Ji Shuyao called immediately, his voice low. "Come downstairs, three minutes."
Song Shi'an put on a coat and pulled the hood up over his head. "I have to go, I'll be leaving now."
Chi Xun reached out from behind him, wanting to call out, but before he could finish speaking, the door had already closed.
Jiang Ye frowned deeply. "Alright, this has blown up quite a bit. They've probably taken it to the company to handle. Judging from the situation, some people in the comments section have already started to control the narrative, but negative information keeps popping up one after another, and we can't stop it at all."
Chi Xun turned his phone screen to show him. "Look, someone claims to be his classmate, saying that he never talked to anyone in his freshman year, had a withdrawn personality, and was of extremely poor character. Someone even dug up that Fengtu's advertisements used a body double, saying that his skiing skills are fake."
"What's even more outrageous is that someone dug up a photo of him eating in the cafeteria and said that him eating alone meant he wasn't popular. Any photo with even the slightest problem could be linked to his character, and it snowballed."
Jiang Ye glanced at the picture that read "Confirmed evidence of bad character," and saw Song Shi'an eating alone in the cafeteria. "How can you criticize someone like this? Is it illegal to eat alone?"
As soon as Song Shi'an got into the car, Ji Shuyao quickly glanced at him through his glasses. He wasn't as distraught as he had imagined, just looked a little tired.
Did you see the news online?
Song Shi'an nodded. "I saw it."
Ji Shuyao took off his glasses and pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Brands that had previously expressed interest in collaborating with us have been calling non-stop, all cancelling their offers."
Song Shi'an leaned back in his chair. "Let them cancel. They can't cancel the cooperation without any substantial evidence. Even if they did cooperate, they could betray you at any time. The sooner they cancel, the less trouble they'll have."
Ji Shuyao put his glasses back on, looked at him for two seconds, and said, "I've already gone to find the person who leaked this information. Don't worry, this matter will be suppressed. But you have to give me a break: what exactly happened?"
Without saying a word, Song Shi'an took out his phone, opened an encrypted folder, packaged all the contents, and sent it to Ji Shuyao: " Brother Yao, take a look for yourself. I originally planned to talk about it later, but only my former company agent could have taken those photos. No one else could."
Ji Shuyao opened the file and quickly browsed through it: chat logs, transfer receipts, threatening text messages, contract terms. The more he read, the more his brows furrowed.
They conducted a background check on Song Shi'an before signing him and knew that he had been scammed by Cloud-Watching Entertainment. They thought it was just a regular contract dispute, but they didn't expect there to be so much going on behind the scenes.
He turned off his phone. "Okay, the team will handle this as quickly as possible. Don't overthink it. Just take a few days off. If I don't make them suffer, I'll lose my job as a top agent."
Song Shi'an looked at Ji Shuyao, asked nothing, but stood unconditionally on his side, tears streaming down his face. It was still his Brother Yao )!
Ji Shuyao drove him back to the villa, then turned around and drove straight back to the company.
On the way, I sent all the documents to the biggest marketing account and called the legal department, "Everyone work overtime tonight. Get all the materials ready. I'll be there in twenty minutes."
Lili was frantically arguing with her haters online for three hours straight, her keyboard practically sparking with each keystroke, when she suddenly received a press release from Stars Entertainment, complete with supporting documentation.
She clicked through all the content, then her finger hovered over the mouse for a long while.
An'an's reply revealed his helplessness and his cautiousness when threatened.
No wonder An'an was already quite famous, yet she couldn't bear to change her phone. It turns out this guy was the culprit.
The incident escalated for three hours, with the entire internet calling for Stars Entertainment to respond.
By midnight, the trending topic had changed from " Song Shi'an drinking with customers" to " Stars Entertainment remains silent."
At midnight, Gossiping Roe Deer posted a message with eighteen pictures, along with a complete chain of evidence and a timeline, accompanied by only one line of text. "There are no secrets in this world, Cloud-Watching Entertainment is here to confront you."
"Just reading the words is suffocating; with my tolerance, I'd probably jump."
"That's outrageous! They wanted 30 million to terminate the contract! Although they finally only got 100,000, it was only because Song Shi'an threatened to kill himself that they managed to scrape together the money."
"I hope other artists at Cloud-Watching Entertainment are like this too, with their agents acting like pimps."
"They didn't treat people like human beings at all; they treated them like commodities in a transaction."
"Oh dear, why didn't you clarify this before? It's fabricated evidence, isn't it? What does this prove?"
"Hey upstairs, watch your mouth. You see everything as dirty."
"Why aren't those who are criticizing An'an speaking up! Speak up!"
Cloud-Watching Entertainment learned of the situation immediately.
Ye Jianhao slammed a stack of documents directly onto Ge Qin's head, scattering the pages all over the floor. "Is this how you handle things? Get out of here right now! You did this all by yourself; it has nothing to do with the company."
Ge Qin said in a panic, "It was clearly the company that told us to do it this way, and you all acquiesced. Now you're trying to pin the blame on me? If I go to jail, none of you will escape!"
Ye Jianhao stared at her, his voice low. "Either you take all the responsibility yourself, or we'll force you to take it. Once you're in there, we'll find a way to get you out."
Ge Qin knew she had no other choice.
The police lights downstairs had been flashing for a while, with red and blue lights flashing alternately on the wall through the blinds.
The police officer got out of the car and showed his identification. " Ge Qin, we are police officers from the Capital Branch. We have opened a case against you and this is the detention warrant. Please cooperate with us to go to the police station for questioning."
The next morning, videos and photos of Ge Qin being taken away by the police flooded the internet.
The official announcement has been made, so those trolls can no longer make trouble. They can only turn around and say that Cloud-Watching Entertainment bought the smear articles and that it has nothing to do with them.
The next day, all the accounts that spread rumors and had more than 5,000 views or more than 500 reposts received lawyer's letters from the legal department of Stars Entertainment.
As a result, many people have come forward to expose some of the dirty tricks that Cloud-Watching Entertainment had done in the past, and the more they dug, the more outrageous it became.
During the days when Song Shi'an was embroiled in scandals, he couldn't go to school and could only stay at the villa researching new recipes.
He rummaged through the refrigerator for every usable ingredient and cooked himself a variety of delicious meals every day, making him very happy.
I thought it would take another week or so to finish, but it was resolved in just two days.
He slurped his noodles and drank his Cola while scrolling through the news; photos of Ge Qin being detained took up half the screen.
Such a large Cloud-Watching Entertainment, and only one agent was detained?
Most other celebrities probably wouldn't dare to speak out either, for fear of being implicated. Their companies hold their dirt on them, so they wouldn't dare to leave even if they wanted to.