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

Chapter 429 Find them something to do

"Goo~~"

There was a slight sound, and Meng Ziyi touched her stomach with a little embarrassment - she hadn't eaten much since last night, and now her mood had improved a little, and her body had regained its hunger.

"Wash yourself up and get ready. I'll take you out for dinner later." Meng Bai said with a smile, "It is said that eating something delicious can help improve your mood."

"Yeah." Meng Ziyi nodded obediently and followed Meng Bai out of the bedroom.

"Ziyi!"

The agent who had been waiting outside saw that his boss had finally come out and hurried over: "Are you okay?"

Meng Ziyi shook her head and hugged the other person gently: "I'm fine, sister, I made you worry."

"That's good." The agent smiled and said, "It seems that Mr. Meng is better at ideological work. We tried to persuade you for two days but it was useless. When Mr. Meng came, he got it done in an hour."

Meng Ziyi's cheeks flushed: "I'm sorry, sister, I made everyone worried recently."

"It's not your fault, so why should you be embarrassed? Besides, we are your team, so who else can you bother if not us?"

The agent smiled and said, "By the way, there is something I wanted to tell you. Just now, the production team of "Acting Class" called and said that they felt sorry for rejecting us at the last minute, so they still wanted to invite us to participate."

"Ah? This... why did it suddenly change?" Meng Ziyi blinked, somewhat confused.

The agent didn't say anything, but just glanced carefully at Meng Bai beside him.

Meng Ziyi suddenly realized that it seemed that the program crew knew about his relationship with his uncle. In order not to offend Hu Guang, he quickly knelt down and apologized.

She subconsciously looked at Meng Bai: "Uncle, do you think I should still attend?"

"Being arrogant at first and respectful later makes me laugh when I think about it." Meng Bai snorted and laughed, "Just watch for yourself. If you want to go, go. If you don't want to go, there are new programs for you."

"Then I won't go!"

Meng Ziyi frowned. She refused because she had a bad reputation, but now she came to apologize after seeing her uncle's background. He was just playing tricks on her.

Although she knew that she couldn't blame the program crew entirely, she still couldn't forget the feeling of being "abandoned", so she didn't want to continue cooperating.

“Sister, please talk to the program team and ask them to find someone else.” Meng Ziyi said with a cool expression.

The agent sighed when she heard this, feeling a little regretful. In fact, from her point of view, she was in the right now, so she could negotiate with the production team and ask them to give her better treatment and shots in the show, which would be even better than before.

But since Meng Ziyi refused so bluntly, she stopped trying to persuade him. She nodded and said, "Okay, then we'll talk to the production team."

After saying this, the agent gave a few more instructions, then left an assistant to take care of the situation while he hurried back.

The company just called and said that President Yang personally organized a meeting and asked her to go back and discuss how to quell this disturbance as soon as possible.

As soon as they left, the apartment suddenly became much more spacious. Seeing that it was getting late, Meng Bai decided to stay and go out for dinner later.

"Boss." Hua Yan, who followed him, handed him a pad. "Just now, the public opinion department of the company detected the news that someone on the Internet revealed the relationship between Sister Meng and you."

Meng Bai took it and took a look. As expected, many people already knew about their relationship.

[Is there anyone who doesn't know that Mzy is from the "Arc Light System"? I have a friend who works in the crew, and she told me that this person's background is quite impressive. ]

[Yes, MZY played a maid in her first drama, but the next drama she starred in was the top-notch resource "Day and Night Chase". They found a bunch of talented actors to play her, but she ended up acting the most awkwardly.]

[A fan of Jiaxi Ka is still arguing with me, saying that she auditioned for the roles herself. It's so funny. If you use your brain to look at the last name of Arclight's boss, you should know what the relationship between the two is. ]

[What else is there to argue about? Just ask anyone in the industry, everyone knows that this person has always been called the "Archlight Princess." ]

[No wonder, how can an ordinary third-tier actor have so many good resources? Since you have a background, why do you have to mess with your own dramas instead of ruining our Xianxian and Lan Zhan?]

[Rubbish Arc Light! He relies on his capital to bully small actors like us "Bo Jun Yi Xiao". I will never watch his dramas again! ]

[Resolutely resist Arclight Capital's interference in the work! Resist adding actors to the drama! ]

【…】

Meng Bai didn't pay much attention to the various news circulating on the Internet. He had never concealed the relationship between himself and Meng Ziyi.

Taking care of your relatives is a natural thing no matter where you put it. And he didn't use the influence of the arc to steal other people's roles, so there was nothing to worry about.

"It's okay, don't worry too much about these people." Meng Bai returned the pad to Hua Yan, "The audience of Arc Light does not overlap with theirs. If one out of a hundred of these people has watched Arc Light, that's already a lot."

What traffic fans are best at is making a loud noise through the actions of a small number of people, making people mistakenly believe that they are the majority.

But in fact, if you look at the data statistics in the background, you will understand that these are just a very small group. Even if they are packed up and thrown away, it will not have any impact on the company's business.

But then again, it's not a good idea to just let them gossip about something online, because it will certainly cause some passers-by who don't know the truth to believe what they say, and then form a negative impression of Meng Ziyi.

"Talk to Li Mu and ask him to contact Taiyang Chuanhe to see if there is any solution to resolve this issue as soon as possible." Meng Bai ordered.

"Okay, I'll contact them right away." Hua Yan responded, and then sighed, "Alas, Sister Meng is so pitiful. She did nothing wrong, but she was targeted and bitten by those fans."

After sighing, seeing Meng Bai looking at him sideways, he couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong, boss?"

"That's what I've been wanting to say." Meng Bai said leisurely, "Girl, how old are you? You're still pretending to be young and calling me 'Sister Meng'."

Hua Yan was born in 93, two years older than Meng Ziyi.

Hua Yan's expression froze: "I didn't call you by age. When we go out together, Sister Meng takes extra care of us. This is a sign of my respect, okay?" "Well, I believe it. If you two go out together and she doesn't take care of you, people will easily mistake it for child abuse."

"...Boss, if you have nothing else to do, I'll go back to the company first!"

Hua Yan went out angrily. She said that she was just shorter, but they were breathing the same air. It was not a big deal that you were tall!
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After having dinner together in the evening, Meng Bai comforted Meng Ziyi for a while, and then sent her back early to rest.

When he returned to the company the next day, he called Li Mu over.

"What are you going to do with Taiyang Chuanhe?" Meng Bai asked.

"Because this time the audience is mainly fans of the drama and the two main actors, many methods are not suitable. After discussing it, everyone decided to start from the source of the controversy."

Li Mu said: "First, let the crew issue a statement denying the claim of 'adding scenes'. It would be best if the fans can shift their attention to the crew. Then contact the companies of the two leading actors and ask them to issue an explanation statement. Finally, slowly remove the trending searches and let the matter calm down."

Meng Bai groaned and said, "It sounds a bit passive."

"It's quite passive." Li Mu smiled bitterly, "But there's nothing we can do. We can use many methods to deal with people in the circle. But there's really no good way to deal with these fans."

"Can you let the two leading actors speak up and make the fans shut up?"

"This...is not very realistic." Li Mu said: "Mr. Meng, these traffic fans are different from the fans of actors in the past. In a sense, they are actually controlling the behavior of traffic artists."

Li Mu explained that these traffic fans are more like a group of believers than fans, and their idols are their faith. However, what they believe in is not the real idols themselves, but more like what they imagine the idols should be like.

"Many fans like to call themselves career fans and give their idols' companies instructions. Once the resources they are given are not to their liking, they turn around and start to criticize the company. Take Xiao Zhan for example, he is an artist of Wajijiwa, but his fans' favorite slogan is 'Wajijiwa is closed down.'"

“So, even if their idols’ careers are damaged because of them, these fans will only continue to attack others and will not stop.

"Or to put it more fundamentally, what they like is not the idols, but their own feelings."

After listening to this, Meng Bai stroked his chin and thought for a while: "Since it is unrealistic to just shut them up, can we divert their attention? For example, if another group of traffic fans come to provoke them, will they be so busy fighting that they won't have the energy to care about this side?"

"This... is indeed a solution. In fact, they don't need other companies. In many cases, they can fight with their own people." Li Mu said: "Then boss, what you mean is..."

Meng Bai smiled slightly: "These kids are full of energy, so let's find something for them to do."

……

Just as Li Mu introduced, the fans of "The Untamed" are actually not a monolithic group.

Strictly speaking, these people can be divided into six parts - Xiao Zhan fans, Wang Yibo fans, CP fans of the two, fans of the original work, fans of the drama and ordinary audiences.

Some of these different fan groups have several attributes, while others have just a single label.

During this period, different groups united for the rare occasion of fighting against the "evil actor". However, as Meng Ziyi, who was attacked, did not make any response, these people gradually became unable to hold back and began to have their own opinions.

For example, the fans of the two leading actors began to compare their rankings and popularity intentionally or unintentionally. While dissing the other party, they also did not forget to deal with those "CP fans" together.

For example, there are disputes between fans of the original work and fans of the drama. One side thinks that the original work is well-written and there are problems with the film and television adaptation; the other side thinks that since the film and television adaptation has been made, there is no need to cling to the original work and even feel superior.

With external enemies temporarily speechless, conflicts between fans gradually began to emerge and friction between them increased.

However, despite their differences, they can still tolerate each other for the time being because they all have a common "enemy".

In fact, regarding the issue of "Meng Ziyi adding scenes", fans had already joined forces to protest against it when the crew was filming. At that time, many people said that if the added scenes that were different from the original were not deleted, they would join forces to boycott the show.

The main audience of gay dramas are originally these fans, so the crew naturally would not take this risk. Therefore, during the actual filming, most of the added scenes were cancelled.

But not all of them can be deleted. Some of them involve censorship or plot context, so some changes are still retained.

The crew didn't care about it at first. After all, it was a film and television adaptation, and a gay drama at that, so how could it be filmed completely according to the original work?

Unexpectedly, it caused such a big disturbance.

During this period, the main creators of the crew were also worried. On one side were the main audience, and on the other side were the bigwigs in the industry. Thanks to the publicity from the fans, now they all knew the background of the little heroine in their own drama.

They were caught in the middle and were in a dilemma. In the end, they had no choice but to find the arc light in person by Cao Huayi, the boss of New Classics Media.

Xinli has no other choice. After being acquired by Yuewen, the other party only gave half of the money. Whether they can get the other half depends on their performance in the past few years.

Xinli was originally full of hope for this request, but first it encountered the cold winter of the film and television industry, and then several actors it bet on went bankrupt one after another.

They started out working with Wu Xiubo, but this "uncle circle traffic" was banned because of a mistress incident. Then they bet on Zhai Tianlin, but he was banned even more thoroughly than the previous one because of a question "What is CNKI" that exposed academic fraud at the beginning of the year.

Xiao Zhan, one of the leading actors in The Untamed, is the new candidate they are betting on next. Originally, because of the huge hit of this drama, Xinli finally breathed a sigh of relief. Unexpectedly, he got into trouble in the blink of an eye. They really wanted to die.

Arc Light can now sit at the same table with Tencent, the boss of its boss. Fans may not care, but they can’t.

In order to avoid being targeted by Arc Light, Cao Huayi quickly asked someone to contact Meng Bai and expressed his willingness to cooperate with them to resolve this crisis.

Fortunately, what reassured him was that Mr. Meng from Arc Light did not make things difficult for him. He just "asked" him to ask the crew to come out and clarify the rumors about "adding scenes", and then ask the leading actors to restrain their fans.

Naturally, New Classics agreed to this request immediately, and then turned around and talked about it with the crew and the companies behind the two leading actors.

Just the day after Meng Bai comforted Meng Ziyi, the official crew of "The Untamed" posted a clarification on Weibo, stating that the rumors about "adding scenes" were done by the crew due to adaptation needs and had nothing to do with the actors.

Immediately afterwards, the two leading actors, Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo, also posted on Weibo, saying that everyone had a pleasant collaboration during the filming and hoped that fans would not attack the leading actors because of rumors.

(End of this chapter)