The benefit of being highly busy during the day is that you can get a good night's sleep.
Especially since this film and television base was located within a famous scenic spot in Rong City, the environment was very nice.
That night, Xu Yanxia slept beautifully to the sound of the distant ocean waves. She woke up at eight o'clock the next morning, washed up, ate breakfast, and went to the dressing room for her makeup and styling as usual.
Xiaozhen was already waiting for her, but Ye Shu arrived a little late. She even took a few phone calls at the door of the dressing room before coming in, looking quite busy.
Xu Yanxia was just about to ask, but before she could open her mouth, the other party asked her first, "Director Xu, did you sleep well last night?"
"I slept quite well,"
Xu Yanxia saw the dark circles under Ye Shu's eyes through the mirror and asked her, "Did you not sleep well? Did something happen last night?"
Ye Shu was hesitating whether to speak up, but unexpectedly, there was a sudden knock on the dressing room door at that moment.
A man outside asked carefully, "Excuse me, is it convenient for Miss Xu to talk right now? I am Brother Song's agent."
Brother Song's agent?
Xu Yanxia was a little surprised.
After thinking about it, she asked Ye Shu to open the door.
After all, if it wasn't a big deal, he wouldn't have come to look for her so early in the morning.
Immediately after, a slightly chubby man in his thirties wearing black-rimmed glasses came in carrying a few gift bags. He smiled politely at her in front of the vanity mirror and said, "Hello, Miss Xu, I am Brother Song's agent. You can just call me Xiao Zheng."
"I'm sorry, due to a mistake in our work, some malicious people got into the fan group yesterday and misled the fans. We have already taken legal measures to deal with it now, and the relevant evidence has been preserved. We will definitely cooperate with the police to investigate the facts clearly."
As he spoke, he put the gift bags in his hand on the vanity table next to her and said, "This is coffee and some small snacks that our company cooperated with. The quality is acceptable. It's just a small token of appreciation, please try them."
"...Uh,"
Xu Yanxia was still completely confused.
She saw Ye Shu immediately say to the other party, "Although you are locking the stable door after the horse has bolted, this negligence could have been completely avoided. As an artist agency, you should know very well what the consequences would be if last night's trending topic kept hanging there?"
"If it weren't for President Lu stepping in in time, you might have to pay liquidated damages to the program team now. I hope you learn your lesson and don't make this kind of mistake again."
"Yes, yes."
Brother Song's agent kept nodding, saying with a face full of apology, "Please rest assured, we will definitely cooperate 100% with the investigation, and we guarantee that such a thing will never happen again in the future."
"Thank you very much for your company's timely help this time. If there is a chance, we will definitely thank President Lu in person."
Saying that, seeing that Ye Shu didn't say anything more, he said goodbye to them and went out again.
Xu Yanxia hurriedly asked Ye Shu, "What exactly happened last night? What trending topic and liquidated damages?"
And how did it involve Lu Jingming?
Ye Shu then said, "Someone was causing trouble yesterday. They sneaked into several of Brother Song's fan groups to incite the fans to cause trouble. It even made it to the trending topics in the middle of the night. President Lu had someone suppress it and contacted them, so they came over to apologize."
What?
Xu Yanxia said in disbelief, "Just because of yesterday's competition score?"
"More than that!"
Ye Shu said with an angry face, "They said that President Lu had someone set up this program just for you, and that everyone else was set up by capital, etc. It's extremely ridiculous!!!"
"Fortunately, those few hashtags only surfaced in the middle of the night before being suppressed, otherwise who knows how the public opinion would have fermented today!!!"
"That's going too far,"
Xiaozhen, who was doing Xu Yanxia's makeup, couldn't help but say, "In the past, it was only those celebrities fighting for resources who would secretly use such methods. How could a food program be so exaggerated?"
"But then again, how did they know there was a mole?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
Ye Shu said, "Who doesn't know about Director Xu and President Lu's relationship now? Even if they want to play dirty, they wouldn't dare do it openly. Among the four guests, only Brother Song's fans are the most fanatic and easily incited."
"True,"
Xiaozhen nodded and couldn't help but sigh, "Making a food program look like a palace drama, some people's minds are really too complicated!"
"Tell me about it!"
Ye Shu also sneered, "Playing the trick of killing with a borrowed knife? Unbelievable!!!"
Xu Yanxia, who had recovered her senses, smiled and said, "So that's how the issue with the competition scores yesterday afternoon came about? They moved quite fast."
After all, being able to sneak into Brother Song's fan group and post pictures in less than half an hour, and successfully provoking the first wave of fan emotions, their methods were quite experienced.
"Have they found out who it is now?"
Xiaozhen hurriedly asked again.
Ye Shu sneered again, "There are only four groups of people in total. First, rule out Brother Song, who was used as the borrowed knife, and us. Only those two are left."
"I think that Mrs. Zhuang is the most suspicious. After all, the couple is better at playing the internet."
"True,"
Xiaozhen said, "They do live streaming sales, they definitely understand this internet stuff better."
Exactly.
Xu Yanxia also nodded.
From when Mrs. Zhuang came over to talk after recording the first episode yesterday, it was obvious that she wanted to attribute her getting first place to Lu Jingming's sponsorship.
But she heard Ye Shu comfort her again, "Director Xu, our PR department will handle this matter. You just focus on the competition. Actually, I was afraid of affecting your mood just now and didn't want to tell you, but I didn't expect this person to come so quickly."
"My mindset is fine."
Xu Yanxia smiled.
—In her previous life in the palace, she had seen plenty of real stormy waves. What was this in comparison?
It was just that Lu Jingming still surprised her a bit.
—Did he work overtime until midnight without sleeping, to be able to discover the trending topic so quickly? And even have people suppress it?
Thinking of this, she took out her phone and opened WeChat.
Because she was doing her makeup and it was inconvenient to type, she directly sent him a voice message, "I already know about last night. Pay attention to resting and don't get too tired."
She quickly received his reply, also a voice message.
Because Xiaozhen was doing her hair, Xu Yanxia couldn't easily put it to her ear to listen, so she just put it on speaker.
As a result, President Lu's voice, full of smiles and doting, sounded in the ears of the three people in the dressing room—
"It's okay, I'm not tired. I'll be back in the afternoon. Good luck, baby."
"..."
Xu Yanxia's face immediately turned red.
...She was just reminding him to rest, how could she expect him to directly call her baby...
However, Ye Shu and Xiaozhen were already smiling like doting aunts—
Ye Shu's eyes widened, "My God!!! President Lu actually speaks so gently??? It's simply too sweet!!!"
Xiaozhen also smiled, "Yeah, the honeymoon phase is really the best. Just hearing it feels sweet!!!"
"Excuse me,"
Xu Yanxia could only blush and smile, saying, "I didn't do it on purpose."
As soon as she finished speaking, her phone vibrated again.
It was another picture sent by Lu Jingming.
She tapped it open and realized it was a screenshot of his phone's lock screen.
In the image, she was wearing the white magnolia qipao from the recent family banquet, her hair pinned up with a pearl hairpin, looking demure and beautiful.
It was one of the pictures she had sent him last night.
She had originally sent them for him to use as his computer wallpaper. She hadn't expected him to set it as his phone's lock screen too.
While she was still feeling a bit surprised, Xiaozhen let out a gasp of admiration. Speaking from a professional standpoint, she said, "This look is gorgeous! Xiaoxia, you really suit the traditional aesthetic! We should definitely try this more often moving forward."
Ye Shu, however, clicked her tongue, speaking for all the single people out there. "I can't take it anymore! If I keep watching you two be so sweet, my single heart is going to give out! I'm going to head to the studio first to scope things out. Today is the first amateur competition, so I want to see if there's any inside scoop."
Besides, she had to stay on her toes today to catch the mole, so she needed to check out the venue first.
Xu Yanxia agreed. "Alright, Xiaozhen and I will head over in a bit."
Ye Shu gave her an OK gesture and headed to the studio.
