The Martial Artist Turned Movie Mogul
Chapter 565 - 564. Just want to speak beautifully.

Chapter 565: 564. Just want to speak beautifully.

The answer was very official.

The fans below the stage once again started screaming with high-pitched yowls.

"Oh my God, our Weiwei is really an angel!"

"Right? She didn’t succeed in the audition but still praised Tang Shu vigorously; what kind of divine idol is she~~~"

However, the reporters in the audience weren’t as blindly adoring as the fans and naturally picked up on Mu Ziwei’s official rhetoric, intended not to offend.

The phrase "unique perspective"... those four words said it all. They meant that the two had different understandings of the role, not that one was necessarily stronger or weaker in acting than the other.

"So, does Miss Mu also agree that Miss Tang should get the role?"

"You must be joking; it’s not up to me to decide who gets a role. During the audition, all the teachers in the judges’ area had a vote. Who gets to play the role is decided after discussion, and Miss Tang must have received more votes than I did to obtain the role."

"Oh, by the way, Miss Tang was also in the judges’ area at the time, so she should be aware of this."

Judges’ area...

The words Mu Ziwei had spoken were transmitted to the netizens on their mobile devices via the live streaming platform. Particularly, her outraged fans were momentarily stunned, then started scrolling through the photo of the judges’ area once more.

Good, there’s Tang Shu.

And she was seated in the first position to the right of Director Li.

"I just want to know how many votes our Weiwei got. How could she possibly have fewer than Tang Shu?"

"Although I watched Tang Shu’s interpretation of the character Lu Xiangtong, I still think Weiwei would definitely do better!"

"This Corridor Pavilion crew is too cunning, only releasing Tang Shu’s audition clip, with time and order of other actors’ auditions, but there’s no video of our Weiwei——"

"I mean, sisters, did you guys not notice that Tang Shu in the judges’ area also had voting power?"

"Wait, what? Why does she have that right?"

"Just because she was sitting there!"

"Then why was she sitting there in the first place? She must have been pre-selected!"

"Having an audition clip doesn’t prove anything. It doesn’t show that Tang Shu wasn’t pre-selected!"

The netizens instantly veered off track in the discourse and began discussing feverishly how many votes Tang Shu and Mu Ziwei received, with many calling it unfair.

The host enjoying the show inside the venue glanced at the person beside him, his gaze suddenly taking on a deeper meaning.

This is quite... a fox of a thousand years——

As the commercial performance ended, Mu Ziwei took out her phone and saw the latest comments under the official Weibo post for Corridor Pavilion, and she immediately laughed.

***

In Starshine Media, Shen Yan made himself a fine cup of coffee.

He sat in his exclusive chair, gently stirred with the coffee cup’s little spoon, and, upon smelling the rich fragrance of the coffee, he let out a very satisfied sigh.

"This is the life I’ve been longing for——"

How wonderful, how leisurely, how unfettered~~~~

However, this coveted life did not last long before Brother Li, who was keeping an eye on the messages, ruthlessly burst his bubble.

"Stop posing, get up and get to work."

"I don’t have any work!"

Why work when everything was going so well?

He wanted to rest!

Xiao Li looked at him expressionlessly and flashed what could only be described as a sarcastic cold smile.

"No work? What a daydream. You’re destined for toil; straighten up and get busy!"

"No, really, I don’t have any work. The boss and the actors’ matters have been settled, and the ’Give and Take’ account has been gaining followers like crazy lately because of the judges’ issue. It’s been receiving good reviews."

The ’Give and Take’ Weibo account indeed had good reviews, and they were quite favorable.

Last week, after the top five contestants from each province and city were confirmed, the competitors from the capital mostly uploaded small two-to-three-minute videos about "giving and taking" on Weibo, which even became popular in the niche circles of Chinese painting and calligraphy, attracting countless new followers once again.

After confirming that the feedback was positive, Shen Yan no longer paid much attention to it.

Seeing that Shen Yan was still drinking his coffee, Xiao Li pulled the rolling chair out from under him.

"Here, take a look for yourself."

Shen Yan squinted at the screen...

"Damn!"

Isn’t this over yet, how can you netizens be so good at stirring things up!

His boss’s popularity had been pushed to the top again!

And this time, the trending searches were even worse than the last, going from Tang Shu being suspected of rigging to Tang Shu’s confirmed rigging.

Shen Yan felt like crying without tears, feeling suddenly that the coffee in his hand lost its appeal.

"What happened this time?"

His voice sounded rather disheartened.

"It’s still the same thing, someone questioned the boss about unspoken rules—"

While he was making coffee, Xiao Li had already looked through the whole situation and had also gone through Mu Ziwei’s livestream.

It was only two hours since the commercial performance ended, and the livestream incident had been uploaded to the short video APP, gaining a massive amount of likes and shares in a short amount of time, an unprecedented level of popularity.

Xiao Li immediately sent several edited video clips to Shen Yan.

"This Miss Mu, thinks she is invincible or what?"

Shen Yan was dumbfounded after watching.

"Damn, what a deft move, she’s an expert!"

You ask if Mu Ziwei said anything? No, after all, those two sentences were true.

But it seemed as if she said everything, instantly leading the netizens and fans astray.

Shen Yan wallowed in self-pity for quite a while. This was the art of speech, one couldn’t possibly learn it without several years of getting knocked around by society!

He shakily clicked on the link in the trending searches.

It was still the same big V blogger who broke the news. Their number of followers had been like a roller coaster all day, dropping from eight million to four million at the beginning.

Now, because of another post, the follower count had shot back up and even broke through eight million.

"Originally, since I was deceived by a friend, I, the writer, had written an apology letter, preparing to explain myself to everyone, but after seeing Miss Mu’s video, I suddenly had an epiphany..."

The main content of the post was still long and smelly like an old lady’s foot binding cloth, first apologizing for the previous incident, then quickly switching to analyze the real intention behind the Corridor Pavilion audition clip from Mu Ziwei’s words.

The netizens also joined in the excitement underneath.

"So, not only did the audition clip not clear Tang Shu from the suspicion of being pre-selected, but instead it confirmed it???"

"Isn’t that obvious? Otherwise, why would she be in the Judges’ Area, sitting equally with Director Li?"

"Damn, such a huge piece of gossip!"

"This Tang Shu is toxic!"

"The production team didn’t respond directly to the rigging issue, yet they released Tang Shu’s audition clip, that’s practically an admission—"

Seeing these comments, Shen Yan: "..."

Damn your admissions!

Isn’t it just that they couldn’t bother to argue with you all? Do you only feel satisfied if they outright state it?

You’re convinced Tang Shu didn’t audition, so they release the audition clip to clarify just that. And you’re talking about an admission of rigging? What a load of crap!

At that moment, Shen Yan just wanted to curse profusely.

"Now I finally understand what ’overinterpretation’ really means."