Chapter 121: Teacher Chi, I Love Your Selfishness
You’ve made yourself look completely ugly.
“Sister Qianzi, make way.”
Chi Ye waved his hand and wiped clean the desk in front of Sister Qianzi.
In his heart, he wondered: Has it spread this far already?
That’s a bit fast.
“You’re lying.”
Shi Jinwei came back to her senses, her face turning pale then purple, unwilling to accept that she was actually a clown.
“Hm?”
Chi Ye turned back, surprised: “Look, I really said no, but you’re not happy again.”
“Whatever you say is fine.”
Sister Qianzi: “？！”
Chi Ye glanced at her, sincere: “Also, you really seem to have some serious illness.”
Shi Jinwei: “……”
She unusually didn’t retort, silently stood up, turned and walked out of the small dwelling, leaving Chi Ye with only a tall and slender back view.
Chi Ye didn’t care if he had “hurt” her.
Hurt what?
Someone like Sister Qianzi cannot be indulged too much, otherwise she will only look down on you more.
Chi Ye had suspected during Voice of Nature《 that Sister Qianzi really had some mental illness, at least a masochist, otherwise she wouldn’t keep “chasing after” being roasted by him.
He shook his head and continued working.
……
At the same time.
Yue Na Headquarters.
“That’s the bastard! I want to tear him apart!”
Ji Hemming came to Young President Liu’s office for the Nth time these past few days.
Young President Liu sat silently in the boss chair, his face equally grim.
There was already news from Thailand, basically confirming that Chi Ye was the “prime suspect”.
His hatred for Chi Ye now even surpassed that for Ji Hemming…
Go public!
Planned for so long, and it all fell apart because Chi Ye pulled tricks behind the scenes?
Cutting off someone’s wealth is like killing their parents; Yue Na had “killed” Chi Ye’s parents, and Chi Ye paid back double.
Between the two, it was now truly a fight to the death.
“Young President Liu, say something, take a stance, what do we do about this?!”
Young President Liu stared at Ji Hemming, silent.
What to do?
I’ll definitely give you a grand handling, handle it properly!
Ji Hemming felt uneasy under that gaze, frowned: “You… why are you looking at me like that?”
“……Nothing.”
Young President Liu withdrew his gaze, thinking that Yue Na’s situation was already so bad, still needing Ji Hemming, still needing him…
He paused, then said: “He’s been promoting his new drama lately, right? Get him!”
He said it with unwavering determination; even without this, he would get Chi Ye.
Ji Hemming was stunned: “Is there?”
He really didn’t know… because he never took the old Chi Ye seriously, no interaction at all, star power worlds apart.
No competitive relationship.
“You don’t know?”
Young President Liu reacted, said: “He’s already on Mushroom House》 for drama promotion process, didn’t you see the poisoning hot search last night?”
“I… after last time, I basically don’t check hot searches anymore, the team watches them.”
“Your new drama with Li Qian isn’t on Ku Ying? Communicate with them, schedule platform might not listen to you, but you can snatch recommended resources.”
Young President Liu said casually: “I looked into his drama, it’s just an A+ investment, Ku Ying has small stake, director has some connections, but no one else in the film crew is noteworthy; have your team communicate, yours is S+ big investment, Ku Ying’s drama king for the first half of the year, taking these resources should be steady.”
Ji Hemming’s eyes lit up, nodded: “Okay, I’ll talk to the film producer later, see if it works.”
“But…” he paused, looked at Young President Liu: “That’s it? That’s too light, isn’t it?”
“Don’t worry, his singing is one thing, daring to act… damn it, we propped him up six times, six times!! Total loss! Damn, that money-loser, he bankrupted me!”
Young President Liu got angry talking about it; he didn’t care before, but after Chi Ye rose, he checked and nearly blacked out, cursing Chi Ye the money-loser!
Ji Hemming: “……Calm down.”
Young President Liu paused, said: “Before it was other companies using this against us, now it’s our turn to target him!”
“You already have an arrangement?”
Young President Liu sneered, eyes gloomy.
Far more than an arrangement; everyone at Yue Na hated Chi Ye to death, he wanted Chi Ye disgraced!
Only then would his situation ease, and settle personal grudges too.
……
Yue Na’s so-called arrangement naturally wasn’t using their S+ big drama Meng Xi Yuan《, and Ji Hemming and Ku system’s quasi-first-tier little flower Li Qian’s S+ modern idol drama Deng Ji Feng Chui Qi《 to “battle” Circulation《…
That wouldn’t be getting Circulation《, but helping Chi Ye!
Battle after battle, outsiders see excitement, but in the industry, it’s basically bundled marketing.
Unless it’s a runaway drama king, ordinary S+ investments are “auto-matched” with opponents from the day filming starts.
From investors, producers, director, leads down to fans, all tacitly “compare” — like this summer slot’s “three kingdoms battle”.
Only then can popularity be maximized.
There are also cases where table-flipping stars step on leads for hype to boost star power, or agreed bundling where one drama suddenly explodes…
In that case, others frantically keep bundling, the exploded one frantically unbinds, cursing: Who the hell are you? Are we the same level? Got walls or not? Desperate peasant? Back off!
Fighting non-stop.
But none fit current Yue Na and Circulation《.
What garbage is Circulation《?
Originally A-grade investment, boosted to A+ by director and Chi Ye, but how to compare to S+ with top streamer first-tier joins like Meng Xi Yuan《 Deep Sea《 Deng Ji Feng Chui Qi《?
So no such battle exists; doing that, Chi Ye would laugh to death, saving billions in publicity.
Yue Na’s plan in two aspects, very standard.
One, targeted resources.
Use their industry influence and tighter platform cooperative relationship to target Circulation《’s resource issues.
Two, Chi Ye’s biggest weakness now — reputation evaluation problem.
You Chi Ye can act? Just sing well as idol variety star, is acting something any dog can do?
Forget the rest, first buy up Chi Ye’s past film and TV “viral famous scenes”, “What will you use to pay back what you owe me here（ EDM version）” “Sour, sweet” acting skills award, all buy them up!
Let audiences relive the fear dominated by Chi Ye’s acting skills!
As for buying paid commenters for blind one-star reputation bombing, even more standard operation.
In short, capital wants to get you, too easy.
Chi Ye was working in the afternoon when he got Keke’s phone call, learning of the situation.
“What will you use to pay back what you owe me here, knife-sharp jawline, on hot search again? Bilibili has UP mains making meme roasts?”
Chi Ye heard, not alarmed but pleased: “Free popularity for me?”
Keke: “……Chi Ge, how can you laugh? It’s all black popularity, Circulation《 hasn’t aired yet and already being whipped corpse.”
“Black popularity is still popularity, no problem, we can buy paid commenters too.”
Chi Ye’s all about familiar process, after all he’s done it before.
He turned to the more important matter: “Hm… what does Director Zhang say about Circulation《?”
“Deng Ji Feng Chui Qi《 film producer wants to snatch resources, Ku Ying side wants to give…”
Keke paused, said: “One of their investors is that… is… Uncle of President Jin.”
“Hm?”
Chi Ye was stunned.
“You mean one of Deng Ji Feng Chui Qi《’s investors is Empress Dowager’s little uncle?”
“Um… the company he acquired invested in many projects before, Deng Ji Feng Chui Qi《 one of the most valuable, see if you want to…”
“Then we’re steady, steady.”
Chi Ye relaxed inwardly: “Didn’t expect Uncle supports me so much.”
Keke: “？？？”
Chi Ye glanced at Ran Qiao waving at him, said: “Okay, that’s it for now, keep watching… gotta work, sigh, another day of transplanting rice.”
Keke: “……Alright.”
Silently hung up, a bit hesitant.
Should I tell President Jin about this…
……
At the same time.
Some activity site in Beijing.
Jin Xia aggressively on the phone: “Give Teacher Chi’s resources back!!”
“Jin Xia, who are you yelling at? I am your uncle, correct your attitude!”
Jin Ming on the other end was furious, thought awhile, replied: “In the past, you rarely contacted me, now one call breaks the long silence, yet just for Chi Ye, even yelling at me, is this how you treat relatives?”
“……I’m not yelling at you Little Uncle, but how can you help Yue Na snatch Teacher Chi’s resources, isn’t that helping outsiders?”
Jin Ming speechless: “Where did I help Yue Na? Deng Ji Feng Chui Qi《 is invested by my company, Ji Hemming has some influence here too, their suggestion is right, more resources benefit us, why not?”
Jin Xia sulked, acted up: “I don’t care, you can’t snatch Teacher Chi’s resources anyway.”
Jin Ming: “……Jin Xia, I can’t help but ask, in your heart, doesn’t Chi Ye weigh a bit extraordinarily heavy? You…”
“You still mentioning Teacher Chi?”
Jin Ming furious: “I say… evaluating him what’s wrong, even scolding is…”
“Wait there!”
Jin Xia hung up before he finished, huffily grabbed her mobile phone, dialed another number, adjusted emotions, then wailed sobbingly: “Grandfather, wuwuwu, listen… Little Uncle he…”
Five minutes later, Jin Ming got harshly scolded, red-faced and thick-necked called Jin Xia back, completely broken: “Fine fine, you got it, you’re playing too slick now, pulling little tricks, using them all on family huh?”
“I said back then, shouldn’t let you enter entertainment industry, see, all learned bad! Even Grandfather coaxed into afterbirth… lost basic judgment!”
Jin Xia muffled: “Give it back!”
“……” Jin Ming silent for a bit, suddenly sighed: “Fine, I can give it back to him, but resources yes, others? Can you influence me, influence others? Didn’t you think, I’m doing this for your good too?”
“Teacher Chi doesn’t need, he just needs this one opportunity!”
Jin Ming: “……”
He was speechless for a bit, then seriously said: “Jin Xia, remember, you can help him once, but not ten times, one day he’ll face these himself, you can’t manage him forever, understand?”
“I can!”
“You can’t!”
“Then I’ll help him a hundred times!”
“OMG…”
Jin Ming collapsed, felt his little niece completely brainwashed lame.
This level, even worse than sister back then fooled by that Hong Kong scumbag.
He said no more, just left final advice: “Tough-talking me here is useless, if Chi Ye’s still a man, let him toughen up himself, when he can stand before me, point at my nose and say ‘give it back’, then I’ll look up to him…”
“Teacher Chi doesn’t need your looking up, Little Uncle, you’re way behind Little Aunt, I’m starting to hate you, bye!”
Empress Dowager hung up before he finished.
Mood inexplicably turned low.
Why, suddenly want to cry so bad.
Beautiful peach blossom eyes blinked twice, she took out mobile phone again, called Chi Ye: “Hey? Teacher Chi? What are you doing?”
“Ah, working.”
Chi Ye on the other end waiting for Teacher Huang and others to “assign work”.
“……”
Chi Ye waited a bit, saw she wasn’t speaking, signaled program team to stop filming, walked aside, asked: “What’s up? Want to hear a song again? Or eat? Go out play? Work tired?”
“Want me to sing live for you? By the way I got new inspiration lately… um… still because of you, hey, your birthday soon right? Decided where to play?”
Jin Xia listened to Chi Ye’s nagging voice, depressed mood gradually improved, coquettishly said: “Teacher Chi, when do you finish announcements? I miss you.”
Chi Ye stunned, checked time, said: “Then I’ll come now?”
“……No, can’t delay your work.”
Empress Dowager thrilled a bit, but shook head, mumbled: “Should’ve gone with you.”
“No problem, after filming Xing Ni《, find a variety show to resident together.”
Chi Ye thought, suddenly asked: “Did you call your little uncle?”
“Ya?” Empress Dowager surprised: “How’d you know?”
Chi Ye: “……Don’t call anymore, I don’t want you like this.”
Jin Xia: “……But I don’t want to see you bullied.”
Chi Ye stunned, laughed: “Bullied? Haha, who can bully me, relax, it’s fine, after this busy period, take you… to Universal Studios!”
“Hm? Why?”
Chi Ye laughed: “Didn’t you say you’ve never had chance to play at amusement park? And… don’t forget, the CP hype I mentioned back then, is to hype there.”
“Didn’t you say worried I’d lose career fans, want to minimize that exposure?”
“Suddenly don’t think so.”
Chi Ye serious: “I think, compared to that, I more want you happy.”
He hesitated: “Will you think I’m too selfish…”
“！！”
Jin Xia shook head wildly, sweetly smiled: “How could! Teacher Chi, I like your selfishness, also… I’m very happy…”
She thought, said: “Teacher Chi, I’m happy again, thank you.”
Chi Ye nodded: “Oh, so how will you thank?”
Jin Xia conflicted: “Um… next time you anger me, I won’t wait five minutes, too long, reply in four minutes, okay?”
Chi Ye: “……Just one minute less?”
Jin Xia a bit depressed: “Then… three minutes?”
“Not even one minute needed.” Chi Ye paused, seriously replied: “I won’t make you angry.”
