The room was as dark as last time. Chu Lingyu just closed the door when he heard Chu Heyan say angrily, “Get out!”

“I’m sorry, I was wrong, don’t be angry.” Chu Lingyu apologized dryly.

Chu Heyan grabbed the pillow and threw it at him. Chu Lingyu raised his hand to catch it, patted it carefully, then climbed onto the bed with the pillow in his arms, and continued to coax him clumsily, “Don’t be angry, or you can hit me to vent your anger?”

Chu Heyan really kicked him, then turned his back to him and didn’t want to talk to him.

This kind of force didn’t hurt Chu Lingyu at all. He leaned closer to Chu Heyan. Chu Heyan said unhappily, “Aren’t you going to draw a line with me? You’re using me as a hypnotic tool again, right?”

“No,” Chu Lingyu explained anxiously, “I didn’t want to draw a line with you.”

Chu Heyan turned over again, stared at him in the dark and asked, “Then what did you say about transferring all the shares to me? Do I care about your shares?”

Chu Lingyu felt a little aggrieved, “You don’t want shares, you just want Zhang Mingjie, right?”

Chu Heyan didn’t understand why he turned to Zhang Mingjie again, “What do you want to say?”

Perhaps the darkness magnified his inner emotions, Chu Lingyu couldn’t help but speak out his thoughts, “You’ve only met him once, and you like him so much?”

Chu Heyan’s mind went through several turns before he figured out Chu Lingyu’s train of thought. He suddenly became even angrier, “Are you sick, Chu Lingyu? I invested in an artist who is about to become a top star, so I like him?”

Chu Lingyu was stunned, “You don’t like him?”

“You are so noble. You don’t allow the company to have hidden rules. I am the bad guy who uses power to force people to submit, okay?”

Chu Heyan said as he snatched all the quilts and rolled them up on his side, kicking Chu Lingyu’s calf: “Get out, be careful or I will have hidden rules on you.”

Chu Lingyu suddenly laughed, hugged him through the quilt, and apologized to him seriously: “I’m sorry, I misunderstood.”

Chu Heyan rolled his eyes: “Let go, are you going to strangle me?”

Chu Lingyu not only did not let go, but hugged him even tighter.

“What are you crazy about? Let go!” Chu Heyan cursed angrily.

“Then you give me half of the quilt, and I will give you half of Xingtu.” Chu Lingyu negotiated with him.

Chu Heyan struggled for a long time, but still couldn’t resist Chu Lingyu’s stubbornness, so he had to compromise in the end: “Okay, okay, okay! Here you go! I’m so annoyed! I want to sleep! If you keep making trouble, get out of here right now.”

Chu Lingyu finally let go of him, got into bed and lay down next to him, saying contentedly: “Go to sleep, good night.”

Lin Qingluo waited downstairs for a long time but didn’t see Chu Huaijin, who was spying on the military situation, come back. She tiptoed upstairs, but saw her mature and steady eldest son sticking to the door of her younger son’s room and eavesdropping.

Lin Qingluo was immediately amused and walked over to pat Chu Huaijin on the shoulder.

Chu Huaijin was startled. When he turned around and saw Lin Qingluo, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked in a low voice, “Why are you here, Mom?”

Lin Qingluo: “Isn’t it because I’m worried about you? What’s the situation now?”

Chu Huaijin felt guilty: “Let’s talk somewhere else.”

Lin Qingluo went to the study with him and couldn’t help asking: “What happened? They didn’t fight, did they?”

Chu Huaijin: “Probably not. Our room is well soundproofed. You can’t hear any noise unless it’s very loud. I only heard Yanyan scolded Lingyu twice, but I didn’t hear what Lingyu said. Then there was no sound at all. But since Lingyu was not kicked out, they should have reconciled.”

Lin Qingluo breathed a sigh of relief: “As long as they’ve reconciled.”

The next morning, seeing that the two younger sons were getting along as harmoniously as before, Lin Qingluo was finally completely relieved.

Chu Heyan continued yesterday’s topic: “Brother, can you lend me one of your assistants? Xingtu is still too small and needs to recruit more people.”

Chu Lingyu agreed: “We don’t have enough staff now.”

Chu Huaijin looked at this and then that, and said with a smile: “Okay, which one do you want?”

Chu Heyan asked Chu Lingyu to decide. Chu Lingyu had been interning with Chu Huaijin these days, and he had already known Chu Huaijin’s assistant team.

In order not to affect Chu Huaijin’s work, he picked an assistant who was relatively less busy.

Chu Huaijin had no objection to this, and gave them a few pointers on how to manage the new team.

Chu Yecheng interrupted after hearing this: “So Lingyu and Yanyan have agreed to manage the company together? You should think clearly, and don’t argue again when there are conflicts of opinion.”

Chu Lingyu: “No, I don’t know much about these, just listen to Yanyan.”

Chu Heyan looked at him: “You have your uses, and no one else can replace you.”

How can you just endure the side effects of a superpower like mind reading and not make good use of it?

Others didn’t know what riddles the two of them were playing. Chu Yecheng wanted to ask, but Lin Qingluo changed the subject.

Little secrets between children can promote feelings. As parents, they don’t need to ask everything clearly. This is Lin Qingluo’s experience in raising children.

Zhu Wenbin’s reputation collapsed completely. He was used to squandering money and relied on a large number of fans to support him. He didn’t have much money left. Even if he sold all his assets, he couldn’t make up for the amount of tax evasion.

The final result was similar to what Lin Qingluo expected. The huge fine not only made Zhu Wenbin, who was facing imprisonment, completely bankrupt, but also caused his agency to face the risk of a broken capital chain. The stock price has been falling. In a short period of time, two top stars^[1]one human and another top company fell one after another, and the entire entertainment industry began to reshuffle.

The hopeful companies were fighting every day, from fans to official accounts, exposing each other’s black materials and throwing dirty water, and various means emerged one after another. Chu Heyan was busy setting up a public relations team while eating melons and watching the show.

While Zhu Wenbin’s old company was busy, he asked people to go to the other company to poach several industry veterans. Chu Lingyu followed him to meet those people, and then said disapprovingly: “These people are not clean either.”

“Have they ever broken the law?” Chu Heyan asked.

Chu Lingyu frowned: “They are very good at taking advantage of loopholes.”

Chu Heyan smiled: “That is, as long as it does not violate the law, it can be used. Otherwise, according to your standards, we can only find fresh graduates and rookies who have just entered the industry.”

Mind reading has advantages and disadvantages. It will present the dark side of everyone’s heart to Chu Lingyu without reservation. This helps to avoid risks and deal with possible crises, but it will also affect Chu Lingyu’s perception of other people.

Chu Heyan is very glad that Chu Lingyu’s mind reading is useless to him, otherwise, he can’t get along with someone who can see through all his thoughts at all times. That’s too scary.

When Chu Heyan was poaching people everywhere, Zhang Mingjie began to show signs of becoming popular. The drama in which Zhang Mingjie played the villain supporting role was a fairy tale drama adapted from a popular IP.

It was an S-level project of a large company with sufficient funds. It was promoted everywhere before it was broadcast. The leading actors and important supporting roles were all first- and second-tier stars. The lineup was very eye-catching and it was highly discussed online after it was broadcast.

At the beginning, the audience mainly discussed the emotional drama between the heroine, the hero and the supporting actors, as well as the costumes, filters, editing, etc. Many people praised the plot.

As a result, the plot began to go in an unexpected direction. The originally likable heroine suddenly became a vassal dependent on the hero. The original novel is a heroine type, the plot is very exciting, the heroine has many highlights, and the character she created is also very charismatic.

The core of the story is that the heroine grows step by step from a small person with low cultivation to a great cultivator who can save the people, and the emotional line is just icing on the cake. However, because the investors wanted to support the male star who played the hero, and the actress who played the heroine did not have such a strong background, the script was constantly revised, and the heroine’s highlights were transferred to the hero.

Every time the heroine was in danger, the hero would be arranged to save the scene. In addition to the hero, several important positive supporting actors also broke their heads to grab the role, constantly brushing their presence in front of the heroine, and everyone wanted to get more highlights to attract the audience.

But this conflicted with the original author’s setting, and the screenwriter had no say and could only make changes according to the requirements of the investors. The plot was changed to be illogical and contradictory, and the character settings were changed back and forth. Therefore, after a few episodes, the reputation of this drama, which was changed into a mess, began to collapse.

The villain played by Zhang Mingjie had few scenes, his character was not likable, and there was no highlight plot, so he was lucky to retain the complete character line of the original work. His originally good acting skills were even more prominent against the background of a group of traffic stars.

When the audience was poisoned by the plot after the magic change, they accidentally discovered this inconspicuous villain supporting role. The more they watch, the more they feel that he has brought a tool villain to life, and his appearance is inconspicuous at first glance, but that face is quite attractive.

The acting skills and appearance support each other, and the beautiful and strong muscles inadvertently exposed when the villain was injured and took off his clothes instantly increase the sexual tension.

Gradually, some people began to edit videos for him and promote them on their own initiative.

The videos unexpectedly became popular, with millions of views overnight, and people on major platforms began to support the CP of the villain and the heroine. Then, as Chu Heyan expected, Zhang Mingjie was bombed within two days.

Bribing marketing accounts to expose black material and throw dirty water, using water troops to guide the public opinion, and labeling the audience who likes this character as having a distorted outlook.

The public relations department came to ask Chu Heyan if he wanted to fight against the black, and Chu Heyan smiled and said, “Don’t make it too much trouble. Let the company’s official Weibo clarify the facts, collect materials and retain evidence to hand over to the legal department, and prepare to sue those marketing accounts that spread rumors.”

These practices cannot change the direction of public opinion for a while. Fortunately, netizens have seen many routines of water troops, and many people not only do not buy it, but also rebel.

“Who among my family members^[2]netizens not understands? They were so criticized for watching a drama that they were all crawling on the ground. They finally found an actor with good acting skills and good looks to wash their eyes away, but he was also bombed by the capital. All the dirty water is thrown on him, right?”

” Their company has already clarified everything. It’s a pity that no one pays attention to this small company. The actor himself is not famous and has very few fans. It’s really easy to spread rumors and it’s hard to refute them.”

“I don’t care. I just love watching this villain! It’s painful enough for me to see him only appear for a dozen seconds in an episode. But now it was reported and removed from the shelves for watching a lazy editing. I say you guys should not go too far!”

“Who likes to watch those ugly kids of your capitalists? They stole someone’s role as the heroine and acted so badly. A small supporting role can act so attentively. Not only do you not reflect on yourselves, you also want to kill all the dedicated actors, right?”

“Good news! Someone edited a new video! The villain and the second female lead are also good. I’m going for it!”

Chu Heyan did not let the public relations department interfere too much, but the direction of public opinion was still reversed by passers-by. Other companies naturally could not sit idly by and watch this dark horse that suddenly appeared halfway snatch their peaches.

They began to unite and continue to prevent Zhang Mingjie from exploding. In addition to digging up black material, they also dragged down other popular stars and instigated other fans to charge into the battle. Zhang Mingjie’s original few fans could not withstand such a battle, and they were frightened and hid.

Chu Lingyu was also paying attention to these things. Seeing that there were posts everywhere on the Internet scolding Zhang Mingjie, he couldn’t help but ask Chu Heyan: “Are you going to do nothing?”

Chu Heyan had a look of control over the situation: “It’s not time yet. Let them jump for a while, and they will soon hit the bottom and rebound.”

Capitalist does not respect the feelings of the audience, and the audience will overturn their tables and make them empty-handed. What Chu Heyan has to do is to use legal means to protect his rights first. After the audience has vented their anger, he will let those companies that are eager for quick success and unscrupulous see what real capitalist is.