CH 91

Chapter 91: Scandalous News

For netizens who often hung out on the Internet, those so-called entertainment gossip posts were just something fun to look at. If you really believed them, you’d be a fool.

Everyone clicked on this post with an indifferent attitude, and was instantly stunned by the content of the main post. They were used to all kinds of so-called assistants, temporary workers, bit actors, or people pretending to be entertainment reporters posting breaking news, but they were really just creating hype. Suddenly there was a person who was so openly scolding Liang Yumeng by name. It was unbelievable.

What kind of hatred would it take to explode this kind of fierce information that might or might not be true? They didn’t even use a code name and called out Liang Yumeng’s name in the post.

The original poster claimed to be a member of Liang Yumeng’s work team and exposed a lot of Liang Yumeng’s private information, even including the fact that he was once kept by a rich woman.

The original poster’s writing was extremely strong, and carried an inexplicable psychological suggestion that made people who read the gossip involuntarily believe that what they said was true.

Reading this, everyone was in an uproar. It was really hard to believe that Film emperor Liang was actually such a person. Being kept by a rich woman was nothing, but he was kept by someone and still went out to hook up with other people. After being found by the rich woman, he pretended to be innocent and honest, saying that the other person had seduced him.

In addition, there were other things such as praising the powerful and stepping on the weak, being jealous of powerful actors, hiring water armies to smear people, being gentle on the surface but being angry with the staff in private, and so on, which weren’t considered major news. The real surprise was that even the news about Liang Yumeng’s good relationship with Gongxi Qiao was also sent by Liang Yumeng, who found someone to post it.

The netizens who were watching the buzz suddenly didn’t understand. At that time, Gongxi Qiao wasn’t exactly on fire, so why did Liang Yumeng have to find someone to send that kind of news? Did he do it so that others would scold Gongxi Qiao for holding his thighs?

Original poster: He certainly didn’t do it for that, but to get rid of that rich woman. The rich woman was powerful, and Liang Yumeng used her to climb to the position of film emperor. He began to dislike that the rich woman wasn’t as tasty as young models, but he didn’t dare to leave the rich woman, so he wanted to find a person who could replace him for the rich woman. Gongxi Qiao’s outstanding appearance was just the kind of thing that the rich woman liked, so Liang Yumeng deliberately broke the news in order to get the attention of the rich woman. The reason for this was to make the rich woman pay attention to Gongxi Qiao.

Original poster: Unfortunately, God watches what people do.[1] What is Gongxi Qiao’s status, what are his abilities, is he an ordinary person who dares to do the unspoken rules?  After seeing those reports, the rich woman really felt moved, but who knew that the day she invited Gongxi Qiao to dinner, Master Xi personally accompanied Gongxi Qiao and showed up. As soon as the rich woman saw Master Xi, no matter how ambitious she was, she gave up. When she left, she was very polite to Gongxi Qiao.

Original poster: People may not believe me when I say this, but do you remember last year when Liang Yumeng was hospitalized after a fall? In fact, he wasn’t injured by a fall, he was injured by people called by the rich woman. He pitted the rich woman so much, could she let him off? If you still don’t believe me, why don’t you think back carefully. After the release of “National Industry”, the negative news about Liang Yumeng never stopped, and now there’s even no news about him. It’s because there are many people who don’t like him, and without the protection of a rich woman, he’s just at the mercy of others. What Film Emperor, what idol powerhouse, without the rich woman to support him, it would be strange if he could win Film Emperor.

The netizens reading this post with a “shocked face” were almost unable to curse “shit”. The story was too real, so real that people couldn’t suspect it was a fake post.

It wasn’t that they didn’t have the ability to judge, but the original poster’s narrative was too logical. More importantly, if this was fake, the original poster must have a lot of guts to get Master Xi and Qiao Shao involved.

As long as people believed in the original poster’s exposé, they felt that Liang Yumeng was disgusting. On the surface, he called Gongxi Qiao a friend, but internally he was harboring schemes. If Gongxi Qiao was just a newcomer with no background, they were afraid that he would have been pitted by Liang Yumeng.

Before everyone could fully digest the gossip, another netizen claiming to be an informed source popped up and said: “Haha, to tell the truth to those brain-dead fans above who don’t believe it, Liang Yumeng pitted not only Gongxi Qiao, but also Gu Nan. Do you remember those Weibo posts before the opening ceremony of the Golden Leaf Awards, the ones that openly praised Gu Nan and secretly stepped on Gongxi Qiao, causing a war between the two fan groups? That wasn’t done by Gu Nan, but by someone arranged by Liang Yumeng. Don’t ask me why I know, but I swear, this revelation is true.

It turned out that this bastard not only pitted Qiao Shao, but also pitted Film Emperor Gu, what a black heart.

If he wasn’t doing well, he was jealous of the male artists who were doing better than him, and even arranged for a water army of haters?

Unfortunately, what was the point of his plan? Film Emperor Gu and Film Emperor Gongxi were still close friends, and Film Emperor Gu even made a cameo appearance in a film invested by Film Emperor Gongxi. They wondered if Liang Yumeng was pissed off when he saw the news.

Because the matter involved the three film emperors, the post quickly became a buzz on the Internet. The entertainment reporters who often hung out in the forums of major entertainment websites were all fired up and ready to find the three parties involved to dig out some news.

Of course, their main interview subjects were the two victims. As for Liang Yumeng, the outdated film emperor, they didn’t care much.

The “Dream Corridor” crew was probably the most big-name suspense movie crew in recent years. They could casually pick up a couple of film emperors and film queens.

Ji Yuming played Gongxi Qiao’s father in the film. When the reporter entered the set to interview him, he was in a scene opposite Gongxi Qiao.

Although the crew agreed to several media interviews, they weren’t allowed to film the content of the film shooting. With Gongxi Qiao, the great young master, the reporters were very honest and didn’t dare to do such things as secretly filming.

Now everyone in the circle knew a truth. To offend Qiao Shao was to offend Master Xi. How hard did they have to think to take on those two masters for a story? They earned their living from the news, not sacrificed themselves for it.

The story of “Dream Corridor” was very complicated, revolving around death and human nature. In the story, it seemed like everyone was a bad guy and everyone was a good guy. Right and wrong, black and white, were intertwined, and it was impossible to tell the difference.

And life was like a long curved corridor. No one knew whether the end was black or white, right or wrong, until the end.

Although the journalists didn’t know the plot, watching the live version of Gongxi Qiao and Ji Yuming’s scene together was so addictive that they even held their breath without realizing it, just carefully watching the performance of the two on camera.

“Dad, I had insomnia last night.” The young man wearing a white shirt hid his eyes under his glasses with complicated emotions. “I heard the sound of someone’s footsteps going downstairs.”

The middle-aged man snorted and flipped a page of the newspaper. “I told you before to have a good work and rest routine, but you didn’t listen. Now you can’t even sleep well. You young people really can’t be helped.” He looked up at the young man, with some concern and reproach in his eyes. “I came downstairs to get something last night. In order not to wake you up, I deliberately wore only a pair of socks and no shoes. I didn’t expect that you would still be able to hear it.”

The young man’s eyelashes trembled a little. His eyes fell on the middle-aged man’s feet, and only after a long time did he slowly say, “Is that so?” Unfortunately, his voice was so small that the middle-aged man did not hear him at all.

Just then, the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground suddenly came from upstairs. He slowly turned back, but looked at the open window behind him. Outside the window, there was a grassy area where his mother was playing with a white poodle. The brilliant sunlight was shining down, and the shadows behind them were extraordinarily clear.

“Very good, very good.” The young director smiled and stood up from behind the monitor. “Qiao Shao and Brother Ming’s acting skills are awesome, this feels so spot on!”

In suspense films, the most important thing was the psychological drama, so the eyes and micro-expressions were very important. Many suspense films were scolded as bad because the plot was illogical, the actors’ acting was pompous and without substance, and the post-editing was pathetic. When those three things were stacked together, even a god-like director couldn’t make a good film.

He was confident in his script, and the actors’ acting skills were so excellent that he was naturally happy.

Gu Nan, who was sitting next to him, smiled when he heard the words, and was about to open his mouth to banter a bit when he saw the reporter walking towards him. When he turned his head to look at Gongxi Qiao, who was walking towards him, the smile on his face intensified.

How could a person who could make Xi Qing call him a friend really be simple and harmless?

“Brother Nan.” Gongxi Qiao handed Gu Nan a bottle of water. Turning his head to see the reporters gathering around, he smiled and said, “Is everyone here to visit the set today?”

The reporters had to nod their heads and also patiently asked the two some questions about the movie before leading the conversation to the real topic of concern.

“On the internet?” Gu Nan and Gongxi Qiao looked at each other, both showing a puzzled look. Gu Nan opened his mouth and asked, “What happened?”

The reporter gave a general description of the content of that online post, while the cameras were both filming the faces of the two people dead on, not wanting to miss any of their expressions.

“This ……” Gu Nan frowned. “I’m not familiar with Mr. Liang, so I don’t know much about his personal affairs.”

The reporters understood instantly that since Film Emperor Gu called Liang Yumeng “Mr. Liang”, the two were really not familiar with each other.

“What do you think about the rumors that he was sowing discord between you and Qiao Shao?” The reporter reluctantly pursued the question.

Gu Nan turned his head to look at Gongxi Qiao, who smiled and turned his head to look at him, obviously waiting for him to answer the question.

He couldn’t bear the look from Gongxi Qiao, so Gu Nan had to speak again, “Do you know how much I was paid to shoot this movie?”

The reporter was a bit confused. What did this have to do with the question they asked?

“The pay is 0.” Gu Nan smiled brightly. “Our friendship is so good that I’m working for him for free. So those little things, for me and Xiao Qiao, aren’t worth mentioning at all, so I don’t have any opinion.”

Gongxi Qiao answered with a smile, “You can’t blame me for that. Didn’t I say I would pay you for the film at first?”

“You did, but after I said no, you should at least insist a little, but in the end you just agreed.” Gu Nan raised his eyebrows. “I knew at first glance that you weren’t sincere.”

The two “good friends” mutually teased each other in front of the reporters, physically showing everyone how good their relationship was.

The reporters present had to wonder whether the news about Gu Nan being blocked by Xi Qing some time ago was true or not.

Looking at them …… it didn’t seem like it ah.

T/N