The group was kicked out, and low presence means they are bad?

Chapter 304 Scapegoat

Yehua Entertainment, a conference room in the Film and Television Department.

The creative team of "The Great Qin Dynasty" is in a meeting.

"Director He, since the day before yesterday, which was the fifth day after the release of The Qin Dynasty, our daily box office has been falling rapidly.

According to this downward trend, the box office of our "The Qin Dynasty" is estimated to be no more than 7 million. "

The person in charge of box office statistics put this cruel fact before everyone.

The production cost of "The Great Qin Dynasty" is 2.6 million yuan, so the box office revenue needs to be nearly 8 million yuan to break even.

However, the total box office data given so far will not exceed 7 million?
After these words were spoken, the conference room fell silent.

The box office momentum was so good in the two days before its release, and it seemed that there was hope of breaking through 4 billion.

The result is now
The late emperor died before he could complete his career?
"Okay, let's not discuss the box office issue. It's good enough to have an idea in mind."

He Xiang waved his hands, obviously not wanting to continue discussing this topic.

After all, this is an established fact and there is almost no room for maneuver, so there is no need to continue wasting your time on it.

"Let's talk about something else."

He Xiang stood up from his seat, glanced at everyone present, and said:

"Recently, Bai Xingjian was unjustifiably implicated because of our drama The Qin Dynasty. Some netizens said that he colluded with our creative team to spread false propaganda and take advantage of fans.

Recently, there have been more and more such remarks on Weibo, and some fans of Bai Xingjian and Fenghuang Yufei are overwhelmed by them.

Do you have any good solution to this problem? "

As soon as these words were spoken, the conference room fell silent again.

They are of course very clear about this situation, but they are also very confused!
Isn't the only connection between Bai Xingjian and "The Great Qin Dynasty" that he wrote the theme song and attended the preview ceremony?
How does it involve false advertising?
They really don't understand the train of thought of this generation of netizens.

But if they think about it carefully, they feel that what these netizens said seems to be true.

After all, Bai Xingjian composed the theme song of "The Great Qin Dynasty". Doesn't that mean that he holds an approval attitude towards "The Great Qin Dynasty"?

Otherwise, why would he compose the theme song for "The Qin Dynasty"?

Bai Xingjian also attended the preview of "The Great Qin Dynasty" and gave away signed records at the preview.

Does this action also indicate that he approves of the movie "The Qin Dynasty"?

Otherwise, why would he come to attend the preview of "The Qin Dynasty"?
This is just like when a celebrity endorses a product. If there is a problem with the product, the celebrity who endorses the product will naturally be scolded.

But the relationship between Bai Xingjian and "The Great Qin Dynasty" is like a product endorsement but not a product endorsement.

Anyway, no matter from which angle you look at it, everyone has their own reasons.

Now that some netizens have seized on this marginal point to convict Bai Xingjian, it is difficult to judge.

Because there are more people like Bai Xingjian than just Bai Xingjian.

The leading actors of "The Great Qin Dynasty" He Mingyang, Yin Yunhan, Jiang Junhao, the singer of "Borrow Another 500 Years from Heaven" Shentu Hong, and those internet celebrities who promoted this movie heavily before its release, are all of the same nature as Bai Xingjian.

Even the main creative team of "The Qin Dynasty" is of the same nature.

Then why are Bai Xingjian and Yehua Entertainment the ones who are hurt now?
Because these two have become scapegoats and the ones who take the blame.

So this situation is somewhat unsolvable for the time being.

"Director He, let's issue a statement to remove Bai Xingjian from the team. Let our creative team take the blame."

"That's right! Bai Xingjian was implicated for no reason. He worked hard for our "The Great Qin Dynasty", but ended up taking the blame and being persecuted by public opinion. Let's quickly issue a statement to remove him. We can't let Bai Xingjian feel disheartened!"

"That's it!"

"What the hell! Don't you even use your brains now? Just like those netizens who followed the trend of Hei Bai Xing Jian and Hei Ye Hua Entertainment?"

Wang Hongwei, the producer of "The Great Qin Dynasty", suddenly roared.

Many people at the conference table were startled and looked at him with puzzled eyes.

"Issue a statement to remove Bai Xingjian?"

Under the gaze of the crowd, Wang Hongwei sneered, "Isn't this a disguised admission that we are involved in false advertising? These are clearly the unspoken rules of the industry, but why do you have to bring them up in the open? And you even issued a statement? Where's your fucking statement?"

Wang Hongwei became more and more angry as he spoke. After being comforted by He Xiang, his tone calmed down and he continued:
“We can’t make any statement this time, so we can only swallow this loss in silence.

As for Bai Xingjian, he can only become a scapegoat for those people."

Those people are naturally referring to He Mingyang, Yin Yunhan and the like.

After saying this, Wang Hongwei seemed to have thought of something and said, "We can still issue a statement, and the content of the statement can only be to ask some netizens to regulate their speech. Those who maliciously spread rumors should be careful not to step on the sewing machine.

If you post anything else, be careful not to get into trouble."

Wang Hongwei glanced at He Xiang and said, "This time you can only owe Bai Xingjian a favor."

"Hey."

He Xiang sighed, his face full of helplessness, "Let's adjourn the meeting. I'll call Bai Xingjian to have a chat."

……

"How is it? Have they come up with any solution?" In Fenghuang Yufei's studio, Feng Shiqi asked with some anticipation in her eyes.

Bai Xingjian covered his phone and placed it on the table, shaking his head. "There is no solution. It seems that I can only be the scapegoat and bear the fire from the audience."

"how come?"

Feng Shiqi frowned, "He Xiang and the others haven't come up with any solution at all? Or do they think it's troublesome to just ignore it and let the public opinion ferment?"

"There's nothing I can do. I really can't control it."

Bai Xingjian leaned back in his office chair, closed his eyes and said, "I can only say that we have too many fans and are too popular. If something goes wrong, we will be the easiest target to be targeted.

Now, those people hiding behind us are probably secretly happy because all the firepower has been attracted away by us.

So naturally they won’t come out and say anything.”

As he was talking, Bai Xingjian felt a pair of hands as warm as jade falling on both sides of his head and began to massage.

Feng Shiqi's gentle voice sounded, accompanied by a faint fragrance: "Why don't we take a break for a while? There's no need to rush the new album, and the concert can be postponed. The New Year is coming soon anyway, so we can just take the New Year holiday in advance."

"Rest for a while longer?"

Bai Xingjian was enjoying the massage peacefully. He closed his eyes and smiled, "Didn't we just take a break not long ago? How can we take a break again so soon?"

At this point, Bai Xingjian changed the subject: "But we can really put the new album on hold for a while, there's no need to rush."

The reason why I want to release a new album is not because the system has been upgraded and I can easily get the songs I want.

It’s because Bai Xingjian wanted to win a Golden Melody Award.

Shortly after he and Feng Shiqi won the championship of "The Voice of China 2024", some voices began to appear on the Internet.

It is said that Fenghuang Yufei is just a traffic singer, and is just a singer created by Yehua Entertainment.

Otherwise, how come this singing group that is invincible doesn’t even have a decent music award?

However, after experiencing the "false accusation" of "The Qin Dynasty", Bai Xingjian suddenly felt that even if he and Feng Shiqi won the Golden Melody Award, they would not be able to stop these people from talking. Moreover, even if Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi released an album now, it was still a question whether they could win the Golden Melody Award.

After all, the Golden Melody Awards today are no longer an award you can win just because your album is good enough or has high enough sales.

A blacksmith must be strong himself, and this is even more true for goldsmiths.

Feng Shiqi smiled and said, "That's fine. I've recorded enough songs in the studio recently. I don't want to record anymore."

"We will continue to hold the concert."

Bai Xingjian sat up in his office chair, turned his head and looked into Feng Shiqi's eyes and said:

"Sister Qi, where's your bank card? I want to do something..."

……

Shortly after the creative team of "The Great Qin Dynasty" held a meeting, they released a Weibo announcement using their official account.

The content is naturally to remind certain netizens to be cautious in what they say and do, not to deliberately spread rumors, and to be careful of receiving lawyers' letters.

Such a harmless Weibo post also made some netizens laugh.

"You've been holding it in for so long and this is all you've come up with? Where did all the energy you put into promoting it go? So you guys are only good at making false propaganda?"

"Stop talking, stop talking. If you keep talking, they will send you a lawyer's letter (laughing to death)"

"You still haven't revealed a single word yet. It seems like Bai Xingjian is really joining you in the false propaganda."

"Hey, Bai Xingjian is such a fool. Why don't you just stay in the singing circle? Why do you have to come to the film and television industry to muddy the waters?"

"It's not like he hasn't written promotional songs for other movies before. Didn't he write songs for "A Laugh in the Sea" and "Painting Heart"? Why did he fail this time? Anyone with a discerning eye can see that someone is deliberately messing with him."

"Hey, is Bai Xiaozi out to clean the floor again?"

"Can telling the truth be called whitewashing? Why don't you criticize He Mingyang, Yin Yunhan, Jiang Junhao and Shen Tuhong? Why do you have to criticize Bai Xingjian? Is it because Bai Xingjian is easy to bully?"

"Oh my, oh my, it's urgent, it's urgent, Bai Xiaozi is anxious."

Because of this Weibo post, Bai Xingjian was inexplicably targeted again.

Perhaps this is the helplessness of becoming famous too quickly. For every number of fans who like you, there are even more haters who hate you.

Before this incident, everything was calm and peaceful.

After this incident, all of Bai Xingjian’s haters in the singing and film and television circles stood up.

One by one, they joined the carnival as if they were injected with chicken blood.

Of course, along with Bai Xingjian, the creative team of "The Qin Dynasty" also suffered, and netizens on Weibo continued to scold them.

Maybe this is retribution.

The harder they promoted the movie "The Great Qin Dynasty" before, the more criticism they are receiving now.

The situation is also not good for Yehua Entertainment.

It is almost certain that "The Great Qin Dynasty", a movie that was highly anticipated, will lose money.

This situation made the already poor Yehua Entertainment even worse off.

As a member of the popular group of Yehua Entertainment, Fenghuang Yufei was deeply affected by public opinion at this time.

It can be said that the two most important stars of Yehua Entertainment at the moment have both suffered setbacks, giving people a feeling that the company is in a precarious situation and the building is about to collapse.

What is the most sensitive thing for listed companies?

That is naturally the stock market.

After this incident, Yehua Entertainment’s stock price, which had risen slightly, began to fall again.

Perhaps some people think that Yehua Entertainment may not be able to overcome this hurdle, and some shareholders have begun to sell their shares in Yehua Entertainment.

This situation caused the stock price of Yehua Entertainment to fall even faster.

However, this drop in stock price did not attract the attention of senior management of Yehua Entertainment.

This is how the stock market works, it goes up and down. Sometimes it's rising and then suddenly falls, and sometimes it's falling and then rises.

These are all normal situations.

However, some people on the board of directors are still quite dissatisfied with He Xiang.

"The Great Qin Dynasty" was originally Yehua Entertainment's final work at the end of this year, and everyone wanted to have a good year with this movie.

The result now?

……

Beijing TV station.

Director's office.

"Director, the reputation of Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi hasn't been very good recently. There are a lot of negative comments about them on the Internet. Should we still invite them to our New Year's Eve party?"

Lu Peng, the director in charge of Beijing TV's New Year's Eve Gala, asked Wang Xuan, the director of Beijing TV, for instructions.

It’s the same for every TV station, everyone cherishes their own reputation.

So at this point in time, Lu Peng was very worried that if they still invited Fenghuang Yufei to this New Year's Eve party, there would definitely be a lot of people on the Internet who would attack their Beijing TV station, which might even have a negative impact on the Beijing TV station.

This has happened before, otherwise Lu Peng wouldn't be so sensitive.

Wang Xuan heard this and said calmly, "I understand this matter. Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi were just innocent victims. They didn't make any real mistakes.

Moreover, we have already released the news that Fenghuang Yufei is coming. If we terminate the contract now, won’t we, Beijing TV Station, become the party that takes advantage of the situation?
Self-destructive reputation? "

Although Wang Xuan was also sensitive to these things, he was not as panic-stricken as Lu Peng.

"Don't worry, if anything goes wrong, I'll take the blame, it has nothing to do with you."

Seeing that Lu Peng still looked somewhat uneasy, Wang Xuan spoke again.

"Don't dare."

Lu Peng quickly shook his head, but he felt much more relaxed now.

"Okay, go and do your own thing. I have something to do." Wang Xuan waved his hand and started to chase people away.

"Okay, I'll report back on the rehearsal progress then."

Lu Peng nodded and walked out of the office with ease.

To be honest, he also felt that Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi were quite unlucky.

After all, the main reason for the collapse of the reputation of "The Great Qin Dynasty" is that the movie was poorly made, but netizens are arguing and finally put the blame on Bai Xingjian?

Lu Peng couldn't figure it out, and he was too lazy to figure it out.

Anyway, Fenghuang Yufei will be coming to their Beijing TV station next, and then he will be able to see the live performances of Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi.

Really looking forward to it!
(End of this chapter)