Chapter 261: The Fall Of The Big Star
“I shouldn’t thank me, it’s Mango TV that I should thank, and the Golden Eagle Festival organizing committee, for giving me this opportunity to win the award, the opportunity to speak.”
Chi Ye glanced at Xu Yingying, who had completely lost her composure below the stage: “And the opportunity to care for my senior.”
“Thank you everyone.”
Chi Ye bowed and left the stage, the live audience reacted for a while before sporadic applause rang out.
Normally, everyone wouldn’t be so perfunctory on the surface, no matter how much they hated Chi Ye behind the scenes, but in this kind of occasion, they still had to give the other party some “face,” um… mainly to perform for the gossiping masses outside.
But after Chi Ye said these words, there was no room for maneuver anymore.
Some people hadn’t reacted yet, some had, but they already knew that after this speech, the conflict between Chi Ye and people in the Beijing Circle, Film Circle, and parts of the Drama Circle could no longer be reversed.
Previously, both sides were just fighting over interests, but now, it might very well develop into a “fight to the death.”
In contrast, the internet right now, in the live broadcast room, all the gossiping masses, audience, and fans were ignited by Chi Ye’s words.
「Good sleep good sleep!」
「Fuck, what did I miss? I was just scrolling Weibo gossiping, didn’t click in, what did Chi Ye just say?!」
「You haven’t gone crazy for so long, you really dare to say it!」
「Laughing to death, Chi Ye’s sarcasm ability is too strong, also because his star power is high now, I really want Chi Ye to flop again, so I can see the crazy flopped Chi Ye.」
「Isn’t this equivalent to exposing it?! Xu Yingying and Yue Na Company tax evasion?!」
「Does this need exposing? It’s spreading everywhere online now.」
「First time intuitively feeling the intensity of feuds in the Internal Entertainment Circle, this is tearing right to the face!」
「Bro, say a few less words… okay, not this time, just go ahead and say it fiercely for me!」
For everyone in the Internal Entertainment Circle, this Golden Eagle Festival trip was obviously extremely bad, because from the start of this festival, they seemed to have been constantly hit by various external shocks.
First Chu Luan Yu’s persona collapse, today she didn’t even enter the Golden Eagle Festival venue, choosing to avoid the spotlight.
Then Jiang Mou went crazy, dragging several well-known artists from Yue Na Company down, and after that, there was Chi Ye’s “persona collapse” incident, which first exploded the entire Internal Entertainment Circle, then reversed at lightning speed.
Originally, everyone thought this matter was over, since you Chi Ye made it through this time, the future would definitely be “brighter,” Yue Na Company suffered heavy losses this time, might even face a complete investigation, forget about going public later, not disappearing would be success…
The result, you won Best Actor, and your acceptance speech said these kinds of words…
This isn’t the attitude of someone who wants to end things!
This means you want our lives!
Xu Yingying, and one of the real big shots behind Xu Yingying, Wang Youli, who has strong capital in the Internal Entertainment Circle and Film Circle with extremely wide connections, their faces at this moment couldn’t even be described as ashen, they even felt the anger of being pointed at the nose and cursed by Chi Ye right to their faces.
Unusually angry.
“This time Xiao Chi is in trouble, he won’t get into an accident, right?”
Even Sister Shang, who had just been excitedly gossiping, was a bit worried now, blinking her eyes, watching Chi Ye walk down from the stage, back to his seat.
Many people were watching Chi Ye like her, but everyone’s gazes were different, some with lingering shock, some angry, some complex and appreciative.
Yes, some people are close to Xu Yingying and these people, so some people hate them.
In short, Chi Ye’s remarks completely pushed his personal popularity and stance to the peak.
“Teacher Chi, let me see your award.”
Chi Ye returned to his seat, Jin Xia happily scooted over, reaching out to him for the trophy.
To be honest, the Empress Dowager really was different from others, everyone else was focused on what Chi Ye just said, but only the Empress Dowager’s attention was surprisingly on Chi Ye’s trophy.
But this didn’t mean Jin Xia didn’t care about Chi Ye, because…
“The winner of the Best Actress at the 16th China TV Golden Eagle Awards is—《Xing Ni》 Qian Songyi, Jin Xia, congratulations Teacher Jin Xia!”
The voice of the award presenter above rang out.
This time the applause at the live performance was much louder, and as more people clapped, it grew even bigger.
“Now you don’t need to look at mine.”
Chi Ye gestured.
“No, that’s different.”
Jin Xia “snatched” Chi Ye’s trophy, then surprisingly just took the trophy like that, happily skipping onto the stage.
The people around were stunned.
“Uh… congratulations.”
Even the award presenter on stage was stunned by the “Best Actor” trophy in Jin Xia’s hand, but facing Jin Xia, everyone was obviously very polite, hurriedly congratulating.
“Thank you.”
Jin Xia composedly took the trophy, then facing the many guests below the stage, she was tall and didn’t even need to adjust Chi Ye’s microphone, just slightly raising her chin, no bending over… because her hands were full now, couldn’t cover her chest.
As for why her hands were full…
“Thank you to the Golden Eagle Festival organizing committee, thank you judges for awarding this prize to me… to be honest, winning this award is really unexpected… because Best Actor has already gone to Teacher Chi… um… this very award.”
As Jin Xia spoke, she raised her right hand with the Best Actor trophy “snatched” from Chi Ye, and raised her left hand with her own “Best Actress.”
She looked around, her voice crisp, without the usual cutesy tone: “《Xing Ni》 is a project that Teacher Chi and I prepared and invested in together, its success couldn’t be without every team member who contributed, including me and him.”
The crowd below the stage was stunned, vaguely realizing what Jin Xia was doing now.
“I just ‘borrowed’ the trophy from Teacher Chi.”
The Empress Dowager gestured again at the “Best Actor” in her hand: “He is my Best Actor, also our company’s Best Actor, in the drama, Professor Chi is all-powerful, he protected Qian Songyi for a lifetime, off-screen, I’m not all-powerful, but I will also ‘protect’ my ‘male lead’ for a lifetime oh.”
As the words fell, the live performance instantly went quiet.
Shang Youshu’s mouth gaped open, Shi Jinwei was speechless, Sheng Ning squinted her eyes appraising Jin Xia.
Xu Yingying, Peng Chen, Xu Yingying’s husband… Movie Emperor Yu, Lei Datou and others, all dumbfounded one by one.
Especially the first few, feeling a surge of shame and anger from the bottom of their hearts.
What does Jin Xia mean by this?!
What does this drama queen mean by saying these words?!
In front of so many people in the industry, who is she threatening?!
You’re nothing in the industry yourself, and you want to protect who?
Xu Yingying and her group were undoubtedly furious, because Jin Xia’s words sounded like she was hyping CP crazily with Chi Ye, linking up, but in reality, anyone with some inside info could hear that Jin Xia was blatantly telling everyone—Chi Ye is mine, whoever touches him, I touch whoever.
As for if I can’t touch them… I’ll cry, make a scene, and hang myself!
Anyway, just to tell you all, Chi Ye and I are in the same camp.
This attitude that almost doesn’t put anyone in her eyes is undoubtedly extremely offensive—Jin Xia before had a high posture too, but never expressed it so obviously.
People are sensitive, precisely because everyone can usually feel Jin Xia’s “disdain” for them, so they disdain this drama queen even more.
But this time is different, this time Jin Xia isn’t even pretending, who can tolerate this?!
“Sooner or later destroy Chi Ye Studio!”
Xu Yingying gnashed her teeth, her voice not too loud not too soft, many people heard it.
Ning Mo looked at her in surprise.
“Shut up, don’t speak.”
Wang Youli in the front row scolded, Xu Yingying still not venting her anger, her hands and feet ice-cold as she stroked her arm: “Just you wait.”
“…”
…
The rest of the Golden Eagle Festival was basically in a completely “out of control” state.
Chi Ye and 《Xing Ni》 won many awards this time, almost sweeping most of the valuable awards at the Golden Eagle Festival, a complete sweep, refreshing the history of the Golden Eagle Festival and the Internal Entertainment Circle.
But no matter how much it refreshes, there’s always a limit.
Because 《Xing Ni》 took Best Director, Best Editing and other heavyweight awards to 《Xing Ni》, even producing the male and female leads from the same drama directly sweeping this year’s Golden Eagle Best Actor and TV Empress.
So, awards like Golden Eagle Best Screenwriter, Music, etc., weren’t given to Chi Ye again.
—Really couldn’t give anymore, giving more might cause even bigger controversy for the Golden Eagle Festival.
Even so, the 《Xing Ni》 film crew became the most spotlighted film crew at this Golden Eagle Festival, even in Golden Eagle history.
The “legend” of this Golden Eagle Festival is destined to circulate in the Internal Entertainment Circle history going forward, as long as this award exists, the imprint of 《Xing Ni》, Chi Ye, and Jin Xia will exist.
And off-site, the incidents were getting bigger one after another.
Yue Na Group’s thunderclap had developed to a climax, after Central Media and official media named Yue Na Group, the local public security and inspection systems had also intervened in the investigation, preparing a thorough major cleanup of Yue Na Company.
Yue Na’s real boss Great President Liu hadn’t even arrived, and the company was already shattered by this inexplicable storm, the person completely fainted.
Young President Liu also fainted, even more fainted that he didn’t expect this matter to have a follow-up!
That night, after midnight twelve o’clock.
While Yue Na and this Golden Eagle Festival, and even Chi Ye and Jin Xia’s scandal and CP popularity exploded in carnival, on Jiang Mou’s Weibo, an audio video suddenly appeared.
The video was completely black throughout, no picture, but the sound inside was very clear, it was the recording of Jiang Mou and Xu Yingying.
“Who let him in? Did you search him?”
This was Xu Yingying’s shocked voice, probably someone brought Jiang Mou to see her.
“Searched him, no recording devices on him, mobile phone and watch all handed over.”
“Oh… like that, no, how did you handle the matter? I told you to expose Chi Ye, and this is how you expose?”
Jiang Mou’s voice came: “Sis, I really tried my best, mainly Chi Ye really has no solid evidence black spots, this is the only thing I could think of, but you know what his situation was at Yue Na Company, he could whitewash, really not my fault.”
“…What are you here for now? You didn’t handle the matter properly, and you still want money?”
Jiang Mou: “You promised me beforehand, success or not, give me money, I’ve been ruined now, and you want to welch?”
“You want to learn from Qu Qingqing and them?”
Xu Yingying laughed angrily: “You’re threatening me?”
Jiang Mou’s voice calm: “I’m just stating a fact, plus, although I don’t have evidence of you all tax evasion, but if you push me too far…”
“Push you too far, what can you do?”
“…President Xu, one can’t, at least shouldn’t act like this.”
“Get someone to throw him out… hey, what are you doing! You’re cursing now?”
“Hold him down! Yes, hold him down! Force fake wine down him! He sent me fake wine before! Pour it in him, make him shit himself to death!”
“Xu Yingying, what are you doing? This is crime! I warn you, I won’t drink… I won’t drink!!”
“*******”
“…”
The follow-up was a series of indescribable sounds, no more clear words.
Above this video recording, Jiang Mou also captioned a line: 【Is the Entertainment Industry a gang or a rule-of-law society?】
No more text.
But the internet, inside and outside the industry, completely exploded because of this Weibo!
「Heavens, this recording is real?!」
「Xu Yingying, too scary, is this woman a gang member?」
「Jiang Mou isn’t a good thing either, still exposing others, he’s so dirty himself and still drags others down?」
「Xu Yingying can even whitewash this? This woman is too evil, turns out she was the one who blackened Ye Zi!」
「Chi Ye really suffered, this is how much jealousy he attracts, Entertainment Industry too dirty.」
「No one notice Xu Yingying forcing fake wine on Jiang Mou? Forcing it down, looks like not the first time, who knows what she’s forced on others before?」
「@Some Public Security, suggest strict investigation, this constitutes crime, right?」
「Entertainment Industry really needs a good check, all criminals, plus, deliberately smearing others how to count? Still welching, looks like what Chi Ye exposed today is all true, she definitely has tax issues!」
Public outrage, after this recording came out, all bystanders and gossiping masses who listened, first feeling was shock, shock to the point of shattering their worldview.
Because this Xu Yingying privately and on camera had too big a contrast, especially the content of her conversation with Jiang Mou, giving a feeling of a gang big sister.
And, most crucially, not long ago, Chi Ye at the Golden Eagle Festival explicitly sarcastically said Xu Yingying tax evasion…
Combined with Jiang Mou and Xu Yingying’s dialogue, this matter is very likely true.
—No, not very likely, this is true.
Actually, according to Chi Ye’s idea, he wanted to send Xu Yingying in all at once… unfortunately, he tried several times, really couldn’t catch Xu Yingying’s “solid evidence handle,” in the end could only use this method to collapse her.
But this doesn’t mean Xu Yingying is really “safe.”
Because with the development of the situation, Xu Yingying’s tax issues could no longer be covered up, making such a big fuss, as long as the higher-ups aren’t blind, they will investigate, no matter how big the background, can’t stop it.
Not long ago Chi Ye was like this, now Xu Yingying is too.
So, by noon the second day, the relevant departments issued a notice, intervening to investigate Xu Yingying and the tax issues of the company under her husband.
And before that, detective netizens had discovered that multiple capital companies under Xu Yingying’s name had started deregistering, changing legal representatives.
A generation Big Star, surprisingly became “on the verge” just like that.
