She thought it over, then finally stepped forward and reminded her in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Miss Xu, I heard there's been something going on with President Fu lately. I think you should investigate more and then take legal action. The police will protect us."
Her words were tactful, but her thoughts laid her intentions bare.
[I hope President Xu can read between the lines and get someone to investigate Fu Ruiming. Scum like him deserves a taste of socialism's iron fist. A □□ offender like him should be locked up in prison and chemically castrated!]
Xu Yan's eyes instantly lit up. That was right, Fu Ruiming had committed a crime. As a good citizen who knew and understood the law, shouldn't she uphold social stability by reporting a criminal?
And hadn't Ye Jin mentioned in her thoughts earlier that the idiot Fu Ruiming had filmed the □□ video himself? That was ready-made evidence!
Of course, Ling Xiao Rui, who had already fallen in love with Fu Ruiming, very likely wouldn't identify him, but □□ was a public prosecution case!
In an instant, Xu Yan's indignation turned to wild joy. This was clearly her opportunity!
Once Fu Ruiming went to prison, Fruit Video should pass to her, his legal wife.
With that thought, she looked at Ye Jin with even greater appreciation, and her gratitude toward her grew.
If she managed to seize control, she would definitely introduce Ye Jin to a few more good projects.
Even a stranger she had only met today showed her such goodwill. She and Fu Ruiming had at least worked together, yet that scumbag had tried to wipe her out to the last. He truly didn't have a shred of conscience.
Since that was the case, she wouldn't show him the slightest mercy either.
With Xu Yan's promise secured, Ye Jin and Huo Yun both felt considerably more at ease and hurried to move forward with the project's investment and the search for a new male actor.
After all, they still had to pay the crew while production was suspended. The longer the delay, the greater the losses.
After looking around, they picked out several suitable male stars. But when Ye Jin checked her system's database, she discovered that practically all of them had dirt!
[Wen Shao usually acts like some veteran cadre who doesn't even know how to use the internet, pretending he's stuck on 2G, but he's on foreign social apps arranging hookups every day! Right, so he doesn't use the domestic internet, only the foreign one!]
[Zhou Yue brags every day about how much he dotes on his fans, but he keeps releasing one gift box after another to harvest the leeks. He even signed revenue-sharing agreements with the brands he endorses. What an ugly display of greed.]
[Ah, He Jin usually acts like a rich young master who doesn't care about money, but he's tried every possible way to evade taxes. If that gets exposed someday, he'll really be finished.]
Huo Yun watched Ye Jin reject one proposed candidate after another, utterly helpless.
"Just what kind of person do you want? It was hard enough finding people with decent star power who were also interested in taking the role."
Unable to reveal their dirt directly, Ye Jin could only give an awkward laugh.
Still, finding a flawless person in the industry really wasn't easy, especially since male stars were even more likely to have their reputations collapse. After thinking it over, she pointed to Zhou Yue among the candidates.
"Let's go with him. He seems passable."
If he harvested leeks, so be it. At least his reputation wouldn't collapse and get him blacklisted, and his fans were perfectly willing to be harvested.
Huo Yun said, "...Fine, then. At least we've finally picked someone."
But what Ye Jin hadn't expected was that even after Fruit Video explicitly voiced its support for choosing a new male lead, Star Universe Entertainment still refused to give up.
They even hired a water army to expose all sorts of dirt on Zhou Yue, mixing truth with falsehood. In any case, they wanted to give the audience one message: He Cheng might be dirty, but Zhou Yue wasn't clean either. Their whole approach was, if I can't film it, I'll wreck the project.
Ye Jin was utterly speechless. She then began frantically searching the system for dirt on He Cheng, hoping to expose something explosive enough to get him completely blacklisted.
To Ye Jin's disappointment, however, almost all of He Cheng's dirt concerned his relationships with women. Since his cheating had already been exposed, he was now a dead pig unafraid of boiling water.
Just as Ye Jin was at her wits' end, He Cheng ended up completely blacklisted in a way she hadn't expected-a video suddenly appeared online late one night.
Although it was already two in the morning, countless gossip-hungry netizens were still trawling the major forums and Weibo for gossip.
But suddenly, a low-quality marketing account with only a few thousand
zombie
followers posted a video titled "Shocking! Video of He Cheng Being Subjected to Casting-Couch Rules Exposed!"
The marketing account often fabricated all sorts of sensational gossip to attract traffic. Naturally, netizens initially assumed it was another fake video, most likely edited together from old film and television footage.
Still, some bored people clicked on it, and what they saw shocked them.
[Holy shit, this has to be an AI face swap, right?]
[Can someone dig into this and see which gay porn film it's from? It's even a threesome! But this gay porn is way too disgusting. Why are the two tops so old, ugly, and auntie-looking? Is this catering to some people's old-man fetish?]
[Wait, why does one of those old men look familiar? He looks like Grandma Yan from Star Universe Entertainment! He loves inviting young hunks out to have fun, and he often goes to a certain Southeast Asian island country.]
[And didn't they snort something before they started? Are they doing drugs?]
[Could this actually be a leaked video of Grandma Yan subjecting He Cheng to casting-couch rules?!]
[Surely not. How could dirt on those big shots get exposed so easily?]
At first, most people didn't believe the video was real. AI face-swapping technology was so advanced now, and many female celebrities had suffered terribly from having their faces swapped onto □□.
But as more and more people joined in, plenty of technical experts arrived as well, and the tide gradually began to turn.
[I've been editing videos for years. I watched it frame by frame, and there aren't any signs of editing or AI face-swapping. It's most likely real.]
[Oh my god, who had the sheer nerve to leak a video like this outright? All I can say is, fantastic work!]