Chu Yueyi didn't care about Shi Guanghua's thoughts. She teased him and ran away without looking back, only sending him a message after she got inside.
Shi Guanghua replied quickly, and his words were quite sincere.
Hey wifey: [I'll consider it and try to do what most people do.]
CYY: [?]
Hey wifey: [Trying to get closer to the masses, can't be too isolated.]
CYY: [???]
So this was what the masses were thinking about. He was indeed out of touch with the people.
Shi Guanghua's tone was humble, as if he was reflecting on himself, leaving Chu Yueyi speechless. She realized that this guy became quite arrogant when they were apart. When they were recording the show and seeing each other every day, she didn't notice it, but after entering the production, when they couldn't see each other, this brother let himself go.
It was the same now; he was very brave online.
Not long after, Li You called Chu Yueyi. She had already learned about today's events and inquired about the artist's current situation. After confirming that Chu Yueyi was fine, she felt relieved.
Li You's scalp tingled: "Has she gone crazy from KPI pressure? She really dares to say anything!"
Chu Yueyi: "I guess the coming days won't be peaceful either."
Li You: "Everyone has been tolerating her for long enough. That lousy boy band still hasn't achieved anything. She really thinks she's all that!"
There were two major factions in the management company where Chu Yueyi worked. One was the company founder's faction, which focused on promoting actors when the company was established. They had produced quite a few quality dramas in earlier years, which was the main reason Chu Yueyi signed with them. The other faction was the new media marketing faction, which now mainly focused on boy bands and idols. The leader in charge of this business, surnamed Zhan, was a parachuted executive - the same high-level manager who had conflicts with Chu Yueyi.
As television stations declined and online platforms boomed, the company was also urgently seeking new opportunities. Naturally, they invested heavily in recruiting high-level talents to explore unfamiliar business areas. The Zhan Leader had an impressive resume and came from a major platform. Having seen many top-tier celebrities, she was, of course, arrogant and autocratic.
Zhan's philosophy was that male stars had far greater commercial value than female stars, and her decision-making direction was to promote men over women. This idea wasn't wrong from a market data perspective, but unfortunately, the company's boy band just couldn't become popular.
The high-level leaders were also under performance pressure. She hadn't produced results for many years and was now on the verge of collapse. Recently, she became increasingly anxious, desperately needing to show something.
Chu Yueyi could deduce the other party's mentality. When people are in a strong and developing platform, everything goes smoothly, and they often attribute the success given by the platform to their own abilities. Once they leave their original team, there's a huge gap. Little do they know that even a pig can fly when it's on the right trend.
The Zhan Leader wasn't suitable for pioneering from scratch. She should have stayed with a stable and glorious team, but she parachuted here due to generous conditions. When she came, it was quite glamorous, but of course, she was criticized for not producing results.
Now that things had come to this point, there were only two possible outcomes: either Chu Yueyi would leave, or the Zhan Leader would go.
Chu Yueyi absolutely wouldn't leave. Her performance wasn't a problem, so why should she make way for others?
The entertainment industry isn't child's play. Rashly running off to the outside, changing teams during the rising period, would be like joking with one's future. She actually wanted to be a good person, but some people took advantage of her kindness and didn't take others' friendliness seriously at all.
Chu Yueyi calmly said, "Sister You, can you arrange for me to talk with the big boss?"
The big boss was the company's founder. The Zhan Leader was a parachuted executive. Entertainment companies were mostly run by women.
Li You panicked: "Yueyi, do you have any thoughts? Actually, many things can be communicated."
Li You knew that many artists would have ideas of going solo, but Chu Yueyi wasn't stable enough yet. She needed to maintain her position for two or three more years to be considered established. Otherwise, it would be easy to lose all previous efforts.
Chu Yueyi: "Don't worry, it's not about terminating the contract." Li You was half-believing, but she knew that it was better to let things flow than to block them. She politely inquired with the big boss and arranged a three-way phone conference.
Li You was afraid that Chu Yueyi would argue with the big boss, but unexpectedly, her artist actually cried.
The usually strong worker actually cried.
Li You: "?"
Chu Yueyi displayed her acting talent. She tearfully narrated her feelings for the company, how she stumbled blindly in the entertainment circle when she first debuted, fortunately receiving the care of sisters like Li You, finally getting through the difficult development period, achieving results step by step, all thanks to the company's excellent atmosphere and corporate culture.
But now she found that the company's corporate culture had changed, and the team atmosphere had also adjusted, leaving her at a loss and not knowing what to do. She liked the company so much, but now she couldn't keep up with the development pace, so she wanted to seek advice from the big boss.
Li You: "..." Outrageous, truly outrageous.
Chu Yueyi did indeed sign with the company right after graduation. It was normal for her to have an imprinting effect, and her sincere description even made the big boss choke up and her eyes turn red.
Other talents wouldn't resonate with the company culture. Everyone was there to work and make money. Only the founder would believe this nonsense!
Which founder didn't have the determination and courage to change the industry? They would always think that their company's development direction was the best!
The big boss comforted her with heartfelt words: "Little Zhan came from outside. She still doesn't quite understand many things about our company, like the company's history and corporate culture. I've noticed this problem recently too. Many of the traditions of our work team, she doesn't even understand as well as you do!"
Chu Yueyi said in a muffled voice: "I thought I couldn't keep up with the company's decision-making direction..."
The big boss hurriedly said: "No, no, didn't you come to act when you were still in school? Everyone's evaluation of you was very good at that time. I believe you also liked the company's atmosphere and highly recognized our corporate culture, which is why you made up your mind to sign with Li You back then."
The big boss remembered Chu Yueyi's early days, but now reminiscing about the past felt different. Chu Yueyi was just a student with no fame at that time, but now that she had become famous, she didn't forget the company's nurturing. This was truly a typical artist representing the company's original image!
Big boss: What does Little Zhan know about corporate culture? She just parachuted in to make money, she has no feelings for the company!
Li You: "..." Sorry, but she didn't talk about corporate culture when signing Chu Yueyi either.
After reminiscing about the past with Chu Yueyi, the big boss was moved to tears and full of emotions. She directly told Li You to take back some of Chu Yueyi's work content that had been scattered outside, no longer letting the Zhan Leader's side interfere.
The big boss said seriously: "We need to learn how to do internet marketing too, but we can't lose the company's foundation. You two just do your own things separately. Don't end up creating something neither here nor there."
"Hey, Little Zhan's approach isn't working. Talking about how boy bands have higher commercial value, but in the end, they're not as good as the artists our team has cultivated..."
Li You honestly responded, but she couldn't help but grumble inwardly, thinking that when the leader was recruiting people, didn't she also praise Zhan to the skies, saying she represented the cutting-edge thinking of today's internet idols, and that the old model of managing artists was becoming obsolete.
After the big boss hung up, Chu Yueyi cleared her throat, switching instantly from tearful to calm, without a trace of nasal tone in her voice.
She was completely different from her state just moments ago, saying coolly: "Sister You, then I'll trouble you to work a bit harder later, gradually taking back the work that was given out before."
Li You sighed: "Oh, Yueyi, Yueyi, it's a good thing you became an actress and didn't go into other industries."
Li You thought: Otherwise, with your skill at cozying up to leaders, you'd really make it impossible for other wage slaves to survive.
Chu Yueyi sighed wistfully: "I also want to be a good person, but now I have no choice."
She used to be very restrained and would never play these games with leaders, but who told others to really think she had no temper.
She wouldn't leave on her own; she wanted to squeeze the other person out.
The big boss's appointment of Chu Yueyi to separate business caused a huge stir in the management company.
The company had veteran actors under its wing. They were busy getting married and having children now, not working, and might even be holding company shares. Some business still had to go through the Zhan Leader. Of course, the Zhan Leader was very polite to the big stars and naturally wouldn't dare to make any blood-sucking moves.
The official reason was that Chu Yueyi was in her rising period, but people with discerning eyes all knew that the struggle between the two factions had begun, and the original faction and the parachuted faction were about to engage in a tug-of-war.
Chu Yueyi wept in front of the big boss, but she was a smiling tiger when she met Zhan. As long as she maintained her dignity in public, she enjoyed seeing the other party frustrated but unable to get rid of her.
She might have a bit of darkness inside, but usually constrained herself with morality. Otherwise, she would be very suitable for turning to the dark side and becoming a villain.
The new drama "Living with Spring" is launching its promotional campaign, and Chu Yueyi needs to participate in several variety shows for advertising. She had already been informed in advance that the production team and her company were planning to buy the trending topic "Chu Yueyi has chemistry with everyone" on social media. At the recording venue, she deliberately avoided Dong Yan and other male actors.
In the studio, when the host suggested that Chu Yueyi choose someone to play a game with, she surprisingly picked a cool and stylish female singer. Chu Yueyi remembered that Zou Qian had once chatted casually with the female singer, so she thought if she had to contribute to the trending topic, she might as well choose someone somewhat related.
The female singer's name was Ren Qinyan, who had no experience with variety shows and was there to promote her recent song release. She appeared aloof but was actually quite shy. She clumsily tried to cooperate with Chu Yueyi in the game, and after accidentally causing her teammate to fall, she felt quite embarrassed, revealing a slight, awkward smile.
Ren Qinyan had a model-like tall figure, while Chu Yueyi was known for her sweet girl image. Standing together, they made quite a matching pair.
-- Sorry, Teacher Shi, I'll just stand here for a second.
-- The big orange is more important! Let the lilies bloom!
-- I get it, Teacher Chu likes those who play music and are cold, she's into the whole ice queen melting thing!
-- They didn't even know each other before, but they're quite shippable.
-- Little Chu isn't fickle or unfaithful! She'll always love young, beautiful people with musical talent and height! Consistent for a decade!
-- As expected of the modern-day romance expert, Chu Yueyi?
After the "Chu Yueyi has chemistry with everyone" topic trended, the company originally planned to release some content featuring Chu Yueyi with male actors. However, the online space was instantly divided between two factions: the yuri shippers and the moonlight shippers. Both sides frantically posted screenshots and large images, effectively pushing out the content from marketing accounts.
Netizens weren't fools; they knew who the bought trending topics were meant to promote. As long as they mentioned Chu Yueyi, Shi Guanghua, or Ren Qinyan, they deliberately avoided mentioning male artists from the same company.
Mistake: Friend, you've really become the pure moonlight, now she has a substitute new love [doge] @Shi Guanghua
Friendy: Oh my, enterprise-level understanding, so "moonlight" has a deeper meaning! Goodbye, moonlight, short for pure moonlight!
93845: If you don't have a masterpiece on Jinjiang, I won't read it!
0303: "The Film Queen's Pure Moonlight Returns" "I'm the Top Star's Pure Moonlight" @Shi Guanghua
In the studio, Shi Guanghua was still unaware of the fervent discussions online. He had been working with headphones on but was interrupted when Little Cheng came in, causing him to remove his headphones with a puzzled expression.
Little Cheng: "Zou Qian wants to talk to you. He's asking you to come out and respond to messages."
Shi Guanghua left the studio and browsed his phone in the corridor, not understanding why Zou Qian was contacting him.
As soon as the call connected, Zou Qian impatiently vented: "Can't you control her? Tell her to stop messing around with girl-girl relationships in public!"
Zou Qian was devastated. He casually checked the trending topics and found his secret crush in a CP with his friend's lover?
Ren Qinyan had even followed Chu Yueyi on Weibo and helped promote "Living with Spring" on the same day, despite having just met!
Ren Qinyan rarely interacted with peers before, but now she's learned to advertise for Chu Yueyi.
Zou Qian was completely dumbfounded. Was Chu Yueyi specifically targeting this type?
Shi Guanghua: "?"
Not understanding the whole situation but guessing it was about Chu Yueyi, Shi Guanghua honestly replied: "I can't control her."
Zou Qian incredulously asked: "How can you not control her?"
Shi Guanghua: "I'm not her boss."
Zou Qian: "..."
Zou Qian complained: "You're like a long-suffering househusband now, not daring to complain about your partner, just swallowing your dissatisfaction silently."
Shi Guanghua: "Not really?"
Zou Qian exclaimed: "How is it not? Look at your withdrawn attitude now. I definitely wouldn't be like you!"
Shi Guanghua sincerely responded: "Well, you don't have a partner, so of course you wouldn't be like me."
Zou Qian: "???"
Shi Guanghua didn't take Zou Qian's words to heart, but he took some time to browse Weibo and reposted the "Living with Spring" drama's Weibo post. He had never even reposted his own show, but now he was advertising for someone else's drama, naturally leaving the comment section bewildered.
Heart-Fluttering Promise: ?
Ten Ten: I feel wronged for the precious person in your heart, so you do know how to promote.
Little E: The official wife has arrived, everyone make way!!
Black-faced: He's panicking, panicking, panicking, reposting at exactly 11:09, openly showing his territory, you know what I mean [doge]
Lemon: It's okay, Teacher Shi, when the ex cries, the current partner always loses. Our pure moonlight isn't afraid of substitutes [thumbs up]
Citrus Cocktail: Juliet's castle is big, there's room for more people [doge]
Old Shipper Expert: You guys are stealing the show, trying to provoke him into a frenzy?
After work, Chu Yueyi happily went to freeload a meal from Shi Guanghua. She skillfully entered the password and went in, but sensed a slight unusual crisis, feeling an inexplicable animal-like alertness.
The table indeed had her favorite dishes, and Shi Guanghua's attitude hadn't changed at all, yet there was a sense of an impending storm.
Sure enough, after letting her rest for a while after dinner, Shi Guanghua took out his phone and questioned her seriously: "What is this?"
Chu Yueyi looked at the CP screenshots of herself and Ren Qinyan on the screen. Her expression stiffened slightly, and she feigned innocence: "Ah, I don't know either, I don't really understand what outsiders think..."
She was now like a feline that had caused trouble, nonchalantly walking past the crime scene, as if the outside commotion had nothing to do with her.
Shi Guanghua suspiciously asked: "You don't know?"
Chu Yueyi, who hadn't wanted to deal with male artists at the time and thus approached Ren Qinyan, reluctantly explained: "You know CP is metaphysical. That's just what the audience imagined. Look at how awkward we were when we first recorded the show, yet people could still ship us. There really wasn't anything at that time..."
Shi Guanghua drawled: "Oh--"
Chu Yueyi: "?" What kind of sarcastic tone was that?
Shi Guanghua calmly said: "When we recorded the show, you didn't immediately hug someone you just met, nor did you passionately sing together in front of the camera, or casually sit in someone's lap. You just gave me a hair tie. No wonder it was awkward."
Chu Yueyi: "..."
Chu Yueyi and Ren Qinyan had even pressed close together to squeeze balloons, no wonder Zou Qian had called in such a panic.
Shi Guanghua glanced at her and said coolly: "You're quite biased in your fan service."
Chu Yueyi was like a paper tiger. She pretended to be tough: "Don't make trouble on purpose. It's different with her because she's a girl. Don't pin false accusations on me!"
Chu Yueyi thought Shi Guanghua was being unreasonable. He hadn't reacted to Dong Yan, so why bring up Ren Qinyan?
Shi Guanghua stared at her for a moment with a deep gaze, then pulled out a survey questionnaire from the side and said unhurriedly: "Am I making trouble on purpose? You're the one who wrote about wanting to wear a skirt."
Shi Guanghua had also received a souvenir from the "Heart-Fluttering Promise" show team, but after reading the survey questionnaire, his mind went blank. Especially the part describing her ideal type as someone who had worn a skirt, which left him completely baffled.
This survey questionnaire was particularly thick, and Chu Yueyi had diligently filled it all out, but the content was bewildering.
Shi Guanghua used the questionnaire to evaluate himself and found that some content matched, but some requirements made him wonder if her ideal type was even human.
Chu Yueyi stared at the familiar questionnaire in surprise. She had forgotten what she had written and dryly said: "Did I really write such a requirement?"
To be honest, she had mixed several anime characters together at the time, and it was probably some 2D character who had worn a skirt.
Shi Guanghua pressed his lips together, lowered his gaze, and asked softly: "Who did you like when you were writing this?"
Shi Guanghua obviously didn't care now, but he was curious about her ideal type and wanted to know for whom she had filled out the questionnaire.
Chu Yueyi wracked her brains trying to remember and helplessly asked back: "Ah, which one specifically do you want to know about?"
Shi Guanghua: "?"
Shi Guanghua hesitantly looked at her: "...How many do you have?"
Faced with his profound gaze, Chu Yueyi finally recklessly confessed: "There are quite a few, I really need to think about it."
Shi Guanghua: "..." I only wrote about you, and you need to think about it?!