Duanmu Huai had always believed that in this world, there was no problem that money and violence couldn't solve. If they couldn't solve it, then one side simply wasn't using enough.
Strictly speaking, Sakurajima Mai's photo album shoot was a separate job and had little to do with "Now Sweet"—but that depended on how you looked at it.
"Now Sweet" still had to film its second season, and Sakurajima Mai was naturally going to appear in it. The contract had already been signed. At a time like this, her shooting a swimsuit photo album could easily be seen as Character OOC.
It was like a character in a pure-love anime appearing in an assault doujinshi. If it were fan-made, it might barely pass, but if it were official, there was no way to explain it away.
The supporting character Sakurajima Mai played in "Now Sweet" was a pure and proud girl. Naturally, she couldn't possibly shoot a swimsuit photo album just for money. So using that reason to demand that the other party stop selling the photo album wasn't entirely unreasonable... All right, that wasn't important.
What mattered was that as long as you had money to hire a powerful lawyer, black could be argued to be white, and the dead could be said to be alive.
That was how it was.
As for Sakurajima Mai's mother's agency, Duanmu Huai had investigated it as well. It was merely an ordinary agency of middling quality, nowhere near a major agency like Berry PRO. And the most famous star the agency had produced so far was Sakurajima Mai...
Actually, from the agency's perspective, there was nothing wrong with that. Exploiting someone as much as possible while they were popular and squeezing out their economic value was the first priority of capitalism, after