Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 393: Flooding the Golden Eagle
"thank you boss!"

Bai Lu looked at Meng Bai with stars in her eyes, her face full of excitement that she couldn't hide.

"Come on, do a good job." Meng Bai encouraged her, "Boss, the fragments of my private plane are all depending on you."

"Well, boss, don't worry, I will work hard!" Bai Lu nodded confidently.

Hey, wait, is there something wrong with what I said just now? Never mind, it’s the boss who said it, so it can’t be wrong.

Seeing Meng Bai was about to leave, He Handan on the side hurriedly said: "Um, Mr. Meng, Xiaobai still wants to say something to you."

Bai Lu widened her eyes and looked at her best friend: How come you don’t know that I have something to say?

He Handan: Go ahead, girl. If you don't take the initiative, are you expecting a "domineering CEO chasing me" setting?

Bai Lu: Oh, yes, then what should I say?

He Handan: You can find any reason, just to express your gratitude.

Bai Lu: Are you sure?

The two were communicating with each other through their eyes. Meng Bai, who was called, had stopped and turned around to look over.

"what's up?"

"Ah——" Bai Lu pretended to turn her head away naturally, and then tried to show a sweet smile: "Nothing, I just want to treat you to a meal to express my gratitude, I wonder if it is convenient for you?"

Meng Bai thought for a moment and said, "It's not inconvenient to eat, but I don't have much time recently. Maybe next time."

"Oh, okay, okay. I'll write it down first. When you are not busy, feel free to contact me." Bai Lu said immediately.

"Ha, don't worry, I never forget when someone treats me to a meal."

"Boss, this is a really good habit of yours."

Seeing Bai grinning with two rows of teeth showing, Meng Bai couldn't help but smile too.

In fact, he was quite happy to chat with this girl, one reason was naturally because of her appearance, and the other was because of her personality - optimists are always more likely to be liked.

So he didn't mean to decline the invitation, but he really had something to do.

It’s almost the end of October and the Golden Eagle Awards are about to begin.
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Changsha, Golden Eagle Film and Television Cultural City, International Convention and Exhibition Center.

Today is the 29th Golden Eagle Awards ceremony and the closing ceremony of the 12th Golden Eagle TV Art Festival. A large number of media reporters and audiences participating in the event have been queuing in front of the venue since noon, waiting to enter.

Speaking of which, many people outside the circle have always been somewhat confused about the positioning of the Golden Eagle Awards. They always feel that it seems to be a commercial award organized by Mango TV, similar to the "Weibo Night".

Although many media and audiences now refer to the three major awards as Feitian, Golden Eagle and Magnolia, in fact, Feitian and Golden Eagle are of the same level, both of which are national television awards.

Although the Magnolia Award is well-known and influential, it is a local award hosted by Shanghai, and is one level lower than the first two.

The real "three major awards" should actually be Feitian, Golden Eagle and "Five One" Project Awards. However, the last award generally only focuses on mainstream works, and there are only group awards, no individual awards, so its influence and popularity have never been great.

As for the "Golden Eagle Goddess" that has been a hot topic every time the Golden Eagle Awards are presented in recent years, it actually has nothing to do with the Golden Eagle Awards itself. It is because Mango TV, in addition to hosting this award, also relies on it to run a separate "Golden Eagle TV Art Festival."

This "Golden Eagle Art Festival" is a purely commercial event. Like the Golden Eagle Awards, it also has a number of popularity awards, and the awards are not gold cups, but crystal cups.

However, as the organizer, Mango TV has intentionally bundled its own "Golden Eagle Art Festival" and "Golden Eagle Award" together in its external publicity in recent years, making many viewers who are not so familiar with the entertainment industry think that the "Crystal Cup" and the "Gold Cup" are of the same value.

Mango TV even created a special mascot position for the "Golden Eagle Goddess", calling on fans of each female artist to vote for their own main stars in an effort to win the so-called "Golden Eagle Grand Slam" of winning the "Golden Cup, Crystal Cup and Golden Eagle Goddess" at the same time.

Whether this kind of operation is good or bad is not the point, but Mango TV is indeed at the forefront of all TV stations in the country in terms of commercialization of the entertainment industry.

This year's "Golden Eagle Goddess" is Di Lieba, one of the most popular "90s Flowers" in the past two years. For this position, her fans and fans of Yang Zi, who was also nominated this year, have been fighting online for more than a month.

Both sides have strong motivations. Generally speaking, the "Golden Eagle Goddess" is extremely popular, so she can usually win the "Most Popular Actress" crystal cup of the Golden Eagle Art Festival. If she can continue to work hard and win the big gold cup later, she will have a "Grand Slam" in her hands.

From now on, when fans compete with other fans, they can just throw this result in their faces and then ask “What kind of champion are you?”, no, it should be “What award did you win?”

“It feels like these fans are taking things too far.”

In the exhibition center, Song Zhi shook his head and said to Meng Bai beside him, "Among the actress nominees, there are many seniors such as Sun Li, Yuan Quan, Yin Tao, and Liu Tao. How can it be these two?"

Meng Bai glanced at her and said, "Why, isn't our teacher Song Zhi worthy of a mention?"

"hey-hey……"

Song Zhi pouted and laughed, and said embarrassedly: "I actually wanted to say it, but the little self-awareness I had left stopped me from saying it."

"It's not bad. If you want to compete, you can try it." Meng Bai said, "It's just that the role you are nominated for this time is a supporting role. Next time, change to a leading role, and the company will help you."

"Then where does the protagonist come from..." Song Zhi looked at Meng Bai with his eyes rolling.

"Don't worry, as long as there is a suitable role, no matter who else you are, I will never forget you."

"You said that, and I'll keep it in mind."

Song Zhi laughed happily, and at the same time, one hand subconsciously wanted to grab Meng Bai's arm.

"Aren't you afraid of being photographed and seen by your fans?"

"Whatever you see, it's just a chat between us friends. Besides, I'm also an artist of Taiyang Chuanhe after all, how can I meet the boss without saying hello?" Song Zhi said nonchalantly, "And what you said before was not right, my fans didn't try to persuade me to run away, they've been asking me to win you back recently."

"Yeah, yeah. You should listen to your fans. I'll be waiting for your performance."

"Humph, you think about those things every day!"

"Hey, girl, if I don't think about those things, then you'll be nervous, okay?"

"Hmm..." Song Zhi wanted to refute, but after thinking about it, he felt that it seemed to make some sense.

She looked around, tiptoed to Meng Bai's ear, and whispered, "When we get back to the hotel tonight, I..."

The sound behind was as faint as a mosquito, and only the two of them could hear it.

Although they were joking, neither of them took the "traffic battle" mentioned earlier seriously.

In other words, almost all the guests present today believed that the nominations for Song Zhi, Reba, and Yang Zi were basically given out of respect for the companies behind them, and at most it was just to encourage young actors.

Just look at the nominated works of several people. Song Zhi's "Sparrow" has a score of 7.0. Although her role is likable, she is only the second female lead, and because of her personal development path, her popularity is also a little lower. Reba's "Pretty Li Huizhen", although her role is the first female lead and the popularity is also very high, it is all negative. The score is only 3.8, and the audience scolded it when it was broadcast before.

Yang Zi's "Ode to Joy" is the highest-rated one here, but it's only 7.5, which is considered a relatively average work of Noon Sunshine in the past two years. Moreover, her role is only the third or fourth female lead in the play, not as good as Liu Tao who was also nominated.

There are currently three main candidates with the highest voices, Yin Tao, Sun Li and Yuan Quan. The Golden Eagle Awards convention is that there are two places for individual actor awards, and since Sun Li did not come today, many people think that Yin and Yuan are the most likely candidates.

At most, Ding Liuyuan took advantage of the subject matter - the drama she nominated is called "Original Intention", which tells the story of a revolutionary martyr returning to his hometown to lead the villagers in construction, a standard main theme.

However, tonight's Golden Eagle Festival was destined to play a big joke on everyone.

"The winners of the 29th Golden Eagle Awards for the Most Popular Actress are Dilraba Dilmurat, "Pretty Li Huizhen" and Ding Liuyuan, "Beginner's Mind."

The host position on the large screen gave a close-up of the exotic face, not daring to move to the sides.

Because if you move slightly out of the camera's range, you can clearly see the surprise and confusion on the faces of the guests.

But that’s not all. In the following “Audience’s Favorite Actor Award”, Li Feng, who is also a popular actor, beat out a number of powerful actors such as Liu Yunlong, Zhang Jiayi, He Bing, and Yu Hewei, and won the award together with Zhang Yi.

And according to the tradition of the Golden Eagle Awards in previous years, Dilireba and Li Feng, who also won the popularity award "Crystal Cup", are the real "Best Actress" and "Best Actor" of this session.

This result was beyond everyone's expectations. Even when the film and television awards were presented later, it did not attract any more attention.

There's no way around it, everyone's shock threshold has been raised.

Peace Hotel received four nominations, but only won one "Outstanding TV Series". The Golden Eagle Awards are also generous, handing out ten trophies in one go.

Seeing that "The Most Beautiful Li Huizhen" also won the award, Meng Bai threw the trophy to the company's accompanying staff as soon as the ceremony ended.

"Boss Meng, should we put this trophy in the Hall of Fame when we get it back?"

"No, just find a cabinet to put it in."

"Huh? Oh, okay."

The staff member responded and looked at the pure copper "gold cup" in his hand.

This award is such a disgrace!
"Okay, don't be upset."

Back in the room, Song Zhi looked at Meng Bai who looked unhappy, and comforted him in a gentle voice: "After all, you have won an award, so it's worth being happy. Look, I didn't care about it even though I didn't win any award."

"Oh, it really doesn't matter whether you win the Golden Eagle Award this year or not." Meng Bai snorted and laughed, "These people really don't follow the rules of the industry at all. If I had known they could play so wildly, I would have helped you make some arrangements before. Maybe you could also win the 'Best Actress' award."

"This... is not necessary. If I really took it, I would definitely get scolded."

"Ha, that's true." Meng Bai said, "Just wait and see, tomorrow the internet will probably be filled with verbal battles."

Song Zhi muttered to himself, "You underestimated the speed at which the netizens would join in the fun. There's no need to wait until tomorrow, the netizens are probably already cursing now."

But she didn't say much, she stood up and said, "Okay, okay, don't think about it. I'll go in and change my clothes first. I asked my assistant to order some food and it will be delivered later. It just so happens that I haven't eaten yet."

Meng Bai didn't just sit outside. He went to the bathroom and washed his face.

When he came out, Song Zhi had already brought in the takeaway and placed it on the table in the room.

Meng Bai twitched his nose and smelled a spicy aroma: "What did you order?"

“Hunan cuisine.”

"I said so." Meng Bai instructed, "After dinner, go brush your teeth first."

Spiciness is a kind of pain. It's okay if it hurts your mouth, but it's a bit irritating to other parts of your body. Meng Bai thought that his taste was not that strong, so he didn't need to go to such lengths.

Song Zhi was stunned for a moment, but immediately realized the meaning of his words. She rolled her eyes at him coquettishly, and then a sly look flashed in the corner of her eyes. While Meng Bai turned around to pour water, she unnoticedly changed direction around the table and turned her back to him.

"You... eh?"

Meng Bai was planning to ask Song Zhi what he wanted to drink, but when he turned around, he was dazzled by a piece of white greasy liquid and stopped talking.

He didn't pay much attention just now, and only now realized that the girl had changed into an apron-like outfit.

On the delicate/smooth back, there was only a thin strap tied with a loose buckle, as if waiting for someone to unfasten it.

Besides that, she had no lining at all, just an apron wrapped in front of her body.

As she moved, her apron fluttered back and forth.

If there is anything that is more attractive than having no clothes/clothes, it is definitely wearing some clothes.

Meng Bai walked over, put the wine glass in his hand aside, and then hugged her from behind.

Two large hands were placed on her waist, and they casually slipped under her apron and worked their way up.

"Hmm~"

Song Zhi snorted lightly, his voice trembling a little: "You, don't make trouble first, wait for me to sort it out."

"It's okay. You do your thing and I do mine. Let's divide the work and cooperate."

Song Zhi said nothing more. He just fiddled with the takeout box in his hand while gritting his teeth to endure the impact from behind.

It's all good news for them, but online, tonight's Golden Eagle Awards were, as expected, criticized by audiences and netizens.

[Even people like Reba and Li Feng can win the "Best Actress and Best Actor" award. This really overestimates the integrity of the Golden Eagle Awards! ]

[Two fakes, in front of everyone! Bah, shameless, I know you can't do this! Too shameless, or you can just change to a more reliable drama, a little more reliable. Even if no one watches it, it's better than now. You still want everyone to recognize you as the winner of the three major awards? Bah, dream on. Disgusting, disgusting! ]

[Before there was Yang Tianbao, the "Baihua Best Supporting Actress", and now there is Reba, the "Golden Eagle Water Queen", the two of them are really working together! ]

[It was right that Sun Li didn't go to the event. This pair of Water Emperor and Water Queen destroyed the status and authority of the Golden Eagle Awards for so many years.]

[What do you know? The Golden Eagle Awards were established based on popularity from the very beginning, and the name of the award is "Most Popular with Audiences". Our Reba is the most popular, so it is only natural for her to win this award. ]

[That’s right, a group of people were giving science popularization and cursing at the same time, as if each of them knew more than the judges! ]

[The fans of the Water Queen lied to me with their eyes open and made me laugh. I don’t know how the judges chose, I only know that we, the audience, are not blind! ]

(End of this chapter)