Chapter 76 One after the other
[Movie Emperor Meng couldn’t have been hacked, right?]
[What is this development? I can’t understand. Why did Movie Emperor Meng start attacking Huang Wenkai?]
Initially, there was a wave of confusion in the comments section, but at this time, no one was laughing anymore, as more and more people were waiting for what would happen next.
And soon after, the follow-up came.
However it wasn’t Meng Chao who released the follow-up, but the Meng Group’s official Weibo account that posted a statement and a court summons.
The Meng Group: Recently, a certain artist used a picture to smear the reputation of our president. Our president will defend his rights to the end. [Image] [Image]
Once this Weibo post from the Meng Group was released, it caused an uproar.
It was clear who they were talking about.
Today, only Huang Wenkai and the Meng Group’s president, Meng Ke, had been involved in a scandal.
And now the Meng Group was openly disassociating themselves from Huang Wenkai.
This act of distancing was like a slap in the face to Huang Wenkai.
However Huang Wenkai’s fans started commenting under the post, calling the Meng Group dramatic. The scandal had been made up by marketing accounts and paparazzi, so why were they suing Huang Wenkai?
The editor at the Meng Group was also tough, directly posting a derogatory Weibo post.
The Meng Group: We don’t mind releasing the evidence of a certain artist’s team buying media coverage in court first. Do some artist and his fans really want to be hammered? Grinning with bared teeth.
This time, his fans didn’t dare to act rashly, afraid that they might get what they asked for.
And just two to three minutes after the Meng Group’s announcement, Huang Wenkai’s agency and studio immediately issued an apology statement, saying that they shouldn’t have used the Meng Group’s President in their marketing and also clarified the source of that picture, as it had been indeed taken deliberately.
A statement which meant they were admitting that Huang Wenkai had intentionally created hype, and even dragged the Meng Group’s President into it.
Huang Wenkai’s team had just wanted to use this incident to divert the public’s attention away from the Dark War scandal that was focused on them. Who would have thought that they would provoke the Meng Group, a force far beyond what their studio could handle?
However wasn’t the Meng Group being a bit too petty? It was just a baseless rumor, and it wasn’t as if many people believed it, so why did they have to take it so seriously? Huang Wenkai’s work team couldn’t help but mutter to themselves.
With the release of the Meng Group’s statement, the crowd of melon eaters finally understood. The previous post that Movie Emperor Meng had posted was to protect his big brother, however there were still some people who felt that Meng Chao was making a mountain out of a molehill.
However just at this time, Chu Tian Entertainment and Lin Qin’s studio issued a joint statement.
The statement mentioned that they had reported the several Weibo IDs that had led the abuse against Lin Qin to the cyber police and would use legal means to protect their interests if necessary, and that regarding Huang Wenkai and his team who had instigated this cyber violence, they would initiate legal action.
The Weibo post included several pictures: the first was the officially stamped statement, the second the response from the cyber police, and the following were evidence of Huang Wenkai’s team asking his fans to attack Lin Qin.
It turns out, the abuse against Lin Qin and his family wasn’t a spontaneous act by his fans but one instigated by the team….
The crowd of melon eaters who thought this way only felt chills run down their spines. How much hatred did they have that they actually did such a despicable thing?
No wonder Movie Emperor Meng was so furious that he sent out such a Weibo post. Huang Wenkai and other teams indeed really needed to learn how to be decent human beings first!
[Movie Emperor Meng must be feeling very distressed for Lin Qin and his big brother. Some people are really too, too disgusting. No one is stopping you if you want to hype yourself up, but to smear and abuse others while doing so, really too f*cking disgusting!!]
[I feel so distressed for Little Rabbit Lin, but have some people forgotten that little rabbit Lin is Little Rabbit Aisin Gioro? Did they really think he is a small artist that is easy to bully?]
[I guess some people’s teams thought that those insults and abuse were just fan behavior and that the law can’t hold everyone accountable, thinking even if Little Rabbit Lin wanted to pursue it, he wouldn’t be able to. But haha, your daddy is still your daddy. Little Rabbit Lin’s team not only pursued it, they also caught Huang Wenkai who was manipulating things from behind the scenes. Really satisfying!!]
[Ha ha ha, this is simply the best face-slapping scene of the year!!]
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Wave after wave of solid evidence was thrown out, hammering Huang Wenkai relentlessly. However, it didn’t end there, because soon after, official state media and party media voiced their opinions on the matter, and although they didn’t mention Huang Wenkai’s name directly, they used the words, ‘a certain artist with the surname Huang’.
The general message was that an artist should first have artistic integrity, and that as public figures, they should lead people upwards. Artists with poor character who led people astray shouldn’t appear in the public eye.
The last time an artist had been criticized by these authorities was when that artist had been using dr*gs, one who was now completely out of the picture after being hidden so much that he couldn’t be hidden anymore.
Being stamped officially as having low morals, Huang Wenkai’s road in the entertainment industry could be considered as having been broken completely.
And at this time, Huang Wenkai found himself in a difficult situation. Endorsement deals that were in the discussion stage were cancelled as they demanded breach of contract fees from him, and all the TV shows and movies that were in the negotiation phase stopped contacting Huang Wenkai’s team, avoiding him like the plague.
The usually busy Huang Wenkai found himself with free time, however it wasn’t the kind of free time he wanted.
In the first two days, he had just thought that it was just a temporary something, and that his gold master would still be willing to spend money on him.
However in the days that followed, reality hit him one after the other.
First, his gold master had his secretary call to cut off their relationship, not even giving him the breakup fee, then his agent told him that the company had decided to freeze him out, as this incident had caused significant damage to the company’s reputation, and that they couldn’t afford to keep him.
Huang Wenkai was in a daze as he listened to all this, only now realizing that his world had collapsed.
His agent looked at him condescendingly, “I told you long ago that this industry isn’t a place for you to act recklessly, but since you never learn, then it’s better you don’t stay in this circle.”
The entertainment industry never lacked people with background and ability, but Huang Wenkai lacked both, moreover he was still just someone else’s plaything. After being propped up for a few years and he had gotten lost in the clouds, forgetting who he was. Him falling from the clouds had just been a matter of time.
Huang Wenkai sat on the ground, his face filled with despair. He could only see his agent’s mouth moving, but as if he had gone deaf, he couldn’t hear what he was saying.
And seeing him like this, his agent didn’t feel the pleasure of one kicking a man when he was down and so without saying anything more, turned around and left.
“It’s over, over, it’s all over.” Huang Wenkai looked at his empty hands, trying to hold on to something, however there was nothing to hold onto.
He started laughing hysterically, and then tears streamed down his face.
Did he regret it?
He definitely regretted it.
However what he regretted was that he had chosen the wrong person to step on.
He thought he could easily step on Lin Qin and Meng Ke to reach the top, however he was the one who was pulled down instead, never to recover.
His eyes suddenly lit up. He wasn’t completely without hope!
Thinking of the person who had originally been his gold master, he pulled his phone out hurriedly, dialing that precious number he had saved–
“Hello, Boss Fang…”
Happy New Year 🩵🩵🤗😘😚
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