation of Ao Dajin's personal reputation currently has a major flaw; however, relying on the powerful public relations capabilities behind Taihe Media and his own family, the matter of him being called a murderer by public opinion has not caused much of a splash in real-world media.

But this is limited to the mainland.

In Hong Kong and Taiwan, the media certainly didn't coddle Ai Dajin; his people couldn't reach over there.

"The only thing worth being grateful for now is that Hong Kong and Taiwan have been chasing stories about Zhou Yi's scandal with Twins member Cai Zuoyan, so no one is paying attention to you for the moment."

On the 27th, in Guangzhou, inside a certain hotel.

Song Ke, who had come on a business trip to discuss matters, smiled and shook his head: "In a sense, you should thank him."

"Thank him? If this wasn't done by people behind him, I'd chop off my own head and give it to you; it's just that he didn't expect the connections behind me to be so strong, so the news won't cause any waves on the mainland."

Ai Dajin, who thought the power behind him had even suppressed online public opinion, was extremely smug: "They all say the internet is hard to manage, but I don't think so; as long as we make a slight move, they all lower their flags and fall silent."

That damn Zhou Yi actually used his ex-girlfriend for this; he really isn't afraid of being blasted for eating a blood-steamed bun.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter—"

Before Ai Dajin, who was waving a paper fan, could finish speaking, after a commercial finished playing on the TV screen, a broadcast preview for the special episode of "SMS Click and Point" suddenly appeared.

One of the scenes in it caught Ai Dajin and Song Ke's high attention—

The host read a text message sent by a mainland viewer: "Zhou Yi, what do you think about the Ai Dajin incident on the mainland? Many people on the mainland internet are saying he behaves improperly and sits crookedly..."

Ai Dajin: "???"

(End of this chapter)